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1926.
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A corrtspendent writes to Lloydis List; } "All "adventurons English med The adoption, by the House of Commous women-and their number is legion- which plies between Tangier and Gibral of an amendment to the Finance Bull on love to read of the exploita in the far tar, I watched the receding shores of the subject of the liability of brokers and corners of the earth of intrepid follow- Africa. To the right lay Tangier itmolt, commission agents for the income-tax of countrymen. These people, and motorists spreading white chown the hillside to their non-resident principals brought to in particular, will therdughly enjoy ** Be ith lower levels, looking mest beautiful a successful close. & campaign initiated 'Car to India," by Major Forbes-Leith, ant quite unfoundedly virginal. It was by the London Charar of Commerce F.R.G.S. (Hutchison 7 6, illustrated.} } FOR still morning, and over the town the over a year ago, with the purpose of Within the covers of the volume is u heareas were gentle blue, in which meeting a situation which was rapidly pleasantly told story of a journey of 8,327 small sedding clouds, now joining and becoming a danger to the City and other miles from Yorkshire to Quetta on the now dividing from each other, played commercial centres in the country. Faw, north-west frontier of India. The party at being the population of the sky. A few light waves tumbled and tossed perhaps, appreciate the importance of consisted of the major and two
panions, Mr. Allan Wroe (Leeds) and Mr. with the sunbeams, but their depths the interests involved.
Theoretically. were dark and magnificent; the noble
everyone who trades Montagu Redknap (of Pathé Freres), and element was at its case. And yet from within Great Britain is liable to income the journey was mude in a 1th.p. Wolseley sky and den and city wolded into this tax, whether living in the country or (Colonial pattern) touring car, which hal lavaly prospect my game went on to anot. But the non-resident is cutside to carry a load of 950lb. The spare parts distant and now ill-defined line of hills. Eritish jurisdiction, and in 1915, there were negligible, and consisted of spring They had not been so distant resterilay, fore, new machinery was devised by leaves, spare magneto, brake linings, apart those scrubby hills, when I had traversed which an agent in the United Kingdom piston al connecting rot, nuts and bolts, them. Bat now they were fading away was made liable for the tax of his for two spare tyres, and two spare tubes before me, taking on that grey hue the
Several dumps, however, were made tign principal. traveller knows too well, when some
Bagad, and Teteran, but, as things turn- abeul. at Belgraule, Constantinople, land which has touched his heart dur-') ing a sojourn goes down the horizon and in the Houso as to where such a pro-led out, ine. party had no need to draw position wouki lend, and how far it on them. The route planned was roughly would affect the cost of imported. mw
through
Italy, Jugo-Slavia, materials and the
inter. enormous national entrepot trade of the country, Bulgaria, Turkey-in-Europe, Asia Minor, that is to say, the transactions in goods Syria, Iraq, Persia, and Baluchistan. which never come to the country otining and picturesque, being descriptive The story, in narrative style is enter- those which reach the United Kingdom of every point of interest on the long and
disappears into his past.
PLACES OF MYSTERY.
At the time grave doubts were expres
France,
SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL
ISSUE
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Abridged Edition
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THE DIRECTORY corers the « notables events ports and cities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberia, in which Europeana reside.
in each case as it can be made, but exch Colony Not only is the Directory as fall and complete Port or Settlement is prefaced by DESCHIR
carefully revised each year, the
GOLD13 FOL THE TOU21st, giving every detai.
square and the lordly gate of Menkes only to be re-exported. Mr. McKenna, unfamiliar route, and all the dificultisority of which will KOSTO AL EN Acarate.
and dangers are graphically related.
From Daumascus the party wished to
Into the gray bills of Morocco saw" going many things. I saw Rabat and the ancient, walls round the garden which makes a man hold his breath with delight I saw the incline to the earthy I saw and I heard the springs of Fez who introduced the change, gave & cate flowing, and suelt again the sweet olour serigal assurance in the House that the of dried lips and tired eyes as after and that if these foreblings were proved Syris, which meant crossing two ranges. The information in these Descriptions, consiste of mint, blowing from her plantations situation would be carefully watched, reach Beyrout, the largest seaport in connection with the places, their History the burning day we mounted into her to be well-founded promjit ineasures of inountains-first the Anti-Lebanon, aing of a hundred, interesting articles, packed. for, rest, I saw the wonder and the | would be taken.
