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TUGBOAT DISASTER.
SEVEN LIVES LOST WHEN UNLOADING FREIGHTER,
VICTORIA, B.C., October 19th Beven of the crew were drowned when the tugboat ope sank in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, after being hurled by the tide against the side of another, tugboat At the time both were unloading the stranded freighter Fendijk, on Friday. The latter sank two minutes later.
LOCARNO DELEGATES. PARIS CROWD CHEER BRIAND AND CHAMBERLAIN.
PARIS. October 19th.
Str. Austen Chamberlain and M. Bristi arrived here from Locarno this
jmorning,"
They were welcomed at the station by Earl Crewe (British Ambassador), the Polish Minister and a number of French
abinet Ministern.
A bag crowd cheered continuously. Mr. Chamberlain has received gracious telegram; from King George. FABLIER CABLES.
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LOCARNO CONFERENCE.
THE PROBLEM OF POLAND.
LONDON. October 18th..
While a message from Moscow quotes contending that the result
the Ievatio as If the Locarno Conference will be that
Pulaid will be isolated, a Warsaw report ways that the atmosphere in Poland is rather optimistic
Great importance is attached to the nner in which the clauses of the Security Pact will be interpreted in practice. It is hoped that the Western Powers will not, as a result of unfair treatment, drive Poland into a disastrous alliance with Soviet Russia.
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VOICE FROM NEW WORLD. HELPING THE CHURCH TO PAY DIVIDENDS.
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PHILIP QUEDALliche |
It was one of those large American magazines with an exciting name and the
Spontaneous combustion in a cargo of FENOTIEN TROOPS ARE EXPECTED Portrait of an emphatic blonde on the resin Chused the conflagration on the 15. Comanche, mentioned yesterday.
The vessel was carrying 67 passengers The fire started in and a crew of 100. the forward hold and spread with in- credible cupidity. The vessel was soon a mass of flames, shooting high into the air.
ing to some reports,
statement.
SWORDS IN COURT. SHOULD OFFICERS WEAR THEM 'OR NOT?
AMERICA'S WAR DEBTORS, BELGIUM'S TERMS COMPARED WITH GREAT BRITAIN'S,
A comparing between America's' debt.
Recently, in the Stipendiney's Court at Hult, Captain Robinson, Adjutant of
battalion of the East Yorks. Terteras to Great Britain and Belgium shown ritorials, who canie to prosecute defaul- the following interesting fetnila
The US terms for the funding of Great appeared in full kit, incuding
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The arrangement provides for the ex tinction of the debt in 1983.
sword. outside. « She was what,' I believe, is
"I am
not quite sure, said the Britain's debt, which were accepted by valled n speaking portrait. I was about Stipendiary," whether I ought to listen | Mir. Bonar Law's Cabinet on January alteen yards from the bookstall when to you armed. Lord Esher, in the Highst, 1993, were as follows- PERING, October 19th.
saw her first and front when I stand I Court, once said to a military gentle
2014,000,000, the total amount of debt sould hear her speaking quite distinctly, What is that at your side, sir? The Fengtien forces apparently are Since we are all human, I fell at once
the then You must not come here and terrorize the nt
rate par
of exchange Court,'" to the liquid appeal of her rather more
Thereapon Captain Robinson (2851,000,000 capital and £127,000,000′. prepared to withdraw horth of the than life-size tyre. That they were atted unbuckled his sword.
throughout with silky, it slightly glutin
Was he right in removing it? Was interest accrued between 1919 and the Yangtze without fighting. And, accordous, eyelashes it is barely necessary to the Stipendiary right in practically spring of 1944).
add. That she smiled is an understate-ordering him to do so? Is is a neat Great Britain to pay interest at the are willing to ment. That I bought her forthwith (ta point, which has never been settled. A. The vessel was burnt in the water line
gether with the accompanying one bun King's officer has the right-it is almost rate of 3 par ceut, per annum for the before being reached by motor boats from į evacuate Kiangst and 'Anhui so as not
dred and twenty pages or so of printed a daty-to appear before the King in first ten years and from then onwards the shore, five miles distant,
to hinder the Tarif Conference. It is matter) is almost ton obvious to require full uniform, which includes cap and a per cent, until, by the operation of a sword. Has he the same right when a sinking fund of ope-half of 1 per cent ANTICIPATION.
