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CONVALESCENCE

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NEARLY REACHED CLAUDE FALKINER IN GOOD

BETTER REPORT

DEFINITE IMPROVEMENT IN KING'S HEALTH

BUT "NO CHANGE" NOTED

London, Yesterday.

A British wireless message abates; For the first time defolte provement in the general strength of the King was reported in last night's bulletin' from Buckingham Palace.

FORM

NARROW SNOOKER WIN

At the Chinese Cub last evening, Falkiner defeated Mr. Ip Ping-bau (rec-400) by +800 to 217. Best breaks whre: N

Faikin 200, 125, 124, 108, 87 (twice) 4, 54

THE REPARATION PROBLEM

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THE COMMISSION AND U. S. NOMINEES

FIRST MEETING NEXT MONTH

Londen, Yesterday: The Reparation Commission, in Mr. 69, 30.4#794. Then Falkiner narrowly defeated full agreement with Germany, de- Osmund in a mnooker cided yesterday to complete the game by three.

Experts' Committee according to The evening's entertainment-con- the protocol at Geneva on Septem- The bulletin, after noting the cluded with an exhibition by ber 16 last by nominating Mr. Falkiner of trick and fancy shots. Owen D. Young and Mr. J. Pierpont continuance of slow progress; states

Palace Hotel

Morgan as American experts with that the "amount of nourishment

In view of Mr. Osmund's very power to engage the services, of a taken is now satisfactory and the narrow defeat by Falkiner in the third alatant expert to replace King's general strength is improvabove match more than ordinary either of them in case they have to ing."

Interest should centre around the be absent. At noon to-day, after the morn-meeting of this pair at the Palace The Experts" Committee, there ing consultation of the doctors, it Hotel tomorrow night, when the fore, is now definitely constituted was authoritatively stated that

Colony's champion will play the and the first meeting will be held there was no change in the King's professional 800 up at billiards be- probably in February.-British condition.

fore the snooker game is staged. Wireless Service. As the extreme weakness from Falkiner will complete the evening's

Router has stated that Mr. which the King is suffering is now entertainment with the exhibition Thomas Nelson Perkins, of Boston, the most important feature of his of more fancy shobe. The billards and Mr. Thomas Lamont, of New noss these latest reports have match opens at 8 p.m., and tickets York, will act as deputy experts.] been received with great satisfãc- tion in Palaca circles and by the and $1) for reserved seats may public who are eagerly awaiting the now be obtained from the manage-

news that the convalescence stage: Is within sight.-British Wireless Service.

ment.

Hong Kong Cu To-night Mr. Falkiner will play In the Hong Kong Club.

He leaves for Shanghal on Wed-

Progress Maintained Reuter says that it is learnt öffnesday. cially this evening that progress in | the King's condition is being main-

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Sidelights on country Hfe and the meagre stipenda of amne dergy were | revealed at an ecclesiastical inquiry, held at Taunton on a recent Satur- day, before a Commission, including the Bishop of Taunton, concerning the proposed amalgamation of two and Somerset parishes, Halse Heathfield.

The Rev. F. J. Montgomery, Major-General Sir Frederick Rector of Haise, when asked his Maurice referred to inaccurate opinion of the proposal, said: "I comparisons of military forces at think it is quite time the rectors of Nations Conference on "Arma than in the past. For twenty years a recent acasion of the League of Halse got something more to est ments and the Kellogg Past" at I served this church for three 10, St. James's-square, S.W.

pounds a week, just sufficient to pay The public, he said, were told a gardener,"

that France had an army of 700,000

He attributed the depopulation of men with 6,000,000 to the countryside to young married He couples having either no children or

AN EDITOR'S VIEWS New York-Mr. William Mer rill, a famous American editor, made in his will several bequests to women instead of to men, because he believed that hardship, poverty and want are the best foundations | 8,000,000 trained reserves,

added: for a young man's 'auccess.

only one child, and said that in the Almost every Power in the village, noted for its longevity. world accounts for its armies there were now only two large and navies in a different way. familles. Our publicists make comparisons

The Rev. O. L. Wams, Rector between the French figures and of Heathfield, said his average Sun- the British figures of an army day congregation consisted of eleven of 166,000 with a reserve of children and five adults. The large about 100,000,

Mr. Merrill, explaining why he left his money to the daughters in preference to the *Bons of his friends and relatives, wrote:

My experience convinces me that the possession of a modest income is an aid to the ambition, Independence, usefulness, and contentment. of a young woman and no, hindrance to her happy marriage. But a small inherit ance leasens the ambition and self-relance of a young man and often offers an excuse for sparing himself the strenuoua efforts essential to the achieve- ment of any success worth attein- Ing.

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parsonage house absorbed three-

In the 700,000 Frenchmen are Included all the French colour-quarters of his income, and he spent ed troops, the whole of the mill. moet of his time doing manual tary Air Force, the French gen- 'darmerie,' and the Republican

work

The Commission reported in Guard. To our 160,000 we have favour of the union of the benefices.

to add mon paid for by the Indian taxpayer, the Air Force, and

The ordinary man in the street men in East and West Africa. thinks that the prevention of war That makes 388,000.

is an ideal, and he is ahy of ideals." (Continued at foot of next Column.Major-General Sir G. Franks.

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WITCHCRAFT

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Pennsylvania's sixty-seven counties, York City, which boasts the greatest leo machine manufac tory in the world, is described as being undoubtedly the worst centre.BG BARNAM

It will not" - "be an easy fight, because believers in witchcraft. whose superstition is traced to the

ly of, known gases. In an area, murder of Nelson Rabat original settlers from Europe, "::

say, from Richmond to east of who was burnt

Barking Creek, and from Finch- because he refused to

ley to Wimbledon and Streatham,

a lethal dose would be 42 tone. Tender

death; will not help in the prosecution for

surfear of magic reprisals, PDV P. A. Noll; secretary of the lock of his greyYork Medical Society, laments that

It would have to be spread out in black hair, "required" for the pure it is well-aiga impossible to bring every particle, but that would be posa of removing a apak, new ideas to thousands of country. the theoretical lethal dose,

Forty- tons was a mere

Foould be

the Pennsylvania States for folk,Educational work, he says, flek-ganising a drive_against witch- must be directed chis to the

craft, pow-wowlsm, and voodoolem,young, because the which flourish virulently among Inclined to cherish the country people of York County. Loneliness, and in

According to the county coroner, -- poverty, hale the 60,000T ints of many

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