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Daily British Whig (1850), 22 Sep 1917, p. 22

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When an acre of winter wheat in Canada is worth $90--as in 1917---it is time to snatch a moist day on the farm when it's too wet for hauling in grain, to go ploughing for wheat But the tractor is the great wholesale method of getting the ground ready for crop. At a demonstration recently held in Nebraska, one tractor pulléd three ploughs, another disked and drilled a field. But if America while the war lasts should pull off one poor crop, how long would these spouts last at Liver- pool? If you didn't know Sir Douglas Haig to be a natural alien to the camera you might think he was posing for this picture, As a matter of fact, he is Just telling Lloyd George what he knows about the way the war iy going on the western front. And the British Premier keeps it pretty quiet. Neither does Gen. Joffre think that Haig is playing the loud pedal tog much, con- sidering all the British have dome lately. As for Mons, Minister of Munitions, off to the left-~remeniber that he has been munition: ministering long than anybody else on that Job in the world. «That eritie who in a recent magazine took such a erack at the Mona Lisa smile never imagined it would come to life again on the face of the beautiful Princeds Iolanda of Italy. Here she is-- smiling over the way her father's sub "jeets are rolling the Austrians back Iately on the Isonzo. Lady Maude Cavendish, eldest daugh- ter of the Duke and Duchess of Devon- shire, is engaged to be married to Capt. Angus Mackintosh, A. D.C, of the Royal Horse Guards. rr ERT RRNA TT 30,000 Swedes. expecting hunger, recently massed in Malmo, Sweden, to protest against food shortage. I'he American embargo to keep neutrals from supplying Germany with food may have had some effect, Europe's pantry is in America including Canada. Sweden is suffering more from food shortage than half the nations at war. Hunger, the great leveller of mankind, may do more to put an end to the war than fighting or otests A great strike mass meeting was re ently called in Stockholm as a protest against any more war. Similar ontbreaks--so said a hand bill--were being organized in many German cities. World hunger--climaxing in Giermany and Austria- may yet end the world war. Among so many aerial bombardments of London it is one of the many wonders of the world that the great Westminster group ofl buildings has never been hit. More great administrative buildings are grouped together here over a radius of a mile or less than in any other similar area in the world. Even the old Abbey has never been struck--thank Heaven! And the greatest Parliament in the world continues to sit regard- less of German bombs. This picture shows the American Legion marching over Westminster Bridge during the recent triumphal procession of Gen. Pershing's' army through London.

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