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A VISIT TO THE BAT-uniform.. asta and headgear here and ther suggesting the gruscans Ameond that had been anuctes. Musix kaol |does not appear to hana mãered greatly from the bombardiment; in places walls Thave been demolished al poeta tem away by shells, but on the whole the
UNDER THE FIRE OF FRENCH GUNS..
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. I was told that 1 would act gader any The stories related, however, of the ripianistaliges be able to visit the battles battle and sufferings of both - soldiers,
great number ut officers of and civilians war now harrowing. The Rekk. A various nutsonalities, particularly of the American Army, have boa stugading inter portion of the dead had been removed or buried. From Manx for the expitals of Europe since the out-end the scene beggari description: the brink of hostilition, endemeuring to ob whele district north-east of Paris is one tala a glimpse of the battles and battle big heart-ache.Imagina driving in m Boks of this grant world-wur. So far tomchils through the lovely roads of tow, it any, havo steroided.
France with the harvests ripe and trees, and just lakto tekeenting, na a uniter' General Brokers. Pavers end have persistently and laden heavily with frais, sat everywhere of pure malice. The hit homies of
without exception refused them pernils in the Beds, on the roadside, on the Vitry on the line of arch, ale suffer sion to witnes the battles. pass the lines, hill and in the valley-sitting. lying considerably. Whole families er even to examine the battlefields' untilt harvesters nee hedidas-makers, nor hill been turned into the streets were after the wounded have been moved happy idag but end men stiff and dirt wunt and privation, d und the dead burial. So it was with starting the fair folds and Alling suffering for the hare Derasseries of life some misgivings that. armed with proper the air with the noxious stench of their The Journey from Vingy to teredentials, and entrusted with a mis
roztials pec25% Men in uniform whe Cotterats was a repetition of the previous sion at some impartinte. I approached day, sat, or stool as thes whet, at home pen herror, ravage upon the War Ofier with a request for the hot tation from mortal-wounds. Catil rarage. Tong prank of refugbes were | i necessarge pakendis Since the mobilisation
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men returning to camp after the wunton des.
of the French trige. was compisted Faridamling ring stif aquisit their suction of their homes Soon we be | sinas havis-hegt allework to come and
in the trenches, and actually gan to gar the woming of the Gar try within the Pepartment othe
this areth ns trench it, I had man cannon, and realised we were fast Flandresh. Seite armand with: • laissez-mustur ** nul [dataminis prasided by the Comic holle ved the stories that hit reached approaching the battledine,
is is imposible to of caissons wens mes with in lin pos- out of the entrench al cong of Puris, and iso a mlekom, wering toward, Paris, but from the fact
were that guns aerorupied them Front the terrible exist perially to penetrate into the military a remier in herably know the Fred obliers wers pot re zutter, ander, frone the General the torrential rain that wa
falliu: henting, but simply rèteraing with them-
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Fenn Paris, is neerssary. Home
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manding at the fent r the overtherwis undoubted's would fave or fresh supplies of ammunition.
[in utsurabiv.' The one thought after unile we ran through the bivores if the French troops, men quartered in hexas, non quartered in fields': cavalry and artillery moving dewy to and liv.
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I my right so this We Ctle, The War that persiel in the mil that "THE Undersigned have received instrucDffey are site sted about the Pealeval
of the great numbers who liest in agay tions to sell by F'ubile Auction,
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of words in the barglefeb. bulances and automobiles." troop after
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Pruch jataga erywheres the usual sergio, nesisted by a French Bat under the surveillancs the Freusa- ss murse, qerating in au open yard on, the freqpt sight of ambulance! noticeable sprinkling | of Pride khaki; and there can have pral Prussian wounded. but trains, the rear of the surnun boining most of the cares wem past saving,bauder, the feeling with which the ai
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Room Furniture, Aru-chairs and Sofas, xobot preysted my crointials. I was Carpete nad Ru New Brass and revived by ms side-term who spoke Brase-mounted Bedstends. Toilet Tablesales English, telling to be had Wardrobes, Washstands, &c., Sideboards, hand over javnty you in England, Dinner Wagons, Extension Dining Tables Mixneral would be pleased to re and Chairs, etc., etc., Dinner and Dessertive for just two minutes," and Services, Crockery, Glass and Sundry E-Pushed into his officg. Ware, Choking Stoves, Cutlery, etc.,
