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CABLES.
LATEST VARLES.
{THROUGH' XEUTER'S AGENCY)}" ANTI-DUMPING BILL. IMPERIAL PREFERENCE IN VIEW.
LONDON, May 19th.
In the House of Commons, the second fiscal resolution was carried by 118 votes 10. 37, the debate continuing until 3 o'clock in the morning.
The resolution deals with dumping. Its critics endeavoured to secure axemp tion as regards articles manufactured in
the Dominions and the Colquies.
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LATEST CABLES,
MINERS STRIKE.
BELGIAN DOCKERS REFUSE TO
LOAD COAL
BEUSALLS, May 19th. M. Mahihan, secretary of the Antwerp Dockers' Union, has informed the Execu. tives of the Transport Workers' Fodera con and of the Railwaymen's Union that Antwerp dockers refuse to load coal for
Sir Lloyd Graeme emphasised the fact proient com reaching England. that the Empire was not being neglect. J. H. THOMAS, M.P., MEETS
ed, and pointed out that the Key indus Aries Bill would not only give Imperial Preference, but excluds from all duty these manufactures within the Empire. At was impossible to make exceptions as regards dumping, because otherwise the United States' could, then, damp through -Damadn. Every Dominion, which 'bad
passed anti-damping legislation, bad followed the lines of the proposed resolu- .tion.
EARLIER CARLES
FIRST FISCAL RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
LONDON, May 11th. In the House of Commons the first of the fiscal resolutions, providing for a Customs duty of 33 1/3 per cent, on the value of certain specified articles, was married by 230 vutes against 79.~
The House proceeded to debate the Becond resolution dealing with dumping
·and countries, with depreciated change.
THE WAR IN 'ASIA MINOR.
WITH
HOSTILE RECEPTION.
FAR EASTERN CABLE
cancellation
NEWS.
MIRRORS OF SOCIETY. PARLOUR GAMES OF THE NEW RICH.
The Gentleman with a "Duster" writes in a hane paper:
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Lady Frances Balfour has told us that we must not confuse a licence in manners with licene in morals. Therefore the reader who holds that manners are less important than morais must not blame Mra. Asquith for the warst of the rags I am now. "about" to describe. Mrs. Asquith's respousibility, so far as we can know, is in the sphere of manners Thero she certainly set a new fashion.
DECEIVED FATHER”A JOKE.
pillulē. The mufferings of the Rich in the matter of eating, and drinking are sa lamentable as those of the fox who could not live up to the grapes above his head, And their ascetic practices have a like foundation. They are saints beaUSS their digestions cannot sin,
PEERS AND WHISPERS,
Dancing, even in these days, in what we choose to make ib. In the same room one may see a couple whose motion, if not graceful, is at least not unpleasantly reminiscent of the farmyard, and a couple whose style and conduct are quite frank
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.) ANGLO-JAPANESE - TREATY.
Gambling is still chief amusemena LONDON, May 11th.
There are few houses in London whore
of plutocracy, to which the excitements of Auction Bridge have added a strong In the House of Commons, Mr. Neil the revels of fashion degenerate into the orgies of a trank animalism. Society is
stimulus. Many a girl has got into grave For example, her lover, whistling on trouble in her flushed hurry to pay her MacLean asked whether the Government not to be regarded on this account as
one occasion up to her bedroom window From time intended to renew the Anglo-Japanese being beater, but as growing less robust
time a middle-aged at midnight, when bor parents were dressmaker by the fortune of the card Treaty, whether the terms of the Treaty woman from nowhere will become the asleep, was admitted through the library table, and many a young man has taken tanant of a little house in Mayfair, whom window. As they sat on the sofa a step severe toss at the same fence. But, on would be submitted to the House of parties soon form a topic of conversation was, heard in the hall. She rose and put the whole, gumblag is the last excite pered about like a scandal concerning easy-to Peter's side on the sofa, where thing of life in their foggy old heads Commons for ratification, whether the men's clubs, and whose name, whis out the two candles, string uoleret af to the elderly people with no-
we sat in black darkness. Her father, but a good memory for cards.
