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CABLES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY MAY 7TH

AMERICAN REPUBLICANS SUP FAR EASTERN CABLE THE CHINA SQUADRON-

PORT PRESIDENT WILSON.

LATEST HARLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEWS.

WASHINGTON, April 5th. Senator Johnson of California and

LFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT; }

ITALY'S CLAIMS.

COMPOSITION AS APPROVED BY THE ADMIRALTY The following is the composition of the other Republican Senators endorse Pre- STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS new Chins Squadron, approved by the FORMAL WITHDRAWAL OF ITALYsident Wilson's opinion, expressed in his

INCONCEIVABLE.,

LONDON, April 25th.

The newspapers in London and Paris agree in regarding the final and formal withdrawal of any one Ally from the Conference na inconceivable. Therefore, they believe that an agreement will be reached.

All insist on the necessity of maintain- ing friendship between Italy and Britain and France, and rely on Mt. Elnyd George and M. Clemencean to prevent n' definitë rupture between Italy "and the United Etates. It is pointed out that the Adriatic imprise will not necessarily pre- vont the signature of the Peace Treaty Wilson's President with Germany." action is generally criticised, as tactless,

ITALIAN PRESS OPINION.

Rome, April 24th. The Italian Press is insistent that President Wilson will be bettered.

It appeal to the common-sense of the 'American nation.

It unanimously approves the decision "of Professor Orlando to return to Italy.

There were demonstrations to-day in all the great towns in the Peninsula. 'The shops wore shut.

BARLIER CABLES

FIUME AND SELF-DETER MINATION,

LONDON, April 95th. In his proclamation in regard to Italy's claima and Presidens Wilson's manifesto, Professor Orlando stated that concessions giving the Alps as Italy's new frontier would be of vast import the condition that the

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IN PEKING.

TSAO JU LIN'S HOUSE BURNT.

Admiralty as-supplied to the China Mail by its London correspondent. will be noticed that besides E. M.S.

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manifesto, and promiss fully to support him it be maintains his attitude and declines to carry into exceution secret bargains by which peoples are disposed CHINESE MINISTER TO JAPAN DIES Harkin, which is to be Admiral Sir

of without their knowledge or consent.

They hope that the President will refuse to recognise Japan's secret bar gain

ONE OF THE ALLIES'

MISTAKES."

PARIS, April esth. M. Pashitch, the Chief Serbian Dele- gate at the Peace Conference, interview, ed by Reuter, said that one of the Allies' greatest mistakes since the Armistice was. the allowing of Italian troops to occupy Dalmatin. Most of the trouble with Italy was due to this.

DEMONSTRATIONS IN ITALIAN

TOWNS.

Similar demonstrations were held at Milan, Turia, Genoa, Naples and other

FROM INJURIES RECEIVED,

PEXINO, Mayath.

A body of students this evening attack ed Tan Ju-lin's house. They smashed the windows, wrecked the garage, and finally set fire to the base. The Police. were helpless.

[FROM THE "THE HONGKUNG CHINESE COMMERCIAL NEWS": FURTHER DETAILS.

SHANGHAI, May 8th.

A large number of students, including many who Lave, returned from foreign countries, totalling altogether over äve thousand, held a meeting in the afternoon of the 4th inst. and decided that if Japan

continues to hold Kiaochow and refuses to hand it over to China, the students will offer strong opposition to the signa ture of the agreement of peace.

Rous, April 25th Then were imposing demonstrations yesterday as a protest against President Wilson's thessage. Flags with Fiume" and Italy inscribed on them were

The students, after the meeting, march- Blown everywhere and the streets, wered to Kau-Man-Long, in which are the offices of the Foreign Ministers, and, thronged with enormous crowds.

subsequently, they made their way to the residence of Mr. Tsao Ju-lin, the Foreign Minister, where Mr. Tsao Ju-lin was enter. taining Cheong Ching-cheung, the Chinese Foreign Minister to Japan, and a Japan ese visitor. They set fire to the house. Cheung Ching-cheang was badly burned and was carried to a hospital where he died. Tsao Ja-lin made his escape to-a hotel with his family. The police appear- ed afraid to interfere at first but, after wards, they arrested thirty-four of the

Italian towns.

