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mach it goes against the grain, the fact remains that you cannot exelos seventy millions of industrious and intelligent people inside a ring fence, as it were; and say you will never again have business. Successive Prime Ministers have borne dealings with them. I find that hard of both the Home and Colonial Civil testimony to the high conception of duty beaded commercial en in London. nad Services. Both are recruited in the same in the industrial entres of the Midlands wound up-I saw the other day in a re way; and when the new Departments are and North, are under no illusions in this turn that they number something like 130 all told those who represent the old traditions will be found as concientious "Business a business.' a leading mer
and capable, as ever. chant with large overseas connections saidcos. JOEN WARD, M.P. to me a few days ago. and now that the Hun has been thoroughly beaten and put in his place, why on earth should I refuse to sell him my goods! I am not in trade simply for the good of my health; I do it to make money. And if German bay British goods they will there is no other way-pay for them by sanding their goods over here. That is the alphabet of commercial dealings be tween nations. Yet you hear grown-up men saying in one breath, Germany (must pay for the War"-this was one of the cries at the last General Election --and in the next breath, "Let us boycott German trade. In the strictly business sense this is only baby-talk." ANTI-DUMPING LEGISLATION,
1919.
FOOTBALLERS AND OFF. SIDE RULE.
POINTS THAT MUST BE REMEMBERED.
[NY W. PICKFORD.}
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It is a pleasure to be writing on, foot-
We have got a
bit at loggerheads, the one with the other. and it may be a welcome antidote.
Reconstruction that we hear so
where we left oR.
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LAWS AS BEFORE.
THE UNCHANGING EAST. 'ORIENTALISTS IN LONDON. Seven years have passed since last an Oriental Congress met, that" occasion in Athens. There was to bave been a congress 'at Oxford in 1913, but the world was then a war.. Now, after Peace,
London, and last month they were discussing umatters of interest to scholars
This week's Punch bas as principat cartoon under the heading "* Paradiso Lost the picture of a little flapper and portly officer, an obvious "' dag-out." LONDON, September 10th. leaving a Government office hand-in-hand The embargo on imports into this coun-looking exceedingly, woe-begene and try having been removed. quite a nu- miserable. It means that the exodus has ball again. Five years is a long gap. bus Orientalists of many nations have gone ber of those clever people who write egun of some at least of the clerical army the amazing thing is that football picks political articles have been trying to employed in
Government Departments up its threads so readily after such "make our flesh creep."" like the Fat Boy and numbering 307.825 persons, according devastating interval. Here we are on in Pickwick, at the fearful and wonder- to a recent White Paper. The picture the fringe of another season, just na keen in Albemarle-street. W.
in the rooms of the Royal Asiatic Sheiety, ful quantities at goods which the Gergives point to the joke which went down and just as rager as if there had been no mans are (so they say ready to send as very well fadeed at the Pavilion the other stoppage.
Indeed. "I go further, and or 3rd, by a distinguished vice-President,
The visitors were welcomed on Septem It is only the other day that those self night..when one of the comedians, in seesay that the game has a part to play in same people were calling out for thouing a couple of Cabinet Ministers toge humanising us a little,
of the Royal Asiatic Society, Sir Charles sands of millions of pounds as war inther in a box. contrived to tell the house
catastrophe of the war had overthrown Lyall who remarket that the great delinities from the Germans, though bow that "England is a place inhabited by our late, enemies in arms are to pay us Government oeäls, nad
many things besides empires, and during a few other or anybody else unless they are able to people."."
much the troubled time now past the fursuit of about. or did in the new zeal after the scientific studies and exploration had been trude is in the language of the immortal Apropos this subject. I hear that men artistice, has not tonched our old game Lort Bandreary of the play, one of belonging to the old Civil Service are We are as you were." save trifling construction, and they assembled in Londen impossible. Now came the epoch of recon- those things no fellah can understand." rather sore that they are included in the cessions to higher prices, for "your, foot to inaugurate fresh effort in Oriental This freedom to trade--not only "sweeping condemnation meted it to ball will cost you more," The nursement studies. The conception of that reunion England but with other counties State Departments in regard to ex- tax will puzzle many a country secretary. something which must be conceded, the travagance and other sins of commission and railway fares will be
was due to M. Emile Senart, the presi a financial dent Germans. However eloquently paliti and omission They have every reason problem. Really, we must fight for some thought that past gatherings of Orient of the Société Asiatique. who ciana declaim against it. and however to protest. Nobody has regretted and consideration for football teams travel-alists often, had lacked a solid purpose. condemned the methods of the wartineling in pursuit of healthy recreation. I class of officials more thar the tried and am astonished that there is any hesita should meet more frequently with the and that it was desirable that scholars experienced men who were. In too many tion. But for the most part we resume object of keeping in touch. and entert eases, elbowed aside or ignored.