pearing before one of the King's repres the general opinion, however, that the
After a few moments of dazed contem-sentatives in court of law Some the debt is extinguished. Fengtien troops will concentrate at Hau plation, I turned the cover and looked military officers claim that he has more chow, and, if their opponents advance inside. A mood of comfortable anticipa than a right, and that the wearing of tion settled on me as I opened the maga. cap and sword are military obligations' thither, Eghting will be inevitable.
zine. I should find, I knew that I should which he is bound to observe.js and, those, intimate details of the life of Alm stars, which represent the highest form of contemporary fiction. I should see them at the swimming-pool, the steer ing-wheel, the bathing beach, and all
"should all so much rather see them than on the screen. There would be revealing glimpses of their new Thirteenth Century SHANGHAI, October 19th. English Manse (of cream stucco) in the When the Judicial Commission, enquir receatly erected under their personal Beverley Hills and of the sun-parlour ing into the bappenings of May 30th,superzisiun in the Hispano-Mauresque style. I should bask for an hour or so resumed its sitting this morning, the Rorip the stunshine of their expansive per-
sonalities. S. R, Anderson, an American missionary, their deepest convictions on love and mar For me they would unfold
gave evidence...
riage, on table-decoration, and the latest openings in Mah-jong
A tanker, which luckily was just be hind, carried out dramatic rescues in the heavy seas. Several passengers, includ- ing four women, were seen to leap through the flames into the sea. They disappear- ed. Four persons were killed when two life-boat were caught between the Comanches and the tasker and crushed ANOTHER" AMERICAN MISSIONARY those other hyphenated places where we like reg shells.
BARLIER CABLES.
LOS ANGELES MYSTERY. MULTI-MILLIONAIRES WIFE
· FOUND DEAD.
THE SHANGHAI ENQUIRY.
GIVES EVIDENCE.
NEW YORK. October 18th. Mr. Craig Riddle, a multi-millionaire's
He stated, that, on May 30th, he was wife separated from her husband, has
un Nauking Road when he heard shouting [been found dead in an apartment at Los
among the crowd,
There were small Angeles. Her neck and shoulders were bodies of students. Tu witness they were bruised. The police are conducting in-underly the police appeared to have no
vestigations.
WIRELESS IN CHINA.
ATTITUDE OF JAPAN.
difficulty in keeping in order those in their immediate vicinity. They had no control aver other crowds.
He stated that he heard no aati-Foreign eries, either in Chinese or in English. The rowils exhibited
DO threatening
It was going to be a glorious magazine, with a new feature on every page that wook trail away undiscoverably into that trackless interland of advertisementa which makes the back pages of an Ameri- can magazine appeal so irresistibly to the explorer that is intent in every English- man. And these jewels. would all be set and Immed in those sprightly, ret decor.
sienes of country house life which are believed to induce the purchase, of motor cars or the more majestic setting in which the Queen of Rumania relieves the tedium of Court hie (and, perhaps, her country's Budget) by assisting the sale of beauty specialities, t
"BUY TEMPLE BONDS."
IF
begin, with the advertisements. And I began, as a true fancier should always
then I saw it. It caught my eye. generous capitals running across an entire page:
BBY BROADWAY. TEMPLE RONDS, ASS. LET GOD COMĘ TO, BROADWAY I. read on,
The site Years Service, states that according to a Japanese message from Tokyo, Japan is about to send her reply attitude. He saw much banner and flax informing China of the Japanese attitude waving and band-hill throwing but regarding the wireless problem in China. nothing to make him believe that any- The Japanese Government proposes cothing untoward was happening. operative management of all wireless Asked what he thought" caused the Falations in "China by America. England temper of the crowd, he replied that be France, Japan and China making the put it down to the arrested students and Lord D'Aberton, the British Ambassa. Japanese wireless station in the vicinity their friends, who were angered at the italic and exclaimed:
of Peking into a central wireless service. Meanwhile the Japanese Ambassador at others iletention at the Police Station. Washington, Baron Matsudaira, has been The latter appeared anxious to have their instructed to invite the United States to friends released. sanction the proposed Japanese plang with a view to settling the question ca soon as possible.
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BERLIN. October 19th.
The
dor, greeting the, German delegation on their return" from Locarno congratulated them on behalf of Mr Auster Chamber. lain, who would always remember their spirit of sincerity and frankness, speaker added that the honour of taking zhe initiative in the course of action resulting in the Treaty belonged to the
·Germ Government. The Locarno Agreements mark a turning point in the history of Europe.
M.. PAINLEVE'S VIEW. -
Nick October 18th.
In a speech at the closing banquet of the Radical Congress, M. Painlevé de clared that the Locarno Agreements were the outcome of the Cartel's policy and Inaugurated a new era.
