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THURSDAY, APRIL 1920*

WORLD'S NAVIES.

BRITAIN'S SEVEN PER CENT.

JAPAN'S FIFTEEN.

Warships Laid Down Since Armistice."

Britain is spending seven per cent. of her national expenditure on her Navy and Japan is spending fifteen, according to a statement made in the House of Commons yesterday.

LATEST FIGURES.

(Reuter's Service)

Londen, April D. In the House of Commons. replying to Commdr. Bellairs, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman stated that on the basis of the 1924-25 figures the British naval expenditure represented about seven per cent. of the national expenditure.

the British figure is 194, against 274 in the United States; of sub- marines. 70, as against 117 in the United States.

HISTORIC SCENES.

Hebrew University Opened.

JERUSALEM SIDELIGHTS.

"BALFOUR CHOCOLATES AND CIGARETTES."

(Reuter's Service.)

JERUSALEM, April 1. The Hebrew University was Inaugurated in the presence of The British Navy thus in point 7,000 people in a great amphl of ships has been inferior in theatre cut in Greek style in the strength-markedly inferior inside of Mount Scopus from whöse torpedo craft, barely equal in big 3,000 feet submit the copper. domed ships, and superior only in light building dominates to the eastward cruisers, which have the colossal the wilderness of Judaea, with task of protecting British trade. glimpses of the Jordan, the Dead In expenditure, the United States.

Sen, the mountains of Gilead and is far ahead of Great Britals, the westward a panorama of the Holy Moab. The building commands The present Japanese naval amount voted for 1924 being City. expenditure was approximately 170,000,000 (including the outlay 15 per cent. of the national ex-fon naval aviation). The United Kenditure.

Stites personnel is 106,000, and As fur

the British Navy has to take second place.

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was known no Jaunese naval expenditure was met by ans except the extra- Among the ships that will be ordinary war expenditure fund completed in 1924-5 are the large which was not included in the light cruisers Effingham and

ONE TYPE OF JAPAN'S WARSHIPS.

CRUISER ASAMA

ADMIRAL HYAKU TAKE

The Aamn was fingably of the Japanese squadron which recently | visited Amerieun wat era.

down.

Frobisher, of which the second was begun so long ago as Angust, 1916, and the two smaller light cruisers. Emerald and Enterprise which date back to 1918.

learning and academic bodies Fifty leading institutions of throughout the world were repre-,{ sented at the inauguration.

Hours before the ceremony the narrow Scopus was black with vehicles. dusty road to Mount Jews, old and young, were every- where visible climbing the slopes..

The pedlars did good business selling "Balfour chocolates, cakes and cigarettes."

Only three of the five sections of the amphitheatre up to the pre- sent have been hitherto completed. These were built five weeks ago by 300 Jews, many of whom were students.

Thousands were turned away, although many tramped long distances. For instance 400 colonists walked from Jaffa.

The procession from the Univer sity to the amphitheatre was most imposing.

THE CHINA MALE

$175,000,000 DEAL.

HUGE AMERICAN CASH TRANSACTION.

DODGE MOTOR CO. SOLD.

Brothers Who Shared Henry Ford's Romance.

Henry Ford is not the only motor car pioneer who has made a vast fortune--witness the $175,000,000 "just put through, in the United States.

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FORD'S FIRST MOTOR? (Reuter's American Service.)

reputed to have built his Ürst motor in the Dodges' small guruga "af Detroit years ago,

Now York, April 1. Mr.Henry Ford" owns. the Ford of the largest commercial cash now the largest establishment of According to the newspapers, one Motor Co. at Detroit, Michigan, transactions ever concluded in the its kind, employing over 80,000. United States has been the purchase persons, and toning out more than by a New York banking syndicats,8,000 caes & day, a triumph of moes headed by the Dillon Rend Com-production. Deeply interested in the any, of the Dodge Motor Company welfare of his workers, Mr. Ford for $175,000,000 in cash.

bas instituted a minimum wage with

WHERE HENRY FORD' WAS BORN.

This unpretentious home was the birthplace of one of the world's richest men to-day.

The ceremony opened with the Brigi

al Authem, after wha

twish choir entertained the gathering with some beautiful. singing in the amphitheatre which presented remarkable spectacle, with tier upon tier of closely packed mmunity..

