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APOSTLE OF NEW RE-

LIGIOUS MOVEMENT,

A recent Japanese religious book. has quickly obtained à circulation of 200,000.It is called "The Life of Repentance," and is written by a new teacher named "Nishida, onc of the products of the religious and intellectual fermentation going on to-day in Japan, writes a Manchester

Gaardian correspondent.

may be described as a compound of Buddhism, Communism, and Christianity as Tolstoy understood

RADIO PERILS.

WHAT BROADCASTING

MAY MEAN.

The possibility that open com- munications may corrupt good-or at any rate borderline-morals is one which the authorities have had to consider ever since open com- munications became an inseparable part of modem civilisation, says

that the

pro-

NIGHT FLYING.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SCARCITY OF SILK,

LIGHTHOUSES ON LONDON-SYRIA AND CHINA MOST

PARIS AIRWAY.

PROMISING FIELDS.

A special correspondent of a Owing to the huge development Sydney paper, writing from Lonof the silk industry in the United` don, says:-

HOW EX-KAISER LIVES.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES.

INTERVIEW WITH 'PRINCESS HERMINE.

We are very full of admiration States France is much exercised for the party of young men from over the security of her sources of the Air Ministry who are flirting raw material. Imports from Japan sive interview with the United with death on the London-Paris

Princess Hermine, in an exclu-

airway in an effort to persuade us are being diverted more and more Press in a quaint miniature castle that the air has been mastered on to America, which absorbed

at Doorn occupied by the Court dark winter nights.

94.6 per cent of the production Chamberlain-the first interview Night-flying has been secretly in 1921. According to M. Henri and wonderfully developed since Terrall, of the Lyons Chamber of claimed the rumourspread over the granted since the wedding-dis the war. It is accepted that a com- mercial air service can be of no

world that she is leaving the former practical utility unless a machine

Kaiser after her brief marital ex- can complete a portion, or all, of its

perience, or that they were going journey in darkness, and, I am in

Commerce, while Japan sent 28,740 bales to Europe and 141,941 to America in 1914, in 1924 she sent

a position to know that the many 14,061 bales to Europe and 247.204 problems and dangers which sur-to America. round an aeroplane in the night the number of silk factories In the latter country skies have been tackled with re-

Reviewing the possible sources

to Corfu.

Explaining her forthcoming trip to Germany, the Princess gaid: At the end of the month I am going for a visit of eight weeks to it is hard for me to leave the Kaiser Silesia. You can believe me that alone here, but I am also a mother, and the interests of my children demand my presence twice yearly in Germany."

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lentless energy by the Air Ministry increased from 902 in 1914 to 1,369 in the belief that in the next war in 1919, and the total capital inves the bulk of military flying willed in 1919 was estimated at be done at night, and by the 533,000,000 dollars, In 1923 the Department of Civil Aviation for its very existence.

invested capital is estimated to The civil air chiefs have, there-excred 600,000,000 dollars, fore, just spent over £100,000 in

The Princess received me in the erecting some new and wonder same authority, produced 24,000,000 lie back from the winding Doorn France herself, according to the Court Chamberlain's offices, which lights fully bright

between kilograms of cocoons in 1850 (equal road, with its villas reminiscent of aerodrome, and Lympne (pro- had only need of some slight im- of scenery in an operetta. This Croydon, the London terminal to 2,100,000 kilos of raw silk), and an old Dutch painting or a glimpse the Manchester Guardian. The nounced "Lim"), the emergency portation from Italy to supply her was the room in which the wedding Post Office (Protection) Act, 1884, landing-ground and signalling needs. In 1921 the total output was took place. The chief ornament of Nishita (Anglice: "Westfield ") laid down penalties for an im-station on the Kent coast near 2,524,149 kilograms and in 1922 the room is a huge portrait of the |

Folkestone.

