The most far-reaching changes in the ordinary current of life have taken place during the last fortnight, and not a dog has barked. A moratorium for a month has been declared, and nobody need pay his contract debts, with the exception of rates and taxes and a few other trifles.

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A Belgian town on the Meuse, in the province of Namur. The population is about 7,500, though hundreds of years ago it was ten times that size. The citadel stands on a cliff 300 feet high. Dinant was attacked by a large German force on August 16th, but they were repulsed by the F

he transport of the Expeditionary Force to the Continent began some time ago, but the secret was so well e llt that no announcement of the fact was published till Tuesday, 18th inst. The photograph shows Queen Alexandra saying Good-bye to the Officers of the Coldstreams. . . . ,

Even as their dynastic pride, so is the absolutism of the Hohenzollern bred in the bone, and transmitted with the traditions of Prussian history. A Hohenzollern impatiently submits to constitutional checks. Most of the political difficulties and anomalies of the German Empire ar

Kiel is the chief German Naval Base. It lies at the Baltic end of the canal called the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, but generally known as the Kiel or North Sea Canal. Begun in 1887, the Canal was opened in June 1895. It has since been deepened to accommodate the largest warships. Kiel

At the moment Great Britain is an armed camp. The grim realities of warfare are brought home to us as they never were before. Everywhere we see the soldier and signs of martial activity. Foreigners visiting this country have frequently expressed surprise that they could travel f

THE WAR. [August 22, . 1 9 1 1. Belgian Cavalry.—Civil Guards.—Signalling Balloon.

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