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CABLES.

BARGER CABLES.

* {THROUGH (ZÉSTER'S AGETOT.]

THE ASSASSINATION

OF

HERR RATHENAU, MILLION MARKS REWARD DOK CAPTURE OF ASSASSINS.

BERLIN, June 25th The Government has increased the re- ward from 3.300,000 to 1.1,000,000 for

capture of the murderers. TRIBUTE FROM MR. LLOYD *GEORGE.

Lospos, Jnr: 230, ia "Lostlon Mr." Lloyd Inspeich Lieorge said that Dr. Rathenan was uno

of the ablest men in Europe and bad been doing his best for his country hy striving

countries she bad wronged. He expressed o sleepest borror at the outrage, and hoped that Germany would but sufer 'from it.

KECRIMENATIONS IN THE REICH STAG.

REALLY, Juan oth in the Heichatag, Here Wels (Majority Socialist) declared that the monarchiet

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUMSDAY,~ JUNE

BOTANICAL AND FORESTHY

DEPARTMENT.

HOME OF ITS ACTIVITIES.

KARLING PAPARIMASTAL GARDEN. The tobacco erop was again rory good,

JOURNALISM THE EQUAL OF

ANY PROFESSION. "

but did not mature in time, to enable LÖRD" KOSTHOLIFFE ON FUTUBE⚫ più of £1,000 a year. (Cheers.) "It

it to be harvested before being damaged.

The following extracts are from the

was sent to the Botanical Gardens and annual report of the Superintendent oty heavy rainstorms: the whole tero the Botanical and Forestry Departmentthers made use of as na iparticiile. (Mr. H. Green) for 1921-

MISCELLANEOUS PLANTING.

Onion need, was again obtained from Tenerife and son and resulted in a In Stanley Military Ceraetery the heary crop of age and well shaped

following flowering shrubs and trees were Hibiscus Allamanda, 93 planted, Lambertianus. 6 Archontophoenix, Bournvillea, 6 Poinciana and Banhinis was recently Blakeana. The cemetery place under our care and a small annual fee is paid by Military Authorities for

its upkeep.

Sixteen mixed Siwering shrubs were front of Aberdeen Palice Station.

were planted.

Azaleas Seventy-nie nalive

which were growing in the line of proposed new roads in the Wong Ne Choaz" district were taken up and replanted elsewhere Firma creepers and flowering shrub were planted on the banks and grass plot by the side of the Police Stations at Hunghom.

New trees, creepers and dowering shrubs were plante in the grounds of the Water Police Station, Kowloon, and the Food order generally.

onions.

Oor farmer at Ping Kong bas as a re- sult of this object" Tenson, commenced to grow onions on ground formerly taken up.by other crops.

and gardeners,

OF EVENING PRESS.

at luncheon on May 4th at the Nar Mr. Walter John Evans was entertained Metropole Hotel, S.W., on the occasion of his retirement after 23 years' service st Carmelite House. During large part of that time he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Evening News and a director of the Associated Nawapapers, Limited,

I

year for the nort 10

years, and BRITAING BEST CUSTOMERS. afterwards for the remainder of his life,

The following `is LA extract from a which" they all hoped would be long.

leader in the Times Empire Supplement:: is not mom than we ought to do for one Much has been said lately of the vital who has been a builder of Carmelite House. importance to the nation of the rehabilita- We wish him all health and prosperity in the life he is now entering upon. (Londtion of European trade, get the nation's cheera.)

best custoimera are our own children who

the

ag of Germany had become the standard old trees and shrubs pruned and put into ringed sune very bug bunches off whore the man who acts as hall, porter way that · Mr. Alfred has just come in" it pro- uote of India today is racialian, the sub-

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act

with

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and

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adions and the Entente aust forgo tate policy of ultimatums and dictator

He appealed to all to unite to ship denting the present atmosphere of murderi and to work for the the nestablishment falecocracy," Chir enemies are those who pour poison into the wounds of the Nation Thoo

un the cnetuies re "fight." (Lond Applause).

