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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7TH. 1918.

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OUR LONDON LETTER THE MEANING OF A NOTORIOUS. LIBEL CASE.

iTnow are OFN-CORRESPONDENT----- LONDON. June 1ỌC, The remarkable thing about the not

The explanation in truth is, that the

to bave restored to her those provinces towards the Huns. which were not restored by Prussia after should the great war of 1868, and which were

never

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AFTER THE WAR. KING AND FOREIGN STUDY.

At a meeting of the Senate of the University of London met recently the Vice-Chancellor read the following letter, received from the King's private secru targ:-

Windsor Castle, May 11th, 1913.

Η Dear Sir Cooper Perry-I have had. the honour to lay before. the King the

copy of your report on the work of the University of London during the past

year.

His Majesty is glad to learn from it that the Senate, wisely laying to heart the experiences of the war, aid, look. ing ahead to the exigencies of peace. has now provided for the development of the study of foreign languages, and especially those of the Scandinavian countries.

The King notes with pride the dis singuished record of the university's war services during the past twelve months. He congratulates its members upon the honours and rewards which have been so worthily earned, including the posthumous awards of the Victorin Cross to Captain John Fox-Russell, whose lows, and that of all others who in the past year have made the great sacrifice, his Majesty sincerely deplores --Believe me, yours very truly,

STANFORDSAN.

ITALY'S WAR AIMS. NO IMPERIALIST DREAMS."" FY MRS. C... G."MASTERMAN_)

Italy's War Aims was the subject. The granting of votes for women will of an address delivered recently in the have one assured result antong much that Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn. to members of is conjectural. It has secured Free Trade the legal profession and others, by Signor in perpetuity. The reason is obvious. Avy Giovanni Andrea Serrno, of the

To the ordinary woman there is some Trento Trieste, of which a branch is being Mr. Ferberton Billing at the Old Bailey. Italian Bar and the National Society ous ease of alleged crirainal libel against thing particularly repulsive in the idea formed in London Mr. Justice Sargant of ruising prices artificially. Women are str. Justice Sargant said the ether

presided.

which shared with the war fewy frat before all things the purchasing section Allies realised the great debt that was place in public interest for five consecu of the community. They have to buy are by them to the courageous attitude tive days phenomenal thing in itself- ndopted by Italy in connection with the was. In the first place, when the Central is the conflicting ideas regarding it. Powers sounded her as to whether she was While informed opinion is dead against prepared to take part with than in the Mr. Billing at Westminster. in ther war of aggression which they were con. ma necissary item opens up a vista of templating. Italy's answer, was a clear political and Service clubs, and in the endless perplexities and complications, thereby ensured for herself the lasting

and decided

No(cheers) and she Press, the masses are inclined to lock. coupled with muny weary tranpings to enmity of Germany and Austria. In the upon him as a fearless champion of pure and fro to attempt to dodge the difficulty second place in the declaration of war the patriotism and moral rectitude. Where' hy trying a cheaper shop or a cheaper representative of Italy in Paris went there is so much smoke, they argue, there type of gods. It is as if one piece of a the Prime Minister and told him that ho jigsaw puzzle had suddenly enlarged and could rely upon the absolute neutrality must be fire, presented any other pieces froon joining italy, thereby enabling, the French to ATTACK ON THE OLD GANG." together. The majority of women have at

withdraw a large force from the italian all times much to buy and little to spend frontier. In the third place, there was therefore it is cardinal merit in an the occasion when she came to the uid article that it should be cheap. This is

the Allies, at a time when their fortunes whole affair had a political inspiration | pre-eminently the case when it is food were almost at the lowest ébb. All the There are a good many people like Mr. that is in question. The ordinary supremacy of fight and to deny

Allies were fighting to assert the Billing who imagine that the· ** Old! woman's main business in life in the pre-doctrine of brutal aggression, which was Gang" (meaning Mr. Asquith and his vision of at least twenty-one meals a week founded upon might alone. In justice followers) entertain a benevolent feeling for every member of the family, and the and equity Italy had an undoubted claim idea of increasing the prices of food artificially rouses a kind of primeval in.

But for this we dignation.

