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LONDON, November 20th,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1924

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DEFINITE FRENCH ATTITUDE.

GENIYA, November and

GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL PARDONED,

Paris, November 25th. "Owing to an outery and a probable reaction in Anglo-German relations aris With a joint meeting of both generaling from his conviction the Government committees the second opiam conference have pardoned. General Von Nathusius. The Clydeside rent war is assuming has completed its task. A plenary sitting alarming aspects. Cambusland and Clyde will be held to-morrow to consider general bank are the storm centros and the ten procedure relating. Brstly, to the pro- ants of both districts are determined to posils of the advisory committee on resist all evictions with force. Seputs apiam; secondly, the American sugges

OBJECT OF THE PARDON, Le Matin, discussing the French Gov- ernment's decision to pardon the German he wan General, Von Nathustus, says sentenced to imprisonment because of

THE CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

[THROUGH, `REVIER'S AGENCY.}

RETIREMENT OF GENERAL FENG YU HSIANG

AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT.

*PERING, November 26th.

SMASHING' ATTACK" ON MR. MACDONALD.

ELECTION CAUSED BY WOUNDED, PRIDE. QUEEN'S HALL SPENCH

NONSENSE,”

PRIME MINISTER ON CAMPBELL: CASE.

REPLY TO SIN A MOND

i.

The Prime Minister had a great recep PALPABLE tion on October 19th when be delivered the opening speeches of his election cam- paign in Aberavon-his own, battlefield, as be called it.

The New Slutriman, an advanced journal giving general support to the Government, recently published a fer onslaught on the Prime Minister. After Router's Agency has been authorita-praising his work at the Foreign Office

16 suid- tively informed that General Feng Ya-And yet, with all these gifts, he has

no way a special favour to Germany but issued a circular telegram, in which hall predicament in which it now

October

and bellringers have been organised tutions; thirdly, the proposals submitted by theft during war-time. His release is in Hsiang. the Christian general, has brought the country into the bourd foundation, and which certainly is calout-

the Governments invited to the confer-will merely deprive the German national-announces his retirement from the post cure but not represented.

give warning of the approach of sheriff ofcets. The police have been largely reinterved with view to emergencies. "one case the evicted people were re stored to their house late last night. The Clydebank factors are meeting to consider plays for wholesale prictions,

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WILD SCENES FOLLOW COM.

MUNIST'S EVICTION.

"

Outlining the French attitude, M. Bourgeois said they rejected the advisory committee's proposal and the American suggestion for the establishment of a al. Bourgeois

special hoard of control

ists of an electoral weapon.--Zavax.

[An earlier message stated that one of the so-called war criminals, the German tenced in contumaciams General You Nathusius, who was sen to five years' imprisonment after the war, on a charge of stealing furniture, articles and cloth

of commandant of the National Army He states all his troops will be handed over to the Government,

Feng adds that there in no need for his further military services during the forth coming reconstruction period; therefore in order to widen his knowledge and gab experience which may be of use to bis country in the future.

suggested, firstly, the reduction of inter from a chatean in which he was he intends to tour Europe and America defeat at such a moment is almost uni | and written it again and again. No good

billeted in wartime, recently was re- national control to a minimum; secondly, arrested when visiting his father's grave a system of national control, which, het Forbach. He was retried by Court

Martial He strenuously denied the declared, had given good results in charge, but the Court decided by Laxpos. November 23th.

Britain, Holland and France; thirdly, majority of 4 to 3 that Nathusius wa These were wild scenes at Cambuslang, replacing import certificates hy official guilty. He was senteured to one years unprisonment and ordered to pay the aar Glasgow, on the occasion of the advices of export: fourthly, the deposit custs of the prosecution.)

of security and Government authorisa victim of a prominent Commusist.

The Sheriff's officers and the police, tion: fifthly, the publishing of centralised using crowbars, forced an entrance to the statistics and the denunciation of any house, but they were met with a fusilade centre of contraband trade. M. Bourgeois of missiles and drenched with water, added that France desired the strengthen- *Two Communists

were arrested. The ing of the Hague Convention and suggest. cupants of the Eonse put up, a bolded that countries should furnish import fight, and something resembling a pitched and export figures at the end of each Inttle ensued. There was a considerable | year, "200

lemonstration against the police after the arrests, but a big, force of police had

a quietening effect."

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THE CAIRO OUTRAGE.

FRANCE STILL CALLING FOR LEAGUE INTERVENTION.

A Polish delegate urged the total suppression of herein,

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HOME COTTON TRADE.

INCREASED HOURS IN U.S.

SECTIONS.

LONDON, November 25th. The Master Cotton Spinners' Federa tion, announce that the ballet resulted in the necessary four-fifthe majority in favour of increasing the weekly hours work in those mills spinning American cotton from 12 to 19-1/4 from December ist

FRENCH POLITICS.,

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE, IN GOVERNMENT.

