the
Those in
more than six workers. Nor do
customs.
insurance.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919.
MOVING LORRAINE
SCENES.
WHEN THE FOREIGN LEGION CAME
were the
of
his
of
the
WHISPERED WIT
Who will eventually take the helm of the German ship of State? Will won't! And his Berlin is now like Herr Ballia- decayed and bankrupt.
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Oh, why, oh, why, is the!
dollar so high-
So high in pounds shilling
and pence? The man who takes "Home"
a big bankbook is fly, 'Cos he's got all the dollars
and sense.
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Had Napoleon been alive during this war, and for services rendered would have chosed "Bonypart of was offered a title, I think he Ena"
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"Mother," said the wealthy young man, "I am engaged to be married!"
"Indeed, said his mother, froatily. "To whom, pray, and what is she?"
"She is erst present earning her living us a designer of fashion plates
"The designing minx!" said
ti
With seventy persons at the
donations and by remained for the war in this as the War Charities' Committee QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLE-ons, by
entertainments, The outlying in many other matters to toach wish to tender a very sincere WORK GUILD. centres send subscriptions as they the value of wide organisation.expression of their thanks, and the are able, most of them monthly. Under the patronage of H.M. assistance rendered by the City One or two of these are so situated The Queen the Q.M.N.G. came Hall authorities through Mr. Den- (Continued from Page 1.) that it is more convenient for into being and has shown what man Fuller in lending the space Lady de Sausmarez said: I them to purchase their own ma-can be done and the War Charities required for the work must not have been asked by the President trial instead of sending subscrip- had no besitation in giving the be forgotten. But nothing could
of course have been done without into liberated Lorraine at Chateau The first entry of the French
When is something going to be and Vice-president to speak about fins, but as a general rule, they H.. branch its full support, and the B.WA. in China of which I all receive from Shanghai as as I understand it, the proposal the working parties themselves. Salins was one of the most mov-
done regarding the disgusting have the honour to be the Presi-many cut garments and ma-to-day is that the organisation The Union Church Party-saing sights I have ever seen, writes gans have stopped crackling streets? Stringent fines would Meanwhile, now the machine master of expectoration in the terials as they require for their should continue on independent organisation that existed long Mr. Gerald Campbell. dent. With very few exceptions workers which they return, lines in a form which should put before the War-the City Hall
no doubt reduce the evil, and association is composed
The troops chosen for the hon- Germany has lost the Rhine! made, to our depot the smallest possible obligations Work Party, which Mrs. Stabb inour of representing France and entirely of women British by birth when
incidentally increase the revenue. Associated as they are with on members at ordinary times, stituted and organised to success the Army for the formal entrance and I hope it is generally under Shanghai those centres enjoy the but would still make possible with fully (and that in addition to her
And with the deplorable de. I have seen thousands of dollars stood that, while Shanghai is the place where the work originated Jadvantage of supplies of material out delay a combined effort in res-other duties as Vice-President of commanded by General Dangan, frans are frowsier than ever.
Moroccan Division, ficiency of food and clothing, the in the streets in one day. Clean the thoroughfares either with and where is consequence the bought in large quantities and soponse to any call however sudden. Į the Q.M.N.G.) that it became and richly they deser, it,
at low rate, also the advantages Such a morament unquestionably probably the largest party with
Bat Herr Huu won't be trousier fines or disinfectanta. direction and administration of
of deserves the fullest support, and the largest output in the Colony: Daugan, followed by a mounted.
A little before 9 o'clock General than ever! the association is carried on, 2450 generously afforded us
freight.
think there can be no doubt but Treaty Ports and other places packing cases and so on, all of, that it will receive the support it H. Mackenzie and Mrs. Green, position in the central square of | going to enable all Germans in nowadays. The American parson Little Bits under Mrs. | Arab escort of Spahis, took up his The British Government are services are being held in churches Sporting and other interesting are linked with 15. With which up to date we have had deserves. I am sorry that it is whose work became Swatow as our most southern free of charge. But it requires impossible to give the Working a big bit; Mrs. Capell's party warda till past 1 o'clock, with England to go "back to the was a
quite Chateau Salins, and from then on centre Chengru the most western and Mukden and Vladivostock more than these solid advantages Party figures in terms of dollars whose skill with old clothes
"aporty boyee," though, the most northern, it will be seento produce unanimity in work. and cents in a manner that does seemed like conjuring tricks, the before the approach
one long wait in the middle land "the Faderland!
