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LONDON, December 16. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the economic con dition of Austria, Mr. Harmsworth admitted that unlea further arrange ments were made there would be no food in Austria after January 31.

Mr. Churchill announced that all guns and aircraft laid down in the armistice terms had been handed over by Germany; also an overwhelming proportion of railway material, although there was still undelivered a deficiency of 42 locomotives and 4,760 waggons,

ANTI-ADVERSARIA.

MYBTICISM AND EXPRESSION.

I am going to write JOURNALESE. Journalese as far as I can. Perhaps a column will be far enough. It is easily seen that the article so thought- fully dissected in Adversaria was not understood. it did not seem to fit his (when I say This is only so because

his. I mean the Adversarialist's) frame of mind. For him the rate-collector is better game than the rabbit.

But

Replying to Sir Donald Maclean, Mr Montagu said he quite why not bag both? I tried to bag, a appreciated the profound disturbance of public opinion awing to reports of rabbit, but the beast eluded me, and occurrences at Amritsar (cheers) but he urged that the impartial and waved its white tail tantalizingly for authoritative pronouncement of the committee of enquiry should he awaited. He hoped the committee's finding would be available without several columns. Was not I right to unnecessary delay. It was most difficult to state the exact casualties; be try? If I had been writing "mystic- looked to the committee to give authoritative figures...

ally, I should have said "I tried to bag" (no. I should have used another worda rabbit... and to catch my shadow.". But I have not said

50,

HOUSE SHORTAGE.

PREMIER TO BUILDERS.

He (should I use the SHORTHAND Editorial "They "2) NOTES.. takes my analogy

further, and Froves

LONDON, December 16. Addressing a conference of builders called with a view to solving the housing problem, Mr. Lloyd George emphasised that the government's business was to render impossible the exploitation of social needs. He an nounced that numbers of young builders were being released from the army to make up the deficiency in the trade, with the view of increasing that I cannot understand my own output. He said plans were prepared of half a million sites for houses. stuff. I am writing, as far as I can. Three hundred thousand such sites were already purchased. Private in journalese.) As it any analogy builders had secured sites for scores of thousands. The government hoped

STATUS OF BELGIUM.

to decontrol building materials in the new year. Luxury building must be could be perfect! (There is no verb temporarily discouraged. At least 200,000 more. building hands were in that sentence.) If an analogy were wanted...

perfect, it would be the exact thing of which it is an analogy, and there would be no way of distinguishing the wo. They would be identical, like with journalists is that they think so. the Editorial "They." The trouble

last that they forget what they were going to say by the time they have written half of it. But Shorthand, as he very well knew, was only a side- show in my article. The real thing The Albert Hall was packed with an enthusiastic audience, including is unexpressed because everybody has their Majesties and other royalties, on the occasion-of the first exhibition felt it, and failed to express it. How of the film of the Prince of Wales' Canadian tour. The High Commissioner many lovers have begun a sentence for Canada presiding, dwelt on the wonderful personality of the Prince and to tell their ladies what they thought; the enormous success of his tour, emphasising the dodeviating loyalty of begun "I ... the empire to the Crown.

BRUSSELS, December 16. The Independanco Belge declares that Belgium has formally abandoned neutrality, which she no longer desires to retain.

PICTURE PROOFS OF LOYALİTY.

LONDON, December 17.

JAPANESE AS COLONISTS.

LONDON, December 17.

*

B. " and end-

ed "I love you? What more per- lect mysticism is there than that? Let Them define Love so that the definition connotes what the Lover feels. Let them, say 1. But per-

ticism, and so to barred.;

Doctor Inazo Nitobe of the University of Kyoto, lectured before thehaps this borders on Religious Mys- Japan Society on Japanese colonisation. He said he was firmly convinced that Japan was the steward on whom devolved the gigantic task of up- lifting the far East. He dwelt on the importance of sympathetic methods of colonization. It would be highly interesting to the English student to watch the development of Kores as a Wales or Ireland.

COTTON SPINNERS' BONUS.

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LONDON, Dec. 17. The Federation of Master Cotton Spinners has decided that members distribute bonuses ranging from £8 to £9 in the course of the next three months among 150,000 employees, according to age and sex, involving a disbursement of £1,500,000. This grant is attributed primarily to the unexampled prosperity of the cotton Industry. Two leading operatives" uzions have decided that the proposals are in every way unsatisfactory and say the offer was prompted by the Union's steps in the matter.

AIR LINES STARTING.

A NEW COMBINE: SHIPPING INTERESTED.

The line quoted ("The SQUIRE. world is-full of night and the moon reigns alone "I is mystic in the 1350 of "full," night," alone," and symbolic in the use of "world,” "moon," and reigns." Fullness can only mean omnipresence,." which is not its synonym. Anyway, it is light on the other side, where the sun shines.

Night means a lot more than the time between sunset and sunrise; it means the countless inexpressible things of night-love, stumbles, tais on-the-roof, romance, self-absorption, I could go on at this for hours. Alone

means more than all its half synonymis. "World" stands for every-one, every place round the scene, everything-" Moon" for chill clarity of light and lanacy in embryo Important British airship developments are pending, according to the unattainability....

Reigns" for isolation, power, Globe. The aviation Erms of Vickers, Beardmore, and Shorts have practi- put Mysticism and Symbolism together

and the rest. cally amalgamated. A number of shipping magnates are associated with because the line between them is so them. It is stated that the famous transatlantic airship R34 and the R39 now being

Of course, to Them, there is constructed. in Scotland will be no difference between Nonsense and acquired and altered

carry passengers and Nonsense, cargo. It is understood that a series of passenger and goods services be. tween Britain, Scandinavia and Holland will be first organised, whereafter a demonstration fight from London to Egypt. will probably be run. A weekly airship service to America is also, contemplated, but this is unlikely

for a considerable time.

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LONDON, Dec. 17.

LONDON, December 17..

A letter signed by Field-Marshal Haig, Lord Horse Lord Cavan, Mr. Asquith, Robert Cecil and others, appeals for support for a fund in relief of

vague.

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There is no pleas- OP EDITORS. ing Them. Con- sider the point of view of the Public, and write less- nerve-shattering English, and They remind you of the perfect expression and force of journalese. Write Jour- nalese, and you are condemned as an inferior specimen of Them. My wea- pons may be what I choose-1 seera to worry Them, anyhow.

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distress in Vienna, where the lack of food and clothing is causing death Editorial weapons are the patronising CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.

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AIR FORCE VOTE.

men, in fact the waving of the white tail of the rabbit and the tale of the rate collector. "My suggested stan dard of the dual meaning would at least provide Them with a double. barrelled nighteen-pounder Q. (see

LINKING UP AUSTRALIA AND HOME.

LONDON, December 17. latest Army Books on the subject). In the parliamentary debate of the Air Force vote, Mr. Churchill said [Besides, why compare the jury to an there were 50,000 assigned accommodation stations on the aerial route ass? The jury-men, like the Editor, from Egypt to India. This was only the beginning of a consection of are plain men. But I am glad to aerodromes required between Cairo. Bachdad, and Karachi, walch was the know that They are healthy enough most important section of the Route from England to Australia. Probably to take to drink, there would be eight or nine squadrons distributed between Cairo, Bachdad, and Karachi. It would be most convenient to allow civil flying on this section, which would have the most remarkable effect in buckling

the empire together, because of saving time to Austraālla.

PRINCE GOING TO ʻAUSTRALIA,

LONDON-December 17.

The Prince of Wales, presiding at a meeting of the King Edward's Hospital Fund, announced that he was going to Australia probably in March He expected to be absent from England six or seves months

TROOPS FOR ABROAD. A MUM PR

LONDON, December 16.

It is announced at Aldershot that five battalions are going to Perpt, seven to the Rhine, and eleven to the plebiscite areas, possibly in Jangsty.

UNDERCUR-

HENTS.

The reader cannot know how to "read and appreciate any sort of written mat ter unless he knows the system on which it is written and built up. Adversaria are quite easily fol the Man in the Street. But since in lowed they are in the language of English, as in Chinese, there is a Blok Language as well as Col- logtual, it is as well that the Public should reed both in the same paper, and take their choice.It is not fair all the Journalese on the book-stils. to keep all the English in libraries and

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