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ILL-FED PRISONERS.

GERMAN CRUELTY TO BRITISH

ON CAPTIVES.

KEEPRISALS PROPOSED.

In the House of Commóns do May 24th, Colonel Burn asked the Under Secretary of State for War whether, owing to the reported carcity of meat and other articles of food in Germany, he could wake any further statement as to the amounts of the eptions supplied daily to the British prisoners of war by the Gor man Government,pft

VARDUN STILL

THE PRICE OF GERMAN

OBSTINACTMELAY

BY THE TIMES MILITARY DECORAKIPONDENTI]SZ

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY JUNE 20cm 1010.”

BATESON'S RISE.

[BY W. FOTT RIDGE

July, 1914.

Batason, it is reported to me by one of the septor clerks that on no less People wonder what is really happen than two occasions this month you have ing at Verdun, and lose themselves in arrived at offes ten minutes late. conjectures why the German CommandThe trains, sir persists in butting its head against a I want no excuses, no beating about as well aware as i am that nine o'clock stone wall.

the bush, no shifty apologies. You are is the hour for signing on. But perhaps (sarcastically) I am erediting you with too much intelligence. Possibly you have never learnt to tell the time Bateson, I strongly recommend you to acquire, with all convenient speed that most useful accomplishment. Not really dif- ficult, you know. When the long hand points to X double I and the short hand points to IX that means it is mine o'clock Try to carry the simple fact in your head, Bateson. You possess a head,

Yes, sir. "*9. I believe t

We are not by any means alone in won dering, for the Austrians have told their Allies that they wonder too, while any visitor to Verdun will be asked what on earth the Germans are boat, and what Mr. Tourant I stated on May 3rd in the chemy proposes to do. We must wait reply to a supplementary question, that until another Verdy da Vernois writes a the authorizrit scale of Fations For British second edition of In Grossen Haupt prisonors in Germany was carried but quartier before we can learn what has very generously. Since theil have had passed at Falkent n's headquarters dur derived from ring the past three months, but we can be further informistion, derived turned prisoners. These do not, I and, sure that the hair bas flown on many confirm the statement made, but, on the occasions, and that there have been many contrary, show that the German scale fait to have observed that the military bitter recriminations. Hindenburg in in practice, disregarded with serious situation of Germany is brilliant but sequences to the prisoners. I should there without prospects. It is a close enough fore like to take this opportunity of or approximation to the truth, and the rent reet og my previous answer and of stat trouble at Main Headquarters must be to ing that I am advised that, if it had not and a way out of the impasse into which been for the parcels of food sent to the the decision to attack at Verdun has led

We regard the German

a reassuring admission on your part If nature had but given you a brain well, how much your equipment for City life would have been increased, leaving your affection for games unimpaired. You take an interest in cricket, no

doubt.

"STRAIGHTENING OUT.”

THE FAMILIAR COMMUNIQUE

LINE

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

A DRESS REHEARSAL

[DY TWELLS DEBX.]

The following description of a recent My friend Bradshaw wrote the other French coup de main in the Argonne is and a lunch with me to-morrow at the day,." What about a war economy lapse contained in a despatch from Mr. Hat 1,301 Warner Allen, representative of the Briand tonic of friends; his taste in menus Bradshaw has ever been the most cheery tish Press with the French Army:______ is almost as good as a munitioner's-1 which have been daily taking place He was striding about the lounge, with It was one of those little operations But I found my host in a early mood. for the last 20 months all along the corrugated brows and a cowling fee

French front. It was a question of straightening out the line, of driving out the Germans from a point of vantage which was annoying the front trenches and the affair took place in had been torn to pieces not only by shells, ground which but alan by mine explosions. The official communiqué gave the whole affair just

one line.

wired acceptance.

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 28th at 11,12 – The Japaners de- premion has filled up? Tro Chineso depression, ia now oed tral over the Gulf of Péchiller) ***

Freature has Increased slightly over Japan Ila nearly stall nary in southern districts. and moderately along the east ormat of Calas.

January, 56 la Inobes, against an average:

Hongkong rainfall for 14 hours anding 10 to-day, 003 ios; Total since 37.50 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at Noon

today is follow

Drasatoriske FonNJAVE.

