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CALCUTTA'S RICHES. ENORMOUS WAR PROFITS. INDIA'S PULP WOOD.
the
IF THE BRITISH WITHDREW! TOO MUCH FOR IRELAND TO CONTEMPLATE.
It is not easy to gange the sincerity Fat the support accorded to the Republican movement, simply because nobody dare express political opinion when it exposes. him to asasination (write) the Daily Axpress special correspondent from Dub lin).
MORE
EYES RIGHT!
SPECTACLES BUT BETTER | THIC
EYESIGHT.
Charles Hyatt Woolf, B.R.P.S., F.R.S.L, editor, the Optician and Scientific Instru ment Maker, writes in a home paper :-
Calcutta correspondent of London Morning Post writes:
In Calcutta, the chinỉ legacy of the war
An impression exists thap vision is not was a large fund of rapital-amounting at
so good as it was a generation ago. There least to £300,000,000 og £100.000.000-week
are no data to confria this. The fact in ing industrial investment. The fund had
that more people are wearing spectacles acerned from war and post-war profits on The country is under the rule of ter and eyeglass, and this has probably creat manufactured jute, hides, irsu and steel,mrism, and there is no doubt that the cotton varn and piece goods, paper, build British Government cannot protect its the notion abom a greater prevalence ing materials, engineering processes, and own supporters, not becauso everybody of impaired sight,
la the old days most people wire content. so forth. Caleatta had no excess profits loves the Republic, but because every one "tax until after the struggle was over. Those fears it. This appears to be a racial trainio suffer their defects of vision without who could not," or did not, take any part rather than any new factor, for Governaceking the rumedy lenses. Some did this:
t
INTIMATIONS
A. D. C.
IN
DUNSANY'S
GOLDEN DOOM:
GLITTERING GATE", COMPROMISE OF THE
KING.
LOST ŠILK HAT.
InAid of
in the fighting made the most of their ment concessions are missinderstood and front indifference and others because THE FAMINE-
opportunity,
nor
FUND
taken a« signs of weakness, and Govern- opticians were either, plentiful The most interesting result has been unatent firmness puts new heart into the efficient. A chốnge čime a little more than
loyalists and all decent people. extraoculinary boom in company promotion. Whichever side may have the balance of neration ago, when opticians began to the Stock Exchange list of miscellaneous sympathy, there is no doubt that the side qualify for their work, with the result that which looks like winning musters most influmerial activities, comprising everything adherents. Sporadic outbreaks of surely people now find qualified men in almost Under the Patronage of
graded soldiery have occurred after par
These are ticularly atrocious murders.
where any taker reprisals, and ioctrinairo intellectual world tell you that they were forsicomed to be useless, the Fret remains that they are not.
from soap and biscuits to locomotive and steel rail factories, has expanded from gome 30 to u 200. At the same time, a large amongs of new capital has gone back into the older jnts, coal, and entton netivities. Fer another factor in the new industrial hoom has been the appearance in Calcutta of some of the leading British firms, driven to seek not merely new markets, but new manufacturing contar, for their processes by the high costs of production at home.
PILL RESOURCES.
POCKET MONEY.
"
Where no information could be obtained This before, information now comes in.
every street, and are fitted to a nicety with lenses suited to the quality and quantity of their defects.
MORE BECOMING, Another cause for the increnset popu. larity of optical aids is their greatly im proved form. Previously they were a dis- figurement. The spectacle frames of our
Hterally trau-formed forefathers
the
a country of paradoxes, for you can apparently be an enthusiastic Sinn Feiner features of the wearer, and their cumber- in politics and pray the British Govern some weight entailed a measure of fatigue, ment to knock some sense into the placeNow they are designed scientifically in all at one and the same time, There is wile gap between theory and practice
It is a sine qua non with good Repub- Rents, for instance that England with Meast Thomas Nelson and Sona and draws her bated army from the sacred", the chief proprietor of one of your leading soil of Eiran. Put this to a prosperous tradesman or. Farmer in a practical way London contemporaries are in the field in thus. You have fifty thousand oppressors the hope of exploiting India's pulp respending about ten shillings a week apiece this country. That is mere pocket sources. A large combine of leading steel-money, but it adds up about a million and producing Arms of the United Kingdom is a quarter ponnda n year. busily acquiring sites on the Hooghly for the manufacture of heavy engineering plant, and, ultimately, it is said, for the purposes of shipbuilding Messrs. Cross and Blackwell contemplate the erection of ajam and piekla factory near Calcutta, Messrs. Selfridge and the proprietors of the Ritz Hotel are credited with the in- tention "af bridging the lacune and they are considerable in Calcutta's hotel accom
modation.
order to be almost invisible and well-nigh light ns air.
