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The United States‘ military departâ€" ment sent an ‘army of six or seven thousand men into Mexico to hunt for th> outlow andg bandit, Villa, and now the army that went after Villa is appare::tly lostâ€"the wireless â€" went broke, the telephone and teleszraphic wires are down and the army â€" does not seem to know enough to send a man on horseback to let the Departâ€" ment at Washington know what is going on in Mexico: oys Auy c IC thousand Mexic rera have deser army and gone At this writing things are in a deâ€" plorable condition in the United Statesâ€"they have lost their army. Even the German influence with the Turks will have fallen in the near future as Turkey will receive the punishment which she justly deserves but which she did not expect to get on account of being backed by the big central powers, in southâ€"west and east Africa Gerâ€" many has lost everything. In the east ern hemispere she has lost her josâ€" sessions close to Japan and her isâ€" lands of the seas. In Egypt, Persia and India, her influence has received a bad shock, as the Allies will eventâ€" vually completely control ali that rountry and Germany‘s influence will be dead for the next one hundred veatrs. While the Allies have met with apâ€" parent disaster at the Straits of the Dardanelles and while they did not reach tie Balkans quickly enough to assist the Servians, yet taking the reâ€" sults of the war all over the world the Allies have been big wivners. Of course Germany is well equipâ€" ped with air craft, but her air craft is of a different style and not so well adapted for quick and effective work along the battle lines. Germany is very strong in Zeppelins and dirigâ€" ible machines, monster baloonlike machines that can carry immense loads, but cannot rise to a very sreat height, nor move very quickiy, nor be imancouvered very handily. These are grand machines for long distance fying, for load carrying, etc., but they gererally get the worst of it when they come in contact with fastâ€" er machines and machines that can ascend into the higher altitudes. One when the time comes for a general offensive ‘by the Allies it is probable that ia great fleet of air machines will do effective work in the rear of the German lines, endeavoring to throw into confusion the lines of communiâ€" eation and the supply transports. France is well equipped with aeroâ€" planes and Great Britain is increasâ€" ing her equipment just as rapidly (as possible. It is my opinion that the acrial maâ€" chines ‘will take a big part in the general offensive of the Allies on the western ‘battle front, when Spring opens., so successful was the raid that the en tire offensive of the port was destroyâ€" ed for the time being. 5 Two â€" submarines in the harbour rad to dive to the bottom to escapne the onslaught of the air crafts and A most wonderul demonstration of the power of the Allies® air craft was given at Zubruges last week when a tremendous fleet of English and French air ships bombarded this naval ‘base and qestroyed an immense amount of docks, stores and war maâ€" terial, killing a great many .3>rman soldiers and wounding a lot of others Turkey, to whom the Kaiser lookâ€" ed some time ago for assistance in the Balkans, has more than she can do at home and within the next month there will be a panic in Constantiâ€" nople if the Russian armies keep on from the < Caucasus the way â€"they have been doing for the past four weeks. In the Balkans trouble will start again soon as the Angloâ€"French troops from Salonika are moving north and it ‘will not be long until there will be clashes either on Balâ€" garian or Servian territory Not only is this the case on the western battle front, but Old Russia has got her road roller moving and eovering a front of almost seven hundred miles, her troops are on the offensive. The Kaiser is kept busy these days. Not only has he had his hands more than full at Verdun where Gen. Jofâ€" fre‘s French troops have put up. the most wonderful defensive fight ever witnessed in the history of warfare, but he is almost afraid to order any troops from Belgium, as the Pritish are right on the job and ready to take advantage of any weakening of the German lines. ‘ When the time comes for The People‘s Paper TEHRMSâ€"Subscribers in Canada$l per year in advance. $1.50 per year not paid in advance. In United States $1.50 per year in advance. Advertising rates n application deserteq gone to THE INDEPENDENT f JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, Owner and Manager J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor. MAIN STREET, GRIMSBY, ONT. Published every Wednesday Telephone 36 1 UIC Talor On E was sitting in the