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MESSAGE TO MARS.
THE FARMY TRIAL.
Scenes at the Old Bailey,
The Reductions Criticised. How It Might Now be Sent
The Committee on Service Par It is absurd to say that com A notorions case always gives has returned to the principle of munication with Mars is hope trouble to the police and Court impossible. We have officers at the Old Bailey. The supply and demand, under which lossly
Fahmy trial found them propare: the Government offers the lowest never tried it." wage which it deems necessary In these words Dr. A. M. Laws but powerless to obliterate same. to secure officiont service. Even the inventar, sunimed up his own lobjectionable features, says thei on that reckoning the Commit-point of view with regard to a Times. They could not, for ex- Be beample, expel from the public tee's proposals do not promise to much debated problem.
taxpayer
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be entirely successful, comments/lieves that an attempt, even if gallery the numbers of young the Porrer, The rates fixed unsuccessful, could not but teach women who might have been in the war period are high, fus something, if only of the me-much better occupied than in! and the
gloating over such details bethod of signalling employed. st rd' take allowed
intu
"The method I consider most must be investigated in a Court) account the subsequent appre hopeful is light-signalling." he of law. But, by constant exertion. Jei ion of the pound. On the said recently in à Pily News [the police were able to prevent the formation of a queue outside the jotuer hand, as we have had fro-interview,
quent necasion to point out. it There are several known che-doors at midnight and the early would be better to throw moneymical migans of producing a light hours of the morning. The lesson- away than to spend on defence screen of sufficient size, which of the Ilford murder were borne without an equivalent return in would last long enough to be not-in mind, and as soon as a few security. The first element in iced by Martians if such exist. people gathered they were dis defence is the spirit and profus. I rather think that a suitable persed It was wonderful that sional competence of the defens įsereen could be set out at a high so many should have persisted in faitinis by aeroplanes, in order the attempt. Sure, indeed, went
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We are doubtful with what encta eliminate as far asossible the fut in disappointment. Others cess the Army will attract recruits effect of the air and clands, which loitered for hours watching for a | to serve alongside men perform-jeombine to make difficult any chance of securing a place.
Doubtless what these men and Dr. Low pointed out that women were so eager to see was rate of pay. It has been stated that, even now, the pat-war although the problem of en a woman on trial for murdering recruit is not on the average thetructing a machine sufficiently her husband. There would have equal of the pre-war in physique powerful propel wireless been less offence in their curiosity and intelligence. The Navy has | waves the necessary distance was if it had been roused by the extra- to compere and will, when trade test insoluble, the fact that the fordinary mingling of nationalities: The prisoner was revives, have to compete energe- wares travel in curves, and not in in the Court. tically with skilled trades for the straight lines, made this formia Frenchwoman. Distinguished manning of posts which demandjeommunication very diffienit. He English counsel were engaged. more and more of technical profais does not front smoke-Egyptian bartisters held watch- Sciency.
signalling.
ing briefs. The interpreter, în "Of course it is extremely the later stages, was a woMLADI Another element oust enter calculation. A "marked rai" likely that there is life on Mars."barrister from France. The Old can never be strictly applicable to be said, "but tu assume that life Bailey has not often been the en wh like the lice, must be there is similar to our own i-theatre of such a seene, especially required to forgo some of their ludicrous,
when Mme. Fahmy was acquitted.
frivit right during their years of "Some years ago we though: Įservice, and later naust face the that animals and plants were inevitable difficulty of entering th only things which livet Now
ther
Occupator-. The pay we know that there is life in standard of 1914 is not necessari- everything
A NEW CLUB IDEA.
ly a satisfactory standard. The I have never seen anything departments are dealing, muzeyer which was not"alive.
Mrs. Marcel Wolfers is res ¦ower. with a population whose "The rate of living is the crax)
writes the Tientsin! ponsible. We human beings outlook has undergone a very des[of matter.
correspondent of the Far Eastern The must sem like butterflies Ties for the organization here: eided change in ten" years. interest of a vivilian occupation is turtle, while it is conceivable that
of a select social body eslled the superior. When that is excludadla vreature which lived vers. Yet Godown Club" named from the įshowly would think the rate of the "dele" #tili remains.
location of its quarters in a The pay of the Civil Service is living of a stone quite fast.
spacious down off the Rue de left infuct, but longer hours are
HEAT PICTOGRAPHS,
France, Tientsin. "Amuse and -ungestel. The Frial -eti i
"How are we to know that ant uplift is the motto of this not more immune than the rest Martians "See by light? They club. It is open to both men an'i of the population from conditions; might "see" big means of heat women of all nationalities, e-- which we e inné after unless by wives. You can take quite and pecially those with tastes_run- an increase of exertion. It would a mographs at a betel-dark room ning close to Bohemian. Artists, however, be material to know using fi út onty,
singers and entertainers of an how furthe existing hours of
were amate11f Fast suppvise that we
status will form the employment are femal Theptam with eyes having only nucleus. There will be room in work of many grade-, certainly,¦»lightly duferent lens - from the the godown for a stage, while still of the Civil Service is not branded | Kommal. We shots that the more ample room for majong. Thy hours or office walls.
