HOW^tJBSWfiRE FOILED IS TOLD

Camouflage and ^9tg Convoy* Used to Make Ouc Shipping Safe.

SETMLS ARE MADE P0BUC

Oftcial of United State* Shipping Boar-* Describe* Convoy** Activity Front Thne ft Left New York. ' ftew York.—With the need of mrreey ended by the ceseatlon of fightfn* “on lend, on eee and In the air”

i hare been revealed by cf•eerf of the United States shipping hoard. They made public the details of convoy management and the proper fsmonfiagtng of gronped ships to make their destruction by underses craft ■dUBcult One of the officers begins his description of e convoy's activity from the time It left" the port of New York. “Once we were out tn the stream,” he says, “we beaded dowr the chanhe! for the Hghtshlp, beyond which our convoy and escorts were waiting for ns. All were slowly under way .kfbeo we readied them. The ships of ■Afferent columns took their places, and after a few minutes' confusion, sad lively work on the slgual halyards t^e other ships of the convoy got Into

phOes and

the surface by a fleet of petrol boats 1 *1 well as our ocean escort, we proceeded, and America soon dropped below the western bortaon. At si

We were well out to sea. Back to Primitive Methods.

“As In the army we hare turned beck to medieval helmet* and armor, •o on the water we have turned to Medieval naval tactics; but Instead of copvoys of Spanish galleon* end to-

fc'

:ea of the *even|,eenth century from ' world to the old, our conro;

“Even the old aallmaker aboard our •hip; who had been on the ocean ever since he shipped as cabin boy on board a down East blue noser 30 years ago, admitted the convoy game wts a new one on him. and hung over the rail watching our many war-colored neighbors. “It 1* not hard to aee why the convoy -system was effective. Take the ease ->t a convoy of 25 ships (72 Is the largest number J*ve beard of In one eonvoy; our mate told me of being Caught In a 72-ablp convoy In a sailing ship in the Bay of Biscay). When these ships went In convoy Instead of there being 25 different nulls scattered aH over the ‘aone* for the U-boats to id. tbere was only one. That is. the Bun had only one chance of meeting i ship where he had 25 before. And ‘t be did meet the convoy he found

It .usually with a naval escort, whoa* sole business was sinking submarines. He found, too. 25 lookouts on watch for him, 25 seta of gun* ready for him, where there were but one each before. If the Hun showed himself to a eonvoy and Its escort, the odds were that be was due for a quick trip to the bottom. "The usual eonvoy formation was in columns In a rough square. This was the most compact, and the Inside ships were practically Immune from attack. The escorts circled 1

“Omvoya were made up at Afferent ‘ even the rustiest old I for in a

“In spite of this, some captains' lmEtimtion always tacked a couple of knots to their ship's speed. There seemed to be a nautical version of ‘Home, Sweet Home—ha It ever so humble, there's no ship like mine,’ and

iiJSI' charges. After a day or two togvthm he had them. man*uver}n* In mltiee like e second grand fleet; sigats*'* ■dark' through * black night, net a ray of light showing anywhere if they were In the danger com or a tin fl*‘ was reported naar. Color lehsmsa ArwBiaarro. ‘The'War brorfht no Granger spectacle than that of a convoy of steamships plowing along through the middle of the ocean streaked and besotted infllarrludnately with every color of the rainbow In a way more blrarre at a mOata

on account of her camouto be making right for us on a course at least forty-geo

a U-boat, with Its hasty limited observation, was much more Ukety to

“Each nation seemed to bare a characteristic type of camouflage, and aft- j er a Utile practice you could usually spot a ship's nationality by her style ; of camouflage long before you could

make out her ensign."

CANADA REBORN AS WAR RESULT

Dominion Proud of Its Record in Battte, Finance and Industry.

KEEN TO RENEW PROttESS

Discovers Not Merely Gallantry af Her Soldiers, But Brains, Capacity and Efficiency of Mar Whets

Toronto.—II Is a new Canada lint emerges from the world war—a nation transformed from that which ente:ad

the conflict In 1814.

