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Although he took part in all the

N Act was passed through the serious lack of schools, with North Sea naval engagements

Parliament in 1953 asthe consequent high proportion during the war and was Beatty'ssuming financial responsibility of illiterates. It is confidently flag-captain at Jutland, the public for the Dominion of Newfound believed that the Commission of knows even less about him than land, Britain's oldest Colony, Government will tackle the education with about most" First Sea Lords.

temporarily suspending the question "of

Constitution. This escape from publicity is of Dominion

and vigour. Indeed, &, start has his own seeking. He is a silent appointing - a Commission of been made already. reserved man who lives only for Government. consisting of Another most urgent matter. his own job and has few hobbies three. representatives of Great with which the Commission is outside- 11.

Britain and three Newfound dealing is that of the provision

of medical, nursing and hospi With his high forehead, his landers, to take its place.

The nursing deep-set eyes, and his thin.' firmi

Thus in fact, and mainly in tal facilities. mouth, he looks like st thinker. theory. also, the Parliament and service, formerly run by a He is. He was the star cadet of people of Great Britain became voluntary association, has been his year in the Britannia.

responsible for the welfare of a taken over by the Government, white population of about 295-and its beneficent activities wil A MIDITERRANEAN EXPERT 004, as well as a few thousand be extended so as to cover even- Indians and (in Labrador)tually all villages and districts

at present without a nurse. Esquimaner

One would have to go back

Cod Fisheries several generations to find To-day, many villages are 30- His father, was an Admiral be similar state of responsibility far away from the nearest doc fore him. His only son, after on the part of Great Britain tor that the cost of a single- brilliant career at Dartmouth, had for a population so largely of visit is greater than the whole to abandon the Navy owing to an European descent Even in the weekly earnings of accident while boarding the Fro- Crown Colonies and Protector-family. The danger and diffi bisher for his first cruise.

ates, with their predominantly culty of getting anyone to hos Sir Emle, who is 62, is a Medi-native populations, there is in pital in winter, even in some of terranean expert. He commanded most cases representative the closely settled districts, is a cruiser squadron, there from government, and almost com- so great as to be well-nigh in 1928 to 1925. Only three years plete responsible government in superable-

Commander-in-Chief some, as, for example, in cer- There is no medical inspec- The China Mail Secretary at Dublin Castle, the age he was

He tain of the West Indian islands. tion of school-children- If amiable Augustine Birrell of the Mediterranean Fleet.

"Island Depression author of a famous volume of has dined with Mussolini.

there were, it would doubtless Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 24, 1935 essays, "Obiter Dicts." did not In spite of his reserve he is

It is, therefore, desirable that be possible to check at the out- of seem to be able to take him quite a good speaker. He wants a at least some members of the set the serious ravages seriously. The Prime Minister, strong British Navy. His views House of Commons should try dowed with the charm and good

tuberculosis in the island. En Mr. Asquith, with plenty of on its present strength can be to study conditions in New- evidence for a prosecution, summed up in one of his rare foundland as I have attempted looks of their race, 27 with hesitated and fumbled, and public utterances: "You cannot to do by personal friendship manners which are credit to just at the moment when it was expect men in Ford ships to fight and contact with leading New their parents, the children of maxim, but it does sometimes

urgent that

Great Britain men in Rolls Royce ships.

foundlanders, as well as by a happen that a man's influence should present a united front

recent visit to the island.

By far the greatest industry the German threat the

The Commission of Govern-i not only lives after him, but to

in Newfoundland is, and has: Government was actually

diffier''t ment succeeded, to z becomes more of a living force afraid to enforce its own laws.

been for generations, the export task. The country had been

of salted cod Farming, hum- with every year that passes, In a country that has chosen to

"Have you noticed a very odd thing brought to a sorry plight, part bering, the tourist industry and and it would be mere superfi-work by the voting system about blunt people? Jones asked his ly by reason of the depression in ciality to say anything about the infallibuity of the odd man

"Can't say that I have said the the fishing industry, and partly other forms of fishing and seal- the man without weighing the of all law. It was not long embarrassing at times."

such a condition is subversive latter. "They are certainly rather by borrowing and expenditure ing are small" in comparison:.

The fishing industry has suf- by the Government far beyond

fered by reason of its stubborn effect of his acts. Of Lord before the Nationalists began Jones nodded pensively. "Yes, but the capacity of the people to individualis and according to Carson in his private life and to arm themselves for defence bam'tit ever struck you that they are bear.. his personal abilities there can under the specious claim, which the ones who generally come to the

There were also other fac the Royal Commission presided be no two opinions. He had could not be logically resisted, point first” he said.

tors, in the conduct of Admins over by Lord Amulree, from· the quick wit and the personal that they were arming to en

tration, which are unhappily undue profits made by middle- magnetism which used to be force the law. The result was

The teacher had asked her class to only too common on the North and merchants. It is, considered almost a monopoly the Dublin insurrection in the washout composition on the sube and South American Contin- however, only fair to say that some impartiak opimon thinks At one time middle of the war, the Black|ject "Water."

pients. it was said that the greatest and Tans, and a crop of fierce One member seemed to be having There was a further element the Commission went too far in entertainment of the day was memories that show no signs of dealty, but finally he turned in his in the situation which should its strictures. Steps are being

paper, and here is what he wrote: to sit in Court when Sir John passing away.

