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It was an erroneous idea to hold in Mesopotamia, and when we were informed that we could arrange our own guards, there was some resentment. However, there was some chance of an interesting time, so parties were organised to watch along the bund. On one occasion a show was arranged which might be termed the Grand Battle of the Bund. It was a battle without casualties.
Following is the translation: My Bund Leader: The bearer of this letter is my old friend and comrade-in-arms, Henry Allen, who is coming East on an important matter. Mr. Allen knows the situation in Los Angeles and California very well and can give you important information. We can give Allen absolute confidence. Hail and Victory, HERMANN SCHWINN. Albans, W. Va., and several others.
In his pleasant veranda next morning, with his coffee fragrant before him on the chequered tablecloth, he read in the Bund: the British communique of the battle of the Somme, new villages taken, fortified woods stormed, prisoners multiplying, the whole monstrous structure of the German war-machine cracking and failing.
The sibilant lisping of the wavelets against the bund sang him softly toward oblivion ... and a convention of water-fowl went into stormy executive session out in the middle of the lake. This had to be endured, and in time Amber's senses grew numb to the racket and he dropped off into a fitful doze.... Footfalls and hushed voices in the bungalow were responsible for the next interruption.
After a jovial repast we sallied forth on to the bund, and being a bright moonlight night, romance entered into our souls, and we started to serenade the various ladies of the port.
Grouped about Raffles Square, and facing the Bund, are the great English, German, and Chinese houses that handle the three hundred million dollars' worth of imports and exports that pass in and out of the port yearly, and make Singapore one of the most important marts of the commercial world.
Oh no, but he wass bound hand and foot by a mighty man." "Wha was bund? A'm no juist followin' ye, Maister Menzies." "The Prince of the power of the air. Oh yes, and he shall not be loosed till the occasion be over. I hef had a sign." After which conversation on the weather languished.
On July 1, 1867, the Dominion of Canada, as the new federation was to be known, came into being. It is a curious coincidence that the same date witnessed the establishment of the North German Bund, which in less than three years was to expand into the German Empire. The federation of the four provinces was an excellent achievement, but it was only a beginning on the long, hard road to nationhood.
But as for myself, my life, of course, is at the disposal of headquarters. David was moved by this refreshing simplicity. He felt a little embarrassment in explaining that headquarters to him meant Samooborona, not Bund. The youth's countenance changed completely. 'Defend the Jews! he cried contemptuously. 'What have we to do with the Jewish bourgeoisie?
We have already quoted its official programme. It is an unimportant variation of Proudhon's Collectivism. The "Alliance" was a union of public societies, as far as possible autonomous federations, such as the Jurassic Bund; and, like the "International," it was divided into a central committee and national bureaus. But together with this division went a secret organisation.
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