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EARLIER CABLES, (TakоCOM REUTER'S AGENCY.)
AMERICAN LABOUR.
ON THE EVE OF THE MINERS STRIKE
LONDON, November 1st.
On the eve if the coal strike, commenc
ing at midnight America, involving
400.000
Unionist miners and possibly 200,000 non Frianists, attention is being focussed on the grave and far-reaching consequences involved towards Europe in this struggle
It is noteworthy, that the miners de mand a 6 per cent, increase of wages.
a six-hour day, a five-day week, and the 'abolition of certain Labour, contract pen-" alties. " H
Already there are 600 ships, including 400 steamers, held up in New York.
There are no signs of any settlement The Government is rushing up tropps with machine-guns to the coalfields and has completed"plads to cùmbag the strike, and protect non-strikers and essentia industries. The maximary prices of coal arbeing reestablished.
Meanwhile, at the eleventh hour, the Federal Court of Indianapolis has issued an injunction forbidding the strike owing to the fact that it involved a national die aster. The injunction; is operative until November 8th, and commands the Union offfels to withdraw the strike order and forbid strike pay. The petition charges the
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WAR HISTORY, GERMANY'S BLIND FAITH IN SUBMARINISM.
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CLOSING PHASE OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE. IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS.
FROM CERCIVAL LANDON.],
Pants, September 19th.
HOW I CAME TO GO TO CHURCH.
I found that going to church on Sup- day gave me Sundays a real object, a zest, an indefinable something that they never had before.
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I stared "I found that going to church on Suá day caused me to inest, in a social way, people that otherwis, I never should have
met.
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I was, I iaingine, rather a typical" ex- I found that going to church on Sun- Ample of the man who stays away from day took my mind of the pettiness and The presentation of the terms of peaceobile nor the Sunday newspaper that living.
church. And it was neither the auto-the monetonaus routine of everyday to the Bulgarians, which took place to day, is perhaps the last formal act of the great Conference which sat for the first away from church because I was under time on January 18th. Perhaps the most the impression that church had nothing characteristic feature of the meeting was
of particular interest for me. the absence of many of the delegates.
"Church 7 " I used to ask myself. Not merely were many of the most im
Church Why, there's nothing" in any pertant members of the Conference eon-shurch for nie. I don't believe that spicuously absent, but no small number Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Lam of those who had been appointed to take a law-abiding moral sort of citizen. I'll their places did aos think it worth while
go to heaven all right, it to get there I to attend. The adjournment of the on- don't have to be any better than most of ference has not been decided upon before these church workers, No preacher can it is necessary. general public in Paris is concerned, but better advantage in a book, a magazine be
Not only so far as the tell me anything that I can't obtain to
WASTE OF RAILWAY SYSTEM.
CHARGES AT GATTIE INQUIRY. PRIMITIVE TRANSPORT METHODS. LONDON, November 186.
The Departmental inquiry into the Dr von Bethmann Hollweg, giving Gattie transport system was continued at evidence before a Commission of the the Hotel Windsor on September 19th, National Assembly enquiring into the Sir Fortescue Flannery presiding. Several possibilities of perce during the
witnesses were called to give the Com-
eps me away from church. WALT
mittee instances of delay in handling After "ur indescribable collapse.
goods under the present system.
Mr Ray Horniman, the author and a which was only possible cause we've director of the New Transport Company all sinned, I won't throw the blame on (which owns the Giastic model at Batter others, but must state the fact that the sea), stated that there were more than majority of the German people and its 3,000 acres of land occupied in London lawful representatives desired the preby goods yards, representing a value of dominance of their military leaders,"
45 to 30 million pounds, while the value He emphasised that there was a deep. of sucb yards for the whole country was (over 300 million pounds. The abolition of rooted belief in the Reichstag and among husting would allow an economy
of the overwhelming majority of the nation..000 of the railway-owned wagons in as well as of the Supreme Army Com
use to-day, and the remainder' would be mand and von "Tirpitz in 1917, that sub enough and to spare to deal with the marinis would end the war soon.
country's goods trafic. The abolition of shunting would do away with well over 70 per cent of the locomotive work in London, The railways would £38.136,000 per annum
BRITAIN'S NEWEST WARSHIP.
