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TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reute's Service to, the China Mail)

CABINET'S IRISH DECISION.

SINN FEINERS INVITED TO CONFERENCE AT INVERNESS.

A DEFINITE REPLY REQUIRED.

LONDON, September 8. An official statement announces that the Cabinet has invited the Sins Feiners to a conference at Inverness on September 20 to ascertain bow the association of Ireland with the British Empire can be reconciled with Irish; national aspirations.

LATER.

MYSTERY GUN.

THE CHINA MAIL.

APPLICATION TO COAL MINING

AND QUARRYING..

MRS. HAWKER.

HOW SHE HEARD OF HER HUSBAND'S DEATH.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOUT.

Earth Press IPO,

The continents stand at an average

Widespread expressions of regret at the death of Mr. Harry Hawker.height of about 15,000 feet above the the famous Atlantic airman, who was killed while flying over Burnt Oak, near Hendon, were received by Mrs. Hawker at her home at Hook, near Surbiton (Surrey).

The

ocean bottom, and their weight, caus inga pressure of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds per square loch on their bases, is supposed to be causing a slow creeping of the land into the ses against the 5,000 pounds of pressure by the water at the bottom. rocks of mines are observed to creep In recent ex- under less pressure. periments, two hemispheres of rock were fitted together by plane surfaces and a cavity was ground in one or a steel washer was laid on it, and the hemispheres were then forced to gether by bydraulic pressure con- tinned for months at room temper ature. It was demonstrated that a

inch will close even small cavities in

The name of Sir Edgar Jones, M P., having been mentioned in con nection with the new long-range noise less gun with which experiments have just been made in America, a reporter asked Sir Edgar if the reports re ceived from America were correct.

A message from Major Gen. Sir He replied: "I have seen it and took a lot of interest in it when I was Frederick Sykes, Controller-General in New York. But I am get interes:- of Civil Aviation, said: "You have ed in it as a gun, but in its applica- my deep sympathy in the great loss tion to industry, particularly to coal- of your gallant husband, who at mining and quarrying. It is a very tempted and achieved so much for small instrument, that will make aviation."

When the news of the accident was blasting with powder unnecessary.

conveyed to Mrs. Hawker by Mr. and one of these days I think we Fordan, her husband's mechanic, shall have a very considerable and she was in the garden and, without waiting to put a wrap over her light remarkable development. LONDON, September 8.

"It is true that as a gun it will re- dress, matored off to the spot where pressure of 89,000 pounds per aquara | In the course of its reply to Mr. De Valera, the Cabinet poin's out that velationise genders, because it has Mr. Hawker was killed. During the the principle of Government by the consent of the governed on which Mr. no recoil and makes no noise. The journey Mr. Fordam, who had at De Valera insisted in his last letter is the foundation of British constitutional inventor is not keen at all in applying first merely told her that Mr. Hawker development, but the Cabinet cannot accept as the basis of a practical con his discoveries to destraction but in bad met with an accident, said, making them applicable to produc-Be calm, Mrs. Hawker, her prepare serinus." "Is be dead?" she asked, ference an interpretation of that principle which would commit it to such tion. And it is from that point of for the worst: the accident was very demands as the setting up of a republic and repudiating the Crown. So view that I am interested.

and was then told the sad story. applied the principle of government by the consent of the governed would

TRAGEDY OF LORD undermine the fabric of every democratic state and drive the civilized world

KITCHENER. back to tribalism.

The Inverness Cabinet conference has broken up. Viscount Fitz Alan These developments are proceeding and General Macready have returned to London.

PRINCIPLE AND ITS INTERPRETATION.

ENOUGH TALK.

"Who is the inventor? He lives away to apply the invention to in- just outside London, and is working dustrial purposes. But as a gun i think our own people were getting

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The Cabinet reply meations that if Sinn Fein accepts the invitation to ready to use it before the war ended. DISCLOSURES IN LORD ESHERS in this gas becomes excessive, and of Paris, and having only one day at ị

the conference it will be open to them to raise the subject of guarantees on any points in which it may be considered Irish freedom is orejudiced by

The inventor is a very clever man. He was a member of the Inventions Board, and has several important fa- rangements for the trials of which the cables speak now were made when I was in New York.

"What of its applicability to min ing

NEW BOOK.

Lord Esher's book The Tragedy of Murray, does not refer to the death of Lord Kitchener. but the purpose of the work is to demonstrate bis failure in the administration of the War Office during the years 1914 to 1916, and Lord Kitchener's realization of this terrible fact.

ranite, basalt, obsidian or limestone.

