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GENERAL NEWS.

Toronto Theatre Burnt Down.

A Router telegram from Torun- to says that the Princess Theatre there was virtually destroyed by "fire recently.

London Railway Tunnel Flooded.. Traffic, on the Great Northera and Midland Railway. btween King's Cross and Faringdon- street had to be entirely suspended recently, owing to the flooding of a tunnel caused by the previous night's heavy storm. Some portions of the track were more than 17 feet deep in water. Pumping oper tions are in progress, but it is stated that the line is not likely to be used for several days.

"Build'ags Collapse...

The wall of some feniment 'buildinga col'apsed in the Ander- ston district of Glasgow. The inhabited bousen were left with only a portion of the floor remain- ing. All the occupan's had mira. calons escapes. Tons of detrie fell into the street, and it is fesrad that some children are buried

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grene. It is not to be doubted propelled a distanos of 10) yards that chlorine, bromine, cr some it there sprende. derivative of these gases was em-1 An English officer of high rank ploved. The brass battons on the at the front in a letter writes:-- uniforms of men exposed to the Of all the crimes cf. which the

an account int. The deceased was and courage at the present hatred of England; the whole THE HONGKONG LAND IN- Bab inspector of the Woodford juccture, since the war in all nation, civilian and military, Special Constabalary, and the theatres is on the point of attain comba nat

rcn-combat. previous morning he was fouading to a maximum of violence,ant, women as well as men, lying dead on the railway. It was and very hard blows are about to is throwing all its strength of atated that deceased frequently be interchanged. Our enemies, mind and body and chainoter fell asleep in trains an I had bean says the Military Correspondent into the fray; and Germany, ourried past his station, of the 7 imes, tave rot less than while fed on many illusions, is four million mea in the field, and also austained by a strong spirit Born la 1815.

they have reserves numerically of endurance and self-sacrifice. Mr. William Fancast, of Brow- adequate to keep their ranks fall There is no reason to saticipate er-street, Maidstone, bascompleted for many months. We bave a that the Germans, when ance the bie bundredth year, having been superiority of force in the aggre tide bas began to turn against TO LET.-Houses in Torres born at East Peokham on May 7, gate, and a good chance of secur- them, will collapse as the Prus Buildings, Kowloon. Apply 1815. He has always taken a keen ing very on the assistacos of siaus collapsed after Jens. The to:-SPANISH DOMINICAN interest in party politics, and is States hitherto neutral, but the nearer, on the contrary, the war PROCURATION, proud of the fact that he was oge superior resources of the Allies comes to the acil of the Father- Diazoli's supporters at hie have not yet beer fully translated land the more desperate will be Parliamentary candidature for the into military force, so the fighting their resistance. If the great borough in 1837.

must be hard, and the result for captains are right who have a time uncertain... placed the importance of the Fire Officer Cassed,

In Switzerland it is possible to national temper far above that Sub-Officer Spensley, attached abtain data which are wanting of material factors in time of war, to the Whitefriers Fire Brigade eleawhere, writes a correspondent; then the Germans are by far the Station, has died from the effects of the Graphic The Ountedera-strongest Power we have ever of nitric acid fumes, and Super- tion is the umpire who marks the encountered. To brat them, wo intendent Harris and four other points scored by the adversaries must show the stern endurano), firemen are seriously ill from the in the greatest war the world has and the energy in making up for TO LETA House in Knuts fame cause, as the result of their over seen. It is therefora of in- inital blonderaaniinitial delays, efforts to deal with an accident terest to tabulate the figures re- which have brought us Anal THE HONGKONG LAND IN- which cecurred at the premises corded in Switzerland regarding victory in all our great "ware. of Messtr. Famuel Jones, 7, Bride the forces which Germany can well-place. A carbor of nitrotill pht in the field. The latest soid was being delivered when it balletins issued by the German was broken, and in consequence Army fixea ita monthly losses for of the smoke and fumea the Fire the year 1914 at an average of Brigade was summoned. The 270,000 men per month. It would actual damage done was slight, seem reasonable t reduce the bat the men suffered severely from monthly losses in 1915 by one Headquarters: In the form fames were attacked by the Germans have been guilty since third, making 180,000 per month, now assamed by this strugglegar, and tarnished by it. This the war started this cns is for killed, wounded, sick or prisonera. war of attition--the Germans tarnish is of course, a salt of the away the most devilish, and to try The Secret of our success is that we send out CLEAN PROOFS.

