... Daily Malta Chronicle NEWS ABOUT GERMANY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, October 26, 1914. IRON CROSSES PLENTIFUL AS BLACKBERRIES Beyond setting the whole world ablaze, ruining his Empire, and sowing the seeds of Revolutions, it is difficult to see ...

... there would be such an improvement in the health and efficiency of the people that centenarians would be as common as blackberries in autumn. ...

... BAD MONEY. Bad money in Malta is becoming as plentiful as blackberries are in season. Not content with turning out bogus shillings, the busy counterfeiters have now turned their attention to the manufacture of the modest ' tanner' and the sprightly florin ...

... clubs in other parts of the country are too numerous to mention. It is sufficient to remark that they are as plentiful as blackberries and that while England still leads the way with 156,733 tons all told against Germany's 18,562, the advantage of the latter ...

... plentiful crop of blackberries. That there is a market and use for this fruit is shown by the fact that we import hundreds of tons annually from the north of France. The French, like ourselves, rather look down upon the blackberry, and it is seldom seen ...

... specimen of the genus beggar—for on this particular flight of steps beggars are as plentiful as blackberries— not a good simile, by the way, for blackberries 'dont' grow in Valletta) —k% hy shonldn't I be starving as well as he? I t 4-11 von—that ten ...

... donned clerical clothes he walked boldly from the house. A few days later a police-constable saw a clergyman feeding on blackberries, and noticing that he was eating ravenously became suspicious. The clergyman did not appear in the least nonplussed at ...

... journeys to unknown and distant lands—but the pain of parting was just as acute then as now. To-day, partings are plentiful as blackberries, and so the grief of mankind is plentiful in proportion. The friend who was with you every day, on whom you relied for ...

... LOCAL NEWS. —Festa-lovinv pople are undoubtedly in their glory during the summer season. The celebrations are as thick as blackberries and every other day there seems to be a festival in some part of the Island. The festival of St. Lawrence is commemorated ...

... between St. Julians and Musta can imagine that the scenery was not an all absorbing topic of conversation. The absence of blackberries on the hedges was very marked. On reaching Musta a visit was made to the church the beauties of which are well worth a ...

... avenues of pomegranates, clothed with bright flowers, taking special care to dip our heads when the branches of the familiar blackberry were mingled with the wild African growth. Later we came to the open country, and were refreshed with the breeze blowing ...

... e)lindical residences in the mud, and wriggled their wrath when cleared out; leeches two inches long, were as plentiful as blackberries, and the sides of the tubes were coated with colonies of shell snails, like the barnucled hulks of Turkish men of war. ...