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- BRITAIN AND AMERICA

CHURCHILL ON UNITY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACES.

.

IRISH SITUATION A GRAVE IMPEDIMENT.

LONDON, June 28.

Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at an English-Speaking Union huncheon in fronour of the delegation from Virginia and Mr. Nicholas Butler, Fresident and Professor of Philosophy and Education at C

at Columbia University, described. July 4, 1918, as in epoch-making date when not merely the declaration of independence but the declaration of interdepen dence was made, marking the end of all possibilities of quarrels among the glish-speaking peoples. One grave impediment to the growing unity of tal-speaking peoples was the situation in Ireland. We had now point of fall tragedy but not without knowing that there was slight hope of reconciliation between British and Irish Interests and sentiments. None could foretell the course of events but he emphasised that the Hejtish people must not merely consider Ireland and Irishmen but very much larger and wider considerations outside the United Kingdom. The reward of happy settlement would be reaped across the Atlantic

WHITE SLAVE

TRAFFIC. «

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OPENS TO-MORROW.

THE HAGUE, June 28.

Dr. Van Graaf, President of the National Committee to Combat the White Save Traffic at Utrecht will represent the Government at the international conference on this subject to be held at Geneva on June 30. He will be accompanied as technical expert by Dr. Van Walser, former inspector of governmental bureaux in Batavia:

AFGHAN MISSION.

VISIT TO EUROPE'S LARGEST STEEL WORKS.

The Afghan, Mission with General Valikhan and visited Lyons and today the Creusor steel works,

Haves:

COUNTY" CRICKET.

PARIS, June 28." Hokand Amir yesterday the largest in Europe

LONDON, Jime 23.

Emer beat Northants by an innings and 164 rozs; Middlesex beat

· Lancashire by 172 runs Surrey beat Yorkshire by 179 runs. Cambridge

best Marylebone by an innings and 91 runs; Somerset bear Warwick by seven wickets; and Sussex and Hampshire played a draw.

JAPANESE CROWN PRINCEAN

VISIT TO ALSACE-LORRAINE

PARIS, June 23

Accompanied by Marshal Petain and Admiral Gebeune the Japanese Crown Prince and suit left for Strasbourg, Verdun, and Alsace Lorraine- Havas

opponents where only

ech perhaps we had better:

ATOGY

little, as the ideas of Roderick Hat

donr on economics seems to require

FOOD

RICES, COLL THER

*HAR*

LANDLADY.

00850f-three men whom

„handled her sevenký

Freethe

for firing the

the previous day that she had in have prior of fod and other necessaries

lucies, treated at the hospital been dissobred and if so when

dissolved and why? If not dissolved how long is it since it last met 1.2.1

Is the Government awal that the prices of fish and firewood have been

said that, the defendant and the men who were ber tenants, used to pay the rent of "thele cubicle. The defendast did not beat

when the artscrete porty considerably increased by

duced 1

who had absconded: The Magistrate | ecën pradored ? Wil the Government imed the defendant $10 or 14 days, canse enquires to be made into the tle dusting! He has one sentence half the fine if paid, to go to the same, with a view to that unconsciously carries the com-woman as compensation. icality of paradox. There is,” ha only one cure Xthe ills" rosin which we suffer in rection, to do

for the Gove

king, that hes in their powET

LOCAL IND GENERAL

These two questions will be naked by the Hon Mr. H. E, Follock át to mor tacan a meeting of the Legislati Gounel.

SOF THE DAY.

The Hom. Attorney General will

The second reading of the

ensure that the ordmary is of -A strong; healthy man who put supply and demand is not allowei, a plaster on bis chest to curvince by their contzibatory negligence, to, the ruthérities that he was unable to move operate to the disadvantage of the dû heavywek charged by chrisander. It would be as sensible Inspector Pitt, of Samabulpo, before tituled An Oromance to ame toraocuse the Goremment of contritio Magistrate Orme this morning with the Public Health And tare negligence toward the operation banking without a licence The Ordnance, 1903,

1900

DAIRY FARM NEWS

JUST RECEIVED

Gruyere Cheese

dam -

Haddocks

Kippers

$180 per lb

$8.50

ball

ZO-lb.

