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OUTLAWRY OF WAR COLONY'S FINANCES 6 CENTURIES IN HOME
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WAR AS INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POLICY
LEGITIMATE SELF-DEFENCE
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The financial statement of the WOOLLEY CONTINUNG AFTER Colonial Treasury as published in
100 MARK
the current number of the "Gov- ernment Gazette" shows that the END OF THE SEASON MATCHES balance in hand on May 31 total- led $10,230,649.05.
Expenditure in. May amounted to $1,959,754.04 and revenue-came to $1,825,045.47.
Jack Hobbs, one of the greatest, batsmen of his time, has scored another century, this being the third in successive ratches.
Frank Woolley, the Kent left- hander, reached 100 centuries, in against $9,749,- first-class cricket last Saturday. 143.05 for the same period last He has collected two more, this year. Actual expenditure, up to week, in consecutive games, and May
wag $7,826.822.42 as appears to be continuing in spite against $8,190,276.47 for the same of having reached the distinguish- ed mark common only to W. G. period last year.
Grace, Tom Hayward, Jack Hobbs, C P. Mead and Patay Hendren.
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London, Yesterday. When the League of Nations Assembly this morning resumed its general discussion on the report of the League for the past year Mr. The actual revenue collected up Henderson, the British Foreign | to May 31 this year was Secretary, observed that the League $9,965,237,60 as had now become a powerful institu- tion, exercising an ever increasing
the influence upon
moral and spiritual ideas of the people of the world. He stressed the importance of arbitration for settling inter- national disputes. Arbitration was EVE AND HER KNEES important on account of the spirit it would create between nations who no longer relied on armed conflict to settle their disputes. That was why Great Britain had decided to sign
absolutely against the the optional clause. Britain would movement which seems to be on be ready, continued Mr. Henderson, foot to make English women re- to sign the treaty for strengthening frain from exhibiting their legs. the means of preventing war. Bri "I think they should show their tain was ready to sign, as soon as it knees, for they have no reason The American was ready for signature, a proposal for hiding them.
also show their knees i for financial help towards nations girls can whoevere the victims of aggression, with impunity, for they are des- and a third committee should ex-cended from the English and in amine the terms of a model treaty herit their beauty." for strengthening the means of pre- venting war.
Mr. Henderson read the draft of a resolution which will shortly be place before the Assembly by the British delegation,
The resolution proposes that a committee should be appointed to revise Article 12 and 15 of the Covenant, in order to bring them into line with the Kellogg Pact. Mr. Henderson said. that the British Government was ready to accept that procedure which might seem the most wise to adopt in this con- nection provided the main principle was agreed to. Our only purpose, he added, was to bring the Covenant into line with the present situation. The Kellogg Fact
Henderson's In regard to Mr. statement it may be pointed out that the Kellogg Pact, if shown of the reservations appended to it by cer, tain signatories,
would place an absolute ban on war, "As an instru- ment of national policy," except in a legitimate case of self-defence by the nation which had been attacked. The League of Covenant, on the other hand, merely provides under its Articles 12 and 15 that, where
ARTIST'S PRAISE OF ENGLISH BEAUTY
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Thus, Senor Federico Beltran Maases, the Spanish portrait pain-; ter, who arrived in London in mail week. An exhibition of his work has been opened by the Spanish Ambassador at the New Burling- ton Galleries.
He thinks the English woman the most beautiful in the world.
"She is." he said, "surrounded by an air of distinction which draws her apart from the women of all other nations."
common in a grave emergency, while retaining their individual sover- eignty.
tion.
It was stated to-day that M. Briand intends to invite the heads of the European delegations to con- fer with him next week about establishment of a European federa- It is understood that he will propose the appointment of a com mittee to examine the scheme and
their to submit
proposals to the League at the next Assembly.
Sessions Reduced
Geneva, Later, The League Council has decided to reduce the sessions from four to three annually subject to recon-
an international dispute is submitted sideration if the change worked un-
to arbitration or judicial settlement,į satisfactorily-Reuter. or to inquiry by the League Council, and where the latter falls to reach a unanimous decision on the rights and wrong of the dispute, the individual members of the League are free after three months, from failure to agree, to take such action as they please.-British Wire- less Service.
New York, Yesterday. The New York "Evening Post says that America has addressed a new Note on the cruiser question to
Great Britain.
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Mention of Hendren draws at-
tention to the fact that he has
another compiled
three figure! score, this coming after one in the preceding game this week.
Three were only two first- matches completed yesterday, both of "end-of-the-season festival" character, but six centuries were
At, Scarborough
recorded.
London, Yesterday. In the first match of the Scar-
.festival, Mr. borough
C. I.
Thornton's XI. (including more exciting draw against the South than one Test "cap") played an
who Africans Scores:--
recovered well.
Mr. "Thornton's XL (1st innings) 388 runs; Hobbs (Surrey) made 161, Hendren (Middlesex 114); (2nd
clrs) 130 runs for 8 wkts, de-1
South Africans (kt innings) 211 runs; (2nd innings) 973 runs for 8 wkta.
With two wicket to fall, the visitore, required 34 runs to tie. Folkestone Match
In the Folkestone festival, Kent defeated the M.C.C. by 140 runs after being 112 behind on the 1st innings. Scores:-
Kent (1st innings) 206 runs; Kennedy (Hants.) tik 5 wkts, for 59 runs;
(2nd innings) 513 runė for 9 wkts., declared; C. P. Johnstone (the amateur on leave from India)
made 100
not.out. Woolley, F. E. mad: 142.
M.C.C. (1st innings) 318 runs;
· Hearne (Middlesex) made 104; (2nd innings) 261 rins; Lee H. W. (Middlesex) made 10:
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ANTARCTIC HER NOW A BARMAN
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Johannesburg, July 18. Commander Frank Wild, former R.N. officer who accompanied five ex- barman at an hotel in the village of peditions to the Antarctic, is now a Goller, the most northerly point of the Zululand railway.
He is earning £4 a month. Sir Robert Vansittart, Mr. Mac- For four years he has been strug. Donald's private secretary, has gling against troubles more crushing seen President Hoover-Reuter's than he met in his years among the American Service.
ice. He invested all his capital in cot- ton farming, and has bet it..
Federation of State
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Paris, Yesterday. M. Briand in the course of his!
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Drought ruined most of his fellow farmers and he was the last to give up. Hie misfortunes havenot damped bis abeery spirit, but he is anxious to secure a position nearer the coast.
Descendant of Capt. Cook Commander Wild is descended from Capt. Cook, and he has all that great navigator's love for the perils and hardships of long voyages.
He was with Mawson on his expedi tion between 1911 and 1918. He was born in 1874 at Skelton, Yorks, entered the merchant service in his youth,,and joined the Navy in 1900.
Commander Wild accompanied Scott in the "Discovery" in the next year, and was with Scott's axpedition until 1904. His next visit to southern ice WAJ with Shacklete's expedition, 1907-1909.
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Rescued Borneo Plaster's. Widow - On his return he was sent to the Northern Russian front
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