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NO RIGHT TO BE A HERO.
A REPRIMAND INSTEAD OF THE V.C.
Disclosures concerning the To have been recommended for plight of ton English girls en- the Victoria Cross for valour and gaged as dancers in n pantomime distinguished conduct on the field while on tour in the provinces of battle, but instead of receiving were made to the Public Control Committee of the London County Council recently.
this outstanding award to have been reprimanded by senior off- The Committee had under can core was the unusual experience sideration the proposed rovocation of Colonel the Hon. James L. of the licence which had been Ralston; C.M.G. D.S.0, the-pre- granted to Mrs. Millicent Mabel sent Minister of, National Defence. Bato, known na Madame Fullorton It has just become known (says, Moore, to carry on an employment a Central News Toronto message.) agency for dancers, theatrical and. It happened towards the close variety artists in the name of of the War, when Colonel Ralston Fullerton's Agency, at Station was a "kiltie" officer in command. Parade, Balham, S.W.
of the 85th Battalion Nova Scotia, this The Chief Inspector said ten Highlanders. Previous to girls left London in December for occasion the indomitable Highland Huddersfield, where they wore to officer had been mentioned in deg- appear at the Hippodrome. For patches and awarded the D.S.O. the first ten days they were en-Subsequently he was again men- gaged in rehearsing their danctioned In despatches, awarded a ing, and during that time they bar to his D.S.O., and given the put in a lot of hard work.
higher distinction of C.M.G.
But' throughout the whole time,
Although four times wounded, Baid the Inspector, they were short of food, and on one day in parti- the Nova Scotia officer was almost cular, the chief food of the girls continuously at the head of his for all meals was broad and butter men in the thickest fighting. For several months after he became and bread and dripping, and the Commander of the Battalion, his were compelled to supplement the force was engaged in holding the food out of small sums they re-line or in training for the big push ceived as salary,
The food was insufficient both that was to end in vietory for the Allied forces. The Battalion had in quality and in quantity.
just taken over a section of the Money Spent. The girls first nasembled at Bal-front line, at the end of July 1918, when a very daring and brilliant ham, when £2 was paid by Madame Moore for the girls' ex-reconnaissance was carried out by penses, and of that amount 6s. 5d.a small party under the command
of Lieutentant Evans was spent in paying their fares from Balham to Marylebone, lear ing the matron with £1. 12s. 8d. in hand..
When they arrived at Hudders- feld the money was soon spent, and the matron telegraphed for more. In the meantime $1. 123. Gd. from the members of another troupe was also sent by Madame Moore.
After penetrating the enemy wire, the party were discoverei and hastily withdrow. After own trenches regaining their
it
enemy.
Was found that the young officer had not returned. 蒜 moment's hesitation Without Licutentant-Colonel Ralston, ac- compaäled by Lieutentant Adama, entered No Man's Land in a bold On Wednesday, December 22, attempt to locate the missing off- the matron felt that the matter cer. By this time the called for immediate action, and thoroughly aroused, were sweep- she accordingly went to the polica, ing the whole area with a concen- As a consequence she received £11 trated fire from trench mortars, from the management, which pro-machine guns and rifles, but the vided for their needs antil Janu-present Minister of Defence car- ary 2, when they left Huddersfield.ried on the scarch until he located The methods of Madame Moore. Lleutenant Evans. Together with the police at that place considered Lieutenant Adams he lifted the to be such as to call for investiga- officer and worked hia' way back." tion. The sum of 65. par week For this extraordinary act of only was allowed for each girl for courage, Lieutenant-Colonel Rals- food-1048. day-something ton was
1 culpable in the extreme.
recommended for the award of the V.C...The higher From Huddersfield the company authorities refused to entertain went to Bury where no provision the recommendation on the ground had been made for them and some that it was not the business of of the girls tramped the streets a commanding officer to risk his searching for accommodation life in such a manner, and it may There again the food they eventu- be mentioned that the Brigad ally received was quite insufficient. Commander received a reprimand
The last place to which they for insisting on the recommenda went was Liverpool, where nination for the award being recon. of the girls had to be accommo-aidered on its merits regardless of dated in two small rooms which he regulation which in his served as living, dining, and bed-opinion should not have been ap
plied.
room.
