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GENERAL NEWS."

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Horrors of Solitary Confinement.

Rrome, April 2.

IRISH CHEERS FOR BRITISH REVERSES.

Magersfontein Incident

Recalled,

THE MONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 9, -1914,

men, and I trust that the incident to which such an impression is due may now, even for party or partisan purposes, be buried by Jan act of oblivion."

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this most unfortunáté - obeer, Very few prisoners survive this which was it should be remember treatment without losing there, the one instance during the whe de course of a warcier cleriz. by nnny British revorgas, to hose policy we were "bitterly Dr. Campbell Morgan. Istur- posed, in which there had been ing recently on "he Christ of any manifestation whatever on the Evangelists," at Cemetery th Irish benches capable of being Road Church, Sheffield, arrested construed into an exhibition of

New Life-Saving Apparatus. impossible. The platforms are his audience by the statement gratification at a British reverea

A novel idea has just been two in number, each on the that "the whole Bible may be Tha cheer was not goueral, but read through at ordinary pulpit was confined to a very few men the list of killed and wounded. successfully tried for saving life" island" principle, but as they rate in sixty hours, or in six bers; it was immediately checked British members baring their at sea; it is the invention of an are both more than 1,000ft. in Henrich of length. it is possible to accommc. weeks, giving an hour and a half and repudiated by the leaders of hode, leaned forward breathless, engineer named sach day. la proof. Dr. Morgan the Irish party, to whom 1 then fearing to catch the name of some Gostemuende, the efficiency has date two trains at each side. Even been demonstrated in presence of There are four main tracks told a good story. When staying gave the explanation I give to the old friend or comrade. in New York his host, the man- public to-day.

when spared this shock, there was a large number of experts. The between the platforms, tud, in ager of the Manhattan Dank, Ever since the Magersfontain a sharp feeling of pain at the new appratus has the shape of a addition, two velief lines passing oballenged the doctor's statement, disaster (which was not chcored) thought of all the syllables would skittle. The central part is of at the back of the platformas.

watertight canvass with two "I asked him to try it," said Dr. Ihat, not on parsopal, but onean in some quiet home. Morgan. humorously adding, "for public, grounds, in the interests

shelves, the lower part is a metal it would at least get my friend of the officers and men-mans of

bucket, this bucket fills itesif with water as 3000 as it enters through his Bible once." Some them Irishmen-whosa lives were time after the banker met Dr. in jeopardy-criticized the reten

eaving apparatus by its weight the water and keeps the life- Morgan, and referring to the tion of Lord Methuen in com

in a vertical position, the man challanged statement, said: "You mand. When, after the failure of

standing on the lid of the bucket. were wrong, you know!" "How the Northern Expedition, bis

The top part allows the person to far was I out?" asked the doctor. capture, which I regarded as a

look out, by a sliding glass door "Twenty days," said the vindication of my criticism, was

which is water tight when shut; manager," for "I have read announced, I was betrayed into a

inside sufficient food and drick my Bible through. from end derisive cheer, not indeed at Lord

ing water can be stored. There to end, and it took me exact-Methuen's discomficie, nor by ly forty hours." "Bat," replied way of insult to the Army; in

The proposal to remove the are also ropes attached for two or Dr, Morgan, "I said at pulpit which some of my nearest relatives ancient Bargate to another site three people to hang on to the rate, not bank manager's rate!" and dearest friends have served, was defeated by 28 votes to 12 at apparatus outside. On the top Nothing in more thy of your con FM,O...A, Reviews,

but at the ineptitude and indifer- meeting of the Southampton is a tube which allows air to sideration than the welfare of your even It enter, but is must ingeniously The trouble that to-day is smail and pasl ence to the interests of the Atay Town Council last month.

ly remedied, if neglected may get beyoud itsel roanifested by the War was urged by the minority that constructed to prevent the water, matures. Be on the rate side and the Bargate, which is in the entering. Signals and a revolver if your eyes are giving trouble wall on us There was once a man who had Office authorities of the day. contented heart. No matter I have borne this columny, for main thoroughfare, was a bind-ann be carried, for signalling to had have them examined. No charge for

passing ships. The whole ap what happened to him he was many years in silence, becau Irance to traffic.

paratus can easily be stored on catisfied with it. One day he felt that no one-borever Bitter

board ship and mado ready for was run over and both his foot his political antagonism to me

use in a minute or two. were out off. Oh, well," said may be could believe me to ba be," they always were cold, any capable of an offenco so grievous

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Many romantic memories and legends cling round Cortacby bosides that of the world famed "Airlie drum," which is said to be heard before a death in the

unnecessary.

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family. No one, however, bas actually seen the ghostly drum-i mer-boy, who beats hie: drum in revenge for having been hurled from the Castle wall to his death fastened inside' bis instrument. A more recent story is the in- cident biok is said to have occurred when the flag that fats over. Cortachy was being hauled down at sunset on the eventful! day th thaw the battle of Diamond Hill, The flag end- denly suck at balf mast, and

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