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MONDAY, NOVEMBER) 8, 1919.

DEATH OF NAVAL YARD OFFICER.

MR. JOHN MARSHALL..

LORD ROTHERMERE'S ARTICLE.

CONSERVATIVE LEADERS" TUPREME AUTHORITY.

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THE CORONET. The Management of the Coronet Kinema still goes on from strength.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN to strength and triumph to triumph, The death has to be recorded, on

the latest acheivement being the The life of a land giri is not STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD. A political event is Lord screening of that masterpiece of the devold of its exciting momenta. The Saturday, of Mr. John Marshall of Rothermere's article on "Mr. Bonar film producer's art. The Auction latest list of awards for distinguished E have been appointed Agenta the Naval Yard (Stores Dept.) after Law's six months' Premiership Black." The quality of this picture service, given in the current number and have now taken over charge

WE „nearly 24 years' residence in the which occupied a whole page in the drama may be judged from the fact of the Landwoman, Includes the of the Afairs of THE RASTEEN

Sunday Pictorial." Some com- that the Coronet has been packed following. Colony. The funeral took place yesmentators summarise it la four to the doors upon each occasion

AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP COM- Miss J. Barr, Hertford, who, when PANY, LTD. at this port terday afternoon, at Happy Valley letters: BL.M.G., meaning Benar the film has been presented: The some valuable pige ran on to ice and and was attended by the beads of | Law must go!”

story is founded upon Rex Beach's fell into the water, succeeded at great the various Naval Stores Depart

Lord Rothermere lays the whole well-known

Norel, and deals personal risk in pulling them out by: an American matrimonial hanging on to a fence with one hand ments, including Messrs. Platt, Mug. blame for the Government's extrava- with

gande upon Mr. Bonar Law and his tangle, exemplifying the evils and catching hold of their ears with ridge and Barnett and practically Conservative associates in the Cabinet,rraulting from marriages of con- the other.. all the naval ratings connected there, who, he declares, have exercised | venience, where the almighty dollar Mr. A. Gray, Middlesex, quieted The cows and articated them from a with. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie practically exclusive and open an is the main consideration.

thority during the first six months attendant debauchery and vice dangerous position when the roof of officiated at the graveside and at the of the present disastrous year," owing which almost lavariably accompanies a cowshed collapsed. conclusion of the obsequies a large to Mr. Lloyd George's absence at the such unions are vividly depicted in number of floral tributer were laid up-Peace Conference.

the various scenes. Bucchanlian on the grave, including wreaths from

Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Rother orgies, intrigues and all the whole "his Dearly Beloved Wife and mere declares, might still accom gamut of debauchery are dealt with Children" "From Lally and Roly"

in such a manner as to point out a strong moral lesson. The picture, *Charlie and Marlon," "Janole,"

| which is to seen for two more nights Mr. and Mrs, D. Tollan and Family,

only should be seen by all. Special Mr. and Mrs. Mugridge, Mr. and

mention must be made of the music provided, which is of first rate order. Mrs. Leonard, The Commodore and

Booking is at Robinson'ï. Principal Officers of Depta. Naval Yard, Mr. and Mrs. Platt, the Native Writers of The Naval Store Dept,

plish this great task of reducing our expenditure witkin manageable limits, but he will never do it while he remains under the domination of Conservative Coalition. There is no time to lose. He must soon choose his path, or leave the task for others." On the other hand, and simultane- ously, the political correspondent of the Sunday Times says:

In the political group, which in Mr. and Mrs. Marriott, Mr. F. J-recent times has been zealously push Jenner, Mr and Mrs. H. E. Badden. Ing the interests of the Secretary for Members of the Naval Yard Police War, the latest mot d'ordre is to make The United Service Lodge No. 1341 Mr. Bonar Law the scapegoat of the E. C. Mr. Hearne, Sergeant and Mrs. present Ministerial "Boundering and George. The Store Staff Royal Naval foundering" The representation is Yard, Mesars O. and S. Ismall. The that, with Mr. Lloyd George absor Committee and Members of the bed in the peace negotiations at United Football Club, Mr. and Mrs. Paris, the Lord Privy Seal has been W. H. Woolley, and Family, Mr.Kau Prime Minister in all but name, with Yee, Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, and complete control of affairs at home; Family, Mr. and Mrs, F. A. Brown, that he has proved himself utterly, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. M. unequal to the, responsibility placed Brows, The Hongkong Nippon Print upon him; and that, therefore, in the ing Press and

now familiar formola "B.L.M.G.”

numerous others testifying to the esteem which the

deceased was held by his fellow

workers and friends.

ANSWERS TO

CORRESPONDENTS.

"Kowloonatic "--No, those two Salamanders are not the thing with which You Make houses warm.

F. M. B.-Dear boy, you mean well, but your knowledge of English is too great. We cannot give you the best part of two columas in which to contradict heavily six words of American hyperbole. A man is never so great as the puffing journalists make him, and it is easy to find a mere nutmeg grater. With regard to Filipino politics, we prefer to wait and see.

Commons met. They had at their back a huge and pliant majority, obviously ready to do anything it was resolutely grip the Departments and Why did they not

force them to stop all waste?

told to do.

Miss W. Walder, North Riding, rescued a valuable mare which she found astride barbed wire.

Miss M. Starkey, Buckinghamshire, showed great skill in rearing a vilu able herd, especially young bulis.

Miss R. Leversuch, Worcester, nursed a cow suffering from a con- tagious disease.

Miss C. Taylor. Maidstone, had her hair, banda, and ears burned in saving an old man whose apron caught fire.

Miss K., Pitman, Wiltshire; Mios. W. Thorogood, West Suffolk and Miss E. Thomas, Wiltshire, also received awards for courage.

EFFECT OF WAR ON KORALS.

PREACHER'S COMMENTS ON THE HYDE MURDER.

Wood, the murdered Hyde girl, was A special memorial service to Ivy held at the Flowery Field Church The church was decorated with a profusion of flowers. Rev. J. S. Burgess spoke of his In the course of his sermon, the

lowered moral standard consequent years we had, he said, taken men on the war. For four and a half

from home, from sheltered lives, and

the spectacle of our Ministers aim- passion. We had cultivated hatred: I know nothing to compare with bad drawn out of them one single lessiy floundering in an ocean of and had sharpened passion to the debt, never making an effort to get things right, irritated when they were challenged by restive members, and vainly wringing their hands when they had made. confronted in the end with the mess

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5.8. "COLOMBIA,”" From SAN FRANCISCO, HONO- LULU, JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI AND MANILA.

above-mentioned vessel having are

It may be confidently expected that the Prime Minister will take the

Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed Tedom the above-mentioned Porta, earliest opportunity of dissociating Mr. Marshall was. a native of himself publicly from this pregos

that their Carge will be landed sh their Dumbarton (Scotland) and at the terous attempt to whitewash him at

Hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and risk foto the Eazardous and/or extra age of 18 joined the Argyll and the expense a loyal and intimate Sutherland Highlanders. He arrived colleague. One has only to recall

Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. in Hongkong in 1895 and joined the the events of the last few months to

and stored at Consigness? riak, Dockyard Police whence he was realise how mythical is the suggestion

that they must produce in

Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified transferred to the Naval Stores of Mr. Bonar Law's "unchallenged

Import Permit Department. He was invalided out control" If Mr. Lloyd George bas

point of destroying human life. To ports and Exporta, Boogkong, before signed by the Superintendent of the of the Service in June last and had been in Paris he has not been inac

give men strength for that they had bills of lading can be countersigned. been recommended for a pension..

been inflamed. Was it Ekely that cessible to his Ministers, who have

because a politician could sign a He leaves behind a widow and constantly crossed the Channel family for whom much sympathy is to take his decisions on the urgent

document demobilising these men felt.

that it was possible for them to come matters of their several depart

All this time Mr. Lloyd George, back and resume the moral unity of ments, and in every acute phase after his stupendous exertions their life which for over four years of domestic politics he has always played the deus es machina who alone throughout the war, was carrying had been deliberately distorted? No. LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. can soothe the troubled waters. What the almost Atlas-load of the negoti. That was one of the gravest con ever may be Mr. Bonar Law's shortations in Paris. From this task it sequences of war, independent both comings as a statesman, he has never was not possible even for a moment ¦ of victory and of defeat. been more than the Premier's lieuter to relax his attention.

ARRIVALS.

ant and if he has failed in that capacity the responsibility for his continuance The B&S Sunning." (Cat.rests directly on the Prime Minister

Benson) arrived this morning from Shangbaf with 380 tons of general cargo, and 81 bags of mails.

The N. Y. K. a. "Kawachi Mara" (Capt. Shinomija arrived yesterday from Singapore with a heavy cargo of machinery, and 9 bags of mails:

PREMIER'S' SECOND THOUGHTS. With regard to the Premier's letter on official waste, which was published exclusively ir. The Daily Mail, the same correspondent says→→→

Therefore, it was Mr. Bonar Law and his colleagues in London, and not the Ministers in Paris, who were responsible for the situation which arose in Northern Russia this summer.

INDIAN FAMINE DECREASING

The India Offée has received the Our situation in Northern Russia following telegram from the Viceroy, Revenue and Agriculture Department, is still extremely critical. The redated Aug. 30: sponsibility for "evacuating " By

are to be left in the Godowns here they All broken, chafed and damaged Goodr will be examined on November 7, at 10 m, and November 8, at 10 am.

All claims must be presented within month of the steamer's arrival hare, after which they cannot be recognized.

No Claim will be admitted after' the

Goods have left the dodoras, and ill Goods remaining undelivered after November 8, will be subject to rent.

No Fits Insurance whatever will be affected.

Consignees are requested" to send in bhele Bülls of Lading "fer counterslynatman immediately.

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Mr. Lloyd George's letter to his attempting a long march forward throughout India, but excessive rain Rainfall generally satisfactory colleagues in his Ministry was the presumably rests upon Mr. Churchill has retarded agricoltural operations "second thoughts" of his speech in and upon the Conservative members and growth of crops in Central India, The NYK. 3.s. "Tenshin Maru," the House of Commons two days of the War Cabinet.

north of Central Provinces, Eastern To all intents and purposes Mr. Rajputana, and south of United (Captain Hideshima) arrived yester remembered, he gave no promises Churchill has again become a men Provinces. More rain required in

carlier. In that speech, it will be day from Moji, with 37,518 tons of of an immediate reduction in, our ber of the Conservative Party, in Assam North-East, Bengal Deccan, general cargo, and 24 bags of ruinous expenditure, and rather pas which as an advocate of big ama and Hyderabad. Agricultural out-

sionately defended the Departments ments he will find full play for his look generally free from anxiety, Company's Steamship The N.Y.K. s.a, "Kanagawa Mary” at any rate, his own bairn, the striking abilities. He has announced | Crops are excellent in Punjab, Berar,

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Ministry of Munitions from the bis adhesion to the Centre Party, an charge of extravagance. This line almost wholly Conservative body, and North Bombay, and good or having arrived from the shova Porte, satisfactory elsewhere except Consignes of Cargo are hersby informed was mainly responsible for the dis. There is no room for Mr. Churchill

Prices still

(Captain Narni) arrived yesterday morning from Moji with 283 8/10 tons of general cargo, and 11 bags appointment and coolness with which in a Liberal Party devoted to a policy Deccan.

in small portiona of Bombay that their Goods are being landed and the speech was received in the House of searching administrative economy Bengal and Assam owing to depletion

rising in placed at their risk in the Horezona and by the country, and urgent re and to anti-militarism,

Of such a of stocks, but elsewhere steady or Godown at Kowloon, where each consign. presentations were made to the Prime policy he is an almost open foc. Minister by certain of his advisers.

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The MM. .s."Paul Lecat" (Capt. Broc.) arrived this morning from

falling slightly. Demand for Burma When the question of future rice is keen in Bengal and Madras, ment will be sorted out mark by mark and Shanghai with 1 returned cargo, and that he should come out strong" penditure upon armaments became.

but slack in Bombay.

Fodder delivery can be obtained as soon as the 52 bags of mails. She had 371 retrenchment without delay, urgent, quite early in the session, situation much easier, and condition Goods are landed. passengers.

Hence the letter and its subsequent no adequate attempt was made of cattle improved.

to impose, the limitations rendered change in economic situation, but instructions are given to the contrary No marked Optional Goods will be carried on salees urgently requisite by changed

area of distress caused by famine conditions. In effect the fight ing services were left to fix their and scarcity is gradually narrowing. own standards of strength.

The O. S. K. 9.3. "Soshu Maru" (Capt. Toyota) arrived from Swatow yesterday with 357 tons of general cargo, 18 bags of mails and 2 Portu #uese passengers.

The

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(Capt. Meagle) Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co. arrived at 5 pm. yesterday from Shanghai with 1,800 tons of general cargo, and 214 passengers.

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"NO RUTHLESS ECONOMY POSSIBLE UNDER CONSERVATIVE RULE.” Appended are a few of the salient paragraphs of Lord Rothermere's article

The present Coalition is not a true Coalition at all, but a confused and incomplete amalgamation of parties which conceals the fact that we are really being controlled by a Con servative Government.,

Diminutive efforts are now being made to exercise control, but I main. tain that while we are ruled by a camouflaged Conservative Govern ment effective economies in the combatant forces will remain im- possible.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.

NOTICE.

The reason is that the Coalition is in the grip of the WWE have this Day authorized Ma The Conservatives are now the fighting service, which have always real repositories of power and the maintained close and special relations name per procuration.

S. HAMER to SIGN our firm dictators of policy. It suits them with the Conservative Party. very well to be camouflaged by a I believe Mr. Lloyd George could

The sa. “Lienshing" is leaving at nominal Coalition, which screens still carry the nation with him

5. p.m. to-day for Shanghai.

The s.a. "Sunning" (Capt. Benson) left at 4 p.m. to-day for Canton.

them from, criticism while enabling if he came back from Nor them to control all great decisions. mandy, and, discarding his present The Conservative leaders exercise entanglements, declared that hence. supreme authority behind the veil. forth he would devote himself to the Although the country. never realised restoration of national solvency. The N.Y.K. JA Kawachi Maru."it, they further exercised practically left at noon to-day for Yokohama exclusive and open authority during the first six months of the present disastrous year.

with 130 tons of merchandise.

The 8.8. "St. Albans," (Captain Smith) left at 3 pm. to-day for Sydney, with 1,200 tons of general

cargo,

"Eurymedon' The B. & S. a3. (Capt. Bactens) left at 3 p.m. to-day for New York, with 1,000 tons of general cargo.

MAILS DUE.

He would have to announce a com- plete cessation of all foreign crusades, and to insist upon a small Navy and a small Army. He would have to From January to July Mr. Bonar cut away the parasitical bureaucracy Law was, in everything but name, which is eating up our national re the Prime Minister of this country, sources. He would be compelled to while Mr. Lloyd George, the nominal jettison most of the new and costly Prime Minister, was in reality our domestic reforms, including much of Minister Plenipotentiary in Paris. the legislation involving new outlay

I lay stress upon the special upon which Parliament has been

ponsibility attaching to Mr. Benar blindly employed. Law, because under the political For him it would be a big breaking. system the Prime Minister possesses away. The combatant services and an enormous amount of direct their backers will fight to the death. authority. Though Mr. Bonar Law It will be a harder struggle than the was given the authority, he failed to war, but he would have the people exercise it and simply let things drift on his side. Our industrial classes, I respect the sincerity, the whose fundamental political, sanity "patriotism, and the plain common is again being proved, are fast coming sense of Mr. Bonar Law, but these to understand that reckless Govern qualities have not sufficed to help us ment expenditure, threatening nation in a time of supreme trial.M ́al bankruptcy, will involve them in Ministers had an incomparable utter ruin as quickly as any other chance when the new House of section of the community.

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