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SOVIET REPRESENTATIVE'S WARLIKE UTTERANCE,
Japan Watching.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926.
CRICKET.
THE GARRISON LEAGUE.
Playing in the Garrison League
BRITISH ECONOMY.
A NOTE OF OPTIMISM,
Rugby, Jan. 21.
on the Bookuspes ground on Tues- A note of optimism was sound- day, the Royal Engineers and R.C.B.ed last night by the Chancellor
on the mend.
MILK FROM PEANUTS.
TRAINING Cow's ACCORDING TO MILK PRICES.
FAR AWAY POST OFFICE.
IN ARCTIC LAPLAND."
Moscow, Jan. 5.-The
first
defeated the 12th Heavy, Battory of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston The French would havor try to post-office has been opened at of the Royal Artillery by over sixty Churchill, in a speech at Leeds. Hotell anybody anything about Lovatore, the capital of Lapland. Tokyo, Jan. 21.
an undoubted, keeping milk clean and rich, but The town is situated 90 verats off The Diet reopened this morning, runs. Capt. Bridgland (R.E.) was said thero was Viscount Kato and Baron Shide the highest scorer of the match, though alight and slow, improve they have so much less money and the Murmarek Railway and has
had compiling 63 before being caught ment in the industrial and com-grass that they have been obliged novor
any postal hara making specches.
For the Royal Artillery. Finchem mercial outlook. The world was to find out some things for them-connections with the outside Following theso, Baron Saka-was the only player to make double now peaceful,
Harvests had selves. One is feeding a cow on world. The mail will be deliver- tani drew attention to the growing guma
been good. From many quartera peanuts to make her give plenty ed by reindeer carte in winter, gravity of the Sino-Russian situa- Beeres:
had come reports that trade was of milk and good milk. And doing and on foot in the summer, owing tion, enquiring the Government's
this they put in practice what the to total absence of roads. This. Attitude, Replying, Baron Shide-
Unemployment had, apart from Pasteur Institute has long been will be the Northernmos: post- hara stated that the matter was
the coal industry, lessened in trying to get human animals to office of the Soviet Union. regarded as purely a Sino-Russian
.14 spite of the continually increasing
Telephone lines to Lovozero problem, and was unlikely to cul-
Heri is the difficulty that dairy are to be laid in the spring. The population of wage earners. None farmers have had to face. In the prosont population of the town is minate in hostilities, though he
of these conditions were présent west of France, milk goes largely 800 people, consisting mostly of was watching possible develop.
last August. There was nothing into the high-priced butter and Lopari and Zyrians. Lovozero ments vigilantly, lest future action
but gloom then and now there chouso which London loves. Now is the centre of reindeer.trade. be required.
was a brightening and broadening in that region they have been hope. Prosperity, that errant following the old New England daughter of the household who superstition that a cow ought to weft astray in the Great War, have her calf in the spring. The! was now on our threshold.
result is that they have in winter The Chancellor of Exchequer not more than one-half or one- also definitely countered sugges-third of the milk which they have BRITAIN'S LATEST DESIGN.
This morning's papers mostly
R. E. & 1. C. S. Sgt. Blondin, b Rulo L/C Holland, & Finchem. Spr. Goodyear, b Rale Capt. Bridgland, e Maddock,
Carmichael ......... S. S. Higgs, e Finchem, Lieut. Col. Mackintosh, run not
Muddock
19. M. S. Faro, run not
$ 5. Kelly, e McGrendy, b Rule
Durand, c. Haisy, b Carmichael,. do not commont on the Sino-Q. M. S. Jacob, Smith, b Rule Russian friction, though the Hochi Sergt. Jones, not out ..
Extras... voices the opinion that the trouble 's due to Chang Tso-lin's desire
Total to re-establish lif damaged prestige by stirring up. Chinese national sentiment in his favour.
Bowling Analysis.
The Hochi forecasta Chinese suc-Rule cess, us Soviet action is fettered Finchem
Parpitt.. by the fear of damaging relations Carmichael with Japan......
According to the. Asaki, a des- patch from Dairen says Chang Tso-lin has ordered the arrest of Invanov, the president of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and the Mukden authorities have, decided to resume the railway service b force, if necessary. The Asahi 1R8 a. Harbin despatch which reports that the gravity of the situation is increasing, and Chinese troops are preparing to concentrate at Harbin.