After The opening "pesch by Mr. Weizmann, Sir Herbert Samuel. conveyed the British Government's good wishes and read a telegram from the Foreign interviewed by

Paris, April 1-M. Paul Claudes Secretary hoping that the pro-stressed the point that there was a the Excelsior, ject would be successful, spreading great deal of Japanese interest in historit Culture and enlightenment on the all that is French. He said that Palestine. the best of the Japanese were perfectly acquainted with French intellectual developments,-Havas.

A

soil of GREAT, EPOCH

The property was owned jointly graduated advances in a profit- by the widows of the Dodge sharing plan. On the entrance of Brothers, whose rise from humble America into the war (March 1917), beginnings was as sensational as he placed all the resources of his the rise of Henry Ford, who is extensive works at the 'disposal of the Government, manufactured motor engines, deroplanes, etc., and forgoing all profits. Mr. Ford gave the British Government full, notor-tractor, waiving all fees. He Fights to make and use a patent; helport to speed up the output of marchant vessels. He subscribed five million dollars personally and the same sun cn behalf of his company to the Liberty loan, and in various other ways asisted war. Mr. Ford has now established vigorously in the prosecution of the works in England:

Love percentage, and granities granted to officers and me dis charged owing to reductions due to the Washington treaty.

Since the War.

London, April 1." Eight additional cruisers and

tremendous ovation was In the House of Commons, two destroyers were ordered by accorded to Earl Balfour on his replying to Captain Beimish Mr. Baldwin's Government late in rising to make his inaugural speech. Newscommenting on the departure Shanghai, April 1.-The N. C. D. (Conservative) Bridgeman stated 1923 as a measure to relieve un- ovation he gracefully apologised appears to have been interpreted

Returning thanks for that since the Armistice. the employment, but this total of for his inability. to

the of the Mongugai says the departure fullowing warships had beer laid, cruisers was cut down by Mr. Hebrew,

speak in in some quarters as a political event MacDonald's administration, to. Cruisers

He referred to the world-wide to Russian affairs in the Far East, of first class importance in relation five. Two cruisers, however, are composition of the gathering being said to fadicate the end of British Empire

to be built for the Australian assembled to mark a great epoch the White Monarchist group Government, bringing the total in Jewish history and laid down in 1924 to seven. The milestone in the future career of kind, and simply means that the so a great point of fact it is nothing of the new vessels are intended to re- Judaism. place the cruisers of the County

He recalled that the very spot band of Cossacks have decided to called Cossack General and his class, laid down twenty years or where the Israelites entered the return to Russia, a very sensible more ago.. The lack of modern Promised Land was visible from thing to do considering the un cruisers for service on distant where they were sitting and they fortunate circumstances in which stations has compelled the Ad- were on the very hill where the they found themselves, here, miralty to employ light cruisers Roman destructors conducted the stranded and virtually existing on for that work at the cost of great siege of Jerusalem which ended charity-Reuter. discomfort to their crews.

that great chapter of the Jewish people.

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PARIS RIOT. (Reuter's Service);

PARIS, Apr. 1.

A warm debate in the Chamber

He asked if there could be a more historic spot:

Jewish culture had been un- interrupted since then, but it had been scattered.

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would not be lasting, the fate of the University should not be affected:

ISLAND DISPUTE,

ARBITRATION AGREEMENT

SIGNED.

(Reuter's American Service.)

WASHINGTON, April 1. The

agreement reached in January between the Netherlands and the United States to refer the question of the sovereignty of Palmas Island in the Philippines to arbitration was formally signed by the State Department today.

After paying a tribute to the progressive policy decided and declaring his confidence in the upon by the University leaders, WU PEI-FU'S BIRTHDAY! success of the venture Earl

Balfour declared the University (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin,)

open.

Peking, April 1. The Chin Pad reports that blessing. Chang Tso-lin sent two delegates It is estimated that 14,000 were in a semi-official capacity to con- present around the amphitheatre, gratulate Wu Pei-fu upon his of which 10,000 witnessed the birthday.

