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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. {THROCOM LEUTER'S AGENCY.) TEN YEARS AGO. OBSERVANCE OF GREAT WAR ANN WERSARY, DAY OF REMEMBRANCE IN BRITAIN.

Losnos, August 4th. Bedard facsimiles of the news columns and placards of "Anise 4th, 1911, and picture paper Hlustrations of early war Keres constitute the most striking fen- tum in the Presa References to the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the great atraggle, the events which led up to hostilities. Britain's partirightion and the post-war trend of Europesin affairs are dealt with at length in articles, while eminent statesten and others discuss (varion phases. The eve of the outbreak was yesterday observed in the churches 1hroughout the country as a day el reinem- brane of the British dead. **

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BERLIN. August trh.

The terib ataiversary of the outbreak of "the war was celebrated throughout Germany as day of remonbrance of the fallen Flags on the public build ings of Berlin were town at half mast, Hoer Ebert, accompanied by members af the Cabinet, addressed a huge meeting from the Beighing steps, at which he leclared that Germany ten years ago resunted to arms solely in defence of the Fatherland and adjurh Germans to rehabilitate the Fatherland. Military band then played the funeral march. Two minutes silence was observed and the flags were then hoisted at the tops of the poles. The police arrested several communists who created a disturbator by

BRITISH

AUGUST ōru, 19:24

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

LADY MURDERED IN MEXICO.

FAR

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS

ECHO OF THE CUMMINS AFFAIR

Mexico City, August 4th Mrs Evans was shot dead at Texmelu

can Piebla on a road leading to her hacienda. The murderers are believed to e agrarians spurred on by anti-foreign igitators. She was shot on the left side

U.S. WORLD FLIGHT. MISHAP TO LIEUT. WADE.

SMITH REACHES HORNA FJORD.

HoRNA From August,sth......

TENOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-

GRAND WORDS.

BENCH AND POLICE.

ART THE PEACEMAKER.

PREMIER ON FELLOWSHIP.. The obiter dieta of the magisterial The Prime Minister, apening a loan [Jerch always secure'in good mess. Re-exhibition of modern foreign paintings. Smith and Wade encountered rain. JAPANESE STEAMER IN TROUBLE, porters feverishly flimsy them, nel con arranged by the Contemporary Arts tents bills feature" them anmaz. Society at Colnaghi's Galleries. Band- storms, a squal and fog. The former BRITISH VESSEL RUSHING TO HELP, Our Landon magistrates, not with-street, on June 20th, said on such ocen

arrived, but the latter descended into the

half way between Horuz Fjord and

RANGON, August 4th..

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ut guile, pop them off in good time for sions they felt how very important it was the City Special edition. Thus everybody that they should encourage contemporary art. It was fashionable to run aktér apd is pleased-save, perhaps those siyah enis- Judges. His flugor feels routed in dis honour until he can get into print as god

and fell front a wagon. Her hair caught Scana Flow. His machine was taken in trg for assistance from position diren alates for publicity, the County Covet adaire old masters, but we were apt to

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Rekavís. August 4th.

forget that at one time"the old masters were contemporary artists, "We alw for-

The Japanese str. Ceylon Muru is eat

Ietitule 17 North, longitudo 20 East. The British steamer Vet Sang is on its Wade was found with his machine, the way they at full speed and is now 173] a joke as his Worship's. But neither get the struggling men and women who, engine of which is only slightly damaged.niles from the Japanese vessel, The machine will be able to restart with The readings given above plates the Japanese steamer in the centre of the Bay out difficulty.

of Bengal.]

in the wheels and ber body was dragged tow by a trawler. a distance, the face being badly mutilated. Strauss, the German manager of the estate, was seriously assaulted." assailants ́escaped with

2,000,

The

a payroll of

Mex Evans was the lady alleged to have been directly responsible for the recent trouble hetween the Mexican authorities and Mr. Cumaias, "who w an accredited British Agent in Mexics, According to a statement by Mi. Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commona en June 19th the Mexican Government at tempted to dispossess Mrs. Evnus of her farm. Mr. Cummins, in his official capa- eity, took up the matter with the Govern ment, which objected to his letters and

Government went so far as to threaten demanded bis withdrawal. The Mexican to break into the British Legation at Mexier City if Mr. Cummins "did not leave. The British Agent was eventually withdrawn. The British Premier, in his Statement outlined shove, enwended by saying that he was not quite sure what lead happened to Mrs Evans, but he believed she had not met with any harm. The whole story was most romantic and one of Mr. Cummins letters said that she was left defenceless and akne, except for the assistance of a brave young American.

