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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, MONDAY, MARCH 18r. 1991.

REPRISALS IN IRELAND: TROOPS SACK TOWN FOR FOUR HOURS. FIGHTING COMMUNISTS

SERIOUS CONFLICTS IN GERMANY.

COAL INDUSTRY

OUTLOOK:

THREAT OF NATIONAL STOPPAGE.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.! THE IRISH TROUBLE. BEPRISAL BY FORCES OF THE CROWN,

LONDON, March 26th,

As a reprisal for the ambush at Carrow Kennedy the forces of the Crown catered Westport at 3 o'clock in the morning, and spent four hours wrecking the town, continuously volleying and bombing. houses and shops and burning furniture. Many inhabitante since the ambush were alceping cut. Others took refuge in the workhouse....

A number of railway stations and signal cabins on the Antrim railways were set fire to by incendiaries last night."," BINN FEIN INCENDIARISM NEAR LONDON.

LONDON, March 27th. The week-end was marked by a series of incendiary farm fires in the northern outskirts of London and in Northumber land, which rest of four ricks on different are attributed to Sinn Feiniem.

in the St. Albans district on Hriday night was succeeded by a Blu destruction of six ricks on adjoin ing ads at New Barnet fast night, while simti aneously outbreaks started in. farias in six districts surrounding Newcastle, including Wallsend, Jarrow and South Shicida.

EARLIER CABLES,

IN IRELAND.

LATEST CABLES.

NEW WORLD'S RECORD.

* CALIFORNIA - UNIVERSITY- ATHLETE'S PERFORMANCE.

LATEST CABLES...

GOAL INDUSTRY OUTLOOK.

PROSPECT OF NATIONAL STOP- PAGE.

LONDON, March muthao

COMMUNIST

THE EASTER MESSAGE.:

SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL YESTERDAY.

LATEST CABLES.

OUTBREAKS IN GERMANY. FOLICE GET THE UPPER HAND,

There was a large congregation at the morning service at St. John's Cathedral, BERLIN, March 26th.

yesterday, when the Rev. H. Copley Moyle As both coal-owners and minors are There is an indication that the authoritaxt St. Luko ch. 24, verses and 3, proached the sermon. He took for his obdurate, there is little prospect of avert tics are getting the upper hand in connce (And they found the stone rolled away ing a national stoppage on March 31sttion with the Communist disturbances in when the industry returns to private Prussian Saxony. The police rejected the found not the body of the Lord Jesus) and from the tomb. And they entered in and management, de er overtures made by the Communist leader said

The miners declare that the stoppage at Eisleben with a view of securing the will be a lock-out for the owners who cessation of hostilities and eventually Lays recently terminated contracts with fully controlled Eisleben after sharp fight men, who are now bound to resume on ing in which machine guns were used, and April 1st on reduced wages fixed by dis also occupied Hettstedt after a violent trict agreements or to cease work.

conflict, but the Communists are cati mated at 6,000 strong and have plenty.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S" AGENCY.}.

BONEW WAPPOINTMENT TOR AK

E. D'OWILTOT.

LONDON, March 20th. Mr. Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, Minister to Fathonia Latvia. C.M.G. has been appointed British

hundred years to a garden outside

We go back in thought some nineteen OHINESE MINISTEER VISITS Jerusalem. There amidst the trees there

FRENCH TOUNDRIES.: was a tomb, hewn out of the rock. At early dawu strange sight had been seen

PARIS, March 3rd. Mr. Tcheng Lo, Chinese Minister to by the Roman soldiers watching there France, after visiting Lyons Fair, paid a They had been placed to guard the tomb. visit to the great steel works and found- of "arms and ammunition and possess It was first a part of their every day Halle.

AS SERIOUS.

LONDON, March 25th. regard Communist outbreaks in Germany Authoritative quarters in London

sporadic and not serious..

BARCELONA, March 24th."