l Finch War er fengu the cu aliliongh unuoubtedly all humanly pass was clged and the tense expression | The entry is crowded with with the limited mons at his men's faces all helped to make the 1 king The Information about pla Tikes in the grand army, and asking their way being done. Two British realisation that wa wem in the vicinity thousand and cas questions to be solved; offers near by were al being attended of a great battle far more intense. It the Wa? Offer, M. la Gouverneuerunt hope was entertained of was when we halted on the edge, of their rewery, On all sides, thesa Saisons they intoaised us we weris 2015 TEAKWOOD, c.-Dmving Room Genral is at No lead of tragedies were evident, anal one within the range of the terman jone Suites, One Redroom Suite and Dining Vijdou, A short drive to time address Vail me he wishing the Bod Croom which w that most wert boubacting i
intim had permitted more velinteers the town, luz. Bring. fortunately for us. won the battlefiebli for the par across to the right, and not in our dire- of attending to the wounded. tion. We visited the general hend- Deilly the French Army and Bel quarters. and saw the furious batteries Cross, have done all in their power, and of 73's pumping their iron hail fate the it is simply that the grout ravages of Prussian Batteries on the other side of this sudden war has outrun the possi. the town, listening to the rapist fire of M. le Gouvern ur-tional Gallieriitition of guisation of the relief. the Germ heavy tillery which it was theal of the Paris deiener-is a 1:an
thetold had nos erased for over five who at first sight inspires conflencis British doctors told me
Bell of battle, and it is also she view days and the impression we received was [tult, sineway and coutumnding in a this Fruch confters in Pusis, that this a great gun send be heard at lunt carne, without these volunteers get in the way; but every treaty seconds. We talked with trous fly, and withynt a superflucus
at the same time they both admits there the offer of the guard, visited the worth he looks the part of the man who
is a grave shortage in the supply of house, which had been partially is reported to have said to the French
trained asistenta.. Surely in warderoolished by the enemy's shells, where It didet, five nos five days and I will where there are thousands of casualties surrounding us were French and Colonial 1182k Paris impregnable," and Parisions
a day the willing and self-sacrificing troops, Tirco, Sehgalow, and Moroc inlieve he has done so. M. le Gouver volunteer who is ready to endure every can, all cheerful and happy in the nevedieneral was "enchanted harship should with proper credentials exciteraent of the batte. The attitude. | Tirigadier would by at my ratire dis
un varfer adéquate supervision be per of all nad the general atmosphere of the position, and **
In less
mitted to rinder aid the front. On place produced a feeling of great con-
·dence," The most surprising thing of than the two minutes allotted to m
another agect I was worry to read a
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
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OUT
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IN
6.50 +1.42 8.51"
8.40 1126 2.00 3.00 5.15 7.30
Canton
9.44 11.28 2.04
0.59
9.50 11.38 2.00
5.22.7.37
7.10
10.02 1148 2.20
5.33m
1.23
10.99 1202 2.33 - 5.48 8.01
Tai Po Markok
7.27
10.27 12.08 237
7.38
10.37 1219 2.48
5.50 - 5.58.8.14
7.39
8.15 TiPoMarket 8.26. Tai. Po-- 9,32
- 8.44 Sha To⚫ Yau Ma Ti-8.50 - Hung Hom 8,02 Kowloog.
1.1 -
5.25 Bhom Chun- 6,05 10205 11.35 2.35 4.20 3.15 6.20 Sheung Shui- &13. 11.41 3.01 4.36 Fan Ling.
8.50
8:43.
6.29
11.44 3.73 4.40
0.32
8.53
11.55 3.18. 451 12.01 3.28 4.57 12.14 3.38 3.10 12.27 3.49 3.23 12.31 3.63 5.
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4.13
9.0
$9.9
artillery Cai Po and the ladies acting with her made a ploughing their way through rain and wise suggestion, and notwithstanding mud, hungry and fatigued men having Fan Ling the views of so recognised or authority been in battle for days, all as courteous Shearg Shui as Lord huntsford, I confidently assert and attentive to us strangers as they Shum Chu
In every Canton that there is a intentable" shortage of could have been at home. ruined women ausistants to give relief soldier's heart there was great longing overeenthed nurses of greater experi for tobuteo and cigarettes, and it was enen, and as this terrible war proceeds with intense joy that we were able to will be found that Lady Selborne is gratify some of them by distributing the right and Lord Knutsford is wrong, and fifty packets of cagazeties we had brought likewise those indignant nurses with us. The sensitions of the specta
tor of a madera hatte are almost im whom, hr professes to represent.
Unny September" morning, st an early har, "wo set out for the long thelling run auto" to the bartheld by the Porte de Pontin and the suburb of that name, past chal.it lenging entries and jostling Curta through miles of troops coming and going, and the omnipresent and over-
and Sulk embroidered Pietrek and Kaku putrols; already the sinister signs and French 'armies are particularly very gum of one aray and, not even
aonos, etc,, etc,
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10.40 19.22 2.606.01 8.IS 7.41 8.30 10.45 1240 2:54 -3:45 6,06 8.24
8.33 11.20
6.05 Wil stop at Sheung Shui on notice being given to
the guard at Kowloon. Golfers Train. Sandkya and Fublic Holidays. Kowloon 8.43 a.. Tai Po 9.15
Shoung Bhvi 2.30 Sha Tau Kok Branch,
OUT. Dag 8.05 Sha Taz Kok "Arr. 7.00
Fan Ling
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- 9.05 10.45 12.31 9.56′ 5.30 8.35 7.08 9.38
Sha Tau Kok Branch.
