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The situation on the western front is at least in-'

telligible. It is a straight iight between the rein- forced British and 'French armies and the strongly entrenched Germans along practically the whole front from Ostend to Switzerland. The climax of the situation is‘ now being reached on the Somme front From our despatches of the past few days, and the light they throw on what has been in progress since the first of July, it is evident that matters are rapid- ly shaping themselves itito a new chapter in the his- tory of the war. lt is perhaps too soon to say that the German defense has collapsed, but enough is known to indicate that something serious has hap- pened behind the German lines. For several days now the French and British have been advancing al- most at will and within two weeks have added almost a` third to the territory taken since the beginning of the offensive on _luly 1_` The measure of success, how- ever, is not the area of ground captured, but the im_- portance of the positions and their relation to the objectives of the attackers. .-\fcr lighting their way through the most elaborate system of trenches ‘and for two months, the French and British two weeks ago stood in front of the last of what were the ori- ginal German lines on this front. The main obstacles were villages and hills, which were partly surrounded- Last Sunday week the Allies began a tremendous drive against the remaining positions that confronted them. From the .~\ncrc River to Chaulnes the Bri- tish and French moved forward with a rush. The French made the best time and within a_week took Clery, Maurcpas. Le Forest and Hill 97, 'southeast of Peronne. Then, without waiting, they pushed on to Bouchavesnes, across the Bapaume-Peronne road, and up to Rancourt, leaving Combles almost cut off from the rear. `Fartlier south they took Barleux, dominating the railroad from Peroitiie to Chaulnes, and advanced for varying depths for the entire dis- tance between these two points. ‘

Meanwhile the British stormed Guillemont, took

(iinchy and covered the other side of Combles. Last Friday the British made the most sensational gains of the week. With a terrific stroke they smashed forward over a six-mile front, passed the third Ger- man line, as the French had done at Bouchavesncs, nd took Flcrs, Martinpuich, Courcelette and other trong positions in the direction of Bapaume_ Combles is now doomed, and with its fall the closing in on llapaunie and Peronne will be rapid. The most sig- nificant developments now opening up are those pre- sented by the taking of these two points. Before Ba- paume and Peroiiiie fall the Anglo-French offensive will have created two large and dangerous salients in the German lines, which must be defended at great cost or promptly evacuated- Then will come the real threat to the whole (icriiiaii line from Lille to the .'\isne, embracing the elbow formation in Northern France. The German lines have not given way, but they are crumbling fast, and a complete reformation far to the rear is sure to follow the continuation of such attacks as those that are now being made on both sides of the Somnie.

The Balkan sitiiation is puzzling and unintelli-

giblc. l<ouinania’s entry into the war was regarded as indicating a rapid crumbling of the - lltilgariaii, Titrkish aitd ._\ustriati defences. There has been no such crumbling, quite the contrary. Bulgaria strongly supported by the Germans entered at once on a strong znffcnsive and in almost the first sweep struck into llolirudja, occupying the historic fortress of Silistria. Sciitiiiieiit as well as military strategy dictated this move, as that whole sectioti of country between the Danube and thc Black Sea had been taken from the Iliilgarians hy the Rouinanians in the Second Balkan war. New that the llulgarians have seized it from their old time enemies, their patriotism will be stirred aiidflhcir courage revived, `

Bulgaria’s initial success can be but temporary.

