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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1921.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE COAL CRISĪS.
London, April 18. The coal factors are preparing for the import of American coal of which large quantities are available for shipment. They declare that, despite the fairly high price, if landed, the cost of American coal is actually less than British. Labour and other difficulties are preventing the general acceptance of offers. Moreover the Govern- ment is presently commandeering all imported coal. Chinese coal la also offered but delivery will take at least six weeks. Chinese coal is regarded not as a cheap fuel but the quality is good.
The London parks which were closed for use as distributing centres for milk and food have been re-opened.
PILFERAGE OF GOODS IN TRANSIT.
London, April 18.
ne interim report of the Committee of the Chamber of Ship- ping on the pilferage of goods in transit emphasises the fact that the average claims paid by seven different steamship companies engaged in the same trade ranged from 21 to 62 pence per ton of cargo and says that there is evidence that the divergence is mainly due to varying practices aboard in regard te tallying and watching goods. It recommends efficient control, and supervision of loading or discharging by the ships' officers or other members of the ship's company, also stricter scrutiny of persons and conveyances entering or leaving dock areas and a more exact system of goods passes for merchandise removed from the docks.
EMPIRE DEFENCE.
Auckland, april 18. tr. Massey, the Premier, ruferring to the business of the fimperial Premiers' Conference, said ene of the most important matters to be discussed was naval defence, especially in the Pacific. He was sure the Empire would go through another war, and should be prepared. He would not commit the country to unavoidable heavy expense, but the time was approaching when New Zealand must aasist to keep up the Imperial Navy. The Government's palier should provide for a full share of maintenance.
SEX DISQUALIFICATION.
London, April 18.
In consequence of the passing of the Sex Disqualification Removal Act, 1919, the Civil Service Commissioners have made re- gulations réserving to men all posts in the following services over- seas other than por ta for which women may be specially recruited, viz., the Diplomatic Consular Services, Government Services of Colonies and Protectorates, to which appointments are made in the United Kingdom, and His Majesty's Civil Services in India. All posts in commercial, diplomatic and trade, commission services are also reserved for men except chief clerkships in trade commissioners' offices.
DOOM OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES
Giving Way to the "Superior Proletarians."
The middle classes are faced with the rtainty of extinction, according to Mr E. T. Raymond, in the Outlook. He tells how their destruction is being accom- plished, and indicates the people taken. by whom their places will be
By dint of severe economies, by relinquishing most of the ameni ties and many of the pseudonec- essaries of his former life, the middle-clase man (he says) might conceivably have kept expen- diture within income. He could not have saved much, but he might have kept his former savings.
But taxation on the scale now
prevailing means something much worse than a mere stoppage in accumulation. It means that for most middle-class people who seven years ago looke forward to an old age of independence and even of decent ease, there is now only a prospect of unremitting) and unrewarded toil to the end.
Bachelors and couples without families may, indeed, manage, somehow. But people with even one or two children have com- mitments which can only be met by the reduction of whatever) little they may have laid by for o'd age.
THE DANGER OF BEING "SHABBY."
On all matters relating to his children the middleclass man will! not, as a rule, economise beyond a certain point, for in no, clars is the parental instinct so imperious.
In certain matters of personal| expenditure. he also feels quite reasonably that it is not wise to press saving too far. He fears, with justice, that his earning power will be affected by shab- biness of dress, sordidness of dress, sordidness of lodgment, and; theperdom, and he clings, not un a general atmosphere of pan-
CHINESE ENVOY VISITS FRANCE.
Paris, April 18. Mr. Chu-Chih-Chen the special envoy of the President of Chinese Republie who is arriving in Paris for the purpose of further strengthening the Franco-Chinese intellectual and commercial bonds, will visit M. Millerand and will confer with a number of distinguished persons and bodies concerned with the intellectual and commercial advancement of China. No fewer than three railway vans were needed for the transport of the numerous presents to France which Mr. Chu-Chih-Chen is bringing, including numerous pieces of valuable embroidery, one of which is reputed to have been made 3,000 years ago.
FRENCH STEAMSHIP LINES.
Paris. April 18.
