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Great German Painter's Death. Professor Herman Knack fuar, the German historical painter, bas passed away at Gissel. The deceased accompanied the En- peror an' Court-painter on his journey to Falestine.

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When love is kind

Song Beloved it.is Morn

Song Faust (Scene de l'Eglise) Diet Cavaliña (Rall) Violin Warum (Why.?) Pianoforte Extase Violin, Cello & Piano Andante Cello a Dreaming-Valse Boston Fb in the Golden West Medley Take Me Back to Canada.... (O.F. Beck)

They sang "God save the King"

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Land of Hope & Glory Song Hearts of Oak

Alma Gluck

Evan Williama Farrar & Scolti Maud Powell Paderewski Tollefsen Trio Bourdon Military Band

Edward Hamilton Johnson and Chorus Hamilton & Quartette Cooilian

Sit down; ou're rocking the boat Military Band By the beautiful sea (Molloy)

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EFFECTS OF POISON GASES.

Graphic Stories From the Mon in the Firing Line.

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The Germans nee some kind of ga in their shells that chokes as, and we have to wear damp cloths over our mouths to keep it off. They also use vitriol, so you can tell what kind of pige they are. Germans "Fed-up"

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The Rubber Shortage in

Germany. The shorings of rubber in Ger- many is reported by Press correspondent n: Openhagen as being so acute that the Gavera- We were fighting four days and of the "dirty fighting" of the the enemy were driven back to the 1st Canadian Contingent, in a letter to his father, Dr. ment Las arranged & special nights without sleep and very little Germans are contained in a letter their own trenches.

Before we could fully realise it Wickham, The Hermitage, near; campaign for the collection of grub. We could not get our from Private C. Toole, 12th Field

rations in as the Germans were Ambulaner, R.A.M C., to his wife we found curselves running at Ormekirk. He writes: rubber articles throughout the

fall speed over ploughed fields, | We were holding the front line Empiro, Wagons are to be sent shelling the road all the time. in Manchester, He writes:

The doctor bas on my sheet: I suppose you have read all ditches, etc. We were rot long in in the great battle, so you must through every district to collect Bronchitis, caused by gas about the big battle in which the coming within sight of the Gor- know we had a hell of a time-no all articles of rubber, à report fumes. I've a trible cough Canadiane 03 andying fems, man outposta, following which other word can describe it. We was received several months ago and it racks my lungs badly.

They are fine chaps, and in oon-they speedily stopped our little are only just now out of the treni to the lot that new rabber Betting where Shells will Land. veration with them at a rest gallop. Ballets were flying thickly ches after on daye, I do not articles, other then those coming

The coolness of our fighting camp pear here I was surprised around as, compelling us to keep know how I possibly got through, under the bead of absolute neces- men in circumstances of great to find that not a few are Mon- our heads well down. Throwing but somehow managed to, with BLOSSOMS FROM A JAPANESE sities, were being scrapped for military use. An indiction of danger is related in a letter seat cunians.

cf our great coats and equipment out a ecratoh, thank God! by Lanos Corporal J. Ellison, The Germinare a dirty lot of the order was about ad ;“Knock I had to go over half a mile THE NIGHTLESS CITY (THE YOS. the extreme seed of rubber in 20th Anti-Aircraft Section (form-fighters, asing obnoxious fumes bell out of them, toys!" which across open fields, in full view of

Becker Germany is contained in the

Manchester taxi cab to beat back our irreshtible in we were not long in putting into the Germans. They put two NEW VOLS. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY FIRE IN STUBBLE, Baronas Orozy, report of a firm in Holland which erly a

driver), to his mother in Man-fantry out of the trenches. Their operation. recently received from Germany cheater. He says:-

machine-guns on to me, and just PAINE'S THE RIGHTS OF MAN motor care equipped with wooden

firing cannot do it and the fames Unfortunately I had not ran" plasterad" me with shrapnel, MERSON'S POEMS, We have had a warm time only mean a temporary retire more than a few yards when I shells barating all around and DOWDEN'S LIFE OF ROBERT BROWN. wheels without tyres. A "Rubber since we arrived here. The Ge- ment. Of course, we have many felt a sharp pain in my left fore-over me, but somehow not one MICULT'S THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. JOSEPH, Frank Danby Day" Las been appointed, and school obildren are given a day's Marias, each of which makes a are, cheerful ti the last degree.

mans are pouring in their Black casualties, and fins patients they arm and found a neat little hole toached me.... I guess we are RHYS BRITISH HISTORICAL SPEE THE TYRANT, Mrs. Pasture.

