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II CANAOIANS WHO SAVED THE ALLIES' LINE AT ST. JULIEN.,
.a 4'... ·: ~. Piper James Burns, of the Canadia 1 Scot- Driver Alfred \Vheeler, of the Canadian Field Artillery, helped to save two of· the guns, Lance-Corp. Brown was with the Cana- tish, dic;;carded his pipes for ' t~e bayonet. and was only prevented by serious wounds from rus~ing back for the otbers. dians through their three days' fight.
Lance-Corporal Lavendez il the cheeriest man: in hospi.tal. A bullet in Many of the Canadians wounded at St. Julien are now being tended in the beautiful open-air hoc;;pital his right cheek carded his false teetb out through lus left cheek. into which Mr. and Mrs. Astor have converted Taplow Court, their Thames-side home.
The5e are some of the c-wadian~ who mad~ historv, as glodou:- as any in the glovdng records of th~ British Army. in their ~plendid stand at St. Julien. Thcir'loss~s were · ~ · mari' thev are proud of the part thev pl:n·ed in one of tbe most criti .I cpi odes in the battle -(Daily Sk~tc1r Photog·raph .) .MONDAY, MAY 3, 1915. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. l'age 2.-DAlLY . KETCH.
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Instruments, l<'1e!d Glassea Guii8 etC ttc ' lT WILL SAVE YOU POUNDS. ML'3S EVIE GREE~' E as DOLOR&<;. R DENNIS EADIE in . WRITE FOR LIST OF 5,000 ABSOLUTELY GE!'UINE A REVOLUTION IN PRICES-ASTOUNDING VALUE. Gallery 6d., Pit 1~. Booked Seatc:, 2<;., 2s. 6d., 3s., 4s., Ss., THE MAN WHO STAYED AT HOME. BARGAINS POST l<'REE · TO-t.."'GHT at 8.15. Matinee, Thurs. and Sats., at 2.30. A.J'Jsr.?~~~ST~~;is.~fu~~V~If.t.f~PBYR~Xs\~ 6s. 7s. 6d. Nightly 7.45. Mats. Wed.. &nd Sat. 2.15. ALL GOOD3 SENT ON 7 DAYS' APPROVAL. 41 Box Office (Gerrard 3903) 10 to 10. BUSINESS tRANSACTED PRIVATELY BY PO T. ?/6~Worth £2 lOs.) FIELD, RACE or MARINE GLASS A}!BASSADORS.- ODDS AND ENDS " Revue, T.. JAMES'S. · SIR GEORGE 1 DER. /6-LA.DY S Very .Pretty 18-ct. Gold Caaed KEYL~ l,J lby Lefa.ier); powerful Binocular, aa used in Army by HARRY GRATTAN, at 9.10; Mme. HaJ1P.]ro and ALEXA. 10 . WRIST~ WATCH; ~-plate jewelled mo\·ement · fit and Navy; 50 miles range; shows bullet mark 1,000 yards: wide Co., in a new JapanESe Comedy, '-' Oya! Oyal" at 8.30. S Last. 6 Ni€hts at 8.30 (Final Performance, Sat. Er,~: . next). any ~rJSt; perfect tunekeeper:. 10 yea.ra' 'Yi<~.rranty· gexnuno tleld; addlet made fling ca...<.e, week's free trial~ sacrdice. MATINEE. Thursday and Saturday, at 2.30. · THE PANORA..\fA OF YOUTH. bar~am, lOs. 6d Approval Willingly. ' 1~. 6d.; approral willingly before payment. COME-DY 'THEA-TRE, P~nton-street, S.W. By J. Hartley Manners. / ~ -MASSIVE CURB CHAIN PADLOCK BR ~CELE~ -POWERFUL Bl~OCULAR FIELD or MARINE ~ ___LAS~1lATINEE WEDNESDAY ... TEXT, at 2.30. 8 6 . with safety -chai~; solid links; 18-ct. gold istamped) · 32/6 GLASSES, great magniiymg power (by . Lumiere} i TO-NIGHT at 8.30. fr. SEYMOUR IDCKS t.n.d AVOY THEATRE. MR. H. B. IRVING. filled, m velvet case; $8Cn,fice, 8s. 6d. Approval. rnos\ powerful glass made, name of sh1p can be d1stmctly reaa Mis.~ ELL.o\LlNE TERRIS.~ in " WILD THYME," by George 7/6 (worth 30s..~LADY S Solid Gold IIall-marked Diamond five mill'S from shore, brilliant field of view: in Solid leather Egerton. MATINEES WEDS. and SATS., at 2.30. S At 9, SEARCHLIGHTS. by H. A. Va.chell. At 8.30, and Sapphue Doublet Half Hoop Ring claw setting. case; week's frre trial: worth £6 10s.-sacri.fice, £1 12s. 6d. CRITERION. Gerr• .3844, Regent 3365. "Ke6J)ing Up Appearances," bv W. W. Ja.cobs. .Ia.te. Wed., la rge lustrous stones; great sacrifice 7s 6d Approval riWorth £a lOs.) BABY'S LONG CLOTHES, superfine ... Thurs., a.n.d ~at . , at 2.30. Tel. G... r. 2602. 12/6-VERY ~OWERFUL ~-d~aw. Br~ TELE.'3COPE; 12/9 qua.litr, magnificent parcel: 40 articles, everything TIIREE SPOONFUL'!. F' ach!omat1c lenses, 50 m1les range suitable for Marino Tf'olid nickel !l'o~ether, .acr11i.ce, 101!. 6d. Appr(lnJ before pa.yment. DRURY LANE. SEALED ORDERS. OPERA IN E..>.;GLL.,H. d~t &nd ~amp P.rocf case, wtth atronc lea.tber straJJ; ft any G--SUPERFL .E QUALITY BLANKETS, ma.gnmcent To-ni<~ht at 7 30. :i\fat'.. Weds. and Sa~ .• 1.45. TO-NIGHT at 8 ...... ~IADA~IE BUTTERFLY. 19/ WTJSt, reliable t~mekeeper; warranted, exceptional bar · a~ze Bl?nkf~08~v~~t~al~i~~}~a~%~:i1~~d~ho_t;P~~~alargo- MARIE ILLINGTON, C. , I. iiALLA.RD, EDWARD SASS. 12s. 6d. (usual p~1ce 35s.).. Approval willingly. gaJID, (Worth £2 2s.).-LADY"S 18-ct. Solid Gold Hall-marked Box Office Gerrard 2588. RJ>{cial Price!!, 7s.. 6d. to Is. Tueeday Enning ...... TALE.-; OF HOFFMANN. 12/6-GENT. 8 Ma&ne Double Albert· Gold Wednesday Matinee at 2 ...... LA BOHEME. l~t Diamond and Sapphire Doublet Hall-Hoop Ring, claw (stampPd} filled, solid links, curb pattern; 12s. 6d. 8/9 DUKE OF YORK'S. EVERY EVENING at 9. Wednesday Eve~ins ...... ~IA&9.UIE BUTTERFLY. .-MAGNIFICE~T Hornless Gramophone, with 10-inch JPiting, large lu~trous st.on~. l!e. 9d. Approval willingly. CHARLEil FROHMAN present~ :Mdlle, GABY DESLYS Thunsday Evenmg ...... TALES OF llO!o'F UNN. 35/ -PRET-TY NECKLET, with Hear~ Pendant attached, 815 b THE NEW Turntable, s1lver-plated " Symphonetta " tone arm set Paridan Pearls &nd Turquoises; 18-ct. rold (stamped} in ROSY RAP'JTi'RE. Pr t-ded at · Y Friday Evening ...... RIGOLETTO (First time). and patent unbreakable sound box: with six 10-inch Disc tunes• 4/9tilled, In velvo>t ca.se. Bar'"ain, 4s. 9d. Approval willingly. WORD. Both plays by J. M. BARRIE. llA.TINEE EVERY Saturday Matinee a.t 2 ...... ~B.DA...\lE BUTTERFLY great bargain, 35s.; worth £6 6s Approval • /6-0E. 'T.'S Ma&ive Double Albert: 18-ct. Gold THUREDAY and .'ATURD...:.A:...:\::.l~'~a.t=-=2.:...:.3_0.:... . ------Saturday Enning ...... , ...... LA. BOHEME: I0/6-LADY'S 18-ct Gold-eased Keyless Watch high 12• btampt"d) filled solid links, curb pattern: 128. 6d. Ap. GAIETY. . . ~ua.lity movement; exact timekeeper; 10' years' !Worth .£4 4s.)-TJADY'S Solid Qold English Hall-marked TO-NIGHT'S TilE NIGHT. New Mll8lcal Play. Box Office 10 to 10. Prii-('9 7s. 6d., 5~ .• 4s .• 3s., z.~ .• h. 6d .. ls. warr~nty, als.epPJ, 10 years' warranty; week' free trial; 2ls. Approval Laurillard's productk,n. Mat.inre Every Saturday at 2.1_5:.._ TRAND. THE ARGYLE CASE. 4J9-GENT. S 17s. 6d. Oxydlsed Keyless Lever 'watch -(Worth .£2 2..--:1 Solid Gold Curb Chain Padlock ~ -' n~T D S TO-KIGHT at 8. perfect timekeeper: non-mainetio action; ten y<>ara' 14/6 BRACELET, WJth eafety chain; 146. 6d. Approv:U. GARRICK -(Ger. 9513). YVONNE D...l\.. nAU · JULIA l''"EIL'30N and FRED TERRY. warranty; week' a free trial; sacrifice, 4s. 9d. • -LAD "8 Trousseau; 2~ Superfine. quality Nib'htr Evenings at 8.30. M11.ts .. Wed ., Thurs., Sats., 2,30, Mats. Wed. and Sat., at 2.30. Tel. ~r. 3830. -LA.DY'I::I handsome 18-ct. GOLD-CASED KEYJ.ESS 19/9 dre&:e..~, CheiD.lSes, Kmckers. Pett10oats, Combin.a. .. THE GlltL IN THE TAXI." 12/6 WATCH EXPA.NDING BR~CELET; fashionable t10fs f:tc., 'll'orth £3 3s.; sacrifice, 198. 9d. Approval. YVO. NE .'\.RNA UD a! " Suzanne." AUDEVlLLE. BABY MirE. pa\tern; wtll ~t any ~rJSt; perfect timekeeper; 10 yean' • -MASSIVE CURB CIIAIN PADLOCK BRACELET, ------W V Evenings at 8.45. Mats.• Wed .. and Sats., at 2.30. warranty; renume barra1n, 12s. 6d.; wee 's trial Appronl 8 6 v.ith safety chain; rolid linb; 18-ct. gold ~tamped GLOBE, Shafte5bnry-avenue, T~ WEEDON GROSs~HTH. IRIS HOEY -GENT.'S FASHIONABLE DARK TWEED JACK.E'Ji tilled in 'l'elvet ca--e: saen.fic~. 8~. 6d. Approval willingly. .1\tL"S LAURETTE TAYLVn. IN __A~15, Mi~Nora John< n in hJJi al lile;ton~. 19/6. surr (by ~urh-elass tailO. • {;;.t.<;, Wffie., Tl.u~ .• Sak, 2.30. • at.inte Eiery w~~~R~~Ti~~.l':iatmday, at 2.30. required; bea.ut1fully tr1mmed lace and em broidery· mother'• 21/ magnificent parcel. 82 articles, exquwte hmbro1dered At 8 FIVE BIRDS IN A CAHE. personal work• never used; s~rifioe, 2ls. Approtal' .American Row, ek.; everything required; beautiful gar- H•mry AinlPy, EJJi,. .Tdfreys, and Godfrey Tearle. LHAMBRA.-'' 5064 G~rrard." THE. 'ew Revue. 4/~PR~Y Necklet, wttb heart pendant atiached aet 111ent' ~LADYo,;nha~d~~~· 1~~\ t8f.Dv~As£Bn~~YLESB HIS MAJESTY'S.-Proprietor, ..'ir Herbert 'l'ree. A LEE WlllTE P. .lonlrman. 0. Shaw, J. Morrison, C. . Pa.r1s1an pearls a.Dd torquoLBC~~, 18·ct. rold (stamped) }2/6 WATCH EXPANDING BRACELET; fashionable 'fO-.MORROW (TUE'3DAY), .MAY 4, at 8, Cook, A.. A~tm, B. L1lhe, and ROBERT HALE. Revue tilled, m velve~ cue. Sacnfice, 4s. 9d. Appro'aJ before pa,1men\. tl.ero; \'iill fit a.J•Y v.Tiat; l>erfect timekeeper: 10 years' W1ll be prodncrd a New Play, ID Four Act!. 8.35. Vaneties.. 8.15. Jat . .'a.t., 2.30. !Roouced Prices.) 7/6-LADY 8 so.lld Go~d, Ball-mark~, 5-fitone real diamond .,.,.arrontv; sacrifire 12•. tid.; week's trial. Approval willingly. from t.be 1-'ren.-h ol M. Frondaie, entitled MA'!'INE~~ Da1ly at 3 lex(;('pt S&ts.). ir Douglas fa.w~:on's engagem!~t ri;tg·G~:ii1i~~ng7• ve6ryd elegatnht ,.de&i&n. suit&ble tol Monng Picture Story, "THE HO IE 01." THE BLIZZARD." -GEN •, • ~· ·• wor ..,os. Approval -{}fnt.' Hand.<.ome 18-d. Gold-cased Keyless Watch With THE RIGll'.r TO KILL. 10 T. 8 . 18-ct. Gol~-cas~ KEYLESS LEVER /6 fully rad1 mi~ lummous hands and figilres, t;n:ie can A.daptcd loy :ilLHt. l 'a.!lnan a~d Fr.-.n' a K rze;. OLISEUM.-TWICE DAILY at 2.30 and 8 p.m. I 6 8be dJStin•·tly ef'n u mght: b1gh grade lever movement, timed (ne-m (;on,tantmoJ..t~. to f WATCH, Improved actiOn, 10 years' warranty· timed tO mwut.e month; 10 yeal'l!' warranty· WEek's free trtal; 8s.6d. HERBERT TREE. C MLLE. GENEE in "Robert J.R Dia.ble'' · J ~MUi WELCH ~ ew seoondr a month; t.lso double-curb Albert: same tWorth (.£4 lOs.}--Sol:d Gold English Hall-marked Key- ARTHUR EOUR('.HI.ER. IRENE V ANBRUGH. and CO. in "JUDGED BY APPEARA.'CEs"; LENA quahty, With. handsome Sea\ attached. Week's f~ee· triaL J(-ss Watch Wrutlet, with luminous hands and tigurea, FIRST MATINEE ATURDAY NEXT, MAY 8, and ASHWELL and CO. m .. TilE DEBT"; f-;UZA.- fE SHELDON; Together, aacnfice, lOs. 6d. Approval before payment 22/6 DAVIS 41 CO. (Dept. 110), LICENSED PAWNBROKERS. IJl., (,err. 1777. ::-::-c=--84, BRIXTON-ROAD. LONDON, B.W l •orth £4 4 .}-L&dy's Solid Gold English Hall-marked • Co 1 1 C MPIRE. WATCH YOUR STEP. 2 • K~yless Wateb. jewelled movement. rich]Y engraTed, KINGSWAY. J~Iv.erpool mmonw~a t 1 o. E TO-MORROW EVE. ING a.t 8. ]~years'1/ arrantv: weE'k s free tna, 2ls.; also l..&dy s Handsome TO-NIGHT JOnd Tne&., at 8 15. Wed., 2.30 and 8.15. GEORGE GR.AVE::. h'THET, LEYEY. JOSEPH OOYNE. PALACE.-'' THE PASSiNG SHOW of 1915 u at "' d God Long "Watc~ Guard, worth £4 4s.; sacrifice, 21s.. THE KJ, S CURE, by Ronald Jt>ans. . Dorothy Minto, ffiancbe Tomlin, Iry • hilling 8.35, with F..J.SIE JANIS ' 8o11 /G-Gent.'s superior quahty Fawn Mack~ntosh, Best Tw1ll Thurs. and Fri. at 8.15. .'aturday, 2.30 and 8.15. Phyllis Bedelb!, l .. upmo Lane, etc. SAT. l\1AT., 215. ARTHUR P~A YFAIR, BASIL HALLAM: ·Er..: ON KEYS, -,_ Jrned. high cut, lar~e Pockets. Ta1lor-made, saeque NOBODY LOVES ME, by Robe1t Elson. GW~EDNS DOLINE BROGDEN• .;to. Va.neties ;;.t s. M.>\TI. EE 24bape pertectlv ne , worth £3 3s.: acnfioe, 24s. 6d : approval. :Matinee. Wo:d. ax.d . at, 2 30. Tel. GerT. 4032. IPPODROME: LONDO T.-TWICE DAILY at • and SATS., at 2. " • -LJ\D\. . :.OLID GOLD 3-st{)ne. Pat1s1an DIAMOND - !....--- - O N GHT S H 2 30 and 8.30. New Revue, ~ntitled "BUSINF..SS AS . 3/9 RI 'G g•P'Y sl't' worth 15s., sa.cnficeA 3s. 9d: approval. LYRIC. T - I at .15. usu AT .. ," iiW.In.ihng YTOLET I,ORAINE, UNITY MORE, pALLADIUM.