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SCOTTISH LETTER, EARL BEATTY IN GLASGOW.
ÁFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEDCF)}
Just "year
KING EDWARD MEMORIAL.
AT HOLYROOD.
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.
SOVIET PACT WITH TURKS. ✨
INTRIGUE AGAINST PEACE TERMS.
THE WROUGHT IRON CATES AND A DISSENTIENT JAPANESE VOICE.
SCREENS.
That the iba Janki does not join The Times, special correspondent in the May 12th.
The last of the beautiful wrought iron wholeheartedly in the chorus advocating Middle East, wrote from Teheran, on May" Earl Huig of
the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance | Bemersyde received the Freedom of Glay gates and screens which are to form part is clear from an editorial which appeared: 70.
of-the-memorial-to-King-Edward-VII-a-beethor-day-The Osaka-journal-says---The-Tiftix nowspapers lately published gow and was made an LL.D. of the Uni-
Holyrood Palace have been dispatched toį It is reported that the necessity of the the text of a railitary convention which is versity. Last week, very appropriately disbargh. The bronze status of the continuance of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance said to have been concluded between the Farl Beatty of the North Sea received the monarch in the courtyard which they will Japitness Government has decided shortly Soviet Goferiunent of Russia and Mus
being recognised by bott Governments, the same honores, the greatest at the disponelone will be unveiled by the King during to open negotiations with the British capha Kemal's Turkish Nationalist or. of the civic and academic authorities. his forthcoming visit, with the Queen, to what concrete plans the Japanese authori ganization.
Government in the matter. We wonder There were other functions, but there were Scotland. Their Majesties have taken the ties bave for carrying on the projected The Convent on consists of 10 articles. the principal ones.
keenest interest in the construction of the negotiations. We are not absolutely oppo The Nationalist forces refuse adherence to ed to the continued existence of the Alli- gates, which began in 1913.
ance, but we do hold the view that it may any Allied terus involving diminished as well be abrogated, if the alternative is Turkish sovereignty. the territory that it be renamed on terms which are more disadvantageous to Japan than at present. Constantinople, is to Turkish, the Needless to say, the obligations of an Straits free. the fortifications of the Alliance must not be one-sided, and it is important that both sides should derive Dardanelles and the Bospores are to be the Anglo-Japanese il prodution. This destroyed, and Sovice Rimin is to give answer these conditions is clear from the oral and materialaid to Turkey if the fact that Japan cannot count on any assist latter is obliged to defend herself against ance from her Ally should armed pressure the Allies. Russia is to support the inde be brought by America to bear upon her.
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A picturesque figure" was the unanl mous verdict of the streets upon Rärl Beatty, a magnotio personality" was the the favoured description of those present atabe indoor gatherings. And wint seemi ed to strike all those who listened to his speeches was the ferre yet graceful manner;
comments,
tho teru forces.
Sen."
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Alliance does quite |
from the continuance of the Alliance in an countries. these circumstances would be the preven- The Musulman signatories of the present tion of Japan from borag reduced to a
position of isolation, diplomatically. This Convention plodge themselves to introduce hows that the benefit to be derived from in their respective countries the same the continuance of the Alliance in there
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Mr. John Starkis Gardner, under whose direction they were made, at his workshops, in South Lambeth, described them to a presentative of The Timer. There are two main double gates, four pieces in all of his utterance, and the made disin- They are designed in the spirit of the period of Queen Aune, when the finest terestedness of his acknowledgments and
Highly notable, and also examples of English and foreign ironwork was his widening of were produced. The height to the gars of highly Service" us applied, to our sea the Scottish lion' at the top of each gate The only benefit which Japan can derive pendenes and self-determination of Mosul,
"Before the war there were two; Services," he said, the Royal Navy and will be 20ft, and each weighs set. The the Mercantile Marine: there is now only wrought iron "piers" which form part of one great Service-the Bervies of the the support of the gates are of a ton In reviering Glasgow's important part, weight apiece. As the central feature in in maintaining the supremacy of Great the ironwork there is a bronze wreath circumstances would be the prevention of fine as is established in Soviet Russia. Britain upon the sens, he mentioned that during the late war the shipbuilders of the closing a bronze gurs of St. Andrew, Japan from being reduced to a position of The Turkisk. Nationalist forces anderske
isolation, diplomatically. This shows that Clyde achieved the remarkable rucord of 27in, high. The lion of Beotland is intro the benefits which the renewal of the All deliver all the refugees in Turkey building 675 men-of-war of every type duced in the centre of the overthrow, and ance may confer on Japan are not practicensed of high treason against Soviet from battleshin ià destroyer and, trawlerove that the Royal monogram, G. and cal. but moral. It appears that some Russia. The Turkish forces am, to begin and in addition the workships refitted no
Japanese statesmen, advocate the renewal of fewer than 1,963 vessels. Indeed, he said. M." Surmounting the whole is the fion, the Alliance in the belief that it would add forthwith military operations at the efficiency of the Grand Fleet and its serted or a Setish crown. There is a to Japan's prestige in the eyes of China Land on the Tutza hemen dan-frontirea readiness for battle depended to a consid- urable extent on the efficiency and in, cosecnsion to England and the spirit of the and other Fowers, but when it is remem
The present Convention is to be con hered that the existing Anglo-Japanese dustry of the shipyards of the Clyde. The Union in the roses and oak leaves embodied relations did not deter China from re-firmed by the Ottoman Government and general on which he drew from the pre also in the design. Two other Rates of Jews pudiating the Versailles Trenty, and do not the Sultan, its duration to be 26. yours,
vent th
be effective in preventing sent world situation was no differed regal design hace uso been made and will from laying the Shantung issue before the and the Republic of Azerbaijan is to be
China ance of our enemies had in no way the fact that the British Empire was be placed to open on the Canongate..
