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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Servics to the China Math)
MILAN STRIKE.
MILAN, October stk. As a result of an agreement between the workers and the employers, electric power is again available and tramways have been restarted.
GENEVA CONFERENCE.
KECKLESS AND MAD GAIETY.
Notwithstanding the enormers prices charged by the theatres of;
Amongst recent letters received at Vienna, they are filled to their limits the Imperial Merchant Service Guild daily. A person who wants a seat is a most interesting communication In the opera must engage it several from a shipmaster who has served days beforehand.-Is-the most ex during the last fifteen years in the pensive and fashionable restaurants East, says the Journal of Commerce.
PARIS, October Bib. you cannot get a table at certain He claims to speak from an experi- No decision has yet been taken as re hours without waiting for the presence of 29 years at sea in all classes gards the postponed Geneva Conference B vious occupants to leave.
of ships, and mentions with pardon-discous reparations.
The French Government has replied to a The cafes are crowded; the moving picture shows are packed; and, inable pride that he is one of the old spite of the alleged scarcity of gase School, having gone through his note from Lord Curzon suggesting that traming in some of the finest such a conference should be held, agres line, the streets are thronged with Australian clippers. The comparat which the Germans may be heard will ing to it, but specifying that the meeting motor cars. The show window's of the fashionable shops make as fine sons which he draws between con- be simply a preparatory hearing which the higher a display as ever. The delicatessen ditions now obtaining in the service leaves the final decision to dealers exhibit their usual array of and those which existed when he authorities. luxuries. Everywhere there is a superficial appearance of wealth But the worst scandal in this defeated and ruined metropolis is the night
Efe in the cabarets and bars.
Such establishments are so no merous that you cannot count them, and you surely could not count the money that is wasted in them While the cabarets are compelled by law to close by 11.30, the bars keep open secretly all night.
These are the temples of vice and luxury, where Vienna-the Vienna that still has money-dances and gambles and drinks from 9 in the evening until 4 in the morning First and foremost, it drinks, drinks with as great ardour and devotion as if it were performing a religious rite People drink without limit and with out cessation both men and women Here is where the substance of Vienna is wasted.
first
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
PILGRIM FATHERS.
went to rea are of the greatest interest-"At the time I
NEW YORK, October 5th. left sail to go into steam the wages were little better than in sail, £6 for
The Presidential campaign is now and officers and £8 for second officers, approaching its climax. Both candidates and plenty of overtime work in port. lease their respective headquarters - at served for two years and nine Dayton and Marion to-day on extensive months as second officer for £8 perspeech making texts.
Senator Harding will cover the Middle month. When I arrived in part I
Southerly States- was allowed sea pay, and Is 6d a day West and Governor Cox the more to buy my three meals, which could not be procured at British Workmen's i Cocoa Rooms. The company certain-
LONDON, October itk ly expected tis to have our meals at
A telegrams from Norfolk (Virginîs), a first-class restaurant. At the same time they were not willing to allow states that the delegation to the tercenten- us sufficient to do so. I never kot za celebration of the Pilgrim Fathers cent for all the overtime I worked visited James Town Island. the scene of participated in the opening ceremonies, and was told when I asked for some the first Britab settlement in America and recompense that 1 must have zeal including the erection of a Cross, AS WE and study the company. It was not done by the Erst settlers in 1607, a parade unknown in those days for masters and a mass meeting. to be told to buy their own charts, when the poor fellows could hardly live on their pay: "It is the old mas- In the cabarets naturally they do ters and officers who founded the not usually drink champagne. It has Imperial Merchant Service Guild been replaced by a mere moderate after a very hard struggle and laid to supply food to Poland is pointed ort that the Bolshevists have completely sparkling wine, costing 600 crowns the foundation of the present society, devastated 40,000 square miles of territory harvest is poor.
POLAND'S APPEAL.
WAFEINGTON, October 7th."'! Poland has requested the United States
bottle. Please note, I say 600 crowns which has done such a lot for the in Poland and the tobe s
be Foles are exhibiting great indifference The Time Warsaw correspondent says as to be prospect of peace which is attri batable, it is stated, to the belief that real peace with Soviet Russia is impossible and to the necessity of having to maintain an army in the held ready for 'action.
~ AMERICAN FLIGHTS.
PANAMA, October Tih. Eight American sabmarine chasers are patrolling the Caribbean Sea in order te the attempt of Commander facilitate Herbeter and three other officers of the American Navy to fly on two seaplanes from Panama to Kingston (Jamaica)..
"An American army officer, Lieutenant
and Jamaim.
MINERS” BALLOT.