It may be said that during the last italian in everything except in politics, mysterious Black Beck containing the have heard about the two years the public have became accus and also a claim to have such a land and names of 47,000 British men and women both with the wishes and the policy of tomed to the arbitrary fixing of prices sea frontier as ensured her that reason- by Government at a level that secures hable reurity and independence without in all classes of Society who are sup profit for the producer, and that it is which no national life could be fully and posed to be amenable to pressure by the no longer resented. I do not think why adequately developed. (Cheers) one who has listened to the talk in street) Signo Ave Giovanni Andrea Serrao Germans because their private lives, as and omnibus would endorse this view,said Italy was forced into the Triple discovered by German agents, are not Personally, I am more and more remind Alliance with Germany and Austria in e of the remark of a Conservative friend 1989 by sheer necessity. It was the only (to put it mildly) exactly like that of in the early days of the Tarif Reform

means of preventing a declaration of Cesar's wife.

An offer from the Greek Government campaign. People will put up with a

war on the part of Austria. When the

of an annual grant of 7,500 drachmas for In proof of this the crowd point to Greck at King's College was gratefully the endowment of a chair in Modern rise in prices now, because they think itement was fually published it was cannot be helped. But if the Government

an immense satisfaction to the Italian curtain known facts, such as the com. take on any responsibility for the price people to learn that not only were there paratively large number of chatay aliens Chair of Modern Greek Fund of a bene accepted as was also one frm the con- of food, you may get a serious situation the Central Powers, but that the Central still at large in this country. to the faction amounting to not less than 2000

no clauses irremediably binding Italy to

mittee of the subscribers to the Kuraes in a time of shortage.)

The process was Powers had not fullled their obligations tenderness shown to Germans like Baronment of a professorship of Modern Greek obvious in the acute six wecks of scarcityto Italy, Italy was placed by the agree

a year in the first place for the endowe in January and February. The shop- ment in an abnormal and most danger von Bisaing (the brother of the late keepers found a useful phrase joc divert. ing resentment or enquiry by saying of her house, and she bad either to suffer Governor of Brussels who murdered inus position. The enemy held the keys Government orders." or Governmen. all humiliations in silehee or embark countless Belgians), to the gentle method, commandeered it," of any article that, upor a war in conditions of disastrous adopted towards Germans" still in busi. was scare o dar." From their point of inferiority. The Adriatic question was view it was extremely lecssful. They not werely of Italian, but of European nesa.here, and other things of a similar were exonerated and Government got importance, Trieste's problem had been the blame They keep it all for them wrongly considered of an econmic na selves." I heard one woman say darkly. ture; it was more of a political nature. evidently with a mental vision of tables Austria clung to Trieste not for com in Downing Street heaped with the ral. Rercial reasons but in order to carry on bits and margarine she could not obtain an ambitions Mediterranean policy, and The same thing would happen in pensa ennomic conquest of the Levant and the as a bridgehead for the political and time without any was appen to must patiener. Consequently the Government that added deliberately the smallest frat. tion to the prices of food would compass its own ruin.

At Granted that a tax on food is impus sible, it may be said, "surely a tax on manufactured articles would he popular in the industrial districts. As far as the women are concerned, I doubt if they would be in any.better case, In a climat like ours man cannot live by bread alone Clothes are as much a necessity as food. and the more careful and competent ae food, and the more careful and competent

the mother, the mare determined she is

that her children shall be well turned

out.

ter

At our present level of civisation

nature too numerous to mention. ATMOSPHERE OF SUSPICION.

The Senate. the Vice-Chancellor (Sir Cooper Perry) being in the chair, adopt- its Medical College to women students, ed a resolution expressing gratification that London Hospital had decided to open a step which is in entire conformity the University. Dr. Wilert 4. Murray was appointed Creighton lecturer for the be Erst incumbent of the Chair of Italian, year 1918-19, and Dr. Antonie Cippico to established by endowment from the Lon- don County Council.

and Byzantine history language, and the surplus to be applied to providing literature, to be tenable at King's College,, ¿ library, scholarships, or lectureships.