who introduced cinema services being misleading Catholic Women's Work; the Foreign Legion, battalion after
into his church. No doubt the that the greater number of British That we all desired to give not
With the rapid demobolising advanced religionisis called them women in China who work do so personal service during the war With that careful reservation, Naval Yard party, and all the batalion
expenditure was of course the primary cause
Work-bandage on
rolling parties:
Zonaves, of the troups, and an early return sin-eros services. with the association.
the artillery, Parties
and in packing experts in the hot weath-marched steadily past the salut- the soldiers will care to go back! shown 85
tirailleurs, to civil life, I doubt if many of Peking. Tientsin and Nanking of our association, but to bring all ing
er dealing with cases where the alone work independently of us members to agree that this service the War Charities books amounts
ing base, while aeroplanes to their office (rs. Tsiuanfu should benefit one organisation to $145,710 to the end of last packing had to be begun by skimmed low over the housetops, and of each other. after being associated with us for some other incentive was needed.year; and what we have been standing inside something to and the population cheered and two years has, owing to the dim. This I feel sure was supplied able directly to show for that make a man think when he re-laughed and wept, and waved culties of transport to and from by that innate sense of loyalty sum is the 101,000 articles of members the troubles he can get flags and bandkerchiefs as their Tientsin. I do not know how perhaps more aware abroad even made; but besides the fact that the parties connected with the rim columns to the rattle of the Shanghai, very wisely joined with to the Throne of which we are/which mention has already been into with his own weekend basket; deliverers swung past in solid, i War Charities, make a long list drums and the silver callings of than we are at Home. The fact many of these articles appear as many members these 24 centres that all our gifts were being made dozens or more, it has to be and we can safely say that the the clarions. together possess but I do know that in many of them there Her Majesty satisfied every-remembered that the payments total result made a fine showing
While we were waiting for the are very few British residents body and the fact that their cover quite a long period of work for the ladies of the Colony." I am Legion after the Zouares. and! destination was under the direct-at the beginning of the war happy to be able to state that the Spahis had passed, there sudden- and that in some there are notion of the Queen's Guild placed for which no returns are avail- War Charities has authorisedly straggled up, coming in the we as yet know the numbers of their disposal beyond dispute.able. It seemed an impossible
the transfer to the new organisa-opposite direetien, a dozen or so
I wonder what spirit moved And it is this common purpose, matter, those returns; and I think members in Shanghai. Measures this common sentiment, which, if you will have been seen the tabu tablished on the lines expected of thin and gaunt and wretchedly have been a good band. There the old lady, cuttingly.
tion of the Q.M.N.G. if it is es of English prisoners, pitiably me to break into song? It must have lately been taken to ascer its work is to be continued, will lated forms asked for later on and its remaining stock of materials, clothed, tain this and I have reason to keep our association" alive. It posted each month on the Notice and of the sewing machines and written on every line of their days of Bolshevism and high and with suffering is little to sing about in these think that 300 regular workers would be a modest estimate or would be unfortunate if such Board at the City Hall, and that wardrobes it still possesses; and to deeply marked faces. Everyone prices. For instance, take the peace table in Paris, and seventy our numbers. That we must, ir organisation as yours here and you will agree that they added a tackle the difficuities which a who saw them was bitterly in-rents-the landlords do that, opinions to be expressed, how
What terror to the lives of the ladies new organisation always has to dignant with the nation which combined total of other centres heir future may be we cannot who were responsible for making face in its early stages a grant of had reduced them to the state Shanghai, greatly exceed the
$1.000. Calls on account of the they were in. is evident, since, while therell. Work for Siberia, if practic-them out. On the other hand we
received very material | War still reach us and will con- appears to be no lack of enthu, will keep up enthusiasm. have
When that is over doubtless assistance throughout which does tinue, it is to be feared, to be the great moment of the day. The coming of the Legion was siasm among them, they did not instructions from Q.M.N.G, will not appear in the books, and it is heard for a long time, and the When half of them had passed together, in our fourth year of work, produce of garments and guide us. Hospitals, still filled by proper that it would be acknow-allocation of the sum by the War down the street before him the people will soon be reduced to peace soup.
