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GENERAL NEWS.

Radium Ore.

With the prominence given to the subject of radium, some in- terest attached to a brief report by Mr. Edgar T. Wherry, de scribing a deposit of carpotite near Mauch Chunk, Pa., publish. ed na Bulletin 550.II of the Un ited States Geological Survey. Carnotite is one of the radium. bearing minerale, and this deposit is believed to have been formed by precipitation from the ground water, and can now be seen in process of formation where water trickles out through cracks in the rocks. The deposit is of signif icant interest, but the present knowledge regarding it is insuffi cient to warrant any statement në

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to ita workability. Sa for us is Household. now known, the total sro.evered by the car nolite-bearing lurees is. very small, the observed outcrops; being confined to a strip but a fow hundred feet in extent. A copy of Mr. Wherry's report may be obtained by application to the director, United States Geologi- cal Survey, Washington, D. C.

Found Drowned.

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MOUTRIE'S.

The body of Mr. J. A. Stewart, HELIGOLAND ACTION. acting manager, Bank of India,

WAS

found at Mahalakshmi, Bombay, on the afternoon of September 17. Mr. Stewart left the bank as usual on the Mon day evening and went to his bunga low, Nepean, Sea Road, Malabar Hill, where he was living alone. After dinner he left the bungalow walking and did act return. Nothing more was heard of him until his body was found in the

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The following casualties have. been announced as the result of the action in Faligoland Bight on August 28 ----

H.M.S. Fear" 285,' WOUNDED.

Harris, William John, Leading

Seam: b, 233351.

Denton, Harry, Urdinary Seaman,

J:11831.

Stoker,

Chaz man, Arthur George, E.R.A.

4th class, M 119. Heywood, John William,

let clase, K 17751. Davis, Waller Henry,

Stoker, 281134. Keon, George, A.B. 239184. Miller, Albert Joseph, boy

Chief

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K 11570.

BELGIUM'S HEART-CRY.

PASSIONATE APPEAL. TO

HUMANITY.

The World's Tr

M. Carton de Wisst, the Belgian Minister of dustice, and bie is proceeding to America, left colleagues of the mission which.

Liverpool: They are visiting the Euston at 1.40 on September 3 for

President Wilson a statement of United States to lay before

the atrocities committed by Ger- mona in Belgium.

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Before leaving London, two tele-members of the delegation, M. Paul Hymans and M. Emile Vandervelder, attended a draw- ing room meeting at the Hotel Cecil. There was a large and sympathetic gathering, which included a number of Americane,

The War and Salaries, From one of the home trade) papers we quote the following, commend it the careful consideration of local firms Apropos the reduc- tion of salaries by some firme on account of the war, I quote the following from a speech by Mr. Morforde, of Mesars. Swan and Pottle, Charles Wesley, AB, Edgar, Lid., at a meeting of em- ployers recently-It was the assistants who helped to make

H.M.S. Phoenix, WOUNDED.

234350,

H.M.S. Druid. WOUNDED.

businesses, and a first duty was Tanner. Edward Frederic, A.B., owed to them, Shareholders had

237200. "

their reward in big dividende The petty officers and men of

"Belgium has now only one national policy," said M. Hymens, whose speech was punctuated - of with applause and cries sympathy, "that is, resistance against the barbarous invaders,

and piled up reserves.. Ho HIM.S. Fearlees belong to Ports-who, not having succcoded in thought these reserved might well mouth Division, the others to

be utilised now for the welfare of Chatham, the qesistants. If salaries had

to be cut down, it would be well

P.M.S. Laertes.

Killer.

Petty Officer, Chatham, 295559. Brazier, Walter Ernest, Stoker 1st

taking sway our honour, are avenging themselves by pillage, massacre, and burning" (Shame!),

"The only Worthy Life." The speaker's fiual contence roused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm "Be sure of our confidence and gratitude," he oxclaimed, "and be sure we will not fail to uphold our cause. For a people a free life is the only Sub-Lieutenant George H. Faulk-worthy life. Eight years ago we-

f.ught for that. We shall fight Whyte, Peter, Leading Seaman, to the end to keep it.".