NEARLY READY AT CLYDEBANK
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gunpower.
breadth
Her
save
As
in the innermost circles of the Conference
itself, there is a feeling this in its present form the Congress has not only out-stayed
or, a newspaper."
1 found that going to church on Sunday made me fort as if I were a real factor in a pommunity institution.
And last but Far Froni least-I foun that going to church on Sunday gave me an inspiration, a state of mind, which lasted the whole week through.
There are many more selling points for a church than these, but I'm naming" simply the selling points that are hold
Happily the board-of-trustees" meeting was very informal affair. We sat in And so I never went.
the living room of one of the church off- Then, on Saturday night." F was dtw-of each other as to the whys and where
vers' homes nd chatted information out
day's 1,000 per
its welcome, but has largely degenerateddling over my evening paper when Pfores of the pretendance.
into a pere empty formality. A vast chanced to see in the church notices that amount of work remains to be done, but one of the local ministers was to speak the following morning, upon a subject in it has long become obvious that the pre-which I was deeply interested. My wife sence of the Mill Conterence, except us was amazed at my declaration that I was mere recording body, is no longer neces- sary for its acdievement
going to church She was pleased too, for after she was married to me we had got out of the church-going habit.
STYFERINGS OF LIVE STOCK. LONDON, November 1st. Cheap cartage and transport would also
At the same time it is necessary to re The John Brown Company at Clyde. be a great benefit to agriculture.
mind the world that the mere calling bank will have Bnished the construction person interested in the prevention of together of the Paris Conference on 101
eruelty to animals, he believed that the marks an epoch in its history, it would of a battleship wi
Linttic system would eliminate a great be idle to pretend that the high ideals It is believed to be the first capital amount of suffering inflicted on live stock and altruism of its first two sessions have through the present transport systent been able to withstand the wear and tear ship completed in any country since under which they were kept standing for of national ambition-it would not be un- a long while in trucks during great heat fair, perhaps, to say national greed. But Jutland. She combines
battleship's had during cold weather. Under the betore the appearance of these concessions weight and resistance, with
be eliminated to human tratity, which the historian, if a battle Cattie system that woh dealt with at:
and the animals would
noche honest, will have to record; belore cruiser's speed, and
once in the clearing house,
bby intrusion, inevitable sooner or later, length is 500 feet, her
feattie, Mr. Horniman said that he had pete in which the Conference drew its
In answer to a
a question by Mr. W. H.
ur party politics into the rarefed atmos and her draft 28 feet. Her displacement no doubt that when Mr. Gattie's scheme fat breath-there had been the oppor was working private cartage would in tunity of setting on record ideals which as the private einni- the world will never have the audacity to just eight 15-inch guns mounted in four gun-bus bad
rates were the highest in the world, as
From the point of view of a settle houses, two pairs forward and two aft they must be under the prese
ment of terms with Germany and Austria present extra- Her secondary battery consists of twelve ordinary terminal
the Conference has done its work, and arrangements. In reply to Mr. W. B. Clode, K.C.. done it well. Nor is there any fear that point five besides an entirely new counsel for the Railway Executive Com-substantial justice will not be meted out weapon of benlibre throwing "a projec. mittee). Mr. Horniman said that a rough in the other settlements it was called upon
and ready estimate of the outlay necessary to draft. tile of 2 The, and penetrating over four before the benefit of the Gattie economies inches of the hardest steel at 500 yards. million pounds. He agreed that 5,000,000
could be
realized, was between 300 and 400 A bulge afixed under the waterline ring house scheme, bat 100,000 would be workers would be displaced by the clear tects against submerged explosion. The absorbed in the building of the slearing plan does not indiente the protection fo- houses, and the establishment of the clear
ing house system would give such the decks, tops, and barbettes, but it is cer-impetus to trade that there would be an acormous boom. in abour. Districts
How I puttered that Sunday morning: all the odd jobs that I could and
the same things four times. I did waste time on. The more my wife Fro- tested that the clock was moving around to half past ten the slower I was. We'll be late she said over and over
again.
entinerease in
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that the newspaper publicity had been the At the start the board seemed to think
when gave is my opinion that the whole cause of it. They were surprised publisity had been only one link chain.
