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Sunday and left for Japan yester day, was Mrs. Edith Woodrow Wilson, widow of Mr. Woodrow Mr. MACDONALD certainly sprang Wilson, President of the United a big surprise upon, India in ap- States from 1812-1918. Mrs. Wil pointing Captain WEDGEWOOD BENN son, accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. R.. B. Teusler and family, and as the new Secretary of State, or, as the Indian Press sarcastically Miss Lade, intends to visit Nan- call the position, "the gilded office king and Poping if travel con. of the Great Moghal of Whiteball."ditions in China permit, and after along stay in Japan will return In filling a key position with a man' who has little or no experience of home in October. India, the Premier to any the least
The Freuch cruiser Waldeck has made a bold experiment, and
Roussenu left Hong Kong yester- for the present the most that can be said of the appointment is that day for Tsingtao, Admiral Mou- Captain WEDOzWOOD BENN will jet's dagship has not enjoyed the bring a fresh, view to a task that best of luck with regard to weather demands clear thought as well as a and the visit was also marred by large measure of sympathy. It is the death of one of the crew from believed that the new India Secre-ebteric. It was this case which gave rise to a rúmour that an tary possesses both.
In recent years the influence of epidemic had broken out on board Whitehall upon India has been the ship. The French "sailors have INDIA AND THE LABOUR diminishing, and the introduction won general admiration by their of the Reforms has gradually moved orderly behaviour when on leave the centre of gravity castwards, and it is hoped that the Weldeck This appears to be all for the Rousseau will pay ultimate,good of India, especially visits, under better weather con while such a man as Lord Inwixditions, to the Colony, occupies the Viceroyalty. In social and economic matters Lord IRWIN, is far more advanced in his ideas have little hope that their demands than probably many extremists in will receive more sympathetic con- India realise, and even Nationalist sideration than they did from the leaders are ready to pay tribute to Conservative Cabinet with Lord his sincere desire to help forward BIEKENHEAD at the head of the India India's advance along constitu- It has been said that tional lines. While there will "India's eyes are turned at this always remain a' school of politics in hour of her trial towards a Labour India striving for complete sever Government in Britain," but a veryance of the British connection, salutary corrective of that opinion there is on the other a big body of is to be found in a close study of moderate opinion willing to co- what many Indian leaders and
operate with Britain provided the Indian-owned papers have been say-demand for full Dominion Status in ing since Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD
not too long delayed. accepted the Fremiership.
GOVERNMENT.
THE return of the Labour Party to power has aroused little or enthusiasm in India, and if the comments of the Nationalist Press are any criterion the leaders of the Swaraj (Home Rule)
Office.
movement
The occasion has been made the opportunity to recall Mr. MAC DONALD'S many protestations of sympathy with India's aspirations for self-government in the past, and emphasis has been laid on the fact that when Labour first came into power in 1994 the Premier, during
The report of the S1uos. Commis- sion when presented will be a momentous document, and it is very unlikely that the big turn-over at votes in favour of Labour will have any influence on the findings of the Commission. Despite the apparent obstinacy of Indian leaders to no-
many more
The Sun Newspapers, Limited, Electricity is being installed in a large number of small houses in and S. Bennett, Limited, owners of Hull on, special terms conceded by the. Sydney Beening News and the corporation. The installation allied publications, recently an is done by a contractor whom the nounced an approaching merger, on corporation pay: The tenant then the basis of the present allocation has the option of repaying the cor- 850,000 Preference and 1,700,000. paration in three ways-instalments Ordinary £1 shares to the Sun over ten years, or five years, or Newspapers, and 212,500 Preference a small additional sum for each and 49,300 Ordinary shares to the unit consumed. More than 1,000 Evening Nea. The total authoris houses have been equipped with ed capital is £3,000,000. The Sun electricity under thia scheme. Newspapers, Limited, comprise the Many of them have not previously Sydney Sun, Sydney Sunday Sun, had even gas, but relied on oll Sydney Daily Telegraph News Pictorial, and Newcastle Sun. The lamps......