SW

winde

late, squally; fair

hustled me Although I was punctual to the minute be

tot table, atolike man hour, and talked only a monosyllables Hongkong & Neighbourhood, bar who lies long over passed his usual meal until we had finished lunch He brightened up when the coffee and cigars came, "I'm afraid I'm a dull dog to day," then anid Bradshaw,

That dyspepsia of mine always gives You are, I answered candidly.

meals, he said apologetically, and I me gyp if I'm not punctual with

men had been withdrawn from the ad vanced trenches at the point where the

As a preliminary to the operation then hour!" I cried indignantly.

waited for you an hour, a

assault was to be made, for the opposing lines were only nine or 10 yards apart. The evacuation accomplished, 250 Gin. shells were neatly thrown on to the covet

was punctual to the second, t

Formosa Channel-

No. 1.

SonthCost of China between The same ma

Bouth coast of China between The samo s liengkong and Lamocks, No. 1.

**Hongkong and Faizan

fault. It's that beastly Daylight Saving Actres

I know, you were. It wasn't your CHINA COAST

It isn't in operation yet.

What on earth are you taking about ↑

men from this country, they would in the German Armies siatence in To some extent, sired point of the German lines Meantime I know that," said Bradshaw sadly,

publicity it demands, and that it may in time to avert those evil effects which I can assure the House, havn caused me not a little anxiety

Colonel Burn asked if the right hon gentleman did not think the time had arrived for something to be done to the German prisoners in this country (eric of No, no when evidened, was giv by independent people as to the cruel and brutal way in which our prisoners were being treated in Germany, (Hoar, hear.)

tion

Verdun position is now honeycombed with fresh sault and & repulse. All the trenches in every direction: There are ample French guns, which cease fire nei ther by night nor by day, and there are still French troops in reserve in plenty for any purpose which may enter Gen eral Joffre's mind.

but you know what a fearful fellow i am at getting up in the mornings. So we

many annoyances could have happened! had a dress rehearsal at home this morn ing. Oh, you wouldn't believe that so

MANI have known Bradshaw for so many

DEJUTIPIT WORK

Station.

He is a worshipper of detail and schedule. years that I know all his eccentricities, Above all, he loves finding something Vladivostookers mechanical to do. His ideal summer Namaze in a garage inspection abamber. He Table burst pipes and over-feeds the dog for the Nagaki kem the sort of householder who prays for Kohl

of man who can replace washers on taps pleasure of doctoring it. Be is the fort without flooding the house z Ho-knows blaze up like forked lighting, and then what to do when all the electric lights expire. Ah, a short reuit he says, in a voice that most men would only use if they found a Treasury note on the pavement.

No. L

METEOROLOGICAL

-REGISTER

STE JUNI, AM

very many instances have starved.o not, therefore, think that there should be error as sheer obstinacy, which is a spuri-Quite 30, quite so. And no doubt if the 75's opened a feu de barrage to any relaxation of the efforts which sous variety of force of character. Since I asked you how many times Buffolk, left and right of the doomed position, been made, and am being made, to send some Brandenburgers got into Douay- relief to the prisoners. I am oblige, tomont Fort during the last week in Febru- during the last ten years your reply you from an attack on the evacuated trenches for instance, has won the championships that no help could come from either the honourable gentleman for giving cry, and since the French abandoned he given You are smiling, Bateson.

side and the enemy might be discouraged this opportunity of correcting an aura bank early in March, there has been discussion of ours is an amusing incident their more advanced positions on the left You are under the impression that this which I made and froh which I halin Bon to fear consequences of a most scarcely any change in the situation, and I congratulate you, Bateson, on posses

The guns did their work beautifully, hope that this correction will receive the sacrifice of German life which has marked) I warn you that this is of very little with bayonet and grenade. There was holiday would be three weeks on his back Hakodate mode] desirable kind might follow I sincerely none, certainly, to justify the immense sing a sense of humour. But (truculent and when the storm of tin. hells had finished the storming party dashed out Germans continue to exhaust their Army decido, young man, to take life a trife scarcely any resistance. The grenade or before Verdun to the point of extermina more seriously I shall have no hesitation alive, and in a few minutes the French this most tragic episode of the war. The use in Gracechurch street. Unless you

bayonet accounted for etery German left They bring up divisions in reserve in asking you to transfer your help to found, and each fresh contribution means cinted. This is the first and Inst warn and were working, as only men who know from every quarter where one is to be a quarter where it will be better apprehod thrown aside their weapons of offence

I am sorry, sit, if ing give you.

that their lives depend on their industry The door is where it was when you In the telling the coup de main sounds Can work to strengthen their position. entered the room. Close it quietly as delightfully easy, but in the doing it was you go out."