League of Nations, it may well be doubted party, oft is sighed for the Soviet Gov. entirely dependent upon the sea; therefore
The screens number 12, and are designed hu rauch increase of prestige Japan can ernment by the deputies of the Foreign there was no sort of excure for neglecting
expect from the renewal of the pact.
Commissary, Panotsky and Trutoff; for to insure adequately against the unfore somewhat after the celebrated examples at What must be most seriously consider Turkey by Riza Shems-ed-Din. Beha Hampton Court, and are ornamented with ed by the Japanese people are the uhiga Tewfik Hairullah, und Ramzi Beg. These While at the University. Earl Beatty
is supernnons to say that while conferring
sentatives of Azerbaijan. beneaty on Japan the Alliance throw
obligations on her shoulders, Had the Alliance, which it decided to continue Baku to Batum. Neither Georgia nar in its present form, Japan would have been Armenia has yet accepted the Soviet spared the obligation of participating in times involving the establishment of the European War. At least she would Soviets and the surrender of rangées, but have been in a position to avoid entering a prolonged, rehsal is considered uns into it at the initial stage, and she may likely have been able, to join in it, like America, whes the war had made some progress which would have placed her in a much more favourable position, commerciaily and diplomatically. That is to say, Japan would bave been able for instance, to bargain for a free hand in China. It ever, that in this case
Beta.
threw out a pregnant suggestion. If there stag heads and thistles, in bronze. Iron tions the, Alliance imposes upon Japan. It latter describe themselves als pr
was any aniversity in the world which railings of plainer pattern will separate should know something about sea power
I understand that there is a conside
and naval history, it was surely the Unithe screens. The whole will he extensively, eigura Cabinet decided to abandon able exodus of Europeans from Tiflis and
versity of Glasgow: and if it was possible, for a pablic-spirited citizen of Glasgow to do anything towards endowing a Chair of Naval History, he was sure that the Em pire would benefit thereby, for naval his tory and the future of the Empire went hand in hand.
A HIGELEND FUNERAL,
a ̈ "great"
gilded. Ail the designs and bronze orna- mutations are reproduced on the reverse or inner sides of the gates and screens, which are claimed to be the most magni, ficent ever made.
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war.
ROAD MAKING IN JAPAN,
FOREIGN ENGINEERS,
PROTEST AGAINST EMPLOYING
A noteworthy feature of the gates will be that, despite their great weight, they will be hang so as to move on hinges, and It is spidom that a funeral erremony in Host of the bincksmiths engaged on the London is conducted in the traditional Highland fashion, and the burial of. Mr. work were well over military age, and their Jami Margd.wray Watson, the veteran ing three went steadily-forward dur- Theirs is a rare craft and idealul atention. The mourners represent an exacting one, Mr. Gardner told of the seems to be forgotten by the end, how-Nobody who has recently visited Japan
shinty player, therefore, attracted don, and at the cemetery a piper playel and horses involved in removing the gatis ali probability have bed without of road maintenance Japan bax is vary. ed nearly very Highland Society in Lon-ast amount of labour and patience of men
from the workshop when conpleted, The Flowers of the Forest Lochaber No More Upon the coffin, and interred with it, were the two shinty clubs and ball belonging to the deceased,
GAELIC-SERVICE IN LONDON.
and
Of the various church services in London none is more quaint and simple than the quarterly Gaelic service in the National Scottish Church, Crown Court. Last Bun- day Onelic Day Was again observed, The praise and the hole service were int the old language, the praise being led by a precentor who sang gae line, the cun- gregation singing after bin in turn. All those present afterwards partook of tent and catcakes in the church hall. HUGBY WAR MEMORIAL.
