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DUTCH FRONTIER AMENITIES.
How Horses Are "Stolen."
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1913.
aliserveil any day in the East-end” and" father, industrial districts, there are hun
drads"al thousands and avan millions of people who formerly, bis, causally em! ↑ployed, and, therefore, ill able to afford evra complete second-hand suite of clothes, now And themselves earning rentur and oftew good wagen! Such an advent of good fortune na hut been ex-| perionced in many workingia hotnes during the war is generally celebrated by o rehabilitation en masse at the hands of the nearest wardrobe dealer.
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Mr. Roosevelt guztributes to the Oeto- ber issue of the Metropolitan Maga- gine an article declaring that is is the. duty of America to Bight for Belgium. kavuTM
Thy no duty has been expressly im- pesed on the United States in the mat. ter of the German invasion, we ought, nevertheless, to have acted in accordance with the generous instincts of humanity; but, as a matter of fact, such a duty was expressly imposed upon us by The Hague Conventions." "
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** Mr. Roosevelt fears tha graph's correspondant) then cibes the Convention and the dates of its ratifica tion by England, France, Germany, and the United States and Belgiums, as con- clusive. He continues -
"The professional pacifcist, the hy phenated Americans, and the Beef and Cotton American-in short, all repro- sentatives of American molly-coddleism. American greed, and downright treachery. to America in seeking to prevent the shipment of munitions to the Allies, ure playing the game of brutal militarism
emerged again into the sun, which came in Ainating abafts of light between the clouds; sad the airship abone all silver grey, like against Telgitan and against their own great fish, as it exiled slowly and majesti- country,** cally away till it was a rallowed up in the distance.
GERMAN HORSE TEYRI.
BERLIN IMPATIENT.
Despondency and Disgust.
London Oct. 13th-The "Goteborg | Posted" (Sedex) publiskes an article
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This long frontier, running by country roads, through farmlands and orchards,. has, of course is inconveniences... There The s ecial" correspondent of "The icone district, which shall be nameless, Times" in Hollant has been given an where there has been endless trouble about unique opportunity of visiting many points horses. The Germans have wanted horses, in the frontier between that country and and the Netherlands Government his been by a writer just returned from Berlin. Felgium on the one side and Germany extremely anxious to prevent their getting It states that the people are becoming
the thur. In the fitowing article he thats from Holland But the way in which inpatient and are making why the army SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED iluscribos the extraordinaty conditions of homes disappeared was astonishing, he has nos reached Paris. Why General von ife in the frontier villages and toile may docent Dutch farmers living close to the Landwehr, why the Crown Prince is in-
fairs cr. #herover
Hindenbar is applied with ill-traine the trip. incidents which courted show, alcog the frontier were continually buying horses, and
It is interesting to ge
stew nights afterwards. How
baras
At the first symptom
frontier, the country full and people of the asseurely as a farmer bought ne borse and active with good troops, why the number of eye strain you should villages accommodate themselves to leading took it home, so
would it be "stolen"
olen" of bank notes has quadrupled, the
US. We test lives which are half in teritory which that night or a
the bac francis situation is rosy good, and consult is war and half in the area of peace. She mysterious thiavas got into the
The interminable b brriers af barbed wire and out-house--even it is said, into ent, why the British Colonies have no eyes scientifically and At divide streets
e middle. longitudinally ages where the newly bought animals arte volted, as the German, officials promised glasses to individual re- cut across then-at-right-angled and temporarily stabled in living-rooms-was The writer adda that despondency and peit door neighbou a chat across the ferre never explained. Nor did there thefts disgust with the wat are general through quirements with re
triss with bayonet at their sides occur at points where acess to the frontier Font Germany. People of various classes, વાડી There is one town in the extreme south of for people leading horse by light, pro the province of Limburg when the frontier
ነጻ ermatially through the back
garder of many of the houses, and are seas German sentring standing among the pons and sed to Ptoes. Presumably cho gets
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D. MACDONALD. JOHN WILKIE,
seated any difficulty be the mors their from officers to labourers, who are said to have looked forward to a success on horses were "stulon," the
more prosperous 1. the innocent farmers grow?
