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Death of Mr. 0.0. Starr.
The death is announced, from Home, at the age of sixty-eix, of Mr. 0,0.Starr, formerly manager of the Crystal Palios, and tafore that right-hand man to Mr. P. T. Barnum, the famous showman. U
Big Fire In Berlin. According In
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Tageblatt a big fire brk out on September 8 in large granary on ground belonging to the Elam- burg goods station. The fie assumed Auch epormona prosor- tions that all the Berlin Are brigaden were summoned. Great quantities of maize and bran are reported to have been destroyed.
Inherited Precocity.
Mias anthe Jerrold, who is, issuing her first volume of poems at the age of seventeen, would seem to inherit precocity ns well sa talent from her great-grand- father, the famous creator of Mrs. Caudle, Douglas Jerrold's first play, "M re Frightened Than Hurt," was produced at Sadler*, Wells when the author was only fourteen. Such was its Fuctase that it was translated into Frenal
and played in Paris, and then re translated in o English under another title and produced in London a tie Intent Parisian novelty.-Fall M1l,
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Strauss Forsakes Dresden. Undisturbed by war's alar£30, says the Pall Mall, Herr Richard Strauss he been busy composing a new symphony, which is to be Mr. Lloyd George on September produced in Berlin in the coming18, attended at the Army Sports autumn. Dresden will, perhaps, of the soldiers at Tadworth Camp, I congratulate you upon the want to know why the composer near Walton Heath. The sports way in which you even conduct bas selected Berlin for the first were held under the auspices of your sports. You work hard. performance of bis new work the Y.M.O.A., at St. Crous have seen you marching along and, indeed, Dresden has good Grounds, Walton-on-the-Hill. dosty reads under a hot suo, now reason to be annoyed at the an. Mr. Lloyd George, after dis and again, and you are concen. Dooncement. The capital of tributing the prizes to the succees-trating into six months the Baxony heroically allowed itself fal competitors, said:-o far training of six years, and those to be experimented on by Herr from my having coms here against who are competent to speak Lichard "Fatarial" operas time my inclination, when the invita- tell me that never in their fter time when they were banned
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In congratulate you on the pleasing TO LET La Hacienda" E. the last tog of-war you remind afternoon you have given ne, and The Suffragette addresses a few me of the sort of struggles we I wish you God speed in the great worde to the Booth Wales coal have in the House of Commons. ask you have got in front of you owners and miners. To the The way you planted your heels (load obeers). Owners is maye: "You will be and strained your muscles was a among the first to be plundered useful sud instructive spectacle given for the right hon. gentle- by the Germans should they land even for a politician to look si—| man by the assembled soldiers, here. Moreover, do you realise hear, hear). I congratulate the that a growing number of persons Y.M.Ú.A. on the way in which are questioning by what right, they have organised those Divine or human, you enjoy the sports. They have organised ownershipof themineral resources them, and they have organised of the nation, above all, in war everything else in
this war, time? Do not, therefore, press) with a most perfect success, and the exercise of your right they have run most smoothly. In (wherever you got it from) too fact, wherever I gol hear nothing far! That way revolution lies, but good of the work they are as you will see." To the miners doing throughout the country, the Puffragette anyo: "You are and we owe them a very deep not the only workers whose toil | debt of gratitude for the admir ie hard and dangerous. From the ablo work they are doing every miners the country naturally where. You may depend apo looks to see the same spirit pre-it that whatever legal duties a cisely as is shown by these others, be imposed upon us a citizen- And remember that if the Ger- there will aways be plenty to de mans come the miners of South for voluntary effort. Therefore, I Wales will be among the first to am glad to see the work which soffor, as the civilian people of the Y.M.C.A. is doing throughout Belgium have anfared."
Fox Hunting Prospects.
In the course of an interesting
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Mr. Balfour's Vivacious Letter.
Mr. Balfour's "Zappelin " latter, The following in the fall text of which was quoted in our Keater wire of September 1.
Admiralty, 8. W.
August 28, 1915. Dear Sir-You ask me why the account pablished in this country of enemy air aide are a meagre
Angus 10, 1915. A squadron of hostile airships visited the East Coast last night and this morning between the hours of 830 p.m. and 12.30a.m. Some fires were caused by the dropping of incendiary bombe. bat these were quickly extinguish- was dons, ed and only immaterial damage
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offer a reply. I cannot prophesy To this last question I do not about the future of a method of wrfare which is still in its in- fancy. I can, however, say some- thing of its resulta during the past. That it bas caused much auffer-
4 men, 6 women, and 2 children ing to many innocent people is woundedi.
onhappily certain. Bat even this damaged by ganfire of the land been magnified out of all propor Ona Zeppelin was seriously r u't with sil its tragedy, has This afternoon is only one out while the German narratives of defences and was reported this tion by ill-informed ramoor. I ble gift of organisation ther detail. You point out that while She has since been subj cwd to that during the last twelve months many in tances of the admir- the same events are rich in lurid morning being towed into Ostend. am sured by the Home Ofice have got at their head in this try these narratives are widely be continual attacks by
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ins in the current anmber of ing time. In the Ministry of lieved in neutral counties, the from Dunkirk under heavy fire have been killed: 189 civilian Baily's Magasins the writer deale Munitions we are trying to do reticence of the censored British and it is now reported that after adults and 31 children have been With the importance of carrying our best also, so that when you Press suggests a suspicion that having had her back broken and injured.
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Judged by numbers, this cumu-| ties in maintaining the Hunt want to see that you have got as public. Banting, the writer remarks, is a good guns, and shell and bombe, Compare the following accounts,
crimen does not equal the single wport on which the welfare, and and grenades, and appliances of whjob, the agb the historian would thene stories is true the other ie the once le pride of Germany
Now it in plain that if one of effort of the submarine which, t even the very livelihood, of many all sorte as any persons you never guera it, relate to the same false. Why, not, then, explain the fat the honor of all the worli, sent thousanda dependa, and for that bave got to meet in the field. | airship raid :—
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The reason is quite simple, Z-p-ask what military advant ge has with the national interests which (obeere. There is no belter
Aug. 11, 1915.
pelins attack under cover of night, been gained at the cost of so much are at lake. The hunting field fighting man in the world then
and (by preference) of mooale sinneo nt blood. is the finest training ground in the British soldier-(hear, best).
Air Attack on the Docks of
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ment that is done I have never England.
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