THE DAILY BRITISH WiiG, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916 VERDUN REGION COVERED WITH STUMPS THAT WERE ONCE BIG TREES. NEW HYDRO-SKI USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPORTING. Big shells are first-class wood-cutters. The Verdun region is covered with stumps and broken trees that were cut down by shell fire. The photo was taken in a wood near Douaimont. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CADETS CORPS. ! COMMENCEMENT DAY AT VASSAR COLLEGE. A recent military inspection at the University of Illinois, elicited this comment from the inspector: "The military instruction is of such extent and thoroughness in the case of cadet officers, as to qualify the average cadet as a Lieut. of Volunteers. The For the first time the new outdoor theatre at Vassar College, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was used for class day founders of the Land-Grant colleges intended that precisely this should be the case when the Morrill Land Grant Act provided exercises. It presented a very pretty spectacle as the graduates formed the initials of the college on the for # Military Dept. Military training is required of the male students during tlie freshman and sophomore years. The organi- grassy outdoor stage zation of the corps is as follows: Two complete regiments of infantry which comprise 24 companies. Foot battery of field artil- y lery; Signal Company; Engineer Company and Hospital Company. There is also a band for each regiment. EARL KITCHENER'S POSSIBLE SUC: THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMI- COMMANDS THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN WAR HONORS FOR RICHEST PEER. LI YUAN HUNG;. NOW PRESIDENT OF CHINA, Former Vice-President of China, Li Yuan Hung. be- 'CESSOR. 2 NEE ARRIVING AT NEW YORK. GALICIA. The Duke of Westminster, whose income is comes President in succession to-the-late Yuan Shi $6,000,000 a year, has been awarded the D. Kai, whose term would have expired in October. Ow- Lord Alfred Milner, who is, mentiffed as a pos- = He was met on the ferry boat by his close General Brusiloff, commanding the Russian troops 8.0. and appointed to the rank of major. ing to the disturbed political conditiong' in the new sible successor to the late Bar! Kitchener, as friend, William Willcox, former chairman of Which have heen Succonsiul in Be Russian Sess Petted and spoiled by his relatives he has ~ FoPUbMc, however, ne pure a pathy Secretary of State for War. The London Morn: the Public Service Commission, which position Bi RAYE Sor Be CARINE fo Toe, forty shown his grit in war by rescuing 100 British with the Rebels, although little has been heard of his ing Post "Urges that Lord Milner is the only he was appointed to by Mr. Hughes, then Gov- thousand Austrians and se¥éral hundred cannon captives seized by Arabs in Western Egypt. activities for some months. : suitable man on the horizon." ernor of New York. and machine guns. rm rn) ARETE ws mi an we dead In bed.