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TUESDAY, HAY 7, 1918.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
(From Our Own Corrispondent.)
EDINBERGA, March 29:
cians.
And the burders of the INTIMATIONS
mesange their souls need in, Deprema not. For there is nothing on earth" that depressed the fighting man coci parable to the fear that, notwith- standing all his hardships and woes, The may at fast be let down' by the
politician.
WIDELY TRAVELLED.
THE SCOTS KIRK AT O.H.Q Near by a French town stands an phemeral structure-a Scottish
A London Seat writes to a Glasgow Churches Hut. Though the thou-paper: "The other evening in Pie-
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, sond-waleve huts that minister to caitly I cane neress a soldier from
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the souls and bodies of our solidra Skye who before the war had never ay to the outer eye look as much has now been in France, Gallipoli, been outside his native island. He alike as tivo peas, yet each has its Egypt, and the Holy Land, and bas awn individuality, And this hut on a working knowledge of Paris and the fielen.covered battlements is in Jortalen. In the old days, men Bagdad, as well as of London and so ways unique. It is in charge who had travelled and seen foreign
of a Scottish artist, Mr. Macaulay hands were the exception, but after
YOUR EYES SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL
At the first symptom
Stevenson, and his wife, why have the war the man who has not dons of eye strain you should rust over is the glamour of beauty so will be the exception. What with consultus. and pervaded it with the atmosphere Glasgow promenading the thorough-
We test
Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in the palette for the ririe have brought Nights, we are getting about a bit glasses to individual re- of hotne. Men who inve forsaken fares of the cities of the Arabiar eyes scientifically and fit
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to it their gifts. Ancient trees shelter
it from the hist and shade it from the man from Skye talked us glibly quirements.
and geography becomes reality.
And
Portree, and he had a sort of tolerant
sympathy with benighted Britons who had never even crossed the
Channut."
COLONEL SPROT,
the heat. During the week me about Calro as about Sligachan and gather here for secreation
llowship-bat bn Suridays it is transfonded into a chapel. The little tables are removed; rows.of chairs Faces a 'cotamanion table covered by cloth on whose front glows a white cross: silver candelabru shed a sub- The dignity of a Baronet of the dued light on the holy table. As by United Kingdom has been conferred the artistey of magic, the hut is upon Colonel Alexander Sprot, transformed into a BILrin. And CMG of Gamkirk in the County hither the Commander-in-Chief comes of Lanark. For his services in the und warships every Sunday morning, present war he has been mentioned When he is at General Headquarters in Despatches, and he received the no duty interferes with that. And C.M.G. last year. He saw service in who can say what that quiet bour the Afghan and South African wars, may mean to those men who are his regiment being the 5th Dragoon bearing on their shoulders a busden Guards, suelt ns was ever borfie before" "I
has been driven many times to my kees by the overwhelming convic- tion that I had nowhere else to go. wrote Abraham Lincoln in his days of woe; they own wisdom, and that of all armud me seemed insufficient for the day." And it is that same spirit that pervades the Scottish Churches Hat at General Head- quirters on a Sunday morning.
HAIG AND IS SOLDIERS,
R. Y. JOHNSTON, OF WEI-HA)-WEL
Mr. Reginald Fleming Johnston, District Officer and Magistrate, Wei- Lai-whi, appointed a Commander of the British Empire for services in connection with the war, is an Edin- burgh man, and the author of three works upon China..
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of the supreme Commander was as a Black Huns auster, with the Nagasal Karaten, Wakamatsu, Moll, clained a soldier at Waterloo bugle-call. "God bless him!" ex-object of securing a forrnidablo Eure, Kobe, Oaks, Tauraga,-Nagoya, The German officer was Yokohama, Tokyo. Hakodata, Muroran, Wellington rods down the lines; "I wounded, and on being brought into Otara, Vladivostock, Paking, Tientsin, hud rather see his face thun a whole, our lines asked that he should be Dairen. Tainands, Hankow, Shanghai, battalion !" But in these days tied to his charger and taken to hos-Taipeh, Hongkong, Canton, Haiphong, of millions of soldiers, and of trench pital, he did not wish to be separ Manila, Singapore Calcutta, London warfare and dug-outs, the Continuated from his favourite horse. der-in-Chief can come but rarely into
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