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YOUR INSPECTION

THERE

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LOST FOUNDATION STONE

There haa been speculation on what has

the foundation atone of Waterlod Bridge

It is known that it was laid by Mr Henry Swan, M.Fr, on October 11, 1811, and it has been rumoured that treasure was buried with it.

So far none of the engineers con- cerned in the demolition of the bridge has been able to discover exactly where the stone

The November number the Monthly Magazine" for the year 1811, will perhaps solve the mystery.

CUPER'S BRIDGE

WAR IN THE

THE EAST NEVER ENDING MENACE

OF THE WOLVES

TRAGEDIES OF EUROPE

WINTER

Kom

AND ASIA

(By Geoffrey Pinnock)

wolves killed sin ripping the throat out of one gen→ who were on their way darme and severely lacerating from school at Irkutsk three others. The animals, fren- zied with cold and hunger, made READ the news item only the hut, and were only at length driven

repeated rushes against the guard.

otheridaYi

thousand

the

sin Asia, but along a of a hand-grenade. ...."

off by rifle, fire and the throwing

The village wolf conference was

Wolf Patrols

mile front stretching

In Russia an attempt has been altic to the Black Sea

to compile statistics of the peasants of Central and East damage done by wolves to farm

are, also in combat

|||ivestock: Between the winters" of with what may prove the worst 1929-32 it, la estimated conserva In its chronicle of "Incidents in wolf menace of the last fifty years tively that wolves accounted for and near London" this paragraph The bittereat of winter has Tappears:ONALA

not less than 40,000 horses and 50 come Winds that whip west The ceremoy of leaving the first warda over the Russian steppe territories of the U. 8. S. R. alone, 1000 head of cattle in the European stone of the Strand Bridge took from the gullies of the Urals, to place on the Surrey side of the bold two-thirds of Europe in an Thames, close to the landing ley, tyranny until the spring, have stairs called Cuper's Bridge near- reached their, fiercest and coldest on over. Everyone's firearm ly opposite Somerset House, on The cold they produce is some was apparently in order and full. the 11th of October About four thing that we in England never advantage would be taken of the o'clock everything being prepared know. It is a living cold, that offer of the nearest town authori within the first cofferdam, a fine dogs man's footsteps to freeze ties to supply recognised patrols large block of Cornish granite (a to death as they plod homewards with ammunition at greatly reduce, specimen of what the bridge te te to some poor hut; that stiffens ed rates. This ammunition ques be built with) was lowered down, military sentinels to a rigidity tion must cause t the authorities and covered an excavation in the from which they will never waken; some trouble, for the weapons of work beneath, which contained that cuts off the aged and poor the peasants who form the wolf the gold and silver coins of the more ruthlessly than a plague patrols vary from muzzle loaders present reign, oter which was and the salt comes at even of sixty years ago to derelict Maur fized a plate, formed of block titt, more savage menace the menace sers picked up on some forgotten Unfortunately some time must of the wolf packs that within the battlefield of a Balkan waren elapse before the stone is uncovered, last two decades have taken And then⠀⠀⠀ Stepan became The China Mail efficacious. It is easily ad pier may be one of the last to be farm stock in the peasant lande.

The contractors state that this horrible toll of human life and miniacent. "This is he who was

with us two winterso

when ministered by any trained opera demolished. Obviously, the natural tor, who merely catches up a course of the work cannot be alter-

we got the big grey one that killed A Village Conference

Vaka's pony," he said when intro- A few weeks ago I took part in ducing me to the gathering. Did

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Hang Kong, Thursday, April 4, 1935. Wrinkle of loose skin, and inserts ed even for ao interesting a conference in a village in the I remember that night, he how

The Rabies Case

his. needle with no pain to the archæological object as thus, dog The dog, usually merely

stands watches the operation.

And it is permanently effective. Your Daily Smile!

this

"Too Thoughtful V

topped with quo

100 per cent.

|heart of Jugoslavia. There, was asked.

beto

[pony lay stark in t

pus evening Wo spread in (a) wide semi-circle, covering the edge of the wood from which the wolves; ace would break when they returned. rope, into their kille line that

no agenda sheet. Everybody knew Could I forget it? No damp the business of the meeting degrading fear I ever experienced An inoculated dog simply cannot | There is something peculiarly contract the disease. Last year. A girl said in court that she broke them, fled into the living-room of Land in the service of King and

wolves. The delegates, sixteen of while crawling about No Man tragic and disturbing about Mr. we advocated that this prophy was always combing, Mis bair in public. Stepan denovic's cottage at the end country was greater than the ter off her engagement because her fasca Elphinstone's death from Rabies. lactic should be encouraged by That naturally led to parting. of the muddy village street Birror I felt at my first nearness to

Government by making the A young and vigorous man who issue of a licence depend on pro

fellows they were, with rakishly an approaching wolf pack, was a lover of dogs and actually duction of a certificate from a certain Oxford professor returned their heads,

tilted kalpaks of sheepskin on

Vengeance was engaged in looking for one qualified inoculator or Veterinary from church on Sunday morning. They clumped over the thres Stepane patrol that night.

