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THE CHINA MAIL.

COLONEL LAWRENCE SPEÄRS OUT.

"There are two ex-Viceroys at the head of the Foreign Office, and that is too heavy a handicap for any one department to endure. And the Foreign Office has been consisteily superseded in affairs by Lloyd George that it is simply afraid to do anything, and to-day we might as well not have a Foreign Office.

Cou. T. E. LAWRENCE.

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The the

We are back at Fashoda.

pia-pricks not only ol French Press bur of the French Parliament Are unceasing and The Entente is in peril. serious.

not because England has a quar- rel with France, bur because France persists in picking $ quarrel with England.**

-OBSERVER'S PARIS

· CORRESPONDENT,

Col. T. E. Lawrence, whose fire work with the Arabs did so much to defeat the Turks." says in the Daily Herald

*** Practically the whole of respon-

THE MAN ON THE SPOT. And we go on because a ntm-

BABY'S BLUE EYES.

CURIOUS FIGURES.

WHERE HE GETS THEM FROM.

FUEL PROBLEMS.

SUCCESSFULLY OVERCOME

A NEW EXPLOITATION OF POWER,

The latest enterprise undertaken by Sir W. Armstrong. Whitworth, A curious light on the influence of and Company, Ltd, is likely to have heredity on the colour of babies' eyes far-reaching results and provide a has been thrown by the investiga-out of the several present-day pro

very satisfactory and profitable way i tions of Dr. H. Bryn'in Norway. blems facing the engineering and

In view of the set-hacks to in dustrial enterprise resulting from į the difficulties in connection with the supply of coal or oil fuel, the practical development of the use of the water power is bound to receive a very wide welcome.

After examining 834 persons he commercial world. found, says the British Medical Journel, that when all the parents and grandparents had blue eyes all the children were blue-eyed, but if both parents' eyes were blue, while some of the grandparents' eyes were children had blue eyes. brown, only 90 out of 100 of the

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The great firm of shipbuilders and engineers has recently opened a section to deal with the exploita If both parents had brown eyes. tion and the fitting up of plants for only 75 per cent, of the children had water power. The new department dyes of the same colour, the remain-is known as the hydro clectric ing, 25 per cent. being blue. If one section, and "benefits from, a' stali of parent was blue-eyed and the other experts and ail the facilities that brown-eyed, blue and brown eyes follow 73 years' experience through- were equally divided among their out the world by this famous com- children.

pang. That most of the valuable water power abroad and in the British Isles is wasted to day bas been fully realised by this organisa- tion, and they are bending, their energies to develop practical schemes

be better than Feisal's. for he. poor man to pull him down, was forbidden foreign advisers.

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for the utilisation of this valuable, cheap and inexhaustible form of enemy.

sible opinion in England is against our present policy in Mesopotamia

STACKS OF FIRST-CLASS MEN. Lloyd George and other Ministers

"The Mesopotamian effort would Almost all the news- are against it.

Remarkable developments in all papers are against it. Most people have the British Governalen: behind realise that it is costing us money, and would be child's par for 2 branches of industry are aiready

decent man to run so long as he foreshadowed, and the company set ¦ that pre simply cannot afford. There is nothing to be said for it ran it like Cromer's Egypt, not like out to exploit water power in a the Protectorate. I thoroughly complete and scientific and everything to be said against it. the Egypt of Even the oil about which so much is Cromer dominated Egypt, not be manner. It will answer inquiries from all parts of the world from said is mostly further east in Kurdis Cause England gave him force. Tan. And yet we go on, and-we are

because Egypt loved as, or for any those proposing to utilise water as a It will survey spending 30 millions a year on it ongside reason, but because he was source of energy.

localities where probable develop so good "a man.

England has stacks of first.ments may be made scientifically, its ber Englishmen are in Meso-class men. The last thing you need possibilities, and make a full report on the extent to which the water potamia as Government officials, and our there is a genius. What is

may be used, the scope of work that leti they are indispensable for law required is a tearing up of what we

may be undertaken using it as a and order.

have done: and. beginning again on

source of energy, and the possible It is the old story of leaving advisory lines.

markets that may be profitably everything to the man on the spot. It is no good patching with the tapped at the locally. if the source SYSLEM. Concessions of energy is worth exploiting, they People here at home never realize present how amazingly little the Govern local feeling and such like rubbish have the vast resources of their ment interferes with those who are are, only weakness-concessions, a engineering shops to install any type at work in distant places. Iris recentives to more violence. We are of plant on the spot. At the com- to get an intelligible telegram of in- big enough to admit a fault, and turn mencement it will be their object to structions from the Government. a new page and we ought to do it build generally the Francis type and So the man on the spot with a hoot of joy, because it will the Pelton type of turbine engines.

Transmitting turbines can also bej supreme. It would not matter if we save us a million pounds a week."

itstalled to carry the power as far as: had the "right man on the spot, bui

160 miles from its source

The i we have noc There is only one curc

cheapest power at present seems tai for the present mudile, and that is

be found in Scotland and Wales, but i To put in charge of affairs # mar:

the firm is also interested in thei who will carry out an

possibilities of Yorkshire and West policy for Mesopotamia.

moteland, and is opening up some ambitious schemes in Canada, India, Ner Zealand, Tasmania, South

EXPENSIVE SYRIA.