More than 50X100 of her sons Ue tn soldiers' grave* In Europe. Three times that number have been more or Incapadtatrd by wounds. The cost of the war <n money U estimated to be alres ,, y *1.100.000,000. These are not light losses for a country of 8,000,000 people. Fortunately, there Is rise a credit aide. Canada has “found herself" In this war. She has discovered not merely the gallantry of her soldi era, but the brains'and capacity and efficiency of her whole people. In every branch. In anus. In Industry, In finance, she has had to measure her wits against the world, and la no case has Canada reaon to be other than gratlfled. Of the glory that la Canada's because of the gallantry and endurance and

AMUSEMENT FOR WOUNDED TOMMIES AT DEAL

brains at her boys at the front not the half has yet been told. The moat

when he heard that It was reserved ; to Canadians to retrieve the great ■ tragedy to the original British enny j la Augrrt. JP14, but tot bis pulse Jump and the red blood surge through i

his veins.

Beat Fourth ef Hun Army. 1 These boys who went from Canadian

i San Francisco on their way from the European batfla front to Siberia, giver flowem aafl dgsrwt* by Bed Cross workers. 8—One of the hundreds of improvised schoolbcuse* erected in aorthm France t>

! NEWS REVIEW OF I CURRENT EVENTS | Great Britain and Mr. WBson Likely to Agree a* to the

“Freedom of Seat ”

Is not a phrase of empty words. Char- j ■' ENSUND'S POSITION STATES curtain was rung down on the Its ms i . of war should be the capture of Mons ’ by the Canadian coma. No Al*^ Will Demand That Germany Pay

r War Bill of >120,000,000,000

s in Land of Hum

Still Are Chaotic—Presi-

flresides, who never heard the Jangle patches from Europe that the biggest of a sword prvvions to 1011 In the last problems of the peace conference may four months have met the flower of be solved more easily sod amicably the German army, vaunting warriors than had been feared. The greatest who had given their lifetime to prep- of these, possibly, is the matter of the sration. Divisions totaling one-fourth -freedom of the seas." The Germans <rf the entire German army were In ^ certain others had been hoping tW 1 *.? e r*? d ln BUC «**‘ 0D ““J v * n - that tbit rather nebulous question quitted by four divisions from Can- . would 1-e the cause of t rouble be- **“' iweea America and Gnat Britain, and Nor have the people at borne been there is no doubt that the British logging behind the boys at the front bare been preparing to contend firmly tn coangr, resourcefulness and effl- t h*t they must not give up the weanon

Imc,. Tbe HwHopmrat of Curt,', „„„ tb ,

ur lrtuOTU u IrtuuW rrtun H u, Ift 1, „ u. lb, or Cut rank. Aroprlcn mwoment mtr'T of ibflr vld«prud emtdr.. oOM.1, ru testify to U>, MIIcMkt of ra , Ir pnWIc ^ 0™^. nuoanorm, plur Cuad. b„ f^,, .1,” bnllt nr h fonr UoC mr. In dd- ; Io , r„rt«nt WUnu to pnntou' nn™ dppartniTOt. «h«, a*, . p, bJ found A«ntonn Indnnlr/ tollrf tom. ^ , b . nu."

"™ “C*”*-- London nn. |,rof— to bn„ n_nrfoll ntorr inn, b, tonurt tom, du. 1 „„ , b .

Ib dnnnc. Con.da t.,for, toe wo, wiUoo nod to, Britlto In rhln motto, won nlwof, n borrows nod -II—'-d toll noi b, dill.mli ,d ,-Uiutinui. to b, to for moo, fMirn to tome. Bot sir Ftoderick K Smith, ntlontof for n JU, nod n bnlf Cnnadn In Bnonr. nentonl. mmtowrt .Ototoellf ibluln', Imn bMB-oobtoovn." Hototbantbot. nttltnd, wbro h, aald: -I am not ab, tpm btotj fnrnlablnt Una nrtlu ,b.i fitoat BrtlaU toll bo< bato ,0 ., “f r n “ t * OCk - I to say-to the alllrw at the peace cooMartm trtumidrt o.,r to, onto. -w, •ball b, noil, aalintod I mini man of war, (imada fan, aa ..to urt. a drfUlilon < ftort« o of . m of fwar, tolb mon lhao cnnSdnwa lb . ^a, a. will nwld, lb, BtllMi i with buoyancy. , Mrjr j, 4 t be anfonroate event of f*A vast program of reconstruction tore vara to do exactly what the Brit und of developnx-i awaits. The i»h navy, aided by the Xv—“-v ua**. i country la eager to get at It and la I,a. hem doing for the last eighteen

11:1 patient for tLa government to give months.'"