gallery in the Parliament Buildings at Toronto, â€" listening to the afterâ€" body in the convention outside of or three were afraid to say that soul was their own and the thing passed by as a joke. Of course, there was nothing done aboutA the resolution, because everyâ€" At a Conservative convention :1 â€"St. Catharines once upon a timeâ€" bluff old Dr. Elliott moved a motion eritiâ€" cising the increasing of the yearly indemnity to members of the legisgâ€" lature from one thousand to fourteen hundred dollars and in speaking to his resolution he made the remark that that was about forty dollars a day for each day that the house was in session and that there was not one man in the whole bunch outside of the Cabinet who was worth that amount, either in the legislative asâ€" sembly at Rome or anywhere else. three or four months, to legislate on , thou matters that they practically know | peop nothing about and if they have an opâ€"| that innion on it dare not utter it. Second,| This from the standpoint that it gives two | the : or three men or sometimes even one half man completes control of the legisâ€" | Gern lature and the rest of them are only I aske like nine pins, to be set up or knockâ€" l whic ed down at that man‘s beck and call. | have It is a bad thing in two ways. First it is putting the country to the exâ€" pense of keeping about one hundred men in idleness on big salaries for when all, or nearly éllfiit?:fle 1;1 ;i.l’-l.s-“ill the legislative hall are in t&.e heads of three or four men in the Ca¥®‘net. bers of the Ontario legislation are op : posed to prohibition, but the poor ainnies dare not say so and the result is that they will allow a law to zo on the statute books that they are not in favor of and will not particularly bother their heads to help in force. in the Liberal Opposition, outside of Rowell ang one or two others there is nothing worth speaking about, wihile amongst the large numâ€" ber of memners on the Conservative side it is with difficulty that eneough men, ofeven ordinary ability, could be chos=r to make a Cabinet A little later on 1 Of course it is a well known that in the matter of private mem the Ontario House is very weak. opposition __Of course, the new law has not passed the House yet, but, with the Liberals practically pledged to supâ€" port the prohibition measure by Mr. Rowell and with the Conservative members generally afraid to say that their soul is their own, the chances are that the measure will carry through the house without serious cense | Wns OM C Cingnipacs) io 1P Ed pointed to look after the cperations of the law, No compensation whatâ€" ever will be allowed to present liâ€" The present licensegy will lapse on the first of May and an extension of licenses will be granted at a nominal figure to allow hotels and shops to dispose of their stock. * rovision is made for the whoieâ€" | from danger. The country was honeyâ€" sale of liqour to drug stores and | combed with patrois, both Belgian medical men in certain quartities | and German. Jâ€"Iowever, we brough and provision is also made for the | back the wounlled man to my house sale, by retail, of liqour in certain | that is to say I, the village constabl quantitics in drug stores, upon the| and the peasant. With the help _ order of the medical men. some inhabitants we carried him s1Â¥ * /* * one of my rooms. I attendad +. The act provides for the cancelâ€" lation of all licenses of every â€" kind by Sept,. 1916. After that date there will bse 1mo hotel, saloon or shop licenses foar the retail sale of liqour in the Province of Ontario. It W. J. Hanna, Provincial Secretary, introduced a new tempereunce act in the Ontario legislature last week. In the meantime the United States Military Department has opened â€" a recruiting station in Ohio and the American papers are using big, black type about the size of a man‘s fist to tell about the war, or at least not to tell about the war, in Mexico. Wihat the fifth day will bri1 nobody knows. i The feurth day a report comes by the underground route that two mules a dog and a peon have been shot. In the Liber The third day Washingt that two American sold eightyâ€"one _ Mexicans ha killed. The next day the news is not con firmed so Washington is more hope ful. Villa. Washington is in darkness about the matter and szreat aaxiety is felt. is a bad thing for any country, any province â€"or any deminion venty commission of tthre_e will be apâ€" holders fi iye per cent of the memâ€" Ontario legislation are op : prohibition, but the poor Established 1885 Washington â€" hear e of Two that their have was ers act forth and ‘ been wards ~I was visited by an infantry commandmant, who asked to see the wounded man. He spoke to the wound ed