1915-11-11 — Page 7

AFTER THE BATTLE.

VISIT TO NEW LINES.

In a despatch to the Daily Telegraph Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing from General Headquarters, after the capture of Loos, GLYS:--

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 1915,

PLUCK AND PERIL IN THE AIR

WAR NEWS.

ABSINTRE FOR EXPLOSIVES.

The forbidden absinthe is being used

BULGARIA'S RULER.

UNDER THE MENACE OF A DEAD HAND.

CANADA AND "KULTUR.”

SOME GERMAN CLAIMS

The Times correspondent, in a rocant dispatch from Toronto, said is manag

There are periodic alares in Canada orer the movements of Germans in the United States and in the Dominion, bat there is general apprehension of

organization of Germans and Austrians raids" from across the border, and in the Western Provinces any effective

VISITORS AT HOTELS.

HONGKONG HOTEL.

Me Gas, E. Anderson”

Amadeo Castro M "Almada Mized Almada e Castro Mr W. H. Morton

Cameron

Hon Mr B. A. Howatt

MW. Hoyt lom Mr W. J. Lodge Mr L. G. Holgate Capt Roperofs

It was only by accident, writes the Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Bri tigh Headquarters in France, that I heard now to make explosives. The co-opera- the details of an episode which should be put on record. It happened a few days tive distillery near Pontoise, which sup ago, when a young flight officer was plies the Government shell factories with swooping over the German lines in vor might see something worth while for ing itself unable to cope fully with the Flanders. He flow low, so that his obser. pure alcohol distilled from beetroots, find. his note-book-too low, so that suddenly, They reveal the mentality of the German fout of a burst of shrapnel, a jagged piece demand, has formed the idea of buying his froggish vanity. How much his has been prevented by the Mounted Master d Almada e 3xs L, P. Horfall

up the stock of absinthe slumbering in of shell touched the pilot's leg. Such a the cellars of manufacturers of the liquor, touch is enough to cut off a limb. The and by chemical treatment this is being young officer believed his leg was almost transformed into neat alcohol under the severed, and although it was not quibs close rich of four Revenue officers so bad as that he lost control of his maleuter. chine, and, for a moment or two, all his

for the guns, is the churmous mass of The best of all body, perhaps, apart documents taken in Lows and the trenches.

army, and are very curious and instrue

tive.

In spite of comments which show the German soldiers were much slated by the German successes in Itissin, they complain that the war on the Western front is un endurable

Even the comforts of certain dugouts, lit with electricity, and elaborately devas ated, and furnished with arm chairs, dos not soothe the souls of these men who have heard the number of our guns grow stronger, and who cannot face the steel of

our bayonets.

There are a One fact is significant. great number of sub-lientennats command.

ing companies, and most of them have

gear...

HEROIC NURSE LEADS RUSSIAN

He was over 7,000ft, high, and the aeroplane foll, nose downwards, in

TROOPS TO THE ASSAULT. straight plunge. The observer clung to his gun, which was slipping from 13 straps. The drums which hold the car

Sister of Charity Ivanova, while tend tridges had already scattered to carthog wounded under a terrible fire during a desperate struggle on the north-western The crash would como in a second or

front, perceived that the commander and two. But the flight officer had got a new all the oficers of a certain battalion had grip upon his consciousness and steering been killed.

battle In spite of his loss of blood and that

Realising that the battle was taking momentary swoon, he not only brought decisivo turn, she rallied around her the his machine up to level planes, but fewyne who survived and who were altoge steadily back above the enemy's lines and ther demoralised at the loss of their offi- above their storm of shrapnel, until after cors, and herself led them to the attack an anbungled landing in an aerodrome, alan troops captured. Here he still sat in his saddle, afraid more lest his leg should fall off, and he remained in his place until the doctors rescued him and carried him away to the hospital. There is still lies, and there is hope that his leg may be saved.

[BY A DIPLOMAT.]

From what I have seen of Czar Ferdi:

mans' strategic road to his "help" was and of Bulgaria, I should say the Ger

descent into the war on the side of Ger- many, Austria, and Turkey will help us remains to be seen, but it is scarcely likey,

Police.

