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THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE SITUATION IN INDIA. PASSIVE RESISTANCE DEMONS-

TRATIONS AT CALCUTTA. <.

CALCUTTApril 14th. During the week-end there wore passive which tho demonstrations -resistance

Alarwari began by interfering with trauicar passengers and closing their shops.

The pipustrations culminated in sari ous rioting in

HOW TO WIN LABOUR. SIR E. GEDDES VIEW

CVE THE MEN THE FACTS!! In view of the labour unrest the speech made by Sir Eric Geddes at a dinner of

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, FRIDAY, APRIL 25TH

THE VOLUNTEER.

(1914-1919).

for sin a CONAN DOYLÉ)

The dreams are passed and gone, old man,

That came to you and me,

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FLYING: WONDERS.

AIR CHIEF'S FORECASTS.

¡CIRCUIT OF THE GLOBE.

Major-General Sir F

H. Sykes, K.C.B., Chief of the Air Staff, gave i

1919..

THE AERIAL LINER, 700 FEET LONG; 71 MILES AN

FOUR

It is commonly befiaved that airships have not made good. This may be be cause very little concerning them has roached the public, and because the

the National Alliance" of Employers and Of a six days' stunt on an cant coast front most optimistic forecast recently of the long-distance work that aviation had most Zeppelins failed in their raids, and

Employed, held at the Holborn Restaur ant, recently is of considerable interest

LETTING OFF STEAM.

Mr. John Hodge. M.P., proposing The National Alliance of Employers and Employed," said he had not been greatly concerned about the labour trou the Indian quarter.bles. The sooner the workmen let steam The off, the sooner they would settle down. Several Europeans were assaulted. Police were stoned. Some of the officers it was better to get rid of the froth now than when the work of reconstruction. were injured.

The military were called-out-and were had really started. His experience was compelled to fre, causing a doten casusi. that when they got the best of both sides ties. After this, order was restored. Tha to discuss matters, the big, broad-mind-

Military are guarding the indian" quared, and big-hearted man always dominat.

tex.

LAHORE AGITATORS DEPORTED,

LAHORE, April 14th. Several agitators were deported "to an unknown destination. The General Commanding told the shop:keepers that unless they opened within 48 hours the

-shops would be forced and the contents

auctioned

RAILWAY STATION WRECKED.

SIMLA, April 15th.

A mob t Qugrinwala in the Punjab Astacked a train and wrecked the railway station. Agroplanes from Labore bombed sad machine gunned the crowd.

ALL QUIET IN LAHORE..

· Lovnox, April 20th- The Pese Burean states:--

The Viceroy telegraphed on April 20th:

The moù, in-day, attacked the station

d Strikes and lock-outs had the same effect upon industry as war had upon nations-they were wasteful.. I many did not produce wealth they could not have it in wages. (Cheers.)

PROGRESS OF DEMOBILISATION. Sir Eric Geddes, who was cordially received, remarked that unemployment

was always ahead of them. There were half a million people unemployed to-day in this country. But that did not ap pear to him to give pause for alarm. han resettling a whole country like this there must be a pool from which the best of the jigsaw puzzle had to be sorted, and as long as the people who were inevitably in that pool were not allowed to suffer privations and want~" and that is oar business added Sir Eric-they need not be alarmed, unless it assumed large pro- portions. The percentage of out-of-work

And the Hun with his back to the sea..

Lord, how we worked, and awotted sore.

To be fit when the day should come! Four years, my lad, and five months more,

Since first we followed the drum

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Though Follow the drum" is a bit

grand,

For we ran to no such frills,

too

It was just the whistles of Nature's band'

That heartened us up the hills.

Until he could blow no more, That and the toot of the corporal's "Bute, And the lilt of "Sussex by the Sez,”

The rebing song of the corpa,

Those hills!"My word, you would soon

get it,

Be you ever so stale and suck;

If you pad it with rifle and marching kit

To Notherfeld Hill and back! Drills in hall and drills outdoors,

And drills of every type, Till we wore our boots with forming

fours, And cur coats with Shoulder hipe I No glory ours, no swank, no pay,

One dull eventless grind! Find yourself, and nothing a day

Were the terms that the old boy's signed, Just drili and march and drill again, But they got two hundred thousand men.