-6.10 and 9. MATI1 rEE;3 MON., ---{\\ 'c;rih tio '10s.) Powerful BINyCULAR I''IELD Georg" Grossrr11th and Edward Laurillard ~resent WINIF~D ELI.. I<:;E_. l~ARRYT TATE, MORR~S HARVEY, WED. and SA'!'., at 2.30, 'P.f <\RIE LLOYD, GEO· 4 9/ 6 or MARl iE GLASSES, as suppl.led to tbe Bntish "ON TRIAL By :Elmer R Retzenstcm. AMBRO~E TliORNb, \ IVJAN FOSTER, HENRI LEONI. ROBEY, BILLY MERSON. IRMA LORRAINE BETH TATE, t. perle<~ in every mechamca~ and opt1c&l MAT WED~. and ::-oATS .. at 2 30 Box Office 10 to 10. Ma11l100th _'Beauty C.'l m~. _Box Offire,. 1~to_lO. _ _GE!_r. 650. BERT COOTE, BABY LANGLI!."Y and SISTERS, ~tc. Govf>rnwen !. "nlfication power: fitted :w1th )omted bars -~ ·• _ - ·-~ 1 · ~i.a~ur7:"::\~dj~"t.ment: times by chu~ <;I~k }in. beh dlr ·pRINCE OF WA£E,}. f0-r IGHT ~t a4&. 'll·)I".A:SKELYNE A~D DEVANT'S MYf-:TERIE~.-=- PHILHARMONIC HALL '"'t p rtl d ·t w- \\n{)tly 1eD tliree milts a.way: finest wo ans IP t roug ~ : vuo·$ TilE' T:.f.D. ";> '( ! ' • : ' if..l.. ST. GEORm::..~ HAUJ, Oxford Cirf"UF the neighbouring nations were not so I busih· engaged upon killing each othe;, or in preparing for war, doubt- .._..._. less they would be more interested in the orgy of criticism which no\Y preyails in thi T ·•e Royal Whitsuntide. Oro use From The ~.N. R. I· A Breath Of Air. countn:. In anv case foreign race d . t I A:U L'FOR~IED that the King and Queen, "ith • ~ERM~"ENT officers of the R.~ -.R. are be- T~ER~ ~s n? need to go miles away to &lmers_d • • ' s 0 those members of the RoYal Familv who are at no 1 gmmng to "grouse,'' I under~tanJ. -c-ntil the war or ?e:on:;hire If you w.ant a breath of ~untry a:r. home, will spend the 'Vhitsuntid; at Windsor understand us. The more important matter IS rath~r 1 broke out this branch of the Semor Service was Th1s an obvious statement, I m afra1d, is the effect of these recriminations upon our Castle: Sandringham is too far off just now for officered by 'men of the ~Iercantile }larine who but it was brought vividly to my notice on Satur own people in the C 1 · d 1 the Kmg, whose desire is to be t roughly acces· possessed Board of Trade certificate' as masters day aft-ernoon, when a kindly soul motored me . . • O omes an upon the ' sible to his Mini ters in the present circumstances. Enghsh-speakmg people in the L'nited and mates. And yery proud they \·era of their down to Coombe Hill. We had tea at the Golf No Epsom Ceremonies. commissions, too. •· But now," as one of them Club House-a lovely spot on the crest of a wooded States. Th ey un derstand our temperament, said to me recently, ·• a R.:S.R. offic-er might have hill, with a Yiew so extensive and picturesque that IT IS understood that the Whitsuntide visit will more or less, but it is well that they should sen'e instead of the customary Yisit in June, when been anything from a briefle-s barrLter to a it was almost too good to be true, and looked more Labour M.P. How many of tlte temporary like painted scenery than the real thing. make no mistake at the present critical time. the Court usually entertain on a large scale for 'officers ' are sailor-men. anyhow ? " NE adYantage or disadYantage. of the the Epsom Week. The King does not intend ro O \·isit the race meeting at all, according to present Short And Sweet. CooMBE, of course, is Richmond way, and not democratic condition is that the State aHangements, and in auy case the ceremonial and From H.M.s. Blank. f f R h t h th D h , , _ ~ 1 ar rom oe amp on, w ere e uc esses come can be criticised. On the whole the con- spectacular drhe would not han~ tak~n place. A SAILOR ?n three days lea>'e off H.)I.~. Kank, from, or rather, go to. It is altogether a glorious clition . is better than the autocratic State s~mewl!_ere With the Grand F!eet, home after nea~ly spot, and the return drive by way of Putney Heath, I ish Medicine. where the Goyernment is a kind ->f deitv mne months afloat, was tellmg me y-esc~rday With swarming with Boy Scouts, was very pleasant in ~fR. WILLlAM O'BRIEN ~hat zest the men and officers ei:ter mto spo:ts the sunshine of a spring afternoon. We were who quickly punishes criticism as a crim;, was quit.e serious the m order t? prevent the~selYes gettmg stale. With awav from town less than an hour and a half. 'VV e regard the members of our GoYernment other day when he de the men, 1t seems, playmg hockey on roller skates 1 · __ cla.r~d in Parliament is the favourite sport. •· But~ of course," added as ordinary men, who by chance, or caste, or The Ways Of Max. that Guinness's stout the tar, "we can't do it when it's rough, or we IT SEEliS only yesterday that Max Darewski ability, or by some special I?achinery are was the bes-t medicine should soon find ourselve' roller :,kating ovet the was the talk of musical London as an infant-prodigy~ that any doctor coul '1 waves." placed in control of the State. Every public piano • pJayer, "Little prescribe, and when he man, whether he be com ian or Cabinet '' Brotller." . L-ord Fauntleroy" suit described Irish whisky "SALVATIONISTS" are fighting in the ranks of and everything. He has Minister, must run the · risk of criticism, as a " healthfal, hygienic all the belligerents. In an engagement soon after - put all that a long w.a~ t<>nic." Most Irishmen howeYer. That is the pr.ice he .pays for his the 'War began a wounded German said to the British behind him now, a.n.d hold similar beliefs. and position. \Ye profess to judge him by soldier who had bayonetted him: "DDn't you know smokes long cigars and the Xationalist Party a.,., me, brother'" "Brother -" was the German's make~ ever such a l<>t o~ results. going to fight the new host in London during the great International Con money by writing tune3 JN effect the public is oftentimes very cruel. t-axes tooth and nail. gress of last June. The truth of the story is For once Mr. Redmond finds himself in agree for l'evues instead. He For it insists on a continued run of vouched for by a leading Salvation Army officer. is a brillianUy clever success from the public man, and it makes ment with Mr. O'Brien, though he doesn't use the medicinal argument. boy, but he annoys a.U no allowance for his frailties and for the Socks Or Stocki•:s? · his musical frienda b&· periods ":hen he is off colour or out of form. Fellow•feelinr. ·Dm YOU KNOW that the High l and~rs' brilliant- cause he can play tht Nor does it allow for luck and the other REDMOND's PLEA is that Irishmen kn<>w how to. topped stockings are not what they seem 1 That piano and won't. In fa.cft. factors which govern e,·ery issue. This drink wisely. But, anyhow, unity on the Irish they are footless, to be precise~ A relative who he can ·play better nO\lt war has naturallv intensified the desire for benches is a novel and inspiring sight, and that the should know tells me that is s~or, at any rate, than he eYer did, because a course of night cluba convivial glass should have brought the warring was so. Ordinary socks are worn on the feet, has widened his intellectual outlook, and mad• success, and it has made the public rather elements together is a fortuitous circumstance. the " stockings" beginning, or ~nding, just above him a little more sophisticated than in the prodigy, querulous when victory has been delayed. Many a hat-chet has been buried over-or under-a the ankle. days. Max is certainly a genius. Perhaps one~ The same petulance prevails in Germany, small Guinness. he will grow wiser and find his true level, but the unfortunate Teuton dare not express Since The Crimea. Molten Eloquence. Tlll!l USE of the complete swcking, I am The Butterfly. MR. is one of the most striking per- it. The German Government, however, O'BRIE~ told, was stopped after the Crimean War. The men MAx DAREWSKI produces music for a revue. must dope him with false victories, lies, gas, wnalities in Parliament. His towering figure, long were repeatedly asking fol' new stockings became or something of the sort, about every week,. ![o and other drugs to dull the effects of the pointed beard, and burning eyes make him notice the foot portion was worn out, although the uppers night a new little sketch is due at the London growing disaffection. But in this country able, but it is the fire and passion of his utterance were in good condition. This proved too expensive, Pavillion which C. H. Bovill has written fo:r we seek to relieve our feelings, and from that chiefly compel attention. His words soorc:h and the footless stocking was invented. Harry Pilcer and Teddie Gerrard. It iB called experience \Ve know the Yalue of a good and scarify, and when he is roused he-is like a "The Butterfly," and it is vety tragic. Teddit grumble on occasion. Fury. He quivers with excitement, and in a rapid, The ~eturn Of A Favourite, Gerrard will wear some wonderfully expensivo f h jerky manner pours forth a torrent of. eloquence, THAT brilliant little gowns. I know, for I was with her when she wa.s THE danger is that under cover 0 t e which lacks only one thing, and that 1S humour, actress, Hilda TreYelyan, choosing them. natural grumbling there may creep in He takes things much too seriously to be funny,. has beert absent far too Sickeninr. more sinister intrigues, plots, · jealousies, and for that very reason Yery often is. long from the London HERE's a pretty little yarn for you. It illus. and private enmities. \Ve have seen the stage, and her return on A United Ireland At Last. trated how the best schemes of mice and men gq d h Wednesday night will be Government severely• dealt with in the Press, IN HIS early days he was a report.el', an as e aft a.gley. A cert~in sister Susie knitted • and l·n e\'ery group of people 've find critics_. l,._ d nry welcome. She is to became more experienced in journalism ~ e- lovely pair of sox for a soldier boy at the front. t 1\1v.Iuch of the cri.tl'cl'sm t's harmless and >eloped a hobby of gomg· to pnson· for w h a are appear in Charles When completed, she wrote a charming litUe not4 inane,· some of it is cruel and destructive, known as "political offences." He ha.s, in fact, Hawtrey's new pr<>duc- and placed tiame inside the sox. News has ju£4 ~.l! t tion at the Apollo, been receh·ed that the sox along with the cheer,r and only a little of it is really helpful. The done time at various times up to the exte nt U1. wo •. Striking," in which note reached the hands-or was it the feet '-of th$ Government itself has set a bad example by years. The ideal for which h~ has work~~ all his Paul . Rubens has de· knitter's brother. Now could anything be mo~ t h e divided· · attitude· o f its memb ers on li'fe is a uDJited Irel•and , and 1t looks a.s It he has serted musical comedy found it-for a short time, at any rate. prosaid It is funny how things really do happenr· various questions, and by the tendency to for a while. and colla- shift blame from one quarter to another. It Lloyd George's Bombshell. borated with Gladys Constan· Tree-Nople. is abundantly evident that l\Ir. Asquith and TB:E RUSH for whisky on Friday and Saturday Unger m writing a "straight" piece. The last Srn HERBERT TREE, in talking over "The Right Mr~ Lloyd George do not see eye to eye on had its humorous side.· Probably nearly every appeara'l.ees of Miss Trevelyan ,-.,ere at the Yaude- to Kill" with me a day or two ago, said that he the drink question, for example, or if they Paterfamilias arriYed home late _as_ the result of _his ville' where she·th ranEd a mostd G interesting.