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Messrs. Yokoyama, Hara "and") Iwakiri, of the Minseito, sited EQUALITY OF DOMINIONS. Mr. Mitsuchi, Minister of Finance, Several flocks of ring-necked on December 10th to catechiae him pheasants made themselves at home on the question, of the defaulting in a swamp on a northern Catskill banks and other matters states the farm, and
grew Eat
visitors and Japan Chronicle. The audacious" The farmer bided his complained that although the Gov time, and, at dawn on the first ernment was making great endes- Saturday when shooting was per vours for the reef of the Kawasaki mitted, he was on hand prepared Dockyard, the Fifteenth Bank and to bag a pair," relates the New the Omi Bank, it was rather in York Times. But the owner of the differens to the relief of other banks land" found seventeen cars park-in which the interests of the ed DMT by, and thirty-three hapters were already in the low rushes and grass." The latest note of alarm concerns the dwindling numbers of the ruffed grouse, som- monly known, as the partridge, It is threatened with quick extinc- Eon in New York State, accord-
ing to the Binghamton Press which is conducting an editorial agitation for the protection of that noble game bird before it joins the passenger pigeon as historical memory. The Press quotes this statement from Dr. William T. Hornaday, whom it bad asked for an opinion on the situation:
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Wild game is more plentiful ja the United States than ever before, dispite pessimistic claims of nd vacates of strict prohibitory-laws to hamper sportsmen, John B. Burnham, president of the Ameri- ean Game Protective Association, told members of the Exchange Club
luncheon at the Hotel McAlpin. The proper application of closed seasons, Mr. Burnham raid, and intelligent stocking and conservation, had brought this
about.
masses were more closely involved. They naked why the authorities were treating the concerns affecting the
and plutocrats, with special favour.
peers
the Minister denied the charge
harge of partiality laid against the Goggenment. He declared' that the Government was not guilty of making fah of one and desh of an- | other. If some banks had already payments, it was because their affairs were not so bad as the othera, not by any means because favouritism shown by the Govern - ment. for them.
th
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ing, on "The future of the British Empire" for the British Universi ties' League of Nations Society at King's College, London, said that the British Empire had, since last year's Imperial Conference, been cut up into a number of indepen. dent States. It had consed to be ore Sovereign State. London was no longer the capital of the Empire --the Dominion capitals were abso lutely equal. In the League of WAR VETERÄN 100 YEARS Nations the Dominions were repre- sented as independent States.
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This was perhaps the biggest' and the bravest single surrender of power, which had ever made in Form- history by a Government, ally speaking, the Empire had been SIGHS FOR PAST PAGEANTRY disrupted.
It had ceased to be based upon comiband, and was now based purely upon consent and co- operation. This constitutional ex- periment had given the Empire à far more effective Constitution than the one which existed before, and one far better adapted to the con- ditions of the world in the present age.
OF WAR
DETROIT, Dec. 4th.
INVESTITURE AT AMOY.
HONOUR FOR M. FERNAND ROY,
VISIT OF THE " JULES MICHELET."
AMOT.
At 8 am on Sunday, December 18th, the Jules Michelet, Bagship of the French feet in the Far East, entered port, the main reason for this welcome visit being the inves titure Monsieur Fernand Roy Consul for France and Benior Consul with the rank and gross of- Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur.
In a Detroit poorhouse sits a soldier of fortune, now minus the Fortune, who can authentically lay claim to the following experiences
He saw the charge of the Light Brigade
He was nursed by Florence Night took place at noon on Monday, This very impressive" deremony ingale.
December 19th, in the grounds of He was a gun runter for Gari-the French Consulate in the Inter- baldi.
Asked whether the Government in lieved that there was good pros pect of relieving banks other than those which had already resumed business, Mr. Mitsuchi replied that be believed, that all the banks except one could be helped to re- Kum business by appropriate means. He felt rure that the sur render of private property on the part of bank directors was the most important factor in the resumption of business, and special efforts were, now being, directed to that end. To a further inqury, the Minister re Six million hunters on the Northpled that there was evidently no American continent north of the prospect of the closed banks being Rio Grande remarks The Times, reopened for business before the under the head-line" More Hun- year-end, though there might be onc ters as. Game Dwindles," have be- or two ceptions.