As for the younger generation, they But those creatures seldom last. The candie in land, entered the room. Government would insist upon Japan rs loyalty, becomes a mystery among ladies,
The old gentleman, probably disturbed have an amusement in dancing which, Britain, and that he has requested Bol-cognising obligations to maintain the police call, the card tables, the sofas, and
by the noise at the window, went round blends the athleticism of the rug " gina railwaymen to help the dockers to independence", and territorial ategrity of the mirrors disappear from the guides the library, inspecting his pictures to see with the chuckling fabricity of Hunt the apartments, together with many costumes Korea and China, and whether restora more fitted for the bathroom than the if they were safe. The daughter could Slipper, and with this they seem to be
suburbs, whose purses are fuller than the his idiotic bat and stick under the thea with an excuse for dressing-up. of Korea's national institutions and drawing-room; and young girls in the not resist nudging her lover on seeing content, particularly when it provides
of the Sino-Japanese means of their parents can explain, ring-Clainsborough." The deceived father was Treaty resulting from Japan's ultimatan ing up their distinguished friend on the joke. Assured about the safety of his telephone, are astonished one day to dia- pictures, and apparently unconcerned about the safety of his daughter, the old tu China of May, 1916, would be made cover that she has ceased to exist.
Those women belong to the criminal gentleman went back to bed. In writing classes and de not concern us. Society, of this incident, not unmindful, que sup- conditious of the treaty.
we understand the term, does not go poses, of the fact that her father had in for orgies. There are certain limits given her all her many and great posses to the licence is permits itself both in sions, she says cheerfully, Things did outrage to decency. The tendency in dancing among fashionable people, manners and morals. It is now an en not always go so smoothly with us." feebled organism, and has neither the not in morale, you will cherver, for lady raid. They love to tickle the nerve of That was a now license in manners; like their favourite orchestra, is neg resolute strength of goodness: nor vigorous hot courage for bestiality. Frances Balfour is insistent on crediting prurience, to play with the idea of Mra Asquith with the highest possible obscenity, to dip their fingers into the Ridles in the summer of 1917 the ques Bicones in manners, had the worst of the door of the lavatory wide open; but Colonel Repington discussed with Lady ideas on the relations between man and mud of savagery. You find this ten- woman. But it was decidedly a nowdency in their conversation. It is never tion, What posterity will think of us
We agreed that we should be considered know how far fashion will take it. For hole.
licence in manners is this, that you never a peep or a whisper through the key- rather callous to go on with our usual
example. Mrs.
Asquith would leave a Colonel Repington tells of a lady who life when we were reading of 30 dance and go off for a long midnight anointed. his cigarette, from a phial of admirer into Grosvenor Square and in no one responsible for his or her ao- ber tulis dress jump the iron-gates into tions." It is something of the same the gardens, a feat which involved, as spirit that animates the dance of the the aw, the double risk of breaking herundern, ballroom. Daucing is an Oriental neck and losing her reputation in the drug. It rouses desire from the sleep
of an early housemaid." Asquith, became extended in others of a These things, so innocent in Mrs. less virtuous nature, till the inch of man nera became an elf of immorality.
NEW YORK, May 19th. Mr. Thomas, the Railwaymen's leader, had a hostile reception on landing. He waa jeured at by a crowd of Trish Ameri- can labour louders on the pier, who were carrying banners inscribed with refer Judas, asserting that Mr. Thonnie had betrayed the minors Police were called out, but their services were not requirød, Mr. Thomas escaping in a
taxi-cab.
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EABLIER CABLËS,
ATTITUDE OF GAS AND ELECTRICAL
U May 11th.
executive
At the conclusion of the meeting at which the transport work arranged a joint conference with the railwaymen's executive for the 13th inst, to consider steps further to tighten the boycott of seaborne coal, the secretary,
Air Austen Chamberlain replied that the question of the renewal of the Angle Japanese alliance would be considered at the forthcoming meeting of the Im perini Cabinet. He was unable at pre- sent to make a statement concerns
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Commander Kenworthy Will there be an opportuity for discussion in the
TIRESOME HIGH LEVELS.
