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hundred and eighty milen behind ine efforts, were rewardah with success. and was circling over the walled" I saw from all the attempts made to heity which I knew from my map to bring ane downt
be Haichow, in the province of Every day the Japanese and ngu Kiangau. I peered down between surprises for me Through the nos the wing and boily of my man of the propeller heard the explo- plano for a landing place, but it aion of shells und felt the slap of looked as if I was to be disapponted, wind in my face, the shrapnel burst- For the rain of the past days had ing sometimes so close that the ma- sosked the country and only the china rolled like an old sailing vessel Chinese grave, mounds, buildings and in a heavy sew. After they saw that Lan occasional patch of high ground they could not got me when I was showed above the flood: Finally directly above their line they trans after I had gone back, and forth ported two batteries--eight guns of Hoveral times scouring the country, |10,5 centimetro-to the rear where I discovered a small fold this look- they could firs on ing at a smaller ed about four hundred feet long unit angle of elovation. It was the
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The landing was rather difficult, und range, I would suddenly veer but at 8.45 my machine stood in the off" with my vertical planes left ar middle of the field, at the last mo- right on another course and it would ment nearly capsizing, for the wheels he some time before they began to The current issue of Sunset, the sink deep in the muddy ground and break near, ina ugum interesting magazine | published "in'« propeller blade mapped short. In Tsingtau Pħind only-one"place San Franciscs, contains the follow- The quiet around me when the motor to land, and the Japanese goon dis- ing article by Lieutenant, Gunther, stoppel was striking and uneating, covered that. When I begun to deas Phisehow, of the formu Naxy, des For the first time in days I had land- evnd I would see below me the beau cribing his flight from Tsingtau in in without the accompaniment of tiful white elculs of breuking shrpe an acrophute just before the fall of enishing shalls and whistling shrup, ref shining in the sunlight.,. There the fortress, ——
not. Peaceful and still my pigeon was nothing to do but to art, thy sat in the sun. In the distance stand tenti. and woon down through crowds of wotaler-struck Chinese who them to where my sesistants" wait- could not solve the mystery of this me to help me rm the Taube intoj strange visitusion. It was the first the shed. the that an aeroplane hind ever been seen by any of the inhabitants of I envied the Japanesh their splet this isolated Chinese city unul tas did hydroplates. Of the eight hasbile poor fellows thought that the great acroplanes four were waterplanes of winged creature hovering over their American make, and with their eity was the devil or some evil genins powerful engines and great plane, Come to blight und destay, surface they flow splendidly und were
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Growling tomed the propeller as in the warly morning of November 6 11 enne ke uns unsacplane ready for my last thight. My brave Toube which had often brought me through Lund över bullets and Shrapnel hail PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned have received instructood in the Bismark Kaserne before tions to Sell by Public Auction. my Governor, Captain" Meyer-Wal- deck, Commandant of the garrison af Tsingtant, and bar received my It was my intention to intern my constantly over Tsingtau dropping order to dy from Tsingtau over the Taube with the Chinese. But it was botabs and scouting.” One-day, as investing Japatuse armies on the impossible to bring it, wings and I was absorbed in watching the coun- 8,ission with which & bal been en- all, through the gate of the willed try below, my muchine began to
trusted.
city. I therefore burned all bat the roll. I thought it was an air pocket There may be to chance," said engine, which I turned over to the or one of the erratic air currents that the Governor, as we expect the officials at Fluehow. The next morn- were always playing tricks w... the assault by the Japanese to-night, but ing I started out on a Chinese river umchinė. I grasped the steering make is if you can, Clasping my, sumpan pulled by coalies. A Gunes gear with one band without looking hand he wished me success as he rat and forty five soldiers accom. around and continued making o sabl good-bye.
panied me. After six days on the servations of the Japanese beneath. And now the time had come and river and two along the Grand Canal. After I had returned to may landing at a moment was to be lost. For we finally arrived it Nauking. Later place at Tsingtail I was told that Furniture, Arm-chaire and Sofas, Carpota, farrowing and gouging the Illis guard and left by train for Shang- close over me and that there was days the shells of the enemy had I slipped away from my Chinese there had been a Japanese aeroplane and Bras-mounted Bedsteads, Platz, mis only starting and landing hai, where Founded the steamer greit fear that there would be a Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, "Extension place. A few guping holes in my for America.
elush.” At another tine I was chased Dining Tables and Ohaita, ett stepway and I would lose the I was the only aviator in Tsing. by one of the big waterplines. 1 THE FUTURE. OF BLIND Dinner and Dessert Services, Crockery, chance. Glass and E.-P. Ware, Cooking Stoves, through the stars and I know that in with my Tuube only a few weeks bombs dropped near me.