a hard and perilous attempt. Even after August, 1014.-

one has heard the rain of big shells burst ing on the enemy's line almost without Mr. Tenuant. I love answered this

THE FRENCH AT VERDON

BES

Well, Bateson, then I take it you reply it is no joke to scramble along the question many times and I would appeal

are determined to go, and I suppose the remnants of the barbed wire, and burl, edge of a deep mine crater, to jump over to the House to give very grave considera found the whole countryside outside the into you. But let me tell you this (wag knowing whether suddenly, without warn When the writer visited Verdun he nothing I can say will knock any sense oneself into the enemy tranch without tion to the effect which might be produced zone crammed with French reserves, and ging forefinger). You are doing a very by any such course as that he describes although the baffle was raging with all mad and reckless thing in dreiding to one is not going to be exposed to If the Germans choose to treat our pri- the fury which has been its distinguish Join the Army without first obtaining gun. However, it is a job to which the soners in the way described, ran it being characteristic, the French permission my permission.

the deadly fire of a concealed machine argued that we should do as they do? aires were going off to their home on My folk at home, sir, were quite

men in the trenches from the North Sea (Cheors) hard furlough as though nothing was happen willing to

to Switzerland have grown accustomed. Admiral Sir H. Meux-Hos any ing There was equal confidence on there nothing to do with your folk at Up in the observation post we watched. So we rang for the housekeeper and endeavour been made through the Ameri battleground itself, and this confidence home. I have to think of the office and the Frenchmen working feverishly told her that she must put her alarm can Ambassador in Berlin to bring these has been fully justified by the cool manner what will happen here if many more their sandbags. Each moment the bank clock on an hour. The housekeeper disgraceful facts to the personal know in which our glorious Allies have held follow your example. Commerce is the of sandbags grew higher, and we knew aniffed and said that she hadn't been en Bone con ledge of the Kaiser, who, with one word the enemy at arm's length for the last backbone of the British Empire, but that as the bank rose the trench behind gaged to get up in the middle of the GAD could stop the whole thing if he chose two months, have punished him severely that of course, is nothing to you. was deepening. At last it became clear night. Barbara pointed out firmly that Mr. Tonnant I think that that ques and have prevented him from scoring a Everything depends on the business of that for the moment, at any rate, the she would have to do it in a week or tion, if answered, should be answered by single point.

the nation being carried on as usual enemy had decided to sit down under his two, because it would then be the law of Her the Foreign Office after dus notice sible by gaining ground every day in that I tell you what it is, Bateson, wounded man came back along

The Germans have achieved the impos-hat you, as I can see snap your fingers defeat and was in ne mood to ating back the land, and everybody would be doing it. The housekeeper said that she didn't been under the impression that she had taken service in a Christian household: she would be no party to breaking the sacred laws of creation, rather than be party to such heathenish blasphemy she would give notice and take servión elss

I can imagine the ecstasy with which Greenwich certificated chronometer in his Bradshaw would go found his house,

tampering, PUL hand, on a daylight saving orgy of clock The dress rehearsal was Barbara's hearse that daylight saving dodge to- ides, continued Bradshaw. We'll re morrow, daddy, she ordered. You've Tale got to be broken in

ME MNeill asked if they could rely the bulletins while in fact remaining you are acting from motives of pure and communication trench from the mine about the law of the land she had

QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS.

crater that had just been captured "How are things going on up there 77 replied not a single man difled be we asked him Splendidly he wounded

Cars

undiluted selfishness. All you consider is yourself. You fancy it will impress form. You are under the delusion that everybody when you strut about in uni- the Germans can't be beaten without your help. Do you know what I call it, Bate son Colossal conceit. That's the phrase LA BLESSTER FITON, where where people left the time alone. Then for its Colossal conceit And mark this. But you, we asked, aren't you If you persist in carrying out your wild wounded "No," he replied, est la can come back just when you please to a week's rest! It's not a real wound, bat intentions don't you imagine that you birarure flen, which means I shall have your comfortable quarters here in Grace only a beam of wood we were putting elinrch street. When you go you go, and into position behind the sandbags fell on you don't return. We wash our hands of my shoulder and has bruised it badly you. The war will probably be over by We left the little man to go smiling ou the end of the year, and you may come towards the rear, and an officer explained up the staircase on your bands and knees, to me the meaning of the mysterious hat you'll find nothing for you here." phrase une blessure flon. A fin d'or is a vein of gold, and to a weary man a light wound often seems a precious as a gold mine un

I should like to say--- Can't listen to you, Bateson. You've exhausted my large supply of patience Get out of it as sharp as you like.

