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Aranmore. The Royal Natiofal Life-bout Institution has just dis- patched a moter lifeboat to Aran-
"L.G." VISIT. ALARMING GROWTH
LIVELY STUDENTS' RAG IN LONDON.
more. Co. Donegal. She is the boat MASS ATTACK AS REPRISALS. which for a number of years has been stationed at Clacton-on-Sea, and she has already rescued 277 per- sons from shipwreck
Mr. Lloyd George paid a visit to the London School of Economics. Leeds-Leeds Corporation Fin at least the students thought for ance Committee have decided to some time that he had done so. It grant financial assistance up to £300 towards carrying on the Saturday was not until the "Liberal leader" orchestral concerts. A few months had been speaking on the platform Ago the directors of the orchestra for some moments that the students decided that they could not continue discovered it was a rag carried out the concerts qwing to financial loss.
at their expense by their rivals at Lancaster-Harry Askew, 17, 1 King's College, Strand. Tabourer of Main Street, Skerton was drowned while trying to swim across the River Lane at Lancaster His friend, David Perry, of Sher ton, crossed the river safely, but hearing a cry for help, returned and tried to save Askew.
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labour and six strokes of the "cat
OF SUICIDES.
WOMEN'S DANGER AGE;
STRAIN OF COMPETITIVE
BUSINESS.
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That the number of suicides in Britain has been doubling every year for the past eleven years is shown by the latest figures from the Ministry of Health.
This is particularly true in the case of women around 43 years of age, due probably, the report states, to the increased number of women in competitive business life.
The total number of men who
Court, which receives more cases of suicide than any other London court, the motives appear to be in the following order
During the morning a telephone call was received at the school in- timating that Mr. Lloyd George would be visiting the school during killed themselves during the year the luncheon. interval. Believing is 3,438, while the number of wo- that the message came from the
men is 1,449. In the opinion of Liberal headquarters, the studente Dr. J. Oddie, coroner of Lambeth made preparations to receive I Nottingham.-Leonard Thornhill
G.," who arrived in a taxi accom- 23, salesman, was sentenced at the panied by a very tall gentleman Nottinghamshire Assizes to 12 mantha imprisonment with hard shortly after the appointed hour. The students gave him a wonder. for robbery with violence. Lesliaful reception. He was induced to make a speech, and it was then that carpenter, charged the deception was discovered. Türner, 25, a with Thornhill, we found not guiltyį
A good-humoured free fight easu- and was discharged
rd, in the course of which "Mr. Slough.
-At Burnham. near Lloyd George's" wig, eyebrows, and Slough, Edgar Charles Reginald moustache were torn cft. It was Blatt 21, advertising agent, ef very dishevelled "L 0." who even- Bentinck Street. London, was rom. tually landed on the pavement mitted for trial, on bail, charged outside and drove off in a taxi a with the manslaughter of James companied by his equally roughly Veitch, retired farmer, of Burnham, handled colleague to a chorus of who was knocked down by a motor derisive cheers from the Economics
School students. car. Blatt pleaded not guilty "*
Berlin-A more than 100 people have been struck by lightning Yugostavia since June 1, the Gor erament has warned the peasants not to take shelter under trees du fing thunder storms.
Edmonton. Mr. A. R.Welch Conservative, was elected by a 34 majority over Mr. E. Campbell, the Progressive candidate, in the by election for Turtle Mountain CO stituency, in the Manitoba Legisla
tive.
Maracaibo. A hurricane bal caused damage to sugar plantations in Northern Venezuela, and has swamped many small vessels in the gulf of Maracaibo. Northern Chile has also suffered from heavy storms,
Lahore. Four people were killed and nine injured in a collision be tween a train and a motor lory carrying a Sikh marriage party near Lahore. The lorry was crushed be tween the train and the side of 4 bridge and several persons were flung into a canal below the bridge
Peshawar. The Jirgah of Sanni and Shiah Orakzais from the Tirah and Sunni Afridi is still sitting at Peshawar, but no settlement has been reached, as the Sunnis refute to give up Shish land in their possession. Colonel Heale, Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province, is attending the Jirgoli.