LONDOS. October 9th, It is considered that the prospects; se
Still, if you wish it you can have a cloth. The Guild would not be battle of real champagne at a price in existence now if we had adopt Whilst more easy to imagine than to believed the drastic measures a good ing and Egyptian wheat. other cations fared badly, England How many bottles of the imitation many of the younger genera fared fairly well throughout the champagne, costing 500 crowes, are tion suggested to further our interests Middle Ages. Up to the 19th cen-opened every night in the cabarets when we first formed that body, tury Britain was a heavy eater, but and bars of Vienna is difficult to say: The war has brought to the notice in the 20th century Britain was un- but if any statistical enthusiast were of the British people what the Guild derfed. The abundance and high to make the computation, I have no is, and who it represents, and what quality of the Australian food were doubt he would be appalled by his assistance it was to the country in advantages for which they must be discovery. thankful; they accounted in some In addition to this alleged cham-time of need, and how essential the Professor W. A. Osterne, profes-measure for the physique of the agne, there are red wines at 100 and cloth was to the building up of the Empire. The present generation of some part 200 crowns a bottle; there are straw officers have done their bit, and 'well sor of physiology at the Melbourne Australian, and for
initiative and courage. berries and cherries at 100 crowns too, but they must not forget the fact University, came to important cop of his clusions in a lecture entitled "The There was no need to entertain a fear plate; there are bonbons and choco that the foundations of the body in physiological factors in the develop regarding Australia's cereal foods, lates, and pastries at 50 crowns ment of an Australian race," which but her meat supply presented a apiece; there are cigarettes fer four question were not laid during the war. Austin, is also attempting a solo fight While ber con- or five crowns each; there is the but many years before, by those who from Panama to Washington, ris Caba
wished to make our position assured he delivered to a crowded audience serious problem. in the Albert Hall He held that ditions could not be as unfavourable director of the orchestra, who polite for the future and for those who temperate and sub-tropical Australian as in lands where meat must be ly inquires your favourite piece and to
Referring to conditions on the conditions were eminently favourable imported, it was easy to see that whom you are obligated for a gratui were to come after us." for the development of a white race something like a small revolutionty proportional to the rest of the China Coast, this officer continues energetic in body and mind, and would take place in Australian cattle prices; and there are all the other The China Coast Officers' Guild is possessing that initiative and aggres raising. A point that needed atten- inducements to prodigality and waste the recognised representative society regards the coal ballot on October 11th are of Mr. Sunillie's appeal which has been siveness which carried races to the tion was the depletion of phosphates which characterize the night life of now of the cloth out here. I trust brighter, owing to the moderating influence that the time is not far distant when backed up by two other prominent leaders. seat of leadership Bat they would from the grass lands. His investiga any great metropolis.
Moreover, the victims of this! require a national acministration of tion pointed to a dearth of phos
the gaining influence preventive medicine, some form of phates. Men of science were abso- spendthrift mania, instead of rebel:- all the organisations in the East will The appeals seem to have caused a definite Imperial Merchant Service Guild, and extremists. Meanwhile, it is declared that national medical service, the develop lutely sure that unless the loss of ing against it, acclaim it. It is safe be affiliated in some masser with the setback to
assume that each of these all working and helping one another the pit bors in Northumberland "ment of welfare work among workers phosphates was made good, a steady
leaves every night i under a contral board... The Durham where there are 212,000 miners in all industries, and more flexibility deterioration mest set in, with in their habits and customs. corresponding deterioration of stock one of the hundred resorts of Vienna old spirit is with us, and we look will not be allowed to vote. They also would have to allow for Possibilities in the way of pig on an average four or five thousand with pride on what the mother socie were immense, and, crowns. Indeed my estimate is, ifty is doing for the cloth, and how the differences between indulgence | raising
On further, there were the enormous anything, too low. and restraint, virtue and vice.
Before drawing conclusions from things are improving. The Guild is the whole, they might entertain a resources of the sea, as yet hardly well-founded pessimism about the touched, so that Australia's dietetic this rapid sketch, faimes compels on a good foundation now, and it is strength. Let them be guided by temperate and subtropical region, but outlook was good. What of disease? us to point out that no small part of behoves them to keep it so, for unity as to tropical Australia, he pleaded The British race had failed in all its this crowd of crazy prodigals is com experience and also by the working for caution of utterance and patience tropical settlements in the past, but posed of foreigners who naturally are of the past. until certain of the result of scientific could the attendant awful mortality better able to pay tigh prices be- inquiry. In his analysis of Austra which had turned lands of beauty cause they get the benefit of the low Ea's physiological conditions, the and promise into Golgothas of British Austrian exchange; though this fact lecturer gave emphasis to the great dead be attributed to climate? By no does not lessen the evil in the No means, for rialaria and yellow fever slightest. The present situation is advantage of political unity. barrier of law, custorns, language, or alone were capable of producing all ruinous from an economic stand- religion marked off one portion from the deaths. To point out what was point, imprudent from a political! another, North Queensland was as due to disease and what was due to standpoint, and immoral from what- WHY SOME DARK SUITS ARE much Australian as Tasmania or climate was a problem that must be ever aspect you-view it. It is an Albany. This consideration brought solved before they could speak dog affront to that other Vicona which is up the question of race. They were matically of the chances of the dying with hunger, to the country
The Straits Times take the follow white population and they intended white man prospering in the tropics. districts which refuse longer to pro-ing from the current issue of the that all reputable Bras "anticipated the
to remain white.
