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It would be difficult to carve out] a piece of India for the speciali benefit of the Aga Khan; but not so difficult as to authenticate the greater number, of the stories, that circulate about his privileges and sanctity.
Three at least are untrue.
NO DEFENCE AGAINST GAS ATTACKS
SOUND REASON FOR A
STRONG AIR FORCE
WAR HORRORS FORESEEN
(By the Earl of Halsbury.)
few London. a
It is obvious that in any future]One
must
hundred
realise that
casualties. the
In one masy at- tack, with at least half of her 7,000,-
The followers who pay him tithe war attacks will be made from the enemy will endeavour to obliter do not number 78,000,000; he isjair upon important centres-that is ate London spiritual leader of the Khola sect, to say towns. which is a small branch of the Shiah division of Islam.
His bath-water is not bottled and This may be ruled out. retailed at high price.
Champagne-is-not-supposed to turn to water as it passes his lips.
There are four possible forms of 000 population casualties in the attack. The first is incendiary.first 24 hours. That is the pre- All at-sent danger, and it is against that tempts in this direction in the Great that a defence, if any is possible, War showed that the most efficacious must be provided. form of incendiary was high-ex- Many ideas have been suggested, plosive, and therefore we come at most of them palliative. Gas masks-
As has been once to the second, high-explosive. are a broken reed. Again experience and a little fore-pointed out against a new gas, they Unless the population were The old Surrey Theatre, which is sight shows that this method will might, and probably would, be use- for sale, gave to the British Drama never produce the results of the two less.
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WRECK OF THE MAYFLOWER
the
the adjective "transpontine" as aplast. The damage is too localised, trained to keep them in good con- they would be useless in any case. plied to blood-and-thunder, plays, and very great accuracy of alm isdition and to adjust them properly, which were the favourite fare at essential.
The third is the attack by bacilli. The tragedy on the 'Suippes in 1917 Defence by way of this theatre "across the bridge."
It was some years later that Some authorities are inclined to put showed this. melodrama became chiefly associat-this menace as the greatest danger blocking up windows and doors was It would be a bold man who would gone into very carefully by Pavlov ed with the Adelphi,
It is only possible in There have been many types say that this is impossible, but'ex-in Russia.
at of entertainment
Sur-perience does seem to make it un-certain designs of houses, and then rey, including pantomimes whose likely. It was tried during the last only a short term palliative.
Evacuation Only Solution regular feature was the "Cat" war by Germany in order to infect
Hospitals are quite negligible hav- which elimbed all round the dress the Argentine meat coming over to
this country, and it signally failed.ing regard to the fact that they circle.
The fourth form of attack is.themselves could not be immune to There was an occasion when' drama nearly developed into real alas! only too well known. That gas and to the number of casualties. Tubes and cellars are worse than poison gas can be distributed easily tragedy.
The sailing of the Mayflower was from the air is common knowledge.useless. The gas must be heavier
in important than air and therefore descends.
At that there is general deteriora- staged, before an audience which The fact that areas
Evacuation of great; cities. The China Mail
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tried by all nations is equally com- first sight this seems the only pos- But where "does it ning score this year was only one icans.
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The modern attack is en rare-people bound by the lasting tie of
of M. Michelin in France, and in would be distributed from London 1917 he was good enough to allow alone throughout the country. They The fine display by the
me to know what had been done and would have to be housed, fed and
I watered. Endeavour yesterday at New-
to confer with him regularly.
Further and essential-sanita- port, RI. is reassuring for Mr. Sopwith's success in his quest of
"I may as well inform you right had, and have now, a very complete away," remarked the surgeon gravely, set of maps made for this one obtion would have to be provided. When one considers that this will the America's Cup. Four years
"that only nine persons out of ten reject. have elapsed since the last races
Terrors Of Gas Attacks also have to be provided for Bir So little accustomed are we to cover from the operation I am about for that trophy, and now it is
The great point that must be re-mingham, Liverpool, Southampton the sportsmanship of Mr. Sop-find merit in things British for to perform on you. Tell me, Rustus,
alised le that the next war is not go-and all the big cities one's brain with that has made a new chal- ourselves' that it is with some is there anything I can do for you be-
"Yessah-hand me my hat." ing to start where the last war reels. The answer may be very lenge possible. His enterprise is sense of gratitude that we hear fore I begin?"