In storing apples there is a very interesting alternative to cold storage. Storing Apples in Qas.

known as "Gas Storage." The sp ples are placed in an air tight cham ber filled with the gas produced by the "respiration" of the apples them- selves. An electrical instrument is used to determine whether at any An American millionaire, desiring time the proportion of carbon dioxide to visit the most exclusive restaurants

when that condition occurs air is ad- his disposal, spent £100 en his lun- mitted to dilute the gas. The air is | cheon: kept in slow circulation by its own He was accompanied by his wife are taken to remove excess of mois of Paris thoroughly. The party de ture. It is stated that this system cided to have only one course at each doubles the time doring which apples restaurant. can be kept in good condition, and that the cost of working is very much below that of any kind of cold storage. The merits of the system are being closely studied by the Bri tish lovestigation Board. Congress Time-Cloaks.

the proposals already made. The reply dwells on the desirability of a conventions all ever the world. The ar Lord Kitchener, published by Joha temperature variations and means and a friend who knows the haunts ference at which any possible Sinn Fein objection that the proposals offer Ireland less than the liberty described can be explored. The reply expresses the opinion that the correspondence has lasted long enough and therefore, asks for a definite reply accompanied by suggestions for a conference by September 20.

GRAND TRUNK DECISION.

CITY THUNDERSTRUCK AT £37,000,000 STOCK RULING.

LONDON, September 8.

Americans are chuckling over the proposed bill introduced by Mr. John Kissei in the House of Repre sentatives, which, if passed into law, will require each Congressman to register on a time-clock his arrival and departure, so that bis salary will

Well, here is the instrument (measuring a space of about a foot) "The man with it goes up against t The author points out that Lord the face of coal. He works the in Kitchener's temperament was "mas strument, and biff" splits the whole sive, inarticulate, shy, emoticcal." face of the coal. Then all he has to do He was unable to cope with the law

It is not a is to get the coal out.

yers, and dialecticians of the Govern- blasting operation. It is just the dement. Some of his Cabinet colleagues livery of a blow at a terrific velocity feared and disliked him, and attempt The City is thunderstruck at the majority decision of the Grand on a small patch which cracks the ed to render his position so uncom

whole piece. It will crack granite or Trunk arbitrabtion board (reported in our earlier cables). The decision | slate or any hard rock. It is very fortable as to force him to resign.

An instance of this was the notor- Shell controversy" in 1915, is based on the view that but for Government financial support the small but very complicated and very tous Grand Trunk must have been forced into a receivership. The stocks in effective. There is no contact with about which Lord Kitchener wrote: be regulated according to the frequ-1

"I am deadly sick of this system of no recoil. It is based on cew me intrigue. If I can get an excuse I question amount to £37,000,000. The question of compassionate consider. the air and therefore no sound and

shall take it and get out." ation of the shareholders was left to the Government. The shareholders chanical principles absolutely."

Referring to the sigh of relief which Sir Edgar added that it was too who are practically entirely British, are entitled to appeal to the rivy Council. It is noteworthy that former President Taft's dissenting from the early yet for experiments underwent up from the whole country when judgment places the value of the stocks slightly higher than the maximum ground. As to the invention's quali. Kitchener was appointed Minister of ties as a gun, be said the difficulty War, Lord Esher says: "Lord Kitchener fixed by the Act of Parliament under which the Government assumed con- with big guns hitherto had been that was no longer the "K. of K. of the huge guns required huge carriages and Sudan and South Africa, and Kitchener trol of the railway,

a great foundation of concrete. But only was yet aware of the fact."

Lork Esher's book is based upon in this invention there was no noise or recoil. Fired on beard ship there his diary kept during wartime, which would be one of the tremendous he proposes to deposit in the British percussion which there hitherto had Museum sealed up for 60 years.

PRUSSIAN MANUFACTURING BOOM.

LOW EXCHANGE ATTRACTS LARGE FOREIGN ORDERS.

BERLIN, September 8.

The September report of the Prussian ministry of trade says that the manufacturing boom continues in most branches of production. The fal in the mark exchange has attracted large foreign orders and home buying

been.

QUEST OF THE QUEST.

is very active. The iron industry has booked 'orders for months ahead and | QUEEN ALEXANDRÁ TO INSPECT trade is active in diamonds, cottons, woollens, siks, linens, locomotives, motor cars and chemicals,

LEAGUE CRITICISM.

SHACKLETON'S SHIP.