BRITISH LABOUR. THE COAL COMMISSION REPORT. - LONDON, April 25th." The Coal Commission report will be presented on May 20th instead of on June 30th, an originally proposed.

THE TEA TRADE.

TRADE!

LONDON, May 2nd. The Tinien states that the ten trade is

of the opinion that preference will not affect the trade in high class China teas, but will affect the importation of cheap China grades.

at Peking University,

Tan Ki-sui, the late Premier, and some others, held a meeting and were in favour of abolishing the colleges and University, but Foo Tsang-sheung, the President of the Board of Education, strongly opposed the idea.

Eastern flank of that frontier did not WILL PREFERENCE AFFECT THE ring-leaders, most of whom are students rein uncovered, and provided that Italy's rights included a line from Mount Novaso, separating the rivers flowing towards the Black Sea from those emptying into the Mediterranean, be cruse, without this protection. gerous, breach would remain in the Alpe. He expressed the opinion that Presid ent Wilson, as an advocate of the right of self-determination, must himself re- cognise their right to Fluine. that ancient city which proclaimed that she was pro Italian "even before the "Italian ships were near,"

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It is thought that one result of pre- ference will be keener competition with British teas in foreign markets, whither foreign teas may tend to go, but as long as British Arms maintain their pre- dominant interest in nearly all the tea growing centres in the world, there need be no fear of loss of trade to

HUNGARY SUES FOR PEACE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN ARMISTICE.

BERLIN, April 24th. The Lokal Anzeiger reports from that the Hungarian Soviet

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It is said that the students arrested will

obtain

be tried by the military. The President of the University desired to the release of the students, on bail,' but failed.

"A telegram from Tientsin says that the house of

eung Ching-cheung was

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Frederick Tudor Tudor's Flagship, HMS New Zealand, on which Lord Jellicoe is at present making a tour of the Empire. in assigned to this station. The Squadron is as follows

BATTLE CRUISERS. H.M.S. Hawking and H.M.S. Ver Zenland.

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SHANGHAI RACES. FIRST DAY'S RESULTS. The following are the results of the first day's races at Shanghai:—

a mile. PAPER EUNTER'S Cur.-Three quarters Grey Sand

of

(Mr. Springfeld). I Chop Dollar, (Mr. Burkill) Liberty BondMr. Knoll

Time: 1min. 29 3-5sces

CRITERION STAKES-One mile.

Triumph... Portobello

Sir Lamerock.......

Time: 2mins 3-sees

A mile. The Heron Odin

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(Mr. Ezra) (Mr. Burkill) (Mr. Vida)

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"I KNOW THE NATIVE.” OUR IGNORANCE OF INDIAN PROBLEMS.

[BY KRONTIERSM45.]

In a recent speech Mr. Montagu com plained of the rareness of occasions on which he could speak to audiences in He England on the Indian situration might have added the rareness of anding' an audience who could understand. Indian problems in their simplest uspects.

Few probably have had time to read through the 300 pages of the Montagu- Chelmsford report on Indian "Constitu..

THE GRIFFINS PLATE-Three quarters oftional Reforms. Nevertheless, it is worth reading if only as a masterpiece of lite- rary style. Its authors may fairly de- and that not only those who criticise it, but those whose votes influence the solution. should at least study their, subject.

Rest Cure

Time: Imin. 30secs THE CATHAY CUP.-1] miles. Gladiator

(Mr. Hill (Mr. Moller) (Mr. Heard)

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Scala Rouble

(Mr. Burkill) i (Mr. Crokam) (Mr. Vida)

Time: mins. 14, 4-39ecs,

..... (Mr. Burkill)

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LIGHT CRUISER, SQUADRON. Commanding: Rear Admiral G. H. Borrett, CB, RN

PON MATING CUP.One mile. H.M. Ships Carlisle, Cairo, Cape Fighting King

The Bulbul

(Mr. Hill) town and l'olombo..