THE SIKH COMMUNITY AND THE WAR ANNIVERSARY

by

The local Sikh community held a specină meeting to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of the War. at the Sikh Temple, on Sun- day afternoon. Speeches were delivered Singh, and Bishen Singh on loyalty to AlesHrs. Mahan Singh. Mohinder the Empire, and the causes that cumpelled the war against the Central Powers, especi- the British Government to participate in Reference was made to

There was a great deal of this sort pf thing all through the trial, and very little about the libel, which charged Miss Mad Far East. Nor was it a question of Aus Alian, the introus dancer, with minister tria, alone. Germany, having laiding to the vices of "the 47,000" (or some mortgage on the wanted for herself a convenient road to of them in an English version of Osen ally Germany.

ports of the Adriatic. Asia Millor and Turkey, and to be Wilde's play, "Salome." It seems. Mediterranean Power. Italy would not be able to give the full contribution say the least, a very round-about way to her work and her genius to the case attack the supposed friends of the Hun of civilisation without first taking all by an outrageous libel on a woman, but necessary steps to defend herself against attack She did not follow imperialist there is the fact and it is Mr. Pemberton dreanis. By sincerity she came to a clear Billing's way. He succeeded in creating understanding with the various peoples who were under the domination and op

to

pression of Austrin, and she felt that ahearing of the case, and there was such an atmosphere of suspicion during the was fighting for their freedom too. Her

mathies and hest wishes went out to extraordinary procession of witnesses. all the Yugo Slars. The solidity of the Alpine frontier was such that Italy would from Father Vaughan to Lord Alfred never aspire to Continental expansion. Douglas. the erstwhite friend of Wilde, fier future lay on the sea. She would always favegar by her policy, the quilt that in the end the jury acquitted Mr states as a factor in the penze and pros.mob. brian and the multiplication of free Billing to the uproarious delight of the perity of civilised nations. The National Association. Trento Trieste

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was from-

pared. and he appealed to his English his critics be saying, There is a war brethren to join them. England and

Italy were each carrying on in their high mania affecting a considerable number af mission to-day the traditions of half a people in this country, a crazy condition century of individual history. Interven tion in the great war Dike for Italy and of mind which leads them to do all her two Ango-Saxon sister States was the manner of things, some criminal and fulfilment of destiny long prepared." some merely foolish. We may leave it at

the deeds rought by the smail Belgian whelming hordes of Germans, te Army, insisting the advance ni over- the sacrifice that each and every part of the services of the Sikh Army in France t British Empire is making, and to the

Callipoli campaign (when almost the whole the beginning of the war and in the of the 4th Sikhs were wiped out in pre- tioned with pride that the Sikhs hard won serving the line of communication), and since

then in Mesopotamia. It was men. tions awarded to the Indian Army. no less than cue-third of the total devorn

It was further pointed out that it behoved those who have not had the opportunity of undertaking military service to offer helping aand acording to their meana to the war-wounded brethren.

Although the local Sikh community, is small and not very well off from a finan- cial point of view, the congregation sub- cheque of $10 very kindly contributed scribed

the sum of $203.50, ineluding 1.E. the Governor, for the wounded

Sikh soldiers. The subscription list will be kept open for the present, as many of the Bikh community were prevented by

prayer was offered to Almighty God to the rain from being present.

At the close of the meeting a solemn grant success to the Allied arms, so that peace may soon be restored to the distur- bed world.

cooking utensils, soap and other cleaning apparatus, bedding. and П certain amount of china and furniture rank as almost equally necessary. A tariff that would not affect any of these things either by striking the machinery by which they are made or the small fittings by which they are finished, or the boxes and re

Mr. Justice Darling has been severely in which they are packed over if the Italian provinces under the domina

ed for the defence of the nationality of criticised for permitting Mr. Billing to the actual article untaxed, would be stien of Austria, and it had been decided malign famous people and then refusi thing new to revente experiener. course, all these articles can be done with Allied and neutral countries, in order to

to promote the formation of branches in the latter permission.to come forward and nut In emergency. but deliberat l- create a sound, sincere, common war deny his monstrous assertions. The ter, and would be viewed with implacable War found England, France, and Italy libel a day or two afterwards, answered making them expensive is ronthe reality host the various peoples, learned Judge, in trying another case if hostility. It is equally true that prices unprepared, Peace must find them pre often are nut up by methods na artificial al uncalled for as a tax, by trade mani pulations and combinations. That, how when. it is known does not produce patience with the tax. It merely produces fury against the manipulation.

Let there be no mistake, the promoters of any such schemes are up against the force which, we are told, makes the wenkest and most Limid artimal fierce and combative, namely, the maternal instinet.