Lentes also are ground inuch thinner The first and are of improved quality.
move
in this direction was made by Wollaston about seventy years ago, when the "best for lens was introduced, Thea to-day we have the almost colourless glass introduced by the late Sir William Crookes. which posesses the property of cutting off certain distressing and harmful rays.
An improvement has also been made in Then there are all the big purchases of bifocal lenses. In former times the lenses food, fodder, local stores, and all sorts of things. In fact, the Army of Ocenpation were so joined as to make an ugly streak is worth at least three or four million across the eyes; now, only the expert can
composed of two distinct elements. Pounds to Ireland. No sensible man wants tell that the glasses when in wear are
it to go away.
In the same way, what would happen to Dublin's own prosperity if there were a adverse tariff on Jacob's bisenita and Guinness stoatt Britaia could strangle the Republic in a month..
THE NEUTRALISING INFLUENCE,
RELIEF
HE.Si Beginald Edward Stulību, K.C.MG. HE. Major General F. Ventris, C.B.,
H.B. Commodore W. Bowden BinithURI
Họa Mi Lam Chú Fak -Hon Mr. Ho Fook.
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All these things have cansed the wares of the optician to become more wearable, and the addition to the public health and comfort, as a consequence, must be con
who are running the Sinn Fein business
It is high time that the intellerunis siderable.
It is said that the arduous reading babit Tickets for Tea. Dance.....$1.00 naid some attention in economics. Shop which came in with the Victorian ern, end keepers and traders, farmers, and other the gas method of lighting defective Tickets for Dinner Dance......$1.50 || people who have some real stake in the caused some increase of visual defective- country are beginning to wake up, audness; but the late Victorian and Edwardian though they dare not any so they want periods. brought in the day of intensive Sinn Fein shut up and a return to the sports and games, and this proved a cor- nendemic discussions on Home Rule and Frective for any damage that might have self-government without absolute separa-threatened. tion from the Empire.
PARTING OF THE WAYS:
For the most part this industrial activity is, I think, perfectly sound. The resources of India, and more especially of the area which constituted the old province of Bengal, are limitless. On the west and south-west of Calcutta iron and coal exist in the same contiguity as in Lancashire, and numerous other minerals are already
When the Home Rule Bill comes into being exploited in that region on commer cial lines. An official high in the Geofo-operation, Sion Fein is at the parting of If they refuse to vote, Irish gical Survey assures mo that, given capital, the ways. the development of the district of Singh Labour may not. In any case, the coun bhum in the next thirty year should rivalry is so intimidated that is will be no that of Pennsylvania or Westphalia during "asy matter to secure a fair ballot. De mocratic institutions and pistol rule do their great period of industrial expansion.
not harmonise.
DEMAND YOU HOUSES,
Since the failure of all efforts to achieve peace a moderate opinion agrees that. whatever the past, all future moral respon. ability for the state of the country rests with the leaders of the Republican move
This industrial revolution," which pro- mises įso well provided there exists in India a Government able and willing to ensure security, has not been without offect on Calcutta's social life. Well overment.
TUBERCULOSIS ÎN JAPAN.
MORE-PREVALENT THAN IN ANY
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There is no better safeguard for those who have to apply timmicives to writing and reading than to take a good long stare at distant objects as frequently as possible."
Let it be remembered, however, that undue exposure to bright light fatigues both the iris and the retina, and results in a state where the strongest lights only will serve for good vision, even if there is not actual secular impairment.
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COMBINE PROPOSAL., a thousand ex-officers have been absorbed by They presumably have it in their power
N.Y.K. PRESIDENT'S VIEWS. the Calcutta commercial hones, old and to lift the shadow of the gallows that hangs Boy, since the Armistice." Even a returned over their fanatical followers. Bad as the
Baron Kondo, the President of the Calcutta resident who has been beat but state of Treland is today, it is not hope. a few months stands sazed at the dense less. It will requiro effort and stern Nippon Yusen Kaisha, who visited Kobe stream of motor. trafic in the principal tactics, but Law and Order can athe on the 5th inst., is quoted by the Jiji as expressing himself in favour of the pro streets. The clubs are filling up to the restored. point of congestion, and the house problein
posed amalgamation of Japanese shipping companies broached by the Minister of has become prodigions. During the next cold weather there are to be Duo or two
Communication. While approving of the: camps on the..open spaces in and acar
proposal in principle, however, he is con- Calcutta, and each tent will represent n
way of the realisation of the scheme. household which has found itself utterly
scious of the great difficulties lying in the Although the Minister of Communications unable to secure housing accommodation. Unfortunately the directions in which Calentar can expand are extremely limited, tion to its population than any other coun-work is obviously attended with great dif- Japan has more tuberculosis in propor-desires to effect the amalgamation of as many shipping companies as possible," the but the era of the house-builder has certry in the world, according to a statement. tainly arrived. A fortune awaits the con- made by Dry Kanasugi, one of the leading ficulties, as all companies have their own tractor who can get houses up quickly, and Japanese physicians, to the Hochi. The peculiar interests to protect" A suggestion the same applies to the successfa, organiser educational system is largely to blame, he has been made that an amalgamation of four companies, namely, the Nippon Yusen of new means of transport such as rotor sy 'bus*9.
