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WORLD TOUR

LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S

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The very wide circle of friends who knew Lord Northcliffe will be glad to have his own authentic record of his famous world tour, which is published under the title. of "My Journey Round the World (Lane, 12s. 6d.) ff con tains his private diary, written or dictated section by section, and sent home to his family, between July 16, 1921,and February 26,1922. With large public issues he dealt mainly in his published articles and interviews, some of which are} reprinted in the Appendix.

SIAMESE PRINCE'S DEATH.

FOREIGN MINISTER FOR MANY YEARS.

KINEMA NOTES,

“THE FOUR HORSEMEN

AT THE CORONET.

In response to numerous. “re-

Mr. H. Percy Smith, acting Con- sul for Biami Hongkong, this quests, Mr. Ray has decided to morning received the following telo give Hongkong picture-goers a gram from the Siamese Fordign last chance to see the famous flai, "The Four Horsemen." The pro Ofice

With most profound grief beg duction is being screened at the Coronet-to-day for the last time. to inform you that HR.H..

After it has beph shown to-night it Prince Devawongso, who has is being sent out of the Colony: been suffering since June 10 from The Four Horsemen is a a carbuncle, complicated by dias masterpiece and ranks with such betes and an enlarged heart, from pictures as "Intolerance.". In fact. which he has suffered for many there are some who even prefer it years, developed high fever on to the latter film. The Four Juna 27,-. His strength had Horsement" compares very favor already been exhausted and he ably with anything the motion The book is dedicated to his

gradually aank and passed away picture industry has yet produced, mother. It covers almost the last

at 11, 20.m; on June 28." No-one who missed the previous months of that eager, energétic

The late Prince: Devawongue, screenings of this wonderful film life, into which so much was who was uncle of the present King, should fail to see it to-day. crowded of effort and achievement had been Minister of Foreign It has been edited by his brothers, Affairs for many years. In addition Mr. Cecil Harmsworth and Mr.Stj| John Harmsworth; and is given to to numerous Siamese orders, the the world as it left: Lord Norths late Prince, many years ago, receiv cliffe's hand, only a few passages ed the Order of St. Alexander being eliminated which were never Nevsky from the late Czar of meant for the public eye.

LABOUR.

Major R. W. G. Hingston's book, A Naturalist in Hindustan (Witherby, 168), contains some The opening of the new Hong-quite extraordinary information,

All interested in travel will End kong and Shanghai Bank building drawn from careful study of -in- proved in every respect the mem-sects and their behaviour in India here the experiences of one of the orable event that had been expects The ant appears from his pages to greatest travellers of his time, who almost like the fabulous combined alertness of mental out- ed says the N. C. Daily News. It be was favoured by the happiest of mosquitoes of Lake Providence, look and width of Views with auguries in weather; the company which according to Mark Twain, enthusiasm and the extremest assembled were worthy of the had been seen trying to vote." independence of judgment. occasion; and by common accord The Indian black ant appeare A PARADISE FOR THE WORKER. the magnificent building is a fit particularly energetic; its soldiers ahode for the great institution it are half an inch in length and its No such building workers of smaller build. It keeps devoted purely to business pur cattle for its sustenance, but these poses, we feel safe in saying, cattle areaunprepossessing bugs: crisis outside Europe and The most important of them are America Merely in point of size, it is, after the Bank of Eng- Jand, the second largest bank in the world. And while size, when pro- perly handled, is a notable factor in reli'ectural impressiveness, the. beautiful proportioning, the lovely design and exquisite detail of the whole structure were a theme of austinted admiration on Saturday.

will house.

The building of Wayfoong reflects the highest credit on all concerned in its erection, on the daring of the men who authorized the stupen dous plan, the creative genius of the architects who designed it, and the triumphant organization that made its completion possible in the short space of little more than two years.

His mind was always concerned with the supply of British news to Canada, and at Honolulu he found a solution of that problem:

Russia,

SAFETY FOR TRAVELLERS

"PUTNAM. WEALE”. PROPOUNDS FORMULA.

WORLD THEATRE."

