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Ins. Rome recently a column from DEATH OF MARSHAL the Forum was formally handed over to the Japanese Ambassador, and is to be set up near Tokyo. Is
Mr. Kent Clark, formerly Man- ager of the Oriental Hotel in Kobe, is now Manager of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Mr. Clark was previously purser on the staff at the old Pacific Mail, and has a hosts speech of acceptance, the Japanese of friends in the Far East
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In fining a Colombo inotor-car driver 300 rupees for having knock-friendly, relations, and help draw ed down and killed an old woman, together the peoples of Italy and the Judge said: Very
Japan Buddhist drivers risked the lives of people to save the life of a chicken or dog." "They would not will. ingly kill a human being. he con tinued, but they exercised more caution when they saw a cow or a dog.
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FAYOLLE.
A GREAT FIGHTING LEADER.
Marie Emile Fayolle, Marshal of France, whose death occurred last month, was baru at Le Puy in 1859, and was conséquently 62 years of The new home of the Seamen's are when the Great, War began la Institute in Kobe at No. 109. Ito 1914. In May of that year, having machi, will be opened formally on reached the age limit, he had been October 10th. The Anglican Bishop placed on the retired list as a in Kobe, the Rt. Rev. Basil Simpson general of brigade, but he was re- will bless the Institute, after which called to the Army on mobilization, there will be open house and after-and brilliantly justified his return noon tea.
The ceremony will take to active service. He began the place at the time that the British War as a commander of an infantry cruisers are ja Kobe and it is ex-brigade; he ended it as a comman
Quite apart from the soundness or otherwise of Mr. Snowprs'a theories regarding the manner and extent of the operations of the Bank of England, it is all to the good that public attention should he drawn to problems of banking, Currency, and credit in general, ind to the doings of the "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in particular. Professor T. E. GRE GORE, a well-known authority en economic questions, while far from being a supporter of Mr. Ssow DEN's policy, has admitted that the Bank of England is too secretive in its activities. Good government is no justification for secret govern ment, and Professor Gazoony is of opinion that the nation has
der of a Group of Armies with the legitimate grievance in the matter
The In- grand gordon of the Legion al of, the Old Lady's unwilling ness to salk about herself. One of
flonour and the medalle militaire, In many ways. Fayolle's early military career was similar to that. the great difficulties about under- standing what the Bank of Eng
of Foch, who was his contemporary. land does is that the public knows so little of its day-to-day progreatest living crator in the British worry about any possibility of the and close personal friend. Ha en Isles." It is almost exactly half-a-gasoline supply giving out. Dr. tered the Ecole Poly-technique in century since another Conservative Lustav Egloff has informed the 1873, two years after Foth became "Prime Minister found occasion to
allude to the Leader of the Liberal International Fuel Conference in Party. But what Disraeli called London that at the present rate of was a sophistical consumption the pinch will not Gladstone rhetorician, inebriated with the ex-
begin to be felt until 3,000 years uberance of his own verbosity, and
hence, Dr. Egloff estimates that gifted with an egotistical imagina
there are tion that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to maliga an opponent and glorify himself."
a
cedure. Londoners get to know more about what happens at a meeting of the Cabinet than they ever glean regarding the frequent conferences which "take place in Threadneedle Street. Some of these deliberations are concerned, with Auch simple domestic matters as the discount rate; other relate to co operative action with the Bank of France, the Reichsbank, and the Reserve Bank of New York. Governors of these institutions form a sort of international" Anan-
Two fatal accidents, occurred during the week-end. A Chinese workman who was at work on a raffolding outside No. 22, Holly wood Road, fell into the street and was so seriously injured that he died on the way to hospital. A Chinese girl in leaning over the second Boor verandah of No. 4, Street, while drying Western clothes fell into the street and was
killed on the spot.
Mr. Baldwin recently described Mr. Lloyd George at the Welsh "the National Eistedd lord
nt the
pected that a large number of guests will be present. stitute was formerly located at No. 116, Higashi-macki.