The Rugby Union propone that the Hugby War Memorial should take the form of an archway at the entrance of the In- ternational Ground at Inverleith, Edin burgh. A site will require to be purchased, and the cost will be so great that the scheme will take some little time to mature. THE SKIPTING DOOM.
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It was the hour when monks of old may move along the silent ways of their claim ter, now open to the sky, above the old Linksward the ghosts of golf barbour.. may come again to the pany but punitive
would in will dispute the fact that in the Estilo
water by the first hole for
many & ball has found the Swilcanyond the Ural mountains, instead of the tities to engage the services of three
led,
The
her assistance. Not only has Japan spent great deal to learn. Constant criticism over a thousand million yen through her has resulted in the formulation of a big faithful observance of treaty obligations, scheme of road construction, towards the but she was compelled to undertake the Siberian expedition, which was desired by cost of which the Emperor himself has contributed 3,000,000 yen." We rend, how- none of the Japanese people. If Japan ever, that Japanese engineers are indign. had agreed to the origical proposil of British, Governmert, a large body of regarding a proposal that has been Japanese troops would have been sent brought forward by the Municipal authe expedition being limited to the districts American expert engineers, ten assistants east of the Baikal, with the natural salt and 25 experienced workmen for the in- And many a man has played the sad that huge sums of war expenditure were provemens of the Tokyo roads. Two-More!
wasted. The original object of the Japan. Japanese engineers look upon the sugge Shadowry forms may be swinging shadowy ese expedition was subsequent altered tion as an insute to Japanese in the more than once By the military party, who engineering profession, and allege that it clubs at featheries" whose fight you may never see. If bygone cronies consort are blind to the general trend of the world would be little less than a national dis of an evening either there or in the Elysian affairs, and it has become unpopular even grace if the scheme of the Municipaity is Fields, stroll out to the High Hole, or among the British people, who took the carried through, contending that Japanes take a glimpse in memory of a stroke that initiative in advocating it. At any rate, engineers are quite competent to undertake went wrong as the Devil's Kitchen or the the fact must not be lost sight of that the the task. They threaten to create an Principal's Nose, this must be their bour Siberian expedition undertaken by the agitation against the plan, if the Muni- surely. Now if ever the call must search Japanese Government is to be traced to the cipal authorities persist in their original them out. It is the call of the green turf, Anglo-dapucso Alliance. There is no say-proposal. the call of the old game, the call of the ing but that a second Siberian affair they The fact of the matter is, says the Japan occur in Juture in a region which is far ddvertiser, that Mr. Samuel Hill, the mood of Mecca.
more removed from Japan. Apparently advocate of good roads, when in Japan, the reference-in to India] This is a con made such an impression on the City tingency which must be most seriously con- Fathers that the latter decided to avail lead tas passe people in discussing themselves of the knowledge of American tinuance of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance."
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THE CARNEGIE MILLIONS.
An official statement of the value of the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's property in Scotland-the Skibe estates, with the
The shipping boom, of course, cannot last indefinitely, and the statement made the other day by a Clyde shipowner that Castic and its contents has just been sent the advisapility or otherwise of the coexperts and intended getting reliable and
to America by the American Consul in Edinburgh. The amount, stated in our is understood to run into the neighbour hood of seven figures.
The uk goes on to remark that the capable men through Mr. Hil, time chances to be unfavourable to Japila Comparatively few Japanese have a to expecs the rearyal of the Alliance on practical knowledge of road-making. any avourable terms. When the Aliance although they have studied civil engineer was first concluded there was a possibility in in schoot," said Mr. Nagai, one of "Since prac of Japan joining bands with Russia, and Tokyo's deputy mayors, this was a strong card in the bands of the tical work necessitates experience there is. Japanese authorities in conducting negotia no barm at all in getting Amerian ex It is understood that tions with the British Government, but at perts, and the suggestion that this would
the boom- might collapse at any moment, and when current contracts are fulfilled low repeat outers can be expected, simply voice the general views of British ship builders. There is more tonnage afloat excuANGING GRAIN YOR LOCOMOTIVES: at present than ever before the war, and
Messrs. William Beardmore & Sons, of the Americans are turning ous as much shipping, if not more, than we are. There Dalmuir, Glasgow are negotiating for the is a very decided slump in freights, and delivery of 500 ocomotives for Bumania owners are experiencing great difficulty in and Servia.