And swot at the old parade;

Not bad for the old brigade !!!

good two hundred thousand came They may have been, old and stiff, and

the chance of that east coast fight"

Jame

But, by (corge; their hearts were right! Discipline! My Eyes right!" they

cried, "As we passed the drill hall door,

cyed

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possibilities of aerial navigation when diverted trom, war to peaceful purposes. The occasion was an address on mercial Asiation in the Light of War Experience, which he delivered before the London Chamber of Commerce the Cannon-street Hotel-the first occasion, as he remarked, on which the chief of a fighting service had spoken publicly upon

the

sach, the total distance, London-Delhi, being approximately 6,000 miles Wa were justified in looking forward to the approach of a weekly mail service by nir between London and Tadia, the time of passage not exceeding seven or eight days This would be advantageous from the commercial point of view. (Cheers.)

Although it was in connection with to offer, it was well not to overlook the possibilities of such routes as London to Dublin and London to tlasgow. Study, was now being given by the Air Ministry to these, in connection with their possibilities for urgent mails and newspaper work. Newspaper proprietors high-speed arroplanes for conveyance of aight Pasily find it advantageous to use copy. stereotypes, and photographs be

tween such centras.

lasgow, and Dublin.

London, Paris,

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But attempted raids, on the country. it would have been extremely foolish, to discuss openly the work of our airships while the war was in progress.

Their function was essentially with the Fleet, and could not be written about Now the veil may be lifted.

THE FUTURE OF AIRSHIPS, We may new consider what the future holds for lighter-than-air craft in the coming age of commercia) and pleasuro Aving. The future of airships was by no means neglected by the Civil Aerial Transport Committee. Two distinct. means of aerial transport and travel 102 No competition as in cen- will undoubtedly soon exist side by side,

junction,

Aeroplanes and airships have their own perutiar powers and limitations; and because of their differences actual rivalry annet seriously exist between. them. No airship will oror travel at 40 miles an hour, for instance; an aero- plane capable of that is a certainty. On

commercial aspect of his own service. Major General Sir F. H. Sykes said that aviation in any form WAS but a dozen years old. Ta ingat countries it was still

LONG JOURNEYS Hy kinships, child of war; but military airtrait had The airship was well adapted for long- this.distinction, that, unlike other forms distance journeys Javolving non stop of warlike preparation, which were usi flights, as there was practically an init

all peaceable

they stituted-peans-for-undertaking public-be-to4dle-latz-nough, THEreased whatever to its range prociled it could and political work of the highest value enparity there was no

reason why they Air craft an

for fighting, developed

could should not he built expable of complet be employed in and plexessible opening up far distant ing the circuit of the gioi Zeppelin

of

Empire, airship dew from Janbali, in Bulgaria, In survey and mapping, and in postal

to German East Africa, carrying 1 tona and other communication services in

dis-

of mmunition for the relief of. a force Fortunately, on her tricts as yet unreached by private enter operating there. prise. Aviation was now on the threshold arrival in Central A rice he was inform of a new existence in civil and commered by wireless that the fores had cial life. Its progress and development rendered.

the other hand. no zeroplane yet, con She therapon set, ont must inspire confideme on the part of home, and reached the hare in safety,ceived will be able to cruise for 10 days the public and the business community, having been in the air four days without without descending to be refuelled and There must be no exploitation of a new landing. Some day perhaps it

overhauled; an airship capable of this might industry by ignorant or unscrupulons be possible to run a continuous abship is already planned. The gas capacity persons Sure steps were necessary. In service between England and America

of this protected ship will be 10 million the technical aspect we should pit the Among the many difficulties which cubic feet cover four times, de much pa brains of our inventors and engineerswould have to be overcame in fully de that of the German Ero, the Goliath against those of the whole world, with veloping air routes, there was first the of her kind. Her length will be 1,100ft, no reason to fear the issue. We had international Conference with regard to her full speed 05 miles an hour, her gained for ourselves the foremost place aviation. The Royal Air Force had late cruising range 20,000 miles. Passengers, is design and technique of aircraft and ly been engaged in preparations for a with their luggage, crew, provisions, engines, and British manufacturers might postal service across the North. Sen, but merchandise and so forth. un to a safely be trusted to maintain and im- 147 regard to these, us we were still legally weight of 200 tons, will be Hfted by these assistance in design and rescrirch work, of "the three-pile territorial water limit. in their accommodation saloons; draw- their position. (Cheers) State in a state of war, there was the difficulty ten million" ships, which will include it was agreed on affhands, must continue upon which agreement must be reached.

