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IN THE FIELD WITH THE tours now," he said, "and if you are going across the river it's just as well not FRENCH.
to stir them up. You will probably get little excitement anyway, for they usually drop a few shells into the towns, Cattaneo, Bergamo, Italy Expense Arrounts Dept. Nuval about sunset, just before knocking off for
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H.K.V.S. news, for it was then 4.30. Slipping through an opening in the screen of foliage which masked the observattore wa Mr. Aleeander Powell, the distin- found ourselves at the beginning of a com- nished special correspondent of the muniontion trench which led diagona[1 "New York World," who has been given down the hillsik to the river. Down this ceptional facilities by the French we went, sometimes on hands and knoes Government to witness the work of the and always stopping, for we were now French Army in the field, continues within full view of the German position, below his impressions:- In the following and-to-have-shown our heads above the article he describes a visit to Soissons trenches would have brought an instant and to the observing stations of the storm of shrapnel. Crossing the river, Freuck artillery,'---
we still had before us a mile or more of cobble paved high road, Bred on either side by cottages, all of which showed signs of shellfire.
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IMPORTATION OF COCAINE.
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The trail of the "Kultur creeps even into the 1914 report of the Superintendent of Government Mon- polies in the Straits Settlements, who saye.
Special attention is drawn to an in- portant seizure by Mr. Ellis in Penang of. a large quantity of cocaine and Persian opium en varias steamers of tho Ham- |burg-Amerika Liar. The goods wes consigned in cases described as cigarettes orton WTTE: Curves pomtenet, ausmaling. from Copenhagen was seized referring to those consignments, which appear to have born shipped from Hamburg. The sellers of the enamelled iron goods appear to 65.00 have been The British Iron and Enamel Warks, Limited, and the invoices were signed by Alb. Genguiel as manager, Enquiries made by Scotland Yard failed to discover this person er the Company at the London address sinted. There is He doubt that a large and well-organized system existed in Germany for smuggling cocains and opium into the Far East, as An less than 8 German steamers z wors implicated. It is hardly to be expected that this manifestation of Teutic "Kultur" will not recur whes war is over, as the unscrupulous persons con cerned will not willingly relinquish th 10.80 large profits to be obtained. A case like ihis shows that until the Governments of the manufacturing countries deal hourst- ly and strictly with the cocaine industry il is hopeless to expect any diminution of the evil
I am, so the officer who acted as my guide and cicerons assures me, the first civilian who has been permitted to visit Soissons since last September.
Some had shattered roofs, and the plas Before we started I was told quite frankly that er walls of others were pock-parked with the military authorities accepted no bullets. Here the 6ghting had obviously sponsibility for the congngtence of th been desperate and bloody. But over the excursion, for, though Soissons is the garden walls strayed blossom-ladga bran- possesion of the French, it is under almost The air was heavy with their fragrance.
ches of peach and cherry and apple trees | constant bombardment by the Germans.
In order to get the setting of the picture Black and white cattle grazed contentedly clearly in your mind you must imaging knee-deep in the lush grass of a near-by. two parallel ranges of hills meadow, Pigeons ced and chattered on separated by a wonderfully fertile the housetops By an open window au valley, perhaps three miles in old woman with a large white cat in her width, down which meanders with manyp sat knitting, As she knitted she twists and hairpin turus the silver ribbon looked out across the blossoming hillsides that is the River Aisne. On the north to the skyline, where the invaders lay bank at a gentle bend in the river stande entrenched and waiting. I wonder what the quaint old town of Boissons, so boary Bln was thinking about. She must have with antiquity, that its earlier history is remembered quite distinctly when the fart in the mists of tradition of immus-conte-to Soissona tie fyst time, normal population of fifteen-thousand five-and-forty years ago, and how they but a few score remain, and these only shot the towisñen in the public spare. because they have no other plaer to go to.