Col. Lawrence in the Daily Herald says:

*Syria is a very interesting coun- advisory try, and it is the one country in the world where neither Jewe nor Armen- **The first thing that such a manians have ever been able to make a would do would be to clear out all living. The Syrians will not fight | the British executive officers who the French-but the French will find America, and Africa, » cannot speak Arabic, and make their occupation of the country a British engineers are generally Arabic the official language.

very, very expensive business. They behind their brothers on the Con- ! "There are 450 British officials in wal go spending a great deal of money tinent in the utilisation of water for the country.

Out of that number on it and getting very little in return. power to drive engines, and there is;! there are perhaps less than one hurunr at last: I suppose. they will get probably no water turbine of more dred really qualified in Arabic, and tired of it and clear our.. am only) than 1,000 h.p."has been built in this the rest can only taik a very little. thankful that we have nothing to do country except of Continental design and under the supervision of Con- Clear them out and I their with it. places with

educated. Arabs-of "There is a feeling in England."tinental engineer. British water whom there is no lack-and the he says in the Observer," that the power engineers are non-existent as problem will solve itself.. It is our French occupation of Damascus and a profession, although a slight im- avowed policy to set up an Arab their expulsion of Feisal from the provement has recently been noted Government in Mesopotamia. and it throne to which the grateful Syrians, in this direction, and Cambridge is only reasonable that Arabs should had elected him is. after all, a poor University is going in for prac- tical specialisation in this TRost do the work. But they will not get return for Feisal's gifts to us duri

prescri.

a chance to do it all the time that ing the war and the idea of falling promising new branch of engineer ing. The training of hydraulig cogi- Englishmen are holding all the re-short of an oriental friend in genereers is complicated and lengthy, sponsible positions, as they are a osity leaves an unpleasantness in and the work done by Sir W. Arm- Cur mouths. Feisal's courage and strong. Whitworth & Co. in this direction is hourd sooner or later to receive world-wide recognition. It is estimated that a trained engineer can-turn himself into a very service ahle commercial bydro-electric en- gineer in about 30 months.

Inasmuch as the future of engineer- ing is almost entirely matter of

So we are paying 30 millions a state-manship made the Mecca re- year in order to provide 450, English-volt spread beyond the Holy cities men with jobs:

until it became a very active help to the Allies in Palestine.

potamia.

WHAT THE ARABS DID.

"It sounds about as mad as any- thing very well could be, and the worst of it is that Colonel Lawrence "The Arub ariny, created in the sees Ettle hope for the future. field. grew from a mob of Bedouins:

The Government cannot do into, an organised and well-equipped anything. and the newspapers can body of troops. They captured electricity, the immense importance not do anything." he said. It is thirty-five thousand Turks. disabled of hydro electric work will be realised. just the question of the man on the as many more, took a hundred and Mr. Douglas Spencer, B.A, a mem spot. Until you get the right men fifty guns, and a hundred thousand ber of this shipbuilding and engineer there we shall go on fighting ad- square miles of Oriemas territory, vanced opinion everywhere in Meso- This was great service in our ex- treme need, and we felt we owed the Arabs a reward and 10 Feisal their leader, we owed double, for the loyal way in which he had ar- Feisal had no difficulty in set-ranged the main. Arab activity when ling up an administration, in which and where Allenby directed. the five leading spirits were all natives of Baghdad! It was not a very good administration, but "in the Easi people are less exigent than we are. Even in Athens Solon gave them not the best laws, but the best they would accepi.

MEN WHO COULD DO IT. Col. Lawrence. writing in the Observer, says:

"Yet we have really no compet ence in this matter to criticise the French. They have only followed in very humble fashion, in their sphere of Syria, the example we set them in Mesopotamia England controls aine parts out of ten of the Arab world and inevitably calls the tune to which

ing firm, has, with his lectures and demonstrations to the engineer- ing professors and students of Cambridge University already planted a seed which promises a very ex- tensive and robust growth, and which is bound to bring very solid benefits to British engineering in general.

It was only three months ago that the company seriously set themselves to specialise in this important section of engineering. The opening chapters. of their work already promise some very remarkable and interesting developments and details, of the actual work handled and the result

"The British in Mesopotamia can- not find one competent person but the French must dance. If we fol- obtained which will be published in muintain that the history of the Tow an Arab policy, they must be due time in these columns, will be last few months has shown theif Arab. If we fight the Arabs. they awaited with interest by all branches political bankruptcy, and their must fight the Arabs. It would show of the industrial engineering, and opinion should not weigh with us a lack of humour if we reproved commercial worlds..

them for a battle near, Damascus, and the blotting our of the Syrian essay in self-government, while we

AN AID TO DIGESTION.

all. I know ten British officials with fried and honourable reputa tions in the Sudan, Sinai, Arabia, could set up an Arab Government and trying to render the Mesopotam- comparable to Feisal's, in Baghdad, ians incapable of self-government, by next month. I also would not be smashing every. head that raised a perfect government, but it would itself among them.""

Palestine. each and all of whom were fighting battles near Baghdad. HER you have a fullness and i

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