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JANUARY 21, 1936

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“The Empire Mourns

_ Tﬂday the British Empire mourns the pass- ‘Sng 0f His Majesty King GEORGE v_ a asillgﬁnfjlglfl t\l'i‘ll‘l0S€ nailnev will go down in history tstccmed ofealilos-j W1‘ Bled, 113: most loved and Smon The reat\\d10 ‘lflyc lfel that exalted po- of i... ml. Sil-enlomtlillltlulls Oil the Gleam“ vca t “bi ‘PF Ju iee anniversary last - ‘W51 l“ °l°‘l"°ll}ly to this effect. That‘ occasion was one of lampiive-ivide rejoicing and of hope that llis Majesty would be spared for many years to conic. Providence which rules over kings and subjects has decreed otherwise, 306mm and Crown iflpgftujpable clown In with the ilioliilsrirlfigxiliiuziryliiiglinia spade.

“Olllil lllc acllons °f the lust" concludes the Elizabethan poet above quoted “smell sweet, and blossom in their dust." Andi of King GEORGE it may well be said that hi5 rule was one of justice and benevolence, that he con. scicntiously discharged every onerous duty laid upon him, and was a faithful steward 0f the great traditions and responsibilities placed in his keeping.

' Ilhe. long life _of usefulness and service to which his latc Majesty dedicated himself is re- Vlﬁwcd at length elsewhere in today's Guardiqm It remains Only to be said that there are special reasons why his memory should be dear to evcrv loyal citizen. \\'e refer to the noble example which he set during the memorable years of the Great Vllar. The earnest zeal with which he threw himself into every patriotic activity in- spired others to nobler effort. In a hundred ways he led the peOplC into paths of economy and self-denial that eventually enabled the struggle to be brought to a victorious conclusion. Among other things he made a generous do- nation of 100,000 pounds out of his private fortune “to be applied in whatever manner i5 degmed instill the Opinion of His Majestvls government." He visited the troops at the Front

achieved during the War and enhanced in ghc succeeding years by_ wholeheartcd devotion to duty and the most friendly and intimate contact with the people, -

Nowhere is there freer exercise of the principles of true democracy than , under the British flag. In the years to come, under the sovereignty of His Majesty King Eowziiio, we may confidently look forward to seeing these principles further extended, and the Empire- wide affection, esteem and loyalty to the Thmne still more strikingly manifested. The heartfelt prayer of all classes at this time cannot more truly be expressed than in the words of the National Anthem-

Tby choicest lifts in store

0n him be pleased to pour,‘ _

‘orig may he reign!

Editorial Notes

n is a. 1" ht ’ ~ a.m. t0 S P-ml, lg ll°‘." placllcally llom 7'30 iK iii iii What a 1°‘ °f 800d ivork we neglect in not

shovelling our footpaths immediately after a snowfall. .

F 9K It *t fool no\v on church and organization larders will be replenished largely by cake and rummage sales, . ' 9K 9K 9K _ l V5510 now enjoys the distribution of Provin- C18 vernment patronage, Premier CAMPBELL or Premier LEPAGE i 9K 9K 9R A well-known citizen of Upper Prince Street once shocked his neighbour, Rcv. Dr. légljs-P’ b)’ Yelling him that noman could be a D ristian who did not shovel his sidewalk. The 0cm’ 5 Towpath WE; Sibsegﬁjucntly always clean.

T1“ ‘i/Dik at the Provfnciai Building is being done by clay s work, and will cost a fortune, 1i; would have been much less costly had the 11.3w Government done, as Mr. LEPAGE alleged the late Government had done, pulled it down alto- gether. 9K 9K 9K

At Ottawa they consider the investiture of the Governor-General of Canada and the Lieut. Cllallt-‘GOVCTIIDT of Prince Edward Island as 30y Scouts to be “quite a help in the efforts

being made to get adults to recognize Scouting as a way of life.”

