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LIQUIDAT0R TAKES
BIG LAND CONCERN
Standard Reliance Mortgage
Corporations Operations
Were Halted by War.
special DespnIcA TO Tur Sun.

ppcC1Qs DeSpolcn TO cUN.
TORONTO, June 23.-It Is seldom that
a Canadian financial corporation has to
close its doors, but one OF those excep.
tional Instances occurred last weel.
when the Standard Reliance Mortgage
Corporation, was forced to apply for a
winding up order, with a view to reor-
gan!z!ng and realizing on the assets.
This company's head Office was in
Toronto, and though It was by no means
the largest corporation OF the kind in
the city, It had assets OF upward OF
100000. Through It's branches In sew
eral OF the smaller Ontario cities It had
qualifications which have caused wide
spread regret
1t cannot be sad that the failure
caused special uneasiness. because the
daring methods OF tho company were
quito unusual. and for some umc Il has
been feared that disaster would soonor
or later come. Z The company in fact, by
means OF a subsidiary. dcalt very heav-
lily in buying and selling of lands in and
around Toronto. but especially In
suburbs Market gardens and farms
were bought and these have now lain
neglected for years as subdivisions.
Back around 1913. whSn the city's real
estate boom was at its height, the
Dovercourt Land Company. the STANDARD
Reliances chief subsidiary. was exploit
ing real estate in a most aggressive
manner. Market gardeners sold their
farms for many thousands, imposing
sateways for new ooulevards were
erected and city people were coaxed to
go out into garden like suburbs before
they were all gone. It was character
istic OF the time that hardly any one
thought the boom was proceeding too
f..p d.
did not seem that anything could stop
Tie growth OF Canada In general and
Toronto In particular
OF course the thing was overdons.
and even II tho war had not come and
put an end to real estate speculation t
would have taken years for the city to
catch up to tho ambitious schemes OF
these promoters. As It Is the war brought
an end to lot buying. but the taxes on
vacant lands went on pilinT up until it
was impossible to carry the burden
longer. Under the gentle guidance of a
liquidator It Is hoped that patient nurs-
Ing will save enough TO pay the $1,000
900 due depositors and tho $4,000, 900
be something also eventually for the
holders OF stock, amounting to $2,60o,-
900.
The incident recalls the failure OF tho
York Loan and Savings Company a
decade or SO ago from 4 more or less
similar cause. At that time the York
company held great areas OF land in the
west END OF the city,. which exhibited
really a case OF capltalizing hope. for
the lands were far beyond the reach
and needs of the city; but since then
the populated area has swarmed over
tho lots. It Is thiciSly and prosperously
a L..
boomers has gone miles beyond. So por-
haps the present failure, IL the city set
ties down to "a steady growth which has
always marked It with occasional do
press!ons. will come out all right IL the
victims are not too impatient
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The Montreal Stock Exchange Arm o.
Fenwick q Ryan has been reorsanised
the style now being Ryan. Grier q
Hastings. A. G. Fenwick having re-
tired from the firm It 10 now composed
of Capt. J. r. Ryan. Capt. C. B. Griei
and Capt. ]. o. Hastings. Capt GrieI
was formerly connected with the firm OF
G.. A. Grier q Sons. OF which he still re-
mains vlce-president. Capt. Hastings
was with the Arm OF Fenwick & Ryan
before Joining the Thirteenth r. II. C
This firm has just arranged a d'rec,
wire with Hirsch. LNlenthal d Co.. 81
Broadway, New York
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ScleA High. Low Last Chgs.
$500 Co Of Can G. '4o.lo0 100 100 :,
100 S Co Of Can es 20 ssh esH ssh =.
5000 W Cot Ltd 60 ~. s. IS IS -.
ZOO W PAP Ltd Go 81 S7% S7% GA - Y
Fractional lots. Unlisted.
The unit of trading in the Montreal Stock
Exchange Is: Stocks, 20 shares; banks, 10
The sun., 1919-06-24
NEW ROADS FOR NOVA SCOTIA
Many Millions VIII he Expended
for improvements.

HALIFAx, June 23,--The Provincial
Government Is embarking on a great
programme OF road improvement, and
during the next two years an expendi-
ture amounting to many millions OF dol
lars will be made,
This Improvement accomplished, Nova
Scotia should attract a great number of
American motorists, who can ferry their
cars from Boston to Yarmouth and take
any number OF beautiful and interesting
tours.
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shauGhnessy in New Post.