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House of Commons before the final rati. / 4000 casualties a day. But she said that drive with a lover, ur world take au amber," sail to give visicus and to leave
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CARICATURED HOMTE.
people could not keep themselven elevated permanently above the normal, and she supposed things round is explained the Mr. Chamberlain replied that he could French Revolution and the behaviour of
the French nobility. not muke pledges hampering the treaty Lotus admit. Lady Ridley's argument-
of death, to the dream of debauchery. powers of the Crown, but the Governand Frederick the 'Great', who mid that mar cansat very well be anything but
Life has lost respect for virtue without ment would give intonation to the himself. Let us admit that people can
gaining the courage for vice. A friend of nót keep themselves elevated permanently
mine said to me the other day: "The House as soon as it properly could, on some plane above the normal; if they
whole thing is a mix-up. In my youth did, of course, that inconveniently elevat
Plutocracy was dragged into society there was the Corinthian Club or the EXPORTS CREDIT SCHEME AND
ed plane would in consequence, become by its high-spirited daughters, the ad Gardenia, where one met women only of the norma thing not to be thought of fance guard of a new order. The sortone class; but in the night club our YAR TABI.
in this all too human world, which is of thing these girls would suddenly my sons take their sisters to dance in the nevertheless, un articulated part of a at dinner table was Don't you hate me room with cocottes and mistresses.” LONDON, May 11th.
somewhat majestic universe.
God?" or, as Lady Earle once heard. The cocottes are generous. They do not But what is society's "normal" What is the plane above which we must dancer and another was a French cook, There are numbers of the younger men,
One of our grandmothers was a ballet-resent the presence of these virgins. • not expect people who have received all so really we ought to be something Lord Ivor Churchill, for example. bat education, leisure, and the society of the Belgravis. Some people on led it FOCAL have discovered the happiness of lite
We have heard something of society's freshing, like a music-hall tune after a which is precious to their minds. But plenty of nature." It was deemed re- gurdy of fashion to drown the peace chatter.. We know what arasesti Beethoven symphony.
these are a minority too charming to But the young ladies of plutaerney were leaven the huge vulgarity of the mass. the delegates from the Gas and Electrical extend the exports credit scheme for conversation. Let us now go on to ascer
of indoor pastime. The phrase "high started games. These romps were grown days cut but a por figure. It is below They On the summit letters and net in these Enions had reported to the transport Earope to British Possessions, purti-tain that gives it pleasure in the region out to young indies of plutaern
are not mountaineers, We shall certain which are so beautiful, in the nursery. Africa, and Australasia, Mr. Mach its normal plane without loss of They played Hunt the Slipper Bibulous that the refinement of English character
In the House of Commons, Major bir Mr. Robert Williams, who is regarded P. Lloyd Graeme (Director of Overseas
As an extremist, stated that the present Trade) asked Mr. Macquisten to repeat the fairy benefits of fortune-riches, This was considered vastly diverting in this is to take a brilliant exception, who DIFFICULTIES OF THE GREEKS, situation is much more eritient than was his question alter Whitsuntide, we to great permanently to elevate them courage," and nid that such people hadrature, and who do not permit the hurdy..
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 11th..
the case three weeks ago." He said that whether the Government intended to
At a meeting of the "Allied High Con-
missioners, Admirale and Generals, is
selves?
was decided to proclaim the neutrality workers' executive that members were cularly ludia and the Far East, British society?? need not daunt those of us who up parodies of those charming games that actual summit of regnant plutocracy
of Constantinople, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in the Turco-Greek struggle. The Greeks are acceruugly unable to use Constantinoples a base, and will be invited to reduce their trops there to a minimum. They will, also, be required" to withdraw warshipi to outside the three-mile limst. The Greeks are, thus, reduced to supplying the 'Brussa and Jumide fronta solely from Hedosto,
UPPER SILESIA OUTLOOK.”