ing plans for the advancement of archæo- logical research among the nation's which And astounding fact-the laws of the the war had brought together in bonda game are just the same as when the last of closest friendship. rule-book was printed in 1914 and the warmly received by the Royal Asiatic This iden was last referees chart in our hands. Five Society. Among the changes wrought by Tears, and set a comma altéred! It is the war were the severance of the outlying almost a miracl
Provinces from the Turkish Empire, and The penalty kick the entry of India as ation Foto the unamended, though it needs some looking field of politics. The ne.. conditions had Labour M.P.. who spent some months in kicking out, which is absurd, and our old measure closed. That made all the more Colonel John Ward, the well-known at: there is still a throw-in for deliberate thrown open to scien:15 research large tracts which hitherto had been in a a great Regiment. has come home this week from friend the offside law comes back again, Hongkong in command of the Middlesex.
the world's Russia. The men be commanded are bristling like a contact mine with explod-we should endeavour thoroughly to under-
study to
progress the of Oriental questions. Especially their way to England He took part in the operations in East Siberia which ing points. The trouble is that a minetand the Indian mind, though, and as.." overthrew the rule of the Bolsheviks in can be got rid of by tapping one of its Pirations. that region. To an interviewer be gave buttons with a hammer-also the tapper welcome, spoke of the intimate relations M. Emile Senart, acknowledging the an account of things in Russia which amply confirms the stories that have apbut Law a would defy Royal Commis- which the war bad created between the peared in the British papers.
sion Judging from some of the reports vantages in closer ON TEL: Allied countries, and foresaw great ad- threatened Trotsky regime is, he
continued existence of the always
them for research. rendered possible only by sheer terrorista it easily. Neither Mr. Smillie nor Sir Breasted (america replied. Everyone acts under fear of denuncia Eric Geddes would get much change out (Italy) also tion to the authorities. There is no food of it. It would baffle President Wilson.
there
are none of the
You can't get rid of because it is do not profess Bolshevism. ordinary
Moreover.
in Rugby all players ahead of the recognised as the beginning of all the the Bolsheviks
ball were offside how farcical it would great literature of the Arabs. Th in particularly strong position in having complete con If your goalkeeper had the ball every quite a mistake to imagine that the Koran.
It was trol of the manufacturing and the rich other man of your team would be out of was the model of correct Arab.c. dict.
play. I can
imagine a back being model was
as to be found in the ancient noets, Bolsheviks, said Colonel Ward.
whistled down close to his own goal line. who set the style of correct writing. As I believe that this is a very fair e have unlimited supplies of munitions.
research proceeded Just before the Revolution Russia had
it became evident that. ample of what most business me received from Great Britain.
On the other hand, if there were, Arthic poetry in our hands, the reason we had not anything like the beginning of thinking, and of what many of them are rica, and Japan armas and munitions exasperation at the ill-considered anded down vocally, and not put Ame- soife, urge, and as in wild moments of being that Arabic poem were for an army of 16.000.000 men.
first
hand saying, though 'pechaps most of them do
The Bol- very vocal decisions of club directors,
into writ sheviks, he believes. have. munitions have sometimes almost desired, no offside, the same conventions, metres, and langu
ing... All enough to carry on war on the present it would destroy the open character of the sge, the results of a long tradition that early poetry that we knew used scale for ten years. FOOTBALL AGAIN.
The Erat in that.
that a centre had been going on for centuries before. forward would get
wait He had hoped, as his own contribution Football bica fair to be more popular ther
goalkeeper A back would to the joint session, to "atunt" cannot be seriously regarded as than.it was even in the brave days before forward would join his comrade, and we liest anthology, with one exception.