Bessie Barriscale as Marquita Shay in the beautiful drama Beckoning Roads," shows how the wife of a dominated by his ironwilled father pitted her will against the hard-boiled parent, took the bit in her teeth, shook off her. spineless husband and his tyrani. cal parents, and went out alone to fight the battle of Hfe Eventually she showed up friend husband's father and got sweet revenge. This is one of the most stirring and buman dramas in which Miss Barriscale bas ever appeared,

Mr. "Putnam Weale" (the pen- The news supply here, he wrote, name of Mr. B. Lenox Simpson,

'HERE HE COMES.". is practically as good as in New Adviser to the President), speak- The scale insects or coccidae York itself! The United Statesing at the tiffin of the Anglo-

There was an appreciative audi- | The coccid looks like a structure-Government gives the use of its America Association, said that less lump of matter, is white in wonderful nával wireless for thus the immediate concern, owing to ence afthe Star last night to see colour, oval and flat in shape, and purpose. Like the Germans and the Linching outrage, was to the laughable variety turn. Here about half an inch in length. On the Japanese they regard news as find a formula to make travel safe. He Comes." Harry Leeds and Miss. Trixie Le Mar, now old favourites its back is a minute pore, just in vital. I wish our people did. The

It was suggested that a railway front of its hinder end, and from poor English news in the Canadian police, with foreign officers, was the in Kowloon, were up to their usual this exudes the juice which the papers is bad for the Empire. solution. Applying the Ports form. The droll Harry was as ants so eagerly devour.

He was equally anxious about mouth Treaty principles to Chinese funny as ever and Miss Le Mar The ant workers get round this the organisation of while immi-railways, a total of 61,000 police completely charmed the house in a unprepossessing creature and wait gration lato Australia, From Mel- would be required, costing $12,000,- number of delightful vocal items. ti" it has sucked the sap out of a bourne he wrote:

000 a year, but would such a The two new artists, who made The place is so far off and the force be responsible for law and their first appearance at Kowloon When that moment arrives, working people are so determined order? Suppose it was attacked, last night, greatly helped to liven then the juice begins to appear at in opposing immigration, lest

how many nationalities would be up the show. Bob Harper and the pore where it swells iate a others should come to share their involved? He believed that the Miss Betty Charles introduced limpid drop. The workers are prosperity, that there is no effective true solution was to place the several novelties, while Bob made waiting for this. For some official propaganda at home for railway zones on a special ad-great hit with his dances and minutes they have been stroking emigration to Australia. I cannot ministrative basis and throwing acrobatic tricks. the bug with their hair-like understand anyone staying

atthem open to foreign ownership of antenna and treating her with home who has the money to come the land-Courtesy Daily Bulletin. apparent regard. Now they im-here with Everything is cheap mediately fall on the drop and except house rent and the best rapidly sip ft away.

quality of clothes.

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The ant-cow is not injured by the ants, and wise insects do not attack it as it emits a yellow, pungent slime if its tissue is broken.

ANTS KNOW ONE ANOTHER. Major Hingston is of opinion that ants have some means of con

With his keen interest in the workers, he visited one of the great Australian "stations" or estates to

see how they fared:

All fire and maring insurance offices will be closed on Monday

The farm workers here were all Mr. W. Careless, late secretary, English, mighty content with their of the Ipol Club, is sailing for lot, as well they might be I talked England about the 26th Instant with Mrs. and Miss Careless, Mr. arrived from Manchester last year, Careless has been about twenty-five The man had been a van driver years in the tropics and has taken with the L. and Y. Railway. They part both in the South African and had lived in a small room at Sal- Great European Wars. ford. He showed nie with pride his house here. His wages were

When the foundation stone was loid, we said that the influence of majestic buildings on the energies and imagination of those who use them cannot be exaggerated, and that the great merchant princes of the past, in leaving behind them such lovely edifices as the once glorious Cloth Hall of Ypres and those that may still be seen in Venice or Florence, proclaimed their implicit conviction that com-versation or of communicating in-with them all. One couple bad nterce and finance have a noble formation, and he declares that part to play in the destinies of every individual ant is distinguish nations. Noman who goes to his able to the other ants. Insects from daily work in the new Wayfoonga different nest are not admitted building, certainly no young man If an ant discovers food which it beginning his career in the cannot remove it goes off for help It perhaps meets a companion on the road. Their antenna mect, and the news of the dis covery is told. Both may then tum about and return to the victim. Or, more probably, the discoverer will continue on to the nest. It soon arrives at the vicinity. The great soldier ants are at their post of duty near the deor. Unexpectedly the dis coverer comes into their midst. Antenna meet; they titiliate one another; communication follows; and the good news of the dis covery is spread.