¦ kir amend us was fallof life and [hridge and tea, The idea of the Ariat our bath water was a mass formation of this club seems to
1 time ereatures. Ebe a Commenting on the proposed of bee ilds
reaction to the uplifting) reductions in Army pay, a wo. Quite a small difference in our organizations for which Tientsia known authority vidd an floor of physie dl make am would obviously is justly fofus. representative that while certain irownintiouise car world and our reductions were probably ineva-liteas of living.
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TOAX
OUR DEPLORABLE" PARKS.
able, the cuts, particularly in Martian might be sad. offients'
tú exist simply as Pay
wriouslyvanced as himper recruiting.
thoughtfors, or they might bok "Parents who through; of send-like worms. There may be n ing their sons to Sandhurst." he life there capable of appreciating said, "have been very unsettled any signals, but not to made an
The Bishop of London's about launching them DA a juttempt would be deplorable." Bilitary career sites the adventi Dr. Low is infined to think denunciation of bart conduct in of the tieddes inter The arw pro-that if Martians do exist they are the parks continues to be refuted, posals cannot fail to leave them not incredibly advanced as supported, deprecated, and satiriz
ed. The London Wesleyans, at more unsettled than muut The some theorists have supposed. severe cuts in rankers' pay from "If they were." he said. they their District Synod, rallied round minister from 2. 94. to ls. d. a day mug would have found some means the Bishop. A
and another from nut keep tent of the Armigere this of attempting coraman-Clapham.
the owing to the presulent unemplication themselves. They may Hampstead, declared that
exaggerated: rent, but will be difficult avoid have done so, and given un in Bishop bad not
could be the impression that the lower despair, but I rather think they deplorable rates are being taxed out of all would have continued trying, and witnessed in broad daylight on found ome Clapham Common and Hamp proportion, particularip as marri-eventually have age, temporary ration and other means of signalling even our stead Heath. Of course, much allowances have all been recently limited intelligences could com-depends on what the Bishop and the Wesleyan ministers consider reduced. Warrant officers to prehend."
deplorable, The Synod, however, are to be rather badly hit. Regi
contented itself with passing a mental Quartermaster sergeants
resolution calling on the respons- drop from 13s. to 8. 61. a day.
ible authorities to exercise more regimental serreant-major- from!
efficient supervision. -Times. 14. to 1. This is, proportion- ately, a much greater drop thank
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that stipulate for officers in Abandonment Practically Army Order 324 of September.) 1019.which provided for revisions | in July next year not exceeding 20 per cent.
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THE DAWN OF IDEA.
The mind is Nature's store.
it be
Empty or full as we would have With wondrous gems of air and
sea and shore.
Or blank, as Atheist's-Eternity. Life's little facts are tilled,
Gather'd and placed in gran-
aries where walls Give with the pressing grain and
Tow fulfilled With rich or rotten seed as
labour stalls.
An announcement made by the British Postmaster-General, in a One factor is usually forgot-letter to Sir Charles Oman, that ten in estimating soldiers pay," the proposal to erect a Marconi he added. "A Navy or Air Force wireless station at Avebury, in man, when he decides to quit the Wiltshire. would probably be Service, can get civilian employ-dropped altogether. has given meat with little difficulty: Navy general satisfaction, and especial- men get a ready welcome in the ly to archeologists. Merchant Service. But the It is understood that objections soldier, when he leaves, cannot to the scheme have been raised go and join another army. This by others than archaeologists, handicap should induce us to however, and that in consequence, treat him liberally while he is the question of an alternative site serving. Navy men adhat, too is now being discussed by the have considerably fewer oppor-Post Office, in conjunction with tunities of spending, and officers' the other departments concerned. Bat as the sudden sun special allowances are usually When an Obxerrer representative much bigger than in the case of made inquiries at the General Post Office as to the nature of the Army.
"Insteal of making drops at these objections, he was informed Lays its long golden fingers ode once," he concluded. "it would, I that no information could be think, be better to do thing on a given on the matter, inasmuch as graduated percentage basis as the objections were of a
fidential nature, and concerned So living really decreased."
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