THE EVEREST EXPEDITION.

FURTHER PROGRESS TM POSSIBLE.

Lostos, June 9th.

In order to give the owner, of an adjoining, building lot access to his pro- perly the rockery at Segnicar Epad had to be reconstructed ami was afterwards replante}.

F

HIKESTLY SERVICK PATUS.

The paths Are still made great w of by pedestrians: also many tiny during the year they were found to

for the forestry staff in of great use getting to the scene of forest fires in the shortest possible titre,

Beth those in Hongkong and Kowloon

The Daily Telegraph's Calcutia corres pondent learns reliably that the Everest expolition leaders have decided that fur ther progress is impossible during the A third prement weather comit took the malarial attempt to reach the dibers less than 130 feet above the 27.800 feet previously attsiard. Several mem "bers of the party were badly frost-bitten,

1 understood that General Bruce was

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fruits,

A

rcy.

The bulbs were generally elcatier than

ding.

"

BAY LEVÉE.

who

THE POPULATION OF

EUROPE.

Mr. W. J. Evans, in reply, unid :—"It is bave grown-up and are meeting their A very embarrassing thing to sit and listan

the things all about oneself, when parcats on an equal footing, yet children British goode And their after all you know yourself how much of none the less. them is deserted, and how much un biggest market is the loding empire. deserved. You have heard the Chief asy Five million Australians purchase more Lord Northeliffe presided over a company great things abon my wisdom and fore than the 105 millions of the United States. which included the directors and heads of it. For my own part I would only So the comparison runs on, yet in many staff of the company and all its associated claim that I did once display great fore- When visited this man stated that be paper-woling and publishing organizations. wight, and that was when I hitched my parts of the Empire Britishers are con wade a better profit on his one onion Japroposing the health of Mr Evans, he mud wagon to a star. I have since displayed bent to let foreigner step in and dominate.

1 should be cur first aim crop thin on two crops of rice.

that there were degrees of strenuousness is great wisdom in staying bitched. (Laughter the market. The improved variety of Paraya iniited the journalistic life. There was the manant chrem) All the rest of the kind to keep the Empire's business in the firm. planted on a waste space imately in all quantities of me of this who produced an annual. They had one, and things you can put down not so much On the twin pillars of British settlement and trade resta the future of the Empire. to the Chief's Gone are the spacious days of Baleigh and On a grass plot above Mount Austin fruit were distributes to local farmers his was a confortable job. Then there to my merita s

was the four tima a yea? man, then the erosity. I remember on the oxation Drake, the mighty deeds of Olive and One Bauhinin

Thirty trees of the Custard Apple man who produce a monthly magazine, of u prentation to the late Lord Wells Tet the pioneer backwoodsmen Barracks Peak Houd. Blakeana and to lowering slirebs were

(Anona reticulata) were purchased from followed by the editor of a weekly per- Baralam, the old man said of Lord North- Blace the trail which we of a GOTE, plantedt.."

Of a bare bank above the Disinfecting near so sud planted in the garden, jodies. Then came the morning paper cliffs, who had made it. Generons-hearted materialist age must fellow in a more to restore bez good cṛlations with the Station.. Caine Road, 29 flowering shrubs in spite of the: rough'treatment received man and thm that horrible machine the man,” and with those words he showed him craterislist manner. By preserving alli during the teamsport into Macro andreninger, which gave opportunities sett great judge of character. (Hear, ances and developing resourers, above al!

by from there is the garden, these trees six times a day for unting blunders, for hear. The mark of the Chief is his operare born mutual confidence and affection cultivating understanding, whereof prodhues about to large fraits of good hug late, and for getting left. I wonder hearted generosity.

we shall keep the Empire commonwealth often how Evans has been able to endure It is 28 years siner I first joins! the that for long will stand fouratare to all quality.