Large scale interdependence was The Minister was also naked gun their annual slaughter of the fast-diminishing gumbers of about the Government's policy for
to both the League of game birds and animals, ranging the regulation of the prices of rice Nations and the British Empire. in size from the tiny sandpiper and cocoons, which had consider. The ordinary small-sized State was and red squirrel to the lordly wildably fallon. His reply was that as. turkey and giant moose,
the matter constituted an economic to day out of date. Both the question of extensive dimensions he League and the British Empire rename, is now 100 years old. could not answer the questions cognized the powers of individual its a little apart from the other easily. He nevertheless mentioned
A Scotch cap is the fact that the Government had defrayed the sum of 7.500,000 for the regulation of the price of
COCOOTS,
Fish and Game Commission of California. One hunter near Charleston, South Caroling, several
years. 389. thoilighted thirty- seven deer in a single seasonL
Small-Sized State Out Of Date.
common
He pulled the Empress of Car lotta out of a ditch by her ankle.
He was present at the Indian mutiny.
Captain Roland Walpole, men ber of the British family of that
inmates.
H.
met
centres to issue commands; and rakishly on his head. On his both were based upon the indepen dent responsibility of national par liaments. We had now a world which needed international organi- ration because its problems were international, but which could only be governed by the consent of the individual centres of power. There had grown up in the last few years, With both in London and Geneva, larger international unity- network of institutions based upon the prin ciple of co-operation,and the equai representation of local and group interests.
This was
a complete revolution in the, nature of political institutions.
So far as the man of average means is concerned, hunting of game birds and animals will soon be out of the question, posted lands everywhere aad, ironically, much of it gameless, he is confronted with; & condition his grandfather could not have fore- seen. The game frontier" is ceding further and further every
season.
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The Duck Hunters.
To obtain the views of the duck hunters of the country, Outdoor, Life sent out a questionnaire to ed to forward the rapid circulation
Our institutions were now design 1,000 subscribera, asking how many
national Settlement of Kulangsu At 11.30 am, two detachments off Armed French troops landed at Kulangse and, preceded by a full Detachments of British troops, from band, marched to the Consulate.. the Destroyer Somine, and of Municipal Police were also present under arms.
Troops formed an open square which was closed by the leading re sidents of Amoy, both Chinese. Foreign, who attended in maar to witness the bestowal of this well Among those present were nine Chevaliers of the Order from the Naval Forces," bioc, Admiral Lin, Commander of Members of the Consular Body en Amoy and Changchow, the Commis sioner of Foreign Affairs and all Officials and Officers prominent local and Municipal
breast are medals with bars that bear historic namee Crimea, Aima, Balaklava Inkerman, Sebastopol, Luchnow, Delhi, Peking, Egypt, deserved honour,
Educated as a soldier, he lived to fight under five flags He was Freiturt Saxony, when he started a student in military engineering at the career of volunteering which lasted him throughout his active under Omar Pasha and took part in life. He joined the Turkish service the principal Crimean battles.
During one of the campaigns he was a patient of Florence Night- ingale for 16 days.
He next daw netion in Persia and later took part in
the Indian Mutiny. He was sent back from the East on sick leave, but within 24 hours after reaching England, he was on his way to Italy as a
to China to become a general unde: volunteer for Garibaldi, the patriot. The Italia rumpus over, he went
At noon Rear Admiral Stotz, Commandeur de la Legion d'hon- neur, Commander of the French Naval Forces in the Far East, with Captain Devin, Captain of the fules Michelet and Captain Chome" reau-Lamotte, Chief of Staff, ar- rived, received the "general salute" and inspected the detachments as- sembled.
The Annual Slaughter. Every year, the army of hunters grows larger, its guns and am- munitions more deadly and effec- tive, while wild life grows seRZOCT. Long before the year 2027, at the rate are killing our birds and animals now (due also to the eat- ting down and buring of our forests), the United States will be swept as clean of wild animals, game nad even song-birds as is Italy. A few small game refuges here and there will not save apecies.