Hobson's Choice... (Mr. Grayridge)

Time: min. 2-Bueċa,

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But, for good or evil, public opinion is as much moulded by chance discussions in clubs, workshops, streets, railway earriages, and private houses as it is by official reports, Press articles" wad speeches. And these discussions usually reveal distortious for which there is little excuse. Most of as have met the "atand- no-nonsense-from-these-natives" Briton, beside whom Mr. Podsnap himself would seem sympathetic and broadminded. We all again know they vague reformer who (Mr. Vida) 1

with- ..... (Mr. Ezra) 2 speaks of "India for the Indians (Mr. Springfield) 3 out the remotest idea of what either perma

implies.

Destroyer Leaders: H.M. Ships. Bruce HART LEGACY Cup.—Half a mile, and Douglas.

Destroyers: H.M. Ships Sabre, Soon: me, Scimitar, Seubear, Sirdar, Serapie, Seuft, Seatsman Seafire,Searcher, Splendid, Scythe, Sepay, Trinidad Sparrowhack and Simson.

Parent Ship: HMS, Diligence. Tenders: H.31. Shipw Dew and Day break.

17.

Class, Nos. 2, 14, and

Bixchoote Iron Duke Kowloon

Time: 36 4-seca.

THE JOCKEY Cur-11 miles.

(Mr. Law) t "(Mr. Brun) Battle Axe Big Ben ....... Sendrake (Mr. Braadsorensen)

Time: 2mina..43 4-5secs..

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THE KIANGSU CUP.--14 miiles." Sans Peur

(Mr. "Hill) Rosewood.

(Mr. Ezra)

A'COMMON. ERROIL. Generalisation, has always been a national vice. I have heard a young man 3 who had spent a few years in an ladian city in contact with a restricted class dispose of all problems with the con- temptuous remark, I've lived in India, and I know the native." Ever the plural would be less offensive. I know". the antive brushes away the mere possibility of divergencies, with a" pat- ronising omniscience,

.... (Mr. Burkill) -1 (Mr. Hill 2 ...(MR Springfield) 3

Submarines Class, Nos. 1. 2. 3. Standard Dahlia (Mr. Burkil)

Time: 3ina: 43 4-5secs ECLIPSE STAKES.--1} miles. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 and 13.

Mighty King MinelayersTM" L ́

The Corncrake H.M. Black Fox....

Time: 2mins 40 2-Bscea... THE CHIBLI CUP-14 miles. Leofield... Beaconlight Spaghetti

Depot, Ships for Submarinen: Ships Ambrose and Pandara,

Tenders for Submarines: H.M. Ships troquois and Catspau

Minesweepers: H.M. Ships Geranian, Mallor, Margüerite and Hydrangea.

SLOOPS (for Patrol Work),. H.M. Ships Clin, Cadmur, Odia and Expeigle.

RIVER CRAFT...

H.M. Ships Searab. Gnat, Bee, Z'arang! tula. Maatis, Moth and others.

General Depot Ships: HM. Ships Tamar and' Kourio.

O the above the following are already on the China Station:-Carlisle, Tamir. Rosaria, Cadmus Guat, "Bee, Tarantula, Hydrangea and Scarab,

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(Mr. Stewart) (Mr. Sleap) (Mr. Schoch)

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(Mr. Heard) ..... (Mr. Hill (Mr. Crokam)

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Time: Smins. 30 3-sees.. HONGKONG PLATE-Seven furlongs. -Midas ....... The Hawk Vosburg

Time: 1min. 49. 4-beecs.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

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The population of Europe, exceeds that of India by less than a third, but we do not generalise about Europends. We should be surprised if a Japanese whose sole experience of Europe” was a 1 short stay in Constantinople were to: adjudicate on the Welsh miners' demands by the plea, "I have lived in Europe, and I know the European." Yet the parallel is less preposterous than it sounds. We should be hurt if the national traits of Germans for Bulga 3rians were assumed to be characteris

tically British. But those who, in a stupid generalisation, lump together Benaglis, Pathans, Sikhs, Rajputs, Marathus, Madrasis, and Southern Mabouretans are guilty of precisely the same error. Theirs, indeed, is the more serious one, for religious differences in Europe have neither the intensity nor the importance of those which divide India.

