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The time within which a prose cution, for giving false information for insertion in a birth or death register may be undertaken is ex- tended to 12 months, and the maxi mum penalty, is increased from £10 to £50. The same penalty applies to false statements as to marriages.
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An echo of a famous case-last year is found in a clause which gives the superintendent or ether officer power to release, a person on ball before the charge nt police is accepted.
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MONDAY, JULY 19.
FAMOUS CRICKETER AT EPSOM.
Mr. P. G. II. Fender, the Surrey captain, walking to the paddock with his wife, who is seen wearing a monocle.
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talked but did nothing. In 1917 a dietatorship was established un-" der President Sidonio Pacs, which did much to put the national house in order. Dictatorships have been very common in Portu- gal, and when fruitful are not. Last week's revolution in Port-resented as they would be in this ugal, the effect of which was to country. The Portuguese need a place the country in the hands of the military and to lead to the formation of a provisional Gov rnment after a conference he and Commandant Cabecadas, was, tween Genel Gomes da Costa
says the London Observer of June by the utter incompetence of suc 6, caused, it is generally admitted,
strong man to induce discipline and bring out their best qualities. President Pecs, however, was as sassinated, and subsequent at- ed through disunion amongst those tempts in the same direction fail-
who supported them.
"Lack of combination being cessive ministers and the complete Portuguese defect, it is, the more
ar two, but not more, of their num-failure of Parliamentary Govern-extraordinary that the army and
ber are incapacitated by illness,
OT
ment..
navy should now have been able
There is a very drastic prohiblan authority said yesterday" in an out successfully.
"To understand the position," to agree on a plan and carry it It is proof of tion in the Act against taking or interview with a representative of the general conviction that things publishing any photographi sketch in any court, whether civil he Observor, one must look back were so very bad that it was ab- or criminal of anybody connected
into the history of the country, solutely necessary to sink ali per- During the first seven centuries sonal differences. Fear of the with the case. Not even in the of this history there were only loss of the Colonies probably was precincts of a court will such
three revolutions. The country one of the causes that brought thing he allowed. The penalty is was governed by a succession of about this union. Though the a fine not exceeding 250.
capable kings with their Counci! Monarchists as auch have taken Another step towards the equality of the sexes is taken by and the Estates, and it'accomplish-no part in the revolution, they move:none abolishing the presumption; that great things for so small a naturally welcome a an offence committed by
population: it discovered the road which promises a stable and just in the presence of her husband is Brazil; for a hundred years t
to India; it found and settled Government.
committed under his coerción.
22 wife
"Its programme (to be carried
She may, however, still" plead dominated the East and only went out by experts) includes a reduc
that she was coerced...
TYPING IN CODE.
A ̈ MACHINE THAT KEEPS SECRETS.
down. before the attacks of more
powerful competitors, the Dutch ion of expenses, more efficient ad- and English,
was
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administration, and the reorgani-
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"The eighteenth century saw antion of the public services and the introduction of absolutism,armed forces which, while they imitated from Louis XIV., and the now eat up about half of the re- general decline of the national en-venue, are ill-provided and ineff- ergies. In 1820, as a result of clent General. Gomes da Costa A Danish engineer, Mr. P. G. G. French revolutionary ideas, the was second in command of the Beyer, has invented a machine for old regime was overthrown; and Portuguese expeditionary force in cypher writing or code transmis-though nationalist reactions took France, and is a very able and sion, which makes it possible to place, after six years of civil war trusted military leader; and the
Parliamentary system
same qualities are attributed to his "write," direct and quickly, dia- ja
patches in a cypher which, prac-forced on the country against her collaborators. tically speaking, can be solved only will by England and. France in by the person who has the key ap- the name of liberty under the paratus in question, which ap- terms of the Quadruple Alliance. paratas automatically brings This system, known as the Con-against the Republic, but against about the solution:
stitutional Monarchy, 'leated until the politicians) was planned with Mr. Beyer, during the war, 1910.
The period was marked by great secrecy. served in the radio department frequent revolutions, continual "You ask whether there is any of the Danish Royal Engineers, changes of Ministry, and the pil fear of trouble arising from any and noticed the inadequate working up of a large debts. "The direction. There are two causes ing of the cryptogram system used material progress offered small of anxiety about the success of In Denmark and other countries: compensation for these disadvant
Two Causes of Anxiety.
"The revolution (directed not
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The Beyer method, says the ages, and the people as a whole this honest attempt to regenerate Portugal. The lower population Monitor," is to use two electrical neither used nor valued the vote,
in Lisbon holds very extreme
ly connected typewriters, so that through lack of education, and be views and is the main support of when the typist presses on a key cause it was not in their tradithe Radical party, which has do- of the one machine, the attached tions.
machine writes a letter or sign, which depends upen the position
of part of the electric equipment
"Constitutional Defects Aggravated
minated the Republic from the start. From this class have been recruited the carbonarios and
bomb-throwers, who made Lisbon
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and a guiding wheel. The crypto-*"King Carlos, who had made an what Barcelona used to be. The gram which the attached sending attempt with his Minister, Franco, second fear is that while economy machine has written, is telegraph-to remedy the failure of the Par demands a large réduction of the ed to the recelven who decyphers liamentary machine, was assassin-army, it may be difficult for a milf- it through his machine, which lasted on February 1, 1908. The tary Government to undertake arranged like the Bending one. By result of this crime was the fall this task without causing divi- reversing a switch, the electrie of the Monarchy in 1910 and the sions and endangering its work. connection between the two ma establishment of the Republic, Aa long however, as the pro- chities is also reversed, so that the The defects of the Constitutional gramme is carried out, in part at message is written exactly as regime have since been aggravat least, and disorders in the streets
Bucharest, Rumania, June 18,-eign capital into Rumanian oll typed on the sender's first type-ed by financial maladministration, are represented, the great mass of Significance is attached in some folds, except under Rumanlan con-
by a great increase in officialdom, the people, who only desire to he The machines have 43 keys, and and by the incompetence of min-able to work and live peacenbly, quarters to a report from Rome trol.
that Michael Munollescu, repro- the number of codes can be multi-isters, of whom there have been will be contented. There is no piled indefinitely.
some hundreds in fifteen years, fear for true Hberty. Portugal senting the Rumanina Government,
writor.
Paria, June 11, May Pickford
The more general: the use of The mistake was also made of has suffered from the abuse of has obtained a loan of 200,000,000 and Douglas Fairbanks with their. wireless transmission, with its persecuting the Catholic Church, frequent publicity, the more the to which over 90 per cent of the now invention will be needed. Portuguese at least nominally be The Copenhagen Engineering Col-long, and of forbiding the teach lege, the general staff, and the Ining of religion in private as well dustrial Council have all rendered as public schools,
Dollar on demand 28. 2.11/16 assistance and encouragement to "Parliament, even among Re
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lire, negotiated through the automobiles, dog and canary, ard Italian general petroleum agent, here from Italy to-day. To in- under which it is belloved Italy quiries about her clothes and low- will obtain a foothold in elry, Mise Pickford replied: "I Rumania's oil fields. This prac- have been wearing this dress for tically will mean, the discarding two years and I don't care much of, the law, enacted in 1924, which for Jowels." She was not wear- prohibited further entry of for Ing.any.