... uppermost. He bit me cruelly in the finger. The Japanese then threw me into the water. I swam towards my hoat, whence they fired at me more than 20 rifle shots, and I received a bullet on the thigh. T then swam towards a junk, but the Chinese drove me ...

... to Sweden. Two batches of 65 men each set off on foot along the railway line with German guards.” The 30-mile w'alk to the Swedish frontier, under armed German guard, Dobson said, was “terrible.” It took them some 36 hours They wtrtked through blinding ...

... and unscrupulous enemy, who greatly outnumbered them. the men of the relieving force were warned to be carefully on their guard as to the method that would be employed by the enemy. A flag of truce, they were told, would mean nothing at all, unless the ...

... discovered that the principal efforts of the Japanese were directed against the centre of our formation. The enemy’s shrapne] fire inflicted coqsiderable loss on our troops at several points. Lieut.-Col. Pokatily, commanding a battery of the Sixth Kast Siberian ...

... noise of the fight, reached the spot, he found the bird still alive, with the four-footed hero lying on the top of it, keeping guard. The eagle is said to measure neaa-ll; two yards from tip to tip of its outstretched wings, : . THE AMEER'S HEIR. . Sardar ...

... direction, leaving observation posts on the eastern extremity of the kopjes, from which they have opened fire at long range on our cavalry advance guard. There is no sign of the enemy's artillery up to time of despatch of this message. The Lancers Brigade ...

... THE GARDEN. THE GREENHOUSE. It will not be prudent to discontinue fire heat entirely in a greenhouse where it has been steadily maintained throughout the winter and spring, but the fire -should be allowed to go out during the day time, more particularly ...

... body of horse and foot guards were posted in the same locality, to prevent any action on the part of the spectators. The hour appointed for the ambassador to land was three o’clock in the afternoon; but the Spanish carriage, guarded by fifty men, armed with ...

... suggestion of the Orient to fire the fancy with visions of what is to come as the wondrous path to the East unfolds itself, first greets the outward voyager at Gibraltar. The writer carries the memory arriving in the hill-guarded harbour one morning in May ...

... ordered to capture the Sado Maru and the cruiser Gromoboi the Hitachi Maru. which tried to escape. After ‘soveral shots had been fired, warning the transport to stop without effect, the guns opened in earnest against the vessel, and she stopped. i Those on board ...

... fight, the dangerous organisms that give us diseases. GUARDS AGAINST INFECTION Now the lymphatic glands I have described above are really collections white blood corpuscles. They stand as guards against infection; they delay the inroads of disease-germs ...

... retreat being hardened by death. dealing volleys from the Guards and be the fire of a Maxim which had maim into action. The enemy were completely driven off. and many were Peen to fall under our rifle fire. '!'here were no casualties on our side, the nearest ...