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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES

[TuBodoh ExCTER'M AGENOT.]

BASEBALLERS. ACQUITTED. RECEIVE OVATION FROM CROWD.

Chicago, August 3rd.

Seven professional baseballers, who were alleged to have accepted bribes from gamblers to lose certain' games in last year's series of baseball matches for the Championship of the World, and two men accused of giving such bribes have' after siz been found not guilty weeks trial,

The crowd gave an ovation to the accused after the verdict.

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EARLIER CABLES.

SILESIAN PROBLEM.

SCOPE OF SUPREME COUNCIL.

非

LosDos, August 3rd. While authorities in London are of the pinion that the Supreme. Council will obafino its attention to the Silesian

question and will be of the briefeat dura tion, Paris messages show that th| French coatemplate a protracted council of the widest scope, 199

Le Matin says that, besides Bel gium, invitations will probably be sent to Yugo-Slavis, Poland and Roumania, while, if the discussions on the Near Enstore question develop, Greece will be beard,

Contrary to Mr. Lloyd George's belief, expressed in the House of Commons, yesterday, Le Malia says it is doubtful whether the "xperts will finish their labours as regards Upper Silesia before the meeting of the Council. Hence, the decisions of the Council as regards Silesia will probably merely be provi. BIOË. Le Matin anticipates that the Council is bound to take steps to save the famine-stricken population of Russia. SATISFACTION IN PARIS.

PARIS, August lat.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, “AUGUST – 4TH, · 1921.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(THROUGH NZUYER'S AGENCY.] SIBERIAN MAIL ROUTE."

LONDON, August-zâd.

la the House of Commons, in reply to questions whether there were any pros pects of resuming the prewar mail routes' to the Far East, Mr. Kellaway said that there were no immediate prospects of utilising the Siberian route again, as it had not yet offered the necessary condi tions of speed and security.

(3) COURTEST OF "THE CHINA MAIL"] WRONGLY REQUISITIONED

SHIPS.

STRAITS. GOVERNMENT TO PAY · COMPENSATION.

SINGAPORE, August 2nd. The Supreme Court bere has given judgment in favour of the Eastern Shipping Company in an important action in which the company claimed compensation on the ground that the Government wrongly requisitioned nine of the company's ships during the war.

(The pleadings in this action were giren is a recent jasne of the Daily Pre-ED.]

MURDERER" EXECUTED AT

SHANGHAI:

SHANGHAI, August 3rd, The Cingalese K. Peter, who murdered

BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN HONGKONG.

The following information is given in the Medical and Sanitary Reports for the year 1920, just issued

· BIRTHS. · The births registered during the year were as follows:-

Male, Female. Total; -

737 9.113 1.336.

104 153 307

Chinese -Non-Chinese

2,420 9,104

Total 1020... 1,540 850 Total 1919 ...... 1.462 This gives a general civil birth rate

in 1918. and 4.1 in 1915.

EMIGRATION OF WOMEN

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"AND. CHILDREN.

HONGKONG STATISTION.

The following extracta nie taken from the Report of the Secretary for Chinema Affairs for the year 1980:-

la in mos so ssey to get round Loadin or to travel in the country, because temi 15ervices have been onrtailed. **. Burgele

· OUR 'LONDON: LETTER. EXTREMISTS STILL IN POWER

THE COALFIELDS.

AFTER THE BALLOT ON THE LONG DISPUTE.

The number of female and minor pas sengers examined and allowed to proceed abroad was 20,800 (women 18.00, girlar 1,734, and baya 5,804) as compared with 8,560 in 1919.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, June 3rd.

streats are full of people on busine aleasure bent, and there is a large volume of motor traffic

If you want to travel outside Londo sho difficulties are considerable. Only skeleton servios of traina is maintaingi Ou soms line only one train is rua erak way on Sundays, and this applies to th main lines. On branch lines, no tenia KINERS" BALLOT

at all are run. The seaside towns Ar It was confidently expected by leader practically empty. The average was any writers in the Press and other experts woman fears to go away from home During the year one ship carrying women and children left for South Africa on our Labour troubles that the miners, he or she should be stranded by a sudden gives the opportunity to ballot, would stoppage of all trains Thousands a and three for Mauritius, -

vote to get back to the pits. But the folk who fles. àpartments and keep hotel not now ballot showed a majority the other way.

