The Lethbridge Telegram from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada • 7

THIS LETRbniDOfi TELEGRAM PAGE SEVEN. Boys of the Maple Leaf at Vimy Ridge Their Doings by One who was There. Farmers, Take Nohce Leading Lethbridge Stores WILL BE The following extracts are takes from a letter written to Col. R. M.

Simpson, M.D., to Dr. .1. A. Gorrel, of Simpson, Halpenny ft Gorrel, Winnipeg. After detailing the duties that fall to the lot of a consulting in Franre he writes an account of his experiences in the battles around Vimy ridge, where the Canadians played an important part and won undying fame and glory.

Since writing you I have spent most of my time with Col. Ford, A.D.M.S., in France, and' have been with the boys in the battles of Vimy ridge, Vsllarvilla, Arleux and Te-noy. Vimy ridge was, I presume, one of the biggest and, judging from its perishable glory and renown. But it must be remembered that our ranks 1 are bring thinned and these mm have to be replaced if we are to hold our part of the line that we have won with such tremendous sacrifice. Surely our young men at home who have not enlisted cannot remain indifferent when this help is so sorely needed, but will hasten to help their comrades in arms over here who have so heroically upheld the traditions of the Union Jack.

I shall have to close this rather length? letter which yon may find somewhat rambling, as it is always difficult to write shout events that have taken place some time ago. Before doing so I want to correct an CLOSED Wednesdays at 1 p.m. During July and August. IF YOU SHOP, SHOP EARLY Lethbridge Retail Clerks Assn. strategic value, one cf the most im- impression given out that the Cana-portant of the war, and it was a dians lost Fresnny after taking it.

great privilege to be with the Canar such is not the case. We took and dian boys on that occasion: The battle, as you know, took place on Easter Monday in the worst kind of weather, snow, cold, rain, slush, mud and water. It was simply awfuli and when our men went over held it absolutely intact and then handed it over to the Imperials who subseiucntlv lost it. What we have we hold. In stating this I am attaching no blame to anyone.

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and Pressed Irom sees 15c LADIES Suit, Pressed only 50c Suit, Cleaned and Pressed S5e Suit, French Dry Cleaned $1.25 Skirt, Pressed only 25c Skirt, Cleaned, nod Pressed from 45c French pry Cleaned, from 60c I AH repairing, charges extra. the parapet in the early morning the conditions could not be worse. Shell (holes innumerable, and stepping from i edge of one to another, hundreds of feet wide and from 30 to 40 leet deep, filled with water and anow, hut 1 nothing could stop them. On they I went, up to their knees in slush, in the face of uncut wire entanglements and other onstaclea, against a strongly fortified Kne of great strength, sunken roads and every devilish de-I vice that could he conceived or brought into play by the Huns, but the went through it all on schedule time in one great irrestable rush that would stop at nothing, and taking every objective as planned. Our barrage was something wonderful and which no one who has not seen modern warfare could begin to imagine.

It started about 4 a.m. in one great mass of flame as though hell had broken loose. The roar of the big guns, along with the machine and other kinds, the blinding flashes and clouds of smoke, the call by flare and the reply of the enemy, the frantic appeals of the S.O.S. by the Huns for reinforcements at vitally threatened points, the fantastic colors of the flashes blending with the grey dawn on the morning, made a scene which no man who has seen it wilt ever forget while life and memory lasts. How these men went over the terrible obstacles they encountered, and in the face of a murderous gunfire, seems almost incredible; hut they did, and drove the Huns from what seemed impregnable positions and most carefully, prepared and elaborately built concrete SEEMED AS IF WORLD HAD COME TO AN END One of the captured Huns said to me: We heard a- noise sa if the world had come to an end by means of some mighty, catapult through space, and almost before we could get second breath these terrible Canar dians were upoi One said, "Ceme along, I said 'Did and he replied 'You bet, and iost no time shout it either.1' He asked if there were many more.

