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SEVERE ATTACK OF BARBER'S ITCH

Face Like Badly Cooked Lobster.

Cheeks and Neck Fairly Smoth ered With Small Red Spots. Used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Face as If Never Known Ringworm.

6. Norbury Court Rd., Norbury, Lon- don. 9. W. Eng."About eight yours ogo the barber scraped my face rather baïly and made it very mom, In a work or two. having had to be shaved every day, I found my cheeks and neck fairly smothered with small red spots. couple of months showed that it had got very much worse and I was told that I had a severe attack of barbers" Etch. After trying treatments for several months I finished up with thea with # face like a badly cooked lobster.

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and dockind to try them, Tho effect of the treatment was really astound ing for my face stopped freitating. In loss than six weeks my face was as if it had never known the rash. That was six years ago and the trouble bas never shows agalu.” (Mgond) R: Reynolds, Jan. 21, 1014,

The regular um af Cuticura Sown for collet ard bath not only tanda to preserve, purity. andi besutify the skin, scalp, hair and hands, but asiate in proventing inflammation, iref- tation and clogging of the pūrus, the common cause of pimples, blackirals, redness and roughness, yellow, olty, mothy and other unwholesome conditions of the skin.

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LITTLE WOMEN FROM CANADA.

HOW THEY NURSED WOUNDED

AT THE DARDANELLES.

The following is an account of the Canadian nurses at the Dardanelles, taken from a private letter written by soldier in the British Mediterranean Bapeditionary Force,

SHORT DRINK.

LONDON INCIDENTS ON THE FIRST DAY,

THE BAGHDAD WAR,

POINTS YOU OUGHT TO UNDERSTAND.

BY LOVAT FRASER.]

SUFFERINGS OF SERBIAN

WOUNDED.

GERMAN BRUTALITY AT KRAGUIEVATZ.

The Dutch Red Cross sisters, who have just arrived from Sorbie, give lurid ao- informed by the Gormans that they wer vatz, counts of the German entry into Kraguis- They returned because they wore

not needed.

Dealing with the coming into fores of the new restrictions on the sale of alco- holio liquor deorced by the Board of Control the Daily Mail says of the open-foot and guns, backed by monitors and A British and Indian force of horse and ing day that except in certain districts, armoured moter-cars and airplanes, kas such as those around the decks and the fought its way to within eighteen miles of ters the Dutch sistors remained and boist After the departure of the English sis ed the Netherlands flag over the Red Baghdad,

about the sampaign in Meropenie. They hardships and dangers during the Ger

Cross, It was fired on, however, and a I find the many people are very puzzled messenger was dispatched to demand ite removal. The sisters experienced many want to know why we British o march- ing on Bagided,

There aro

was re

If you should wish to discover the inholesale markets, where the clock has fivity variety of curve and kinky which to be adjusted to conditions of night, may be given to the broad brim of-a-soft work, no intoxicating drink was to be straw hat pay call about ten-time at one obtained until twelve noon, of the Canadian hospitals at the Dardanolles

Our nurses wear the big straw hats as part of a very attractive and service able uniform. And they know to a nicety what may be done with a broad flexible brim to suit every shade of eyes, ever tinge of hair, every tilt of nose and chin and eyelash.

At that hour the restriction moved and the public-houses carried on their business as usual for two and a half hours. At 6.30 p.m. prohibition again came into force, and the town remained tectotal until 6.30. After that, for three hours of the evening, the flowing bowl was again permitted to flew. At 9.30 the taps were finally turned off.

PEOPLE WHO DID NOT KNOW.

argue

We stay

many

wounds.

man entry into the town, and the two days fighting that accompanied it. but the true and all-ombrasing reisen i speak with them asking many questions, that we are fighting Turkey, did through and informing them that little Holland many contributory reasons, Eventually high German officers cans to her Germany for the mastery of the Per would no longer exist after the war." Persian Gulf for 300 years. Our warships clearly proved that the independence of had sailed the Gulf in, undisputed jord. sual States belonged to the category. of sian Gulf. We havo beon masters of the

The officers asked had not this war most

In the case of restaurants and eating marched down from Baghdad and sighted ship for fifty years when the Turk Grat

impossibilities. One sister calmly re- I call thom "our" nurses, not because houses, half an hour's "law" was allow-ita blue waters. We went to the Porsian I shall go to France, I personally, being sick or wounded, haveed after this for the consumption of drink talf to protect our growing trade with laughed, and

plied, "Holland still exists. Should it come under their deft and kindly care or steady supplied as part of a meal. experienced thus their iahnite sympathy.