.60

FARM, ID & COLD STORA

CORRESPO

CALIS, THE

DENCE

FORBERS

CHINESE HUZOUR,

SOME QUAINT-

ST:PARAKERS.

The letter of Rek Rab is not

The second reading of the Bill in the least tituled An Ordinance to facilitate the to- enforcement in the Colony of Mainten: plain ste ance: Orders made m England or unter selfish Ireland and vice verso, and to declare

of the law of gravitation Laws of Fefendant said that he used. The second reading of the Bill in- that sort must opente automatically to work as a coole, but had tituled An Ordinance to amend the ¡To the Zillor Where effective interference list 5008 weak chest and could do no Crown Lands Resumption: Dramanice, heavy work now. He had no licence" traduced, such law is abolished. The beesuse he had no money.

Jaw of supply and demand" inspector Pilt said the defendant was valves an alternation of disadvantage, as strong as a bull and would never sometimes of the consumer, sometimes be allowed a hawker's licence even If of the suppher. If the “disadvant- he had the money to get one. He age of the bongamerTM"is to be elimmat lived in the same house, as another ed what becomes of this: lawman charged with not haring the application of the – Mandd Roderick Random probably meant licence, who had been cautioned as he something quite different, but got was really ill and evidently thought that by sticking a piece of plaster on entangled in verbiage.

his chest he would get off also. The

rate fibed the defendant $3.

His point that the Government takes advantage of inflated rentals, and is neither better nor worse than

Women (Desertion) Ordinance, 1905, and to amend the said Ordinance v

of

owas a duty to his fellow

Good

tituled An Ordinance to amend the that if the Government The second reading of the Bill in the othes.” Ha máy

law relating to criminal procedure in legalise some of the present the Supreme Court.~

· A ples of not guilty to a charge

** | ed "robbery being practised in Hang- of quaint a privata Corporation, is met in the of having behaved improperly to The second reading of the Bill inng it is only a question of time many last paragraph of our leader, g. v.wards a Chinese woman and assault- tituled An Ordinance to repeal the when socisthing much more serious of

derived The community as the for et ed her when she remonstrated with Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Ordin will happen to him and his kind orge of these value increments, is him was entered by a Peruvianae 1919, and the Non-Ferrous Metal Does he not realise that the whole their rightful owner. All the writers seaman named Theophile Logos to Industry Amendment Ordinance, | world is in a turmoil and that gond on. economics say so. Private, ex-Magistrate Orude this morning. Last 1920.

Government alone can save civilîng- ploiters thereof, though at present night, said defendant, there was

The second reading of the Bill in-tida sad no good Government allows within their legal rights, are therefore rower the complainant's child, titled An Ordinance to amend further the few to Shed and tycafimize the wher

provocation. She fright the pre- morally robbing the public. But for and the struck her under extreme the law relating to commen the Government to take them, as sent charge against him in order to representing the rightful owners, is get him into trouble. The complain quite another thing. In that way, anf denied the defendant's story. She we, yon and I, get our share of what said that the defendant winked at we have helped to produce, by coming her every time she went to the together and creating the demand. verandah to hang out clothes to dry.

↑ She took no notice of him. Yester- The hunchback, su

day when she blew a police whistle | exceedingly prevalent in Europe and to summon help. he struck ber: The } America, especially among those withy. Commenting on the article Magistrate fined the defendant $10, a liking for "taking chanc beaded Child Slavery Under British and ordered him to sign a bond of hunchback and you can Rule" reprinted in the Caine Mail$100 to be of good behaviour for 12 ponies or buck the the Daily News of May 11, says On months this page Commander Haslewood gives a painful account of the system

A golfer having written from

SUPERSTITIONS,

HUNCHBACKS.

