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GERMANY'S FATE

"BLEEDING ΤΟ DEATH"

HERR STRESEMANN'S SPRECH.

Router's Service to the Chinga Mail.)

BERLIN, November 22,

PROTECTION ISSUE.

ATTITUDE OF THE CITY:

(Reuters. Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, November 22,

A large force of police guarded every entrance The City of London attitude towards protection to the Reichstag on the resumption of the debate was defined by Lord Hunsdon, presiding at a Herr Stresemann dwelt on the hopelessness, crowded meeting of the City Conservative of the situation. As long as Germany was in Association which adopted Sir Frederiek Banbury, danger of bleeding to death from her wounds on and Mr. Edward Grenfall as candidates. Lord the Rhine and Ruhr he declared he would not con- Hunedon said that the view of the City was that sent to see German payments go into France's protection was not a question of principle but of ex cashbook. "We have reached the end of our pediency. The City would like protective dutics. ancial capacity." He announced the removal of a considered first with regard to the industries state of emergency in a number of districts and affected and also generally with regard to pre declared that foreign financiers had offered the valent conditions. Lord Hunsdon opined that one German Government a credit of at least a miliard of the contributory causes of unemployment was gold marks provided the present Government.re- the high death-duties, and the supertax. Sir mained in power. His speech was loudly applaud-Frederick Banbury declared that Mr. Baldwin's ed by the majority of the Deputies.

LATER,

The Reichstag debate was adjourned to to morrow when the Geruiai Nations' vote of censure will be taken.

BELGIUM AND JAPAN.

MISSION OF INQUIRY.

BRUSSELS, November 22.

A central committee of business men gave a reception to the mission of enquiry which is shortly proceeding to Japan. The President of the Com- mittee, M. Jules Carlier, in a speech expressed Bel- gium's sympathy with Japan: Canon Legrand, the head of the mission, discoursed upon the necessity of developing reciprocal economic relations and predicted that Japan would quickly recover, Am- bassador Adatchi in a brilliant speech congratulated the mission.

WORLD'S BIGGEST MOTORSHIP.

FOR SOUTH AFRICAN MAIL.

LONDON, November 22.

The Union Castle Company has ordered the largest and most powerful motorship in the world. for the South African mail service. It is to be over twenty thousand tons gross and will be equioped with two sets of double acting eight cylinder Diesel engines developing a minimum of twenty Mosend i.h.p.

SILVER MARKET,

HIGHEST PRICE FOR YEAR.

LONDON, November 22, In their silver report Messrs, Mecatta state that the highest price for the year (33%) was reached on Monday, coinciding with the lowest sterling-dollar exchange. With the recovery of the latter the selling rate from Todia and China relapsed to 32,15/16 at which the market is steady.

IDLE BOYS AND GIRLS.

DOLE GIVEN UP.

proposals were identical with those of Mr. Lloyd George in 1921. No Liberal candidature has hitherto been mentioned,

MORE WORDY WARFARE.

LONDON, November 22.

Much applause has been forthcoming for speakers of all shades at well attended meetings throughout the country. Mr. Clynes at Manchester said that nothing had ser class against class more than the present election, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at Aberavon said it was fallacy to talk about imperial preference while there was as big a duty against our goods going to the Dominions as against some going on the cortinent. Mr. Arthur Henderson at New- castle denounced the tariff war when the paramount pecessity was the establishment of International order founded on goodwill. Sir Robert Home at Glasgow said he imagined the public's belief in the sincerity of Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George was strained when they saw them embracing and sing- Ing "The voice that breathed o'er Eden." When Labour had been in power a week nobody would want to go to heaven (laughter) Mr. Runciman at Brighton said tariffs would not help the principal industriesshipbuilding, coal and textiles and could in no way benefit more than 140,000 out of a million and a half unemployed.··

RADIUM DISCOVERY.

PENSION: FOR MADAME CURIE.

PARIS, November 22.

The Government has taffed bill gIRNIDA Madame Curle a petion of forty thousand francs. as a national reward on the occasion twenty fifth anniversary of the discovery of radium.

"WHITE ASTRALIA”

SHIPPING FIRM FINED £800.

SYDNEY, November 22.

A shipping firm was fined for £800 allowing eight Chinese prohibited immigrants to land.

SONG AND THE CINEMA.

REMARKABLE CLAIMS.

The problem of synchronising Remarkable evidence of the oite speech and song with the action of look of boys' and girls in London the speakers dr singers appearing towards continued education is hin a film has been solved, and if contained in a report presented to the claims of the inventors as to Middlesex Education Committee the adaptability of their apparatus on the Juvenile Unemployment to any cinematograph are sub Centres established for boys and stantiated, there no reason why girls between the ages of 14 and every cinema theatre in England should not soon be able to give its The centres werd opened on patrons, say, opera on the film. A April 9, with accommodation for film was taken of a number of 260 girls and 252 boys. By the prominent actors and actresses end of May those at Tottenham and who spoke and sing while they Enfield were closed owing to were being taken" and the voices sparse attendances. At Willesden were found to synchronise with 28 boys petitioned for the classes

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to continue.

Between the ages of 14 and 16. attendance at the centies was voluntary; from 16 to 18 it was a condition of continued receipt of the dole

The report states:

the movements, and to be as clear and distinct as in natural speech. Although loudspeakers were used, there was a notable absence of the frating noise usually accompany- ing reproducers.

MURDER LEAGUE.

VICTIM IN CROWDED LOBBY

One of the designs of the Na- tional Defence League, the leaders of which have been arrested and charged with plotting to murder a number of public men, including the Premier and Cabinet Ministers, Jewish bankers, and industrialists, was carried out when M. Rosenthal, editor of the two most important Bucarest newspapers, was fatally stabbed in the crowded hall of the Boulevard Hotel, in the centre of the city,

The murderer, escaped; but was eventually caught at the league's headquarters, where documents

showing the names and numbers of 1,500 members of the organisa- tion, as well as written assassina- tion orders, were confiscated by the police. These discoveries have produced mucli disquiet, and strict measures of safety are being taken for the opening of Parliament.

Two Danish engineers, Axel Petersen and Arnold Poulsen have been working at the javention A large number of older juveniles since 1918. From the start they who were receiving employment worked on the principal of "õlm-¡ and sent through another recorder, insurance benefit surrendered their ing speech." Having achieved | which translates the variation of claim to benefit rather than attend this purpose, the problem of run- the current, and therefore the the classes. This attitude was ning the two blms simultaneously variation of speech, into variations particularly marked among was comparatively simple. The light. These light variations are girls; it has been reported that inventors now claim that the then photographed on a film, which over 100 girls in the Tottenham apparates can be coupled with the † 15 moying simultaneously with the district forfeited benefit in this ordinary cinema camera în gent. Tim Uking the actions and scenes. way.

seconds, and then mechanicallybe film is developed and copied One teacher, declared that the compelled to work at the same in the clinity way. majority of his boy had lost speed. Intimate details of the Reproduction of the voice is ob- all knowledge of the three R's invention cannot, of course, betained su a simila but since leaving school had learnt divulged, but the board principle overso, manner. the three S's-smoke,

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