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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1918,

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CULINARY MYSTERIES.

Cemedy of a Dainty Breskizai. In Camp,

The attempt by trained souther fronts to give the men a trend for braak. fist þed to sa incipient musing on August

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The authorition appose to have heard of weird dishes held in great favour in that district, in which cheese, milk,alio. onions, butter mad bicos figuro in varioux Fame combinations, and in "order to give the Flors

**PLAIN ENGLISH A HANDICAP."oldiers a tent and remind them of Hampshire

Growing Dhregard of Plain Speech.

Hang, Sweet Home, a brockfast dainty, Kinahs of onions and abecas cooked, and milk, Merlin was padered to be prepared.

Minataar Unfortunately the Army ecoka" “had The policemen who, according to Mr.

Monmouth Danford Thins's dictum at Southack never heard of such dishes, much less had conde's curt, do not spen's clearly, expertise in preparing them, and when Moorhen bumps they have got inte tus way of the weird conecting they prodneed was Newcastle. holding up their hands to stes teaffle, in-sea bofors the 900 hungry young men Nightingase tead of shouting," and a vigoros de wha were expecting their favourite dia Otter feneo ang the learned experts on will tho air became full of maledictions, and the men thirsted for the blood of speech.

the cooks..

Sis Britannic Majesty's Ships on the China Station.

900! Et.-Comdr. B., & Prichard

Lient. Comir. W. H. Darwell

£7,000

Cipt. R. B. Kiddle

Clam

Gun JELP.

Comin

despach verse!

1650

2000

Admiralty tng".

Comdr. Archibald Oschraas Mascer W. Want

river gunbost

710

river gunboat

710

..900

Clacions Cherub

sloop.

1070-

1400

Comar. H. P. E. `T: Williams)

water tank and tag

300

300

Master H. Smith

aloop

1070

1-400

Comde, Galia Mackenzie. D 8.0.

borpedo best destroyer

360.

cruiser, 2nd cla

4360

7000

Capt. C. F. Corbett, M.V.Q.

cruiser, 1st clana

10,850

10-20,500

Capt. 31. R. THE

river gunboat sloop

1200

14. Comér, H. D Marrysh·

Yangtmic

Capt F. C. C. Panoo

cruiser, Jad plans oruiser, 1st class river gunboat crainer, 2nd class liver gunboat.

14,000

9800

$3,000.

Capt B. H. F. Barttalob

180

2

Titi-Con. Alan Dixon

Cante

1800

12 £2,000

85

240

torpedo bost destroyar

350

8... 6900

Bibble

torpedo boat destroyer

890

7000

Boario Robin"

depot ship, sharicen

980

· 1400

river gunboat

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១.

840

river gun bosi

85

PLO

river gun bost

24

$

240

Lt. Comdr. Maurice B. Lesbia

torpedo boat destroyer

350

$

4500

Gunaor W. H Byder

receiving ship

$850

190

river gunboat

710

900

torpedo-bost destroyer

500

7600

torpedo bost destroyer torpedo-boat destroyer torpedo bost destroçar river gunboat

355

500

B

$900

7500

5806 5900

Lt. Comdr. R. Neville

195 2.

800-

Đến đi thi Fi Barrett

150

9

600

Lá-Com. HL. Blackwood

150

*

500

Lit Comdr. Lloyd

Policemen, they prins, cut, aro by no menns the only public servante ho fall to observe the sculemic nieties of the art of speech Omaibus ocnductors, with heir Dilly-benk-pull-atro, railway porters who strident call reacblas refused to leave their wets until they Tamar string of high-pitched invitive more than a list of stations where the train stópo; waitors who shout "coe bot pea the stairs when they really moon eut from the hot joint for one customer, with portica of peas; and he itinerant subur. in sweep whose peculiar call suggests a Channel crowing, are only low ex- amples of the numerous classes who find plain, ordinary English s handicap to their business.