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OBITUARY:

JOSEPH CONRAD, U

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KiRAWALL, August 4th. Wade descemiled 115 miles of this Dekeys.

PERHAPS NOW OUT OF IT.

New YORK, August 4th... Wade's descent in the sea was due to a connecting rod of the oil pump "break

JAPANESE WAR MATERIALS. · LARGE ORDERS PLACED IN BRITAIN.

by Man

The

Lespas. August 4th. Westminster Aberette notes the xtraordinary activity of Kentish war

Vickers

trespasses on the other's ground. His. Honour is inclined to the racy and waxes witty over the greed of creditors, or, the follies of the law his Worship is gener ally a helpless addict to the belles lettres, The police magistrate has, I think, vhusen the better part There is room fuss all tastes in literature, including the pedan tie. And was there not, a touch of the pedant in that magistrate who the other

sonite years from now, were likely to be ccme old, masters. Our appreciation of the ancient and, neglect of the modern would deprive the future of old masters that might be worthy of a place" beside. these we now admired. Art was like nature; it never gut old. The great work that those who appreciated art could d for their own generation was to antici». pate the judgment of time before the crowd had heard the names and appre

necessary that those who appresated our cwn national art best should keep in thei ciated the pictures. It was also very

closest touch with foreign art. No national art was absolutely native to its

alterentior", und denicanor* as orders for orbe Japanese Government, forgrund To the policeman guity of them material factories in connection with referred sarrastically to the words

Are, making 140.000 he is reported to have said: You use very grand words, and I don't understand you a bit. Are these words, then, “s

Art was a combination of experience tradition. No artistic standard grand as to be unintelligible! I should! have thought their meaning, like what could be elevated to the position of a song the Sircus sang, to fe not beyond factor whose will must always be obeyed. Its proper position was that of a god- conjecture: We do not expect the metrdess, whose charms were so attractive

aged in the descent. The airmen drifted ing, while, the wings were severely dan

in rough seas for four hours before they which were picked up by a British trawler machine-gurs and Scrattons. of Times Another serious mishap accurred when the sand. are executing a large, onier for à cruiser Richmond was endeavouring to

special type of tractor forry. hoist the plane aboard. The tackle broke, resulting in a heavy steel hoom falling and freaking the propeller apd piercing the pontoon. The latest report says that Wade is temporarily and per- haps finally out of the rice

Wade may probably return to Kirkwall (9" | for a new start.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS.

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own soil.

aspiration.

CHURCHHILL ON ENGLISH:politan police to speak the English of and appealing that she became a great inspiration and stimulus to further Jeremy Taylor, but that hardly seems dreaming thinking, and reason for restricting them to words of Therefore, the National School of Art. must ever turn abroad and, had And out one syllable, especially as the drunk and what was being done, by other schools, disorderlies are not denied the freedom and that was the great value of such exhibitions as the present one. Ee was

estimated

to pay for it were still not completely secure. Among recent benefactions re- ceived were £5.000" from the Camogie

singing the internationale and teattering ¦eissus," "Lord Jim," "Youth," " Thenhargo on the importation of arms into the importance af the study of English.

Pevalationary pamphlets.

