GENERAL NEWS. 1
M. Balfour.
Mr. Balfour has placed his services unreservedly at the die- posal of the Government, and la kept se basy as most of the mem-" "bere of the Cabinet, particularly in relation to the Committee of Im- perial Defence, which he founded.
Remarkable Golf.
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Albert Seymour, professional to the Molesey Hurat Club; Tamp ton Court, went round in 64, which equalled bis record made last summer, and beets the best| amateur score by five stroker. Saymour hit the twelfth pin with bis tee, shot, and just missed a
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(Continued from yesterday.)
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A Night Adventure. were over, they had passed out of authorities. In this connection college. Indeed the officer will the following interesting and Another young officer las sent The Reserve, they were under no the Popular Mechanics Magasine tell you with every pride that the lively letter home" I had some furiber obligation of duty; but when the National Reserve was
sergeant is actually the better man rather brick-times when I waslast Recent study of these polar of the two. Aud he is certainly in the trenches. We were only The F.M.S. exported 2,777 tons founded in Surrey by Mr. St. Loe aberrations has demonstrated right in maintaining that it is a 200 yards from the Germans at SUBMARINES, TORPIDGES & of cultivated rubber in April, of Strachey, and spread throughout that the axis ia constantly moving heap more difficult now-a-daye to one end of our company and our REGIMENTS & THEIR GLO. which 1920 tone went to the Co the country under the care of the about in a spiral course, in much qualify forsergeant and keep your about 270 at the other, A stream RIOUS RECORDS by C, White lony, 791 tons to the United Territorial Associations, these old the same manner as a top travels stripes than to get a Second ran between the two lines of tren- THE SECOND PHASE OF THO Kingdom, four tons to the Consoldiera voluntarily declared them. tinent of Europe and 30 tons to calves willing to respond if called when it is spinning on a slightly Lieutenant's commission. It is ches. The day after we got in, Ceylon. This brings the total on in a national emergenoy, Men observatione this path has been officer will never go where his front of our trenches had to be
uneven surface. By astronomical very certain that this particular orders came that the ground in THE UNMAKING OF EUROPE by F.M.S. export this year, to ead of under 32 undertook in the event traced and the discovery made sergeant will not follow April, to 13,079 tone, valued at of war to serve as soldiers abroad, that the axis returns to about & make
and examined at night, and that the LIFE OF HIS MAJESTY ALBERT $25,652,011. The quantity export- and men between 12 and 50 to normal position approximately platoon is backing him close tare of its bed had to be discover. WAR by AE. ShipsTIONA
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KRUPPSE THE INTERNATIONAL Their action is a splendid refuta- It bas been found that when up. think these Terriersed. I was put on the job with ARMAMENTS RING®
were, if anything, o trifle another subaltern. We CAPTAIN
AIN LOXLEY'S LITTLE DOG Importance of Singapore. tion of the old cynical saying that the axis makes a sharp tara disappointed in the comparative prawled out three times altogether LEST WE FORGET: AN ANTHO As an additional evidence of if there was any one thing an old in ite very irregular course, scarcity of the famous mud of that night, and I had sooner THE CORRESPONDENCE OF the advancement and increasing soldier was determined on, it was seismic activity is materially in Flanders in their trenches. The take my chance in any shell WILLIAMS & BISMARCK. importance of Singapore as un
never to pat his neck. into the creased. From this it is ressoned last few days have been dry but fire than do that job again THE SOLDIER'S POCKET COM international trade centre, it is military noose again.
that the movement of the pole very cold. The Terriers were We were always running into LIFE OF GENERAL JOFFRE by A. gratifying to note that new Con- All who were capable of active probably sets up stresses in the snugly wrapped in their goatskin German patrols or imagining that Kahn B. salar legislation in the United service, all who could pass the crust of the earth which result in coats and woollen, gloves and we were. Ones when we were ten THE GERMANS IN BELGIUM: States has recently promoted the medical examination, have rejoin violent upheavals along faults have made themselves as complete yards off the stream we heard WHEN BLOOD IS THEIR ARGU. Consulate General in this oilyed the colours. They are distri- and ridges.
ly at home with all the dodges German working towards us on The recent upheaval in Italy cf bucket braaiers and straw the other side. The other fellow two grades above its previous buted among the various combata- olass, making it now a poet of tive units. Many of them re-enlist-centred its force in the moan- littered dug-outs as the oldest of wanted to fire, but I stopped him, the third grade. This advance-ed straight into the new Armies taicons province of Abruzzi. The old campaignera. To see them for if we had fired the Germans mented as that there are only and the Territorial Force when shock laated 34 seconds, but in cleftly balancing a mess tin of night here sent up a light and such cities as London and Paris war was declared. Othera passed that brief time the whole country tea on the coals, or slicing then we should have been in the first grade, and Hongkong, into the Special Reserve, which side was changed into a burial some heaven-sent (looted) onions snookered all right. So would Buenos Ayres, Hamburg and other provides drafte for the battalions such cities, of the second grade, at the front. Thousands of the ground of cities and a region of and beef, and breakfast ration the German patrols have been, famine and suffering. There was a biscuits, into a simmering mess but that wouldn't have been much classed higher than Singapore, ex-non-commissioned officers are succession of lesser tin slow, would certainly lead good to us. Well, this German which now takes precedence over instructing the new recruite, The ebooks following the you to conclude that these men came
quake which were felt from hays been many months at the stream, and
right up to the
increasing importance of the great. oross-rcade of the Far East is noticeable in many ways, and yet it is believed there is still much In store,Straits Times,
active
Altogether at least 200,000 of these old soldiers have returned to the service of the country. It is a splendid records
game:
a
Sydney Commenting on this men of more advanced years are
was just wading advancement of the local consular doing useful work in guarding the southernmost part of the post, acting Consul-General, Mr. concentration campe, railwaye peninsula into certain parts of could only hear of two worries, as and bolted. At another time From officers and men I through it when he saw or heard OL. Dreier, has pointed out that waterworka, powder factories, and France and Switzerland, causing and they might count as one we saw one of the listening patrols in certain respects the basinces of other vulnerable points, and bare serious avalanches to occur in the when the next big somp is com- and "hooked it with some speed. the office has greatly increased in the released Regulars and Swiss Alps which isolated vill ing and whether they'll have the The way I got across that stream the past few years and that the Teritorials for more
ages and destroyed large forests. luck to be in it. If they are fair (we were on the other side then) duties.
These diaturbances, in the opinion specimens of the Terriers I have has convinced me that I am really of some, indicated that the quake no fears about how they'll shape no end of a cross-country runner. was not of volcanic origine if they are in it. A subaltern We were out about three hours in Avezzano, a town of 12,000 in the Northamptonshire Regi all, and the last time we went out inhabitants, lying less than 70 ment states that the trouble, in the we took a corporal with as to show miles east of Rome, is now s duet trenches is not to get the men to him the lie of the land, as he was gar laden heap of orumbled stone, stand to their posts but to prevent to be in command of the
atening Chesper Brand Ordered In Italy, with bere and there a tottering them taking needless risk patrol the next night, rom the King Victor Emmanuel has wall In all, there were nearly In a few days men get quite ne eport of our discoveries written signed & decree ordering the core of towns which were wİDE to the sound of bullets, and en your appetite manufacture and sale of a special completely, and
commanding. tban lahooling at 600, Varda al a m. ariety of type of bread throughout Italy 100 where severs tolls of both life, head and shoulders
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