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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917.
tomed to the ruin of the trench ares. A chime of silvary bells calls the worshippers to service, Scenes in the Villages of France. the righ atrains of an old organ and later the passer-by can hear sounding from the old fashioned loft beneath the and at intervale
spire;
TOIDS
The village had been the scene of bitter fighting. In the early will break in, singing the service days of the war the French chants with that tender quavering Territoriale bad fought a pitched peculiar to old age. You battle here with the Ubians, and will find the church crammed to Sir-It was with a nazement
the remnants of the old street there been such real religions life the doorway. Never before hee that I read Mr. Bailey's letter in broken waine and piles of paving have gathered such crowds of barricades-barrels of earth and your isene of the 20th instant,stones-could still be seen cling-
in that congregation, never before not only at bis bad grace in challenging to fight the person houses on each side of the street. old priest as he reads the lessons, ing to the broken walls of the eger worshippers. They listen who ventured to criticise his The stroggle had been desperate and though you are of suotter in mute adoration to the sainty ralings, but also at his closeal bat the Germans had proved too faith and speak another tongue, and deplorable ignorance of the rales he displays in his attempt lossed they had wreaked their the spirit of communion with strong, and because of their severe to jaatify himself. In a fight vengeance on the hapless place, where no judges are officiating. and when the advancing tide of sible person. In the Smith-had cleared the village of the referee is the respon the Allied Armies after the Marae Simes fight Mr. Bailey aver that he
invaders, what had been one of Confulted Mr. the holy places of the district had Gadge, as to the decision, a fact been turned into a desecrated which proves Mr. Bailoya weak- nee sa a referee and a lack of
shambles, confidence in his own judgment.
the
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far beyond the allotted spen; his scent has the harsh note of the Flemish border, and you do not The old church stands at the refugee. Bat when you hear the need to be told that he is a I quoted in my letter that end of the village. Its shattered name of the place whence he has "bolding" merita disqualifestion. tower still bears itself proudly, fed, you look at him with Mr. Bailey wilfully misconstrues but the roof sad one side of the greater interest, for he was the this quotation. Theralestates that building have disappeared, and priest of the little village you no wrestling or bagging is allow. inside the boring in covered with saw in raina away close up to the
War Comforts, ed, which is senonomous with my mass of rabble in which appearing line.
"Our Little Bit Society" bas ontention Tae Bicharde-Bran-gilded roof beams and splintered
sent the andermeoticed articles nigan" + fair was a continual wall decorations wedged together of Oswald, Northumbria's Chrie- Tomes and Co. to be forwarded to Legend telle as that the hand this week to Messrs. Shewan, wrestle and hug from beginning in an icextricable mass. The tian King, blessed by St. Aiden Queen Mary's Needle Work Guild,
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falle, through weakness, or other shell, and the
THE
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
Rule 4 reads that if either man apee has been blown in by after his body had been mati W.:-1344 rolled bandages, 13 ARROW
shattered sted by kind Pends's besthen quilts, 16 para trecch boute. 13 roofing above lets
soldiery, and the same symbol is pillows, 77 suita prjams, 100
wise, be must get up unassisted, stove
10 seconds to be allowed him to do in the rain water on three large commonly used in mythology to white woollen cap, 48 eye 80. If one man fails to come to the altars. Those on either side are scratch in the 10 seconds allowed, made of carved oak, but the mid-express the triumph of right bandages and 8 bage swabs. the referee to give his sward todle is built up of white and mong evil days and oppression. the other man. Mr. Bailey quotes reddish marble slabe. The altare hand of the holy church is quick- And in France to-day the white Rale No. 1 which reads "To be a are cracked and disfigated, the inir stand-up boxing match in a little cupboards behind, which ening to new life. France bas 24 foot ring." This being ac, when once held the holy dishes, have seen her most sacred shrines most holy by the Han,
allotted 10 seconds, he
is of
the associates Cover the
it
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Ahearn fell through the ropes the been vicleatly torn apen. One places defiled
