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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

(Tanova EUTER'S AGENCY.]

BY AIR TO INDIA.

SAN FRANCISCO'S

WALL"

**

THE

HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

CHINESH THE

BRIDGING THE BAY,

San Francisco's "Chinese, Wall" as aome have called the waters of San Francisco bay which separatoa this peninsula city from the continental mainland at Alameda county, is to be FIRST EXPERIMENT IN AIRSHIP, Croused, according to plans announced

SERVICES.

LONDON, August lat. The Daily Mail says that the "Empire Conference will, to-day, deal with the report of the sub-committee on air com- munications. It is expected that an experimental scheme will be adopted, beginning, with developments of the air ship route to India. of which Cairo will be the first stage. If the experiments are a succese, developments in the direction of Australia and Soilth Africa will follow.

here recently. All the plane call for a proposing a tube to Yerba Buena Laland, bridge across the bay, with one scheme half way across, and a bridge the rest of the distance

Bridging the bay would, it is claimed, bring closer together the vite de San Francisco with the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and other points on the continental side of the metropolitan area." Daily, hundreds of thousands of the ferries and generally, 93 Sundays people, who live across the bay cross on and holidays, the ferry systems cannot keep up with the crash of automobiles seeking passage across.

bridge to be built

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·TSING -HUA COLLEGE | ELASTIC AUGDET £xD, ̈ 1981. ·

STUDENT STRIKE:

STATEMENT BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

[ASIATIC NEWS "GaNet.{quant

THE GLORY OF OUR CONSTITUTION.

NO SHORT CUT TO PARADISE.

MR. HUGHES ON THE EMPIRE.

Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, medo an important speech on PINO, July 15th. June 14th to the members of the Ans- Since the beginning of the Teachers lian and New Zealand Luncheon

guest be was Strike in Peking the Taing Hus students Club in London, whose

Replying to the tomat of his health, the movement and attending classes after coming from Australia to Grunt had been holding themselves alouf, from Mr. Hughes said it was a great thing usual.

With the approach of the final Britain, to. And onsself among men who examination however they all of a syd-

SHANGHAI.

overseas. That stands out so that the THE GAMBLING FEVER man in the street must realise that a country which depends upon selling. abroad

Bay twelve to fifteen shillings out of avery pound's worth of goods manu AN EXAMPLE FROM THE COTTON factured in the country must have com mand of the sens and have a great mer- cantilo marine. Indeed, the greatest in-

dustry in this country is its carrying industry. It must have an adequate supply of raw materials, and these it cas lnd, if pushed, and it all other avenues were closed, within this great

not or for one moment that it can find and wonderful Empire of ours. (Cheers.) And then it must have markets. I shall the markets just now for all its expart- den declared themselves in sympathy to all intents and purposes the able goods in the Empire but the with the Peking teachers and students and replicas of the citizens overseas,

in view of great privilege which thoan in the to Great Britain as a means of dissing overlook the importance of the Empire this unexpected, aten on their part could aircomaavigate the world and in tenths of the people of this country de- "weat on strike in a body.

British Empire enjoyed alone, that they of these goods, upon which at least seven- in order to eafares school discipline the Board of Directors of Tsing Hua College the fairest places find themselves among pead for their livelihood, have over- as constrained to wars the studentair wa kith and kin. But when they looked one of the great factors is the

was the

industrial problem, for there can be no who refused to take it would be consid cradle of their race and looked upon the employment and no argument about before the examination period tast those can to the country which ered as having left the school. Taking men from the loins of whose ancestors wages unless there is something to manu- cognizance of the plea that the strikersy sprang, and found that they were facture, and mes cannot manufacture were not animated by any ulterior mo the same labguage, they realised this: They manufacture goods that can be sold. all animated by the same idesis and spoke merely for the sake of manufacturing.

EXCHANGE.

them; the members of the numerous ox In spite of warnings of the dira com sequences which will ultimately befall changes which have recently come inte being continue their career of wild spe calation, says the NC. Daily News. No commodity is free from their ope rations, and the fever has reached much #pitch that in some cases prices, are quoted at which no genuine business

variety being quoted so Tle. 23 and at can be transacted. China cotton is men tioned as a case in point the Tungchow

bae time as high as Tla 29. Now whod the China atspie reaches "this figures spinners romptly turn their attentiom to imported cotton, and to-day they are anding American much more prostabl to use. Obviously then the gura of Tiss 23 is fictitious, and what will be the and of it all A fair quantity of China'y cotton is held in godowns, and probably Engineers are discussing the type of tives; tory attitude and to leave a way? That the Empire citizenship they all en- (Hear, hear.) 1 have no time at my dis some of it changes ownership al present?”

