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...Berlin, last week, Dr. Gottfried Benn, onetime Chief Surgeon for the German Army in the Brussels area, declared that he had been an eyewitness of the execution of Miss Cavell and had signed the certificate attesting her death. According to Dr. Benn, Nurse Cavell was blindfolded and tied by her hands to a stake. Thereafter she remained standing until "hit and instantly killed by 12 bullets...
Sardinia, as every geographer knows, is an island some nine times larger in area than Rhode Island but only a trifle more populous. It lies in midMediterranean, almost touching the smaller but more famed French island of Corsica. By a lavish freak of Nature, Sardinia has been endowed with coastal lowlands recalling Holland, dense forests, a few crags of grandeur, rich vine and olive lands, and extensive malarial swamps. To these last the people have adapted their constitutions through long generations, and are now virtually immune to malaria...
...office building now at "One, Park Avenue," are the U. S. Prohibition Headquarters for the New York area...
This hike, an annual foot journey of the hiking class, will take the participants over an area of about 100 miles, through country already traversed this year by members of the Appalachian Club. The entire distance, however, will not be made on foot, provision being made at certain stop-off places for short lifts by motor. Each hiker will carry his own food, but shelter will be provided...
...fortitude, in personal valor. Rang in his ears an ancestral catch: "What e're betide, what e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside!" Did he hum those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal act of his life was to address a Boy Scout rally, last week on his estate. "Stand up for England when people speak disrespect- fully of her!" he said. On the evening of the next day, as Earl Haig stood up to put on his pajamas...