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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915.
Walter Andraws. Dath (Russali'a) Infantry Indian Army, in mentioned for conspicuous gallantry ai Skalba, where he recoived Wounds from which he died. He was the alder son of the late David Andraws; ot Glen Alty, Barthill, Ayrshire, and was aduonbed at Marchiston Castle. He joined [bbe Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1900 and the Indian Army la 1908. He was a nephew of the Right Hon. Eugene Waann, M P.
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RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN..
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
The Two Schools..
in life. Not long ago, for instance, in a politimi club, a-West Highlander who is a prominent figure in ecclesiastical world waa busily engaged "getting up the backs of ■ douce alder and a young lawyer, who -represented the class Fraser and The Istest copies of the Russian news
Mackenzie. He kept the former busily defending himself againt the charge bat papers have' po' unusual appearance.
ball of meal" member of the remarked he was a
the Russian Conscl to a Lovat organisation. It appears that
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John French's despatch which describes the part played in the Septembar advance the Scottish Division. Stirring stories of the ardour of this Division have been going the rounds ever since our wounded crossed the Channel, and an official version has been
Lord Lovst of the time efferets holl of for many months had taken the largest Fraser was short of ighting men. The added :-Tha dens of the war, which meal to the members of any other alan place, has now been reduced, ita space the "rame of Fraser. who would join his ranks and adopt being taken up by a discion of the
And to-day there is not & Frases who will admit internal politics of Russia. The politics! descent from these "mercenaries." Ot
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Magerly awaited. After giv g. the Mackenzies the rar: gentleman ba crisia in Russia became acute after the
teat of the army from Poland. mesi' tranections, and this has given present there are two political actionis
much to say. They too had some boll of
discount, we prably well know the main facts of the work done by the Seata and the 818 Londoners just farther south. It may be origin to the Gaglie asyings, "Here comes
assumed that the day has not yet coms when
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the light of day the dazing of some of and be has been too mas me of the State Council, and the big
10ttl these infantry units. But there is con- correspondent is that them pleasantries majority of the local Municipal Councils firmation in the despatch of the accounts should at the present time fire the blood of and Local Boards, who might be taken as by cranitass en of the aspirited corush in chasmen who have sojourned in cities for representing the opinion of the country the neighborhood of Loa and the pow. the greater part of their lives
all coaluuced inte ens plitical Bloo, The famous Hil 70 The Scottish Division,
The Campbells are likewise easily Bloc demands the creation of according to Sir John Fretch, carried out its advance with the grea est vigour, while curat, References to land conquest in composed of political men who enjoy the
the past leave them samored, though confidence of the public. so of its dai'e tushd on as far as cits their farbears were very touchy on that represents not only the progressive parties, St. Augusto, a mile east of Hill 10. This matter. But if a rural Campbel is asked, but the party of the Centre, and sine mem corroborates the stories that have already Why in a pig called Sandy Campbell?" bors of the Right. Moscow is the zona of this come home, hat a good deal pet remains there is danger of trouble. The reference political movement, which is based on the to be ad officly as to whis followed.
of course, to the bear's bead crest of idea that the existing system is responsible the e conditions which led to the retreat of the Russian armies and put Russia 'L to a
Hotel the Management has wiranged dangerous position. To fare Russia from A therequest of several patrum of the farther disaster the Bloo contended that A a series of dances to be held during National Ministry
should be formed, and Christms Week open to residents and
thebola of the Russian press. The vi plaes ou the following night :- taken by the other political school already referred to is that the present is not the time to bring:
ring about far raschiog politien
the clau.
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Bardon, May 1915. Locs. September 1915. all day the pinawoods listened to the fall
-horth Came roll of masketry and bugle call. Foreboding battle yet to be and death.. Then daylight fied, and up the starry stair Silence ascended to her throne again, Bringing with her sweet night-scouts on
the air,
And forest sounds, and sleep to tired men...
The pine woods listen, but that company Has passed and proved itself beyond the
At any rate, it is now certain that the, Seo', in addition to occupying Long, anhiaved the distinction of
on the font. Some of those who were blunt enne piercing the Garman front. Wast happened after is briedy described in the despatchThe advanced portion of the Division WAR
driven in By andy we will know the whole story, but we are proud to know that though the Scots had even sally 16 retire,on that first day they soitinues to forge ahead despite the fet that their left talk was exposed.
*Sunia
of the most moving of the war ducuntent these which the wafer aerer intended for publication, and, we commend to attention the folloring passages in a letter which a lady, in Cumnock has Coalceived from her sun, a young private in the Gordons, Well, we get in pretty bid on the 26th September. but we 1027 fought we were in daty bound, and we'll do it to the last. Although it was wet and ld in our short still a man's Scot-
› scata, tish blood and feeling seep him warm. Thara were any absentees at the roll-cali, both men and officers but never mind, mother, we'll g
I go it agnio as game as ever, though there should be on roll-call the next time..
