CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
[TEROUGH RZUTME'S AGENCY.]
CURE FOR CANCER,
NEW X-RAY APPARATUS.
London, Juís Sith.
The authorities of "West London Hos-
pital issue a hopeful report regarding
it will be able to cure so per cent of the
cancer caŠA.
UNITED STATES TRADE.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS IN MAY.
WARRINGTON, June 21th.
The monthly report of the Depart ment of Commerce shows the value of the exports to Europe in Mag * $177,000,000 and to South America $18,000,000, as compared with $374,000,000, and $85.000.000 in May 1920.
The value of the imports from Europe was $81,000,000, and from South America $23,000,000: là compared with $92,000,000 and $63,000,000. respectively.
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TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
MEN'S DOUBLES,
LosDos, June 24th.
At Wimbledon, in the men's doubles, Doaisthorpe and Foster beat Gaunt and
Kleinman. 40, 64, 6-3.
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LATEST CABLES, SILESIAN PROBLEM. LORD 'ČUBZON'S VISIT TO PARIS.
PARIS, June 18th (delayed). The Premier met Lord Curzon at the atation upon the latter's arrivu! in Paris for the important conferones which is to take place to-day. Commenting upoń Lord Ourron's visit Le Journal
part-Haras.
EARLIER CABLES,
REFERENCE TO TECHNICAL COMMISSION,
LONDON, Jane rd. in the House of Commons, Mr. Chamber lain. after a statement with referener to Lord Curzon's recent visit to Paris and the steps then decided on with the object of terminating the Graeco-Turkish con- dict, proceeded to refer to the situation in Silesia, and stated that a scheme had, been approved for the progressive with- | drawal of the insurgent and the Germün forces from the disputed area. Twenty thousand Allied troops will maintain order in the evacuated territory pending the Allied decision as regards boundaries. The Allied Commissioners in Silesia have been invited to submit a joint report with technical assistance, but, if this course is impracticable, the Allies are prepared to refer the matter to a technical commis sion in London or Faris in order to assist the Suprenio Council in ita final decision. The Supreme Council will bet at Boulogne in July to consider this and other matters. Mr. Chamberlain con- cluded by stating that the conversations at Paris had been characterised through- out by the greatest friendliness and desire for close co-operation on both subjects.
NEW IRISH PARLIAMENT. HIS MAJESTY SPEAKS OF His RECEPTION AT BELFAST.
fast.
the King's
AUSTRALIANS V. NORTHANTS
GOOD BOWLING AND FOOD -
BATTING.
Lostos, June 3rd.
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STUDY AMERICA." FRIENDSHIP THROUGH
KNOWLEDGE.
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SIR G. BUTLER'S ADVICE.
Sir Geoffrey Butler, who accompanied Mr. Balfour on his Mission to the United
THE TEA DUTY,
DIRECT AND INDISÉCT TAXATION.
-The House of Commons Ponsidered the
month.
Major Barnes, moved an amendment
"FOLLIES OF BRITAIN."
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON THE INDUSTRIAL CRISIS,
Wo: sca
LONDON, June 3rd.
Speaking on May 10th, an a luncheon. Their Majesties reached Euston, where
to the Hon. W.-M. McPherson, Treasurer they were received by the, Premier, whom
·Builget Lesstütars (onl report. instof Victoria, M When Churchilt. the King informed, that he had never
said: This is the then first er forty, received a more splendid welcome from States in 1917, and was Director of the that the provision for the continuance of its surface, in uno stain the in- UEehul (1,38 when a coal has been i brought from the bowels of the earth to ng part of the Empire than from Bel. British Bureau of Information in that the increased duty on ten be omitted, on dustrial life of Britain, and, a.though a the experiments recently made with a Debuts "writes that understanding is
country from 1917 to 1919, 'read a paper new X-Ray, apparatus, with a wave especially desirable regarding the situsment held their first ordinary businessArts oa
Both Houses of the Northern Parlia. on May 4th, before the Royal Society of the ground that it was a form of in.kind of suspended animation has preser ved our industries, it is clear that that length, which has never been employed tion in Central Europe, where the so-sittings at the City Hall, Belfast, when A Personal Impression."