Kouinaiiia has since had time to get ready and to re- ceive reiiiforceiiieiits from Russia. She is now enter- ing upon an offensive against Bulgaria, which 'with the help of Russia, cannot but succeed in crushing her-

'l`|ic puzzling feature of the Balkan situation is

the action or rather the inaction, until a few days ago, of the Allied army iii Greece. This has not been ex-

plained- Whether any concerted move ha? been made yet by this army of three quarters of a million men is not definitely known. There has been some fighting but the extent of it or the objective of it is not known. _ . '

The situation in Greece is another of the war's

puzzles. Whether King Constantine is a friend or an enemy is not clear, nor is it known whether Greece will comcinto the vt/ar on the side of the Entente of of Germany. The question is now gravely asked whether or not King Coiistantine is sane. A Greek -lawyer at present visiting in the United States is of the opinion that the King’s mind has given way under the strain of recent events, He says the Greek people are-astounded at his actions and it is known that he was once their idol, particularly since his brilliant victories during the first and second Balkan wars. Events which during many weeks past have been hourly expected to assume definite shape, may resolve themselves shortly into something that will be at least

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THE RIGHT JCUURSE V '

Wfhen the Patriot puts on its political spectacles-

,or rather when it forgets to take them off-it invari- ably sees something that it assumes will do to throw at the government. From an article in yesterday’s

a sentence from-its setting and' gives it aninterpreta-

setting, garbled by the .Patri_ot:. _

"The few law-breakers among us, whether crimi-

grettable and we have no doubt their number could be appreciably diminished if we spent as much time in

posted as to their wickedness.

“We are probably lax in our prosecution of crime

of all kinds. We are a good natured, forgiving neigh- borly lot and' there is a too obvious dispositionto cover up rather than to expose and punish law break~ ing." |

The only words in this that suited the 'Patriot's`.

trouble were “»We are probably lax in our prosecution

familiar song about the alleged laxity 'of_ the govern-. ment in enforcing prohibition.

Making due allowance for thc exaggeration and

the misrepresentation in the Patriot, whose business is it to enforce the prohibition law? Is it not that of the prosecutor appointed for the purpose? Anfl where is he to get his information about contraven- tioiis except from those who are cognizant of the facts or are familiar with the methods and haunts of the illegal traffickers? There are prosecutions for. “-drunk and iiicapables" as well as for violation of the prohibition law, There are probably a dozen men in Charlottetown who would get liquor in defiance of any restrictions and there are those who would brave the law to provide it, Whether more can be done than is being done to prevent drinking we cani only say prosecutions are made and fines imposed as often as evidence can be obtained, and still liquor is available. The pity is that those who know the facts fail to give the information necessary to lead to convictions- They seem to desire rather to shield the delinquent than to enforce the law and so long as violation of the Prohibition law is looked at in this light just so long will it be impossible for the prosecu- tor and the authorities to stamp out the illicit traffic. It is the good natured, forgiving, neighborly charac- teristics of so many of our people that stands in the way of the adequate exposure and punishment of law- breaking generally. it

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“Froiidix,” writing on the cigarette evil, in “Church

Work," Halifax,_ says:

“Cigarette smoking, it seems to mc, is one of, if

not the greatest evil of the present day. I say this as a pipe smoker myself. The evil of cigarette smoking is that you are never done with it. It is so fatally easy to light a cigarette, puff away at it for a few minutes, aitd light' another and another until vou lose all count. The cigarette is so handy. Itiis all ready made, and so easily lighted and so cheap and portable. Then there is the abominable habit of inhaling, prac- tically unknown to the pipe smoker, what I might can Smoke °at|\’f§'" With the pipe smoker it is dif- ferent. lle has his smoke at at intervals of two, three four or six hours, and when hc finishes he stops. The cigarette smoker on theother hand is never done;/\ll times and most places are the same to him. Except when at meals or in bed, and not always then, he is liable to light up and swallow a few niouthfuls of to- bacco reek. He literally breathes smoke. No won-

der that the habit is so hard to break, about ten times harder than giving up pipe smoking, for it involves a coiitinuotis struggle. The pipe smoker who indulgcs ‘us most do, at certain regular hours has, if he desires to give up the habit, a bare quarter of ati hour three or four. times a day, while the cigarette smoker who takes his whiff morning itoon and night, when and wherever the opportunity offers is fighting the craving every moment of the day and during the 'waking hours of the mght. in my boyhood there was some cigarette smoking after a crude fashion in England bm li'-tic 0' "0 inhaling. and it was generally regarded as an un-British, effeminate sort of habit-”