The proposal to utilize Yerba Buena island calls for a open to the students to reinstate themored was not an empty thing

posal to give the figures for India, but 5gures, although we should imagine that tube from the San Franciaco aide, rail selves by taking sa examination in the had been called together they who rapeaking for the self-governing Domin that is by no means necessary: The road around the island and suspension fall, but with the condition that they the couet table with the Dante and fous let me show how many of the people point however, is that it has been bridge to the end of one long ferry piar study for an extra year in the college. the Council table with the Prime Minis of this country get employment through brought here and is not going into con

ter of Great Britain and the representa manufacturing goods that are sold to, sumption as it should. already built. Another scheme, is to This the Board considered necessary as tives of India to discuss matters of vital and bought by, the citizens of the four cotton trade also point to the fact that cross the bay with a bridge over the a means of maintaining school discipline

The questions great overseas interest to the Empire.. that the student theseires 24 well as the personnel of tralia, South Africa, and New Zealand. shallow waters leading to the lower and good order so

Dominions Canada, Aus it is probably deteriorating all the time sections of the harbour.

might learn a lesson not to go on strike the Council who were to discuss them in 1920 over £150,000,000 worth of Briantering into the calculations of the

a circumstance which obviously is no Gustav Lindenthal, widely known at will and thoughtlessly, to the detrima new epoch in Imperial rela eastern engineer, has drawn a set of

ment of their school work. Unfor

overseas_Dominions. Do the working brought into the market, and then the plans for a proposed bridge, and A. 3. tunately, this course of action has been tionship. It was true we had a War so found markets in these four gamblers. Some day this cotton must be Cabinet Unring the war. and that that Rich San Francisco financier. has de misunderstood and misconstrued by many questions relating to the Upper Silesian clared that the money for the bridge among the public and in order to explain / Cabinet sat and helped to shape the men of England realise what would hap-fat will be in the fire. Its actnál trade- frontier. The negotiations between the proposed by Lindenthal" can be raised the situation the Board of Directors now Treaty of Peace signed at Versailles, bus. Pen if the. Dominicas bought their goods value will almost certainly be found to

'SILESIAN. PROBLEM. ALLIED EXPERTS EXAMINE FRONTIER QUESTION.

PARIS, July 9th (delayed). The Committee of Allied experts held yesterday, its first meeting to study the

French and the British Governments are. proereiding in a Gordikt spirit.-Ħavas

EARLIER CABLES.

ENTENTE IN JEOPARDY.

LONDON, July 31st.

The strain to which the Entente has been subjected by the Silesinn question is sufficiently indicated by the terms. of the British Note to France of July 29th and Mr. Lloyd George's speech of the 30th. The latter has hail the happiest effect in Paris, where the papers "to-day reciprocate its spirit of frankness and

without difficulty.

CHINESE GOVERNMENT

the Board decided to adopt a more

They

they met to-day under very different cir- make the following statement ; -

cumstances and to deal with very differ. Chambers of Commerce on both sides 1-To retain the students one extra ent matters. They had been summoned of the bay, together with the San Fran-year in the college does not mear requir to consider, among other things, the ques. rises Motor Car Dealers' Association, are ing them to repeat the same work. New tion of the defence of the Empire and supporting the proposals,

and advanced courses will be added to of its foreign policy. Many other mat the curriculum for the Seniors. This ters, hardly less important, wore to fits in very well with the long-cherish engage their attention. When one look ed attempt of the school to raise its ad back across the years and perceived standard. The students will not suffer what a grain of mustard seed planted any loss in their school work.. On the in their far countries now looked like. other band, they will profit by this extra what great fruit it now bore, he would be a thing of stone if he were not moved by the feelings of pride at the great achievements of the Dominions and the great strides which the Empire had mada during these last few years. (Cheers.)

RAILWAYS,

OPERATING REVENUE FOR MARCH. year of preparation in China.

Railway.

Peking-Hankow Peking Mukden Tientsia-Pukow Peking Suiyuan Shanghai Nanking... Shanghai-Hangehow

Nanking Chengteh-Taiyuen... Canton-Kowloon ... Kirin-Changchto The gravest picture of the recept Tackow-Chinghua ... Anglo-French differences is drawn by the Chuchow-Pinghsiang

conciliation. There is hope that the understanding now reached will be the prelude to still more complete agreement.