WHAT FRANCE WANTS.
NOT CONQUEST BUT PEACE.
Nice, October 18th.
M. Painlevé promised that he and M. Herriot would discuss the most efficacious means of dealing with the formidablo difficulties confronting the country,
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All danger in Morocco was now past.
France desired neither conquest oppression, and was only looking for Peace.
ROUND-UP OF REDS."
WARSAW, October 18th.
The political police at Vilra have af- rested two hundred Communists, inchid ing the director of the Jewish College and many pupila. Simultaneously over
hundred Communists were arrested at Cracow and Grodno,
The police at Grodno found arms, ex- plosives, and instructions from Moscow.
S.S. LAOMEDON.” CRIPPLED BLUE FUNNEL SHIP MAKES FOR MALTA
message from Port Said states that:
BORED WITH LIFE."
SIR PHILIP GIBBS TILTS AT MODERN YOUTH.
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FOUR BRITISH WITNESSES. -
Four British witnesses gave evidence this afternoon, substantiating the pre- vious testimony regarding the great crowds in 'Nanking Road on the afternoon of May 10th.
Two, who were spectators of the shoot- ing, stated that Inspector Everson was UNCHANGING QUEST. By Sir Philip Gibbs. ealm and collected at the time, of giving.
(Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.).
the order; one adding that. Inspector Everson had previously restrained somee of the Sikhs from shooting.
Sir Philip Gibbs has apparently writ ten this book for the beneft of posterity as much as for the readers of to-day, for he reviews at great length the course of events from 1594 until now, His story is told by one Gilbert Chesney, a jour nalist (during the Great War an intelli gence officer), who recounts the loves, joys, and sorrows of his friends and rela- tives.
There is a great deal of pungent stuff, For particularly in the later piges. to-day: example, this of certain young people of
They seem possessed by the seven
cscape by way of theatres, kinemas,
The third witness was of opinion, that luspector Everson warned the crowd twice before giving the order to fire-once when be ordered the guard to load carbines; the second time when he stepped into the roadway and cried out to the advancing
mob.
The fourth witness, who passed the devils of boredom, from which they police station just before the shooting, dances, and night clubs. Next morning said that he gained the impression that they say they were bored stiff. It the police were being overpowered, seems to be the disease of post-war "youth. What's going to happen to the world, old man, if youth is bored with life after so much death ?".
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It's the effect of nerve-strain, said. "Can we wonder at it-after those terrific years? Give youth a chance of recovery. Two years, three years
ITALIAN AIRMAN.
STAYS ONLY A FEW HOURS IN SHANGHAL
A picture of the horrors of life in Rassia under Bolshevik rule is drawn with terrible and justified realism, and the strain of post-war life in our own Kagoshima. country is not shirked. But here there is a refreshing note of courage.
"Paul," I id que night, "we're done. Poor old England is on the down-grade Poverty in creeping up, and we can't support our people. What are, we going to do about it
Readapt ourselves to new condi- tions," said Paul calmly. "Gel back to the land, and re-establish a pea Bantry which we ought never to have lost. Send our surplus population to the great Dominions, where, there's heaps of room and a better way of life. just beginning There won't be so
SHANGHAI, October 18th. Major di Pinedo has arrived from
SHANGHAI, October 19th. Major di Pinede left for Amoy at 6.30
to-day.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR,
GENEVA OFFICE TO ENQUIRE INTO "ASIAN CONDITIONS.
GENEVA, October 19th.. The governing body of the International
in
else to be done. It dropped to a large There was clearly upthing
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"15 per cent. Investirent in Four
Fellow-Man's Sniration, Hacked by Big Business god Banking Barcutives!!
In the London police courts, the most important in the country, a useful com- promise has been achieved which hurts neither the dignity of the law nor the|| Bow Street Police Court, the most exalted dignity of the Army. An official at
court of the kind in the renim, was asked he a representative of the Morning Post what the practice is
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The official, said: "Here at Bow dón, the practice has become established. Street, and in every police court of Lon- Most of the Officers who come here as witnesses are officers of the Guards, who the to to give testimony character of one of their men against whom a civil charge is advanced. Guards' officer, whên àn duty, wears his sword as part of his uniform. We never ask him to take it off. But we do except him to take off his can. Very seldom do we have to make the request.. When we do it is observed instantly."
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AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. In the House of Commons the custom exacting. Nobody but the Serjeant-at-Arms may wear a lethal weapon in that august assembly, and nobody may address. the Chair with his (or her) has on, saving on a point of order after the question has been put from the Chair, in which event a mem- ber desiring to raise a point of order can only do so "seated and covered."