§K

The Ontario Conservatives in search of a

on man occasions. ‘Canad’ o ' ~ - - . y l3" tr 0P5 W111 TLC?!“ leader have decided to holda convention on or

particularly the visitation of August, 1916, wh the King passed informally through the camp‘

before June 3. That would allow the Hon. HOWARD Iiisiiouson time to get back from his

and billets, chatting with all and sundry dis- 1,013.13 to t 5 t1 Af- ~ -

. . . -' l I d . '1 playing a wonderfully intimate knowledge of the he dog's "l; 52y 1:111“. ggctirillllly ‘toad ljjlui: Part Pl3Y°d b)’ ‘lack baitalw" l" the Tcmllt havehis linger in the leadershippic-making.

heavy fighting at Hooge and St. Eloi. To one ilivisional commander he remarked of his uieii:

"Splendid fighters all. The enemy knows that m3 giub was held in ‘he Prince of ‘Vales Salon Windsor Hotel, last evening. The programme

to his cost.”

'11 The annual concert of the hlaritiinc Woin-

- . . . Iroogllzvalg/Igmlgétcgnizﬁﬁ?" :1 feglewegijgaailtrlei; consisted of two one-act plays presented by_ the the arrival of the First Canadian Divilsio t Montreal Repertory “wake under the dlrec; Fuﬁsbur PM” in the {an of I I O-n "t1 at tion of Mr. CECIL Wcstr and Mr: FILMORIZ occasio Y h. _ d b9 4}; 0 13 SADLER. Among the [ilaycrs was Miss STELLA the n "as acwnlPallle Y l e fllec", SPROWELL, a former hlaritiiiicr, who was in the Pflnmﬂ MARY. 311d 31513“ L°Yd5 RYTCH‘ cast of the recent production of the >11 crs, hum and Roman-rs. In his inspection of the “Bird in Handy l ll

ranks he was quick to note the veterans, dis- tinguished by their previous service ribbons,

9K 9K 5K “Admiral" WILLIAM Durr evidently is not

and honoured them, each arid all, with personal to be Speaker of the House as it is reported he

inquiries.

‘has received a roving commission to go to New

Perhaps at no period during his sovereignty York and j/Vashington “to conduct a survey of ‘"5 K158 GED“! 59¢" b? mm’?- me" at 0'19 "me reactions to the Canada-United States trade “hi? had an {might f" ti": EmPl". than 0K1 agreement.” Why can't Mr. A. E. MACLEAN M“? 3- 1919» “Vhﬂl 17.000 Canadian. Australian» land some pleasant siiiccure of that kind ivhilc

New Zealand and Newfoundland soldiers marched through London and the West End. The King took the salute from a dais erected at the foot of the Queen VICTORIA Memorial, in front of Buckingham Palace, His Majesty afterwards sent an inspiring message to the troops, each officer and man receiving a copy bearing the facsimile of the Royal signature. “I wish you all God speed on your homeward journey,” the message concluded, “with a hope that the outcome of this world struggle may assure peace to your children and to your childreifs children.”

Another phase of His Majestyls life which endeared liim to all his subjects was his affec- tion .for his family, and the example which he set as a loving husband and father. His loss must indeed be great t0 those thus intimately associated with him. The sympathy of all our people goes out on this occasion to his noble consort, Queen NIARY, and the bereaved family, tempered with the reflection that religious con- solation will not be lacking, and that in a life so nobly employed there is indeed ‘lniusic in the midst of desolation, and ii glory that shines upon our tears.”

"God Save The King"

Yesterday His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales-today His Majesty King Enwxnn VI_IIl There is no pause in the succession of British Sovereigns, and the Empire, in mourn- ing the passing of King GEORGE V, today pays tribute also to his heir and successor, saluting him in the words of the time-honoured prayer: “God Save The King.”

The new British Sovereign takes over hiirhuvy responsibilities well qualified for the task. His whole life may be said to have

' been spoilt‘ in serving his apprenticeship to the

Thmiiﬁ Al the Ambassador of Empire, he has countries as well as every

5"» mil‘! Vi?!“ Peﬂilmll 5ﬁli0 icurfuiiiu recently to-

‘!!! " M? quilt" express

mmtpcpiolsrnianlriunCans him

waiting for a senate vacancy?

9K 3K 9K A deputation from the Trades Congress

headed by its President Mr. P. M. DRAPER waited upon the Prime Minister last week strongly urging the enforcement of the BENNETT social legislation. The Prime Minister was nou- committal, stressing the necessity for waiting the decision of the appeal to the Supreme Court on the question of constitutionality. One thing he was definite upoii—he was unalterably op- posed to retirement at 6o, he said, it would put both liim and Mr. DRAPER among the “has becns.”

