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itcheners si j as norman hall chapter x conpd wot sort of a week you ad mate jt aint been a week son its been a lifetime lucky fer us you blokes come in just wen you did weve about reached the limit ow far we got to go for water bout two miles awful journey tyke you all night to do it you got to stop eyeryminute theys so much traffic along that trench go down stanley road about five unerd yards cream wanted sweet or churning cream highest market prices paid we supply cans pay express charges and remit dally mutual dairy creamery co- 7435 kino st west toronto british recruiting mission ever to make our trenches tenable early the following morning weset to work removing the wreckage of hu man bodies never before had death revealed itself so terribly to us many of the men had been literally blown to pieces and it was necessary to gath er the fragments in blankets for weeks afterward we had to eat and sleep and work and think among such awful sights it was absolutely to them finally it was absolutely essential that we should the trenches and dugouts had been to turn off to yer left on essex alley battered to pieces by the british artil- then yer first right brings you lery before the infantry assault secure 20000 men from in three months us for the week ending march 2nd the british and canadian recruiting mis sion dispatched to canada 1089 volun teers for the british and canadian armies during the absence of briga diergeneral w a white cmg colonel j s dennis of the canadian expeditionary force is fh command of the recruiting program in the united states brigadiergeneral white is making a tour through the south in ajl effort to stimulate interest in re cruiting the pictures accompanying this article illustrate the campaign that is right out by the ouse were the pump and sinee their capture the work of is destruction had been carried on by the eres a straight tip send yer german gunners even in their water fatigue down early in the morn- wrecked condition we could so how oeln carried onjn new york by the in three oclock at the latest theys skillfully they had been constructed mission brigadiergeneral white and thousands usin that well an she goes no labor had been spared in making colonel dennis have started a whirl wind campaign for recruiting british ers and canadians in the united states covering the next two months their ambition is to secure 20000 men from tho united states if possible before tho terms of the draft conven tion between the united states and great britain become effective dur ing the eight months the mission has dry arter a little wilc j them as nearly shellproof and as you blokes want any souvenirs comfortable for living quarters as it all you got to do is pick em up is possible for such earthworks to be elmets revolvers rifles german the ground here was unusually fav- diries you wite till mornin youll orable under a clayish surface soil see plenty j there was a stratum of solid chalk is this the last line o fritzies advantage of this had been taken by trenches the germun engineers who must have cant tell you mate all we i planned and supervised the work know is we got ere someow an we many of the shellproof dugouts were been aoldin on my gawd its fifteen and even twenty feet belowibeen at work in the united states it been awful they calmed down a bit the surface of the ground entrance has secured 22000 volunteers for the tonight you blokes is lucky comin to these was made in the front wall of british and canadian armies and has in just wen you did the trench on a level with the floor i exam about 16000 more i aint got a pal left out o my sec- stairways just large enough to permit tion youll see some of em we the passage of a mans body led aint ad time to bury em i down to them the roofs were rein- thcy were soon gone and we were forced with heavy timbers they left in ignorance of the situation we were so strongly built throughout that knew only approximately the direction j most of them were intact although of the living enemy and the dead the passageways leading up to the spoke to us only in dumb show telling j trench were choked with loose earth up unspeakable things about the hor- there were larger surface dugouts rors of modern warfare with floors but slightly lower than fortunately for us the fire of the that of the trench these were evid- german batteries during our first ently built for living quarters in times night in captured trenches was 0 comparative quiet many of them directed chiefly upon positions to our e f wide and from twenty right and left the shells from our to thirty feet long and quite palaces own batteries were exploding far in compared to the wretched little funk- advance of our sector of trench and holes to which we had been accus- we judged from this that we were tomed they were roofed with logs holding what had been the enemys a f oot 0 more in diameter placed close last line and that the british artillery j together and one on top of the other were shelling the line along which j t 0 three with a covering f they would dig themselves in anewj eart three or four feet thick buti we flt more certain of this later in a though they were solidly built they the night when working parties were had not been proof against the rain sent from the battalion to a point 0 higll explosives many of them twelve hundred yards in front of the were in r logs splintered like trenches we were then holding they kindling- wood and strewn far and were to dig a new line there to con- wide over t ground ncct with intrenchments which had we found several dugouts evidently been pushed forward on either side of quarters which were almost us luxuriously furnished there were at daybreak we learned that we ruga for the wooden fi and p were slightly to the left of hill 70 tu and mirrors for the walls and hulluch a small village still in pos- each of them there was the jolliest session of the germans was to our tove with a removabie ud we left front midway between hill 70 j di gcovered one of these underground and hulluch and immediately to tie pamcc3 at the end of a blind alley front of our position there was a long f di off f rom the in trench t stretch of open country which sloped wag a least fifteen f underground gently forward for six or eight hun- uh t stairwa ieadin do to it dred yards uncfc then rose gradually i so that f was cu in on brigadiergeneral white