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Hayle Mail Oct. 29, 1914

Notwithstanding the chaotic conditions brought about by the Great War in Europe travel during the past week has been brisk and the hotel accommodation being taxed to the limit. The St Paul arrived on Saturday bringing many Cornish folks among them being Mrs Bray and family from Perranwell, to Lead City, South Dakota, and Rev. J.D. Dory also from Perranwell to Birkenhead, New Zealand. The Rev. Dory  has been home from New Zealand spending a holiday and seeing old friends and is returning to New Zealand via Vancouver and the Pacific.

We were also pleased to see Mr Richard Eslick once again from Ludgvan to Lead City. Mr Eslick is an "Old Timer" and was accompanied by Mrs Eslick, his daughters Doreen, and Beatrice and son Leo the latter going to Urbana, Illinois to attend school.

It has been a source of great pleasure to note how Cornishmen are volunteering their services for the front, several having gone through here for that purpose. The Cornish motto "One and All" is peculiarly fitting at this time and with such fine examples of gallantry and zeal as our troops have shown on the battle field and with the splendid unity existing in the homeland, I believe that the allies will ultimately win the fight.

One fact has been unmistakably demonstrated. The fact of England's supremacy on the seas. It is as true today as in the centuries past that "Britannia Rules the Waves".