"Anglo-American Relations:
direct taxation which bore very heavily cannot continus indefinitely. but has been designed by a Bavarian called Little Entente, including Rou the principal subject. was
on the poorer part of the community, already in the great industriut centres „ths, streets crowded with those whose; radiologist, The Hospital predicts that
First and foremost among the advan-To 104 the tea, duty was 3d. per berdoyinent has come to an end. Silent manint, is to play an increasingly important by the Viceroy. The ceremony was tact. American conditions had to offer its the tea duty in 1919-20 was £17.77,000 sits in his office waiting: the workman, ugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia Speech, prépared by the Cabinet, and read tages which a closer acquaintance with to-day, it was is, per,16. The yield of are the, great factories of the North; the ̈
businessman, perturbed and perplexed, ly modelled upon Westminster. No Sinn possessor, he put the realization that. We were now raising in customs and who depends upon the enterprise and the Fein or Nationalist 'member was present, Great Britain and the United States excise fas3 000,000, four times as much capital of the business community for hir The Speech indicated that when the are entirely separate countries. Oras in prewar time, and that represented melancholy sitantion, and all the tim
daily wages, walks the streets. It is han various departments were working an en- course, there was truth, and inspiring something like 12. ud. a week in a our rivals, our late enemies, our friends. deavour would be made to expand trade, truth, in the fact that American legal family of five persons. It was a large are actively pressing forward to take remodel education, and to amend the institutions and practices are dominated sun at a time when wage reductions (hear, hear)-to peg out claims upon advantage of the follies of Britain- licensing laws. The usual debate follow by British thought, that the course of were having to be made. In the coal in that future which we thought the great ed, after which members adjourned till American history can be traced back to dusts September 20th..
the proposed wage reduction prodigious exertions and victories of the struggles, alike to the victories and varied from as, to a7s ul. a week. The the people of these islands and of the on soldiers in the war had assured to the defeats, of the British Monarchy, the abolition of the excess profits duty really Empire. And now we are told that not Parliament, and people.
amounted to a substantial reduction in merely in this coal war to lay the indus But such con- the income-tax, and it ought to be tries of Britain under an interdict, but. siderations were for the technical writer balanced by reduction in indirect that even the coal which is brought in. and the specialist. The American poli.taxation.
not to carry on the industrian of the tician did not find them a force to reckon Mr. Kiley seconded the resolution on country, but to maintain the life of the with, and, indeed, seldom invoked them. the ground that the increased taxes on people and of the great cities, to provide At Northampton before six thousand The forces which by their interaction foodstuffs had led to the demands for in them with water, light, and locomotios, people is brilliant, hot weather, the Aus-beat out progress in the British Isles creased wages.
without which they cannot continue ant tralians on a fast and perfect wicke: could often be detected at work in the Sir J. D. Rees opposed the amendment without which their life cannot continue United States. But the terrain on on the ground that no one had ever in- scored 61, Gregory made 107, including which they were working was not the dicated how the large amount of money will break out if their sewage system to guard against the pestilence which 14 fours, in 133 min. but his play was some; consequently the speed
and to be relinquished could be made good, were arrested-now we are told that even fours, in 110 min, the bowling being over familiar. There was no advantage to be patchy. Hyder maile 93, including to force at which they worked was vari. unless it were put on the direct tax the coal that is required for this vital
able frame that with which wa were payer, already ground to the dust
Mr. W. Graham said that the desire continuous resistance and attack at every purpose is to be made the object of served by pretending the existence of was not to pile this sum on the income-stage in its passage from port to its Northants wen dismissed in their first ethnical, traditional, or other tie," and super-tax payers. If the place of consumption. We must state.
which, if they ever did, were now ccas sion innings for 60. Gregory taking 3 for 30ing to exist; there was positive gain, in super-tax were prevented the money lost ent that a good outcome will be reached of payment of income-tax and these facts, even although we are coufid- und Armstrong & for 2). In their second starting from a postulate which though by reducing the tes tax would be mad for all parties eventually. innings Northants were dismissed for 69, exaggerated. was far more nearly true. gond.
