... presented great difficulties to armies. The Germans are rumoured, however, to have literally paved the way for the Turkish invasion of Egypt by completing the railway and laying water-pipes. This article details the motor journey our representative took ...

... Relief Committee, here Pry explains the great housing difficulty which has arisen in France in consequence of the German invasion (now, happily, being swept back), and how the Quakers are relieving it. 1 1 THE housing problem in France is not a question ...

... Wood's fascinating volume, Our Fighting Services and How They Made the Empire (Cassell). The story ranges from the Norman Invasion to the end of the Boer War. It is a curiously satisfying sensation to watch the mighty host of valiant dead English men pass ...

... man the trapper, and the strong, swift otter, who is prone suddenly to intrude into a beaver lodge. To circumvent such an invasion the beaver, who leaves nothing to chance, builds an extra tunnel as emergency exit. It has no food-prey other than bark and ...

... or went over to the enemy; when our navy mutinied and Ireland broke into serious rebellion. We were in constant terror ot invasion, too, so much so that people who dwelt on the east coast lived in readiness to fly from their homes at a given signal, and ...

... first. It was a minute or two before it struck through the clothes at the stomach, though that clammy, clinging, chilly- invasion was the worst. Then they would feel the wet cold climbing up to their chests, chilling their ribs as the clothes soaked the ...

... loathe the idea of a war's end that leaves Germany untouched, her cities unspoiled, and her women without such memories of invasion as will be a warning for all time to come. For my part, I am very sorry that we have no women amongst our peace negotiators ...

... routine duty to do so. The inhabitants of Santa Felice were still suffering from dyspepsia as a result of the Americo-German invasion also during the preceding twelve years they had got to know H.M.S. Brazier fairly well, so there was little or no official ...

... be quite sure of themselves. They fought the pannier last season, but V it arrived. They are attempting to pre- vent the invasion of the bustle and crino line, with what result will be seen later on. A new mode in hair-dressing has recently been launched ...

... Wiltshire. By EDWARD HUTTO^J. With Illus trations by NELLY ERICHSEN. 6s, net. [Hghwoys an t Byways Series. SIX WOMEN AND THE INVASION. 1 By GABRIELLE and MARGUERITE I YERTA. With Preface by Mrs. HUM- PHRY WARD. Crown 8vo. 6s. net. The Daily News One of the ...

... eral of this country. As War Minister he organised the Russian Jj\^ army in a remarkable manner. At the beginning of the invasion of Russia he was com mander-in-chief against Napoleon in 1812, but was forced by the people to give up the chief command ...

... Five illustrations by W. E. Wigfull. Through Russian Snows. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie.) 3s. fid. This story of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the Retreat from Moscow, assumes a strange topicality at the present moment. Pictures by W. H. Overend. The ...