Mother, pou bars Jimmy, Sammy, and myself as well as father, all dring, shair bit for their constay, and I am
if you had as many more to give you would give them."
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And Silence-a long vi il keepeik ahe above their slumbers, as nt old, in May.
8. V. G, in "Glasgow Herald.”
A BLACKIE TOET,
Mary of the reforme urged sis as just, but it is contended that todisenss political reform in the present atmosphere of war will have the result of creating disunion. Therefore all political reform must be postponed, all the National ferees mobilised and organised for the prosecution of
of the war.
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CHRISTMAS EVE FRIDAY, 24th December, 1915..
BOXING DAY MOSDY, 27th December, 1915. 1
NEW YEAR LVE FRIDAY, 31st December, 1915.
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"Few political ion wes į each night for Kowloon after the dancer
strikes in
The Government tried to effect a com promise ith the political Bloc, but this failed. The result was the prorogation of the State DumFor acme time there was a certain amount of fear that the proroga tion of the Dams would ring about revolutionary movements in Rusia, and re a matter of fact the followed by John Stuart Blackie spent many of his Moscow and Fairngrad workshops; but e summer bolidays at Oban, a pleasant town movement was immediately stopped by the 15Z---- now spoiled by tourists, & contributor to leaders of the Bloe, who declared that the a Western newspaper gives a characteristic present was not the time for strikes ar memory of the famous Professor in these revolution, and that such acts would be VHIS 5 PER CENT LOAN, tee of tax,
now far-off days. It was a light indeed, regarded as treason against the State. Tis to be issued at 88,--The bonds are
he says, to see Blackie swinging along the The political crisis is now being discussed. in francs-Capital nominal, Frs 100 00.
Kaplanade with his shaped tartan plaid dispassionately and without warmth by the Interest on the Bonds dates from Novem
wrapped round him in the old fashioned Press and at meatings at public bodies such ber 16 and is payable quarterly.
way, reminding one of pictures of Eugh. Scrcription liste will be CLOSED.co
and among the nobility, ata. The war has Newbere has the war left ite mark Miller, Sir Walter Scott, and the Fittricks the Manicipal Councils and Local Barde, the 10th of the December in Hongkong.
Shepherd Dee of bia
test Oban friends disorgan sed some branches of Russian his great more deeply thua in the grent (public) was
Obarles Mackay, A post of Applications will be received by the schools, and, in Scotland, on the many no mean calibre. One day the two for the army. A grest-need in
trade, and the railways are work ng chiefly Bangkok Branch of Banque de Indo- other great educational institutions, which h
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1041 Ters of thousands of young fellows who Backaya adopted daughter playing the and Moscow sometimes did themselves
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piano The tube was a foreign one, and without a sufficient supply of four or of Audi school games are away on service, and of course, the Professor, greatly displeased, firewood, or sugar, etc. The sine in the Bt a few of them have given their lives for delivered long lecture about the beauties price of foodstufa is specially felt by the their country. All those be in normal of Scots mesic, humming over soms labouring classes, and therefore this clus times remain at school until they are national melodies which he wished the is anxious about infernal plitica, the eighteen or pipeteen bave disappeared, and
restless lady to pick up. At lougth Mackay solution of which they think might bring th an under military age show
weng lost this temper, and, jumping to his feet, about a better organization of food supply. EDITED AND USE BY S. icipatience which not "infrequently takes exclaimed, All right Professor, I'll The present Minister for Home Aistrs, the forms of an attempt to gain surreptitions engage you to teach Marie how to play the Hvostoff, a member of the State Dams, admission to the Army The dificulty in piano, and shall teach you how to write is both as caergetic and a strong man. not to get recruits frum this class of poetry Blackie, azival poet, turned an He belongs to the very conservative parts DIOGRAPHIES of Cver 5,000 people.
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SERVIVAL OF THE CLAY SPIRIT. Writing from Claehusendain (Inverness) Highland Gentleman says that not in liring memory has the clan, spirit besa 'so strong as at present. In the recruiting for the Gamesyns, the Banforths, and the Gordots," clansmenyre vying with mach other in getting their regime ap to full strength. Old memories are oxing zarived, and the battle stories of the three regiments are being told in clachas and cottage. The Mackenzie farally, Forbes of Culloden.. Cameros of Lochiel, the Frasers, and the great Gordon family are using every in fluence to get men to fiduitheir own mos pet
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