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A. Real Welcome for HeroeK.
Tables covered with Aowers,
· straw-berries, cake and cigarettes awaited repatriated offoars and men from Germany at Waterloo recently. When the fires train --came in there, was an extraordin- · ary di, motor hooters vieing with the band of the Welsh Goards and the obsers of the crowd in their
Wounded welcome." soldier's were also in the train, and so they were carried to the ambalances the Duchess of Bed- ford and other helpere placed roses on their breasts, while naress gave them cigarettes.
German Rights in British Music.
Permission to repablish a British omposer's work, the copyright of which had been sold to the Gar man firm of Breikopf.and Hartel, was tought by a London publisher The in the Patents Court. soplioslion concerned Dr. R. Vaughan Willisma's cantata, or symbonic poem,
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known Region," performed at the Royal Albert Hall recently in honour of the First Seron Divisione, "I haps that after the war the whole of the music that is produced in this country will not go to Germany for publication," aid the Patents Controller, in promising to give the request favourable consideration.
-Saving of Irish Flax Seed. The Minister of Munitions bas issued an Order directing every grower of flax in Leland during the season of 1918 to save the seed from one-eighth of his crop, and to comply with say regala- tions that may be prescribed in this behalf by the Department of Agricultore and Teat nical Instruo- tion for Ireland. The Order doee not apply to any grower baring under x in the year 1918 a Total ares not exceeding two statute rods, nor to fsx of variety other iban a fibre variety, No, -person shall without a permit| isere by the Department of Agricoltare and Technical In- atruction for Ireland, purchsee, esll, or offer for sale from or on beball of any grower of flax or sby other perso5, any flax on foot or anderooded fix straw saved for eeed in compliance with the provisions of the Order..
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The Peking Times saya that The new Governor Senhor Advertising in Shaoghal. there is a report among Chinese Arthur Tamegnini Barboea has Mach advertising space io cficis circles that Dr. Paul left Lisbon for Macao. Sweep. Shanghai just now is devoted to Reinsob, American Minister to ing changes are being effected the display of a single Chinese Chios, who is now in the United in the administration and a tele character, wbicb by itself conveye States, bee resigned his post and gram from Lisbon commands the no meaning at all says the N. O. that the American Conaal General transference of 14 officera to Daily News Literally it meane at Bhanghai will be appointed his Lisbon, Mozambique s'ad Angola | "rogeting" or cooking without Enccessor.
and, similarly, naval cicers are: boiling, which, of course, is
to be transferred as soon as their centelers even if it epplies to the
|substitutes strive. ,weather, for we are not roasting
Osaka Mist Busy.
An Oaska dispatch to the Dog Chained up for Seven Years, bat parboiling when we are not Nishi Nichi, quoted by the Japan An instance of a dog being kept in the breeze. Fall pages a Gazette, says that the Oaks Mint continuously on a chain a yard Chinese newspapers, spaces in has up to the present minted tan long for over seven years we the trams, thousands of pratere in million yen worth of ten, twenty related by a woman in the white and red, all preclaim and fifty-sen coice, the whole audience at the Cenine Defence "Roasting." Though ss old 68 having been sent to the Bank of League's meeting recently. She the hills in the home countries, if Japan. The paper learns that said this occazzed at Basingstoke. is a new method of advertising in the Central Treasury has decided Over 11,000 dog licenses bsd Chinese, and it is having effect, not to pat the new coins into cir been taken by the league or for the whole commanity, is talk-calation for the time being, bat behalf of men o3 service. "Tarde" ing about it. When the other as far sa possible to circulate by performing doge, it was atsted, charsoters in the sentence or paper notes of fifty sen and lower had become rare in the music zsme are pat ap, of course the denominations.
balle. meaning will be disclosed, bat meantime there is a strong sas- pinion that it is all about a new brand of cigarette. Still, it may
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Disastrous Explosion, The disastrous explosion of
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