GERMAN FORCE, PREPARES FOR
ACTION.
LONDON, May 11th. It is authoritatively stated in Loudon, sia that the Polish insurgents in Silesia number 60,000. Besides the Pless and Hybaik districts, they are established in Lubnitz and Rosenberg. A report that a German force of some thousands, in- cluding desorters froin the Reichswehr,
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refusing to handle coul discharged by
blackleg labour. No distinction will bequisten also asked the Government to breath. but whether without. Toes of old men with red faces and protruding and the clean manliness of the English
made as regards supplies from overscus. RAILWAYMEN SUSPENDED.
:
LONDON, May 11th. Nine Caledonian railwaymen have work a been suspended for refusing to coal train.
USE OF OIL FUEL
LONDON, May 11th.
consult banks established in London with branches overseas before committing it self, in order to avoid heavy losses to merchants and the Government.
patience is another matter,
VICK IN A PINABORE" rag
The
RIGHT-LIVING RICH.
eyes would squat on the floor, next to nature have their dwelling; and, natura is, perhaps, the most girls of eighteen or twenty, and play that loving a paradox, it is on these lower elevations that normal life. is. sömuch with an amazing athletic zest, amid game symptomatic of all the parlour game of the screams" of the players and the high than the normal above. fashionable society. is not wholtysalacious grins of the spectators... disgusting, and it is not often monstrous. Hide and Seek was another popular I should be to guard myself against ly indelicate; rather is it vice in a pina game, in which people hid in pairs and an indictment of unfairness. When fore iniquity washed of its mud corrup-hunted in pairs, the upper and unlighted speak of the Rich or Plutocracy I mean tion disinfected and deodorised by the rooms of the house attracting their curio that the Rich or the Plutocracy that goes sanitary inspector You may say that sity more than any others. There were in for fashion. I know many rich the fun of fashion is misconduct on it a few housse of the rich where these families who are as modest and whole. best behaviour. In the House of Commons, replying to
larks call it symptomatic because it lacks logical conclusion.
were boldly carried to their some as the great families of England→ In those houses, so many of them: Roman Catholica - Capt. W. Shaw, Mr. Kellaway said that the pulsing energy and boisterous cours before the tes came round in the morning which have not bowed the knee either age of the old rakehills, The coarse a bell was rùng. They called it "the to the financier of foreign extraction or no delay occurred here in dealing with language of society more than a hundred sorting bell."
years ago was symptomatic of its English I do not know of any houses in these
THE DAMAGED EASTERN MAIL. LONDON, May 12th.
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to the now idea of womanhood,
One of the richest of the New Rich
Despite the transport-workers' block the bales in the damaged mail from 'Indishonesty, as well as of its agricultural days whore logic has its way in this is a man who hates London, and whose ade, the Government is importing coal reported on the 21st ult. The bulk of it had stock. In the same way the modern rag, honest manner. The rag of our time is happiest hour in the day is that in which,
which needs a rich dinner, and wine, and in a minor key. It involves such
and
people. freely and moving it about the country, been delivered within a couple of days, poisonous liqueurs to set it goin Lord Hugh Cecil, who is a devoted mounted on the back of a mule, ‚he rided:
which seldom gets farther than the bachelor, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain,
round his stables and paddocks in the is symptomatic of the who is a devoted husband. In the lettera quiet of the dawn. Many plutocrats set Imports are coming from France, Bel. but some damaged postal packets were of obscenity.
still being forwarded from Marseilles.ansmic condition to which fashionable of the young Grenfells we read how these 10 example of living infinitely higher people have reduced themselves by former two excellent people raced each other than that of the aristocratia set, largely gium, and America. It is estimated that
MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION AT The rag is lubricity at a masque, down the gallery of a house on trays, Americanised, which has abandoned it
rather than sensuality at the trough. and how the ascetic Churchman thought self to the intest fashion,
These people are likeRabelais without he had dislocated the inner organs of his lis muscles and Sterne without his wit. body from laughter at Mrs. Asquith danc If you can imagine the anaemic brother ing a pas seul."