We are at present at a bad moment, a Mailey taking a for 46 and Gregory 3 upon the likeness of other nations to our Secretary to the Treasury) said it whethe whole community intease exertion
It was more comfortable to lay emphasis
Commander Hilton Young (Financial moment which will require possibly from for The Australiaas won by an own; it might be more complimentary a misconception of the facts to argue and intense effort, and an innings and 154 rras.
to the other nations to enumerate and that a grea diminution of the propor- character similar to that which we put COUNTY CRICKET.
discuss the differences which separate tion of direct taxation was being made forward when our life was mernced in them frees us. It was conceivable that this year by the abolition of the Excess August, 1911. (Hear, hear.) But let me Oxford beat Surrey by ten wickets.in some respecta a nation might be Profits Duty. That duty had never been any this speak for everyone the core- Hobbs made only 2 in the first innings, found to excel our own as a repository looked upon as part of the normal strucmunity is greater than any section-
of wisdom.
ture of the cerveaue system of this coun-(ebrers)-it cannot be ruled by any so but returned to his best form in the
During the war there was something try. For the current year the percention; it must be ruled by, institutions second, when he was unluckily run out very touching in the manifestation of age of direct taxation was 62.3, while standing broadly over the whole basis of for 49, including a sixer and 6 fours. good will towards America that was Excess Profits Dueccatage, exchiding the country.
The nation is assert Lancashire bent Glamorgan by four Stats and Stripes over the Houses of the pre-war period there had been a sub-effectively let it be clearly understood ahown by such acts as the flying of the Duty, was 50.6. Since itself, but when it has asserted itself wickets.
Parliament at Westminster. Bat what stantial rise in the proportion of direct neither Government nor nation bave any ously under the inspiration of a great ing been only 67.5. To get a true view countrymen. We know the part the was nobly done then, because spontane taxation, the proportion in 1913-14 hay-wish to win a riefory over their fellow
intention in the world, by some people garded as part of the revenue organiss-ed away from the recruiting stations, crisis, had been adopted, with the best of the equity and practical desirability, miners played in the war; how they hal of such a tax as this, it must be re to be sent away from the front and turn- as a model for British behaviour in these days, and in the fond hope that it would tion, which consisted of two branches having sworn to fight their country's have a beneficial effect upon Anglo-est, and widest wards might be said to can be reached am sure of this, that (1) direct taxation, which in the broad cause, and if any satisfactory solution American British
relational One still, articles or speeches written by be that part of the machine which ex in the making of it there will be no enthusiasta. met with the acted a contribution from the better wish on the part of the nation that any tacit assumption. that the United States to-do classes; and (2) indirect taxation, element
of triumph or vindictive as it were, a Dominion which which, subject to
many reservations, triumph should enter into settlement. chose the other way," hence came the might be said to take a contribution and that we should at all times keep in talk uf hands across the sea," or from the classes that were lesa well-to-do. mind that the permanent and funde "blood being, thicker shan water." One part of that system could not be mentaf unity of the aution, the great The committee now proposes that nem
Heace we were advised to rewrite our disturbed without disturbing the whole patriotic nation." is the basis on which bers be divided into categories based upon the relation between two country lo the House of Commons, at question English history of the 18th century, and Before she war we had arrived at a the whole of our constitutional freedom revenue and the population to that of time, Sir Robert Horse stated that the George III., or about English public tween direct and fadirect taxation, and erected. (Cheers.)
to tell falsehoods with a purpose about scutiesi atate as regarded the balance benad world-wide prosperity has been the rest of the world. The nations will total expenditure on military and naval opinion in the time of Burke. No short the effort now should be to seek to ro fall into seven well-defined
groups, the The special arena for the Dempsey: first containing Great Britain and operations in Russia since the Armistice cuts like this would take us to the desir- cover that practical balance. If boa.