"root ing moms, emeking rooms, and a Improvements which had taken place in the design and construction of sero- planes and engines had brought us to a position in which, with prudence and Judgment, the risks of flying were very

the pilota. Even under the conditions of prisingly few, and the average had reached the high figure of 1,170 hours per fatal casualty. Since 3,340 officers had been killed on the West 1916, January, ern Front. Nearly all cases had been due to battle, and only a small proportion to accidental causes. The total dying done bad been close on 1,000,000 hours, or 114 years', With the disappearance of the enemy's ballets has disappeared the principal cause of fire occurring in aircraft. Under present-day conditions, the chances of a passenger safely reach

his ing journey's end in a modern machine conducted by a skilful pilot, and operated under proper conditions, were not far short of his chances of safe ar rival by the older and more familiar

to

Farden" with a lift up to it.

AERIAL LINERS. To-day a British airship of almost two and three quarter millions gas capacity is being built. This ship is to have a

benefit policies was decreasing each week and left it at that-so we marched cock. small, apart from the danger in traincreasing rather than decreasing if the length of nearly 700 "ft., a disposable

From three to half-past four..

not in numbers, but in the length of "All is quiet in Lahore. A number of time people were drawing out-of-work

They had every reason to be op And solid: Why, after a real wet bout benefit. people are coming in, repentant.

timistic.

In a hole in the Flandera mud, At present we are going through aIt would puzzle the Boche to fetch us-qat, somewhat critical time," he proceeded.

For we couldn't get out if we would?« There are. inbour disputes and troubles everywhere.

Somehow or other we do Some think we could have stood war's noticem to pulling together as we

test. should. Somehow or other the employer

at 'Narobi.

The Bengal State Offences Regula- tion has been extended to the Gujarat

District.

Railway communications have bean restored. Mobile columns are working at arresting the rioters,

Nothing has been reported from the North West Frontier Provinces.

"

"

Some say that we could not; But a chap can only do his best,

"And offer all he's got.

Fall out, the guard! The old

guard! Pile arms Right turn! Dismiss No grousing, even if it's hard

To break our ranks like this.

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home

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We can't show much in the way of fun, If we'd had our chance just one just

For four and a half years gone;,

one!-

and the Government and the working "classes are not all on the same rope, and we want to get on the same. (Hear, hear. We must admit things are not going well. They ought to go better."

From all aides pamphlets, reached him containing schemes of conciliation and The Delhi shops are open.

arbitration, industrial councils, local All is quics in the Bombay Presi councils, and Whitler reports, some good dency." Two agitators, who were distriter) All these things were to cure an sume bed, and some not good. (Laugh buting inflammatory leaflets, have been evil. arrested.

What was. the cause of the evil? In Calcutta. nothing is re-

Suspicion, distrust, lack of knowledge of ported."

ench other's difficulties (Hear; hear.) They had seen to what the Russian fever had brought Russia: We were not going to the employe by enabling him to see to make the same mistake here; we were the essentials of the management of the made of different stuff. (Hear, hear.) concern in Agurer he hace what was He did not think there were 5 per cent. going on, and realised the effect of of the British working men who thought changes. That removed distrust, which HOME FORCES DEFEAT INDIA AT that kind of thing was right. (Hear, with suspicion, was at the bottom of

hear.) Employers and employed were as our troubles. casential to each other as night was essen-

EARLIER CABLES.

INTER THEATRE WAR CHAMPIONSHIPS.

second-half.

SOCCER

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able spirit.

OFFER TO TRADE UNIONISTS.

Carry on, old sport, carry an i

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was training fatal accidents had been sur.

means of transportation.

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT.

now

One of the most important problems be solved was the influence of the weather. There were at present thirty-one Royal Air Force Meteorological Stations in the United Kingdom alone, and there seem ed every likelihood of this number în- Royal Air Force was allowed to continue lift (for passengers luggage, goods, the control of this service. A night ser vice was often less liable to suspension etc.), of 60 tons, full speed of 71 miles than a day service. owing to unsuitable weather conditions per hour, a cruising range of 9,100 miles, For instance, and a cruising endurance of almost nine. would probably be possible to make days, trip from Lendon to the Rhine on 100 days and on 100 nights of the year, in June, three or four times, each week, and during the winter-hionthe one trip a week. Already great progress had been weather. A clever instrument was now in mada navigation in fog and misty in nas to determine the angle between the direction in which the aeroplane way pointing and the direction of her path over the ground, and it also gave the actual speed of the machine and the force and direction of the wind, so that fairly