This fruit, which always enmands all this for many years with so little tail of the processiou. As he has told you, the

world, gond here in the heat market, is very apparent effect of himself. Evans and the tail of the procession always has A whole page is devoted to Indiao

hans Krown in the New Territories, have been working together for 29 years chance of finishing up at the hand. In articles, including articles on all the trees which mer be row fel years Life at Carmente House those years's great deal has happened. social life of the English, & character cured at small cost, nerd little attention has beet variously described sometimes I returmber the days when Lord North study of Gandhi, women in India. and the fruit is very popularvamong the a dog fight and sometimes as a rest cure. cliffe was not eres vot known as the Chief, the village life of the millions, and

But natives.

(Laughter.) It is a place where say mat He was called Mr. Alfred, and I assure India as a traveller's land. The Bananas are now well established who wants to can rise to the highest position, you that when the word was passed round Principal theme is Indian efficiency con- treated with English: The dominant elimb to the top. It is a republic of whica dured an effect similar to the feeling exstitution of Indian, for British agenc of the murderers.

Twelve trees of Citrus medica, var augene may be president. (Cheers) To perienced by the eight-day clock which is in every department of State and private Herr Hergt Pap-tiermann) declared

At Cheungehau the following trees

were Carmelite Home there is no entry by family just running down and beare someone tak enterprise. What does it all ́portend? at the German National Party abborre were planted in various prominent parts cherous were planted. These

(Laughter.) The India is exceedingly efficient in his the murder of Herr Hathenau but be de- of the island by the forester who is now procured with grent difficulty from near connexions, shareholdery influence, or saying the key off the mail"

The other kind of influence.” (Chivers.)

When they looked round at the great way but it is not the Western way. Con unced the Government's measures take rosently bationed there, Rhus, Wat San. Shia ting district er Herr Hergt was much interrupted Poinciana 30, Celtis 50, l'aulownin 25pularly shaped fruits produced, by Who was to succeed Mr. Eran? It had organization to day and compared it with of the ablest engineers who ever came to tre shouts of murderer,

Bischofia 100, Camphor 30, Albizzi 100, these trees a treated with sugar and teen most difficult to find the man. The the sinal beginnings of these early days, India heid that one method was to leave the indian entirely alone. He would get crite from the Left.

Here Crispin (Independent Socialist)Tristani, Fiews 30, Eucalyptus 10, † sold by natives as a dry preserved fruit.

arett ania!

el bearily manured had been much discussion of the matter by they wondered that one man could keep a

other way was ἐπ do the job yourself but, declared that the all other caste was and Melia 4.

The shape of rockery at the junction ground was sown with seeds of Castor the directors, and they hoped they had record of all those things in his head, still the job done somehow ate sometime. The a trying to murder their own country-

Untras the Government dismissed of tardes and Lower Albert Roads was Cil Ricies coununis) and the resulting arrived at a solution of the difficulty, which less direct them in all their ramifications interference without control whe fatal. the ferry from the Reichswehr and altered to conform with adjoining road plants grew in fast cases to a bright of involved the selection of one endowed with the Chief did. That was one of the most There will always be room for the Eng uiterations and was entirely replanted. right in ten feet, each one bearing from that rare quality possessed by Mr. Marlowe wonderful things be had ever seen. In the lishman in India, and the Indian will li

the workers would I obliged to

Fight hundred and seventy Ficus half to one pound of weet of good (Editor of the Daily Mail) and Mr. Evans control of newspapers and their kindred recognise it more clearly when the prosect self defence and answer violence

judgment. Only those like himself could organizations, the problems that had to be wave of racialism has subsided, but room Rolener.

Greepers were planted at the base of cut peality.

Several consignascuts of the Figs" realize the value of people endowed with settled were different problems every day. will be only for the beat type. The day

RVETOKS manis gone. Her Wirth declared that the Allie intings on either side of the new moter

Fist Ficus refusa, containing insects were judgment when guarding his affairs. The thing you had to do today was a of the

Another chan

change needs to be frankly pist year bad indicted, upon the Ger- rol so the Peak.

wat to the Entomologist of the Forestry On the possession of judgment I lay different thing from the thing you had done stated. There is too much of the chim- mer Government alrnest continuat humi-

yesterday the thing you had to do to-

life. 15. was impossible to keep

Department, Honolulu. where the insects stress. Enurer we have plenty. ratie terms dive audos, such

here to be liberated with the object of great sit que ens han in Plaar morrow: You hul always to be alert, the standard it Anglo-Indian

in the fertiliation f the

always shifting seconding to the shifting ing almost a curse. For the who can assisting fruits of varieties of Fiens growing wild engine without a governor." og planted in the reservoir catchment directors te take clurge of the Erening progress.

