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EMPLOYMENT FOUND. FOR
SERVICE MEN
IN THE BUILDING TRADE.
LONDON, October 19th, Replying to a question in regard to un- employment, Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that many thousands of ex-service men, of whom 180,000 were unemployed, could be employed in the building, trade, Half a According to the Libre Belgique, M. million now houses were required and
pro
PREMIER DECIDES TO RESIGN "OFFICE.
BRUSSELS. October 18th.
so the latter returns from Brazil, and will mon take office in the next Ministry,
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NEW REGIME IN MEXICO,
· GENERAL OBREGON'S ASSURANCE.
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OUR LONDON LETTER
In the difficult situation too much, praise THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LOBD Guards which has produced a paper of cannot be accorded the Manchester
MAYOR OF CORK.
[{FROM. OUR OWN CORRESPONDEST.]
xx typewritten sheets daily, giving the news of the world in briefest compass. The typel sheets are lithographed, and then printed in the anal way. The aspirant to journalism might well treasure these copies
an extraordinarily succeful achieve
Lowdon, September oth A tremendous amount of political capital- has been made out of the Marines cast That, of course, was only natural in view
ment in the difficult art of condensation. of the prevailing conditions in Ireland.The sudden imposition of id.. per gallon
PETROL RAMP, P
1920,
THROUGH THE FAMINE DISTRICTS.
CHILDREN SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY. OFFICIALS PERSECUTING THE
FEOPLE AS USUAL
The following is the fourth repart on famine conditions qued by Beuter's Agency:
TAMINGYU, October 1st, From Lin Ching in Shantung I started.
HUE-AND-CRY FOR A STOLEN GOD. LUONDON MYSTERY OF
VANISHED BUDDHA, The mystery of the antall bronis Budd stolen from a West End art gallery mains unsolved-
Certain facts suggest that it may been stolen at the instigation of a Chị rect.
The proprietor of the gallery said to a
that the thief should have selected this not throw any light on the theft.
particular bronze and left untouched other "It was certainly strange," he stated,
and far more valuable objecte
upper part of the building. This tends was taken from a private room in
Another carious fact is than the Buddkak
support the theory that the thief's obje tive was this particular bronze, short time only, and was to have been in cluded in a forthcoming exhibition of The Baddha had been at the gallary ■
Delacroix has defnitoly decided to tender/ Ponals on the matter had been made to the The Lord Mayor of Cock was found to on petrol is bitterly resented, and if it south-west to the City, the centre of what Daily Bapress representative that he coul
resignation from the Cabinet to Hi! Trade Unions The Government had ap: including a secret police code, and having strike this latest instance of rapacity on triets in the famine region. Majesty the King of the Bolgians as soon proved of other proposals, including road bem triest by court-martial he was on the part of the all ring world have on-Tanmediately outside the city of Lin possession of incriminating documents, were not for the imminence of a miners I had been told was one of the worst dis king, and he a
appealed to Trade Unions tenced to two years imprisonment. His grossed public attention. What exasperates Ch'ing there in a certain amount of truck to suspend wertain rules in order to admit protest against his conviction took the users of petrol is the feeling that they are, gardening, as there is just outside of most additional men into the foundry-irm and form of a hunger strike in Brixton helpless. The first impulse is to look to of the large towns, contributing an air of railway wagon boilding trades. He hoped in marshalled its propaganda agencies this what should be an avenue of hope is and the old story begins. At what is called Prima; and with this to work on Sim, the Government for redress, but as regards relative prosperity. But a few li further that thus the problem of unemployment, at home and abroad to exhibit Mr. "Mae- especially as regards ex Service men, would Swiney as a victim of English “enle - in
zo better than a blind alley.
Chin Hsien I found many bad left for the be adequately met during the winter, but Irelamu.
After the last advance in the price of south and nearly as many had returned, the coal strike would enormously increase
was appointed by the Government in Febru-reinsed aims along the way. One man told petrol by Bd.. per gallon, a sub-committee being unable to find work and had been the number of the unemployed.
ary under the Profiteeringsact, and duly me ho ate calf and that half a culty of reported in favour of the fixing of whole as the lawyer say, If Kr. MacSwiney's Trade, and the co-operation of the British sale and retail prices by the Board of release could be secured by popular and American Governments to bring about clamour it would be a rather damaging a more ressonable attituda, on the part of Ireland-au admission, in fact, that the to give effect to these recommendations. The blow against the Government's policy in the oil kings. But nothing has been done authorities ware in the wrong, On the other hand, if the Government adhered to price of the cheapest grade of petrol in
Dallas (Texas), October 18th. General Obregon, speaking at an inter national banques, declared that Mexico will "recognion all legal foreign debts and the
rights of Mericans and foreigners aliko
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EARLIER CABLES.