I pointed to a dug-out and went over and called oiit to come but thev didn hurty much; and he bA.I hare nt any. time to waste and threw a few bombs down and said, They won't bother about, breakfast this I. thought sure he was going to hit me, and he said, are Ki staring at; get and I did. is fellow had. been formerly employed in England and could speak toe language fluently.

11 I gave him my watch and Iron Cross, he continued, 'but he banded me back toe latter with the remafk, I guess you earned if, and then he made me take a stretcher and carry hack "toe He told mo that the Germans don't Hke to light the Canadians as they are so very strong and fearless as well as resourceful. If I had time I would like to tell yon -about the work when the wounded start to come in that is done by the regular M.O.s right up in the advanced rest. Thee ire under shell Are all the time and never let up for a minute. Capt. Kenny, M.

of toe Tenth, did great work that day and the. following ones, also Mother sill. In fact it is difficult to discrimfinate, and if decorations were to be handed out to all those who performed meritorious services toe supply might run out. The saddest part of all 1s the bringing in of Such terrible wounds are inflicted by shrapnel that they are difficult to. treat, but no words of mine can tell you of toe fortitude, the patience and the bravery of these boys under such conditions.

Never a murmur nor complaint but cheerful and happy that had done their part, with a sympathetic enquiry for the other fellow and grateful for any assistance. WORK 16 TO 18 HOURS AT STRETCH I was right up along with our bearers, then back again to help in 'A RED CROSS ORLY IN NAME The essential fact about the German Red Cross is that it is the Red Cross only in name. In reality it is nothing more nor less than a branch of the German military organization for the glorification of the German arms. There are many officials of the i International Red Cross and of the Red Cross Societies of neutral countries who have come to know some-. thing of the German Red Cross dur-I ing the war.

Not one of them will 1 rhellenge the statement just made. The German Red Cross is not in-epired by any of the tender and lofty motives of the Geneva Convention. What illustrates the truth as well as anything is thus It frequently happens that, at large stations in Ger-' many trains of wounded coming from the front and troops going to it arrive together and stand side bv side. The German Red Cross nurses always tend first the men who are well and are going to fight. It is these who get the food and drink and cigarettes, while the wounded wait.

The woundt-ed wait. The wounded can wait, because they, for the moment, are of no use to the Fatherland. It is the new troops going forward who must be fed and tended and sent on strong to fight. The German Red Cross has prostituted the sacred sign and shamed its name. It has forfeited all right to be regarded as an organization of humanity.

It is an organization of militarism. and of that only; and it has dragged the' Red Cross flag and the reputation of German woman hood in the mud. A certain clergyman. Inclined to corpulency, officiating as chairman at a social gatheling that had met to celebrate the building of a new school room, addressed the audience in the following manner. Friends," he said, at the close of this meeting there will he a collection It will not be for the poor, and, unconsciously putting his thumbs into his trousers-pockets, and tapping with his fingers his waist-band, continued, but for the development and' enlarging of this department.

Phone 1343 Limited. Phone 1576 el, has lost no ground since I came here. Before closing 1 must not forget to tell you of the splendid work Col. Templeton, A.D.M.S., of the First division, is ofsK here. He is supported by clever and competent staff oL surgeons whom It would he invidious to enumerate." Story of a French Girl Reveals the Inhumanity of the Unspeakable Hun PARIS, 5, (by have just been listening to the story of a young girl from Lille, who has been repatriated after twentv-two months under German rule.

This girl, who is twenty years old, belongs to one of the Lille families that were wealthy before the war Naturally toe was not brought up to hard labor. On the contrary, she had everything that wealth usually brings to young girl. The part of her story that I propose tell is that which deals with tlie six months she spent as a field laborer for the Germans. It will set the seal of lies on much the Germans have said about whom they took from the French population- to work in their fields and how the slaves were treated. It will also tell Americans what became of a large part of the food they sent to feed the Belgians.