January,

ry, 1015,

Hour.

Barometer

*Ben-Level

鮮魚!

Ba 2,72

Humility.⠀⠀⠀⠀

Temperature.

29.76 81 29,75, 20

86 88

Wind

Direction.

• Foi con

Weather.

29.68 76 045 kW

1 b

1. T. CLAXTOs, Director

beit, on the level of the ses la inches, bearths and hundredths.

... 1, Bazorrean, rodnood to 39 degreon Buhren“.

DocERÁTUan, In the abade, In degreOS

Fahrenbalt

3. HunDuy, in percentage of saturation, the

100,

4. Dannerton or Wian, to two poluta. 6. Fosenor Wise, socording to Boaufer: Scale.

4. STATE OF WHATHIR, b bins aky, e detached

clond, d drissing in, I fog, & gloomy, I hell, 1

In the House of Commons last mouthy the heroes of the recent attacks on the these Army men. Tell the other people machine gun that was not in action whole proceedings were not unconnected lightning, d vreroast, p pasing showers, a muni,

Lord C. Hamilton asked whether the Gigy erament, baring regard to the feeling throughout the country against the col tinuance of horse-racing during the war, coupled with the necessity for restricting the consumption of petrol and minimie ing the repairs to motor cars used for purposes other than those is bid of the naval, military, and munition services, would take immediate stops to prohibit such racing until after the conclusion of the war, thun g

with espionage

sepa

Trún phốc, thunder ở Tallilit w del (kem)

7. BAIN in

in inciren, bertheund hundredths.

THERAPIONE CO

"BLOOD PORON; ASSUMIT, ELADERE, OBINARY DIER KÉZÉ DIGRATORS, WRACKENFREI SUO STANI MODNESS

MEDICAL HAVELIDORES HAMPSTEADY bingh J

on the parcels sent to prisoners ever Touching them and on their not being pretty much where they were about takon by the Germans. (Hear, hear

18th. They cheer up their country Lord R. Cecil - As far as we know, French reserves, and there wait declaring that they are exhausting t almost all. I do not say all parcals that that they should try to do so, for opinion have been sent have reached the prisoners in Germany is becoming enervated and The matter is one which, I think, ought depressed The French practice has been to be regarded with grave anxiety is 10 to give divisions a rest after serious fight what may happen in the future. It is one ing, in order to prevent their quality from

in that case have the difficulty of finding of the aspects of the question which ought deteriorating, and they can a

Barbara pointed out that she would to be very carefully considered by all Dede because they have ample reserves. The

& Sundial The housekeeper uniffed again 1 afford to do

4 eilustion with ginople who only kept partments of the Government,

Germans are not in this fortunate posis

and said that she had kept her temper (Dur cable columns yeaterday showed tion, and so they have to draw their shat

and she expected other people to keep that the Government are now disposed, intered divisions out of the line, fill them

her tempers. She eventually under curtato eventualities to re-consider then from the field depôts as best they may

took to call us an hour earlier on the treatment of Gorman

Gorman civilian prisoners, and hurry them back again into the fight

norrow, with the provision that she re --EDJ

It is against human nature that troops

served judgment as to whether she would Bo misused should retain their dash, and it is certainly the case that none of these

do so on subsequent occasions. The re Fused superstitiously to alter the time of HORSE RACING IN WAR TIME. rected divisions has achieved any

the alarm clock, and she brought it up bumidity of six started with mishure, being thing Even when fresh divisions are

to me to reset. I believe," said Bradshaw brought up

they are too few to acton

reflectively, that by the strange as plish much, It is possible that the 1st

colonel was naturally jubilanteiation of thought which seems peculiar DIES Bavarian Army Corps recently with-

