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Igh. Prices for Postage Stamps- Asasie of valusbis postage ampe was held yesterday at the alleries of Meeers. Glendining,. rgyllstreet, W., and high prices ere reslived. For a Belgian tamp (1850) 106, £5 18. was sid. An unused copy, slightly afeotive, of a Reanion stamp 1852), 15c., went for £40; whilst nother specimen, 30c., of the amy place and year, made £23. These stamps. belong to a very are ieeus, A Ramanisa (Mol- lavia) stamp of 1858 realised 116.

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The empleosments out of range of Narrows of the Dardanelles, Vice-fore seemed most likely was that ritorials told me that he had had a to his border agents;

the smaller calibre gaze of the Admiral Garden, who had been the Germans were merely taking his bed neighbour in a German Carranza people сад get relate bow they captured 100 can-Allies now, levelled the Turkisb/ceeded in the chief command betiers, having cleared Esat Prussia named R. T. Miller, 2nd Lieut- up the newe as they wish and Belgians, the artillery of the incapacitated by illness, was auo- position beyond their own fror- ambulance

defensive campaign here.

"Having fallen with a hundred ', Robeck.

In France and Belgium there of his men at Le Cateau on August non and many other things, but forte without Jose in the early Rear-Admiral John Michael de of invaders and preparing for a onent in the Manchester Regime the time will come soon when days.

was little more to record. Be. 25 or 28, Lieat. Millor, on recover- "In the first days of the opera- all will be unmistakable.

East and west on land no major tween Rheims and the Argonne ing consciousness, heard a detach- It is true that I have not tion, which began in the last taken the city of delaya, but I week in February, the forts at the operation occurred during the the French attempted their most ment of cavalry coming towarde can state that if we had losses entrance of the straits were all first three weeks of March. In considerable offensive since the him. Sitting up with difficulty, their losses were heavier, and encad and by the second week in Northern Poland the Russians, Alsatian campaign had halted, he saw some Prussian Ublens, their condition worse than ours. March, the Allied feet was within defeated at the Battle of the Pushing north in the Plain of and waved his hand ee a signal I hold all of my positions and Iange of the fortsat the narrowest Masurian Lakes, retreated to the Chalone, they sought to interpose for them to come to his aid. An bope to give a decisive blow to my point in the straits. These ware Niemen, the Bobr, and the Narew, between German armies before officer preceded the troops. Ho foo." Other telegrams from Villa attacked from the straits by one Behind this line they rallied and Verdun snd Rheine. Their ob- noticed the Englishman's signal,

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Lieut. Miller understood this record of 54-3-5 second for one was necessarily slow and bid which were matched by equal they would cut the great trunk

"their opponents. line between Melz and western time, and dropping on his side hundred yarda was lowered a fifth weather interrupted the operation otsime of of a second. At the national on several days. Between the In Galicia the Russian defence France by which the Germans remained motionless until the east or Ublane, having dismounted and championships of the Amateur British and French reports of the apparently succeeded in halting moved their corpa Athletes Union, A. Q. Raithel, of results and those of the Turke, and turning back the ambitions west as the emergency arose. shot with their revolvers all the the Illinois Athletic Club, covered relayed by Berlin, there was Austrian drive through Bukovina But they made little progress. Le wounded whom they saw moving, the distance in 51-2-5 seconds. natural and enormous discrepancy. and by Stanislan and Haliez at Mesnil, Sain, Beausejour ro had got on their horses again

The Tarks denied all success to Lemberg. Certainly after a steady mained steadily in the despatches, and ridden away." the Allies, apart from the redac-advance for some days the Aus- and on the fields where Attila

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tion of the forte at the entrance, tro-German armies halted, the had been defeated and Kellerman Lient, R. T. Miller received his which were reported to have been Russian re-occupation of Czerno had won Valmy, the French commission in the Manchester antiquated and poorly armed, vitz was forecast, and finally floods achieved no new or considerable Regiment in 1912.] The Allies, on their part, gave the of the Daiester and Prath tem- victory, Hall, March 21.

defenders full credit for a alero porarily stopped all operations.

Along the eastern and northern the second week of March made a weeke British troops had been which has been transferred from resistance, attributed to German a-British firm since the war broke gunners the relatively accurate slopes of the Carpathiane, both sudden forward thrust, capturing pouring into France. There was äring, but continued to report Rassian and Austrian reports a few miles of ground and the longer any secret made of the Kitohoner's million were at out, has been seized and brought steady progress, By March 13, agreed that the fighting was village of Neuve Chapelle. Lanows that the advance guard of to Hall. The seizure took place Vice-Admiral Carden was quoted steady and murderous. Both Bassee and Lille were their oblast come to France. But from on Karahill north of the Orkneye, and the vessel was taken into a forecasting the arrival of the sides claimed local, advantages, jectives. But the fight for La the Yser to the Vosges: the battle Allies at Constantinople by but there was no reason to dispute Barnes had begun on October 20, Kirkwall The Maracas was

was closing, but it was closing on commanded by Captain Seeley ate for the restoration of Christian succeeded in foiling a great At The importance of La Baseen the lines on which it had begun. Eseter, a holiday oddly appropri- the Russian claim that they had and on March 15 it had not ended. lagged. The winter campaign and was bound to Gothenburg rule in the Moslem capital. tro-German drive to relieve from the fact that it was a single German defenses in France still and Copenhagen. She had on In the third week in March, it Przemyl, now in its fifth month isolated bill rising out of the held. Joffre a tactics were limited board a cargo of tinned meatand

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