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?k THE ROYAL BANK ' OF CANADA has formed a close working a.ssociation with the LONDON COUNTY U ESTMJNSTER AND PARR'S BANK, LIMITED one of the great English joint stock banks, for the pur- pose of encouragring trade within the Empire and for the extension of Empire trade in foreign countries. This arranacmcnt gives The Royal Bank of Canada un- excelled facilities for handling ail classes of business mth Great Britain and Ireland and the Continent of Europe. Corporations, firms and individuals who wish to trans- act business with the Mother Country, including the transfer of funds to or from the British Isles, are in- vited to confer with the Branch Managers of the Bank. Over 560 Branches throughout Cana.!a, Newfound- land, the West Indies, Central and South America. The WeeMy Fashions v= WHIN KHAKI LINE RUSSL4NS Figured voile never looked so smart and youthful as when made up in this ruffled model. McCall Pat- tern No. 8881, Ladies' Dress. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 25 cents. 14 to 20 years. Price, 25 cents. These patterns m,ay be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. BTeep BUnard'a Idaiment in the bona*. TANKS FOR TOWNS t64 to be Presented by the British Government. The part played by "Tank banks" in rais.ing money in Great Britain to bring the war to a successful con- clusion is being recognized by the presentation of war-battered tanks to 264 towiis as an acknowledgment of the successful efforts made by their citizens to procur* investments an National War bonds and Wai Sav- ings certificates. The tanks have been awarded by the National War Savings Committee, who have kept j exhaustive records of the results ob- tained from each area. The War Office, with the consent of the Treasury, has undertakan to deliver the tanks to the towns as soon as practicable. The first batcii of tanks is already on its way back from the battlefields of France and Flanders. The Local War Savings Committee in each area has been notified of t'he presentation of the tank, and in conjunction with the civic authority, will arrange for its reception and disposition as a per- manent memorial of the town's fin- ancial effort for the war. ^ Preparing for More Atrocities. Editor^ â€" Er, Smith. I want yon to or- der a ton or so of new typeâ€" Z's and Y's and X's. They are starting an- other war in Russia. The Panama Canal was opened to traffic August 15, 1914. OFFICL\L GERMAN ACCOUNT ADMITS HUN FAILURE Drive for Calais Beaten by Haig With Few Machine Guns and Lit- Amnmnition for Artillery, The first official German account of a battle an the western front has been published. It is an admission of failure in the first battle of Ypres in the fall of 1914 and also a glorious tribute to the remnant of the old Br,'.tisli "contccnpltible little army." The defeat of the Prussian Guard in the attempt to take Calais is attri- buted to masses of machine guns, the superiority of artillery and wonder- ful "strong points." We know what the Germans describe as masses of machine guns was really only rifle fire, that the British artillery was trivial and short of ammunition, especially h!j?h e.xplosive shells, and the strong points were hastily thrown together and block houses bu'lt on the experience gained in South Afr.'ca. The Germans admit the bat- tle ended Germany's hopes of winning a speedy war, indeed of winning the war at all. It has been known that by sheer good shooting and obstinate refusal to accept defeat an extraordinary victory was gained by the remnants of the old army against the best troops tjie German emperor could put his hands on, it has been known that Briti'sh determination outstaye<t the Teuton will to victory and that the Prus-sian G^^ard recoiled, beaten, when another impulse would probab- ly have carried it through the thin line of muddied khaki. But the im- mensity of the effort and the full hopes of the enemy's leaders could only be guessed at or .inferred. Now they have been disclosed in an au- thoritative and well-WTitten military narrative, with orders of battle and good sketch maps in which the dis- positions even of regiments are some- times sihown. Germans Sought Calais. The story is graphically unfolded. There is first the appearance of Von Beseler's corps of three divisions covering the advance of four perfect- ly fresh reserve corps. Two corps were the Twenty second, Twsnty- third, Twenty-sixth and Twenty- seventh, on a front frofti the River Lys to the sea. The whole fonj.s the new Fourth Army under Dulie .