ចរា. the forward, another bis.edition
the Mures the ear
complete DE the war. There was such eagerness to should have eight players or so out of Arabic poems, which had been printing. begin the season's play, and the pro hanging about the goals. The poacher for several years at Beyrut, but when
of old grammes in the first-class competitions would be a recognised item in the side,
the Are sa extended, that a start was made and nothing but good manners would
broke, out the Tuska plundered the on the last Saturday in August the day hinder him from standing alongside the protection, the fathers of the College that saw cricket come to an end with the enemy goalkeeper cracking jokes and St. Joseph at Beyrut were printing the press of all paper. Now, ander Allied victory of Yorkshire as top of the
of ties: Thanks to Daylight. Baving legisla. Paily awaiting the opportune moment last hundred odd pages, and from the tion which filches an extra hour from the
sheets he was able to show he believed it night in summer. evening matches are
-No We don't want that. We want for- would be agreed that no. finer printing in dent
was ever accomplished to the goal by combined movements. It pleasure of big crow
crowds. At the rail-is
is on integral
whe spectacular French. review the last twenty years part of the
spoke in Bah enthusiasts to see a match has like Bobby Templeton and Billy Mere occasioned
and alluded to the loss. as great as it is on a heen etoria-which is
Derby
the Dey at
dith, with eccsammate artistry of foot, la saying a Tot
Gauthist (who work, or by the speed and pushfulness of Petrucci (who had written especially en The laws of the game remain unaltered Harry Hampton or Joe Smith.
died
in the war), and since the Football Association, the Feat ball League, and the Southern League regulation it may clear the ground to said, the horses in front of the tomb of
In attempting to explain the offsideturiese art). The earliest Chinese sculp
in stone that were known were, he practically closed down at the end of the state when it does not apply. These occa. 1914-15 season. The one important change sions are:-
General Ho Kia Ping, dating 17 years in the rules was made at the last meat-
most ancient monaments in rulptured before Christ. Next to these horses, the ing of the F.A., when the laving season was extended to include the last Satur
went hack to the first year of the Chris- stone belonged to the Han dynasty, which day in August and the first Saturday in May. Many of the Football League cluba desired to have a season from August 15th, till May 15th, but this encroach- ment on cricket was not pressed.
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tadi DT. C. Furlani
EARLY POEMS IN ARABIC Sir Charles Lyall discussed ancient
and coes of life for those who the keynote of the Amme. If, Arabic poetry, which he said was not now...
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“A STRANGE PICTURE.
.other wait
for rush..
War
any rate to the same extent which former being played ralind London to the evi. Wards to carry and fetch and to work Arofessor behalf of the Government, promised be. Way-stations on some evenings of late the charm of the game, whether it is done of Chinese studies.aths of Chavannes.
dustries.
.at
of home industries against dumping and that restrictions would be imposed on im ports likely to affect unstable "key" in
The principle underlying proposed State
regulation of imports in this con- nection is briefly designed (1) to prevent the sale in this country of similar goods beneath their price in the country of origin: and (2) to check any. Blood of imports (for instance, from Germany) that might arise from a collapse of ex
The Football League comprises no fewer, Further a limited number of change
than 44 clubs 22 in each Division: This key industries held to stand in need of protection are to be scheduled, and comtem of clubs meeting each other in home reason fxtures will be played on the as- petitive products from abroad will be prohibited from importation, except days, and in cach match the visiting club licence.
will take 20 per cent. of the "gate." FÉLZZ TRADE 1. PROTECTION.
"FUSEYFOOT" AT WORK.
-If you are within your own half
when the hall is last played. 2.--If you have three opponents between you and their goal-line when the ball is played.
3-If an opponent plays or touches the
ball
end..
3.--Next after a goal kick from either 5-Next after a corner kick.
era,
and-away matches on successive Satur being eager totch their relative post- FM Passage in the Moabite Stone, by
ning of controverfo Press has declared representative in England of the Anti-They are slower and more deliberate.
from a
THE DIAGRAM.
да
tips morning the joint session breaks up into three sections for the discussion be spent at the Oriental rooms of the Bri- of various papers, and the afternoon will tish Museum. Among many papers pro- break through the defence when forwards.