The report concerning steamer services cabled on March 16 shows that the lines from Marseilles to Shanghai and Yokohama and from Marseilles to Haiphong will be maintained at least provision- ally. The steamers of the former service will no longer call at Aden. Besides old calls they will make a fixed call at Penang with a pos- sible call at Foochow, while for hoats of the line from Marseilles o Haiphong the call at Singapore will become "facultative."" Ultimately, the two lines may be united with a terminus at Shanghai and a branch service from Shanghai to Yokohama,
EX-KAISERIN'S FUNERAL.
Doorn, April 18.
Late last night motor-cars drew up outside the ex-Kaisers re- sidence and the remains of the ex-Kaiserin were placed in one. The ex-Kaiser entered another corlege and proceeded in darkness to Maarn railway station, where the ex-Crown Prince was present in uniform with the Red Hussars and also the Duchess of Brunswick in deep mourning. A short funeral service was held and the body placed in a special train for Potsdam. It was accompanied by her younger sons and several ex-Members of the Court, while the ex- Kaiser and others returned to Doorn.
COTTON REVIVAL.
London, April 18. There are reliable signs of returning prosperity in the cotton trade. Greater Harwood, which is wholly dependent on the Indian trade now has its preparation department in full swing.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
London, April 18. The correspondent of the "Times" at Washington says the House has passed the Emergency Tariff Bill.
Speaking in the Senate, Senator Lodge advocated the passage of the treaty whereunder America pays Colombia twenty-five million dollars for the cession of the Panama Canal Zone. Senator Lodge quoted Ex-Senator Fail's opinion that the Treaty was likely to secure to American interests the chief share in the exploitation of Colombia, which would probably become one of the greatest of the world's oilfields.
MR. GOMPER'S MARRIAGE.
New York, April 18.
Mr. Gampers, the President of the Federation of Labour who is a septuagenarian widower has married the Englishwoman, Miss Gertrude Neuscheler, aged 38 who has been long associated with Mr. Gompers" work.
CLAIMS AGAINST CROWN FORCES.
London, April 18. Sir Neville Macready has issued a proclamation for the present claims for damages for injury brought against the Crown forces, forbidding civil courts in the martial law area in Ireland to hear unless specially sanctioned.
naturally to what he has been
accustomed to consider the best) feature of his seeming equality with a class far superior in wealth and security.
Thus a certain state is asin- trined; the really serious expenses are not cut; and every half-year another block of badly depreciated securities is sold to meat the demands of the Income- tax and the accumulated trades- nient's bills.
So far as the children go, the matter, of course, will eventually right itself when any animal becomes too expensive to breed it is no longer bred, and some exper- ience of present-day conditions will make the middle-class less of an early-marrying disposition than ever.
Failure to reproduce itself will not, of course, imply the disapp earance of a middle order. There mual, we imagine, always be some class between the owners of con- tianing wealth on the one side and the day labourers and artisans on the other. But the new hody, made up almost solely from over flowings from above and insurgen- ces from below, would be greatly different in character from the more stable middle-class we have known.
It would, in the first place, be a class of superior proletarians, with an acute interest in such things as wages, fees, and status, but very little interest in property. It would have small traditions.
A GREAT POLITICAL CHANGE.
Possessing no roots or memor ies, it would probably be extreme- ly selfish and hot over-patriotic, and its more virile elements would always-tend to leave the country in response to any reasonably at- tractive invitation from abroad.
Obviously the elimination of the present middle class would pro- foundly modify political condi-j tians Those who regard the suggestion of such a change' as fantastiomay beinvited to consider the chango which has actually taken place inthe working classes.
Even thirty years ago the ma. jority of British workmen, if not country-born themselves, were children of country-born parents, and deeply imbued with the ideae of the countryside. But the
tionalism, and as Labour politics wholly urban, inclined to interna- average working-man’of to-day is
show very little concerned in JAPANESE SHIP DETAINED BY GREEKS.
anything apart from the supposed intereste of his own class. Japanese steamship conveying a thousand Turkish prisoners from According to the Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent a
The disappearance of the Siberia to Constantinople was stopped by a Greek torpedo boat and replacement by a body of men present middle class, and its
protest arging that as Greece is not at war with the regular Turkish detained at Mitylene. The Japanese Government lodged a vigorous and women representing little Government, Greece was unentitled to detain the ship which was bound for Constantinople.
NEW BISHOP OF SHANTUNG.
London, April 18. The Primate has nominated the Rev. Thomas A. Scott Bishop of Shantung and the consecration will probably take place on 29th June...
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