tlie word. Public work* of tretnen TW premier idmwlf. addressing a doua imjwrtance. sil.-nt since 1011 are meeting nt Bri.t.d. «.U1 etnidmtlr. ll) : awaiting labor soon to be ovsltabl,-. -Wheee.cr the r.quest cone. from. Shipbuilding, railway equipment, steri we sre not going to give up the proproduction nnd many other Industries trrt1oo ot tbr Mrr _ *, Ur „ t:rr „,

will, under proper direction, go for Britain I* concerned.”

ward with a bound. | i Caondlan o,™„|^ n„d,r Llojd „ „ „ n, ibal

i Baahlnkton. |. n,,., lb Knal.nd .. .Bl ..

litodi-d '“t Bn toto forlh.to.,,™,

-toirtnn «Bato for Cn.dlaa Indn,. .„ T „ ^ t,

lri H , '* r I', totonelrnrtlon nl Ibirop,. „„

Hi' 1 '' l ' bn town la Canada todar ,,.1.. m:.. I— 0U.H..I. Itoli« to, lb, l-^bnl"- >n ton, Jtora Cab- Ua dtoH.r.ll,.i. tbat Utoiaanf nda baa tortrled brr arrlcnlinral pro- .|..m,| .w. |„ lb, ut-iMto llmli «f b,r durtlnn. In ton >™m mm nll.n,, b , „|d u., bill nl il„

,n^O totoftoo OOalOOBOO to lift.

Theae Tummies, who haw done their part nobly In the victorious struggle iktO.OOO. In 30 years Canada's savings (mmai Ti..- nim.ie wenitt. <2.,

agslaat the Hun. are t-f-d-n here taiowlng great Interest In the line codling banks deposits have lucrtaaed from caught by Mra. McUutchln*. winner of tbe ladles’ mw angling cotnp«-tiUoa at *138.000XXX) to >1.733X100 000

Deal.

many. n» eatlmated licfor

—— • the war.

, a. . - would fall siiort of this sum by be

j figures could b- quoted Indefinitely.

SHE KEEPS ’EM HAPPY

Red Cross Worker Tells Fortunes for Boys.

Believes the Monotony for Wounded Yankee Soldier* In the

Hospitals.

By GERTRUDE ORR. “You will receive a letter In a few gay* which will bring you good news . . . Urn! Yes. and you are going to receive a present, f.-om a lady — blonde, wluftu you are going to meet.” •Tru»t Hefty, there, to meet the blende*" drawled a lanky Koutherner, and tin- group of Interested solill.vs cinUrrrd about the fortune teller

oul I He*

e blonde* r

iked embarraaoed.

then with

Hefty

•tamed. Tell me sonic more!" he urged, and Che fortune teller, running 'hr card*.

read for the wounded soldier a coming day of good luck when muddy trenches, shivering nights under bombardment and aching shrapnel wounds would l>e forgotten except as a hale of hard work well done to crown the day* of l•core with content. The gipsy, in her scarlet kerchief, liar always idled he- trade profitably. An Americau Bed Oroaa worker. In a Pari* hospital, has discovered tbat tbX acariet kerchief Is not a necesaary 1 requlrite for drawing a clientele. She began telling fortunes one afternoon j Just to while away an hour for a boy 1 who had begun to lose inter*-t In get * ting well. He was rotlvs* and weary. For four month* he lind been tying It) tbe same bed; other patienu had come !

and gone.

“You're going to Lave an li i<Te»rluc ! adventure tomorrow." pr«-flicic] ti,,. 1 Bed Ckoas lady, and the following day a pal with whom Hefty hod trained In tbe States and whom he hadn't m-cii for six mooth*. was carriad leto tbe

wren tuvut) and forty-five hililou*.

■———However, the premier *«y* tlie altlra ward and placed In the bed besld* him. I't^l*"* »*> F«-rt the eolirr of •'Klie'e a wlr." announced Hefty to ,l1 * * ttr fri,ni Germany, that It «-an hr the ward, nnd the Bed Cross lady exacted in each a way that It will do found herself swamped with demand! "" to*** barm to the country that refor aeonces. Khe aees only bapfilneat 'vlve* It Ilian to the country that pay* nnd good fortune ahead and the coo- "• •'^ ,1|<>I l, “' demaiuls of the al vnleacetit*. with a new In'ereat In Ufa, ,lr * raa * t natur 111 front "f tbe German find the days go less elowlv wbsa national war debt. A British rnnnaU something good awaits them Just K,0,> nlr **" 1 > bss rejxJrird on U«r11 round the corner. luaujC* capacity

They know If* good led bocauas “The Bed Cross lady says

It In the cards."

