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THE TIME WAR.
LONDON, July 8th.,"
The week's events in England have been oversiadowed in interest by the swiftly moving drama across the Irish Set This seams a somewhat Hibernian way of stating the fact, but it can be easily understood how absorbing, has been the warfare which raged round the Fone Caarts in Dublin, ending with the destruction of the splendid buildings undoubtedly the finest architecs taral monument in the whole country and the surrender of the Republicati garrison It is a curious commentary on the situa. To which has developed that the Re publicans are now universally designate
rebels," because of their defiance of the Provisional Government under Messrs. Collins and Griffith, where us it is less than year since the latter were themselves the rebels" with araza in their hands against the British Governinent..
OPINION IN ENGLAND.
The battles in Dublin have been full of.
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would almost any arrangement which lighten their responsiblities in regard to this as well as other forms of patronage, the exercise of which is both dificult and embarrassing. However, when Mr. Lloyd George finds himself in a difficult position his plan is to appoint a Committee or a Royal Commission to hold na inquiry, which staves off the critics for the time being, and this is what he will probably da in the present instance,
LABOVE REJECT COMMUNISTS
A ROYAL", VICEROY FO
INDIA,
- DIVERGENT INDIAN VIEWS.. The puposal that the Viceroy of India should be a member of the Royal Family is once more seriously mootel, and this time it is His Highness the Aga Khan who fas brought the matter prominently far- His iden want in a letter to the Times. is that one of the sons of His Majesty the King-Emperor should be appasinter to the after, who would devote the best. years of his life to India and who would permanently live here and for this country; The mention of the name of the Royal Family in connection with the highest Aj-| impyend to the imagination of t
a powe
The Aga Khan has raken care to against the misconception that the Regal the culp figure Viceroy stonkalways be
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'1922.
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The outstanding feature of the Labour party conference at Edinburgh was the atinging rebuff administered to their Com munist compatriots. These disciples of the Third International, with headquarters ns Moscow and Lenin a High Priest, unt gingerly to work among the delegates, Their aim was to get into control of the Labour movement, but they were careful not to propose a direct motion for affiliation: Their request was put forward much morë ut a pageant or procession, and that bis SIXTIETH ANNUAL diplomatically merely as a desire to be life would be a long, continuat round of
shows and frivolities. received into the counsels of the executive. ceremonies,
Aga Khan has joiner! isste with But the delegates were "not having say," as the song says, because, being very well and potentates have a good and easy the those who maintain that Indian princes agreably acquainted with the aims and the chameter of it and that their time is passed- of the Communists, they know the latter without anything of that parsiness that is would work inside the movement to split said to settle on thy heads of those who The mind of many in the it from top to bottom as a means of busten- ing the day which is to see, in Corámanist Western world ought to be elisahtised of a false notion by reading the vigorous iss jargon, the Dictatorship of the Proclaimer of the Aga Khan to the effet let letariat."
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the traditions of the greatest Kings of the East show that they
THE DIRECTORY covers the notabla evan Constatifly ต inger
contact with
porta and cities of the Far East, from Nether- the
humblest of
this prople interest and even excitement for the British Labourites may have it cannot be and that, securing the old Asistic custom, id India to Siberia, in which Europeans British public, who have had to be content luid to their account that they are partial monarchs must mix with their subjects. lest they remain unknown to the masses."
Not only is the Directory as tall and complate with a spectator's part. The questions on to foreign political doctrines. They the general idea that outains in the West in each case as it can be minds, but egal Colony. the Order Paper of the House of Commons, criticise Capital and the methods of em- and the daily applications to Mr. Churchill ployers-ant it was freely done at the in this connection is that Eastern kings live Fort or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIP for an account of the situation showed that Edinburgh conference-and they may de- in a world of their own, far-away from those TION, carefully revised each your, most of there are not a few Members who believe cide that the present system of distributing who constitute the real backbone of the which will serve as accurate GUIDE. FOR TH In a country where demoemtie Tourist, giving every detail in connection with that the Imperial forces ought to have the profits of industry is bal and unjust forms of Government have been well known the places, their History, Topography, etc. butted in the moment trouble urose.
The Information in thero Descriptipas, consist But bizt, on the other hand, they have not had practisel even in romute ages of the such a course has never been contemplated the slightest intention of striving to pull past, it would be an act of self stultitisationing of a hundred interesting articles, packni
on the part
of the high and the mighty to with facts concisely set out, and containing by the Government. It would only he in down the existing economic structure of the last resort--the lapse of Ireland into Society in order to replace it with a brand maintain listant isolation from the people. statistics of the TRADE of each Country and "
India rightly says the Aga Khan, des sheer-anarchy-that intervention would be née editive from designs made in Hussia.
