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Mischa Elman Plays a Grieg
Nocturne
"Nocturne" (Op. 54, No, 4)
This is one of the most delicately and elusively poetic records that i blacha Elman has ever made. Even our workaday selves are guided away by the beauty of this "eight-piece" until we feel, Eke poeta, too, for the moment, the full mysterious magic of the darknes
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS
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'THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Paris, Dec. R.
SHIPPING NEWS
NEW JAPANESE. WARSHIP. The trial trip of the new. Japanese warship Nagato bas been successfully carried out.
MEMORIAL OF ZEHRBOOK As the gift of the Eagle, Star, In an interview in "Le Matin" M. Lean. Baurgeois, head of tha and British Dominions Insurance French delegation to the Assembly of the League of Nations and an Company, Mr. W. L. Wyllies'a authority on international law, asserved unshakable faith in the panel of the naval attack on future of the League of Nations, stating that the Argentine delega- Zeebrugge will shortly be unveil tion's scission should not be overeated. A few members of the League ed in the Ambulatory of the jare in a hurry to organize the League along idealistic lines. The Royal Exchange,
majority, however, believe it safer to make it first of all fit to live in. BRAZIL TO CHARTER ÉX-ENEMY | Improvements will then follow in due course, !
Geneva, Dec. 12.
The Armaments Committee of the League considered the report of the Disarmament Sub-Committee, presented by Mr. Fisher (Britain), who insisted on the importance of the question for the salva tion of humanity. The Commission agreed with the suggestion that Governments be asked to curtail the present army
the various estimates.
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London, Dec. 12.
SHIPS,
Sanor Atavic, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is conferring With President Pessoa on the question, now almost settled, of the chartering by Brazil of vessels formerly owned by Germany, FRANCE SELLING STATE-OWNED SHIPPING.
A Geneva telegram states that at a meeting of the Armaments the Goverment is considering The Echo de Paris states that; Sub-Committee Viscount Ishil said Japan objected to observing the the question of the disposal of conditions of disarmament proposed by the League while other big vessels belonging to the State. Powers outside the League would not observe them. Japan would the tonnage of which amounts to increase her armaments in accordance with programme next year or 900,000 tons. A committee is to be formed to dispose of the fee: Marion, Dec. 12
beginning with colliers.
OTHER INTERESTING RECORDS BY ELMAN, probably the year after.
64642 Capriccio (Scarlatti)
64894 The Dew is Sparkling (Rubinstein)
64121 Minuet in, G. No. 2 (Beethoven)
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64201 Rigaudon (Monsigny)
64123 Serenade (Drigo) 64197 Traumerei (Schumann) 64821 Tango (Albeniz-Elman) 61643 Valse Caprice (Rissland) 74601 Kol Nidrei (Max Bruch). 74053 Melodie (Tschaikowsky) 75165 Rondo Capriccioso (Saint-Saens)
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Washington, Dec. 12.
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The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in the Most
In the Senate, Senator Walsh (Democrat) introduced a resolution Excellent Order of the British requesting President Wilson to appoint an American representative Empire:-Capt. Frederick W. to meet the League of Nations Disarmament Commission. Senator Young, C.B.E, R.NR. Com- Walsh argued that President Wilson's reasons for not participating modore. 2nd class, to be Knight; in the Leagua were absolutely inadequate. The country favoured any Commander 10 the Military movement towards world disarmament. Moreover America's non-Division in recognition of his participation was open to misconception owing to the fact that the valuable service in connection almost inconceivable sum of $1,500,000,000 was demanded for the with the salvage of the Army and Navy.
Vindictive.
Santiago-de-Chile, Dec. 12-
EX-GERMAN BOATS FOR ANCHOR LISE. The Anchor Ling (Henderson Brothers, L., Glasgow) have
The conference of the Foreign Minister, the Foreign Affairs Committees, the President-elect and the Chilean Minister to London decided that Chile continue to support the League of Nations, while it endorsed the principles submitted by the Argentine, especially with purchased from the Ministry of {regard to representation of States in the Council of the League.
CHINA'S DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT.
Shipping the ex-German twin- screw passenger ships Kigoma and Ypirants. The former, built! in 1914, is 8,516 tona gross; cheis now homeward bound from the ape. The Ypiranga, bail: in 11903, is of almost similar size, and is lying at Hull. Each vessel çan
Geneva, Dec. 11. The Commission considered the control of the opiam traffic and the treatment of women and children and decided that general con-accommodate 150 passengers, ferences be summoned to consider the decision to be taken.
