GERMAN MEDICINES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14700, 3 September 1915, Page 5

GERMAN MEDICINES.

Received September 3, ,9.a.m. MELBOURNE,'September 3; ■ The Government has decided not to permit newspapers to - publish advertisements,-, of German . patent medicines; nor to pass them -through the Post Office. • -The Hon. Hughes is satisfied that ,- Sanatogen is German, also otherpreparatio.ns, and that undoubtedly the .nrofiti -are .going to Germans. : " i ‘ HOW A HEROIC PRIEST DIED - ■ • ‘i- :. v ', ' XT THE DARDANELLES. . THE /LATE FATHER "FINN, • • [An appreciation by;the Rev., H, Q, Foster, . Church of England Chaplain t» 2nd,.R.Ni Brigadp.],-. • .• . - . As I had the. jbrivilego and good fortune - to be with Father Finn on the' <sast* ■’> v, transport. -'aiid;.,during ■ Ms' last' dsfa- on' . ■ darbaay a-, Tew *w otds ■•-trott" me - .: would not be thiu>-tinife. * ' Father Finn’s name will'be held in honor and ?revered by Christian people' all ever* A* the world, but, I venture to say, especial- ”’* ly by the clergy and laity of his own -* ; .Church. His blameless.character and, the'' geniality of his disposition endearing him to all who contact with ■ •. him. To see him quietly at work amongst his own men . of-hthp. .Qiiblir-' Fusilier* ■“■; (Ist Battalion) gave; one 'the elite as to why thjs ephrageous" pfjest was ,so resl'l- • -6, pected and'beloved. He always ’ hadsympathetic ear for the trials, tempta- S tions, difficulties and troubles of his menj and when they 1 were depressed, and tired af the somewhat- inonqtohQiis life on hoard. a transport-he was ready with an amusy’ .-’w ing tale or cheery word, so much so - that among' MS; own little inner, circle 0f,.,” £ itish . ‘.‘Tommies,” he ■. wufi -kpown asi,\. ; ‘Fhther'-10‘Flynn.” Al,though • jnevpr-.J heard his addresses at'.Mass, yet I know* they helped Jiis men to live . purer and , ; setter lives; 1 THE LAST :-DAVSI It was on Thursday, April-8, that H.- ' M. Transport Ansonia .sailed from Alex- J,f r >f. o l. temjjps,. Barbour; f which, wae ji,;." filled with transports for conveying the- ■ troops to Gallipoli Peninsula. He celebrated Mass on the fore well-deck' beneath, a big tarpaulin,-and always-had an ex- - '- : cellent attendance. He placed this'at my disposal for my own service at 7 a.m. on •' Sunday mornings, and did everything in' • ‘ his power to help me. ■ ' \i-M The last Mass was .on Sunday 'morn- 4 1 ' mg> April 24, and was- attended by a.y large congregation .of his beloved - Dublin ■ Fusiliers. Our ship lay off. Tenedos, surrounded by the warships of the Grand., * Fleet, which were getting ready for the ' /' Treat bombardment early next • morn mg, ' ;; His last wqpdsto the men were on "Pre-ij '- 1 oaration for Death,’' and Tittle did his hearers think that the speaker himself , ' was to “lay down hjs life’for his friend*” before another day had,passed. THAT SATURDAY EVENING. We had been close friends.through the ’ voyage, and it was with great ; regret" 1 .. that I bid him “God-speedV on that Sat- - urday evening,' when we separated and f * tot on to smaller ships which were to ,' convey us, with the men, to Gallipoli. >'“ i We steamed with lights out, he- on', aa&sfej old collier (the s.s. River Clyde), on No/ 1 mine-sweeper. About 3 o’clock we lay off the Peninsula, and at ' dawn commenced to great bombardment. This over, his ship was nuickly run ashore, the Turks hardly firing a shot at her, on "V” Beach, close to Sedd-ul-Bahr, whereas our men were taken ashore in small ships’ boats towed by steam pin-, ■ v naces,, in charge of- midshipmen. The v latter, method of landing prbved'"to •b§ ■’.jtj| the better, for immediately the'men com- '< menced' to disembark from. .;the- River Clyde shells, crashed into her from the ' ! * shore, and Machine-guns, many in number, ,were turned bn-to the two exit* made in her. side from which the men’ *' ; were emerging.. Many of the gallant Dublin Pusilfers. fell wounded- and bleed- '' ing into the water,- and when ■ Father'*' Finn saw it, hb -jtimped in; and tried his'utmost to rescue them. He ■ succeeded.- in ’ assisting several men, ( bdt‘ suddenly al'bullets entered his-own. body, and .he fell just at the-water’s edge. :It was seen v at once that his condition was serious, and he was carried by some of the men’ ■ ) to whom he had miniptered so faithfully into a place under cover. Ho only lived ’ a-few minutes, and his servant knelt by his side. His last words' are aaid^-to have.-.v'S been : “Are our fellows winning?” ( And . V -then, amidstithe 'thunder of |ths gapsvon sea and land, he 'passed. Thus 1 dibd’ tHO first chaplain to be killed in action ih the - present war. , His;life, and dbata are ex- ' > amples-for all' t tp follow.. I took his photograph only,a few days before- His death, and, then afterwards I took P h 9.t ; b Pf jind When I returfi hope to send copies of each to; the press, ‘ - Father-FinnJs memory., will never / fade: He his country) and- j ..Greater love hath no man thin this. 'I