The public are not excessively disquiet ed at the prospect of stoppage, for stocks of coal are large, and foreign coal can largo nitrogen works at Lenna, near work, nothing strange or unusual about rien in St. Chamond, where about fifty'. LONDON DOES NOT REGARD THEM guart the living than the dead. And so

Bity" save that it was more common to young Chinese mechanical engineers are

now in training,—Havus, they had watched and waited, expecting THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAYS. nothing unusual, when suddenly a bright being from another world flashed before door of the tomb and sat upon it. And at their eyes and rolled the stone from the

At a meeting of the International Com- munications Conferenes, China asked men though they were bad swooned and had become as dead men. And when and empty and they knew that it was Government in Russin, but it was decid

cluded from the operation of the Draft they recovered they saw the tomb open Convention until there is a stable usciess to watch there any longer and so od that the case was covered by the they hurried back to tell the chief priests provisions of Article XI, which settles what had happened. And then the the relations with States not adhering to women came and found the stone rolled the Convention. away and they entered in and found not. the body of the Lord Jesus. And to las the story of that empty grave is being read and preached in every country of the world.

Competing for the University, at the the next few days, evolve a policy which/without apprehension. All are apparently the sight of the Angel, the soldiers, strong that the East Chinese railways, be ex

be imported pretty cheaply, while the trade slump has restricted the industrial requirements of coal. Moreover, the miners have been financially crippled by the last strike, and as there is not the slightest prospect of employers yielding the most probable result is a split in the BERKLEY (CALIFORNIA), March 27th Miners Federation, unless the leaders, in Southern California Athletic Meeting.ay keep the districts together

Both sides, yesterday, separately, re Charles Paddock covered and yards a ported to the Government the failure of 50 4/3 seconds, which, it is claimed, is the negotiations. Punding the Govern

ment's reply, the owners have gone to the districts to invite the men to listen to an explanation of the owners, offer.

EARLIER CABLES.

AITNERS REJECT OWNERS' PROPOSALS.

new world's record.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONALE.

NORWEGIAN LABOUR'S.

ADHERENCE.

CHRISTIANIA, March 27th.

the Norwegian Labour Party has decided, "A meeting of the National Congress of by 981 votes, to nuhere to the Moscow Internationale. "

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attempts to blow up public buildings at The latest crop of reports mentions Leipzig and Dresden, while the town of Eisleben. is reported to be in the hands of the rebels.

INDIAN FISCAL POLICY. POSITION OF LANCASHIRE INDUSTRY.

If you had gone to Jerusalem on thát morning and asked of the great events that were happening, you would perhaps become friends, you might have heard of have heard of Herod and Pilate haring great men taking office under the Roman

CHILD LABOUR IN HONGKONG A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY APPOINTED

A proclamation by H.E. the Governor appoints the Hon. Mr. S. B. C. Ross, Mr. McKenny, Misa A. M. Ritts and the Rev. Chow Shou-son, Mr. L. Ping, Dr. C. W.

Lokvos, March 20th. The miners delegate at the conference cently, protested loudly against the new

LONDON, March 24th.

The Lanenshire cotton industry, re to-day decided to reject the coal owners Indian daty on cotton and other goods SWEDISH SOCIALIST SPLIT.

proposals for a wages settlement on the A representative deputation of employers STOCKHOLM, March 27tb. mand of National Wages Board.

district basis, and to adhere to the de- and employes waited on Mr. Montagu Empire, you might have heard how such H. R. Wells as Commissioners to enquire gress has passed a resolution, by 17 word wards, declared their decision to involvement could not dietate India's seal no one would have told you of that mort. Iation for the regulation of such employ The Swedish Loft Socialist Party ConThe members of the Executive after but the Minister declared that the Govern risen to high office inconsequence, but ployment of children in Hongkong, and with a view to the removal of the duty, a one had gained the favour of Pilate, and into the conditions of the industrial em to 34, in favour of joining the Third-

the desirability and feasibility of legis Internationale uaconditionally. The the Government on April 1st, unless policy, ahit showed that the offending tomb And if you had gone on that morn minority decided to form a new inde-

duty was not aimed at Lancashire bating to the great heathen city of Reme,ment His Excellency has appointed the designed to raise necessary revenue. deat Socialist party.

the Mistress of the World and asked of Hon. Mr. Ross to be the Chairman of the MR. MONTAGUE INTERVIEWED BY the great events of the day, you might Commission...