Mr. C. 1. Beattie had been chosen by the conditions, and always abreast of modera rub off angularities and identify the

selves with the modern life of Iudia therm Not only had Lord Northcliffe done great is the warmest welcome to a very attras- A bulbs of Narcissus Tazetta intend News Anilwomki be the now Editor-in-chief

export to Cuated States of America (ers) He would have the support and things for journalism, but he had done great tire country. syre agama jumprcted and certified by antenergy of Mr. Fitzhugh with hits us As-things for journalists. In his (Mr. Evans's) officer of this Department.

sociate Flitur. (Cheers) Austher promo-young days he had the honour of being Between Fly 16th and October 9th the uf one of their collegas onld colleague at another office of Mr. Marlowe. cases in hit tots, the whole contain take place in a few months if he proved Mr. Haads, and, he believed, of Sir George Sutton. They were a glorious company of ing 951,000 bulba ware dealt with in [aressful, y N were repaired during the dry season.

kclowns and on juks.

Experience has shown that the work of apostle-bé did not know whether they Two new paths, ons 4,000 and the other

feel lung were made in the vicinity of those dealt with daring the preceding during an evening newspaper has be might not claim to be called a noble army rome one of increasing strain, and that of martyrs. They had gathered together Aberdeen Reservoir, in order to give a year and only a small portion of the con--

more rest is needed for those who do on that staff Mr. Alcesingham, Mr. Bernard access to the newly plauteil young trees simusents arfire detvized for recondition to work.

In future, instead of work Shaw, Mr. Walkky, Sir Robert Donald, of Jak (Artocarpus integrifolia).

ingre days a week, the editors of Mr. Lincoln Springfield, Mr. R. A. Bennett, CLEARING UNDEWHROWTH AROUND HOUSES.

the Evening Netts will" work four the present aliter of Truth, Mr. Mellish, Clearing in onnection with anti-

Flexers, of Peivel (Ligstram sinense) daye. Sue 1805 the quee in roug and himself, and he was perfectly certain INCRSOTES 'ዐ maintained throughout the whole year, the total arre ved from plaits growing in newspaper production in been intensified none of the then got £5

the Peak district.

and is going to increase still further. cleared anousted to. 5,300,000 square) Complaints continue to be received Wires plans is beginning and is feet.

Clearing for Survey Purposes la donerom many householdss to the effect that going to affect the publication of fers, in connection with surveys by the Pably the pollen from this plant is the cause of The time will case who we may nire

sere Hay Fever. Works Department of proposed building

The plants in the Peak district appear tree, if not four, men at the hold of war sites and the lines of new roads, the to beteclit by the retaoval of the Bowers Tening newspaper.

To pate Mr. Evans on the bed of total area cleared amanted to 3,990,000 and there is no doubt that the gradual square feet.

"I cow," concludel Mr. Erams with which had occupied much time and thought Forestry Licences, New Territorios-extermination of livet will have to be directors had also been a very difficult task,

commenced it the near future.

émotion, "add one further claim to the on the part of the directors. The total amount of fets collected durine)

They had looked across the Chumsel to a wisdom and foresight with which I am the year amounted to $1,558.17 compared with $4,990.13 in 1520.

The department in indebted to the man who had run a omlete newspaper credited, and that is that I have Lad the following donors of seeds, plants and during the most difficult period that ang wisdom and foresight to know when the NURSERIES, AGRICULTURA, SVG.