Changchaw-Amoy Sunday Times and the Observer. The Kaifeng-Honan former declares that the whole futuro of Wuchang-Changsha.

Supingehieb-Tsen-

chiatun

Total

studies in the States.

-Those Seniors who refused to take Increase or

the examination this year will still have Decrease

a chance to go abroad next year, and compared Bevenue.withMarch,

the time limit of their stay in America will not in any way be curtailed. The 1020:

extra year in China will enable them to $2,267,220 $157,853†

be better prepared to pursue higher 2,654,495 485,301 + 1,387,336 57,348.†

491,076 82,359- 580,875 69,1941

234,1,88 39,600† 903,966 118,415- 110,357 23,888+ 269,100 71,430+ 57,130 10,6241 27,959 24,612-

4,258

3,097+ 186,285 51,6271 1,221+ 139,601

79,233 26,143—

$9,087,218 $721,380

† Shows Increase. - Shows Decrease.

-Official Gazetle.

THE YAP CONTROVERSY.

the Eutente was jeopardised Inst week, and accuses the French Foreign Office of mischief-making. The Observer says that it is not merely a question of differ ences, but of wide divergence, sometimes a direct conflict, on fundamental policy, adding_that_the_immediate issue is whe- ther the Supreme Council is to continue or the Entente to be dissolved, in accord- ance with France's neo-Napoleonic policy aiming at the subjugation of Germany by Mr. Harold Spender, in the course of French, and Polish military power,

article in the Daily Telegraph, According to the Observera Paris cor-writes: The mandate which handed respondent, anti-British songs and revues Yap over to Japan was the real awaken-

feature of cabares entertaining to American opinion. That wretched little island has played a bigger part in American politics than any of us realise over here. The Americans 669 the

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THE NORTHCLIFFE

VIEW.

THEORY CONCERNING THE

CONTRADICTION..

shadow of Japan coming across the Pacific. We are so remote from that intensity of the new Pacific rivalry. But great ocean that we scarcely realise the we must, at our peril, try to understand the new American point of view. She New Yong, July 31st.

suddenly awoke to find her rival placed The New York World, explaining the in possession of the great cable centre Northcliffe controversy, declares that the of the Pacific; and the shock of that New York Times reporter sought an vision brought America sensibly near- jaterview with Lord Northcliffe on theer to fears of further war. 16 finally Irish situation.

decided her that she "could no longer

.

Mr. Wickham Steed (Editor of the stand outside the door of the court which London Times) telephoned the request was arriving at such portentous verdicta. to Lord Northcliffe, who replied: You After that, there could be no doubt in know my mind, Steed; give the gentle America that she must once more enter man my views and look over

his into the world's council; certain article.

After a formal interview, the reporter results of policy which would accept

mandate revealed to America the

3-Some have suggested that the Seniors who did not take the examina tion should be given a chance to take it now so that they can go abroad with the other Seniors. It should be pointed out that as the great majority of the teachers have already left for their difficulties for Vacation, the praction now are almost icsurmountable.

4.-The Board had received letters from the Peking Teachers Council and the Students' Union. It has given due re- gard and careful consideration to their appeal on behalf of the Tsing Hua Boys, but it regrets very much that the prime consideration of the welfare of the arhool and the students themselves dictates that it should remain unchanged in its atti tude and decision in regard to this matter.

elsewhere ?

YMPIKE PANTERENCE,

Those in the

OF

at

be considerably less than the quotations":" I think every one of these Dominions the exchanges, and the ultimate gives preference to the manufactures of holder is going to have a very bad time. Great Britain, (Cheers.) Bat apart And not only the final purchaser bei all from that preference there is a sentiment those who have been making forward more powerful than tarifs that include purchases, for when the true value of the the "citizens of these Dominions to Bri- commodity is ascertained, the bottom tish goods rather than goods manufactur will fall out of the market. Is is not. ed by foreign nations. So this Empire the ruin which will inevitably evercome means something to the man in the street, so many of the speculators which wor When he argues about hours and wages, riss us; it is the effect which the col- employment, and good conditions, let lapse will have on legitimate business, him ask himself apon what all these for, it widespread, it will affers nam- things depend in this country. If this bers who have been engaged in legiti country shall slip from that pedestal of mate commercial operations. The Gur- manufacturing greatness that it occupied before the war, millions upon millions has" granted "registration to theeo ex- crament department in Peking which

