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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 10

A new railway route across tie Andes from Chile to Bolivia scales to a height of between 14,000 ft and 15,000 ft. and to onsure the comfort of the travellers in this rarefied atmosphere the trains have" been provided with oxygen chambers. Colonel John "Ward, t&e gallant member for Stoke-on-Trent, is the oniy Labour member of the British Parliament who has actually been in the war zone in this war as a tighter. He first, had experience in soldiers m the 'eighties of last century, when he went up the Nile with Wolseley. No .one ever doubted Big John's patriotism. He was the first to raise Labour Battalions for the "War Offic®. ant * S°t his captaincy for so doing. Everybody knows how splendidly he mustered_nis men when his transport, the Tyndareus, was mined off the coast of Africa. Since then he has done great work in Mespotamia, t now (says a London paper of October 29th) he is in Siberi*.