One of the church members present had: it
descoped helped to build up two Another been a merchant for ears, Several others had more or less understond sales talk, and they under experience in different selling lines. They stood Hales
Radi so I showed them that +
had to be sold to the " people just like any other article
For the six weeks a newly organiz
next
I knew we'd be late. It was my intend attendance committee-the chief out- tion exactly. I figured there'd be fully come of the trustees meeting-worked half-an-hour of hymn-singing and pray
church to the non-churchgoers.
regulation selling lines to all the The minister himself was a good pro- duct
The attendance committer built its
minister's picture, the title of his
paige around him. Every Saturday evening the local newspaper carried the
Miners' Committee with, attempting to in-is 11,200 tons. She has atmain armament of time disappeared. Our private freight ronunce, and that opportunity was fully his Sunday sermon... While, he read his day's sermon, and a suggestion of how
that's
timidate the coal-owners and refusing the arbitration proposed by the Secretary of Labour, Mr. Wilson.
in this connection. the Interviewed miners leader declared that an injune tion writ would not avert a strike." It was almost sweeping abrogation of the rights of citizenship and would only com- plicate the ultimate solution.
The House of Representatives, by an overwhelming majority adopted
taken.
A STEP IN ADVANCE,
It
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in
Dext
this subject will be treated, together with
advertisement. the musical programme and a hearty invitation to the publie to attend the church all in a doublecolumn display
Senate's resolution pledging support tonin to be formidable after the lessons of which had died industrially would be fair reply is possit in itself dandy! He jump into his suber, chan customer is our best advertise
the Government.
STRIKE BREAKS OUT:
New York, November 1st. The strike of the coal miners broke out at midnight
The Union leaders estimate that 377,000 "are participating, and thousands of others
are ready to down their tools to-day,
Reports available indicate that the miners in the great producing regions of Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Ohio. Illinois Michigan. Town, Kentucky, Colorado, Kansas, Montana. Wyoming. and Washington haye left work'
Jutland.
Her engine power inroexceeds restored.
that of any, previous British warship investigaman tald Mr. Clode that his had itself, able to control the been my contribution to the-plate —........
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world
We had lived
of advertising for this particular church's Direct letters were too expensive a form
that other members of the church used their work, so the attendance committed used its collective telephones, and saw to it telephones, to
to call up people on Fridays and Saturdays and personally extend the church's welcome
The attendance committee,
like the mer- worked on the axiom
that menta" As a result it didn't confine its fforts to some one. Every Sunday it was the business of certain members of the indeed, it's a crowd" commitee to mingle with the crowd-se
now-in
MATCH smiling
newcofood
The newcomers receive a
morning: wouldn't like to
to meet the minister The minister was introduced to the newcomers, the coners and to the oldcomere as well. A newcomers were introduced to other new-
-and the newcomers came again. atmosphere auton:atically created fil
marks that it is possible if Lord Fisher, inquiry and always not have a public sighted optimist marks a step in advance pleased as both mightike to have strangers big-hearted, friendly, human. cheerful, #
Sir Perry Soult, and their school of thinkers are right, this will soon be the inst of the great warships of her kind.
THE PRINCE OF WALES
folky,
had spent most of our lives in larger cities where neighbourliness is rott sidered neither good form nor good judg
ment.
GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES. MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN FAVOUR OF
ing preliminary to the sermon: and the hear sermon was the only thing I wanted th
Impolitely ig
ignoring the usher, I sneak. side just as the minister was beginning ed into a back seat with my wife at my
text equated the congregation.
