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The lowest apan air temperature Making 1,100 Cigarettes German Revelations of
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DEATH TO GERMS."
a Stolen Document.
FLANDERS CAMPAIGN.
An indescribable sm-fearsome. One of the most astonishing feats MRS. L. MACNIDER.at first, dank like those ghost in the history of spring before the tenanted wells beloved of Dr. James, war-the abstraction of a document
Death of a European' Lady.
of
and
then-like strange vintage
wine. Many little girls in pinafores, from the room of Field-Marshal Sir pretty as pixies, carrying_armfuls William Nicholson then Chief of the of brown cardboardy stuffs from Imperial General Staff, at the War place to place.
Whirring machines, tick-tacking Ofice, Whitehall-is credited to the machines, slow clop-clopping ma- Germans in a new volume of flu chinos, and through the sound of minating "German Diplomatic Do- ger of the Eng, Hok Fong a,. machinery, somehow the croon of euments (1911-14)," a translation
Mrs. Lena MacNider, widow Mr. S. C. MaeNider, formerly mana
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The deceased Indy, who had been auffering from heart complaint for follow the gentle tobacco leaf in October 1911, denis. with the
tousand add miles from this palof which has been published. East London apring afternoon! The story is all the more remark- able because the document, written Right! A cigaretta factory.
some time, became seriously ill on Saturday morning and was taken to hospital. She became worse yes terday and death intervened.
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The Conservative ex-Prime: Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin,
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strategy of the prospective war. It is Major Ostertag, German military attache in London, writes to Berlin, in February 1912:
Out of these crates the tobacco
leaf is tipped into a cavern,
13-
"Chance has thrown into my
called the aweating hands an extraordinary interesting
another.
She is survived by three children, Gladys. Stanley, and Eric, and much sympathy will be felt for them as well as for Mra. MacNider's pleasantly sisters and ether relatives in their room, enraiderably hotter than the letter from one British general to Palm House at Kew, and about as This is obviously to make The funeral takes place this damp.
"The writer of it describes afternoon, passing the Monument at the leaf damp enough to go through
with the next five hectic minutes in detail the views of
officers of or its life without cracking up al-French
high rank together.
war against Germany, in Freed from this torture; it passes connection with which the employ through the hands of little girle,ment of the British Army on the who de-stalk all but about 20 per left wing in combination with cent. of it. And then the grisliest French Army córps is discussed." part of the whole business takes! Major Ostertag explains that the place. The leaves are
car-writer of the letter was General [ried, with merciful swiftness, Townshend (of Kut), whose wife
PRAYING MANTIS.
A Sportsman-Like Insect.
ATTITUDE OF PIETY.
.1. on 1
ness, along moving bands to was French. machines where knives two
.
and
The letter itself, a copy of which
Townshend says that Mordicq
Maubeuge-Mezieres.
Eventa three years later proved that Townshend was right and that
feet square and sharper than pro- Major Ostertag sent to Berlin, is fessional politicians-descend like given in a full translation. guillotines ten times a second, and
Alsace-Lorraine. Should not the praying mantis be cut. them into thin, long strands,
General Townshend, writing to really called the preying mantle, amid a rear like Croydon ait port "My dear Haldane," states in it that Overland China Mail.rightly pointed out that many was a question asked him, said Mr. on a buay afternoon. These knives
ho has had "a long conversation people do not realise what the G. M. R. Hoary.. in a lecture on the ars reground every three minutes.
with Mordacg, of Joffre's ataff, fri
• Mechanical Dusters. British contribution to dis- "praying mantis," before a meeting
Paris "and" he says, "we discussed. So along another baad, at fair the probable zones of operations of armament has been.
of the Ceylon Natural History So- With the ciety held recently in the reading walking pace, and under a revolv the French and German army advent of aerial warfare British room of the Colombo Museum.
ing magnet-which rounds up stray insularity had gone for ever, yet The mantis, he said, had been nails, bits of wire, and so on, with groups in the event of war,"
He mentions.facts about German not because lateely indifference to a container. after the war we virtually scrap-given that name
of its predacious nature. but where the stream is mixed with preparations, and says: "It is a clear indication that the Germans ped our Air Force, reducing because it assumed an attitude "reject" tobacco. This "reject"
would use Alsace-Lorraine as 3,000 machines, to 300 and dis of piety. So much so that in some tobacco is from cigarettes which, banding nineteenths of the per-countries they were objects of later in the game, are thrown out secondary or defensive field in order to contain the French in that for one reason or another-torn
| region," while they would use Bel- sonnel. The same policy has superstitious veneration.
