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FUTILITY OF WAR.
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a total of over $62,000,000 for these three operations alone. The weight of gun ammunition fired at IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AT Messines amounted to 85,000 tons and In the first nine weeks of the battle of Ypres to 480,000 tons.
we to act?.
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DOUBTERS SHAKEN.
Paris, Nov. 8.
Glozel yielded zething save satis faction to the anti-Glozelians, the second has completely reversed the
If the first day's excavations at
Peking, Dec. 10. At the suggestion, of the French co-Director-General of the Chinese Postal Administration in Peking, the National Govern
altuation. After a few hours' ment at Nanking have agreed to despatch representatives of the work in the virgin clay Professor Ankuochun Government as well Ferrer, of Strasburg, struck upon a delegates of the Chinese Post small, round, flat stone nearly tions concerning the working of ground. Every form of scientific Office for the discussion of ques-yard below the surface of the the Chinese Pastal system regard-sounding was taken, and not a sign less of the Chinese civil wars and other disturbing elements.
A Detestable Thing. War has become, 'In short, a Professor A. E, Zimmern lec- Field-Marshal Sir William wholly detestable thing, and it is tured on "The future of the Bri-Robertson, who served in the ranks almost, if not quite, as disastrous
to victors as to vanquished. Conse tich Empire" for the British of the British Army from the age Universities League of Nations of 17 until he was 28, and who was quently many people condemn it as Society at King's College, London, Chief of the Imperial General Staff a failure, hate the very word "war" to-night.
from 1915 to 1918, delivered a
and demand all-round measures of Discussing recent constitutional striking address last night on the disarmament. Other people declare, changes, he said that the British futility of War. He appealed to however, that human nature, being Empire had since last year's Im-overy man and wontan energetically what it is, war will always be with perial Conference been cut up into to support all efforts for devising as, and for it we must always be a number of independent States more sensible ways of composing prepared. Upon which view are It had ceased to be one Sovereign international differences. State. London was no longer the
My own opinion is that questions
could be discovered that this piece of worked and polished stone was capital of the Empire the
reduction of arma- regarding the Dominion capitala were absolute
menta require in our own case to be authorities, M. Destelan denies Favret, noted for his paleontolo- In his telegram to the Nanking not as old as the clay itself. Abbé ly equal. In the League of Na-
treated with the utmost caution. that the northern leaders had gical work near Rheims, took the tions the Dominions were repre
At the same time and let human ever touched the savings funds object and washed it in the neigh- sented as independent States.
nature be as wicked, ambitious, and of the Chinese postal administra- bouring brook, whereupon there stable as it may be I suggest tion as alleged by Southerners came to light upon the surface of that every man and woman should who gave it as one of the reasons the stone a number of inscribed energetically support all efforts for the establishment of a separ- lines, clearly cut with some sharp made for devising some more senstate postal system at Nanking. Instrument a drawing quite re- ble and humane ways of composing Furthermore, M. Destelan urges cognisable of a deer's perhaps a International differences than the that the Chinese postal adminis- reindeer's, head and a number of "alphabet-like" marks forming | roughly something like the letters "XT.VZ..". surmounted by two parallel lines and a sort of capital
Sir William, who is a. Lincoln- shtre man, apoke at the
annual banquet of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. He said:
Conditions within the Empire are such as to make Imperial defence a This was perhaps the biggest very expensive business for this and the bravest single surrender country, and we are now spending of power which had been made in on the fighting Services and upon history by a Government, For other public Services more than mally speaking, the Empire had the country can afford to pay. been disrupted. It had ceased to
New Factors.
be based upon command, and was The annual amount ia 8000 How based purely, upon consent £116,000,000, or about forty mil- and co-operation. This constitu- lions more than before the war. tional experiment had given the That hardly seems right, seeing Emre a far more effective Con- that Germany has now practically stbution than the one which no fleet and that her army is re- existed before, and one far better stricted by treaty to 100,000 men, adapted to the conditions of the and that there are several other world in the present age.
new factors in the general situa- Small-Sized State Out of Date.
tion which, if mattera are rightly Large scale interdependence handled by our statesmen, ought to- was common to both the League permit of our defence arrangements of Nations and the British Em- being constructed on a more modeat pire. The ordinary small-sized scale than they are now.
