GENERAL NEWS.
Germans Exaggerate 40 Per Cent. Paris, August 17. —The Ger man officials' report of merchant ships sank by submarines is exaggerated forly per cent. according to the figures tabulated by the conference of admirals of "Allied navise, which was held at
Paris on July 25,
To Bomb Berlin.
Sigmond Saxe, a German- Amèrican chemist of New York City, has offered $1,000 to the firat American airman to bɔmb" Berlin. Brigadier-General Squier, head of the American aviation service, saya that the Allies sce determined to enter Germany by the air route and that America promises to participate.
Tribate to the British. A loyal gentleman writes thus glowingly to Just'ce:- It is divine hand that bae planted the Union, Jack on the sacred mono- taian of Kailass to look upon the entire exosans` of India with the insignia of the trident law, liberty and progress, and the aword of justice glittering to punish sny one by the sections of the Indian Penal Code and the C. P. C.
in the Olden Daya,
• The old coaching days in Ire- land, before the days of railwaye, in recalled by the death of Me, Patrick Keenan, of Ashlace,
· schoolmaster and justice of the peace, who on his first visit to "Dablia to enter Trinity College had to travel by couch. On the journey he was accompanied by Carleton, the famous novelist, and coachman, guard, and passengers were armed as a protection against highwaymen.
U-Boat's Strange.Prize. An Atlantio Port, August 15.— A live pig, part of the stores of the Norwegian ship Siros, sunk by a German submarine of the Azores on June 29, was made a *prisoner of war," and transferred, quealing and kicking," from his pen on the dock of the Siras to the hold of the U-boat, said members of the Siran'a crew whoi arrived bere to-day on a Spanish ship. The men said that the U boat risked destruction from an #pproaching destroyer in order to get the pig rafely on board their own craft...
Airplanes Crash 800 Fest Up. Toronto, Ont. Aagost 17,— Two airplanes flying at bigb speed crashed together 800 feet in the air at the Armour Heighte Aviation Camp to-day, one of the machines bursting into met and plunging to earth killing the aviator, Cadet S. H. J. Dr. The victim's neck was broken and his body badly burned: The otle: aviato", whose name is withheld
by the Royal Flying Corpe, wa
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Germany Repatriating the French. French men, women, and
The Best Since Caciar. children, under eighteen and more "The old Regular army was than fifty years of age, are being probably the finest force that has returned by the Germans to ever taken the field since Cm ar'a France from the coon pied ascticas legions," said Lieutenant-General in the northern part of the country Sir Francia Lloyd, addressing the at the rate of 1,000 a day, accord- Cadet Corps of the Lenden ing to advices received by the Regiment. Belgian Belief Commission. Big Batch of Lost Cheques, The repatriation is being carried
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Gifts for the Gift House.
"An sanonymous donor has pre rented to the Red Cross Gift Houss at 20, St. James's street, S.W.L. & large number of gifte to be sold on behalf of the Prisonera of War Central Fond. They io- clude an oil painting by William Orpen, A.B.A., a water-colour drawing by Alfred Parsone, R.A a fan mount by Coader, an orgin- al drawing by Lagros of Lord Tennyson, with an autograph letter from Lord Tennyson to Tom Taylor, a water colour drawing by Bernard Prisalmaq, sa oil-paint- ing by Ormsby-Gore, and a rare autograph letter of Beethoven,
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