Offside generally, happens owing to a Danon on
mised for the week are contributions" by Fragments of Turkish sion, fail to
Versions of the Bible" by Dr. Cowley advantage of the craon a tions in regard, to the player with the history of the Mongols, and by M. Cler- co Mongol, text of the secret To the out-and-out Free Trader restric
ball. There is really not much deliberate mont-Gennegu on a Jewish tions upon imports under any pretext: Mr. "Pussyfoot" Johnson has return speed and over-keenness. The Scots, who
attempting to speak, it is usually do to mosaio found during the war. To-mor-
Inscription whatever is unjustifiable. Hence wed quietly from a visit to Denmark and already have in its early stages the begin. settling down quiet is to work in the one else; do not get pulled up quite so Gardens, the session closing with a dinner row the members will visit the School of play a more close-passing game than any Oriental Studies, and on Saturday Kew on the old familiar offices he occupies in Fleet street as the often as the more impetuous English. lines. The
that evening. for Tariff Reform-especially against the con
Baloon League of America. He hopes to German and every day for the
the past fondness even
consert this benighted week it has been sought to rouse the cou wine of Scotland" and try over a prospective indux of German toys. manufacturers here are now demanding with the quiet that toys should be scheduled as Bri tish 'key industry. Next, the pictare post-cards may possibly be sent
It would be unwise to hazard, ag12:58 over in millions, and naturally the home how much support the American mission manufacturers are raising a loud and ex
will bave in the effort to make. England "dry" like the States. cording bitter ery that they will be raided.
That remains to They, too, are claiming, that he seen, But a man with a nickname picture post-cardware a "key" industry like "Pussyfont is bound to be called
which the greatness of Britain about, and, in fact, there has been ma depends! Next week, no doubt, it will
in the papers about teetotalism in the be some other
past few weeks than previously in as The
strength of
many years. This is all to the good, from "forces at work gay
-Balcon standpoint.
name has been following
of
habit it would he next to a miracle it, at a
for the Now when the forward rush happens drinking the brown given moment, all the five were in a dead the great expert fine, Wouldn't it? They occupy moving
1.--Touch the ball; --2--Nor-in any way whatever to inter- fore with an opponent;
3.Or with play."
As might be expected. the toy working pods believes he is on positions in front or behind he who has B4 'could hardly move, even to get, out
rumour has been'. started that a long trail, as he confesses that he has the ball, as in the diagram.
םלוק ט
taken the offices for 22 years on lease.
be gauged by a demand which is half.The
the made that Sir Auckland Geddes. Presi me right, across Europe," Mr. Puess foot dent of the Board of
of Parliament
Ă
A2
B4
B2
B1
B5
A
of the way of A2 (the back), without interfering with him. Most réferees would at once give B4 cffeide even if he
tood
tili
But if B2 B4 (left alone) and E3 wait ed until B1 bad, taken the ball on, and they were no longer in front, they would then
be put onside. That is where for wards go wrong. Either they get excited and rush onward, or
or BI stupidly parts With the ball and forces the referee to act. Curiously enough, it also follows the strict and only reading of the law that passed the ball back and B2 rab
as 20 when the ball was last played." to it, and when he played it, was behind
It will thus be seen how easy it is for eager players to spoil & good chance, and for impatient spectators to miss the point, The cold eye of the referee, however, takas in, and in 95 rulings out of 100, if ha as a fair experience, the refered deci dion is right
wait for the re-assen Trade, should not Johnson said to a writer in the Westmine- {line bas swept through the halved of the R1. be. would still be offside because he
this
A's defend and B's attack. The whole in October, when the new anti-dumping 1 was chief officer of the U.S... Indian If you draw a ling through 3
ter the other day. From 1900 till 1912 defence, and B1 is dribbling the ball up legislation is to be introduced, but that ne shoul
take the matter inte
and it was my business t
parallel muds, and re-impose the restric, fup others illicit quor sellers, train offside positions.
to round with the goal line B2, B4 and Bo-area tions on imports which were taken robbers, and bank robbers,
I 'rounded
B3 is not, nor would off on September 1st. But it is be up four thousand, four hundred, and he be if he were level with B1. no means likely be will venture to assume
It is therefore the duty of the three some. They gave me the name for I used not to the despotic power which such a proceed to do my work at night and pounce on ing would involve.
them by surprise.-H.B.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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