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DRIVING PAIN, AY Have you a pain anywhere in your Is it a little pain or a big pain? Does torture a single serve or does it grind and rack your entire being 1

Isn't it foolish them to be drives, by pains or aches big or little, when you can drive them away yourself any or

simply in some by

MARCH 28RD 1917.

WAKING UP FRITZ.

BYWINGS, ETC"]

"That's all, Andrews. derstand the orders?

CARDINAL MERCIER TO HIS CUTLER PALMER & CO'S

PEOPLE.

Gardine Mercier, Archbishop of Mali You quise un nes, has issued a New Your letter con

taining the following passages ----

and

The truth must be above all, for sin curity is the most essential of all duties. We cannot without cowardics allow, un- trath to run uncountered.

We have protested against violence, and you with us have protested in order to restore the right that has been set at nanght,protested

We have protested against the calum nies which would have transformed exe- cutioners into victima and made victing of the guilty, and you have joined your efforts with oure in order to uphold the trulli

We have made our voice leard for the

Quite, sic.ANA Then tell the others and be ready to leave the ground in twenty minutes time. That will do.

3 Andrews, who wears a pilot's wings and three stars on his cuff, gathers up his maps and, soluting smartly, leaves

martly, leaves the office

Outside, Ave more pilots are standing ding together talking, each with his leather coat over his arm, goggles and flying cap dangling from the pocket, and as the flight commander comes out they look up ex- pectantly and begin to unfold their maps Now then, you fellows, gather round we've got to be off in

minta there's plenty to doenty in

We are the leading squadron and ren- dezvous over at 8,000 at eleven thirty

"Here's the place we're going to make a mess of, and we shall cros, the lines about here so as to get round behind it. It's an easy target, big factory in this bend of the river; and we ought to be able to knock it down quite the man I do not admit that, under pretext, of He points to the places of map greater recollection or piety, a Christian gives a few more instructions, and before may entrench himself in hoedless detach-

Afinal going over to the sheds imparts a word of

probabilment and regard the war from aft

if it could: only touch souls of inferior ly be plenty of mould. Faith ought to impregnate the will probably be plenty Huns wandering about, and we must keep whole of life, the commerce of individuals together Remember, whatever happens,

and of societies one with another, try and keep in formation. There's safety in numbers.

Now get off to your machines."

A quarter of an hour later the six machines, each with its bombs suspended close to the body like enormous eggs, are drawn up one behind the other at the end of the acrodronieser of

The major watch in hand, stands by the leading machine, and, seeing that all ready. Ee mods to the flight commander who waves his hand in the signal to start up the six engines

At once the roar of

safeguarding of the liberty of home and labour, and demanded the respect duo to the dignity of man and you have stood faithful by our side.

We bless God for having made you un- derstand your duty so well; it as nothing less than the fulfilling of the funda mental law of Christianity.

May we all bishops, priests, and hols women--profit by the great and hard lessous of the present time to strengthen in our souls the spirit of sacrifice: We do not think of this enough. The world does no understand this truth, and we do not look it sufficiently in the face the work of the redemption of the world in which we have the honour and duty of co-operating, is not only a work of labour and pious prayers; it is also, above all,

work of sacrifice.

bursts out, and one by one the machines THE OPTOPHONE FOR THE leap forward and skim off the ground.

At first they fy round in a strang, climb

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ing steadily, As if playing follow my leader but after a time they begin to close up luto the prearranged formation, with the result that before moving the vicinity of the aerodrome they are flying close together in a perfectly syrometrical group, the result of constant practice and

Formation flying, or flack flying as it is sometimes called, is very pretty, to watch from the ground, but it is a very different, matter to be piloting one of the machines taking part, and until throrough ly sccustomed to it it is a somewhat

nervy proceeding.

BLIND

The latest thing in "phones " is the ontophone, which M. E. E Fournier D'Albe, lecturer on physics, has invent ed, and for which he claims that it will prove a boon to the blind.