Dlustrating his lecture with paper, torn boxes, and so ĐÙ. been followed in respect of our lantern slides on the general pointa Now, how to take out the grit and gium and Luxemburg at the main
or attacking field " Navy. The agitators for inter-of the mantis, the lecturer said that dust which the crooning. Duskies There are four and a half print- national disarmament will not or it had a mouth of biting type as pulled up with the plant? For cannot see that the case
distinct from the suctorial type such ladies are particular, and the num-ed pages of the letter. of as that of the mosquito, While ber of women who smoke nowadays did not agree that the German main Britain in respect of the some other insects produced a is prodigious, and is ever increasing mass would go through Belgium, Navy is entirely on its own musical noise by rubbing together The tobacco is pushed into, a
and slightly sloping Metz-Verdun line, and that the Bri but, through Luxemburg on the There can be no possible their bodies and their wings, the revolving comparison with the needs of mantis was not a musician at all, cylinder, rather like those terrifying tish Army should stand on the line
the noise produced being somewhat amusements" at exhibitions. the British Navy and those of like the hiss of a snake. In Malaya
Huge teeth catch It the Navy of any other great they were brilliantly coloured in pitchfork it round, while the dust ADAMSON--On May 30, 1931, at Fower. Until this is fully realis-metalic blues and greens. The local is whisked away by a little breeza.. Joffre's staff officer was wrong-
And No-Mistakes. daea were coloured, green, brown, Weybridge, Alice, the bolovod- ed-alike-by-British--statesmen wife of William Adamson, and politicians and by the states and grey, for the purpose of con-The-stuff-row-has-a-purple-future hence the German advance to the
cealment. They had large com- in front of it. If you would see the Marne. men and politicians of other pound eyes and had a very intelll next process you must don dark Major Ostertag tells Berlin that MACNIDER, - At the
nations, the Disarmament Con- gent-look about them. They also blue goggles, or the violet rays the recipient of the letter "must Hospital on Sunday, July 12, ference will be foredoomed to had three small eyes between the which deal death to any germs have lost it." two larger eyes."
It was frequently (while the tobacco whirls round in-pa 1081, Mrs. Lona MacNlder. | failure.
stated that Alles had millions of side another barrel) will give Sadly missed, Funeral will
There have been too much of eyes but it was really one eye with that. Paini Beach complexion you pass the Monument at 5.15
All germs dead, the mixture p.m. to-day, ..
what Mr Ramsay MacDonald a large number of facets which
now ready to be made up, and after calls sentiment and piety already went to form one single eye.
Its antennae vibrated so quickly a day's quiet relaxation It is taken clouding the issue of inter- that only a blur could be seen across to cofner where narrow General Sir Aylmer Haldane that It rolls of paper, each about two and the German military attache con national disarmament. In the These took the place of its nose.
"General Haldane handed Gen- Slade desire to thank sincerely all
Alra. W. A. Hannibal and Mr. matter of protecting Britain's had a double series of strong spikes a-half miles long, loll-about waiting lecture is quito Incorrect
on the femur of its forelegs which, to encompass. It♫*
eral Townshend's letter to General friends who sent messages of aym- overseas Possessions and of safe was an efficient implement for it to While It is waiting, the paper Sir William Nicholson in the War pathy and floral tributes and all guarding their trade routes in seize Ite prey with.. The mantis gata, itself stamped-gummed, and who attended the funeral of Mr. peace as well as in war there can covered up its eggs with an alter, licked, and then, as the tobacco mice. The latter probably tore it nate series of mucus, which protect passes through a narrow tube, it up and threw it into the wastepaper. be no room for sentiment or
ed them from ordinary enemies but Teaps out and coila itself round it basket, whance undoubtedly it piety: What will-profit still fur was sufficiently porous to enable air. The whole thing would now eventually came into the hands of
Major Ostertag." concessions on the part of to go through. It killed its prey emerge, as one continuous cigarette Sir Arimer is a nephew of the Great Britain if other nations for food and dispatched its victim ("rejects": from this machine art "Peace Rally”
cannot respond in proportion to in a neat and sportsmanlike manner. sometimes many yards long) were late Viscount Haldane, the War
They were divided into three It not cut up eleven hundred Him Minister at the time. their importance on the mup of main groups, the twig mimics, the a minute into cigarettes i What has been described by the world? There lies the whole feat and flower mimics and the bark! Once cut up and shot out, the rabid jeers at the King and British cigarettes are gathered and weigh statesmen penned by the Kaiser, the British Prime Minister as a crux of any Disarmament Con- and lichen mimica.
or next The mantis was not of any im-ed-no, not separately and passed and for many comments by the Kai- unique- gathering in support of ference either, next year or next mediate direct use to man but help to another machte whore, in ser declaring his bollef that it was one of the greatest causes that decade, and no amount of demon-ed to maintain the balance of na- twenties, or it may be in tens, they certain England would fight against
strations, processions, and ture, preying on other insects.
aged 69.
Kowloon
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the people was held in the Albert Hall, London, on Saturday." There was some sound sense expressed —and, of course, a great deal of arrant nonsense. The vast Ona non-Chinese case of typhoid fever was notified over the week- majority of us to day are ardent
end pacifista. None of us wants to
see another wor
world war, The The opening of the new building Prime Minister aaner than usual the National City Bank of New on this question, & did well to
DETTE WAT York at No. 2 Queen's Road Central will take place on Saturday at 11:30
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