GENERAL NEWS.
"A Dangerous Fiad.
A party of Obiness fisherman who were vagiged in fishing with drag net cft Teingtao discover- ed a maskanical mine on May 18. The Japanese Naval Coast Guard despatched a boat to the place udiested and it was brought
ahora. --The mins proved to be ons of those laid by the Germans during the siege. The cable was mevared and the mine, was adrift in the sea.
"Royal_Visitor"to Japan. Prince Arthur of Connaught is expected to arrive in Tokio to- ward the end of this month, when, on behalf of the King, he will present to the Emperor of Japan she, Field Marshal's baton, the --amblem of the highest rank in the British Army recently conferred on the Emperor by the King, Eiz Royal Highne arrived in New Tork on May 24.
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Golfers' Experience. Bangoon, April 6-Lisat Colonel Obbard, Commisioner of: Pegu, and Major Williams, Rangoon Battalion Military Police, had au unusual ex "perience while golfing at Mings near Bangoon. They were in the open and were approaching the swelfth hole when they saw a
·large anske a short distance in
front of them. Major Williams || want forward to see what kind <it was when it moved to attack him. He then saw it was a "hamadrya" *or king cobra, and struck at him. It mined him but returned to the attack, whereupon Col. Obbard went to Major William's assist- subs. The anske turned and struck at him sad bit his trousers. Before the snake could strike again Colonel Obbard killed it) with his stick. It measured 7 feet and was a fine specimen of this species.
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The Destroyer's BEEL" A correspondent with a destroy- er flotilla" writes: Ten minutes ago a sudden yawning in a heavy swell revealed ́a periscope snd's | coning tower. T.B.D-plunged across the spot, hat was just too late to ram the U-boat. Bat the -boat's dive was also too late.
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into view and vanished again. that landed in France in the "Rise of Portaguses in Bangal" An opalescent oil stream babbled autumn of 1914. Their record is was recently delivered before a to the surface. "No need to waste told in "The Indian Corps in large audience at Union Chapel another egg on him," sheerfully France," by Lieut-Colonel J. W. Hall, Diurrmtola, Calcutta, by remarked the young man who P. Merawhether and Bir Frederick Mr. J. J. Campor, the Hon. Mr. had pulled the lever. To-day T. Smith (Murray, 10. 63.), and a Justion Greaves presiding. This B. Dhse had st busy day. splendid record it is. The authors is the firt of a series of three Shortly after dawn a report wasze Bay:
lectures that will be given on ceived that a submarine track had Of the Indian Corps it may be later dates, the remaining two been sighted. T. B. D.-planges said that as much was asked of being on "The Fall of the Porta- right on to it. The set gives them as has been asked of any gasse in "Bengal" and on "The three awesome spars. A little oil troops at any period or in any Balica of the Portuguese in ripples on the surface of the theatre of this war. They stemmed Bengal.” water. The ship's log records that first German onslaught The lecturer said that under Laconically: "7.45 a.m.--Moving through the late autumn of 1914 Jono de Silveira the Portuguese, track reported 6.15 .m.track which ended in the, bitter fight in 1517, first drank of the watern eighted; 8,20 a.mappropriate ing at Givenchy. They played of the Ganges. This was the sofion taken.” The three great a loribus part in the dawn of the 16th century that zours are the outward and audible battle of Neure Chapelle. The had ushered in a period of con- sign of "appropriate action." So second battle of Ypres, the quest se the close of the 15th had the routine of strafing the struggle for the Aubers ridge, witnessed the culmination of dis
boats goes on. It is simple. and the desperate sessults of covery. This was the time when It becomes increasingly effective. Loos-all olained a toll the Great Albagerque's dream of blood from this devoted corps. about an eastern empire w&B An Optical Illusion Explalaed.
Why the betting sun as it drops They were asked to do much and realised and when the Portuguese alone to the horizon appears they tried to do everything they flag wared triumphantly on an larger than usual and oral instead were asked.
