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A Bishop's Pilgrimages. The Bishop of Peterborough, whose offer of his Palaos as an mariliary Red Cross Hospital has just been sccepted by the author- ities, has taken a house at Grest Bowden, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. He left the Palace at the end of Jars, and went on his second pilgrimage in his diocese in the deaneries of Haddon One and Framland *Three.

· Nicaragua to Sead Troops to Europe.""

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San Francisco:-Adoldo. Diaz, former president of Nicaragas, discussing the military depend- ence of the Central American Republic of the United States and the friendly relations existing between them said "The United Slate navy is the Nicaraguan nary." He said that Nicaragua'e recent declaration of war against Germany was, reosived with en- thusisem smong all classes,, and there is a possibility that troops will be dispatched to the fighting front. Nicaragua has an army of 20,000.

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Women la the Air Force. An Order in Council has been made to amend the Air Force Act so that the provisions of the Army Act. sa to billeting shall apply to women who are enrolled Air for employment by the Council as they apply to sirmen. Offoers of any body of the Air Force with whom the women to be, billeted are employed, and the cer commanding that body, are to "be desmed in relation to sach women to be their cfficers and commanding officer; and if any anch woman is guilty of so offence in relation to billeting mentioned in Sect. 30 of the Army Act, she shall be punishable. on summary conviction. [Sect. 30 of the Army Act makes it sp offence for any person subject to military law to be guilty of any ill-treatment, by violence, extor tion, or making disturbances in billet-, of the occupier of a house j in which any parson or horse is billeted.]

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of munition work for the Alliance, registered medical practitioner.

This romance came first from before the Americans came in. ELECTRICITY'S The prescription moet be marked. the fertile brain of the scaremong Possibly 20% has been resched "Not to be repeated," and the er, at least two yeare sgo, and by some nations, drug mast not be sapplied more being firmly believed by oredalous There is no doubt that many than osse on the same prescrip persons, has caused some depres popular Military experts in Allied

To Relieve Coal Shortage." tion. The prescription is to be re-elon. It was born of exasperation Countries have consistently over-

Now that the question of coal tained by the person who die at the apparently inexhaustible estimated Gerrass losses. Emin. shortage has been brought so penses it, and it: must be

resouress of German man-power. ent persons relying on semi- prominently to the attention of kept оред to inspection The latest piece of "evidence" has inspired information caloniated the public by the recent closing by any person authorised by probably convinced many more, that the Germans lost in normal order of the foel administrator WING to restrictions on the Secretary of State. The drugs to Let us examine it.

times at least 250,000 men per splendid work being done and England the TRAM SERVICE it is interesting to note the export of wire ropes from which the Order applies are

It is surely a somewhat nsive month in ordinary trenob barbitone, benzamine lactate, be asmine hydrochloride, chloral suggestion. The great thing to warfare. No-one who ever aswa savings effected by the railroads will be REDUCED & from 15 hydrate, coss, cocaine, codeine, ensure for the success of each an rench believed it. The exaggers that have adopted electricity as September, 1918. dismorphine, Indien hemp,opiamo, elaborate scheme as this was tion was grom, probably over motive power on a part of their morphine and sulphonal and its secrecy. Were it to be commonly estimated three times. Similar lines.

On the Elkhorn grade known, it would have the certain solemn Entilities have deceived homologues, and say alta, pre-

Russian phrase electrification of the Norfolk and parations, derivatives, or admix-effect of alarming all the nations many. The

Western By, which is one of the tures prepared from or with any Germany proposed to attack, and "heavy losses" became a meza

its chances of saccess would dis parrot-ery meaning nothing. Yet biggest coal carrying roads in the of these druge.

country, the 270 ton Baldwin- appear. Yet we are "seked to we took it seriously, A Wonderful Escape.

The Germans have captured electric locomotives haul a 3,250 Hongkong, 27th August, 1918. An officer in Mesopotamia had believe that Hindenburg mention a wonderial escape from death ined it casually to some foreign and utilised more prisoners than ton train of steel cars loaded with two WAYS.

The British were acquaintance Again Hindenburg the Allies. Women have played coal, en route for eastern pointa. a ponderous old nobody a greater and more versatile part Previous to theelectrification it re- attacking the Tazke up a fist de wag file, on one flank of which was's before the war. Sach a peores in munition work than was ever gaired three of the biggest lake, on the other the river Tigris would only be known to a very anticipated. The Germans have modern type of Halisticosmotives The officer was on the extreme select few, and Hindenburg in recruited thousands of neatrals equipped with mechanical atokers of the for work in their factories. Vi to hunt a train of this fonnage up flank next

and thoes daye had none the lake,

Medical science with cruel the Elkhorn grade at a speed of aqualifications for inclusión, Again down by machine-gun, receiving several why have we heard nothing of kindness has sent back to the seven miles an hour. Now two serious wounds, and one through this marvellous revelation until trenches anything from 50 to electric locomotives haal it up the the head by which be lost the eight to-day?

70% of those sotaally struck by same grade at 14 miles per double the speed. Sickness han hour or Experta agree that it might be enemy missiles. of both eyes, The doctor passed him as dead, and he was left to lie possible to falsify s census, but been marvellously eliminated, formerly obtained by the steam where he was till the battle was nothing like. so drastically as Its efficiency haa vitiated ali pre locomotives. As a matter of fact, in cold weather it was fre over. Daring the night a strong suggested here. In any case it war estimates.

In spite of all these fundament quently necessary to reduce the morth wind arose, which, on this would be a matter of great din shallow lake, blow the water land-culty. One may be very sure that al errore there were a few ex tonnage of the train considerably wards, and it reached and fasted the Allied Secret Service would perts who were very barely right, in order to permit the steam the officer off. He was quite insen- have their eyes open for jast such Germany was almost exhausted, loasmotives to get it ap grade, sible indeed, did not regain con- a possibility, and the expert eye when Russia failed us and saved With electric propulsion, the Church Which Never Existed. ciousness till, eight days after could certainly detect a 50 per her. Thst defection presented same coal traffic can, therefore, Wards: But he was found the cent, falsification. For instance her with at least a million man to be hauled with about one-third following morning, 26 hours after Berlin's 24 millions should really ass on the Western Front. Quite the former number of locomotives, he had shot, some considerable have been at least one million illogically no one trasts even the Railway Reviews. distanos down the lake shore, and more by such a system. That few great experts in consequence,

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