Castro

It has been discovered that formidable se B. Fabington political organizations of Germans exist in

Mr J. II. Baring Mr H. Murray Esin Mr. W. Backbom Alberta and Saskatchewan, where German lengues were formand two years ago. The to help the great King Ferdinand chief objects of these leagues are to secure

W. Beardsley Mira E, B. Balilies Bulgaria.

instruction in the German language in the M&Mrs E. Feraheim What does he look like, this strang Municipal Councils, the Legislatures, and Mr H. Bickerton

public schools and to chest Germans to th

and child Bourbon-Coburg monarch of a Jay the House of Commons. They claim tKr H. W. Bell people? He is a tall, cambrous, middle have secured better treatment of Germans, Mr & Mrs S. Beyon Mr J. F. Bronbeld god man, who leans heavily on a stick, in concentration camps, to have had many

Germana liberated, and to have afforded Mrs R. D Baaz and has become fat in recent years, and has pale blue eyes, a striking nose, and a belief necessary relief to Germans out of emplay. that Ferdinand is endowed with some ment.

In a brochure issued by the Saskatche the greatest gifts of Charlemagne, Pig the Great, Napoleon, Alexander, Juwin League it is said that the Germans have learned by what has been done how Caesar, and Hannibal.

also realized that if the assceintion had useful the assnciation is, but they have her longer that if the associati

have been done. Hence their problem for the future is better organization of the German-speaking population in a parts of Canada, and they suggest that when the war is over this work must be energe. tically undertaken, an

more

joined since the war. This reveals u The dearth of more experience officers. men complain that they never see their high officers in the trenches. The colonels journey of no less than 35min, he made against on enemy trench, which the Rus- Afty-four, with a beard, and a moustache thoroughly organized much more, might

and commandants and generals remain well in the rear.

Nevertheless, in spite of the sufferings at the front, many of the men complain of the desperately hard time they had in the regimental depots at home, with bullying from morning till night, so that they pre- fer to go to the front, whatever the risks of death.

They deplore the heay tones in Russia, and one man says, "How nice it would be if we could make a separate peace with Russia. Then we could give those dammed English a hammer.ng. They

deserve it, the swine1".

A German girl writing to her sweet- heart complains that all the young men hand of the country is gone, and that all the pleasures of youth are passing away in history. The 1910 class of recruits has been called to the colours, and the 1917 and 1818 have been registered, so that every boy in the Fatherland is on the roll.

call.

A sense of depression, reaching to the heights of sadness, fil's must of these docu- thents, and shows that the heart of the army is filled with foreboding, in spite of recent victories, -

-

Yet I must say that there is no sign of deterioration in the fighting qualities of car enemy. It is only when they ore sur prised and when our bayonets are among them that they throw up their hands. Their artillery is still enormously strong and skifully handled.

One warning, too, must be written lest there should be false hopes at home. We have made a successful advance. But there for some time it ends, and the people at homan will be bitterly disappointed if they expected to earl of a aptured town every te they sit down to breakfast. We have achieved a magnificent success, but the way is still far to go before the end comes, and patience must still be the watch-word

"APPALLING BEAUTY OF THE

GERMAN LANGUAGE."

Notwithstanding the crash of war the movement for the Germanisation of foreign terms goes merrily on in Berlin, where learned professors continuo to

A FALL OF 3,000 FEET.

She was at their head, and pursuing the fleeing Germans, when she was struck down by u builot.

The Emperor conferred upon Sitter: Ivanova, who died on the field of honour, the Order of St. George--Renter.

IN JAPAN

King Ferdinand wears a monocle and an Air of slyness. Imagine a tallish man of and a longish face, a rather inscrutable expression, hesitating walk, ani the nervo to proclaim himself "Czar of the Bulgars," and you have him.

SLAVS, NUT SLAVES,"

They protest that they are loyal, but insist that, out of the mixture of people

Mr & Mrs E R. Bush Mr II. ChcethṇanR Mr. Cock Mr. Lollett Gupt & Mrs Colab Mr P. J. Cokely Mr G. G. Cory Mi J. H. Ercuber Mr N. Cronok or Mr & Mrs E.

Crump It Comor

Daliel

K.