ed goal. It was poor diplomacy France, with an average slightly exceed
make members had followed the figures as to Carpentier contest is almost completed. ing 19 per cent., while the lowest will
was £37,000,000.
overtures if the were not going to be percentages, they would see that the "TRAPPING U-BOATS BY it will seat ninety thousand. and it is consist of States' contributing an average AFGHAN MISSION IN FRANCEpted, and overtures of this nature remede certainly did not lie in the
of 1. The committee proposes that the estimated that the gate-money will ex-League's expenses be paid in the propor
WIRELESS. indicated, and were taken for, not dig. direction of taking fresh burdens off in- PARIS, June 17th (drlayed).
nity or strength, but weakness. They direct taxation and putting them on to Tickets for over half tion of Do. es, 35, 13, 10, 5. The Empire
STORIES OF "GREAT BRITAIN'S Lured $1,500,000.
The Afghan mission headed by Priner fore they were openly repudiated by more safe situation in the coming year might consequently do great mischief he direct taxation. In order to arrive at
NAVY AND LORD FISHER. this mount have already been sold.
will considerably benefit by the new pro posals. Great Britain is the only firat Vali Khan and the Kokand Emir was responsible British opinion.
1999-23, there must indeed be drastic re NEAR EAST PROBLEM.
Interesting little picures and stories of India ranks in the officially received" by M. Millerand and
for sacrificing revenue would be when Fisher to the stokers deep down in th ductions in expenditure; but the time the men of the Navy from the late Lord second class Canada in the third, Aus M. Briand. The mission is visiting
those reductions had been made, and not ships, are a feature of With the Battle GREECE ACCEPTS ALLIES'
tralia and Sosth Africa in the fourth, and New Zealand in the fifth class. France to study French institutions under
Cruisers (published by Cassell's, 25s. the guidance of the French Minister to
of his experience on the staff of Lord net), in which Mr. Filson Young writes Beatty on the Lion.
Of Lord Fisher, Mr. Young 5039:-
INDIAN MILL STRIKE,
MADRAS, June 24th?" Five thousant workers in the Bucking Bar Mills have struck in syrapathy with the Carnatie mill workerü DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER FIGHT STADIUM THE LARGEST EVER BUILT
New York, June 24th. The cost of the arena for the Dempsey -Carpentier fight is estimated £230,000.
"Carpentier inspected the arena. and He said was staggered at its vast size:
creat.
be never imagined anything so big. The stadium is the largest ever built for such Carpentier's chief concern seems to be retention of weight. He now tarns the scale at twelve stene and four pounds.
3.0
Dempsey has been practising with light weights in the hope of securing addi tional sprei. He hits disabled most of his sparring "partners.
KARLIMB CABLES.
LARGE GATE RECEIPTS
ANTICIPATED...
NEW YORK, June 3rd.
· PROPOSALS.
ATHENS, June 23rd. The Premier and the War Minister re- turned from Smyrnin, when a Cabinet Council was immediately convened to the discuss the Allied offer of mediation in the Turco-Greek conflict. The indica tions are that the Gaverament will accept the proposal in principle, but will endea vour to oertain the Allied conditions before committing itself.
U.S. LOANS TO ALLIES. WASHINGTON'S PLAN FÖR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS. NEW SCALE OF CONTRIBUTIONS.
زینو
LONDON, June 23rd.
LONDON, June Zivil. The provisional Budget of the League
Nations for 1820 shows, an estimated OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP Britain's share on the present basis of AMERICA LEADS ON FIRST ROUND expenditure of £1,132,000 in which rent
division amounts to £38,000. A commit tee has been appointed to consider a re- vision of the scale of contributions. is reported that the Council now sitting at Geneva has recalled the contributions originalis based on the Universal Postal Union system, which was opposed at the] last assembly by the British Dominions and the smaller nations.
class contributant.