There were only sight of us in to carry away as a pet, receives Surgeon. The amount of the well, my dear he paid to his wife, hold in their heavy knee

triumphantly waving an umbrella,

Vuka's the merest scratch from a puppy all expenses, and the cost could not left it behind in the pew to-day bows, crossed themselve

licence could be made to cover "you will kindly observe that I have greeted, Stepan's wife with clumsy it had been torn down the pre at the Dogs' Home which was be deducted; free inoculation beNo, smiled the wife: the trouble the house Ikon and sat opened only the other day to given in appropriate cases. You'll find yours in the hall,

Is that you didn't take one with you The gathering was but one serve, the common interests of dogs and men, and the end is would be the best course. If the dealer drives It 600 miles, it in the wolf areas of

are still of the opinion that

hundreds that were stark tragedy Added to the circumstances of the case itself Nobody questions that human nicely broken in. If you drive it: 500 every country east of

We waited an hour two hours is the menace of the reappearance life is the first consideration, to miles, it's a used can

can roughly be drawn from the nearly three hours in the icy blue- of this terrible disease not only which sentiment must yield.

middle of Norway to the top of white dusk, No smoking. No in the middle of a populous area But some of the comments on Found on a freshman's registration the Adriatic

talking. No movement. Not but at a season of the year when the rabies question have come card

West of this line the wolf seldaven a swallow at a comforting we are still far from the hot wea- from men from whom we can

Question: Give your parents' namenom penetrates, save in isolated in-flask Answer: Mammi and Papa, ther which is supposed to favour only coin the word, if it has

stances in Alsace and the Auver this and other germs, and when never been used before," "mis-

And suddenly the night silence they have been

gne.Though there is some months of immunity had Okynists,"

uthentic was futtered by the light padding. record that. In the grim winter of and rustle of the approaching created a hope that the preven- Prompted by a disapproval of

1928-9 a wolf, slunk thr the pack. Their forms became dimly tive measures adopted had had dogs in general which suggests the effect of atamping out this that they are anxious to take The following unclaimed tele-reac

Ardennes region of Belgium and visible against the dark wall of the coast of the Channel, the forest edge as they surged into horrible affliction. And there this opportunity of getting rid of grams are now lying at the Great

them altogether: To that we Northern Telegraph Offices Odins howl almost within sight of the scent acrid and repulsive.

here it threw back its head to the open. Closer they came, their is also the discovery of a source oppose the contention that a com- from Shanghai and Cohen Danica orchards of Kent of infection in the army mules,munity entirely withdrawn from from Shanghai. Dorky which suggests the danger of

The Children's Fate spread among other animals than all converse with animals would dogs.

be both unnatural and of stunted

Stepan. Jenovic addressed Among sympathies, and that for the from Europe who sailed from Van

the passengers booked little assembly simply and clearly this is a good ordinary man friendship with traver, B. C. by the B., M. S. Em **Quite clearly

ambleThis winter the time to make plans for the cam animals means with a dog Cats press of Canada on March 23, and

to be increased paign against the germ, before are domestic only in the sense of the hot weather arrives while being lovers of comfort; they are

who are due in Hong Kong on there is still time to consult reaattached to cosy corners regard-

April 12 are the following:M son rather than panic. Whence less of the owner thereof,

G.Toh Mr. and Mrs, H. 8. Tau, ferring came the infection? The puppy spite of all the fondling

HR Crailsham, Mr. W. ago, whe was apparently one of a litter from idealists who imag

Gordon Robertson, fr. and Mrs. the which had been brought in for their own sentiments

Watkinson, Mr.M. CD yakl destruction. No signs of the dis by those Inveterate ind

Mr HB-Duff Mr. R lease had been noticed, but there ista. Horses are

Onslow van Lierop, Mr. was some inclination to snap, keep, and are not

Mr.C. H avis.s which was ascribed to the fact city surrou that the bitch had been alreadyineither cats t destroyed. In any case there mune from

was little probability that this cal: conclusion o animal had been bitten by a rabid would be the dest dog. That is the most disturb domestic animals at one ing fact of all, for although it is swoop.

true that a bite is the most com We advocate, inoculation not

ther

hantmon and certain cause of infeca substitute for

tion, it is quite a mistake to sup-guards, but in addition, pose that it is The fact is that

germ

destroy

cause for they all

ker germs

unsound

gal

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

to have assaulted. Canton,

want

sald.

his

They were less than thirty yards: away: when Stepan shouted and we

The wolves bunched: ngle of snarling apea. We dred again. The at grey one leapt rward de fiantly and fell limp upon the few broke free and fled

back into the forest

We counted nine bodies, and the snow was red-flecked-

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