An officer wear

decorations But these cheery little Canadian women,

India from attack from the sea.

France! the war France will no longer be an in- After ed there because when our Indian Empiro dependent State." The sisters stated that who have come out all this way with their

The order did not prevent publicans w admirably equipped field hospitals to from opening their houses as early as theyPowers tablished on the shore of the had been used against the Serbians. we quickly realised that other every one agreed that dum-dum ballote care for us, have become part and parcel pleased for the sale of non-intoxicants, Gulf would first disturb and might even- That was evident from their of our life; their endless vitality, their but the majority did not seeru fun and energy have woven their persen- it worth while attempting to do business fish privileges, and we hell no territory, supplies and so caused terrible suffering think tually menace India. We sought no sel- The Germans quickly monopolized all ality closely into our community here, and under these conditions. we like to feel that they belong to us. Not who tried the experiment derive much slavery nad piracy. We kept the peace and Nor did those but we brooked no rival. We suppressed very many of them are quite young and couragement from it, AD: would frankly admit being elderly.

In Hammersmith, for example, during things for the sake of India,

we kept all others out, We did these That is all the better, for life with the the morning nearly all the large and well- British Mediterranean

Expeditionary appointed inns ramained closed until Force is life on primitive terms and even noon. One house of the same class which in the best-equipped feld or base hospital had opened as

usual did. no business much emergency work has to be done with worth speaking of, but made the rather makeshift eppliances, and that calls for surprising discovery that a very large experience. And even if they are middle number of people had either never heard aged they are all pretty to us, our Cana- about the order or had failed to compre dian nurses. Their eyes are bright, their bend its meaning. voices are soft and motherly.

And they

They walked in and asked for a glass are un to all sorts of kindly fun. af beer or spirits, lussed their money on You meet then off duty at ton in their surprise on being informed that only the counter, and professed the utmost own mess or as guests at some officers' mess on the island. The big tent rings to their Some of them endeavoured to

temperance beverages could be applied. Laughter. Excellently brewed tea they the matter, a very few decided to take a offer you in their own tent, with its plea glass of ginger ale or a cup of coffee or sant yellow lining there are biscuits and meat extract. But the great majority sweets and rock cakes and proper teacups walked out grumbling into the rain, and saucers, to which you have become un- accustomed.

Said the proprietor of this establish- They love to talk about Canada, especially if you have been there ment,They have not realised it any and can recall with them the trim, clean

more than they have realised the war." streets of Toronto, the romance of Quched the main thoroughfares remained closed Most of the smaller taverns away from and Montreal, the thrill of the open spices of Alberta or Saskatchewan. They during the morning, as they have little love, too, to talk of their work, though expectation of trade 20 anything but beer, they make light of the shortcomings centres thought it prudent to keep closed Some of the larger houses at busy traffic of tent life and the rigid limita tions of food. And they amile cheerily for other reasons. Their owners antici as they tell of the almost incredible strain

pated trouble and risk from attempts on. that is imposed upon them after an action be part of their customers to defeat the at Auzac or Suvla or Lancashire Land-regulations by purchasing plain mineral ing and the hospital ships come speedinging it with alcohol from a pocket flask. water over the counter and then quality. back during the night with their tragic This, landlords thought, would endanger freight. Then, as the white ship casts their licence, and jeopardise their pro anchor in the outer harbour, motor- lighters cluster round it, the tern and perty. battered bodies are lowered into them, and they swing off to the wooden pier that juts out from the sandy shore. A never- ending procession of Red Cross motor ambulances, with their kindly R.A.M.C. orderlies, who teach you that a man can be

just as gentle as a woman, carry the wounded to the hospital on the hill where the Canadian nurses are waiting. Then the tente Bill; sometimes to overcrowding. And these little women work day and night as if they could never feel fatigue.

