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No. 4. SCOTCH WHISKY,
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TOTAL FUNDS ASSIST Droskian, 1814,
£99,970,387.
katherland Capital £5,000,000, Babacribed Capital £4,500,000 Paid-up Capital £477;500 -Fire Fands..... 3,897,047 Life & Annuity Funda... 17,567,590 Baking Fund Account
128,230
€23,970,$87
Barene Fire Branch
£2,381,456 | -2,141,693
Life and Anggity
Branches...) Revenus Mizine Department... 397,239 Other Receipts kino 478,940
£5,330,028
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WERK DAY
7.00a.m. to 8,09 s....Every 15 minutos. 8.00 to 10.00 2.23...Every 10rainutos. 10.00 am to 11.00 ....Every 15 minutes. 11.30am to 12.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes.
5pm to 1.15 p.m...Every 10 minuta. 15p.m. to 1.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 65 pm to 2.15 p.m... Every 10 miminties, 15pm to 5.00p.m. Every 18 minutes. 4.00pm to 8.00 8.m...Every 10 minabon
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11.00 p.m. to 11.55 pm, every quarter of
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-100 %.m. in 10.3.Etsy 15 minutes, 10.30am. bo 11.09... Every 10 minator. 11.90 to 18 Noon...Every 15 minutes. 32.00 noon bis 200p.m...Every 10 minutas. 1.00pm to 5.30p.m...Erary 15 minutos. 5.33 pm. to 8,00p.m...Erry 10mdanios. 6.00p.m. to 6.30p.m. Every 15 minutos. 6.30pm to 3.00pm Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CARS on Week Daya,
UK BATVEDATI,
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Besson and prash Hoker available for all or not already full running as the time simbed to the Company's time tablos, but nos for special dar, can be routalped. an application as Saw Company's Office
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LONDON, Feb. 2 Reater has received from a trust. Dittman. Hause, Ledebour, and other wort by Belgian citizen, who escaped to Independent Socialists, indicates that Valenciennes, an account of the sppal the latter engineered the strikes as ling condition in the occupied districts" manifestation of the-poople's will of France, of which little new ero to nish the war." reaches England, which confirms that a The bourgeois parties decided to highly organised system of slavery still oppose the socialist demand for a convocation of the Reichstag on the ground that it will encourage pacifist propaganda..
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The Frankfurter Zeitung says the Government is responsible for the bloodshed in Berlin by ruthless sup- pression instead of providing means for the ventilation of prievances by the masses.
The journal declares
that the strike is extending to many ́ The informant. saw an old man with.
towns and is not diminishing in. Berlin despite the proclamation of ho did not know what this signified
martial law at saven factories where The life of these civilians is dreadful the strikers were ordered to resume but nothing compared to the war pri, work on Monday morning, otherwise
souers especially the English and Russian.
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they would be militarily punished.
THE IRISH QUESTION.
· SIR"EDWARD CABSON DEFINES HIS ATTITUDE.
Losnos, Feb. 8.
Sir. Edward Carson had a series of ovations in Belfast, which was de- corated in his honour.
Addressing a crowd at the station on his arrival on Friday, Bir Edward said he would never abandon the pledges given by Uletarmen to the fallen in France:
It was while the informant was endeavouring to give a starving Rus
L einn u little of his own small supply. of food that a guard knocked out his teeth with the butt end of a rifle The informant hereupon took a band- ful of natural teeth out of his pocket: This and his disfigured jaw formed eloquent proof of his statement...
WHAT REQUISITIONING ** MEANS. He explained what requisitioning really means. As an example, domes tic clocks and lamps were broken up for copper, mattresses were ripped Addressing the Unionist Council open for wool, il sacks and spare yesterday Sir Edward more precisely clothes were seized. Everyone must defined his attitude towards the Con- declare every possession: People vention. He said that it he stayed are dragged to prison for hiding in the Government he must support pound of potatoes or a single egg any policy it adopted, whereas be Instancing the britality, he told how was not free, owing to his pledges an an Alsatian absentee was murdered a Covenanter. The only solution on the spot by a N.C.O. who also that would satisfy Ulstermen was one struck a woman, who remonstrated, which would enable them to feel that with such force that she became they were still citizers of the Em- doaf Alittle girl of 18 was shot pire, and safe against the possibility dead without warning for attempting to cross the Franco-Belgian frontier Sir Edward denied that Ulster OR for bread The informant, who unreasonable. Ulster alone ins
in every case, Ireland had shown any reason at all, possesses dabea cited, concluded. Wherever you Some of his old friends and sup- tarn your eyes, it is the same tragedy porters urging a settlement really of starvation, laver and untold meant a surrender. It was an insuit to a great nation to suggest that brutality.
America would prosecute the war with less vigour unless the Iceb" question was settled. Such talk was far from helping a Bettlement, te put men's back up. He had not left the Government for the purpose of bursting the Convention. He did not Field Marstal Sir Douglas Hale want to burst the Convention me reports
than burst his covenant. He was sorry that
that their attention was dis tracted one moment from winning
THE WESTERN FRONT
MINOR OPERATIONS,
LONDON, Feb.
The West Ridings successfully railed outh-east of Monchy-le Prenx taking prisoners.
of harmful interference.
The enemy raided a post north-east the war, which was their paramount of Poelcappelle,
We drove off party in the neigh bourhood of the Ypres Staden railws
Several prisoners have been captured on this front
Hostile artillery is more, active at Epchy, Gavrelle, and Ypres..
THE FRENCH FRONT.
A French commumque states. Thare big been marked reciproca artillery activity north of the Alamo In the
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ALIEN ENEMIES IN CHINA
Eight articles govarning enemy trad ug modelled after the enemy trading acts of Japan and Italy and compted by the Foreign Affairs Commission,t were passed by the Chroese Cabi et last week It is expected that they will soon promulgated by Presidentia
At the same Cabinet
ister, on this