DANISH FINANCES.
BEPORTED LOAN FROM AMERICA:
COPENHAGEN, October 19th.
It is reported that the Minister of Pinance intends to raise in America à 9
...per cent. `· Slate Loan of $15,000,000,
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
MR. WILSON QUESTIONS SENATOR HAHDING'S STATEMENT.
The public position of the prisoner and the character of his offence combined to invest his case with special significance and SIR ROBERT HORNE ON THE importance. It made a good test case,
COAL CRISIS.
ITS DEPLORABLE EFFECTS.
LONDON, October 19th,
In the House of Commons Sir Robert Horne made a statement in regard to the coal strike: Be emphasised the
gravity of
DIFFICULT PROBLEM.
DJ.
I am assured by
not
ancient art.
The Daily Express understand, that a
Inight inbouring market town at sensation has beo caused in the art world
Watermelon rinds also seemed to be a this had to be enough for six people. general article of diet here.
At Yu Chin Lo, fifteen from Lin and represents Buddha sested on a ha seven have gone, all but two or three have with four short legs. The figure has one
It measures about seven or eight incha
had to return; one of them without ita hand raised, and, behind is a thin bronse Ch'ing, there are fifty families. Six or
their children away, they said, to any who of the screen is decorated by an anciens and Those who had not gone were giving screen shaped like a lotus leaf. The back children which had been sold along the
would promise to feed them, as there is representation of a divinity. it and deprecated recrimination. He still be in the wrong. They would, accord.
not much of a market for children. their determination not to yield they would London this week was 4/11 per gallou.
They are represented only on the liability side..
Scotland-yard has begun an perta in the trade that it takes a deal of capital to carry then search for the little god and the thief. urged goodwill and commonsense and de-ing to Sinn Fein, be guilty of the murder between and 7 per cent, must now be add along until they will be old enough to be clared that since the Sankey enquiry the of an Irish patriot.
ed to the working costs of the average 3-ton | owner of two niu of land told me he had come an asset. On farrier who is the miners wages had increased more than the
lorry and jd., per mile to motor-cars. The planted keeliang, corn and sweet potatoes. DISCOVERY OF A RAPHAEL cost of road transport will be heavier, a/He did not have a catty to show for it. hoBUSINESS MAN'S LUCK AT A SALR Cows of living. He emphasised the disas
It is obvions that the Government were will have an effect on the cost of living, even planted for there was no hope fle
more than sprouted. Cotton he had. trous effects of the strike. A million miners placed on the horns of a dilemma. What When Truss grab is it any wonder that was now supporting himself by turning would be idle, shipping would be held up capable of providing one or other of the
ever they might do, or leave undone, FasLabour is restive?
hawker in a WASHINGTON, October 19th.
blast furnaces would be damped down, Irish factions with a pretext for declaring Prident Wilson has sent a letter to factories all over the country were closing themselves "ngin the Government," which
eloquently the utter failure of the crops. The picture, round which a great can THE LONG TRAIL
he was buying and planting winter wheat, to bity seeds far the discovery of what is alleged to be --Senator Harding in connection with the and tens of thousands of men were thrown is in accord with Irish tradition. But in this has swollen in recent months, Motorist people and the amount of exaggeration, troversy is certain to rage, is now in the which he had said his winter clothes an original painting by Raphael of the
The aspect of the country here bears qut Madonna and Child latter's speech, querying the statement that out of employment daily, and trade would be in the Liberal Press here, opinion in this know about it, but it is not realised by the Except for isolated spots to foot is an possession of Mr. Felix Lavery, a leading
spite of a great deal of pointed criticism
whatever may be the condition of the rance approachoj him as a private citizen gradually strangled, "ontailing hardship country, generally speaking, has been con.dipaty, Anblic. Much of it is done at excess practically no gran and Newcastle business man. It is slated to of a nation, which was not a member of the and starvation on great masses of the com- sistently in support of the Government night. On the main roads the heavy forrtesore farmer carrying on his back the yield have been purchased at a sale which took League of Nations. He points out the munity. He declared that this issue would policy. grave and extraordinary inferences that never be submitted to the miners. Reports of hastle and prosperity to the high: possibly because had not ocurred to is
In a matter of this kind it is trail along, woking to life as in the coach from 30 m of corn. It was in this neigh place some time ago in the neighbourhood realised that spasmodic attempts at intering days the old inns, and bringing a tide that had not presented itself before, similar picture, attributed to Raphael
bourhood that I will be drawn from such a statement, and from the coalfields showed that many is apt to create precedents that must ways of England.
