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[Illustration: THE FATAL LURE.]

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New Combination Head-gear for Troops.

"Service dress caps in wear and those in stock will be used up and
worn side by side with the soft caps."--_Army Council Instruction
No_. 824.

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"To a school in Battersea to-day the High Commissioner for New
Zealand presented an Australian flag sent by the school-children of
Dunedin."--_Evening News._

The children of Dunedin seem to have accepted in a very excellent spirit
the annexation of New Zealand by Australia, of which this is the first
news to reach us.

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"The Germans wore absolutely dismayed at the promptness of
President Wilson's rupture of relations. Then followed an amazing
attempt to brow-beat Mr. Gerard into singing a revised version of
the Prusso-American Treaty of 1799."--_Planters' and Commercial
Gazette_ (_Mauritius_).