2,571,915, kilograms, and France is Kaiser in his Hussar uniform, while Proper divulgence by any tele-

Ordinarily the London-Paris air-now dependent on foreign coun-on a writing table stands a photo- Graphist of the contents of a mess-

way is as full of hazards as the tries for 94 per cent. of her supplies graph of the former Empress In- age which had passed through his Grand National

Steeplechase of raw silk. The import of cocoons cidentally there are pictures of the hants, and a similar obligation to There is the possibility of crashing in 1921 (less exports) was only dead Queen in other rooms of the it. Dr. Albertus Pieters the man-secrecy bas for a number of years Surrey hills; an engine, failure of raw silk in the same year which she is held by her husband into the cloudcapped ridges of the 299,000 kilograms, while the import castle, bespeaking the honour in ager of Shinseik Kwan," the news-to telephone operators. It is a paper evangelisation movement necessary obligation, but it perhaps while flying over the Channel or amounted to 2,196,300 kilos. If the and successor. in Japan, who is in close touch with says something for the rectitude of above the interminable forests be United States takes all Japan can THE FORMER-KAISER'S INTERESTS, the movements of religious thought those who conduct This imporant tween the French coast and Paris: offer, where can France find the in that country, describes him as public service

or suddenly finding the landscape raw silk she requires? Scarcity of antly. She was plainly dressed in The Princess greeted me pleas- Buddhist, ceedings at the Old Bailey should blotted out by one of those extra labour accounts for the decrease of a blue costume with a seal jacket, being 75 per cent. 10 per cent. Communist, and have included what was stated to ordinary fogs which appear con- French production, and something small hat with a veil, dark cotton The i he the first conviction for a breach trary to all meteorological forecasts. can be done to remedy this by gloves, and woollen stockings. She IS per Cent. Christian.

Nishida of the obligation by a telephone Let any one of these things happen changing the methods of cultiva carried a strall cane. Outside she great problems for was the economic tangle of modern operator. It was a very gross case; at night, as they do happen in ion of the mulberry. society rather than sin in a religi- the operator had overheard a police daylight, and the pilot is rubbed of necessity of increasing the output playing.

But the left her three youngest children otts sense. Why should men make message and promptly offered the chance of being able to see the spot,

his onc fighting chance-the elsewhere is obvious.

The interview lasted by buying goods and gist of it to a London newspaper he is going to hit before he hits it. of supply, M. Torrail finds that occasional comment on politics.

half an hour, running mostly on selling them at a higher price? Is The newspaper very properly

domestic subjects, with an it not rabbery? Why also this reported the offer to the police,

THE FIRST STEP. · eternal struggle between labour ki the

Syria offers only little immediate sentence of six and capital? Why should there be months in the second division is

The first step in night-flying hope, since a great number of to the life within the castle, where The Princess gave a glimpse in- such a thing as interest on capital? the final result. The sentence is a magnesium flares to the wing tips, the war for use as

was made by fitting dangerous mulberry trees were torn up during she and her husband are pursuing Is there no way out? Nishida tuni- pretty heavy one, but, as open which the pilot could ignite locomotives, others have died, and "The Kaiser," she continued, "has fuel for diligently the intellectual life. ed especially to Tolstoy's writings communications become every day electrically at the moment of land- the population also has diminished the most active interest in all in his search for a solution. But he more fashionable, it is probably ing. They were as prone to light by one-third. read Tolstoy's teaching through justifiable to make a very bad case the acroplane as the ground, parti methods and means of cultivation moment busy with archaeological Moreover, the branches of culture. He is at the Buddhist spectacles, and came to yield a very strong object-lesson, cularly after a crash. The fitting of are deficient or out of date. Before studies and notes for his booklet on the conclusion that the way Fortunately, the enit

for him was to abandon, development of all in modern con- shown to be of no advantage. So, million kilos of cocoons, and now ceeding carnestly with meteorolog- most amazing electric searchlights has since been the war Syria produced four to five Greek antiquities. He is also pro- his old life and begin a new munications does not offer muchop with the exception of the wing-tin she produces two millions, all conical and theological studies. Above one in which