of mach difficulty, owing to the entire accurate, navigation became, possible as long as the ground could be seen. Flying tages over aeroplanes in personal com through douds still remained g matter fort. Ordinarily an airship need not fat much more than a thousand feet. loss of all sense of direction, until the This makes for less cold travelling, and introduction of the tarn

said that with the enactment of the in-

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Except, perhaps, for coastal cruisers, airships are unlikely to be regularly employed in short trips, except for pleasure or over, badcountry. Their obvious use is for merchandise carry- ing, long-distance cruising, journeys of world is easily within their compass everal thousand miles--and round the

of heavier than-air craft in a single even now-which are beyond the powers stage. Not only are they better suited for this sort of work by their very nature, but they poses other advan-

now. We had great national factorien, blast furnaces of Cleveland, and by the Trans-Atlantic flight demanded' an organ. ting stations were, in fact, a form of The latter's engines beat.incessantly and

take over and run one of these factories.

Darham Coal

Coming to some of the competitions which had been discussed, particularly the offer by the Daily Mail of £10,000 for the Transatlantic light, the lecturer

instrument designed to how cator, an also enables those in the ship-especially onn 'dialat cruising speed-to enjoy the scenery. terim regulations that fight would, asmachine

the slightest turning movement of the In an aeroplane thing, rush by so fast. Aerial extant for taking underneath that the world look like a for is Great Britain was concerned, open to all comers, including our friends

astronomical observations, wireless apdull contour man. In an airship, bow- paratus to enable aircraft to fix their ever, one can come down even to 200ft. in America. Last June, arrangements position frequently and to report to their or so, to drift with engines almost or Ministry with a view to testing the pos- if they were in any difficulty, were also things. In an aeroplane the splendour were seriously commenced by the Air sibility of bringing aerial reinforcements being developed. A good example of the of the Bay of Nanies is lost; in an air- base.what course they were steering or completely stopped, and to look ab from America, and also of being in t Д nge of directional wireless tial to-day-There were found to be difvast majority of industries in this cour

His experience taught him that in the position to render all possible assistance-seen-in-the-recent text Hip graphene ship it can be enjoyed at leisure. LONDON, April 23rd.

to those wishing to make the attempt. ner ferences between the man who held the

neroplane from London to Paris, in which

COMFORT FOR PASSENGERS. The Enter Theatre War Championships purse strings and the man who wanted they did not really work on a scien. The problem was not so much one of en an serial navigator gave all directions

tific basis, with statistics to show what durança of the machine and personnel,

Then, too, an airship always Bic on commenced at Aldershot to-day...

what came out of the purse. They must they were doing. If they had careful and but of navigation, meteorology and wire where the machine was without ever look turning an aeroplane does, nor does as to sicering, and stated periodically an even keel; it does not bank" in At Hoccer; the Home forces defeated deal with those differences in a reason accurate. statistics, and the men knew less. A straight course must be kept,

out. ing exactly what each operation would result both by day and by night, in, thick or within five minutes of the time calculated

Paris was renched in a fug it climb or descend steeply. All this India by 2 goals to mil. The weather was

in, they would realise what was at the fine weather, in all winds even a small by the navigator. On the return journey greater security. Sleeping in an air- makes for comfort, and a feeling of Some representatives of labour thought back of the management, and see what error in bearing might easily be sufficient the officer, on stating that the machine ship is a calm experience; moving about, dull, but there Were thousands of

that an industry should be run by labour they were trying to do, and he believed to miss entirely so small a point in the spectators. The ground was in good for labour. If ever there was sa Op. common sense. Would oo toto te belli Atlantic as the Azores. As Fes we knew she be over Brighton at that moment, comparatively simple. Also, there is less

was found to be less than one mile condition The Canadian, Thompass, portunity for that experiment it existed That policy had been adopted at the nothing of upper air conditions in the from that town. The ground transmit noise in an airship than in an aeroplane

mid-Atlantic The accomplishment of the well-known Milwall centre-forward, equipped probably second to none in the Northumberland and"

aerial lighthouse or bencon unaffected by the wind shrills and whistles cast- scored with a fine shot in the first-half world, and owned by the Goverment, who Owners' Association, and he was told that isation capable of centralising at the fog, sad with a range of visibility of 600 ingly aicong the wires. An airslap has He also scored from a penalty kick in the Were willing to sell thein. Would it cot the effect had been greatly to promote immediate weather conditions all along perhaps in the neighbourbond of £60,000 and the engines can be throttled down

starting point all information about the be a good idea if trade-unionists would harmonious relations.

or 700 miles. Their cost would be high no wires to madden with their noise, the tunities when suitable conditions existed they were primary requirements.

route," in order that the rare oppor

or £70,000 per station, but for aircraft

to a few revolutions, or absolutely stop (Laughter.) He made that proposition

might be seized. It should not be uzder

ped with a favourable wind blowing not jokingly, but seriously, He was sure

THE IDEAL PILOT.