8.20
9.16
12.30 +3.20 1.25 4.16
Ela. Tas Kök Dep
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IN
730
1.43 9.25
2.40 810 10.25
0.16
An indeniable fact is that both Eng possible to describe: to stand under the d war and its consequences begin to upwar. Men with bandaged heads and crupulous in their treatment of the able to me the bostile forces, to realise German wounded. Oto of the most that the gone are moving down the arins, train, apbulances, and the large are carts with windlasses, used pathetic evidences of the ravages of themy by thousand, and that further to remove dead horses for the battle-Gerinan army is the town of Senlie, cn in the prohibited zone thousands, along a front extending more than 100 who buiblings have been completely and perhaps tens of thousands, are being miles. But having stood under the fiche. After thirty minutes! Flim, In-
rrupted at frequent intervals by the reeled by shells; in fact, very little cut down by those fearful instruments guns and felt the electric thrill that still remtis of the town, and such of destruction, the mitrailleuses," and pervades the atmosphere of ons of the challenges of sentries and the inspection inhabitantë as 'bre left aro destitute, It beyond that still ruco are perhaps grap. greatest battles of history' is an impres of passes, and with a full class scrutiny beyond dispute that the Germans pling in desperate hand-to-hand fighting in not resily to be faced from the butera row of breast works extending barded this place after the battle, under the fire of the sante machine-guna, momory of any iban→A. A. in the clean weress the roadway, we leave the fortified cap of Paris and head full- speed for Maux. It will be recalled that alter the famous hinge front and forced march of the enemy Mea breame one of their outposts, and vas the sense of desperate, fighting when the Allies opened the eighty-day bottle which slowly but surdly pushed the Preat Gemuan tray back to a distance of about seventy miles from. Peris, Before we reached the town wo saw evidences of the terrife havoc wrought. ORDER lying dead in the fields, trocy
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Admiral Sir John Jellicor, who for some years lived at Stanmore, near Har row, has written a letter to a friend in the district, says the Morning Post." in which he says:----
The spirit of the Floot is fine, and when the day ones I trust, in fact, I know, that with help from above they will give a good account of them Relves.
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
NIGHT ATTACK.
the front line advanced again, seeming not to heed the heavy hail of bailets wo were pouring into them. Within about one
**Long Line of White Faces in the Inky hundred yards of our trenches the first line
Darknes,"
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of advancing Germans fong themselves fet
on the earth, fixing bayonets, while the Becond fred over their heads, and yet, a third hae was pushing forward mon
A vivid pictura of one of the fierce night to 5 the gaps of the second lige attacks on the Britishline along the disse where our store through. There by the Germans is told by a sergeant of the the tst lizo rose, and the second freed Worcestershire Regiment now, in a London bayonets also. Finally, they all came hospital
sweeping forward with the bayous), and "I was on picket duty,” he says, "and threw themselves right on to our tresthes. it was just after midnight the men ahead, We poured ons terriblerolley into them an fall lack reporting strange sounds all along they come on, but all the devils in hell the frost. At the same moment we heard would not bare stopped them. Our front rustling in the bushes close by, and at there ranks gave way alightly before the fierce.
of was no response to the challenge we fred, ness of the attack and the weight thus giving the alarm in the steeping camp. man hurled at them, but the recoil was Out of the hashes the enemy's advanced only temporary. We steadied ourselves, guard rushed but we had them in check and while they were standing still fer until we demned it wish to fall back on the moment to take breath and dress their camp with a report of the enemy's strangthanks for another rush went at the and dispusition. We reckoned there, was with the bayonet, and hurled them over the. at least a whole German army corps tranches down the hill gained attacking, supported by endless bodies ut Cavalry and ten batterien of guns, besides "i hundreds of machine guns,
It was in this rush that I got ras through with a bayonet, hat sa I lay on the ground doing my best to forget the pain in the exaltation of victory: I enw our lade CAMP IN PREPÁKATION.
class them across country in flue style, súčį **When we got back to camp we found I kase from the cheen sil along the line that everything was in apple-pie: neder for, that we were besting them back." For the fight. The men were standing to their about hell a mile around the dead and dying arms, and though some of them were wara lying in beapa, and tho mosna, of the
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long to wait for the German, who wero
really close on our heels. On our way back we had heard our artillery open fire And the shells bursting along the "German lines: At the snaze mment the
Germans, who'szemed te realised that thefe surprise was notapris at all, poned Are with thoir artilly right along the
• Bewnt, and their servohlights were nicioz wilsound-like so many Wile the wierarchlights rene nad 20 uv, bemond they analled us to see someth ing of their strength asthey advanced. Soon www.coming out of the inky darkus K long line of white fyr, and in response to the quick order we bied right into them, PARMIOSWARD WITH THE BAYONSELIN PA4 The Best linny warized for. R· moment Or wo, part of it was histted out, buy the line of serves behind fled up the gaps, and
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