encountered a question President Wilson has directed an inquiry miners did not know that the alternative to inevitably, gatail consequences of the to be made sa to whether France authorised the scceptañon of the Government's pro gravest character, anybody to approach Senator Harding on
posals was a strike. The Government was! the subject.
open to any suggestion, whereby peaceful solution could be obtained and be urged all to strive for it,
FRENCH DENIAL
WALKINGTON, October 20th. The French Charge d'Affaires, presume ably as the result of communication from the French Government, has informally r plied to President Wilson's inquiry, declar
ng that the Government has not authorised anyone to approach Senator Harding officially, or unofficially.
IMPORTANT CABLE TRANSFER BRITISH CONTROL OF AMERTOAN WIRES.
Lordon, October 19th.
ment for £570,000. The sale meant the #ransfer of the cable from American to British control
HOUSE OF COMMONS RESUMES. PROSPECT OF IMMEDIATE DEBATE ON COAL-CRISIS.“
LONDON, October 19.
The House of Commons resumed with wrowded house in view of the prospect of an immediate debate on the coal crisis.
SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD ON IRISH SITUATION.
PSYCHIC CURE FOR WAR
TERRORS.
On the ground of pure sentiment the man in the street would be willing to give to save his life-much on the score than the Mayor of Cork his freedom in order
you would pull a would-be suivide out of a pond. But the question arises whether in this instance the kindly action is worth while. If a man sets out deliberately to the plaudits of milions do acclam him commit suicide, sustained meanwhile by as a patriot, and comforted by the minis ill-trations of his clergy, is there any suff
cient reason why he should be denied martyr'i aureole?
ARMY DOCTOR SAVES A GALLIPOLI
WARRIOR.
Can the terrors of war be revived by treatment neas, and can they be dispalled by psychic
These questions were raised at the Surrey
tamis.
THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE..
PRIFTERS ON STRIKE.
tion
I have alluded to road-transport, and it is naazing to consider the extent to which
means I seen
of Newcastle..
to investigate. That was the question of The cost of road transport is higher than one of the border siens in Shantung. I original painting by Raphael, while tha taxation. In one village in Kwen Hsien; in the possession of Mr. Lavery in thes claim is said to be made that the picture
to valuable machinery is eliminated and rail, but on the other band risk of damage daya are used in poins of time. The firm From Newcastle in the far North, Coven known, where it stands about its goods,
try, Lincoln, Birmingham, Nottingham, and other big centre machinery is now sent by road to Lamidon, deng
they paid the land tax which is due next Many leading art experts have examined villagers had just been notified that unles in the Louvre is only a copy. found considerable agitation. The
month they will be beaten and their land Mr. Lavery's pirtare, but their verdict has aner in grain. It seems to come to about genuineness of his discovery that he has confiscated. This fax is payable four times not been made public a year, three times in cash it seems, and self is declared to be so confident in the 30 cents per mu, a year in all, though thers prepared a volume dealing with the whole to this, I asked whether there had been it is asserted, he will be able to prove his is some vagueness among the farmers as history of Raphael's paintings. In this, any relenting im respect to the tax in a claim. year so bad as this. For answer they call. Raphael's works have frequently realism)
If you should chance to be at inas alonged the tileng or village bendman. He had great prices in the sale room. In 1914 the
TEMPTING "OFFEN.
THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS:
Shih
leave,
this, contrary to expectation, he fought nhol or north to Tintin e Canal and
Discoveries of reputed Raphael master- pieces are not infrequent
Braw Seats who has vi: Wallace bled, By Payfoot will ye be led? Or claymores will ye draw instead, Hit Prohibition on the heart Unless to wake up ye: choose, Ye'll have to do without The last wee drappie Scots will los
your booze If long in they now.