| bare and cheerless rock; and from thener,wia facia concisely set ont, and containing horror of her long brzars, her cais What was feared actually happened. 15 miles to the Mountains of Lebanon. statistics of the TLADE of each Country' and and her crowds, the amaranth saddles and, indeed, worse, for whereas the 1915 At a height of 3,000 feet the glorious valley Port, would alone suffice to fill a large volume and roles of cream. the "seabicus beads Finance Act contained a sub-section of Lebanon was reached, the original hand;
The Book is printed from New Type specially and chalky eyes and filthy garments of which was intended to mean that brokers described in the Bible as flowing with reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in sackcloth, the envelopel women slipping and general commission agents, as oppos-milk and honey. Here the travellers every arrangement greatly 'facilitates reference. into the dark of doors ajas on mystered to ordinary agents would not be could see the fauous cedars of Lebanon- the sandals of gilded and embroidered: leather and the soiled feet padding down unde liable, the Inland Revenue author or such few as remain-from which King Fetid lanes, the flowers cascading in itigs placed a different interpretation Solomon obtained timber for the building torrents from barped windows, and the upon the wording of the sub-section and of his temple. On the way down, the flood of flies searching the limbs of the | began to assess them and the official Major says, four hundred cara beggars prone in the gutter.
view received confrmation, in the Courts.counted coming up the hills, but only one car in that four hundred wn's British. A MENACE TO TRADE,
He adds that in the city of Beyrout there-
A foreign shipper naturally will not
were
Besides the usual Alphabetical Lânt of Firints. the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commersal Centres.
The ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS
I saw the long roads, the long, long, rmpty roads where the motors hurry past the sinister heights. I saw the
a dozen of which are of British manu. un jugging on, carbines at their back can be transacted through Continental facture. and one with the fag at his stirrup, and other agents, and consequently the
From here the party returned to while A cither side the harvests international and entreprit trade crackled in, flame
Damascus to prepare the car for crossing saw Tagunat threatened, n I
trade which runs inta ringed by mountains and Sker by millions. And this was not all for the Bagdad. The sun temperature in the nearly 600 miles of waterless desert to ghostly enemy. I saw the legionaries, those sanctified devils the legionaries, agency business brings to London the middle, of the day was approximately 175 relative financing, chartering, and insur-degrees, and the Major's greatest fear climbing and falling and lying still on the sides of Astar. I heard the story ance, and directly and indirectly gives was of the hot following wind, which, if atrong would cause any car radiator to of encircled pasts and of sorties and employment to thousands of people. of reliefs and of the wavering of tribes. Moreover, quite apart from thehoil and waste water, and the first and I hoped the hopes of the morning and international entrepot trade, only wells were at Rutba, 232 miles away shared in the fears of the night, and practically the whole of the raw mate They encountered a severe sandstorm followed the fortunes of France, rial provisions and produce import-and the day became nearly as dark as ed into and consumed in the country London in a November fog, although the goes through the commission houses: on sun was still high in the heavens
Several attempts to get through the these goods the tax, in effect would have
1torm were without avail, and the 1been an import duty.
The situation was so serious that the strength of the following wind was such London Chamber of Commerce convened that, although the speedometer of the car a conference of all interests under the showed it was moving at 23-m.p.b, the chairmanship of Sir James Martin, flag on the radiator was blowing directly which conference nominated a committee, away from the driver.
batteries amid the corn and the cavalry-į pay a high income-tax when his business are over three thousand cars, fewer than the Far East contains the names of "over
·THE GREAT MARSHAL
and
I saw the Marshal, the great Marshal, who in his day held all Alorocco in his hand, the gallant, gusty Lynutey Bay pensive Dangan, the leader in these times of peril, Daugan to whom nothing was given and of whom all things were asked; burly Billotte, the maker of strong places; Nuguès, elegant and in cisive in fur, speech, and action; I saw with Sir, Keith Price as chairman, to After five and a half months of advan commanders and troopers and partisans take the necessary action. Interviews ture the travellers reached Quetta. It is and camps.
took place with the Financial Secretary surprising to read that the total bill for But of all I saw and remembered no; nemory came so clear and so wistfully of the Treasury and the Chairman of the sparcs was £2,175., and that they sustain to me across the widening waters as did Board of Inland Revenue, but the Chan-ed only two punctures. The ear came in yours, men of Taza; yours, Delattre, cellor stated that he could do nothing for a lot of admiration on account of its and yours, Schmitt, and yours, de The committee, therefore, asked remarkable feats, and Alajar Jackson, Bournaghel and all the others of Dar E. C. Grenfell, senior Member of Parlia-RE wrote in its honour the following Caid Medbob; yours, my lonely lieutenment for the City, to put down an amend little veree, with which Major Forbes ant of Bon Mehir, looking quietly from ment to the Finance Bill; the amendment Leith closes the story your eyrie over the unimaginable lande was backed by Mr. Dennis Herbert. Sir cape in your charge; yours, Giraud Arthur Shirley Benn, Sir Edward Iliffe, colonel of tirailleurs, though I never and Lieut.-Colonel Assheton Pownall met you, for your myriad deeds met me everywhere, but you,, the chieftain of the forced marches, only the enemy met: and yours, General Cambay, Ironside of the East, holding together by moral strength your thinned battalions, so that they by moral strength too held on and held on, and were never turned.