Water is

a light-coloured, wet be stated. Newfoundlanders taken to remedy these dis-

advantages. religiously-minded Simon and Sir Rufus Isaacs

very turns dark when you are Not only was the Irish feud quid which

But the main trouble is much persons. were briefed on opposite sides

The Church of Eng- of a case, but there was a big-politic of Great Britain, it prac

a grievous wound to the body wash in it

land, the Roman Catholic deeper and more intractable.. ger thrill when one of the comically, when the tales of the

Church, an organisation, repre-The world will not, or cannot. Teacher: "Tomay if your father seating the Protestantities, or at the price, which it buy salt-cod fish in the quan- batants was Carson, particular-

Black and Tan reprisals came could save $5 a week for four weeks, Churches other than the ly if the man under the operat to be told, destroyed for a time what would be bavet ing knife of cross-examination the moral prestige that had was a rascal. The effect some

enabled England to hold times was that the more he established his case by forcing questioned her position of confessions from the victim.rimus inter pares in the Empire. the more was a kind of human is not likely that-the-con- sympathy aroused that was institutional change known as contradiction to the law.

Lord Carson "De mortuis is an excellent

of the Irishman.

Your Daily Smile!

friend.

Blunt People"-

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And a Dollar,

POLICE REWARDS tentions, and

Newfoundland merit all that can be done for their

Tommy: "A new radio, a new suit, Church of England, and the did in pre-war days. Ittis the and a set of furniture.

Salvation Army, are all active sam depressing tale as that of South Wales coal, Lancashire- organisations. -No doubt with the best cotton, East Coast herrings.

through the

Men Wanting Work I was privileged last July, in agency of many devoted Chris- tian men and women, they have company with one of the Com battled fiercely for generations missioners and several public for the spiritual and physical spirited Newfoundlanders, who welfare of the inhabitants Infare doing admirable voluntary the past the State in New social service, to attend a meet- foundland has provided

tewling, in one of the many pretty...

Fold fishing villages "out- er-ports," as they are called. It was held to discuss methods of ziretoration.

Car Bandits At Large

EUROPEANS HELD UP

The audience was typical of country. Handsome, stal- t courteous without being rvile, shy, reticent but with keen underlying sense of humour, the men present em-.

died the best characteristics

descended.·

the "Statute of Westminster would have taken its present But it is with his public career form but for the detestation in that the world is most concern-the Dominions of the methods ed No one of less personal of suppression that were adopt- attraction and ability could ed in Ireland, and after, all both have done so much harm. the grant of Home. Enle and The Police are offering a re-educational facilities, and When one reads his biography the Statute have been utterly ward of $2,500 for information tically no modern social

Heading to the arrest and con-vices. it is with a curious mixture of vain in making any reconcilia-viction of the perpetrators of Lack Of Schools admiration for his courage and tion. Ireland is divided into the armed robbery and murder The Churches devotion to his cause, and re-two sections, either of which which took place on Wednes accordin

ret that his conscience com-is too small an economic area

day, October 9, at about

achieve something in both pelled him to chonse at every ffor prosperity, and bitterness

at the China Light-and

In this way they point the course which made it is more rampant than ever.

done

meritorious ser impossible to devise a working And even the effects in Co's sub-office. Shanshuipo,

It will be recalled that a bat, unfortunately, the rivalry agreement on which Ireland Ireland of the Ulster rebellion might have started a new era do not complete the picture Chinese shroff and an unarmed between them has often pres the Channel Islanders, Irish of national development. As There is very little doubt that Indian guard arrived at the vented necessary facilities being he saw himself probably he the Kaiser and his advisers office to collect the day tak given to a particular, district and English from the South and thought that patriotism was his were following the "Curraghangs, as was their daily routine. One religions community has, West, from whom they are

They both returned to a wait for example, often successfuly ruling passion Was he a mutiny" very clos They patriot? He began life as one inferred that England would being car, carrying a leather bag opposed a grant for a school, on $2425. As the In-the ground that another com- of the small band of Liberals in much too busy with her own contiguard catered the card manity has presented its claim the South of Ireland, but his affairs to com politics cannot be labelled with of France, an any of the conventional tickets. (be ignored as They were a compound of raci- the inmed alism and religion and a deter-quarrel, the big recruitment ofwho was on the footpath a mination to win. He had both Northern and Southern robbers stole the attache ças several careers at the Dublin Irishmen.

escaped The Indian gu Bar, at the English Bar, as the cord of tho

the car was not ing champion of Belfast on the the war zwa

several shots were Home Rule question, as a prise for me Minister in the War Cabinet realise that and finally as a Lord of Appeal. private But he will go down to history all. But the organiser of the Ulster came Volunteers. He collected" and Lenber-b to a fund to pur

Germany

to the assistance

several armed Chinese rushed that she might up and immediately opened fre

litary power ith revolvers, fatally wound

topping of the

splen

ing another unarmed guan

ther reward of

the grant-based

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