Mon,
think how
If dry va had to drink your tea No Black and White to confort yo Glenlivet ne'er
to soo
Should anli nequaintance be forgot Johnny Walker, cold and hot? The stanes would cry out on the spot:
Stands Scotland where it did, gre
Sept 1
the lorryshon talking of the Bapaume Road, haien sent, where he had been thrown into Mr. P. A. Widener, of Philadelphia, for the great ronds after nightfall you will hear just returned from the Kwen Hsien, the famous Panshanger Madonna was sold to and Tres, and Armentieres. For the fed the same would happen to them. In square inch drivers are nearly all old Army transport another village. I talked to five or six who
a cell and beaten. Others had been not the record figure of £140,000, or £385 per men, glad to be out again on the open road month, the Eighth, Month, and had been had not paid the assessment due in this erdered to do so or forfeit their land. Quarter Scarious, at Kingston, when Hera pernicious attempt was made to induce one of the Sunday papers as a serial has fowl further along around
In connection with the MacSwiney affair Mrs. Asquith, wife of the ex-Premier, in wild route,
The publication of the Autobiography of one-third of chaff two-thirds of leaves and These people were eating one meal a day, bert Edward Marshall was charged with the King to use his prerogative of maroy had the effect of stimulating public interest amu being the general estimate for kao- there, and Scots are being reminded that DROUGHT IN SCOTLAND. The Direct United States Cables Constable at Guildford suffering from balles effort has been unsuccessful. The King fascination for most people in reading about here I was told, there was absolutely tries to become "dry.”3*
attempting suicide. He was found in a on behalf of the prisoner. Happily the in works of this description. There is a liang, millet, beans and corn, East of it was a similar path that caused Ame Chuang P's there was some crop, atom! the Prayfoot campaign, which has opened Glasgow is said to be apathetic about pany has been sold to the British Govern wounds in the head and cuts on the neck refused to act over the beads of learning about their habits and feilies as questiour of taxes is a serious one. So far men in reproduced from & Hope paper. Dr. Tredgold, physician at the Royal Ministers, and has thereby proved himself discovered by their friends, Publishers from giving any help or effecting any
notable men and women contemporaries, and nothing to eat, but all through here the The following stirring appeals to Boots County Hospital, Guildford, stated that he strong enough to act constitutionally. If have been quick to recognise this; and I plans of relief the hsien magistrates, at low Marshall, who served in the Wast King George released a Bian Feizer to fear on authority that can be accepted as least in this region or the majority of Burreys with him in Gallipoli and Mesopo day how could be yefuse a like clemency to very handsome offer if he would agree to those who are already on the edge,
reliable that Mr. Balfour has recently had them, are driving over into starvation another rebel to-morrow? By acting only write a book of an autobiographical nature "When Marshall attempted suicida be through his Ministers the Sovereign is The figure suggested ran well over $10,000.ment is to be noted. Half a crop will be was brought to the hospital, and I kept him enabled to keep outside the arena of con either publishers, ar public in this respect along the edge of the leng tongue of Chihi
A fes li further south another under observation," said Dr. Tredgold tending parties.
He has no intention, however, to gratify possible around here. This is just along. He has been subject to attacks of malaria ea severe that he hardly knew what he was
the border between Chibli and Shantung doing. He had an attack-shortly before this occurrence and the pains in the head. For over a week Lancashire has been National Union, of Railwaymen, who is portion of the inhabitants, those who at I Mr. J. H. Thomas, Becretary of the But even with half a crop a certain pro that extends far south into the country. which he suffered from doubtless drove him without its daily papers happening which is in session this week at Paris margin, of subsistence have had to revival of the terrors he suffered from in the end of May the Typographical Associs the public by his presidential address. In Anhui or north to Tientsin. to it. I believe that the fever caused without parallel for a hundred years. A mouth disappointed both bis admirers and going either south in Lower Shantung and President of the Trade Union Congress have said are living normally on the the war, and that he attempted suicide to handed in strike notices to apply tohy of the threatened coal strike the only wax again in Chihli. Here there was as cocape them. The case has yielded to pay. chic treatment, and I do not think there every newspaper office in the country out thing that matters until the question is good a crop a is to be seen anywhere for will be any repetition
The Chairman: Then he is a sane person for a wage increase of £1 per week. This He had much to say about the Councilses there are stretches of good beans, with side the London aren, the demand being disposed of one way or the other thousands of li.For us for as the eye can 0 again, I have had many similar cases. If agreeing to review the question later in cryptic when he declared that Labour is which one approaches Ta Ming Fu, and as Dr. Trndgold: Yes, and it will not secar was met by the employers giving 10/-, and Action, the existence of which most kaolinng and corn also, though not so we can bring the distemper to the surface the year.