MANDATE PROBLEM;`
ATTITUDE OF" GREAT - BRITAIN.
LONDON, June 23rd.
It
The American Hutchison headed the scores in the first round of the open golf championship at St. Andrew's, retursing 72 on the old course.
BRITISH OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA.
Persia-Bavar.
LONDON, June 23rd.
In a House of Lords debate Chan FAR EASTERN CABLE
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1 remember him showing me the bound volume of his dispatches to the Admiralty when he was C.-in-C. in the Mediterranean-all printed on foolscap on board ship, and set up by a man specially trained in a graduated system of type setting, in which the damna and other expletives were set in various. grades of display type, and in three colours of ink, according to the em phasis
required by the context. illustrated than by the following story?
Could the spirit of the Navy be better
After the Dogger Bank action, which involved prolonged and super! human effort from the stokehold news.
stoker petty officer fell in before this: Bonior engineer lieutenant, and asked if he would Please make an order. that the men at the furnaces were not, to sing in action, as he found it im- possible to make himself heard in D. boiler room.
and perfect understanding between the In the Eace of the obstacles to a full two nations, the speaker could see no hope either in ignoring the obstacles or before. He believed that a more normsi altitude indirect taxation formed so large a pro- in aceking to avoid them by short cuta Mr. Hogge said it was just because toward these obstacles was attained by portion of the cost of living, and must shifting the contro of one's interest to a come out of wagee, and particularly somewhat different quarter. By treat falling wages, that the working-classed ing the United States objectively, by ought not to be overburdened making it the object of disinterested and unfair share of indirect taxation. The American request in November last year dates, Lord Curzon referred to the
untendentious study, it might be found Government, by doing away with the for communication of the draft man-
possible to set English ideas and institut excesa profta tax, had relieved the (THROUGH REUTER'S. ADENCY.]
tions, never in such i stato offuz aa richer classes, who were best able to bear dates, which had then just been sent to
they are in to-day, up against an ex- taxation, Inasmuch as that tax the Council of the League. Lord Curzon said that the Council did not postpone
THE DJAMBI OILFIELDS. tornal standard-a process which, right taken off because it was an abnormal discussion of the "A" and "B' mandates
ly handled, might be made informative. war tax, he saw no good reason why they THE HAOUE, June 24th.; He prophesied that for the next 100 should not also remove the abnormal war until the meeting of the Council now being held at Geneva, but would prob
Replying to the American Note, of the years, whatever other changes might tas put upon tea. If the Government come over the higher education of Great would do that they would not press this ably further postpone consideration, stat ul., the Dutch Government reiter Britain, the inclusion of T visit to amendment to n division. We are trusting that the Governments concernedates that negotiations with the Batavia Canada and the United States would going to get £20,000,000 from Germany would communicate with the American Government before the meeting of the Company were too fer advanced in Septem-Tour) increasingly be regarded as a more than the tea duty produced. Why (one rocollected the analogy of the Grand for reparations. That was £3,000,000 LIQUIDATION.
Assembly of the Lague in September. bor to permit the American proposals to normal part of the intellectual discipline not give poor. people the benefit of it! WASHINGTON, June 24th.
The reason of the further postpone-receive consideration. The reply denies of our educated classes. He found in the
was the American Government's
The House divided- With President Harding's approval, resumption of active interest in the that the Bill is contrary to the principle
For the reduction Mr. Penrose, Chairman of the Finance affairs of the world, which the British of reciprocity, and repeats that the
Against... Government welcomed, recognising that Dutch Government is in nowise desirous committee has introduced into the Senate American co-operation was the best * bill dealing with the Allied loans guarantee for the rapid recovery of world of excluding American capital from an
LOCATED IN KIGHT MINUTES. Landemen wondered how the Ad- and granting Mr. Mellon (Secretary of peace. Lord Curzon was quite prepared equitable share in the Netherlands' East the Treasury) full authority to re-convert oil of the League to discuss mandates.
