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Caution Robs Lytton Report Of Value.

tude One restriction alone will be needed, the use of braces for advertising purposes must be vetoed or placed under control by special Act of Parliament. When once the great movement for brighter braces has made headway, it can be only a matter of time before inventors devise means by which, braces will 'bei kept permanently in view. A glance at feminine evening dressi will show that in this matter, as in so many others, women have led the way.

COLQUIFUL CHURCH PROCESSION.

Hundreds Attend Day's Ceremonies.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER

Agricultural Show Up To Standard

Poverty Of Farmer Is Not Apparent

LEEDS EXCELLENT DISPLAY

London, September 5. paid the society handsomely, for The losses and poverty of farm-the charges for space are high. ers have not adversely affected the

Neglect of Science. best of the county agricultural itself definitely inferior; it was Only in one respect was the show shows, which remain very successful totally neglected by the men of and very English. At Leeds re-science, though their work is more The Feast of Our Lady of the cently the Yorkshire Society, which important to-day than it has ever Holy Rosary was held with all cus-possesses a very skilful organiser, been and our agricultural research tomary yesterday afternoon, in the celebrated, in spite of rain, one of is among the beat in the world. vicinity of Rosary Church, Chatham the best shows in its annals; and But the careless boycotting of the Road, between Austin Avenue and that is to say a very great deal. show by the men of science does Austin Road, which presented Such entries of cattle had not been not. of course, account for the colourful spectacle Hundreds at seen since the war, and, to com-failure. That la due to other causes,- tended the procession.

pare the small with the great, such which perhaps include a wrong con- A Solemn Pontificial Mass was entries of pit ponies and of goats ception of what "the Royal" may be held in the morning, and further had never been seen before.

made. A good county show may jacts of devotion" were celebrated in The merriment of the Old English succeed even in a tolerably remote

Church during the afternoon. Fair was not absent. Hospitality rural spot. This has been abundant-- The procesaton ..was head-enjoyed a generous fing. The ly proved in Cornwall (where hus ed by the Catholic Boy Scouts Army entertained with its best bundry flourishes in spite of the and a... "Band, and in the horseman, and the stalls of those times), In Suffolk, which is at the main body were flower girls with things to sell were ranged in heart of the depression," and in and members of different prayer cir-busy streets. Machinery, some of Yorkshire, where the East Riding cles who have their headquarters in it strange and new, half encircled has felt the full force of low prices. Rosary Church, «"«

the Park and varled between the "The Royal" on the other hand.........

Hidden Exhibitions.

Monsignor H. Valtorta, Vicar hugest machinery for large-scale must appeal to an international and Apostolic of Hong Kong, and other mechanisation and apparatus for any urban population. It should be Church dignitaries, members of the backyard poultryman. The as good a mart even for boraes 28,4 the Consular Corps and Papal urban public assembled in good any, the Dublin Horse Show, which: Knights, were also in the proces- numbers to shake hands with the never fails. Its publicity must, sion, the rear of which was brought rural A day at the show was 4 therefore, be world-wide. up by many hundreds of the faith-liberal education for any student of

economic or social history,

This year, even on Southampton Compare this show with the itself, you might eaally have been Royal held outside Southampton in Junaware that a show was in being the previous week. It was very you had the greatest difficulty, even" nearly a fiasco. The attendance after two days' experience, in find- was the lowest in the records, infing out how to reach the ground at spite of glorious weather and #all. The most generally advised Royal visit. The classes were route left a mile's walk at the end thinner than usual; and it was the of a long tram drive. The value of general feeling of those who were a Royal visit was destroyed by a present that the show" was flat high entrance fee, and fell as and dull. Business there was in lamentably flat as most other things.

PRETTY WEDDINGS AT CATHEDRAL.

may have possessed.

The sug-ful. gestion whereby the Three East- ern, Provinces would be granted some form of autonomy, where in China would maintain a cer- tain measure of control, is al most certain to be rejected by both sides. China will rightly demand the reason for necessity for any concession in a matter in which she is the aggrieved party,

The gloomy predictions that and Japan, unless forced to a

Two Ceremonies On Saturday.

the Lytton Commission Report more conciliatory attitude, At St. John's Cathedral on Satur- as bad a way as pleasure and this Neither depression in the industry would provide little of construc- either world pressure or by day afternoon. Miss Elleen Jeanette loss to the ever small limit of over nor the apathy, of the Southern tive worth towards providing China's boycott, will not surrende Biere, daughter of the inte Mr. seas interest. The loss to the so-population accounts for the failure. a solution of the Manchurian der what she has taken. The S. J. de Biere and Mrs. de Biere, diety must have been large it was due to an unimaginative con- problem have been realized.-Yet, die is cast for Japan and some Hong Kong was married to Mr. What was the cause of the flatness ception, frat of the problem or disappointing as the Report is,thing more that what is. con- Ronald John Stevens, son of the and the absence of business? Many giving to the show individuality as it is of rather more value than tained in the Report will be late Mr. and Mrs. JW. Stevens, of people asked the question on the well as fatrinsic merit, second, of the pessimists would have had needed to alter the Tokyo policy. Moseley, Birmingham. Mr. Stevens ground, and the critics have been the possibilities of publicity at home it and there will be inter- The League has been impotent is aviation adviser to the Kwangai busy since. It is of no little im and abroad, thirdly, of the organs. esting discussion on the propo-so far and if the Lytton Report Provincial Government, and is portance, to find a true answer, The nation of transport; and, lastly, of sals contained in the voluminous is any indication of future action employed by the Far East Aviation stock was rungulfcent, though many the function of a great national. document, even if the prospects it is likely to remain so.