people refuse to tako seriously, and he was good. This lasts about it is washed opak. This fact was first sug
twenty gested by a German, but it is none the less
aiter But the Manchester and Liverpool of Parliamentary Government Mr. have been an invisible line where the zain determined to challenge the existing order one draws near this city there seems to Marshall was released, bis father under discontent, have revolted. They declared a wind to the shorn lamb, no proposal for has been 2.34 witch gives rise to the hope failure means no stalks to bura As wel branches of the Union, always a hotbed of he had no practical plan for tempering the year there was around Ta Ming Fu almost taking to take care of him,
black Winter but simply stopped. For pight months of this lightning strike on their own account, thus against the evil of unemployment result there bas been a complote failureelothes are being sold. I stopped f hwarding off hardship and providing that is now to be found everywhere. As as nothing to eat And in addition intem 1/73 inches of rainfall (Since then there for it must be remembered that, & crop ignoring the national agreement and The truth is that Mr. Thamas and others Distres hore has been felt earlier than in thres villages around here in all of which fonting own central Exocative Com- prominent in the Labour movement are to mittee, while at the same time dealing, a grossed in political wire-pulling that most regions for His a region with many from one-third to one-half of the families heary blow at the newspaper proprietors mate fonctions as Trade Unionist tattered villages. As long as three and they doploted by cholera, which has ravage Last night's gamen in the Palace Hotal concerned and causing parious Joss and have searched the pages of the agenda of children. In the last five weeks I was toldere forribly. It has just passed. North
inconvenience to the business community.
they have no time to devote to their legit naturally poor spots aqualid suburbs had gone. The population has been Pritchard (6) beat Mukerjie (~50)
the Congreng at Portsmouth and failed to
four months ago people were selling their by 10 points:
It is this sectional spirit of revolt which an improvement in the industrial situatim Boys have been going for 12 Girls, where
find a angle practical proposal in ensage there had been children's fairs in the site. west of here it has been ravaged further by T. Reedes (125) best R. E. Newman la the despair of everybody just now, of the country. The crux of the problem higher price for use in brothelsy (75) by 166 paints
To-day W. E. Wilson meets J. H. Cait, every Union there are men who seem to direction that is the only sensible means surrounding the city there are 10,000 buy anything. Vanons plans for relief ar including the leaders of Trade Unions. In whole, is how to increase output in every estimates that in 22 villages immediately to the man who has not enough money to
a little older and fairly pretty, bring
magistrate located here- han and ATse plays W. Diastain,
bers and millet are sold at cost, but as I have. think that agreements should be, binding by which the cost of living can be reduced
enid before, this does not do much good It is stated that the last voyage of the claim the right to be a law unto them
only on the capitalist. On their part thermoted broad
at home and British trade prosperity pro people. Five per cent. is a high estimate affont hero, que being the l Monteagle (now in harbour) was the selves. Although the general public do not port action to challenge the Constita helphe big majority of the others are the city are getting interested, Ent this Instead, the Congress were asked to sop through the winter independent of outside needed utility, Some of the rich men of s of those who have enough to them to the Peking-Hankow Ballway, a much stormiest a Canadian Panto liner has
laying of a road lease of Mr. Msoßwiney, He declared that endured in the last afx years, that the always realise it, the fact is that one of to Poland, to put a few extra ingredients Sowing of wheat is now genara) Ported by the missions, is the provision of
tion whatever that may mean, to dictate there had been no form (P forced) feeding days on the voyage to Japau, where, the leaders in to maintain their authority and trouble, and to engage in mere politien) but seed is being bought by the asla raw material for strawbraiding which wil
passengers saw the sun during only four the most serious difficulties of Labour in the Trib- Witches Cauldron "of
ow eating, chef with a mixture, appar far nothing has been done. Another sup Mr. Manßwiney on the part of the prism liner afrivod nine days later than the enforce discipline in the ranks of their country hecmed to be el quite secondary to the distress that will come with the cold anique in this place of a sort of pronaganda. The industrial needs of the winter clothes and even furniture, adding ImportanceHB.
*= (Omasinued at foot of next soluma),
Replying to Mr. Pennyfather, Sir Hamar Greenwood stated that since January 1 100 police, and 18 militazy men were killed Ireland, and 160 police and 66 military mon wounded, while 487 police barracks were attacked and most of them destroyed, There had been an organised attempt to Boycott the polico, their wives and relations, The Government's means of protecting the servants of the Crown and dealing with tha aatdors of the enrage and those conniving want them were steadily improving.
MAGBWINEY'S CASE BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
Loknow, October 19th, Replying to Mr. Bottomley, Mr. E. Short, the Himis Bouzotary, said that he could not advise the King to order the re-
authorities
PALACE HOTEL BILLIARD
HANDICAP
Billiard Tournament resulted as follows:
&
scheduled time, and that three typhoons
were encountered
their
Thomas forecasted
If all Macphersons vowed a fond Against this lavish akitude, Vien Boused brither Scots from lassitude, Bly Pussyfoot would soon be
The
Le for Trade Unionists, as for the nation as One of the missions with pins opened Eing hiáo Cha! where kaolian M
o
normal times but now there is no money food. This is a centre of that induster ha of give many work enough to keep them in
to buy the braiding: