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WEDNESDAY. DEJEMBER 15, 1920,

NEW MENAGE TO MANKIND.

AERIAL WEAPONS TO BLOT OUT CITIES.

a sum nearly as great as

"volunteers" to fight it. It will be fought by the nation, huddling under skies from which at any moment |- 10,000 bolts may fall, each capablè of spreading conflagration or poison- ous death.

LIGHTNING SWIFINDES,”

It is also necessary to realize that the opening of the "next war" will he of lightning swiftness, with or without a formal declaration.

Sir Leo Chiecza Money writes The current Estimates provide no less than £23,000,000 for the Air

A swarm of aeroplanes, traveling Fosent upon the Army before the a: 150 or 200 miles an hour, will to-end war began. Large as this arrive over the enemy's capital al bagatelle to what we most soon as slipped from the sum is, it shall have to spend in the years to leash, In the time to come, if a

THE CHINA MAIL.

FAREWELL CEREMONY.

·UNION CHURCH FUNCTION

DEPANTORY OF REY, ME, WILLIAMS,

The congregation of Union Church last night assembled in the Church to bid farewell to the Rev. G. J. Williams, who has been acting as pastor for some months, during the absence of Mr. Maconachie on fur

MORALITY OF THE FILM.

NECESSARY CENSORSHIP.

"FILMS WHICH ARE DEGRADING.

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The old maxim. "Let me make a nation's songs, and 1 care not who makes its laws." is in need of revi- sion.

What now sways the great heart of the people is not sang, but whether we like it or not, a large moving pictures, At the kinema. proportion of the population find

THE NEXT WAR!

POISON GAS.

LORD MOULTON ON EXPLOSIVES AND

-TOXIC ACES, ..

JUTLAND HUSH-UP WHY THE PRINCE SMILEK

NO OFFICIAL REPORT.

ADMIRALTY HIDING THE TRWIE.

À GOOD STORY.

CANADIAN TOUR INCIDENT.

address to the Society of Dyers and says:-The Admiralty is still trying tile is a good story.

Lord Moulton, in his presidential"

In an editorial the Daily Mail Colourists in Bradford spoke of the to hide the truth about the Battle of necessity for the greater recognition Jutland." greater use of science by them. of industrial chemists and for the The Navy and, the nation have Nothing he said, was as certain to

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Why the Prince smiled the joyful

It was during the Prince's Canadia long wanted to know why Lord Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia, that the tour a year, at the Staley Quit

Jellicoe. with an overwhelming camera caught Bini.

come unless a League of Nations be-contest for air supremacy is to be lough, Mr. and Mrs. Williams will their chief amusement, their only make the supremacy of an industry Eritish battle-fleet, turned away from comes effective and succeeds in { engaged upon similar, to the naval | leave for China on Tuesday, and on art, and most of their ideas. In shortlived as to allow itself to be a beaten German fleet of half his hidden in the woods away from the

abolishing aerial armaments.

Already a chorus of voices is raised to denounce our unpreparedness for war in the air. Their burded is that war must, at all costs, maintain a fighting air supremacy.

building and counter-building of the

days before the last war, it will January 21 will sail for England on subjects become necessary for each nation to the "Plassy". have its defensive aerial forces

air has so many roads, it is a case in

the

treatment of

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sanguine

Mr. Williams is a former pastor of continuously mobilized. And as the Union Church, holding the pastorate Let it be clearly realized that if which defence will call for an enorm.from 1893 to 1902. He then went judicial control in the establishment | war was based on German chemistry. there is to be a. next war" it willous equipment. This was illustrated to England and became pastor of a

The club is quite a small affair,

strength and allowed it to escape.: when it had been placed in his hands tave. But the King visited it when by the gallant fighting of Earl Beatty. he was in Halifax and the members He thereby prolonged the war by urged that precedent for a visit frond submarine campaign possible. two years and rendered the deadly the Fringe, who promtly accepted the

be fought by the engineer and the even in the petty aerial doings of the Church in Halifax, Yorkshire. After Their task is thankless. No censor imitated, the war must have been over of the battle with all the vital docu-

but as ever war has ver been fought. The horrors of 1914-1918 pale their ineffectual fires before the practical possibilities of the future.

