... A Merry Christmas to You. It must have seemed a mockery to many people when their friends met them with the above greeting during these four years of war. A merry Christmas ! Merry ! when just across the Channel men were locked in a death-grip, when the ...

... 'XMAS, 1919. Once again another Christmastide draws near, the first real Peace Christmas after the bloodiest struggle the world and humanity have ever seen. Reconstruction is making slow but steady headway, and the world at large is being gradually made ...

... the Rt. Hon, Viscount Milner, K.C.M.G., etc., etc., His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. In our Christmas and succeeding numbers we published an exhaustive account of the proposal of his Excellency the Governor of Sierra Leone ...

... excitement over the declaration of armistice, and that it was supplied to do the same duties as those done when supplied during Christmas and New Year Days. Colonel Faunce also told us that he never heard of any civilian being arrested and never contemplated ...

... no Mercy in the Colony as the famous Governor-General of Nigeria is said to be doing.—Yours, etc.. A TRAVELLER Nigeria, Christmas Day, 1918 ...

... behind the German lines at Perrhea made progress in that quarter. The body of German aviator who made raid over the Thames on Christmas Day found by fishermen when hauling their nets in the Black Deep. The surrender of Kemp, the South African rebel is reported ...