Travelling in an airship need be no the Government would look sympatheti

taken lightly, and should be viewed at

The lecturer described the procedure more noisy than in a motor car. Engine present s perience would be valuable, and be boped industries and the men had access to In all overland projecte the greatest

Force in conducting their bombing raids matter in an airship. The gas bag will those who believed in it would try it

With regard to profit-sharing, he was a them, we should have gone a very loss importance would attach to the selection of the German lines. Parafin fares always keep you up until the failure.

had been found exceedingly satisfactory, is repaired. The airship is only re great believer in it, where it was applic way to get rid of the distrust and auspic would be governed partly by geographi

equipment

This of aerial "routes.

As the lighting phiwell Small lighthouse mist and for latively slow; it is normally twice as fast able, but the history of profit-sharing wagion which were at the bottom of all out and, increasingly, by commercial.com-

have used to fash various code

as an ocean liner. Beside an aeroplane not very encouraging. The latest report troubles. If the employers gave the men

it is slow, but aeroplanes and airships 1912) stated that there were 300 profit the facts showing why instructions were ditions. Preparations on a large scale Other small searchlighters and signals.

are not true rivals Hitherto climb has The opinion is gradually forming in sharing schemes started, and that 183 had given, they would find the men would and much subsidiary organisation were many serodromes to light up the path

died a natural, er unnatural, death. The respond, and distrust and suspicionded, and conspicuous marka and in- ing, and were switched off and

Landing grounds must be pro- along which a machine was actually land-speed in the airship. Now that climb is been considered more important than remaining 137 were in existence, and they would go.

Repair facilities must quired. given

on as re- Kite balloona of medium size a minor consideration, more attention speech indicated a resolve to free himself employed about 100,000 people. That in these times it was only by mutual be established, stopping places linked "P from the predominant Unionist influence rather showed that profit-sharing did not tolerance, and understanding, or effort to with centres of distribution. In this the marking of aerodromes both by day miles an hour is easily within reach. It

were expected to prove tery useful for can be given to speed. seem quite to meet the case.

understand, that we could possibly matter private enterprise would derive and night in foggy or misty weather. is scarcely necessary to say that the He did not know why, but he thought succeed. Employers and employed 'could the greatest benefits from the work that A much higher type of courage and long-distance commercial and passenger- the idea was that before they could get not work apart Unity and trust bad had been done by the Governments of the intelligence was, and will be, required airships will be of gigid, design. The

uccessful profit-sharing, they must be brought us through the war, and in God's countries of Europe during the war. The for aircraft than for any form of land Times. able to give the worker, who shared in name let them be united and trust each greater part, however, remained to be transport. A pilot was something more the profits an adequate margin of come other a few more years. (Cheers.) Ta done.

than mere driver; he The recent overland fights between to induce him to put bis back! employers 'he would say, "Help the men

of something into the thing to make it a success. If by giving them the actual facts, so that Egypt and India had been undertake of man who had got weather, havi they took the ordinary non-speculative. they can understand what you are trying in order to blaze the traill, and, gaiation, machinery, and speed in his bones. Nations," written 100 years ago:: business, and the business where the pro to do, and what your views are." To the experience. In'good weather a machine He could imagine that the ideal pilot 1 judicious operations of banking, by pro-

starting from London would doubtless fly for important commercial work would TO-DAY'S HISTORIC MEETING. | portion of wages to the working expenses, men he would say, "Try to realise that rect to Marseilles without stopping; one who, a vessel, passed in navi metaphor, a sort of wagon way through-

r the total turnover was high, they might every employer is not a soulless profiteer, thence, with a short stop at Piss of Rome, get a sufficient margin to make it a but that he has got his dificulties. Try to Taranto, Bein, April 19th. General Nudant, on behalf of the success. The great outstanding success to understand him, and try to pull with would be Suda Bay, in Crete, to the coast the CAVA at the beginning of the war.

him for the good of the country you have fought for (Cheers.)

India was represented by the First Battalion of the Yorkshires, who were cub-played after the interval,

MR. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. LIKELY TO LEAD DEMOCRATIČ ELEMENTS.