the eastern front as a certain' meana of; did the
New all-the horses are photogmphed
securing peace, apparently now doubt A Datuh ficer showed me a number soldiers of nother country among no's photograhs of the beasts in the particular whether an Eastorm success is obtainable. foror-beds, just as na can grow accustom-district. No farmer or villager is permit. The shormous idaces. there
el to buy a new borso except to replace known, and the people realise that the to strange workmen about the house As one place I saw a woman an one that has died; and the deal horse tire is" approaching when only school- encervedly hanging up the washing while mast be shower to the military authorities boys and old men will obey the summoya
German soldier, pated in her back yard, inked on with interest. In the street of precaution were not taken dead horses to Grins.
identity is by its photograph. If this Wasla a little girl as playing diabolo os might be brought across the frontier and the German side of the barrier when her living beasts creful for altsry pur "devil" for whatever the spool that is poses bought in exchange. So the used in diabol is called; ran under the author is insist that the dead horse fence into Dutch territory. The Dutch
tch produced shall be the animal which entry stopped in his lamination of a formerly stood for its portrait. (e) The following Alicle shall be subsamni bog'a coat, in a-arch of contraband Tn lanamerabia ways at
every point one
The streets of London, which for business „stituted for årticle 59, namely
hatter, to kick the plaything back to hen sees the pros utings that have to be taken. **Except as otherwise provided by the frontier, stood fear German, sentries
fur yards away, on the German side of agair st ül eft traffic across the frontier. In rannths have been gloomy and dismal at
village
milk women in. *teve Articles no business chail looking on, sed in the street beyond wore her daily round, serving custoare s in both night time, are now darker than over- be transacted at any Meeting perhaps half hundred German soldiers, the Dutch and the German end of the New regulations have doubly shaded the "le there, shall be prolly men of the let Regiment, VIIIth Army place. She did it long before the war and street lights, and there is but a fitful
the nines Ten-or-more-Shareps,
Carpa, lounging about or bury ou various or dently tught not to be gabbed of her leam for traffic, yet the buses and taxis be iness for niittle thing like Ajmageddon dimly lighted rush through the streets -So everywhere one a es the same So she comes. rattling (d): Article 64 shall be siltered by strik riordinary contrast between the triviali cobbled street and palls up at the barrier and collisions are averted in the mos: ing out all words after the words ties of pesca and the grimness of war. and before the sentry late her through, by remarkable manner. Within the buses a upon a pell every stareholder" and Putte, where the frontier runs right across lifting the pole which bars the road, he faint "ight filters from smeared lamps.. by adding after auch words present the main street, the village church in 50 peers into the cast, raise, the lids of the cans while inside the taxis are not lighted. 15- in person or by proxy aball have one vote for every share held by him Yards on the Dutch Bide. At Ni-pen it in to see that they really are fall of milk, and Houses, offices, and public buildings show
only a few yards on the German side. In rommages with his Fayonat in the bottom AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO cases the sentries allow well known of the vehicle. I thought he would prod no outward signs of life. Heavy window
WHY WHO IN JAPAN OIVEN THAT
theber heals. further Extraordinary residents of the villages to cross
Bat she sat res gnedly a cosy blinds are used, and the fanlights are, General Meeting of the Company will be front era to go to services.
apple-cheeked Dutch woman, in her seat obscured, the gloom being so depp that EDITED AND PUBLISHED kr 8. Kumizi. held at the Registered Uffice aforesaid on
while the familiar performance was cant where an occasional blind is not drawn STURDAY the 18th day December,
through. Another woman cemas on foot 1016. at 18 o'clock moon for the perpe of again in the south-east of Limburg entry lifts the lid and assures himself that searchlight. Wher' the police detect such At the little vill ga.of Hijgel-voith a market basket on her arm and the shafs of light cuts the darkness like a receiving a report of the proceedings at the country road runs down to the frontier and
th mentioned Mesting and of confirming crosses it where peaceful old red-brick there is nothing but vegetables for her an omission, the owner is curtly ordered BIOGRAPHIES of ever 5,000 people who are well-known in society and" of i thought fr. 13 a special resolution the mill stands on a small stream. On the got," she sake. "machine guns. And whole streets, there are only
dinner inside. What do you think to observe the regulation. Now, along several hun fred foreigners associated with above mentioned resolution..