The following are the results of yester- day's racing:-

CRU KA ZA CUP.--Three-quarter mile.. Golden Feather

(Mr. Sleap) 1 Bixshooter. Springfeld) Iron Duke....

(Mr. Era) Time: 1min. 293-5sec. THE MONGOLIAN PLATE. Half mile.

(Mr. Heard) Battle Axa ....... Sca Hawk

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TER FORBIDDEN WORLD

Small wonder that the Government of India have forbidden the use of the word "native is official correspondence! But, in substituting the word “* Indian,”'. they have encouraged a misconception which may be more sympathetic but is equally misleading. Il native" is the THE SHANGHAI DERBY-One and half catchword of the reactionary." Indian "

...mile

(Mr. Hickling) Time: mins, -14 3-5secs.

DANCING FOR THE MIDDLE. Moraco

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is the shibboleth of the unpractical iden)- ist. It cannot even be accurately trans- [BY FLORENCE BRIGHT,...

Mr. Henry Mooris Maresfield

(Mr. Stewart)lated into any vernacular of the Indian peninsula. In fact, the heterogeneous Has the jazz come to stay? Appre-Mr, G. H. Patts' Mighty King

(Mr. Burkill) graces, designated by it usually adopt, in their own languages. the English word hensively we ask ourselves the question,

Mr. G. H. Fatts' Fighting King

as it stands. For it is a term which (Mr. Vida) 2 as, with quickened pulses responding in-

can mean nothing else than an inhabit- Time: 3mins. 11 9-5secs. The Shanghai authorities in Shanghal voluntarily, if unwillingly, to the cur

ant of the empire now under British rule. bave received orders to protect the house

burned.

of Tsao Ju-lia and the tombs of bia ancestors.

IFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.} THE STUDENTS' RESOLUTIONS. PIKING, May 4th.

Moreover, it right was denied on the grounds of the international character London, through preference as at Pre- of the port of Fiume, then such inter-sent proposed. ́.. national ports as Antwerp, Genoa, and *Rotterdam were réfuting, precedents.

Professor Orlando: Furthermore, claimed that among the various national reorganisations which the Peace Confer-

A mass meeting of returned students once was establishing, none of these re

this afternoon passed four resolutions. cognised peoples would contain, within Vienna

Firstly, to telegraph to the Peace their new frontiers, a number of foreign- ers proportionately less than the number Government has requested the Entente in the portion which would be assigned Mission to send representatives to Conference pleading for justice and fair to Italy.

Budapest to negotiate concerning an He asked why Italian aspirations es- Armistice.

The Entente replied indicating readi-

Secondly, to telegraph to the Chinese. pecially should be suspected of imperial. iatic cupidity adding, that, in spite of ness to conclude an Armistice if the

abdicated and a new Delegates urging them not to sign the the history of these negotiations, in Government

representing which Grmness was necessary, the Italian Cabinet,

all bourgeois Delegation had always showed a great parties in Hungary, be established, and Treaty if it contained conditions un spirit of conciliation in the research for all Soviet decrees withdrawn. a general agreement.

The telegram adds that negotiations STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT, will be.begun upon these conditions.

LONDON, April 25th. The Timer correspondent in Paris, telegraphing yesterday. says that the gist of President Wilson's manifesto, if not indeed the full text, was communi. cated to Professor Orlando by President Wilson to days ago.

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AMERICAN PRESS OPINION.

NEW YORK, April 25th. Most of the evening newspapers, com menting on the Italian crisis, incline to the belief that Italy's defection would not vitally affect the final Fence Treaty, and support. President, Wilson's conten- tions as regards the Adriatic settlement, The newspapers profess to regard Professor Orlande's withdrawal as a typically Italian emphatic gesture."