-:h ~ea.s<>nd h in hoped to hear of the taking of Constantinople bv"* efforts to buy his accustomed sp1nt at the old pnce. conjunction WI mun wenn. .._ e rna e er the Allies in time for his production of that Franca. do ' their speeches do not cre.ete that You could tell the successful from the unsuccessful greatest sucees3 in "What. EYery Woman Knows," Turkish drama. When I pressed him for m. impression. searcher by the pleasant smile on the former's face and is married to a. well-known dr~ matist. reasons, he confessed that he has two. The 1ir.sf.. BUT the great thing for the British public as he hugged his precious bu1Jlen. of course, was patriotic. "As to the second,» said is ·to make clear to the world that we ' The Baker, Too. ...ir Herbert, "what a fine ad\·ertisement it wonl4 . . . . . • .· The Perplexity Of 'fbe Beerage. th b 1 • t lli b d. 't be • h l ' " are gomg on With thi.s \\ ar until w~ \\ m. POOR BuxG is caught between the Scylla of MY FRIEND e aA.er Is e ng me my_ re_a Isn. I tor t e P ay. bl h th t 0 dear enough, and that if they had theu nghts 1t -- These internal grum mgs a\:e no mg , "Your Beer Will Cost You }fore'' and the Charyb- would be tenpence. My rights, of course. are simple The Alhambra Squash. do with the intention to persist. \Vhere dis of "Your Drink Will Intoxicate You Less." enough to define. They consist in paying higher I sePPOSE the fact that the Empire is tem-. criticism is legitimate and useful it is I Either result, he th~nk~, would be fatal to his taxes for the priv-ilege <>f being charged higher porarily closed had a good deal t.o do with the state d es1gne· d t o s t'Ir up officials , help them out interests. However, .It mayf be· well· thath wed' shouldt bed pr;"es...... of the Alhambra on Saturday night. Evenr., seat 0 15 0 f d.ffi 1 · d b · about a more develop the lager pomt new m t e.se ur was taken, and you couldn't even walk about. You I cu ties' an \Vh nng h · t · · · seasons. Compensations. could only stru{d and struggle. The place was com- speedy victory. · en t e en lCl~m IS I RAVE RECEIVED the comforting assurance from pletely packed, mainly with khaki. Lord vicious and is prompted by party ha~red or A House Of Patriotism. off someone who has tried it at Ypres. that if you get 1 Athlumney, attended by a burly sergeant-major of private spleen the State knmvs that It need 'IHE VETERA~s' CL-cB in Hand-court, of neuritis and frost-bite together, which often the Grenadier Guards, was present in h~ official fear little from it provided the Government Holborn, has become a t';:it~:: s!::~ere happens, you don't notice the one while the other 1 capacity. On~ or two young officers were wise to does its duty well and faithfully. Patrioti3m· Very few of Th b t is giving you gyp. Frost·bite "'-U, of course, be keep, or be kept, out of his way. But I don't think 1 1 r k nowadays are not in heayil feroomng alol presently superseded by _unstroke, but prin- ·there were any casualties. WE must win in this war. ,,, e .must reep e'·ery branch of the Sernces.uni~orm. and h Ids th~ at it until \\'e win.. That IS the real u, arters of the Empire. :i\Iajor Arthur Haggard ciple 0 good. message for our neighbours and the world.· hasq done good work here indeed. Happy Days Casualties.T • • _ . HERE WAS :1 casualty of another sort on th$ Our way of \Yinning it may not be t~e1r The Distinguished Haggard~. _ . . SoMEWHERE at ~he back ~t the Lo_ndon .Hospital ·tage, though. Robert Hale, in jumping up way. Our "~ay. may be a rath~r muddl~ng I ~I.uoR HAGG. !RD, of course, ~s h1m3elt a wl'lte,~ there hangs an ola. bell behmd a chmmey-pot. It 1 through the "trap" in the "Raffies '' burlesque, one. And It IS to correct th1s muddhng . f te under the name of •· Arthur Amyand, is a relic of the ~re-anresthet~c day~. a surg7on t.old cut his head badly. He pluckily kept on until the that the fair and helpful critics are out to u Iefsu the youngest of three nry distinguished me. In those tim~.s, whenever an oper twn was end of the scene, albeit somewhat "bleedy." A: do 2'00d work. \Vhat Germany thinks of The elder is .Lieut.-Col?nel Andrew about to be performed, the operator had the bell doctor had to be sent for to do some stitches. ~~others. 1 1 our enterprise alone in a. shrapnel. about the British work- k · biplane. On arrival at Courtrai he glided down to This is his story told with occasional breaks ing man and drink. u Thousands of men are wor mg as when the pain of hls wound was intense:- "Mr. Lloyd George ~s they have never worked before, stripped "I went into it on Thursday night. At the start a democrat, but by h1s to the waist, with persipration rolling out we were deafened by the bursting of German shells j recent utterances he has of the·m,, working overtime six and seven all around us,. causing . us heavy losses. They sho~ that he knows ~U:· WILL ?ROOKS, M.P. days a week, but you cannot expect kept it up for some tiD;J.e, and finished by throwing no~,hmg about the ~emocratlC working man. every man to be a hundred per center. • stink' bombs at us. But our worst spell came He has got hiS facts wrong, and through furday. getting his facts wrong he has slandered a vast "You don't g.et 'hundred per cent.' from Parlia- On Sa ment; or from law, or from science; then why body of men who are working with might and demand a hundred per cent. from every working E,FECT OF POISON GASES. main to supply the country with the munitions man and bully him when he doesn't give it 1 " It was about 3.30 a.m., and gas fumes came required. •· M:en are earning good wages, but they haYe to over in dead earnest. We suffered badly from the "Many of these men will just laugh at Mr. work jolly hard for them. And if we find a man Ll d G d h d t k hath here and there who does not know how to keep effects; we commenced choking and gasping for oy eorge an say e oes no now w e a sovereign in his pocket, we are largely to blame breath, and my eyes were watering and my ears is talking aoout, but others will be really hurt. for not having taught him to spend it properly. throbbing. It was a fearful experience, but fortu They will not go on strike just because Mr. Lloyd "I remember once after putting in a good deal nately the wind took it away quick, and we hadn't George has allowed his zeal to outrun his dis- of overtime I had over £3 to draw at the end of the received such a strong dose as others farther away. cretion, but they will feel it all the same. week. It seemed a lot of money, and I didn't know " He is wrong. what to do with it, so I took the missus out, and "An attack was expected to follow the gas, and we bought a brass bedstead. We didn't want a we kept up a rapid fire through the smoke in thf; "Personally I believe tlzare is less drink- brass bedstead, but that three quid had to be blued direction of the German trenches. Sure enough, ing going on now than before the war, someway. when the choking smoke cleared we saw the "f h · z k b · d t ,. There are no doubt some men like I was then, an d l t ere zs ess wor emg one a but they don't buy brass bedsteads. But that is ground ahead of us covered with German dead. some· p·rivate shipyards than there was no raason why the whole class should be con " We wer-e told to expect a big attack to follow before -the 'tt~ar, some other cause must be demned. at 6.30. Most of us wondered what it could m.::an. · k d f b 'd d · k " During the sitting of the committee . on coal for we were lo:;ing men badly from the awful shell l oo e or est es rzn ·· prices one of the witnesses complained -that the fire the Germans were giving us. The attack came . RTER miners after they had worked enough to get a all right, anrl we soon discovered what it meant. G QUA decent wook's wacre wouldn't go down the pit FACTS FROM WRON • 0 Second-Lieutenant Frederick W. Polehampton, Tremendous numbers, whole masses, came for us " Mr. Lloyd George has got his facts wrong, again. ' They :>pend their time gardening,' said of the Royal Flying Corps, a well-known flyer a,t \\e were outnumbered easily four to one, but we because he has gone to the wrong quarter for them. the witness disdainfully. To him it was a crime Hendon, who was killed in action near Ypres on were in our trenches and they were in the open. " To me the whole thing is as plain as a pike- that a Il!iner should ever want to do anything April 26.-(Birkett.) staff, and it ought to be as plain as A B C to except work. Sl!IPLY SLAUGHTER. everybody. " Bullying is not organisation. a height of 300 feet and dropped a large bomb on " Oh, it was awful, it was slaughter pure and " Private . contractors, in their greed for profits, ,. It would almost appear that the Government the railway junction. simple. We poured rapid fire and machine-gu!l have contracted to supply more ammunition than are blaming, or pretending to blame, the working While he did this he was the target of hundreds fire into them, but they still came on-to certain their plant was capable of producing. They have men to cover up their o\\'n shortcomings. of rifles, of machine guns, and of anti-aircraft death. I emptied 150 rounds into them, and I been chary of putting down new plant; their armament, and was severely wounded in the thigh. couldn't have only been firing into the air-and I machinery has, perhaps, got worn, and they have WHAT .!BOUT WOOLWICH ARSENAL? Though he might have saved his life by at one~ didn't do that. not allowed for any breakdowns, with the result coming down in the enemy's lines he decided to "After thi:; we had more shells, which caused us "Their own hou&e might very well be put in that they have boon unable to deliver the ~oods •. order. save his machine at all oosts, and made for the heavy losses, but we still held on, although in some " Something had to be done to e:Jrpla.m this British lines. parts our trench was blown clean away. failure-a direct breach of contract resulting from u I Jw'"Je not the slightest-. hesitation in . De.scenffi?g to a. height of only 100 feet in order to ''Soon affer eleven o'clock, I had been out for greed-and as any stick is supposed to be good saying, for instance, that Woolwich mcrease his speed, he continued to fly, and was eight so!id hours, and I must have had nearly a enough to beat a dog with, the workmen were again wounded, this time mortally. · his own base, where he executed bad, especially as I had to go six miles before I and drunkenness of British working men a. perfect landing and made his report. · could get it dressed. The Germans gave us no ganisation. Af oreover, though the wa-r peace, and their shell-fire was terrible, and caused -exaggerated as they are-have been He died in hospital not long afterwards. awful losse:;, but we gave them more than they scattered about broadcast by employers to has been going nine months no accommo ez:pected, much mora-it was manslaughter." cover-up th?ir own misdeeds. dation has yet been provided for the men BISHOP DEFENDS SOLDIERS. ll!DE THE E!.RTH SHAKE. ((And Afr. Lloyd George has swallowed to have their meals. · Dinner hour ac commodation, or, rather, the lack of it, at Lance-Corporal R. H. Brown, 5th Battalion, was in them-or pretended to. Billetin~ System Blamed For Causing the fighting up till the last, Sunday, 25th. vV ool'i.tJich is a scandal " I entered the first line trenches on Monday, "\VHY NOT ASK THE MEN? " A 40-ton st.eam hammer has been stopped and Temptation. 19th. The first two days there was hardly a shot "We have heard a good deal about conferences 30 men disbanded. Af! ,~utspoken utterance upon the " war fired. which he has had with Clyde employers and re "The men in the forges have o-nly enough work bab1es problem ·was made by the Bishop of "It was the Thursday, 22nd, they started very presentatives of the whisky industry, but we lu!