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S | the Arm - Complegne, France, N Throwss the generosity of a native of the Dominion of Canada, Arthur H. ng, now a wealthy California Jumber manufacturer, Armistice Day - this year has brought back to this lit- tle town, made historic by the World War's conclusion--the very symbol of istice--the raflroad car in which, one rainy November night of v _ nine years ago, the Germans and the " plegne, where Marshal Foch's special ¢ Allies got together on terms which - halted 60 months of fighting. The "Armistice Car," as it has been known, has been moved this month from its temporary (for nine years is temporary to an old race) quarters in les Invalides at Paris to a new monu- mental structure, pald for with the 160,000 francs given By Mr. Fleming. Although when the gift was original: -ly made the donor desired to remain anonymous, his name came out in Paris recently, and his gesture was made the subject of much warm. com- ment by the French press and officials of the Government. Beautiful Structure, The structure housing the rallroad car stands yhite, tall and beautiful, on the exact spot at the railroad sid- ing where a flourish of the pen tafette to earry a ny ot the Arnis tice conditions to the German General Headquarters " at' Spa. The request was granted and a messenger left im- mediately for Spa ih an automobile. Owing to the bad state of the roads land the war operations, this automo- bile was delayed. Back to Sign It. When the Germans accepted, the document was brought back and sign- od in the same railroad car in which it was originally handed to the dele- gates, The ceremony was brief, buty the few curt strokes of the pen which now is on view here touched off emo- tional conflagration throughout the world, Within a few hours after the actual signing of the Armistice, Paris, Lon: don," New Yofk, went wild with joy-- and the war was over. The sentimental importance of the railroad car was mitigated under the general emotional stress of the first few months of joy. The car was then placed In the war relics museum: at the Invalides. The housing was never satisfactory, however, and. the French long thought that the car should be returned to the scene of its most his- toric importance. brought the great war to a close, The same blotters, pens and ink wells are deployed upon the table, and to<lay it presents the exact background be- fore which the final war drama was exacted. In the dedication ceremonies, bring- ing out the citizenry of the little town Mr, Fleming, who made this réturn possible, is a native of Halton 'County, Ontario, born in 1856, and educated in the common schopls of the Dominion. In 1870 he went to Detroit, where he married a Miss Clara H. Fowler, and in 1886 he became a naturalized citi- zen, In 1896 he move dto California, the details of the Armistice as It ap- peared at the scene of its conferénce and signing were recalled as in the speeches of M. Painleve, Minister of War, as well as In the speeches of others prepared for the occasion. While every city of consequigce in the Allied nations recalls vividly the Armistice, the factg of the actual con: ference on- the document have been largely forgotten. There was no mad scramble of cele brants and honking of tin horns. The only horn blown was a bugle, an- where he engaged in the lumber busi ness and became wealthy. He is at present a director of the Southern Carifornia Edison Company, and pres- ident of the board of trustees of the | residence. drama of its own observance of the | California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, th city of his permanent To this institution he has giyen more than five million dollars {1n" the form of the Clara H. Fleming Tund, EE Doubt is Cast On nouncing the valiant attempt on the part of three automobile loads of Ger- man parliamentaxies to get into the specified zone for the discussion of the Armistice terms. The night was not only black, but it wa¥ rainy and thick with November fog. Greville Memoirs London Firm Finds Flaws in Wilson Work London.