\ibert of Wurtemberg. ffis directions as summarized are "to close wi'^h the enemy, who is apparently still en- gaged in concentrating and reorgan- izing his forces, and beat him and gain Calais as the final objective of the 1914 campaign." The Fourth Army pushes ,in, attacking nn the front line from Ypres to the sea, assisted by the Sixth Army on the left. It makes special efforts to cap- ' ture Oixmude and Nieuport, but fail- ing in these places gets across the Yser between them. There its hopes of breaking through are dashed to the ground by the heroic decision of J>"" food was devised for a definite health value. Tne method of makincr It, together with the well- propdrtloned constitu-^ ents, \s designed to build health and strength in a liafural way ^^"^There Is a Reason I Canada Food Board License No * o26 J the K'ng of the Belsrians to flood his sountry rather than to let it pass. Reserve Divisions Quit. The writer considers that "the ta«k I set for the Fourth Army would pro- bably have been achieved in spite of its very difficult nature if the Bel- gians at the moment of their great- est peril had not called the sea to their aid." But he admits later that , this act was not decisive, as there were pos.^ibilities further south, and \ says: "The failure of a rescr.'o div.ision of the Twenty-third Reserve Corps to gain a decisive victory between Bix- "^choote and Langemarck on October \ 22 and 23 settled also the fate of the : Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh I Reserve Corp.^ (furtlier south). Any further thought to break through was I at the time out of the question." In fact, the enemy was on"y piir- I suing his usual practice of searching' ^ for a weak place, starting north and; working southward, and everywhere! had failed. | I Meantime he was pulling out his troops from any plactf they could be sparad. There appear the Bavai-ian Seventeenth and Twenty-fourth Re- serve Corps, tha Sixtieth Bavarian I Reserve, the Twenty-fifth Reserve, the Ninth Reserve, the Mar.ine Twen- tysixth Divisions, the Landwher and Ersatz Infantry Brigades, eight Jager ; battalions and at least twelve caval-| I ry divisions. Von Fabock's army gT.oup, at fir.st of five divisions, later j of nine infantry and four cavalry di-| visions, is formed "as a strong, new! army of attacic between the Fourth and Sixth Armies for braaking through the front from Werwice to Warneton, south to Ypres." I To Von Fabeck's operations we owe; the loss of Wytschaete and Messines \ Ridge. The story of the desperate fighting there is particularly well toM and full credit .is given to the Frem'h and British for their tenacity. "The enemy turneil every house! every wood and every wall into a ' strong point, and each of them had to be stormed with hea\'y loss. The ' enemy fought desperately for every heap of stones and every pile ofi bricks in the villages before aban-' doning them." j Passing over the further attacks! of the Fourth Army and .its attempt ! to break into Ypres from the north- east and of the group of General Urach, which apparently was detail- ed to capture Mount Kemmel, we come to the last phase when the army group under General von Lin- singen was organized "for a decisive attack to begin November 10." German Admits Defeat. [ "His task was to drive back and push the enemy lying north of the Comines-Ypres Canal. The army group of General Fabeck .is to main- tain itis position west of the canal, pressing forward and supporting the army group of Von Linsingen with a powerful enfilade fire as far as pos- sible. All other units of the Sixth Army are to attack with increased ; energy on this day." I These attacks led to the loss of Dixmude and further portiop.s of Massines Ridge, often overlooked be- cause they signified bo little, and when a decisive attack was made east of Ypres it broke down. I ! The writer rather fails in his des- cription of Von Lin.singen's atta.ck3. Perhaps he does so from an artistic ; I sense, for like the Prussian Guard ! attack, the story begins brilliantly, ' gradually peters out, and ends tame-j ly. Failure is, however, conclusively admitted. "No break through of the enemy's line had been accomplished. His num-| er.ical superiority and more especially the strength of his positions help up our offensive. We had not succeeded in making a decisive break through and the dream of ending the ca.m- paign in the west in our favor in! 1914 had to be consigned to its grave," Strong Points Beat Guards. An interesting faet is given which ; confirms the impression at the time; that the line of small strong points, ' ranged like South African block- houses by Sir Douglas Haigr's engin- eers, as