An Interesting announcement Of the
last week was the election OF Hon. W. ].
Shauzhnessy to a seat on the board of
directors OF the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way. Mr.. Shaughnessy Is a son of the
chairman OF the board OF directors. who
recently retired to that post from the
| active presidency of the company. Loru
Shaughnessy's name will stand out in
the records of the historic C. p. X. as
the great organizer and leader OF the
company IN the period of its greatest
expansion. The perpetuation OF the
name by the election of the son as q d.
rector has been we'll received on all
sides for that reason alone. apart from
the fact that the younger Shaughnessy
is rising young lawyer of note.
The past week witnessed some further
contraction In the volume of dealings on
the Stock Exchange, but, despite the less
urgent character Of the buying. the mar.
.Set maintained very Arm tone. with
pronounced strength In special direc-
tons.
The more. restricted trading could be
ascribed In considerable part to caution
engendered by high money rates in New
York, with fears that the equilibrium Of
the Canadian market might be upset by
a violent break in the larger market As
a matter of fact the unsettlement that
| set in In Wall Street n fortnight ago,
when money rates began to soar. re-
suited in very little liquidation at
Montreal. Prices were marked down In
the absence OF the aggressive buying OF
a month or so ago. but stocks proved to
be in strong hands and prices rebounded
when New York took turn for the bet
| ter.
The strike situation at Winnipeg con-
tinued to be OF decreasing interest to the
market and. with the budget out of the
way. scant attention was paid to politl-
cal news from Ottawa. More Importance
was attached to such incidents as the
unexpected action of the Lauren
tide Company in declaring an extra
/ dividend Of per cent. on It's cap
| ital stock, along with the final quar-
terly 3 per cent. for tho fiscal year end
ing juno So This brought sharehold-
| ers' return for the year up to is per
cent, against the s per cent. return in
effect when the war broke out. Two fac
tors entered into the extra for the year
one the prosperity OF all the large pulp
and paper producers, and the other the
fact that the company's power subsi-
diary. OF whose capital stock two thirds
Is held In the parent company's treasury,
went on 4 per cent. dividend basis a
few months ago.
On the eve OF the dividend news
Laurentide closed at 2ls bid; the next
morning the stock moved into new high
ground for the moment. registering an
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The Fifth and Sixth Regiments had
been wiped out, and Of rurse th~t
left the Third Battalion only on the
10th day of November. We got over
at last, but we lost nearly all of our
men. We had one machine gun wiped
out. They called the 73rd Machine
Gun to form a machine gun batta'
ion, and finally succeeded in eros,
ing the pontoon bridges of the Meuse
on the night of the 10th. After Nc
captured the machine gun nests on
the bank of the Mouse, we laid down
until the morning of the 18th, when
we got word that we were to go over
the top at nine o'clock. Never having
any idea of the armist ce being sign
ed; didn't know anything about it,
The word then came back not to go
over the top, and we laid there FOR
two hours, and all of a sudden the ar
tillery and machine guns opened up
from the ear and we knew we were
going to have strong resistance if we
ever went over the top. All of a sud
den, we could not realize that every
thing had stopped. You might have
heard a pin drop forty miles, it seem
ed to me. Everybody lay with his
mouth open gasping. / could not even
bat my eyes. l could not fully take
in what had happened. We were
there for fully fifteen minutes be-
fore anybody spoke a word. Then, al
of a sudden, everybody came out of
the dugouts together. We had a
French division on u right, and they
came down, and it was inst like the
Fourth of July; rockets and flashes
lighting up everything; and some
: Germans came over-those that could
speak English, and shook hands with
as. We were glad to receive them,
too. We had a very nice time, and
! stayed with them until the 2 day
Of November. Just lying around hav-
| ing a good time. We had good thi1"s
to eat, too. The Red Gross and the
| Salvation Army had plenty OF con-
/! fections, and we got on fine; better
/ than we ever did before
/ On the 18th my leg began to give
, me trouble again, and / vas sent
back to the hospital, and they took
an X-Ray, and they found anoth 4
piece of shell, which causes me to be
partially lame, but eventually l will
be all right; but cannot take it ont
without making me a cripple for life
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as the word was passed, the artillery
barrage went off, and then we went
ver the top. We had a pretty hard
time getting over the barbed wire
entanglements-the artillery hadn't
cleaned it all out, so we had to go
through the barbed wire. This de-
layed us and we lost considerable time
getting to the front line, but after
we got to Blanc Mont we found the
road well fortified with mines. They
had been there our years, and you
can imagine how many mines were
there to go off at once. You could
just touch a little lever and a mine
would go off ten or twelve miles
away. They would wait until the in
fantry got in front of these mines,
and then set them off. We used the
artillery to set off the mines on the
Mont Blanc road, and when we got
there, there was nothing left except
holes and ruins.