LONDON CONFERENCE. GREAT OBSTACLES TO

OVERCOME

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Mr. Winston Churchill delivered the | annual oration on June 27th at the com- memoration day celebrations of the Lon don School of Economics. In his report. the director (Sir William Beveridge) said Londes, August 14th IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIL. to cost upwards of £36.000.

the new wing of the school the fund of a rich and copious vocabulary, I think not unmindful of the fact that it was see what has happened. This magisa French exhibition, and they were there The novelist, Joseph Conrad, is dead,»

lovers of art, but to emphasise Duly, as ste has been converted by the new the fact that the artistic spirit must be Joseph Conrad was by birth a Pole.

stylists of staccatorists who came in international-One of the evitable cor Itis proper name was J. C. Korenslawski.

pence, He went to son at an early age and becasue CAPTURE IN COLOMBO HARBOUR.ited Kingden Trustees, and another along with shingled hair. Let him look, ollartes was a love of unkind.

of about £3,000 left to the university to it, lest one day he be erept his bench, co-operation, and fellowship, in fact, a master in the English merchant service,

LONDON July 18th. der the will of Miss Agnes Metcalfe to

with drums and tramplings by Sir love of those virtues which proclaimed Six years after retiring be published his

In the House of Commons, Mr. R. J.

found a scholarship and a studentship for Thomas Browne and whelmed by Samuel common humanity rather than a divided first novel the Almayer's Folly

humanity. To-day, the forecs making for 1505. This was followed by An Outest. Hannon asked. with regard to the women

seizure of arms on beard the Schlesieni Mr. Churchill, who was given a boister. Johnson in Suspissated gloom.

Meanwhile, for a whole week or more, division were all too numerous and too of the Islands, The Nigger of the Naruto olio, whether in view of the ous recept on by the students, spoke on the leader writers have toyed with him powerful, despite the numerous promises

Heart of Darkness," "Typhoon

Rhadamanthas and Aristarchus and ar- little gatherings as theirs, and the collec "Toder Western Eyes." 1911 "whether the consignment had been intend.) fusid expressions to one's thoughts, write rant blockhead and fine ak English tion ther had come to view, were mani other stories. His later works have heen China, steps could be taken to ascertain He said that to be able to give exact and and called him all sorts of names that has been made since 1914. Such a good clear letter upon a complicated or

At any rate, he has yet festations of homage to our French fellow- 10: Within the Tides," 1915

ed for China, and, if so by whom it had defente subject, and explain shots, pre- gentleman, been despatchede tory"

1916 The Shadow

1017: The Arrow of Gold, 1919; and "The

Mr. J. H. Thomas replied that, doulit. cisely, and correctly what you meant publicity, full measure, pressed down and artists at French fellow appreciators of ate. The grand words have probably things that removed difficulties and made. Rescue 1920 His pen-pictures of the reas, the local authorities would take any what year had seen. what you had read, running over. It is the police I commiser art. He ranked it as one of the previons

Deen told, or what you what you bad sea are generally acknowledged to be ur-cessary steps to aserrain the origin wanted to understand. to appreciate the not been chosen for their grandeur, have en-operation, possible.

SEARCH FOR THE BEAUTIFUL" not been chosen at all, but imposed on surpassed. Mr. Corrad was awarded and destination of the cargo

real significance of words,

express Mr. Ifacbon suggested that Mr. Thomas the

A generation that had gone took the The coneon] astábliebed by the Allied Civil Pension "in 1911, and in 1918 he was should instruct representatives in Ceylon the various shades of meaning which I then among the traditions of the furce:

view that if we could only trade together elected under a special rule a member of

were surely They are part of an official code, which attached to them-these

we could love each other; if we could only Conference was greeted with expressions the Athenaeum Club. He was 6 years got through in future without very car which young English men and young official dress. A constable on duty be get profits from each other we could ap

to take care that an such consignments among the most important arquirements is almost necessarily, as uniform as their of age.)

ful examination.

English women could possibly seek for to haves more stifly than when he is off it,preciate each other; if we could only get aid them in their life's career.

and it seems right that he should speak bankers or ledger balances against each

most harmon in this more stiffly, too; the, free and easy lan-other we could live in the It has become the fill to guage of his donicstic hearth would ons ooperation. That was all nonsense.

continued Mr. affect a strust and disdain for the incongruous with the solemnity of a Economic advantages would never bring peace. What would bring peace www. arts of speech and writing in ordinary police-court. It is all very well for the

common explora everyday affairs. The traditional public magistrate, agentientan of liberal edura spiritual fellowship, school view, so largely

address in

in language in Court. As out of it; he has life, and the common appreciation, ex- A DOMINION GOVERNORSHIP FOR speaking or writing under such expres had advantages denied to the policemas, pressed in literature, art, and so on.