wrecked and her time-keeper should have started hopes that the priests managed The count, which should have ocn to escape in time with the treas- not without quivering, and tinued until Ahearn either got ares they once contained. Half the tales of the priests from the IN ACCORDANCE with Gov- back into the ring or was counted prooted tablets bearing long invaded districts,, now serving in hardly needed cat, as the rule states that the fight lists of names show that the the ranks, to raise the enthusiasm shall take place in the ring, not burch was the centre of some of the soldiers at times almost to ontside. Also if one man fails to knightly chapter, and many frag the fervour of a ecms up to the scratch in the ments of the armorial bearings Older priests have come from religioar war. Dat. The scratch, in ring walle; and outside, among the their ruined churches and taken parlance, means in the areas, not disordered graves of the villagers, over the charge of flocks whose out of it, so that upon this point in the entrance to a great vanlig shepherde have gone to Mr. Bailey's ruling was egre- where many old warriors sleep nation at the wrongs they have the war, and their burning indig. giously wrong. Mr. Bailey far their last sleep. The brown oak ther shows his woeful ignorance coffins are placed in neat tierson has sent a wave of religious WANTED. —SHORTHAND, of the ruler in his stating that I supported by slabs let into the France will be a great nation after experience preferred. Apply to
feeling throughout the land. am incorrect in saying that Royal sider, but, whether by abell fire the war, a great military nation, Box 1289 c/o “ Hongkong Tele- mast step back. Bale 4 is quite or by sacrilegious hands, several but the spirit which those graph." eless and intelligible on this of the coffins have been torn open, thousands of martial and martyred
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pist, stating that if either man and lie piled in an unseemly heap priests have kindled in her people HONGKONG, CANTON AND falls, through weakness or other on the floor of the vault. After will make her s still greater force wise, he must get up unassisted, the British took possession of the in the spiritual life of the world, the other man meanwhile to replace the entrance was securely and one of the most devoted turn to bia corner.
Bealed, and later a shell still more M. Bailey tells us that an effectively shut off the silent daughters of the Obarch of all the eminent referee's advice, was to sleepers from the eyes of the have good knowledge of the curious..
Catholic communities.
TRUTH ABOUT RHEUMATISM
rales nd use. common ведее. Had Mr. Bailey possessed either care's house. People of the Quite close to the church is the of these attainments, it would neighbouring villages will tell Hardly be nsessary for me to you of that care. They speak of savise him to obtain a book of him reverently, and his repuls- rales and stadionely read, digest, tion for holiness is great among and understand them, and, bis people. Tall above the com furthermore,
8 referee who mon, one could pletore bim bənd- panders to sentiment, is merely ing low beneath a weight of yesta about Bheumatism is to think of One mistake which people make making a mockery of the rules. far above the allotted spas, it something to be treated With regards to his challenge gradually keeping more and more through the skin. So they get into to me, I accept it, bat I do not indoors as the sands of his life hot blankets, are rubbed with
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think I would be able to appear zan lower, seeking to spend the stinging liniment, and think, SAKURA BEER
at the next tournament, as I am brief time remaining to him because the attack psanes OYLE,
at present in the hands of my in
Yours etc.
OBSERVER, opg, May 20, 1917.
closer communication that they are cured.
the
medical adviser. I am, however, with Willing to meet Mr. Bailey at a by their writing, leaving the time the weather torns damp, the holy fathers They are not cured. The next sabetquent tournament in the activa ministry to the oherge of old pain comes back. But it is not pear fatale:
younger men, It was's wonder the damp which causes "rher- fal library that old priest had matism. All that damp and cold gathered round him, a collection esa do is to wake up the rheumatic of rare old scripts and chants poison which was there in the illumined by long dead clerkly blood all the tims. If you want to hands; but it shared the osmmon jovercome rheumatism or to avoid rain, and what was left by the lit, parify your blood of its poisons, GOVERNMENT CHANGE?. [into the debris of the house that people make rieb, pure blood, and apoiler is soiled and trampled Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale ance sheltered it. And the old throw out the poisonous matter man fled from the community that causes rheumatism. Thia Government Gazette Extra-hones, and went out a wanderer, parging, bat by acting as a tonio where be had hoped to save his they do, not by `weakening or sary states that His Er
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ing village, and the houses form them to do what Dr. William Official Rec›iver iç addition to [landa surrounding it, and though of rheumatia
duties..
the young men have gone to the genuína are obtainsula - from all cuffstors. The Goofing Norman Orme to war, the work goes on sa briskly good obataista, and post free, ana District Officer. ⠀ - se evar, for the womem, the old bestie #150, siz bowler $8, Gradat Vincent Carpanel men and bays, labour laned to fill fem De Williams Medisine Co. Head of the Sanitary the places of the absent ones. 96 Szechnen Rid, Sasngbai.
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