There were sixty-three persons in the church, counting the organist and the two singers. church, from the outside, is one of the minister. the Yet the largest in a city of 45,000 population. is centrally located, directly across the ence has fust the interest of the world, be a remarkable prencher nothing! If
street from the thought. It may be admitted that the Confer-
City Hall Thunder
This rust
action, but almost more because it has bright Sunday morning is t partly because of the slowness of its his drawing power is ifty-nine on u been obliged to go
pute de
primary perfectly good hour to the winds functions and attempt the impossible. A cynic might any that the achievement of The minister was a real one, a
And then I got the surprise of my life the League. of Nationa among the things
To this the the mest masterful way that,
He knew all whether the League of about it, and he knew how to tell what Nations in the unmediate future shall or be knew, I doubled what was to have into railway affairs had" of its members, to prevent war, and der Brown-Curtis turbines will developed that railways were corrupt in their opinion-it scarcely pretends to do more- staggered and horrified him. He declar
And I went with my wife the follow- to inaugurate a central fount of just ing Sunday! five times the power alloted to earlier relations with newspapers and jour- the very fact that the nations of the
received another surprise the second nalists, and said it was his opinion ave
Sunday Four or five persons came up dreadnoughts giving a speed of 21 kaots. that the railway system was a fraud on claination of ether to make public pro- after the services were over and intro-
joaned tore
ideals which hundred years duced themselves to us. The Times naval correspondent re
If it were not fraudulent ago were beyond the hope of the most far in the town only a short time, and it the why
public know the facts which distinguishes above all others the act Frederick Smith, manager of a Congress over which at. Clemencea's branch of Barclay's
even though both of us
of Commerce, of the Ealing ChaBank, and president presided with such Sagacity mens has instanced & case in which two boxes of its achievement, there has at least beet ton. However tar mankind, may fail of coins were sent to Paddington on August put on record & statement of the ideals. 20th, for Hampton, Middlesex, and did towards which all races are from hence when we find something we like, whe We humans all have one characteristic: not actually reach their destination until forth bound September 1st, taking 2 days to do 20 Ruskin, as the language of the devil, and school of art, we have a desire to make to strive. A sneer, said ther it's a brand of tobacco or a new malies,
it is easy enough to sneer at the incidents other folks like it. which have made clear from time to time about this church. I happened to be in I began to feel that
The American Ambassador and the Mr. H. W. Flats a timber broker- the failure of the Conterence to live speaking of the Surrey Commercial tits great exordium. But, to continue folks about it. because I was on the staff a distinguished company at the Jume
an unusually good position to tell other Chancellor of the Exchequer were among up Docks, said that most of the London wood skin's metaphor, if ever the devil had of a local newspaper, in the advertising Watt commemoration dinner at Birming- were hopelessly behind any other post intendenes of things mundane. it has been Europe." For all practical
Responding to the toast of the Houses Surrey Docks, with actical purposes the during the past eight
months.. acres, were without railway facilities, and the frailties of the nations composing the city editor. I was right. It interested and that the lights were brighter than
It is shortsighted and foolish to take angle that I was sure would interest the said be thought the clouds were
been discussing a live subject from au of Parliament. Mr. Aunts were breakings bundreds of cargoes had to be covered to the van arke. Beyond and behind all these t
Conference as the measure of its
him to the extent of two columns, start they were even a short while ago. practically as they were a hundred years.
import- ago, on men's backs, and transported in declaration of fact, stands on record 'n day, the church attendance, instead of tanoderation in
ing on page one. And on the third Sun- pleaded for some evitable
patience and some that primitive manner to the various rail.
of justice and
the ght from 5fty-nine, was more than six hundred
judgments passed stations.
which which the world'
CAN Dever dis- sociate itself. The mere fact that
Think of it!
1,000 per cent. in actions of Parliament and c
Loverament
After all, the two Houses Same church, same minister, and the Government were engaged in the wave crease I' would dispose of much delay counts
the witnesses
Fare weather conditions, of this practical work-
most prodigious business operation that achievement but plus enormous ceremony, passing him beneath stopping congestion of the quays which
nothing. The
The following Sunday the minister liquidation we had ever witnessed..
the world had ever seen, the largest had An arch of sticks held aloft by students. handled. The witness mentioned that the agd.in ofice until an end has been made.