เท There is a squad basis" of patriotism in Biways want to see its rulers clul in roles port, would alone suffice to fill a large volume. The view that Ireland must work
The Book is printed from New Type specially British Labour ergusisations, mingled with of the, Ariel pave got to up was among the
have got to appear among the reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in profound contempt, for Ennatics. Even so sympathise with their hopes and aspirations. every arrangement greatly facilitates referencs. advanced a Socialist as Mr. Ramsay Mue. This cannot be lone by taking
upa superior Donald, whose pro-German syrupathics cost attitude of by passing life always on the him his sent ar Member for Tricaster at the stilts. At a time when the rent Demos has General Election of 1918, his opponent awakened, it cannot be that the heads of defeating him with a majority of 14,000 States in the East should still find time hang go int for the dal monotony. of pops and At the time of mailing, the prospects votes, denounced the Communists, Luhising heavy on their hands and
tattered are bright for the cause of the Free State opinion they were signed, sealed and The Aga Khan could not hand ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS- is When the fighting began there was undelivered, mind, body and soul to their greater truism than the following: Under the Far East contains the names of over
those who hold great
madley own salvation, and that intervention from this side until it was applied for would be minous. It is far better that the Free Staters should deal unaided with the Republicans; who are seeking to usurp by force the power which the electors of Ireland bave denied them.
a
State.
concealed scepticism hare whether, in fact masters at Moscow. They proffered the der will not, succred in re- 1
the Provisional Government were serious right hand in fellowship. but in the left in their efforts to assert themselves. This they carried a dagger with which to stab. the Communists were impression was strengthened by the slena a card vote der list of casualities, which were mainly refused admission to the Labour party by But events 3,086,000 votes to 261,000. So that's that among the non-combatants. during the past weeks have decided the and Lenin & Co., of Moscow and elsewhere, are welcome to it as a little present from the question, and at the loss of the Four Courts and its priceless contents, including his. British Labour party. torical documenta dating from the ThirsT. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. teenth Century, the Free State party have to all appearance quelled the attempt to challenge authority." The hope which I hear most generally expressed is to the affect that Messrs. Collins and Griffith will insist on the unconditional surrender of De Valera aud bis venemous friends otherwise, life in Ireland will continue to be impossible for any men of good-will.
OF HONORES.
THE BESTOWAL
The old story of the alleged sale of hun. curs in return for political services has cropped up again, the appearance of the name of Sir J. B. Robinson, the South
hereditary
of every
Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Firm. the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the large Commercial Centres.
The
THE MAPS AND PLANS
20,000 FOREIGNERS, taining public confidence unless they arrangel, with the Initials as well as the Sur abandon all tendencies to remoteness and names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that
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was made
in the east that sock
Haroun-al-Rashid
a point round going
iris capital night and seeing with his own eyes of the principal ports of the Far East have been the condition of his people and hearing engraved by one of the most eminent Firme in. the small talk in which they indulgel in Great Britain and are annually corrected and Canon Alexander as the Treasurer of the private contidepec by travelling incognito arought up to date
among the Incidentally, the Aga Khan The CHRONICLE covers the notable events Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral makes an has done well in pointing out that it is a together with the Texts of all this most import- eloquent appeal for money to enable the mistake to suppose that the spirit of sport on Treaties concluded with the countries of was introduced into India only under British Eastern Asis, the various Customs Tarifa work of restoration of the mighty fabric to
It will not take anybody the dome against the constrate that this is far from the truth. Senler of Commistions, Consular and Conr long to Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce, go on. Repairs ravages of time and the English climateSporting records," as the Aga Khan'obser Fees, Hongkong Stamps Dutics, Signal" have been proceeding for the last nine res go back to the very beginning of Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money.. years, but the fund raised for this purpose Indian history Chandragupta, with whose Weights and Mensures and other Com is nearly exhausted. St. Paul's is not of name the authentic story of Indian.his mercial Information great antiquity as buildings in England are tory begins, WAS A mightly hunter until
The Moguls regarded; but on the site it occupies there quite late in lify and so was the Emperor sportsmen beforeTM everything else, und *50 were has been a place of Christian worship for oka. over 1,300 years,
and the Mahnitta princes. The long Claiming credit for coining as the true
knowledge." Let it not be supposed Church of the British Empire," Canon that sports induce a spirit of frivolity.
