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5. RUSSIAN INTERNAL EUROPEAN ASSISTANT for local

SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 FOR

ROUBLES 8,000,000,000

Turid tone 11th November THE Subscription to the nbors LOAN

to 28th December, 1916

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A BRAYE AND INDOMITAELE FIGHTER.

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THE RUMANIAN SOLDIER. have just another volley at the bruter

of Bulgars, their ever hated enemy.

COFRADE AND CHEERFULNESS. ' Nor is it only the peasant who is such a good soldier Amodg the regimente at Tartukai was one recruited in Bucha- rest, in the ranks of which are to be found all the apaches, comer ads, and He would hardly do for the Long" such like wild-fowl" of Bucharest. No Valloy. But, then, be, or those who one regiment did better than this one make him, do not intend him for show, or criminal the moment he puts on his

whatever he be-

peasant, judge -Boyar, The primary idea is work, and this idea uniform he is a soldier not on the outside only, but through and through. Nor is is followed to the last. As a res the dandy offcer, whom the tourist or man I do not suppose there is any occasional visitor to the capital always soldier of any other land to whom he saw, any but a fighter. He is proving eaprot, when necessary, give points and splender leader of his men, and, where a beating, and he will do it on a scrap necessary, displays reckless courage, ad of maize meal boiled but a few minutes, a dozen tales from both frontiera con-

firm. and a little ditch-water. On service, it The wounded, back in some hundreds is true, he is fed on black bread and from Turtukai, show a wonderful spirit. soup, made of beans with a little, a vors and all ask to be cured of their wounds little, meat, and when he has this, he, to get back at the "bngands of Bulgara," as they serm there. There is reason for the peasant soldier at least, thinks he is this adjective. In Rumanian Dobrudju faring royally, for at bomo the aforesaid in the Bulgarian villages, when it

WAS maize porridge is all he eats, with known that war was declared against perhaps, or onion or so now and then let it be noted, and not

inhabitants, without and, if he is very lucky, a bit of meat on vious warning, attacked the weak parties pre- them with THE Undersigned having been appointed Sundays and holidays. The Ramanian of Rumanian

ADENTS for the COWIE HARBOUR peasant does not speak of meal times scythes, hatchets, knives or what not, inflicting handreds of feariul wounds, the COAL CO., LTD., sr. prepared to quote he has no specific word for breakfast, women, and even children, joining in the prices for best quality SILIMPOPON dinner, or supper. He says it is time butchery of the military, who were help- GUAL trimmed into Bunkers at SEBAT for "mamaliga," his word for the maize less against these latter. Food he is ever ready for Bornec

HANKOW,

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CANTON...

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way of equipment and ammunition than Steamers calling at SEBATTIK or any other. Earopean soldier, with no BANDARAN exclusively for SILIMPmusic of the band to cheer him; only, PUN COAL (either cargo or Bankers) are exempt from payment of al Fort Perhaps, some of the soldiers may play their native wooden whistles, or they will join in chorus in the old war songs of long ago in their peasant ditties.

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One other trait of this Rumanian soldier is his wonderful patience and few days hundreds of wounded have every imaginable tinet hospitals with

kind of.

They bavo travelled all the way by motor or rail, yet no word of complaint. They all grateful for all that is done for them. ORINKIANG: Messrs Gearing & quietly hear their agony, and are deeply Let me tell one fact. A doctor was about to remove the arm of a soldier,

Jo.. by shell. "Now the chloro- Forty 33

the surgeon wid

Ab, no, never MANILA. Messrs Macondray & mind, sir" replied the soldier. "The

Co. they fired the shell at me, did. SINGAPORE: Mesars Borneo Co. campaigning of a "mignonette" grean Arma have been chopped off and other

Ltd. In summer be wears a loose hol- and blouse; at other seasons the tanie nameless horrors perpetrated by these GLASGOW. Messrs A. R. Brown and trousers are of a thick serge. The taken in the fighting for this, but not on fiends in human form. A heavy toll is blouse and tunic have two breast pockets

McFarlane & Co., Ltd, with buttons, and two in the skirt, slanted the women and children, for the Ruman-

meet his hands. Bis footgent

ian is a clean fighter, if a terribly fierce is a poir of heavy, comfortable lace boots, reach-ne, when be gets to grips with his tradi ing over his ankles, in which his trousers, tional enemies-Daily Chronicls.

purpose, Bed a

He is zot very beautiful, this Rumanian Buis bour). Prices, and all other information soldier, but he looks workmanlike, andrs did not give me chioroform

application to the Agents.

