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The Retirement of Mr. Sanderson. an interesting ceremony took place at the Head Office of United Damar Engiorern, Limited,
Road, Singapore on August 30 when Mr. O. E. F. 8nder. ano, managing director of the Company, who retires at an early date, was the recipient of a memento of the occasion from the European Staf.
Trade Disputes in June. The Board of Trade Labour Gazelte states that the number of disputes beginning in June
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compared with 51,575 in the pre-
vione month, and 83,672 in Jane,
1914, The estimated number of
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It avoided all possibility of bad dian Division, and during the debts, obvisted much account afternoon I went amongst the keeping, and had been beneficial units of the division not on duty both to the members individually in the tregobes, and availed my and to the club as an institution. self of the opportunity to address
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A Literary Discovery. the officers and men, to whom I There chauged hands at Sothe delivered a mrs-age of warm by's lately a little manuscript appreciation from the Canadian volume of love poems, evidently people. compiled for a lady, which would "I found the Canadian Division of sa appreciative article on the ago were small farmera, clerke,
olase apon whose quiet and wore-ran to their only Uncle Jim and Beam to be a notable addition to in splendid condition. The off. forerunners of the New Army shopassistant, carmen-the neual our postionl literature. It contains
cers and men were keen in the writes
They blend so well with war'markable lives keep the wheels of ask what the time is Not prema by Hernick, B-a Joanov, performance of their duty, and all
He remembered Done, F. Beaumout, Sir J. Har were inspired with confi lance in that it is impossible to tell them society moving so panciaslly that a bit. The shells stopped, and rington, Qarles, and other poete the caues for which they are fight from her lened mercenaries and we have imagined they could they went back. One chap went who are well known, besides ing, and the determination to other objects of that German con- never stop for any rateon. They beck before. efforts of such little-known but make it triumphant. In my ad-tempt which is now never expres-did not wake up nor neglect their there was a kitton inside. It was sad. I heard the war pipes one day. bo k+ to watch the distant bom- just the same when they were delight'ul writers e
dies I emphasised the greatness Poole, George Lucy, John Gill, of the cause for which they Along the road came a column of bardment. The sergeant maja roruite: They never had to the idea with the first jamp. and Benj min Stone. It is, in are contanding, and its en-Scots in their shirt-sleeves, their who had seen war several times be told anything twice. They got I never know nach fellows, Dimme, they wanted to be good fact, a tuo anthology of early trolling inaonos act only upon tartan famous, their gait and bear-meditated aloud to me:= seventeenth-century love poetry, the future of the Empire, bu ing such that you might have and ea each ite importance must upon the destiny of the world. thought them veteran troops. But Nothing seems to surprise them, soldiers. I never knew such men. be considerable. It is to be hoped The magnifot epirit of they were of the New Army, and The other night they wore trench-They never broke bounds, and that this valuable discovery will the force was evinced by the the general of their division digging close to the lines, well they never got drunk, and they beallowed to gain wider publicity heartiness of the obecre with stopped by our car to tell me that exposed. A abance machine-gun never groused, and they could than a manuscript volume effords.biob this portion of my address a leader could not wish for better swept sorose. I heard the bullets hold their rifles on the third day. men. The worst of them was late-just overhead. Nobody And now the funny felkiwe don't heir barning desire, not to get was hit. They weren't even breathe hard when their pale drop Un the Wedne-day I had the solo the trenches, but out of them surprised by their lack. Once out. They go on as if nothing IF you have lost your appetite
gain into the German izenches, the abelle got among their billets, bad happened. Why, they're ore of the big variety of honour of being secmo asied" b dainty dishes at the ALEXAN HRH, Prince Arthur of Orn Horever, they had no undue sen- They only got out and waited, broken me of sweating. I've DRA CAFE is sure to tempt naught, with whom I visited thritivenser. They had taken to I thought to myself, Now they'll forgotten how to do it.
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soldiers who 8 year British Headquarters in the course were
you
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