Th hospitals are ranged on the top of a cool and airy ridge. On either side are wide views of the sea, of distant islands, and of our own island dotted with white The hospital lines are beautifully accurate; the pleasant autumn winds lice health through them. By the central road are the office tent, the Quartermaster's office tent, the ration tant; the operating tents stand by themselves a little apart. On cach side, cool and clean, are the tent wards. Busy orderiies pass to and fro, and in the afternoon sunlight convalee cents stand in groups chatting. Every- thing is white and brisk and pleasant. The organisation is perfect. There is keen competition among the orderlies in the decuration of the fines, and white stones in all manner of designs ring the tents and edge the pathways.

Remember what is now the outcome of

like flies. One sister said— among the Serbian wounded, who died

You cannot imagine the

appearance presented by a transport of slightly challenged time and again, From the day Our supremacy in the Gulf has been

wounded prisoners such as I have several times seen enter Kragulevat. They bore on the forehead a large cross painted with when we laid low the fabled glorios of tinctare of iodine and on the check a cross- golden Hormuz we have had to be vigilant made by bitrate of silver. sentinels. The latest, the stealthiest, and branded like beasts destined for the. the most subtle of our fous has been Gerslaughter-house.

They were: many, with her agents disguised as peace- wf slightly wounded men 14 were shot dead

Of one transport load. ful traders, her Baghdad Railway, her because they were unable to drag them. cozening of British statesmen, and her selves along quickly enough. One Agreements which would assuredly have patient, whose still had been fractured led to our undoing.

by gunshot, was unable to keep up with The Persian Gulf is the Mediterranean the other wounded, and he was repeatedly of Asia, from the point of view of its palihig body, which was covered with red. urged on by a bayonet being stuck into tical problems. Yet while a Englishmen bleeding wounds.-The Times, questions very few are closely acquainted are tolerably familiar with Mediterranean: with the Persian Gulf and the issues it presents. This is not surprising, for the on the right a Germanu was sitting on a Gulf is still almost an unknown sea Parts packing case beside a heap of oyster-shells pean has over set foot. The volcanio peniu- dead cities near its shores where no Euro-pearl merchant, of its coasts are still uncharted. There are writing letters which never went to any sula of Musendam, which lies athwart its the atmosphere I have tried to describe. entrance, is still unexplored. But English Consider the latest phase of this keen and Persian Gulf, whether they want to or not, While our Army has been marching. Un men have got to learn something about the little-known struggle for the Persian Gulf. for the destinies of the East may be de-Baghdad, German agents, with stacks of video around ta shallow waters in the rifles and sacks of gold, have been pouring years that are to come,

into Persia from Turkish territory along a route just north of Baghdad. They are inst year you might have seen at work of Bushire this summer, for the preserva- raising bands of irregulars all over Porsia. Had you gone to the Persian Gulf only We sent troops to occupy the Persian pert German "world-policy," the very Intest tion of order, Wo withdrew our fortes HOT DRINKS MISSED,

product of twentieth-century civilisation afterwards, apparently asa. It is a tale that begins with a couple of Persian Government of our good faith.

-proof to the- On the part of the populace the loudest traders," who slept un a Persian beach complaints were made by the early work and professed to buy pearl oyster shells, The Persiau gendarmerie and its Swedish. Observe now the extraordinary sequel, men who are accustomed to take off the and it ended with a fine of German officers have risen on their own account at raw chill of the morning with a little steamers, imposing consulate buildings, Germany's bidding. by the open-air workers, such as drivers, misture of cum with milk or cofice and and the stacks of steel rails for the last officers and says, in effect, that they have Sweden disowns her oartmen, hawkers, etc. The rum-and-milk section of the Baghdad Railway, which we become adventurers. At the city of Bhiraz, and rum-and-coffee section were especially

were obliging enough to smile upon, beyond the coastal ranges, the gendarmeris indignant because, they pointed out, the The story of the Germans in the Gulf seized the British Consul, Major O'Con- little warming stimulant was in their wont through many phases. Once they not, and the other male English residents, case not a deterrent but an encouragement tried to seize an island on the pretext of and carried them into capitivity. of early industry.