Present-day motorists need not
1,100,000,000 acres of
possible pil-producing lands in the United States alone, besides other vast areas elsewhere. At the pre- sent time only 9,000,000 acres are producing in America.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has
cial Cabinet whose decisions-while made machine tool for drilling completed preparations for estab
not actually having the force of statutory law-are practically final and decisive, and may not be dis regarded without danger of dire
Among orders taken The
Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia, London, last month was one for a Coventry-
motor-car pistons at 48′ times the present speed, which will enable the, operative to earn double wage The purchaser is a well-known Eritish motor manufacturing firm. A woman operating one machine used to take four minutes to com- plete one drilling operation, but Another recent critic of the Bank one woman can look after three of of England is Mr. J. M. Kerzs, the new automatic machines, each of which performs four drilling opera who lays the blame for the failuretion 8 atinate. Freviously these of British trade to revive at the machine fools have been manu- door of the "Old Lady." Mr.factured only in the United States. The price of the British tool is less than that of the American one.
consequences.
like Foch, joined the artillery. a student there, and subsequently, After passing through the Ecolo Supérieure de Guerre, he returned. there as an instructor in 1887, and taught artillery tacties to the stud- us while Foch was teaching ther general tactic As a teacher before the War, Fayolle used to emphasize the necessity for a concentration of artillery are for effect policy which did not altogether commend itself to the advocates of the offensive at all costs," who at the lishing a regular service between outbreak of hostilities in 1014 were Yokoham and the Philippines in control of French military The service will be operated, lort
opinion. nightly, the first boat leaving
The War soon proved the wiadom Yokohama in the middle of October. On the outgoing voyage the liners of Fayolle's views and gave to him will touch at Nagoya, Osaka and the opportunity of putting into. Kobe and then on
to Manila via Moji, calling at Cebu, Iloilo, practice his theories as to the em Davao, Zamboanga and Fort Port-ployment of artillery. There is no land. On the return voyage they doubt that the careful and methodi will run from Davao direct to Naba and then on to Yokohama vid Kobe, cal manner in which he utilized his Osaka and Nagoya.
artillery before and during the earlier French attacks in the Battle On September 25th Mr. Edward Edmond Kildoyle, one of the oldest of the Souame in 1916 saved his foreign residents of Japan, died troop many casualties and set a suddenly in his home at Hommoku, standard for artillery work which Yokohama. He was 8 years of age, and had been in Japan 56 years. emulate.
our gunners were not alow" to.
In strategy and tactics He was a man of many interests, and had the distinction of being generally Fayolle belonged to the the first foreigner to introduce the same school as Foch, under whom steam laundry to Japan. He with he served more or less continuously several others also introduced the
Like his first modern saw mills, and it was throughout the War. Mr. Kildoyle who opened up the chief, he was a man of great vigour large marble quarries at Gifu. For and determination, who gave him years he was a marine engineer with the Mitsubishi abipping interests self no rest and expected an equal and in the transport service, where display of energy from those who he won recognition from the Japan worked under him. Although his ese for his work..
