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Footballer's Illness.
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Captain Lovedale R.Q.A. Captain F. W. Lovedale; Royal
Footballars throughout the Garrison Artillery, is appointed wooll will learn with regret that Brigada Major, Abbottabad Mr. It. O. Stafford, the English Brigade. Rugby international and captain of Bedford Rugby Club, is lying dangerously ill. The illness is attributed to internal growth
General Davison. Major-General Davison, C. B., commanding Nasirabad Brigade, is granted leave out of India for six months.
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A Péking message to "Asahi Very keen interest is being Private Family, near Ferry, Kowloon. -states that since the telegraph taken (says the "Naval and Milit-Apply to 2.2 2.ongkong
office nt Kulong. has been dc-nry Rocord" of November 6) in Telegraph." oupied by the Mongolian army, the competitive firing of the bat- the Chinese authorities have been tleships "Thunderer_nad Orion, experiencing great inconvenience which are in Bantry Bay awaiting in connection with the working rongh weathor in which to test of the Telegraph. The Chinese under the most exacting condi- Government has therefore decid- tious, the relativo merits of Vice- ed to sond an Englishman to take Admiral Sir Percy Septt's "fire dir- chargo of the telegraph office,ector" invention and the Admir- and the 'man' appointed has left alty method of " fire control". The Changchakon for Kulong, with ship will fre- simultaneously at
world we have united States and an escort of 200 troops.
two targets placed two miles
peoples in every stage of civiliza apart, the range in each case
tion beneath a common system A diver, who has been engaged being ten thousand yards,
The on the Kobe harbour-worke, aftor Thunderor is fitted with Sir Percy The Times " on the F. M. S. of allegiance to law. Of this
Warship. suffering for several days from a Scott's, fire director device, which
common allegiance the enduring symbol is the Crown, but its vital Bovere attack of diarrhea, was up to the present has exceeded all taken to the Profectural hospital, expectations in fire organization
We live in breathless times, standard of impartial justice and and inspiring principle is a where on the evening of the 3rd as regards both rapidity and and every morning presents us instant the oase was pronounced accuracy. The Orion carries the with so varied a dist of news that code of government for the to be one of cholera. The patient recontrol equipment which was those who mark it all must have common good which the British was instantly isolated. A sendo adopted by the Admiralty some robust and eager minds, says the people as a whole have made and employed by the Kobe Pier Com-years ago and has helped largely "Times" The swift march of cherished and spread. No auto- pany, who left the port on. Nov. towards bringing about the per- events in the Balkans, and our order in the world has ever risen 30th for Osika ona lighter, while seni standard of gunnery eficiency sudden crisis at home, have to that spirit of trusteeship for his vessel lay anchored off the in the British fleet.
matter enough in themselves to Ajikawa Batoby was suddenly The Orion, which now bears keep our interest atrained; and it taken ill; medical investigation, the flag of Rear-Admiral Rosslyn is not perhaps unnatural that showed the case to bo one of E. Wemyss, has proved to be a cholery. Japan Chronicle."
This
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the welfare of sabject peo- ples which the various systems of British government through- out the world have never alto- gether failed to display. No autocracy has received so mov- ing and unprompted a return of confidence as we now welcome in this gift. In a keen and sudden light it reveals the Empire as a power without paralled for re- conciling the most divergent
levels of civilization and the most profound disparities of race in some uniting sense of common
interest and sim..
other events of no less import and good gunuery ship, and has also weight have attracted something Peking Boycott to Cease,› Peking, December 10.-Ap commission over
the advantage of having been in less than their dus meed of public ten months, note. Chief among these is the preciating the assistance ronder whereas the Thunderer was not public-spirited action of the Fe ed the now government by the missioned until June 15-an derated Malay States in present Russo-Asiatic bank against which important difference in a mattering to the British Government a the Chinese recently declared a which depends largely upon the first-class armoured ship. boycott, the government rester guanory departaient of a ship's Parliament less bardened than day issued orders that the boycott company.
is, we should have been glad to should couso forthwith.