The working its red oxida deposits. The outdoor workers,

They leading spirit of this rising is the German feeling rigours and discomforts of the climate Turkey, to get control of the Pearl Banks, brand. When Major O'Connor was start tried, through their friend the Sultan of Consul, Herr Wassmuss,, a notoricus fire- more keenly than usual, were very loud which he had no power to grant. They ing for Shiraz he said he feared he should in their complaints. They were not in- tried to persuade Sheikh Mubarak to give olined to compromise their wante

I wonder what he' "vegctato "there. comfort themselves with coffee or meat.

and them twenty-square miles on the shores of thinks to-day,

N extracts. The coffee-houses in such cen

the German and Austrian Consular and the finest harbour in the Gulf. One of the Perein is in the melting-pot at lust, All tres as Hammersmith-broadway appeared not to be doing any additional busines

other agents in Persin seem to be making during the morning. The drivers want

war on their own account, and they have. ed beer and nursed a grievance until

either bought or grossly deceived the few twelve o'clock struck.

Swedes left with the gendarmerie,

the

in Fulbam half an hour before opening time a woman was seen helplessly drunk in the street. She had got drunk at home, it appeared, upon the liquor which had been laid in as a reserve stook in antici- pation of the new restrictions.

record

to

WHEN THE GERMANS CAME.

Inst episodes happened just a year ago in a little island towi, A British officer walked into an office and shipped his hand on the shoulder of a stout and grub by German who called himself a mother-of- pearl merchant. He was just sealing a let- ter giving details of the first portion of the British force now nearing Baghdad.

ני

OUR EASTERN RESPONSIBILITY Perhaps it will now be understood why, ground of International Incidents. I

The Persian Gulf was long a breeding when the papers are full of articles about the city of Baghdad, I have preferred to often wondered whether, when chancel-write this week about the Persian Gulf, There was, it was declared, 2

leries were humming, and newspapers were Here, for example, is one of the officers' turnover in bottled spirits.

to explain what it is like, and to try to tents. It is a marqueo of the kind known establishment in the Fulham Palace-road fiaments were angrily debating, any of the the struggle which is steadily enlarging One large publishing tremendous articles, and Par-make clear the central position it soupiss as European Private Indian Pattern, a sold a greater quality of spirits in bottleg people thus writing and speaking had any in the Middle East Baghdad is an epi tent with a white outer roof. yellow outer and flasks on Sunday night than it had notion what roof and porches in each of the four walls disposed of in one day for many years, actually looked like on the spot. I recall and the goal of an extremely brilliant cam An International Incident sode, though a great and historic episode, so that ventilation can be controlled at Working en hed provisioned their will. The beds are either iron cats or light homes in view of the possibility of need their hair turned grey and produced files should, as a matter of policy, have COL one such, which worried secretaries till paign. My personal view is that wo structures made of palm and supplieding a stimulant and not being able from Egypt. By each patient stands a obtain it in the usual place.

of correspondence many feet high.

tented ourselves with seizing the Euph small bedside table of white wood with Large restaurants in the West End de On the verge of the sea at sunset I camerates and Tigris delta, but those omnis his medicine bottles. novel or two, and clared themselves to be little affected by upon an amiable gentleman sented before cient and master minds who control the the little familiar oddments that make the change. They had already suffered a

a sinal tent. His background was a big

war doubtless have good reasons for their for comfort. The tent is very full, but great loss of business in wine from the violet mountain before him across the course of action which are concealed from there is verywhere that indefinable touch, nancial effects of the war, and they had water Hormuz famed like a jewel in the humbler men, Presumably they recognise, so marked in the roughness of camp life, already lost the greater part of their dying light. He was the Man in Posses in any case, that they cannot, while strik the touch of a woman's care. These boy supper business. Between meals they sion, the embodiment of the majesty of ing at Baghdad, ignore Persia, now in officers lying here are back from one of expected few customers, and their busiest Great Britain, and he hospitably dis chaos ander. German supervision. the desperate night attacks at Suvla, bours were not affected. They seem too young to need to know.