Only one man had been actually wounded to housekeepers, she somehow concluded drawn from our front, where i wis te Bateson to see me? Better show him in the whole fait, and he was not ea that we are pro-Germans, and that the placed by the 4th Guards Division-were in, perhaps. One must be amiable to gaged in the attack, but, was standing by ↑ h left bank of the Meuse. They did well to wait for three minutes. Ah (gerally the colonel's hospitable table we drank teaAs you know, I am a pretty good

when a stray bullet found him. Around and are sturdy fighters, but though there to new arrival in unifirm) bow are we and ate petits fours made that very morn hand at mechanical things, but Edison were five or six divisions in all engaged, how are we, how are we? By Jovel wing only a few hundred yards from the would want to touch wood before he anter the gains were incommensurate with the look a different man altogether. Sit down Boches by a patissier, a master in his art end with an alarm clock) Directly I losses, and meanwhile, at other po nin, and make yourself at home. No, no whom fate had, called to fight for his fered to move on the hands of the alarm the French continue to gain ground don't take that chair-take mine. It country in the Argonnet stock it becsnie so alarmed that it went

It must be understood that the Mort Homme, Hill 30 and Avocourt Wood Bre advanced positions and that the mais

off and shrieked the place down for twelve French line on the left bank of the Meuse Not at all, not at all. Delighted to trouble at times like this. What do the stabulary rushing in, we had to wrap it minutes. For fear of the special con- in much further south. The Germans seo you. It is young men like yourself two stripes on your sleeve meani thought that they could take Mor who make one hope--although the outlook

Lin the tablecloth and cover it with ofte Home and Hill 004 ossily enough, but is not at present very bright that every-

man cushions until it sobbed itself into DVOUD these posts have resisted for two months, thing is bound to come well at the end.

silence, Evory time I touched the thing and it has only been when trenches have Ready to do battle for the sake of the old Where's the bead waiter! Tell the been levelled with the ground that the country and prepared to sacrifice your head waiter I want him at once. Go

and find Him and tell his house storing the other clocks. For beer been the German guns, and not the Gar church street where you have spent so unless-oh, here you are head waiter cast iron pig-headedness command me to Lord C. Hamilton-Do not the Govern

and never-to-be-forgotten Now, let us understand the procedure of clocks When I tried to alter the big went see the incompatibility of preaching The French Higher Command has con algus; the loft band side of the case, King, and you inast have someone at the touch that it struck 10 straight off to do their utmost in she interests of the ducted this, great fight the maro coolness please, the others I keep for myself. Now piano to start the National Anthem, and rock, clock stopped dead and basn't moved

and patience. General Pétain had

"But next Sunday week will seo overy State, and sanctioning prosecutions, and his ground inch by inch, and every inch trifle wrong, apparently, in guessing that here on my right. And then he'll reply, since. The drawing room clock, which

thing adjusted" observed, The milk- in some cases fines for wilful disregard at the price of German lives He has December would see the finish of it. You Have you got that Very well, then has always been our model time-keenak man and paper boy will come earlier; of to working,

our brainwil be onion on won & time giving public sanction to the most

evening.) I've arranged it all, sir, this morning we found it three hours fost

ing earlier - You extravagant, alluring, and expensive

The drill down at Caterham Good of you to take form of publis amusement (Cheers) they have been allowed to have it. But I know (sympathetically), a knowled

Barbara tried to put it back to daylight realise say change. And you will leave saving time, and the big hand broke of work an hour earlier in the evening, and were installed they would be promptly whole four hours as special constable very great honour, believe me blotted out by General Pétain's favourite myself, but I had to give it up. Got on speak briefly in proposing your health: head. I had forgotten, or didn't know,

dicating a nasty abrasion on his fore conversation or your book. prescription, the tir d'écrasement that is my nerves, the constant expectation of thirty five minutes, perhaps less. Depends to say, the concentric fire of all the French something happening and nothing hap how they take it. And then you rise and that the little clock on the bracket in Bar when I've had to get up early-not worth batteries within reach Time after time pening. I should have been a mental say a couple of words, ust one sentence getting tired and nervy it was then one Tile, ever since my father got me i

haraj bedroom is a cuckoo clock. I was listen tor the Garman pessults

Its have been smashed and physical wreck if I had gone on with will be ample Now, if you don't mind, up by the he de barrage and wiped out it. And that is where I'm in older man sir, let's make a startle (Giner the loge in the morning and just as: I began to habit with a walking slick, and I can't of advice that I have offered to the others singing. Gentlemen (Cheer) We are ed out and startled me so that I fell of evenings in the garden, I all be three than you I should wish to give a word wait and joine annetave lor, in the alter the hands the foot of a duckeo, ump change it. As for conversations and who have left us. Keep a brave, stout hers in night to do honour to our dear the chair. who: are looking on and hoping that on leave from the front) Ouring all the spiteful; and called us at six o'clock. If you have ever tried to get a clock into heart. Remember those of us like myself and valued cum clause bate Well, the housekeeper got muddled, or weeks before I have repaired the clocks

veatured

but next week, sir,

The Prime Minister replied. I must re for the noble lord to the answers given to the member to: North Dever by the Fre sident of the Board of Trade on the eth and 21th inst. which embody the concurrench have abandoned then. It has lives if necessary in order that Grace

May, 1916.

it started to scream again.

