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From the report of a prohibition meeting at Peebles:--

"A pleasant and most enjoyable addendum was a series of lantern slides
depicting the havoc wrought by the Huns in Belgium."--_Peebleshire
Advertiser._

It is still "Peebles for pleasure" at any cost.

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[Illustration: TRIALS OF A HEAVYWEIGHT.

"I HOPE YOU WON'T MIND, UNCLE, BUT I'VE LENT YOU TO MRS. ROBINSON FOR
HALF-AN-HOUR AFTER LUNCH. SHE'S GOT AN AWFULLY STIFF BIT OF GROUND TO GET
THROUGH."]

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THE HINDENBURG LINE.

In our earnest endeavour to discover exactly where this impregnable barrier
is likely to be encountered we have collected the following references to
it in the German Press of the next few months:--

... Our troops, according to plan, are now operating to the east of the
Vimy Ridge where the fighting is taking the direction intended by us. We
have succeeded in restoring a condition of voluntary elasticity,