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REPUBLIC OF NO TERRITORIAL
HOSPITAL SUNDAY AT ST.
JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
WORKERS.
DEBATE IN MADRID PARLIAMENT,
AMENDING THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION,
Madrid.—Senor "Luia Araquia
taip, a well-known writer and So cialist member of Parliament, caus ad excited discussions in Congress by the proposal of an amendment to article and of the new constitu- sion, in which it is stated that the Republic of Spain ja ʼn “Republic of workers.
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Sonor Araquialain defended his proposal, which he described as a Marxist conception, by adding.. that he considers as workers all those who realise a material or spiritual function in the benefit of society. His conception of work ers includes proprietors who work their own estates, but excludes per. manent idlers and “social parasi
tes,"
CAMPS.
ESTIMATED SAVING £1,000,000.
'ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CUT.
SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO HEALTH WORK IN HONG KONG.
Next Sunday which is also the Foast of St. Luke, tho Patron, Satut of Medical Work, is being observed as Hospital Sunday a St. John's Cathedral. This is tho
The War Office decision to can ael arrangements for Territorial Camps next year has now been com annual occasion on which the Ang municated to the quarters concernlican Church tries to show its care ed..
and gratitude for the splendid The saving on this particular work which is being done in this item will be nearly £1,000,000, the Colony by the medical and nursing bulk of it accounted for by the par professions, and those other work- of officers and men while in campers in the Banitary Department As the loint cut in the Army and elsewhere, who guard the heaith estimates, including the reduction of the Community in ratce of pay, is £1,723,000, this means that the Territorial Army is bearing, not a proportion of the cut, but more than one-half of the total kiving, *****
Shock for Army..
As in former years the form of service and the sermon will have uposibl reference to this work. The proncher at the 11 o'clock service. will be the Rov. E. W. L. Martin, M.A., Warden of St. Stephen's College, Stanley, and his subject, The life and work of Michael Faraday, whose well known dis coveries are being celebrated thi year by a Centerary Commemora tion. The preacher at the 3 o'clo Service will be the Dean who will also speak about Medical Work,
This sacrifice of the Territorials in the interests of the Regular Army may be dictated not only by military considerations but by the A dictatorship of the proletarintact that it in the simplest way to he declared to be a purely Russian However this may be, it has come effect a large saving at short notice, phenomena hot indispensable in as shock not only to the Torri torinis themselves but to their Re the social transformation of a
gular comrades whose interest and country. The proposal stated that concern in the citizen force has his party had no pretension of fore deopened so much in recent years.
Comment focusses on two - constitution ing Socialist
H. E. The Governor and Lady pects. Firstly, it is felt to be through, but only wished it to be rather unfortunate that the Terri Feel will be present at the morn made clear in the constitution that torial Army should if only in aping Service together with repre- pearance, be singled out as the sub sentativo Doctors and Nursing work, is a social obligation.
ject of Wie first out. That has been defnitely desided upon, apart from Sisters. pay. Secondly, it is felt that of possible economics the cancellation of camps, is the most hazardous in its possible "offects."
The amendment was afterwards voted by members prosent, the ro sult boing, 170 in favour and 132 against.
A similar amendment proposed the day before had been rejected by the Chamber, and the result of the voting on the later aniendment caused noisy protests, and heated discussions in all parts of the Con gr288, many members were ab sent of the time of voting, and even the Government benches were half empty, only four Ministers be ing present."
The effects of such an amendment upon foreign opinion caused much preocupation to non-Socialist nem bors of Congress, one of whom in his protest said that. the only other constitution in the world include such a declaration would be that of Russia,
Further heater discussions upon this, amendment took place and there is a possibility, thus it may be referred back to the commision which drafted the constitution,
Prime De Rivera's Fapers. All the documents and files of the late General Primo de Rivera were seized by the police at the house of his son yesterday, and were placed at the disposal of the Commission investigating respon aibilities.