Within the memory of persons living to-day the passenger pigeon and Labrador duck have vanished. The generation that had been known to kill a 1,600-pound bull bison for its tongue alone, leaving the carcass for the coyotes and buz zards, was incredulous when warn- ed that this animal would in time become extinct. It came very near
tu Yet for 200-
after years America's discovery, bison, herds roamed from the Pacific Northwest, southeastward to the Blue Ridge Mountains and on down to the grassy red bills of Georgia,
American game species that face an ideal sportsman's bag. The re- policy. As compared with the in the Crimea, General George B
ducks a day they would consider and transmission of ideas and Li Hing Chang.
The American military observer early extinction. are woodcock, eult as unmarized by Field sad jacksnipe, and golden plover of the Stream in an editorial signed by League the British Empire had the McClellan, wrote him that there feathered kingdom; antelope, the Ray P Holland, was no follow immense advantage of being a was a sizeable war on in the United California grizzly bear, wild sheep, and mountain goats among the
Replies were received from .247 going concern, and it would be States und said the Union Army and tabulated. Seventy considered
had need of technical officers quadrupeds. The passing of the wild turkey, grouse, and beaver, nt
ten ducks per day as the ideal bag; years before the League was able,
Walpole packed his grips and be twenty-nine voted fifteen as the to act with the authority, power, came a cavalry officer under Custer. no remote "date, is also indicated.
Ruthless shooting by hunters, men considered two ducks as a fit British stateemen and people. Un went 20 miles within the Confeder proper linet. Two-worthy sports and dignity which were natural to Later he served under General But- Yer in the Bermuda Hundreds. He State game officials and conservating and proper bag for an Ameri- like the League, the British Empire ate lines to prepare the topo. tionista declare, has sealed the can sportsman. The tabulation doom of three Western upland showed that only one man among had no centre, and it was able graphical maps upon which the
After the ceremony an official hirde-pionated and sharp-tailed the 247 voted for a bag limit of miraculously to exist without a Battle of Gettysburg was based.
reception was held in the French grouse and the sage hen. Sports twenty-five wild ducks.
central institution, because it was. When the gallant stripling of 73 Consulate where congratulations men will encounter either, closed or
In connection with this "que” a spiritual reality common under presented himself for service in the were showered short seasons in every State where tionnaire and in
upon Monsieur, an appeal for standing, desire to co-operate, good. Spanish-American, war, he was told The exceptionally find band of the Madame and Mademoiselle Roy. these birds are found. Except by lower bag limits, this editor says: will, and common intellectual habits that he was too old. aathority of orders in council, "Canada, also vitally interested already existed within it. There "If I had another 100 years toler fichelet played selections na ruffed grouse may be killed iain this an international problema,
were no limits to the evolution of live." he told the United Press, "I during the reception which was an Ontario. Wild turkey, quail, has more than met is half-way, by group consciousness in the future would go back to any wat I could unqualified success. pheasant, and black and gray the enactment and enforcement of in the British community..
find. But it would be in the air In the afternoon Monsieur and squirrels have there the same im-conservation laws that put us to
service Science bas ained war Madame Roy Entertained the whole munity. An order in council shame, and through strict ad
fare, and only in the air would I foreign community to a "The Dao- that the Lieutenant herence to the Migratory Bird
Professor Ziminern went on to find the pageantry of what, in my attended with great credit to them- at which the band again Governor mag permis killing of Trenty Act. Have we reciprocat say that owing to the great growth days, was war."-Manila Times.
selves and pleasure to the commu- such game as local conditions ed Shalf it be said that we of of democracy in the world since the
nity The day closed with an the United States are lacking in
war real co-operation: between us
cial dinner onboard the Jules A dozen States have called a halt the ideale of sportmanship with and the other. Great Powere was
means
warrant."
which our Canadian brothers are so richly endowed ?"
Peace Britain's Chief-Interest,
The Admiral then rend the cipi Official which mentioned that Mon- tion as published in the Journal ·
sieur Roy had faithfully serve the had been spent in the Far East Républic for 23 years of which 18 and of exceptional service is Yunnan in 1929, and then conferred on him the rank of Knighthood of the Legion d'honneur on behalf of the President of the French. Re- public.
This ceremony with troops at the "present, the fanfare and the "Marseillaise" was very impres
si
Bant
now possible. If the world was now FALSE AND TRUE PRINCES. Michelet. as anarchical as it was a century ago there would be, he thought, no chance of Great Britain and the
IMPOSTOR AND THE REAL ONE FACE EACH OTHER IN 'COURT.