to be cleared before goods could be of reconciliation, of
and of
came to me and asked if I would attend did
He organisation will
not complain of criticism, but forward 80, in council Andree
of a meeting of the church trustees the fol- peuple who went about crying scandal restored, and 40 per cent of the work is demeanour provoked tremendous general goods on July 29th, and finished in laying down the principles which are
Lauenbach began discharging The Conference itself has done its work on the matter of church attendance. To
lowing Monday evening and talk to them where there was no scandal, magnifying enthusiasm, The Prince was almost discharging timber on August 26th. and on Beptember 8th. The Mauren began
that
little every I
peccadillo into. Bay was startled would be putting trying to prove every mistake to be a to guide that work and when in ears it mildly.
a great crime, buried 10 gaudy coloured paper she would not be cleared for two or three from the heat and dust that must needs tell the church trustees about church at
to come the whole structure is visible, free Me Now what in the world could good unless they could
moral fault, and refusing to recognize the that the Houses Mr. G. W. Shirgo, representing a
accompany its creation, it will be seen, tendance? I was a non churchgoer; one them to do yesterday. Parliament to-day
day did what they told parcel express agency, said that vanmen of the world has been in many ways curi- who stay away from church, according only that the contemporary opinion of the 23,000 out of the 46,000 in my town often waited four or five hours at
After paying a tribute to the memory station before getting unloaded. Recently able to appreciate the greatness to a census taken a year or so before.
of James Wa
Watt, Mr. Chamberlain said 04 the task accomplished, but that the
that in was so taken aback that before I knew responsibilities heavier and greater than present position he had with goods and, owing to the
congestion, greater even than any of the Allied coun- did. Advertising in my business. had that was his day's work. Sometimes aillons in Paris had at the time been able advertising in nothing more or less than the should be curtailed if possible o
And Bors, and not the least of them was to a van took goods to a station and, after wholly to understand.-Daily Telegraph. waiting several hours, the driver was told The Socialist newpaper Freiheit dethat no goods were being taken to certain
towns. clares that bundreds are still enlisting in the Baltic Iron Division, for which recruity still continue to leave Berlin.
DEVASTATED FRANCE VERY CONSOLING IMPRESSIONS.
PARIS, November 1st.
34, Claveille, Minister for Public Works, has returned from the Devastated' Regions with very consiling-impres sions."
POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS AT MONTREAL
MONTREAL, October 30th. Popular demonstrations in honour of the Prince of Wales continue most strik ing, including fireworks displays and illuminations. The students of Laval
CARGOES ON MEN'S BACKS.
Was bandled there, and the Surrey Dock ocasion to reflect with dismay upon the department, these two Sundays, had
He says that at the time of the Armis. University presented His Royal Highness we Gattie scheme of mechanical trans-
with a cap and stick and solemnly ad-
tice, inter alin, 33,000 kilometres of main lines. 1,200 bridges also a great number of depots and workshops had been des troyed. Today the main lines have been
of restoration in the depots and work. shops completed:
Forty-eight thousand kilometres of road
had been destroyed of which 12,000 kilo-
meren have been re-made, while the
port would be a
The
mitted him to their guild gathering with Docks.. It great asset at the Burreruf boredom has engulfed the workers.and same suble city..
streamers.
THE BALTIC STATES.
weeks.
not
I
hain.
of
GENEROUS TREATMENT.
majority of the 3,137 wrecked bridges | REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE IRON 23 man went twice to the same station Park has been greater than the workers. it I said I would think it over. And I had ever cunfronted any of his predec
have been reconstructed.
THE WAR ON BOLSHEVISM. GENERAL YUDENITCH RECOVERS LOST GROUND.
LONDON, November 1st. The War Office announces that at noon on October 31st General Yudenitch re gained ground west of Petrograd and recaptured Hopscha, ten miles south of Peterhof gap between the right of the
the
DIVISION.
BERLIX, November 1st.
THE ANSHAN IRON MINE.
ELIMINATING ROAD TRANSPORT,
Mr. Arthur Elliston Collins, City
Ни
on the
thethniversity education
which seemed to.
I wasn't an authetare on rity on
on churches I had spent the better was to loose the purse strings and let the part of my life in selling everything from money flow THE GERMANS' ENGLISHMAN. the same as every other good newspaper him to require generous treatment, and
socks to sausages, from homes to hate was one of the t
semi-official German Gazette is
advertising man.
