DRAUGHTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2641, 11 December 1915, Page 6

DRAUGHTS

The annual handicap draughts tourney of the Working Men's Club was ooncluded last week. The best scores, so far as the actual play is concerned, ,were made by Messrs. W. H. Smith,- 25 .points Burgess and C. Beid each 24 points, J. Reid 22J. and T. Costello, 21}. When the sealed handicap was opened it was found that the five prizes liad been, won by Messrs. C. Reid, W. Roberts, H. Douglas, T. Costello, and J. Coulton, in that order. Mr. •C. Reid has received a number of congratulations on • sooring his initial first prize. The best tallies made in this tourney are as follow:— Points, H'p, n. C. Reid 24 '9 -S3 W. Roberts' lli' 20 314 H. Douglas 19. 12 31 T. Costello, 21*—9—30 i; J. Coulter, 10-20-30; J. Burgess, 24-5-29; J. Wright, 14—16—29; ' T. Warren, • 54—20—284; J. Reid. 22J —SJ—2B; W. H. Smith, 25—0—25; The "Echo des Tr&nchees" publishes a letter from tho Academician, M. Ernest Lavisse, addressed to the Boches soldiers, who arc concerned at/ the prolongation of the war. In it he says:— "Have _ you ' considered that the longer this war lasts, which you have made so atrocious, the more your are detested? In a year's time you will be more d.etcsted than you are to-day; and then there can be no more tliojight of gaining' .your livelihood ■ in- 'other countries, You will be unable to. find a job in any civilised country. / They will have none of you-in'the banks, the j shops, the restaurants, or the hotels'nor -will your daughters and sisters be wanted as governesses, niu'ses,-or housemaids. In a year's time, poor Boches' you will be shut up in your own country. Anti how will you live there ? ; You, the destroyers, who have littered the soil of Belgium and ours' with the august ruins of churches and cathedrals, you will find at home the squalid' debris of banks, factories, and commercial houses on the land of bankrupt estates. And your State itself, yourGerman Empire, aro you aware of it too, will probably be obliged to go bankrupt?"-

The Salvation Army in Canada, has forwarded to General Booth five motor ambulance cars for use where most required.- Knowing the urgent need in Russia, the General offered' tliom to the Government. In reply, the following telegram was received from Petrograd:—"To the Russian Ambassador, London,—-His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to accept the five automobiles which were offered to the Imperial Government'by the Salvation Army, and has been pleased to order an expression of his lively gratitude to the donors Prince Imoretinsky proposes to place these automobiles at. the disposal of the Sixteenth Military Section, bearing the' name of Their Majesties the Empresses'-' Pray cause them to be handed over to the Prince, who has already left for London. (Signed) Sazonoff." '