The number of Charities is justified by the certhe general called a halt, then reason of the war, will require ledged here. hospital requirements, which is assistance, distress is foretold cases collected, shipped and de- tainty that the bulk of the work gave the order to the troops to then, will be tense. what they principally work on, which will need relief, but when lievered free for us by Messrs of the Q.M.N.G. must continue to present arras and to the band to more than two-sevenths of what
And so we shall soon be having was accomplished in Shanghai
the hospitals are closed and life Shewan Tomes and Co. runs into be war work.
play the Garde a vous," and
a new Governor. Well, well! alone. These are the statistics of would be unfortunate if this link that at one time we were polite- the meeting, saying that the prin- which
is again normal, even then it large figures, and I remember Mrs. Gurner then addressed then saluted the Legion's colours, expired, and one is lucky enough men, however, who have one all And when one's short lease has That's nothing new to us married production during the fourth with the Homeland
were toly requested to send smaller cipal object of her address was to colonel, his breast blazing with to get a renewal, it might be the time.
carried by the year, that is to say between October 1, 1917 and October 1ship with Q.M.N.G. were
be severed and our member-cases, as the size we were using
to taxed both the tackle of the ship Presidency of the Guild. When ed a few bars of the "Marseil
state that she was resigning the decorations, while the band play termed a happy re lease. 1918 Hospital requirements
cease when so little is required and the temper of the crew. The Lady May left the Colony she laise." And then, riding forward a stand for sheets, bed socks, over- sent away during that year: Of a nominal yearly subscription too was no small matter, recently place as President. Mrs. Gurner flag in his hands and kissed them. alls, tray-cloths and so on,) We af permanent members, meron the ical and nial work involve had asked the speaker to take her few yards, he took the folds of the
and the very nominal yearly con- Mr. H. F. Campbell, and before said she was garments and hospital require-tribution of a minimum of two him Mr. Young, did all this in an
at that time ments. 129,548; of rolled bandages,
garments. It has occurred to me unostentatious way that makes it took the office with great dif- complete stranger and she under- 159.212; of
war dressings,
that, if approved of by the Guild, very easy to 190,267: Our subscriptions in the contributed garments might Messrs. B. and S.. and the C. P.O. escape notice.
dence, and if Lady May had not that year amounted to $158.be reserved for use in China and Services were always at
been in such trouble she 554. of which $142.140 comes might be of great service to our disposal for free freight, and the
would have refused. It had not from Shanghai, and 16,414 from British patriotic societies in the P. and O. also assisted very gene Dockyard branch came under her been a light task, The Naval and other places. Briefly this is our East in dispensing their charit-rously whenever space organisation: As before stated.able work. Shanghai is the centre of ad-
But this is merely a available. All the washing work jurisdiction, and it had been with Lift
great difficulty she had carried on conclusion, I again has been done for us free by the two things. If Lady May bad ministration and where regula-ggestion. tions are made as occasion for BW.W.A., and tell you what we material
return to the work of the the Steam Laundry, another very been returning to the Colony she
contribution which them arises. We have there have sent to Siberia in the first however
would have felt it her duty to does not lange committee of what
appear continue, but since that was not books quarter of our fifth year of work-in the
of known as the representatives of that is between the first of last The War Charities Store sub for her to gracefully retire and account. so, she felt that the time had come centres; each representative is the October and the 1st of January. Committee (or the Buying Com leave it in the bands of their wife of some prominent member The number of garments and mittee, as it seems to be more. of a profession or business. One of their duties is to get into touch hospital requirements sent to the generally called) formed the link Stappeti vicepresident, MS: with all the British women in the Vladivostok British Patriotic the Working Parties, and the She knew she was voicing Lady British Red Cross Commissioner, between the Main Committee and Stabb. She thought they ought: to continue the work of the Guild. their respective centres. These
League and given directly to Committee are anxious to mark May's wishes when
When they went eastwards like representatives meet once
she said
a tide at flow; three months when work is (many of the garments sent to the like manner in which the work
British troops together total 38,900 their appreciation of the business that that the Guild should
There blow thy trumpet that reported to them and acy
die and the last Vladivostok British Patriotic was carried out. Under Lady
the dead may know, important measures requiring League were for the Czecho May (for whom,
words of Lady MAY Who waited for thy coming, since her their consent are submitted to Slovaks) The number of rolled departure, Mrs. Gurner has acted to her were request to keep the
Victory. thought sentatives. Then we have the The number of war dressings 49,- had the difficult work of the they ought to remember those It is not we that have deserved
them. There are 32 терге-
and
ours were to dissolve.