Dr. Wellington Koo, addressing journalists, protested against Baron Hayaabi's reference to China. He said the disturbances were superficial and local and that China is on the way to making a succ233
and they are intended for the Liverpool-Bombay service.
GERMAN SHIPPING ACTIVITY.
The Deutsche Australische
Gesellschaft ал
of the first Democratic experiment in Asia. He relied on the League Dampf-chiffs
to help her. The question of Sharrung will be brought up when the counts the resumption of sail- League is less busy..
THE P. AND O. BANK.
lings under the German Bag from German and other Continental ports to the Dutch East Indian Archipelago. The service will be maintained by the company's Allahabad, Dec. 12
own steamers, this being the first The Peninsular and Oriental Banking Corporation has offered regular line of steamers, to be to purchase the ordinary shares of the Allahabad Bank at a price of opened with German steamers 400 rupees for fully paid up ordinary shares and 218 rupees on the since the war.
The comp307 new issue of nine thousand shares on which calls must be paid on Indian Freight Conference, and have joined the Dutch East, 15th. December. The offer is conditional on the bolders of not fewer their vessels will call on Dateb than 75 per cent of the ordinary shares accepting. The shareholdersports to load or discharge carga. are also given the option of receiving Corporation shares at 510-2-6 It will be remembered that prior
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IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY.
to the war this company main-i tained sailings to Australia andi South Africa...and it is remoured that very shortly regular sailings to these countries will also be
BECONSTRUCTING THE
'LEVIATHAN
A New York correspondent
resumed. Paris, Dec. 9. The crisis resulting from the necessary, although sometimes painful, deflation process is evolving normally and peacefully. Un- employment is confred to a few lines like the clothing trade in which prices had spared to a nearly inaccessible height. The iron and steel says that, apart from economical. industry is gathering strength for the coming impetus With Germany political and legal considerations, having at last made op bez mind to deliver the coal she is bound to, one of the chief reasons for per- with American coal now at fifteen dollars a ton c.lf. French ports wilting the great ex-German and prices for British coal coming down fast, with land transporta passenger liner Leviathan, form- tion improving every day and sea tonnage now reasonably cheap, and erly the Vaterland, to lie idle in lastly with vast reserves of iron ore at her very door, it may be ex- New York Harbour since the pected safely that France is soon to occupy a place in the front rank armistice has been due to an at- of great iron and steel manufacturing and exporting countries.
THE GREEK THRONE.
Paris, Dec. 124 The Greek Government's invitation to ex-King Constantine prohibits the return of Street, the notorious pro-German ex-Foreign Minister, who is remaining at Lucerne.
DESTITUTE CHILDREN.
tempt by the original German owners to extort 1,000,000 dollars) from the United States Shipping) Board for the plans which are necessary for the work of recon- ditioning and restoring the vesus). According to Mr. Gibbs, chief off the Construction Department of the International Mercantile Marine, who is charged with the task of constructing entirely new plans and specifications, Germen greed and spite placed an exorbit- ant price upon the original papers with the object of scrapping| the Gerasos believed that without Levisthao, because the
the originals the Americans would be unable to restore the liner and to it her for the Transatlantio service. Mr. Gibbs and his staff of technical assistants undertook Beckett did well in the first round, getting home his right on the Germans. The vessel, after her to create new plans for a quarter of the sum demanded by the jaw and ribs and left hooks to the head. Moran swing his right to service as a troopship was com- the body. Moran missed a right swing and took a left hook to the plated, is a mere shell, the interior jaw. In the second round the exchanges were fairly even, Moran ettings having been torn out and was warned for holding, then in some infighting Moran delivered the great engines almost wrecked, f-rific right uppercuts to the point, knocking out Beckett.
New York, Dec. 12.
Mr. Hoover cas appealed to all churches for a special collection on 19th. December for the destitute children of Central Europe.
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THE RING:
London, Dec. 11.
INTER-VARSITY SPÓRT.
London, Dec. IL - At Queen's Club Oxford beat Cambridge at soccer by two goals At Roehampton in a 71⁄2 miles cross-country run, Oxford best Cambridge by 21 points to 54. The individual placings were Montague (Oxford), 42 minutes, 56 seconds; Melones (Oxford), 45 minutes, & seconds; Seadrove (Cambridge), 45 minutes, 37 secunde.
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