Place watering

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to this office for examination. The record of the occupations of the

be bankrupt this

of 4.38 per 1.000 as compared with 4.3 broughts to Bangkok ar

The birth-rate among the non-Chiness | female emigrants over 10 years of age the miners cast their votes to prolong year owing to the coppage in the com

The birth-rate amongst the Chime as calculated from the registered birtha was 366 per 1.000 as compared with 3 per

work ïn BSERVA

in 1015. Of these two were restored to

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strike

Balda. On the result being made known the All over the country fuel and light are civil community was 19.78 per 1,000 as shows that out of a total of 13,009, 4,258 cry went u12 1

What stupid and serious problam Houssholders, whe compared with 30.6 in 1919 and 22.0: in were going to join relatives, 2.500 with obstinate met the, miners are!

relatives, or busbands, 732 as tailoreasca,

No possess a gas cooker cannot obtain col 1918.

The nationality of the non-Chinesa 1.198 as prostitutos, 2,833 a maid-servants out they are there are no two opin at all. It is illegal for anyone to sell ions on the point. But if this be true to them. They must rely on gas for civilian parents was as follows:British for nurses. 633 as cooks, 358 to wor 104. Portuguese 71, Indians 43. Ameri. tin mines or on plantations. There were of the rank and file, what is to be said their needs. In some towns the gas sup

of the so-called leaders? They led the plies have failed, and wood, has been con 11, Malay, 13, Japanese, Dutch and also 1 teacher, 4 actra, 54 hairmen en out from the coalfields into the arid largely used to keep the population going

5 nuts and 1 repatriated by Government willatness of unemployment, poverty, with fual. Filipina e each. Spanish and French 3

Fortunately the strike has Five out of the total number of wom misery, and untold. each.

Brazilian, Siames

Arabian.

suffering. They pro- Dccurred at the achitian Russian. Danish. Parsee and were detained for enquiries as against mised the maintenance of many things, Summer,

beginning of the when days are long and Persian 1 each,

their relatives, one was sent to her native including the nationalisation of the in-arm, Ose hears so complaints on The strike wages although the latter meant a tax has all through been accepted as an audi place, one was married, and one sent to dustry, and the maintenance of high the score of inconvenience.

upon the State. But when these fine pro- which has to be endured for a time. Couront

mises were unfulfilled, for the sufficient THE CAUX OF THE PROSLE An accurate calculation of th, Chinese

I am mire the working-classes are be (s)-From Singapore:-Thirty-six (38) reason that they are incapable of reslisa

tion, birth rate is impossible as many Chinèss births are not, egistered owing to a na prostitutes who went to Singapore worst beng against the national souse of ginning to realise that the lavish pb- justice and also against economic law, mises held out to them cannot be ful tire custom of at registering children sent back on the ground that they were the leaders found themselves at a loss filled. The truth is beginning to spread unless they have survival for at least too young to preciso prestituations. They stood aloof from the ballet, and that we mug work out our salvation. one mouth, and also owing to the conwere all wen off to

Sixteen (16) prostitutes ware aan; backgave no ward of advice or guidance. Here we are a country with a popula atant flow of people to and from the

The extremists in the district lodgee who tion of 40 millions, and ous, of our from Singapore at their own reques mainland of China.

Four applications were received for the arrange such things as a ballot bad it highest economic authorities has lately

all their own way.

told us that during 40 weeks of each It the leaders of the miners, the mem- year wo have to feed our working to Singapore recovery of women who had emigrated

Two were found to be bers of the National Executive of the population on imported foodstuffa Wa supplice if we are able to sell our et ports-chiady coal and manufacturos in foreign markets.

1,000 in 1919.

REPATRIATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLB.

two Chinese on June 5th, was executed convents or abandoned dead in the based on false information; the others Mink Federation, had bad an atom cap only continue to buy these necasMary

this morning.

HEAT WAVE AT SHANGHAI.

SHANGHAI, August 3rd. The heat wave continues. There have been many cases of prostration, several fatal.

"WORLD'S MOST COSTLY MOTOR

CAR.

SHANGHAL, August 3rd."

Many children of about one month of age and less are left sick at the various streets, ou the hillsides and in the bar

of such during 1920 were

were applications for the recovery of bour. The number

girls who had emigrated as. prostitutes was 1,746.

recovered and were be assumed that all those child-Both these latter If ren were born in the Colony but not handed back to their relatives. registered, this would bring the total Six girls were repatriated from Sings births to 4,168 and the general birth rate pore in connection with trafficking to 7.61 per 1,000. while it would bring cases, Of these girls one was given in the Chinese birth rate to 7.23 instead of adoption as a daughter to a family in 3.03 per 1,000,

Hongkong, and the others were sent away to their homes in the country.

