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GENERAL NEWS.

Rubber for Germany.', A correspondent in the Fin- of September calls) attention to an effort which it is alleged is being made to buy 300 tons of rubber in London on German account, to be shipped through Rotterdam. It is sup posed that the rubber is wanted for the tyres used on the incum- erable automobiles employed in the war by the enemy, The Mincing Line firms (sys the London paper) must be on their guard against all attempts of the kind to obtain supplies from this country via neutral ports. But, whilst it will not be a difficult)

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German Dyes.

Moonlit Heaps of Dead. ¿

The Globe quotes the fill. wing extracts from a graphic letter written home by an officer now cerving at the front:-

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So many thanks for writing by the remarkable growth and and sending papers. We have expansion of such pioneer com- hardly a moment for reading. I panies as the Badische Anilin am now sending this on the und Soda-Fabrik of Germany, chance of getting it through to whose gross sales are $70,000,000 the coast. Well, wo have had an (gold) annually. The plant has awful time, so hard to describe, a frontage of a mile and a-half so crowded with terrible sights, on the Rhine, and is the largest and yet enlivened by comrade. of its kind in the world. Some ship and helpfulness that even ides of its size may be gained the horrors of war and the night Sunday. Here the enemy pre- from considering that 158 boilers, mares which surround it are tended when cavalry charged Apply STE 13 dynamos (gonerating 7,083 forgotten in the precious and them, to surrender and laid down kilowatta), and a local waterworks, touching scenes which only can their arms. As soon as Lancers gas works and ice factory are happen on the field of battle. My operated. There are 411 telephone job as a lientensnt in the Yeo enb-statione, 539 fire hydrants, maary puts me junior to sit she and the company maintains ite Army lieutenants in the, but it own fire department, including has been immensely useful that 25 steam engines. The number my knowledge of Frezoh, and of workmen until recently was also the part of the country, 8,000, and, besides 918 officials which I knew as a schoolboy, en in the commercial department, ables me to be helpful as scout there is a staff of 217 chemists and in charge of reconnoitring and 142 civil engineers.

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and Dragoons got up to make them prisoners, the scoundrela picked by their arms and Of course they were punished for their treachery, and 60 Germans were slain out of 80. The men were in no humour for striking gently such curs as that,

Then the saddest sights are the moonlit fields of doad. Germans literally piled in, heaps, many company was founded in 1885 We have had some tidy scraps wearing French anitorms taken and introduced its products to with the enemy in out of the way from prisoners made in earlier foreign markets in 1871. Pro- places, and also active service engagements, and, the wreckage ducts comprise the entire range brightens up one's wits and strewn far and wide of every of artificial organic colouring sharpene faculties of observation, conceivable kind battered and matters-aniline, alizarine. It ja just three weeks since we smashed. No one who has rid- naphthol, resorcioe, galio acid left Boulogne for Le Cateau, and den over a stricken field with 200 dyes and synthetic indigo. Tue I have done more riding in that corpses in a length of a mile would entire industry has sprung up time consecutively than at any repeat the experience from choice from the production of dyes time in my life.

or curiosity. And yet these scenes derived from the coaltar. The

are the necessities of combat, Badische Company also makes

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lile at Landrecies when we were keep a diary is out of the question. Language. The amusing process of clearing in a very hot corner; only a party Let me assure you that nothing the German language from all of fifteen engaged forty Uhlans hiss been left undone by General English elements goes merrily and we were tired out after a Smith-Durries or General Chet- forward in Berlin. All hotels heary day's reconnaissance in a wode for the comfort and feeding with names like Hotel d'Angle difficult country. But our boys of the troops in this division, At terre, Hotel Londen, Hotel Bristol, charged right into the Ubians first the French cavalry did not get up in time, and it was touch &c., have been re-baptised. They slashing right and left with asually get the name of Hchen- their awords, and sine were and go for about four days after zollern Hof. The newspapers killed out ask their readers, to suggest now twelve badly wounded. We Mone, and nothing could have indomitable pluck and persever- words for "sport," "lawn tennis," chased the rest, who took to their exceeded the extraordinary and and "golf," and exceedingly heels, and ehot fifteen of them ance of all our men in tackling funny are some of the suggestions with our revolvers. Darkness the Germans whilst wo were PRINCE in response, Apparently the prevented us from penetrating a

retreating, remembering that hardest nut to crack is a German thick wood in which they took their numbers are 10 to our 1. word for "gentleman." It simply refuge. Moreover we wished to An experience worth relating is cannot be found and the difficulty get back to camp as four of our that my French sergeant is not in finding a German equivalent men were badly wounded, speaks volumes.

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only a first-rate shot with his re- There in this advantage in volver and a splendid horseman, scouting, that you see a lot of the bat amazingly good as a cook. people in the villages and hear He is & brother of a French chef WILL DEVOTE THE PROCEEDS OF TWO DAYS'

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of the hated word. A correspon behave in murdering women showing how wonderfully simply dent anys that in the National and girle apparently on the most our Sovereign and the Queen live on MONDAY, October 26th & TUESDAY, October 27th, Museum in Naples there is a case volone pretests; in mutilating in their home life. Who would of theatre admission tokens which were found in the Tragic Theatre wounded on the field; in torturing have thought to have hit across

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various forms and of various materials; but the most signifi cant are a set of tiny skulls carved and reports are collected this There is always a risk that COME AND ASSIST BY GIVING YOUR PATRONAGE. out of ivory, which were used by campaign will be labelled as

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Treachery,

Uhlans are riding in small parties between Amiens and the const. Fo we are prowling about (French and British) as scouts, sleeping

according to a correspondent, the The worst of the Germans is where we can, and, as a rule word" deadhead." Whether his their treachery There was a travelling through the night. It theory is right or not, she skull

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