further side of the stream, which is Ger
0 fest Japan appear in the book "Quite new they laugh together In many, the ground rises in a steps we take it to be a daily jokeh allows end below the window frames, so that utterly free from prejudices. fashion Triendly
patches of light: Special blods are fast materiale and accurate sketches, both balag slope to whore, 100 yards aw her to go on
the railway line passes south to Aix-la-Chap
emon sontece, they and a gleam will escape. ...A for the. Derwoo pelle. It is charmingly rural scene. their Dutch colleagues lalk together, in
its the cluster of will •buildings,
*prest at the communicament of
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Notices regarding the use of blinds have the title stream and the green albped, and then fell of that he been posted in railway carriages, and detted with apple treer. Aing the paliepesially seem to like to tell of hom s though the apple trees a gonsa-girl wander and wives and families, whom they earnestly they are not strictly observed sharp orders ad with a flock of a dozen geese. A stout long to see again. But one gets every where are given by the porters. Previously the same impression that little lova is lost refadion of an engine fürsace afforded paisant roman pasand lending a goat by between them. The people if Holand rope, and we would hear her abusing it in
chute to the whareabouts of a train, but German because it would stop at browser rather pride themselves on being the only this is now remedied by the use of cur ad two little German boys were fishing in people, except the French, who have a
tains which obscure the cogine cab. the stream. But between us and then familiar nickname for the Germans expras
ran the inevitable double line of barbed wire of contempt. It was invented Iong Zeppelin commander recently boasted that wire fencing, and, as we chatted with the balune the war and has really little more he could find London by the reflection of Dach sutri, who looked so incongruousing than the French boche. In Hol the silver ribbon of the Thames, but beside the old will, a train passed, hurryland, especially along the frontier, the
German soldiers, a
ing Arthward, loaded to the last inch with (Gormsa is usually of, it is homme under a new order there are no lights on
word as that for mal, such as ladies carry the river front
deroga Much of Limburg and a large part of We too es maff of swap in a Bribant are
are most un-Dutch in appearance, Cory sansebat the Dutch me se applied being hilly and fall of charmingly dislike than is in the English word, and [to Germanik, Kas much more of costem atadua variegated scenery. The whole country is
a'micet one vast orchard." The fruit chiefly they say that on the frontier the German grown is a cosy red apple and this year series get very angry when Dutch street the trees are loaded with fruit. In the boys call the mote Actumn acnshine and the weather has
been generally beautiful-whole orchards glow crimson, redder than any
bastborn bedge in England covered with Ite haws. As the motor-cnr'threads its way along the winding roads up and down hill, by farma
BOOM IN "OLD" CLÓ'ES.”.
and little villages with their ancient Not the least curious of the many cherches, and, hers and there, ald Carnexpected consequences of the war, lovingian castles, you get so impression of writes a Daily Chronicle correspon ideal fertility and passefulness, don
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It was over the tops of fruitisden appled, is an unprecedented boom in ald trous that we first saw a Zeppollic. We usd second-hand clothing. Lag by coy mounted a bank by the roadside and, one secs in the woolly and suburban presn through glance, watched it for 20 minutes an increasing number of wardrobe deal- or half an hour. It was, of conres, wellus advertisements offering good prices uver Gurmien territory, infatil quite close an all lands of worn bus still suryletabja and Hyjog low. We watched it as it passed. betisd, or throu, h, a Jain cloud and then clothing. The reason in that the demand for cheap attife has grown, as a result Softhe industrial prosperity caused by the
sar, out of all proportion to the supply ON Force after the shews Supper, is in spite of the fact that some three million man havo temprarily dit- carded the ordinary dress of civil life for tha more popular khaki Au may be
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