EFFECTS OF THE WAR,

of men in Britain shall find no work changes might be well advised to scrut They met under circumstances that in at all. There is fierce competition inize their character afresh with a view some respects were not favourable. The throughout the world, and the facts of to a reconsideration of their existeder. minda of men in Great Britain, and, that force competition must be faced. It new turned to the consideration of great they have within their own Empire a indeed, throughout the Dominions, were is well that it should be remembered that

RE-EMPLOYMENT domestic problems, some of which had world capable of almost indefinite expan arises directly out of the war, and all

'GERMANS IN CHINA. of which had been intensified by the war.

sion for the population of these great en had no time now, or thought they are

islands. To-day "im Britain there

'RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. from forty-three to forty-five bad and all that Empire meant.

no time, to speak of Empire millions of people.

In fifty years

PEKING, July 20th. They ought time the population of the Overseas

With reference to the re-employment not to be surprised that the minds of Dominions will exceed in all prob- of Germans and Austrians in the Balt men disturbed by war sought a new ability, the population of Britain. Gabelle, the Chinese Maritime Customs and better and saner prospective. Peace The population of this country and of and other Government, institutions, the had come; the great war was over; the the Dominions must take a broad vie Foreign Ofice has wired to all the pro- Treaty of Versailles had been signed and of the situation, and they must remen- ratified; but he would be a pessimist ber that there is not a domestic prob. vinces and government boards in the indeed who would be satisfied with the lem which has not its Imperial facet Capital to the effect that owing to the prospect that confronted the whole there is not a problem so parochial but resumption of commercial and diplo civilized world to-day. The world had that in some

and it is attachmatic relations between Chian not beaten its swords into ploughshares to the imperial velo

Germany and between China and Aus and one could hardly help joining the

tria, all restrictions concerning the em Clearly, although we were sick of war, ranks of those who doubted whether the foreign policy affected the domestic prob. ployment of Germans and Austrians are war had made this a better world than lems to which he had referred, and the beroby removed. The high provincial it was before. Men were as prone to workers in Great Britain would be the and metropolitan authorities are appeal to force for the settlement of their first to agree that foreign policy did liberty to re employ these Germans and quarrels as ever.

admit those matters with which they wore Austrians who were dismissed on THE SALVATION ARMY AT Dominions and other great portious of ions had been summoned to consider the against the defunct Central Powers of It was true that here, and in the more directly impressed. The Domin count of China's declamation of war PEKING.

the world, men were sick of war, and foreign policy, not of Great Britain Europe in 1917 in accordance with the they turned eagerly to those questions alone, bat of the Empire, and as it was existing requirements under new

tion Army, is publishing" Extracts from concerned so closely the lives of men.

-those great domestic problems which wala were born, and as the world had fail the General's Journals"

ed to beat its sword into a plough-share, Under date The question of employment, the great despite that palatial and much-boomed

IMPORTANCE OF SA POWER. May 10th appears the following:- quation which was destined to swallow edifce at Geneva, and was now engaged They realised in Aumrulia how much.

Wire from Era giving me some hope up all other questions, and which would in building up navies and still bigger they owed to Great Britain.

They of help for Chinese famine from the compel settlement one way or the other, navies-in all probability if they could realised that during the Great Wur vic- States Charming photograph in to-day or bring about the destruction of civilian have wireless telephonic communication tory can to them because of the Navy. appointed to a Chinese Corps, from Peking of the first Bergeant Major tion, confronted England and every one they woud hear at this moment the rear He did not believe, there could be a man Fearre of the Dominions to-day. The questions of war in the Near East, no further cer so utterly blind to the faces of life as Commissioner writes with it--~| of employment, of wages, of conditions tainly than Adelaide was from Brisbane, to fail to understand the foundation not Brother Sung's ease is all the more of labour, what could be bought with the speaking in terms of Australia-and as only of the Empire's greatness and its interesting in that he comes of the which the workers lived. "the standard of trial trouble everywhere, it was evident This Empire rested on ses power; it was wagon that labour received, the houses in there was internecine strife, and indus very existence, but that of Great Britain. Chinese Royal Family the Manchus and is a very fine specimen of the bet their comfort, the opportunities for ad that defence was the foundation still of built up by sea power, and the day that ter-class Chinese. With the exception for the great mass of the people, these

vancement, and a place in the son

power passed away the Empire was re- of his old mother, all his family are now

duced to a baseless fabrication. converted and two of his daughters are

were the questions which pressed upoa The very lives of the people, their hopes people of England would remember that in the Training Garrison.