MAKES ‘•NIGHT OWLS’' DIG FOR SMOKE FUND

Hoattle. ubir roomers In the hotel Virginia here hrve a I ab!t of coming In after midnight. The landlady. Mrs. Clarfcc. now fines each one of her roomer* who arrives after 12 midnight and torn* thr money into the "our boys In Franc* tobacco fund.”

Belgium. France und the other vietorlous nation* or Europe, u may l>e hiuumed. are no lesa iletet-iDlned (ban la Great Krllala to compel Germany to stand the full cost of tbe fearful conflict alie Marled. It U likely France will ocrupy the German lands west of Dm* Rhine until laiyiueot hn* In-eii

made.

While tlie allied agreeing that the former kaiser and bis fellow ’ brought to trial for their Crimea, are discussing ways and means of bringing tbl.. about. William Uohensoilera 1* preparing to resist extradition from Holland, and 1s getting ready bis de- * >e In case Wllhelml ment does give him up. premier declare* tbe former emperor Is entitled to the right of vanctuary In Holland, and is net Interned, since be went tbere as a private dtiaeu after renouncing bis throne, and that hi* return to Germany .wonot he legally In taking this powUinn. he asserts Holland Is not unneutral lint Is obesrvtng tbe law and treaties. An unconfirmed report ciune screws that William attempted suicide, and other stories have him quite HT.

Into (icnaany.

The anxiety of th« German people U groatly Increased tij the belief that the allies will not couciude a pwicn until n stable form of ymerunient i« estaldlshed. and tbat tbdr chance* of gelling food from their cooqnm.rs are *rrj -llin while disorder rule* in their land. In crier to give the Ebert government a purUam/uti. ry liaris rite n-li li-lcg prothd.1)- will he convened soon. Inridrntally. Ebert baa got rid of I>oilor 8olf, who haa resigned a*

mlnlstiv of forrlgn n(Tatra.

have « dared that unices food arrives *i>roV i lly they will be at liberty to -find it ]

send the Austrian* food and fuel, l-ot will not do wo until tb* latter agnv 10 the Osech cialm* far certain Anrir* German territory. The Vienna smborIties are praying for tbe arrival of *1Ksd troops, preferably Ameriosr.v 10 rtteck the rising disorder and bol-

1‘remler Ebert, who may not the first president of the German .republic. appears to be gaining the upper hand, though slowly and with difficulty. Doctor Uebknccht nnd hlr Spcrtncu* group have been badly worsted in several elections for member* of the soldiers nnd workmen's council, nnd his advertised revolution dted only Ic a series of rather bloody riots In Berlin and aom? other cities. There ore other elements, however, that enter Into.tbe complicated situation, notably the Prussian Guard nnd other still Intact bodies of troops that refuse to disarm and Join wholeheartedly with tbe sorialUts when they return from the front. This, in tbe opinion of some German*. portenS* a* counTTr-revolutlafl. presumably for the restoration of the ; trefay; and a nucleus for such a movement has been provided by Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the tor knloer. who has proclaimed the establishment of a royalist party in Germany. For the present the Pros ■dan Guard Is supporting Ebert. Tbe executive committee uf tbe sotworkmen's council Invited

Berlin to

take part in a conference 00 Decerntier 10. but the cabinet has asked tbe Russian government not to send these deleg* t-s. because of the “present tlon in Germany." Tb* cabinet w as much disturbed by the rash hop sting of fottr, bolshevist ambensador Germany, that several of tb* min-

isters were actively aerondiug hU Advo-wle* of leniency towar!