G. C.

Mrs F. E. Davis Capt W. Darison Mi P. H. Docg on Mr H. Dousen Mr P. 8. Dongles Mias M.

uby

Mr J. E. Edward Mr&Mrs I. J. Falcon r Mr E. Finlayson Dr. H. L. Fitz-

williams

Two or three days ago an aviator had na experience hardly less perilous, though of a briefer agony He made nothing of

The German prisoners detained at the it when one of his friends told me the

Kurume depot, Japan, numbering several tale, and listened with a smile and shrug of the shoulders, as though such incidents are all in the day's work. Yes hundred, rofused to respond to the roll- when I had heard the adventure I looked call on the night of October 4th, loudly at him curiously, as at a man who has singing war songs in spite of the command

The One does not need to be in Bulgaria long escaped death by just an odd fluke and of the camp officer to keep silent, used through an experience outside Japanese officer in charge of the depot to realise that he is far from popular with the range of ordinary humanity. For asked the German officers to try to keep his subjects. This is not at all likely to fall through the air of 3,000ft. in a shrer order, but it is said they refused to do so. be sat right by his new allegiance to Ger- As a prominent and thoughtful drop does not seem to give a man a chanos The officer having reported the matter by many, of chatting in a light hearted way about telephone to the commander of the 48th Bulgar said to me a little while ago in the comparative rerits of French and Regiment, 100 soldiers with loaded rifles excellent English, We Bulgars desire to

and fixed bayonets arrived at the double.be Slave; not slaves, British tronches, or the characteristics of Hungarian-usic. (Those were the sub-

With the arrival of the troops the pri- jeets of his conversation before he went

soners became quiet. The cause of the to bed.) He, too, was about 7,000ft, high insubordination is said to be due to the when the adventure came to him.

censure one of the prisoners received from the guards owing to his refusal to obey an

It has been using, yet pathetic at times, to hear the talk of city fathers in FRACTIOUS GERMAN PRISONERS Bulgar municipalities when they have reseittered over Canada, there cannot come ceived word that Ferdinand has threaten a population which shall be wholly Eng ed to pay them a visit. What it has meant fish in its formation. It must bear the is that they have to spend beyond their characteristics of many elements, and its means in all sorts of lavish decorations and urged that it will be well for Canada to rejoicings." He insists on his subjects appropriate some of the good things which It has beggared the German mind has produc d (!). It doing lots of rejoicing. Bunny Bulgars,

Dis explained that the Germans have a "cal tural" mission, and that in order to fal fil this mission they must maintain the German Innguage in Canada. "Only

Mir V. Gouldbourn the thought of Canada's welfare and the future of our children drive us forward in

"We" German Mr & Mr W, our work," they say

Hannibal Germon, but it is our highest doty to win | Copi T. P. Hall Canadians do not wish to make Canada

for Germanism in this country its fitting place"

order.

MOSES AS A GERMAN.

JERUSALEM BEÁLLY

A TOWN IN THE FATHERLAND.

He was suddenly involved in a cloud, so white and impalpable, that all vision was blinded and all guidance lost. This flight lieutenant seemed to be strugglin, in a world of cotton wool. He could not tell whether he were flying upside down or with his planes tilted to an angle ons way or the other. He had lost his horizon, without which an airman has no sense of position. As matter of fact, he flew at a frightful pace earthwards Though Germany has not yet specifical from that 3,000ft., and when he emergedly claimed that the Garden of Eden was from the cloud the world seemed to rise in the vicinity of Potsdam, the Berliner up at him to bath him with a mortal Zeitung an Alittag, regards it as quite blow,

satisfactorily wtablished that the real Jerusalem, at any rate, was located in the north of Germany —

The pressure on his planes was so terrific for he was travelling down at a speed of over 100 miles an hour that it was only by the most gradual effort that he could raise his elevating plane and right himself, just in time to ward off that final knock-out which would have been the end of his flight and his adven tures.

In a now and striking book which has just been published under the

Die Erde tid unsere Ahnen (The Earth and our Ancestors), Herr Ernest Betha gives evidence which shows that Jerusalem was really identical with the North German town of Goslar.

"Moses was not a Jow at all.. It is now beyond doubt that he was born in the Harz Mountains, and therefore was

German.

