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THE £2,000,000 GIFT,
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INTERESTING ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS:
The work has offected no mater-the Association of British Malaya, the LP.
Mr. W. H. Shelford, president of
A number of women dolegatos at in alteration in the China situa- in the course of his address ut the Easton Lodge complained that Summer School It tion, says the "China Express and recent annual meeting in London, co-operatively produced clothing
referring the contribution | Telegraphy" of August 12. The
of did not keep pace with modern £2,000,000 from the F.M.S. fashions in design, colour and rivalry of the self-appointed lead- toward the cost of the Singapore appearance, ers continuca, with fresh splits Naval Base, said this has been here and new combinations there.announced as a free gift from the rulers and the Government of the The only fact" which clearly FM.S.. emerges is that wanton buffering
comes
The money, of course, from the public revenues, and these have been swelled by the higher export duty on rubber in- troduced ander the restrictions scheme..
It may be that this is the price rubber growers have to pay for
Penitential Mood.
A proposal that the Tallers and Garment Workers' Union should
A number of Labour members have introduced into Parliament a Bill to give Home Rule to Sectiund. with a single-chamber Farliament f 148 members, and providing that o M.P. for Scotland are to re- main in the Imperial Parliament.
The present Mayoress of West Bromwich, Mrs. Grace Cottrell.
accepted the Mayoralty for the coming year. " Her husband, the present Mayor, will be Deputy- Mayor," and Mrs. Cottrell has no re-Aileen Cottrell, as Mayoresy. **
minated her elder daughter. Miss
In this connection of public venues I would remind you of the conditions existing a few years agorand of the words spoken to you by Mr. James Graham, who was president at that time.
He said: "Just at the present moment I think it is true that the Government is in a somewhat
Colonel Stewart and his wife, well known at Brooklands motor track, riding alternately, a French motor- cycle with a 350 c.e. British engine, on Monthlery track. "Paris, broke the 24 hours' long-distance record cf.56-83 m.p.h. held by Italy. They
hours.
when
send a delegation to meet the Rus stau" Clothing Workers' Union was Bearing in mind the close asso-defented at the Leeds Conference of and hardship is being inflicted ciation of the High Commissioner the Tailors and Garment Workers'
and the Administration of these Union. upon millions of industrious and States, And the tendency of the patient people whose sole con-native mind it is not difficult to cern is to be left in peace. Of guess the source of inspiration, Actual ighting there appears to have been litt--just a few skirmishes in the North where lack of enterprise on both sides has brought about a condition of stale-male, and a few przcileally unopposed advances by the Can-restriction. » tonese "Reds" in the Yangtze area -but the countryside is teeming with unpaid and i-disciplined armies, who have to be maintain- at the public expense and adopt their own methods to ensure that the Teeding is liberal and to their Hiking Every week brings news af fresh alliances to eliminate" one or other of the rival factions.
week Marshal was LIMITED.reported to be join hands with chastered and penitential mood, averaged 62.4 m.p.h. for the 21
the Kominchun, whom he wast you remember the old saying
"It is a disgrace that a man who fighting, to dispose of his "ally" that when the devil was sick the Marshal Wy, while the "indepen-devia saint would be, when the has done so well should be in this dent" Lord of the Five Provinces devil was well the devil a saint position." said Judge Sit. Thomas
ab Greenwien, was he. I think it is question- Granger of the South-East, General Sugi,able if this penitential mood will Frederick, nide, who fought ut was suspected of an intrigue last long when a period of pros-Zeebrugge, was sand by the L.C.C. with the Kuomintang, or Canton
for, non-payment of rent on neccunt "Reis," with a similar end inperity returns."
His Honour The Colony has already found of unemployment. jaview.
"This week there is rejoicing in the land for the site, which hits made a public appeal that the man Peking over a reported combina-been valued at £350,000. I do not might be found a berth."
At the Congresa of Esperanto tion of the forces of Chang. W understand why a value has been and Sun to dispose finally of both placed upon it unless it is to form held at Edingargh at a special ser- the "Koo" fartions. To add to the basis of a cash payment by vice in St. Giles' Cathedral all the the piquancy of the situation it is the Colony to the Imperial Gov-aets of worship, praise. payer und reported that Canton is much ernment, if, and when the time preaching were carried out in airmed lest the armies of Yun-
eone to. move the Naval Base Esperanto. The manuscript of the Bible, translated for the first time Telsewhere. han and Kueichow engineer ah attack upon the Cantonesa rear
I should have thought it would into Esperanto, was dedicated by and ent them off. Unfortunately have been prudent to provide for the Rev. Dr. Graham Balley, Reader experience has proved that re-the surrender of the land to the in Asiatic Languages in the Univer- ports of the kind are not be relied Colony free of charge should suchsity of London.
Each of the militarists is
contingency upon striving for his own supremacy. and none is sufficienty patriotic to subordinate his personal inter ests for the national cause. If one combination were to suppress another the victors would, as in the past, split up over the division of the spoils, and the one need of China, a strong central authority, would be as remote as ever. In some quarters it is regarded as unlikely that. China will ever again have a Central Govern- ment. There certainly has been none worthy of the trust for some time. However, the prospect of
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The Australian Commonwealth Government having issued a writ
the against A Query.
South Australian Government and the South Aus These transactions gave the impression that, the safe-restrain them from taxing petrol metrallan Commissioner of Taxes to guarding of the property and re-sales on the ground that such tax venues of Malaya have not been is invalid under the Constitution, the first consideration of the Gov- the South Australian Government ernment.
is suspending its proclamation re- dueing the petrol tax from three- pence to one penny.
Singapore has supplied the site of the Naval Base; Hongkong has subscribed to it; the Federated! Malay States has subscribed to it: but as far as I can understand the self-governing Dominions have
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A Lakeland prostran whe many remote farms to serve among the hills deually has an hour's doze in the open if the weather is hot after, his morning deliveries, and I wonder if these gifts are so has adopted a novel way of being China splitting up into a number free as they have been represent-awakened. Lying beside a lake he
not.
of military states offers no solu-ed to be.
tion of the problem, for nothing would prevent their rulers getting
at each other's throats just as
they are doing to-day.
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removes his boots and socks and stretches full length with his feet) just near enough to the water's edge for his toes to be tickled by the wash from a steamer that passes punctually an hour later..
of
Guardian" gested by Mr. J. Rankine Finlay says that if any one of them had sen, in a letter to our contem-. regard for any interest except his perary, that it might be worth been re-opened on the death
A page of Australian history has lown. it might be possible for the while to explore, with all serious-George Denis Devine aged 79. foreign Powers to offer helpfulness, the possibility of the Devine, was a sergeant of police in advice towards a lasting settle-world's greatest influence, the February, 1879, when Ned Kelly, ment. What form that settie- League of Nations. The world,che, Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe ment would take the paper does adds, rəjoices that the League Byrne entered Jerilderie. They not venture to say, but it seems has dealt with not a few critical imprisoned Devine and the assisting fairly clear that China is not like- cases and with success. One, is constable and donne their unl ly to come into a state of peace fully conscious of the profound forms. They then inspected the and orderly government except by difficulties that surround such town an relieving officers from outside influence, in spite of the suggestion: but the China pro-Sydney and took possession of an fact that the Powers, which have blem is so overwhelmingly dif-hotel, everyone who entered, being been meeting in Peking, have not ficult that it may be only by a made prisoner. They then robbedi been able to relieve the situation. most unusual procedure that any a bank of £2,000, cut the telegraph As the case calls loudly for some progress towards a settlement can wires and rode away on the troopers' very special treatment, it is sug: be made.
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