Agerta Cowie Harbour Coal Company, Limited.

BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,

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narrowed down for the

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JAPANESE MAKERS, home. This idea is borrowed from his

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

neighbour and Arch garian, with whom he is now at grips. In fact, his whole equipment is the outcome of careful study of that of other actions.

haversack is of

rch enemy, the Hun-

into a

til water bottle of tin) fit canvas," the on the outside of it and thus ket

Baving a

strap. His knapsack is of strong canvas,

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Preparations are being made by the

much the colour of his uniform, and Peking suthorities for the convention of a he carries his ammunition in four elip pockets much as his new ally, the British national anti-opium conference, sessions weapon is the Mana of which will begin on the 10th of Fand short bayonet.

Becerabor. Circular despatches have beer issued to the different provinces instructing the Governors and other anti-opium bodies to despatch delegates to confer with the Government on the subject of the wholesale suppression of the evil, the time for effecting this being fixed for the third month of next year -Peking Gazette.

I said his footgear was the ankle boot but he also wears in preference, when bia commanders and the weather allow, the native sandal with thongs tiod half way up his calt, and admirable for marching it is, except in wet weather, when it slips. The cavalry, too, have adopted patties... always of the same colour sa the uniform.

is

He is as brave as a lion, this Rumanina soldier, and whether he be the very epick

and span officer from Cales Victoria, or the rough pesant from the Baragan or the Olt, all have in their veing a certain amount of the same blood as flowed.in Trajan's legionaries, for from these Roman colonists that they descend and of which they are so justly proad; wherefor he is s bonny fighter, Only now at Turtukai, against five times their number of Bulgars, and Germans, for four days and nights they fought anceasingly, most of them, it is proudly to related, rever able to stop to eat or

only getting an occasional drink along when a lull in the frightful fighting occurred, never having a moment's rest to touch the food

stopped brought to them.

800 MILLIONS IN DRINK SINCE WAR BEGAN.

£500,000 ́ ́á, DAY SFENT IN INTOXICANTS.

Mr Donald Maclean, Deputy Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons, speaking at Manchester recently at the Lanual public meeting of the United til spending half a million pounds a day on intoxicants--a waste and an evil deterrent influence.

There were half a million people

Lecture of this deadly stuff. It was by eve-witnesses, were piled up breast was occupying the railway wagons by occupying tonnage on the high seas; it high before the Kemaman trenches, for the hundred, if not by the thousand, the inuolating system of the GermaYS

drink for three days and thread Kingdom Allianca, said the country was

If

a moment

I was told by were on us I WER the wounded back from the great

they

oce

of

The dead Bulgars and Boches, it is played every working day in the m

necessities of life, alfan

was used here once again, with dishgances forcing up the prices of the trous effects on the attackers. NeoBcial On the motion of Mr Leif Jones, M.P figures are given, but anything like ten seconded by Dr Haleeby, a resolution was to fiftere hocsand dead is talked about passed urging the Government to pro and cannot, if not absolutely correct, behibit the manufacture, expert, import far aboet of the mark. One wants and common mia of" infricating liquöns better proof of valour than this. It was during the war and for six months after- only when very heavy artillery was wards, or failing that to take a brought up and turned on the devoted referendum Rauaniar, tranches that a withdraval Mr. Leif Jones mid the waste caused; Was Lecounty, and oven then the remdhently and indiesctly, by drink H nants of those he had fought so stub-since the outbroe's corld not be less than born beged with tears in their eyes to 800 millions sterling,

For Farticulara, apply to

K. KATO,

Manager.

No. 2, PEDDER STAZYT.

Hongkong.

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