9K ' 3K Ni Delegates from the Confederation of Cath-

olic Workers of Canada were received by I-ion.

LAPOINTE and Hon. NORMAN ROGERS last week when they urged the Government to adopt the BENNETT measure of social insurance. The deputation requested that if the Supreme Court declared the social reform measures were iii- valid, the Minister of Justice would place the matter before the sub-coininittee “whose duty is to study the means of amending the British North America Act in such a way that no meas- ures improving the conditions of the laborers may be rejected from the statutes because of constitutional strictness." The organization ap- proved the principles of the measures and wish- ed for their application wherever their applica- tion was possible, delegates declared. 3K 9K 9k

The Transvaal is experiencing one of the severest droughts within memory, much to the serious loss and, in many cases, ruin of the ranchers and farmers. At last advices farmers in the stricken region have been selling cattle which were worth. 5 pounds to 1o pounds in good times for 2 pounds and even I5 shillings at sales. The farmers. themselves were living on inealie meal. find even the colorednatives were ﬁnding it ex- tremely difficult to eke out an existence. Pray- ers have been offered up allover the country for rain, and it was a moving sight for the news- paper observer to witness whole families on their knees praying ‘for an end of the drought. "farmers inthc great grain. ﬁelds of the have experienced d ‘ ‘seasons in rec- vvill have a fellow Qeling for their ' rictojpféhqlllnnsviial, and will

. i! . “l . a " "

=W¢ai who

‘braces, While the poor

side the achievements of wmoﬂow-

iii-cyan for nin are , so depressing as _a_ taps Y visitation is repeated

Notes By The Way

Britain's new warships will have bomb-proof defences for lfn-Qg. azlnes, maehlhery and all inflann mable stores. it Ls mnonneen, This is tomcat the menace airplane bombing. which has brought a new element. into the conduct of war in recent years. Thus, as an exchange snys, the inventors of armaments are kept busy creating destructive and pro- tective devices at. the same time.

The one (nollmmlhf iii-unlu- tion) considered most dangerous to the Third (French) Republic is the Croix de Fen founded by Col- onel do 1o Rocque in 1927. Origin- ally it ‘was an exclusive war-veteran organisation; but it has evolved in- to a. mass-movement numbering is membership estimated at from 60,- 000 to 250,000 members. Colonel he la. Rocque has been described as "the nearest thing extant to B. French Hitler." He has twenty- four years of military service w his credit. He is commander of the Legion of Honour, has eleven mil- tary citations from the War and colonial engagements in Africa, when he acted as soldier and ad- ministrator. He is a graduate of Sainis-Cyr, France's “west Point." Earnest, eloquent and’ convincing, he is an impressive figure on the platform with hi.s high forehead. small. penetrating, deep-set eyes, thinning hair, Roman nose and thin, tight lips. He is conservative in dress and llves simply at Ver- sailles with hls wife and five children. HLs determination in or- ganising the Ciolx cle Feu. eight years ago, wasthai; France has been laid low by politicians, and that 1t was the duty of eat-soldiers to save the country. In the event of trouble, wrote a contributor to the Evening Standard (London) he would undoubtedly be “the mas- ter of the Paris stream-Literary Digest (New York.)

In.

The Toronto Financial Post cur- ries an excellent cartoon showing the tax payer sitting in to a game of “sti-ip" poker with the local gov- ernments, the provinces and tho Dominion. The provinces and the local governments appear to be d0- lng reasonably well. judging by their attire and the chlps ln front of them, but. the Dominion Gov- eminent. is down to shirt and taxpayer, one lone chlp before him. has nothlnil on but socks and underwear. The th ' is funny-providing one doesn‘t think about iii-Ottawa Journal. r

We never arrive at. any place. "I in the doing of anything. by walt- ing for our cue from scizi,‘ one c120. There are more things undone, and unattcmpted, in this world than have ever been dono-lo. ("V611 these thousands of yearsl Our great progress today will seem crude be-

our cue is not to viaii; for some- nc e‘se to suggest your manner 0! life. or action. but to sci? out boldly and with zest and enthusiasm HP- on your ovm course. You have the good gods upon your side, and no one has the rlizht. to rob you of yrnt-

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‘rm: ci-ihnnorrpiiowu GUARDIAN

Zlliljat l 3M» of

Bu James l0. Barton. "ID.