Daily Telegraph is a recent acquisi- Mr. Isar, the Delhi City Magistian and was converted to a pictori- trate, pronounced judgment in the al. The chairman of directors is case against Swami Chiddanand, Sir Hugh Denison. S. Bennett,
comprises the Sydney · Editor, printer and Publisher of Limited, Shudhi Samachar, a monthly Hindi Evening News, Sunday Newt, magazine, for publishing articles al-Sydney Illustrated Sporting and and Woman's leged to be insulting to Prophet Dramatic News,
obamuled as also the religious beBudget. The chairman of directors liefs of the Mussalmans, thereby is Sir Thomas Hughes. The head-
Sydney. creating class hatred. "The Magis quarters of both concerns are in trate found the accused guilty un- der both the counts and sentenced him to six months' rigorous im Prisonment and a fine of Rs. 300 or 3 months' rigorous imprisonment in default and six months' rigorous imprisonment, the sentences to run concurrently.
Black South Africa.
General Hertzog recently replied warmly to a protest made by Dr. Talbot, the Bishop of Pretoria, in his diocesan magazine against the
wicked political playing upon the racial fears witnessed at General Election. Dr. Talbot ex- prossed" disgust at the shameless. exploitation of anti-native feeling" The prisoner who was brought be- by Nationalists, through what he fore Mr. Hamilton some days ago described as the vamped up cry
Save White South Africa for aiding and abetting another Genera! Hertzog declares the- man in an attempt to escape from Bishop's article to be no more than On the prison, was on Saturday sentenced a sanctimonious attack
Nationalists under: cover of re- to two months' hard labour. The ligious indignation. He accuses defendant made, a statement to the the Bishop, of overstepping the effect that he was a poor man and truth when he suggests that the Nationalists declared that the had no reason for wanting to get South African Party was striving out of jail. He had never so much for "a Black South Africa The as handled a 85 note in his life and stamped the policy of an equal yote General adds that personally he
was therefore content to stay for natives and Europeans as a little longer in prison. The
A lecture on the "Project" method of education practised in the Frances Parker School, Chica 50, was given by Miss Flora Cooke, Principal of the School, at Essex Hall, London, recently.. Miss Cooke said that this was a method of education through purposeful ac- tivity," and it was undoubtedly the beat in bringing out the in- dividuality of children. It found that ultimately led to the openings in a child's nature There were several grades, from in- faney onwards, and in four years there had not been a single failure other man" he added, "is rich and he continues to do so, but he denies. in examinations for admission into colleges.
The Kidnapper's Reward.
success.
The Zeppelin Flight,“
Black South Africa policy," and that he ever imputed that General so has a reason for wanting to get Smuts was working for a black away." Major C. Willson, the South Africa. He concludes:- The Bishop's hysterien utterances Superintendent of the Gaol, stated
are perhaps due to disappointment: Kidnappers are as busy in Canton that the defendant was serving o ut the election results,
We can na in this Colony. Recently a well- to-do brewer lost his only son, a
three months sentener for return-only hope there is nothing more in youngster of six, who simply vanishing from banisment.
later a respectably dressed and
CAUSEWAY BAY FIRE. as though bewitched. A few days well-spoken man came to the grief.
A cable from Tokyo reports the stricken father and told him that
SOAP WORKS ABLAZE. he had found a child corresponding safe arrival in Japan of the to the printed description of the German airship Graf Zeppelin, on his short spell of office, made no cept nothing less than complete lost boy wandering about the back her fight round the world. She
Three fukin were rather badly independence, and the determina-streets of Canton. The man duly left Lakehurst, New Jersey, on move to deal with the Indian prob-tion to embark on a campaign of produced the child and the father August 7 to cross the Atlantic for burnt in a fire at a soap works in
non-co-operation and civil disobedihelp and favours. There is, how many headed eastward across Russia at noon yesterday.
gave him $100 and promised future Friedrichshafen, and from Ger- Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, ence if the demand is not granted ever, no need to redeem these and Siberia for Tokyo, where she A can of alcohol became ignited, by the end of the present year, the Promises for as soon as the rescuer arrived yesterday. Now follows the and the flames spread rapidly. was out of earshot the child ex-flight froin Japan across the Pacific, Two fire engines were soon on the outlook is not altogether hopeless plained that he had been lured to and from Los Angeles back to scene, and promptly extinguished Perhaps Lord Inwin will succeed a strange house by the man and Lakehurst, The Graf Zeppelin has in persuading Indian politicians to detained there. present Labour Party's Colonial give Labour full opportunity to and Imperial policy, coupled with full Britain's pledge to grant the fact that the present. Labour India full Dominion Status in the leaders gave support to the SIMON Commonwealth of the British Em- CHRONICLE Commission appointed by Lord
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lem... The gradual evolution of Labour as a political party in England had certainly raised hopes in some quarters that progress along the lines of self-government would be accelerated in India, but the
BIRKENHEAD, bas led to the realisa- tion that the present Government's attitude towards India will differ very little from that of its pre-
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Navy Week at Portsmouth.
