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Hague Oplum Conference,

A Parliamentary paper (Od 7813) has been issued containing ourresponderos respecting the third International Opium Con ference, held at The Hague, Jane, 1914.

Fatal German Scare.

At the inquest held recently at Yarmouth on the body of Mrs. Jane Woolston, who fell down- stairs in the early morning, 105 taining an injury to her brain,

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her husband said she told him aha Received by the was awakened by a light fishing on the windows, and thought the Germans were coming again. She rushed to the stairs, and then fa!! down. A verdict of Accidental Death was returned.

Women Tram-Conductors in Edinburgh.

Women conductors are likely to collect the fares in Eliaburgh tramway-cars shortly, says the Daily Mail. This scheme, pat forward by the Edinburgh Tran- way Company, is socepted as a excellent way of meeting the shortage of male labour. Keny women of independent positions have offered to become conductors and to hand over their earnings to the wives of those trimway conductors who have enlisted and are now at the front.

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of despair in the zones of conflict. ouely possible-would you do it? No one with a spark of humanity If you did, you would perform * Queen Alexandra, se president of the British Red Cross Society struggle without bitter sorrow aud to Europe, to the cause of peace

in his heart can contemplate the the greatest imagine ble disservice Foak, furnished or unfurnished desirous of recognising the an tiring devotion of the Francicoana passionate desire that it could and humanity, sisters who are in charge of many be halted. If you had the power A million men have died, whole hospitals in Flanders had sent the you who read this would you provinces have been visited with following autograph letter to the stop the war te-day? We think destruction, nearly twenty billions superior of the Bethune Hos- you would. We think we should of wealth have been consumad,

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pital - Mme. la Saperieure This war has brought untold world have been checked and I have learnt through Dr. Martin of your noble and heroic devotion misery to millions, and privation disrupted and must remain in for our brave and unfortunats even to tens of thousands of our uncertainty for mong months wounded soldiers, and it is with a countrymen. besit filled with gratitude and with the calculated horror of it come. And all these terife losses, when oros it was discerned that gratefa'ness that I ask you to ac ful details of the picture the endured as a prios to be paid all. As men visualize the dread they were inevitable, have been cept my most sincere and hearty, thanks, I pray the good God screaming shells, the mangled Now, it is to be imagined, at e that He may reward you for the bodier, the splitting asunder of

wave of your wand, you halt the angel's care which you have laden ships, the rain of explosives slaughter and devastation and bestowed on our unfortunate sol- from the clouds, the gaunt ekele diere, and I shall never forget tons of rained cities, the tears of except for the ruined lande, the that it is to you, madame, and to women, the faces of children towering debts and the unnumber

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Not a single question has been And yet what then? Let us established or vindicated Aus settled, not a single principle look a little at this vision of peace. tria's demand upon Servis remains the East coast during the North

The war, let us say, is to be unsatisfied. Bilkan ambitions Bea fight bas already been noted, stopped to-night. A silence falls of nationality are denied; Bikan An officer in the North Sea states; along the vast battle line. League intrigue still invites conflict. I will give you an iccident that after league, in the trampled, France-Qurman distrust has not Dccurred with us in the North Sea. blood-stained scow, the yeary been quenched, but inflamed. We have always a lot of seagull troops rest on their arms.

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