At last moes of the battalion made the bit breakfast they could of tea and Sandpiper bread, but A company were not so casily Snipe pensed. They wanted breakfast, and Taka

up

London, in fact, is becoming inarticu. Iste and a Daily Chronicle representative, who discussed this growing disregard of plain speech with University experts, was surprised to find they strongly defended

it:

Language is merely a means a mak. ing oneself understood, and on leng as the waiter, the wep, and the drill str. grant wel barks his orders of parade, muke it known clearly what they want, is there any cause for openplaint?" asked Mr. Daniel Johes, lecturer on Phoostics nt University College, London, and at tise University of Oxford. All these classes are used to talking among them selves in their own particular way, and they are perfectly understood. Tho general public, even if they do not sponk this: cines diplocte,' understand them,

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had had an adequate substitute for the Teal dish, which they docisrodno berriztis wate." They would not put on their jackets, neither would they take up their arms. When the warning bugla for Viragü

Welland parado sounded the state of anity was communicate to the officers, and a hasty Whiting visit to the stores resuled in a compro Widgeon mir, puts of marmalade being quickly Woodcock issued and the offending dishes with Woodiark drawn. The boys grumbled, but accepted to exchange and by the time the bugie C.38 to parade sounded they had demolished C.57 ware in the ranks, satisfod at having had alk that was possible of the preserve and | 0.58.

,035 better breakfast than at one time seem- 'ed likely, but still angry at having been.038 thwarted of their favourite dish. It was .097

stated that the cooks, not certain of the .058

**drowned out**

proper mode of proparing the dish, had ut in water, or too much of it, and the delicacy of the In view of the cheese sed enions threats made they are refusing to st. tempt any more culinary mysterien und are confining their attention strictly to

baked and boiled meat and potatoes.

PRINCE ARTHUR'S NEW HOME.

Ware Prince Artinn of Connaught and nevertheless. We got struned to them; he bride return from their honeymoon it is like putting musis into another key,ir. November, next their Royal High- the air remains perfectly recgnisable."'

THE LONDON KIMPER."

river gunboat

river gun boat river gunboat

submarine submarine

torpedo, bost

torpedo boat

torpedo boat

torpedo bost

Capt. Frederick A Pureletb

Lent Com Malcolm Mamy!

Lt. Comdr. R. Wilkinson

Là-Condy, RJ; G. Mackinnon

Comdr. NJBL Aroidala L-Cond. Nash

I-Com. I. A. 8. Hation

Commodore R. EL. Analuther, C.M.)

14. Conde. Hon. G. Stopford -Upper 14. Com H. R. N. Cottrell-Dormer

It Conde, Maxwell

Lieut. Com. Boddam-Whetham

Comdr. Beymour

Lt. Comdr. F. J. McGillawie

La-Comdr. J. Gaimès

La. Comdr. R. E. 0. Poper

Lt. Comdr. Handley...

Weib

Upper Yam

Yang Cam

HongeBo Hongkong Hongkong

Weak R

Lt. Comdr. Stilenau

Lt. Comdr. Nicol

Lt. Comdr. B. W. Seymour

*Flagship of Vice Admiral T. H. M. Jerram, C.B., Commander-in-Chis!

1. Mr. Jones, who has had great experi. Prince! having arranged through Messrs. ence thtening down accent and dialectic Wilson and Gray to take a tenanes of peculiarities, was asked whether univer. Moust Street, Park-lane, London. Kleber

Decidée sal pure speech would not be an advan-This mansion, which is the present re tage as making a more harmonious Lou-siistes of the Earl of Plymouth, over.

Tools Grosvenor House and the park. Argus. don, and less a city of babel.

Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station.

Bongbon Hongkong

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Captains

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400

Capt. H. Nauta

Blumengebum

Dupleix t

French armoured cruiser

French anpoured cruiser Franch gunboat

20,014 9730

90 20,000 -12-19,800-

Capt. Davelny

Hongkong

Capt. Goate

Hongkong

10

1300

Laut. Vandier

Saigera

French river gunboat

180

670

Lout. Dardet

-Gambon-

French gunbost

**300*

Limb, de Jervillier "

„Chabon

French gumbost

Lieut. Collin

Tongku

French gunbost

Lieut. Dupuy Datamps

Our Hensus of the picturesque would One of the many notable features of the Vigilante suffer from, the ban on variety," he re- house is a magnificent marhjo staŝteano

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Lancashire thinks that the accent which jars so much on the Lon doner is the right and best way of sponk

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on in Florence. Half-way ay, on the Doudard de Ingres loggia is a Burne-Jones fresco painted

in the clusivo blues and greys beloved

by that artist. His Interrupted Dream"

+ Flagship of Rear Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chist," the French China Station.