has made the point that if a britisher or cana dian desires to aid the allies he can do so by promptly volunteering be cause the machinery of the british and canadian armies for training men has been so well developed by three and a half years of experience that it can train a man put him in tho firing line and have him invalided homo in six months this has actually been done in quite a number of cases on tho other hand tho united statc3 government starting much later has had its hands full in training the first contingent of the draft numbering about 700000 men and the second draft will follow close upon the heels of the first from the patriotic feature of the work it gives a direct money return while adding to the food wealth of the community the growing of food for home consumption eliminates transportation waste with its attend ing cost of labor and fuel it is the intention of the board to again prohibit the eating of canned vegetables in eastern canada to oct 15th in western canada to nov 1st 1918 this will further emphasize the necessity of garden production on the widest possible scale in many places very effective work was done by the firemen and the police their gardens were often models in this connection and an in centive to other groups cocoanuts and grenades african negroes possess marvellous throwing ability excellent as canadian and united states soldiers are at bombing thanks to their baseball training they are in proportion to their numbers excelled it is claimed by the african negroes in the british and french armies these negroes fresh from their savage haunts and but newly arrayed in the steel helmets and mod- era habiliments of war possess mar- jvellous throwing ability the result of years of practice and centuries of heredity in knockinglown their meals from cocoanut trees with stones i they can shy pebbles with un erring aim into the top ia cocoanut tree and bring a nut down for supi per when given hand grenades it was found that vhey could place the destructive little affairs into tho hun trenches without the frequent misses which white troops made practically all colored troops from the tropics are articles wanted for gash old jwury platti silver cnrli mlatatnxea fietuui hwoleirork xci oli chlnat cnt olusi onumuti wotclnti blar table war write or en4 by eiprcme to m a t whhbs fclmlted antique oallbkies cs aad 30 oolleye street toronto oat past masters in this bombing work the most noted of them perhaps i corporal g roberts from trinidad who is attached with a few of his brethren to a middlesex regiment he is the champion bomber of his batta lion and at seventyfour yards is a dead shot having been decorated twice by the british war office for single- handed feats of daring and extremely thorough execution of huns defending trenches and pill boxes against the tommies advance every pound of poultry produce raised in canada this year will release a pound of beef or bacon overseas iiimiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir food control corner toward the skyline in the first as sault the british troops had pushed on past the trenches we were holding and had advanced up the opposite slope nearly a mile farther on there they started to dig themselves in but an unfortunate delay in getting for ward had given the enemy time to collect a strong force of local reserves behind his second line which was sev eral hundred yards beyond so heavy a fire had been concentrated upon them that the british troops had been forced to relircfb the line we were then occupying they had met with heavy losses both in advancing and re tiring and the ground in front of us for nearly a mile was strewn with bodies we did not learn all of this the production of food was never of more vital importance than in the year 1918 the foodsituation of the world is not only grave today but it will be increasingly so during the pro gress of the war and for a consider- direction it was still possible to get able timo thereafter the canada out on the other side we immediately food board duty is to see to it that took possession built a roaring fiie and were soon passing canters of food production this year be at its hot tea around the circle lie was maximum worth while again we all agreed during the last year or so the cul- that there were less comfortable tivation of vacant lots and home gar- place in which to have breakfast on dens in many towns and cities was at- rainy autumn mornings than german tended with highly satisfactory re- sputs iv i suits in montreal for instance it is the haste with which the germans estimated that not less than 100000 abanuoned their trenches was evidenc- ed by the amount of war maceriil worth of vegetables were grown on they left behind we f ound two ma- 1 vacant lots calgary had 1113 lots chine guns and a great deal of small- 1 under cultivation covering an area of arms ammunition in our own limited 220 acres it is important that this work many of whom will be amateurs for instance tomatoes and strawber ries while highly palatable are low in food value only seed of proven quality should be sown it is just as j cheap to raise good as poorproduce j these suggestions are naturally not intended for the experienced garden er the primary work of the committee on home gardens will be to encourage the cultivation of vegetables in spaces usually devoted to flowers aside in a time needing food economy many people are not getting all the nourish ment they might from their food it is not how much you eat but how much you assim ilate that does you good the addition of a small teaspoonful of bovril to the diet as a peptogenic before meals leads to more thorough digest ion and assimilation and thus saves food for you need less s18a scarcely anything pleases a woman more than to coma to the city to ah op there are so many big stores g with such endless variety and 3 choico of everything still there is just that little draw- back about where o stay the g walker house solves that problem 3 it is a home for you while in the 3 city and you can have all your pur ls chases sent direct there where j there are spoeial facilities for look- s ing after your parcels 5 come to the city to shop and stay at the walter house jjj the house of plenty toronto ont jjj ps special attention given to c ladies and children travelling wifh- 3 put gentlemen escorts tiiiiummmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuriiiiiniiiiiii ifmit sector of frontage rifles intrench ing tools haversacks canteens great- at once wo knew nothing of our c0 bayonets were scattered every- exact position during the fifst night i w ah of this material was of but as there appeared to be no enemy j verv b canteens water-bot- within striking distance of our i tics and small fryingpans were made mediate front we stood on the firing- aluminum and most ingeniously work is not only continued but ela borated upon it is desirable that this movement should bo instituted in every municipality in the dominion where there are no organizations the mayor of each municipality should at once call a mass meeting of its citizens including women for organiz ing purposes these meetings should be representative of its lead- it came with the dramatic sudden- whichbore the following inscription j citizens the clergy the press ness the striking spectacular display oyer the door horticulturists heads of various of a motionpicture battle the pic- 1 gott tret herein bring gluck here- ubieties public bodies etc torial effect seemed extravagantly in a nermanent chairman or nresident overdrawn i it was an interesting commentary on lnnfcm uiuiruuin oi prtsiueiit there was a sudden hurricane- of german character tommy atkins an1 as many officers as may be rifle and machinegun fire and in an never writes inscriptions of a re- thought advisable should be elected instant all the desolate landscape was gious nature over the doorway of i at this meeting and at least two com- revealed under the light of innumer- his splinterroof shelter neither mittecs formed to include vacant lots able trench rockets we saw the does he file a saw edge on his bayonet and home gardens enemy advancing in irregular lines to we found many letters picture to these can be added committees the attack they were exposed to a postcards and newspapers among 0 publ fertilizing and such oth- pitiess nfantry fire i could fol- the latter one called the kricg- low the curve of our trenches on the zeitung published at lille for the as ma ap h u m i f left by the almost solid sheet of flame soldiers in the field and filled with wn or city should be divided into issuing from the rifles of our com- glowing accounts of battles fought by j districts each in charge of a chair- rades against whom the assault was the over victorious german armies man and a local committee it has 1 launched the artillery ranged upon death comes swiftly in war ones the advancing lines at once and the life hangs by a thread the most air was filled with the roar of hurst- trivial circumstance saves or destroys ing shells and the melancholy whing- mac came into the halfruiicd dugout ggg of flying shrapnel i where the offduty machine gunners i did not believe that any one could were making tea over a fire of splin cross that fireswept nrea alive but tered logs before many moments we heard thel to be coiitinued staccato of bursting bombs and hand f new ice harvester grenades which meant that some of the enemy at least were within strik- 1 ing distance there was a sharp crescendo of deafening sound then auto found more useful at this work gradually the firing ceased and word i than the h came down tho line counterattack against the guards and jolly wcll that a motor car can be used to beaten off too another was at- better advantage than horses in cut- tempted before daybreak and again ting ice wa3 shown recently by a the same torrent of lead the same massachusetts man who had a largo hideous urproar the same sickening j rinn j kin smell of lyddite the same ghastly ce contract to fulfm an1 wbs noonday effect the same gradual ail ence and the same result ii damaged trenches the brief respite which we enjoy ed during our first night soon came to an end to obtain enough men and horses to do the work in the emergency ho utilized a mediumprice car equip ping the rear wheels with demount able rims in which were set two rows of 1inch spikes tho automobile we were given time how- p entirely satisfactory in draw ing the marker and grooving plow and later was driven alongside tho open water towing largo barred eako much faster than men could push them it was found that the ice could otmvill be astonished at the results we get by our modern system of dyeing and cleaning fabrics that are shabby dirty or spotted are made like new we can restore the most delicate articles send one article or a parcel of goods by post or express we will pay carriage one way and our charges are most reasonable when you think of cleaning and dyeing think of parkers let us mail you our booklet of household helps we can render parkers dye works limited cleaners and dyers 791 yonge street toronto been found expedient to have meet ings in each subdistrict presided over by the president or one of the members of the central executive at which it is important toecure the at tendance of those who are- disposed to cultivate vacant lots the import ancc of these local meetings cannot be too strongly emphasized the sub committees will attend to such duties as the securing of vacant land get ting cultivators interested etc the workers should be grouped on land as near their homes as possible in this connection it will be found that except in rare cases the aver age individual otherwise employed has only sufficient time and strength to cultivate a lot 50 x 100 feet it is desirable that the growth of standard vegetables only should he encouraged such as potatoes beets carrots peas beans lettuce onions parsnips etc these are high in food value ami are easily grown by those who will volunteer for this fertilizer tie cut about three times fast a- 0ntar fertilizers limited iith horses i west toronto canada an investment free from the dominion income tax dominion of canada 5 gold bonds maturing 1st december 1922 1927 or 1937 now obtainable at 9878 and interest will be accepted at 100 and interest in the event of future issues of like maturity or longer made in canada by the government denominations 50 100 500 1000 bearer or registered bonds complete information furnished upon request dominion securities orpok ation e f wood 0 a morrow j w mfcdwm w 5 hodftfti j a frr t h aridion afwhti pmidrnt vispriidrtt vicepresident svcrctiry tf iurer awlstccury aut trmjurc limited eiuuiihcj 1901 hem office j king street east tokonto montreal branch cinidt li building rw st mnjr london eno branch no 4 austin frir k l fullcrtn mntr im 1