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THE SINGAPORE BASE.
VIEWS 08 MR. RICHARD HOLT.
LONDON, August 13th. Mr. Richard Holt, a director of Messrs. Alfred Holt and Company, and the China Mutual Steamship Company, "writing to As one of a com the Buy Newes
By placing all decors, allied and eitenshire hy eight wickets. The Yorkshireparatively small section of the
under a common, obligation,
The point which has caused the greatest surprises the linking together of the French and Germen war debts,
hawler Rhodes, in the first innings took
7 wickets for W.
OUR LONDON "LETTER.
THE EXTRAORDINARY, VOGUE (OF „SPOUT IN ENGLAND,
THE DOCK STRIKE
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, July 14th. HENLEY REGATTA.
The conditions were ideal for a mucceAS-
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fa! Henley Regatta-perfect River wea. ther, and excellent racing. Yet sonie of the old stagers are complaining that them was aougthing missing, and they are fairly well agreed that it was a lack of the Carnival spirit which was so much in
All sorts of arguments were 'used to' shut the Farks against sports on Sundays,
A GREAT IRRIGATION
SCHEME.
years ago--some ten years after British had assumed control of tho
of Sinda
engineer.
Sindays from using Ferwards Goneral) J. O Fife,
OF
The fact that those who can afford it play
Sir Montagu Webb, Kt, CLE, CBE, golf and tennis and other games on Sun-Member of the Indian Legislative Assembly, days was ignored. The opposition, wore" contributed the following article last month intent solely in endeavouring to exercise to the London Daily Mail. their power as members of the L.0.0. to har the work-a-day folk who can only get the time for games the Parks. They made a strong point that the faterests of religion forbade the RE prepared a report on the possibility of continuance of the games, but the bottom utilising the waters of the mighty Indus to foll out of this plea when it was found irrigste the whole of the province. Sind,
it must be explained, is almost the size that the Roman Catholio community ca thee, besides many Anglicans, were in England: but a large portion of it
consiste of favour of healthy, honest, and harmless thrountains, broken and sandy country, so only one-half of the whole is recreation. day games was one that I have always north to mouth for over 330 miles on the top of Another strong point made against Sun-good soil and cultivable. The Indus ru
through the middle of the provincs from heard used in similar connection. This is a low ridge, and not, like most river, at the The river itself has formed this ridge each bank during the foods caused by the melting of the snows of the Himalayas. land away. from the river is very gradual, and hardly perceptible to The slope of the
water from the river when in food to flow down the present canals to various parts of the country. "Fife proposed two great canal systems for Eastern Sind and four other systems for Western Sind a remarkable testimony to his courage, ability, and marvellous vision.
But great eg conceptions need kinds and, in particu- great resources
com evidence in the brave days before the that an extension of amusemonts on Sun- bottom of & Talloy; the deposit of it on
days involves extra labour for the em- ployes of the public authority concerned. In the case of the L.C.C.. the fact was work on Sunday, and only 44 of them elicited that 10,000 employes have to
The French standiwint is that whitershire by an innings and 31 runs. For Straits Settlements Government with the ally behave as though there was nothing have been ab cinployed, owing to Sunday the eye, but is quite sufficient to cause the
· France remitted the war debt, owing to her, she was ready to pay her own debts
At Nottingham, Notts defented Leices
Notts Barratt unde 83 rens unfinished. Barratt in the first innings took 5 wickets for 31; Richmond, in the second innings
munity who seeni certain to benefit by the Singapore Naval base selerue," compares the site of 217 acres given by the
1914 üres owned by the Mersey Docks and say's ten millions is ludicrously innde- quate to spend on it. Mr. Holt says the reason primarily urgent in a defence
war. They sigh for the freedom of the Henley of old, when anyone had the privi. leges to all down the course and gener-
else to think about except the merry-games. making. Now, the crowd is marshalledd sir Joan MOORE - like a theatre queue, the course is kept as a sacred preserve by boonis along the entire length, and there is no mistaking that the sport is the thing that matters.