Stute
Wewater Spates, at blackboard, instructing prohibition genta shout how the law functions at the Prohibition School in Washington. Prospective prohibition agents can be seen standing around en- deavouring to get the finer points of law which they are supposed
remember when making' raids.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 192
QUEEN'S
HAROLD LLOYD The Kid Brother
The French reporters who were present all claim this discovery as a triumph for Dr. Murlet's thesis of a Neolithic alphabet antedating the Phenichan by many thousands
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SIR FREDERICK LUGARD'S
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if really confirmed, would make Western Europe instead of Mesopotamia the cradle of the world's culture. International ex- Sir Frederick Lugard, presiding perts, however, prefer to reserve at a meeting of the Imperial Social judgment.
Hygiene Congress, made a most The next discovery was made suggestive speech on the medical shortly afterwards by Mr. Peyrony, service in Africa and the necessity the newly appointed French Gov-for improving native diet and ernment curator of Glozel. It was health conditions. There are con- one of those red clay phallic models siderable areas in British Depend- bearing on one side the so-called encles in Africa, as Sir Donald prehistoric death-mask, two eyes Cameron has pointed out, where and mouth, of which Glozel has ordinary medical assistance is un-
and already yielded many scores. Later obtainable
Sir Frederick
wara For instance, was to-day out of date.
have often Both the League and the British owed their origin to despotic mon- Empire recognised the powers of archical government and the main- individual centres to issue comtenance of a great national army. mands, and both were based upon Such combinations are now Tare, the independent responsibility of the last war having terminated the national parliaments. We had career of three Emperors who were now a world which needed inter- mainly responsible for starting it, national organisation because its and other monarchs have fortun- problems were international, but ately disappeared with them. which could only be governed by No longer can nations be ordered the consent of the individual een-into war, perhaps for dynastic or tres of power. There had grown personal reasons, by swollen- up in the last few years, both in headed monarcha claiming to be London and Geneva, larger inter-almost the equal of the Almighty. national unity-a network of in-It is in most cases the nations stitutions based upon the prin-themselves who now decide whether ciple of co-operation and the equal peace shall or shall not be broken. representation of local and group That is a great change for the interests. This was a complete better. revolution in the nature of politi- Money Blown Away. cal institutions.
Again, we no longer agree with- Our institutions were now de signed to forward the rapid qualifications that the best way of preventing war is to prepare for circulation and transmission of it. Instead of preventing war we ideas and policy.
As compared know that preparations are apt to with the League the British Em-precipitate it. Never in history pire had the immense advantage were preparations so complete or councils of State in which in some mense detriment of the Chinese sor at Louvain University, is said He has no fears that they would | of being a going concern, and it would be years before the League widespread as during the 50 or form or other International ques-nation and people."A.N.A.” was able to act with the author-60 years previous to 1914, and yet tions of armaments and war were ity. power, and dignity which never were wars so frequent as in daily under consideration. were natural to British statesmen that period.
destructive and futile methods upon which reliance has hitherto been unsuccessfully placed.
Worn-Out Platitudes. .
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That is the only conclusion I can reach after a military career cover- ing on Sunday next a period of exactly 50 years-a period during which I was for some 20 years closely connected with the highest
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a kind of bone pendant was.un- Lugard urges that to make good the earthed, and this time there seems deficiency should have priority even
tration should be maintained in- of the bone.
to be no doubt about the antiquity over the claims of research. Str Frederick referred to the necessity dependently and separately from Thus unexpectedly, and in a few of a trained African staff, and add- UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS Chinese internal troubles and con- hours after every precaution had ed that until' educated Africans troversies, otherwise, he ex-been taken against the "salting" could rise to a conception of public presses the fear that the excellent of the ground, the major discoveries service it was premature for them postal system, which has been in of Glozel are regarded as authentie- to talk of self-government. Regard existence since 1894, and which ated, so that all the theories saveing the food question, he said he now ranks among the best-ad- the Neolithic, and in particular sometimes wonders whether rabbits ministered of the world's postal that of forgery, have to be aban could not be introduced to Africa services, will be ruined to the im-doned. M. Trican Royer, a profes-for the benefit of half-fed natives.
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COMMON CAUSE.”
KOREAN TRAM INSPECTORS
·TELL CHINESE.
