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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 January 1915, Page 3

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'/■■r,-i Ik-i-Ji*. . \\>i: Boiuon wio I-: 2i>, Li til . .--_ic !.rtV HIT vt b-iC Vα ~':, armament woi'k;: ;. ; liswis. Sih: i>l.ll- - for love a young frutwiiui dipki mat, who is now managing director of the great firm. They employ 75,000 people; their annual pay roll totals £5,000,000 and' the Krupps have made a model city for their people to live in. King George is related to nearly ail the reigning houses of Eui'ope, AustriaHungary and Italy being notable "x----ceptione. The Kaiser, the Ozai", the King of Denmark, and the King of Greece are cousins; the King of Norway is a cousin and a brother-in-law, and tho King of Spain and the Crown Prince of Sweden aro cousins by marriage. It is soini-omcially announced that the Kaiser's headquarters are now in France. His hindquarters were %•- cently in Poland. The people of Buenos Aires are tired •of war news, and aro wearing buttons inscribed: "Don't talk to me about the war, please." These butt/ous sho-uld bt» in great demand in Berlin very soon. Khaki-coloured l handkerchiefs, tieis, scarves, mufflers, shirts and vests are makiug itheir appearance in London stores devoted to men's woar, and women's costumes in the same shade are in tremendous demand. The famous Russian writer, Maxim Gorky, who lives in Finland, lias decided to join the army a.s a private in the Russian Army Medical Corps. It is said that Carmen Sylvia, the Dowager-Queen of Roumania may spend her widowhood in Wales, a land she likes greatly, and where she once 'iet'ore nearly took -a country house. A West Indian negro (according to tho Barbadoes Standard) told his overseer what he thronght of the British soldiers by means of a little story : "Jos' before de war," he said "de Kaiser, he send a bag of rice to King George, an' 110 tell him, 'King George, I got as many soldiers as der is rice in dis bag,' and King George he send de Kaiser a bottle of nigger pepers, and lie tell him. '1 only got as many soldiers as :ler is peppers in dis bottle, but jee' you bifce one, an' see how you like it." UREATHIiVG DIFFICULT. "It gives me pleasure to ieconimj:icl Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to uy customers," writes Mrs Alice Morrison Cr. Oarr and Fitzgerald Sts., Perth, W. A. My children, Horace and Qwen were always getting bad colds attended hy difficult breathing and 1 had many a sleepless night until I tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Now if ihey get a slight cold I give them a dose of it and the cold is no more. Sold every-