However that may be. Henley in glori Capacity and will tó falâl her obligations | Northamptonshire by nine" wickets. For graving dock capable of taking a bulged ous summer weather cannot be otherwise it. Seeing that there are war memorials lar, great administrators to carry them
than a joyous rendezvous. There was It is emphatically declared that"France Worcestershire in the first innings. Lattleship. He says the Gladstone grav this year, is fornierly, at the Regatta the centenary of the birth or death of a rot does not intend to repudiate her war Crawley Tompiled 18t and Fox 179 uning dock at Liverpool, which is capable wealth of bright colours that gladden the able personage is to erect a monument, cussed, rejected, revived, sad abandoned, not..
to the Allies, but she refused to have the ́della “made dependent upon 'Germany's
debts.
· NON-COMMITTAL ATTITUDE AT
·WASHINGTON, ....
took for 72
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At Worcester, Worcestershire 'defente!! scheme is the necessity for providing “a
Gnished. Root took 7 wickets for 01.
At Birmingham, Sussex beat, Warwick shire by an innings and 190. For Sussex. Street compiled 72 and Colonel Watani e90 not out.
New York, August 13. The non-committal attitude of Washington afficial world remained an changed by the publication of the British Note.
The New York Evening Post declares that any Government that refuses to accept the Note as, at least a basis for discussion will outrage the opinion of the world.
The Evening Sun says that nothing is left to the responsible British statesmen if the argument fails þut to extricate, the nation by the best, mens available.
DELIVERIES FROM" GERMANY
SUSPENDED.
BERLIN, Angust 13th.
It is announced that the deliveries in
kind to Great Britain, Italy, and the other Allied Powers not participating in e Ruhr occupation, which hitherto have been maintained or partly maintained, are to be suspended on the ground that "The condition of the country necessitates the utilisation of all its resources-to. pro- vide the population with the winimuņt for existence and to ward off starvation, while a continunner of deliveries would
prejudice the success of taxation reform
and the gold loan.
It is added that the deliveries will be resumed as soon as the position permits. Germany will endeavour to continue de liveries of coal to Italy.
FRANCO-BELGO RUHR.
FOOD" STORES PILLAGED AT
CREFELD.
Brussels, August 13th. Numerous food stores were pillaged at Crefeld,
The police charged the crowd, killing al-wounding many.
RIOTS AT GELSENKIRCHEN,
PARIS. August 13th.
A message front Duesseldorf states that there were riots at (ielsenkirchen, where the shops were pillaged and one workatan was killed and 10 persous injured.
DEMONSTRATION AT AIXE-LA-
CHAPELLE.
Paris, August 13th.
IRELAND WALES. Ireland defeated Wales by an innings and 2 Wales made 153 in their first knock and 242 in their second. Ireland made 419 in their first innings. Heaslip. for Ireland nude 00..
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CHANNEL SWIMMER.
AWARDED £1,000.
Losios, August 13th. The Argentine swimmer Tiraboschi ...us been awarded the Daily Sketch prize of £1.000.
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YACHTING. BRITISH-AMERICAN CUP.
LONDON, August 13th.
At Cowes, Great Britain wou the fourth we for the British-American Cup..
of this, cost half a million. He estimates that a million and a half will meet the Post at Singapore and copeludes there from that preparations are being made for much more than the ostensible
scheme.
PAN PACIFIC CONGRESS.
to the Pacific nations.
Congress
world.
JAPANESE TACTFUL · CAMPAIGN, Losos, August 13th. "The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at
eyes the gaily-painted house boats wi white and gold predominating, the sear let and lemon coloured captive balloons in myriad numbers floating over-head giving the impression of tinted fames, the white tents on the banks, with the deep green of the trees in the back. ground, and everywhere on the water and on land the elaborately dressed crowd mannered and elegant, and laughter loving, to all appearance without a care in the world.
The old stagers may say what they will but Henley Regatta is still unique as a water pageant, typically English, and popular in its way as the Derby or ABCO
THE VOCCE OF SPORT.