**CHEÁP, AND A BARGAIN.! The sandstone ridge which rises abruptly from the south bank of the river directly erected a monuient to the murdere
A fow years ago the people of Soissons opposite Soissons is held by the French citizens of 1870. When this war is over and from the shelter of its summit their they will have some more add Germans under von Heeringen, whose is not a cheerful business strolling through trencheline the heights on the other side shattered and deserted town. You feel of the river and immediately back of the town From dawn to dark, therefore, as though you were in a cemetery and often through the night as well, the the Place de la Republique we found i screaming messengers of death criss-cross few infantrymen on duty, the only Along the above the red-tiled roofs of Soissons and soldiers we suw in the town, serve to make things interesting for the main thoroughfare nearly every shop was
closed and the windows shuttered. “ handful of inhabitants who remain.
Every now and then the German gunners, apparently for no reason save remained bravely open, birt business lang- pure deviltry, drop a few shells into the shed. It is no exaggeration to say that every fourth-or-fifth-house-we passed middle of the town. They argue, doubt, that it keeps the people from be showed signs of the German bombard- inent. One shell had exploded in the coming ennuied, and gives them something show window of a furniture store and had Lo think about. The ridge on the French
The only side of the river is literally honeycombed demolished a parlour spite.
thing unharmed was the sign which read, with quarries, tunnels, and caverna Cheap and a bargain.” In the very of these subterranean chambers being as large and curiously formed as the grottoes, hent of Seissons stands than hings bulk of the ancient cathedral dating from, the in the Mammoth Cave at Kentucky Being weatherproof as well as bombproof twelfth century, its massive tower rising the French have turned them to excelen skyward like a finger pointing toward account, utilising them for barracks, aven Repoated rappings at the door ammunition stores, fire control stations, in the churchyard wall, brought the curé, hospitals, and even stables. In fact, Ia white-haired, kindly faced giant of a can recall few stranger sights in that man. Under his guidance we entered the cathedral, or rather what remains of it, of a long line of helmeted horse, for its famous Gothic windows are now whole squadron of dragootis, disappear- ing into the mouth of one of these but heaps of shattered glass, caterus like a gigantic make crawling Half the roof has been torn away and tları, dolomiliulemmasie wyre vary the das vede splintered by a shell; the massive columns Already arkouwledged Lász× 1136 252,927:26 - Teaving our cars three miles from the have been chipped and scarred carvings outskirts of Soissons, we pushed ur way which were the pride of craftsmen leng
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The Importation of bhang from Siam, in spite of heavy penalties, shows no sign of diminution,
As showing how the Sino-Japanese ituation is viewed in America, the follow ing from the Philadelphia Ledger is of interest:-
I have no objection to the open door in 105.00 Chien," said the Japanese statesman.
2012 very plowed, wałpandos they But," added the Sipponese, “I sta}] - be a thig door taking the "tickets","
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TO THE INDIAN TEA INDUSTRY,
MACGREGOR&C, there he said, "but please do not shake who lie buried bentath the floor of its reported that the existence of the Govern
Undirin.
AN ABSENT-MINDED GENIUS.
Sir Iature Newton on mu decasian onlevel fire to be lighted in the grate in front of which he was sitting. The heat berane intense, and Newton, Jing nearly roasted violently rang the bell. When the servant. came Newton ordered him to remove the grate"Would it not be butter for you to Move your chair, sir?" asked the servant. *Upon my word," answered Newton, “I usver thought of time.”
This is just an instance of the absent- indedness of genius; but we lesser mortals could tell many a similar story of how for n time we have adopted the wrong measure for lack of a little thought.
