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Cornell University. Cornell University, where Mr. Pierpont Morgan's assailant is said to have held a lectureship, was in its early days afl'oted with another German of criminal pro- pensities. Goldwin Smith, his colleague, has left a vivid sketch of the latter-one Ruloff, a great philologist and the inventor of a universal language, Es coui- mitted a series of robberies and murders, the murders beginning with those of his wife and daught- er. On that occasion he escaped justice through the absence of a corpis delicti, Lake Unyugo, into which he had thrown the bodies, being andredgable."

A Great Coxswain's Fortune. Second Lieutenant Gilchrist Stanley Maclagan, Jet Battalion Royal Warwickshirá llegiment, coxswain of the Oxford University boat, 1899-1902, and of the Lean- der crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley on eix occasions, a member of the London Stock Exchange, who was killed in action near Ypres on April 25 last, aged thirty-five years, left unsettled property of the grous

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Friday July 2. (Continued from Friday.) The sentry's challenge at the The Civil Governor who is front by the way is no longer the orthodox. "Halt! Who goes making a tour of inspection throughout the province is expect there?" It is a short pressic, ed back to-morrow, writes the N." Who are you?" The other day 0. Daily News Hangohow corres a tired arntry challenged a party pondent. On Wednesday the of the Princess Fatricia's Own publicans strack and ebut their Canadian Light Infantry Bick shops on the following day became the response-"P.POOLL" Good for the Censor, cause the Government in putting "I don't want to hear you say on the new increased tax on wine your raddy alpbabet," growled den away in a paragraph in a (or spirit rather, as there is no the sentry, "The the blazes are provincial paper, which throws TO LET. From 1st September FOR SALE near How H.P. Comet Motor- wine distilled here) wanted to tax you?" the stock in hand and this they A Bomb-Throwers Crowded Hour, pleasant light on the temperament

eight roomed Residences in Cycle with complete equipment. A Territorial, now in hospital and humanity of that much Broadwood and Wong nel Chong On view at the NATIVE PRE- absolutely objected to. The Cham-

Road, the latter commanding a ber of Commerce came to the re-in England, describes in a letter maligned person the censor. sone and with good counsel and to a comrade how the Territorials private ina Lanonshire Territorial fine view of the Race Course, Street, Mong Kok, Yaumati. laudable promises guaranteed that captured three lines of German Regiment fighting in Gallipoli Fortorms and particulars apply to vivid description THE HONGKONG LAND IN- only freeb stooks would be taxed trenches, and a small hill. He sent

battalion's experien- VESTMENT

AGENCY and the public houses are again writes: "I got to the German of his

mentions that Co., Ltd. trench safe and sound except for Ces. open.

a couple of bullets in my should one of his best friends in the old Tommy Sir Frederick Lugard, the Gov. Jer, which, by the way, I did not regiment" poor ernor General of Nigeria, has the know I had got until I got to -"-"got it in the neck." advantage, in view of the cam- Boulogne 200 miles behind the Tommy H-was evidently a paign against the Germans in the lines. When I got to the German favourite in the regiment. They Cameroone, of being a soldier as trench I saw some of our fellows gave him a real good funeral. The well as an administrator saya the in the set of bring bayonsted and writer of the letter pays a simple Pall Mall Gazette The troops of I took pet shot at the German. tribute to the regimental chaplain, the Protectorate, obitlly Hansa, As lack would have it I ciught a valiant Boul who volunteered to are under hie direction, co-operat aim frirly in the mapper, and he conduct the bar al service on the ing in this campaign, and have dropped withcut 8 word of dead Lancastrian just behind the

actually closed the line of re

We were then terved lines under heavy fire all the treat of the Germans, now being out with bombs, and told to time. The dead man's pale the aupreme urgeny of the

едеву up their attended the obsequies in that national need. driven back by the British and chase the