Then Barbara and I went round the

THERAPION

LAST TOTALS PA

men are such early fools as people think them. I had nothing to do but shiver, so bars, and realised what abominations gar- Le walked sound, the garden with "Bar-

Bion of the Government on this matter man infantry, which have occasionally lease smoke. Try one of my the evening, I give the health of the grandfather clock in the ball it resenter dens are before you sfe fortified with

Beared

me all about everything. was a then I shall offer the tomat our room

Germans have been willing to pay the exorbitant price, which he asks for ground

ing hard and all that sort of thing, eht

breakfast.!!

Mr. Hogge-Running their own hors they have not been told that when they? Or at any rate, can-imagine. I pat in Nord in the least. A pleasure, and You see that bruise, said Bradshaw, in hoge an extra hour of your daughter s

Mr. Asquith-The answers of May 9th and 11th went into all those questions,

Bir O. Henry Can my right hon Iriend state why there should be an in Crease in the number of race meetings this year compared with last year for Mrr Hogge-Is the right hon. gentlo Cabinet discussed this matter, the Cabinet the survivors have had to face the rifles aware that since May, when the of existence by bo zie d'écrasement, while ve bought racehorses which they are and machine guns, not to speak of the mow running iZKY,

Air B. Collins Is it possible to train The Germans before Verdan have had an

bayonets which are charper than over horses for military and national teammonly bad time. wikerwise than by the racecourse 1) CiSir A Markham-Will the Prime}} Minister take the sense of the Houm on this question (Cheers.)

doubt that a large majority of the House is in favour of the proposal contained in the question

Mr. Asquith made a remark which was not heard in the Press Gallery

PORTUGAL AND THE WAR.

wowed

I shall

Bra

My daughter a converESEIOD,

irritably, is ille my OWN

**o got up at sight all my into the

ita strike, you will go home and pray for.

*** 3 was so upset by the dress rehearsal,

later you'll come back safe and sound to years of my noquaintance with him, from believe (said Bradshaw bitterly) "that Gracechurch-streetMy lad, (ofering the day he, sa mere lad, joined the home realous idiots wanted the new Act both hands and speaking with emotion), firm with which we are all swoisted, to compel us all to get up not one hour, good luck to you and may Providence there has never heart, I can honestly but two hours, earlier. He stirred his concluded Bradshaw, "that I dean forgot Watch of you wherever you go and declare so much amis word, never coffee violently. "They ought to be kill to pat my chrungmeter back this morning apart from that, take care of yourself. the sign or Another cigart Not Well, I suppose

deod, ed by the mob and despatched to the last and came here to meet you an hour too When you see a bullet corning, dodge, our relations Gracech

destination of that criminal who first I dreaded, he cried with anguish,

He pulled out his watch.

like him that Gracechurch street dan mind you, it thanks to him and to those poisoned people's minds by writing those This watch has boere faithful, pune mare about early to bed and early to tual, unvarying servant for thirty years. tingen, to exist, ("")[car, hear scarcely as the end of own the rise Oure being only our own dress at night I gave it the lis direct ve Junior but rather as parsel fowards to for the paper boy and the milk broke hold an alch before

for milk. He held the watch me. It said quite s delusion that all milk 8.15. I looked at my own watch. The Continued an next Golumn.) right time was 2.40.

In the House of Commons last month, Mr. Asraith, replying to Mr. King wid:-It would not be in the public ought not to detain you Must you be interest to specify the precise part to be off Then Ell see you to lis played by Portugal in defeating the comYou needn't trouble to

we mustn't consider anything & son I look upon Lieutenant!

not only a credit to Ayself (Continued on next (tramora) speaking.)—Daily Mail, 309

MacCallum Scott Thome-rating mon angm//bit the Ton, somber may trouble 1% (with) et gesture) Ats

an amusement in which

capital are wasted kion

Në rendyjwks given..

of rest assured that the Portuguese Govern

ment am reting in the clout-co-opera tion with his Majesty's Government.

Bateson as