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AMERICAN AIR MAIL.

ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS:

OMAIA, NEBRASKA, May 31. Colonel Jordon, Chief Constructor of the Air Mail Service, states that within two years Omaha will become the base depot of five hundred Air Mail planes, each immediately convertible into fighting plane. He pre dicts that within a year mail will be transported from coast to coast in 36 bours.

AN AUTHOR'S FORTUNE.

"NEW YORK, May 18.

The author, the late W. D. Howells, left $165,000.

PORTSMOUTH CONFERENCE CLOSED.

LONDON, June 1

The Portsmouth conference on international law closed to-day after appointing a committee to report on the methods whereby international co-operation for common economic, social, and legal objects can be extended under the League of Nations: The conference in 1921 will be held at the Hague, the conference of 1922 at Buenos Aires.

THE DERBY.

The Derby resulted as follows:

Spłockopt

Archaic....a pilusame con amning. Orpheus.....

There were nineteen runners.

RACE MAINTENANCE.

FROSPERITY AND THE

BIRTH-RATE.

An address on "The fertility of the various social classes in England and Wales from the middle, of the 19th century to 1911" was given in the rooms of the Royal Statistical Society by Dr. T. H. C. Stevenson, superintendent of Statistics, General Register Office.

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LONDON, June 2

JAPAN IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CHIRGED WITH DIS-

PORIMINATION.

the

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

[BY COURTESY HONGKONG. DAILY

·PRESS."]

SINO-ITALIAN BANK OPENED.

PEKINO. June 2:

A Sino-Italian "Bank was opened i this morning

President Hsu sent a scroll,

EXTENDED "LEAVE.”

PEKING, June 2, Chin Yung-peng's second term of leave expires to-morrow, but an addi tional ten days' will be granted, Ad-| miral Sah continuing to act in his stead.

SOUTHERN FORCES ADVANCE.

PEKING, June 2. / News from Changsha states that consequent of the withdrawal of Wuj Pei-tu's troops. the Southern forces. occupied Anjen, Kiyang, Leiyang and Hengshen..

The Government has decided to send reinforcements to Chang Ching- $20. Wu is concentrating at Chang- sha.

The Goverment considers the mat- ter merely a local trouble not affecting the peace regolations.

NEW BRAZILIAN MINISTER.

PEKING. June 2.

Sr. Alves, the Brizilian Minister. presented his credentials to the Pre- sident this morning.

THE FOOCHOW AFFAIR.

PERING, June-2.

It is believed that the Feschov

A Tokyo message to the "Asahi" affair is in a Fair way to settlement. airs the resentment of a Japanese shipping company against allegedly unfair policy adopted by the Australian Government towards Japanese shipping. It is stated that

A MISAPPREHENSION.

PEKING, June 2.

when the Osaka Shosen Kaisha The Japanese Legation has replied dispatched the Nanking-mare" to to the procest of the Chinese Govern- Raboul Island, formerly a man, mens regarding Manchuria being re- island, which is now controued by lerred to in the Japanese Siberian the Australian Government ir proclamation in Similar terms to Korea,

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purpose explaining that the Chinese are labour-

of

ing under a misapprehension.

The lecturer said it seems likely that large families promoted high mortality, and that high mortality promoted large families. It was evident that the decline in infant

July last, for the mortality during the present century

of taking

quantities was closely bound up with the decline in the birth rate. It was therefore copra, the Australian Government refused to give the Japanese shipping all the more discreditable the last quarter of the 19th company the requisite permission. period Subsequently, the company received century that during that

information which showed that the the rate of infant mortality did not decline, although the birth. Australian Government was going to rate was steadily falling. In the permit free entrance into and clear deficient fertility of the classes which, ance from ports on the island it sent having achieved most success in life, the "Madras-maru" in March this were presumably best endowed with year, again for copra. But again its the qualifications for its achievement, object was felled by the Australian refused to the nation was confronted with a new Government; which

.the:- ship's entrance and formidable fact-how formidable permit Iwas a question which must be left into or

in time between

the

A SURPRISE FOR ROSS SMITH.