B

The truth is, Ferdinand has always kept up his line of personal communications with Germany He never seems to forget that he is Coburger With gusto or the appearance of it-ho has been in the habit of going off to Carlsbad year by year, to draw in with his quarts of Carla- bad water copious draughts of Cæsarism and its artificial offspring, Potsdamis which is quite another thing,

THRONE CF SPIKES. Sometimes if you had secured a peep round the grounds of Czar Ferdinand's country palace near Varna, you might have seen the migh-y potentate sitting on a seat specially constructed for him. He has been fond of sitting on it and gezing out towards the Black den. Whether he will sit there, now that the Russian fleet is frowning on his country, is doubtful.

I am as tby rock against which the waves bent in vain." was one of his great The waves had sayings a few years ago not reached his loadly bench at Varne then. I om as the oak in the forest," Yet this young lieutenant was not un-

he is said to have added. As a lady of served. He had the same keen stendy

the Court reminded him, the oak falle.. smiling look in his over last night. To

The most wonderful thing Ferdinand day, I have no doubt, he went back to

ever did was to resept the offer of the the German lines again, after dusting his "He led the North German tribes to headship of Bulgaria. The title of prince gun, in case there were any luck to be Malta, and thence to Messina, the modern of that stormy land was going begging

name of which can be distinctly scen to It was too hot a thing for most, men to Ead in the way of single combat with a German airman. His only regret is that have orginated in Macedonia. in spite of the superior speed of the "Herod's Temple was also situated at touch. Ferdinand or Ferdinand's mas enemy's new type of aeroplane, the Gor-Goslar, bat the Temple of Solomon stood terful mother-decided that Ferdinand inan aviators seldom accept the challenge on the Brocken Mountain. •Wagner was should take it. Having taken the post, of a fight, but swoop back to their own lines with a farewell wave of the han, escaping above the shelter of those anti aircraft howitzers, which have a very high range and fire high explosives, so that even without a hit they may endanger our machines by a terrific alteration of the atmosphere.

descant on what the Berlin Post, with n strange flash of insight, called the other day. the almost appalling beauty and expressiveness of the German language.”

In the same issue of that journal refer once was made, in. connection with a cer- tain charitable funclion, to the lady Buperintendent of an association.com

To give them their due, the enemy's posed of municipal officials, and also to

aviators sometimes show a courtesy to this lady's daughter The latter was their opponente which is rare in their described as the "Burgermeisteramtsver racial methods of war, and if one of our waltungsdienergesellschaftspflegebefchie

men is brought down in their lines it is nowachterinstochter" after which not uncommon for them to fly back and one with the soul of a mouse can deny the drop a note to say whether the man is claim of the Berlin Tost.

The Vosatache Zeitung carries this killed or only slightly wounded. The fires of hate would not have been stirred up to such intensity as now prevails if all appalling beauty and expressiveness

German soldiers had fought in as clean into the realm of music:-

a way as this.

well advised, therefore, in locating the in- cidents in the Nibelungen song at Goslar, which was the real Jerusalem of old, and its Valhalla was its sanctuary or holy of holies revered by the Hebrews

COMPULSORY REJOICINGS.

are by no means

There is reason to apprehend that these German organizations will be very active in political contests when the way is over, and there is signifiernes in the fact that in Canada the German element in proportion to the total population is at least as strong the German element in the United States, and in the Western Provinces t been greatly swollen by recent immigration.

By

has

GERMANY'S PROBLEM. IN THE EAST.

KAISER'S PLANS UPSET.

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French and son Mre Sturt Fuller

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Mr F. h. Kay Mr W., Schroder Mr & Mr R Shaw M15 Shocker Mr. H.Smith Mrs B. S. Baith Mr V. Sorby Mr H. II. Taylor Mr F. Willamson Dr F. D. Weigelsperg Mr D. Wiedemann

Kr G. G. Word

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KING EDWAnd Hotel.

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beginning of October reflect the satisfac Russian papers received in Basle at the tion of the military experts that autumn has set in and already commenced to play. I F,uale havoc with the German plans,

Under the best of circumstances, now, they declare, the Germans will never Bus ceed in getting out of the Pinek marsh district this winter. To pass the worst months of the year in this desolate region under cruel climatic conditions, far from their bases of communication, without railways, and deprived of roads of any description, will cause the enemy's forces probably to melt away like snow before the sun, not taking may stock of what the Russians might and would do to harass them.