There's an unmistakable desire of late years to honour the memory of great men and keep their names before the eyes of posterity. This is increasingly evident, throughout the country. No doubt the Great War has had something to do with in every parish, the obvious thing on the
or at any rate a tablet, to, his or her memory.
This week the Duke of Connaught un- veiled a memorial to Sir John Moore at Shorncliffe, on the uplands where he trained the historic Light Brigade. Thanks mainly to the famous poem on his burial at dead of night, uo military hero is better known than the General who commanded the English Army in the Lady Brownrigg Retreat to Coruona. has written a book which throws new light on the subject: and in a preface Mr. John Fortescue, the military his- torian, says "no man-mut Cromwell, nor Marlborough, nor Wellington-has set so strong a mark for good upon the British Army as Sir John Moore!
through. At that time the man was not forth-
coming.
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And so. Fife's schemes were dis.
once bubseveral times. The Indian Irriga- tion Committee of 1901-3 was the last authori tative body to recommend a comprehensive re-examination of the possibilities of better
in Sind irrigation i
Engineering knowledge has advanced much since File's days, and huge wairs cons tracted on sandy beds, with gates that can be opened at the bottom to allow flood waters and accumulations of silt to pass through, are now in operation in many places. And so since 1003 successive engineers have worked last, at the Sind irrigation problem till, Fife's ideas have now taken definite shape in the Sukkur Barrage Irrigation Project of 1920 (prepared by Mr. A. A. Musto, C.IE), of State in Apri per ved by the Secretary
the
at
last and Bombay Legislative Council on June 9th. There is a curious interest in the fact
The that if you go to-day along the route
mile for this scheme--nearly in lengthwill be thrown across the followed by Moore during the Retreat Indus close to the town of Sukkur. It will from Beneventi to Cofurhu, although not check the river when in flood because hundred years have elapsed, no sooner all the gates, will be open, but in the cold
THE VIGOR OF THE PACIFIC.
Westera Sind, and four
"PERMANENT PEACE IN THE
PACIFIC.”
-MELBOURNE, August 13th.
The bearer of a "Message from fars," At the opening sitting of the Pan- us Mr. Wells might describe him, would Pacific Science Congress, the speakers probably think that sports and pastimes were the main pre-occupation of the agreed on the urgent need for co-opera-English people. Records of sporting en tion in facing the great problems counongagements fill the columns of the news is his name mentioned than the people-weather, when the gates will be closed, the
even the malateer, shepherd, or pensant level of the είναι papers every day; and it is hard to find
immediately above the group of men or women who are not instantly responds with glistening eyes, barrage will be maintained 15 (or more) feet One Japanese delegate hoped that the keen on some kind of festival on land or and they show a readiness to help you in higher than it would otherwise be
Three big canals, each almost as large as water. There were about 14,000 on any way within their power. This, sure-
the Thames, will take off just above the would pave, the for perman-lookers at the lawn tennis matchstly, is fame indeed.
way
barrage to irrigate Wimbledon when Mile. Suzanne Longien
similarly great canals will be excavated to ent peace in the Pacific and the whole beat Miss McKano, and, incidentally, for
I hear that those who go down to the serve Eastern Sind. These artificial rivers the tifth time in succession proved her self the finest woman lawa tennis player sen in ships are vastly interested in the together with all their subsidiary streams,
7,000 miles in length! Frenchwoman must be written down as ing the foor of the Pacific Ocean, Re. in all
tracts of rich alluvial soil (over invincible. She has reduced tennis to a ports of what has been accomplished by
scres more of per annum than there is "at game where it is possible to play with the United States Navy Department are 0,000,000 acres -500,000
present in the whole of Egypt) will produce a game of chess. She knows what will to tho south of San Francisco. The new
valuable crops in amazing volume. following figures will give some ides of the ists, together with the accompanying happen to a ball wherever it pitches the echo-sounding gear was used, which en-
ield of the Sukkur barrage scheme when answering moves, as it were-and plays ables the desired information meathers of the Japanese House of Peers, accordingly. Her opponent in worn out secured by the investigators on board a
completed:-- steamer going at 12 knots an hour. This
Cotton are conducting a tactful campaign with running over the court, while
is a remarkablo advance on the old-time. only requires to move a yard or two.
