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HOW A CHINESE BROUGHT. UP THE SYDNEY.
Some time ago a mercantile marine officer, who during the war was on naval service, related the following interesting èpisode in regard to the capture of the Emden, The famous German raider landed a company of men. on the Cocos Island in the early bours of the morning when most of the men in the wire- less station were asleep. The detachment of Germans were under orders to put the wireless apparatus out of action. Near the beach they came across a Chinese one of the cooks at the station mess. Him they seized hold of and commanded him to lead them to the telegraph office. Unfortunately for the emissaries of the Fatherland the cook képt his wits about him, and, unknown to his captors, managed to signal to one of his fellow-countrymen, who was also a station servant and who happened to be near, that he was to convey the news) of the landing with all speed to his masters.
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their representation of representa- tives rather than electors-too much like the Metropolitan Water Board and the Port of London Authority. I defy Mr. Lloyd George to find any funda mental difference in principle between these creations of theirs and the Soviets of Russia.
The Huas not knowing that their presence had already been betrayed arrived at the instrument room and soon demolished its contents, no doubt feeling they
At the Sixth Annual Con-
The present process of patching had done a good morning's work. ference of the London Labour P. and of spending the rate- Alas their calculations were all
peyers' money in legal fees to Party, recenty held. London upset through the presence of Labour declared for a scheme of run buses, extend trams (the same secure Parliamentary sanction to mind of a humble Chinese cook Parliamentary devolution under ratepayers' money often being The latter was not forgotten by which Greater London should spent by two local authorities to by the British authorities for he have a Parliament and Home fight each other). or do other now lives a gentleman of ease and Rule for leisure in bis native town principle of a Greater London things which ought to be the
County Council and
business of the people of London, à limited measure of local autonomy has Works and the City Corporation is bankrupt. That the Office of been agreed to by the older-both of them possessing a municipal parties in London.
cynical contempt for popular Clearly, the present County needs-should be able to hold up area is utterly absurd, and bears traffic schemes considered neces- no relation 10 the realities sary by the LC.C.. is nothing of modern London. Those short of a scandal, and when who would be in possession Tory and society papers back of the facts should read A collection of intimate de- the informative report of the jury, for it was these very journals them up it is adding insult to in- tails of the life of ex-President Local Government Committee which a few weeks ago were Roosevelt makes up "Theodore contained in the L.C.C. minutes sneering at the L.C.C. tramways Roosevelt's Letters to his Child- of Oct. 21, 1919. The L.C.C. in department ren" (a book published by Johnherited its area, with very minor sufficiently go-ahead.
for not being Murray.)
modifications, from the old Metro- A Parliament? Yes, and why Some of the incidents describ-politan Board of Works, whose not? Look at the magitude of ed are distinctly quaint, and the territory was fixed in 1855. The the Greater London of the census book tells how on a wet day in area was perfectly reasonable for and of London and the Home 1903 the President yielded to 1855, and would bave been now, Countries (Essex, Hertford, Kent, juvenile persuasion and spent two if London and Home Counties
Middlesex and Surrey): ! hours jumping about in Lay in development had been "town an old barn. "I hardly knew planned" instead of being allow- whether it was quite right for the ed to sprawl. The London of President to be engaged in such 1919, however, is a very different wild romping," he says. In the proposition to that of 1855, as is Area, sq. same year Speck' (German seen by the population statistics of | miles 692.9
4,758 Ambassador Count Speck von the following extra London " Population 7,251,358 9,201,484 Stormberg) rode with Edith and ¦ districts:
Rateable me looking more like Hans
value £63,228,105 £72,000,000 Christian Andersen's little tin
1851. 1911. soldier than ever." He had come Croydon
Compare the population with 2,532 57,497 to present his papers, and "ap East Ham....
20,343 169,551 Scotland (4.760,904) whose claim peared in what was really a very Edmonton and South
1,737 133,487 to local self-government will be conceded under devolution, and striking costume, that of a
9,708 98,409 Australia (with six local and one 18,817 239,030 Federal Parliaments), 4,935,311; 2,939 154,214 realise the peculiar and Ex- 2,693 54,966 ceptional nature of London's prob lems; 'contemplate the muddle
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whelmed with my work," he ment (caused by Londoners not Let me appeal to the Greater writes to
Kermit. "I enjoy making a fight their self-govern- Londoner's civic patriotism and being President, and I like to doing rights), we are saddled or imagination. This Greater Lon- the work and have 'my hand on threatened with bureaucratic | don or London and Home Our Parliament of the Metro-] the lever. But it is very worry-Boards for special services. How Counties Parliament could survey polis, when it had helped people ing and puzzling, and I have to much control knowledge and in its whole area from s housing and industries out into the fresh make up my mind to accept terest have the people of Lon- and planning view-point, and it air, could plan London proper
LINKING BY WIRELESS. every kind of attack and mis-don in respect "of the could evolve a great regional anew and restore some of its old- An American radío corporation. representation. It is a great com- Metropolitan Water Board, the plan whereby towns and districts time charms and historical at-is reported to have acquired the LONDON DIRECTORY, fort to me to read the life and Metropolitan Asylums Board, would not sprawl, into one tractions. The highest and best Marconi interests in the United Jetters of Abraham Lincoln.". the Metropolitan Police, or the another, lose individuality and traditions of the City of London Statee, with the support of the In another letter Roosevelt Port of London Authority? So crowd out nature. It could start could be rescued from the ten-General Electric Company. The says: I have not a doubt that little, that the London M.P.s (of new towos or industrial centres dency to make it merely an office capital will be-$20,000,000, The the British officers in the Boer the Labour party as well as and preserve round them (and and banqueting hall for the new corporation purposes to link others) on the Select Committee existing towns of sufficient size), money-men. The Ministry of up all countries by wireless, and War had their efficiency party on Transport ought to be thor an agricultural belt to check Trade and Arts and Crafts could to compete with the various cable reduced
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The German Warlords are re- townsman and the countryman. Ministry of Local Government trol being handed over to a bur- It's Ministry of Power, Light and could be just a big brother to the eiving astonishing prices for In Chicago the Labour Union eaucratic Board three out of five Transport could generate local authorities within the area their books. Hindenburg has men made what I regarded as of whose members were to be electricity on a big scale by the in the battles against dirt, death sold the American rights in his a rather insolent demand upon appointed by the central Govern- riverside west of London County and disease, and the problems of book for four million marks at me, and I gave them some perment. fectly straight talk about their
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on the most economic plan, and parish pump politics, for there the presant rate of exchange. All these Boards which lack distribute all over the area, would be local authorities within Ludendorff is to receive two and " duty and the preservation of law the direct, healthy infinence of whilst same department could the ares for the local adminis half millions for the British, an electorate are hote-and-corner establish a great system of local tration of all those things which American and colonial rights, Roosevelt talks of sud ap- and of doubtful efficiency and transport by tram, hos, tube and could possibly be decentralised, and another million for the Ger- preciates Dickens, but declares London must not lag behind the taxicab it would not be held Labour has a healthy regard for man and other rights. Tirpitz that the novelist was not a great provincial cities in popular. up by a Park-lane inspired Office the parish pump
8 receiving 900,0035 marke gentleman, while Thackeray was, control of public services. One of Works or a selfish City The spirit of self-determina and Bethmam-Hallweg and Dickene, be declares, "was an of my reasons for objecting to Corporation run by owners of tion
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