The dawn was pushing tau having arrived there from Ber- just had time to find quickly when datlery, etc..
the Japanem quanezz Lagund the free frontilities begun. With the other tight I was able to wind ridges of the circle of bills facing our, declaration of war I begun my scout higher than a hostile craft that was THE RE-BUILDING OF RUINED One Pair vory fine Blackwood Cabinets, own redoubts would soon renew the ing over the Shantung promontory, upproaching, and when over his head I 4-fold Blackwood Screen (Porcelainerrific cannoading which had al-We were not sure which way the with my resolver I fired thirty shots. Panels), Blackwood Fire Screen, Stands,
Japanese were corning, but "reports down at it between the wing and The blinded soldier is a figura of tragedy were that they would land across body of my machine. The aviator pays, "The" Times." He, who belonged Taspoys, Hottees, etc., One Piano by
the pmmontory on the Gulf of Chibli. turned and landed shortly arteryesterday to the adventurous, is to-day a Brinsmond, soveral pairs Lace Curtain
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ing operations ny reconnaitring trips the machine I could not tell. Ellen in ruins; and unless he will took me hundreds of kilometres out- I soon learned that two thousand rolinguich all claim upon it, to must beüld side of the immediate environs of metres was the best height for my it again from the foundations wì h unskilful
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A grasp of the tumis of my four pellant assistunts, a final caressing of my faithful wolfhound, who look el at me sadly with his great intel- ligent res-then full gus and like an arrow my Taube shot into the Tsingtau. These fights were of work. At that elevation I could hands. He cannot accomplish this withont dark. Suddenly when I was sixty great use to me, for I had a fine observe guns, camps, moving, bodies help and encouragement; experience bas feet high over the middle of the field opportunity to train myself in ob of men. HUGHES & HUUGA,
Rifle and machino-gun bul- | shown that help from those who have faced may aeroplane got a tremendous pull, serving at great heights valuable lots were ineffective at two thous like calamity to his own is of greater and only with an iron wrist could later in my special field of work. sand motres. As soon as I had worth to him than any other. prevent it from being thrown down,
It was early in September that I reached that height I left the steer- Help for the blind by the blind Is the A hostile shell had exploded under got my first baptism of fire, about ing wheel, controlling the vertical working principle of the institution opened me, the concussion tilting me dan one hundred and twenty miles from planes with my feet. Then with tuy Committee at St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, by the Bladed Soldiers and Sailors Cire
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THE Undersigned have received instruerously A fragtmesi tare a hole Tsingtau. I flat over a column ad- hands free I would cons which it was my privilege to visit pt. &tion in the loft wing of my monoplane vancing from Taichowfu and retur- on the steering wheel and would day. That principle, in its application. and I was struck by pieces of curthed home with ten bullet holes from circle ever the Japanese positions, has onde St. Dunstan's one of the most But thanks to a kind Kismet no machine-guns in the wings of my Sometimes it would take thirty or interesting places in London. It has light, nzd the sadness, which, more actual further damage was dane. Then elite.
forty mutes around one battery beeren than the imprint of pan; though aush only came song shrapnel-the last
JAPANESE SIEGE SURPRISES. fore. I felt that I had it definitely more elusive, liugers in the faces of the farewell dr the Japanese und British After September 29, when the located on the map and its position men who ars learning here how to begin bmthers.
Japanese and British hud beriimed accumtely sketched. For from au life once more at the beginning, and When I was high over Kindchauus in behind the wire entanglerents elevation of a mile in the air, the discount misfortune, and defeat memory ments of gates and poos, of railings and
by new achievement. Bay I could not refrain from turning in the last line of defence, my most country flattens out.
coops, rereal extraordinary ingenuity. A The abject of the work is to teach every blind man, by means of them, in enabled to around for a last view, There for difficult and important work begun. ravines and other landmarks from wind soldiers trade by which he may conduct the farm with entire success, to below me lay that dear little Tsing It consisted in seeking out the posi- an aeroplane are deceiving. expect to an his living, and to introduce catch any fowl he may desire, to drive his tau which had been through so many tics of hostile buttetics, especially
him at the camo time to the Braille system birds from one plot of ground to another. A great part of the credit for this splen trial and he still its worst ordeal those of the heavy siegu guns. My
of sending and writing. Blind instructor to collect eggs, and generally saperintead did undertaking belongs to Mr. G. Arthur before it. Its roofs of red tile nest machine was constructed to carry.
the ben engaged in every insane. everything. Captain Pierson-Webber was Persons whose interest in his fellow himself before he became blind, ferers from blindness in- so well known Giren a proper's funeral under the These men are among the most capable
grounds led among the hills, on the signal two men-navigator and observer, impra-sics that he was practically penni-wol kere in the sentry, and their energy and therefore is expesially well qualified to Under Mr. Pearson's direction 449ptation the war dag still wavel from but because of the peculiar air cur. less, it has now been discovered that and enthusiasm are as immediate incentive help the men who are receiving fastraction
the wireless where it had been hauled rents over the rough environs of Aged Citershaw labourer, who died to effort. The knowledge that other men from him, when the fagstaff had been shot Tsingtau I could never take an o. Chertsey Workhouse. Infirmary, had pro away. The first light of the morn server. Consequently I had all the Porty valued at £5,000. ing enfight the red and white of the work to do myself, steering the mu At the recent spring show of the Royal Large Red Cross flags over the hos chine, navigating over the country, Borticultural Society in London, the pitals and across the Yellow Seu the finding the enemy's positions, writ. "Lord Kirchenr," beautifully formed burs of gold were announcing the ing notes and sketching positions, daudit of a relicete vollu, tint, exhibited coming of the sun.
by Mears. Birt, witinated much attention. dropping bombs and watching for sine of the novelties of the show was so hostile aeroplanes. But that my almost all-red daffods, named Volcano."
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morning in this workshop was sa intensely communicates with that in Ergent's Park sht. Dunstan's which lent to the interesting com. At the carpenter's, bench Elad moon are generally fond of rowing, committee by biz. tto Kabu, is a very young fellow who feat his sight on the and it is one of the few outdoor sports in Iarga
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