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Gr. J. Smith, run out Gr. Maddock, a Dondin, b Jacob Gr. Gunn, st. Kelly, Jacoh L/Bd. Finchem, e Mackintosh,
Jacob
Bd. Rule, c Kelly, b Jacob
Halsey, Goodyear, b Jacob .. Lieut. Carmichao, Bridglandi,
b Jacob
Gr. Purpitt, e und Higgs Gr. F. Smith, c'Jacob, b Higgs Gr. McGready, mal out Gr. Pratt, b Higg
Extras
Total
According to other press reports, M. Kopp, the Soviet Ambassador, interviewed, declared: "The Rus- sian Government is prepared to Goodyear back up its demands with force if Jacob Higgs meeting troops with necessary, troops." Despite all this, the veruncular papers generally in-
cate that the Japanese Govern- ment and people are maintaining calm altitude.--Reuter.
FLOODS IN EAST AFRICA.
DISASTER IN PORTUGUESE TERRITORY.
Salisbury, Jan, 21. The floods in Portuguese East Africa have not subsided. The Pungwe river threatens to sweep away the Pungwe railway bridge. The Muda river is also in flood..
Allogether 41 inches of rain has fallen in ten days.
Bowling Analysis.
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NEW BATTLESHIP.
tions that the national Budget in summer and miss that amount Despite European proposals for estimates for the current year's of sale for their products. For further naval disarmament, it income were likely to fall below the human being consumes milk was learned last week that Eng- the amount anticipated. He said and butter and choose no matter land's foremost designer of battle- he knew of no reason to suppose what the season.
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any such thing and that, on the Denmark, which is smaller and ships, Sir George. Thurston, had contrary, he thought it quite pos has a much smaller population completed plans for an amazing now combination dreadnought Osible, and even probable, that than Massachusetts, has managed and airplane carrior, armed with
unless some absolutely new and to beat all the United States plus 16-inch guns. unforeseen event should occur, Canada and Australia in selling
work butter to Englishmon and women of the new ship are: Capacity Among the outstanding features 29the Budget estimates will
than their and Denmark, among other for carrying thirty airplanes; out with even more usual accuracy.
strong pointe, has got rid of that
mounting six 16-inch guna', for superstition. So have the dairy He emphasised the need national economy and declared farmers all around Paris for 200 armour, 10 and 12 inches thick: the Government was making miles and their chief business is pood. 263 knots; no stacks and no masts; upper deck to consist great offort to curb expenditure to sell milk to the inhabitants of of flat landing platform.
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PASSENGERS.
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dreadnought.
in every branch of national the great city that never has The platform would extend activity and he stated that when enough.
two-thirds of the length of tho They have succeeded. Paris has boat, which is to bo 750 feet. The 44 Parliament meets, the Economy a bigger supply of milk in winter significance of the new ship, Sir Bill will be presented to the than it has in summer, and the George believes, is that present House of Commona making cermilk is dearer, too. The milk for models of aircraft carriers cannot M. R. Wtain legislative changes which are Paris is richer, more complete and fight back, whereas the new ship substantial for humun food in can hold its own against any winter than it is in summer.
That is because they let the cow! From the same source were ob choose her own food in summer intained, the dimensions of the sub- pastures and green fodder. In marine X-one, the largest under- winter, when there is no grazing, sea craft in the world. It is 350 man has to see to the cow's foodfeet long, displacement 3,600 tons and he does it better than Nature. and can remain submerged two He does not get any more milk, and one-half days. Its orew Por s. a. President Cleveland front but he does not get quite as much, San Francisco, January 21. Mr. L. Askew, Mr. Wong Hup Ai, Mr. Tom and it is better milk for the chil number 121 men, it is armed with. Chun, Mr. K. M. Chao, Mr. Fak M.dren of men and for the calves, for carrying an airplane.
a 16-inch gun and has provisions Kan, Mr. Wang Kow, Mr. Xuew Hing too.
Kong,, Ko, Mr. Young Kim Mr. Gew
Lee, Mrs. Juliette Merger, Mr. Georga Cows, like men, must have aj
Master George M..
Mcortain amount of roughage to setj James for
Lachean Donald Mac-digestion going. So French dairy- kintosh, Mrs. E. M. K. Purers, Mr. man food their cows in winter on Chan Leung Pin, Mrs. Feng Shee, hay and straw, and a Now York Master Juy T. Fury, Mr. Harry S. M.