Canadian humor-and American humor are prac-

tically speaking, identical and we are accordingly in- terested in a statement by William Dean Howells in I;l21rper's Magazine that what the people‘of this conf" tment laughed at fifty years ago leaves them quite unaffected now. This is a pretty broad statement surely._ Does Mr. Howells mean to tell us that the man or boy of today is not amused by the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? There is' something very wrong about hint if he isn’t_-Edmgn- ton Journal.

Mont iifitiur

Attention has already been directed to the need of

more light-or rather of light, as there is none at pre- sent--at the head of the Marine Wharf, but so far nothing has been done, and those arriving by the Car Ferry steamer or the Stanley are obliged to thread their way to the City as best they can in the dark. To strangers especially this is a hardship and, to the City, a disgrace. Next week we shall have hundreds of visitors-con|ing~to the exhibition. Their first ini"- pression of ,Charlottetown will be formed from their experiences in making their way along this thorough-

Guardian, in which exaggeration and misrepresenta-, tion were somewhat freely criticized, the Patriot tears;

tion quite foreign to its meaning. Following is the-

nal or drunken or liquor sellers are a very ,small frac-V tion o`f*‘our fpbpulation. ,That we have them is -re-.5

trying to reform them as we do in keeping the world-

of crime of all kinds,” and from .these it sings its old'

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lirectloul-~`of;-Q ~ beautiful S°D¢°|1l\>°l’ aftemooiit..many» members of the Iriah Ll and Benevolent So- ciety atttm» a special meetins lu their- rooms, Sunday. Mr. James. Bar: ry. president, wbo.was in the chair.

mm thot ne* former Presiepnt, Mtr.

nk J. Caeay, was remo nz 0

Cilarlottetown,'f¢ had' been decided to give that gentleman a token of the _esteem and .regard entertained for him by thu members. Her referred' to Mr. -Casey's -grant success as business hlanager for the Dramatic Club, and ofthe excellent manner in which he discharged the duties of the various offices' he' filled fn the society. At the conclusion of his address he pre- ¢-anted Mr. Cmsey with a handsome traveltlng bag. The chairmau's Ite- rnarks were greeted with applause. -'

The recipient mado a happy reply.

He thanked his friends for the valu-

able present. Ever since he ~ joiueq the I. L. & B. S., ho had' felt quite a homo with the boys. ilt was, he ad- ded, a pleas-ure to do anything' fort the society and he could' truly say his efforts were always appreciated. At the end of bis* speech ' the mem- bers, indlvuadlly, wished the new ofllclal every success -ln his new home. Among those present at 'the ineuting were three past pres'id'ents, Messrs. R. Edward Fitzgerald, Wil- H. Pyne and Timothy 0’Brlen.

Mr. Casey, accompanied by his

wife, loft ut noon for Charlottetown, where he will assume the duties of the ofllce' of collector of inland rev- enue, to which he- was' recently ap- pointed- St. John Globe.

Queen of Serbia Now A Scrub Woman

(Canadian Press Despatch)

NEW YORK, Sept. 19- The

Evening Sun publishes- the following from Paris ui1d'e'r current date:

Former Queen Nathalie, ,of Serbia,

whose disappearance at the' beginning of the war was one of the mysteries of the- world conflict, has been found working as a common serving wo- man doing the most menlal service in one of the big war hospitals' in Bordeaux.

The identity of the royal scrub

woman was made known by-Jean do Bonefc-n. a well known journalist. while- he was making an investigation of the hospital service in Bordeaux. De` Bonnefon, who used to attend court ceremonies at Belgrade, .found the widow of King Milan dleaning the hospital flc-or.