LONDON, April 20th.

political circles" that Mr. Lloyd George's

in the House of Commons and to embrace

the opportunity of taking up the lender ship of the Democratic elements which so strongly asserted themselves in the recent bye-elections.

THE PEACE TERMS..

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He did not say that statistics were infallible. But if used with discretion they would be the first step in the re moval of distrust. If these statistics were

cally upon any such proposal. The only kept systematically by the great a commercial pronation rather than employed almost nightly by the Royal Air failure, too, is not such a life or death.

and go

and

needed. dications

ia

ship Railinked

must be type

be

kerted his apprentice- Its long journey overseas gation, and

in steam, had joined.

been employed on long reconnaissances

Laughter and cheers) and long-range night bombing raids. Fortunately there were many mon even, of this ideal

sible stop at Mersa Matrah, the macht could

proceed to Cairo, where mails be transferred to another machine, in order that the one which had flown London might be given a complete

Bfrom

over

the buccaneers of a later date pré modern

One hundred

The

Concluding, the lecturer quoted a pass ige from Adam Smith's Wealth of

viding, if I may be allowed so violent a

the air, enable the country to convert s great part of its highways into good pastures and cornfields, and thereby to increase vary considerably the annual produce of its land and labour." metaphor was not so violent after all, and the wagon-way through the air The Chairman, moving the vote of H. Bykes, mentioned that at the

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yesterday, to the Armistice Commission noction with gas works, where labour was at Spa, inviting the German, plenipoten- roughly 30 per cent of the total ex

There would always be need for arbit tiaries Lo Versailles on April 25th to penditure. In coal 72 per cent of the ration. We should never avoid strikes receive the text of the Peace Prelimina total expenses went in wagen Obviously nor was be sure we wanted to avoid them rics, requesting the German Government they could not profit-share successfully on altogether, because we might have some haul before return to England. Thence type, and a much larger number who was about to be realised. (Loud cheers), to notify the number, names and status that. On the railways 66 per cent, of the thing worse... Strikes might be necessary. the route would lay by way of Demascus Possessed one or more of the qualifica that which was given to Major-Generat -and-stating that the Delegation-must-rearned a dividend of 3 per cent on men had no other way of voicing-their Bushire, and along the coast to Bunderred the way for the race of

of the delegates and their attendants, expence was upon labour, and "railways in exceptional circumstances, because the and Baghdad to Buara, on the Tigris totions Just as the Elizabethan song Sur Bo tu be held Paris thera main strictly confined to its rôle Ordinary stock they to 21 feelings, but we had got to find that other Abbas, India being reached in the best merchant, seamen, so the war pilots of word berial nights, a way over foreig off that and reduced the dividend to 21 way. Before they struck let them meet stage at Chatbah-Karachi Hyderabad to-day had javed the way for the avolu with aerial rights of way over foreign Count Breckendorf son Bantiau reper cesty the average return on a proatthe employers round the conference Table Veranilles Minister von plied intimating that he will send to sharing basis to employés was only 25 and discuss facts and figures.. Let them and Jodhpur are the remaining steps to

Haniel, and per work.

tion of a British merchant air service nth thes, dificulties as to tho-Customas, Herren von Keller and Ernat Schmitt

and question as to the conversion agres to work together, or if they had to

Everything possible was being done by For this journey

wents-five serot Air Ministry to hasten matters for Peaceful machines into those terrible Counsellors of the Legation. They will The conclusion was that profit sharing and the separate upon dwa drones and landing grounds were neces be authorised to receive the text of the was not going to be a penaces for indus cion. He believed that by mutual trust, require to be equipped with, first-class tion of aviation from a war to a peace luck, and they hoped to and aviation

facts, and not upon distrust and suspi sary. Taranto, Cairo, and Baars would

To that Conference they wished good Peace Preliminaries,

trial troubles. One great factor in pro tolerance, and sacrifica, we should got facilities, minor repairs being provided basis with the least posiblo delay and ployed as a peaceful moans of distribut- fit-sharing was the indirect benefit it gavel through the very critical time that was for at Rome Marseiller, Buda Bay, and

confusion. (Cheers.) (Continued as foot of next column.}

Karachi. The stages averaged 350 miles (Continued at foot of next column.) -

They will be accompanied by two officials and two Chancery servants, -

PROFIT-SHARING NOT A PANACRA, "

ahead of us (Cheors)

Delki

ing commerce and advancing civilisation.. (Clipers.)