would have portunity for offences of this char flares, aided perhaps by lights sumed by the Lyons industry. The all he follows politics naturally with nothing and seek to gain nothing-acter. Innumerable people are fired overboard by a pistol, the total production of Levant in the the greatest interest. We have Nabila says that so long as oran now listening to wireless messages airman has to rely entirely on 1920-21 season was 1,654,000lb. raw introduced among us a sort of div retains any notion of his own in- of various sorts, but very few in-illumination provided from the silk, and the 1921-22 season ision of labour, in view of the flood dividuality being worth while he' deed have a licence to transmit ground. will seel: to gain things for himself, them. In any event there would

1,213,000lb. Probably the new electrical cone-

of new publications we receive. which is the root of all evil.

be no normal temptation to "broad-shaped beacons, which alternately produce nearly 4,000,000 kilos, now on the other, whereupon we draw

China, which 40 years

Each reads his portion and reports Having come to this point, cast" private information even if throw a beam of 100,000 candle-boasts an output of 62 millions, conclusions from our joint reading. Nishida went out to the streets the means for doing so were at the power vertically and then down-but this increase is accompanied by We read especially thoroughly as a mendicant, exactly like the disposal of someone who had wards on the white sloping sides a large increase in the quantity of whatever is written about the Kai- Buddha of old, with this exception. illicitly acquired Д

that he added the modera Chris- of important information.

piece of the cone-giving a distinctive seeds and a steady decrease in the ser and his personality, and indeed tlan idea of social service. Hence, a

As light easily recognisable from the yield thereform. An international not merely favourable judgments. he is not content teheg and do no secret is only valuable so long as it have lured so many stout fellows is at work under the Chinese significantly, "there is some quite proposition a deceptive factory arc-lights which organisation to improve the seeds Sometimes," the Princess smiled thing, bat works wherever he finds is a secret, and an offender who mothlike to their doom-will figure Government, with the moral and interesting reading in these com- sametting That

needs doing, flung bis discovery far and wide most prominently in future aerial financial support of the French.ments. preferably e dirty manual job, through a wireless transmitting set navigation. like cleaning out cesspools. This, would he merely embarrassing the

In Indo-China great efforts are Apropos to the Crown Prince, he he says, calms the mind. He never original holders of the secret with erected at Croydon and Lympne, but as yet the export of silk birthday with the family in Doorn. These cone-lights have been being made to develop production, spent Christmas and his father's asks for wages, and prefers even out any profit to himself. Still, it and on reasonably clear nights can amounts only to 20,000 kilos, The She spoke with feeling of his un-

"There is no question that if a not to acer money when offered is conceivable that malice or lunacy be seen from the air for a rage of native silkworm, which is capable enviable lot in his banishment at trading is not so extinct as most should wear English clothes," said The surprising fact that slave-man wants to be well dressed he to him. I any, in the spirit of might do something of the kind, about 40 miles. doing something for their fellow and it will probably not be very point in the Surrey Hills an is being used. In Cambodgia the resembles his father. Both possess memorandum accompanying the

On the highest of seven or eight crops annually, Wieringen. "In this" she said, he people imagine is revealed in the the Lord Mayor when he visited- kitchen scraps, he will eat them fiction fasten on the possibili- range of about 30 miles, has been and the first crop of cacoons has he told me of an instance of his suppression of slave-running in the Agricultural Hall, Islington. By that, men, choose to give him the long before writers of sensational acetylene gas lighthouse with a planting of mulberries has begun, unusual energy, and do not permit Navy Estimates. Many of our ships the Clothing and Outfitting and gladly, but will not look upon them ty. The political future of the built. The amazing feature of this proved superior in quality to those

themselves to be crushed by exile. have been actively engaged in the Woollen Trades Exhibition at the as wages.