At the opening of the war -the

Queen,,a flgure in tthe most tragic of

Eprope"s court histories, placed her Barritz palace in the hands of the

i'lne‘ess‘ Ghlka for use as a military §oi:~pltal. - ’ "As for me," she added, “I am go- ing to if/fface myself. The times are so -tragic that those who were' once rulers of men must aid them in all. humanity."

On the same evening Queen Nat-

halie, unattended, e-ntralned for an unknown d'e'svtination. and her s-ulte had not heard a word of her since. ln the hospital where De Bonnefon found her she volunteered' her ser- vices under- the name of Nathalie Kechoko, her maiden' name, and' for the lust two years has performed the inoanest and mos-t exhausting dutloii:

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fllet laces.

-Hhnrl' embroidery, 'beading and

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--Russian blouse 1lne's and worn

wtop o’ the skirt.

-Some "flirted" effects. bitt only

effects, remember.

-Collars that are far from ar-

bltzlry-high, lion( and convertible. And cups/ collars that, lie flat or the-se that branch out from ii chok- or'i-i top edge_

-'Sleeves versatile, including

those tailored, leg o' muttoiis, unl- forin fullness with bishop cuffs or a puff at wrist, elbow or shoulder, as you please. Sleeve lengths may be elbow, three-quarter or long."

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In dreams alone she meets her soldier-

. lad, . » The waking hours are vold of all but

pain. |»

Yet tothe world smile her lips must

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her love is cold.

The fear that ever haunts her none

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fare and certainly it will not be a pleasant one. Could

intelilgiblef For this solution of the Greek puzzle all we _can do is to wait- __A A _A________________

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SEPTEMBER Excunsions ' To THE ' _ cANAn|/in iv|Ei|ioPoL|s

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"Moutreal, Alt. 48.3. Population

700.000, the commercial metropolis-of Canada and sixth largest city in North America. Beautifully situated at the foot of Mount Ro-yal on an is- land in the- St. Lawrence River, about 700 miles from the estuary of that mighty artery through which pulsates solarge a. portion of Canada s. com- mercial llfe. This city is bullt on the site of the ancient lnrllan village of Hoelieflaga, first visited by Jacques Cartier ln 1535. Over 250 YGHFH HBO -the early French navlgators estab- lished a trading post for furs here. and lt was the last section of French Canada to pass into the pos- session of Greet Britain ln 1760. At the head of ocean navigation, with command of one of the three water routes by which the product/s _of the Wes; can reach Europe, Montreal has sieve-ii miles of fine wharves of masonry, vast warehouses and grain elevators, and the largest Heating d'ry' dock in the world. Big transat- lantic oteamers call here reglarly from ports in Europe during the sea- son of navigation and tho harbour has won'fts place amongst the' most important of the world, both as re- gards the sufficiency of the equip- ment aud the extent ot’ the- business dc-ne. Numerous' railway lines make Montreal a centre for a vast and con- stantly growlng traffic. Montreal ls- it city' of great enterprises, where' mighty reswlts are achieved, with a record for stability equal to that of any of the great cftie-s of America, and' is advancing your by year to u. still greater future. Besides its com- mercial greatness, the city has tlio additional charm of Plstorlc attrac- tl0ni=.~, and ~ the-ro aro rman'y places of interest which link the present with an eventful past. With impos- ing public bulldfngi-1', iiiilversftlcs, educational institutions, magnltlcent churches, fliie‘-bus-lnona blocks, sub- stantial manufacturing establish- ments, splendid hotels, and hand- some residences. tho city possesses all that is ealcuilated to muko u city attraotlvo. Evldeneeia of prosperity and' wealth are everywhere."

From “Notes by the' Way” an iii-

terestlng and instructive boc~k‘ls»t is- sued' by the Canadian Government Railways. Passengers taking advan- tage of the low fa.rei~i-single fare for the' round trip plus one dollar on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21st, 22nd. and 23rd; good' for roturii October 9th, should procure copy ot'

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