there was no time to do more, marked the hi.ghwater m.irk of the guard attack. The Fourth Guards Brigade, it is said, stumbled on "neWj blockhouses not yet dealt with by the I artillery with strong wire entangle- 1 ments provided with strong points, i Men tried to work through the gai>3 â-  g.ingle file. Suddenly there was a| deafening infantry ajid machine-gun! fire from the right flank and some of the remaining officers fell. Finally! the battalions had to fall back to| rally." And they did not come on ] again. No higher praise could be bestowed, ' for the supposed machine guns! (there being at most two in each' battalit*) were ordinary rifles, and the artillery must have got the full- est value out of their meager allot- ment of ammunition. The time avail- able to construct defences had been , too short to allow anything more ' than broken lines, shallow holes, a few loopholes and the most element- ary wire. It was the men behind them who formed the bulwark. tt 3r: starlin,-:? d*?M Dad is hnppy to find that his boy v/on't have to put up v/ith wliat he went through â€" dull blades, tingling face, half-removed stubble. Instead the lad will experi- ence only the clea-iliness and comfort, tile sense of physical well being that foUov/ a cool, clean, satiny shave such as only an AutoStrop Raror can give. Tliis and the fact that the AutoStrop Razor sharpens its ov/n blades, and is not taken apart for strop- ping or cleaning, hss led thou- sands of dads everywhere to recommend tlie AutoStrop Razor to tlieir ccns. T5 0F FROM HERE &T1IEIIE Razor â€" Strop â€" 12 blades "'ti^' $5 i^iBH ADTOSTROP SAFETY K.AZOR CO., Llmitnl AutoStrop Building, Toronto, Canada 8 THE ORIGINAL CA.MOCFLAGE Any One Could Elsie .My grandpa has reached the age of ninety-six. Isn't it wonderful? Bcbby â€" Wonderful nothln'! Look at the time it's taken him to do It. Outclassed. A fellow said to a tamouK sprinter; "I'll raco you and beat you if you'll let me chonso the course and give a yard'.s start" "Fifty dollars to one that you don't," said the spriutfir, cijnflilently. "Name your course." "Up a ladder," said tlie challenger. The Annual Ablutions. Onco a year the newsboys of a cer- ,tain district of London are taken for an outing up the Tliamos by a gentle- man of the neighborhuod, when they can buthe to their heart's content. As one little boy was getting into tho w:iter a friend observed: "X say, Bill, ain't yer dirty?" "Yes," replied Bill. "I missed the train last year." Wrong Direction. The soldier whose specialty had been sewer-trenches tor some naonths past, was found leaning on his -shovel. "Wliat are yen dreaming about now?" the non-com. askod. "I was just thinking," responded the sliovel-wielder, "that if these ditches were iitraighL up and down instead of lengthwise, I'd have dug my way back home long before this." She Never Told On Hi.Ti. With a stormy look on his face the ! miif'ter of the houoe waylaid tho ser- vant In the kitchen. "Look hero." he I began, angrily, "how dare you tall my wife what time 1 cauu; home this morning after 1 had told you not to?" The Irish girl eyed liim steudily. "Sure, an Oi didn't." she replied, calm- \ ly. â- â€¢She asked me phwat toime ye came In an' Oi only tould her that Oi wa3 too busy gettin' the breakfast KTOSSB 8AVR HIT, MO.NEY ON LUMI3ER. ^VrUo lo-day lor our â- MUl-IJIroi.-I-to- Ueer" prlci.a before urdvriiiK plHcwIier*. Batlnractlun suaruntaed or mousy baci^ Slilpiieil anywhere. Daviea ContitrucUo? Coriiparn-. VrincfiU V(»r. U.C. KITTI POTn.TSy W&irTDS. Ki\(* I'Ain OV I'lGEU.WS A.ND UP. !l '^ • Any fancv Donlirr to aellt Write for Prices I. Welnniuch & Son. K-18 .St, Jean Uaptlata .Market. Mont- j fpnl. Ou«». I NtTBBSS. N^HSRS E,'P..\- »15 TO J2S A WEEK, r^iirn without leaving home. Send for free bnoUlot. Roval CnnpKo of Sclenre. Dept 4<i Tornnin r'.-i n.'Kl.T. FOS SA£E. WKLL EQL-iriKD NKW.SI'A1^EU niul .1ob printing plant in niii.stern Omario. Insurance carried $1,600. Will so fo.- $1,200 nn qul.