Take the physical discomfort of tightness of the chest as an instance. Many people in a state of alarmn put it down to weak-
upon the yawning month of a tunnel enough to hury a man in Around which, I surised, passed completely statuca which flank the altar, nd which under the summit of the ridgs. Groping are too large to move, have been raised our way through inky blackness for per barricades of sandbags, And this, mind haps an-eighth of a mile, we suddenly you, in the house of Him-who was the cinerged into the blinding glure of sun apostle of peace, While the.cure was light and found ourselves in one of those pointing out to us the rained beauties of secret observatgines from which the his celebrated windows something passed French artillerymen keep an unecasing overhead with a shrick like a lost soul, watch on the movements of the enemy, and, and a moment later eome an explosion by means of telephones direct and control which made the walls of the cathedral the fire of their own batteries with in tremble. Ah, remarked the caré un credible accuracy, Pinned to the eartheu concernedly, so they've begun again. I walls were contour maps and fire control thought it was almost time. They always charts; powerful telescopes mounted un bombard the cathedral every afternoon tripods brought the German trenches on between five and seven,” the Heights across the river so close to us | that, had a soldier sbown himself, we coulà
almost have seen the spike upon his As he finished speaking another bell A heinet; and a military telephonist with cume whining over the housetups and receivers clamped to his cars sat at a burst with a prodigious racket in an switchhboard, and pushed button or adjacent streut. How far away was pulled out pegs just as telephone girls that one? I inquired of one of the} Inadequate not, the Times says, has beenness of the heart, when all the time that do in the London hotels.
fficers. Ob, was the careless answer taken in this count y of the recent impor organ is as sound as a ball. Flatulence is An officer in the snart uniform, of dark
only about a hundred yards. The tint changes in the system of labour most frequently the real reason. Through bine with the scarlet facings of the P. 4g unmoved as though at a church recruitment for the Assara tea gardens, the wind given off by undigested food thi artillery, beckoned me to come forward. ten, placidly continued his deirfution of in, which some £17,000,000 of capital, stomach is distended. The pressure up wank and indicated a small opening in the the cathedral's departed glories, reeling chiefly Britishi, is invested. The Labour gives the heart loss room to work in and so screen of branches. Look through off the names of the saints and martyrs Inquiry Committee, which sat in 1000 pers its action. They arise distressing attacks of palpitation; pain in the region of the branches. That hillside opposite us a mave, his recital being paaduated atent-controlled indenture system was one the heart; and the feeling of being short dotted with the enemy's observators, thirty-second intervals by explosions, each of the main reasons put forward for the breath. There may be dizziness or faintrees, just as this hilsids is dotted with curs little Joday than the ore prending north of Assam in het dit interforeer creation of the blood being and they are constantly searching this Finally a shell came so low that I
recruiting districts, and suggested that with, flushing of the face may WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ridge with powerful glaser in the hope of it was going to take off the top of the other methods should be adopted. After occur.
spotting us and shelling us out. The belfry, "It'e getting toward dinner-prolonged discussion between the industry Syrup proved a friend in need to a former Here is an instance of how alocher Seigel's for they have not been ablë të, locale time and I'm feeling hungry, Don't you and the Goverment the indenturo provi We've had better luck, however, We've think we had better be starting ?" 1sions of the last general Act (Act V1.,ufferer, who found that palpitation and spotted two of their fire control stations suggested hopefully.
1901) were completely withdrawn, with pains in the region of the chest are warnings and cleared them out." As I was by no! But the cure was not to be hurried. He effect fruan July 1st last. By an Act which Nature often gives us to right ofe means anxious to have a stoin of shrapnel lind had no visitors since September, and passed by the Supreme Legislative digestions. bursting about my head I was careful not lie was determined to make the most of Council at the close of last month the to do anything which might attract thes He showed us that cathedral from system of recruitment by contractors has March 11th, 1914;
ter, Johannesburg, Transvaal, wrote on attention of a Gurman with felrecogn: sacristy to belfry, and if he thought we been abolished, and provision is prude glued to his eye.
were missing anything he explai ed it all for the creation of a Tea Labour Board, gestion, and most trying headaches.
Some years ago, I was a victa to Inclź- YOU CAN ESCAPE
ver again.
