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Brussels Sorrowing Subjects Waiting For Last View Of Sovereign.
Brussels-Thousands of loyal subjecte waited for hours on the streets approaching the Royal Palace for a inst glimpse of their beloved ruler, King Albert, who plunged from a rocky crag to a precipitate death on a hiking trip. The above picture is the first actual photo of the saddened Belgians standing in lue at the Brussels Palace,
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5,309 | 14th Apr. | Spore, Penang. Colombo, Bombay & betrayed him into this. So that sud- toward him he went floundering and
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PERMANENT
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ed. With me huge last heave he At that moment he got mad. It hauled the two who still clung to hint, Lapest up in him, a racing, cold burstļup behind him into the shallows, pitch- * anger, against all of them, againsting them anyhow. And with a shout this, against life itself, that bad that turned those two receding faces
denly, with every ounce of weight he swashing and curring out. Into could manage through this new power deep from which he had so painfully REORGANISATION OF SYSTEM Bombay, Marseilles, Harre, London, anger, he dug that foot deeper into crawled. It was too much, that's what
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
solidity, with the water beating against it was. It was too much.
Cape Town. Huli.
his closest tids, and yanked back, once. "Swim, damn
you, he yelled at
The military training of South Bombay, Marlies & London.
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lone moment it seemed to him that he I'm coming." Bombay Marseilles, Havre, London, would never breathe air again, that He hardly notired that the entered on more efficient lines, and the Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & he could not budge them, or move hin-was again around his shoulders. The system at present in practice is to Hall.
self.
with be extended and generally tighten- twu were hustirring themselves, Yet, even while he thought that, he an occasional arm over. His own rage ed up. was furcing the line of his body back was in his ears, in his eyes, so that Bombay. Marselles, Havre, London, ward, with his gropping other foot, by he could see nothing but these out- Details were given in an inter-
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & some aniracle, he touched sand also stretched hands, soaked
Hu
white and view by Major-General A. J. E. To diy that in his breath ached in pulpy, to which his own were extend-Brink, Secretary for Defence. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
bir lungs. But the sand held, and
and d. They came nearer, and he went Bombay Marsellles, Hoste, London somehow his body had wright
Under the new method perman- Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & some faint resistance effective against wave, almost from under his fingers, ent A. C. F. training camps
and nearer and they were caught away by
wil the undercurrent. He took
another So that without knowing at all that he be provided at the centres of the Marseilles & London. stride backward, feeling the pull of the did an, Hammond hurled himself for various commands where troops Bombay Marseilles, Havre, London foundering bodies, staring unseeingly ward violently, clean of the bottom, will be in training practically all
Hamburg. Rotterdam. Antwerp & into their stretched eyes. His head into a void of water that somehow the year round. Thombus. Marseilles & London.
He could breathe deeply, and that kicking it until his right hand closed ried him, floundering, beating it down, Buhay. Marseilles & London. Bomba, Marseiller, Havre, London, use his strength for another long on the girl's thin wrist and he had is in provide for more efficient or
step backward, and the sand Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & somehow held.
below them both.
ganisation of the youths living in Hull.
He never knew exactly how he got All his attention, all his will, all his feet of the bottom under his toes the country districts, where plat- Dombay, Marseilles & London.
clenched, aroused anger, were focused again. But it happened. And he rose oons will be formed in each area. on that one thing, his fouthold on what resently and waded, cut into the
The scheme is in no way an in- was earth. Time hoved with terrible Slowness or stopped altogether, while lor, carrying the girl and being novation: It is merely the putting hileiutched about the shoulders by the into practice the provisions of the ita backward fighting font dug heel in, and the other
painfully pussed it, so that he could transfer his weight, the sand, shaking a good deal, with revival of the system in force in All four lay flat on their faces on Defence Act of 1912, and it is a Rut as if the almost imperceptible progress he was making and the great their eyes shut. The limpest girl was 1913 and 1914, which was upset gasps of air that went into his lungs suddenly very sick, with having swal-by the outbreak of the Great War.
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was out.
gave
had cleared his sight, he saw again the
1-03%
lowed too much sen water.
