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A PIECE OF LUCK. How Germans Were Captured by ths Fijian Police. i The man who declares there is ne | guch thing as luck had best not ba too emphatic in proclaiming his be lef when Captain Harold Tantram, $ Deputy Chief of the Fijian Con- | stal ry, is within ear range. The | eaptafn, who has been travelling { through Canada, holds a directly eontra opinion, and has apropos ex- | perience to cite in proof of the sound- | ness of his position. i His story is that of the capture of | Count von Luckner and seven of hig triots, part ot tos crew of the OUs German er Seeadler, 'which some months ago terrorized the southern seas. These, armed to the teeth, amply provisioned and} munitioned, and mounting a first | elass modern machine-gun on a stra- tegic point on one of the smaller islands of the Fijian group, were not long ago made captive by the colony police, aided and abetted by undis- | guised and indisputable luck "Beware of the wooden horse," | the Trojans once were told. A de { | xice even simpler, nothing more | than a small drove of cattle accident: | ally lined up on the deck of a police boat, resulted in the taking of the | eight Germans without bloodshed | and without so much as a pretence | of resistance on their part. The others of the Seedaler's com plement of officers and men have dis appeared as completely as if the | earth had opened to swallow them Although many vessels have unprofit- ably hunted them throygh the hun- | dred archipelagoes of the Southern | Pacific, they may even yet survive | in some coral-ringed islet up to date | unexplored. The first news of the presence of Count von Luckner and his compan jons among the islands received by | the Fijians police reached them by | word of mouth of a half-caste who | came into Suva with the story of & | strange party of men who wore some | sort of uniform, and whose move ments had quite mystified the native imhabitants of one of the islands | quite off the track of even coasting | craft. 1 { An investigating police expedition eventually was ordered Through | some inexplicable folly the force | went 'out unarmed, probably antici pating only a pleasant excursion as they had investigated native re ports many a lime before, only to catalogue them later as fairy tales The bright idea struck someone shortly before the sailing hour that advantage might be taken of the | opportunity to deliver a load of cat- | tle to one of the neighbor islands, 1 imals were gol on board i i and | : A } In a little bay described by the | palf-caste news-bearer they located | the German party, who promptly | engaged in a parley, for the count | spoke excellent English Surrender was demanded, and the party capitu- | lated. i It was later disclosed that the Ger mans were fully convinced the cattle | masked a battery of machipe gung | Had they mot read all about such | camouflage in the manual of arms. { Thus, instead of being very | promptly blown to pieces the police } ¥ | heroes returned to Suva with their prisoners. The Germans were found to be in possession of accurate maps, | charts and photographs of the Is- | lands. They were abundantly pro- | visioned and well armed. They had { selected an admirable position for either defensive or offensive move- ments, and might have held thelr | ground for months but for the accel | dental locatioft of their camp by the | half-caste--and the accidental co- | operation of luck and that drove af | cattle. 1 FAD WELCOMED BY ARTISTS Painted Designs on Lingerie Give Op- portunity for Unlimited Display of Originality. Now that the hard-hearted hosiery spanufacturers have decided to reduce their manufacturing costs by cutting | out the fancy colors and startling de- signs of the ladies' lines and limiting the output to plain somber shades that cannot be heard coming, that portion of femininity that demands novelties in dress that fairly scream will have to fall back on the new fad in underwear. O11 paintings, done to sult the fndi- vidual faste, on the lingerie, each plece fo follow the same design and make up 3 and a mosquito net overdress a spiderweb stocking in the it comes to startling scente 'the bottom of the underskirt, with sidelights of the French Revolu- 'sandwiched in where opportunity HSICISK 7 SSICERRRISICRIOR " / a NA IN 7 HOICSK HORS $ ' HK N SNS ASHISIER /' = SIISICIEA SS Pa 5 IN NING Ta RS i . co $182 3 nN Respected | atrons and Friends | | | | AAAI ER SRR Rg ECan (ic », Joon ES pee ANGRY 'AT BEING DISTURBED Old Gentleman Vastly Moré Annoyed he cast his eye over what remained-- mostly top story only--of an old-fash- foned house which had suffered in a | recent air raid, "You should have | heard his language!" | | | stable to me, smiling reminiscently as doesn't appear to be touched." constable. "Of.courss, we thought he was a casualty. We cleared away the R Timely e 5 Rdmonition = PEOPLE OF ONTARIO 5 Arouse and Face the Crisis! ze PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac- cept their food much the ame as they breathe the air E % They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a thing as this affecting their own dinner table never enters Uh their mind, and it is the responsibility of The Observer v to bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as nn- 72 less something is done, in another year, they will not be z reading about the hunger in Belgium but the lianger in wi Ontario. The following should be memorized by every reader of THE OBSERVER. Under the Presidency of Mr.d. W. Woods, a Confar NS ob ence of all interested in food production 'was held iu To. ronto on Monday, May 7. he A A A i OG i at Constable Than He Was at Hun | Alr Ralders. "Ile wasn't half angry," sald a con- "Curious thing," I sald, "the top floor (ITO > Sk 2 rubbish, and somehow or other got up to his rooms with an ambulance and tha doctor. The door was closed, 80 we started prying it open. That's When the fun started. ' "The door was flung open, and there stood the old gemtleman with a big Book in his hands, his 'specs' on, and fn a proper temper. I just caught & glimpse of a cosy armchair drawn up fo a blazing fire. | «What the -- does this mean? he says. 'Haven't I been disturbed enough this evening? Get out of it, all of you' And without troubling to shut his door, he went back and sat down with his book beside the fire, muttering most awful. It gave me the biggest shock of the rald."--Loo- don Mail. ps in and Out There is some talk among a number of the women folk of Woodruff place of organizing a club to be known as NET EXPORTS 452795264 lbs "Yes, that's where he was," sald the : i i MPORT i : : i ; i9 Ts eT NET EXPORTS 12 YRS AGO G. BRITAINS SHORTAGE wives of the town were omitted, Etat opo the town and "out" of the directory-- | | Indianapolis News. CE the sort. The proposed 'anything of club title refers solely to a recent | pamphlet issued by the authorities of "the town within a city," which con- tains the directory of the 1,800 inhab- tants. The booklet is neatly arranged, is embellished with pictures of the town's beauty spots and contains plen- fy of advertisements as all good direc- | tories should. But somehow fn the | course from census taker fo printer | the names of about twenty-five of the TEL BELL 30 ' : Dw fi : [ESTABLISHED 18587] ttle club idea has bgen proposed | with one a Fe which is that file member shall be "in" aE er CS ee) , contains all the news all the ti reach¥s a rith farming' community dejits dre able to bay whut the for what they get. Perinan 5 dircalation, hence its vald {meaium. we ossrAven OFFICE 5 SUPERIOR PRINTING AT MO od mts et i rr 0 ik A aaron " Leerybody knows iif itis in The Observer.'