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the blaze.
Looking Back 25`Years,
At about nine o'clock last night- fire, in a most mysterious manner, broke out on Tarpedo Boat No. 37, lying on the slips under the shed... at Kowloon Torpedo Depot. «An. alarm was given and bluejackets. and police promptly set to work with a steam fire-engine and cherub pumps Hose was brought to the shed, and a constant jet of water directed on the flames. The fire broke out in the forecastle-which of course, was unoccupied-and it was confined to that part of the vessel. As the torpedo-boat was in a practically deserted position it is very hard to account for the oc- not curence. The "outbreak was very serious; it was subdued in about balf-an-hour. Repairs, never- theless, will take some little time. Stringers and a locker were com such an extent as to render them pletely destroyed, or charred to useless-Hong Kong Daily Preis, Aug. 20, 1904.
Looking Back 50 Years.
made a fine performance so far and there is no reason why the re maining stages of the trip should Navy week at Portsmouth opened should not be covered with equal on August 17, and has two novel safety and success. The accom features in the programme. One plishment of a complete fight is H.M.S. Nelson placed on ex-round the world will be a unique hibition as if she were only a model performance,, and its achievement and not one of our biggest battle will be a feat of which the builders and navigators of the Graf ships. To secure this effect the Nelson
dry-docked. Special Zeppelin may be justly proud. It gangways enable spectators to walk should not be forgotten, however, down to the dock bottom and there that ten years ago a British air- pass right under the ship. By ship, the R34, made a double cross- A case of plague (Chinese) was climbing up the gangways again ing of the Atlantic. In fact, to India in the Government's immed-reported during the week-end from people will be able to go aboard the Great Britain belongs the humour Nelson and we the inside of her. of the first direct flights across the iate programme is also regarded as Victoria. Three cases of enteric, Thus they will have an opportunity Atlantic both by aeroplane and an ominous sign, and with Mr. all Chinese, were also notified durof inspecting our smartest battle-airship. The R34 started from ahip inside and out. The other Enat Fortune, in Scotland, late on CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. LLOYD GEORGE and Sir JOHN SIMON ing the same period.
a wet and windy night. She car novelty in the throwing open to CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS as allies of the Government and
visitors of two aircraft carriers ried eight officers, twenty-two men. representatives of the United States SETTLEMENTS,
The 42nd annual general meeting that have all their machines in MALAY holding the balance of power in the
navy_and_army, and" a stowaway STATES, NETHERLANDS House of Commons, whatever hope of members. of the Hong Kong them. Previously no one has been
(n R.A.F. aircraftsman). allowed in an aircraft carrier un- INDIA, BORNEO. THE certain leaders may have secretly Football Club will be held in the less she was empty. This is the first II. Scott, now in charge of flying officer in command was Major G. PHILIPPINES, Etc.
cherished in the return of Labour board room of Messrs. Jardine, time for the general public to see
power seems to have finally dis Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Friday, the extremely interesting sight of and training at the Royal Airship This Large Volume of approximate appeared. Liberty, the chief organ August 23, at 5.30 p.m.
how a floating aircraft base looks Works, Cardington, and who will be in command of the B100 and the when fully equipped for 5CD- ly 2,000 Pages given, in addition of the Swaraj Party, has indulged
R101 on their tests. The story of acrvice. Many other attractions
The statement made by the San to the Usual Lists of Firms, ani, a bitter attack on Mr. MAC- Ma Shih Taing, the well-known have been arranged, including the the journey of the R34 is told in a
Francisco Chronicle that Governor Alphabetical List of Residents DONALD, and believes that all the Canton actor, who was recently never-failing one of a dive into the book by Brig-General Maitland. who publishes the diary he kept, a mysterious, machinery-packed in-
Hennessy of Hong Kong discourag in the Far East containing the political parties in England, while wounded in a bomb outrage, has teriors of submarines to get a weird diary full of interest on account of ed emigration to Honolulu and stanner as well as matter. The air: California, in order to divert it to Names of early
differing in many things, are fully come to Hong Kong for treatment peep at the upper world through ship took 108 hours for the outward English Colonies, is as ludicrous in accord in their policy towards and is at the French Hospital. The their periscopes.