Sir Ernest Shackleton was received by Queer Alexandra, to whom he explained in detail his plans for the Quest" to the little-known islands of the Atlantic and the Pacific and the uncharted seas of the South Pole.

LORD ROBERT CECIL BLAMES AMERICA FOR MANDATES DELAY. Shackleton-Rowelt expedition in the

GENEVA, September 8.

fault but the fault of the United States.

GREEXS ▼. TURKS.

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LOVE TRAGEDY.

SUICIDE AFTER FUTILE

ELOPEMENT.

SCHOOLGIRL SENT TO ASTĻUNG

A story recalling one of the violent tragedies of the Middle Ages is re- ported from Florence.

A youth named Urbano da Bar berino, living with his grandfather. Marchese Alli-Maccarini, the the Spanish Comul, fell very, cluch in love with

high-school Beginning with cocktails at a famous cafe on the boulevards, they girl called Norina Bucciantini, says The relatives of da drove up to Montmartre for koes the Stampo. d'amore, to a restaurant which makes Barberino opposed the engagement a boast of serving eighty varieties of the young couple, despite his re

peated pleas. The two thereupon daily.

Then they cater down to the decided to elope and thus forte his neighbourhood of the Opera for fiab, family to consent. They slipped one which consisted of filled sole with afternoon from their houses and mushrooms.

motored to Siena.

Next they went to another famous

house near the Madeleine for a veal entres, and to an open-air restaurant in the Champs Elysees for a chicken specialty.

Vegetables a plain dish of onions, ency or infrequency of his visits. The exquisitely cooked-were obtained at bill would make it possible for a a small restaurant on the left bank of requiar and faithful

attendant the river.

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Da Barberino's mother met the

lovers next day, however, driving back into Florence. She stopped the car on the banks of the Amo and. made her son get out. It appeared that upon arriving at Siena the pair of youthful fugitives realised they had no money and were obliged to

For a few. days the youth content to costique bis at the university, con- Edent that finally bis: fachly would yield. He sat for his leaving examination, and with such sitess

return.

in the oral portion that he hurried to Norina's house to tell her this good

to daty to receive a salary of about Not far from Concorde the party £4,000 a year, instead of the present had chicory salad, and near the Etoile was 22,000, but whenever a Congressman they ordered fruit expensive fresh studies was absent without good cause there pineapple. would be deductions ranging from Again entering their car, they drove £80 to £20 a day. Mr. Kissel declares to a most fashionable establishment in that there is entirely roo much the Bois de Boulogne, where they had

loafing on the job" by Congressmen, coffee. liqueurs, and cigars. with the result that the daily atten dance averages about 150, and most of these are present because they have axes to grind. He declared that if he had his own way he would sack every member who failed to answer a dozen roll-calls.

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CHU CHIN CHOW."

FAREWELL SCENES AT HIS MAJESTY'S.

At 11.45 one night in mail week

Dews.

He was coldly informed, on his arrival, that the eccentricity of the " girl's elopement Ead decided her re- lative to place Ser in the asyluing of San Salvi, to be reported upon, by doctors

A few days later young da Barberino walked some miles out of Florence and shot himself by the roadside.

SINGAPORE DOCKYARDS.

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ITEMS IN AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE POLICY.

The singularly appropriate name daily in numbers, will soon note the the black curtain with the Chinese of a man fined for drunkerness in a disappearance of two famous land- blerographic fell for the last time on 'Chu Chip Chow" (which has been marks of widely different character. London police court led the magistrate with an eye to the probability of the played 2,238 times) at His Majesty's to ask whether it was his real name, usual flooding of the Seine. next Theatre, London. Men cheered and It was. But the "accommodation

winter, the authorities have decided to shouted themselves boarse, women names used by persons dealt with replace the old bridge, of La Tournelle cried and cheered, and as the theatre summarily are one of the difficulties by a new bridge with one arch, in emptied the company behind the

And Senator Brigadier General. Emott, which confront Lordon magistrates. order that, the river may flow more curtain were still cheering

lecturing at Melbourne on August 1 It is always possible." writes a freely through the city. For some many of them were crying bitterly.