this, should

robbe

Beled

tériant

to himself topecially diffi

ipans to

of the

play

of, secrec→ Anyone who Fas" visit Monte Carlo or horseracing was to lower i of child slavery which is allowed to Japan asking what is the longest ork State, cần give you infor prevail in the Crown Colony of Hong-hole-out in one, a number of reales on this point, Par kong. The Colonial Office has all have been given in the Daily Mailtrasy over Law's Mis ready admitted so much of the truth The following is the longest and at hunchback zinasaed of his very explicit allegations that the same time the most extraordinary fortune by allowing speculators to eens the matter cannot be allowed to rest of these lucky sho's Is recorded use his back as a writin desk-on where it is. Our national good name by Mr. Arthure Powell Hon. See, which to make out their applications your life” he says to his mfortamate demands that the conditions under Muskerry Golf Club, Coachford June for stock which these wretched Urtle Chimese tion, County Cork, who writes: But the gamblers of yesterday and girls are bought and said shall be While playing the ninth hole at the to-day did not invent the lunchback investigated at once by an impartial Muskerry golf Inks, about seven superstition. They inherited it frum body consisting set of local officials, miles from Cork, I hit a badly sliced ; the days when the mysteries of the but of men of independent judgment drive, which struck the roof of Egyptian god Bes were celebrated by appointed by the British Government cottage out of bounds The ball the Nile. Large numbers of the and sent out from this country. It is bounced back on the fairway, ran on starettes of the hunchbacked god kind z shameful and horribe story, and to the green, struck the back of the are in existence, and, the modem- and the facts are proved official action hole, and remained in the hole. The Gobbo, so popular as a charm” în man. should be swift and decisive... distance from tee to green was. 265 southern Europe, is but a copy of the

yards. If the distance of 265 yards these ancient statuettes of Bes. Bes is a record, all can say is that it was a malignant god and was the does not deserve to be..

generally represented with Horus when Hona tyled death,

your money or out in not such a great dife after all. some cases, in fact

hwayman's system. suly of the two.

refe

Some significant remarks were made recently by Mr, G. M. Bosworth, for many years head of the Canadian An obituary notice in a London ".. "Wearing an image of Bes as 1 uf: Mr. Edward – George charm or touching a human-being Pacific Ocean services, who has re paper turned to Canada from the Orient. He Sinclair May, who died in made in his likeness but des tem told local merchants at Vancouver of Hongkong on April 6, says: At based on the principle of the out cretion the astonishing growth of industrial Eton from 1906 to 1921, he won the saying, "Always take your hat off to China Shangbal, he said, now ong-Junior: Steeplechase în 1909 and the the devil. By the charm of, the trolled the textile trade of the Orient, School Steeplechase in 1912, was in touch, you proclaim, yourself one of and he looked for the time when its the Monarch, and coached the boat | Bes's votaries; him malignity is dir influence in this staple Industry from 1912 to 1914, Having joined armed and he gives you his aid in would be felt abroad. Vancouver, the City of London-Yeomanry in return for your devotion. The brunch in particular, he added, has long 1914, he was severely wounded back superstition then is a survival

June 28, 1921.

the

OVERCROWDED TRAMS..

looked forward to the time when Gallipoli in 1915. As D.AA. and of the cult or Bes: 8-modified forms * According to Lloyd's Weekly, British manufacturers would be pre OMG to the 5 Cavalry Division in of devil-worship: an attempt to pro Train Company at Shangani ples pared to set up branch manufactur Palestine, he was mentioned in dis-pitiate, and to control to one's own that it is unable to ing plants there, so as to ship their patches and received; the Order of use, the powers of evil by a display crowding. That jour goods direct to China, and thus save the Nile." -In-Jane 41918, be returned of allegiance

the long haul from Great Britain to business life, and last winter-he The deduction from the statements took up -en appo ment du: Hongy of such men as Mr. Borwerth appears kong, where heiled. -from- "blood to be that, due to the high cost of poisoning production, in wilch, of coumnej with; the wages form the most-important fac Matheson & Co. Ltd. was the only tor, British-manufacturers would be kson, of - Major-General Sir Edward

forced to move ther Branch plants to the Far East itsell, where in ample supply of cheap labour is available.

-who-was Cara-Jardine,

Sinclair May of Rockbears Court

and nephew of our: fori Governor, Sir Henry May, GCMGS

TYPHOON WARNING.

telegra quoted below:WRETE-

ved by the American Consalate

at 420

|→→ Tyfoon hi about 128 deg. Longa E. and 19 deg at N. moving NW.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

plea is bosh, and

book

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4.

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