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Specie Bank Fallura. Bombay, 10th September.-In the plaint filed by the liquidator of the India Specie Bank against the directors and deceased direc- tors' heirs the principal items of the losses of tho Back are shown as follows:-(a) Silver specula- tion, Rs. 1,11,41,000; (b) advan- ces on pearle, Rs. 38,43,000; (o,; Shares and badlah operations, Ra. 14,81,CC0; (d) Imprudent loans, Rs. 4,48,000. Although such á big loss was incurred in silver epeonlation in three years the directors continued to plice before the shareholders balance eheels and a profit and loss ac- count showing very large profits, and paid large and increasing dividends and bonuses. They further assured the shareholders- that the Back did not hold an ounce of silver and were taking sposibl care to lend the Banke fands on safo sepurities. The amounts of such losses in the silver operations were included in the said balance sheets and accounts, in the amounts allow as advanced on secured loans.
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sustoin. It is understood that the laws of human nature to we cannot romance curselves into suppose that the panic terror Colouring the Wood of Growing victory. For the rest the censor which swept over the undefended ship Las been very prudently or land may have penetrated through The Indian Forester makes leercised,and is now much mitigated. the steel blinds of the forte of ference to a remarkable experi- These circumstances make it Namar, taken the heart out of the ment in colouring artificially the difficult to understand the bald troops, impelled them to sur wood of trees while in a growing ambiguity of the news from state. By running a system of Namur. Ie it the town that has boreholes right through the trunk, fallen or is it the forts? If the: stopping one end with oork and first, nothing; if the second, a introducing a dyo the tree may new twist to the campaign. We be made to absorb the colouring are bound to assume, as all the matter. Thus the ani'ine dyes of military writers do, that the circle malachite green and methylene of forte has been captured or blue coloured birch evenly and jearrendered. eosin veined the wood with red.
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What Have we Done?
Let us examine our consciences. What have we done to show our appreciation of Belgium? There was the Royal message. There was Lord Sydenham's noble letter ia The Time, which has been quoted everywhere. There is a subscription on foot. There is the promised loan. So far so good. But it is not enough. The stunned sense of having been delivered to Armageddon is noticeable every- where, but especially in Flanders., The Flemish journals such as the Laatste Nieuws are full of violent anti-French, and in a less degree of anti-English, articles.
As the darker shades in wood I do not want to say one word have a higher value than the as to the military significance of lighter it is considered possible the affair. And if a torrential that by impregnaling, for in-German advance has, after onor stance, a topin free wood like mons losses, swamped the defence, birch or maple with a tannin I do not want to say anything at solution during growth, it would all. But if, by chance, the later be easy to give these woods defenders of Namur lacked the a rich dark tint similar to that of spirit of those of Liege, if, over the cak, which is rich in tannin, whelmed by the picture of blood, by means of treating it with devastation, and panic which the Germanophiles aro harping on ammonia under pressure.
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scuth-aast of Belgium now the kinship of the Flemish tongue, presente, they yielded up their the Flemish stock and manners, position, then the question," Are to Germany. People eneer at the we treating, Belgium decently?" loan. My Flemish barber said to has a grave and urgent meaning me on Sunday! Oh! you are a I arrived yesterday from Bel fine people, you English. You gium, knowing nothing of Namur, look for business among the It seemed to me a clear daty to corpses. You will kindly lend attempt in a small way to bring a money at a good, whacking hometo the people of these islands rate of interest. You philan- the appalling price that Belgium thropists!" has had to pay for holding to the path of honour and courage.
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her two hundred thousand menus. The proof of blood the money eirce the organization of the committee. American de- soldiers, should have been treated gallant soldiers of the two grest partures from London for the 88 mere right wing pawn. But Western Allies have already given think what the gambit meant to at Mons and along the Sambre. United States during the past week number 11,000, which a Belgian patriot. It meant, in I am convinced that the United makes a total of about 6,000 any and all circumstances, the Kingdom would be acting with who have gone home since the devastation of Liege and the fruitful genercsity if Parliament war began. It is estimated that country behind it. It meant the were not to sanotion a lean, but about 1,000 Americans sailed for surrender not only of the capital to vote a free grant. home direct from the continent but of the whole country except during the week.
Mongols Giving Trouble.
Conjoined with that I hope and Antwerp. And the Belgians assume that Sir Edward Grey were under no illusions as to the will renew the solemn pledges terrorisation cf non-combatants already given, that, come what It is reported that a force of which is an essential part of the may, we mean to see Belgium over one thousand Mongoleander Prussian art of war. I quote through. The fear is general noted chief, are now a little from a Belgian journal the follow that the Germans may be allowed north of the Khastai district, the ing summary of it. It is headed: to get such a
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