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BATTLES back to their trench to have
WOUNDED OFFICERS CAPTURE "WITH AN EMPTY REVOLVER.
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, Among the wounded who arrived at
TAKING PARengxes and Canan to
STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, HGFPT," &E,
RUBELLY NEW SIBERIAN PORT.
elled to his men to get back, and he sent a young lance-corporal the order horn clear felt the So the defenders
The Russian Government have jus streamed back, Towring k
oposed a new Pacific terralous for the Lewis guns again "“told_du' kuak than the 'captain saw twn' i
Trane-Siberian Railway, Talo sa the port He saw fear straggling Bochose
nt Nikolaievak at the duth of the Amur ing him where Belay, and he saw the River, fear the end of the Gulf of Tar young ange carporal deliberately rotary, about 650 miles north of Tadi turning to him from the trench
stock Goods received here will be "GET BACK CRIES WOUNDED CAPTAIN transported laland up the Amar River
Get back to the trench, mant Getto Stretyinak, which is reached by a rall Southampton the other day was a cap-back! shouted the captain. One road that sonnects with the Trans tain with his late pro slang, and of the Boches dropped on his knoe Siberian line. The net port will be able to Ars. The lance-corporal cums atendily German afcera helmet in his haversack. Fan, Go back!" shaused the captain to handle 77,000,000 pounds of freight Oh, I'm fraud, oughtht to be hare you hear me, corporal, Damn you, and it will thus help considerably to at all ba said "There's nothing the go back
relieve the pressure at Vladivostock. The kneeling Booke fired twice, and matter with me, but a bullet through missed. The lance-corporal-no more my acn. And anyhow, logically, I supthan a boy in years looked back and pose. I ought to be dead or a prisoner forward. He had his orders and was a with the Huns. We took a trench north well-disciplined, good lad. It was a
though the sharp order had placed west of Pozières, you know, and our walghts about his feet so he swayed. chaps hurried on to the second line Then he gave one look at his captain, without orders I tried hard to get out and, in defiance of the discipline, be after them, but it was an awkward place atroda on again toward his captain, and my elbow was breken, you ses, Bag
glancing from the Germans to his off cer, 24 though me to level his revol- "I heard a scuffling underground, Just The captain managed 7 .9
round the other side of the traverso I
put & bullet God, corporal, I'll put a bulle was leanlig on, and looking round found
through you if
you if you don't go back 12 Boche officer Just appearing at the And at that the lance corporat broke mouth of a dag-out. I could see the fato :s ran--but toward his fallen officer, not the trench. He fell with a volver was empty. My orderly had bulat through his heart, within three crowded wharges and shores så Visdi. paces of his captain. Two Boches were postock during the past winter This lost his rifle away ontside the trench their knees firing at him, then. The vore has been overwhelmed by the dom
other two were advansing orouchingly-manda upon- fte, comparatively the do (on the captain, At. that Bring high resources. Its contracted harbour has
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surprise he said in English: Don't gun in one of em moved on dit perfectly. The incident had been, geen, gridently acceas al shipping, and insuficient docks HNAKING CORPORATION THE YOKOHAMA SPECIF
fire was much t to burt still Mister Beche, and I'll take you to one for the gunters fired to hit their and the lack of unloading machinary and England, but if you more yout set six own officer. But the Boches did not of warehouses base caused greak delaya. service ballets and my men will come understand that, and they turned tail Thirty-one million (1,000,000) was of along and bury you in your day cuti
and ran hard for their own trenches, freight arrived at Vladivostock in the first "GET ME A TOOTHPICK while the captain, having emptied his four months of 1015, compared with They sat down like hals. I man-revolver at them, lost consciousness and 2,106,000 tons in the corresponding period aged to whisper to my orderly, round new nothing more of the business till the edge of the traversa, to get forward he found himself in our own trench of 1014 Thousands of workmen hare been struggling night and day to enlarge somehow, and bring some men; and dressing station. frst of all to find me a rite and bayonet
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accommodate så lasm forty great freight- You do be careful Mister Boche, I said to the officer.
And now the captain ands it hard to forget the solemn, puzzled tacs of the young lance- corporal, who so deliberately chose to give up his life for his officer:
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We're not moving," said the Boche. Bescomed a hit sully, I thought So wo sat and waited, I felt for my pipe with my left hand but it was no go. That arm was out of the business. Got anything to smoke? I said to the saw the risk Boche; and as he moved, and told him pretty sharply to put down
this the ride he carried. Over WAY please gently now, along the ground | careful! I told him. And so I get a first-rate weapon. Seems incredible I shouldn't have thought of that before, It is oficially notified that none of the doesn't it? That's why I say Iough military service, acts in England will logically, to be dead.
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After a long. time my orderly got back with three men and a corporal, and then Fordered the Boches to march out without their weapons. There were twenty-two of 'em altogether. 1, thought my empty revolver was rather a good bute sol told the Boche oficer about it
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we had no more talk.”
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