the whole world." We needed to wonder and opportunities of employment, rested when the tocsin rang the peoples of the at it. Whether we wondered at it or upon those very problems that were to Empire did not wait to be asted, but The same issue of the War Cry con-not, those were the questions which would be discussed at that conference, Cabinet rushed to the front to stand by the Em- McAlonan, on a tour in the Far East But this terrestrial paradise into which The people of England, obsessed by the Kent, and it was surely worth something tains an interview with Commissioner compel the attention of the whole world. or what name to give it he hardly knew. pire as quickly as those of Burrey or from which we make the following people sought to enter was not to be domestic problems which, in all con- to remember that those young nations. nchiored by word or, indeed, by action science, were serious enough, would do put a million white soldiers into the From Japan and Korea the Commis

story of all age taught us there was perial problems, the problems that

Yes. con British Navy.

But what would: its progress. Koron and its wonders no salvation except by work. (Cheers.) corsed those democratic nations that have happened to Great Gritain but for these had given the Commissioner cause. That which had been falsely called the made up the British Empire, and which those million soldiers!

Those young to praise

Ged. But Chins was an alto primeval curns was, indeed, at once the they were to consider at that conference nations, sa the years passed on, would gether unexpected revelation of Salvation greatest blessing and the hope of the To consider for a moment what peace become not only Great Britain's allies, possibilities sad progress In Peking whole world. Bolshevism bad shown the meant to the country, there was held the annual Congress dur- world by this time that there was no

If a plebiscite bat her friends, and it was they who were to be taken of the people of Eng came to discuss with Great Britain's ing his visit. On the platform the boys short cut to paradise except through a land there would be an overwhelming representatives the questions which

spa- and girls from the Juniors sang and bloody morass, and those who believed majority in favour of policy that copied thetvent drilled nad recited, just as they do in that there was had left themselves in a would keep this country out of war. What would be the outcome of the Con- our Western" Halls. In the streets of plight hardly more desirable than that What better assurance could they have

The War Cry, the organ of the Salva, which, indeed, compelled their attention out of the womb of foreign policy that tracts--dsiatic News dyrkey,

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this Empire.

QUE NEED OF PRÁCE.

coa-

The

"asked wplification of Mr. Steed's views, apy sacrifice for victory, but refuse the sioner journeyed to China. Japan and less on the right lines, because the his- well to consider those important Imfeld. Victory came to us because of the

and Mr. Stoed, supposing these would not bo published, emphasised His Majesty's earnestness to secure peace in Ireland; thes, in order to give the inter- viewer a background to enable him to understand the situation, quoted an imaginary conversation as an illustration of what the King might have had in mind: It appears that the reporter made the error of believing the words to be an actual quotation.

MR. WICKHAM STEED'S VERSION.

New Yox, August 1st. Mr. Wickham Steed, questioned in regard to the alleged interview with the New York Times, said that direct state- meats were attributed to him which were not made. He pointed out that it was possible that the Irish settlement was directly attributable to the King's speech at Belfast. The King was equally solicitous, of all his subjects, and no- thing would rejoico His Majesty mere than to ses peace in Ireland. That alone was the sense of his quite informal talk with the representative of the New York

meanest sacrifice for peace.

个

DEMPSEY'S VICTORY PREDICTED In view of the result of the Dempsey Carpentier fight, it will be of interest to know what a French lady clairvoyante wrate to the Matin, over a month before the contest. She wrote:-

Our dear Carpentier will lose his Peking, the women of China, mounting which the great mass of the people of that this country, this Empire, would ference he was not able to my, but for

forthcoming fight, with Dempsey...

"The fight will not be a very long one I see him receive heavy blows in the chest and aide and another in the face, on the nose, or near the ear. He will then fall and the fight will be lost."

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.

