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. " Ft CIVILIANS SHOT BY ENEMY The Germans Turned 8-inch Guns Against Dense Masses of Poles A despatch from Petrograd says: Very great forces are being pressed into battles of mutual destruction from the left bank of the Vistula, near Ilow, southward along the Bzura and Rawkg to the bend of the Pilica below Tomasow. Sometimes the Russians, sometimes the Ger- tans take the offensive . These pitched battles, which can- not be described as a general Ger- man offensive, are the fiercest in the north. They become more favor- able to the Russians as they ap- proach the point where the Aus- trians predominate in the enemy's ranks. The most southerly battle in Poland is on the Nida, Here the Russians have gained a victory over Gen. Dankl, whoee task apparently was to link up with the Austro- German army on the Pilica, 20 miles east of Nowo,Radimsk, and assist the Germans' attempt to force a wedge between the Russian north- erp and southern armies. Im- mense slaughter is taking place in these e5, is doubtless will not be abated until the ascendancy has been definitely ] 7a In the region of Sochaczew thou- sands of civilians have been killed. The rmans ei gun against the town and smashed the high tenement houses. The inhabi- tants were crushed under the ma- sonry. When the population tried to flee to Warsaw, the German guns poured shells into the dense masses of men, women and children, and hundreds were trampled to death. The same thing occurred at Lowicz. A Russian officer who was decor- ated for capturing six German guns women were fighting in the trencli- es. FROM ERIN'S. GREEN ISLE BY MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'S SHORES. NEWS Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Ioterest to Irish- men. ,. Tie National Hotel, Limerick, has 'been destroyed by [ : Cormac O'Hagan$ of Brown's Dundalk, and mate of the 'fug-boat "Liberator," dropped ead at South Qua¥ while making fast a Ime from an incoming ves- tel. According to a report of the Pub- jic Health Committee of the Dublin rporation, there are now 49 licensed picture houses in the city pnd four more are being*construct- Major-General Browne, Killough, {Younty Down, colonel-in-chief of the 2nd Dragoons, has received a amessage from the Tsar with his @reetings and wishing the regiment Fyictory. Inquiries in Dublin regarding the effects of the war on the price of Jeather, owing to exceptional de- (ment Board has been received by the Bray Urban Council with refer- ence to the distress in the district owing to the war. The matter Will " gone into at once ) r, . Adamson ounty Down, thas been presented if the towns people with a purse of gold for gallantly attempting to ve the manager of the local gun fP orks after an explosion Dr. Muleahy, J.P.. coroner of uth Leitrim. was thrown from is carat Kiltyharden, a level cross- i the Cavan and Leitrim Rail- and was so severely injured that he died shortly after.: It is stated that al! members of the staff of the Bank Ireland olunteering for active service will e allowed leave of absence, their posts kept open and they will re- ¢eive half pay during absence, The recruiting-authorities in Ire- Jand are drawing up a schefme for tapping the resources of the county istricts more effectively. With the conclusion of harvesting opera- Banbridge, uo lons it is anticipated that a large Baie of men wll become availa- le for service Second Lieuterant Viscount Cas- ptlerosse. Trish Guards (wounded | and missing). is the heir of the Fai! | of Kenmare, and is representative a family. which has occupied a Wistinguished position in Ireland for centuries George Rety, an alien residing at Dastlew..d Park, Rathmines, was fined in the Southern Police Court $25 or two months' imprisonment, Sor failing to return a permit allow- ing him to travel further than a tadius of five miles from his resi- dence for a period of 24 houss . Increasing vigilance is seen along the north Irish coast. Portrush Council has nuw demanded that all mblic lighting shall be extinguish- at 9 o'clock, and the gas com- ; has been instructed to that effect. _ At a meeting of the Limerick Dis- trict Committee the city surveyor uggested as a means of giving em- oxment the widening of the Lork- ree embankment, and the L. G. rd was asked for a loan to carry t the scheme. _ 5 -- Birovities Proved by Many Exhibits. A despatch from London says: An exbibition is being\held in London & prove the occurrence of German rocities. It consists of official and numerous .photo- uments graph I ee A Slow