-~ given them to keep the press of the department heavy shelling of our trenches, and used poisonous at work half the time it might be. Worcester (Dr. Yeatman-Higgs) at C{)ventry on heard precious little of the talks ~e has had Wlth Saturday. He said:- gases in the form of shells or bombs-! can't say Bill Jones the puddler or Jack Robmson the turner, "Recently an order for 15 breech-loader for certain. They were terrible things, especially or even with the Temperance Party. He has not tube guns was given, but only seven were forged the " When the authorities at first proposed to as you can't hear them coming. They explode got his information from the horse's mouth, but remainder being ent out to be manufactured.' Of place the_ soldi~r's mistress on equal terms with ith a zipp bang, zipp bang, and you commence from the house that owns the stable. And that is another order f 30 breech-loader guns onl:v 15 th~ mal!'1ed Wife a blow was threatened which, ~hoking almost at once. The bombardment became bound to be biased. were forged, and of another order for 21 guns only pnmtentwnally no doubt, would have injured heavier and heavier until about Saturday, and the . " But even if it is true that the workmen are five were forged . the honourable state of matrimony, and I am bold gwund all a tremor-one continual earthquake. restricting output because of drink-which I deny "That ~oes not look like good organisation when to say that r;tone resented this as much as the We were losing heavily on all sides; it was a terrible who is to blame 7 Why ourselves. men are 1dle.'1 respectable w1ves of what are called• the working fiight, but we stood it, and continued holding on elasses. until Sunday. It was helL " And now. tJ;le same sentimentalists are in "Had our artillery been helping us our losses dang~r of a s1m1lar wrong move with the girls who would have been considerably less, ·for they could WAR'S UNIVERSAL PANORAMA BROUGHT BEFORE YOU are likely to be~om~ mothe~s through the danger have dropped shells near enough to their batteries ous system of billetmg soldiers. It is a coniusion whrch would have compelled the Germans to cease of thought to su~gest that because we respect and fire. It was shell fire that caused our losses. In Ha\Te vou realised the difference between the but the uniYersality of war service and the work I of men and women .at home wert:l treated in such honour the S?l~er, we ~hould be led t<> respect spite of position and losses we stuck it and kept actual a~d the universal panorama of war and honou~ h~s sms. .It 1s a slur on the thousands A Press Bureau which speaks but seldom, and a ~~nner as to remmd us that there is war work up a rapid fire when they: attacked which amazed waiting for all of us. of clean-mmded soldiers that sentimental people them. Our own colonel (Colonel Tuxford) was at then only in a small voice, ha;) not helped your should go about talking as ii these cases of lust the back of us walking up and down the trenches, " ExclusiYe pictures of th.3 gallant Ca~adians- vision of either The glorious story of Neuve the men who never wavered when machine-guns must be conqoned because soldiers a1e soldiers. a coat oyer one arm; a revolver in his other hand, Very f~w armies have ever been purer in spite of encouraging us and shouting 'Give 'em hell, Chapelle and the thrilling epic of the Canadian played on them like a watering-pot "-sho'i\"ed the line which never wwered have, however, helped trench and billet lif~ of those men who prevented exceptional cases, than the British A;my (Hear boys, I know you can do it.' to bring home the fighting panorama you. hear.) · ' "We diu; we kept them back for hours until we to the. Germans breakm~ through at Ypres, while But \vhat of the uniYersal panorama of wad then rec.ap~ur~ of the1r lost guns "·as the subject " If o;ving to the action of the War Office a peculiar were relie,·eu. I got a wound late Sunday night, It is not confined to ihe long fighting lines in the of a realistic picture. - temptatiOn has been created by the intrusion of 25th, from a bursting shrapnel shell/' Eastern and Western areas, and to the operations Besides its fu~l and attractive service of current youn~ m_en into the intimacy of people's homes by sea and land in the Dardanelles. home and _foreign news, the Illustrated Sunday by billetmg, then I think the State should beaD THE DASH INTO THE WOOD. That panorama extends far beyond the limits Herald had Its col_umns _of reading matter enriched some of. the b~rdeJ?, and I should be glad to see Private Gordon, of the famous 4th Battalion, of the fighting area. It is going on all around you. by nu~e!ous special arb_c:l~s, amongst them one by some Wlse le~pslahon which enabled the fallen wbo made the rush into the wood, was .one out You have, of course, seen that panorama in piece Su Wilham Ramsay, g1nng cogent reasons why mother to .cla1~ from the State, but only in ca.sa of the few surdYors of the famous battaliOn. He meal. cotton should not be allowed to pass through th her lover IS k~lled, what in the civil courts she is cb~:ery in spite of a fractured ankle, and alt~10ugh But a wonderfully comprehensive view of it was blockade to Germany. e co~ld haYe clmmed from him as the father of the child.'' he would not speak of the charge, he s~ys 1~ was obtainable yesterday. Did you soo itt It was The attack ~n M!.'. Winston Churchill over th€ "glorious but costly," and " we ?,ave em some packed within the 24 pages of the Illmtrat.ed Dardanelles ~x~~d}tlOn was taken up by "one thiug to remember old Canada by. Sunday Herald. '"hich dealt not only with the wh~ knows hrn. .m whom the First I..ord had England's o1uest draper Mr. John Hamlvn. of 'M:!illtlt. . by the· King (Conti~ued on page 13.) fightm..! and peaceful pha~e~ of the soldier's life. a \ 1gorous champ on. Shepoon w-as con~tulated on completmg Jm 100th year y~t.erday. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. I NORTH SEA FIGHT: I ENGLISH & 2 GERMAN SHIPS SUNK. I 5HAKP RUNNING FIGHT IN THE NORTH SEA. ADMIRAL JELLICOE'S WARNING TO WORKERS. One British Destroyer And Two REcruit. and saYed 30 of the c:rew, wl1ieh i, said p~ts from the Clyde, though detaii have not been to number 65. Repairs To Warships Continually' received, are to the same effect, showing that the large amount of lost time is general througho t German Torpedo- Boats Sunk. . The Daisy ::con discovered tl at ~he herself was the country. m the midst of the enemy. for a :mbmarine ,ho"·ed Delayed By Labour Difficulties. Thus the problem is not how to get the workmen to inc rea ~e their normal peace output, but how to WE LOSE 52 LIVES. up. and a torpedo 11·as fired at her. hut it mis:;ed. get them to do an ordinary week's work of 51 or 53 Fearing furtheT attack, and bEing d t:sirou;:, of um "I AM V~RY UNEASY.'' hours, as the case may be. · moning immediate a_si tance. the Dai-SY made off •· The reasons for the loss of time are no doubt Exciting Chase Of Sea Huns By lea1·ing hu re!.' cue hoat. · . ' Transpor .ts In Da ger Becau~e Of nrious, •• the statement continues, "but it i ..:~ abundantly clear that the most potent is in the English 'V arsb ips. Instructions had been gi1·eo to the men in thi~ . ( facilities which exist for men to obtain beer and boat as to tbe courile to pursue. and following these Drun k?en rews. spirits combined with the high rate of wages and in:;truction~ the 111en rowed U\\·ay, pulling their '' T abund~nce of employment. Opinion on this point 46 GERMANS SAVED BY OUR hardest. 'Jbe Germans then turned their fire vn is practically unanimous." ARGET FOR SUBMARINES". • The Treasury, summarising the reports from thes~ those who had been engaged in the humane work VESSELS. . -- . . Iand other· official sources, says :- of rescuing the ',un·h ors of the sunken desaoyer. JOures DIS· The evide~ce is re~lly overwhel.min~ that ~~e mai~ . From the Admiralty. They starttd a chase on the frail craft, and fired AmazJDg.. Facts And F & cause of th1::1 alarmmg loss of time 1s the lure ot Sundar SitJht. a hot which 11·ounded four of ber occupants. closed In Official Reports. d~:-~gures show, not that workmen who ha~e been 0 Admiral Sir John Jellicoe to Mr Winston working long hours for ~ays. together occaswnally . A series of .__ nlall affairs "took place A \E~GING L BOATS ARRIVE. · · take a day off, but that wh1le some workmen are Churchill:- working teadily day by day for long hour. those 1n th~ neigh~ourho?d of the Galloper Assistance had meanwhile been summoned and who fail to work even ordinary hours a1·e con· and North H1nder hghtships on Satur a division of the famous L class of destroyers 'came I am very uneasy about the labour situation tinually repeating this failure. day. upon the seene. on the Clyde and Tyne. I have sent a tele "MAJORITY ABOVE REPROACH.'' • _T_w? of t~e destroyers app.ear to have cruLed the gram or two lately about it. You may think But the report points out that "the great Dur.ing the forenoon HJ.I. destrover \~ lCllllty_ wtth the object of int~reepting enemy I am exceeding my sphere of action in doing majority of the workmen are above reproach, and under-water craft, but the other two, the Laforey their action is praiseworthy." Recru1 t was sun'K by a submarine. ~ and the Lark. took up the chase of the two Germ'lln so, but the efficiency of this Fleet is so The Government dockyards are exempted from Four officers and 21 men were saved destroyers. The latter had, of course, bolted. affected by it that I felt it my duty to wire. blame. At Portsmouth 78 per cent. of the men ?'h.e destroyers demonstrated their decided superi- To-day an officer in a responsible position worked 12 hours more than the normal in a gi\·en by the trawler Daisy. onty of speed and gunnery. · week, and only five per cent. less than the normal. It was a running fight, but the enemy made a arrived. His account of things on the Clyde At 3 p.m. the trawler Columbia was \'ery poor show. Indeed, they could hardly be said was most disquieting. He said that the men to have pHt up a fig.ht at all, so keen were they to attacked by two German torpedo-boats reach the shelters ot their own harbours. refused altogether to work on Saturday after HUNS EXPERIMENT WITH 'NE\V One who witnessed the chase from another vessel noon, that they took Wednesday afternoon off POISONS ON THE ALLIES. says:- every week (if not the whole of Wednesday), . "The British destroyers were gradually overhaul mg th.e enemy: wh~n bang, bang, bang went their and worked on Sunday because they got Germans' Entrenched Camp At ~letz guns m the du~ct10n of the fl~eing Germans. double pay tor it. · Bombarded By The French. •· One shot I s:a.w crashed into a German boat He said also that they only worked in a and she almost stopped. She made no furthef French Official News. half-hearted manner. effort, and was quickly finished off." PARIS, 11 p.m., Sunday. ?-'h~ action, \Yhich started at about 3.30. was over My destroyer dockings and refits are de In Belgium, to the north of Ypres, the Germans w1thm an hour ann a half, and both German layed in every case by these labour difficul destroyers wer·e at the bottom of the sea. attempted an attack on our right. They were imme ties, and they take twice as long as they need diately stopped by our machine-guns. do. There is nothing new on th~ British front. . At 1\iaucourt, to the south of Chaulnes, an attack 30 OF CREW OF 65 ·SAVED. . I feel that you ought to know tlze facts, and by .about 80 men was made against our lines. so put them before you now. The a.