The production of munitions communication trench and strange outlandish scene just as French forces operating reaper- tively from the ccat and from the bomb them out of their second they would have done in some must be accelerated and increased east. The striking exhibition of line of trenches. After about little quiet charchyard in the so as to place the issue of the war beyond all doubt. In this loyalty to the British given by the half an hour of loab throwing della of the Homeland. Emirs and Chiefa of Nigeria is we got them art, and I was jolly The writer remarks that B- and gigantic effort organized skilled several other labour mast take on indispens another tribute to the success of glad too, for my arm was nearly and K-and Sir F. Lagard's policy. Twelve dropping off after all that bomb friends actually walked under fireable part, for with enthusiasm years ago, when Sit Frederick throwing. Then the oiy came for a mile to be precent and to pay and unselfishness it can render undertook his brilliant and daring for volunteers to go back for some their last tribute of respect and an invaluable national service. campaign against the Emir of more bombe. I and ato it a dozen love to poor old Tommy H. The Arrangements have been made immediately responded. We writer adda. "I don't know whe between the Minister of Munitions Kano, there was not a single started to crawl back and reached ther they all go' safe back after and the representatives of many Hongkong, 12th August, 1915. Nigerian chieftain well affected our trenches. We 1r.cored a box wards, because they were uador trade unions, together with the £ago,000 for Plece at West End. of 50 bombe eaob. Then the fire all the way back to their Parliamentary Committee of the The Arundell estate in the trouble commenced, for it was not places in the line." After this Trades Union Congress and the West End of London, so named an easy job to crawl flat on concluding sentence of the Terr: Management Committee of the after the original ground landlord, your stomach dragging a 50 lb forial's letter there appears the Lord Arundell of Wardour, of box over seventy yards of ground. following - (They did. Censor). Wardour Castle, Tisbury Wilt-I don't think I have ever worked In its way this is one of the pret shire, changed hands on Tuesday so bard in my life as I did in tiest little side-episodes one has for £250,000. The property com- that half an hour, and all the come across yet. Aprises land and buildings on both time I was bleeding like a pig.

Eides of Arundell street and and

not know it. Panton-square, with frontages both We got to the trench again, and

We earnestly appeal to every to Coventry-street and Shaftes the captei asked us to go back

skilled workman of the en- Shanghai.

of th bury-avenue. Parts of it have for some more, as the Germane

gineering and allied trades, historical asacolations. The sellers had commenced to bomb us in were the trustees of the Arundell return. We started out the second The following manifesto to trade who is not at present Batate. From Mr. R. M. Phillips, time, which was also my last unionists, on the subject of mani- engaged uron war work, to enrol the agent who negotiated the sale, time. I got right to our parapet ticns of war, has been issued by himself as a volunteer in this hour The Daily Mail learns that there when I felt as if on elephant had the National Advisory Committee of need. We do co with confid- is a scheme to convert the whole kicked me into the next world, on War Output, in conjunction ence, for we can assure him that of the estate into a huge combina. Everything went red, white and with the Trades Unica Congress everything that can be done is tion hotel, restaurant, and theatre, blue, and then black. When I and the General Federation of being done to safeguard his econ- omio position, and to see that with roof gardens and other oponed my eyes again I was in a Trade Unions: features, and that it will be the nice white bed with a nice young Fellow Trade Unionists:- every ounce of energy he devotes most palatial and luxurious strao girl beading over me bathing my We are faced with a great re-to the service of the country will Hongkong, 12th August, 1915. ture of its kind in London. Pan- head with water. I thought I sponsibility and at the same time be applied in the interests of the stande for all that is beɛt în na. ton-square, which forms part of was dreaming at first until she presented with a magnificent op country. His devotion to duty tional life, national freedom, and the estate, pasted into the Arun- told me I was in hospital at portunity. We are called upon to will not be exploited for the pur-the national security, are dell family through the marriage Boulogne. I had been nuoons-assist in saving our nation and pose of excessive prefita, he will Signed, on behalf of the Na of the filth Baron Arundell of cious for three days. The time-ita Allies who are fighting for not be worsened financially, and tional Advisory Committee on Wardour with a daughter of fuse of a shell had struck me in civilization and international law the statue of his trade union and War Output, Colonel Panton, the first ground the small of the back and made as against the barbariem of brute his oraft will not suffer. The Arthur Benderton (chairman), force. After 11 months of un- Manitions of War (Supply) Bill, W. Bowerman, J. T. Brownlie, landlord of the square, who is a mees of it." anid to have won by cards the

precedented struggle the position when it becomes an Act of Parlia- J. Hill, F.Smith, A. Wilkie, W means to obtain the property and

One of the best of the special of the British and Russian ment, will be a guarantee for the Mossos (secretary). (never to have played cards again. correspondents who have been Armies in the fold, in consequ-restoration of trade union rights allowed to visit the Front gives a ence of a shortage of munitions, and customs when victory has vivid description of the life at as stated by the Minister of been achieved. those points where the foes happen Munitions, is indeed very serious. We therefore urge every eligi to be within easy hailing distance is onential has the killed ble man to rally to the call and of each other. Beferring to one workers should realize the ex- demonstrate to his comrades in rot, which must pass master as treme gravity and danger of the the trenches and to the whole comewhere in Flanders he present pontion, together with world that British trade unionis

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R. BLACK, Superintendent.

On behalf of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, James A. Beddon (Chairman);

On behalf of the Management Committee of the General Federa- ton of Trade Unions, JE O'Grady (Chairman)

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