Chancellor of Ruritania, let us say, lamp is that the action of sunlight of Tonkin. A Lyons company is hardships when his island home Red Sea and Persian Gulf, have of course, he said, he meant Scot- From the Christian teaching he depends for the moment on the-not sunheat-shuts off the gas established there, with the support was isolated by ice from all com- captured dhows employed in this has adopted the idea of faith in absolute secrecy of the treaty supply to the burners, so that it is of the Colonial Governinent. sonie higher power, and of prayer which he is ngotiating with Veletia. automatically extinguished at dawn

munication with the mainland, traffic, and have liberated a tish, Irish, and Welsh wares as well. to it, yet his pantheistic conception Alas i his bitterest enemy has stolen and lights again at dusk. As the efforts have been

In Northern Africa only small Crown Prince, were gradually ap Suppression of the slave trade motto of the clothing and allied of that power, although the words the draft of the treaty and is off gas is stored in cylinders under

The population, including the considerable number of slaves. The words might well stand as the made, but might fittingly be in the mouth of with it and his accomplices in a pressure it can be left unattended Tunisia and Algeria are thought to were being made to transport food sons, for the appearance of the trades in the coming period of

proaching starvation, and plans was ono of the primary rea- Christians, have a different idea highly-powered motor-car. Ten for months. The mechanism of he well suited for silkworm cultiva by aeroplane, but just as the Dutch British in the Persian

minutes behind him, in an equally the lamp is sufficiently well-trained tion from the points of view of Government were about to under- during the latter half of the nine started. Although the exhibition Gulf trade revival, which has already Nishida's ideal state of society highly-powered vehicle, come the to replace its own mantles when climate and labour. The Caucasts take this rescue mission, a thaw teenth century. Before that time in which they were spoken is not is that we should all eat only suci. Chancellor and Chief of Police, they are broken.

Fand Turkey may revive as silk- food as everyone can have, wear But that ten minutes has done it.

there was a regular market in primarily intended for the general only such clothing as the poorest The conspirators have reached these cone-lights enablchim to steered political conditions put them

Once the pilot is well in the air producers later, but present unsettl-Came, breaking the ice.

UNWELCOME REQUESTS,

Lower Mesopotamia and Eastern can obtain, al dwell only in such Ruritania's central. broadcasting a fairly safe course on a clear night, out of the immediate reckoning, The former Kaiser received a efforts to put an end to it have and indicated that traders from all Arabia for slaves from Africa and public, the attendance was large houses as all may occupy. Then, station, overpowered its staff of but the problems of getting him off The Lyons Chamber of Commer-flood of appeals from Germany never been entirely successful parts of London and the provinces he says, there would be no envy: Chancellor and the Chief tear up were not so easily solved. I have the best hope lies in Syria and has been impossible for us to meet give anything like our former at of an annual centralised trade

clocutionists, and, even as the the ground and safely back again ce has registered the opinion that no lust of pressession, no quarrels the staircase, the final words of a crouched with a search-light crew China.

it During the late war we could not are awakening to the advantages all the requests, Supplicants who tention to this traffic, with the result exhibition in which This Japanese Buddhist Tolstoy forth to every free and independenta Handley-Page machine has float crisp "news summary" have gone on the edge of an aerodrome while

ask for ten or twenty guldens that it grew to an enormous ex-manufactures of the times can be the best think they are quite modest, but tent outside the spheres of British seen and compared.

hrhind them.

or wars.

Ne

clothes and taking on manual work

and forsaking their previous modé of existence.