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ended. It is inconceivable that unpalatable, but it must be faced. There
• not so hopeless as in days when ajof the merits of English cinema
Watch Your Ankles reaching films. When the truth is spoken
any gases in the next war will be There is no direct defence. of capable yacht
Complaint is made that at some those used in the last, and for that is one defence, but it is an indirect America under its own sail had by an outside observer, Mr.
Let the people to compete in the race with Joseph Schenck, we recognise it popular beaches the Bather has to reason alone gas masks will be of one, and it must be taken at once if
over rocks covered
little or no use by way of defence. it in to be effective. vessels specially designed for for what it is. Many of the rescramble
This is known as
Even Lewisite--the American not the Governments-they do not racing in the waters round New cent British films have set awith seaweed.
"Dew of Death" which came too matter of every country know York. The conditions have been standard of quality that is not
war mcane mutual late to be used-will probably have that the next
Them- made more equal. Naval archi- reached in Hollywood. They going down to the sea in slips.
been superseded. The terrible dis-obliteration of the people. tects have learned much from have restored acting to the posi-
aster which occurred when the selves, their wives, their husbands, past failure. The Endeavour is tion it should occupy in drama- and have!
Americans first came into the war their children, their fathers, their more likely to win than any of tic representation, the previous challengers for the availed themselves finely of the Cup.
new technique that the talking Bli: "You know that music stool wearing gas meaks which were not mothers everyone.
a: defence against a new gas just To let the people of every.coun- then introduced by the Germans try know this, every country must Interest has been added to the film has imposed upon screen re-you sold me?” races by the fact that the Enpresentation. Hollywood, we are Jim: "Yes."
Bill: "Well, I've twisted and turned will be repeated in London and all be strong enough in the air to im- at last, rid of all. Genevica, sane mainly of amateurs, owing to a and there is ample evidence that in all directions, but I can't get the great cities if reliance is placed plement threat with action. Then
on masks. "strike" of paid hands. That the British film has more than a single note out of it!"
motte, that is to say, skimming common funk, may put aside the brings a new element into the national appeal. Quotas, which Facts You Did Not Know contest that may have perman-were imposed to give the British lent effects upon a struggle film
a real chance of develop Japan's drug ad pharmaceutical in./Over the roof tops at from 20-30 madness of war.
Interceptor scouts have no which, whatever the result this ment in Britain, are probably no dustry supplied about 75 pt
room to manœuvre for attack. They year, will continue to be the pre-longer, necessary, for most thea-the country's requirements.
cannot dive or they would crash into There is no air room to mier test of supremacy under tres are showing on their merits sail. Mr. Sopwith has coms greater percentage of British In tests weights un to 2500 pounds the roofs.
After being bitten by a dog, be- mitted himself to no more than pictures than the quota demands. have been successfully lowered from get underneath and to fly above is
to be shot down like partridges by longing to La Wing-kit, of No. 105 Other comments on recent de-airplanes with parachutes. the cautious declaration that he
Gas generated from coke has run an the massed guns of the attacking Robinson Road, Lee Chuen was No anti-aircraft gun admitted to the Government Civil is pleased with the way Endea-velopments arise naturally out of vour has been sailing. He is un- the importance that good acting automobile ten miles at a cost of less squadron.
could ever be brought to bear before Hospital yesterday for treatment. der no misapprehension as to the has regained. Beauty is not now than a penny in England.