A white Australian population might become more difficult, but it would become more desirable. They
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PARIS, October 9th. A Havas messaKO BAY!:- The National Committee to Eght con sumption is stranging a meeting in Paris of delegates. It is similar to the Ameri- san and European organisations and gine" at examining the possibilities of inter- national co-operation and of bester co ordinate efforts in fighting consumption.
WOOLLEN TRADE CRISIS.
Losbos, October sth. The sudden cancellation on a large scale of Japanese and American orders has caused unprecedented losses in the Brad ford district, and a crisis has occurred in the Yorkshire.wool trade. On the other hand, the Amalgamated. Textile, declaro
He ventured to say that this problem vision the metropolis, and to foreignMonthly Paper of St. Andrews and confidently prophesy that the
had not been properly attacked be- countries, particularly the victorious Cathedral
cause of the lack of evidence.
With the exception of the hook-
governments-Giornale Italia,
will be only of a short duration; and three months bence, probably, a prolonged We have lately heard a repetition of trade boom will be acen. an absurd fallacy which we thought held their island continent as a citadel worm, Australia enjoyed a striking" don't knowísm," until the important had been killed long ago. You can- where immunity from the serious tropical scientific, inquiry which was being not "go to church" except you go in OD the western Pacific, momentous events charged with diseases. They had no large popula-made at Townsville an inquiry cap a cloth suit, or a dark suit. We destiny for the white race might one tion, and no large slums, but some able of valuable discovery was would presume to assure such that if Experts should keep there is anything in it God prefers a -day be decided. They could not day they would have to attack their complete. shut their eyes to the serious indict-slums with the same vigour that they guard of their utterances until white suit or a light suit to a black ment of decay of character that had employed, against snakes and flies. they were sure of their conclusions one. Some who come in dark suits been brought against the white race. Australia-was practically free of one way or the other. He confessed may be having trouble with the No one could read that remarkable disease, and she presented a grand to feeling dubiety as to the suitability dhobie. Is the fear a charge of
Dhobie's charges book, National life and character, by possibility for the statesmen in the of the North-west coastal district of economising?
so high that the differ Charles Pearson, once a Minister for direction of a policy of public health. Australia for a white population. It are Education in Victoria, without having In considering the question of climate, was one of the few places in the ence in cost between the two fashions his careless optimism somewhat in tropical conditions the heat world where birds sometimes fell to is not so very much. We have heard shaken, but the British race had generated within the body did the earth dead. Nevertheless, can of Boys" preening themselves some- Shya Punya weathered some mighty storms in not escape so quickly as in temperate tion was instilled into him by the what as follows: the past, and they might look to or cold climates owing chiefly to wrong judgments made in the past tuan selalu pakai tweeds," reflect improved conditions and eugenic, safe the diminished evaporation through whilst generally, in regard to tropical ed merit. Let a man wear what be guards for a rejuvecation. In the past the skin. He did not regard any of land, consideration bad to be given likes and that in which he can best food had been, of immensely greater the physiological disabitles" due to to the incalculable element of men's worship God without distraction to importance in the development climate as serious for the male adult inventive genius. For listance, there himself and to others (we add the no scientific barrier to the last as a warning against excentri of race than climate. When food who could keep good health. The was was abundant humanity, prospered, weakest link in the tropics was the practice of cooling processes in the cities). Those who will agree to and when population excceded the child Concerning women's health same way that heating contrivances wear other than tweeds on Sundays at least for the sake of the weaker food supply there was emigration or dubiety entered, while the chances of had been established. war. In estimating the forces that a white child were still more doubt The lecturer illustrated his remarks brethren" will be helping to break a overthrew the Roman Empire, men ful. But at present the proper with lantern sides of a highly educ convention that should bind no one
in the tropics. tion must be made of the Baltic herrscientific attitude should be one of ative character."
Colonel Juba Worthy Chaplin. V.C... C.B.. of Kibworth Hall, Leicester, who died on August 19, at the age of 80, entered the Army from Harrow in 1858, and served in the Chinese campaign of 1860, being awarded the V.C. for distinguished gallantry at the North Taku Fort, where as an ensign he was carrying the Queen's Colour of his regiment, the 67th. He first planted the colours on the breach made by the storming party, assisted by Private Lane, and afterwards on the Cavalier Fort, which he was the first to mount. - In doing this he was severely wounded. He also served in the Aghan War of. 1879, when he commanded the 8th Hussars, which he joined as Captain. in 1861, after a few years' service with the 10th Regiment. He was awarded the CB, in 1887, and retired in the following year. Colonel Chaplin was one of the best known followers of bounds in Leicestershire.
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