-k Sale. Box 62. â- WilHon Piihllsliii;:,' (:o.. I. til.. Toronto. wiscBi:.z.Azn:oirB. CAN'CER, Tt.'MOUS, LUMPS. ETC. Internal and e.xternal. cured with- out pain by our liotne treatment. Writ* u« bc-f<ire too late. \Jr. HuUman Slodlcal Co.. Limited. CnlliriBrwonrl, Ont ' OPENS SIX NEW BrrtANCHES. j Royal Bank of Canada Announce* Further Extensions. The Royal Bunk of Canada announce ; the opening of the following branches: Polnto-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe; Iroquois Falls. Ont.; Midland. Ont.; Water- loo, Ont.; Winnipeg, Elinwood. Man. A branch of the bank will be opened at Kitchener, Out., early In May. « Art First Practiced by the Nortli American Inditins. That tlie art of camouflage as now practiced in Europe is an American ready to look at the clocli." institution and originated by the Ara-| erican Indians is the latest su^^es-l Peeled Chicken, tion. It is cladmed that the Indian Three-year-old Kitty was visiting children were taught to place flowera' her grandmother, who lived on a farm. in their ha,;r, as well as twigs, leaves, Everything about the farm was a and other bits of foliage, and that i novelty t» tlie child. Another pleasant they were able to move along the thing about the visit was grand- ground in such a stealthy manner mother's constant questioning of : that they were not discernible to the "Now^. what shall we eat to-day?" rest of the trilje. ! Ono morning she asked the usual Before a young buck could becoma' question as to the menu. Little Kitty qualified as a warrior he had to make thought a minute, and then answered: his approach to the Indian camp al- "Oh, grandma. won't you please and peel it for din- most in the midst of the assembled catch a chicken warriors without being detected. The ner?" real origin of paint on the face, as] well as on the wigwams and horses,' Disqualified. was apparently in the desire to make; a man's reason for giving or itefus- the Indian blend with rocks, trees , jng mg vut^ are often subtle, as candl- and dirt, so that he could approach dates are likely to discover his prey detection. or remain hidden without 1 cured a horse of the Mange with MINARD'S LINIMENT. CHRISTOPHER SAUNDEUIS. Dalhousie. I cured a horse, badly torn by a pitch fork, with MINAKD'S LINI- MENT. St. Peter's, C. B. EDW. LINLIEF. I cured a horse of a bad swelling by MINARD'S LINIMENT. Bathurst, N. B. THOS. W, PAYNE. 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"Don't you know the proverb, 'Barking dogs don't bite'?" "Ah. yes,'' said the Frenchman, "I know ze proverbe, you know xe pro- verbe; does he know ze proverbe?" Ask tax UiaaTa'B ana take no otber. Put a lar'ge brick in the oven in case of sudden illness when heat may be required at any moment. Wrap- ped in a newspaper it will retain its warmtii longer than the ordinary water bottle. Mluord's I^lnlinent osed 1)7 Fbjalclana. It would be far more satisfactory to reduce the cost orf Wving general- ly than to go on increasing wages. â€" â- Viscount Wdmborne. When a kettle is badly burne<l. do not fill it with water, but set it aside to cool; then put in a handful of wafting soda and water and allow it to boil for an hour of moro. To the Lads Returning. All the wondef of your coming and the greatness uf your going, In our hearts' e.^uitanl greetings â€" in our proudest memory! Best of welcomes seems so trival as you come, by battle broken. Back from death â€" the glory of you â€" coming back to such as we! Can you read the hearts in waiting, hushed by prayer and wistful loving? All the longing for your coming â€" all the pride we've had for you? Gratitude beyond our naming â€" Aayi, and nights of awful yearning. And the constant faith believing that to Duty you were true ? Take it then, our glory In you, lu each poorest littJe toKen, In each humble bit of welcome, readin.n all we cannot tell â€" For your coming back to freedom that you bought so dearly for us- - To your Canada and ours, for which you fought and fell. Keep we reverent remembrance of the silent march of comrades. Who como only now in spirit with you who went away To tho lonely onus vrho see not faces dear for whom they waited â€" May you see their Vision Splendid in the Light of Ehidless Day! â€"AMY E. CAMPBELL. A grreat secret of tea economy is to add only a small quantity of boil- ing water at first, and then allow it to "draw" before a<lding the rest. 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This new way to rid one's feet of corns was Introduced by a Cincinnati man, who says that, wliile frccxone is sticky, it dries in a moment, and sim- ply shrivels up the com without in- fiamlng or even iiTitating the surround- ing tissue or skin. Don't let father die of infection or lockjaw from whittling at his corns, but clip this out and make him try it. LEMON JUICE 13 FRECKLE REMOVER Girls! Make this cheap beauty lotion to clear and whiten your skin. Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beauti- flor. at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly frag- rant Botion into the face. neck, arms and bands each day and see how freckles and blemishes dteappoar and how clear, soft and whitt; the skin be- comes. Yes! 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