--The Westminster Gazette Envoys Delayed Hours Out of the blackness, over a road full of deep valleys of shell holes, the has raised the question of the authen- ticity of the diaries of Charles Gre- ville, the publication of which record » bombs centinued to burst, men went of happenings in the Victorian era has stirred up a lot of dust here. The paper printed statements from the heads of the Heinemann publishing firm to the effect that they had re- ceived the completed work from the American publishers, but on compar. ing it with the original in the British Museum Libzrary they found pass- ages 'so confused and mixed up that it is almost impossible to tell which werg Greville"s and which were inter peliitions of the editor, Wilson." The Germans were met when they| The publishers have requested alighted and conducted by French of- Doubleday, Page & Co. to supply the flcers to their temporary quarters. original material from which the new The officers sent by Foch and the Ger- | edition was prepared, but have not man officers stepped into swift auto- yet recelved it. The Westminster mobiles and sped off. The blinds of i Gazette contends that ' the situation the cars were lowered -and special {must be cleared up if the authenticity -military guldes took positions by the of the memoirs is to be accepted. side of the chauffeurs as the cars pro-| In the meantime the book is being ceedéd to the forest of Complegne. | widely quoted and discussed in the Untible to see Marshal Foch, the newspapers, Opinion og the pro- Germgns spent the night at the Chat. | prioty ot. publshink it 1s sharply eau de Francport, also known as' the divided. Many prominent men, have Chateau des Bonshommes, on the joined in the discussion, some argu- hereditary estate 0 fthe Marquise de |ing that the book is a valuable contrl- 'Algle. They were given food and |bution to history an dothers maintain- Ls refreshments and retired, Be: | ing that it is disgraceful to give the hind them, along miles of front, | world the spiteful tattle of a man who was notoriously tnteliable and bitter minded. Greville's stories of the relations of ueen Victoria with her husband are greatly 'resented {if some quarters, and, according to the Westminster Gazete, their publication has given great offense in court circles. automobiles proceeded toward the cross-ways on the road to La Capelle, designated for the conference after an exchange of wireless messages. At a quarter past nine on the evening of November 8, the three cars, preceded by a detachment of German road men- ders, reached the crossroads. The roads were so bad that the Germans were delayed hours en route, and ar- rived so late that they were unable to obtain audience that night with Mar- shal Foch. over the top, and died in the mud, . Germans Hear Terms. On Friday morning, November 9, the German delegates were conveyed in automobiles to the Rethondes rall- way station, eight miles east of Com- The Canadian Constitution Leo Cdnada (Lib): Among the eb train was drawn up, Marshal Foch received the armistice parlidmentaries in the saloon car. British and Ameri- can delegates were with the Marshal. Dr. Erzherger, leader of the armis. tice party; introduced his a vie part of a nation's birthright. we: can; count withont fear of t that he would first like ;| with the wishes of the people Immedlate suspension Of} gpgoy itself with a Government and .| Legislature which reflect : ang respect public opinion. th . is contradiction the liberty and right to construct &| constitution for itself in storiany 3 Bential liberties and rights which are | his point of { WHERE HISTORY WAS MADE" NOV. i The way*the spot Where thé German Armistice: Car stopped Is now rance, Discoyeries at Vimy Ridge : Only Intact Portion of Line Canadian Engineers Have Discovered the Only Portion left Intact of all the Battle Fields Along the Western Front oo -~ Ca To Be Preserved as a Permanent Memorial . MOVING SIGHT ' . By 'A Cagadian i in France" Vimy Ridge, Monday, Oct."17 dig Battlefield 'Memorial! Commis- Thousands of former soldiers are|slon. It is to he preserved for the visiting the battlefields of France and | benefit of posterity as a kind of text. | Belgium in the hope of finding book on trench warfare; and is destin: trenches; dug-outs, .or the exact spot [ed to become the.most remarkable Te where they received their "blighties." | llc of the war. i the Ypres Sallent.they see no- Living Memorial: thing but flourishing fields cf corn; ; " Z . . The project began a year ago as a flax, 5 : : ax, Oats, and. barley. - There ;s not 8110 1ng vy" the: Canadian. memorial * Jamieson, Lieutenant H. i", '1918 "10, 1917. marked in the 2wand near Pethondes, Captain Unwin Simpson, Royal Cana- dian Engineers, who is in charge of the work. On the way down is a . Wo stood there, ae matches tn the dark, wondering what had bap. pened . to these men, wondering notice: - "These walls are sacred to the names of soldiers who inscribed them during their occupation" in. the war of 9141918. Please omit yours.! A Labyrint., We entered a dark tunnel amd found ourselves in a labyrinth of pas: whether they still ijve somewhere at home in Canada, or whether thay on fell on Vimy~Ridge: No 'matter whether they are alive or dead, their person: alitlés live beneath the soil of France so vividly that one expects to meet them round. the next corner, While we were golng on towards sages, dug-outs and battalion head: quarters; cut far. below. the ground level in the' white chalk of Vimy Ridge. It was as thought we had been switched back to April 1917-- that time when the "Canadian divi slong advonced to the conquest of Vimy Ridge." Nothing had changed. The smoke from the candles once set in niches to light the "passages was still black on the chalk. ' The dug-outs. and the walls of the com- municating passages were covered with names carved in the chalk or written in pencil and as legible as' when they were Inscribed during the Mine Shaft, "which . the Canadians drove beneaths the enetay lines, my foot kicked a small object. It wa a tin of bully beef! It had io opened, but it had not been eaten, and it was ten years old! Tears bin the imagination of any 'man knows what bully beef was like ---- comparatively young to judge how this specimen looked. ahd smelt, "See this?' said Captain Simpson, holding up a quéer grey slab. It 'wa gun 'totion, stamped 1916, "Down thers, about 100 feet below our present level," he.said, "we found 'wo are now. spending o; 'ing services and eas od mors than the country can afford." | Costs Terrific + - ag 1onge be ordered into 'war by swolen heads ot monarchs claiming ual With the Al - f an ahold ali 'The cost be kept in the public mind as a deter- !rent, he adds. "The cost of our ar tillery bombardment previcus to launching the Infantry attack at the Battle of Arras was £13,000,000 sterl- ing, the barrage at Messine cost £17, he says, "can nations ; x3 7 | 500,000 sterling and' that at the third *7 ® battle of Ypres £22,000,000 sterling," Cos a total of £52,000,000 «for these three operations alone. 4 "The weight of the gun amunition 1 fired n the Battle of Messine amount: ed to 85,000 tons and in the first nine weeks of the Battle of Ypres 480,000 tons of shells were hurled inte the enemy's lines," : _5o Years Experiahce: "Summing up an earnest and whew: hearted plea for peace and disarma- trench left in Belgium except a few doubtful examples on Hill 60. In Francethe rcars of war are more visible, but a strenuous peasantry has filled the shell holes and has rebuilt its farms on: the frcut line. It is amazing how swiftly the plough- and the building ccntractor have wiped on Vimy Ridge, which will mot be/great battle of Arras, The maple completod unt 1981, The stone for leaf of Canada wad tarved with an this stupendous shrine comes trom ' original variety in a hundred differ the ancient Roman quarries round the ent places, and on the walls I read at Bay of Spalato 'in Dalmatia, While random such inscriptions as these: -- waiting for supplies of this stone to arrive, it occurred to the Canadian 103238, James Burton, A Com- # dump of Mills bombs and also' ment, Sir Willlam Robertson says: sacks of T.N. We: have: removed. "This is the only con lon I, a8 | them reverently." reach efter a military career Bn In the ne collection of names will have covered on Sunday, Nov. 20, written on the walls' I any across' 1927, a period of exactly 50 years. two which roused by curfos! They May 'we not also say that if the futil- were: ity of war were more insistently em- hip No: 7,129, 18t Section, "tn! engineers that it might be interest- ing to try to"locate the famous Grange Labyrinth-----the miles of underground out all traces of war, Sniper's Post anadisn pany,..the Royal CO Still alive and js ment, May 8, 1917. kicking: Division; U.8.M.C., Texas Leather, Neck Corps, * W. 7. Auchizicloss, "A Ship No, 3,112 GM. 2nd Class, . phasized by military leaders and the desire for