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"I was then a captain in the lat Dorsets, and was serving on the General Staff. When my wife join- ed the Motor Ambulance Corps she received notice to go to France.

It was quite possible, he said, that the Cockney dialect was introduced to London as a, fashionable acont which was dropped by the élite when the common. people adopted it. His explanation was that King Charles II used to stay for long periods with Nell Gwynn at her country house near Newport, and to while away the time the royal retinue used to roam the village and mock the unfamiliar accent of the a ton of bricks and demanded her TERMBCASH ON DELIVERY, villagers. The influence of the vil-eturn to England at once. ingers' dialect on their own created the accent which later became known as Cockney... planation may be wrong, but it is very interesting," said Mr. Bland ford.

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The scoret of Bernard Shaw's success was stated by Mr. D. R. Hardman, a Cambridge lecturer on literature, to lie in the fact that he was a Puritan. It would be better for everyone concerned, said Mr. Hardman, if the post-war writers would even imitate the art of

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open. Modern bacteriologists were called in by farmers · and fruit growers to diagnose the enuse of blight and to prescribe the neces sary parasite which would kill tho offending insect. Equally success- ful experiments. had been carried out with weeds, which · destroyed.

F. de Britto, Miss E. K. Beck-crops and plantations. In Austra man, R. W. Daimpre, Eastern lin acres of encroaching pear cactus Trading Co., Ltd., G. Falnosterk, had been wiped out by the use of Mr. Gansing, James Grant, R. A carefully nurtured parasites which Hall, Mra. T. Heker, Mrs. E. G. were placed on the weeds. Hobart, W. M. H. Ismail, Charles In a copre island not long ago," James (c/o Mortbly Leader), Kung said Mr. Webb, the planters were Kim Sun, Lo Kwok Ping, Lam threatened with ruin by motha Hung Keon, K. J. Marshall, Miss which were eating away the palm M. M. Moninger, H. R. Meier, F. leaves. A bacteriologist was called

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of two students who were experi renting and bad contrived to graft the head of 'a hee on to the body of a bootle, When asked what it Frost dont William Green of the was. they replied that they had American Foderation of Labour evolved a perfect specimen of the Just that touch of has entered in protest, on behalf, humbug.

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