We took the hill, advanced five
Kilometres, formed a front line and
dug in. We stayed there until the
night of the 3rd, and got word that
we were going to get relief, but we
were fooled; we didn't get relief. We
moved up to the front line, and the
men behind us took our place, end
! on the 4th we got word that we were
! going over the top. We had to go
e ght kilometers without a barrage.
| We had the French holding our right
flank, and 42nd, famous Rainbow
Division, on our left. We went over
the top on the morning of the 4:h,
and the French got Disguised, and
were retiring, and that left us with
our left flank and front exposed, and
we couldn't do anything at all. Our
artillery had net been able to keep up
with US over those hills. So we fell
s, back over a mile, and not a man rails.
led his head until it was light again
was getting so tired and SO thirst,
sSIEthat l didn't really care whether
dead or alive, when. all of a sud
den, it seemed to me that thirt,
thousand shells Aropred at once
was knocked down hlz1 and did no
know anything. When / came ito
iicrawled back to a little shell hole ant
EiAidStkere a while, and finally con
{, cfEded that l was hit, and ] pul'et
eff my shoe, and my commanding OF
.fficer told me to go to the rear. but
Txaid no." l wanted to go I'VE tn
tsp with my company; but he ordere'
NE to the rear, n two stretche
bearers put me on a stretcher an
: started to the rear with me. l reall
!, didn't know how seriously l had bee
!. hurt, but We found I had been gassed
I didn't really know how | did feel
I felt like I was dying. After l &c
back to the rear they sent me to Bas
Y Hospital No. 2O2, and there the
: treated me very nicely, and they too
d{a piece Of she'll out, just between m
d ankle and leg. l stayed there unit
they thought I was all right, and
e thought 90 TOO, and then l was class
o fled, and got back to my organizatic
on November 9Th.
lr / went over the top with them
the Argonne Forest and stayed wit
them, and never got q scratch.
seems a miracle, that in the Argonl
/. forest I didI not get q scratch
cannot see how l came out alive.
le After we got to the Meuse it W
ld1 well fortified with machine CUR
.ri that, when we put down ponto'
bridges, as fast as the men put the
d feet on the bridge, they fell des
They had the range on thetR 30
-ES
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STORY
TOLD BY LEFLORE
COUNTY HERO
Continued From Page One)

something to eat-dropped it from
airplanes. They dropped US what we
called monkey meat, about two tons,
and some French hard-tack, which is
so hard it is impossible to bite it with
the teeth; you have to take your
bayonet and crush it. We ate that,
and then we felt pretty good. This
monkey meat isn't really monkey
meat, of course; we just called it by
that name. On the afternoon of the
9Th we got word hat we were going
over the top, but it was annul!ed,
and we laid there until the morning
of the 9th, when we got word that
we had to take Belleau Wood. Bel
eau Wood is a forest of small shrubs
and trees. 1t was very easy for a
man to conceal himself and shoot us
in the back after we had passed. In
fact, hat is what they did,: the way
they fight; the dirtiest fighters in
the world, / presume.
We advanced in good order, but
meeting strong resistance for about
two kilometers. Hill No. 2O4 was we'll
fortified with machine gun nests, and
we had orders to take that. We got
wiped out twice. During the 9th and
10th we fell back and called for re-
serve men. We didn't have any nor
commissioned officers left of the old
original company; and the first buck
private was leading the company.
We had to fall back and form q
front line, about a mile. They. called
for a sixty-three hour barrage; at
that time we had the big naval guns
in the rear to help us. The 18th day
of June was the last day we had any
hand-to hand fighting with them in
Belleau Wood. We had new men who
did not know how to fight; new off
GERS who did not know how to fight,
Just out of the officers training
school. We had very few non-com'
missioned officers left.
We started over on the 18th day
of June, our objective being the littl,
town of Beuches. We met strong
resistance in that town, in fact go
into hand-to-hand fighting, but WI
took the town at about eight o'clocl
at night on the 18th day Of June. an
held it until the 18th day Of June.
We got word then that the Thir,
Division was to hold the little city o
Chateau hierry.
