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OUR LONDON LETTER, the name of the soldier underneath. A readiness on the part of some of these fel- separate card is shown for each man, and low citizens of Brother-Bryan-to accopt (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEST.) in some small cottages you see three of the Grimau yarus, but, as it happens,. four cards in one little window.. They they are feeling as criticul us a bank LONDON, June 23.
are thick in the windows of Littlehampton cashier on the approach of a gold-brick and Arundel, a fact that, I fancy, makes operatur. Their own officials of the part What are the prospects of a termination and court of the Duke of Norfolks beat have aivorn shut Custavo Stahl is a line. of the war? That is the everlasting with pride. The exhibitors have to secure for there were no guns on the Lusitania. question, and the answer depends upon official permis to exhibit the cards. Gustave is in gaol, Herr Dertburg has whether you strike a pessimist or an That gives them the stamp of genuineness. skedaddled-after doing the Allies a lot optimist. As to the truth-that probably The idea is spreading along the South of of good by his stupidity--and the rest of the warm aro o discredited that at lies somewhere between the two extremes. England.
doesn't matter vory much whether they Colonel Mandr, a very able writor on
THE MINISTER OF MUNITIONS,
keep on lying from dawn to dark, with military matters, who has been a very
Mr. Lloyd George has gained more out pausing for meals. accurate forecaster of events in the early kados out of his new post as Minister of instructive to note that most of them have been masquerading under the Red Cross stages of the war, is to be reckoned among Munitions. Some quite unexpected men mantle, for all the world after the home the cptimists. He says he has studied who were caustic critics not long ago now fashion of the dear old Fatherland, the German and French schools of lift up their votes in praise of the little the heart of the All-Highest War Lord where treaties 10 scraps of paper, and strategy for forty years. His belief in Welshman. A fierce Conservative the soundness of French ideas is such declared a couple of days ago Goat, that he holds that if the Germans, instead tion may get on as it can. England is a of invading Belgium, had struck where one-man show, to-day, and that one man the French expected, the French would is Lloyd George. I have hated his whole hava hamunered" them. The staunch-political career, but I can admire a hero ness and steadiness of the British during when I meet one and he is as brave a the famous retreat from Mona was auch any soldier on the field." This is a new as no expert on the Continent, would have gospel from such a quarter, and no mis believed possible, and the retreat itself
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Sorong, Chinking at If fretion, and set them necessity. The tales of the pain caused coast. The papers have played up the way picreed there disaster would follow of truth with ater abandon They have the aerial murderers of babes, have in- wolves to the task of poisoning the wells by German gas, and the ruthlessness of and result in a German collapse. This may be over-roscute, lint Colonel Maude
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Hongkong, 17th July, 1916. necded now is more power to the artillery Washington to the beery parleus of Mi apparently, to grab a turkish towel in But it is just as efficacious;. on our side. And that power is comingwaukee, the soisome slums of Chicago, washing soda solution before tying it haste from the rail and moisten it with The experiment, a happy thought of Bir and the unsavoury ténements of New York round the face. It is curious to note the William Beardmore, of sending a number and Hoboken, were in trouble: The new industries that have been started.OUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, of arinamont workers to the front to ses Lusitania had been sunks, and over air-raids have brought an enormous de Hongkong Club and Post Office.
Trench warfare created, periscopes; now conditions for themselves, has brought hundred American men, women
OFFICES, Boing the Harbour between the them back filled with a determination to children had been murdered in order to
aud mand for respirators and wire induce labour to turn out the maximum give a thrill to the All-Highest in Berlin. Never have we had a government loan
guard amount of shells in the minimum of time. After that sanguinary orgie of destrue of such magnitude as this last one, and Then even that arch-agitator, Ben Tillett, tion there came a "next morning" feeling never has a loan been given such unani- has come home breathing patriotism with of uneasiness. Excuses had to be mad in the broadest sense of the word, and the all the fervour of an apostle. He was in There were no excuses in sight. Never facilities to small investors under the nous praise as to details. It is popular France and went to the British headquar, mind; make some! Swear to them in arrangement for five shilling vouchers and ters to request a permit to get to the formal adavits! It is in the cause of five pounds bunds should prove a power- actual front; They not only gave it to kultur So into the breach steps numerous workers who are making big ful aid to thrift, especially among those him but had him escorted to the thek of Gustave Stabl, from Tsingtau, with an money in factories for war supplies. the tassie That was enough to turn affidavit that he took a trunk for Ben into a
is likely, also, that children will ultimate Push and go man, and he steward on board and there saw big guns vouchers or bonds bearing five per cent. ly benefit, for wise parents will buy them was one of those who pledged the Tana and a host of other equipment for mat rather than put money for them in the port Workers to waive all ideas of striking the liner an armed auxiliary cruiser. savings bank that only earns two and a ing till the war is won. Theca consy" Gustare did act live in Taingtau for the amount to be raised is an interesting polisy in off, we hope for good. Te last nothing
half per cent. That no limit is fixed fo man who had that discaso badly hit his the 's of his yarn with great care.
He douted the i's and crossed departure, and it is quite possible that mate over the head for making too many gave the same of the steward and the size slows that one town, Cardiff, will take more than a thousand millions sterling which to refect in goal. That has sobered with a don't care look and an echo liko a something to make the world ponder.. The stalia and he now has three months in of the guns.
He will be forthcoming. Then he "kissed the book over a million, and if anything like that the few inclined that way, and the vagus report," as an old song used to put Germans put no limit to their last issue pace is kept up elsewhere the total will be mujority uppour to have gripped the gleeful emulation Lutheran but I wager they cannot beat the record realities of the struggle and ar réa y to spad their full strength in turning cut the munitions that mean so much in this scene and said he, also, wanted to wear a cleric named Bruckner romped upon the
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