Caller. "Say, Mary. hasn't that young Wan oul there a home to go tq?" "I guess not, dad, and what's re so far he hasn't shown any ee cf asking me to start one for 'f QUEEN'S NEEDLEWORK GUILD New Year's Gift to Queen Mary From Women of Canada. The following appeal has been sent out by the Queen Mary's Needlework Guild to the women of Canada, aeking them to contribute toward a New Year's gift to Queen ary :-- "Will you kindly allow me, through your valuable medium, to ask the women of Canada to unite with Queen Mary's Needlework Guild in sending a New Year's pre- tent to Queen Mary which shall be worthy of our great Dominion, and the magnifizcent work the women are doing. "Will each woman in Canada, who is working for the soldiers and sailors, send one garment during January through Queen Mary's Needlework Guild for Her Majesty to distribute 7 his can be done very easily. "Thanks to Lady Williams-Taylor the Bank of Montreal has kindly in- structed any of its branches to re- ceive parcels on account of the Guild, and such parcels will be for- warded without cost to the donor. Persons residing in a town where there is no branch of the Bank of Montreal may forward parcels to the Bank of Montreal at 213 Peel Street, Montreal, at 'same time i the receipt for the sending the Bank cha. id, the amount of which | will returned to them. material will make flannelette dresses for infants, woollen under- clothes for children from tivo to eight years old, men's flannel shirts, socks and children's. stockings. A postcard sent to Miss Weller, Assis- ant Secretary, een Mary's Needlework Guild, St. Catharines, Ontario, saying how many garments can be made, will result in material and directions being forwarded to the sender free. "Queen Mary, by her unselfish de- votion to duty, and splendid exam- ple, has endeared herself to the wo- men of the Empire at this crisis,, and such a New Year's gift as I have suggested would not only prove that the women of Canada are ready to "serve the Queen" as are our brothers to i King"' but also give to Her Majesty the great pleasure of distributin useful garments to the soldiers an sailors, the refugees, the poor and needy, the waifs and etrays. "Hoping that the idea of a New Year's gift to Queen Mary from the women of Canada will meet with a hearty response, believe me, "Yours faithfully, "(Sed.) C. WELLAND MERRITT, 'Honorary Secretary." KILL EIGHT OF ENEMY. Two Manchester Officers Get Vie- toria Cross. A despatch from Lendun) Says: Victoria Crosses have been awarded to Second Lieutenant James Leach and Sergeant John Hogan of the Second Battalion of the Manchester Regiment for "conspicuous bravery near Festubert on October 9, when, after their trench had been taken by Germans, and after two attempts to recapture it Had failed, they voluntarily decided on the afternoon of the same day to re- cover the trench themselves, and working from traverse to traverse at close quarters, with great bra-|- very, gradually . succe in re- gaming possession of the trench. They killed eight of the enemy, wounded two and made sixteen pri- soners. --_--_--_------_i____. Urges Use of Poorer Foods. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The Vossische Zeitung of . Berlin prints an: appeal by leading Ger- man pfofessors.of political economy which, urges Germans to live on vegetables and rye bread, leaving meat, white bread and delicacies for the sick and. wounded. "Eng- land wants to starve us, and we must théréfore do everything pos- sible to economize in the use of our food," the appea), says. / at Lowicz states that 80 German}. COAL BOOM FOR CANADA, She Has Enormous Resources and War Will Make a Market. Could Canada come to the reseue of the warring allies of Europe if those nations continue to draft into their fighting armies the 509,- 000 men that are needed to mine and market the coal supply ? The coal resources of Canada are estimated at something over 1,900 billion tons of easily workable coal, with an additional 17 billion tons at depths greater than 4,000 feet, which conld be used as a last re- serve. And yet, last.year, Canada imported nearly one-half of the eoal consumed within 'her borders, The total production of coal in Canada last year was 15,012,178 tons, and the number of men em- ployed to mine this coal was about 28,000, of which 13,736 in the east- ern provinces mined 7,980,000 tons. If Canada could export an appre- ciable amount of coal to Europa it would have to come from the Mari- time Provinces, which are estimat: ed to have a total reserve of 10,- 000;000,000 tons. e