LANCASHIRE COTTON

have heard of the eccentricities of the

THE SLUMP IN TRADE. INDIAN JAIL OUTBREAK.

DUE TO A CONSUMERS STRIKE. 600 PRISONERS GET OUT.

According to a detailed statement of LONDON, March 20th, the present situation issued by the The Secretary of State for Indin sumers' strike, which is defined as a National Employers' Federation, & con- STORMING THE BASTILLE" announces that 000 prisoners broke out of curious world-wide psychological move the Rajshahi jail in Bengal on Marchment which his suddenly induced 23rd, taking arms and ammunition be millions of people in all countries, largely longing to the guards it is believed that unconsciously, to refrain from buying the plot was organised by political con-until they can buy cheaper, is hold to be largely responsible for the present slump, although European indation of currency and inability to export on account of low production is not over looked. The report expresses the opinion that the cost of living will be reduced to 60 per cent. above pre-war times by the end of the year. +

"AN ADVENTURE IN CORK.-

LONDON, March 24th. At attempted repetition of storming the Bastille on a somewhat smaller scale. occurred at Cork, yesterday evening Just before the curfew hour in the crowd- ed streets, the Southern Battalion of the Republican Army proceeded to develop an elaborately worked out scheme. They formed a cordon round the prison, dis- mantled the telegraphs and telephones and imperinasly commanded the terrified people in the vicinity to lie down motion less in the streets. They then threw rope ladders over the walls to which prisoners, incirding those condemned to death sen tences by pre-arrangement should have rushed, but interior patról arrangements prevented the materialisation of the schemes and the Republicans speedily de- camped.

THE

DISARMAMENT QUESTION.

QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, March 24th. the House of Commons, Mr. Archi bald Hurd asked the Prime Minister whether he would consider the desirability of loviting the Governments of the United States and Japan to send special repre sentatives to Londen in June in order that, the problem of naval armaments may be considered at a friendly conference

on the lines of President Harding's augural specch and Lord Lee's recent declaration, with the advantage of the presence of the Ministers of the Domain-i

ons and India in London.

ZEPPELIN SECRET. DISCOVERY BY PHILADELPHIA SCIENTISTS.

PHILADELPHIA, March 20th. Officials of the Navy Yard announce that scientists in the Pittsburg stool mill have discovered the formula for the aluminium alloy used by the Germans in the framework of Zeppelius. It is hoped with the new discovery to complete a dirigible building in Philadelphin and attempt au Atlantic fight in it in Summer.

FRENCH TRADE. EXPORTS NOW EXCEED IMPORTS

PABIS, March 28th, The official statistics of French trade during the first, two months of 1921 show increasingly favourable situation. For the first time in several years the £7,000,000, at par.-Hovar. exports exceed the haports by over.

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OBITUARY,

LONDON, March 28th. Stone, RA, the famous painter, at the The death is announced of Marcus go of 81.

BRITISH MISSION TO KABUL, BIR HENRY DOBBS TO REPORT PROGRESS

Sir Frederick Hall asked what steps would be taken to arrange a discussion between the representatives of Great Mär Britain and the United States on naval programmes...

Mr. Lloyd George replied that any statement on this important question would now be premature, GREEK OFFENSIVE BEGUN,

CRUSH THE BARBARIAN

FORCES."

DELI, March 20th. It is officially announced that Sir Henry Dabbs, head of the British Mission to Kabul, profiting by the all in the Afghan negotiations, is making a few days flying visit to Delhi-to report pro- gresa to Lord Chelmsford," "prior to the Iatter's departure for England Other members of the mission remain in Kabul.

BARLIER VABLES.

-INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

Emperor Tiberius, or how this one or difficulties in the other explanatious, DELEGATIONA

that had gained or lost his favour, but which have been attempted of the empty LONDON, March 25th." no one is that great city would have grave. If a man believes that Jesus was

India, replying to a deputation of the Tiberius and his favourites are forgotten, to believe in his resurrection. But if a known of the empty grave or thought much only a man inspired of God, then of Mr. Montagu, Secretary of State for of it if he had known. Lancashire cotton trade on the 23rd inst, but the story of the empty grave is being man holds the Christian Faith that Jesus Yet to-day course he finds it difficult or impossiblu in connection with Indian cotton duties, proclained in countless languages to men Christ was God incarnats then it was expressed the belief that the duties are of every race and colour and country, only to be expected that He would one of the necessary sources from while the great men of the earth stand triumph over death. If the Gospel story, which revenue was imperative. He did in reverent worship before, Him who rose as the Catholic Church has believed it, hot deny that the duties are protectives from that empty grave. So we see how is true, if Christ rose triumphantly over but expressed the opinion that the future time reversas the verdict of the hour. The death, then that Resurrection concerns fiscal policy of India based upon the things which loom largest in the public each one of us. It is not merely a fact of Tariff Commission for India would be eye are not necessarily the things of real history but it is something which must protective, because India is nearly importance. Over and over again history enter into your life and mine. For our wholly in favour of Protection. Never shows us events happening in hidden Lord triumphed, not for Himself alone, theless, the duties were at present dictated and obscure places, but being placed by but on our behalf, and His Resurrection by the sternest financial necessity. He later generations among the great things is the pledge of our resurrection. We hoped that India would demonstrate ita of the world. So we learn to regard with are people destined for eternal life, and solidarity with the British Empire and some suspicion the judgment of the hour so we must live with the thought of our Breuse its fiscal liberty to take a stand upon and to believe that time alone can slow high destiny constantly before us, wo *the system, adopted by the Dominions and the relative importance of events. Who must not live grovelling, selfish, material PALIS, March 23rd. Great Britain, but it would be a profound cares to-day about the court intrigues at lives, but we must live as children of God. International Chamber of Commerce force Imperial Profetenco upon India.

As a meeting of the Council of the mistake of Imperial statesmanship to Rome under Tiberius! But the story of and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. delegates from Belgium, the United Mr. Montagu said he was determined of the world. It has been well said by takers of His victory. We must not that empty grave challenges the attention Christ has triumphed nad we are par- States, France, Great Britain, Italy and to give the Raj the right to consider the a modern writer on the Resurrection that think that sig or temptation is too strong the Netherlands were present.

two antagonistic conceptions of God and for us but we must realise that in the The interests of India first. He expressed the the world moet at the grave of Christ power of the risen Christ we can and will nations which are members of the or opinion that well-being would promoted Either human hands removed the corpse be triumphant against all the forces of ganisation now number eleven. Denmark, between Great Britain and India by or God raised the dead. The evidence for the world, the flesh and the Devil Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia have notified letting India have her own fiscal way, the empty grave is overwhelming. How their adhesion. Several mations were which would result in greater trade be can it be accounted for except on the things the changing. The clothes in which My friends, we live in days when many passed portaining to international com-tween the countries. He promised to Christian belief that Christ rose from the we have long clothed many truths havo eroal atbitration, international credit convey to Indis the views of the de dead 1 Writers who refuse to believe the to be changed; our views and many of and banks.

putation, and the difficulties of the Christian faith have been trying for 1000 our beliefs have changed, our knowledge League of Nations but have not yet join most widely disseminated in India, and and then explanations contradict one

The Nations which are members of the Lancashire cotton trade. These would be years to explain away that empty grave of the Biblo has changed and in many ed the Chamber are requested to send he hoped they would have an immediate another. The chief priests were the first ed. We believe that the Holy Spirit stil cases our interpretation of it has chang delegates to London.-lavas.

to try to explain it. They suggested to leads us into new truths and we have the soldiers that they should say the dis to listen to His leading and not turn a ciples stole the body. It was a poor lident ear to truths which may seem new, and one not likely to convince the world, for we are very far from having learned though many of the Jews believed it all truth. We must learn the lesson of But the verdict of history saya plainly those words of James Russoll Lowell, who that the disciples believed that Christ

wrote: was risen, their whole lives and deaths Tis as easy to be heroos as to sit the give the lie to the idea that they had

DOES AMERICA'OWE FRANCE MONEY?

DENIAL OF ALLEGATIONS IN

SENATE.

effect.

A SENSATIONAL TRIAL, DOUGHTY FOUND QUILTY OF THEFT.