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NO. CHAINS,

is having a profound effect on voter in Ruritania-to say nothing ed in a few feet above our heads many of the younger generation of a few in Withington and Moss they land just to right or left of the cross-wind above the clouds or in situation and that they are con at spots remote from such towns as the many fine exhibits the Lord to-day, for his own life is a very Side, if these happen to understand beam which is projected along the fog), and an efficient wireless siderable sums for us." The Court Basra, Mohammerah, Koweit, or Mayor attended a luncheon given zubie one. Young men are seeking Ruritanian and to possess a receive ground-and I do not believe one telephony-set. This is also used Chamberlain explained to me Muscat, and are conveyed by car by the, organisers of the display, to follow it, and are putting on old ing apparatus of sufficient delicacy, breathed for the whole long minute, for direction, finding, two ground now in Doorn one must cut the van into the interior, to Luristan, over which Mr. Percy R. Gaunt,

of the glide.

stations working in collaboration cloth closely, specially so in the north and the Provinces of chairman of the honorary advisory Many pilots refuse to land by being able to take a trigonometric- long as the., negotiations El Hasa and Nejd in the south, committee of the exhibition, pre- searchlights, but prefer them to any al bearing of the machine after ré- between the Crown other type or light for "taking off. ception of a wireless signal, and the Republic with regard to the held in many desert oases. At these trades, in common with other and where regular slave markets are sided. The clothing and woollen This is on account of the shadows after a few moments calculation redivision of the fortune of the markets the agents of rich sheikhs leading industries, said the a searchlight beam is apt to throw inform the pilot by wireless former Kaiser, continued, but in from the Syrian Desert to Hadram Lord Mayor, had during the last should the pilot be forced into it. telephone of his exact position the meantime, at least they must aut are found seeking recruits for two years gone through a serious provided by a double row of kero- The alternative landing light is certainly to within half a mile. live very quietly. When guests their masters' harems. is sene flares pointing into the eye ufbeen made with lights, bombs, For their own meals the ex-Kaser The life led by the modern slave, lon, that trade fo, general; laclud

A hundred experiments have soup, entree, one meat, and fruit.

crisis. He was happy to state, are invited, the dinner.consists of

however, from reliable informat the wind. A novel illuminated flares, rockets and parachute are and his wife have very simple however is not that of the galley ing the clothing and woollen in ground arrow has been erected on lights in hope that something will tastes. Here is a sumple menu, one slave, chained to the car in the dustry had now taken a turn for the emergency landing ground at be found to penetrate fog, but so meat, and fruit. On Friday, for mediaeval galley, nor is it justif the better, and that they might Penshurst-midway between Croy- far nothing of any practical use has instance, they had thick, soup, able to compare it with that of the look forward to increased activity, don and Lympne-which serves been discovered. If the airman baked sole, and, cake. This is negro slave in the cotton fields of and even prosperity, in the future. the treble purpose of marking the gets off his course in fog his only considered a feast, America, as porwaved in Uncle The exhibition was a credit to the aerodrome and automatically show possible hope of reaching safety is ing the pilot the direction, and by directional wireless-and it is a her did home. Saabor, whence are metan ownership the slave lands ry enterprise, which he believed In closing, the Princess recalled Toni's Cabin." ; Under Mohant- organisers and showed extrac dina- strength of the wind, essential very slender hope. For all that, coming many letters refolcing over a much bappler life Out in the would be fittingly rewarded. factors to be taken into account there is a good chance of an all her forthcoming trip. I mentioned desert the traveller will be hard Bowen Rd. (filterbeds) 393 DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS,

when landing.

the summer, which will be particu barger Zeitag, a newspaper pul the free-com Arab and the negro complexions of so many of Recent developments have given laly useful for the despatch of fshed in Saaber, she must be al'd, or slave they take their the inhabitants of Iraq testify to the the pilot a fairly rellable engine; a newspapers and maijs but whether interested in Journalistic things, meals together and work together large proportion of slave blood fun compass which is not likely to that rage of development has been "Yes, my interest is fideed, active. Were if not that he may be bought ning Succumb to the disturbing in teached when it is considered rea-flave always navocated a settle 1 gold, ha'any theep or camel, the fluences of the electrical gear on sonably safe for passengers to be hent of social differences, and I slave leads as free and happy 'aled

and so to the liberty enjoy board the aeroplane (but which is embarked on so thrilling an under permit myself to

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The custom of saluting the querfordool:" in the British Navy is vival of the days when a cruci. fix stood there, to which every one did: revolenou.

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