MEANING OF EMPIRE.

which

his part he believed that it was becom the wooden stands placed against a wall, Bussin found themselves in today. But follow a penectul policy, than that there ing a settled conviction in the minds of will testify with vigour and conviction, they could understand, and admit at should be called into the Council of Em- the great mass of the people of Eng. for the Chinese Soldiers are great Open once that it was natural and proper that pire, those democratic nations whose very land and of the Empire that our mutual Air warriors.

the great mass of the people should con- watchword was peace, who depended for interest lay in still closer and closer

themselves And the wonder of the singing was in cern

with those domestic their very existence upon peace, who had connection and co-operation, without im- itself unexpected. The Chinese love the problems which meant so much to them, such glorious heritages to develop as to pairing by one thousandth part of a frank joyouences of The Salvation Army although there was a danger of men's compel their undivided attention upon degree those rights of self-government, They sing congregationally reading the minds becoming obsessed with those prob that great work. If democracy were the foundation upon which the Empire. sang-words from a printed sheet. This lems and thinking that they had no rela- something more than a name, and if is necessary: olberwise, when the words tion to other things that mattered to there were anything in democracy then down in writing the Constitution and

rented. (Cheori.) NO PRELIMINARY MEETING.

"There is some talk about setting are sung, they may mean something quite them so much. :

stood for peace, and ensured peace, different from the original, the emphasis

the people of Great Britain had an ade the charter that bind us together," con- New Your, July 31st--

and very inflection of the voice changing "Let me say a word or two to the quate assurance of peace in the very cluded Mr. Hughes The salvation of A telegram from Washington says that a wood in half a dozen waya!'": correspondents agree that

people of this country and to my fellow fact that the Dominions had been called this Empire has been that nowhere in President At the Commissioner's great Meeting citizens throughout the Dominions, pro- into the Council of Empire to take their Harding is determined to adhere to the the Chinese musicians were at their best; conded Mr. Hughes, original plan of the disarmament con- twelve drums being in fail united action ceive the Empire to mean to the average were not there to discuse things that that says. So far and no farther. The on anyone else, is there to be found one line as to what I con- part in foreign polley. The Dominions ny book, written by any professor or ference, between all the Powers simul- in front of the platform during the citizen. Apart from the glamour of were alien to the working people of glory of this Constitution is its elasticity. taneously, and will steadfastly reject all musical part of the programme.

its splendour and glory, this Empire England and things that did not mat Directly any, no tries to limit it and may proposals for a preliminary conferetico The Chinese Boldiers are hard work brings solid material advantages to all tor to them. They were questions upon to this or that democracy, You cannot with certain Powers on Far Easterning steady, frugal, and eager to do sorts and conditions of men-those who which the national existence, certainly do that, on that day will be the begin-

·SHIP SERVICE.

or other questions, "only indirectly their duly, The children ara coming labour and sell their labour, and those the national prosperity of Britain

ning

the end of the Empire, (Cheers.) He could well PROJECT FOR LINE TO INDIA AND bearing on the reduction of armaments. steadily to The Salvation Army, but who invest their capital in industry. nhanlutely depended..

Let us, then, go on. This Constitution In order to meet the reported deaire of there is an appalling amount of poverty What is it upon which the prosperity acclaim upon the position of England in has emanated from the genius of the BUEZ,

the British Dominion Premiers for an abject poverty-in the Celestial Emand, indeed, the very existence of this regard to raw materials, It would be British people, It has been fashioned early Conferenco, President Harding anire

country as a great nation depends1 Ibear to show that England bad advant said to be willing, to issue formal in But the Army Flag waves hopefully is, in the last resort, a manufacturing age of access to raw materials produced by time and circumstance, and hand of mafi, at any rate learned maa, had It is reported that the Commonwealth vitations to meet in October, instead of

country. It must have a sufficient sup in the Empire that on other nation had. nothing to do with it. So it in D steamers will inaugurate a fast four-

In all three countries visited the Comply of raw materials. Then it must be Th would be easy to show the advantages triumph for that common sense, and per.. November weekly service to India and Suez about Thero is growing feeling here that missioner found the geraten enthusiasm assured of, and must have, markets for that arose from the close co-operation haps that disregard for lofty fights and the end of the year."

the Conference, to be successful, must be among our own peonies, and many other ite goods. Clearly it must have command that existed between the Overseas Domin constitution-mongering in which other

berides, at the prospect of the General's of the sens if it is to have an auzurodione and Great Britain

nations have been a singularly unspe (Continued at fcoś of next column.) open to the public.

forthcoming visit to the Far East.

ressful."

(Choers.)

Times.

COMMONWEALTH STFAM-

MELBOURNE, August 1st.-

and triumphantly.

market for its goods in the countrion (Continued at foot of next column.)