The preponderance of male over female registered births is very marked among the Chinese, there being for the year 1990, 100 males to every 100 females (215 to 100 in 1910 and 194 to 100 in 1918).

In the non-Chinese population the pro- 1920 was 100.8 to 100 (120 to 100 in 1816

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Four women were repatriated by the Secretary for Chinem Affairs, Singapore, because on various grounds they were unable to make a living in the country.

(b)-From Penang. Fira prostitutes ground that they were too young to prac tise prostitution thore.

Une prostitute found in Penang in a destitute condition was repatriated to China."

of real statesmanship they would have recognised that their hopes of getting a national wages, pool cannot be fulfilled, and they would have counselled the men throughout the coalfields to vote for a resumption of work.

THE FARCE OF THE BALLOT.

It may be said that the rank and file of the miners know very well what the £10,000,000 ment to them. Why then did a majority decide against resuming work? The chief reason, no doubt, is that the ballot is a farce. If the leaders

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We have, however, to sell abroad in competitive conditions; and it follows that if the cost of production, of Bri tish commodities is raised above a casily ascertainable level our trade rivala will oust us from the markets which have hitherto absorbed British goods. In that exchange for what we have to soll. case we shall not get daily bread in

ing satisfaction at the complete agree is being exhibited here. It cost $35,000 portion of male to female births during were repatriated from Penang on the and leaving over the issue in dispute class or another of the community,

The papers are unanimous in express. ment between Great Britain and France over Silesia. The Supreme Council is to meet on August 8th in "Paris or -Boulogne-

M. Brinod has wired to the Ambas sador in Berlin to join his, British and Italian colleagues in requesting Germany troppar for the conveyance of Allied troops Silesia:-ftaran

INDIAN BOYCOTT.

MR. GANDHI'S DEMONSTRATION.

LONDON, August 2nd. **Reuter's Bombily correspondent says that, in the presence of thousands of people including many delegates to the AllIndia Congress Committee, Mr. Gandhi lighted a bonfire of an enormous beap of clothes made of foreign cloth, in accordance with the Nationalist cam paign to encourage the revival of home spinning.

CARPENTIER-GIBBON FIGHT,

VENUE "AND :DATE OF CONTEST.

NEW YORK, August 2nd: Tex Rickard announces that the Car- pentier-Gibbons fight will probably be held in Maddison Square Garden late in „October, or early in November,

DEATH OF CARUSO. SUDDEN RELAPSE AT SORBENTO.

NAVLES, August töd. Signor Caruso had a sudden relapse at Sorrento, and was brought to Naples. Four specialists, who were summoned, decided on an immediate operation for the removal of an abscess between the liver diaphragm, which had caused acute peritonitis.

IRISH TRUCE.

AGREEMENT BETWEEN PREMIER AND ME. DE VALERA.

LONDOR, August end.

and Mr. dy Valera that, if the negotia

tions broke down, there would be reason able notice of the termination of the

·LENCO.

....

ASSAULTS UPON FRENCH:

OFFICERS,

The most costly motor car in the world gold and was ordered for Chang Tso-lin, Tuchun of Manchuria.

NEW TREES IN THE COLONY. From the leport of the Superintendent of the Botanical Department we learn that the following trees, which are being tried for the first time in the Colony, were planted in suitable places in the Old and New Botanic Gardens:- Bauhinia candicans, Thuya plicata, Gapressus lusitanica, Cupress macro- carpa, Eugenio uniture, Eugenia myrti- fulia, Gleditschig trscanthus, and a num ber of new varieties of Hibiscus raised in Honolulu.

Two young plants of Bhodolcia Chan- pioni, two of the whiteflowered variety of Bauhinia Fariegata, one of Punica Granatum and one of Zizyphus vulgaris were also planted.

and 10 to 100 in 1918.

DEATHS.

The total number of deaths registered during the year was 12.419 (11.647 in 1919 and 18,714 in 1918).

The general death rate was 21.19 per 1,000, as compared with 23.3 in 1919 and 24.4 in 1918.

One woman whose husband was killed ia a motor car accident was repatriated

(c) from Bangkok. - Three women who had emigrated to Bangkok, wore enticed to

10 proceed to the Straits, and there forced to become prostitutes. The were recovered and repairiated by the Straits Government.

(dy-From Jara. Ona wuman who was unable to earn her living in Java was repatriated, and arrangements were made by this office to have her returned to her

native place.

