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JAINA GAZETTE (November was too much: they broke and ran before the charging chivalry of Asia, the gallant sons of Bengal, and the Indians, after chasing them for a mile, returned victorious, to be received with ringing cheers by their British Comrades. How Sir Pratap Singh must have been disappointed not to have been in that first charge of his German insulters. (Commonwcal).
The infantry. Sikh and Gurkha had their turn soon afterwards. The cable tells us how an overwhelming force of Germans was coming down on the British in their trenches, when the Indians were bidden to charge. Forward they sprang, hurling themselves into the serried ranks of the foe, steel to steel, no long-fire distance here; it was man to man, and the best men to win. In a moment the issue was decided; the message says: the Germans broke and ran, with the Indians among them, slaying as they went. Reaching the rear, now the front, of the flying enemy, they “rounded them up" as sheep-dogs round up sheep, and forced them back again, between the fire of British right and left. Finally, capturing the German trenches, they pursued the flying survivors until recalled. Then back they came, well content: And their British Comrades cheered them, as Briton's only can cheer. (Commonweal, October, 30).
The Antiquity of Man. .: The Adelaide Advertiser tells us of a stockman, a boundary rider, on the Darling Downs, west of Brisbane, Australia, who picked up a skull and carried it off. These Downs are very "rich in the remains of extinct animals, which were looked upon as belonging to the Pleistocene Age.” A photograph of the skull was sent to Professor David, who at once wrote, asking that the skull might be sent to him, and, on its arrival, he with a brother scientist, Professor Wilson, set to work examining it. Professor Wilson brought it before the recent meeting of the British Association in Australia,
saying that it probably belonged to the Pleistocene Age, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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