America in sending a hundred thousand
tons.
It is declared that the transport workers are divided among themselves, and that if matters are pushed to a
are assembling near Rosenberg is regard sympathetic strike half will not obey. ed as a serious development.
It is recognised that the Germans have hitherto shown the greatest self-restraint, but the good impression of their attitude made in authoritative British circles will be neutralised by an attempt to appeal
SINGAPORE.
LONDON, May 12th
In the House of Commons, replying to a question alleging inefficient municipal Government at Singapore, Major Wood,
A further twenty Caledonian railway Under Secretary for the Colonies, stated proach the house of lust with titters but girl will become rather, boisterous.hich themselves to be interested, not in the
men have been dismissed and a Scottish railway strike is threatened.
to forge.
The most serious view is taken of the Thousands of works and factories are attitude of the Warsaw Government over Etting oil burners, London's electric recont happenings, strengthening the railways begin the consumption of fuel conviction that the extreme gravity of oil to-day. the position is imperfectly, appreciated nt Warsaw.
that he was asking the Governor for full report on the matter.
AUSTRALIANS' TOUR.
YORK.
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If among the ultra-fashionable on the summit of our national life there exists bere and there a set of people who of Rawdon Crawley saved from death by But in other circles, or in livelier cir deign on occasion to use their brains a transfusion of Lord Steyue's blood you cumstances, the rag goes as far, at any as instruments of thought, it is almost will have a fairly just idea of the modern rate, as horseplay After dinner and always in the manner of perversity. They sansaalist.
These poor things are cards, and perhaps a dance, or two, a dirt with theosophy and doic themselves mediocre even in their vices. They ap
She with Christian Science. They permit does something stopping short at the door, ring
the belly something or and run quickly away before it is opened. naughty, very reprehensible and deserves particular author, usually a decadent
man of the party tells her is very spirit of literature, but in the style of One curious fact, about this modern panishment. He turns to the other men, They assure themselves for a season that pastime is its origin. I date it back to and appeals to them. They support him they see wonderful things in the dancing the girlhood of Mrs. Asquith, and believe The other giris rally to the opposite side of a Russian, feel marvellous things in In the meanwhile, oil fuel is making
ita creatures to have been the girls, not Shall wet the men, of that ante Victorian period.
Bays the the otham the widest headway. It is stated that
the painting of a degenerate. Frenchman, other men and the In those days, there were two great begins and noong ikon the piese playing of on illiterate
the scramble
hear mysteries of the most sublime order industries and public services will never GREGORY'S FINE DISPLAY AGAINST houses in England famous for excesses of At one of these parties not long ago, every kind. The rich men who owned where one of the most famous of the
Hungarian again be wholly dependent upon coal.
than hated the fashionable people who younger ladies of fashion was among the But chiefly for them life is the pursuit LONDON, May 11th. end there, and were usually abed and guests, the fight was carried on for of an excitement which will satiety, and asleep before the revels began. These considerable time, upstairs as well as it is the very property and nature of At Bradford in fine, if dull, weather, men represented a
generation of downstairs, the corridors of the house excitement not to satisfy, they are pes- the English-merchant. were with wrens cynicul is then before 13,000 spectators, the Australians virtuous provincials vulgarised by ambithe end of it all, on one of the men said, mism, not their wickedness, which is des scored 203 'runs against Yorks, Gregors tion, who found themselves driven for. We left those girls with scarcely a rag troying us pay th
ward to incredible behaviour by the high to their backstag
In religion they are atheists, with faith making 104 not out in 24 hours in a sound Paborate pains to educate, and whose the rag goes in our degenerate days. epicureans, with a cleft painte. In man- daughters they had taken such This, I think, is the extreme to which in the palmist. In philosophy they are and chanceless innings, which included inished education quite overawed them Most rarely, I am convinced, is it overners they are what the last excitement seventeen fours. Rhodes took & wickets It was these young women, who had worse Jam convinced that rag is makes them. for 87. Yorkshire scored 28 for one. visited London, just then much howilders partine of only, a particular act. Thers