<;sailants were armed with wire-cutters, gren The Recruit was a torpedo-boat destroyer of 385 ades, Brownings and knives. They were almost all tons, belonging to the C class, built in ·1896 and March 26, 1915. brought down by our infantry. Some of them were armed with one 12-pounder and five 6-pounder This remarkable letter is published in a White taken prisoners. guns. She had also two 18-inch torpedo tubes. Paper presented by Mr. Lloyd George to the In the vall~y of the Aisne and in Champagne. the According to the January "R a ry List the officers House of Commons and issued by the GoYernment enemy employed in the oourse of the day vanoua were Commander Charles A. \\". \Yrighton, Lieut. yesterday. It contains the statistics which the appliances which had no effect, namely:- Near Tracy le Mont glass tubes which, on break· Edward M. Gibbings, Chief Gunner Henry Gib Government have had before them, sl~owing the ing, diffused an odour of ether. son, and Artificer-Engineer Alfred T. Oliver. bad time kept in shipbuilding, munitions and Between Rheims and the Argonne bombs charge~'~. transport areas. with inflammable material, and finally gases giving which approached her from the west- The Laforey, Leonidas, Lawford and Lark are off a greenish smoke which hung over the enemy's ·;ward and commenced the action with- sister ships, built in 1913, each of 965 tons and WORKMEN'S CRIMINAL CONDUCT. lines without reaching ours. armed with three 4-inch guns and four 21-inch We continued during the day t<> bombard the out hoisting their colours. torpedo tubes. They have a speed of 29 knots. Very serious 'statements are contained in a front south of the entrenched camp of Metz. The Columbia was sunk by a torpedo, The Recruit is stated to have had a complement report on transport difficulties by the director The effectiveness of our fire was obserYed on one • of G5, and unofficial messages say 30 were saved. of transports, l\Ir. Graeme Thomson, to the of the forts as well as on the barracks and the adjacent railway.-Reuter. ·only one deckhand being saved by This would leave 35 to be accounted for. Adding First Lord of the Admiralty, who says:- other trawlers. to this 17 reported lost with the Columbia, we lost I wish to call attention to the fact that the 52 lives ]n the day\ actions. transport work is now being conducted under GERMANS' BIG GUN OUT OF ACTIO;. 8 A division of British destroyers, se~~uswg;~~~~~eseamen. doek labourers, etc.-are Sunday Afternoon. There i:; reason t<> believe that the gun which ·comprising....., Laforev,J Leonidas, Law- TRAWLER FIGHTS TORPEDO-BOAT rapidlypresent becominglabour situation absolutely on out the of Clyde hand. and Theat bombarded Dunkirk from near Dixmude, a dis ford, and Lark chased the two German • Liverpool is merely the beginning. tance of 23i miles, has either been damaged by the . f . "fi ht The Eastern Daily Press, ~on-rich, states :-The UnleM effectual measures are taken we shall nature of its fire, which the more powerful guru ,vessels, and after a bne running g tra\Yler Barbados arrived at Yarmouth at 10 o'clock ;:_;;~r:s a:o ei~~y f;~~ i~~~e t~~i~i!efi~Mobe cannot stand for long, or that the continual flight ::Je of the French airmen in the region have put a stop yesterday morning in a da~aged condition as the stopped. ·o£ about one hour sunk them .both. result of an encounter w1th a German torpedo· In the main, we have now to deal, not with the to the firing The British destrovers sustamed no boat. off t~e Belgian coast 0~ Saturd3:Y afternoon. ordinary British workman, but with what remains Yesterlay the French bombarded one of the fort<; J The capta.m. was wounded m the· foot, but the after our best men have been recruited for the Army on the southern front of the entrenched camp oi • . ~~ casua It1es. rest of the crew escaped uninjured. One day the crew of a transport deserted. The Metz. , ffi . d 44 en The Barbados reported that the trawler same thing happened the day before. The fire- TWO G er man 0 Cel . an 111 Columbia had been torpedoed and sunk with 17 men go on board the tran ports drunk, making it ANOTHER TURKISH "VICTORY." were re"cued from the F-ea; and Inade hands. One survivor and a German bluejacket impossible to get up a full head of steam, so Turkish Official, by Wireless. ; ::; - l ( who had fallen overboard were brought to Yar- greatly reducing the speed and endangering the CoNSTA);TINOPLE, Sunday. risoners of war. mouth by the Barbados. . lives of thousands of troop by making tbe vessels On Saturday evening the left wing of the eneilly __ The ~attn defended herself agamst. the t or~edo- I a. target for submarines. P was several ti"mes attacked by us from our positioru vRE THE .ACTION WAS FOUGHT. boat w~th ~o s ~all guns, and the berman \essel near Kabatepe, and driven back in a northerly WH.Ill was endently h1t. as steam was seen to be escap- GAOL FOR ONE STOPPED IT. The Galloper light is in the North Sea 30 miles fro:n her. - direction towards Ariburnu. i~g 'Grging the prompt application of a scheme to The enemy yesterday attempted to advan.ce so N.E. of the North Foreland. The North Hinder bring the men under nanl and military control, as to a\·oid the effective flank fire of our artillery, light is about 20 miles east-south-east of the TWO AIR~lKN CAPT'LRED. he giv~s the following pTactical instance of the but was driYen back to his old positions on the Galloper. Both are on the track from the A pilot steamer landerl at Flushing yest e rda~ effect of military di' cipline :- coast by a bayonet attack. At this operation ~Ye Thames to the Scheidt. morning two GenLan aviators who were rescued We sent 250 dock labourerE to Havre under captured two machine-guns and all the matenal from aeroplane Xo. 406 five mile:> north of the capable civilian upervision. They all got drunk and munitions landed by the enemy near. '-'edd El and out of hand in the first fortnight. Bahr. Bv reauon of the fire from our art11lery the North Hinder light::>hip. The aeroplane ::ank. We brought them back and enlisteu a similar lot RESCUE BOAT FIRED ON. of men under military discipline. On the first pay enemy is in an untenable position. day one got drunk and was given twelve months' I hard labour. · WILL ALWAYS BE RE~IE:MBEHED PIRA'l ES' BUSY WEEK-END. There ha been no trouble ince and the men are Germans Wound Men Engaged In working splendidly. " His pluck and un Six Ships Sunk : Merchant Skipper Dies Three \\·eeks later the diree:tor said in his opinion selfishness after he was The Work Of Saving Life. measures were necessary to withdrav.· all licences to hit will always be re Unofficial Account. From Th e Sh oc k. sell intoxicating liquors throughout the country, membered in the ucots Fusiliers." So wrote the The submarine pirates were mor~. adi\·e. during and o~ ~prj~ 1, transmitting rep~nts fr.om Yariou The Recruit, an old destroyer of 385 tons, appears i commanding officer- of have been on patrol duty between the the week-end. They sank three Bntlsh sh1ps~ one ports mdicatmg the extent to wh1ch dnnl· was ob- to Gunfi~et French, one American, and one Russian:- structing the progress of transport worl·, he £tated :- the Fusilier~ of Second and the Galloper lightship, says the East Anghan J_,iputenant J. R. (Ion) GULFLIGHT American oil tanker, 5,189 toni!. with To-day I find a tran~port required for ur~ent Wallace, who was killed Daily Times, of Ipswicb. naphtha, for Rouen, torpedoed off Sicily. Towed in military service to prepare for which would nor- near Ypre' during the re !here she was suddenly challenged by an enemy and beached. Thirty-three of the crew were sa>ed i mally occupy l"eveu dav.· will take 22 dar· to eom- two jumped overboard and were drowned: the plete in spite of every dfort made to accelerate the cent heavy fighting. Lt. submarine. The latter crossed her bo"Ws, and was captain died of heart failure from the shock. work, Wall ace was the younger evidently ma!loouning for po ition from which to F'C'LGENT, Sunderland steamer, 2,G08 tons,. sunk by 8()n of :Mr. R. W. submarine off S.W. coast of Irela~d; captam fatally THREE-QUARTERS OF A DAY'S \VORK. Wallace. K.C., and was attack the destroyer. shot. nine survivors landed at K1lrush; fate of rest educated at Rugby and No doubt was felt on board the British boat as Rear-Admiral Tudor, Third Sea Lord, in a state· of crew in doubt. . ment showing the effect of exce::si\·e tlriuking on Oriel College, Oxford. At to the result. The appearance of an enemy sub· EUROPE, French s~e~mer, 3,000 ~oM. w1th coal, tor the commencement of pedoed off the Sc1lhes; crew_ ot 18 sav~d. the output of shipbuilding, repairs and munitions marine was nothing new. The destroyer swung SVORONO Russian steamer, w1tb coal, 4,r00 tons, tor of war, says :- the war he joined the around smartly, and attempted to ram the pirate. pedoed and sunk off the Irish westem coa::;t by Arti:::ts Rifle as a pri- U23: crew saved by patrol boat. , In the case of the 135 fitters employed on snb· vate. but was gi,·en a cornmis'sion \\"hen w Eran e. But the gallant British destroyer was doomed, a marine engine work, the number of hour!' lo~t dur EDALE a Miud1es1Jrougb steamer, .>,110 ton .. tor ing the first week of March amounted to the In December he was im•alided horne with pleurisy. torpedo from the enemy -ressel crashing into her pedoed off \he Scillies: crew of ~4 !la~etl. _German equivalent of a full week's work of 28 men. That Early this year he was able to return to the front. wireless news claims that the Edale JS a 1:>,000 ton amidships, and she began to settle. is, on the average each man did little more than vessel! d d · h ? tb S th~uarters of a day's work. . . . She made signals for assistance, and the trawler COLUMBIA trawler. torpe oe .m t e ~ or ea. Tb.e figures reported from two other shipyards Daisy came hurrying to the scene. This is referrPd to in the Admrralty message else- eo the North-Ea.3t COM& a.re similar. and the re· Extra Late Edition. The Daisy launched a boat to t.he rescue of t.he where. 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Tht> Q1wt>n tst>nt Princess' Mary's birthday cake to the Royal SoldiPrs' · Da ughtt>r~ Home at Hamp-stead. It was a great treat for the children.
THE QUEEN'S CROWN WAS OF FLOWERS.
Princess Arthur of Connaught on Saturday Laurette Taylor, "Peg o' My Heart," is appearing in a opened the Women's Work Exhibition, at Throughout the country on Saturday. the Queen of the May helcl her court. short play by Marchioness Tolt nshend on behalf ·of the the Horticultural Hall. She is seen leaxing. This little gn·l. Fwrence Newman, was the Walworth Queen. Theatrical Ladies' Guild next Friday at the St JameB's •
. THE GIRL BIG-DRUMMER. A LONDON MAY -: QUEEN'S COURT.
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. Guards marching past. The step is regulated · by a metronome, seen on the left. Ca~rham . IS t.he cradle of ~he Foot Guards. Here recruits of the famous regiments which have made history m th1s war are tram ed to take the place of their comrades who have fallen in .the firing line. -- WOMAN MOTORIST'S GOOD WORK FOR THE WOUNDED.
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Ivery Sunday Miss Stella Hay visits Charing Cross Hospital with a borrowed moU>r-car, which she drives :h:c~~!l~~:ja~ f~~ ~~y gr~~r romin~nC? ofHkhaki among the men ~n d of bl~ Jtl herself, .a.nd takes a party of wounded soldiers for an outing. · rc para e m yde Park brought out as usnal bY frocks, escorted for the Jflost parl Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. CHURCH PARADE IN HYDE PARK. 0 ll THEY GAVE THE TURKS THE HUMP .