T.

This is a hard fact which cannot be conjured

standard of living of one at the top had advised returning to work to raise the by Trade Union efforts for negotiation later on, the ballot would doprive ourselves of food because have shown a majority accordingly. As have a riphs on moral grounds to live things are, the ballot was conducted du in comfort is an impossible procedure. the old familiar lines. There is

pressure

tion,

to

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per-

THE BANKERS' WARNING.

A PLEA FOR "FREE TRADE.

secrecy about a Trade Union ballot, and Supplies of foreign bread are a prior condition. to any standard of life at all there is every opportunity for strong for the people of these islands; and ne

be applied by local officiale

foodstuffs abroad for the majority of the to influence the voting in a desired diret. man can pretend that we can buy

inhabitants of Great Britain through In this instance, in accordance without 40 weeks in each year by any posable The Chinese deaths numbered 12,151,

the usual practice, the ballot papers method of taxing the rich or attacking which gives a death-rate for Chinese of

were handed round by the branch secre Capital We must live by successfu}, 22.78 per 1,000 as compared with 23.3 per

trads. That fact is beginning to taries of the Trade Union ledges. Thare 1,000 in 1319 and 24.5 per 1,000 in 1918

The deaths of non-Chinese civilians

prevent a man from receiving a dozen hitherto drugged by Socialist theories was nothing (there never is anything) to mente the masses of workers who were numbered 231, giving a death rate of

Recipients of ballot-papers are bluntly 1919) per 1,000 (21.9 in 1910 and 19.5in

ballot papers and Alling them all up. 1918).

told how they are expected to record The nationalities of the deceased were (c-British North Bornico.—A woman as follows:-British 61, Indian 50, For was repatriated from Jeriton, because their vote, and, to make quite sure that tuguese 52, Japanese 41, Filipino 10, in the opinion of the Chinese Consul and the men have obeyed orders, the papers Molay 7, American 5, Eurasian 4 Polish the Chinesa Community she was undesiraro examined when they are handed in. 3, French 3, Dutch and Norwegian 9 able. As all efforts to trace through the Any man who tries to vote as he thinks ach Crecko-Slovak. Siamese, Parite, Committer of the Fo-Loung Kuk the fit, and not as he is instructed, becomes Swiss, Spanish, and Italian teach whereabuts of her relatives failed she an object of hostility to the local gang expression of Influential British opinion of officials, who have it well within their in favour of peace and freedom of trade The total number of deaths of infants was allowed to proceed to her home un-

power to make his life unbearable For and conesny in national expenditur under one year of age was 3,872, being accompanied.

Prosecutions under the Women and these and other reasons which might be which means anaggressive policies and 31.1 per cent of the total number of deaths as compared with 99-8 per cent. Girls Protection Ordinance undertaken given showing the tyranny that is exer- restriction of armaments. Twenty-six of in 1019.

by this office numbered 12 with 10 conviccised in Trade Unionism, a ballot seldom the leading bankers of Great Britain, The deaths of childrep between one and tions as compared with cases and represents the true opinion of the rank men of all shades of political thought and file. The chances are, as has hap except red, the men on whom falls the five years of age were 2.449 (1,507 in convictions in 1910.

pened in the miners' ballot just an actual work of financing British trade, 1910).

nounced, that the will of the extremists have addressed a manifesto to the people prevails Ender existing conditions and Government. As to expenditure the Trade Union ballot is apt to become › a delusion and a snare. RETURNING TO WORK.

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F.M.S. GOVERNMENT'S

RUBBER POLICY., AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT. At a recent meeting of the Federal

There were, 10 deaths of children under Council of the Malay Btates the Hoo. Mr. W. Duncan asked:-" Will the Gov-one year of age amongst the non-Chinese ernment, in view of the present ever community (25 in 1919 and 40 in 1918). production of rubber, consider the desir ability of refusing to alienate any more land for rubber cultivation for a period of three years or longer!"

The Government reply was in the fol- lowing terms: The question of refusing at present to alienato any more land for rubber cultivation has already received the attention of the Government which lie of opinion that the present depression in the rubber planting industry is due to a temporary under consumption of rubber as a result of the world-wide de- pression of trade. It is thought that, when consumption is normal, a domand all the rubber that is likely to be produced, will probaby revive. rubber

for

$10,000 A YEAR TO DRESS A MERE MAN.

Among the Chinem, population the deaths of infants numbered 3,842 (3,449 in 1919 and 4,919 in 1018) while only 2,113 births were registered.