Maritime Provinces during 1913, exported 675,000 tons, of which 417,000 toas went to the United States, By far the largest coal fields- in Canada are in Alberta, where-the estimated reserve is over 1,000,900- 000,000 tons, but the long haulage and the lack of machinery and men to work the mines on a large s¢ale at a short notice would practically exclude this enermous supply Europe. Last year the mines of Al- berta produced 3,300,000 tons, val- ued at $8,000,000, and employed 6,- 650 men. The question of obtain- ing labor to work an addi mines is quite a problem, as miin- ers are skilled workmen, and every miner in Canada is busily engaged. Whether unskilled men could | be used successfully would be one of the problems that the pioneers would have to solve, If Canada can develop her coal industry extensively this looks like her great opportunity. The coal resources of the Dominion are sec- ond to those of no country in the world, but the distribution of pop- ulation has up to the present pre- vented full advantage being taken of them. Perhaps the war will force action of some kind of other, and will mean that before the end of next year, should the war, oin- tinue, Canada will have devehoged tT a market that can use at least 95,- 000,000 tons of our coal a year, and will continue after the war is de- cided. : wa th THE FOG SHUT DOWN. British Sailors Tell How Raiders Escaned. Naval men whose ships have re- turned to Harwich, England, after taking part in the chase of the raid- ing German cruisers state that the ezcape of the enemy was dye entire- ly to the fact that the' North Sea was enveloped in a thick: mist. "Tt was desperately hard lines on us," said a me of the crew of "We' were abso- German a What could be done under such con- ditions They did not want fight, and directly they knew we were on their tracks they scuttled away like frightened rabbits." nformation which comes from an- other quarter shows that the ships of the destroyer flotilla which en- gaged the cruisers before the latter turned and ,» Put up a very plucky fight. They were at a ter- rible disadvantage in having to put themselves against vessels of such superior type, but they replied with great and courage to the guns -of the enemy. brief account of the fighting is contained in a letter from a sai who was in the action. The writer says: "One of oun small light cruis- ers absolutely saved the situation. She was, however, no match for such weighty opponents, and the fact that she came out of the en- counter so well is attributed to the poor gunnery of the Germans." Another of the crew says the three German ships literally rained shells at them, but made very few its. "There were many very nar- row escapes," he said, "and it was marvellous how we got out of the affair at all. Of course, we en- gaged them, and we did our best, but we were out-classad by the powerful German ships. They soon made off, however, when they smelt danger to themselves, » | we powerless to stop them ----_F_____. * When asked by her teacher, "Which of the feathered tribe oan lift the heaviest weights?" a little girl replied, "The crane." wers A despatch from Northern France says: A detailed account of the exactions by the German au- thorities in Antwerp shows that the daily fine demanded is 14 tons of bread, 28 tons potatoes, eight tons of fresh meat, three and one- half tons of preserved meat, the same quantity of smoked meat, two tons of cheese, 8,500 bottles of wine, 255,000 cigarettes, 85,000 cigars, 1,700 packets of tobacco and twenty tons of oats. The forage shops have been forced to provide field-glasses for the German officers gratis. Den- tists are obliged to give their ser- vices and to supply artificial teeth ENEMY IN BELGIUM HUNGRY and gold fillings without payment. On Wednesday and Thursday last German and Austrian troops, com- posed of infantry, which had been entrained at Schae in a Ja- mentable condition, passed through Brussels on their way back from the Yser. They had anything but the air of conquerors, They were sorely in need of everything. They looked tharassed ard worn out and went about their duties in absolute silence. In the tattéred, mud-stain- ed uniforms the troops give the im- pression of being absolutely demor- alized. Only the officers retain their arrogantly disdainful man- ner. Indemnify Sufferers in East Coast. A despatch from London says: The Britich Government has decid- ed to indemnify from the Imperial funds those who suffered bedaly or property losses as a result of the recent German naval raid on the coast towns of Scarborough, Whit- by, Hartlepool and West Hartle- pool. ------_t--___ Father--Don't ask so many ques- tions, child. Curiosity killed the cat. Little Boy--Wiat did the cat want to know, dad? S Robe oe eg ee -- : + iy ch ass aie , Se ey ee = eed Beat eae : ¥ ae) > Fak nee PS " 2 ee ml aa rar. » oe LS . . Se ae ' t 8 so Seo . tet Sak eat 3 4 io ee s vr " 2 > "9 es > A we é oe - +e a Sx a As é ' "7 é 2 Ps P ae] on ee Ss *r¢ eu 5 "ty A : ry F; 3 : ? ele # te. 5 er Fe patGe q ibe' feat ee os! e: ue i: as RA aes ah ae . 