Chatham, 172041 Southby, George Robert, Able

Class, Chatham; 311704.

Wounded.

ner.

"

to start with managing directors Taylor, Ernest Edwin, Soker and others earning handsome

·HUMB. The movement ought to atart right at the top. There is a good deal in that. It is a poor patriotism that only demands Bacrifice by the "bottom dog." The low-salaried men ought to be the leat whose weekly wage is out down. At the meeting referred to above, the following resolution was adopted after full discussion:-That it is neither desirable nor necessary in exist ing circumstances to dismisa ang assistants, but that if economies in the carrying on of business are necessary they should be met by other means Amongst those supporting the resolation were Mesars. Robert Blundell (Maple and Co., Ltd.), S. M. Skinner (John Barker and Co., Ltd.) Richard Burbidge (Barrod's Stores, Ltd), T. Barbett (Shool McArdle, James, Stcker P.O.,

Chatham, 289222. bred and Co.), JQ. Lovell (Thomas Wallis and Co. Ltd.), Cime, James, Stoker 1st Class,

Westergard (Waring and Gillow, Ltd.), and John Lawrie (William Whiteley, Ltd.).

Seaman, Chatham, 280917. O'Brien, Eugeno: Stoker 1st Clase, Chatham, K6567. Richardson, William George, Stokor 1st Class, Chatham 312150.

Stirring scenes marked' the oratory in French, of M. Vander- velder. The indignation which burnt withia him found fall. expression in a torrent of worde, delivered with the most passion and accompanied by sledge ham. mer blows with his fist on the Kemp, Berbert. William Henry, table. His anger as he epoke of "Stoker 1st Olase, Chatham, German atrocities swept across

KZ679.

the audience like a tornado and

Way, George William Calientt, lashed them into a frenzy of Stoker P.0%, Chatham, applause. Fometimes his passion rendered him almost incoherent, but none could fail to grasp his

K11448.

Chatham, K14805.

H.M S. Arethusa. Since Died of Wounds. Tuma, Giovanni, Officers' Stow- ard, 3rd Clase, Chatham,

356540

1.

Ceylon Contingent Accepted. The following communique was laid on the press table at the Secretariat, Colombo, on Septem- ber 18-In reply to his telegram of August 24, 1014, making an

Unemployed in Germany. offer of a Ceylon Contingent for Eervice at the front, 's Excel-

London, September 1.-A des lency the Governor received on patch to the Daily News says Eeptember 10 a telegram. from that the General Federation of

meaning,

Penalty of Duty. "Because we have done our' duty," be cried, "our land is de- vaatated.our population decimat-

er

and Louvain-the centre.

of the intellectual life of Belgiu

with all its treasures of science nd art, collected during the etu ies, and with its magnifi ant library is burnt and de- stroyed.

"We shall never cease till we avenge ourselves. In 1714 it was Louis Quatorze; in 1814, Napo- leon; nor it is the Kaiser. The

He is not Louis Quatorze, and we rely on England to smash him in the same way that she smashed Napoleon."

the Secretary of State, conveying Gorman Trade Unione bas taken Kaiser is not Napoleon (cheera) the thanks of the Army Council sceness of the unemployed among for Ceylon's patriotic offer and the Berlin organizations &filiated stating that the Army Council with it and found out of a total would gladly accept a contingent of some 300,000 organized work

for service in Egypt, if the cost ors 57,188 are workless. As the Madame Vandervelder, relating of transport were provided at total number of workers employed the horrors of w polared that Colonial expense. After con-in Berlin is about 800,000 the Vor- the Gerardon barde salting the Contingent at Diya warts concludes the number of an- simply for

talawa. His Excellonby replied by employed in Berlin must mount practice,

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