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| almost unbroken; bosst - from. of round is explained by Mr. Ladisa troopa have fought with Gibraltar 10 Abyssins and from W. F. Badgley in Popular beroio endurance in France, in Ormuz to Kalacca. Astronomy. The enlargement, he Egypt, at Adeo, on the Surs The lecturer dwelt on the aaye, is generally an optical Canal, in Gallipoli, in Esat political and commercial condi illusion due to the diso of the Africa, in West Africos, and in tion of Bengal and on the im- son appearing alone to the Mesopotamia. They were the portance of the port Satgaon on horizon, which we know to be first of the overseas troops to man the river Saraswati, which was very far distant. When the with untried qualities the sodden described by Ptolomy and the atmosphere is dusty and bot, trenches of Flanders. They for unkown author of the "Periplus however, it acts as a magnifying nished the first bulwark of British of the Erytbrian Sea," and glass. The oval appearance can East Africa. They flung back the whence were shipped the masline settlemente in Dacca, Balasore, various kinds of cloth brought, I. HORDA 54 Q1's Road Central best be understood by drawing a first Turkish attack on the Sues of Dacos which clad the Roman Pipli, Hijjli and other places, the from Malacca, Sumatra and Mrs. S.HONDA „ small circle on a sheet of white Canal. The army in Mesopotamis, ladies.
lecturer dwelt on their important Borneo; cinnamon from Cey-1 He described the doings of doinge on the side of Chittagong lon, pepper paper and placing a reading glass alike in its failuree" and "its
from Mala- Lover it. When the circle is under triumphs, was in the main various Portuguese expeditions especially
On the
festa of bar, camphor from Borneo; ves- the centre of the lens it appear se an Indian Army based upon that osme to Bengal till about Sebastian Gonsalves who starting shells (Naaria and chauquca) soircle, but as the glass is moved, India. Nearly
five hundred 1580 when the Portuguese life as an adventurer became the from Maldives and Coromandel THE HONGKONG & BOUTE till, the circle in near its edge the thousand men British and La- made their importent settlement King of Banderip Leisad and coast; Bandal-wood from Timor circle gradually becomes an oval, dian have left India since the in Hooghly, a place so remarkable married the daughter of the King and Lolor, and silks, jewels and "The sun as it nears the horison war began to take part in one in Indian history because there of Arakan,
furnitures of Bengal in the 17th and appears enlarged menally theatre or another, though before within a narrow range Beyon He described the connection of century were the camodities which becomes an oral longer in bread the war the whole Indish Army European nations strove for the Portugues with the battles the Portuguese shipped from the th than in height, because it is only amounted to 236,000 men enpremacy.
between the Afghan Sher Shah
province. seen through the edge of ez
This was India's answer to He adduced evidence for what end Kahmad Shah, the last of
A A-PPLICATION forms for Germany'e expectation that when was not yet known that the For the Lodi Kings of Bengal, and To the words of the late U, B. Membership of the above The sir, to a small height, is the Empire was dy trouble the tuguese had made an earlier then traced the troubles rising Wilson, the lenturer remarked Association may be obtained in, a condition to magnify objects would play the traitor. The book settlement in 1537 38. The con- from Homeyan's diasatrons in that it was under their (Porto from all the Banks or from the and, has been to all day, but contains many fine stories of per troveres about the derivation of vasion of Bengel undertaken to
undersigned, commercis supremedy Looking upward its thin layer sonal courage and devotion. It the word Hooghly was fally dia punish Sher Shah's treachery, that the place which we know by would have little effect, whereas sents the comradeship that apssed. The prosperity of the The description of Parsaguese, the name of Calcutta, first began oaking through it toward the existed between the Indian and Portuguese in Hooghly who trade in Bengal was p hortin the effect would be in the British troops, and it insists eventually became really in interning. The prine creamed about sixteen times by on the happy relations that exist, dependent of the Mughal Emperor brought to Bengal by the increased depth of air looked between the Indians and their read like a page of romance, After guese were brosides
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