M. D'Albe recently lectured on the subject of the new instrument at the In. stitution of Electrical Engineers, Vic toria Embankment Before the inventor spoke he gave a practical demonstration to a reporter a

The optophone might be popularly described as a musical box, which emits a code of sounds that, in turn, spell words A blind man, by its means, may read a newspaper or other typed matter

, but quicker with practice slowly as The printed page is passed across a

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motion by the leading machines seem to luminous slot in a siren disc and sounds tion called Sarpol, rindedio try

communicated by * telephonic

To begin with, owing to the fact that there are no fixed objects in the air, as there are on the ground, to test your be standing immirant "danger

of overtaking and vel- liding with one of

Another machine which has got a little out of place and is dying just above yours seems to be endeavouring to perch on Spur over it while those on flanks are always apparently converging in on you, I hope blind soldiers may beucfit there any good. and for the first couple of times there is greatly by the optophone," said M Sargol helps digest your food and side a great temptation to dive down a 100%. the alphabet takes about a in ite assimilation. There it no need for or My so as to be cut

as to be cut of the way in case week to master, and learners ought to you to be a "skinny" and go around with in about six that pinched hungry, half-fed look any of accidents,

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THE EDWARD DISPENSARY. Should this happen, all the controls sud- denly become limp and useless, and the machine Hops and staggers about in a most alarming manner. But this state of things rarely lasts for more than half a minute, and then, on getting into still air, the controls seem to grip again, the machine steadies and resumes its course

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The inventor placed a telephonehead don't get enough to eat, but that they do set" to his ears, and, turning his eyes not assimilate what they do eat. They

simply go

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on blane awhough reality good across the dice. He "read" correctly similated, and consequently fontos de

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-"I have accepted a challenge from the National Blind Institute to read a new paper at the rate of twenty-five words a minute."

FIFTY ENEMY SHIPS IN BRAZILIAN PORTS.

There are 50 German and Austrian ves-

sels, representing nearly 240,000 tons, in Brazilian harbours. They are distributed as follows:

Punctually at ha

at half-past eleven the groupe sweep into their place, and the whole squadron moves off in the direction Maranhão

of the German lines

Total No. tonnage

Port

Rio

68,7611

Para

9.190

(4,679)

the faster.

Ternambuco Bohla

80,803

27,771

and gunhost Eber) Santa Catharina

5,705

27,490

20,872

3.738

Above and round it circle scouts which form the escort ready to drive off any hostile machine attempting to attack the formation.

The cross the lines without interrup tion, but when nearing the target the sky

in front suddenly begins to be dotted with yellow and black puffs, which become

Rio Grande do Sul

Santos intere l'aranagua

Parahyba Norte

2000 10,715)

These are exclusive of the oko (ex

more and more numerous as they plastone), the ownership of which is proach.name

The German gunners, having accurately disputed by American and Danjel com gauged the height of the attacking airy but was stopped by the Brazilian paries Ghe attempted to leave part late, are putting up a barrage of

shells across its front, through authorities, the captain' protest being!

before reaching thevailing.

Archie which it

leading machines in

Presently a Han goes down, turning, hd shoke in eis dragments, the overcelyver out of control; but tad formation, which has up to now been escort is heavily outnumbered, and, in Iving perfectly steadily, begins to sway spite of their efforts, Ave of the toe break and open ont slightly. E

through and dive on the bombing machines After a violent five minutes they get below. The latter, however, have kept through without loss, although many well together, and receive the attackers planes and fuselages are riddled with with a brick fire from all sides, which is holes, and flying over the factory drop so effective that they continue to dive until

one accon their bombs as each one into posi out of range, four of them then making

Then, their mission having been accom plished, they turn homewards, leaving the object of their attention a mass of smoke and flame far below

The Archie gunners start again with

descent in flames ten minutes. Tro off and the fifth continuing its headlong

The fight lasts about ten minutes. of the bombing thschines that have strag- behind are cut off by three times glod their number of Huns and are both dowu,

all of the only rubbig redoubled vigour, with the result that one of the escorts collides with its

machine, having its engine put out of

of opposent, both machines collapsing al action by a flying Jump of steel, begins to once. But five of the enemy have been glide down, the pilot boping that with a destroyed and their formation completely,

the lines

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The reat get through addition of some more holes to the alrendy The squadron, then resumes its forms. Jattered planea; but their troubles are by tion, circles round to collect the stragglers, no means over While they were engaged and returns home without any further in destroying the German munition works mishap. The machine that had its engine a large formation of hostile machines, damaged just manages to cross the Ger Blying very high, had circled round behind man trenches at about 1,000ft, under them and cut off their retreat heavy machine gun fire from the ground, the squadron moves straight forward and lands on top of one of our

enemy the escort sweeping forward munication trenches, being completely atleck in order to drive them off before smashed. The pilot, however, is urbu they get a chance of breaking the bombers formation T

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opposing forces get within range the stutter and rattle of machine gun fire breaks out, and as they Close the fight resolves itself into a number of isolated combater

(Continued at foot of next Columna

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Extract from official connunqua

Yesterday one of our bombing squad- rong successfully attacked the enemy muni tion factory at causing many explo sicar and starting fires a

turn

Three of our machines failed to re-

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