EXCESS FAT AND THE HEART

In a. group of 136 patients all of whom were overweight it, was found that although only 19 died as a. dir- ect result of an accumulation of fat. in and about. the heart, this excess heart fat and the excess of fat throughout the body was an im- portant factor in greatly shortening the life span in most of the other cases. ( v

Dr. Harry L. Smith and Frederick A. Williua in Archives of Internal Medicine describe their ﬁndings of fat. fonnatlon in the underlying lay- er of tissue of the bag (pericardium) which surrounds the heart and also in and about the muscle ﬁbres of the walls of the heart. itself. This fat adds s. burden to an already overworked heart which has to take care of all his added fat and weight of the body.

The expectation of life in obesity (overweight) is unfavorable. Only four of their series of cases attained the age of seventy, the average of the entire group being 52 yggrg and their ages ran from 10 months to '15 years. There were 94 females and 42 males. The least percentage of overweight was l3 per cent, and the greatest 170 per cent.

The point is that although the fat actually crowded the heart and interfered to some extent with its activity. ii: was the great increase in fat and weight throughout the body

that. made the heart's work so great.

Thus it; was found that the heart.

itself increased in size in proportion

to the great increase in weight.

When the body weight remained at

a. certain point, the heart did not.

further increase in size. a

"The effects then of‘ a. great. in-

crease 0f weight throughout the

whole body in producing a weaken-

ing effect upon Sie heart itself are

important. In the majority of cases

the general increase in fat over the

body is more important ln weaken-

lng the heart. than the effect of the

actual fat in and about the heart

itself."

The thought than is that while an increase in fat about the heart due to heavy eating and little or no ex- ercise is in itself a. danger, the heart

can in the majority of cases still do

its work despite the fat. But lf the whole body gets too fat the heart

just can't. continue to do the iii- creased amount. of work necessary

to sustain life. And fat. and weight

can be reduced in every case, and

strength maintained by cutting

down on starch foods, fat. foods and. all liquids. Meats, eggs and ﬁsh should not. be reduced.

Recurring Mystery

(Winnipeg Free Press) Whether Major Douglas of Social Credit fame Ls coming to Alberta or not, and if so when, is one of

faith. Mlcawber was forever walt- Lng for was cheerful about it. Thal- WM his one redeeming feature. nothing ever did tum 11D! was his misfortune.

At first the zreiit. deeds Fascist. revolution were the theme; very heroic, but very true. Vol‘? admirable. Next came tli a Fascist empire. Is this torrent. of self-glorification, this claim to be the queen of the EBslJ-‘rn Mediter- ranean, going to stay within neigh- borly limits? Who can yet. say One can but fear the danger. For there comes to mind the pro-war bombast of Potsdam: "he mailed ﬁst." of Gennany; the Wllhelmine demand for "a place ln the sun." And down the dim corridor of his- tory there llngers an echo of the Napoleonic proctamaiions against B- biickground of victorious trumpete- Are the ambitions of Fascism to lead once more to a. climax worthy of Italian grand opera; or will they end as the riemisls of Greek traB- edyf-Lieuia-Col. H. de Watervillc in The Fbrtnlchtliy

When nations are fighting for I vital goal or for their existence. the rules of war mean nothins- Etbloplans will continue to behead rlsoners and Italians to bomb hospitals, following in policy th! practice; of belligercnts in Pa“ wars. amoiig "civilized" as well 88 “barbrix-ous" peoples. War is mass murder. and murder cannot be con- trolled by rules of ellqibttxs-St. Innis Post Dispatch.

An Saorstot (lﬂlh Free sum) II at last to have a. commercial air transport service. Eaﬂy in "19 W" Year a service i8. MY- Emu‘! “W nounced in the Dull. 1°. 5° 1'1"“? urated between Dublin and Liver- pool arid Dublin and m-lstnl. Pend- ing tho establishment of a Nation- al Air ‘Prananort COmDI-BY. I lllb‘ sidlary company has been f0

m aim-m u» cervioes iolnilv wit-ll n. British company. This ooumo has been adopted because the ow- errimcnt has considered it desirable to establish alr t-nniport service! bmmi the sacrum and orni- Britlln “at. tho earliest posslblo data." Perhaps there is a signifi- cance in this action that does not meet the eye. At any rate. tho scheme is a good one, capable of development to the mutual beneﬁt and convenience of both countries. -Dub‘in Irish Independent.