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La d ies'Cha moisLeath er So. HWl. - Our r.els Gloves, ~at1.1ral (O.OYr, b rated "PR OK LI P'S" Pique Sewn, Eugl sh .Made. t.iale T hread Hose, wJth s~~c.s·nder Tc p•, ll IllllSilk pffect, very !:UJ'e rior .quality, new style HOW FOUR BRAVE MEN WON THE D.C.l\i. with he It, a~ ill nstra. tion, in Hlack and Whit-e, Nig_gct-Brown, Amethyst, Light or ])ark Saxe-HII:e, SIIYer, )I ill-Grey • .\avy,Purple 01 Hla~~~ch 15/11 .....------~-- --- So. SSS. - L n d i e s' Wash i n g Dril l S k i r t - Knickers . Superior IJHa li1 y iu • ·a,·y, J~utdlt'r Blut>.or \\'bite. S. 1,:\diPs, Z/9_ Ladie~, 2/11. Out. izc, 3 t; ea.cb. No. ii.!J>. - Ladies' :-.1) sn.1 _ B eat Black Cl Dd White Q uality fine S ~ock · Cb ~ck Sn~mer Clotb ."o.. F'm.- Prct ty • . ingette Direc toire Sku! Kmckers. Marabout and "'''· 1'24°-D:t~n y Vo1le No. U!!OO-A Usef~l C a m•aole, Knicke rs, in White, • lell:dt'r 3/3 Oetnch Neck I e t, &loua,., II lol~litMI !On. with V-shapod ~. eck, pretUiy Black, fa,e, .'avy or I-adtcs' with ·r~&"J;ellbd }:ncl 111 Pml.:.,. axc-, Urey, . ·a\v Embroidered !lnd fhre:~.ded Rib- Orev With Ribbon . , Mo!e aud \Yhi e. 'I a 1 • r l.thc Oru~Pommern, has money Of the officer's reported in this list, 25 of the to burn. • killed one reported died of \YOunds, 51 of the wounded, the two reported pris~mers ~nd 11 of the theThe colt's rate chance.of odds iand quite as outthe ofground all proportion looks like to 'lll!!!!!!!~~~~.!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!J missing are officers of Terntonal ~eg1ments. becoming hard no one can sav what will happen. A further list reported under vanous dates adds one officer killed, two died of wounds, three Polvmelu~ himself wa- at his best at a distance The old destroy~r Recruit was unk hv a submarine in the Xorth Sea on The story ~nd inside a mile and a half, and though he won the Sat~rday. . d d • whilst one officer of the. Mediterranean Guineas in fluent style there is nothing to show is· told on page 5. E~~~ilio'nary Force is reported d1ed of wounds, that Pommern can get the extra half-mile. under date April 27. I . do not say he will not stay the distance, but unhl he llas hown that he L an do so it \YOuld be ridiculous to accept a short price about him. LEICESTER PROGRANIME. THANK5 FOR CIGARETTES. 1.45.--MA Y ?.!AlDEN PLATE of 106 sovs. lm. BLACK JESTER AND CHESTER. Tridt!nt ...... 4 9 o Antipa.ter , ...... 3 7 11 Help To Send Little Luxuries To The This week the famous. old Chester course will Burden ...... 4 8 11 Bee Fast ...... 3 711 't Dinner Bell ...... 4 8 11 h. o ld 1 s annual meeting, and, as far as can be lt&tharrow 3 8 4 Parson Jack 3 711 Men At Front. Race Rock ...... 3 711 The JUdged at this stage, the gathering will be just as Rainoff 3 7 11 Chiquita ...... 3 7 8 Amongst the letters which the Daily Sketch successful as usual Ghent ...... 3 7 11 l\legale ...... 3 7 8 received yesterday from the front was one from On the opening day North Country folks will be .. ·:.::::: Guenoc ...... 3 7 8 ~~lde~toi&t;g ~ ~ g Flore IL ...... 3 7 8 some of the men -attar.hed to the 2nd London oertain to accept the opportunity of scrutinising Sea Voyage ...... 3 7 11 Prince Merrion .. . 3 7 8 Division "somewhere in France." The writer Black Jester, fer the City and Suburban winner is Savoyard 3 7 11 2 15 2 thanks the readers of the Daily Sketch for having due to take his chance in the Chester Vase in pre- · --:-SPRING -Y.-0. EELLING PLATE of 106 soTs. Sf. sent the " boys " cigarettes, and assured us that ference to waitinh" for the Kempton Jubilee. Op.hron :...... 8 10 Mot()r Wrap...... 8 7 Pnnce Pnde ...... 8 10 Turberendian .... 8 7 they were greatly appreciated, and added t'Fiat The colt has t e steadier of lOst. to carry but Capstone · 8 1 o Tregnum ...... 8 7 further supplies would be thankfully received, he should win, for Pommern and Torloisk witl not Pall Mall .. · .... 8 10 Countess Pillo f...... 8 7 · k f th · d b l Ella Martin / ...... 8 7 Bachelor's Cherry f 8 7 This letter is only one of many received from run, an d the p19 o , e r~mam er seem to e the Sim.P~Y ...... 8 7 Estelle f .. • ...... 8 7 the front of late. One soldier who believes in Duke of Westmmster s pau, Wordsworth and Lax- 1 Cecllra f 8 7 Piyara ...... a 7 plain language told us that cigarettes were very LIEUT. THE RON. W. J. 1\I. BRIGR.-GEN~. J. HASLER. ford, of whom the former has other engagements 2.45-MIDLAND MAIDEN PLATE of 106 sovs· Sf scarce in France just now, and asked if the great WATSON ARMSTRONG. -(Elliott and Fry. at the meeting and looks like "·inning one of them. Lo~viers d'Or ...... 9 7 Minstrel Girl ii. ·e 8 11 British public was tired of sending Tommy a Jahsco c ...... 9 0 Sanjak ...... ;, .. . 811 POLLEN'S BIC CHANCE. Led bury ...... 9 0 Thirsty ...... 811 a smoke now the novelty of the thing had worn off 1 A list of prisoners supplied by the German Rushy~ord ...... 9 0 l\ferry Ida 1 ...... 811 That reproach does not touch the readers of the There should be a good race for the cheeses which Anythmg Else . .. . 9 0 Forfar Jetty ...... 811 Daily Sketch, because they have between them Government includes the names of 394 n?I?--com are presented to ~he first three in the Cup, even Cheapjack ...... 9 0 Harpoon ...... 811 missioned officers and men of the Exped1honary Sea Imp ...... 9 0 Acunha f ...... , .. sent to France several million "smokes." There thou~h the field w11l not be up to the class of some Mere ...... 9 0 Joy Day ...... 8 11 Foroe, of whom se\·en are reported wound~d .. prenous years. 811 is, however, no doubt that millions more are l\1arlboro'Duchess c 9 0 West Riding f .. .. 8 11 wanted, and we ask our readers to still help us Two lists of casualties amongst non-commiSsJOned Cannon Ball c .. .. 9 0 Minta g ...... 8 11 officers and men of the Canadian ~ntingent .re There are thr-ee horses with penalties in the race. Febenquelle 8 11 to provide Tommy with his inevitable fag. A One of the:se, Pollen, is held to have a big chance. ported under vari?us dates show 1~ k11led; 10 d_1:d 3.1~-BELL SELLING HANDICAP of 200 son; 1m. small P.O. will do if you cannot afford a large ~t any rate, the ser\'ices of Dick were secured some !!Ill F:ox ...... 4 8 9 Prmter's Pie ...... a 7 12 one. Send what you can 'afford to the Daily of wounds ; two died ; 395 wounded , and four ml::;S bme ago, and Escott, who is just as capable with St. Cnspm ...... a 8 7 Amos ...... 3 7 11 Sketch, and we undertake to do the rest. ing.-Total, 422. tla_t racers a with jumpers, is hopeful of takin" the Duragan ...... 5 8 7 Graceful Flight . . 3 7 3 Yesterday's total was £3 12s. 2d. The list of prisoners includes the names of 231 pnze. o ~ake Care ...... a 8 7 Reporter ...... , 3 7 3 Edgar X...... • • 4 8 6 Why Tell Me ...... 3 7 2 Latest acknowledgments are a.s follow:- of the rank and file of Irish regiment , among them I rather fancy Pollen's owner, Mr. J. L. Dugdale, Honastir 6 8 4 Goemon ...... a 6 12 £1.-B. C. DaTidson, fpmalloc.k; Miss Atkinson, Ball!na (coJ. being:- has ~orne local asso_ciation with Chester, for he likes Sarson ...... 4 8 3 Rowstock ...... 3 6 12 lected). 10s.-C.X. -- 67. Bnghouse. 5s. 9d.-Mrs. Cunliffe M unster Fusiliers, 53. to wm at the meetmg. Shy John ...... 4 8 1 Northenden Golf Club. 5s.-:-S. C. lnspect~rs. 140, ~Rans: 3.45.-GALLOW TREE HANDICAP of 200 soTs. 1%m. r;a.te; C. J. F. Ellis, Dublin. 2s.-J. S1mpson and W C-onnaught Rangers, 57. Dalmatian ...... a 9 0 Amaroseate ...... 4 7 12 Roberta, 9hesterfield; ~ ;Reader, Doncaster. Is. 5d.-st: Royal Irish Regiment, 41. D."NCER TO ESCOTT'S CHARCE. Curraghgour .... . 4 8 9 Richard Carvel .... 4 7 9 Dunstans m the West Gtrl3 School, per Miss Colled~:e. ls. Royal Wener .... 5 8 5 Thorium ...... 5 7 8 )r(rs. Jones, Stockton-on-Tees. · Royal Irish Rifles, 27. ~erhap~ his most dangerous rivals will be Hare Whroo ...... 5 8 2 Irish Collar ...... 4 7 3 Dublin Fusiliers, 26. R1ll, Fantarona and Wardha. The first-named will Verger II...... 5 8 0 Anjou II...... 5 7 3 PICNIC :&IONEY FOR CHARITY. · There are aLo 99 of the rank and file of the ~e the mount of Donoghue, and he ran very well 4.15.-D_ESBOROUGII WELTER IIAN_DICAP of 106 soTs. 61. Royal Army Medical Corps in the list. In the race last .Year, while Wardha will be remem Llangemor ...... 4 9 7 Auct10n Bridge .... 3 7 8 Operatives at various cotton mills in Manchester Clap. ~ate ...... 4 9 4 Lort ...... 3 7 8 bered. as the wmner_ of the Manchester Kovember Domm tque ...... 5 8 7 Pangbourne ...... 3 7 7 district are forgoing their usual picnics during Handicap, and I behe,-e Foy will have the mount. San~man ...... 4 8 4 Dorian ...... 3 7 6 the coming summer months, and giving the money NEW 'VHITE LIE BOOK. Fanfaron.a has done plenty of long distance work Cas.~rm ...... a 7 13 Pierrot ...... 4 7 5 thus saved to local charitabl~ funds. Bolivar ...... 3 7 13 If It ...... 3 7 5 and she w1ll ~e the best of the K ewmarket lot. ' Dinner Bell ...... 4 7 11 Set Square ·...... 3 7 0 The top we1ght, Willbrook, will not run and 1 Prepaid ...... 4 7 11 Harwood ...... 3 7 0 German Documents To Prove How expect the winner \:rill come from one 'of the Mazabuka ...... 3 7 9 Yankee Pro ...... 3 7 o quartette I have named. 4.40.-KEGWOR'l'H WELTER SPRINT HANDICAP of RMY ATHLETES. Britain Planned The War. 150 sovs. Sf. AMSTERDUI 1 Sunday. THE KEMPTON JUBILEE. The Angel Man .... .a 9 8 Grey Tip ...... 3 7 5 The German Foreign Office is going to publi h a Dropwort ...... 4 9 4 Lusca...... :. .... :. 3 7 5 Good Performances In Road Walking Rockfoil ...... 4 8 12 Irish Rose ...... 5 7 5 new edition of the White Book containing docu On 8aturday the Kempton Jubilee \Yill arouse a National Anthem .. 4 8 10 Hearts ...... 3 7 4 ments already published by the North (Jerman good deal of interest, and 1 expect that either New York ...... 5 8 6 Nigritienne ...... 4 7 4 Association's Race. Gazette. Diadumenos or Righ :Mor will start faYourite. Westphalia...... 4 8 6 Tuscany ...... 3 7 3 There was a military element in the Road Walk Orbino ...... 5 8 5 Roman Lad ...... 3 7 3 These documents, says the Gazette, should prove I heard at Newmarket that Lanius has done par Clap Gate ...... 4 8 5 Crundell Chick , .... 6 7 1 ing Association's nine miles "open" walking race that great Britain rejected all the far-reaching Ger ticularly well with a view to the race, and these Gold Vem ...... 4 8 3 Merrion Square .... 3 7 1 at Wimbledon Common on Saturday. man proposals for the maintenance of peace. three may bold the key to the situation. Mix Up ...... 5 8 2 Sundawn ...... 6 7 0 A silver medal for the first "unplaced" member General Wade ...... 5 7 13 The Waif ...... 4 7 0 The White Book will further contain report Queen of the Brush 5 7 12 Prepaid ...... 4 7 0 of his Majesty's forces was won by Corporal F. W. about the alleged Anglo-French military convention A S VOLT A AND DONOCHUE LIKED. The Bimkin ...... 3 7 10 Harwood ...... 3 7 o C~mber, of the 25t~ Queen's ]\.R.T., who with 10! and Anglo-Russian naval convention.-Reuter. ~l.. 1 1 ARRIVALS.