There was a recent instance, in which kind, amused the House hy asstiming Miss Wilkinson, raising a point of the
Under her settlement Belgium agrees to pay off a standing debt of $17,000,000 dollars by 1987. On 171,000,000 dollars of this amount (the agreed sum lent to Bel- gium during the war) no interest will bo charged.
after the war) will be refunded on
The balance of 248,000,000 dollárs (lent
graduated scale of interest for the first ten years, up to 1 per cent, in the eleventh year, and for the remainder of the period.
The American Debt Commissioners have mule concessions to Belgium by reducing the interest rate, and is effect reducing the total of the pre-Armistice deht E some £12,450,000, but holds that Beiginm'n terms are not so markedly better than those given to Britain as to incur opposi tion in Congress,
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HALF A LOAF.
The Belgian Delt Commissioners are maintaining the same reserve which they have displayed throughout the negotia tiohs, and refraining from olieta) com." meat. Nevertheless, they regard the settlement as fair and the best liiat could be accured under the circumstances. They are naturally disappointed that the American Commissioners recognized the strength of the Belgian position and in a measure deferred to it, but did not sauce the full moral obligation contracts ed by President Wilson and relieve Bef gium from payment of any part of the deht incurred during the war.
But with the Belgians it was n case of half a loaf being better than no bread he carried out to the letter met with firm Their insistence that this pledge should
refusal from the Americans, and the lat Colonel Day's straw hat, which sat on her like a cherry on the top of a copperground could not be moved from it. ter baving taken, their stand on that Beech.
Hence the Belgians were compelled either In the hectic days of the war a young to remain stubborn and bring about a sergeant, sitting in a gallery of the rupture of negotiations or yield, and look was hauled out with cries of dismay, and House of Commons with his side-arm for compensation elsewhere. for a little while it was feared that the attendants concerned would die of apoplexy.
The Americans have made concessions. by reducing of the accrued interest en the pre-Armistice debt, thus technically escaping the criticism of having enneelied any part of the debt, hut in effect redne- ing-the total as it stood on the book CHURCH AND CAFETERIA A
of the Treasury from 90,000,000 to There was a picture of a large edifice Then, returning with redoubted vigour £23,556,000; but before the debt is finally faintly reminiscent of the Bush Building from this uncomfortable excursion into extinguished 62 years hence. Belgium il topped by Westminster Cathedral and theology, the prospectus restated its main hare paid the United States in principal backed by a sort of Aurora Borealis, theme with the full gusto of a sonata.and interest £146,506,10). which appeared to be trying to wear The throbbing note ran through the whole Thus Belgium "receives better terms as a halo. This edifice, I learn, was to and united it-Church, froutages, cafe than did England, but not so marked, teria, and all-in a splendid, vibrant the America Debt Commissioners believe, contain
A church auditorium eating 2200, whole It is going to be a self-slipport as to arouse the opposition of Congress. tugether with Sunday school rooms, ing, dividend-paying Church-that's what It is not unlikely that some members of gymnasium, swimming pool, social ball, captured, the imagination and support of the Opposition will protest that the settle- and every modern convenience for reli the great business men behind it-they ment violates the expressed will of Can- gious and community work; an apart liked the robust conception of a Church gress by part of the deht being cancellest ment hotel in the tower over the church that is not a supplicant but a producer! under the guise of abatement of interest, intaining 644 rooms, public ofices.ot only preaching that Christianity, is hus the Commissioners are prepared to cafeteria, dining-room, and everything consistent with Business, but demonstrat defend their position, and fally expect the necessary for first-class apartment ing by its own example. The dithyrani agreement will he ratifical, hotel and the whole" queriooking, the biègentleman (added, ́nfter ́a minor Hudson River or Long Island Sound cestasy of enumeration and measure- apartments for housekeeping in the two wings, which will accommodate 500 stores on the Broadway" front, which will be very desirable and therefore bring a solid income.
ments, that when each room is lighted and the whole is topped by ʼn revolving flaming cross 34 feet high, it will recall religion impressively to the six million people who can see it". I am sure I
One sometimes feels that we neglect the true wonders of the world we live in.
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A WARNING TO FRANCE. Partly to forestall this opposition, and partly as a notice to France and Italy that they caouot Lope for the same tering given to Belgium, the Debit Commissione has impressed upon the country that. "the" special status of Belgium applies to no other nation," that Belgium over- pied" a special position," and the weight. recognized.