‹ONSU IPTION OF ALCOHOLIC that. All the activities of each housewife, the

BEVERAGES IN CHINA THE WAR IN THE WEST. purchasings, plannings, adjustments. have for their chief cbject the "seeing

The Americans are arriving on the Despite the fact that Chinese trade Western Front at a prodigious rate through of her particular little shinload figures for 1915 and af humanity. To bring them up well and support the statement, says

1916 do Dot

United despite the redoubled, exertions of the healthy, to launch them satisfactorily int States Consular, report, most authori--boats to prevent them; and the recent adult life, form her main object and preties" on the subject agrec occupation, and there would be little for

that frightfulness" off the coasts of the there has been C large giveness for any government that she in the consumption of various foreign United States will have no appreciable the war.

decrease thought was deliberately hindering her.

To sum up, a tax on food is by general alcoholic beverages in China in the past effect on the steady flow of men and admission, impossible. A tax on other 30 years or so, and that the decline is necessaries is, for the same reasons, in becoming more and more marked as the munitions to Europe. In point of fact taking thought of the morrow, as re- practicable. It was the influence of the war proceeds. The situation is more the sinkings recorded outside New York women chiefly that defeated Protection manifest, in some respects, in the great harbour have brought the war home to in 1906 and 1910, and if they were power. reduction in the amount of wine and ful, then, they are more powerful now spirits consumed at more or less public great Ally, and this, coupled with when they are enfranchised. Now, functions. It is the custom in these war the darkening of New York, is impressing then, they disbelieve in the necessity for times to serve less wine and spirits than the American imagination with the realior among the several States, or with the uch a tax. As a consequence, any Chan formerly, and it alen is quite plain that ties of the world war. For the American cellor of the Exchequer who announces to even where the usual beverages are served Parliament that he has raised such and freely fear is consumed. There are many coast is now in the war ares although such revenue from any necessary of life reasons advanced for this change, most of 3,000 miles from Europe. pronounces his own political deaths them having to do with the war. The. tence. And any party that includes such cost of all such beverages has greatly THE GERMANS GETTING READY. itself to certain defeat, cepecially in the appreciated. High costs have been due taxes in its political programme arntences industrial districts.

THE GAMET

But yesterday he bossed the school As muddied onf," as "flannelled fool; Now he has sternur work to do He lends his men on lead the few: But what he learned in those fair days Are golden rules. him who plays In England's name for England's fame. Thank God our hoys" were taught the

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D. LA JEFREON,

doubtedly be a personal prejudice against in neutral countries. There will un Germans. Although this prejudice will will be merely of a personal character not interfere with German trade, as it it will facilitate trading transactions I employers will employ agents who cau pass as French or English, perferably, or as Dutch, American, or Spanish."

"It is something to know (1) that the German is aware that he is hated every- where; and (3) that already he is pre

resume" peaceful penetration paring in his characteristically slim way

NATIONAL TRADE MARKS.

after

But it is not our chief enemy only who gards trade. The Americans are pro posing to adopt a national trade mark ed or produced in the United States and to distinguish merchandise manufactur used in commerce, with foreign nations,

Indian tribes." A Bill for this purpos and Foreign Commeres. is before the Committee on Inter-State

Meanwhile, Switzerland is preparing against the danger of German goods being passed off as goods of Swiss origin. After The following extract from a circular three years of close examination of the not only, to high prices in producing issued last March by the foreign Trade subject, a scheme prepared by the Geneva centres, and to high freights on all such cargo, but also to export restrictions be Department of the German Government for the country. In effect a "Syndient Chamber of Commerce has been adopted cause of the war, the shortage of freight has come my way. It was sent out ut the pour l'Exportation Suisse (8.P.E.S.) space at practically any price, and to time the Germans wore beginning their has been established to promote the ex- the greater cost of bottling and handling big effort in the West

It will be wise for employers who Owner of the mark B.P.E.B.," indicat. the goods. In Hongkong the increase in

nortation of genuinely Swis products. liquor duties has also materially have foreign trade interests to employing Swiss origin, will give its members vanced the price of alcoholic products agents in foreign countries who can pass who must be natural-hura Swiss citizens. locally. There has been some effort on themselves off as being of French or the part of importers to secure goods English birth German agents and be a guarantee that goods wo labelled are the right to use this mark, which will elsewhere than formerly-particularly intravellers will probably for some time the product of the Swiss soil and of Swiss the United States instead of Europe after the war have difficulty in doing industry; and for goods which have hat in a general way the trade has de- business not only in enemy countries but undergone in Switzerland such mani- clined, as tho demand and supply have declined.

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pulation as to confer on them a new. character.-H.B.

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