3 ; ' * a. = oe = > » , a owe EP ee : . : oes F; * < ¥, 83 Pe *: 4 : > a 2 ' F + 12 * : ' I : ' ok ey : Gas Sag 9 . a >. rn pt ene" E32 ? y ery : he hy £ : St ? is: diag ' a es 2 es . . a> me S : Pats | { The Prince of Wales Marching to Join General French's Army. Since the outhreak of the war, the dearest wish of the Prince of Wales has been to gu to the front, into the very firing lines. Though sadly disappointed a number Of times by Lord Kitchener, who trans ferred the heir to the British throne from one regiment to another until he had served his apprenitice- ship as a "rookie,"' his way to join the , Yisit to Field Marshal Sir Jchn Prince and with permitted to Expeditionary forces in France. King 1 French, the commander of the British forces. him as companion, the King made a tour of the base hospitals, are recovering from wounds recsiyed on the battlefield. The Prince was elated acoompany his father o n these tours, George was in France a few his dearest wish at last was granted him. The photo shows the Prince marching on days ago on a Here he met the young cheering the men who over the fact that he was INDIANS ARE ADEPTS. Show More Skill in Fighting Than European Comrades. The great endurance and fighting ability of the native troops from India, who have come to take part for the first time in history in a 'war against white treops on Euro- pean soil, have astonished those against whom they have been pit ted, as well as al] the allied com- 'manders except the British. The only question which arose in the British officers' mind was whe- ther the Indian would be, able to stand against artillery. fire, to which they never had been subject- is im the frontier wars. n ane 'gn the affirmative, as 'eas the best of their wh mrades in arms. Not only this, but the commanders of the allied armies aver that they show dash and fearlessness to a remark- able degree, and have on many oc- casions displayed great initiative under the most difficult circum- stances. In a suburb of Boulogne, France, before the entrance of a great field covered with many regular rows of tents stood a bronze Toure as still as a statue. It was a Sikh in his uniform of khaki, guarding the san- itarium, in which some hundreds of his slightly wounded or ailing com- rades from the battlefield of Flan- ders were recuperating from the hardships of the campaign. These warriors from the Punjab and Ben- al, as their fellow-soldiers, the ittle, 'hardy Gurkhas and Pathans a ats from the mountains on the Afghan frontier, generally bear the variations of climate with the greatest fortitude. They declare they are fighting for their "raj" or imperor, and it is not for them to complain. Just as well drilled and disci. plined as the soldiers of any Euro- pean power, they go into hattle with the full assurance that they will be victors. When they first went into action they disdained the protection of the shelter trenches, and darted across the open at their opponents with their bayonets and knives, much to their cost. They have since learned, like all the other troops engaged in this war of rabbit war- rens, to bore their way through the earth to get at their foes, and they have proved even more adept at this kind of fighting than their Euro- pean comrades. Bn a PORTUGAL IS READY. es Prepare for Intervention on Side of Great Britain. A despatch from Lisbon says: A formal motion embcdying the de- claration that Portugal is prepar- ing for "intervention in the war in Europe by the 'side of Great Bri- tain" was adopted on Wednesday by the Chamber of Deputies. ve mo- tion upholds the acts of the recent- ly-formed Cabinet, declaring that "'the political ¢risis has been solved along constifutional lines,' and that "the first acts of the . new Government -were inspired by" a atriotic programme." The Cham- er expressed its confidence thai the Government would push for- ward its preparation for the mili- tary defence of the colonies and for intervention in Europe. eee Doctor--Do you talk in your sleep? 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