man in German, which I do not understand, but immediately after he had spoken to him he thanked me for the care that I had taken of him and told me that the dead body which I had spoken of above was that of Lieut. de Bulow, of Potsdam. He askâ€" | ed me next where the body was to be found. I told him that I had ordered the graveâ€"digger to fetch it that very morning and to take it to the cemeâ€" tery. He thereupon expressed a desire to see the corpse and asked me the | way to the cemetery. He went there. The corpse was in the grave but the } grave was not filled in. He made the graveâ€"digger exhume it. He took a few articles from the body for use as remembrances and he gave these to me afterwards ‘when he came back to my house. It is from his own lips that I received the information which I have given relating to the corpse. The articles in qtestion were, a genâ€" eral staff map, a pair of gloves, a packet of cigarettes and a noteâ€"book in which the dead man put down his journal. These were given to me by the commandant so that I might send them according to his own instrucâ€" tions a fortnight or three weeks after wards to Madame de Bulow, at Potsâ€" dam. A priest was present. The comâ€" mandant then left. While he was in my yard one A. . . R . . .. who lives some inhabitants we carried hip 338 one of my rooms. I attended to hig injuries, and seeing that he was very bad I sent for the Parish Priest about eleven to give him extreme unction as he was a Catholic. I watched by his side all night. Next morning about nine a German patrol came by H informed a sergeant who wa:!}din charge of it that I had got a wounded man at my house. He told me tha he would inform â€" his commandanl; and asked me at the same time where the Parish Priest and the Burgomasâ€" ter lived as he intended to take them as hostages:â€" About half an hour after wards ~I was visited by an infantry commandmant, who asked to see the: wounded man. He spoke to the wound. | (Continued from last week) _ j Evidence of Belgian Refugee _ On the evening of the 19th August about seven, the Burgomaster c to me and asked me if I was willing to take in a wounded man who was then lying in a deserted hut right out in the country about one mile and & ‘halt' from my house. I went through with a village constable and a peasâ€" | ant. We went in the farm cart belong ing to Dermine Farm. Near the hl@ where the wounded,man was lying ’ there was a company of Belgian soi’i;} iers who were unaware that a wom_i‘?l" ed man was there. Near the hut also the body of a German soldier was 1Yâ€" ing, and we learned afterwards that it was that of Lieut. de Bulow, Of Potsdam. Our expedition was not free Men Murdered, Women :" and whole Families: z |Evidence of Belgian Citizen“'l; f the Committee â€" GERMAN OUTRAGES AND!W[ ATROGITIES UPâ€" _ UN BELGIAN AND FRENCH CiviLIAN noon‘s proceedings to me "What do yo ‘"What are they here for ?" and answering my own qu said "They are not here when calleq upon, becauss no use of the Liberals voting Conservatives do not have to the Cabiret and the leader of position is all that is necess the rest are just like so man My friend laughea and ma reply "Outside of the membe: Cabinet there are not ten j in the House who could mak ent, sensible speech in the hâ€" very few of them ever try it. *‘Well," I réplica "outs‘ce ney and three or four others tario legi:lature is the most set of »or that i think ecoul, ered tegether anywhere o in the Province If it were nc ty politics" IT said "fifty pe the men in this House at t moment could not get my townshi; councillor." ‘a59 & Calnoll¢.. L watched by _all night. Next morning about German patrol came by and I d a sergeant who was: in I had got a wounded 2. He told me tha.z i1 his commandan the same time where THE INDEPENDENq nd thin} at the m my Yote T Of the Opâ€" cessary and many bumps question im into ed to hig was very est about a )t Ior o arty l{[Qc _ this s of the meimbeFs to _ vote ther(. is and the _ so that I asked CC en N a decâ€" io and °M‘ of resent iolgtm}t]e Children cut to P On Wednesday, the 19th August, from daybreak onwards fighting took place between the 8th Belgian â€" of Line and the German Army on the left bank of the Meuse on the heights of Seilles. At eight o‘clock in the morning Belgian soldiers blew up the bridge of Andenne and withdrew under the forts of Maizeret and Marchovelette. At 10 o‘clock Andenne was entered for the first time by a group of about twelve Uhlans, who went up to the bridge and discovered that it had been blown up: It is statâ€" ed that from this moment the Uhlans intended to massacre a part of the population. Some inhabitants of Anl denne, who were near the bridge at! hair on his face and thin. say if I