name is little known in Britain, Tokyo will be treated to a rare Fayolle was on various" occasions collection of famous old Chinese during the War on the Somme in pictures belonging to the Tang, Soong, Yuan and Ming dynastiek, 1916, in Italy in 1917, and in the according to Lieut-General Saka-critical days of the German offen- nishi, former military adviser toive in 1918-in command of French the Peking, Government, who has The use of the same barber shop gone to Shanghai from Japan to troops working in close co-operation enlist the efforte of Nationalist with the British. On each of thess by both men and women has been forbidden in a new and drastic leaders such as Chiang Kai"Shek, occasions he succeeded in establish-
A novel situation bas Shih Tseng, Hsieh Tu Pi and C, T. Express declares there is a feeling
Bureau. arisen as a result of the fact that Wang, in the new enterprise. All manders an intimate and friendly among bankers and merchants alike prominent, and one which is at the T.M.C.A. has proved popular with General Chiang Kai Shek consented
the foreign barber shop in the Navy of them pleaded their support, and relationship-a camaraderie mili-
tair in the best sense of the term. that the Bank of England is too deepest root of Britain's troubles, the fair sex, and as the building is to be promoter of the proposed ex-
After the failure of the final. rigid and conservative in ita policy is the lessened foreign demand for loented in the former British Con-hibition of Chinese pictures in
coal. At the same time, there is cession, now part of the Chinese Tokyo. The collection of Chinese German attack, in July, 1915, and dealings, we are warranted in little doubt that there is room even city, whether the order will affect pictures will be displayed at the Fayolle played a prominent part in assuming that there must be some in Threadneedle Street for the in this institution is creating much in Tokyo Imperial Museum and Art
troduction of more modern and terested speculation. Barber shops Gallery in November in celebration the Allied advance to victory. The other justification for Mr. Snow efficient methods of business, and which have been catering to both of the coronation.
troops under his command recap- DEN's criticisms beyond a desire to the discussions which have been sexes are given but 15 days to
tured Montdidier, Noyon, Chanay, gratify a meeting of, delegates reinitiated by the Labour and Liberal choose whether they prefer men or The biography of Lord Curzon,
parties will be well worth while if
Whereas the mica's written by the Earl of Ronaldshay and Tergnier, and carried on a re-a presenting the Labour Party. they induce the public to take more barbers are allowed to remain open and just published in London, relentless pursuit of the defeated This open criticism of the methods interest in a subject which so vital until midnight, those for women veals that the crowning disappoint-Germans until the Armistice
ly affects the well-being of the
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when the King refused to appoint brought hostilities to an end. In him to the Premiership following the four months from July to the resignation of Bonar Law:
After the conclusion of the Armis- tice Fayolle commanded for a year
It is, revealed to-day that M. A report made to the police by Poincaré, the French Prime Minis It was considered at the time that October, 1918, Fayolle's Armies are taken place during the last years disturbing political phenomenon, the accountant of the Bung Fat ter, is 1.200 a year out of pocket objections to the appointment of a reported to have captured 85,677 peer as Premier because Labour, the prisoners and 1,414 guns, 0,636 in connection with the activities of indicating some new phase of Bank, Wing Lok Street, states that for his official motor-car alone, on
official Opposition, was without a an assistant accountant has abscond- account of the rigid economy prac-
macbide-guna, and " 998 trench the House of the fair sex-most of them certain-destructive revolutionary thought, ed taking with air a cheque drawn tised by French Government De- representative in
Lards, were insuperable, Lord mortara. ly changes for the better-that it On the contrary, the, wider genera! on a local Bank for 86,000 payable partments. The only Minister who is not surprising to read of caustic public interest which is being taken to bearer, which he has since cashed. is provided with a motor car out of Curzon, according to his biographer, the public funds is the Foreign was overwhelmed with a torrent of Seats may now be booked for the Minister, and M. Briand has two agonized despair, having previously eriticisms being made regarding in all problems concerning currency The Wilbur Black Birds" who high-powered vehicles at his dis recorded his belief in the unques- the French troops in Germany. The London Office of the HONG the conservatism of the Old Lady and credit should be welcomed as will open their Hong Kong season posal. One of these belongs to the tionableness of the immense super- Subsequently, in 1920, be was sent
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"Such was receiving Enquiries from Home SNOWDEN'a speech last week-nt themic has been a science sadly Prices of admission are at the Government driver, and the other win's.
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"Such was the Curzon as saying. menceau, regarding it as an ad- junct of his office, left it to his manner in which it was intimated Government the gratitude of the successore The Prime Minister, to me that the cup of honourable French nation for the Dominion's however, receives an allowance of smbition had been dashed from my only £200 a year to provide himselflips." with a motor car. Actually he has not one of his own, but hires one, by the year, with a chauffeur at his disposal day and night, from a
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