THE

HONGKONG RENTS

ORDINANCE.

A SINGAPORE COMMENT.

The Singapore Free Press in a leader discussing the Hongkong Hents Ordih:

ance, says:-

at

FORESTRY WORKS.

DEVELOPMENT AT CHEUNG CHAU AND FANLING.

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Within a day or two of the result of the ballot figures being published large number of miners were at work, with men would every indication that the drift back in batches hore and there

The following extracts are from the annual Report of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department

wherever the extremist elements were (Mr. H. Green):-/

Formation of Pine Tree Plantations not too strong for independent action of the kind. The alternative in starva: 8,124 one year old pine tree seedlingstion for themselves and their dependents. were planted on he bare bills at Cheus But as to this we shall see. An attempt mado

Chau.

Forty pounds of Pinus Massoniana like the last despairing effort of

and bankrupt leadership, has been seeds were sown on the barest hills at to drag in other Trade Unions and so Fanling.

On the lower slopes of the hills at bring about a general strike. It is the Chau, about 50 lbs of Pinus action of incendiaries who bave act a

We have, of course, no wish to criticise treg takes 5 or 6 years to arrivo at the any action of a neighbouring Colony Maironions and a small quantityof Ame. I block of buildings on fire and then call yielding stage and it is conâdently whose Legislative Council is more widely rican Pine seeda wore sown broad-cast. for help to burn down the whole town. pected that the present depression will

The final

The response gives these madmen small All grass and earth banks below Taipo

They are the bane of In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen have passed away long before any tree representative than our own.

reason for the Bill was the great specula and coastal roads, formed by Chamberlain aaid it was agreed at the that has not yet been planted can come

the Public encouragement.

Trade Unionis and the curse of honest conference between Mr. Lloyd, George into bearing. To refuse to alienate tion that had taken place in quite recent Worka Department were thickly, sown

the country-extremists to a man, who #Boda for rubber cultivation for a period of out the danger of buyers al indated Broad-les ved Trens Planted-880 have led the miners astray and would three years or longer as is suggested in

better than ruin kinds were like nothing this question, will merely be to drive prices from making the tenants pay for brood-leaved trees of value is so ou bodies of organised Labour. There will into other countries persons who are hope their speculative buying. The Governplaated on the hills at ful of the future of the rubber industry.ment hape that the measure may not.ipe Road, and 1.014 along the coastal be small hope of peace until the Labour movement gets the better of this violent DEATH OF FRENCH SCIENTIST Moreover, any person who is at present interfere with building development and rend, from Chin Wan to Castle Peak.

The trees planted in these areas were Communist element, in league with Bol willing to introduce capital and to claim that the exemption of new build-

Poin shovist, and I am glad to note that the Paris, August 2nd. employ labour should not be turned ings from the operation of the Bill will chiefly Casuarina, Callistemon,

course of the discussions and the voting M. Perrier, ex-Director of the French away.

operate against that but was able to give ciara, Erythrina and

In addition planted in

theas, 85 trees of various at the Trade Union, Congress in session Museum of National Sciences, is dead.-"

no solid reason for this hope. As a kinds were

placo

of this werk show that some effort will be Hovat.

contemporary points out, it offers Do those which had died out on the slopes made to deal with the dangerous factions and inducement to the building of Chinose of Fanling Hills, 50 on Fanlg Boad, that have had too much influens. tenement property, but on the contraty 73 on Taupo, Road, 19 on Bha ng Shui power in the past. shakes confidence in house-building as a Boad, 387 on the Frontier Road, Fanling, In writing the foregoing I have been profitable investment, with the likelihood 23 on the Cross Road, Fauling, 157 or careful to refer to extremists, the ad- The best dressed man in the world that the need for legislativa restriction Lok Ma Chau Road; 141 on Castle Peak vanced Socialist section in the Labour Looks like one thousand dollars when be having been onze admitted, there is no Old Road; 912 on the road from Santin world, who are the cause of most of our steps out formally to dinner, a Fifth justification for supposing that it will te Autsu, 234 on the road between Chin troubles All through the disastrous avenue clothier told the United Press.

not bo agaia applied or even extended. Was and Castle Feak, Te on Antan Road struggle of the miners the best men PARIS, August 2nd."