pensed whisky and soda to the parched Though our commitments new extend a But the higher-class cafés and inns in stranger Near him were a couple of fat full five hundred miles beyond the Persiar suffering. But they are happy here, the West End where drink is not served rered soldiers, the symbols of Hostile Mili-Gulf, we must not forget that our chief in There is a constant flow of chaff and chat over the counter but is consumed by tary Force. They were there to check and ter when the little women from Canada parties of friends gathered at tables were resist the Man in Possession, but their be argued that while we are supreme at sen terests still lie in the Gulf itself. It may Famenting the loss of one or two of their Government had not sent them any pay; In the hospital ships, too, the nurs play

most profitable bours.

we can always control the Gulf, but that is their part. This flect of liners, from the

zo one fetched wood and water for the foe, not wholly the case, especially in these days and the other cooked his dinner. vast Olympic downwards, which have been

of submarines. The late Admiral Mahan. adapted to this purpose, maintains the

The odd tric had been there for exactly warned as long ago that if we let any hoe

tile Power got a foothold in the Gulf we' traffic of mercy from the Peninsula to theped for me to st--an enormous grey the House of Commons, Petrograd was should imperil Great Britain's nával a consolation prize, which was unwrap. four months. They had been heard of in advanced base, to Alexandria, to Malta, woollen stocking. I could not understand very worried about them, Berlin was in-sitaation in the Forther East, her political to England. It is strange to read in these A nurse explained:-

quisitive, Peris wanted to know more, the position in India, her commercial interests great ships names inscribed which are stranga to peace-time activity over.

point, but though the reverberations shook wolf and Australasia, telegraph wires were strained to breaking in both, and the Imperial tie between her one door the words: Orderly Sergeant's Office; over others, G. Ward, K. Ward.

the air thousands of miles away nothing. I have tried to draw a little picture of Operating Theatre and so forth. Clean Canadian

I recall a dark night when some of our beyoud this comical (ittle group was visible the Persian Gulf, but let me sum up the as a new pin, these floating hospitals are dumped" on the pier in the dark, and

nurses arrived. They were on the spot.

thoughts that really lie at the back of it: pleasant to look upon. Their persoanet,

The Gulf and our undisputed control: RAM. and crew are indefatigable.

of it, is our predominant interest in this re And the nurses are the heart and sout their way through this strange place, clined to laugh whenever I look at the

Many such recollections make moin-gion, of life on board.. Yesterday I watched through thronged bivouace and dust and Foreign Office; but in truth they are no East we must impose no permanent exces

Wherever we may march in the Middle sports on board a hospital ship resting stones up the hill.

Their camp was not laughing matter. Such seemingly trivial sive strain upon our strength, momentarily after a busy time up at quite ready; something had gone wrong things are the harbingers for war You While striking at Turkey, we cineet Suvla

There were races and a tug of with the kitchens; everything looked for way and various events, and one saw with bidding and very dreary. It was not a tan all see the war when it comes; I am profess to be indifferent to the alarming familiar admiration what a fine type of cheerful welcome to the British Mediter trying to show you how it looks when it condition of Persia, the ye young man the R.A.M.C, orderly of the rancon Expeditionary Force, But not is coming, for war is mostly bred in these We must always remember that our per New Army is. The nurses had collected a word of complaint did the nurses utter. remote places, And though that beachmanent responsibilities in the East are al

como in..

For defeat." she said, punning

brazenly.

I think that even they must have felt *** PERSIA IN THE MELTING-FOT. rather homesick and forlorn as they felt!

the prizes laid out in the purser's office They just set to work cheerfully to put seemed lonely and peaceful onough, yet I ready enormous, that no campaigns in the Tins of cigarettes, sixpenny novels, pencil-things straight. And that was characteri had passed a watchful Cossack guard in Middle East can be decisive, and that this cases, cales of toilet soap; simple things, atie of our little women from Canada.sheepskin cop and high top-boots a few war will probably be settled in France hut the best they had to offer. There was Daily Mail.

miles back, and up the innocent channel Daily Mail.