miralty could locate German submarines to act upon any suggestion of the Conn-Indies petroleum industry within the
so accurately. It was done by picking or extend the loans or interest, to accept
limits of the law governing private enter in the lecturer's judgment, zaade a visit it produced much waste, action, much signals they made.
up at two bases on our const the wireless foreign securities in payment, and to LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE Priso,
to the United States a source of con- failure settle all olaims at present unsecured.
which seemed ludicrous, at stant stimalus to the educated English-tempts that seemed chimerien! from thus tapped could be secertained. Te The compass bearing of each signal [The American Note above referred to man. He would have to compress them the critical standpoint of pure intel bearings from each of the two stations took exception to the Netherlands' asser within the limits of a general idea. That locty tion, that the United Bates' protest in iden ho would call "& study in the in-standarda, nos dynamic.
which standards, are static were ruled on a chart, and their point LONDON, June Bird.
Half the per- of intersection gave the exact spot from regard to the Djambi oilfields was eater- fluence of enthusiasm upon tradition" sonal friction between an American and which the boat had signalled. The Labour Party conference at Brighed too late to affect the operation of For tradition within its limits was in an Englishman, whenever it was found author says Admiral Sims reported to Mr. Denby ten passed a resolution in favour of pro- policy.],
The Secretary of the Navy), whom ho inviding all possible facilities to help the
mensely powerful in the United States. to exist, could be traced ultimately to formed that he had been misquoted in party to continue to support the miners
Bo perfect did this organisation The arresting feature lay in the fact that the reciprocal misunderstanding of this
finally become that, from the time of the Press accounts regarding his remarks and to diminish suffering in mining dis
while the traditional element was strong quality and of its absence...
the submarino being beard by the in London about Irish sympathisers in tricts.
in American belief and practice, it was Geoffrey Butler suumed up with the United States."
"stations, let na say ́st" Aberdeen and THE HAGUE, June Zard. combined with qualities which made the the words: Study America, "check
Scarborough, the particulars being sent. The Emperor of Japan has sent a telo. Américan the most daring of experi-gush, and cultivate knowledge."
to the Admiralty, the bearings laid off It gram replying to Queen Wilhelmina's menters, i One was watching the was the differences from, not the similar-
on the chart and checked, with previous message of greeting on the occasion of action of onthusiasm.
information of the same submarine, and the visit of Prince Hirohito.
For this enthu-ities to, England which had importance. The siasm is specifically American. It is not In deploring the evil effect of "gush".
the reception by ships in the Graad Emperor refors to the old friendship be the same as imagination or intellectual upon the situation, he urged every one
Fleet of the information that that par ----LONDON, June Card.tween Holland and Japan. The people energy, in which our British writers and to continue and increase every chance of
ticular submarine was then in such and Naw Yonx, June-24th.
The operative cotton spinnera of Man of Japan have a grateful recollection of scientists so much excelled. It worked personal contact and co-operation with
such a position, was eight minutes." The local firemen's and Milors unions cheater have unanimously decided to Dutch influence in introducing Western in a more practical plane. It was the American men and womon They would description of the Dogger Bank battle," Mr. Filson Yung gives a vivid personal accept the have voted in favour of returning to branches of the spinning trade have now her possessions, are maintaining closer action is cossed to exist. Accordingly, social forces of which Great Britain know told tale, is of thrilling interest to the wagen settlement. All civilization, and rejoico that Holland and informing spirit of action, and without get to know of great intellectual and which, without adding much to an oft work, thus ending the shipping strike. acquiesced in the reduction.
economic relations with Japan than ever.
ADMIRAL SIMS EXPLANATION
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WASHINGTON, June 23rd.
U.S. SHIPPING STRIKE.
NEW YORK SEAMEN'S UNION
VOTES.
SUPPORT FOR MINERS:
COTTON INDUSTRY.
OPERATIVES ACCEPT SETTLEMENT.
CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN.
ENTHUSIASM AND "EXPHEIMENT.
the lecture the individual features which, It was hardly possible to convey" in
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