In a year ho spends at least $10,000 But plainly any such measure as that and 70 on other roads in the New Terri the Miners' Federation have been out- The alleged murderer ( Germany of for his modern fig leaves.

voted avery time

the extremists. An- by of Hongkong, or of our rent board ordin- torica."

that the Execu the French Major Montalegre Was

Here is what they say is the best that ance, must only be regarded as a tempor Miscellaneous Planting-The forester other important point is arrested yesterday by an English officer.

money can buy and what it takes to ary measure in a time of peculiar diff, who is now permaneatly stationed at Live Committee of the Miners Federation Another German assault against a buy it :-

Such measures do Choung Chan has been able to prevent have no authority to conclude a binding

dispute of a

this Fronch captain took place in the train

not add a single cubicle to the housing most of the illicit cutting of wild and agreement in between Berlin and Bremen.-lavar.

All the are without consulting the districts; capacity of the town, but they are a tème planted trees there porary, palliative man unwelcome neecs doing, well and hate madh improved the thes, as already omphasised, the extreme Bity the real remedies being land appearance of the island, Hay of the elements held sway and can prefent the development schemes wherein the Glov-residents have from time to time ex rank and file on a ballot from endorsing ernment itself shall be careful to avoid pressed their appreciation of the troo rack-renting for the land, but shall pro- planting scheme which is now being car

riod out vide many new sites at a reasonable price, the provision of strects and facili ties for the new habitations, in the shape of water and gas and drainage, so that The only country in the world in which building on large scale shall be ens are nos cordially disliked in Germany. couraged. But, of course, in the long-Deas Inge. run, any interference with the freedom

ENGLISH OFFICER ARRESTS ALLEGED MURDERER.

CRICKET.

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP.

Dress suit

Top coat...

Silk-Hat

Shoes

Accessories (including a little

Shirt

Stick....

jewellery and

incidentala)

Toust

$950

1955

35

20

15

15

personal

510

$1,000.

LONDON, August 2nd. Leicester beat Northamptonshire by 183 runs.

Middlesex best Sussex by 252 kuna. Kent beat Hampshire by 8 wiokėtų. Derbyshire won its match against Warwickshire on the first innings, also

When he lays in a stock of twenty out Yorkshire against Lancashire, and Easer its for dream, street, business, dinner, against Worcestershire,

afternoon, theatre, sport and motor-wear Gloucestershire defeated, Somerset by with a yachting costume, the yearly bill

will run to #10,000, is was said. One wicket

of trade" in houses must, tend to dis-The coal strike is the most obviously courage capital from going into that political and revulutionary strike e business."

baro erar had-Lori Sydenham,

ia

The mail. brings news of a powerful

bankers have this to say:

The present rate of national ex- penditure threatens to cripple the country's resources and to impair its credit abroad. In our judgment it is more than the commercial community can bear, more than the capacity of the nation can afford, more than, wers proper economies effected, the cation need be naked to sustain.

Not less emphatic is the insistence of the bankers on the necessity of fres trade as the only way to the recovery of England and Europe:

Trade is exchange. No nation which lives by trading with others can pro sper unless other nations prosper too. We hold to-day great stocks of goods,; Wo are ready to manufacture more. There is a large and insistent demand for them abroad. Bat owing to the paralysis of Continental commerce. due in part to the restrictive barricis which the now Staten have set up he tween themselves the would be buyarı of our "goods have not the means to pay for what they want. We have to build up the market that we need by encouraging Continental nations to export to us For it je only by ex forts that they can re-establish their credit and provide funds for the pay-. ment of their debts. In such s aitant tion we believe that all expediente to. control and bamper importa into this country, whether by licences, tari or any other meana, can only retard improvement in the Continental an changes and prevent the natural re covery of trade. We cannot limit imports into this country with. out limiting our export trade and striking a grave blow at the world- wide commerce on which, this island kingdom principally depends."

AMERICAN WHO ELFUSED LEGACY.

James Garland, who refused a 200,000 a proposal made to pave the way to dollars legacy from his father on the peace. And this, if you please, is sup ground that a man's independence is nap posed to be true democratic government ped by accepting money he has not cars- in the domain of Labour t

ed is working on his mother's farm, How Bedford, Massachusetts. Reporters THE COUNTLY UNDER THE STRIKE

In regard to the coal strike and its who interviewed him say he is quita san effects on the community, an extraordin and never regret hur decision to becoms ary thing is the smoothness with which a producer and not mero sponder life has gone on from day to day. On Garland says that his main object way the surface there would appear to be no to show the world there is at least one difference in many respects. The attike American who sparas mere dollars and His not affected the habite of the people he does not object to the great publicity There are, of course, inconveniences, and hig" Enancial" sacrifice has entalled.