trip, "was moored near New York as it is incorrect. The Austalians for four days, started on her return do not want the sons of Han, and Arranged, with the initials as well India. "Labour will not want to bomb exploded at the actor's feet
voyage on July 9, and camë to rest have even imposed a poll-tax on es Surnames in strict alphabe- make any departure from Britain's and both legs were very severely
Some of the most famous ships at Pulham, Norfolk, after a voy thera in order to check their influx tical order so that any name traditional policy towards India." injured.
of the British Navy will be "open" age of seventy-five hours. She had In New Zealand they are tolerated. tan be found instantaneously. It has been whispered in Parlia-
to visitors to Plymouth during spent 183 hours in the air and had but not welcomed, "and we have. mentary Labour circles that "s The long-expected pronouncement Navy Week-to be held in the week travelled 6,100 miles. In addition. never heard that they were desired CLASSIFIED LIST Fuitable gesture that will meet the by the Bishop of St. Albans on beginning August 17. Visitors will to being the first airship crossing in Fiji, although it is highly he admitted to the Royal, Kaval of the Atlantic, ber outward trip probable. But is any case, whe wishes of the Indian, leaders will Sunday games, a subject that is Barracks from 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. constituted an airship duration re- ther are welcome or not, Mr. Hen IMPORT AND EXPORT be made to enable them to come engrossing the Church more and The charge for admission will be cord. When she moored at New neasy has never done anything to to Westminster." How far these more as the diocese becomes subur-1s, each for adults and cd: for York she had only fuel, for two raise the faintest suspicion of a MERCHANTS
children under, fourteen years of hours at full speed on board. She desire on his part to promote Chin- rumours are true time alone can Louised, has been made. The Bishop age. The proceeds will be devoted could not have carried a commercse emigration to the Australiasian show. "Indian leaders," says says:-"I have never been able to to the Royal Naval and Boyal cial load, and it is partly in realisa-1 Colonies. It is quite true that he tion of that fact that the decision bas done what he could to hinder. Liberty in an editorial comment, agree with the people who say it is Marine, charities. The vessels on
view include the Navy's "beauty to build much bigger airships was Chinese emigration Hawaii, "have made their position perfect. wrong to play games on Sunday. I
queen," Renown, which has the made, for with increase of size the without, as far as we are able to ly clear. The time for vague de- cannot for the life of me see there most perfect lines of any ship afloat proportion of capacity for useful discover, any good ground, but be has not by word or act endeavoured clarations and mysterious whispers is any difference in principle be and was chosen to take the Prince lond increases. The Atlantic was is gone. It is now for British tween going for a walk on Sunday, of Wales on his ceremonial visits to not again crossed by airship until to influence the emigration to the Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the German ZR3 travelled from Pacific States of America, Nor LARGE EDITION (WITH
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newest and most powerful battle was the Graf Zeppelin, in October, trade-a very legitimate one, we SMALL EDITION ...$pared to accept the principles under-playing games such as tennis, ship in the world, which with one 1928. The R34 was British-built to believe-bas certainly in part been lying the Nemo report and open cricket, football, or golft salvo from her nine sixteen-inch Zeppelin, design, but with British driven out from this Colony, but it negotiations with Indian leaders to the same time," adds the Bishop, guns can hurl projectiles weighing engines. She had a gas capacity has not died out. The passenger settle the details. All stupid talk" we are not justified in robbing approximately nine tons at a target of 1,830,000 cubic feet and was 643 ships for Honolulu now sail from
twenty miles, distant, will also be feet long. The new British air- Whampoa jnstead of Hong Kong about common front' and 'truster anyone of his Sunday rest to enter.
on view, together with the cruiser ships have a capacity of 5,000,000 that is all-long Kong Dail
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