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classes were smaller than usual; and show,

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Brighter Braces.

TWO INJURED IN

of any acceptance of them is

The Very Rev. Dean A Swann it was collected from a wide radium. "The Royal" should be a great practically negligible. The recep

by Mc. A V. Harvey, of the Fax Perhaps the most salient victories national and International event, tion of the report is scarcely

East Aviation Co., Ltd. In atten-were registered by Mr. Marshalls where specialists gathered from likely to be complimentary to the

dance as bridesmaids were the shorthorns from West Scotland and round the world for its stock and compilers and neither of the two

Missas Muriel and Eunice de Biere, Lord Daresbury's pigs from Lanca- machinery; and the urban public for: parties most concerned are satis

(sisters), Eileen Stubbings and shire, which all journeyed an im-its picturesque galety. Those who fied. Japan has already ex- Notoriously these are days Evelyn Middleton.

mense distance. The machinery feel this are greatly distressed at pressed displeasure with the when every patriotic citizen Mr. R. H. D. Wade, of the Hong made a marvellous "show in itself, the degeneration from such an: findings, Tokyo officials alleging should take off his coat and get Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-and was perhaps, the one thing that ideal prejudice, but it is shrewdly down to his work, and not less poration, was the beat man suspected that the comment is obviously days when he should A reception was subsequently held tempered with a certain amount brace himself firmly to with- in the Cathedral Hail, and the happy of relief that the condemnation stand whatever strain the future couple later left for their honey- of Japan was not more pronoune may impose on him. Yet these moon. ed or drastic. China will not two forms of effort seem incom- ROBERTS-MITCHELL. view the Report with any en- patible. Stripped to his shirt At St. John's Cathedral on Satur- thusiasm and there will be forci sleeves, the patriotic citizen re- day morning Mea Constance May ble protest at the lack of any veals his braces, and "a display Mitchell became the bride of Mr. conclusion which would ensure of braces, even where normal Charles Collingwood Roberts. sufficient redress to China.laws of social behaviour "are" The bride was given away by Mr. True, the Report recog-like certain kinds of bracesT. HE Shaw. She was attended nises that Manchuria is "exceptionally elastic, is a crime by Miss Pamela Shaw and Miss an integral part of China, against taste. A plea is made Maureen Greig

COLLISION.

Motorcycle Riders Narrow Escape.

THROWN OVER-BANK;

CLOUDBURST IN U.S. KILLS THIRTY.

Train Hurled From High Trestle

Baker's Field, Cal, Yesterday. Thirty persons were killed as Mr. A. McG. Mitchell of the result of a cloudburst which sent

water roaring through. Tehachapi American Express, and Mr. H. Wa foaming 40-foot high wall of Brown, of Dodwell & Co. Ltd., two Pas

but in the next paragraph Japan accordingly for a really import- Mr. J. E. Masson was best man, well-known motor cyclists, harrow This tremendous mass atruck a is placated with the statement ant reform for braces which while Mr. G. K. Oliver was at the ly escaped serious injury yesterday railway trestle bridge at Wood- that she held exceptional and shall delight every casual ob- Swann officiated.

AT GRAVESIDE.

Funeral Of The Late Mr. S. A. Roberts.

motor-cycle on whic

s riding came into h

with a motor car bends near the 16-mile

Mitchell and Brown jing to Kowloon, with

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ling towards Castle Pe mishap occurred.

unparalleled rights, which some server Already there are After the ceremony, a reception on the Castle Peak Ro stricted China's sovereign rights varieties appealing, if not to the was held at the Hong Kong Hotel. that conflict bawaan mevitablas, aesthetic eye of the artist,rat This finding will be disputed and least to the professional instinct the weakness of the Commis of the engineer Inventions In aloners in "hedging” this which the stress is taken by a MILITARY HONOURS vital point will be deplored. The cunning arrangement of wheels fact that Japan had no right to and pulleysTheir defect is that restrict China's sovereign rights when disaster overtakes them it seems to have been ignored, and is irreparable, at any rate in Japan's deliberate aggression has public. Anyone who in these been glossed over... Conflict distressing circumstances has was not of China's seeking i tried, in a quite literal sense, to deed the Commissioi later in commenting - "on unpreparedness in con the swiftness and which the

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