The trials will be carried out see some worthier notice given Botion is in no way connected in the presence of fing officers, to that event than a mere with the prosont disagreement viz. Vice Admiral Sir John Jel- question and answer across the between the Chinese and Russian lice, in the Hercules flagship of floor of the House. The British governments, but is understood the Second
Precautions, Against Cholera Squadron; Vice Government, however, has rightly
in France. to be only an act of gratitude to Admiral Sir Percy Scott, in the accepted the gift in terms of
Paris, Nov. 19-Sanitary pre- ward the owners of the bank who Thunderer; Rear-Admiral Rosslyn warm acknowledgment, and we came forward with funds at crucial Weymes, in the Orion, flagship of can assure the rulers and peoples cautions against the introduction periods of the recent revolution the Second Battle squadron: of those distant States that the of cholera into France have been and aided materially in the success Rear-Admiral Sir George War-appreciation expressed by the adopted at Marseillors and also of the Republicans.
render, in the Indomitable, flag- Colonial Secretary is strongly and on the railway lines which con- The Inundations in Korea. The official figures just publish-ship of the second Cruiser equad- sincerely endorsed by the whole nect with the Orient route. The
Rear-Admiral. ron,
Montagu people of the British Isles. Not passengers to France from 'Con- ed in Seoul of the damage done to Browning, inspector of target all the public, we suspect, stantinople via Kustendji (Con- life and property in Korea by the practicer and Rear-Admiral R. has realized as yet how striking stanza) sad Bakareet are said to inundations following the storms H. Peirse, a former inspector of and significant the notion is. It be very few in number, and, al- in July and September laat, are
is not much to say that such an though mail bags continue to be as follow:-Kille), 203 ; Injured,' Sir Percy Scott's Invention. offering from four subject peoples despatched from France by this 113;. houses collapsed, 22,500; A further report from Bere to an Empire swayed by an alien route, none or next to none are houzes flooded, 42,830; bridges haven states that the result of the and distant race has found no said to be arriving from the Near washed away, 2,202. In addition comparative tests which have place in history hitherto The East. The work of control and to the above, railways and ronds heon held between the battleships value of the gift is not in magni- disinfection is, therefore, simpli- were damaged at different places, Thunderer and Orion is to establish tude alone, though by that mea-fied. Travellers by the land route an extensive area of cultivated definitely the superiority of Sir sure only it is remarkably enough. from Constantinople are, more- land was flooded or covered with Perey Scout's system of director The joint revenue of the four over, subject to medical control sand, and river banka gave way firing over that hitherto in use. States had made great strides in at Kustendji, in Austria, and in many places. The total dim For four years it has been recent months, but it is still, if we finally in Germany before they age to property is estimated at questioned whether the new are not mistaken, a good deal short reach France. All ships from nasthod was superior to the old and of five millions sterling a year. Turkish ports are now subject to
about £5,807,288.
Motor Hearse In Collision.
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it was to settle the matter con- Balf a single year's revenus, even quarantine on their arrival in An alarming accident occurred clusively that the Admiralty or though spread over a recently in Bridge-rond, Batter ered the experiments to take five years, is generous indeed sa son, when a glass motor funeral hearse camo into violent collision place between the Thunderer, a gift from Dependencies of such which was fitted with the new in-moderate stature and such recant
Molt n Mmbray, Pork Tier, Beat, with a motor lorry owned by the vention, and the Orion, which growth. But the moral signific- Matton, Gam, Velen! Ham pe Co-operative Civil Service Com
was not. The two vessels were ance of the event is incomparably Small Hot Pics always on hund 25 pany (Limited). The vehicle was ordered to fire at the same time more marked. Alone of all Em-cents Exch descending the rather steep de- with the same range and targete, pires in history or in the modern AL XANDRA CAFE CO. cline from Battersén Bridge at a and to make the trial as effective good speed,, when the hearse emerged from Purk-road. The as possible it was ordered to be held in the Atlantic in rough
impact was so great that the glass weather, not necessarily in hearse was thrown on to the front storm, but with the ships rollings of a General omnibus, and com- pletely wrecked. The drivers at least five degrees each way. Under these conditions the Thun-
had wonderful escapes from dore made five times as many hits
serious injury.
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