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The grear value of the works of the Territorial units in India, during the war and long after the cessation of hostilities is emphasized in a com- muniqué of the Government of Indis. PERINO May (27.5 The Governor-General in Counci Mr. Crane, the American Anghasat-expresses sympathy with the disap dor, arrived this evening, and was pointment of the officers, non-com- received with guards of bonquart

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AUSTRIAN TREATY RATIFIED.

PERING, May 27:

SALA, May 9th. The reper of the Hunter Committee on the Pasjaub disturbances-consists of a majority report signed by the English member and the Indian mambara. Except the

minority report signed by

Jallian wala Bagh and minor incidents, both the English and the Indian members, gen- Ferally, agree in justifying the police and military ring. They aio agree in pro acuncing unfavourably on General Drors handling of the Jallianwala Bagh meeting and certin martial law orders, and exone The House of Representatives yes- rate the Indian Goremment from all terday retified the Austrian Treaty with blame. Ther difer regarding the nature one dissentient vote. of the disorders and as to the wisdom of

It will be martial law

submined to the Senate on Saturday. The

members emphatically state. that open rebellion is the only suitable. FOREIGNERS AND HUNTING (7 term to describe the mctives of the

PRIVILEGES. rioters.) The Indian) members object to the term as implying the intention to turn out the British Government which was

PERINO May 27. the intention of the rioters. not Eaglish

As a result of the Soochow affair The

members consider that the Government has drafted new martial law was justified and describe the regulations for Provincial Commis Amritsar

procialsh

every stage

missioned officers and soldiers of those mits" of "Me Teritorial Force whose lot it was to serve, in India during the war, and who were thus denied the opportunity of meeting the enemy on the battlefields of Europe. Many of these units, however, have earned distinction in other fields, some in Mesopotamiz, Egypt. and Pales- tine, and others at Aden and on-the North-West Frontier, while others, less fortunate, have in the baithful per formance of garrison duties rendered no less valuable service to the Em- pice by the maintenance of internal security, thereby enabling India to devote her resources to the successful 43 anti-Government at sioners of Foreign Affairs governing prosecution of the war.

criticise General

Reference is made to the many dis

Dyer's conduct at Jallianwala Bagh on hunting privileges. Foreigners will two grounds: Firstly, that he ordered be allowed to shoot only over wild appointments of merabers of the Force soldiers to fire without warning the riot-lands, alter previously informing their respect to repatriation and release ers; Secondly, that he continued firing too loca! Police.

long-

The Indian members atigmatise General

Dyer's conduct 08 inhuman and un- British.

The report is supplemented by a despatch

of the Indian Government which considers

that General Dyer showed

a misconception

A SINISTER REPORT.

from military service after the Armis- tice. The delays arising from more general causes were prolonged by the unexpected situation created in the spring of 1918 by the sudden in- The Government has received recursion of Alghan froops concurrently

PEKING, May 27.

with the outbreak of internal disturb-

of his duty which resulted in unnecessary parts tha: Japanese are arranging, with loss of life. This judgment has been com the Highumes. to create trouble ances. The patience with which municated to the Commander-in-Chief with along the Chinese Eastern Railway: the request that he may

take

appropriate action. The Government accepts tho view that the administration of martial law rai marred by the misuse of power and tha the irresponsible acts were due to inex- perience, and says that steps should be taken to prevent a repetition of such mis- takes.

LONDON, May 28th.

MANLESS WARSHIP.

SCIENTISTS' PREDICTION.

VESSEL OPERATED BY

WIRELESS.

Archbhisop Eenealy, of Simla, ip a letter so the London newspapers, emphati- cally justifies the action of the military authorities in India, and declares that, if the present tendency to make a scapegoat of the white soldier succeeds, the military authorities in future would hesitate to act, and besitation would bare consequences less ships mancured by "wireless which no white man carca to contemplate.

BPA CONFERENCE,

LONDON, May 25th.

Is the time approaching when sca barties will be fought between crew.

from a station shore? Such a develop. ment has beenedicted by scient ists. And the retable success achieved recently by British naval

those disappointments were borne was highly creditable to all concerned, and showed how readily they appreciated the difficulties with which the Govern ment of India were laced." The patriotic service of the Territorinis in India will be remembered and will serve as a noble and inspiring cram- ple of good citizenship to future generations."

WORLD'S NEW SH.PS:

8,000,000 TONS BUILDING.

Quarterly Returns compiled byk Lloyd's Register of Shipping show, that there were building in the United Kingdom at the end of March 865,

Reuter learns that it has been decided/investigators- induced a belief that itmerchant steamers, of 3,394,000 | to revive the British Empire Delegation may be strained one day. By using tons. This amount shows an increase i to the Spa Conference. Four Dominions Hertzian waves, says a naval writer of 400,000 tons as compared with the have been requested to nominate repre, in a Homs paper, the wireless wizards figures for the end of December, and sentatives. Great importance is attached of our Fleer have succeeded in con- of 1,140,000 tons es compared with. to keeping the various parts of the Empire trolling torpedo craft at a distance of the amount building at the end of in close touch with the Conference.