But reported That subject between the Premier Aberhaxt 0f‘ 50, of the cables but they never appear to agree

e dawn of same every

the current puzzles of Canadian

"something to turn up." H9 politics. There is always some-

thing slightly mysterious about. the wi , ndence on the Major and. Every month it. seems, they exchange

m; sequence of events is the time and has just hap- for at: least the third

pencd again Mr . Aberhart says

time. First

he has asked Major Douala: 0W1‘

and received a. cable answering:

1 "with you by next boat," or words

to that effect. Then comes word from Iondon that‘. the Major never heard of the invitation. Mr. Aber- hart. at this point. mnuii-ks that “there must be some misunder- standing," and the incident closes. A variant on this occasion was Major Douglas's concluding inti- mation that he had been asked to defer his visit".

An explanation of the. puzzle would certainly be of public inter- est. Does Mr. Aberhari: phrase his invitation 1n those offhand words, like "Drop in any time," ‘which are accepted by all will» people as ii hint to stayaway? Or he; Major Douglas a. forgetful secretary who loses track of en- gagements and accepts all engage- ments on sight?

But the oddest feature of the situation is really the fact that Major Douglas is not ln Alberta anyway. with or without invita- tion. His panacea for maklﬂl everyone prosperous is to be tried out (or is it?) in Alberta. for the first time. one would think he would be so eager to be on hand the difficulty would be to keep him out of the province. The mystery of the atmyed or misin- terpreted invitatiorr is bafflinil enough. but what ls one to make of Major Douglas's evident madl- riess to stay 5.000 miles away from the first. Social Credit. government?

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fear-s. the joys and sorrows of that lnconcelvablsmult-itudo of all no- tions, lni-iguagcs. and colours who have playediromo little port in gathering than good things from the bosom of the earth to send them hither to Iondon.”

Despite the deacon iii number of families on relief in most of tho IIIUDlOlDGlliIGBLblIB question of ro- lief , ymerlts will be c major one in 1m. In Toronto. when thou payment: in late your: have been met. out. of bdnowld mbnﬂ. l i7"- posal will b: considered to apply the pcy-u-yoii-io principle to st

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u follows: "Herc is lcbvur _of n mllilo amid tropical best. and fierce win- ter blurs. braving the perils of the 602p and the vsznrieﬂof mum. cndlm piles of goods. than mm o! fruit, thug halal fol‘: of eillu, than i thus ions of min, of, . than

.ﬂ\B.

' Paul Bourget

(Vancouver Province)

A despatch of four lines from Paris announces the death of Paul Bourgct, member of the Academy. officer of the legion of Honor and dean of French letters Bourget was as when he died. and has been a shining figure in the munch literary

us; nan ooox)

l) GIANTS and JESTER§ In Public Life

in

(Grim-Int Bnorveil)

world for almost two generations The son of an engineer and ‘emavlclan, he bu! studied mathematics himself, and then “ ‘ but early turned his at- tention to letters He first tried his wings in poetry, but not. with any marked success Essays in criticism followed-koen, oven profound an- alyses of the authors like Baude- laire, Haubert, Tiiine. Hanan and St-endhal, who had been most iii- timately conoemed with isown in- teliectuiil OQVQlOPIHQDLQP-llﬁ methods lie uoedln his essays. s. curious combination of the methods of the mathematician and of the anatomist. indicated in Bourget where his power: lay, and these methods he followed when. in the following yea-rs he came to write

TWO STORIES OI‘ DAVINS

Mbntion has already been made in these ‘articles of Nicholas Mood Dawn's aptitude as a. racon- teiiinﬂethimin ., “l and in the right. mood he would keep the conversation going fgr hours, one good story with another. Ho we; best when narrating his experiences as a war correspondent

Davin has, been called to the Eng- lish be: at the Hilary ‘Perm in 1888. Ho was then twenty-five years of age. For two years he was a. brief- lass barrister, and then his oppor- tunity came. When war broke out be- I-WBJll France and Prussia in mid- summr~ in i870 he was commis-

nuvels, plays and books of travel iv Sign»; 1,5. me 1,1511 11m”, o1 well u ewivl- _ Dlllﬂil, as its cuu _, ndent with Wm“ 30'!!!“ 598m “Tum? the Ifrenzli iumfes. The Times.

fiction, the naturalistic IOhOOIT Zola and his disciples and imitators —were at their height m" a little past it. Bourget. was not interested in the stark realism tn which they gave so much painful attention.

linked up its servlre with the Lon- don Standard so that. the young Irishman acted for both news- papers. The principal French army. under Marshall Baaalne, was at Met: in Lorraine which with lizs

$9911 of the mums-Tomi.»

adapted their use. using it on the

master and became a

human character and motives.