"We have decided to revoke the
The authorities were doubtless
heroism of the aet remain..
licence," snid the Chairman, right, but the humanity and the
without the committee retiring.
COUNTRY OF CENTENARIANS. SPAIN'S CENSUS RECORDS MORE THAN 350. Spain is the land of centen- arians.
The latest official cenays states that 356 persons (ninety-six men and 258 women) have reached the age of 100; seventy-five men and 204 women are more than 100 years old, and a number have reached 110 years.
There
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Sir Robert Horne, in contem- planting Budget possibilities at a meeting in Leeds, was in humor- ous vein, and dealt amusingle with the subject of taxing bache- and lors.
It will be seen that women are longer lived than men.
Even Madrid, which has the re- putation of being unhealthy, has twenty-four women and eleven men who are mere than 100 years
are 22.150 men 36,204 women more than eighty.I hope, he said, that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer will not adopt the pernicious plan, which I see is about to be instituted in Italy. There it is proposed to put a tax on bachelors: It appears that not merely is this to be a de- finite tax of a fixed amount, but that a slice of the bachelor's in- come is to be taken as well. If he has no visible means of sup- port, his parents are bound to pro- vide the allee of income that he ought to have.
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TEST OF NILE SUNSHINE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
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Will this be replaced by a belief lecture here on his examination of the skeletons found in old Egyptian in "the low sun," or the sun beside graves: and he concluded that the sea in a land such as Egypt? tuberculosis of the bones was not In Egypt and Palestine sanato unknown at the time of Nileland's ria already exist for the treatment! greatness.
of tuberculosis of the bones; and; Professor Spitzy will make a thorough investigation of what is: teing done in these Insititutions.
At it is believed not to have inade ravages to the extent it does to-day, the idea has taken root in scientific minds that a "sun-cure" was known and was officacious:
appearance If such an impost were over in- should be one of your greatest aa-stituted it would be necessary to a tribunal in order that A pimply complexion may set up Jose you a wife, an arder, or a job. bachelors might be able to demon- Sluggish Ilver and intestinal inac-strate that they were neither pas- sive resisters nor conscientious tivity are among the chief prodis objectors, and perhaps in order to posing causes of pimply blotched
escape the duty some of us might and sallow skin. With the ald of be reduced to the ignominy of Pinketten, the gentle littlo laxa bringing to the tribunal a queue tives and liver regulators, these of ladies by whom we have been lana know of may quickly bo overcome. As a rejected in order to show that we tuberculosis?
A total catch of 54,817,700:- High Sunland or Low? remedy for constipation, billous at have done our best.
pounds of senfish was landed on. tacks and sick headaches Pinket- Where, is the Chancellor to get Government, Professor Dr. Spitzy,
Professor Spitzy will endeavour both coasts of the Dominion of tes are perfection. Your chemist his money. Sir Robert Horne aake one of the greatest Continenta sells them, or post free, 60 cents ed, and then he raised another authorities on the most modern to shed more light on the matter. Canada during December, of aurglen methods, has gone to Hitherto medical science has total value of $931,981 to the put its faith in "the high sun," per vial, from the Dr. Williama laugh by querylag whether it was Egypt to study this question,
fishermen. This compares with Medicine Co., 60, Kiangae Road, to be from some new luxury or
Some time ago Dr. Wiesenthal,and has sent patients to the 64,882,600 pounds of fish, valued' If "the stockinged legs are to sup- of Vienna University, gave a mountaina.
at $992,071, in December, 1925. Shanghal.
port still larger figures."
At the invitation of the Egyptian!