What will be the conditions of aerial fighting in 20 years' time, while ad the schoolboys of to-day are young men ?

late war, when, the expected visit of four years he became one of the a few German aeroplanes to London compelled us to set up widespread

The Prince's smile was caught by

unless the world arrives at a convenor out-manoeuvred would be exposeded the greater part of it, however, i censors" find themselves flooded with to break out and find us in such a to Sir Julian Corbett, who is writing the camera man and has travelled ·

of 10 years ago, even in fantastic possibility, the civil population would

that destruction | be doomed. and

romances,

1921.

At last night's meeting, Mr. McPherson, secretary of the YMCA in Hongkong, presided and expressed the appreciation of the Church for Mr. Williams untiring efforts in its

all over the world since. It is frame

•Women and children were wearing miniature reproductions of it un buf- tons in every town in the Antipodes which the Prince visited, and it is the

Its choice and

spoon fed." In the course of his war duties he producers of films must admit their looked round for works to make industry is rather experimental, and explosives and later on toxic acids. need of some standard and some suitable for organic chemistry. The it has been wise to recognise the He found a terrible dearth of works

of the Board of Film Censors, over But for the triumphs of German eighteen months the Admiralty has him.

Again and again during the past invitation. All Halifat went, with which Mr. T. P.O'Connor presides. chemistry which England had not promised to publish an official account ship, whether vested in an individual in three or four months. When be meats, as soon as that account was

Halifax is a "dry" towa, a fact which supplies the point of the ke Secretaries at the beadquarters or a committee, will always avoid came to contemplate the next war he completed. The account is made up that brought the picture into being. and most costly defences, not only in' of the London Missionary Society, mistakes or always satisfy public believed that recourse would be and has been in prist for months. Just as he was signing the book

feeling. But whatever our opinions made to toxic substances first of all. But the Admiralty representative inshoat came from one of the guests:- and around London, but at all the and later went to Melbourne as.

on the value of a censor in other and that that cation would have the House of Commonsrepudiated all Look out, sir! You're signing the approaches to it.

Australasian Secretary of the Society-forms of art, it certainly has a func the greatest advantage which had the past promises and calmly an The penalties of unsuccessful de This year he entered on his first fur- tion in the kinema industry while, as chemical industries capable of sup-nounced that the account will not be pledge." fence would be heavy. A capital | There is no doubt whatever that. whose air forces had been defeated lough for eleven years. He surrender we read in the Board's last report plying the need. If such a war were published at all. I: is to be handed when the Union Church appealed to films in which inhuman monsters use state. of audity as we were at the an official history of the naval war. tion to stay "progress" in this matter, to wholesale destruction by high ex- the lapse of 20 years will fad the plosives and poison gas bombs. Short him to take its, pulpit again, in the all kinds of mysterious methods of beginning of the last war, long beThere is no assurance that the vital nations of the world armed with of the construction of underground absence of Mr. Maconachie, and came assassination." We shall not at fore we could meet the danger the documents will be printed by him. ed. and occupies the place of honour aerial weapons capable of destruction works sufficient to hold the entire here in willing response. He expects tempt to define a boundary between war would be decided.

There is no security that they will in thousands of homes in the of a kind which was never dreamed community, which is an obvious im- to resume his work in Australia in what is tolerable in a book and

not be censored, and, when question-Dominions. intolerable on the screen, but it is obvious that the tale of horror

ed on thar point, the Admiralty re presentative was unable to give au is not the same thing in the two

There is no different mediums. To condemn all

immediate answer. representations of crime is childish.

security, that Sir Julian's volume will The censors remark that the subject

appear at an early date. The country "makes a strong appeal to the

is being put off with a fresh crop of vague official promises.

proadest possession of many a "dig- imagination of the public." The true

Why should this hocus pocus bager" who was cheered by his smile in state of the case is that story of exciting adventure can hardly be

¦cuses given were ridiculous. It is pastorate and he felt like reciproca- crime. Where is the that it will be possible to confine the an island, she stands to suffer more ting their gift to him and Mrs. new or old, which lacks villamy kinema They now decline to pass appeared in Gemary which inrali- again when he sampled the Pussy warfare of the future to fighting men than others.

crime is the dates much of the Admiralty's as foot drink that the club offered hid for any film in which Williams by offering an attendance The A position of exceptional security prize. He hoped Union Church would the or fighting vessels. In the late war

milion, whether ther dominant feature" or its methods count. But if that account is to be But that is quite anofficial. the air attack was really a trifling becomes changed to one of excepong continue to wield its important work through the kinema the chief theme. Their other held back till fresh information