Herbarium Specimens-Director, Horti- newspaper had been through-mely, Mr. time has come to leave the queue and Bass, June 25th,

Beacon il Nursery.The whole of cultural Section, Mudriya) Egypt; des livard, French official of the sock of young trees not required for Professor Linck. Washington: Father Godis (formely Editor of the Centierta make room for the other people who are parations Commision, was attack rondside or other planting was lifted, reubert, Procure des fissions Firatgers; edition of the Daily Afuity, who fought the coming on behind. For 2 years I have teen in the queue, and I hope I have early in the morning outside his re-planted, labelled and put into good under Board of Commissioner of Agriculture Paris strike and won it.

We are all for high wages, continued never jouticul anyone out of a place. midlener, robbed of M.4,000, and seriously generally,

and Forestry, Honolulu, Hawai; and

"I can way that I have leamed wll øšdes injured. He is now in hospital. One Bords of the following were planted in Messrs. H. W. Burkber, lockford: K. Lol Northcliffe. "I do want to see (Hear, hear.) During those years 1 bure

had the very pleamatest time that any of the newspaper business by practical ex- Damijant has been arrested.

beds to raise, stock for use next year, Aumuller; II. fumphreys; Lasa Vin: 1. our workpeople who, during the recent Pinas Massoniana, Cinnamdieum Cham Maiden, Pots Garderm, Sydney, prosperity, have sent their children to one possibly could have. Gathered round perience. I could go down to-day to the cod school, Lare to take thein away from the tables are some of the very best machine-rbom and Mart and shop"the ma phora, Pauhais variegata, Tristania) and Sir Itpbert Ho Turg conferta and Albizzia L-bbek.

the principal re-hose schools. No one bere wants to feet friends I ever made in my life or ever hope chines. I can operate the lintype mu hing. The following were In "plantation ta in the vicinity of plens:Dr. W. M. Doclers Fan Levu that any person engaged with us has been to make, and I am deeply sorry that the I think that the pay of the staff in my The result was time has come to bid them officially, but early days was ridiculous. Beacon Hill Sursery an area hali anwen, Director of the Petanical Gardens, obliged to reduce the status that he und sere in extent was broken up, manured Buitenzorg, Java; Messrs. H. B. C. Hill. His wife have seguired during the hat few I hope not privately, 'Good-by." (Loud that the man did not provide any ideas. What were not the old newspapers, lite? and sown with. seeds

al Castor Oil Upper Assan, C. A Backer, Buitenzorg. years. None of us wou'd le a party to cheers)

Mr. Thomas Marlowe, chairman of the They were produced by ill-paid men, and (Ricinus communis), the seed of which as: ... 1 Wynne-Joues, H. B. Mat." (Cheers.) LONDON, June 27th.

was obtained locally and from Honolulu, Yames, Caution: M. 1. Bird, Assistant Mr. Goudie, i Turis, was without Associated Newapapers, Limited, then pro- they were produced without any of that is Fire destroyed a range of buildings at all germinated well and those plants on Inspecter, Department of Agriculture,

ang-office, containing models of drawings

broke Dockyard, including the draw the dryer parts of the ground yielded a fence Hous, Pansuster, BC, G. wating ne night faced with a fele posed the health of "The Chief Lord telligenes and enthusing which I find in

phone threat from a number of misguided Northcliffe. In his dealings with those our newspapers to-day. Kynock P. Cavanagh, Director workers, who

"We at the same tame tels- who had worked with him, and his views

are engaged in several fights every ship built at the dockyard since very four crop of seed of good quality.

This experiment was made as a result State Gardens, Guwalior, WI; L sts establishment.

