Daily British Whig (1850), 18 Aug 1917, p. 2

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# : : PAGE TWO. "THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 101. _ ILLUSTRATED SECTION. Breezy Bits From the Briny Deep and Other Phases of the War . N*= ZEALANDERS convalescing These interesting of people belong to the Leukerbad district, in Switzerland. Here all the sil find it very comfortable to take old women delight in smoking a pipe; whether the fact that the district has now been opened & classic glide down the Thames in & by an electric railway will change the habit, remains to be seen. What may happen in case of gondola tug lent by the Port of a German raid through Switzerland or France orl y--is another question. This couple is thor y London authoriti ¥ oughly neutral. The man is half French, and half German by descent. The woman is part Eng- s or ies. The flag' is lish and part German. apparently the red ensign of New Zealand, quite appropriate. on 6" OW, then, little folks," says the Sec retary of the Whitechapel Art Gal- lery--no iess--after he has shown the tots all the regular war pictures of the Exhibi- tion, "do any of you know who is this great sailorrman. Eh? Who was the man that walloped the Germans at Doggerbanks and again at Jutland a year ago last May? Ah! That's it. Admiral Sir Da--vid Beatty. Canadian. worlfen war workers are fast adopting the practical overall costume. This group ERE"S anothgr new man, a EY Pn of workers was photographed during lunch hour at the shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway H the new First Lord of the 4 " works at Montreal, where a large number of women are now taking the places of men. They claim the new garments are not only more convepient in their work, but comfortable and--be- succeeding Sir Edward Cafson. Sir Eric coming as well. These young ladies are French-Canadian extraction. y Geddes looks like a man who would last : his job longer than the average. When the war began he was obscure; though he was forging up in ralindad circles. He is - a Scotchman, born in India, spent a year in the:Homestead mills at Pittsburg, Pa. and three years in the Baltimore and Ohio: went to India in 1897 and built railways in the jungles. When Lioyd' George became Minister of Munitions, Sir, Eric was his director-general. He was sent to France to lcosen up traffic congestion behind the British lines and he became Director-Gen- eral of Military Railroads. If he does as we'l on zea 23 he has on land--but there we leave him. Since the war began there have been more changes at the British Ad: miraity head than in any other. We began with Winston Churchill as First Lord and »] , Louis of Battenberg as First Sea Lord. " Since that we have had Lord Fisher, Sir H. B. Jackson, Mr. Balfour and Sir Edward Carson. Now it Is Sir Eric Geddes at the TENIvONE knots--one 8 Sam's. This picture was taken [) EAR ADMIRAL CAPPS, chief consthuc. Admiralty with Sir John Jellicoe as First from on deck. Just at : nt a naval expert may decide. tor U. 8. Navy, succeeds Genera' Sea Lord. \ 3 b : Goethals, as G. M. of the Emergency Fleet. gg

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