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if yon get a chill, take Nazol immediately. It will prevent sore throat or tightness of the chest. — 6. Mr lan Macpherson, the Under Secretary for War, m moving a token vote fur the Army Estimates, unfolded a etory of creative energy and organisation which, reads like a fairy tale. It was a vote for an establishment of five million men; and three and a half years ago our army, exclusive of Indian and colonial forces, numbered 260,000. Mr Macpherson paid a well-deserved tribute to Mr Andrew Weir, the new Surveyor of General Supply, who, without eafary, is devoting Ms whole time and experience to the Contracts and Supply Department, "probably the most colos«al organisation m industrial history." This Department bought m the past year £270,000,000 of manufactured goods, and £113,000,000 of raw materials. The army is now consuming, Mr Macpherson tells üb, three times as much food as the whole population consumed before the war. The War Office is now the biggest wool and textile concern m the world, its expenditure on wool alone amounting to £88,000,000. For every' 100 blankets produced m a normal year before the war, 260 are now purchased by the War Office. "They had made such miles of cloth and flannel as would extend six or seven times round the equator:" For Children's Hacking Oough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Core. ill i[6*