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- His Father's Medal...
Paris, August 17-The cere»
monyof the distribution of medals
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Habert Mzīsign, who reorived decoration awarded to his father, captain in the Hussars, who fell whilst, pharging the enemy When the commandant planed the decoration on his breast and embraced him the boy commenced to ob: The spectators were pro- foundly moved by the incident.
Memorial stone, to the Late Dent, W. 0. Gladstone, M.P. #A“memorisi' stone has been placed in Hawarden churchyard en the grave of the late Lieutenant W. G. Gladstone, MP., who wai Hilled in action in April lask. The Loscription consists of a text and the following quotation from the last letter Liont, Gladstone wrote to his moibers" It is not the length of existence that osante;
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existence, however short." The stone, is an exact reproduction of the adjoining memorial to his father, the Into Mer William Honey Gladstons...
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
The loss of the "Hoyal Ed- Oar seaports are full of German werd" torpedoed by a German emissaries, whe hoodwink the submarinein the Aogéan Béi with aathorities as easily as a necrom-sixteen hundred troops on board. ancer could deceive a baby. Yet is a shrewd blow. Over a thous in spite of all these things we are sad gallant men have been lost, doing pretty well. A great im- sent to their doom as warriors to Parliament on the British Museum and the Natural History provement, a vast improvement without the hope of striking ons Apply Linstead & Davis, Museum that special precautions taken place since the National blow at the unseen fro. When bave been taken to protect the Government was formed a month the "Titanic went down, with British Museum collections in the or two ago. If the true history of event of raide by hostile aircraft the home politics of the War ever come to be ravesled, there will At an early stage in the war bepablic sensation of the frar a week or two. The tragedy of began just about five o'clock in large number of the more portable dimensione. Fataity, ineptitude the "Royal Edward" is the in the morning, and my friend, objects of special value were re-caroleurs, stupidity, and all the cident of a day. Thus, are the jumping out of bed, made for the moved to positions of greater other political vices; have been world's standarde being warped, docks, where he stood and watched security in sales or in strong! Hon galleries being taken by betonio for dar politicians so uspped, by a universo of war. It tange, perched on top of a biz drastic that many of them will not will be any generations before stack of timber with a groan of obisote of less valus or by
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healthy, Christian outlook. This many fired forty-seven shota alto- ino uding the protection of certain
sinking of the crowded transport, gether, and they were directed at obisata which cannot safely be
heavy tragedy and sore blow a petrol store. The German put removed, have been taken sinda
At the present moment the though it is to us, is, practically the plant in the Works a low the close of the year to which the struggle on the plains of Europe the first legitimate success achieve years ago themselves to they "THE Company's Steamship
is being watched with eager af ed by German submarines sinos knew all about it. Luckily they. tention by everyone who intel- those craft tarned pirates. The did not hit anybody, and did but ligently appreo s'es the facts. British Navy boasted the proud little – damage.
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Their shells having fart vedosom, the shore of Belfast Asy Fon the door, ase in Farious eft arts are being made to record, until this happened, of wrecked the roof, and damaged ports, Consimees of war de Informed that thaiz Goods foron the pace in Gallipoli, and never having lost one single the building, but the plant was heret
ing landed and placed st those efforts sto being skilfully troopship. It is a pity the record untouched. One badly aimed shall re conducted. There is a confident hus Leen broken, but the success went bleen through a small bouse: their risk in the Hongkong and feeling that we shall succeed in is not likely to be repeated by the in at the front and out at Kowloon Wharf and godown wreating the peninsuls from the Germans. The Aegean in a dif- the back. There were eleven Company Godowns at Kowloon, Turks, force the Straits, and bave foult won in which to cope with people in that small house, and where each consignment will be Constantinople at the end of our these crafty craft, but we not one of them was scratched,worted out mark by mark, and
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nitions, and exceedingly re- the Turkish troopshi tive under their German tank- been notable. We
the growing prospect to have it all our ont-linked and cut off. on the new. A Germai
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