The Estimates. introduced last year showed the full effect of the

NOTABLE EXPERIMENT. new Admiralty policy as it was

Earl Balfour proceeded to dilate fixed by the Five-Power Eng on the rioting in the Latin quarter on Jewish intellectual achieve land. United States.

on the 28th of last month ter ninet-ment in various parts of the globe Japan. France, Italy) agreement ut ed at three in the morning with a for centuries past. Washington, limiting the great vote of confidence in the Govern It was a profound mistake to fleets As the result of that Minister of Education, condemned scattered, had not borne their a recital of a poem by the Hebrew iment of 318 to 22. M. Albert, the suppose that the Jews, although The proceedings terminated with agreement and of the economies the movement as political and re full share in the progress of know. et Bralik, after which Chief carried out, the British Navy will fused to countenance sabotage in ledge and the growth of civilisa-Rabbi Hertz gave a have only 2 post-Jutland ships the university or to recognise the tion throughout the world. -(the Rodney and Nelson, laid right of the students to appoint the down in 1922) and one partially professors." post-Jutland ship (the Hood) as against 3 in the United States and recently formed committee for the According to the newspapers a 2 in Japan; while of ships over defence of university liberties is 30,000 tons the British Navy will sued a manifesto calling on the have only 3, against 10 in the students to declare a forty-eight United States Navy and 6 in the hour strike. Japanese. Of modern cruisers A medical student was sentenced and light cruisers the British yesterday in connection with the Navy has now 45, against 18 in disturbances of the 28th uit. He the United States; of destroyers, sat during his examination flanked

by two policemen,

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He confidently anticipated that in the future they would be able to give even more important aid.

ceremony.

The paper states that they are taking a letter in Chang Tao-lin's own writing.

The paper also declares that lin sent delegates on a similar Chang Tsung-chang and Li, Ching- errand.

SHANGHAI QUOTATIONS.

Earl Balfour said he was con- vinced that the unparalleled ex

BRILLIANT. RECEPTION. periment of adapting. Western

Jerusalem, April 1. methods and the Western form of

An interminable procession of university to as Eastern site and of the Mount of Olives last night motor care crawled up the slopes the use of an Eastern language, were predestined to inevitable to the Government House where success, in spite of the difficulties Sir Herbert Samuel's brilliant re- which would be met by Dr. Welz ception on the eve of Lord mann, Sir Herbert Samuel and Balfour's opening of the new their successors.

Hebrew University was held. Earl Balfour singled out the use

It was a picturesque and his POLISH MURDER,

Tokyo, April Osaks and of Hebrew as one of their problems, toric assemblage and included suburbs amalgamated today,

Lord Allenby, Mr. Chaim Weiz- resulting in a commercial city of (Reuter's Service.)

mana and numerous delegates. 2,050,000, which ranks as the

All Palestine was represented. world's fifth largest city.-Router. this difficulty would be overcome, Abyssinians, Copts, from sombre Earl Balfour said he believed Ecclesiastics of every sect from Moscow, April 1. The Polish priest Ussas who was to have been exchanged has been Government are ready to meet the an adequacy of competent teach-friars. Lord Balfour was the Lingkat.......... 27 Buyera.

Moscow, April 1-The Soviet also the fear that there would be black to whiteclad Dominican been arrested again. A

solid elements of private capital, ers. [Reuter wired from Moscow on inviting them to pass from pro of this belief three theories very fit and very cheerful.

Earl Balfour quoted in support overtopping the rest and looking Shanghai Docks......125.

most noteworthy figure present, Ewos. 1194 Buyers. Tuesday. The Rosta Agency fileering operations to normal trade

Buyers. states that the two Felish Com-with normal profits." Thus M.lating to different branches of

N. Engineerings. 834 Buyers.. munist officers who were sentenced Steinmann, Commissary of Inland science which were attracting

The University was built on Orientals

334 Buyers to death by a Folish Court for an trade, declared, addressing a meet-world-wide attention, all of which Mount Scopus and designed to be Shanghai Coltons... 59. Buyers.

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FAMOUS JEWS.

attempt to blow-up-a-Warsaw for ing of representatives of private

were propoundedbyJews, namely: tress but wife were to have becerms and companies.

creative evolution and new exchanged at the Russo-Pallab plained the Soviet's attitude to

psychology both by friends of his, frontier for two Foles and a priest wards the influx of private capital while the third, which was the arrested in Russia, were murdered into trade and Industry in Russia, was that of relativity by Ehacin, most original and most important, to-day in a train as they were adding that the Government were going to the frontier. The Soylet ready to grant credit Escal and Mr. Balfour recalled, the past representative at Warsaw has been Juridical facilities, Private bills Co-operation of the Jews and instructed emphatically to protest would be accepted for discount Arabs, and eloquently appealed to Poland, demanding a strict Taxes on private trade are now for the same spirit now and for enquiry and punishment of the bean revlasg with a view to the

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