Why do you remain heraf with an official chairman, which will assist no appetite whatever, and became very much I hnel I asked him, the tortures of Neuralgia-those fearful,
"A shell is likely to drop in the supervision of recruitment, and in Peering cautiously through the opening in on you at any moment."
That
securing that it is carried on only
run down. I suffered considerably from dull darting, shooting pairs that drive you in the screen of bushes, 1 found, myself as God wills, monsieur, was his soply. proper and sound lines. Then guy on heavy pains at the chest, palpitation of the almost insane by rubbing the face and looking down upon the winding course I have my people to look after, for they discussions leading to this legislation it breathing.
heart, and experienced maels difficulty in hend with that King of pain destroyers, of the Aisne and upon the white walls are as helpless as children. And the was recognized by the Government that state, I was unable to retain my food, ant My stomach was in a very bad LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM This and pottery rocks of Soissong Directly wounded also. marvellous remedy acts like magic on the back of the town rose a step ridge, its If a shell comes it will find me at my planters would require safeguards against rence. My troub es were increased by wake- Yes, there is much to do with the adoption of "free labour" the hillious attacks were of very frequent decur- quivering, pain-racked nerves. It flanks already green with graes, but the post of duty, doing what I may to serve the possibility that coolies imported by ful nights, and when Faross in the morning soothes, relieves, CURES, Tis praises green was slashed across by many zigzag God and France." So we went away and them from distant Indian provinces at Inda feeling of depression which invariably are sung all over the world by those who yellow lines, which might have been reads left him standing there alone in the door considerable cost might immediately continued through the day. have found it to be the quickest, surest, or paths, but which were really German way of his shattered cathedral. To such enticed away to other employment The best relief from Neuralgic pain. Try it trenches. Though I knew that those men as these the people of France already initial charges for conveyance, ete, for persuaded to try what effect Mother Beigels In this hopeless state of mind I was <FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON yourself and PROVE its wonderful trenches sheltered an invading army, not owe a debt they can nover repay. Though cach coolie average about £1, but in
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the other side of that ridge we knew that fonets, they are none the less real soldiers of the gardens voluntarily bound them and a week's course brought about a per Hesari A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD. the German batteries were posted, just soldiers of the Lord.
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onticement as between ord garden and had used the fourth bottle I was happy in sight at the back of the ridge on which I The Archbishop of Canterbury address other, and the industry only sought the enjoyment of perfect health and vigour.”
Next time you have pains in the This artillery warfare is, after all, daling the Lower House of Convocation reasonable protection against other em charges from the Urinary gigantic edition of the old-fashioned recently on the moral problems which the glovere of labour profiting at its expense. after eating tast the reliability cost. Wheat for watch war has brought to the front, alluding to But it now appears that the remedy pro Seigel's Syrup in giving ralist. It assists CLARKE'S Organs in either sex. These game of hide-and-seek.
famons Pills also cure Gravel sight of your opponent, however, instead the anticipated increase in the number of posed by the Indian Government has been the stomach to regain natural activity, and of tapping him on the shoulder and saying illegitimate births in Engled in contrarily stood by Lord Crewe in prevents its disten-ion by the wind sivoit
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affron ill-digested food. Mother Sergel's you try to kill quenes of war conditions, said that no one politely
Syrup has a tonic and regulating influenca could tell exactly what were the facts at with a 3in, shell.
Mr. P. J. Goodwin, of Laddisdown, not only on the stomach, but on the liver Those who were most auxious The officer in command, at this point present and Stopkeepers throughout of the accuracy with which bis sure were those who cared most that help and Army and Navy, The branches in which trouble, the despondency you once felt at the
was anxious to give me a demonstration for the maintenance of the moral standard Rochester has mine fons serving in the and bowels. With these organs free fro could land on the German solar plexus uplifting guidance and support should the Royal sexy are the Royal Marines, coming of mealtimes vanishes. You find your until he learned that we were going into be given to those who might have violated the Royal Navy, the Canadian Artillery,hare not only a hearty appetite, but
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