The manual camp is the supreme moment of the Territorial year: every keen Territorial lives for it... in many cases it is his holiday;
UNDERWORLD MURDERS.
U.S. BY RIVALS.
in all cases it is much more." For FIVE MEN "REMOVED" IN there the bonds of comradeship are woven and the spirit of the unit doveloped. An volunteer citizen Force without an aqual camp is almost inconceivable. One has no wish to indulge in gloomy pro phecies, but it is impossible to feel easy na to the moral effect and its repercussion on recruiting unless some means is found of lightening the blow,
Training Loan,
But on military grounds also the choice of the camp period as the target for the exe seems highly questionable. For what is the use of a force without training? The trend of modern warfare is such as to demand a higher standard of training, and to make armed horden. useless. A little learning is never so dangerous as in modern war.
Hence on practical ground it would, be the less of two evils to ent down strength than to cut down training. This conclusion of plies to the Regular no less than to the Territorial Ahmy. Both
Now, York, September 17-The police of three uities were called upon this morning to deal with three cases of murder, in which the victime were closely identified in One way or another with bootlegging or racketeering.de
In the Lower East-side tonoment in New York a newalior going to work stumbled over the body of Meyer Shapiro, who was less notorious than" Logs Diamond, but more important in the under- world as the racketeering Tear" of Brooklyn, wyk
From the position of the body and the condition of the clothing the killed elsewhere and dragged over Tolico concluded that he had been the muddy ground before being claced in the basement of the tens ment
One shoe was missing-a circun stance which the polien decided members of his gang. might be a sign intelligible to
The Government have authorised the Minister of Justice to draw un
law abolishing part of Articlesced morn modern equipment, na 74 of the Civil Code, which pro would he fit to take the field under well as training with, it; before they hibits the marriage of Roman Roman Catholic priests in Spain:
present conditions Man-power by Police at Providence, Rhode The Minister states that as the self has Joan and less value. Island, discovered the body of result of petitions received from
Unhappily, the trend of all post-Harry Volpe, a notorious, bootlegger priests in favour of modification War cuts has been to preserve man- and racketeer, in a stolen motor of the laws prohibiting marriage, power at the sacrifice of its tools car parked in a quiet street. he ordered a special study to he and skill. With the Regular Army this habit has an excuse in the made of the matter, and that his state of the labour market, so that proposal is the result. As is well known. Rome does not consent to men are retained to keep them the marriage of priests,
from swelling the ranks of the un- Spanish priests who take advant employed, and the Army falls into age of this law would automatica:the category of unemployment in ly leave the priesthood,
surance rather than of national soeurity.
and
A group of unemployed, after
This excuse, however, does not parading the streets of Madrid apply to the Territorial Anny, with posters stating "We want bread, went to the Palace Hotel with a view of forcing an entry. to obtain food. That staff of the hotel managed to keep them out. And the men, then went to the Hitz Hotel and tried to enter there, but the molice prevented this," and the meri dispersed.
RECORD NUMBER OF BLOOD: DONORS.
RED CROSS SOCIETY'S GOOD
·YEAR.
The British Red Cross Socisty's report for 1030 states that the calls on the Bomety's blood transfusion service reached the record total of 1,627, against 1,300 for the previous
year, Sudan.
function must be the gauge of the where efficiency for its military
money spent on it. Hence the dubious wisdom of any (economy which roduces its readiness for ser vice," and the readiness of men to serve in its
The back of his head was shot, way by those who had taken him for a ride."
Volpe's life had been in danger since he turned State evidence in Cleveland four years ago when caught bootlegging. Since then he had established himself at Rhode Island, Nap
In Detroit three members of the their deaths in a quiet flat, where, notorious "Purple Gang “ mat:: apparently, they had been lured for n supposedly amicable conference
Each of the victims had newly lighted cigars as they aut round the "table, and each had been shot in the back of the hoad.