But Hammond did not lie down,
The main idea of the new scheme.
faces of these four young winners He strode on and down between the In future recruits will have to turned, every one of them, upon
"They were
white faces, parchm
four: bedraggled young people and the undergo 30 days of camp training| white, under the glistening wet,
telling and damnable sea.
it what le in place of 10-days of camp train- they were lined us fith years of thought of it," anguish. The cheekbones stood
When
there was nothing left that ing as at present.
Trained men, men In their second) guuntly, and the lines of the upper realise that a weakness was running and third
he could think of to say, he began to lower laws. He felt a faint surprise
year of service, will have to do 15 days in camp. In addition, both recruits
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not quite no young as they had first trained men will have to do a few One boy and the girl whose hand seemed to him, and a glaze of ozelte-days of non-continuous training in he clutched were still thrashing vague-jment was beginning to smoulder in the districts in which they live.
with their legs. Her eyes were their eyes. The girl in the flame-
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would be concentrated for manoeu that she was shouting at him. Over You certainly saved our lives," she vras, will be held probably every and over she was saying, "Oh, get back sid excitedly. "What marvellous three or four years, when the -please-piense get back-the under-tuck for us that you could swim." fow's-gol us."
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boys up. "You mean-you "Hold your head up out of that swim 7" water." he yelled suddenly and the "It's perfectly stupid," Hammond rasp in his voice carried to her and said miserably. "I've always wanted The New Zealand Shipping Company's stramers for Southampton and she lifted her head feebly and breath to learn. But I guess I was always a Lendon vin Ponama Canal.
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(Continued from Puge R). can't and being "fashionable." No. won- der they think the sophisticated "triangle drames" of the movies a lot of disgraceful nonsense,
and
ask for red-blooded Westerns for their five pence on Saturday night) I shall never feel tired again,
ed, with her mouth helplessly open. Bort of coward about the sea."
"Don't give up now" he kept on "You mean you-Bill and Arther, shouting, pulling them, pulling them, did you hear what he said? He can't pulling them, one step and then an-swim. And he walked out into that ather step, shoreward. "Don't give water and got us all--and he went and nervous and irritable, without up now. Eve got my feet-on the back for Harriet and Arthur-oh, yes, a guilty recollection of those ground."
you did and you couldn't swim-you courageous women of the northern It was somehow true. Firm sand couldn't"
towns, and feel ashamed of weak- was under his heels, giving solidity to The girl called Harriet lifted her-i his weight. The water was
feably from the sand and star-ness. The pleasant frivolities up only up self
of
ConversR
Lo his chest and with every inch that ed at him. The two boys gazed at him life will never seem so Important he moved buckward he rose also from solemnly. The girl in fiame colour to me again, after the the ses fate where is body
the free delicious air began to cry, sniffing a little, with ations I have heard in back kitchens
Was Heavy and had laughing mouth.
power. With every step also the That's the bravest thing I ever in Yorkshire and the inarticulate anger in him was a stronger power, card of in my life," she said sharply, loyalities I have seen of which He tugged viciously at the girl's hand and flung her arms around his neck women are supposed to be incap in his and so at the whole chain, that and robbed on his shoulder, floated and kicked feebly with some It made it al the more complicated
for him that one boy was solemnly
lable.
Women In the North are inclin- renewed stirrings of effort.
With his free arm he caught the shaking his right hand and arm while ed to take their pleasures hard, alionider of the girl whose wrist be the other one slapped him, great sling, but that is because work is hard, held and pulled harder. The grey old ing slaps, that brought the aroused and life hard too, and you need a look was leaving her face. Brightness blood tingling along his veins. The core of steadfast hardness to keep was coming back to her eyes. But still thought he was brave-why, good
.
泡
sise said to him, over and over, "Dan't heavens, they thought he was braval your grip on it. They have let ooh, please, please don't let "Oh, but I'm not he said sharply, grandeur, an unadorned dignity
The sand bolew, his feet was shelv. through a mouthful of wet black hair that other women lack.
a "Here, you mustn't. I'm
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into that, soothing green and while then dumbly." They all laughed, for memory of it would be a part of him,
That was when the anger that, moy-gether, hakily, and the warmth, was ould be like a secret tree and store in which she started P. O. Box, No. 628, HONG KONG. ed in Hammond, boiled up and axplod. In him and' about him, of the approval | nothing could take away.
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