Kowloon C. C. v. Navy XI. Kowloon C. C. entertained a Navy eleven yesterday afternoon and won by 61 runa. Balting first, Kowloon knocked up 116, Petheram, Jeffries, Bentley, Lyn and Morris all reachi ing double figan. The most mic- Pay OCBSIn Navy bowler was Commer. Cooniler with six wickets for 51 runs. The Navy team at no period looked like getting the runs, and when the last man left they had compiled five short of the century. Lyal bowled exceedingly well, ki six wickels costing only 28 Of his 17 overs, nine were runs maidens, Score:
Kowbon C. C.
J. C. Lyal, b Faliret...... Capt. C. J. Bensley, e and b Nave.
Lieut. Hall, Nel, b.Nave... Capt. E: W. Morris, e Bailance,
Coomber
Menger,
ARRIVED.
NELSON'S PILLAR.
Smith, Mr. Ing Tez Tung, Mr. Harry woman who sella American pre- DUBLIN MONUMENT TO Boshi, Master Joseph Boshi, Miss parod foods in Paris saya that Gloria Boshi, Mre, Beatrice Boshi, men and women buy fifty boxes Miss M. Bunker, Mre, E. W. Close,of bran a day. Mrs. Robert W. Dunsmuir, Mrs.
Hal
20 C. Dunker, Mrs. Rosalind Fisher,
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BE MOVED.
Dublin
City Commissioners The dairymen arranges it this have decided to remove Nelson's Mrs. Mary W. Gohn, Master Wam 1,000 pounds, and to do what is ex-tion in Sackville street it has oc- William way. The averago cow weighs pillar from the commanding post- 8H. Gohn, Mr. Manley G.
John C. McRae, Mrs. Fannie C. Me-pected of her she must have food cupied for 100 years.
10 Rae, Miss Margaret Payson, Miss to keep up that weight. But if It is not suggested that there is
Many natives have been drown. B; Pethuram, c Ashby, b Coomber .33 Cera E. Points, Mrs. Myrtle E. Rus she is also to give milk she must anything political in the decision.
ed, and their homes devastated. Eye-witnesses report that croco diles devoured natives who were
Lieut. J. H. Smith, c Ashby,
b Coomber
C. W. Jefferies, & Coomber
C
P. Robinson, Hallance b Coomber
swept from the roofs of floatings. E. Green, b Studholme huts.
FC. Pavitt, st. Viteer, b Coomber. A. G. Lanning, met out,
Extras
Probably trade with Beira will be impossible for at least a montli. ---Reuter,
Fatal Tug Accident.
Beira, Jan. 21.
20 fine.
5
DEPARTED,
sell, Mr. Henry W. Russell, Mr. Al- bert E. Russell and Mr. Robert Wood-have more food for it, and that Thero is considerable congestion must be something else than of traffic at the pillar, which roughage. They have reasoned it stands at the centre of crossroads all out and proved it in practico. in the busiest part of the city. To keep up hor weight, this This point is used as a termínus Pers. s. President Madison for Manila, January 20-Dr. Olaf Bent. average cow must have at least for tram linee going north, south zen, Mr. J. H. Birkenhauer, Mr. P. A. fifteen pounds of good meadow and cast, but with the removal of Crosthwaite, Mr and Mrs. T. 1. hay every day. To aid her to the pillar cars will be able to pass 146 Eckerson, Mr. P. A. Guzman, Master digest the hay, she must have through by the middle of the
V. Guzman. Miss M. Mulkey, M. vegetable juices-beets," carrots, street.
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F J. Mayers, Bliss Lila Ozarlo, Misa
W, Margaret Wickes, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. rutabagas, cabbage loaves. The
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A tug chartered by the Govern- Lieut. Nave..... 10 ment to rescue a number of officials Lt Palniret......
51 Pay Comdr. Coomber 8 cut off by floods, who had taken Corp Lee........ refuge on a railway bridge, turned Lieut. Studholme...1 turtle while proceeding to the spot. The captain and two Portuguese were drowned.-Reuter.
MOROCCAN SUCCESS.
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FRENCH FORCES ADVANCE.
Fez, Jan. 21. The operations in the Mtloung tertore have resulted in full suc- cess, The Frenchmen occupied Beni-Redood and Imerden, while loyal tribesmen reached Tawerta, more than ten kilometres north of Sher-Havas,
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Navy XI. 1
Lt. Palairot, run out
It. Studholme, 'c and b Lyal
Pay Comdr. Coomber, b Lyai
C. P. O. Burstow, o "Lyali
b Smith
Pay-Lt, Nave, b Lyal..
Lt. Ashby, st, Bensley, b Smith
1.t. Ballance, c Saith, b Lyal
S. C. P. O, Vincer, b. Morris ::
Surg-Lt. Neil, not out
Lt. Ilinton, b Lyal
Corpl. Lee, c and b Lyal Extrae
Total ........