Deal-Lord Cushendun, who a Mr. Ronald McNeill represented East Kent and, subsequently the Canterbury Division for a total of 16 years, was presented at Canter bury by Lord Fitzwalter, chairman of the Divisional Conservative Asso ciation, with his portrait in oil as a testimonial from his former constituents.
Reprisals.
Mental illness, physically run down, drink, financial worries, and love affair
It is interesting to note that love affairs, which are popularly con- sidered a large cause, are the lowest in the list; and, likewise, that mid- dle-age-not youth is the most prevalent age."
The Peak Years,
At all ages suicides among men are far in excess of women.
At
Reprisals quickly followed in the form of a mass attack on King's College. The invaders, with a great 30 years of age there were 188 male numerical advantage, quickly drove and -78 female during the year the defenders back to a spot in the From 25 to 30 there were 328 men college enclosure where building re-
and 203 women; 35 to 45 jumped pairs are being carried out to an adjoining wing of Somerset to 629 men and 260 women; while House. · Here A considerable 45 to $5 increased further to so quantity of freshly mixed ment
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men, and 381 women. This was e peak for female suicides, but the male rate went alightly higher from 55 to 65, registering $45 deaths.
During these "peak" years about one out of fifteen deaths is a suici- de, while, compared with the living population, about one out of 125 kills himself.
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ASIA'S TRADE SWINGS TO AMERICA.
CANADA'S BID FOR NEW MARKETS.
The following editorial is taken from the Fancouver Sun of June
99:-
the attention of this to the Cann- dian Government, to the Canadian whent grower and to the Canadian public. Vancouver's publicity show- The situation that existed with ing the economy of the new Western respect to Western Canada's trade Grain Route, has already resulted in 100 million bushels per year being which, until a short time ago, was moved through the Port of Yan- confined to Atlantic ports is "ancouver, also a huge volume of trade exact duplicate of the situation is now moving in and out of Van- which to-day exists in connection couver to Western Canada.
with the trade si Asin. For centuries | the trade of Asia has been in and
That old Eastern route was not
in
What was done for Western
Canada, will now have to be done on a bigger scale for Asia.
Heavy Cable Tolls,
out of the Suez Canal to Europe, only expensive to the Canadian whereas the natural place for Japan grain grower, but it also stultified and China and Java and India to the whole development of Western do business is with Canada and Canada, including British Colum-
situation United States, just 4,000 miles bia. To-day that
changed and as a result Western aeross the Pacific.
Canada, British Columbia and in These centuries of trade with fact the whole Dominion is in for Europe have staltied Asia because an era of unprecedented prosperity. Europe's economie" philosophy was to sweat labour, pay low wages and make women and men rather than machines do the work; and finally to sell to Asia on the gold standard,
For instance, you can to-day send with Europe controlling the world's gold, and then buy from Asia with a 23-word night-letter from London demonetized silver. This enabled to Montreal across the Atlantic for Germany and England and Belgium 41, or 4 cents a word. To send that to buy cheaply from Asia but gave sane message across the Pacific Asia & low purchasing power to buy froms Vancouver to Japan or to from Europe. The fallacy of this China, costs from 40 cents to $1 per whole European economic philo- word. India can cable to Germany saphy is proven by an impoverished or England for 6 cents a word, but. Asia. Not poor in natural wealth if India wants to talk to 'Canada cr potential production capacity, or United States it costs 60 cents. but impoverished in methods of a word. Ameries must get on the production and in means or tokens job and change this," of money to express Asia's wealth and production.