-Guenoc, Turberendian, Louviers d'Or, Oura,.ran mmutes start fimshed 24th m the net time of £\uere dwas a ve!y arge crowd at Hurst Park Royal Weavet. Whroo, Anjou II.• DominiQue, If It, Irish Rose' 1 hour 24min. 49sec. on .::atur ay to w1tness the race for the Victoria Sundawn. ' £4,000,000 FRO~I PATEN~ FOODS. Cup, which took 16 starters to the post. 2nd Li_eut~nant W. J. Palmer, of the R.A.M.C., an athlete who, whtle m St. PPtersburg, won several races and heat Mr. Charles Willia Post, of Washington, U.S.A., The betting ~uggested it would be a close thinrr HURST PARK \VINNEll~. Russian " bests on record," did eyen better net time--1 hour between Vclta. Blue tone, and Polycrates, but lt 20min. 32_secs., but, ~a ving on.ly 4\~ minutes start, had to of Battle Creek, Michigan, and of Santa Barbara, 2.0.-Two-Year-Old Selling Plate, Rampelion, 100 to 8 put up wtth twenty-stxth positiOn. California, head of the Postum Cereal Company, was notlung ot the kind, as Volta won at his 2.30.-.Iay All-Aged Selling Plate, Prospero, 10 to u: A beauti_fully fair yot~ng walker, E: Oakley, of the Surrey leisure. 3.0.-\'ictoria Cup, Volta., 9 to 4. A.C., 3¥-lmm. s~art, filll~hPd twenty-eighth in the net time Ltd. (makers of "Grape-~uts" and other patent Last year ~ ,,-inner, Jameson, cut a bold figure 3.30.-C'Iaremont Stakes, Drown Ronald, 6 to 1. of 1 hour 20mm. 20sec., and was rewarded with a bronze foods), president of the National Trades all(l 4.0.-Dnrham Handicap, Sordello, 20 to 1. medal for having shown the best ~tyle amon"' those beatin"' the Workers' Association (U.S.A.), who died ..Jay 9, for more than half way, but from the time they 4.30. -Spring Stakes, Dulce Domum, 1 to 2. ~ hour 24min. 30~ec. for t~e journey, though the judges found came into sight it was eddent that Volta wa, 5.0.-\'yner Handicap, Longtown, 100 to 7. tt no easy matter to dectde between him and another fine 1914, at the age of 60, left a fortune valued for master of the situation, and he moved to the head I y~ung wa~er, C. C. R~s ell, o! _the Essex Walking Club, who probate at £4,294,423. of affairs \\hene\:er Dcn?ghue asked him to do so. rt~u:~~~D, SJ~~!c. fints1Jt'Ci thirteenth in the net time of It will be remembered as a singular circumstance . It was a rery 1mpressn·e performance, for Vo lta FOOTBALL SUM~IARY. W. Hehir, o~ the Surrey Athletic Club, was the virtual that the cause of .Mr. Post'~ death was given as. IS only a thn·e-ycar-old, and he was carrying scra.tc.h man With 30sec . . start. He finished seventh in the dyspepsia. 7st. 9lb. net time of 1 hour llmu~. 37 3.5sec.-the best time in the SOUTHERN LEAGUE: Division r. race--a. perf?,rman~e for. wll1c.h he .~eceiTcd a silver medal. Following \'olta pa st the po::;t were the outsiders •J. orthampton Town (Hughes 2, Whitworth 2. Lockeltl s, Another spec1!1l pnze wi.nner was J. B. Belchamber of DEATH OF IRELAND'S J.. ORD ~he Belgrave _Harriers, who w1th !3 minutes start finished fotirth Mo~nt \Yilliam and polabella, Blue Stone not Mil~";,~Vs~outh o, Norwich City o. m t~e net time of 1 honr 16mm. !Osee., and who had ne"I"E'r JUSTICE OF APPEAL. commg on the scene. t1~l too late. *Brig!Jton ()larch) 1, Crystal PalaC'e o. prevtously taken. a trophy m an op~n walking race on the road. Archie::town. who IS m the Derby and St. Le"er ·~uthend Uwted \Emery, Bradshaw 21 3, Plymouth A!gyle The_ actual wmn.er of the h~ndtcap :was W. R. Wooton of \Y e regret to announce 1 th~ Fmchley .Hl;lrners, wh_o, with llmm. !Osee. start, catight gaye a poor. display in the <;Iaremont ~takes, ~nd I!Burell) *Home team the veteran limit man, \\. H. Chegwidden of the Woodf d the death of Lord Justice he c:m be Wiped out so far as the classiCs are con- Southend United's victory put-> Ctoydon Common into the Green 'A..C. (22mi;t. 45 ~· start), about 250 yard~ from ho~e Moriarty at Birming cerned. Second D1vi-ion. ~~e ~¥1 aho~~s~o~r~~e~~~- contest by 15 seconds in the net Brown Ronal 5, Heart of l\Iidlothi.an 2. the battalion c~mpionship was won by "B" Compan~ ur ·~h after an illness of a few pays a tribute to My Ronald, \\'ho gave 7lb. and an Hibernians 4, Leith o. . . ' a score oi 25 pomts. For " B " Company Sergeant C k' WI weeks. He was only eac:;\ beatiDrr to Bruwn Ronald at the N ewmarkP.t 9LASGOW CHARITY CUP.-Celttc 2, Queens Park 1; the 100 yards in 12 sees. and the quarter-mile in 54 ~ ~ won ~- ' • ~ • J Thtrd Lanark 1, Clyde 0. C~r~ral Wl!-tts the half-mile in 2 mins. 10 3-5 sees ~nds~~ appointed last year Lord Cra\·en }\(p~ttn~. • SOUTH LONDON CHARITY CUP CFinall.-Tooting 1 :~:. 111 4 mms. 53 3-5 sees. ; and Rifleman Pedder th~ obstacle '!!Iv Ronald 1s one of the most Improved horses Croydon o. ' Justice of Appeal in in trainin" and as ht: stays he may be expected to ESSEX CUP (FinaiJ.-Gra.ys Athletic 2. Clapton 1. Sergeant Baker, "A" Company, won the quarte 'I Ireland, after holding in drill order, in 69 2-5 sec .• and with a leap of rsm! \race, 1 1 3 second in the long jump to Sergeant Love .. D .. Coee was 11uccessively for a few do \\' 11 ;·tbe :perb_\·. . . . . c6iPl'~p,ggN?~Jr;~~s 1? :fu~th~att~!~~re~HfRITY who won at 17 feet. • mpany, Prospera contmued Ius mnmng sequence m the SCHOOLS' UfTERNATIONAL.-England 6, Scotland· 2. montP-s the position of Mav Selling Plat<', but the well-backed Early Hope WEST H.Ul HOSPITAL CUP moted by the North-Eastern Countit'll' Leicester Selections. Cross Country Assoc1at10n, a_t l'iewc.astle. on Saturday. Driver Although he is nearly 62, Mr. R. T. Thornton, Daniels.,...Royal Fusiliers, was bea.~n on points in 20 rounds M. D. Allsopp, R;.F :4-· fin:shed first. "A" Company 16th w~o was formerly a member of the Kent County 145-A.·rrrATER. 3.15-WHY TEI.L ME. by Billy .williams, Bethnal ~reen. a.nd in .a. .10-round oontest Northumberland 1< usllieri won with a score of 109 points. Cnc~et ~le':en, and has also been prominent in DriTer Wilson1 RH.A., outpomted Ham Williams, Marylebone, public life m Sussex and Essex, is leaving East 2.15-BACHF.LOR';:, CHF.RRY 3.45-ROYA.L WEAVER. at the Blackxriars Ring on Saturday. FILLY. 4.15-SANDM.L't. Present scores in the 18,000 points match at Thurstons' bourne sJ:ortly for F~ance, having arranged to TETRARCH (Illustrated Sun4av Herald!: 1 9 13 2 12 19 8 &re: F&lkiner (reo. 3,000), 9,370; SteTenson. 9,000. 2.45-*TH1RSTY. 4.4G-CLAP GATE. 22 13 7-15 8 10 4 9. convert. his motor-car mto an ambulance and to ~t th& Ring .this afternoon Yount La.ngforGALLIARD (Sttndav Chronicltt-•16 5 25 14 19 23 7 15 &peci.a.l be THIRSTY and WHY TEI.L ME, 25 6-9 7 25 '2 5 4 25-9 6 5 17 23 18 5 14 6. The contest at night will between B!ir{k fcClosty He will pay his personal expen, es and rank u America. a.nd Ha.rry ~Te. P::ustcw. ' an officer. DAILY SKETCH. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. .MU. DAY, MAY 3, 1S.5. !'age 13. WAIt PROFITS MAY BE THE UNDYING STORY OF LITTLE BLIND GIRL AND THE HUGE WHEAT PROFITS. CLAIMED BY BUDGET. CANADIAN HEROISM. SAILORS. ..(Continued from page 4.} A Firm's Reply To Criticism-And The People Who Benefit By War How Her Mittens Were \Velcomed Loaf Goes Up To 9d. Prh-ate A.~pel 31 -tB--:-:-- . tt . , 5 Somewhere In The North Se·a. Mult Pay FOr It. B 1 ~ .nttsh Columb1a. Horse 5th A reply to recent criti- The price of bread in Na E a 1on \ su ff enng· from shrapnel wound received' Little Lottie Parsons is a blind girl attending a cisms was made at the the G r a v e s e n d and London County Council special school. She was annual meeting of Northfleet districts has TO-MORROW'S SURPDJSES~ a .. ~f Ypres on Sunday evening, speaks of the Messrs. Spillers a n d been advanced to 9d. per A ~ ~~allmg los~es inflicted on the Germans. anxious to do something for the sailors wbo are B a k e r s, t he Cardiff quartern loaf. • k t' W_hen em battalion mo·.-ed to take up its posi- \l. atching day by day for the skulking German fleet. millers, whose huge A.t Bedford the price of lOll In trenches and in the headquarters of So she knitted a pair of mittens and sent them to profit of £387,865 on a. wheat on Sat u r d a.y Fate Of DriD Taxes Still In The t~e H.M:.S. Vanessa. the bttttahon, they carne right into 'shell fire. The capital of £1,000,000, in touched a r~cord figure Balaace. Lottie is now the proud po sessor of a letter. a year when the poor --65s., an increa e of 5s. Germans had the range of the building to a nicety, which, although she cannot read it. she is delighted have suffered se\'erely The highest price sinc1 To-morrow Mr. Lloyd George will tell us how and they appeared to \Yait until we were in and to own. It is from the Lieutenant-Commander, and through the high price the Crimean war, 66s. w the war is going to affect the people who stay at around, and then opened a murderous bombard- says:- of bread, has created so 67s., w as reached a.t " 'Ihank you ever so much for sending th<..t splen ome. In the House of .Coru h ill k me~t: We lost headly, and had to take up another m u c h comment. Reading. h mons e w rna ·e pos1t1on. • didly knitted pair of mittens for my c1\ew. " I expect you think they were gi\·en to some 1\Ir. E. Nicholls (chairman) repudiated the sugges the usual Budget statement-but it will be a very "We S\\:u.ng off the maio road to Ypres, and took poor old sailor who is .keeping a wife and family tion that they had made their profits unfairly. At unusual Budget. I up a posttlon .off the mail.1 road and by-ways to at home, and has very httle to spare to buy himself the beginning of the war they held huge stqcks of The bill to be met is a terrific one. In November- ~~ret~;e~~geswahlteldd fobr thel Germcans ~o adva~ce on warm things. grain, and with the rapidly rising market they Ch ll t· e Y ot 1er anad1an regiments "Well, they were not. Now, I hope you won't th_ e ance _or es Imated that he could get along IWJ,th · us on the left and hidden. be angry, but the First Lieutenant said he should could not fail to make heavy profits. t1ll March w1th an extra £209.000,000 to spend. The Th ,~ Germans came down sure enough but only like them when he read what was on the card and Prices of wheat were mainly fixed by the specu taxes he thought of then brought more than this-~ f smtll number, · and they. 1rere soon ~ccounted who knitted them. But we never give anything to lative operators in grain on the Chicago market. £226,000,000; but this amount was not nearly ~r. cldter thousands of Germans came along. A.ll officers, who can afford to buy them. ~:::o I told him On the suggestion of the shareholders. it was . '".e co see was huge masses approaching; little if he would buy six pairs of good woollen socks enoug h , f or t h e estimated cost of the war up to , d1d _tl_H'Y think what they were to meet. We had and give them to me for the crew, he could have decided to distribute larger sums in public bene Marc~1 31 _was £36i,OOO,OOO. m:-.: -~ne guns ready,_ ~eside e\·ery man ready and them. That has been done." factions than had been done in the past. It 1s endeni that the war is going to be still k~~n ill trenches wattmg fo_r t?em. more costly. How are we goinPa~:;e 14.-DAIT.Y . KETGr•.