could identify him >| _ My brotherâ€"inâ€"law and another man 1| were in the yard of the next house at t | this time. After this the officer went >| away, telling my brotherâ€"inâ€"law, who | asked him whether doors and winâ€" 1| dows should be kept shut, that there [| was no necessity to do so. About 4 or | 5 o‘clock we were in front of the â€"| house in the street, that is to say, my | brotherâ€"inâ€"law, another man, and myâ€" | Self. We were talking and we were | looking at the sentinel who‘ was staâ€" | tioned on the railway, At this moment | bullets whistled past our ears. There | was a sharp burst of firing all round and we bolted indoors. The firing last Jed for about two hours and we thought that it must be a Belgian force had returned to recapture the village. _ When the firing stopped | about seven, I ventured out to my! window, and I saw the villagers runâ€" ningâ€"men, women and children, all of them in the direction of the quarâ€" ries where it was known that there were no Germans. I ran out and askâ€" ed what was the matter. It was not! till then that I saw the fire. The whole of the district round the staâ€" tion wasâ€"blazing. It was one long line of fire for a distance of two miles in | the direction of the hamlet of Tram-{ aka. On the Andenne side we could | see the houses of the Namur road and |. all the little farms which rise one |â€" above the other on the heights of the |, right bank burning. We could hear firing still going on. Women came by | « screaming and saying that their husâ€" bands had been hauled out of the | house, and that they did not know i what the German soldiers had done| . with them. They also said that thel* soldiers were firing through the openâ€" 1 ings into the cellars and into the‘4 ground floor rooms and that when-,“ ever they saw a shadow of someone 1 running away, they fired upon it.l About nine I went off on foot in the j direction of Namur. I+ should be able to identify the commandant of whom I have spokep above. I think he belonged to the Brandenbourg regiment. As for the officer, he was quite young without Ud Ur C a . 7P acv ns inhadAst GUL ‘Pil€ are bad lots. You have gotylots socialists." I said to ainm: > ‘¢Weln, ”about you? Have not you any?" P , Ssaid he, "but your Government ocialâ€"democratic." I then told him our people were quite quiet and imat "° . P24 nothing to fear from them. Attegi-ly T4t©)" said he, "the Igians » the eyes out of our f was flabbergasted and protested that it was not so. He then Said; "It is a pity we have to fight the Belgians. Why did not you come in with us? We would have given you a bit of France." I said to him: "You could not expect us to do thatâ€"what about honour? Would you have taken it on if you had been in our place?" and the officer answered â€" definitely "no."*s :. % p ul Ainigaah e aie® t oc +A DEOple are bad lots. P sSocialists." I said At about you? Hay " Â¥es," said he, "but 3 S socialâ€"democratic." mat our people were ; ne had nothing em. 4t any gate, gelgians ”tear the isoners." i was A Protested that it was E fired. «These h yards away from EI, "one of your n _horse went right ° without receivin t although he le. He asked the w : gone and people they had gone." _ they really?â€"A} vidence of Belgian Refugee T shed with him he aded man‘s condition was @ bim there : was hard] . As he was leaving my hc passage he said to me ab have just been burning ses."" I asked him why :o «9 aid :: "because one of the s of these houses fired ye he Uhlans." I said to him AMmpossible:â€" that T naa _ â€" prohibition bill is (the . most legislation that has been inâ€" ed in any < Parliamenti in Onâ€" n many years, yet it bareiy inâ€" discussion, for two â€" reasons. because the Liberal members ire opposed to it dare not say cause their leader pledgc.. nimâ€" to support a measure of this i the thope of getting into powâ€" o or three years ago. in tnre 1 place, the Conservative memâ€" 1 up in their Homes ‘ ;gian Soldiers given before ' vestigation | vho are opposed to it dare not ) because they are mer of such Aé ability and of such. simall ndence of thought and actior. such weak character tist> if or Hearst said "Sit down you wouldn‘t hear tell ot tiem vears asghin e legislature of the Province ario were composed of imenâ€" ho bhad individual opinions of wn there would be a discussion g not less than two years on ohibition bill before it would Ara the chances are that it never carry. 4 log, little good, little ill BY, ONTARIO _Mil 1s; tTine . most that has been inâ€" Parliameni in Onâ€" asked me if I cannot leces the Advertise in the Indeâ€" pendent if you wish results the moment when the G tered, heard them saying massacre." 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