method of taking soundings. the object of promoting an improved
With the exception of lawn tennis, our athletes have acquitted themselves well Japanese Australiai" understanding.
this season on the track and on the River For example, Professor Kanasugi, in At the international inccting at Stamford the course of a statement which was Bridge three British amateur records were broken, two by Englishmen ; and out officially inspired, says that the Japanese of 18 individual championships 18 were show that we are recovering, from the entertain a feeling of sincere friendship won by British athletes. This seems to towards Australidas, and desire to pro-strain and wastage of the war period in mote and maintain peace in the Pacific the realm of sport. The most notable "best" is, perhaps, the performance of and the general advancement of givilish E. TI. Tâddell, who did the 100 yards in D. 7-10sec., beating the record set up in 1901 for the distance, 9 I-56¢¢. FAMOUS ACTOR'S DEATH.
in the world. It is now said that the good work which has been done
in chart and drainage canals will be
Grent Britain now leads with so points Sydney reports that the Japanese scient.athematical accuracy To her it is like available here, with a chart of the coast cultivation
to 45:
FRENCH REVENUE.
BRIGHTER BUDGET OUTLOOK.
PARIS, August 13th. The Finance Minister, M. Do La Steyrie, announced that if the consider. able improvement in the crvenue during the first six months of the year continued] during the second sis month, the ordinary budget wou'd by balanced for the first time sipes (1814-
LONDON DOCKERS' STRIKE. BIG. RESUMPTION AT LONDON
-WHARVES.
LONDON, August 13th. The Transport Union states that there a big resumption of work by the dockers at the London whurves, including
Was
tion.
Professor Kanasugi declared that the Pacific Ocean was too vast to be control-
led by one nation, however powerful. lie denied that Japan was aggressive and the two which have been the unofficial | militaristic, giving as an instance her ́observance of the Washington Treaty and
centre of the strike movement.
Altogether, 1,500 resuained to-day.
BYE ELECTION. MAJOR CAYZER AGAIN RETURNED FOR SOUTH PORTSMOUTH
LONDON, August 13th. The South Portsmouth bye-election,
A mesange from Duesseldorf states that necessitated by the appointment of Col. following upon a demonstration by u crowd before the town hall at Aixe-la- Lealle Wilson as Governor of Bombay, Chapelle demanding potatoes and in-resulted as follows:- creased wages," a "collision occurred in which the police used their arms, killing four and wounding about 30.
STRIKES IN GERMANY.'
SITUATION WORSE.
BERLIS, August 13th. The strike situation is somewhat worse. The police arrested 50 Communists and
BERLIN, August 13th. The strikers at the Hamburg shipyards attacked the police, who intervened to prevent the intimidation of the workers,
Several of the strikers were killed and by were wounded in the ensuing fight. GERMAN MINISTRY FORMED.
BERLIN, August 13th. Chancellor Streseman. has formed
a number of strikera."
Cabinet, in which he will act temporarily Herr Robert Schmidt, Socialist, is. Viec- Chancellor and Minister of Reconstrue tion.
as Foreign Minister.
Herr Bilferding, Socialist, is Minister
Major H. R. Cayzer (C.)...11,894 -- Sir Henry Lawson (L) ........ 9,763. Major Cayzer formerly retired in favour of Col. Leslie Wilson, owing to ill-health.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES. FRENCH FRANC FURTHER DEPRECIATES.
LONDOS, August 13th. Foreign exchanges were rather erratic and uncertain on the publication of the British Note.
French Francs further deprecinted; là 8.35,
The Belgian Frine, however, "improved on loan talk, and closed at 100.25.4
BRITISH TRADE.