Protesting that they have a common cause with the Chinese employees of the 'Shanghai Tram: ways the union of Korean Tram- way employees last Sunday Issued a-manifesto denouncing the assas-
to have remarked: "After this there multiply till they became a pest, as is no further need for the inter-in Australia. A sufficiency of food
would go
far to promote the national commission to remain." I therefore give the result of my
The experts, however, have agreed material well-being of the native to and people. Unlike the League, France fought in Italy; Germany experiences for what it may be
to say nothing officially until the advance him on the road to civilisa- the British Empire had no centre, fought in turn Denmark, Austria, worth. It is at any rate more in
work is finished and they present tion to make him a more efficient and it was able miraculously to and France. There were the accordance with prevailing sentä-
their report"Manchester Guar-economic Instrument both in his own interests and those of the eixet without a central institu Russo-Turkish and Russo-Japanese ment and financial conditions than
dian."
European enterprises for which he tion, because it was a spiritual wars and many ware in the Bal-out-of-date platitudes urging the reality-common understanding, kans; the Spanish-American war, necessity of maintaining strong
ANTI-SALOON 'LEAGUE,
works. In Sir Frederick Lugard's desire to co-operate, goodwill, wars in China, and our own wars fighting forces.
opinion the confidence of the native and common intellectual habits in Afghanistan, Abyssinia, Egypt May we not also say that if the
Washington, Dec. 10.
can better be won by providing already existed within it. There and South Africa.
* futility of war were more insistent to the noise of subways and elevated The Anti-Saloon League needs ten an adequate professional and sub. were no limits to the evolution of Finally, the colossal cost of mod-ly emphasised by political leaders trains, riveters and radios, find a millions to finance its activities dur-ordinate staff, which understands group consciousness in the future n
hini and can speak his language, war, in lives and wealth, and the desire for peace within rea- | new test for their nerves when they ing the next five years. in the British community.
must, one would think, also act as a | sonable limite were more carefully hear the average Mexican gaining -
which is constantly. touring the villages and is not liable to frequent Peace Britain's Chief Interest.
deterrent. The killed and maimed nourished, the defence of the Em- entrance to his home at night, tric bell and hammer a heavy knock- in the last war were counted by | pire would soon become a far easier | In Mexico one does not unlock er against the door for several change and by the intensive study of Professor Zimmern went on to millions, and the amount of wealth and cheaper task than it now is; the front door with a latch-key and minutes.
every aspect of native life-social, say that owing to the great destroyed was no lesa staggering. and, what is often more important, slip upstairs quietly, shoes in hand. The object of the commotion is to building fine hospitals which the medical, and sanitary than by growth of democracy in the For instance, the cost of our
the great undertakings with which Properly speaking, there is no front wake a cervant who sleeps in the natives shun and can only be world since the war real co-opera-artillery bombardment previous to this and other chambers of
com- door to
the house itself, but a semi-basement near the gate. By staffed at the expense of heavy. tion between us and the other the launching of the infantry attack merce are
associated would have ponderous heavy wooden gate, the time this person is awake, how-calls on the district doctor. Great Powers was now possible. amounted in the case of the battle the opportunity not only to re-heavily panelled leading into the ever, only the very soundest sleepers If the world was now as anarchi- of Arras to £18,000,000, of Messines cover from existing depression but court or patio from outside the among the other occupanta of the cal as it was a century ago thore to £17,500,000, and of the third also to open up new and profitable street. To gain admittance it is house are unaware that someone Is would be, he thought, no chance battle of Ypres to £22,000,000, or spheres of activity:-"Daily Mail." necessary usually to ring the elec- trying to enter. United Press. of Great Britain and the Domin- ions remaining together in the British Empire. Fortunately we were now living in a world of in- terdependent interests. The existence of the League of Na- tions had enormously strengthen- ed the British Empire from the purely psychological point of view. Every year the delegations from Great Britain and the Dominions met at Geneva and dis- cussed their common interests under conditions which made. them conscious of their unity as compared with all the other coun- tries. The Empire and the League had come naturally to gether. They had one outstand- ing common policy, that of peace. It had become extremely dan- gerous to British statesmen to allow the possibility of war to re- main in the world. We were in reality much more exposed to the dangers of war than, France, Poland, or Germany, and it was a first-class British inter- est that peace should become the normal rule of the world, and that differences should be thrashed outį infree discussion in a world where war was not allowed. "Manchester Guardian."
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