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Show FORTRESS SURRENDERS and German operations. In point of strength the at- llc !"A force ns C0I"pared with the little garrison of some 7000 men nnd the few Germans at Kiao-Chow, was so disproportionate dispropor-tionate that ht the beginning of the campaign it was taken for granted that the German pos-sion pos-sion soon would fall. Surprise was that so small a force was able to hold out so long and inflict a considerable loss, both to the land and naval forces of the allies. Reports from various vari-ous sources pieced together indicated in-dicated that the allies losses around Kiao-Chow has been upwards up-wards of 3000 men and several second rate warships. brother an affection no other man can know. Another Has Gone "Then this doomed one who is more human than any other whose soul has not been purged in the fire the doomed alone can know, is placed in the little cell with the death watch over him. And when the fatal day arrives we count tho minutes, exclaiming finally, "Another good man has gone." "For 99 men out of 100 who are snatched away by the noose or the chair have become the best men the state has. Hecomes Student "It was not until I reached here that I learned I was by nature na-ture a student. The impulse to learn all I could came over mo powerfully. I am only 42 but I am getting old fast. The other day I happened to get a glance in a mirror and found my black hair had turned almost white. It is not worry, but just plain, hard study that has altered it. "I am making a study of the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." "It says plainly to everybody, to the state as well as the individual, indi-vidual, "Thou shalt not kill!" Then the man who is to die because he killed his wife took up his pacing again, counting the leaping days that still intervene in-tervene between .life and the noose.. |