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The big picture."The Fire Eater." proved to be a real thriller. How "Hoot" Cibson and his part- ner Walter Perry, made friends with a hostile settlement in the wild timber lands, and `saw that Uncle Sam's laws were carried out in the face of much opposition, is Le story well told.

THAT WAS ALL

The following conversation bet- ween two women was overheard on a tramcar recently.

I saw her in the High-street with a man."

"Is that so?"

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TOREADORS WORSTED,refuge in a merry-go-round-which

PANIC AT A BULL-FIGHT

An extraordinary chapter of acei- dents took place at Lunel Hernult during a. bull fight in the French style, in which the toreadora, instend of killing the bull, use poles for "Yes, and it was after 10 o'clock, jumping on to the animal's back The points of the animal's horns are of course padded.

wife carned a considerable amount governing machine at work a by cooking for the other farm these places. I do admire the too labourers, Meat three times a way people tackle their jobs in The very idea.” day," he said with satisfaction. this infernal climate, for such it is."I never suspected her of flirting "with as much cream and butter Everything is damp. As I dictate as you like

The man's wife said "Nothing would induce her to go back to England-with its darkness and dreariness." This was a common criticism of the old country:

Just as we notice the brightness of the light at this end of the world, so the Australian and New Zealander complain of the darkness of England. A New Zealander spoke also of the inferior carpentry in English houses as compared with American. This, I believe, The cause, he suggests, is that most English houses were built before modern comfort had been thought of."

..

I am eating Huntley and Palmer's biscuits which are like putty. The men and women are wonderfully vigorous with their golf, lawn rennis, and riding...

"I marvel," he added, "at the virility of our race. We seem to be able to live and work in every kind of climate."

"MOST INTERESTING PLACE." A question which he was con stantly asked he thus answered.

"What is the most interesting

before."

Nonor me either." "But you can never tell."

That's so!"

It is that."

Do you know her husband? No, I've never seen him," "Well, he is a big fat man."

Does he wear a brown suit?": "Yes.

In jumping at the second bull, a toreador named Massen glanced off the animal'e horns and lud a bad fall.

collapsed under their weight. Several persons were injured, but not seriously.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

',

Newspapers, nowadays, are a swindle," said the man who liked a lot for his money. Everything In them is condensed, cut down almost to nothing. They are not worth buying

I differ, said another member of the company. A modera news- Another toreador, Dussaud, waspaper, to my mind, is a marvel of still more unfortunate. He tripped production. Why for a mere coin on the bull's head and was thrown you get something for all classes of the community, the politician, to the ground and trampled under the sportsman, the financier, the foot. The pad came off one of the theatre-goer, the literary man, all horns, and he was badly gered in are catered for. There's something the abdomen. The third and fourth in it for everybody, and everything. bulle also got the better of the in it interests somebody,LEAR lorendors, who were knocked down" Then, whom does this interest?** asked the first speaker, pointing to and trampled on There was deepest disappoint- While the victims were being the stop-press.column, which hap "Ohl That replied the other, the crowd, someone having shouted carried off a panic took place among pened to be blank. that a bull was loose. A stampede "proves my argument it's for those followed. About 100 people took who can't read."

“Glasses ?"

"Yes."

Yes."

"Smoke a pipe ??

place you have visited?" After much consideration. I say Peking.ment in the first woman's voice as Siam, New Zealand. India is dull she exclaimed:

Oh, then, it was only her hus by comparison, but then I have been here before.

band, after all!”.