peace more carefully néur- ished the defence of the British Efe pire would soon become a far easier I found today the only.spot In France whers a man can feel that he is back again In 1914-1918; where he can stand at a saiper's post and fit the rotted butt of a-rusted rifle to hisi shoulder as he peeps out between the ' bushes. towards the German trenches. The wire Is still up in "No man's Land," duck boards lie in the trenches, officers' beds, rotting and collapsed, still lie .in the chalk dug-; outs, Hundreds of names and many mess- ages are written on the chalk in in- delible pencil, as fresh as when they were written ten years ago Mills bombs with the pins in them repose on ledges, cans of bully beef, tin hats--all the familiar debris of those sad days--are to be seen as they were left. This amazing spot is the famous Grange Tunnel, on Vimy Ridge, whieh has just been opened up by the Cana- Ha "ADAMSON'S NT CITIZEN OF "O0R CMON WE DO YOU BEL! IN PROHIBITION, passages which the Canadians pushed | » 670080. out tb 'within a few yards qf ~the enemy's lines, o . Map references were taken, aud the entrance tothe tunnel was discover{- ed choked up with brushwood. The work of clearing the tunnel has taken ! a year, and it is not yet completed. So interesting were the discoveries that the commission decided to re- ! build the trenches, preserve the dug | outs, and 'make the -Grange Tunne] a permanent sight. The trenches have been lned with concrete sandbags, The concrete is poured In wet, so that when the sandbags rot the marks-of the mesh will remain; the duck- hoards have been cast in concrete, all wood has been taken out the dug- outs, and the passages have been =) inforced "with. concrete and LAL The- Grange Tunnel has at least al We walk for about half a mile, century of life before iti - = going deeper to Grange gubway, un- Iwas shown ground the tunnel by til we came to battalion headquarters, ADVENTURES? By O. Jacobson. Company, Royal Canadian Regi ment, May 8, 1917. whizz-bangs as yet, 1 cannot describe (lia Tealiigs with | {which a man In these days ap proaches the Inscriptigns written be- low the earth of the Arras sector. In thelr cheery naivete we who have sur- vived and can look back on 1917 with the calm unconcern' of historians; deem to touch hands once more with these Canadian boys who, ten years ago, crouched In these chalk dug-outs, still "alive 'and kicking," touched by whizzbangs," joking, laughing, waiting, quite unconscious Yat they were carving not only thetr mes, but also history, * Headquarters o ™y Dntouched. by. still "uf-| | British, ho Bother: in ers to 'come 'and § 1 8rd Division, Plagship, U.S.8, Sara- and cheaper task than it now ls." toga, Asiatic Fleot. : Members of parliament are urgent. 7 Problem of the Ridge ir demanding more pconomy in mill Jia oF tal ry and naval armaments and Win. Het Owoir ity yw ston' 'Churchill in hig control of the» Canadian armies cn Vimy Ridge?! reasury.- is nooused 0p Iettine the How did they get there? Were they | bi army ne any air: forces. 5p on 100 deserters from the American Navy, ™ who, becoming weary of America's Pod "on the gther hand, Brig.Gen, P..R, C. Groves, former director of flying Shainin, Sad ied a operations and for threo years British Wrecked mariners: who had gone fo alr advisor on the Supreme Alr Coun- Vimy in search of life? I prophesy thet books will some. day be written about Grange Tunnel and the names which "it perpetuates. The Canadian Battlefields Memorial {i Commission has carved, perhaps un- 'wittingly, a greater memorial even than that expensive shrine which the Canadian Government . 1s now. build- ing on the crest of Vimy Ridge Here in: this dark Suna 'anid here only, do we seem to who fought dnd died: against moderd alr raids and that at the present rate of progress it will be | efght years before a minimum condi: 10 'will bs SeBleves. chalk passages well-known faces; here only can we read ova £0 betes authorities. ihe signatures--mno doubt fn many cas se typhold epidemic in Montreal al Tn thelr last written words? rition sprig was a torrible lesson. with the indelible pencils wit] they wrote their laters home Canada as, with si : Av this trial be / ot. cortain shad 1 paralyzed the efforts" o the De- nent of ur men Uv: urine ? The" a {ih says tbat Yondon Is detenceloet" | metropolis was cain to go