BOY, Marie Corelli. holiday to collect old goloshes, hole in the ground big enough to

through the aleave of my tanio all a bit "nervy" and "jumpy," DOSTOJEFFSKY'S POOR FOLK & THE THE DEMON, O. N. & A. M. Willamson. ROUED THE RED LAMP, Conan Doyle, toys, and other things.

I have witnessed this week With a feeling of helplessness I and a rest away from shell fire put a furniture van in. The Late Mr. W. W. Rockhill.

sights which, la't I not sotually crawled into the nearest dry ditch, ould do as good; but if we have SEND FOR LIST NOVELS (COLONIAL EDITION) REDUDED FROM $1.75 TO 65

EACH, 10 00PIES FOR $5,03 630 TITLES. An appropriate tribute to the They dropped a shell this seen myself and been told about, where I was later joined by three to go into sotion again, right now, memory of the late Mr. W. W. morning about five yards from I would have put down the par- of our fellows with nasty wounds, well, I guess we are all ready. I Bookhill is paid by the Executive where I stood, but we all dropped intor as possessing great imag Weare now at Rouen, but I am have lost a "pal" or two, and am Committee of the American on our stomache un ferneathinative powers. The papers may hoping to be amongst the boys anxious to get even. Asiatic Astoriation in the series wagon, and all they got was five wall was enthusiastic over Tom-gain when they give the Ger- Shooting the Wounded. of resolutions which they have horses killed. It was a very my. He is a hero. Every branch mass the knock-out blow. Fassed and had engrossed for pre lucky escape, and we all had a of the service undertakes risks The rose adopted by our ton-on-Medlock, Manchester, 8.

Gas that Chokes,

Writing to his wife in Chorl-

wentation to his widow. These good laugh afterwards.

with as much nonchalanas as if soldiers to counteract the effrot M'Cormick, who is now attached We get quite used to shell fire, they were going to take tes, resolutions state that the objects

of the vitriol throwing by the to the hospital trains in France, which the Association was formed and when we hear one we make

Filling the Breach. Garmana is told by Private J. tells of the inhuman conduct of to promite owed their earliest bets on where it will land. This

A thrilling story of the fighting Sloane, 4th South Lancashire the Germans. He writes: official recognition sialy to is a very big and important battle near Ypres after the Germans bad Regiment, in a leter to his parents The Germans are killing all our wounded. They pump poison. the championship Mr. we are now engaged in (April 28), broken through the French lines in Manchester. He writes:-

of Rockhill, and all through but I think we have got the upper with the aid of asphyxiating gas, It was an awiol eight to see the ons ges into the sir, and as our ia told by Private B. E Corbett, poor Belgians Atting when the men fall to the ground they shell the history of the Association his hand of them now.

9th Batt, Royal. Sco's Highland-dermans were shelling the place them in their stupor. As our advocacy of its distinctive simaj was a highly important aid to its 60 in a letter to his parents in Blackpool. When the French fell a hot time yet before we have to the train, which runs close up Describing the fighting at Hillere, in a letter to his brother in they were in. We will give them stretcher-bearers get the wounded usefulness. No man, it is con tinued, has ever proved of equal Manchester on May 1, Private J. back his regiment was ordered to finished with them.

to the firing line, the Germana value to the furtherance of Spencer, 2nd Batt. K.0.8.B., advance, and they got within 800 When we were in the trenches shoot down the bearers and the American interests in the Farage:

yards of the German'. He pro- they started dropping vitriol cut wounded. Sa 200 of us were Lust, and to none of his country. We suffered very heavily, but I crea

of the aeroplanes, and they made sent in a train to conoral ourselves ebay it ever been vouchsafed was lucky enough to come through In front of us were the Cent- our eyes fun. We were all se near the line as possible to try. to be the depositary of cenadence the position, and captured it, but and Middlesex Regiment trying the game now, we have

it without a scratch. We obarged dian Highlanders, East Kente, rubbing our eyes. We are up to and stop them at their game, and

we have done EQ. so unreserved on the part of the Tulere of Chine. By none of we had to fight dd hard all to atop the hordes of Germans masks for the job. i those who knew him is his loss, the night long to hold it.......

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that were itsadily advancing on The difficult tak that fall to IF you have lost your appetite We were nearly all deaf when we Ypres, but at very serious saori- the lot of the Oundlage de ! ore of the "big" variety of came out, with the roar of the fee of life. Later we received German attack neke Ypres fold dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- guns. We were personally thank word te oounter-attack and, at all by Private N. W. Wickham, DRA CAFE ia suelto tempt ad afterwards by Sir John French, o:ste, keep up the cffensive until signaller in the 5th Battalion of] You

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