plausibility, the

soul; that which turned the most conser- gift of the gab. and so on; and the who must be taught an artificial lingo for all that was beautiful and satisfied the standard type so often exhibited for the public use.

vative into pilgrims seeking for a morn admiration

blessed ideal. That was the foundation "British youth is one of of rugged virtue completely inarticulate,

of an international policy of peace. have the greatest respect for classical education, and

LONDON, August 4th.

of saber satisfaction in the Loud: Press

· It is recognised that there has heen misch siyeand-take. Some proposals are re. gankd as complicated hof sight must not he last of the fact that there ave still grønt abstacles to be wereone in discussiou with Germany before, complete under- standing can be beaches.

THE GERMAN DELEGATION,

BERLIN, August 4th. The Gerbum delegation left for the Londor Conference this morning.

On the eve of their departure for London Herrea Marx and Stresemant met the 1.8 Serretary of State, Mr. Hughes, at a luncheon which President Elent gave in honour of the visitor. Other prominent German politicinis were. alio present. Mr. Hughes "is visiting Potsdam to-day and sails for America from Bremen in the evening.

The Berlin papers welcomed him in Anttering terms and hoped that his short visit would beacht Germany.

GERMAN PEACE MEETING. FRANCE AS A GUIDE ·

WETSBADEN, August 4th. Speaking at a peace meeting Herr Davie, a Reichstag deputy, declared that France knows of the existence of German organisations working for revenge and Doctor against the German republic.

Aro said there was a French majority against war. Since the last French elec tians, he remarked. there had been a oiliation of spirit, but unhappily the Contrary appears to be the rule in Ger- the Heer Rochle, secretary of anny. Soil Denderat party, declared that Ger- inest repair devastated north- France and prove her wish for peace by making good the injustice committed.- dara.

Inany

ISH BOUNDARY DISPUTE. WHAT ELSTER WANTED.

LONDON, August 4th. The Festminster Unelte states that it Saturday's Irish Conference Earl London. derry intimated Uister's willingness-to appoint a boundary commissioner if the Hovision made in the commission's terms of reference limited changes in the bor der to simple frontier rectification. The Government was unable to give the dc. sired.. assurance, but offered to refer the matter to a judical committee of the Privy Council for definition.

Earl Londonderry was unable to agree, bul Mr. Cosgrave was willing

THE WORLD'S SPORT.

DAVIS CUP TENNIS,

PRANCK DELFATE CZECHO-SLOVAKIAM

EVIAN LER BAINS. August 4th. In the singles of the European zone fal round of the Thavis Cup contest, between Frager and Carcho-Slovakia, Cochet beus Zemila; 6-1, 86. 6-4, and Lacoste bait Magenauer, 6-2; 8-6, 6-4.

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AMERICAN BASEBALL.

'LAST WEEK'S GAMES,

NEW YORK, August 3rd.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New York, 5: St. Louis, 4. Brooklyn. Cincinatti, 2. Pittsburgh, 7: Boston, 6. Chicago, 5: Philadelphia, I... Brooklyn, a: Cincinnati, i. New York, 5: St. Louis, 4- St. Louis, 6: New York, 0.-. Cincinatti, Brooklyn, 2. Philadelphia, 19; Chicago, 11. Pittsburg, Boston, 2 New York, 5: St. Louis, 2. Cincinatti, 12: Brooklyn, 2 Chicago, 4: Philadelphia, 3. Pittsburg. 8: Boston. 1. Pittsburg, 8: New York, 3. Brooklyn, 4: Chicago, O. St. Louis : Philadelphia, Boston. B: Cincinatti, 0. Chiengo, 4 Brooklyn, "1.

St. Louis, &: Philadelphia, 3: New York, 3; Pittsburg, L. Brooklyn, 4: Chicago, 0. Boston, : Cincinatti, 2.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

New York, 3: Chicago, 4 Detroit 5 Philadelphia, 4. Cleveland. 2; Washington, O. Boston. 4: St. Louis, 2 Chicago, 7: New York, e St. Louis, Boston, 6 Detroit. 2: Philadelphin, 4. Cleveland, 3; Washington, 4. "New York, 8: Chiengo, 3.