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The news and views of Europe will never fructify or energizo Asia. Americanisation of Asia. The news and views of America will. Europe's thought is militant Instead of doing business with Europe via the old Sues route, Asia and politic; America's thought is can here in America buy and sell economic and social-and that' is her goods, and that baying and Bell-what Asia needs and wants ing and trading with America will westernize and put Asia on her feet tracts that in a very short time give. Asia business and social con- economically
Business firms in United States will fructify and put new life into and Canada, individually and collec Asia. Every day Asia is increasing tively, must become conscious of her trade with America, but nothing and launch out after these new like the extent to which conditions Asiatic markets. The trade is there justify. The reason for this is be; and awaits them. cause communication and transpor
Combined Bid for Asiatic Tradè. tation facilities favour the old eastern route, via the Suez Europe.
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had been Jeft about. This was commandeered and gener-
In order to develop Asia's new trade route across the Pacific, ously used on combatants and col-
Canada and United States will have lege notices. Crowds of business people loitering in the open air
This was exactly the case with to go after that Asiatic trade with during the luncheon interval en-
Western Canada until a few years publicity, precisely as did the people joyed the combat. Two men who
age. For instance, until 1990 the of Vancouver go after the trade of ventured too near were reward
whale trade of Canada was carried Western Canada. Every city, every ed" with large dabs of cement.
in and out from Atlantic ports. The Chamber of Commerce and every Many of the students had to have Perhaps the most significant transportation and business strucnewspaper on the Pacis const in a bath and a change of clothes ke- figures are those showing the rate ture favoured a movement to and particular, must play a big part and from the West vid Atlantic ports they will be joined by the arms and fore they could restart their studies.
of suicides per million inhabitants "Mr. Lloyd George" and his during the past noted, showing they Western Canada's export grain men of Asia,
are doubling every year for the some 400 million bushels-was ship.
Where Vancouver got the handling supporters boze many traces of battle when a reporter saw them past eleven years. The increased po-ped to Europe over the old Eastern later on. "L. G." who
had pulation alive to-day at 45 years of route vid ports like Buffalo, New of 100 million bushels of grain and Although the millions of tons of goods, America, failed to remove all the make age at which time suicide is most York, Montreal. up from his face, had only one re
prevalent is also far in excess of Panama Canal had been finished for when she captures the Asiatic busi "The trouble was that the gret:
before the War. 1927 is the highest some years, it never occurred tones, will capture the trade of the make-up was not quite so good as year ever recorded. The following Western Canada that they should one billion people who live in Japan, it might have been," he said. table shows the rate per million: use Pacific ports and the Panama China, Java and India.
The great world event in trade of Male. "Female.Canal to ship their grain to Europe.
the next few years will be the Vancouver's Enterprise.
growth and swing of Asia's trade Realizing this uneconomie situaaway from Europe across the Pacific tion, the civic bodies of Vancouver, to America, Asia's trade really be with organized publicity, brought. longs to America.
Still it was good enough to de ceive the L.S.E. fellows They all thought that I was the genuine E. G. and gave me a jolly fine welcome."
The King's College students men- tioned that when the supply of cement had given out they beat off
the attack with buckets of water. "There will probably be a deuce of a row over this, one added ruefully, so we shall have to lie low for a bit.”
HUSBAND KILLED WITH
A PLATE.
JUDGE'S SYMPATHY FOR A DISTRESSED WIFE.
London. A verdict of "Adi dental death" was returned at an inquest at Brixton on the body of Mr. Richard Guy Whiting. 50, A quarrel over winkles which led sistant secretary of the National to a tragedy was, the subject of a Farmers' Union, who fell from a case at the Old Bailey when Mrs. window of his house in Nimrod Daisy Beatrice Woodhead, aged Road, Streatham. Mrs. Whiting thirty-seven, was accused of the said that her husband was painting manslaughter of her husband, his house. He was engaged on ene Robert Reuben, a chef. Mrs. Wood
bead of the last windows when he fell
was greatly distressed in court.