Troxoro, March 24th. John Doughty has been found guilty

He is now

of a legendary virtue carved upon our

fathers' graves Worshippers of light ancestral make the New occasions teach new duties; Time

present light a crime

WASHINGTON, March 22nd. of the stealing of £31,000 worth of bond.imposed a Erand on their hearers, and idio alaves A Serate that the United States owes Small, the millionaire.

Renewed in

by Mr. Hollon that the Treasury records Small France money have provoked a statement charged with the kidnapping of the most rabidly anti-Christian writers have been searched and give no trace of evidence of unpaid obligations. AMERICAN RESUMPTION OF

TRADE WITH RUSSIA. DEPENDENT UPON FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES."

WASHINGTON, March 5th In the course of a message sent to the Losnow, March 94th. RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN... Soviet representative at Beral, -, Mr, A message from Athens conarms: the pat

Hughes states that the resumption of ening of the Greck ofensivo", în

LONDON March 23rd. trade relations will depend upon satis. Emyria. The Commander has issued a In the House of Lords replying to factory assurances that fundamental proclamation calling on the troops to Lord Sydenham, Lord Lytton, Under changes are contemplated involving due Knally crush the 4 barbarian forces." Secretary of State for India, said the regard for the protection of persons and

CONFLICTING OLAIMS.

Government had no official information property and establishment of conditions LODOM, March 25th of the terms of the Russo-Afghan Treaty catial to the mis utenance of com

the signature of which was anounced merce. Both the Greeks and Turks are by a Moscow wireless on the 3rd instant, ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES manouncing successes in connection but the Government did not intend to 7 WASHINGTOs, March 28th with the Greek offensive in Smyrna enter into an Anglo-Afghan Treaty-until A* «Constantinople official message the terms of the Ruso-Afghan Treaty to the Soviet Bouter understands that the With reference to the American Note claims that the Turks captured 700 were revealed. Lord Lytton declared State Department takes the position that prisoners and twenty guns. This is that the Russo Afghan Treaty was the the present is no occasion to reply pedi woluted by the Greek Legation, which acid test of the willingness of the Bolshie fcally to the Bolshevik proposal that claims, on the contrary, that the Greeks at Government to carry out the con- Seriet trade delegation be received by the are advancing on the Ushak and Bruses dtions of the Anglo-Russian Trade American Government, whose Note in no fronts; the latter to a depth of twelve miles, and that the enemy is retreating

Agreement.

way implies the recognition of the Boviet disorder.

Government.

PETROLEUM CONTROL IN

CARDIN L GIBBON DEAD

New York, March 25th, The death is announced of Cardina Gibbons

did they gain by it1 Nothing. Bo to-day have given up the idea that the disciples stole the body. Some writers have sup posed, that contrary to all the evidence, and to the express witness of the cen- turion in charge of the execution, Jesus did not really dis, on the cross but only swooned and that the cool of the tomb

makes ancient good uncouth, They must upward still and onward who

would keep abreast of Truth, Le, before us gleam her camp fireaf We

ourselves must pilgrims be, Nor attempt the Fulare's portal with the

JUDGE'S ADVICE TO JURY.

TORONTO, March 28th The Judge advised the jury to disregard Daville's evidence, that Doughty wanted Mr. Small killed, declaring that he would not hang-a mouse on Daville's statement, revived Him: But if that were possin Past's blood-rusted keyedANIN

if He could have survived the thrust of THE REPARATION QUESTION, the soldiers' spear of which St. John tells That is well said and very true, but in us, it is clearly impossible to believe that days when many things are changing, wo COMMISION'S REPLY TO GERMANY, sftar.baing scourged as He had been, and do well to remember that there are cortain then being nailed to the cross, He could great facts, which stand unchanged, and. within a few hours have so recovered as amongst those facts are the statements of PAZIB, Marob 24th,

