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LONDON AGREEMENT.

DEBATE IN REICHSTAG: OPENS.

DEPUTY HERGT'S STATEMENT.

NATIONAL PARTY'S OPPOSITION.

(Reuter's Service.)

BERLIN, August

In the Reichstag, the debate has begun on' London Agreement."

Deputy Hergt, on behalf of the Germ National Party, declared the party disapproved the pact and would, therefore, oppose all connected with K.

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TENNIS IN AMERICA.

NORMAN BROOKES DEFEATED.

(Reuter's American Service.)

FOREST HILL. August 26, Eight-two competitors, representing eight nations, are participating in the Men's National Singles Lawn Tennis Championship here.

The feature of the first round was the defeat of Noman Brookes by Kelleher.

The score, in the winner's favour, was 0-6, 9-7

·6-2, 6-2.

TRANS-ATLANTIC RECORD.

"MAURETANIA'S" FINE ACHIEVEMENT: (Reuter's Service.)

CHERBOURG, August 25,5 The s.s. "Mauretania" has just arrived here, after establishing a new record fast passage across the Atlantic. Her average speed was 26.25 knots. Her time from port to port was 5 days, I hour, 49 minutes.

BANKRUPT.

TRENTON, WILSON AND COMPANY (Reuter's, American Service.)

NEW YORK, August 777 A large firm of packera, Messrs. Trenton Wilson and Company have been placed to the hands of the Receiver.

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A despatch from the U, S N. cruiser dond” says that Lieutenant. Locatelli, the Italian aviator and his companions have been picked. up by the "Richmond 125 miles. East of Cape Farewell after being sighted by the U. S. N. "Raleigh. "CombeRED AUT

Motor, trouble forted Locatelli to alight on the water. Tast Thursday: Ho was unable to ascend again and had drifted 100 miles.

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tis learned that Locatelli has definitely abandoned his attempt to fly round the world.

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Locatelli, after a forced descent, made many. unsuccessful attempts to rise from the water. He had plenty of gasolóne, but the elevators were damaged. Thereafter the machine was buffeted by winds and waves' and began breaking up. There wasa-dense fog and the intense cold added to the party's troubles. They drifted helplessly until picked up.

CRICKET. "AT HOME

KENT'S CRUSHING VICTORY.

'FREEMAN'S FINE BOWLING.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, August 25.

At Canterbury to-day, the weather was fine and the attendance good when the match between.. Kent and the South Africans was continued.

Kent, after making 418 for 6 wickets declared. Knoit scored 63

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The South Africans were disposed of for 135, Wright taking 5 wickets for 39. Following on, the visitors made 194 (blanckenberg 511 Freeman took 6 wickets for 68.

contained all that any budding Kelvin for his master. (Cheers.) orator in the House of Commons or Although Tord Kelvin might not elsewhere need, know about the have Tilly appreciated the work value of power to mankind. The which his pupils did before his speech wits a vision of the future eyes--and could not; of course; it was an intuition of genius which forsee the magnificent work which came naturally to Lord Kelvin. had been done sings his death- London, July 12.--This week-He was an actual practical inventievertheless, when the scientific end has seen the celebration of the tor of nuclines that paid-itlaugh-historian looks back upon the hun- centenary of the birth of Lord ter quality not always found in dred years, the and of which we Kefir, and last night a disgenious inventions. He was are now celebrating, he will most tinguished and international gather-inventor by accident; he was a assuredly say that the man who has ing dined at the Connaught, Koons man of science by birth. (Cheers.) contributed as much as anybody ider the chairmanship of the Earl It is really' as a man of science else in that century to the scientific triumpha which had crowned its of Balfour who, in a characteristice should be chiefly honoured,

said Lord Balfour. For fifty labours, the historian will say, speech, paid tribute to the great

years he hemittingly pursued a andoubtedly, that in spite of the msn the company had gathered

great ideal. For fifty years every failure which Lord Kelvin himself In a striking sentence, Lord. Balfour remarked of Lord thing connected with the growing so rashly proclaimed, he and his st merely sciences of physical knowledge unceasing labours, his untiring and Kelvin He was great inventor, who had the in- electricity magnetism, and the enthusiastic pursuit of scientific stinctive knowledge of the way in reabsorbed his attention. From physical truth, have contributed to which physical discovery would his earliest years he was always the new physics to a degree which aiming at a height, he was always those who themselves were the Lord Balfour, proposing "In endeavouring to climb a height creators of the new physics would Memoriam: Kelvin, 1924-1924, he felt at the end of his be the first to acknowledge."

career he had not reached, which (Loud cheers.) said that one hundred years ago he had not approached as nearly as Lord Kelvin was born. In that hundred years science had made the sanguine hopes of his earliest great strides, and it might truly be years had promised. Which of us, Continuing, Lord Balfour alluded said that in more than fifty out of indeed, was likely to go down to to the diminishing band of those that hundred years, Lord Kelvin i gave at any age and feel that who knew Lord Kelvin personally, proved himself to be a tender of the hopes of his youth had been of which," said Lord Balfour, i We am proud to think I am one: rare originality, of unfailing indus-omply fulfilled?.

A KAMOUS SPEECH,

will never förget the personality, try, and possessed an enthusiasm

of the man-his simplicity, his in- alternet cagersons, and the total absence of anything in the nature of jealousy (cheera-tlie chararof his personality-we remember him, we shall remember him till we die,

lead to industrial progress.

A PROUD MEMORY.

for the care of science, which had Ford Kelta nude speech never been surpassed. (Cheers). Lowards the end of his career; which He found it difficult, and perhaps had become famous, in which, unprofitable, to compare century when he laid down the professor with century, but continued ship at Glasgow, he used the word Lord Ballour. "I should certainly failure. What a sad paradox that venture to hazard the proposition word implied! The whole world and we shall always find difficulty in communicating our impresion that, as regards science, the cen of wience was brought together to af him to those who never knew tury whteli ended in 1824 was for congratulate Tard Kuivin upon him. Where I am certain the his les prolife in great advances and fifty years of almost unexampled torian will not fail is when he great developments of science than scientife work. They assembled The century which ended in 1924. to tell him of his ancoes. He resurveys the progress of science, and Hear, hour) What was charueplied by talking of his failure. when he realises that with the pro- terialic of Lord Kelvin more, But, continued Lord Balfour, gness of geience is bound up the perhaps, than any other of the "I think that failure was in itself. ogress of civilisation when the great men of science was that he and by itself, a mark of the great historian in that spirit surveys the almost instinctively applied, or, feli, ness of the man. (Cheers.) He Carber of the great man born' 100 disposed to apply, knowledge had put before himself this hope at least his full share of the great years ago, he will say that he bore which he appeared to gain from the thin ideal, this summit of Mount work which that 100 years has study of natural law to the needs Evocest por whatever metaphor ode and happiness of mankind. He might choces, of all that was lofty conplished, that he deserves the was not merely a great man of and difficult of attainment. He titude of all those whose labours. are built on his discoveries, and science, he was a great inventor, had hoped to bring together all that that he will take Eis place among and he had the instinctive know was known of electricity, of mag the immortals of science, the man ledge of the way in which the notism, of the constitution of the to whom the future will look back physical discovery led to industrial atom, of the nature of ather, to

as the founder of all that sure and certain knowledge of the fabric of part of one the world in which, we live, and upon which surely, must be backd make the.

most of our hopes with regard to the susterial advance of humanity?

**We,in, this country, especially mike diem, (as it Funder the stimulus of the great / orgund whole.

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