There is a
peculiar state of affairs in Kaisha, tho Osaka Shop Kajshs, the Toro Japan,"
says Dr. Kanasugi, for here Kisan Kaisha, and the Kokusni Kign TUESDAYS:-- old men are tnusually hate and tend to Kaisha, should be effected, but up to the live to a ripe old ago, while the death rate present the authorities have not made any for children and young people is constantly concrete proposals. The companies have mounting. Although the new generations to consult the wishes of their shareholders. THURSDAYS:-
his com- have gained in height as compared with. Baron Kondo says that so far Whatever hopes may be centred in the their fathers they have lost in hardiness,pany is concerned no definite line of policy VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD, FUENTIURE
A comparison of the army conscripts, of is yet determined. League of Nations as an insurance against ten years ago with those of to-day shows many among the shareholders of the SATURDAYS future wars, almost every nation has been that these of a decade ago were much more Nippon Yusen Kaisha who are hostile to engaged since the Armistico in experiment sturdy than those of today. The on the proposal. Thanks to the encouragement ing with a view to developing and im-scripts of to-day are remarkable for the given by the Govorament to the building poying weapons of war generally (saya provalence of tuberculosis, other lung of steamers, Japan hae, during the last six Times correspondent).
trouble, bad eyesight and nervous depres, years, realised a net profit of 1.2,300,000,000 The most important experiments have son
in charterage and freight. It would be been directed towards the development of "For this condition our educational a great pity if Japanese shipping, which the Tank The French and the Americans, system is jargely to blame Up to 13 years has attained such prosperity, should be left it is believed, have achieved very important ago Japan ranked among the countries in the present state of inactivity without results in this direction. British Tank ex-which had the least tuberculosis, but to-day doing anything to improve it, and Baron perts have not been idle, and, although the it is generally agreed that Japan has more Kondo is therefore ready to endorse the greatest secrecy has necessarily been main-tuberculosis than any other country in pro- plan which has just been formulated by the Lained, there is every reason to believe portion to, population of the prevalence of Minister of Communientiņas. that they are highly satisfied with the protuberculosis in Japan, I think, is the in-
The primary cause
“IMPROVED TANKS. PROGRESS WITH THE NEW ARM.
gress, made.
3
At Wool, in Dorset, the Tank Corps bas, difference of the people to this discase, an excellent experimental ground, but it which means that they take no preventive In some European tus the disadvantage of having no other measures against it. troops stationed in ita vicinity, Combined countries tuberculosis le fought with all T
wealth
the
tronics, therefore, cannot be carried out. Fronty four years knowledge available.
He thinks there are
NEW FRENCH PASSPORT CONCESSION.
المايسي
ago, America was the PARIS, September 2nd-British visitors The military authorities, are believed to be worst country in the world in regard to to France who want to make a longer stay fully alive to this disadvantage, and it is tuberculosis At that time the Americans than a fortnight will be glad to learn that thought, that very ahority, as the end of were resigned to the belief that tuberculosis they can now remain in France for two the training senson is approaching, as a disease for which there was no cure, months without having to obtain a sárté number of Tonks will be moved to one of But it was discovered that the disease could identite, which, under the regulations the chief training centres, either Balisbury be cured. Among the Americans who took previously in force, had to be obtained Plain or Aldershot, with a view to a small a great interest in combating tuberculosis within a fortnight under the penalty of a scheme of combined operations, in which the late President Roosvelt was promin uncomfortably heavy fine. the Royal Air Force, the Tanks, artillery, ent Ho formed the Tuberculosis Preven Many people, of course, used to risk not and infantry will all tako.part, It is to be tion Association with auch millionaires as being in possession of the carte, as official hoped, however, that if these operations Carnegie, Rochfeller and Morgan on the red tape made it a protracted and weari take place, some cavalry also will be able board of directors, and contributed greatly some performance to got hold of. It is to to participate, since is is of the utmost to the task of raising America to her pre-be hoped that this now concession is yet importance to have some light thrown on sent position, where she can rightfully another step pa the road towards gotting, the question to what extent Tanks car claim to have loss tuberculosis than any rid of the present tedious and irksome take the place of cavalry.
other country in the world."
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