We know perfectly well that commercial men have n A woman whose frequent visita Tois would give the following are bound ultimately to lose metal formed by chemical com- to excuse it on the ground that it to West Ham Police Court led to figures-live months in 1914, And it is a consciousness of this bination with the gas, and from inflicte a quick and painless death her being placed under the care 1,350,000; three months in 1915 fact that inspires their present the salt the nature of the gas can far different from the tornado of

Other metal shells we let kose at Neuve Let us give you an estimate of the Lady Protation officer has 550.000; total Iceses; 1,000,000, policy which is to achieve as be determined. written several lettera to Mr. R. A. to be deducted as from April 1 early as possible come eaocess of objects, like bayonets, were alse Chapelle is blatant lying, We Gillespie, assuring him that she last from the total forces of which sufficient magnitude to influence attacked. The Germane took have a lot of the men who have PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING. has "found grace." Her last com- Germany originally disposed on sentrale, to discourage the Allies precautions against the fumes. heen gassed in our hospitals, munication, however, shows a entering on the war. It under to make them weary of the strug- An' obeerver eaw a rubber mask Their moans are awful, and they weakening of her faith. She has the necessities of the situa- gle, and to induce a belief among worn by cne of the Germans. sit up awaying about, fighting been trambled with an abusive tion, the "classes" of 1918 and peeple ignorant of wer that noth. This mask was in the possession and gasping for breath. Their neighbour" and writes about the 1917 are included, and if at the ing has been gained by the past of a Canadian officer. It resembl- faces and bodies are a muddy fact to themag.strate, concluding came time one icoreases the num forts of the Allies because the ed a diver's head-droes. her letter as follows:

ber of elderly men who may be Germans have not yet been driven A correspondent, whose author and foam comes from their months. "If the language had not been retained with the colours, we back,

ity iastated to be beyond question, Their lungs are turned to liquid, and who had seen the men in and the doctors say they have the. aɔ very, very bad I would have reach a total of nine million men,

the been content to leave it to the or 13 per cent of the population

hospital suffering from "gassing" appearance of men on States:-There is practically point of death from drown. Almighty, but a things are I am of Garmany." On this basis the

The report furnished to the nothing to be done for them, ex ing. The way the damnable compelled to refer the matter to calculation of those not available

and those available for military War Office by Dr. J. S. Haldane cept to give them salt and water staff is worked apparently is yea"!"

One Vote Beats Prohibition. service on April 1 gives the fol on the subject of asphyxiating to try to make them sick. The by sinking in their trenches Halifax, N. S., by the narrow lowing results: Iocapable of gases makes it perfectly clear effect the gas has is to fil the cylinders or something containing From the cylinder a margin of ons vote that of the military servics 10 per cent, that a very barbarcus form of lungs with watery, frothy the gas. Speaker, cast to decide a tie-000,000; public services, &, attack had been carefully matter, which gradually increases tube raas up to and through the prohibition in the city of Halifax 500,000; losses daring eight planned by the enemy. The and rises till it fills up the whole face of the trench with a nozzle

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comes up to at the end, and when the wind is was defeated in the house of months, 1,000,000; total, 3,300,- Germans are a scientific people.langa Assembly.

000; total men at disposal of These gases were chceen oare the mouth; then they die; it favourable for their purpose the The entire province of Nova Government, 9,000,000, remain fally, tested carefully, and their is sulocation; slow drowning, gas is pumped out ar driven Scotia, with the exception of the der good for service 5,700,000. effects determined by means of taking in some cases one or two over to our lines. No law of God city of Baliaz, is en ler provincial There are at the front realy for experimente upon animals. The days. We have lost hundreds or man will hold them in check, prohibition. Mr. Tanner, leader service 4,000,000, leaving at the terrible sufferings inflicted upon of men who died in the trenches, and it is mere waste of breath and moved diapol of.. the Govern our men were fully understood and and over half the men who time ty utter protests. They only

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law become effective in Halifax should continue to be, as calea very eminent consulting physi Eight died last night out of the been so successful. We should after next March, when the pre-lated, this 1,700,000 men avail-cien described the appearances 20 I saw, and most of the others applaud anyone who took it ont gent licences will have expired. able would allow of the present shortly after the inhalation of I saw will die, while those who of them in a similar way. But, of a debate of several forces in the field, being kept on the gas as being those of severe get over the gas invariably devr course, we could not do that, houra, a vote was taken which a war fcoting for seven or eight asphyxiation. The victims lop acute pneumonis. It is with- although we could hit them in a months longer. After that the became plum-coloured, their out doubt the most awial form of way to hurt them far more by Dr. Ellis, the Speaker, cast the diminution could no longer be faces, ears, hande, and feet, and scientific torture. Not one of the confiscating all their property, deciding vote, defeating the met.

even their bodies being affected men I saw in hospital had a and out of it giving to the rels- Relatively, the enemy is in a The eyes were affected in certain scratch or wound. A German tives of the men they've murder- wesker position than any he hse instances, but not in others. The priecner was caught with a resed (not only with gas but pri- held since his swoop upon Paris toldiers suffered all the agony pirator in his pocket, the pad was soners) a good annuity. It's to the IF you have lost your appetite age bold book, and the admi, A scorching analysed and found to contain be hoped that this leat phase of ore of the big variety of gea since torn from him, died at once. A terrible scorching hypo-sulphite of sode, with I per onlture will of last rouse

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