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SOUTH AGAINST AFRICANS.”

HOME SIDE START WELL,

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, September 343 The match between the South of England and] the "South Africans, the second fixture of the Hastings Carnival, commenced to-day in dull weather. The pitch was soft when the home side opened their innings.

When stumps were drawn, the score was 312 forg wickets"

Hobbs made 56, Sandham 44′and Calthorpe 69.

COUNTY PLACINGS. The final placings in the County Cricket Championship with the percentages are:

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Surrey..

Lancashire

Kent.....

Gloucester

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Essex, Northants and Derby are respectively the last three.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

ECHO OF JAPAN 'QUAKE.

VISCOUNT ISHII RETURNS THANKS.

(Reuter's Service.)

GENEVA, September 3.

At this morning's sitting of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Viscount Ishii, on behalf of Japan, thanked the League for the lnterest and sympathy displayed on the occasion of the earthquake last year.

M. HERRIOT AND PRESS.

An army of 200 press-men, attending the

Assembly of the League. were received by My Herriot.

While he did not indicate the specific fine he would take at to-morrow's disarmament debate M. Herriot declared France would do everything

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TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

COUNCIL'S EXTENDED POWERS.

"DECISION CAUSES COMMENT.”

VARIED EXPRESSION OF VIEWS.

(Reuter's Service.)...

LONDON, September 3.

The significance of the decision of the Trade Union Congress, last evening, in extending the powers of the General Council, is much commented upon, as investing the Council-numbering thirty- two-with power not given to any single body of men since the Labour movement was launched a (contury-ago.-;

When the proposal, which is equivalent to » appointing a Trade Union General Staff, was first submitted three years ago, it was rejected by a majority of 3 10 1.

It not merely permits the Council to take the jaftlative in any dispute, whether requested to inter |fers. or not, bur authorises it to render a Union or Unions in dispute all the moral material support possible.

DIFFERENT VIEWS GIVEN.

"Mr. Cook, Secretary of the Miners' Federation | who seconded the resolution, told an interviewer the Council can go to any length without calling a ballot of consulting the rank and file. It can even call a general strike at any time and impose leviès on all Uniöus for running any strike it likes.

Mr. Ben Tiller holds less drastic views on the resolution. He is of opinion that individual men- bers will be able to check the powers of the Council, On the other hand, the Libéral, Commander Kenworthy, who is attending the Congress as a "guest, said the united Trade Union front is now the 'greatest spectre employers ever confronted.

· AMERICAN- WORLD FLIERS.

GOOD" "PROGRESS REPORTED.

HAWKES BAY LEFT BEHIND.

(Reuter's American Service.)

HALIFAX, September 3, The American world-fliers passed the U.S.S. cruiser "Milwaukes" too miles from Hawkes Bay. to favour peace and continue the good work begun.They were sighted at 12.05 noon. in a spirit of goodwill and loyalty.

MacDonald Raisos Veil.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald raised the veil of his disarmament plans, in addressing journalists to-day. He suggested a Court of Arbitration, the constitution of which should be decided between the various Governments. He said he was con vinced America would participate in this con ference on disarmament which would be held in Europe, possibly in Geneva. In the meantime, the American plan for disarmament would be referred to the League Committee for examination..

REPARATIONS HEAD.

MR. S. P. GILBERT ACCEPTS,

DUE IN PARIS SHORTLY

(Reuter's Service.)

PARIS, September 3.. Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, a former Under Secretary of the United States Treasury, has accepted the post of Agent-General for Reparations.. Mr. Gilbert is due to arrive in Paris by the middle of this month.

QUAKERS.

A ROMANTIC STORY,

NARRIVAL AT PICTOU.

PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA, Sept 3. The world-filers arrived here from Hawkes Bay, this afternoon, after a flight of 6 hours, 18 minutes.

Scotia, 90 miles N. E by W. from Halifax. Note: Pletou is a town and port in Nova

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OCCUPIED GERMANY.

PASS SYSTEM ABOLISHED.

DUTIES ON GOODS REMOVED,

· (Reuter's Service.)

DUESSELDORF, September 3.

In accordance with the London Agreement, General Degoutte has issued an order, restoring, as from midnight on September 10, the freedom of circulation of wheeled traffic and the abolition of the pass system for persons entering the occupied territory.

The duties levied on goods passing between occupied and unoccupied territory have also been removed.

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him that he ought to "quake in the presence of the Lord.

denounce the system of worship, under Fox's influence. The move. for he believed that it was not by ment quickly spread, and in two the Scriptures alone, but by the years sixty ministers had gone Divine light by which the Scrip-forth to ́expound Fox's teaching. tures were given, that doctrines | The Quakers owe this name to the To be born in humble circum-should be judged. He did not fact that once when Fox was xlances and to gather about one's belleve in ritual, and held that brought before a inagistrate on name a respect, that outlasts cen- everyone has, or may have, direct account of his opinions he told Euries is the lot of but few people personal experience of the work One of them is George Fox, ing of a Divine being, founder of the Society of Friends, So powerful was his advocacy Their worship was, and is, cỡn- or Quakers as they are better of these beliefs and so great his ducted without the aid of pro known, the three hundredth enthusiasm that many learned fessional ministers, and they do anniversary of whose birth is cele men of the day hupported him in not practise the ritual of Baptism brated this year.

his teaching, among their number or Holy Communion. Their form The son of a Leicestershire being the great William Penni, of marriage consists simply of the weaver, Fox early showed his bent whose name is immortalized in man and woman taking one an- towarda religious matters. His that of the State of Pennsylvania, other in the presence of the còn- father apprenticed him to a shoe- U.S.A. The result of Fox's church gregation, without the interven maker, who was also n denler in interruption was that he was tion of a priest. They do not take | 3 wool and cattle, and in this em-marched off to prison, from which, the customary oath in courts of ployment the boy remained until after some months, he was re-law, as it is part of their creed to he was nineteen. In his twentieth leased on an order from the speak the truth at all times. The year he accompanied some sheriff, whose favour he had Quakers do not believe' In war or friends to a fair and was distress obtained.

in the necessity for it.

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ed because the rest of the party. retired to a public-house to carouse.

Waiter, my, bill should be thir. teen shillings, and you've made it fourteen shillings.” ..

One of the least tolerable of his many terms of imprisonment was that which he spent in Scar- borough Castle, where for twelve months he was "confined in a room "When I had done what busivat a little. distance frein. the spat ness I had to do," he says in his called the Lady's Well, the which be superstitious, sir." famous Journal, “I returned home, lying open, the wind drove in the

Great Moral Crisis.

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Yes, sir; I thought you might

but did not go to bed that night, rain so fiercely that the water. At the races three horses were s nox could I sleep but walked up came on my bed and ran about the battling out the finish neck and and down and sometimes prayed room so that I was led to gm-heck until at the very last stride and cried."

it up with platters. To make the jockey pushed one forward to This was his first great moral matters worse, his jailers provided in by a short nose.RO crisis and marked the beginning him with so little food that a loaf bet you never saw a closer of his career as a wandering had to last him three weeks, while race than that remarked one preacher, in which capacity he his drinking water was mali spectator to his neighbour journeyed from town to town, ciously flavoured with wormwood, I was in Scotland last week/? avoiding all companions, good and

volkan raidithd other ite bad, "lest I should be hurt by Marriage Ceremony, 1 conversing much with either

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