This consideration, coupled with the mean abwurd." opinion it has of the ability of the Japanese diplomats generally, makes the Osaka jour
obtaining cargoes. Few tramps now sail arrangements are being made for the the present time Japan has no such card be equivalent to a national disgrace is the ocean, it is said, as the big liner com- locomotives to be paid for either in part! panies are gradually buying up the wall or in entirety by the deliveries of grain iry and forming big combine bear, and oil from Roumania. however, that there are enough contracts ofE COMMERCIAL AGE in the Clyde to keep the builders husy for two or three years yet. THRIFTY ABZEDONIANS.
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I hear that the Duke of Buccleuch has just decided to let Dalkeith Palace green houses and gardens, which extend to about It is matter of history that the Aber 14 acres, for market garden purposes. donians are thrifty folk, bat, might it be EXPERT WITNESSES. naked, is it not carrying things a bit too While hearing a case the other day, far to plant potatoes in a cemetery? Sheriff Lyell, of Glasgow, declared that bave got beyond the age of being easily all evidence must be accepted with great ustonished, but the sight of this example caution even the evidence of experts. But of after the war economy-the other day why "event" gave me a shock. The part of the ground pianted was not yet"occupied," though almost next door a tombatone had been recently erected
ST. ANDREWS IN HAY-
• Sonie towns express themselves mare
313 ROBERT HORNE, EACONTEUE.
on forms, favourable to Japan.
nal despair of the recowa of the Alliance ARMENIA AND THE SOVIET.
In the opinion of our vernacular contemporary,"
RUSSIAN STATE TREASURE AS BRIBE. the obligation Japan assumes under the Alliance in force to go to the assistance of India when the peace of that country is
threatened from outside is a weighty one,
PARIS, May ib. According to information here Kara-
Some may argue that Japan undertakes this obligation only when India is invaded khan, Vice-Commissary of the Soviet a foreign enemy, and that she is free Fo.aign Ministry, has proposed to the from all duty when the trouble in that Armenian Government at Erivan that it country is domestic. But it must be re-shall undertake to refrain from 07 membered that in these daya it is sometimes hostile action against Soviet Russo, I very difficult to distinguish betwgen foreign proposes that commercial and diplomatic invasion and civil strife. The influence of relations shall at once he renewed between the British Empire was, moreover, greatly the two countries, and that the Armenian expanded in the East during the war, and Communists recently, arrested in "Armenia the disturbances in Russis have resulted shall be released in
The condition is laid down that Armenia spreading the British inficence all over
Bir Robert Horne had to meet much heckling at the London Chamber of Com merce, and at the end of it all bo told the story of a Glasgow couple who had courted for 14 years. They do these things Fersin. Britain has also an eye on the shall offer no sanctuary to deserters from easily than others. They offer a variety deliberately in Scotland, be rem they plains of Mesopotamia and other daigh the Hassian Volunteer Army. In return el communion. St. Andrews speaks in and he ought to know One evening they bouring regions and it is not difficut to for this undertaking the Moscow Govern moods as well as memories and never: with were ouf walking, and after a long silence more of the lare of beauty than on as the man said, Will you marry me predict that in negotiating for the renewal ment will hand over to the Republic of And Maggie replied; Yes. They walk of the Alliance Lord Curzon, the Becretary Erivan its sharp of the Russian State vening in May. If you see St. Andrea on again" for miles in ailepcountii of State 10x Foreign Affairs,.an.Imperialiĝt.
I did the other evening, hd fe
an glamour, says F.M. There is some. Maggie inid Have you naething mair who was formerly the Viceroy of India thing of Peter Pau about her, something to say,
replied, Joha I've said mair
Will
treasure.
Another version of the Bolshevists"" re-
of the age that was venerable. in conturies I'm "Now an anough should be extended to those regions, But ported overtures to Armenia was given
beforn ours, but her supreme gift is that for one
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demand that the scope of the Alliance
is it wise policy for Japan to acquieser in
by tho Times" : Constantinople · Cor
she will never grow. wholly modern. The Bir Robert Horne, speaking at the dinner such a demand The obligations of the respondent on May 5th Accoring old grey city vee but she has young which followed fod this anecdote of Alliance are too heavy on the zie of Japan to this, Armenia was asked to bept fresh faces too. Bome of these belong to the Prime Minister, One day maid Sir even at the present time, and therefore the Soviet control et iu foreign policy, and in hor own children; others beam from above Robert, situation arose which a coil acceptance of such demand would, make return Russia promised armed sistance the academic gown, more worn here than league of mino described to the Prime Japan's position not only at worse, but to ensure Armenia's independence and to Yes it would, lead Japan to a dangerous and obtain the same, territorial concessions as in most University towns, an evidence that Ministers being very worrying. even, the Mocca doer not live by geit alone. replied Mr Lloyd George life fe full of ventureom-road-Translated by Jepen the Entente willing to The
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