The performance finished soon on the defence policy of Australia, On a chart which he took with him barrister, to detain a prisoner until time past it has been suggested that The assembly of the League discussed the Secretariat's report on the work of the Council. Lord Robert Cecil defended the Council's works Sir Ernest showed his proposed route his right name and address are forth-other bridges should be altered with after eleven. Then the curtain went expressed the opinion that the only against M. Branting's criticisms, although he criticised the secrecy of some to Queen Alexandra, who displayed coming: and of course in the case of the same object. Massively built in up again on the Rose Garden scene, possibility of Australia being involv

the greatest interest in the expedition

"White Australia" policy. The first. "Chu Chin Chow," very much alive of its deliberations and regretted the delay in the settling of A. and Band promised to visit the "Quest" major offences where there is a re- the reign of Louis XIV., the piles and Mr. Asctie came ou alone, as ed is war was in defence of the resisted all attempts to pull them again. He made a happy farewell item of the defence policy should be a provision of adequate dockyards in mandates. Lord Robert Cecil declared that the delay was not the Council's when the vessel is brought to London mand the identity is always establi. of La Tournelle, for a long time

Dame Clara Butt, standing in a the vicinity of Singapore, "and" the Sir Ernest Shackleton's letter-bag "But in the case of, say, an elderly down, but the work has been partly speech.

accomplished by means of dynamite. is one of the most interesting in man, obviously from the country. In the other case the great wheel box, sang two verses of the National second should be the provision of He was assured that if an invading London. Every mail brings applica. brought into the station for being which faces the Trocadero on the Anthem, and the audience joined in adequate naval bases in Australia. tions from would-be explorers anxious drunk and disorderly, if he chooses other side of the river, sometimes at the third verne.

A reporter sat next to Miss Ma-force obtained a footing in Australia to join the cruise of the "Quest," to stay meekly in the cells and pay a known as the "Spider's Web," is at

Chu two years of preparation suggestions, both helpful and be fine next day, or even do seven days length being gradually pulled down rianne Caldwell, who though engagit would take Great Britain at least wildering. and requests concerning all under an assumed name-there The first attempt at this difficult ed to appear as Bostan in

turning out the invader, are difficulties in the way of prevert-operation, which was thought to be Chin Chow" has never played at a before being in a position to assist little-known islets of the Pacific at

fraught with great danger owing to single performance. All these years, in pedition will touch. which the Shackleton-Rowett ex ing hire.

And in any case, by giving a name the buge size of the wheel, was however, she has received her salary because of the great distance from The dis regularly. The last time she saw Australia of any base from which A Swedish scientist invites the in and address which cannot be verified | abandoned as hopeless.

appearance of the great wheel, which the play was on the first night-powerful British warships vestigation of magnetic attraction south of the he often runs the risk of being put in its dilapidated condition was fast August 31, 1916. The part for operate. He was informed that there to last three hours, if used on the Cape of Good Hope. An ex-Service back for inquiry when the prospects becoming an eyesore, will be less re. which she was engaged was changed was sufficient ammunition in Australia man bases request to join the ex- of publ city are increased tenfold. So, gretted than that of one of the oldest before the run began.

"What do you think of it? I same scale as in the recent r

Australia had no heavy artillery pedition as barber on the fact that although there are no doubt scores of Paris bridges,

asked.

"It seems as if I saw it only the and would be absolutely heine to The Government other day," she said. "I can't-say resist invasion. that I have enjoyed doing nothing should encourage manufactured to cut the explorer's hair as he sat on a Great Marlborough-street or Bow-TRY Chamberlain's Tablets when all these years; I love my work too establish key industries and install machinery which could be adapted street, and no one any the wiser, T. bilions or constipate you are all thes

Miss Caldwell, who is an accom to military purposes, in prefeferee to They are easy to take and pleasant in yet I would not advise say who find certain to be much pleased with them.

ed for an "infectious" laugh. Storekeepers. themselves in that predicament to affect. For sale by all Chemists and plished actress, was originally engag. spending money on the training of follow their example.'

GREEK VICTORY" NOT CONFIRMED.

LONDON, September 9, An unconfirmed report of the fall of Angora is apparently baseless. The latest information in London indicates that the Greek attack east of the river Sakaria is at a standstill. There has been severe fighting for four days, and there are now even signs of a Greek withdrawal The Greek army is about forty miles southwest of Angora,

DISARMAMENT,

VETERAN LAW EXPERT TO HELP.

WASHINGTON, September 9.

Mr. Elibu Root has offered to institute co-operation between the Ameri- can disarmament delegation and the Carnegie Foundation. It is stated that Mr. Hughes was pleased with this offer; he indicated that it was likely to prove helpful.

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certain areas of

on the North Russian Expedition, in elderly and respectable men living in

which Sir Ernest Shackleton served distant towns who have made not)

as Director of Naval Transport, be altogether blameless appearances at A GOOD SUGGESTION.

box in the snow.

Several people who have lost re latives in the Pacific have written to beseech Sir Ernest Shackleton to look out for island castaways.

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