Far Fast with a mind plastic to every new impression, can remain unsusceptible to the lesson of such curroundings. For while the bank, will have its own influence on 'the fature, it is in itself a visible em- bodiment of influences from the past.. It could not have been built! so large in bricks and mortar, in steel, marble and bronze, unless the men who gave the word for it had been inspired by tradition and emboldened by daily practice to plan and build largely in their business conceptions. The Hong- Long and Shanghai Bank is a cause

A party of auts is presently of special pride to the British com munity because it was here that collected and led off to the prey. it was born, here that it was nur The author tested the methods by tured, here that its policy is shaped which the ants reach it, and found and executed. It owes nothing to that, in conditions where sight to be quite true. London and exists as a monument and smell were impossible, the of spontaneous British financial discoverer led its party of ants to genius continually adapting itself to the needs of a peculiar environ- ment. And of itsservices, not only

THE PROBLEM OF JAPAN.

I do wish we understood them to the British but to all the foreign

He was anxious as to the pres better and they understood us bat- and Chinese community, it is surely

sure of Japan on Australia: unnecessary to speak. Again and again its resources have been used

Sometimes people at home dote They are the second colonial Power in the world. Ireturn not realise that Japan's new pos- from my journey more than ever to avert public commercial

sessions are within 274 days of convinced of the need of a good calamity and by a good and

Australia, and that there are quite understanding between the United truarwordly of business,

· UNATTRACTIVE LIFE... a number of Japanese in Northern threatened with disaster through no

States, France, and Great Britain, Even more ingenious than the Queenslands most of them pearl an understanding not desired by fault ofhis own, has had cause to bless the wise daring of Wayfoong, black ants are byro-building ants, fishers, or so alleged. which has upheld him through the which are much smaller, and, not If he regarded the militarists in many members of each nationality, time of stress because it believed only keep ant-cows in the form of Japan as dangerous, he could but certainly feared by the Ger membracids, but also build pens praise the agreeable manners of the mans, who are working slyly and

steadily to prevent ita round them of silk and small frag-great mass of Japanese:

The aristocratle Japanese I have ments, using large larvæ to spin

met are rather like English people: the silk and complete the pen,"

A noteworthy point about the The middle-class Japanese I saw fu operation is that the larva appears the restaurant-car were like French

in him.

These thoughts surely have their racaning for China also, by whom the great new bank building must be interpreted as a symbol of con- fidence in her future, even in the trouble times through which she is passing. At first hearing, the LOMON SARonald Macleay andakatturday morning may have been something of a shock, that, on such an occasion they should deal in political affairs, with so much remarkably plain speaking. But reflection shows that those speeches were well designed.

A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE

Fattery no meu artifice in these 7 had brea be towed upon Mrs. Snita or accoin of her ability to se other and indifferently the execution of her day, which was

For bless you; ma'amɔ”. saldi tho

nial soul, not without con- descansion,

that: I'm aspidistras.

the food by

some directive sense. What it is or how it works is a mystery to the human mind. But in some way the ant seems able to appre clate the différent directions of space; it appears to know by some peculiar instinct of direc- tion that it is moving in the right

course..

He admired the French as colonial adroinistrators par

Palestine

For the last time, on his home- ward wkx,he, saw Palestine after thirty years, and felt the supreme. till of Jerusalent, white cupolaed with its great walls Ha to appreciate the work. I do not and Italians very exuberant. Not tained deep misgivings as to the mean to suggest that It knows one of us has seen anything like anything of what it does. Of German rudeness, pushing, or stareness of the Zionist experiment, course, so lowly a creature can ing. In national expansion, land and found the young Galician Jews

who hail lemigritecii: Scarcely have any mentality grabbing, and militarism, the rude people and badly at all. But when R is employed people are certainly on the Ger On his voyage back to Marsellies, on tais, particular work its silkman model. produciglastiacts are called Japan he described as this he noted the paucity of travellers. forta

beautiful land. But Citiis and of and had misgivings as to the loss which was the result of travelling Major Hingston has no excessive Cahiege cities, Peking interested of contact with the outer world admiratio i for the ant. It is a con hit yet more

RASM muslst and dives an unattractive. It is a wonderful piaca. It is the scion and little.

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Thé e werq already their own kid. There are many markets sunshine and bracing air, other curious datilis of other Insect all comblae to make 0.6, happy few that he hea communities and of Kinect List of hendekat

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