At three oclock in the morning of April 25th, 1915, a guard of ten German soldiers knocked at my father's door in Lille. The sergeant in command. said that the of Lille had demanded a certain number of young girls to work In the fields of the' Ardennes, but not enough had presented themselves, and he had ordered a requisition. Among the houses to be searched and I was on the them." The girl fainted away in a fainting condition fay the German soldiers, while her father and mother could on sob. jierparents wdre not rvrn'attotoed'to' to the railroad station with her.

go 1 was put in a cattle car with thirty other girls, she-continued. The car had not been cleaned out since it had carried its last load of cattle, and we had to push the filth outside before we could find a place to sit on. toe floor. There were five hundred men and. women on the train, all in cattle can, and in nearly all the can the men and women were mixed together.

When we reached our destination the men and women had to live together promiscuously, sleeving in the same room or stable, or wherever It might be. 1 I slept in a chicken house with half a dozen other girls and as many men. To' one of the girls who. complained a German lieutenant said: Madamoiselle, you should be proud. You belong now to the famous 6th Corps, which is commanded by the, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria." In fact our papers of identity i showed that we were attached to the 6th Corps.

I Ten times during the journey we had to undergo medical The examinations were of the most i minute kind: We had to strip for them. They seemed in be made Cor the pleasure of tty; examining of-: fleets. There could, be no ulher reason for doing it ten times. Our destination was Auvitlers-les-Kurges, and we were kept there six months. Our work was gathering in the grain, threshing it and digging potatoes.

We worked from six in the morning until sunset. We were told that we would- get paid for nur work, and 1 got back to Lille. I was given nine francs and fortr-five cen-j times for my labor. Not only did I sleep in a chicken house, but we did not have enough to eat. AH the food we had wan taken from that supplied bv the Bel- ica to the Belgians.

There was one period when the supplies ceased to ar rive at nur village, and during twelve days I lived on green fruit that I picked from the trees and on roots. But I had to work in the fields just, the same. "The dicipline was iron. We marched to the fields and back at night in ranks like soldiers. The least infrac-J tion was punished by a prison sentence with bread and water, and fox what were considered more serious offences we were whipped- The German officers themselves whipped toe young girls with their riding whips.

"There were many cases of sickness and several of the girls died from malnutrition. One girl who died had her funeral services read bv the officer who had whipped her with his riding whip only a few davs before. "I was sent back to Lille on October 10th, and a few days sgo I ar-1 rived in Paris bv way of Switzerland There will little left of Lille when the Germans get through with it. BABYLON IN BRITISH HANDS There are really two Babvlons, one the Babylon today, the other the Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar, says a writer in the Christian Guardian. The former is the little town of Hillsh, with only a few hundred inhabitants and its buildings all of mud bricks, like Babylon of old.

The ancient Babylon lies all around Ilillah, and is practically a suburb of Bagdad. Before the war there were a dozen German scholars living in Babylon and pursuing research work for toe Ger-ivernment at a cost of about 320, 000 a year. But the members of toe staff of this research party were all German officers, and their re- searches were sot confined wholly to ancient Babylonian records and relics. A railway was projected to run from Berlin to Bagdad and one hundred miles of it ran north from Bagdad to Samaria, and this is now in British hands. It is an interesting thing to note tost Kut-el-Amara.

also famous in this war, is on the edge of the' ancient Ur of the Chaldees, which was Abrahams dwelling place when he heard the voice that called him to go, out, not knowing whither he went." And now over this section an over ancient Babylon flies the well-known Union and Britain's soldiers guard what was once the centra of toe great Babylonian empire. CLIMATE AND EFFICIENCY Recent investigations seem to show that civilization in the broader sense of the term is largely dependent on man's being subjected to considerable variations ul temperature, in his environment. Whenever white men in spite of their natural initiative and tendency to efficiency have to live and work in a tropical climate, they degenerate physically, mentally and morally. This, it is claimed, is due not so much to the high temperature as to the monotony of an unvarying climate and the consequent lack of Nature's most effective stimulation. It has long been recognized that man's highest achievements have been made in the variable climate of the north temperate zone.

