1918-01-30 — Page 3

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"Betting "Caios dad. Losses.

The first meeting of creditors -won hold recently at Bankruptcy-- buildings under the receiving -order made on November 14. -against-Hr. Thomes Kavanagh;of Emperorfaigste, Kensington." Mr. WR-Bower, Gficial Receiver, presided. The debtor bad a'ated that he was without; recupation, and: had lived at the rate of £1,600 a yestmmon money's given. to him by relatives and on profita which he made from betting on hade races. His profits: four Tetra-ago were considerable, but in the last three years he bad lot in betting and gambling about £4,000. The case was left in the hands of the Official Recaiver, the debtor estimating his lisbili- - tive; at $906, and disclosing po

assets.

Church Army: Huts la Holy Land,

Prince Arthur of Connaught opened a sale of work in aid of the Church Army Recreation and Refreshment Hata for soldiers st Central Hall, Westminster, Pre- | bendary Carlile said the Church | Anny were making: arrangments in Palestine for, work among the soldiers. They were expecting to have a telegram st soy moment to say that they had got the Tanner's House in Joppa. He thought it would be put to much better use than tanning leather if it were employed to brighten the lives of the boys who had Robe on this pilgrimage in the Holy Land. He was also hoping to bear shortly that the Church Army Becreation Tent had been pitched on Mount Olives. "

Death of a Lady Surgeon. The death at Newcastle-on- Tyne wae recently announced of, Dr. Elsie Inglis, M B, C.M., Com- missioner of the London Unite-of The Scottish Women's Hospital. 3he bad jastratained from Russia. Miss legiis, to whom belonged the honour of originating the Scottish Women's Hospitală, „wOS preminently a Scottish woman. Ae a medical woman ehr specialised

in surgery, and for many, yeare | ---

held the post af joint surgeon

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London, November 25-Two

the men could not eat more, and the Dotch guardsmen

oannot eat, for it is so long since hey have seen white bread." The men arrived in excellent health. They say that at firat under the of women in Scotland. On the Heime and B. L Thomas, bay uld Bystem one food parcel arrived ontbreak of war Dr. Inglis felt escaped from the German prizon monthly and irregularly, but that the medical services of women camp at Frederiksfeld and reach ander the new system, whereby should be given to the country. London, Bath come from the six parcels are sent monthly, their supplies She porceived and carried cus Newcastle district, and were taken they got with marked success the idea of prisoners on July 20, 1918, at with the greatest regularity. forming the Scottish Women's Flearbeix. They spent two dare they were the best parcele Hospitals staffed entirely by at Lille, and thence were taken received in any German camp. -women, Unfortunately the to the Dulmen prison camp, and The two Australians speak highly British War Office refused to subsequently to Frederikefeld, of the good treatment received in

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41.,

The larceny of soldier'a rifle in County Tippersy was reported to the police in Ceebel, recently. The man had been on short leave from the front and lodged with an hear could elapse before their the U. B. Shipping: Board, Philip Gibbs, the war corresponwards, where they had attempted bis parents who are farmere. His roll was called.

escape was discovered when the

estimates that the production dent, telegrapha from the Britieb in negotiate deep banks, but HONGKONG DOLLAR be held in the offices of Messid. mother kept the rfs in her own

of shipbuilding in the United front-"The cavalry, infantry, he tank casualties were light. room for safety. While the family. They hid on the bank of the Siates for 1918 will be 4,500,000 and tanks are still satire in thi a large number fought all day Reie in bed, someone knocked at river until dark, and then endes toda. Fifty-one shipyards are break in the Hindenburg line ang at the Flesquieres Ridga the door. The soldier's father Touted to obtain bosts, but found engaged in the construction of There, was heavy fighting in

and round the Harrincourt went down and seked; who was that these were secured with teal abipe and 67 of wooden the morning. st Bourion Wood. Chateau, where the enemy held there. A voice replied Police" chains and padlocks. Eventually hips. Last year there were 148 and Fontaine-Notre Dame. The cas for some, time, and across and he opened the door. Eour they found..bost filled with slipways, whereas to day there French residents were overjoyed the bridges marchings to the masked men carrying revolvers water. The men went to an are approximately 700. The at their release, and surrounded neighbourhood of Noyelles and demanded the adjosing formyard and borrowed anraliment of 880,000 workers is the tanks with the almost se Graincourt beyond Ribpcourt. entered and

They stated, that they dishes used for fowl food, with progressing well.

tonishment, They say that

The Germans fought bravely at they have had were soldiers of the Irish He which they raled out the boat and

no property the Havrincourt Chateau, Lalain "with" "Improvined" para crosDOG' : publics Army, and, while two

liberty since 1914, bewood, and Flerquieres Village. of them stood on guard outside in the direction of Jessel. Their At a meeting of the English Germans having requisitioned The deferus of the village upon the soldiers bedroom, the others only food was 3. gasniity of Charch Union held at Church everything. They were fed by a ridge against the Highlandern repershed the house. The found special biscuits made in Mel House, Westminister, a resolus the American Relief Committee was a serious impediment, bat a the fiftin one of the bedrooms bourne," and containing meat tion was passed masnimonely The Germans made the women general advance was made as the and took possession of it. When constituents, supplied in Austra pledging those prement to resist wash the soldiere dirty linen. real if a special attack organis. young man reminded them of lian Red Cross parcels, without the passage into law of any Bill One Frenchman had bern biding ed early on Tuesday in a model, the injury that they were doing which they any they could no to make three years' separation, in the cellar of his own hones to his brother, who was soldier have overcome the hardships of whether by matusi coment or since 1914. German cfficers were And as good an Irishmany their wanderings. They hicgal esparation order, a groand billeted there, and his wife fed of the intraders, they replied, that during the day, and went from for divores." Mr. Athelstan him from the extra retion giver

bat place to plaos by night skirting Riley, who proposed the resoluto her for her baby, born during A memorial service for the be was an English soldier. that they were soldiers of the several towns until they reached tion, said that, se egal, the poor the war. The house was searched Right Hon. Sir Starr Jameson, man was the stalking horse of the ones a week, but the man was not Bc, 00, was recently held at Irish republic. They immediate the Datch border. ly left with the rifa. The soldier, They eluded the Garman rich man, for nobody could doabt discovered; otherwise hath be St. Margaret's, Westminster, and when, awskened and told what gaarde, and crossed the Datab that there were large sums of sud his wife would have been the funeral took place of Konsal had occurred, took his bayonet frontier, hungry, suffering and money behind the agitation: Ia shot. The man has been weep Green Cemetery. There the body apd ran, after the men, but failed cold. The Dutch. guarde wap faer, it looked very much as ifing ever since his liberation from will rest until after the war, 14 overtake them. The police plied hot cof-e and andwiches, there were certain rich mea about the darkened cellar. Seus of when it will be removed to the have inch yet discovered the and passed them on to the second who were anxions to try new the Germans kept their nezva 2istobor, in Ebodana the baris! identity of the intruders, v and third guard house, where

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