Philadelphin, I.; Detroit, 4. Boston 10: St. Louis, Cleveland 2: Washington, 1. New York. 9; Chicago, 4. Cleveland 4 Washington, 2. St. Louis, 3: Boston; 0. Cleveland, 5; Philadelphia, Chicago, 7: Bostan, & Washington, 7; Detroit, 4. St. Louis, 2; New York, 1. Washington. ; Detroit, Chicago, 5; Boston, 4. Philadelphia, 7; Cleveland, 3. Philadelphin, 3: Cleveland, New York, 4: St. Louis, Z. Chichgo, 2: Boston, J. Philadelphia, 4; Cleveland, 3. Washington, 7; Detroit, 3 Detroit, 4; Philadelphia, 3.

Viscount Curzon drew attention to a further similar case that had en re ported.

Mr. Thouma replied that, he had de liberately answered in very general terms, in order not to play into the hands of those guilty.

DUKE OF YORK?

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Luspus, July 18th.

country.

And

the common

National life, is to denant in our tion and refined taste, to speak the samrtion of the extraordinary mysteries of

s'ons as

glibness,

It is rumoured in usually well-informed circles that an interesting announcement is likely to be made shortly regarding the Duke of York acepting the Governorship those who have attained to the serene de

Dever cease to envy

of scholarship vinced

of one of the Dominions at no.distant light that to enforce the study of Latio sure, many of the fundamental elements,

date.

Ulster, on July 19th, where they are re-education is an absurd is the aching which I suppose would be the model ap

CRUMBLES MURDER TRIAL.

NEED FOR "HARD WORK. SIR W. BULL. ON MODERN

TENDENCY...

of

THE FUN OF LIKE For it is a mistake to suppose that the natural English of the unliterary English- man is necessarily good Faxlish. It will But I am con- contain niany a good homely idiom, to, he The lake was yesterday closeted with and Greez on the great multitude of of the mother-tongue, but it will also he Mr. J. H. Thomas at the Colonial Offer average youths at our schools and univerfull of the slang and current clichés of the The Duke and Duchess are visiting sities as the main foundation of their day-the result of unconscious imitation. and one In a word, it will he vulgar. It will not

The Right Hon. 'Sir William Hill, M. P., ancients be the simple, nervous English: of Swift addressing the National Union of Manu criving $8 addresses, while Belfast and which does injustice both to Londonderry are making the Duke a and to the moderns Fancy Freeman

szeres of thousands of boys who da proved by our magistrate who objects tufacturers at their monthly luncheon at

gränd not know how to construct a respectable

words but an amalgam of the the Holborn Restaurant, on June 17th, English sentence to write Latin and even 20th-century equivalent for that with the nid: When one sees the amount. Greek verses, and to pore in the diction-catchwords of the crowd and phrases pick- unemployment that there is, and yet sues ary for the meanings of Latin and Greeked up from those cheap publications for large streams of people at the cinema I think there is a great deal too words when

country, they do not comprehend the the illiterate by the illiterate which Mr. theatres, and charabanes going about the of their

1. G. Wells so strangely admires, own! meaning of LONDON. July 15th.

And this, I submit. accounts for the much amusement, and not enough hard! At the trial at Lewes Ansizes of Patrick

my view the process should be

in which

they say everybody should hav Mabon, charged with the murder of entirely reversed. How did the ancient stilted English of our Public Ufices work I deplore the present Factory Act, Grecks make their language the most the natural mas a free hand and he will 1. forty-eight hour week. It is all tosh Emily Kaye at the Crumbles bangal, perfect and powerful expression of draft an idiomatic minute or letter. Int We cannot afford it. The present is not there were a number of sensations. First, a juryman fainted and was excused, and human thought which has been devised not without incongruous colloquialisms the time for indulging in things like a fresh jury was rupanelled and the by man! They did not study the older and lapses of taste which would be no the

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and dialects of a remote anti- lesa unseemly in a minor official docu- Sir William urged that we must get back her studied Greek 7 suggest ment than in the most important of State to the hard work of our ancestors. H similar to the W:54

that we should imitate them, and that Papers. Besides, there is the obvious did not believe there was any workman Mahon. giving evidence, swore that our basic study should be the stuffy need for impersonality a marked, indiviner than the British workman, and, giver

in the universal a

MARON FOUND GUILTY:

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trial was re-started. The Crown cake Police Court enso.

thequity.

