courts propos, abrupt exclamations

127. — II. Pôméraniens, /rdWï Pomerania (Ger. Pommern), a province in Prussia.

128. — 20. conyention de Genève. Allusion to the international agreement at Geneva, Aug. 22, 1864, the aim of which was to lessen the horrors of war. To this end ail surgeons, physicians and their assistants should be allowed f ree exercise of thelr philanthropie duties on the field of battle. The outer sign of this neutrality was a flag or arm-band with a red cross on a white ground.

130. — 7. ayait yécu, was no more\ cf. the Latin expression, Ilium fuit,