In
our
Was
bandages sent amounts to 22,870. Mrs. Hay and Mrs. Mackenzie
January
Wan
as
not
Guild alive, and she
words and keep it very, very much alive. work of the Guild, Mrs. Gurner After further reference to the moved: "That the Queen Mary's Needlework Guild continue to work on until April, until the and be reorganised on peace lines material in hand was used up, in September next.
were
A DIRGE OF VICTORY.
not thy trumpet, Victory, to the sky,
Nor through battalions nor by
batteries blow;
But over hollows full of old
wire go,
Where, among dregs of war, the
long-dead lie With wasted iron that the gans
passed by
thy wreath.
They waited there among the
⚫ towering weeds:
The
deep mad burned under the thermite's breath,
last, at last!
And winter cracked the bones)
Hundreds of sights famed by: that no man heeds:
the seasons passed. Mrs. Stabb seconded, and theAnd thou hast come to them at motion, on being put to the meet- ing was carried unanimously.
Mrs. Stabb then addressed the meeting at some length reviewing the work done, practically month by month, since the beginning of the war.
By Capt. Lord Dunsany.
Executive Committee of above 873. The news reached me yester-initial organisation. I have al twelve members, who, with the day that $16,000 worth of things ready mentioned the terrors of exception of the Treasurer are all had been sent during the week the returns and clerical work women. They meet once a month and more often if necesssary. All
preceding
21 required, and it speaks well for the ordinary business of supplies,
(Applause).
the soundness of the organisation then called to know that the buying, running new undertakings and
The Chairman small
to 85 much matters are determined by them upon Mrs. Hickling to read the sometimes
done, after $7,000 a month, went without a Each important department of report, which work is represented on this com- which The Hon. Mr. E. R. hitch, that the supply under very mittee the buying department, Hallifax addressed the meeting difficult conditions was maintain. ed with very few breaks, and that the war dressings department, the on the subject of War Charities. cutting-out department
The Hon. Mr. Hallifax said the closing of orders has been others. The cutting out depart After listening to the details given effected with a foresight which ment is a most important one as it to us this morning of the work leaves the War Charities with a done by the ladies of the Colony minimum of commitments. Mr. obristes waste, ensures only standard patterns being used and during the war, I hope I may be Mackenzie of Messra Arthur and makes for standard excellence in permitted to add my congratula Co. and Messrs Beatty of Loxley work. Besides these committeestlons to them on the record they and Co. were of the greatest Mrs. Garner then stated that it
have the advantage of a have established. As one who assistance in this matter of buy- medical adviser. to whom we has perhaps been in closer touching, and by sacrificing their com- may turn for help in matters with the Working Parties than missions and supplying the goods requiring expert knowledge, and other cien, I am able more fully at cost price in effect made very
blocked, and a request had been matter to the workers. an advisory committee of four to realise the extent of the effort substantial contributions to the received that parcels should be Mrs. Jordan then proposed a business men, who give us advice made, and I am glad to have War Charities Funds. To the held up until further notification. vote thanks to the Chairman, in matters which our inexperience had Bome small share in ladies of the Sub-Committee, Mrs
Mrs. Stabb said she understood | which was seconded by Mrs. in business renders as unable to the organisation that enabled Hay and Mrs Mackenzie, Mrs that the articles would be Harston, and carried unanimous- deal with, with confidence. This those efforts have their Chatham and Mrs Knight, and useful in Vladivostock, statingly. committee was appointed only full effect. Working parties that Mrs Maitland, who from the be- that she understood
it W&5 His Excellency suitably re- last summer. Funds in Shanghai did much good work of course ginning undertook the responsible only the lines out of theplied, after which the meeting
of Нол. Treasurer, are raised by monthly subscript existed before the war, but it duties
terminated..
we
to
was not desired to send any. further parcels to " Vladivo
Mrs. Gurner replied that the port itself was blocked for, the time being.
Mrs. Stabb said that she
stock 33 the linee" were thought she would leave [the
port that were blocked.
however!
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Isn't it funny, that when a
makes" a certain section of the
zollers to Devil's Island. France to banish William Hohen- soldier earns a Military Cross, it can rest assured he will be quite Military Cross?
at home there.
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