Glamorgan. A special jury at It was stated that Mrs. Wood- Glamorgan Assizes Swanua head threw a place of broken plate awarded £1,000 damages to Mr at her husband. It struck him in Mabel Jones, widow, and £80 the neck, and he bled to death in damages, divided between her thres a few minutes. children, against the Great Western Mrs. Woodhead, who lived at Railway Company in respect of the Fenwick-place, Stockwell, said that death of Mrs. Jones's husband, she and her husband had known They foreman electrician, employed by each other from childhood. the Briton Ferry Steelworks Cem went to school together, and it was pany, who was crushed to death be boy and girl courtship. They tween the buffers of railway trucks had been married fourteen years, on a siding outside the works. A and had two children. stay of execution was granted.
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Husband's Complaint.
1911-15 1916-20 1921-25
1926 1927
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116
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152
34
108
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184
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The chief causes underlying this increase is ascribed by Dr. Oddie to growing mental deficiency due to more concentration on business with resultant nervous breakdowns.
HOW NANKING ECONOMISES.
COMMEMORATIONS AT: $10
EACH.
Shanghai.-Appearing in the ver- nacular press is an advertisement or notice issued by the Nationalist Government to the effect that 870,000.00 will be spent in com- memorating the valour and heroism of the 4th Division Army General Chang Fah-kwei's Ironsides, who, it will be recalled, took part in the memorable engagements with the late Chang Tso-lin.
The sum of 870,000.00, it went on to say, will go to the building of seven memorials in various parts of China at 810,000.00 each. Archi- Lects, who are invited to compete, will be very pleased to hear that the princely sum of $100.00 will be awarded for each accepted design.
The fee will include, of course, upervision of the erection of state- ly piles of masonry situated probably in some remote corner of the Great Republic.
Scattered Monuments:
The is what the one government thinks of its heroes. We shall not go into the question of the ill-paid designer of this mark of respect.
Budapest After several days' is the size of the winkles at tea time Her husband complained about
If we apply a little arithmetic vestigation the Budapest police have on the day of the tragedy, saying we shall soon grasp the significance arrested gang of six cocaine that they were small. She went of these heroes. The National anugglers who were working in con into the scullery to make some tea, Government commemorates each nection with a man, living in Wind and he came in and struck her a of them by $10 worth of masonry sor, Ontario, who is said to have blow on the face. She fell against. but the commemoration is scattered Provided the concern with the beet the plate rack, and the plates fell over seven different spots in China. sary money for supplying Canada
on the floor and were smashed. with cocaine. The drug was maat-She picked up a piece of broken" factured in Germany, and emuggled plate and threw it at him... She did through Hungary to America. not intend to do him any harin.
Mr. Justice Swift said that it Quebec. Mr. Douglas C. Macin was a sad case, and he supposed tosh, Dwight Professor of Theology that no one who had heard it could at Yale Divinity School, New fail to have sympathy with Mrs. Haven, Connecticut, a Canadian Woodhead in her distress. who served with distinction in the War, was denied United States citizenship because he would not take oath to defend the United States against all enemics. Mr. Macintosh said that, while he coul! be willing to take arms in defent. of the United States in a justited war, he reserved the right to decide when a war was just..
Mrs. Woodhead was found guilty of manslaughter, with a strong re- commendation to mercy,
The foreign community in Shang-, hai, with a handful of generous patriots, have erected the cenotaph which now stands on the Bund at the end of Avenue Edward VII. They gave freely of an amount more than double the sun the Govern- Her father said that he was prement. intends to spend on the pared to take her home again. Ironsides to commemorate the val
Mr. Justice Swift said that Mrs.. our, courage, and fortitude of Woodhead might go to her father.. about 100 men. Had they fought He passed sentence of four days for the Nationalists we dread to imprisonment, which meant that imagine the memorial-Shanghat
Mercuryc she would be at once liberated.
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