Warships, and matter; a mere hint of future postional insecurity.

an older medium, are apt to rely on

are chiefly concerned ceases to appear, it will not be pab morality and lished for a century. Meantime grave sibilities. Nevertheless, the German merchant ships will alike, be at the influence in the Far East. airman killed in Great Britain 1,413 mercy of the aeroplanes of the rendered by Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. We do not accept all that is said of the principles

During the evening songs were violent colours and startling design..

which they justice is being done to the truth is not koown to the public. Offuture

There is no remedy against these Stewart 2nd Mr. F. H. Farthing, and the corrupting influence of crime act are broadly those approved by officers and men of Earl Beatty's Experience of authority in the past They suffered thousands of shows that only through publicity films" on the young. As in the old popular sentiment. They take, as ships.

every censor should, the standards of casualties; while among the 30,000) and public pressure can officialdom and children. Of the evils save one, and that is an inter- Mr. Williams gave two recitations.

Mr. and Mrs. Williams were pre-days when juvenile crime used to be total casualties nearly the whole national pact to end aerial warfare sented with a handsome saver consistently ascribed to the reading conduct and propriety commonly officers and men of Lard Jellicoe's be induced to act on facts. To-day the occurred amongst civilias

accepted. The vast majority of kinema | battle-flest, as Commander Bellairs, nation is completely in the dark as to DonSuch a pact will not be achieved mounted blackwood tray oa a folding of penny dreadfuls," one case in combatants.

audience will be heartily grateful for M.P., painted out in the interview the exact, válce of a battle-fleet. The If we are engaged unless the imagination of the world's stand, suitably engraved. On the which there is good evidence of con- in a "next war" 20 years bence. peoples is stirred to the nature of

the operations of such a censorship. the casualties were exactly 4. Yet British people must know what hap- tray was a representation of Union (nection between film and arrest leads it may safely be prophesied that the the menace which threatens the Church engraved in silver.

Ordinary folk have no desire to feed the castains of Lord Jellicoe's ships pened at Jutland if it is to decide 4,820 casualties of the late war future of civilization. It is the pur-

upon horrors or to be offered the in-received honours equally with those what is the factor that is going to will be multiplied by at least one pose of these words to direct atten-

decent. The function of the cinema ¦under Earl Beatty's command.” give our county the command of the tion to the consequences which must

is to provide amusement and excite thousand.

The country, wants the official ac- sea in the twentieth century. So long inevitably result from a contest in

meat, not for exotic tastes or harden count to bà poblished, completely as it is kept in ignorance the com aerial armaments, in the belief that

dis-ed palates, not even for those who always seek some new thing, but for if those consequences are, realized opinion everywhere will demand

the many.

will have for its supreme character- Surface railways, surface munition istic that it will involve war, not works, surface food stores, etc. pen fighting forces, but upon peo- would be useless. They would be pics, upon tewas, upon the old and easy marks for the air assailants of the young, upon men, women, and the funre. children, without discrimination as to age or infirmity.

WAR ON NON-COMBATANTS.

THE CASE OF THE ISLAND. A fature of aerial warfare means

that Britans not only loses her island

behalf.

Mr. Williams thanked the Church for its support and sympathy; some members, he believed, had never

to the fallacious assumption that every little thief and every young hooligan was trained in a picture palace. Bat we fully agree with the censors that the efforts of pro- ducers to elaborate and make still more lurid the criminal interest have produced films which are degrading. practised on the nation? The ex- the trenches and which threaten to become a

Let us not imagine for a moment security, but that, just because she is missed a service during his temporary composed without an element danger to the reputation of, the alleged that further information has į Report has it that the Prince smiled

persons, and wounded 3.407. the killed, nearly one-half were women

There will be no question of con scripting young men, married or unmarried, to fight that "next war,

raise nor will it be possible to

defence not of a problematical character against possible air enemies but of a certain character against the farther manufacture of air armaments.

purveyors

romance,

0: stories

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BILIOUS HEADACHE. LL that is needed is to correct the

brillianiness and the headache

Tate Chamberlain's Tablets appears. Red you will soon be as well as ever.

difficulties with sexual

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and at once, because this nationmand of the sea is in danger, even wants progress. Progress in naval though the Gärman flest lies under affairs cannot be achieved if the the water.

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