The Sun, however, attacks President Bible for the present, deadlock. It says that the Fiume issue is not America's affair

AERIAL DEVELOPMENT, CIVILIAN FLYING IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, April 25th.

treatment to China.

acceptable to China.

Thirdly, to organise a demonstration to visit the "Big Four" Legatione af Peking, and present a petition for trans mission to Paris.

fous beat of the music, we watch the RACE CLUB CUP. Two miles.

Bo, ewood

(Mr. Ezza) 1. (Mr. Vida) (Mr. Crokam) 3

Time: 4mins. 221-6secs. Siccawzi Cup-One and quarter mile. Castlefield

(Mr. Stewart)

(Mr. Vida) 2 (Mr. Hill), a

Bir Lamerock....

jazzing couples. This modern moRouble strosity or delightful dance-you name itScola according to your point of view-is rapidly asserting its sway in the dancing room, and all who, defying the power of its fascination, dare to linger and look on are sooner or later carried off. their feet. Like a demen mocking in its glee, the banjo twangs and, moved by an. inexplicable pulse, these victims and denly abandon custom and prejudice, and join the already numerous army cf jazz-craze sufferers.

EXPRESSION IN DANCING.

1s not the rason of all this that we really need a revival of dancing 7 Away a desire for movement implanted by down in the inmost hearts of us there is nature, who knows what is good for us. It needs but the opening bars of an in- spiring air, and instantly the desire awakens to respond to the measure, to be of and away, answering the call within s for expression. We hear so much these days of the joy of expression-why' Fourthly, to telegraph to the Shanghai not express ourselves in dancing?

Movement, by stimulating the circula Conference urging the Delegates totion of the blood, causes an increased feeling of vitality. It is a moot point hasten a settlement.

whether the lack of sufficient movement in middle life is not responsible for many of the disabilities of mind and body which loom on the horizon as that age is approached.

A mass meeting was also held in the

The ban on civil aviation will be re- moved on May 1st, when flying will be permitted along seven trunk serial routes radiating from London and ex- tending to Scotland, "Dublin, Belfast, Plymouth, Bristol, France and Holland. Central Park, at which like resolutions

a statement issued by the Air Ministry details are given of the router were carried and facilities to be afforded by the Government to civil pilots at various stations between the starting point and the destination.

THE DEATH OF LORD KITCHENER.

Nigger Minstrel

Time: Sains., 42 3-5secs. GRAND STAND STAKES-One and quarter

mile.

(Mr. Hill) (Mr. Vida) (Mr. Wuilletimier) 3

The Heron Michigan Sea Bird

Time: 2mins 404-3secs. PEEING STAKES. One mile.

(Mr. Springfeld) - 1 Gray Band

...(Mr. Steng) 2 The Dancing Bird (Mr. Wuilleumier): 3

Time: 2mins.. 044-becs. Beacon Light

SHANGHAI STAKES.--One and half miles.

Gladiator,

(Mr. Burkill) 1 *Rydand

(Mr. Wailleumier) 2 (Mr. Bill) 2 "Sans Peur

Time: 3mins. 11-becs.

Dead 'beat.

WIRELESS TO AUSTRALIA. MESSAGES SENT 12,000 MILES

WITHOUT RELAYING,

been

Imperialism has become associated with Kaiserism, and is unpopular, but we may still remember that there have whose ideal was Imperialista that of beneficent trustees, and find for them a new and less tainted name." At all costs. it is our bounden and solemn. duty to increase our general knowledge of India and urge the same study on all. We may then hope to sympathise with the aspirations of a limited intel- lectual class, and with our own patient attempts at unselfish reform, without forgetting the inarticulate millions. whose ideal is not, self-government, but good government.

If we are to scrap Imperialist" and native," let us also forget to dogma tise on down-trodden Indians" and pompons bureaucrals."-Daily Ex-

presa,

BATTLEFIELD MEMORIALS.

GREAT WAB EXPLOITS.......