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5077 which should stand at

the gateway

They struggled, and her head then struck of all our great educational establish pure literature is quite unsuitable for could compete in the markets of the worst a conl box. He found that she was dead, ments and become the standard by which documents issued by the collective entity against any other country, but not by and, as he was afraid to confess, he tried the first judgment is formed of the ability of a Government Department. And so abolishing the McKenna Duties, makin to dispose of the body.

Of

pupils.

believe that a liberal educa-system of prescribed phrases and orthon forty-eight hour week in all trades, and LONDON. July 19th." tion. a Kiterary style and taste. can be dox formulas grow up, or, rather, are increasing costs in all directions. Mahou, the accused in the Crumbles founded on the study of English alone handed down from generation to genera

the need of learning Latin or bungalow murder case, has been found

And this, I submit, accounts for the guilty of the murder of Miss Kaya.

not undervalue the spacious arcbair, but the point is that it is safe.

And we must not forget that in official magnificence of the English language. It curbs the exuberance of the juniors, The writer of nu English speech com- supplies. the inarticulate with a ready as in all other prose there has been within at. a. stroke wider audience of made instrument of expression, and offers the past ball-century a continual procces

COOLIES ON EVEREST EXPEDITION.

GALEITA, July 10th.

tion.

GOOD ENGLISH.

mads renders and listeners than Capt. Bruce, who was in charge of has ever the greyer heads an ingenious exercise is of simplification. Frollope's Sir Huffle the adaptation of old phrases to new pat Baffle wrote much more pompously than the porters on the Everest Expedition, in is the, vehicle of the great message

terns. Of course, there are pedants in

And

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27,000 feet to pitch the last camp there manking position among the races atly to the stereotype as to produce should not say it it all! That was the

There was no fatal accident to any of the coolies, and there were only two bad cases of illness, one of which was fatal

"good fellow How do you any a despatch pays a trihnte to the en law, compromise, tolerance. good sense. high places whose prejudices and reserva. any modern head of a Departmcot

the great.. under him, while on occasions he frankly and fair play to which, believe me, as

Delean "Sir." was the reply, you discuss their failings. He points out much as to our fects and armies, we owe tions plague their subordinates.

there is a class of minds that run so cutur print?" asked a leader-writer of that a selected, few toiled a high as our great.

burlesque of the official language. But mid-Victorian note. Nobody would he on the whole I think it must be conceded surprised to find good fellow in the that our Government Departments have leader-page of The Times of to-day. Yet HOW SPAIN DEALS WITH STRIKES attained a respectable standard of Eng-public bodies must always move a little lish: What helps most, I faney, to keep more cautiously, than private. Henon it GANDHI TO RECUPERATE IN ITALY.

The Spanish Directory has shut down up the standard is that your S. has to comes about that journalists poke fun at the Madrid tobacco factory for three run the gauntlet of criticism from several Government Ollice English, and a magis- LONDON, July 19th. A cable from Rome states that Mr.menths, locking out 4.000 women workers other people an excellent security for rate girls at the police for their "grant who struck claiming a rise of wages. "We the sound "humdrum" which the old words." For my part, I would jealously Gandhi is expecting to spend three weeks consider the strike unjustified." says the East India director told the ambitions preserve every variety of professional, at Mendola, a holiday resort on the Marquise Estalla, and wish to make recruit was the style they preferred in speech, as I would every variety of pro upper Adige:!

it clear to the workers what our line of official papers. In literature, of course, fessional garh and etiquette. They attest

We will conduct will be in such cases.

The management of sahotel there has bern requested by cable to reserve a suite of rooms for him.

not examine the case of the workers for it would be an abomination.

(Continued on nezt column.) three months.

the reality of history and add to the pr of life, B. W. jn The Times,