Lospos, August 13th The Board of Trade returns show that,
imports during the month of July were
being a £76,818,334,
those of June £12,480,330 compared with those of June,
The value of the exports for July was £60,503,850, being a decrease of $3,37702 of Finance.
compared with those for the preceding Among the parties represented are the month. Popular, Socialist, Social Democrat, and Centro,
TRADE MISSION TO RUSSIA BELLIE, August 13th. " Herr You Bergen, now Minister to the Vatician, has been appointe Foreign Minister.
Rica, August 13th, •.. Mr. E' L. Baldwin's party of Beçor Traders have arrived.
Suzanne
The
..........................over 100,000 tons. Wheat
about 935,000 tons. Rice and other grain
eropa, well over 1,000,000 tons.
The whole scheme will take twelve years
The system employed is an adaptation of the hydrophone, used during the war for hunting submarines, and it is worked to complete, and is estimated to cost twelvo in conjunction with a sound-signalling millions sterling, on which eventually a re- apparatus using an explosive signal. Ex-tura of 14 per cent. per annum is expected. pert listeners on the ship can judge to The value of the will
crops be over thirtesa the fractional part of a second the time millions sterling per annua!
If that man be called blessed who makes it takes for the noise of the explosion to rebound off the floor of the sea and reach the recording instrument. Then, as the speed at which sound travels through water is accurately known, it is an easy matter to calculate from this the depth
of the bottom.
学
two ears of corn grow where at present only one appears, what eulogy shall we apply to those men Who now about to enable un crops to be harvested annually where not Ben ona could reaped,
All
to the engineers who have so beneficent 3. scheme.
All
conceiver to I gather that there is only one serious honour to the Government who are about to fault with the system. The depth is carry the scheme to completion. In it wo India. The news that Albert Chevalier has wanted in shallow water more often than see a type of Britain's handiwork in
in deep, but the echo sounding gear is The port of Karachi will have to be not of much use in shore because the doubled to deal with the increased exports passed away will cause sincere regret, not only here but abroad, for there must be reverberations of the prime explosion which must follow the completion of this, fow indeed who cannot recall with plen-have not ceased before the echoes are the greatest irrigation work in the
world. And the man for whom Bind has waited so sure his impersonations of the London back again, thereby creating confusion. coster. It may be said that he created But," in spite of this, the re-charting of load to whose wise perception, the roster on the stage, and his parts the Pacific is important, and the work in
exceptional “ ability, were so artistic and accurate that they to go on over a wide area. It is stated owes the translation of a seventy-years-old the restoration of Tsingtao to China, to-mused equally the West End and the that the floor of the Pacific is constantly dream into a concrete reblity of infinite real costers of Seven Dials and the Old altering Lhat November, for instance, possibilities is the present Governor of Kent Road, with whom he was a great after the Chilean earthquake, a British Bombay-Sir George Lloyd. favourite. Born in London and educated ship found at one place only $4 fathoms THE DOCK STRIKE- in Bayswater, he was the son of a French where there ought to have been 400, father and a Welsh mother, and he was GLOUCESTER SMALL POX SCALE. just over sixty-two years of age.
wards whom she claimed to have shown generosity and friendship.
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Professor Kanasugi pleaded for stimulation of commercial relationship between Japan and Australia
MELBOURNE, August 13th.
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In welcoming the members of the Pan- Pacific Congress, the Governor-General and other speakers testified to the pos- sibilities of their deliberations
The Commonwealth Government.enter tained the Japanese delegation at lun-
cheon.
POWERS PRESENT NOTES TO CHINA
THE THREATENED." CHEKIANG-
KIANGSU WAR,
Pexiya, Angust th The American, British, French and Japanese Ministers presented Notes to the Waichiaopu on Saturday.
The first Note has reference to the threatened Chekiang-Kiangsu wax, and urging the Government to take steps to prevent it, failing which the Powers may take measures for the protection of their nationals in that neighbourhood.
