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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2344, 29 December 1914, Page 6

There is a remarkablo similarity between tlic flags of the Allies. France, Russia, and Servia all employ tlie same three colours, only the arrangement differing In regard to the flags of Russia and Servia, ,t may bo pointed out that, as the colours are the same, a Servian flag upside- down would be the Russian and vice-versa. Belgium flies a tri-colour, with the colours vertically as m the case of the French flag. The Belgian colours, black, gold, and red, are eaid to symbolise the emergence of the country from darkness into lMit through blood and flre-a most appropriate device. Eager to join the army, ,a Ramsgato lad, Reginald Smith, whose father and nve uncles served with the colours ran away from home to walked to London, where he called, first at Buckingham PaW and then at New Scotland lard, and asked to see Lord Kitchener. By chance the Secretary of State for War called at the yard, and was stopped by the boy. Patting the boy on tho shoulder, Lord Kitchener said • "lou are too young, sonny; wait until you get older." The boy, whose father works at Hamsgate railway station, is to be sent to a military, training school, in order that his ambition may be realised.

The war is costing the country -Ell a second, or about £1,000,000 a day according to Mr. Sidney Webb, Professor of Public Administration in tho ■University of London. The bill for gunpowder alone works; out at £700 a minute, or £40,000 an hour. There aro i over 200,0nq . British soldiors in the and 7U>OOB Ludiau troosg.