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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 7

A daring attempt to n. motorcycle was made at the residence, of Mr C. W. Botham, Tua Aiarhrit. ox\ Saturday morning (says tiie "'-Express"). About five o'clock Mr Botham was aroused by a noise in the workshop. On going out to investigate he found a bar of-iron in the lock en the drivingwheel of the machine' The lock had been forced, and had Mr Botham arrived a minute later he would have found the bicycle missing. The gate was wide, open, to facilitate the 'getaway." The intruder made his escape in the darkness. A recent war book casually remarks on the plague of women that Lave arrived in France! for the purpose of investigating vice conditions in the American Army. We should like to know something more about this—how these! women secured permission, and what sort of reception they met with/says the San Francisco "Augonaut." ' We may also expiress our grim .rasoiolon that if there were no vice conditions before the women arrived they stood a good chance of existing after they have been there for a time, Americans are the only people in the world who would (stand i'ot interference "with an army by harridans of this calibre, but then Americans are the only people who have acquired the habit of letting women do anything they please, oven to the point of inflicting, insults aiid contumely upon men wiio are dying in their defence. i