of many inquiries from persons wishing Gibbs; Tsai Yuet O, Tsum Wan, phonel to the Editor of the Paris edi on policy, the Chief had shown greatness today. I like them, and would take on * to take up the growing of this plant to Tsan Itin Lam, Kang Usa, N.T.; Chantion of the New Fort Herald, and com- of mind. and he would only adil that Lord for more. (Chen) We one much to the obtain Caster Oil weed, for which there Wing On, Tsun Wan, NT.; Lam Yin bined in a lightning strike. Mr. Good-Northcliffe, was a very good man to go intelligent members of our trades unions" Those who went They are all eager to see how we can im is said to be an increasing demand in Chau, Sha As, N.T.; Chan Kam Tong, arcepted the challenge, and in a few days tiger hunting with

out a skin (Laughter.) That was the these men are highly paid, and I promise, CONTINUOUS RAIN SPOILS CROPS. Europe, where the seed is crushed, and Shui Luu Tin, N.T.; Le Hang She, produced an almost perfect rowspaper by hunting with him rarely came beck with prove our productions. It is true that

the oil extracted angi used na lubricant, Ping Kong, N.T.; J. li. Kerr. Sheung photography. In a fortnight it was while the residue is made use ofonsa hu. N.T: B. X. Fox, Dawson, Y.T., difficin to see that it was not a news first time that they had had Lord North- on behalf of the ductors as the chief fertilizer.

Canada; H. L. Chapman, Horticultural paper producel in the usual way from cliff, among than since his tour roundsuretider, that the prescut rate of "waga, The Castor Oil plant is to be seen Section (Mudiriya), Egypt; U. A. Far- type. The result of that strike, he was the world, and he felt bound to say shall be maintained so long as we bare our growing wild in and about almost every rell; Colonel Greor: J. G. Shepherd: Wsorry toy, had been to destroy trade that that world tour had been not only a prosperity. Noune can formen the futur village in the New Territories, where. Funkhauser, Carton Christian College, unionism in British arrayer ofis in pleasant holiday trip but a great public ffanything, our vision has been too limited. We have always been striving to keep up the seeds are gathered and sold to the Cantons Wa Shun, T.; D. Burlingham; Paris, When it had lasted about a month service herb stops in Hongkong," and are used Giannetti, je, Cagliari, Italy; Inspector the men wrote him a fery humble kater In reply, Lord Nottheliffe said: "Thare with production. We have never caught for mixing with other medicines.

Medonald; the lient Master, Wan Tai asking to be taken back. But of them never had any other ambition since up with it.

#1 beliere, if we bad the necessary equip Three hundred and eighty pounds of school and Officers in charge of Kowloon, had been reinstated, but the ringleader he childhood but that which the Alnughty seed of Pings Maasoniana were collected Aberdeen, lunchon, and No. Police had himself taken by the neck and kicked enabled me to attain. This morning ment, we could soll 2,000,000 copies of for sowing in pits broadcast and in nur Stations,

downstairs It was not a strike; it was in order to discuss this gathering, Sir the Evening News and 3,300,000 copies series, the crop of seed this year "wa

Blackmed, and then is only ease way to Andros. Caird and I went for walk at of the Daily Mail every day. We shall lag very poor and great difficulty was ex- erienced in obtaining the amount mea-

treat a blackmailer. The handling of that Hampstead, and saw the house where my behind until ear directors have succeeded strike wua what conarmed the directors in mother brought up seven children. Four in obtaining very much more machinery tioned.

the belief that in Mr. Goudic they had houses away was the house of a gentleman which we are doing, and in getting to work found the right man for the bon pl. who was at that time secretary of the in much larger premises in London and in

Lond Northeliale then handed to Mr. Sarage Club, and so the proprietor of Manchester, which have been secured.

"When the time comes for me to retire Evans as a perumal gift from himself a the Hampstead and Highgate Expres. baddsone gold evening drum watch When I was five years old he gave me a Ishall give up colleagues a long note. Sir Andrew Goird pre-cuted to Mr. Es present of a small case of type, and I knew I shall carefully guard their interests in gift of plato subscribed by his colleagues, how to det sype before I was soven. I wrote any arrangements I may make as to affairs. I ehal! comprising an antique tmy, howl, and u for his paper while I was at school. I have the disposal of ep. Ho said the Keraung News had never had any sibition except to dissemin not work one day after I feel that the decided to maker a present of the sum ofate much viewa na Iexpress by means of time has come for me to make way for. The Marquis and Marchioness of use,