'l96e ~romise (')f :M.ay Jn Warm Weat6er :Jiats :Jlnd 9ow~;.~ A Ribbon Rage. Are We To Keep Cool ? MILLINERY FLOWERS WILL HIGH COLLARS AND WIDE DISAPPEAR BEFORE THE SKIRTS MUST BE CHOSEN REAL ONES. WITH CARE. IBBO:\S flut.ter ~ore boldly from the summer dE first warm days of ~Jay set every woman R hats. There IS a picturesque new shape-a ort T thinking that she lla nothing thin enough of mixture of the poke bonnet and the "\Yatteau and fresh enough to wear and wondering whether hat-which lends itself especially to ribbon Fashiman of taste. The openwork stocking properly either for tennis or golf, and now that grrls take simple outline the ri,·er girl has a chan~e to come worn on the front of the head, especially If. the belonged i.o the period of long skirts and fluffy their games seriously they will decline to be ham- into her own again. Narrow ski_rts were shelter of their brims is eked out by the httle rufHes. pered by fulness, no matter how fashionable i~ is. dangerous on the ri,·er, besides being less pictur curtains of tulle. Some big hats there are For schoolgirls the cool and comfort_able m1d~y esque than flounced and gathered _ones, bu~ now already, but they are not smart unless on tall Lonr \\'aists For Coolness. blouse will still be chosen, although, hke the s~ill the river girl will be ahle to appear m the delicate, weare;s who know how to put them on so that Long-waisted frocks are being made in muslin survi\'ing silk sports jac~et, it is no l~nger dis- flufiy muslins and Yoiles in which he~· heart the back of the neck is' not obscured. a~ootioo. T~~~~a~~ooe~wmm~~ti~ti~. neoows~~Ja~c~k~e_b_a_re_a_li_t_t_~_m_o_r_e~d-~-~=h-~-·------~--- as the absence of restriction at the waist proper I - m~k~fur~~eM. fu~~~awhlebclttwo -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~-~ £1,000 In Prizes ~or Nee~le~ork. narrow ones are often used and give a smart note Here are two The Daily Sketch is offermg £1,000 m pnzes for to an otherwise insipid gown. Sometimes they afternoon b l o u s e s the best needlework done by its readers. There are bands of the material imply stitched on. is no entrance fee, but each entry must be accom Otherwise they may be of patent leather or white which sho7v the anied by twenty-four coupons cut from ~he o: colonred suede. effective combination baily Sketch. The~e coupons a.re ~ow appea:mg Pockf't are made to decorate some of the morn ?f two materials. in each issue and will do so until November 6. ing tub-frock . They are set well at the front After the judging, which will be done by ~x- and gathered <;>r pleated, so that they do not lie The first has trans ts under the auspices of the Royal School of flat to the gown, but poke out like a wall pocket. parent sleeves of ~~ Needlework, ali" the work will be exhibi~ in They mav be of a. darker shade than the frock deep cream chi_fjon a suitable hall in London. All.those competito~s itseif or 'if the material is plaid zephyr or striped who wish to do so may offer their work for sale m and a coatee of aid of the Red Cross Society and the St. John linen tlwy are of the plaid or stripes set in a cream lace in which contrasting ·way. Ambulance Association, to whom the proceeds appear strwzds of of the exhibition will be handed. Those who are Short sleeve-s are slow to appear, but the long unable, for reasons of sentiment or means, to ones are often transparent and are nowhere tight gold. The J[ edici collar, held by a present their work may have it returned to them enough to be hot or uncomfortable. The sleeve at the close of the exhibition. of two layer of chiffon has come to stay in the black velvet band, is There are 33 classes in the competition, so that taffeta g<>wn. entirely of gold lace, every worker may find an appropriate one. Girls How Linen Will Be Used. and the blouse is under fifteen and boys under nine have ·especial clages of their own. Smar·t blouses for - morning wear are of fine fastened by a red velvet 1'0se. Although the finished W?rk m'!st not be se.t?-t in white linen \rith bands of pale coloured linen until November next mtendmg competitors applied with hemstitching in the same shade. TVhite crepe-de- shoula lose no time in collecting coupons and Collar and cuffs are also of the coloured linen. chine makes lhe sending in their entrance forms, as this. will Such a blouse. for wear with a white cordurov simple foundation of greatly faC'ilitat~ ~~e a~rangements for the Judg skirt, is of white French linen 1vith hemstitched the second blouse, ing and the exhibition. bands of Du Barry pink-two bands down each and is combined side of the front and two bands at the back. The collar has height at the Lack, but is opened quite with plU1n-coloured COUPON j~W low at the front for coolne . taffeta. The curious Linen, as usual, will be the material of the little coatee fastens DAILY SKETCH smartest holiday suits, and attractive linen under the arms, the £1,000 PATRIOTIC replica of the ilresent-day scalloped coats and back portion fasten NEEDLEWORK COMPE"nTJON. skirts of taffeta or gaberdine are promised. ing over the front. The linen frocks for sports wear will not differ . By the BARONESS ORCZY, Author ol "The Scarlet Pimpernel," ''The Elusive Pimpernel," "A Bride Of The Plains" ~e I Will Repay," " Beau Brocade," Etc.
CHAPTER YI. Elsa had never heard of Icarus, but she had her love for Andor- her promise to wait for him. "I do not \Yish to marry, mother dear; not ju~t Elsa's .1\-tany Suitors. felt herself soaring upwards on heavenly wings Her mother guessed it l€ast of all. Everyone put yet." . when Andor-his lipa touching her neck-had her stubbornness do\\'n to conceit and ambition, This, of course, would neYer do. Irma reallsed The g)rl tlnu roughly apostr9phised turned whispered with passionate ar~our: "Elsa, I love and no one thought any the worse of her on that that she had allowed her ambition for her daughter slo dr rnnnd. She seemed neither hurt nor even you 1, account. When she refused young Barna. the to run away '.Yith her common-sense. Elsa must have surpr'ised by the young man's exhibition of She had never heard of Icarus' fall, but she mayor's eldest son. a1~d ~ agy Lajos, the rich pig got some queer notion or other in her head; that temper. In her blue eyes there was a strange had experienced her own from the giddy heights merchant from ~oms6, people shrugged their intimacy with the schoolmistress-who came from look-une which had late]\' been habitual to her, of heavenly happiness, do n to the depths of shoulders and ~aid that mayhap Elsa wanted to Budapest and talked a ''ast amount of sentimental but neither her mother "nor Bela was able to dull aching despair. The fall had been very marry a shopkeeper of Arad or even a young noble stuff which she had imbibed out of books-must be interpret it-a look which conveyed the thought gradual; there had been nothing grand or heroic lord. Irma neni said nothing ior the first year, stopped at once, and Elsa must be taken in haild of re;:;ignation or indifference or both, but also or soul-stirring about it. Andor had gone ~way, and even for two. She saw Nagy Lajos go away, by her own mother. one \\ hich was peculiarlv lifeless, as of a soul having told her that he loved her, and adJured and young Barna COIH"t another girl. That was To aim high was quite one thing, but to let eve~Y who had touched the cold hand of despair. her to wait for him. She had waited for three perhaps as it should Le. Elsa was growing more chance, however splendid, slip through one B Far Le it. from me to seek complexity in so years, patiently, quietly, obstinately, despite the beautiful every year-and there was a noble lord finger's was the work of a fool. simple a sr1nl as was that of this young Hungarian many and va!ious sieges lB;id to her l).eart. ~nd who owned a fin~ estate and castle close bv, who peas, nt girl. r apus El::;a had no thought of se~f- her imagination by the m:flammable, elig1ble The work of taking Elsa in hand w~ thus had taken lately to riding over on Sunday· after promptly undertaken. Fate favoured the mothe"(s anahsi:-; complicated ~ex and soul problems did youth of the countryside. Kapus Elsa-the far noons to Marosfalva, and paid marked attention to intentions: old Kapus was stricken with paralysis, not exi:lt ior her; she would never have dreamed famed beauty of half the coun~y-counted. her Elsa. of searching the .deep-down emotions of he~ heart suitors by the score. P~tiently, qmeUy, and Elsa had, from that hour forth, to spend m_ost Noble lords harl been known to marry peasant of her time v;ith her father in the house, and un· and .of dragging th~m ot1t for her r;nm~ to obstinately she kept every smtor at bay-even girls-at least in books, so Irma neni had been told, mediately under her mother's eye. scrutinise. The mor?Hl modern cra~e for mtncate though many were rich and some in high and, of course, one never knows! God's way are and c Jll1 I?osite emotion;; \~ ·.a~ n~~ likely to reach positions-even though he! mother, with the same wonderful sometimes Though young Barna. was married by now, and the pig merchant, the noble lmd and the rich shop· an out-ot-the-way Hungan~n \lllage .that slept patience, the same qUietude, and the same But when two ~ear;-; had gone by, when a rich peacefully on t~1e ban1~s ot the slu~gish Maros, obstinacy worked hard to break her daughter's shopkeeper from Aracl had come and courted and keeper had all gone to seek a sweetheart elsewherei cradled in the 1mmens1ty of the plam. wilL been refused, and when the noble lord had there were still plenty of suitors dangling rourlf Elsa hatl 1ored Lakato5 A':ldor-the handsom_e, Waiting For Andor. suddenly ceased hi , unday afternoon visits to the beauty of the country-side; in fact her we . · 1 known pride and aloofness had brought a surfett ardent Y0 lll1J loYer whtJ='ed mipe~udouhs courtshth~ But .A.ndor was coming back. Andor had adjured Marosfalva, Irma be 'll1le more anxious. She had a Of !H•r fiTe years ago 1!a carne er . on ~ 1 till . t long and serious talk with her daughter, which led of competitors in the lists. Foremost among t~1e~~ ·na. of Icarus to a regwn so full of bnghtness her to wait for him; and E sa was s young-Jus to no good. was Eros Bela, :who was nIt is reported that Austria has gone mad with joy over the sinking of the Leon Gambetta.. This is evidence of the value placed on the " victories " previously announced. Bogistered No, tm ,6U. great Patent No. 25,(00. -..-.:...._,_...• TBB VERY LATEST IN COT8-TBB PLAINS "_: a limi~d number. bound w prosper. Street, London, a.w. Write to-day, enclosing stamp, for mterestmg booklet And yet, for another whole year, Elsa was no news of him, be would not forget her. She " How I discovered the • Lucky Stone,' .. and ()(ln obstinate. Irma had to resort to sterner measures, never mistrusted him, she never doubted him. ------taininf lettel'll from people who posses~ them, together and in a country like Hungary, where ~uch .of the wi~~ S~c~l~ff~~ (Dtpl 2,) 9, Sun-st., London, E.C patriarchal feeling toward parents still e:usts, .a "Andor Is Dead." mother's stern measur.es be~me "!ery drast1c She waited for him, ·and he did not return. At indeed. A child is a child while she ~ under ~er first, his non-appearance excited neither surprise arents' roof. If she· be forty she still owes Im nor comment in the village. Andor had no rela TO SHOPKEEPERS, p licit obedience, unbounded respect to them. If tions. except his uncle Lakatos PaJ, who did not ~h.e fail in these, she beco:mes an unnatural care one brass filler about him; there had been CANVAS.SERS, AGENTS,· creature, denounced. to h~Affr1enTO OFFICERS AND MEN. Send your snapshots to the Daily. 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!-. ( .... " . AGED 61 - OFF TO THE WAR. THE . PATROL BINDS UP HIS COMRADE'S WOUND: ~ HOME FROM THE FRONT.
Though aged 61, Mr. ~· T. T~omt~n, While these French patrols were on their round a shrapnel shell struck one in his ~rm. ~ Brigadier-~eneral Seely is spending a the old Kent couaty cncketer, ts gomg Taking cover on the hillside,. below the mill, his comrade rendered first aid to the few days m London after a long spell lo the war as an ambulanl."e worker. wounded man: l at the front.