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That, without a word added or sub-hope' s0, few moments in simple reverence of the Anxious, for once, to do my duty by of Belgium's moral position had to be tracted, is what it said. I paused for a genius who, after two thousand years of worthy object. I kept an observant ere ecclesiastical architecture, had solved the for its recurrence; and in a later issue tantalising problem so long presented by of some stupendous magazine, I was re the waste space inside the steeple, and warded. For es an idle fancy strayed I bawed in silent awe before the easy through its countless pages, a familiar brilliance which had inserted a cafeteria
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Italian negotiations, the former especially
It was with a view to French and that the Belgian rate was fixed at three and a half per cent, after ten years, so as to make it impossible for France to claim a lower rate.
Belgium, the French will be told, forms no precedent. The French debt must be treated on its merits, and the only basis on which negotiations can be conducted
the French capacity to pay
(to say nothing of 644 rooms) above the voice exclaimed in large capitals from the church, I saked a little bitterly why Wren top of a page
RELIGION AND REVENUE had not thought of something like this cafeteria and twelve hundred
GLORIFIED BY A WONDERFUL IDEAL 4. rooms, the whole overlooking Ludgate-hill
"A" " GIGANTIC SYMBOL" · and the River Thames. What a tragedy of wasted opportunity.
Followed a list of some of the keenest
It is estimated that the United States morbid gelf- and best-known business men in New will lose about 200,000,000 dollars by end Then, filled with reproaches of an effete civilisation, I read York" und was back in the old fairy celling the interest on Belgium's pre-war on A gentleman had appended some-land. The picture, alas! was still the debt. The interest or the post-war dele thing in the nature of a lyrical prospectus, same. But the balced akyscraper was totals 350,000,000 dollars. On the pre-war Possibly it was just a thought more ex-new tercly described as a Twentieth delt Belgium will pay off 1,000,000 dol citing than those austere communications Century Cathedral, Church, Hotel, Stores, lare each year in 1990 and 1927, with in to which the chilly provisions of the Com-Apartment House; Self-supporting, Com creases in the following four years, until, panies (Consolidation) Act have accus-munity-serving and another dithyramb 1932, when the annual payment becomes tomed us. It began like this and once observed that it was, in a "sense, a 2,000,000 dollars. Or the post war debt more let me explain that I transcribe gigantic synhol of the incontrovertible Belgium will pay in the first year 2,810,00% faithfully: Broadway Temple is to be fact that Godliness can and should be dollars, which will be increased annually a combination of church and skyscraper, continuous. ada
gam until the eleventh year, when the anneal religion and revenue, salvation and 5 per In a crescendo of eloquence the new payment will remain at a sun over cent--and the 5 per cent, is based on prophet soared to his peraration 249,000,000 dollars. ethical Christian grounds."
more than a revolutionary idea, more The happy promoter then plunged, with than a sound investment, more than an less, satisfactory results into the more architectural wonder of the age; it repre awkward field of theology in an heroic sents a spiritual stepping stone in man's endeavour to demonstrate that his reli- climb upward," A happy postscript adds gion always "apoke in terms of reward the welcome news that John D. Rocke- Near the prison at Malang, in Dest He approved of the man who makes foller, Jr has agreed to take the last Paudeau, & holy well has been discovered, money in the parable of the ten talenta. $250.000 of the Bonda
which has been dry for years, but it in And he said the labourer is worthy of I have quoted faithfully and without suddenly giving water states the his hire and by that taken the inventar distortion of the text, because I feel that Sumatra Bade The water, which is is entitled to his income." One had an these documents deserve to be more crystal clear during daytime changes to uneasy feeling that his material was grow widely known. The Old World has its red at night. Thousands of natives visi ing a shade intractable. But there were ancient, politely interested eye upon the the well for the so-called holy water. A All those stores on the eligible frontage New; and for anything that can help us native is supposed to have dreamed that to be brought somehow into the inspiring to understand we are profoundly grateful. this wall will again be dry within a few picture: uneasy hes the church that wears Babbitt was helpful. But sometimes days, and that a native boy of about 14 a cafeteria.
I-feel that Mr. Sinclair Lewis had too years of age will emerge from the source (Continued on next Column).
mach credit for his powers of invention, from which the water now down
We're not done, old man.. We're only Labour Office has decided to undertake n LONDON, October 18th.
much luxury, but it's going to be documentary enquiry, regarding condi- happier world.. A book for those who do not madtions of labour in various countries in being asked to think,
Asia
the ss Laomedon has left for Malta, towed by the Phenique
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