French sub-marina"

Lient. Bolnix

› French sub-mazing

French armoured gunboat 1798 10

Franch destroyer

$50

1700

303.

Lieut. Guillaina-Loris

Lieut. Aurillac

1307 900

507

300 16.95

Cap de Frigate Ronisen

Comdr, de Marqueseur

French destroyer

French destroyer

French destroyer

French surveying-shup

Comde. Totain

• Flagship of Capy. (Comandora' Boucléant, Commanding the local defecam (nds China

ing English avery dialectic prosince one of the two pictures which are the La

ink the same. Daly the other day a sole mural decoration of the ball-room. Protes man in the Midlands wrote to me to say The white walls are set off by white abys that I spoke with a nauseating London more curtains draping the windows,

Fronde simper "Some little time ago I was and from the ceiling is suspended ́s. engaged with a Lancashire professional priceless chandelier of old Venetian glass. I'berville man who had obained an appointment The house was built by Lord Plymouth Pistolet in London, and wanted to tone down his on the Italian palace plan, and there natiya accent to what we in London on are certianly few palaces on the Con- Mousquet sider good English speaking, But it was tinent with which it will not bear very Manthe

The reception. au almost hopeless task. He could pot favourable comparison. help saying Bad "for bod. "Bud" roces are of immenas dire. One is in for bad. Bood" for bud. When I pale, blus and the other dark blue with asked him to say," " That docent motorate gildings and mouldings. Another ter," be would say, Thut doorn't mut-room is camelled in groom, the furniture Gnaisenan

Iltis ter Now, by taking him to the other being covered in silk brocade of the "ume extreme, and exaggerating the London tint. The stucco friesc in this apart Jaguar

Leipzig way of prosourcing it, like this: "The meat is a supurb piece of work, com- dasn't metter." I get him to say the posed of leves and cherubs holding ger Luchs phrase correctly. But the very fat time and all in deep relief, some of the Karaburg he went back to Lancashire they laughed Agures nearly 3ft "in height. at him for what they regarded as an abu 1:

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Emden

German crest

German cruiser

3600

German armoured cruiser 11,600

German gumboeb··

900

22 13,500 56 24,000 --12-1800

Capt. Restorff

Caplan Bruninghans

Comdi. Y, Goaren

German gunbost

German cruiser

German gunbost

900

3400

900, 19 1300 411,000 1980

29:13,200

>

Comdr. Vansslow. Cape Behacks

Otter

Scharnhors

8.90

Taki

Tsingtau

German river gunboat German Fagship: German torpedo-boat- German torpedo boat, German gunboat German Ever gunboat.

11,800 400

(38) 26,000"

15506

Capt. Tamit. Berroberg

8000

Obiti z. §7 Claassens

Comdr, Böcker

1300

Capt. J. Frar. Speth v. Schalsbury

Vaterland

500

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When a coal coman was summoned at Tiger One of the oddities of pronounciation | West London Police Cours réocitly for is the difficulty o always experiences | dangerous dziving the constable in charge in making out what an operatic star is of the cons, failed to recognise the most singing about; whether it is in English, who answered to the defendant's name.

Italian, or German, the words are equally Tha constable said this was not the man,

Jerman rirər gün bost

Italian cruiser

Adamastor Macus

· Portuguesa, cruiaor

Fortugniw gunbost

Paris

Portuguese runboss

unintelligible. Mr. Jonce attributes this and the magistrate ondered a fresh atm- to the fact that music is taught by for- moms against the mal offender. eign exporte who cannot prescribe Eng-A little later, amid laughter, & police sh, and audio their pupils say balvo" pootorid the table was now foe have," S

satisfind that the man who appeared. In "If singers would only sing as they sout was the one he coment to summon, talk, we should understand them per- and that the failure to recognise his wm At footly," Mr. Janou said. ** But veriations due to the defendant having since their | A-4′′ innocent are" slmost entirely a matter last meeting cleaned his dust begrimeda-6

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samo. Consequently, when, in singing, Upon this the man, looking rathe tiss syllables son often a long way apart; downeast, was, brought back into court

tho familiar, conectant - sounds de not and fined 10-

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