It looked to me as it all that parti a series of articles on England cular church needed was a selling cam- In the first ofpaign, sad so sent word to the minister
that I accepted the favitation.
•The
Engineer of Norwich, endorsed the opin-P English thought.
in
Tace of
frequently called upon to write advertise In the course of my daily work, I am
even in the few months since he had held office, be agreed with the Minister of ion of other engineers on the Gattie, and
Education that the university grants scheme. He thought its adoption would these it says:--
should again be largely increased, effect a very considerable
We knew too little about the English- saving in the wear and tear of roads, and reduce ex-man. In Goethe's time he was the check
merely a temporary incresse, though that
ад given to penditure. Terminal charges were very
repair the suited
lord to the reader of meats for businessmen.
injury done the war, but bigh in this country. Muxos, October 20th,
but a permanent increase. That It has been my expenditure would grow as they could the Gattie system would mean that rail prial, rotund landlord or country squire, out the selling points of the commodities must play a larger part
The application of the incompaDickens he was the experience that the quickest way to find Esthenians, and the left of Cieneral] Company, one of the leading Japanese so rapidly and cheaply that road traff2th a taste for pie and punch.
Mr. Okura, proprietor of the Okura way
afford it. They all reco would be able to deal with
recognized that science to be advertised is to ask the merchant: life, that knowledge was one of our
in our
our national Yudenitch' Army on
south-Chines affairs arrived here from Japan compete with the railway. He was per- deemed itself
merchants who are deeply interested in would be almost shut out. It could not well-bred, thin-lipped were often wi
"Why should anyone buy west. Rapscha is now closed. The Bola couple of days ago and he immediately suaded that the Gattie system was worth Bed, and strede easily, but with keen eye, that can be worked into an effective ad- that the towns and districts
to be the chosen
man which stead of buying soochods closer, goods in- tional assets, and we had to cultivate both.
Tho Government do
Would
its share, but The question invarishly arouses'a reply it would do it ou one round them heriks continue to concentrate, especially mines there.
left for Apahan to inspection the iron a fair trial. It would result in tramendover seas and continents, steeled as to vertisement.
only. benefit Ous
to the nation. This valuable iron mine, equal to that various proposals which would improve in the south-west and south of Petrograd, of the famous Fenghuangabar iron de the condition of things, but he did not inner organization, enpoyed an incom should anyone go to church instead of munities in which they were placed.
did their share also. He knew of nerves, formed strong friendships, and, I took my few weeks' "experience "
It would with what seemed little in the way of
be day if the universities looked, only to the an evil Numerous Communist reinforcements are posits in Kiangsu province, was obtained know of any which would effect such a parable harmony of nationality and of staying at house and it enabled me to
in churchgeing and asked myself: "Why Government and not to the great com- coming up from the south;"
from China some years ago and it will thorough reorganization as the Gattie private and public life. be in full
the operation shortly, considerable cheme.
answer the question.
toast of the City of Bir- We busied ourselves with finding out HasinGrona, November 1st. new machinery for iron and steel found- Mr. John Lynch, an inspecter of the and accentuating the unavoidable die- that Liked church-for-thess-ressons-the-deep-and-ourustified tamiration of So I analyzed my own case. I found he could not withhold an expression of the American Ambassador said -Genéral Yadenitch has appointed work has been delayed on account of the mon Station, gave evidence in favour of takes in its character,
ries having now been installed there The Great Western Railway-at-Old Oak Combords in for expression of lie, the mis- I found that going to chuch on Sun- (General Vladimirov Governor-General Wa
war. Mr. Okura will visit Peking again the Gattic system as a means of relieving else is needed if one is to know one's op lethargy and
But something day yanked me out of the Bunday the purse of Great Britain had sustaine
for the splendid manner in which after seeing Anaban. Asiatic News congestion in goods yards.
27 loginess of Petrograd
Agency.
ponent: the discovery of the sources of church absentees sit or hang around the courage with which her sword had kept at that make the burden of the war, and the herois. his strength.
bouse, with nothing in do.
bar the enemies r* ávilization,
The Committee adjoerned.