Colonel Lewis, deputy chairzatus, pre-£10,000 to Mr. Evans to take away with bien our newspapera. Iregard our craft as on samuone else. When I retire nothing will with their aon and daughter, Lord Crid tam Stunit and Lady Crichton Stuart, creepers with the exception of those sided. Mr. Robbin, joist general manager, that day. (Loud cheers) The man who a lord with any other profession whatever. luppen to the position of any persona ou Mr. Evans has referred to the money these newspapers if I can help it. What and Brigadier-General and Mrs, Cuth lining the banks of streams or giving aid they were proud of the compliment had been asociated with them for 23 years

in building up that great enterprize did not received by journalists years ago. When I Icannot do is to expand the premises at bertson have arrived at Liverpool on the shade to the adjoining rund all trees paid to the organimating through the Meantic from Montreal after four are now being felled by a contractor who appearance of the zines of three meters cease to have claims upon them when he left. began I received 159. a week from the Carmelite House at once. That will be be plessure tour in Ceylon, the is bound to replant one Camphor for of the governing body in the New Year's The directors knd therefore further decided Evening Nam, to which I was in outside done as soon as possibles. I thank you all

jfor' all you have done.” (Uhcors.) · Hosoara Lide

(Continued 'at font of next column.) every tree felled by bim.

to give him a pension of 22:30 a Frejta Rettlements and Japan.

rst colactant to abandon his attempts mt was force to conside that persist ener, would only end in a useless tragedy

ERENCII REPARATIONS OFFICIAL KOBBED. BERROUSLY INJURED IN GERMAN CAPITAL

FIRE AT PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.

COLLECTION | OF MODELS

DESTROYED.

BUSSIAN HARVEST

ENDANGERED.

Moscow, June 4th. Continuous rain tus incalculably harm- and the potato and other vegetable crops, and the access of the bay and corn crops in the central and northern provinces is

pe-riller ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER,

PG CONFER WITH MN, LLOYD GEORGE,

LONDON, June 26th. Sigur Schanzer, the Italian Foreigü Minister, has arrived in London to confer with Mr. Lloyd George, in'regard to the Var Bad and the basis of a closer Anglo-

Stalian entonte.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS RETURN FROM THE EAST, LONDON, June 28th.

Camplior seeds collected amounted to 81 goods.

EXCHANGE OF 33305, #TV-

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION, (*

Colonel Sir Jreepħ. Reel, chairman of A nursery was formed at the back of the Pr Association, und Sir Meredith Little Hongkoux Old. Villinge for the Whittaker and Sir Charles Hyde, B., ra sing of seedling Camphora to be used members of the committee of management, in the replanting of the adjoining rewery entertained at dinner on May 8th by of natural forest.

their crllenges of the coritter and the This area is one of the largest pieces couenitatire hard anal the officers of the of natural forest now remaining on taociation, in celebration d' the bunnys island, many of the largest trees RYC conferred upon them." showing signs of decay and almost every tree is covered on partly covered with

Bir L. Chioaza Money, writing in the Wester Morning News, says: The com Europe contains over fire hundred million people. Bo quickly does its population " multiply that the war leases, frighniai as they were. have merely checked the rapid growth. Most of the European nations, werk although not France, and probably not Certainly he did not. It was a perfectly Tussia, have mule increase despite the war.. awful thing to look back on. The whole Our population is now over $7,500,000 credit for altering these conditions belonged as gaat 4000,000 in 1914: Germany. to one gas and one man only. The Chief area for ares, lan grown; Italy numbers was the first man to find out that it paid to pay journalists better. He was the man who wade the life of the journalist worth fiving (Cheers.)"

40.00000: Frase, on the other hand. steadily wanes; she is now, with the people of Alsner-Lorraine, a smaller ration than she was in 1911 without Assen-Lorraine, At her present rate of retrogressina she will number only 31,000,000 in 1950. **. compared with ber present 30,000,000.**

contributor. Altogether I made it op ly mens of hard work to 22 or 2) a week. That was by scurrying all round London picking up new and every little item of intelligeno.