Indeed, if the 40tty parallel if north latitude be traced around the globe, it will be found that practically all the great centres of human achievement were situated not far away from it. Athens, Constantinople. Naples, Rome, Florence, Paris. Vienna, Berlin, Ixmdon, New York. Chicago, St.

Louis, San Francisco, and Pekin, as well as Jerusalem, Carthage, Sidon, Tyre, Memphis and Babylon, were all situated within about 10 degrees of this magjc line. Almost needless to sav, this is the line of greatest variation in temperature. It would seem, then, as though the conclusion as to mans efficiency under circumstances in which he is subjected to considerable daily, monthly and yearly variations of temperature must be accepted. Canadian Concerns and War Fund- Amount in Taxes Already Paid anti To be iaid Ottawa, July 3. The figures below show what a few large Canadian concerns paid to the war (uiuL in toe last fiscal year, and what bey-will pay this fiscal year, assuming, they do the same volume of business.

They demonstrate that a large amount of wealth is already being conscripted by the war taxation measures of Sir Thomas White. These measures were opposed bv toe Liberals as discouraging capital from investment in Canada. Here are (lie figures: Imp. (HI Ltd. $734,000 124.000 Ford Motor Co.

697,000 1,782,000. Can Explosives 609,000 Nor. Aluminum Co. 341,000 822,000 Steel Co. of Can.

308,000 837,600 Ogilvie Mlg Co. 280,000 540.000 Can. Fdrs. Co. 220.000 560,000 Alta.

Pae. Grain Co 238,000 237,000 Richardson ft Sons 155,000. 380,000 Grain GrsV Export 130.000 3871001 Mont. Ammunition 124,000 358,000 Dorn. Steel ft Fdy 112,000 273,000 Wm.

Davies Co. 109.000 223,800 These are not all, but merely a few instances -quoted by W.S. Middleboror in a speech on the conscription hill im toe Houee of Commons. Bv toe end ol toe present fiscal year over will have been gathered by thus Government in war profits The taxes are termed iniquitous' and "throttling Canadian industry by the Fnancial Times. RANGH PROPERTY FOR SALE 440 acre hay and stork farm in Kootenay Valiev, B.C.; best location, la the west for' sheep or cattle; 200-acres (under cultivation, 200 more tillable; good private irrigation system), fair buildings; orchard; town 1 unlimited, well watered outside rangg; pleasant climate Bnd short feeding season.

Price $35 per acre, including owners share of crop, terms If desired. Full description and photos on. application. W. M.

Frost, owner, 410" Cham, of Com. Spokane, Washington. SEALED TENDERS addressed' toe undersigned, and endorsed Tender lor Supplying Coal for the Dominion Buildings." will be received av this office until 4.00 P.M., on Tuesday July 17, 1917, for the supply of coal -lor ths Public Buildings throughout, toe Dominion. -Combined specification and form of tender can be obtained on application. at this office and from the caretakers -of the different Dominion Buildings.

Persons tendering are notified' tkiat tenders will not be considered unless made on toe printed forms and signed with their actual signatures. Each tender must he accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of the. i'lnourable the Minister of Public-Works, equal to tea per cent (10 p.c.). of the amount of the tender, which, will be forfeited if the person tendering decline to enter into a contract when called upon to do so or fail to complete the contract. If the tender be not accepted toe cheque wilMie re turned.

By order, R. C. DF.SROCHERS. Secretary. Department of Public Works, Ottawa, June 9, 1917.

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The abdominal and chest wounds arethe most fatal, I af course. Communated fractures of toe former are always bad. with too severing of large blood vessels and nerves. The surgeons, however, axe doing splendid work snd the number of those recovering from apparently serious and dangerous wounds is very large. I am glad to be here engaged in this task qnd am fortunate to be able to help as well as to save toe life of some of these bravo lads who have won for Canada a name of j- All the latett Edison Records, Amberoid and Disc always kept in stock.

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