Every writer he insisted,

lover or order, stability, certainty- the security which France has been demanding with such consistency since the war. and he saw no possi- bility of achieving the ends he

authority. B0 in "politics he become

clerical. But he was no bigot. contemporaries bear witness to his breadth of mind and his intellectual

and was deeply and

a cosmopolitan the classics. snd

widely read iln

not be narrow.

The novels are subjective and analytical The author is always ihci-c, probing. arzulniz. vrmhlniz- the laboratory expert. the law?" and the priest in one. A gloom hangs over them. but not an im- penetrable gloom as in those of Hardy and Dostolevsky. The moral- lsi; sees to that.

‘Baum-get was B. mil-Y) 01 V559 culture and vast. industry. A down yea-rs aim. when some friends and disciples sought to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the the master's first review article, Boimret vetoed the plan He couldn't. spare the time m a banquet- or I ceremony. "Allow me w spend this anniversary Wﬂfklllii." he “med- “That is the truest; fete of a1." "The disagreeable thing death," he said on mother oc- casion, “is that it. will be impossible to write."

So Paul Bourgvet wrote on into 11 green old sac. and passed. full of accomplishment pnd honors. In hi5

‘latter years he was recognised ls o

sort of high priest of literature. the adviser if not the Klllde °T the younger devoteeg of the cult.

SUNSET POEM

Exquisite stillness! what sereniiles the wall precipice evenfalll

How softly, mo, the

silence, whence

shore promonotories, ﬂcence mountainous cloud explore. mount. to him, soaring soar,

lanispharo-

—mbert Nichols in tihe New

Buthe did not ignore them. He. technique in his awn internal world. on the intellect and the soul in- stead of externally, as they were using it. He took Steridhal as his sort of pathologist of the mind and the soul, probing the secret springs of Bourget was a. didactic novelist. worthy to hold a. pen. had to be a. moralist. This was a first requirement. Bo Bourgct wrote with a. purpose. He had a. stern philosophy. He was a

sought save through uadltlon and

a. conservative and in religion a

generosity. I-fe was a traveller and

with his Jnifellectual interests could

publication of

Of earth and air! How bright atop The stoziecroph firs, and beyond the How hugs, how hushed" the primrose white crane You. iiiiiiyfilygciie nelaht of warmth 1nd Ho can look down on islet. him Ind And crowding woods and fill-NW‘- or, further gazing, view the IBIS‘!!!- Of cloudliko mountain and o! Or ghostly wrack below the horizon- Not silslii his eyes has vent-cu to Now, spirit, find out wines w! Wheel where he wheels, whorl ho ll Hang where now he hull! in U18 Eveniiiirs ﬁrst star and golden u o In the sun's hair-for happiness is here!

sister province, Alsace, was ceded to Prussia. when the war was over. Both provinces reverted to France, it. will be remembered, after the Great War of 1914-1018.

Realizing that there would likely

be strenuous fighting near Meta, Davin, with r. score of other Eng- lfsh-speaking wa-r correspondents, decided to make his headquarters for rte time being in that. city. Among the corps of correspondents was the famous George Augustus Bale, representing the London Daily Telegraph. Davin described him as a. wonderful linguist, and a. brilli- ant; talker and writer, although iii- clined to be bombastic and egotisti- cal. Gale's methods of a war ob- server were unique-quite different to those of I-he correspondents of later years. Ohronically lazy. al- though by no means a. coward, he stuck pretty close to his hotel, not bothering to go to the front. While his OOIUNNS would be near the fir- ing line. Bala. remained in Meta. talking to staff officers, interview- ing prisoners and wounded, and than, piecing their stories to- gether, would write a. desp tch in vivid English which when rlntied sent the circulation of the Daily Telegraph jumping by leaps and bounds. Incidentally, Nicholas Flood confessed; that a lively imag- ination was essential in the make- up" of a successful correspondent. The best of his stories from- the front, he admitted, had been writ- ten in bed, with swhiskey and soda at his lebow, to stimulate his men- tal activities. The newspaper corps had not. been at. Metz many days. Davin re- called when a. Canadian was added to their number -Mr. Gordon Brown. representing the Toronto Globe. It was the first. occasion the Irishman had met him but in later years, in Canada, they were to see each other frequently. Gordon Brown at that. time had a. sort of roving commission for the Globe. Not until some years later was he to be chief editor of that paper when his brother, the Hon. George Brown, was murdered by n. dis- charged. employs . The younger Brown was affected by a. wander- iust. Practically every year saiv him crossing the Atlantic. Thus it was that being in England in the sum- mer of 1870 he conceived the idea of seeing something of the war, and found himself in Meta that. August. ust.

