... effective than the ordinary glutinous tapes which are in common use, but I intend to give it a trial, if this season I have an invasion of flies bred in my neighbour's dung heaps. If you cannot kill Huns, kill flies. ...

... DEVASTATION IN COURLAND GERMAN CASTLES AND HOUSES BURNED. Petrograd, Wednesday.—The German invasion of Courland has resulted in the destruction of practically the whole of thet magnificent country. Thousands of acres of farm land have been ruined by the ...

... Echo map of the approximate position of the Russian line Poland and Galicia, showing the area of the new Austro-German invasion. . ...

... said the appeal on behalf of the three million people in France who were homeless and destitute on account of the German invasion was one that ought to appeal in a special way to the hearts of the British people, and hoped the effort on Friday and Saturday ...

... established just across the English Channel our own shores would alway, be open to threat and peril. Then. too, the unprovoked invasion and ruin of Belgium must not he left iinredressed and unavenged. Finally. as Mr. Samuel declared, the whole pencetill future ...

... time on Saturday, when they appeared at Elmfield Hall Military Hospital. Though not engaged in defending the country against invasion their efforts to promote law and order at the féte were appreciated. The Corps locally has not made the numerical progress ...

... considerable number counties which the Lord Lieutenant had received no instructions whatever the subject of defence case invasion. That was fact which he did not think was generally known. The military authorities could not make much use of the Volunteer ...

... 11 when these islands were more consolidated t y all internecine conflict a t an en d, b u t country was threatened with invasion T ort cy French—and fears of a landing on the shire coast were en t er t a i ne d—P re st on an d co' It began to adopt vigorous ...

... LORD DERBY'S SUGGESTION Lord Desborough said that men who did not join the regular army could only actively useful the event invasion if they belonged a volunteer training corps. Civilians would be liable called upon, to perform fatigue duties such digging ...

... reform, he gained speedy promotion, leading his troops from victory to victory. Later he took a prominent part against French invasion of '62. So important a personage did he become that both Marshal Bazaine and the Emperor Maximilian made overtures to him ...

... spectator of- the violation of-right. .It your cause much as ours. The silence of the American Govern ment in face of the invasion of Belgium wac a surprise for all your friends. And what are you now doing? You advocate peace,, peace that will permit German ...

... on the battlefield or on the main decks of the great battleships which have been instrumental in saving this country from invasion by a ruthless foe. This fact was brought •by Mr. T. S. Steel, the wellknown Warrington solicitor, to the notice • of the ...