GENERAL NEWS.
Mr. Bryan's Denial. Washington, January 30.-Mr. Hobson, on the floor of the house, o-day declared that war with apan was averted in 1913 by tha promise that the United States would speedily retire from the Philippines. Mr. Bryan, Sore. ary of State, vigorously denies he allegations made by Mr. Hobson.
Fleet of Sixty-four German
Aleships.
A neutral who has recently returned to England states that The Germans have 04 completed Zeppeline. Some of them, which be hea himself seen, are fitted under the care with large flcats having the appearance of pon- oons, and being similar to the losts of a hydroplane.
Singapore Mortality Returns. The mortality returns for, Bingapore issued by the Registor of Births and Deaths show that, luring the week ending January 23, there were 232 deathe (160) male, 72 females), giving a ratio per mille of population of 35.62 Malarial fever accounted for 37
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seemingly meaningless wire nett ing pitched at all manner of sagles and in all kinds of places, a liter tins and straw and broken bozes everywhere and thatis all. This is the theatre of the Great War: miles and dreary miles of
it. This is the road to Calais-
Certain way. Why is not Kaiser the open road, the straight and William thundering along it with that overwhelming, glittering cavalcade of his ? Just give little rein to your imagination for moment. Put your ear to the earth, bend down and listen liten hard, and you will hear the reason why.
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Northern France, Dec. 23; Moro Outlaw Bagulo Gives In. Since last I was in this abeorb- Datoh Baguio, one of the mosting region of tumult an extra- powerful and feared Moro chief ordinary change has marked the sina in Jolo, whose name was a spirit of affairs. Black-arised error to the peaceably inclined November bors a grim and sinist- Moros living in the Sula archipel er countenance; through fair and go, surrendered himself last through foul we were hanging on keek to Lieutenant Frank L. Link by the skin of our teeth; we were of the Constabulary at Camp gloriously unafraid of the break- Patotol, saya the Cablenewsing thunder of assailing legions.
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of the contending armies; the mole men are at work. There are fary. the Constabulary at Jolo. Penang Chamber of Commerce whole terrain shaking at the fortress and ramparts, pitfalls and Apply
hideous thump of great gun-man-trape, mines and counter- Penang, January 27.-Mr. J. even the sky afire! And amid it mines, and all the canning devilry Mitchell, presiding at the annual all, soross the black onze of the wherewith modern man seeks to general meeting of the Chamber rain-soaked plain, the British slay and to smash his, brother man, But they are all under- of Commerce, said that when Army, column upon column- rade with Europe resumed its men, horass, guns, supplies, and
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bigh valour wore wrought then. Tommy, whose profession is -Straits Times,
how we defied the lightning and fighting at so much per day and The work of building an em-flong it back streak for tresk; bie rations, and who takes mest hankment of the Yellow River at for beyond the roar of the burst things that come his way as a Yeshow, Shantung, under the ing shells this, the greatest war matter of course. He has been auspices of Hsu Shi-kwong (a of all the ages, is a silent, a secret fighting for months now, in the very thick of it. He was one of brother of Han Shi-obang, the war, with never a soul to sing the Secretary of State), was comment song of mighty doinge, and 10 the famous "Forlorn Hopes" of ed last aaluma bat the actual hero to be orowned. Great deeds « Wipers." expenres #greatly exceed the have to be done by stealth, the Out he crawls, this "muddy estimates. Over $1,000,000 was Cross won and won again with a mole man, rabbing his eyes opent during the year 1914 and a fater on the lip. I suppose it under a sudden and unaccustom further sum of $1,000,000 is bas to br: Thus and this is ited flash of God's sunshine. Bit needed. This has been ordered decreed, however we fret and to be contributed by the provin- fome at home hangeting for the philosophy is more forcible than
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grant "Yellow Peril' which is al- There is a fifteen-mile-long ways payment, and more, for a bridegroom only. They married soon after the law went into battlefield of this sort of thing 25 yarn from the trenches. effecti
calm and peaceful and (apparent- “'It'a musio!" says Tommy, 7 ly) as solitary as a stretch of our lighting ap and taking a wighty Fenglockyen, Darwin. own Lincolnshire fen land. No langfal of the Peril. "Real It's Honry Victoria mad rattle of charging hoofe the gnashin' of the blighters' Shanghai..
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