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New Shipment of Goods
Received on the Alameda from the
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| It includes coats that cannot be duplicated in
| Style and Price. Dresses in new fabrics and
color effects, direct from the Eastern Mar
kets, in Georgettes, Charmous, Satins, Chif
fon, Taffetas, some with Braid and Beaded
effects, also serges in large variety. Evening Dresses
in Tulle, Silver Cloth, Silver Nets, Taffetas and Satins
Beautiful Georgette Waists, some beaded with touch
es of Lace. Stacks of Beautiful Linen Handkerchiefs,
Hand Embroidered Hose and Silk Underwear, Pure
Silk Umbrellas.
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i able cloths and napkins, huck and turkish towels,
trimmings, braids, fall assortment of notions.
We Have also received our new line of Cretans and
Tapestries, Pillows, Braids. Trimmings, Notions, Silks
by the yard. Georgette Crepes in all Shades, Crepe de
Chines, Velvet, Broadcloth and Corduroys.
Mens Shirts, Ties, Silk Hose. Linen Handkerchiefs and
Silk Umbrellas.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 8.—The new Jewish
battalion of the British army is now
encamped for its final training period
on a hillside in the west of England.
Very shortly it will leave for the
Palestine front.
The battalion is under the command
of Colonel J. H. Patterson, an Irish
man and a great lion hunter in East
Africa in the days before the war.
His experience in command of Jew
ish troops dates back to the Galli
poli campaign, where he was in
charge of the famous Zion Mule corps,
formed in Egypt of Jewish refugees
from Palestine. After the close o(
the Dardaneles campaign, the Zion
corps was disbanded, but some of its
members managed to make their way
to England and form the nucleus of
the new Jewish battalion.
As at present constituted, about
fifty per cent of the Jewish battalion
are British-born or naturalized. The
remainder includes the members of
the old Zion Mule Corps, a large num
ber of Russian Jews, and a curious
melange from several allied and neu
tral countries. The level of physical
fitness, according to the medical of
ficers, is very high, particularly in
such matters as teeth and eyesight.
The battalion is practically teetotal,
and a wet canteen which was opened
in camp a few weeks ago was closed
in a fortnight for lack of business.
Colonel Patterson himself is an ardent
temperance advocate. “Crime in the
army,” he said the other day, “is due
to drink and nothing else. This is
shown by the fact that our guardroom (
has been empty practically from the
start, and you would have to travel
around many training camps to see
the like. The disused cells have been
turned into bedrooms for the guards.'’
A great variety of trades and pro
fessions are represented in the battal
ion. There are more tailors than any
| other single trade, and this fact isj
I reflected in the excellent fit and smart
cut of the battalion's uniforms. There
are several artists and sculptors, the
latter including a leading British
sculptor, Jacob Epstein, whose wrork
has been a center of interest in Eng
land for the past three years. A prom-^
inent concert violinist, Anton Tchai-(
kov, is in the same company with
Epstein, which also numbers a young (
Russian who claims to be a second
cousin to Kerensky.
Regimental orders for the new bat
talion are issued simultaneously In
English and Yiddish, and Yiddish is
used as much as English in instruc-'
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tion. Some of the soldiers hardly
know the English words of command.)
but all the non-commissioned officers^
and most of the commissioned officers j
speak Yiddish fluently. The languages
| represented in the ranks are more^
than a score in number. One corporal
speaks nine languages.
The food served is strictly kosher.
Saturday is the day off instead of
| Sunday, and all the fast-days are ob
served with as much ceremony as the
| military atmosphere will permit.
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BELGIAN CHILDREN
' HUDDLED IN SHACK
(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 8.—White
faced Belgian children shivering in
' their rags as they huddled on the lee
side of a shack made of scraps of
lumber and pieces of tin is the picture
j that greets everyone here who enters
the federal building.
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 —Shining
214 feet above mean high water one
of the most powerful beacons in the
light house service flashes its rays
through the Golden Gate so that on a
clear night the mariner 21 miles out
at sea clearly can see its intermittent
but regularly reappearing beams. Be
neath this light is a grim grey, rock
ribbed little island of twenty acres
crowned with grimmer walls of grey
stone pierced with rows of innum-'
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erable barred windows. Heavy fogb
sweep in through the Golden Gate and
envelop it and It is safeguarded by
the swirling tides of San Francisco
bay which baffle the strongest swim
mer. No man ever attempted to
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breast these tides from Alcatraz Isl
and as the little rock is called, to the
mainland only half a mile away, where'
the lights of the city shine at night, I
has lived to tell his experience.
Here 500 men who once wore the i
United States army uniforn with hon
or spent their last Christmas. Often- j
ses, more or less serious, has brought
them within the walls of the United j
States disciplinary barracks on this
wind swept rock. There is scarcely
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one of them but has the fierce longing
to be with those other men in drab
who are facing the Germans in France
or are about to cross the Atlantic for
the far flung European battle lines,
and many of them, as they are grad
uated from their disciplinary term,
will be allowed to rejoin the active
service.
Dull walls have taken on color.
Greens and red berries are festooned
and wreathed throughout the bar
racks.. Stone walls and steel bars
have failed to keep out good cheer and
their Uncle Sam did what he could to
mke the occasion as pleasurable as
circumstances would permit.
All routine duties were suspended
and the men were permitted liberty
within the confines of the parade
grounds and barracks. There was a
baseball game between two teams in
the afternoon after the Christmas din
ner at noon. In the evening there was
a moving picture interspersed with a
musical and vocal program.
And overhead the light kept Us
vigil, flashing its rays through the
Golden Gate far out across the roll
ing Pacific.
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If you want printing of any kind
call up the Times office.
In Friesland, it seems, there is a
custom that the news of a birth or
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death is announced verbally by a man
who calls at every house in the vil
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lage for that purpose. If he brings
the news of a birth he wears white
gloves; if of a death they are black.
One day a child was born dead in a
Friesian village, ft was necessary that
the usual announcement should be
made, but in what colored gloves? The
harbinger was a man of resource. He
went his rounds wearing one white
glove and one black one.
Read the Times and keep posted
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