ed by marvellous stories of the amazing are. I know, many and numerous sets in which says of this exhausted world, hang- "One feels that it is a just judgment It is stated that Hobby injury, cabled Tennant girls, who first carried the revels society, both plutocratic and aristocratic, ing by the skin of its teeth to the mere where nothing of the kind is to be found, precipice of the existence, after the on the 5th inst., will not permit him of a house-party to the lengths of a rag
For a good reason I shall not describe where a rag is never anything more seri-violence-excesses of its youth, Amid to play in the first Test match, a the rags in which the young people at ous than a rollick or sing-song on the the orgies of weary and satiated pro-
tliose The office staff of the Cunard Company specialist having ordered a month's rest their fathers were wisely asleep, and brought derly men to whom wine has igncy arose first a spirit of scoffing, then
particular houses indulged, while part of
momentary and glowing their elders in another room, with cigars memory of their tipsy youth. These of savage, vindictive, and aggressive. carried out under the blessing, if not at Liverpool, including the managers and WAGE REDUCTION IN COTTON and whiskey at their side, gambled for old fellow hear
tho
midnight upticism. Their scepticism includes INDUSTRY. By: considerable stakes. It will be kinder to chimei ringing ones again in their the validity of their own value in a "with the connivance, of the Polish Gov directors, made a dramatic reply when
describe the rug in general.
fuddled heads, and the nound drives world which they nevertheless regardi I have mentioned the Tennants and them a little mad. I take it that these with contempt. They can nes no grand- ernment, which was disappointed at the asked whether they would volunteer to
ATTITUDE OF OPERATIVES.
the two houses simply to make what are the rage which Colonel Repington eur in the universe, and no purpose in result of the plebiscite and feared a taka the places of the striking stewards
I feel in the interesting point that the mentions but does not describe I re-evolution. They hate goodness na ther LONDON, May 11th,
rags of society had their origin in the gard them as little more unpleasant than hate nothing else on earth, and all holi- partition which would give Germany a 2nd others,
The Spinners and Manufactur Three hundred signed og for the Cotiation has antifled the weavers reaction of educated girls in the resonant the eruptive effect of a radish on dress is for them simply a delusion
circle of plutocracy from the restraints chlorotic digestion. fair share of the coalfields. There is
This rabble, as we have seen, cannot already talk of resignations of the Aquitania, which is sailing for, New York of the intended 30 per cent, wages reduc-of an older standard in mannera. Josoph
tion: The Northern Counties Textile De Ministre, like many other observers, even eating and drinking. The great value, then, can it be to the rest of ust The chief -pastime of society is not even amuse-itself with success. Of what Trades Federation has received notice on believed that constraint strengthens and Italing and Britiah members of the on Saturday. Plebiscite Commission, owing to the The directors and managers are sail behalf of the operatives, who have not that licence weakens. But these girls used dinner has gone out of fashion. after I say of it that it is a traitor to h made an alternative offer, but state that to say that they must be themselves, that having defeated fashion's stomach, great traditions of the English people attitude of the French troops, who reing on the same footing as the clerks, they will consult their organisations and they could not possibly be anybody alsa Nature has her own limits to licence, and 11 bring a charge against it, it is that most people in society, now have the thin robbie is a chest. It is travelling, in ceived the insurgenta in friendly fashion, -leaving the Italian hand the British tong bhe uniform and performing the meet the employers on the 18th inst. It Harrender to one's lower nature was
understood that the employers full hatety; attempted loyalty to one's array of a chemist's shop in their bed a first-class carriage with third-cane demand will be strongly opposed higher nature hypocrisy.
LED rooms, and come down to dinner with a ticket bear the whole brunt of the attack.
ALLIED D16SENSIONS
SHIP STEWARDS' STRIKE.
LATER
DIRECTORS VOLUNTEER AS
·SUBSTITUTES.
LONDON, May- TZEA..
A serious features of the Silesian: revolt is the possibility of Allied differ ences. There is little doubt that Kor faaty's adventure was planned
and
Mame duties