It is understood that Sir George Perles some miles. During the experiments March last year.

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represents Canada, the Ken. W. Watt, 1 destroyer was manered at will by Australia, and Colonel the Hon. Sir James Wireless. Nobody aboard the vessel place on the Clyde, where there are The largest increase has taken Allen, New Zealand, or Lord Milner if touched her wheel. She was steered row 1,178,692 tons under construc- Sir James Allen does not arrive in time. wholly by The South African representative has not yet been nominated.

PALIS, May 9th. M. Millerand has demanded the recall of Herr Xylander, the chief German delegate to the Sarre Delimitation Commission, on the ground of obstruction.

UNREST IN IRELAND,

LONDON, May 28th, An official report from Ireland contains a list of a hundred fresh outrages, indiud- ing the destruction of police barracks, raids on drellings and cattle drives The polico have informed the North Dublin Council that they are unable to protect polling stations in the fertheeming elec

tions.

POLAND'S WAR.

LONDON, May 28th. A Polish official statement says north of the Dvina and Upper Beresina the sitna- tion is stationary. The Bolshevik-offer- sive apper is to bave broken down definite I. The report of the Bolshevik recaptare of Kieft is completely false.

COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, May 20. Essex beat Worcester by an innings and 51 runs. Essex scored 501, J. W. H. T. Douglas. getting 128.....

Kent beat Hampshire by eight wic kets. Kent, in the first innings, scored 385 runs, Fr E. Woolley get ting 158:

Surrey beat Notts by ten wickets, Notts, in the second innings, scored 190 runs. P. G. H..Fender took eight wickets for 66. rum.

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Peasily. The demonstration was The total tannage. "commenced' striking success. Other remarkable during the quarter amounts to 708,031 feats have been done with wireless, tons, represented by 203 vessels, and such as turning a ship's searchlights, it includes many large ships. There In fact only those naval scientists who are now building 210 ships of 6,000 are experimenting with this medium tons and upwards, as compared with know just what they can do with it173 at the end of December. The and they are only at the beginning of vessels of 10,000 tons and upwards things. Although the application amount to 62. Wireless to the control of vessels and

The output of tonnage shows, how◄ torpedoes is not a new idea the latest ever, a slight decrease as compared results obtained in our Navy are con-with that for the previous quarter. In siderably in advance of any that have the past three months 123 vessels, of gone belore. In 1917 the Germans 451,236 tons, were launched, as com made an ineffectual attempt to attack pared with 137 vessels, of 451,915) our ships of the Belgian coast with tons, in the quarter ended December electrically directed torpedo boats. 31.

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EYES AND NO EYES.

These crafts were run by means of a Building abroad at the end of March wire on the same principle. as the were 4,547,000 tons, & figure which Brennan torpedo, and had an plane equipped with wireless spot tons as compared with that at the end aero shows a decrease of about 320,000,

for them. ting.

As weapons of of December. This decrease is due to the decline in construction in the track they were useless."

United States, which shows a decrease of 393,000 tons on the figures for the end of the year. There are now Ebuilding in the United States 535 yes-

sels, of 2,573,000 tons. Construction; On the Ferb of a busy arterial in Italy emounts to 355,000 foas, and road in South London, evidently wait represents an increase of 41,000 tons. ing for a bus, stood a happy-looking The figures include those for Trieste, young man Fresently he was ad, which represent more than 113,000 dressed by a slight pervous Lady, who tons. Figures for Holland show an asked him if he would be so kind as increase of 38.000 tons at -366,000 to escort her across the road, Cheer tons; and those for France an increase fully he agreed, and the two embark of 23,000 tons, at 240,000 tons. ed on their perilous journey. The number of vessels building It was a wide road, with no friendly throughout the world at the end of half-way island, and the lady could March was 2.205, and the tonnage not hurry, but something made the was 7,941,000. These figures show drivers more careful than their wout an increase of 67 in- ife number of and the other side. was reached in vessels and of 81,000 tons. safety.

As compared with the figures of siz "Thank you so much," said the years ago the total construction in the Lady, rather breathlessly: "I wouldn't United Kingdom has increased by haye troubled you, but my eyes are 1,503,000 tons, while the tonnage getting dim: I can't see very well. building abroad has increased by And I can't see at all," answered 3:085,000 tons. The total tonnage the cheerful young man with a smile building under the supervision of I've been stone blind for years. So Lloyd's Register has increased by you see, if the blind cannot lead the nearly 150 per cent, blind they can lead the blind,

And, rising his hat, the blind guide swiftly recrossed the road, and mount

his daily but

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According to statistics of the New York Customs officials, theed jewels me being bought in enor- mous quantities, though theyRTO 600 per cent higher in price than bare the war The official figures for February show that diamonds imported from Holland alone" exrred £2,000,000, or nearly seven times the total of the same. month a year ago, while truzinema") in

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