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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

NEWS FROM HOME.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

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description along that line, but will in-Chiet in India. He does not add that all the day and the next believe that the Clerman defences an the scene was such as the leafy the Wert ostend very far, and he glades of Hertfordshire had never knows his German well. Es ar348 seen before It is estimated that on that the Gennan officer will never Sunday half a million people visited build deep rusarves of trenchess the scene, sweeping like locusts from because the Gorman troops, if they all points of the compass Roads knew they had plenty of trenches to were choked with vehicles, all fall back per-buld promtly fall refreshments were gone long before back! They are made to understand noon and the plight of the late they must hold what they have got, comers was pitiable in the extreme, for the Ritful weather that is prevail ing just now gave an exhibition of quarters, whore, most knows dova its sorriest mood. Roads and fiskla one realise the confidence that prat were churned into mud of quite vails among the thier as to the out- singular adhesiveness, and the trains come. at the nearest stations proved utterly with that without giving information I cannot go much further inadequate to deal with the travellers, that might aid the enemy.

Again at nightfall I motored out, and all the way the road was a mask

and fight to a finish?

The one entrates into

CAUTION.

LONDON, September 8...

THE GREAT SPECTACLE. At about twenty past two last Sunday morning the greatest shout the world has ever heard rent the air, For all London and the surrounding country and been roused by the

Due

sound of anti-aircraft guns, and then, London

circle of forty miles of 1916.

territory, ans. visfile the great The searchlights picked Nov, 36 spectacle. Dec. 17 up & great Schutte-La airship—one Dec. 34 of thirteen that assailed these islands

1917-

Which reminds me of the case of of struggling humanity. Hundreds įv that night-and suddenly the guns had gone out thinking to have the impetuous lady whose daughter Jaa.. T

ceased, following the appearance of pleasant walk for a Sunday after became engaged to a naval officer. Jan. 28 A coloured light in the sky. Anoon, then to return in confort by The prospective mother-in-law of the Feb. 11 Feb. 15 moment of tenso expectation, and train. They were terribly disillu- officer immediately clapped an a

nouncement into the papers, men Mar, 11 then a sudden blaze of fame that

The nearest station was a seething toning even the ship on which the Mar. 18 illuminated London so brilliantly that mob of people that fought for a place officer was serving. As nothing had one could read small print in the in the trains Thousands were left been allowed to reach the enemy as street.

Then a great ball of fame when the last return train bad gone.

to this ship having been even com No accommodation and no food missioned. the authorities were very shire field.. The raider, everybody remained in the locality, Agonized angry. The officer is the unhappiess then knew had been set on fire by appeals by telephone to London for man in the Navy, and the lady is bomb from a British acroplane. On taxicabs to be sent at any cost met being besought to hold her tongue for that the volume of cheering was such with little avail, for London itself the future. as never has been heard before, and was suffering from a farnine in taxi- Į maybe never will again, for it must cabs, the demand having been so be rare indeed that a fight will be great for the outward journey all day fought before so

measureless along, and petrol nowadays being multitude

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Many people had gained tidings of an expected raid and so did not go to bed at all. Others; roused by the guas, made huste to gain the street. And, as the airship was 12,000 feet above the earth when the fight took place, it was visible to all Never in all the world's history has there ever been such a gigantic rework display

It happened like this. When the warning was given that a raid was on the way, a young lieutenant named R(officialdom inists on obscurity even in this matter) went up from

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night of mist and darkness to await developments. Presently he saw the and misery, for to walk that night, turned on the scandal of delay in airship outlined over the Northern was a penance yen for the strong making war pensions available, has Eeights, just north of London, trying and wall shot Towards midnight led to an attempt to stir up the to evade the eye of the "searchlights they were still himping into Barnet, Chelsea Commissioners against that had picked it up. Away went seven miles away, with miles more whose methods that fine old aristo PALEMBANG, the aviator in pursuit. So intent to walk before they couki get arrat, Sir Frederick-Milner, has made PEKALONGAN.. were the Huna to get their airship vehicle to take them home.

éo splendid, a fight on behalf of the PONTIANAK,

PERANG Lout of sight that they did not see the Souvenir hunters were so keen that stricken soldiers 24 pursuer until he was close behind and

There is energy in the reforms now Madma Pandicherry, Calcutta, Bangkol Correspondents at Bombay, Colombe underneath. He managed to empty of Guards, spectat constables and in progress, but it is admitted that Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy, Toko one tray of ammunition into her from regular constabulary, there was much great ccnfusion and delay prevail. ham Babe Melbourne, Sydney, Net his Lewis gun before they could get carrying away of fragments, and so When the war broke out, the staffray Son Bus The Unjon

there had to be an official notice that dealing with pensions numbered Tess London and Smiths Bank, Limited..

BANKYES 2– Then he edged off, rose rapidly and everything must be returned, as the than a dozen, and it dealt with about The Bank bays and sells and receive ship. "Dropping his signal for the airship as far as possible. One toostly women, bave since been letters of expert on 15 Bash on th succeeded in getting above the air experts wished to reconstruct the 100 cases a week. Some 400 clerks, for collection Bills of Exchange istres Rs below to cease firing, he let go remarkable thing about it was the engaged, but time was necessarily correspondents in the East, on thi with bombs on to the rider and then amount of wood used. It may be a required to instruct them in their and Australia, and transacta bankin Continent, In Great Britain, America he had to hustle to get clear of the proof that the Huns are short of duties, and meantime claims have business of every description The airship staggered for a moment, This whole affair Las been the thousands a week. The result is the Blames that shot up hundreds of feet. aluminium.

been coming in at the rate of several then the flames.ran full length of greatest sensation for Londoners in department has been snowed under. her. A moment more and shemy, recollection, and as it appears. The congestion is aggravated, by the seemed to buckle up. Then there that a second of the maiding vessels way the cases are dealt with, first by THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE was an explosion, and her petrol was so damaged near the East Coast the regimental depots and then by tanks, bursting, the great flame shot that if fell into the North Sex near the Record Office before they reach.j up that lightened all London. the Dutch coast, it is likely that the the commissioners. Probably a new Gradually she suck, and then another Germans will have taken full note explosion sent her bose down to the of our improved defences. earth, just missing "o farmhouse in the out-of-the-way village of Cuffley; near Potters Bark

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