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PRINCE'S KINDY VISIT.
TIGHT OF MAUIC
WONDERFUL ELEPHANT PROCESSION,
FRIDAY, March 23. Kandy by night has barn very much more wonder. than Kandy by day during the Prince's twenty hour visit, not because of the graint ceremonials dwarfed almost into insignificance by reminiscences of the Fadian tur but simply because it was Kandy with which India has nothing to compare.
night when a land of armed men broke into the Houseful of a publican. Ther dragged the publics, his fire sons and the barzan from their beds and shot them successively. Five were killed and two are dying.
BRITISH NAVY'S FUTURE
OUT OF THE WATER INTO THE AIR.”
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WASHINGTON TREATY ECONOMIES,
Lasbox, March 24. The House of Commons adopted the naval estimates after a debate in which Admiral Saeter contanded that the estimates were excessive on the assumption that as there would be no war for ten years the battleships now building would be obsolete then and the abandonment of battleships would not weaken the navy. Naval defence could be safely left to submarizes and airmen.
The illuminations, which were confined principally to festoons of coloured lights around the exquisite lake. gave just a magnificent touch of mystic glamour to the enchanting picture. Towering forest kills blotting at the stars all around loomed ia magnified shadows through the indigo. gloom. The sultry air was heavy with the fragrance of lnscious plants and spices.
The teeraisy crowd always flowing on without diminishing looked fantastically picturesque in illusive gleam from Chinese lanterns and shaded lamps. A night long there swelled and lafted the label of thousands whose gala spirit banished sleep. All night long there arose the drabbing and bleating of tom-foms and pipes.
DERBAR OF CHIEFS.
The durbar of Kandyan chiefs, which opened the after dinner festiviti, 6
a striking display Lieut. Col. Amery, Parliamentary Secretary of the of criental colour and grow ing but with little Admiralty, replied that the Government did not content of the grandeur of the Iudião States. ~ plats war with America or Japan. If it did it would be! The Prince received upwards of 107 of these mad to rely merely on the one power standard which the bejewelled and brocaded chieftains who may be likened Admiralty had interpreted in a way they would not bare done if they thought war likely daring the next ten years. Maintenance of the one power standard made it essential that we should not be hopelessly inferior in battleships which were still the pivot of caval battle bathe Admiralty was convinced of the value of airmen and wanted more and more to get the navy oct of the water into the air.
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to the heads of clans. The audience hall with its column supported roof giving the appearawe of a sabitantial pandal formed a richly quaint setting in the slow and glittering little pageant filing past the Prince who after warila thanked them cordially for their lovelty.
TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH
Then through a gally canopied arcade the Prince with his staff walked to the Maligawal or Temple of the Tooth, where he was received by the high priest who RETURN OF WELHAIWEL
revealed to him the much cherished tooth of Buddhs, s Replying to a question Liens Côl Amerve splaizela-vic carved incipit remisijent of the chip cẻ s that all the estimate; were filmed on the sumpton elephant's task. This traszre, which reposes withm that the naval treaty of Washington would be finallyves-successive caskets, is only disclosed upon very ratified as he believed it would be, but if by any grave rate and impressive occasions. The temple itself is com- mischance it was not ratified the whole estimates must paratively small and tawdry as oriental fames go. be revised and reductions very largely rendered
DEVIL DANCERS.. impossible.
Lieut. Col Amery mentioned that as a result of the Washington agreement he hoped Weihairei world be dispensed with altogether in few a weeks.
IRISH TREATY BILL.
REPORT STAGE COMPLETED.
CARSON STILL BITTER.
LONDON, March, 24. The Irish treaty bill has completed the report stage the House of Lords adopting an amendment moved by the Government to which the Irish Provisional Gavera mens Lad previously esented postpring the month allowed Ulster to decide to join the Free State until the Free State constitution bil has been passed insteal of rating from passage of the treaty bill. -
The alteration provoked vigorous protests from Lord Carson, Lord Londonderry and others who com- plained that the Government wanted to keep the boundaries question is suspense to enable the Sou-hara Irish to cantinae murdering and raiding,
Lord Lansdowne intervened advising Lord Carson and other friends not to insist on their opposition.
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PARIS, March 24.
Greece has accepted France's terms for settlement of the "Espoir incident providing compensation to the captain and payment for the cargo.
[An Athens cable dated March 19 stated: The Government has decided to release the Italian steamer "Abbasia" and its cargo, recently seized on the ground that they were contraband of war. The Government is also replying to the French Note in regʻri to the seizure of French ships, undertaking not to woolest French vessels in future.]
ISLAMIC WORLD CONGRESS
COMING PARIS MEETING..
Paris, March 23,
As Islamic world congters will take plac next July, All Moslem Dunities, notably Br Dutch Indies, are expected to participate?- Hot
Then the Prince proceeded to witness a perahera procession of elephants to which each chief contributed from his private herd, so that 133 of these alimals drew. out the sectacle to a mile long interspersed by several cars bearing grotesque idols of gigantic statore and other cars carrying native musicians and batches of wildly capering devil dcers and batches of attendants crack. ing ships in endless volleys. The whole langaidly moving pageant WAS luridly lit by double rows of flambeaux bearers, so that the thronged street of Eudy waxed and waned in a wonderful palpitation of hues. The prince received a roaring reception whenever he was si ted
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BOTANICAL GARDENS VISITED.
Peradeniya, claimed to be the most perfect botanical On Friday morning early the Princa motored ont gardens in the world. After inspecting the bo tree. planted by King Edward VII and a na tree planted by George V. the Pance himself plasted a munamel sprig admist acclamations from a dense and vast ring of spectators. He received as a memento a silver and ebony Mamotie replica of a paddy hoe and an album of photographs of Peradeniya fiants. On the way to the station the Prince paused to watch the elephants bathing in the Mahaweli Ganga.
Returning to Colombo the Prince attended a race Enormous crowds were present. On Saturday mo ning meeting at the Prince's Club in the afternoon
the Prince embarks on the "Renown" and sails for Port Swettenham-(Sir, Herbert Rassel, Beuter's Special representative).
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AMERICA ALARMED.
New YORK, March 25, The United States Lawn tennis association an ounces the Tilden will not go to England in the Jam- of the association has decided that it would not ba mer to defend the Championship title as the executive to sed leading American players abroad in view of the keen carpet son for the Days Cap.
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