And, as it is, neither Germans nor Aus- trians can afford to lose auj moje men on the Russian front. In the latest opera tions Germany alone had 110,000 men put out of action, and, added to her previous casualties, this makes 1,725,000 men lost On their side the against the Russians. Austriana published figures two months ago already admitting 431,800 killed, 1,741,500 wounded, and 580,000 missing, or

They have also lost, 294,000 men on the Serbian front, 193,300 on the Italian front, and some 6,000 on the Western front, or a grand total of 3,179,000 in all

UNEXPECTED BITUATION,

Mr. E. Eraser Mr C, Fits

Mira Geo

Mr T. M. Gregory Mr B. Grieve”

Mad, Maruh

Me H. Murphy

Mes w. C. Pwomore- Mr W. J. Pringl Mies Plano

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ar H., Stoneham Arm M. Kiyiventer Mr H. U. L'aylor

ur & Mrs Gore - M. T. Gunn Mid Mrs kisimies and Nr ki. Thornton

children

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children

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children

'Meantime, things have taken on a com- pletely different aspect for the Russians within the past fortnight, retiring in & general sense, they are so longer falling back uninterruptedly and acting on the defensive. It is easy to see the Germans are called upon to grapple that something new has occurred, and that with a situation they were far from expecting

That much at least must be he kept it, counted unto him for courage. Danger lurked all over the place. The seat of the throne was like a bed of spikes, His mother told him to sit on it, and be did. The troubled scat needed the swelled bead He provided that. Under the sovereignty of this big, blue-eyed, paak-boarded, select ed ruler Bulgaria certainly grew in law We have more than once published and order, and made substantial increase extracts from the German Press-says the in financial soundness. Railways were Daily Telegraph which showed that the built, and commerce began to grow, Thea total of 2,813,000. flag-waving and other patriotic demonstra-Germans have had their eyes on those rail- tions which invariably take place all over ways for several years past.

Prince Ferdinand turned himself into the country when the German Staff reports a new "victory

King, then into a Czar, and in his spontaneous on the part of the public.dreams he is a mighty conquerar Ho has trained elephants, trapped and shot It is, in fact, a stariding order in most Germany cities that on such occasions But the airmen of both nations seem every householder must display bunting, no end of big game and little game, built to have risen above the brutalities of this nothing but extreme poverty being accept and filled an ornithological and zoological war as they rise above the squalor of its ed as an excuse for omission to do so. museum at his country palace near Varna, trenches. On our sido, at least so for as But the Prussian authorities in Alsace studied botany and collected plants of all I have met them-and I have seen a good Lorraine have gone further than this. It sorts, picked in all sorts of regions of the deal of them along the lines-they are is not enough that the inhabitants of earth, and he has written the libretto of keen, simple, cheery young men, who Strasburg and other Franco-phile cities an opera. It was not a very comic opora. take the risks of death with wonderful should be compelled to make a pretence carelessness and go whistling into their of rejoicing over German successes. With saddles before-ding down the wind. that characteristic attention to detail Like the Kaiser, he dropped his pilot. They are spared a good deal of the dirty which naturally extends to their methods The handing of Bismarck down the ladder

the

Prussian business of war, and have, I think, most of meam persecution,

wag lese dramatic than the tragic exit of authorities have now commanded that Stambuloff, the cutstanding politician of sufficient to account for much in their Mr C. R. Arnot of the luck.

benceforth all the churches in Alsace.

Mrs Bird In 1895 there was a clash be Bulgaria. Lorraine must be decked with the German tween Ferdinand and the gifted Stam-

In the second place, they are now Ed Me C. H. Booth colours on receipt of "victorious news.