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FALLEGED, ARMED ROBBERY,
NATHAN ROAD CASE: RESUMED YESTERDAY,
The case in which four men are
KAYE DON AND WOOD TO The police are convinced that the tiful old buildings, either in the 587, Nathan Road, the residenco of at the rapid disappearance of beau charged with armed robbery at victims were being made at home wams of improvements" or be Mr. and Mrs, Hideko Rotabe, on by their four boste that they did cause of the apathy of local resi
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CONTEST IN-ENGLAND
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Hamilton (Ontario), "I will England or Ireland," gladly race against Kayo Don in "Said - Gar Wood recently, Improvements: I will, I think, make her the fastest am making in Misa America IX, boat in the world, and I am also planning a new boat which I shall build shortly." sub
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not suspect their dangers dents. September 17, was resumed before
Fifteen shota were fired, after. which four men were seen to dnsh has not lost some beautiful memorial Magistracy, yesterday
There is scarcely a village that Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Kowloon
afternoon.
down a stairway and escape in. a. car waiting for them.
5,000,000 SLAVES.
BRITAIN'S PROPOSALS AT
GENEVA
to its past history, and if the Datcetivo-Sergeant Flattery pro- wastage is to be stayed the Society.
must have more members able to, secuted, the prisoners being unde take an active interest in what is fendled. going on in their own particular As was previously reported, it is districts..
alleged that on the day in question, Often, the Society does not hear Mrs. Kotabe was in her fint on about proposed demolitions, until it the 2nd floor of Nathan Road, with in: too late.
The strength of the Loaden ser- vice, of which 115 hospitals made Any time, anywhere, repliedTM use, hoe grown to between 1,000 Kaya: Don mid scenes of great Genera-The British Government and 1,100, and middle-aged and enthusiasm, at Hamilton, where he has renewed at Genova the attempts elderly persons are inrolling as the was feted: 3 should welcome the it has made in two previous years | result of reports from younger-re opportunity of entertaining Car to secure the murs effective exec with destruction, ~
latives of the feeling of fitness fo! Wood to a contest in England."", tion of the Longue's convention for lowing a blood transfusion. Thus it is probable that the two the abolition of slavery, to
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This may not be the case at Wat ford, where there is a little oasis of ancient dignity lying off the busy street, part of which is threatened
It is formed by the Parish
mans when the door bell rang. On going to answer it, one of the amisha was handed a chit by a man and later on, three, men armed with an axe and daggers forced their way in and ransacked perty to the total of 87182 SAM the place, leaving Jeter with pro xcellent results, it is stated, speed boat nees may 2206 on Leigh Lord Lytton said there were 1 Church, the Seventeenth Century At yesterday's hearing evidency have been obtained from the first Neagh, in Ireland, where Don, made distinct areas in the world where school house, and the almshouse was given by Mr Kotable and Red Cross clinic for the treatment his first recond with Mids England olavery still existed and the total
It is considered that without im-Mrs. Kotabe's amah, after which of rheumatism, oponed § in Peta- IL
number of slaves was pat at provement the use of these alms- the case was adjourned, t 5,000,000, 30
houses should be discontinued, and The British delegation proposed the Charity. Commission is consider- the reappointment of the tem-ing scheme for the sale of the | 1,020 in October pad since then
on it. I was not musquoted, ward Gar, porary Blstery Commission so that ité ganga ega has risen considerably higher, by Wood, but my explanation was the information on slavery forth- The people of Watford are strangrang
It is estimated that about, 70 per | misunderstood, zea
goming from all sources might bely opposed to their destruction, cent of the men and 60 per cent. Miss England wis be shipped studied by experts and appropriate the Society is supporting of the women show definite im to England next, week. Don action recommended.
best colur provement after trentament.
also is leaving for England shortly.com No decision has yet been taken, (- (Continued at foot of
place, Regent's Park in March last: Gar Wood in naxious to dispel year. The average weekly, atten- the idea that he has adititted, trick dance rose from 740′ in « June to jog Kaye Don.
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