We then marched nine days towar
Chateau-Thierry until we got to th
town Of Maux. Up until that time "
the 31st day of May until the 7th da
of June. After the 7th day Of Juns
for three days we had monkey mes
and bareback; no water; no tobacco
and that il what . man wants mos
Anything to settle his nerves. "
advanced and held the ground whic
-~ A~~1. AA@nA and a AAEp ksHmnaAknN
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and l could hear what they said, but
l couldn't speak. After l was given
the anaesthetic they operated, and
took a piece of shell out of my head.
and When l came to l was O. K. /
could speak, but it all seemed to be a
dream. l was very nicely cared for,
and stayed in that hospital until he
10th day of August, and was sent
from there as a casual, to Emplace-
ment Camp, which holds about $780,
600 men. Everybody slept in tents,
and it rained practically all the time;
and we had to sleep in the mud. Two
blankets was all we had, and there
were three kitchens where 10000 men
would line up to get something to
eat. We would stand in line three or
four hours, and get a beef stew;
everything all boiled together, and
most of the time it was burnt. We
would get one piece of bread, and
half a pint of coffee, and that was all
we got. Sometimes for breakfast we
would get a spoonful of rice, and
sometimes nothing but bread and a
cup of coffee. l stayed at this camp
until the 10th of September. Their: I
| was sent back to the organization
i landed in the organization on the
18th day of September, just in time to
go over in the
ST. MIHIEL DRIVE.
The Germans had been at this place
| four years. They had a t.ench six
! feet deep, solid concrete, and forti-
fled. The German trenches are some
better than the French. They are as
clean as this floor. You press a but
ton IN the side of the trench, and a
big concrete door opens, and you walk
1own fifty, sixty, and a hundred feet
Underground, and that lis where the
ierman officers stayed. They had
electric lights, pool tables, bowling
sl'eys, everything to make them com
ortable and to smuse them during
the four years they had been there
We took this without the loss OF Z
man, and captured something like
400 prisoners. We got to ,rhier
court on the 10Th day of September
You could get any kind of a souvenir
you wanted down there. I came our
of there with a German officers pat:
ent leather shoes; got them off of :
German; and l had some German I'm.
derwear; and some o. the men kat
German boots and C-rlnan SHIFTS
everything.
We pulled out of St. Mihiel on tn,
19th day Of September, and were kcar
ried to the rear, and stayed in !, tn
rear until the 28th day of September
and then we started to hiking again
We hiked until the first day CT Octo
Der, and her we went into the lines
and made a drive to Rheims, and III
) Germans had to fall back thirt
miles. The French had b zen fight
ing all during September, and coul
not take the lead. The First an
Second Divisions rushed in this driv,
and sitter we got in the ires on til
l first day of October we got word
t go over the top on the. morning I
8 the second, at five o'clock. About fra
elo'clock the word came down that
z were not going over the top; the driy
! was postponed We gut something
|, eat, and then we feK pretty goo
The ground was jxA as white
3 chalk, and the men hing against Il
Z white chalk, you em iaagine, cou
Z be see for miles. We didrl't 70 ov
the top the second day Of October
4 all just IS we lid down. the wu
came down ths me 70 staEfa BY, u
SO
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o the lungs also. It will kill just as
as the mustard gas if it gets
in the lungs.
Then they have the cyanogen gas.
II you get just a small portion of
in the lungs, it makes you
sneeze, and you pull off your mask,
and get more gas, and you keep on
.neezing and can't get, your mask
back on. There is practically no cure
for It at all. The only thing that will
them is fresh air: With
mustard gas they just do the best
they can. The men are carried back
to the hospital and given three baths
a day, in water just as hot as they can
stand it. In this water is choloride
of lime, to draw the soreness out of
the blisters. Those blisters burst in
three or four days, and leave prac-
a running sore that spreads
over the body.
On the 10Th day of June we were
on the River Marine; just been
out of Belleau Wood We got
pretty good meals while we were
there. We had to sleep with our
clothes on, expecting to be called out.