Practically all the English cones- pondenta lodged at the Hotel “Chaos? Bale/s name for the host- elry. ‘They generally bieakfiisted to- gether, and then separated to pick up the ovemlght war news. Accord- ing to Dawn's story, one morning Brown was missing. Some one went. tobisroonitoseoiftlierewaaiiny- thing wroiiif and fond the Toront-onfan in a. great state of

" . His only shirt had dis- appeared ,iind he could not come down to breakfast until he got. mother. When this was reported at the breakfast table there was both homo and sympathy. whin- ma happened to Brown might be, the 10f. of any one of the other correspondents.

The suggestion was thereupon made that Ball. the dean of the MPPPID" 1501118. and speaking French like a. native. should inter- view the landlord and impress upon him that the missin article should be resstored, or else that a new one

. replied that he would do nothing of the kind; that Brown's shirt fitted hlm to l. T, and that if the Canadian could not induce the msltro d’ hotel to supply mm with another he might remain in bed.

‘It is unnecessary to Npﬂt Devin lllmmlfy of the awful blunders m!“ by tho French under Bazaine, Mlmlhon. and Bourbckl; of the Wmldﬂﬁl opportunities for victory which they missed. mstead one

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disaster followed another. Baum was bottled up in Metz and finally had. to capltulotie. Macmiahun w” overwhelmingly defeated at Sedan, laiclidown his arms and the Em. pggof, ‘ _ ‘ n1 sun a a The road w Paris was now clear 1°; the Genifana.

As the Wench were driven b“; the war correspondents had also n, retract, until Davin found hlmsejg in Paris. Before long it became ap- parent. to him that Paris would he invested, and be decided to get out. In October be proceeded to Toiin where Leon Gn-mbtta, head of the delegation of this newly formed Pm. visions’ government, and who had lust. arrived by balloon from P3115. was busily ensued Organizing m. Army of the Loire, which up; arcatly harassed the invaders. M the auberge where he was resim. the Irish journalist made the u. quafiitance of a Yankee army eon- tractor. who was very anxious y; secure an order for military cloth- ing from Gunbetta, but was handi- capped by not being able to speu the French language. As soon as the American ascertained that. Davin could converse fluently in m“ language. he made a substantial u. for to him to not as his thief-prom, promising to pay him well for hi; services.

Davin iii-implied; and in a day u so 1-: and his principal were ushers ed into Gambettala presence, by m. polntment. The Americana requen wii-s for ii. contract to furnish cloth- ing for five thousand soldiers in the new army. The reply of the io-

‘pfcsentative of the Provisional government was that no contracts were being given out. When told what the answer was the American shifted his ground. “Tell him," lie remarked to Davin “that if he dose not want. clot-lung for his half-clad troops I would like an order for five thousand coffins in which to bury them, as whether alive or dead their bodies will require pro- tection." Davin denim-red; I would never do to make such an oh fer in a distlnkulshed man drum- mu- was adamant. Then it wu that Gambetta enquired: “What does he say?" Davin replied that in

Mould prefer not to translate tho American! observations, but Ginn- hgtta in tum was insistent am Davin had to give the request in full. Gambetta. laughed heartily in the Yankee, and in the end author ized him to furnish the uniforms.

Davin by this time had enough of war correspondence and continued on from ‘Ivor: iio Lon- don. He had not been them mam days when he received c. substant check for his services as interpreter. After a few months in London llll brilliant, Irishman came to Cami in 1812 where he spent the remaini- der of his days.‘

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