The second Note is a protest against the action of the Chinese authorities in the Land Office at Harbin,
It is remarkably interesting to watch the battle raging between the vaccina
Bront
India
The Dock Strike which broke out in Hull and spread to London and other porta fizzled out like a damp squib after a low days. But, as is always the way,
holding up of cargoes, and, of course, there is no way of estimating the indirect
a part by the Bancrofts at the Prince el tionists and the anti-vaccinationists in a lot of harm was done to trade by the
at Gloucester. The doctors are mobilised
damage.
The dockers came out infat
As a boy of fifteen Chevalier was given
Wales's Theatre, and for years afterwards he appeared in various plays. In 1880 he connection with the small pox epidemic left the legitimate drama for the music-
in support of prompt treatment on ortho- defiance of the orders of their own lead- brille, and at the London Pavilion icaped dos lines, and they would like to make ers, who signed an agreement a year ago into fame with "The Coater's Serenade, vaccination compulsory upon everyone that wages were to be reduced on a per "The Coster's Courtship," "The Future according to law. Gloucester is held up centage basis in accordance with the fall Mrs. Awkins," and "Knocked 'em in the naa plague spot to be shanned by every in the cost of living Under the agree Old Kent Road." One of his best songs sane person, and there is no doubt that ment the time has come for the dockers was "My Old Dutch," of which the pub- lie never tired. He was in a class by him. the ancient city has suffered great lipp to lose a shilling a day. Their wages | cial loss as a result of this campaign. On
'should come down from 13/- to. 10/- ak'a self, a really great artist in his own parti the other hand, the antis" are by no daily rate; but they refused to, abide by cular line; and perhaps the secret of his means diamayed. Led by Dr. Hadwen, a success was that his costers, whether well-known Gloucester practitioner who the agreement and downed tools.
The strikers were bound to be beates humorous or pathetic, were true chara has had experience of small-pox epide almost at once, because they got no strike Ler sketches, the result of acute olmervmics. Gloucester and the country at largo pay the leaders whom they defied coura tion and shrewd judgment."?
are warned not to be misled. Dr. Had be trusted to see to that-and public It is rather curious to reflect that Che wen declares that there is no small-pux opinion was dead against them. Nobody valier was educated for the Roman Cath in the city or neighbourhood, and all that has an atom of sympathy for them, and fic priesthood, but he found the wall of has happened is an epidemic of chicken they have been atraggling back to work the stage irresistible. His death breaks pox, which the apostles of what he calls in gangs beaten and half ashamed. The yet another link with the Victorian stage, the Jenner superstition" are using for for all his successes that established his propaganda purposes to stampede the position as a comedian were made in Vic toria's time.
SENDAY GAMES.
country into vacciantion.
trouble at the docks would scarcely de serve special bótico sxcept for the threat |
that the men's action made to the sacred- It is a great pity that this bitter con-
ness of contracts. If the dockers had troversy has arisen; and the heat with been able to enforce their claim to reject which the point is debated whether vac The battle of Sunday Games in the cination is a fetish or not makes it images agreement whenever it told collective bargaining as between Trades London Parks has been won at the Lon possible for any lat minded made with me against them there must be an end of don County Council by the advocates of open mind on the subject to form an Unions on the one hand and employers herithy amusement. The party of Kill opinion, When doctors differ in this way on the other. dignated, mohled all their forces to fuses to believe in a national danger from suppose that the principle of collective the opposition are universally who shall decide! Plain John Citizen ro- It is well that there is no reason to prevent the continuance, of games, grant small-pox as a consequence of what has bargaining is endangered. On the con- ed as an experiment for a year in 1929, happened at Gloucester, and in spite of trary, the Trades. Unions are furious that bat they were soundly defeated by a the scare and the solemn warnings of the the question has been raised at all. But majority of 83 to 33 This is a decisive medical fraternity there is no widespread it is easy to see how difficult is the posi- volt and the hope is expressed in fat There the for hopea editorial columps of the newspapers that There the matter stands for the present it will be accepted as a final decisión. (Continued at foot af nezt Column.)
Lion of Labous, loaders at times, and how liable the Labour movement is to be dis turbed by mob dictation-ILB