French inhabitants, to mark the fact that they were the first British on the scene, have presented them with the flag of the local ex-servicemen, the tri colour with the badge of the war veterans. This flag will be sent to the headquarters of the unit in Scotland.

Aberdeen—4.4 p.m. to 8.18 a.m. Dumfries—4.24 p.m. to 8.9 a.m. I nverness—4. p.m. to 8.26 a.m. Edinburgh-4.17 p.m. to 8.14 a.m. Dundee—4.l6 p.m. to 8.14 a.m. Glasgow—4.22 p.m. to 8.18 a.m. Moon (Last qr. Jan. 2) —Rises 11.7 p.m., sets 10.63 a.m.

A soldier passenger on an L.N.E.R. train vanished mysteriously while the train was travelling between Bo’ness and Polmont. The soldier is known to have boarded the train, which l - bound from Bo’ness to Polmont. with connections for Edinburgh and Glasgow, On the arrival of the t

and C 6 J THINK the nicest thing I’ve heard this side of September J was the contents of a letter °in a friend of mine in the •E.F. to his wife. All the letter said was—“My Rarest A , Second Epistle John, and 12.“ Though it looked like a code Message, the censor, after read- the

Th« other da_v my thirteen-yeai daughter came home from a childl matinee. The picture they had shown was Tod Slaughter's The at the Window.’* If you tried all you couldn’t find a film more unsuit for bairns. This film is supposedly for af only—but that didn’t seem to make differ

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Zurich, Saturday. Anybody hoarding money at home in Germany is liable to severe penalties. A court in Vienna has just sentenced a man to twelve months' hard labour for keeping 55,000 Reichsmarks in a box deposited in a bank.

BRITAIN TO help Britain to win the war, gifts are rolling in to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from all parts of the world. Rich and poor are contributing sums totalling many hundreds of thousands of pounds. Forty-six people have voluntarily relinquished their Great War pension

The outlook for the garage industry, which employs 150,000 men. is black, even though skilled mechanics can easily find specialist jobs in various branches of the Services Motor-car manufacturers, on the other hand, foresaw the huge switch round from peace war conditions, and th