I well remember the by men of tried capability, who know Mr A Li The Vossische Zeitung gives the text of buloff over policy. this order, which was conveys to the whisperings in the private gatherings of what they want and intend to achieve, Mr A. Dasriab

P. 8. van Dyk Mr K. B. &lis A captured German officer admits that Bishop of Metz in the following: letter Sofia that Stambuloff's life was not worth and in whom the men have the utmost

Mr.F. 9. GADE The result has not been long in making Mr B. James the German commanders fully recognise from the Secretary of State for Alsace very long purchase. Prince Ferdinand confidence.

was excited, nervous, now suddenly that the Allies have become too strong for Lorraine, Count von Rodern:

On one single occasion the general affable-looking and full of chat and joke. itself manifest. Sixty thousand prisoners are. de Klerk

in the course of a week or two speaks for Purchasable cut-throats lurked about 1lf are long alay fresh incidents will W. Lawrie He declared that a few more battles like commanding the 16th and 21st Army

Corps induced the seclesiastical edifices Sofia. Stambuloff told Ferdinand that he forthcoming to show that the Germans that in the Champagne would have an Trumpeter: Bchmettermessingwerker enormous effect not only upon the German to take part in the general flag display he was out of health and that he wished are no longer going to have thins all

Lo go to Carlsbad Ferdinand ordered people but also on the military authori- to commemorate a victory. It now seems

Every one in desirable that the wish of the local dorgy him to stay in Soft, A few days later their own way, as it were, in-Russia. Geigenspielstück ties and the Government,

Germany knows that the war will be to give visible expression to their patrio on July 15th, 1895-Stambuloff was mur I have been decided on the Western front, and any tie sentiments and those of the people dered in the public street.

should be complied with. May I there told that the police looked on and did reverse here has a far-reaching effect.

fore, respectfully suggest to your grace nothing I did not see it. At any rate, that an agreement be arrived at betwee

"We would earnestly commend to the patriotic people, and particularly to that large and influential section of them that cultivates and pays homage to the art of music, to do what they can towards purity ing the language pertaining to that art uf the outlandish expressions with which it has become overgrown.

A beginning may be made with the Germanisation of the following terms:-

Piano Tastenspiel (keyplay).

Fontant werker (tone-key Composer: worker).

Concert: Tonstreitwerkversammlung (tone competition work assembly).

Concert giver: Tonstreitwerkanter-

competition (tone nehmer organiser).

Fugue: Tonflechtwerk. (tone-fight- work).

"Conductor: Toskünstlermeister (tone artists' master).

Orchestra: Tonkünstlerbühne (tone artists' stand).

Zusammenklangwerk ****Symphony (combined sound work). (sounding brass worker).

"Violin

quartet: (fiddle play piece). "

work

to

ALLIES TOO STRONG.

CAPTURED GERMAN OFFICER'S ADMISSIONS.

them,

Have

news of victory.

MARTYRED STAMBULOFF.

There is nothing very specious in this altered condition of things; in the first place the Russians at last, have plenty of munitions, which fact asong would be

reccut suocEPRES.

According to a telegraphic report rench- ing the Military Commissioner's Yamion

The

Mr R, Paterson Mr T. L. Parkins Mr & Mrs J. Plummer – Mix U. Skott

Mr & Mrs Grant

·Smith

Mr & Mrs A Findlay

Smith

Mr G. E. Stewart Mr J. A. Trah

Maj. Gen. Vestris

GRAND HOTEL

J. C. Axker

Miss Massbang.

Mr J. Manteirs

Mr James: DOT Mr P. Philipp

Mr. W. Keynolds

Mr E. Byan

Mr H. S.xolair

Mr J. Smith

Mr Actakes MrJ. K. 8. Blanton Me Hz. Thorig Mr Yen W. B. Vzo Mr J. Wonky MS. EL. Wright

Intimation has ben received from the British Legation that Langkow, in Shan- tung, has been opened to trade, by China herself that the limits of the port Leve

says the Central China Post.

the clergy of the diocese with a view to Ferdinand's critics any the murder was at Kirin, about 6 000 brigands sppeared at been determined, and that various con Alfred Etro distributed

A theatrical manager was arranging having churches and parsonages decorated ordered by that monarch. He loves the about 300 miles south-east of Kulun with struction works are being put in hand, Mahomedan soldiers upwards of 3,000

Now, we are told, waistcoat pocket Korans and to Hindu with a scenic artist to paint the scene for a with the national colours on receipt of picturesque, and it was a gaudy way of the intention of attacking Kulun.

dropping the pilot. Chinese play. Said the manager ve

Kalun Government is panic-stricken and soldiers a large number of similar copies you ever been to China"

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