DOG STOPS BURGLARY.
TWO MEN IN COURT AFTER 3.30 AM. ARRESTS:
A dog prevented Eastcote (Mid
on grouse, quail, and wild turkey shooting, while in several others, relates the Times writer, short open The inference is that we must seasons prevail " se a concession to cut our duck-bag limit to fifteen. insistent sportamen.".
Restrictive laws are not increas Canada, whce maximum bag is
birds a day to keep faith with Dominione remaining together in the British Empire. Fortunately ing the numbers of wild turkeys in forty.
we were now living in a world of Pennsylvania whore the take fell
BERLIN Field and Stream agrees that interdependent interests. The exist from 6.049 in 1923 to 3,241 in 1925. Canada has put us to shame. And enormously strengthened the British face to face in a Berlin court, "A ence, of the League of Nations had A real and a false prince came Arkansas, once the turkey hunters' that shame will be much harder to paradise, has only six days' open bear if we continue along the Lines Empire from the purely psycho- firm of publishers was claiming the dicsex) Post Office froka being gol scason for them this fail. The we have followed in the past of logical point of view. Every year right to publish a picture of bed by burglars early one morning, only good turkey country left in cutting bag limits and shortening the delegations, from Great Britain Prince William of Prussia, the ex- when the place was entered for top the United States: is found in the seasons-taking no heed of funds and the Dominions met at Geneva Kaiser's grandson, on the wrapper second time within a month. Oh South Atlantic coastal swamps and mental necessities,
and discussed their common inter of the Berlin book in which Harry the previous occasion £40 was in the Big Bend region of Texas. The lowering of bag Limite and eats under conditions which made Domela describes his ludicreus ad taken and £400 left New York's last wild turkey was the shortening of seasons have been them conscious of their unity as ventures when he was taken for the Two men arrested at 3.30 am. killed seventy-seven years ago. the foundation of our conservation compared with all the other coun- Prince by the aristocratic society were brought up at the Uxbridge The wild turkey is an anomaly; laws Are we to go on constantly had come naturally together. They gaal for seven months for his im with burglary. They were Edward tries. The Empire and the League of Coburg [Domein was sent to Police Court later and changed wild, he faces extinction; domest limiting our sport, faking away had one outstanding common policy, postures] cated, he bolds on...
our own pleasures, without thought Of the quail that were so plent of the greater mensees to the game that of peace.
Hares, Domela sat on the Joseph Barber (30), porter, and bench Cyril Alfred Thomson, 24, cook, ful in the stubbles of northern New we're trying to protect i It had become extremely danger for witnesses and Prince William neither of whom gave any address. Jersey, castern Pennsylvania, and Every competent, investigatom of
ous to British statesmen to allow was in the state for the public. only a remnant is left. Ring-neck blames two causes for existing con- the world. Maryland only a few years ago. the present shortage of ducks the possibility of war to remain in They glanced shyly at each other We were in reality sa if they were anxious to discover ea pheasants are on the increase, ditious first drainage which has much more exposed to the dangers if they were really alike. here that be tells the story of the that they have died of irene for Germany, and it was a first-class Prince William was a figure of says the Times writer; and it in concentrated birds in Buch numbers of war thau were France, Poland, The publishers, who pleaded that farmer, the swamp, and the seven second the increase in the number British interest that peace should contemporary history because his broke the window with a tren automobiles.
of gunners which has reached such become the normal rule of the mother the ex-Crown Princess, had brick in my overcoat, but the amad Spotlight hunting has increas-proportions that the birds are world, and that differences should brought him up as a Pretender to of glass woke the people up. "A e and is the greatest menace to constantly being driven from place be thrashed out in free discussion the throne, lost their case and at pal of mine told me there was our deer at this time, reports the to place by booming shotguns, and in a world where war was not the same time got a fine advertise good package in the sale."
(Continued on next Column.) can not feel or rest.
allowed-Manchester Guardian, ment for the false prince's bople:
Barber was stated to have said to the constable I shall get a lagging for this I have just done three year. We got in all so we caine round to the front. right, but the dog messed us up,
The men were remanded/"