A committee of senior officers repre sentative of British Expeditionary Forces, the Dominions, and India, bas recently been constituted,under the chair- manship of the Adjutant-General, to con sider claims made by units to erect on battlefields permanent memorials to their exploits.

A wireless girdle round the world is Hitherto the erection of memorials on RHYTHM AND GRACE.

becoming a possibility of the near future. battlefields has only been permitted on -Experimental messages (the Daily the distinct understanding that they were Movement in harmony to music is a..

temporary, and certain divisions have sheer, delight-therein lies the fascina Chronicle learns), have been sent to was cele

ernments of France. and Belgium have, tion of dancing a delight which might Australia, a distance of 12,000 miles, with actually erected such memorials. The Gov-. be enjoyed by many of us with untold out relaying. This achievement

brated by the sending of messages from however, expressed their willingness to It is the intention not merely to estab In the House of Commons, recently, benefit to health and spirits. The awk bra

on battlefields memorials of a permanent lish direct communication between the replying to Mr. Bottomley, Mr. Bonar wardness displayed by some in moving Australian statesmen in London to their consider applications for units to erect

nature cial wireless service between England and.

requested, at the but they have Metropolis and the places named above, Law said it would not be in the public their nether limbs is merely lack of know: own country. The opening of a commer-

same time, that applications should not 'Wilson's ideals and helds bim respon. but to provide for some larger towns on interest to publish the report of the Court ledge of balance, easily explained by Australia is only a matter of time and

of Inquiry held into the loss of the Hemp really competent teacher, and with Prace the permission of the two Governments be submitted except through one central the lines of Blight.

The Ministry is responsible for the shire.

were the

tice much of this, and its twin brother, concerned.

authority, and, with this in view, the air-worthiness of all civil aeroplanes and Mr. Bottomley asked what passenger carrying craft and the pilots considerations of publio intereat which self-consciousness, will" disappear. The Marconi service between England committee has been constitutedAt thes

jazz, fox-trot, innately ungraceful in Indies have just been opened again to the

It that the

been fought over so often and by an know the truth as to the circumstance themselves, should be danced Ent, why public. These services, it will be remem- many unite it will not be practicable as Lord Kitchener's deathe understood not revive some of they graceful dances be bered, were closed down in August, 1017, general rule for each unit is have als that reports of Courts of Inquiry, were lover of our grandmothers, which could owing to the discovery that they were own separate memorial. It is

jury were be adopted to modern ideas, and would being used by German 2 trection to sideration the claim of any individun agents for the ever, the intention to exclude from con- never published.

Bir B. Cooper (M.P., Walsall) asked certainly meet the demand for round whether the right hon. gentleman had dances. If the Jar leaves behind it when enemy submarines. The method of com-unit to erect its own memorial, bat the seen the statement in Lord Jellicoe's book, it goes the Inevitable way of all crazes munication involved an ingenions code committes hope that as a rule claims for that the Hampshire was sent up an un- a fashion for more dancing. for every one, it will have atoned for many of the wept channel on

defects of which its detractors accuse it

Exprest

GERMAN PRESS OPINION,

BERLIN, April 25th. The German Press is attentively following the Italian-crisi

The Forsische Zeitung attacks Britain and declares that Britain's ģim ir to Balkanin Europe and split up its forces. The Berliner Tageblatt say that it is not Italian egoism nione; that is to blame but the egoism of all those work ́ing towards peace, sloj teh

Formuerte sider. President Wilson.

periodical inspection.

AUSTRALIAN ENCOURAGEMENT

OF CIVILIAN FLYING,

MELBOURNE, April 20th,.... It is anticipated that the. Common- wealth Air Force will total 1,400 officers and men in five years

It is proposed that instructore shall, subsequently, thoroughly "train 'all - men desiring to become, civilian flyers.

Mr. Bonar Law said he was not aware

of that,

system, and any enemy craft fitted with wireless could, of course, pick up ailing directions. carried on the wings of the

wind

how

the erection of memorials to divisions.or higher formations only will be submilled; the exploits of smaller units can then, be recorded on these memorials,