... But the girl's news was true, there was war in the land; and not so long after that, they came tramping through the fair, peaceful village, the brave French soldiers, who were going to strike hard at the Germans, who had been their tyrants for so long ...

... PUBLIC LAND. tinues to be felt by the municipal authorities at Aldershot because the War Office has disposed of a piece of land between the camp and town to the Army and Navy Co-operative Society, Ltd. It is stated that five applications for the land have ...

... General Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the General Staff! Since his advent there have been no political promotions in the Army—at least, no more than can he helped. One or two outstanding instances of this kind were beginning•to make people talk. IS ...

... their opinions were further sounded, most of these people .would - give it as a dictum that woman's place is at home, and not among the martial activities of the land. • There is another section of the public, however, and quite a big section, too, that consider ...

... victorious advance of the French and British Armies in the great movement which history will prob- ably call the Battle of the Marne, has not yet ceased, and all that military science can do to enable the Allied Armies to con- tinue their operations will no ...

... justices of the peace, sheriffs, holders of commissions in Navy or Army, and graduates of the universities, though by courtesy it is given also, to solicitors. surgeons, bankers, the landed gentry and gentlemen of independent means. TN FIVE An interesting ...

... VS I 1 11 4aCk , [A military expert summarises week by week in this column the principal features of recent lighting by land and sea. He explains the new situations created and their relation to the war in general. No attention is given to go - ssip and ...

... who had fallen, wounded, into Delarey's hands. In the centre, woman atil'h' they saw an old man in his shirt-sleeves peeling potatoes, with was side. The man was General Delarey, the woman his wife. He them t,,intensely sYrrma . thetic . when he learnt ...

... pres..nied to the kmaimittee by the Australian Go ment for the use of the British Army in the war, wit' be aole to give a account ot herself aga.nst the German a.r and land forces. fa, It is a matter of everlasting wonder to not a few of us why so many ...

... civilian inhabitane, - a young married woman and her brother and sister, are very nice, and very shrewd, too. It is meat anrcising to watch the effect of a hen's `Chuck, chuck,' when they are having a. meal. The woman and her sister both drop their knives ...

... of an army of 5,000 men to march against the Germans. Twenty young tngtishmen arrived in London from Constantinople, packed their luggage into four taxi-cabs, which they sent to a warehouse, and then walked to Whitehall and joined Kitchener's Army. The ...

... ~ Government who seem to take it for gra-nted 3 she is either deceiving it by receiVing a double a ll:! once, when, poor woman, she 'has the • I .4reil''' difficulty in receiving any money at all, or that is wasting the money allotted to her in riotoo: ...