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The first lady stationmaster" in You never need to be at a loss for Entertainment when
Sath Wales, Miss Lideter, of Pontyrol, commenced duty oi Aptil 19, at Troedgrhiw alb. Aacther lady is to take charge of Trelewis Junction, Coh of the, women succeed men who have enlisted.
Death of Mrs. Bryton,
It is with deep regret that we have to ob: onicle the death of Mro. i Bryson, the wife of D A.0. Bryson and daughter of Mg, and Mre. Einoy Page aage the Shang- hai Mercury The sad event took place at Peking yesterday. Muchi sympathy will be extended to her husband, her parerty and rela- tires and her any friends is Shanghai.
Railway, Siding for Haaków. The agreement between the Chinese Government and the Hankow British Münicipal Council for the introduction of a railway siding has now been signed by both parties and the negotiations of several years brought to a successful close. I ought not to be long now before the trucks can be loaded within Con limit
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Motor Accident in Tientsin. in, the way of armaments and difficul; it meant getting hold of A motor-car carrying a party of munitions, numbers are slaars Warsaw. In the weat our game Peking gentlemen from the Race- the deciding factor. At the be was fairly course at Tientsin on the evening gigning the Germans, whoes amply (N) of altrition. of the 21st inat,, was wrecked Government had decided three Neuvo Clapelle and other at while proceeding at high speed years beforehand to have war after tacla were act really attempts to in order to catch the Mukden mail, the harvest of 10:4, went on to break through the German linea: The car ran into a tree and des- Peris at the rate of eight to five, they were simply attempts to cribed several somersaults over a and the whole effort of the Allies wear down the German lines. bank. The occupant were Mr. had been to put a sufficient na Otherwise the situation in the Grave, Mr. de lloger, M. Bat rin ber of mes in the field to torn the west would have no meaning, for, and Mr. Lackenburg, the Russian Lalance. We had succeeded to on the average, we had not push- artist who is painting the Pre- the extent of re iucing the German ed the Germans back by a yard
That Germany will evacuate sident's portail Mr. Loken. euperiority to about seven 'o six; sizes the middle of October Belgiam and abandon all plans the man cutlet of western Ger- "Belgium; which commands burg, and Mr. de Boyer were on the eastern-line it was, say, What we gained in ground did for the acquisition of territory, man trade, is the natural fotland injured, but it is listed not four to three, and in the west the not matter besides the proportion provided it is granted the right to of the empire, and has been con- seriously."Peking Gazelle" numbers of the ono ing forces of men who were put out of
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Bernhard D rnburg. Settlement of Sagapote for the its forces, and, given the cqnip Allics.
Germaq trade the caly outlet to The revival of pea e aik and an open sea and it has been roll week ended. May 15, ma 27.02 ment, we could probably put
The Alternative,
discussion of terms u1g3 which ically established, maintained per mille of the population per another million man in the field annum. The fotil zumber of very soon. Superiority in num One of two things must hap-the kaicer would sheath the eworn and dominated by England, in deaths was 176, of which 124 bers on the side of the Allies peu, unless by the capture of were brought about through Dr. order to keep these natural ad- were male subjecia and 63 female. should como in certainly before Warsaw the Germans, could
forme: vantages from Germany, 86 Ca valsions olnimed 20, phthisis the beginning of June, and it bring great reinforcements to the colonial minister of Germany. Ou Belgium cannot be given up.
Saturday night at a mass meetin 28 and mal.rial fever 10. Tas should be facilitated by the higher west; either their line must
"Forever, these considerations highest number of deaths, 38, rate of wastage on the side of the break, which meant immedia's in Portland, M., Frof. Edmund would be dieregarded if all the THE CORRESPONDENCE took place between the ages of enemy, whose tradition of warfare defeat, or, much more probable, Doctor Damburg, in which he guaranteed free sea, were fully
ron Mach read a letter written by other German demande, especially THE SOLDIER'S POCKET COM- 20 and 35. The deaths under favoured extravagance is the they would be compelled to three months numbered 24 and expenditure o th of men and shorten it which meant their outlined clearly in with much complied with and all the natural between that age and one year 18 munitions for the sake of a rapid falling back for 120 to 200 frankness the terms which would commercial relations of Belgiam One European died, one Eurasian conquest. The German plan of miles in face of very hard prer be acceptible to the German Gormany were considered in "124 Chinese, 36 Malays and 12 war had a likeness to that of the Bure, with the chance of not being
people,
a just and wo kable fordi, Indiana.
mercbant who spent an enormou able to form the line again, "Bat
"Germeny is a county smaller amount in advertising; it was very if the Germans get Warsaw," said tailment of the German army. in size tlan California, tat A Paris merchant has hit upon excellent if it came cff, but if it Mr. Belloc, "and bring great
Writing from "The German populated thirty five times an ingenious scheme for making did not the consequent exhaustion masses of men to the west, the
Viewpoint," Doctor Dornburg thickly as that ifite. She loves all those visiting his store wipe gave a great advantage to the campaign will go for them and expressed the opinion that Ger- and fostera family life, and sees their feet before entering. No enemy.
not for us."
many would relinquish its hold her future in the raising of large matter what signs we po ted to Mr. Belloc relied mainly on the Mr. Ballop emphasised again upon Belgiam providing that cer- families of healthy children under call the people's attention to the prospect of an actual superiority the great importance of Wartaw tain concessions, namely the right the home roof and under the advisability of using the rug in the field; the embarrassment as the centre of the railway lines to use Belgium as an outlet forntional flag. German parents placed at the entrance to our of the Germans by the blockade which would capply the Russian trade, was granted.
hava no desire to expatriate every Efore, but few, if any, ever took was only secondary, though ap-army in an invasion of Germany Of particular interest was his year a considerable number of notice of i's preseros," he says, preciable; he was inclined to The cattare of Pi zmysl bad review in regard to the neatralize their children. This implies thet "During rainy weather the think that they might be pinched leased perhaps about 200,010tion of the ear. Concerning that her industrial development, which problem of keeping the flors for food, but not more than that, Russians, and when the fine phase, he said:
would alone give occupation to the clean became of quite an import-before the next harvest came in, weather came it gave the Russians
"The sea is nobody's property early increase of pretty nearly ance, but nɔ solution seemed and their embarrassment in the uninterrupted
and must be free to everybody. 1,000,000 people, should go on possession of possible. Thon it was that I way of getting material for muni- Ga'ioia and freed them from The seas are the lunga from which unhampered. The activity of her adopted the idea of an itinerant tions was more important. An- trouble with their conmunica- humanity draws a fresh breath of people should have an oatlet in artist, who agreed, for a small other thing in favour of the Allies tions. Bat, Przemysl was second enterprise and they must not be the development of such foreign price, to paint the portraits of the was the chance of equipping the ary to Warsaw, if the Germans stopped up. I personally would parts as need or wish for develop- German Imperial family upon the great reserves of Russia. As long could get Warsaw it would not even go so far as to neutra-ment "
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ports was the Dardanelles, where matter which was still not beyond gaaranteed by all powere so that *Germany should be encour the fortunes still hung in the doubt. Ia the Narrows it would any infringement on that score aged to continue her activities in need the indirect fire of our 15-inch would meet with the most savere Africa and Asia Minor, which Byou have lost your appetite IY
(one of the big variety, of § The Critical Moment, gune to effect it, and the accuracy punishment that can be meted out can only result in permanent dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- "We are unable to tell what of that fire depended on the work to any transgressor.
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