were
African mining magnate, in the list of title of St. Paul's the phrase The Parish Fits of the Rajputs with sport is:
new peers recently issued being the special Alexander save this bas come back to him The Indian is always a hig
and
and
from
to many moral and
ала
value upon a new turn significance to spiritual point of view as tending to impart
Viceroy for India. We must say that over, to "return to the subject of a Royal subject bristles with difficulties and it will be injudicious to dispose of it from the spectacular point merely sentimentul n
the
point of criticism His compatriots in the Commonwealth first raised an outers, asking from correspondents all over the world games what he had done to merit the high dis- from Chin and Japan, America, South tinction and this opposition in due course Afrin; and the most remote places on the found expression House of Lords inhabited It is a good description bere. Like a good many other folk, of the great Cathedral which was raised by the genius of Wron after the Great Fire "J.B.," be has always been known in South Africa, started with the proverbial of London. With its massive towers, and shilling in his pocket in the days of his again dome surmounted by the youth, and be has made tons of money wonderful cross. St. Paul's is the synsbol but his public services have not been of London. What wold London ever been a bed of roses exactly conspicuous. Why, then, the Lessays the Canon, without its Crows and a vastly increased in recent times, so, its Dome?" The sum of a hundred thou much that even trained parliamentarians towal of a peerage 2.
and pounds is needed to enable the bailand politicans who have been long in the of British elife, Gad bracing atmosphere dera to go on with the restoration.
So far us Sir J.B. Robinson is concerned he cleared the air by naking the King's
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With the growth of swift-moving motor traffic in the streets of London the "Safety First" Council have found umple scope for their energies in the last few yours. The
of view. The Viceroyalty of India has I roses, and its difficulties
:
It is published at the Office of the "Hose KONG DAILY PEZAS."
The Directories and Descriptions are of :--
CHINA.
Boochow Chintang
Peking Tizatan
Paitaiho Neaking
Chinwangtao Wuha
Taku
Antung
Kewang Bankow
Manchurian Yochow
Trade Ctres Shazi Newchwang Ichang
Dairen
it hard to sample with public hc, Swatow
ΓΙΑΤΙ
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its complications Of course, it is quite true that with
of autonomy to the provinces, tha duties of a Viceroy will in a great measure be lightened. But there can be no doubt that the head of the Central Government must be endowed with
and
the world knows that the Government aim of the Council is to make the streets knowledite of law and
shoulders the responsibility of submitting names to the King, but what nowaly apparently knows is by what wonderful process of selection certain individuals are chosen from time to time. There is the cynical suggestion that it is all a question of hard cast, the payment of large sums to the political party funds for party purposes. Indeed, the astounding statement is public 1 made that a definite scale is in operation 10.000 for a Knighthood and 20,000 for i Baronetcy. POLITICAL SERVICES.
Of course, there is nothing new. of ir regular in the bestowal of honours for
affairs
the
able
public
Possens
of enable him to steer the ship of State with care, and judgment. specially when it is evident that the days of plain anti snooth saling are gone by with
safer for pedestriius and all other users as well. One of the meats employed towards this desirable cul is to issue advice and warnings to the public about the "rule of
death of autocracy and benevolent des the road" and "the rule of the path.“ This werk, for instance, the campaign has potisn. Thune who entertain the idea that been developed to alter the latter. For the Viceroy of India may be dignified to generations it bna been the accepted rule the position of a more figurehead a cere- forlestrians to keep to the right." It monial Viroy-do not know what they talk
about. The public mind would never r dates from the time when swords were concile itself to the idea that the Viceroy commonly carried, and keeping to the right, should fatten upon the revenue of this when walking gare a man a better chance poor country and serve mere common
keeping against a treacherous enemy when they or spectacular purposes, met and passed each other.
quite aloof from the complexities of the The new rule which the "Safety First" diuinistration. What may suit Canada Council want to see observed is "keep to
Australia and South Africa of popula
Changking
Canton
Whampoa
Kowloon
Lappe
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Wachowfa K'Chauwan Pakhoi
Changchun
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the
sigtial public services; and it is quite trae the left." The argument is that there with India, because of the differen got spit that a man can repder valuable aid to his be less dunger from accidents if people: Las Family slauld be above all att
tion
be
that
of Indian, problema complexities. it must ant forgotten
contruveraing
political leaders by subscribing handsomely when walking faced on-coming traffic, athu. to the party organisation. But it offers they would do by keeping to the left of the Litical the public sense of the fitness of things path. But the difficulty is to make the spirit and
law, the letter of English - that honours should be given for the public fall in with the idea. There is no
of political expediency ment of money on behalf of a political cause. legal means to enforce the suggested rule render it imperative that no member of It saveurs too much of what is understood and the man in the street is notoriously the Royal Family should be placed in a by the phrase "trafficking, in honoure." disinclined to change his habits. But the position wherein he might become the The bestowal of a titio ought to be free Press is favourable, which means a great those censors, we must say that the sub
political attacks. target of the from the slightest suspicion of anything deal, and the motoring public are
ject is not so easy as tho"writers who take and everything that is mercenary. Inanimously in favour of is.-H. B.
kindly to the thought seem to imagine- „dividual blinisters are absolved from per-
Bengalee. sonal knowledge of this kind of thing, but it is believed that the party managers and wire-pullers are not entirely innocent
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