to gira the disciples the idas of one who the creed which we have just recited t The reply of the Reparations Commis had conquered death, Such revival Modern discoveries and the enlarged ion to Germany posts out that the could only have weakened the impression knowledge of the 20th century may have Commission alone is empowered to fix which Ho had made upon them in life, changed our views of the early chapters the value of paymonta, and emphasises it could not have changed their sorrow of Cosesis, but the pts of the Apostles that the whole of the twenty milliard into enthusiasm nor have elevated their creed stand as firmly to-day, as ever gold bark under Article as must be reveratios into worship. The latest sugges That God has become man in the Person paid by May 1st, but a consequence of tion to be propounded by those who refuse of Jesus Christ and has died and risen the German default, the Commission has to believe in the Resurrection is that the triumphantly from the grave, that stands informed the Allies

women came in the early morning to unchanged. Bo to day as the Easter The Commission further says that in tomb which they thought was the one in massage rings in our ears let it arouse unpaid balance by March 23rd, it acted They expected to find a closed tomb but ful life. If we have fallen into sin, and claiming one milliard gold marks of the which they had sear the Lord buried. I us to new efforts to live a good and use, on the certainty gained that Germany they found an open one and a young man wasted our opportunities, and given WAY possessor realisable assets sufficient for who was there tried to tell them that to wolf indulgence, and forgotan God, the payment.

they had made a mistake. He is not let us to-day rededicato auraelves here," he said, see the place where they to Christ our Risen Saviour. He DELIBERATE VIOLATIONS

Iaid Him, and probably pointed to wants us. He needs our love, our devo PARIS, March 24th.. another tomb, but the women were alarm tion and our work. He can help un to The Reparations Committee is con of and fled, only imperfectly under overcome the evil. Let us trust Him sidering the situation arising from the standing what was said. This suggestion where we cannot see Him. And wher latest German Note. Such deliberato! requires us to believe in a second tomb ever He has placed us, let us work for Violation of the essential clauses of the in the garden, which seems inconsistent Him. This then is the practical and Pence Treaty cannot but confirm the with the Gospol story and it does nothing personal outcome of the Eastern message Allies in their resolution to continue to explain the terror of the guards or for us. We have an assurance given, de

age. He was elected a Cardinal n.188.1 factory settled — lovas.

(The dracssed Cardinal was 66 Tonra of amplifying the sanct on until the ques by thay laft. the tomb, which they had by Hm, who is God as well as man of tions pending with Germany are satis how the Appales se well as the women out such an overwhelming assurance as been set to guard. It does not explain a power of human nature, which, with

MILAN THEATRE DISASTER.

went to the wrong grave or how it was ASTARDER they found the cloths which had been Christ's resurrection, we should never about the body of Christ. This sugges have known. Now we know that man's WASHINGTON, March-20th----

Maan, March 2ith Cross and Blackwell's have sold their tion is to more likely-than-apy of the spirit is indestructible. That death in but A message from Monte Video says the In the blowing up of the Dians Theatre London factory and are transferring their previous suggestions to meet with agres stage in that eternal life which Christ" Urgaayaq, Government is contemplating by a bomb (believed to be the work business to our Burton-on-Trent, where meat, oron amongst anti-Christian writers, Wishes us to share with him. PARIS, March 23rd.far-reaching credit schemes for the ex of anarchieta) there were 17 killed and they have bought a factory erected to There are, no doubt, difficulties in the Prez dont Millerand gave an audience port of wool to Germany, Belgium, injured. It is bel eved that the bomb Government during the way for nearly Christian belief in the Resurrection, bat in the Turkish delegation to the London France and other European countries, was carried in a portmanteau to an emer mullion sterling. The firm proposes to they are as nothing compared to the Gontore

gency door.

es employ motor transport entirely,

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FRANCE

PARIB, March 23rd. The Government is soon to introduce Bill restoring Lberty to the petroleum trado, the Government retaining nominal control over imports of over ten tonn

Havas

TURRISH DELEGATES IN FRANCE.

BUSSO-PERSIAN AGREEMENT

BRUSSELS, March 24th. The Persian Legalion, announces that a Busso-Persian Treaty providing for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Persia has been signed at Moscow and the dissolution of the Ghilan Soviet

UROGUAY'S EXPORT SCHEME

and Japan,

Let us then be up and do.ng, with

heart for any late

Beil achieving, still pursuing, learn to

-labour, and to waite