Hindu and Mussulman coining to meet
ye,
VD. To the great satisfaction of those who were acquainted with the nature of the menace, the Government finally decided to adapt the principle of the amendment, namely, that bona fide brokers and general commission agents receiving, in respect of the business, remuneration at
the particular class of business should not be liable for the income-tax of their non-resident principals
14
It was to your sector of Taza, then rate not less than that customary in sector which stretched on limitlessly to the east, to Algaria, the limitless scetor of the most limited forces, that the commander went on a.memorable day.. It was the blackest day of all the black days of early July. As the eartworn general mounted hastily into his car and drove away, the dread lay on Everyone of the order of retreat he must surely give on his return.
..
SAVED BY A SORTIE.
We knew that, your men were here surrounded, there half, surrounded, en gaged at all points. The tribes which hat Fought for you had gone over to the enemy. And you were the only barrier between them and the others, south af the grent road, and could they break you or even pass at your side and join the south, then must follow the great insurrection and the complete catas "trophe.". The other sectors, stretched taut as catgut themselves, had no belp to spare you.”
MISS HELEN GLADSTOKE DEAD..
Miss Helen Gladstone, youngest daughter of the great Prime Minister and one of the pioneers in women's "work" among the
poor died at
Eight thousand miles and more: you
must be weary,
Go not to England yet, England
dreary,
90,000 FOREIGNERS, ranged, with the Initials as well as the Bar- names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that any name can be found instantly,
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Peking
Tiantain Peitatho
Cacton
Сягл Boochow
Chinking Nanking
Kowloon
Lappa
Shamani
Kangmoon.
show:
Chinwangtao Waku
Thin Kiukimag.
Hankow
O'tres Sassi
Newchwang Dairen
Port Arthur
Ichang
Chung bảng
Hangchow
Websiwai Wenchow
Nanning
Mangtax
Chefoo
England to Hindustan, Felix
wo greet
Far o'er the desert, with engine, still
Shanghai
Amoy
turning.
Harbin
Kivin
Punctures and bandits' and obstacles
spuraing,
Swatow
głow
JAPAN & FORMOSA,
Tokyo
Moj
Yokohama Kobb
Nagaraki
Taipal
Hakodate
Takow
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EASTERN SILI
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HOW WOMEN DEFIED IT."
Secra Clasmalpo K
Nicolajewsk
Morpo
Piryang
England has strikes and fags unknown
to Quetta,
Quetta is better-yes, very much better.
· CHURCH : DRESS EDICT.
A fashion war is proceeding between Hawarden, Cheater, on August 19th, the Archbishop of Florence and the in her 16th year. A great part of Miss women of his diocese. Gladstone's life was connected with Newnham College, Cambridge, first as an undergraduate, and from 1882 to 1896 as vice-principal In 1898, after
omen's University father's death, she went to live at Settlement, Southwark, where from 1901 to 1903 she was warden. In the latter year the re turned to Hawarden, settling down in a house named Sundial..
For your there was no succour and the that they must now join perforee the general, as it appeared then went out ranks of Abd el Krim, but you," they to you almost to ask the dying not to declared, we shall always honour and dic. Add he found your half-surround you can go back to the next post un ed men had attacked and your surround- hurt.??..
with more modesty and not to show bare In the hope of inducing them to dress
arms or necks he recently issued an order denying them admittance to church unless properly dressed. Adrian The women of his diocess, it is stated, employed 4" ruse" and dressed sơ thất not an inch of bare skin showed beyond their faces and hands.
But once inside the cathedral they lat full cloaks and wraps and appeared a little clothed as ever. The cathedral clergy when they perceived this immed intely retired and the edifice was clear- ed
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Haiphong Tomkins
Provinces
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Hvo Touran
Manila
Baguio
Dailo
Zamboanga
BOREZO. Branett
British North Borneo
CAR Faxoxox
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Belanger Trengganu
Perak Begri Sembilan Johors
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ed posts had miraculously gone forward Bo, men of Taza, it has been a in sortie, and that evening when he vilege to have passed a brief space amid drove back the eighty miles to Fez be you. To have known you, Delattre, who said, "I have been steeped in the Foob never spoke of yourself but of whom ali tain of Youth to-day happened the unbeaten sector spoke; to have talk Uno, of the detective officers of the It was your intelligence officers who,ed with you, de Bournaghel, who are Special Branch of Scotland Tard, Mr. living and fighting with the tribesmen, wont to fight in the scarlet tunic of full W. J. Giles, has patented simple plates eating their rubbly bread and drinking dress and call out in mockery to the for fitting to the front and back of their tainted water, by their example nearby enemy, to animate the men who motor cars to leasen the danger of accident Court of Samales led them for four whole days against Bre so worthy of you; to have seen you entary their very brothers and kindred enrolled Schmitt, ride into the camp at sunset, on the enemy's side. And when no re inforcements came, it was one of your officers the clansmen saluted and told (Continued as foot of Dezi Column.)
like a Samarai, with your burnous At the touch of a button the word about you, at your belt the hunting. Right, Left, or Stop appears horn with which you had rallied the on the plates, brightly lighted from the
ordinary accumulators. last few faithful of a great tribe
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