On the 10th day of June the French
came out and got us. We were just
i nthe rear of Scissors; we didn't
know where we were going, but we
knew we were going into fighting
We laid on the side of the road,
waiting. It was very hot, and we
could not sleep because the sun burnt
us so. This lasted until about four
O'Clock on the afternoon Of the 18th
and then they pulled US out and start
ed us to hiking. We hiked from that
time until about $3.50 on the morning
of the 18th. About nine o'clock al
might it started to raining. The mud
was over our shoes, and we had tt
hike with two hundred and fifty
rounds extra ammunition. The com
ipany had about forty-five chandeliers
of machine gun ammunition, which
the men had to carry alternately. WI
hiked along IN the rain and mud, each
man carrying about n hundred ant
fifty-five pounds; I don't know how
far, but it seemed to me about twent!
or thirty-five miles; in fact, we hike.
all night until we came to the Fores
de Villers. After we came to q hal
there was no difference, nothing T.
distinguish q buck private from a non
commissioned officer; every man lock
ed alike and in the same uniforms !
When we came to a halt we jus
dropped dead-just fell down in Ii
mud and went to sleep.
!, The word came that we yer t
stand by; that means, we are TO &c
to go over the top and stan
read. It may be, three minutes, Q
thirty minutes, or an hour, that "
Iwin be standing by, ready to go owe
the top. We had had no rest in q
1 this time since we left Belleau woo,
No reaerves, nc ratidns, Q Z anything
I've went over the top at $50.
gave Us q sixty-minute barrag'
j! We went over the top at SCISSORS
labout thirty-five minutes, checked Il
.lGermans, and took six thousand pril
,loners, and never lost . q Ever!
lithing seemed . dream. ! was ha
sasleep - We fought
We were fighting along side Of 4
First French Moroccan Division, NJ
elthey were very good fighters, sul
! posed to Be the best the FrenehAha
Their be1iH Il 70 de On the bettl
! field, % you can imagine how fn
,&E1k Our egdeFy wsve y taalA Z
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us on the 7th day of June. Our in
tention was to go back to the River
Marine and take a bath. AT that time,
since the 18th day of March, we had
had no change of clothing, we were
ragged, lousy, and nothing bat
tramps, as l must say. We got back
to the river or the 18th day of June,
and the Germans were always bonn
harding US in the rear with artillery.
We had to go to the river Marine at
night to take a bath. On the day of
the 10th we slept all day in the woods.
Never pulled off our clothes; just lay
down on the ground-fell dead-and
slept for twenty hours. We got up
on the night of the 10th and started
to the river Marine to take a bath. We
still didn't have any clothing, but
we were going to take a bath anyhow.
Got almost to the river when we were
ordered back and told that we had to
60 into Beheau Wood again. Tho
Seventh Infantry was ~retreating. We
went back to Belleau Wood, and found
the Seventh Infantry almost wiped
out. They had no horses, no artil-
lery, they didn't know where to go
nor what to do, but they were still
fighting the best they could. We got
into it on the 21st day of June and
went over the top on the morning Of
the 22ud of June, and fought to regain
eau Wood until the 18th day of July.
Sometimes we had n meal a day,
and sometimes we had nor 1t just
depended on if they could get it to US
On the 18th of July we were ordered
out of Belleau Wood and sent to the
rear, and we came out on the bank Of
the River Marine. The Germans were
bombarding US with airplanes, bu1
of course W. never paid any atten'
ton to them. We got used to that
When we came out of Belleau Woot
the estimated loss of our men wa!
II rs per cent, not all killed, gu
casualties.
They have three different kinds Of
fgas; mustard, cholorine and cyanogen
They used this gas in different siz'
shells, three, five, six, eight, twelv,
and fourteen-inch. OF course the diff
ferent sizes hold different quantities
When you go over the top, or make a
advance, you do not know what shel
IS going to be a gas shell. They vii
be constantly shooting at you all tn
time. Shells will be falling in tn
rear of you, in front Of you, and a
around you, and then the next she
will be a gas shell, of course we neve
paid n attention to them. We lai
Town and went to sleep with shell
!. :alling all around Us. Paid no al
: aention at all to them. If you ca
! a she'll a!one, yo. can te
whether it is q gas shell or = high {,
plosive shell, because the gas shell
rattle. A high explosive shell doe
mot make any fuss If it is rainin
1.-The gas goes into the ground when n
shell explodes- II the sun is shin
ing, the gas goes into the air, and
depends upon the way the wind blow
(which way it goes.
= The mustard gas is the most dal
{ gerous. It blisters where it touche
: land IL you inhale just , small portit
Tin the lungs it kills instantly. / ha,
. seen men gassed, and just pun q
b their knives and cut their throats.
Then there is the chlorine gas.
. Turns any color; no matter what col
elyour uniform i, the color Il totne
SIT h1yeaDe1u men 20 into ha&t3e~ VI
diced blaek Aatr, nd 60 00