Bowling Analysis.
C. Lyul Capt. Morris
Lt. Smith
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The pillar will be re-orected at
WIL. D'Aquino, Mrs. C. beast, also for woman and child. posed by the local council as the
Mr. T. P. Williams, Mr. and more watery they are the better, some other point, and the sum- Mrs. G.
Walter C.
This is the same for man and mit of Howth head has been pro- Mr. MeQuillen, Wetter, Miss W. H. Wetter, Mr. William Kempton, Mr.
But if the cow is to give milk most advantageous site. TP
Davie, Mr. J. E. Londer, Mrs. W. A. she must have more food, s0 Riedel, Miss J. Dy-Linceo, Mr. Chas. much for each quart she gives.
F. Moelich, Sister Mary M. Cusack, The best intentioned cow cannot
Sister Mary S. Momahon, Sister
17 Mary D. Heaney, Miss Ruby Norte, give what she has not got. Now PROFESSOR “SACKED”.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Fairchild, each quart of milk has, or ought Miss Phillips, Mr. E. B. Fairchild and to have unless it is stricken with r Miss Sabina,
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JANUARY BOGEY POOL.
physiological "poverty, so much HOME UNIVERSITY TOPIC.
Circles in England far - outside the Universities, where it is the
fatty matttor or butter, so much albumen and cheese, so much sugar. To give such milk the cow has to eat concentrated food sole topic, are greatly interested in the announcement that Cambridge containing these matters.
Suppose the cow is expected to has taken drastic official action give ton quarts of milk, a day. against Professor J. B. S, Hal- In the January Bogey Fool com- Divido up her fifteen pounds of dane, Reador in Biochemistry, · petition at Fanling, the name of W. hay for her weight (and it is the because he was recently the co-
respondent in a divorce case." L. Dunbar should, have been added same if she gives much more to those of M. H. Roffey and J. 8. milk) plus her extra roughage for 28
MacLaren, making a triple tie.
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Professor Haldane is a dis-
tioa announce that Professor milk, is follows: Ton pounds of
Haldane appeared before them hay; six pounds of good straw and four pounds of chopped straw. and acknowledged adultery and It is often said that whales Add for digestion and tonic food, refused to resign, whereupon ho
was dismissed, TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. swim by screw-like movements seventy pounds of beets or carrots The statutes under which Pro- or whatever of this kind is going fessor Haldane was dismissed of the posterior body, displacing Finally fill her up for rich milk have not boon used for forty masses of water to either side with one peanut oilenke. alternately,
If the good cow is to give horizontal flukce of the tail ara of fifteen quarts of milk, increase London, Jan. 21. use in balancing or in steering the boots and the like to eighty tinguished scientist and the The report of the Principal of (writes Professor Arthur
The Empire cakes. For twenty quarts of
pounds and give two peanut oil nephew of Lord Haldane, the Imperial College of Tropical, Thompson in Agriculture, St.. Shanghai Jan. 21,
Augustina, Review. There are several other milk, food her 100 pounds of beets, The Shanghai Chinese Chambó Trinidad, for 1824-25, states that things that are often said, and etc., and three peanut oilcakes. Moscow, Jan. 4.-Dr. Tik-
thirty-four studente are in resi- the reason for so much difference
homirov, of the Institute of Fro- of Commerce has telegraphed to dance, including Canadians and of opinion is that the movements,
Iphyinctio Seiences, in Leningrad, Genoral Tunn Chi-júí and. Mr. Hsu South-Africans while inquiries say of dolphins, in swift
has succeeded in obtaining a fer- shih-ying protealing against the have been received from India, swimming, cannot be followed
Portsmouth-An aquest over ment "bacteriophon" destroying with the oyo. The creatures the death of a two-weeks old the typhold bacteria. This for controlling of the Treasury Bonds Malaya and Australia,
seem simply to tremble, but they baby showed that the house in ment has been obtained from the roserve by Sir Franeca Aglon, the
Research has been carried out in follow with apparent ease the which the baby died was occupied culture of typhold bacillae. In Inspector-General of Customs.connection with bananas, sugar, largest steamship going at full by nine families, consisting of 17 the near future the newly invent-
cacao, cotton, and tobacco, plant speed. They can even keep up adulta and 23 children. Wah Kiu Yat Po.
The ed forment will be tested by treat disousos, and colls-Reuter. with a destroyer!
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