the bombing squadron was out of
The dog has been sent to Kennedy effort that the American defen-essential to the film star; char-
A machine that raises the unwornaight over the roofs,
Town for observation. İders will make to retain the acter and fine acting count for
And there is one other question trophy. The America's Cup was more. Extravagant expenditure threads has been invented
the charges to be considered before defence can
Pleading guilty to carried away from Britain on great spectacles has become men to darn. their own hosiery,
be thought of. What is the amount of breaking into No. 34 Belcher aver eighty years ago, and has of less consequence, for the talk-
of gas necessary to obliterate Lon-Street and stealing godown fit- never again crossed the Atlantic.ing film requires more intimate
don? CIL MAGNATE RESIGNS
This is a question of simple tings, Leung Tak, unemployed, scenes. Of sex appeal the public
arithmetic taken from figures was sentenced to three months' A Regular Army King's has tired, although it welcomes romance and realism, and. the
San Francisco; To-day-Mr. published by the War Office with re-hard labour by Mr. E. W. Hamil Prize Winner. golden days for untrained beau-Moffett has resigned the Vice gard to a gas known and tested in ton at the Central Magistracy this
morning. ties are past. Put into a nutshell presidency of the standard Oil the last war.
Assume a rectangle Richmond- Another Bisley has closed, all this means that the film is Company of California to devote
Sentence of six months' hard with the King's Prize won for approximating ever more closely his full time to the Housing Ad- Barking Creek, W-E; Tottenham
labour was imposed on Chan Sai, the first time by a member of to the theatre of the living actor,ministration. United Press, per Wimbledon, N—S.
Assume that the gas could be unemployed, by Mr. E. W. Hamil the Regular Army. Until 1919 and that Britain, with its theatri- g. E. Levy and Company,
perfectly distributed (which, of ton at the Central Magistracy this only Territorials or retired Vocal tradition, has a great school
course, it could not), to produce a morning, for the theft of a five lunteers or Territorials shot in of actors and actresses to draw the chief competition. Capt upon. Even so, it is doubtful
over 80 feet would take less than 40 Fung Shui, an electrician, at the absolutely lethal atmosphere up to cent piece from the pocket of
Children Playground, Wabchai. Mass Attack On London
Sentence of three months' hard The papers give so often such
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FOR KULING
cent of feet.
to enable
Dr. Chu Chla-hud, Minister of
Itons.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Barlow has broken a long tradi- whether the British cinema busi- CHINESE MINISTERS LEAVES tion, and proved himself a worthy ness could have regained the set- champion by the steadiness with back of the war period had not which, after a tie, he scored a the coming of the talking film string of bulls to win the day.meant a new era in which pro- The meeting this year has been ducers could work without the Education, and Mr. Chen Shao- marked both by high scoring sense of suffering a handicap kuan, Minister of Navy, left very exact figures of the weight labour was imposed on Mui Hing, Nanking yesterday morning by carried and the speed of the air unemployed, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton and by the proportion of success-that could not be overcome-
air for Kuling, where they will planes of to-day that if is Tale to at the Central Magistracy this see Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. It repeat them here. A very rapid morning, for breaking and entering is reported that they have im-mental calculation will arrive at a No. 69 Queen's Road, East last sufficiently exact idea. If one thinks night with intent to commit a portant matters to report.
of squadrons, each able to effect felony.
ful competitors who, are serving
in the Regular forces.
DR. WANG RESIGNS POST IN SHANGHAI
If the Territorial marksmen have not had. quite the success they enjoyed in the past it is
While looking out of a tram-car this, passing over London every The resignation of Dr. Wang possible that this is due to the reduction of the amount of am-Chung-hui, Chinese Judge at the window in Johnston Road yester hour, for twenty-four consecutive A fine of $10 was imposed on munition, now lasued to the Ter International Court of Justice, as day, Wong Chuen was struck by hours, one begins to realise the Umir Khan, an unemployed Indian, ritorial forceA rifleman who Director of the Shanghai College another tram-car coming in the magnitude of the problem. by Mr. W. Hamilton at the practises constantly must either of Law, Shanghai, has been ac opposite direction, sustaining in It is necessary to consider the Central Magistracy this morning, pay for extra cartridges or have cepted, and Mr. Dou Yueh-seng juries to his head for which he was danger, before considering the de-for entering the Colony without a
see small sporadic attacks with pulsion was also made them provided at the cost of his has been elected to fill the numitted to the Government Civil fence. It is wholly useless to forevalid passport. An order for er
Hospital for treatment. unit. Yet it cannot be alleged vacancy.
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