Germans wiH find Uttie aow-'f ^ their arguments In the rey-ori- i^ 1 come from tlie allied armies <>f •" pation. While the Germans l» i! " vccuidM n-rritoty are giving • ' conqucrora Uttie troublf. they :»Un their haughty rud even itv-i dkineaiior. a«d unbend only f ' ll "’ purpoae ;vf getting trad* t~-ii-'Ms There ts not Uv« allghtest in ' "f repeutauee for the crime* of 1! ■’ former government and their ann ••*- and coat of the Ithlne tbr— *r •* ar* being received as •Ocoo'l'"'’ ’ bertKrt end hailed as t> chi* f ►“I’'

port of the new shite.

altlra. Admiral

made dictator at Gasak, Is db,» v : to t^operate with tbe allied fore- lot 1 heir grvrnraieMs have sot rccor-' 1 ^ Um. The RmudaBs a&d the Cr. hi do not know what the A»eric;>: xrd Japanese policies are—they or. ori alone in that—and tbe Utter nr.- re ported to be hard prraaed by Um ir einies in some qtntrters. Meai "liilr. according to Stockholm aflvkrs. t pew soveramaBt tot SUumU J* hem* formed In that city under tbe Undership of former Premier Trapofr. l*rinc» Volkonsky, Baron Taube and SenaUf Jassladko. It la aDeged this g> i^mwent will be supported by tbe etterte and uia carry cm matter* of «*"• la Stockbohu until the bdahcvlki Br« finally crushed. In sautbero Grand Duke Mcbcdaievitch. U’natt

comic 1 Oder In chief of the Itu>~*n . anulea, la In command at a fonr.M: ■.» 1

fWce of Cosaacka. What hU i.'co-

IgtBBlirviki BO to a!t*<*

Uons a»e la not stated. Tbe I

In the Volga

thg Rnaso-aBiad fores*, without stir - era*. What Is doing In •her« !< onythlng. is concealed by the Jspsm*

wilnanMd when he landed Friday. HD Juurnry t« Paris Was a triumphal progress, und at the capital be was wildly acclaimed. The welrutm- lie received from the civil and milltai? chiefs uf France was most flattering. P was BPOouaced

r would

last only 48 hour*, after which be would set He down to the serious bustneat, that ha* taken him overseas. Tbe r'rmcb socialists are taking every advantage of Mr. Wilson's presence in franc*, and among those who greeted him waa a large drlegatiou of thr aorlallst members of the chamber of deputies. The French general labor federation lias caused meetings of workmen U> be held throughout the country to adopt nraoluibms ottering Presldeut Wilson tlielr help “to bring about a triumph for his conception of a people's pence." * It U announced that the president will visit the devastated part* of Pelglum ami France and also that he will go In Italy. Ho has. however, scornfully drelined la advance any Invitations to visit Germany.

Belgium proimbly will cmie <-ut of Hi* war greater In territory titan *:.-u -he went In. Hhr Intends to nsk the

reMoratlon of tbe parts of the pro* l ol—a Italy loam down her •xmra* 1 •lioeS of IJmburg and laitetid.iirg j on the eosl coast of the Adriatic The I which went to German) and HullamJ ' Jugo Klats ar* going to have serious j by the International trratv of IhJP j «*.m|4alut* to lay before thr rot-fer-nnd also to ask that the I lull'll return I cue* of the a!])**. A eonstdcrnble 1 the land which Ipciuiie* tlie lower j l wn of the territory the Italians have

| ncoipled thi-ie Is <ialined by tbe new |

of tb* Inhabitant* of tin- • pled cities more than Is absolute f necessary. But lo the regiom orru ' tiled by tbe French and British *»rM regulations are eaforced. When 'hr Huns wall, they are raralodn! thrae are almost ropMI from the mll'c rat of tbe regolatloBs Iny—"l •* lLf hVencti and Belgian* by the Gertm-'- 1 ' Tbe German armistice tacga ,rt asked that they he permitted to main tain communication with the proving* wrat of the Rhine now bring •eW 1 ' ' by the allies, hut Marshs' Foch ' « tlrnn It was nei isiary to maintalr 'he blockade of Germany a« provldsd hy the armistice. It appeared likely I-* 1 week that the armistice «-ould be * »'

t ci. iled.

Director General McAdoo. W*" nig. be says, not only bis own d Jn ‘' , ' ; but that of Priuldrm WUaM as «• rvc.immr-ud* that coo gross adopt h r(station ext ending the period “f *' ’ ernnieut control of railroad* <“ J*' 1 " my 1. 1024. He says <h* prosp ' : I of the nation dnpends largely oO 'h* ' effiri-ncy of ratlrnads; Itial *■' f**’' j tinue government operation nt*' 1 '' I present imidtUoua for 21 »0Wlh» » r ‘ r

riared. the I r. Is Iropo*