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'" The Steamship , 2 Custom-Houso unamoers , Leith , September 8 , 1914 . Sin , —I havo road with interest yout comments on tho above subject . My experience in tho same matter may bo of interest . About a year ago I received a typewritten letter from a Press Bureau in Berlin of

with tho discussion- of this subject " in your columns thoro is ono point that has been missed . . If any . more 'Gorman prisoners die , ' and aro buried in Edinburgh , I hopo ' tho Provost-Marshal will soo to ' it ' that tho Gorman pastor , if'ho is allowed again to pfficiato ,

209 WOUNDED IN LOKDON HOSPITAL . ' . Tjie Press Bureau last night stated , that the following admissions to the London Hospital of wounded non-commissioned officers and men from the Expeditionary Fores are reported under date 31 st August . The list contains 2 Q 9 names , of whi

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1 * ! , 11 ' ] LORD KITCHENER AND TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS . RECRUITING IS STILL PROCEEDING BRISKLY . An appeal for funds by the organisers of the four new battalions of Manchester ' s new regiment has realised £ 20 , 000 . The War Office has arranged to pay for clothing and equip

rETBOGEAD , September 9 . A dispatch from Pelting says the Chinese Government has informed the Russian Minister that it consents to the , construction by Russian capitalists of a railway from Saghalinula , on tho right bank , of . the , river Amur opposite Blagovestehensk , to H

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