INCIDENT DURING FORCED LANDING IN AUSTRALIA.

"The Clonburry correspondent of clearance from the the

North- Queensland Register

Lagoons in the flight across our

island continent.

for the consideration of authori port. In these circumstances, the writes I am reminded of an un- ties on eugenics. The correspondence Osaka Shosen Kaisha caused its published incident in the experience date agents to bring a lawsuit against the of Sir Ross Smith and party during Australian Government, demanding their Forced landing Gear Anthony damage, in the latter part of last month. Quite. recently, the Austra lian Government informed the Osaka

The machine had barely taken the company that the action taken by it

was ground, when the airmen were made against the latter's steamers justifiable, it being contended that aware of a party of about five abori- inasmuch as the islands are still gines approaching them.

One of the aviators, quick as under military rule no foreign ship- ping can be allowed to enter the thought, held up some tobacco say. ports or to engage in trade. The ing Me good fellah, belongum to Osaka Shosen Kaisha is not, however, you." satisfied with this explanation, for,

of the Bradlaugh Becant correspon dence (1876) and the commencement of the fall in the birth-rate in 1877 had always been obvious, and the subsequent record of the decline was in fact precisely what might be expected on the supposition that it had been brought about through the neo-Malthusian views and methods having secured gradually increasing acceptance.

Judge of the surprise when, with

After all allowances have been made, the professions, which formed the purest examples of middle-class as, a result of investigations, it has the clearest of emunciation and in the Occupations, were exceedingly in- discovered that two American cargo best Addisonian-English, one of the fertile. The total fertility of all boats, the City of Portland and the abo's read the following address:

"Sirs,-On behalf of the Austra- professions tabulated except Non- Brian, have called at that island since conformist ministers, was underneath January, and loaded copra. It is har, abo's we cordially welcome you the lowest standard, though their stated that the Japanese shipping and your party to this our country. very small rate of child mortality company resents this attitude of Your advent here today marks an caused the clergy of the established the Australian Government and is epoch in the science of aviation, and Church Slightly to exceed that stan determined to press its point with is but the forerunner of many such dard in regard to effective fertility. persistence.

The exceptionally low figures for

naval and military officers might be

Bighis, until the serial ships ot.com- merce will circumnavigate the em- pyrean blue, unifying the far flung

due to circumstances in their case. THE COLONIAL PENSION. interests of our great Empire and rendering the maintenance of a family specially difficult, but the failure of this fine stock to reproduce itself, was nope the less to be regretted.

A WAIL FROM SINGAPORE.

consolidating an erstwhile geographic- al isolation into a splendid hornoge- neity. These things have been made possible by this pioneer fight of Writing from Singapore to a

yours across two Continents, and the The most remarkable instance of London daily a correspondent says waste of water that lies between us in all was that of persons describing Please do a number of us struggling Australia and the Motherland. We themselves as of "private means." Government officials out here a good therefore welcome you as Australians In their case, presumably, the turn. Our complaint is that we have

to your native land, and believe that anxieties and difficulties which to wait so long for a pension that by the memory of the feat you have itated against fertility were at a the time we become entitled to, it wa minimam but their fertility was also never live long enough to enjoy it. Accomplished will spur you on të at a minimum. The reason might We are near the equator and it is greater efforts in the days to come.” conceivably be that the more unreasonable to expect a Britisher, We are cic

Now who will say that the mission energetic and capable of the class born in a temperate or cold climate,

"not been ̈productive referred to did follow some definite to put in 25 or 30 years before being stations have occupation and that their fertility was persionable Hongkong, with its of some good." higher than that of the inferior re dangerous, humid climate, is as bad, mainder of their classe

and Ceylon is no paradise. Earlier The effect of female occupation in pensions would give younger men a lowering fertility was clearly establie chance to see the Colonies. Besides, shed If we attributed to human the colonies themselves would benefit volition the fall which had urred from younger blood and brains." « In the nation's fertüity, the facts to

which he had referred were readily necessary to assume the reduction of explained but if we refused to female fertility by non-domestic work acknowledge this agency, it was as a law of nature.

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