Paxis. November guth. The Press is still devoting columns to events in Egypt and harping" din the League of Nations, in regard to which L'Ere Nigeelle notes that nearly the whole of the British Presh is opposed to intervention by the League and says that France will not forget the fact when Britain intervenes in any Europeao ques- tion in which French claims are at stake.

Pertinax" in L'Echur de Paris suggests

PARIS, November 25th. that the time has come to again temper The "Chamber, passed a vote of cons the Anglo-France alliance and to discussfidence in the Government by 314 to 190 the questions of the Cologue zone, the on the conclusion of a debate in which demilitarisation of the Rhineland, and an Opposition deputy insinuated that the the measures to be taken to guard against Cabinet Ministers had received funds

Spanish withdrawal from Morocco. from economic interests:

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BRITISH MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY.

In Cairo.

BRITISH MILITARY PARADE IN CAIRO.

CAIRO, November 25th.

A brigade of lafantry with fixed. bayonets is parading Cairo to-morrow.

EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT

ADJOURNS.

CAIRO, November 25th.

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WASHINGTON'S " WATERY

GRAVE.

U.S. BATTLESHIP DISAPPEARS AT LAST.

WASHINGTON, November 26th.

It is officially stated that the guns of the Terms yesterday sank the hull of the battleship Washington.

During the past week numerous cables have related the efforts made to sink the Washington.

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U.S. LABOUR FEDERATION.

MR. SAMUEL GUMPERS RE-ELECTED.

El Paso, November 23th. Mr. S. Gompers was unanimously re- elected President of the Federation of

Labour.

Mr. Samuel Gompers (a Londoner by birth) has for many years occupied a prominent position in American labour politics, though he is bitterly opposed to communism. I

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M. Herriot laid stress on his intentionvivalista: to defend the Republicans against the Communists and reactionaries, and mete out the republican law to all.

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The vote of confidence resolution re

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ZINOVIEFF LETTER PUZZLE.

MOSCOW'S ́" STRONG POSITION."

Moscow, November 28th. Commenting on the British, notes, the official organ, Freestia says that Mr. Chamberlain does not prove the authen- ricity of the Zinoviel letter and his ansertion of a connection between the

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cover evidence of Human Survival in like asking if the light of day is useful for photographing a landscape

18th in reference to the Campbell case,

Speaking at Abergwynf. - on the Prime Minister said: "Sir Alfred Mend, who, I see, is coming to do dan age to the Liberal candidate's case an dogmatism that ought to have some Monday, has been asserting with a

ated to carry conviction, that the Home finda itself. For it is he, and he almost Secretary brought men deputation of five. alone, who is responsible for the present men, including the Attorney-General, and undesired ** crisis."* The country is that we had a row, that those five men faced with the prospect of a general elec said to me that what Mr. Campbell had tion which no one wants and which can published I believed in, and that in con- probably have no result save to emphasize sequence the Labour Government ought three-party system and to postpone that tion, and that for that reason the. Com the difficulties of Government under a not to continue the Communist prosecu revival of trade which unexpected signs munist prosecution was withdrawn. Now, MacDonnid should have chosen to invite Campbell had written, and I have said to were beginning to appear. That Mrrst of all, I don't agree with what r

intelligible. Sous critics attribute it to is going to come from mutinies in the his extreme personal vanity, which will Army, from soldiers turning their riffes not suffer him to admit even the shadow upon their officers or anybody else. The of error. We may accept or reject that only good that is going to come' for the explanation, but certainly it is difficult human race is going to come from men to find any other that will fit the facts and women turning their brains upon A very large majority of the House of their grievances (Cheor)Not only. Commona wishes him to remain in 'office, was this ruw absolutely impossible in the at any rate until next summer, but he nature of things, but I am going to say has deliberately challenged it on issues that the Home Secretary never brought on which it could not support him with a deputation to me either of five or fifty out utterly humiliating itself. He has nien. Five men or ive women or fire- had a magnificent chance which he seems infants in arms or five anything else never wantonly to have thrown away. As For- crossed my threshold for this purpose; eign Secretary he has been an immense never exerted any pressure upon me; success; as Prime Minister he has been

never asked me to exert any pressure an utter failure. He, has never recog-. upon anyone else, and I never did exert nised the inevitable limitations of a

any pressure. Loud cheers). minority Governments He has never poured oil on the troubled waters; büt almost always bas said the word that was: The following shows the recent affilia-best calculated to exacerbate party feel tious of the members of the new Cabinet: Ting Shan Yi is a member of the new Kuomintang.

Kung Shin Tsar is a follower of Tuan Chi Jui

[FROM THE DAILY - BULLETIN."]

CONSULAR BODY AND RECOGNITION.

SHANGHAI, November 25th, The Consular Body is considering its attitude as regards recognition, and its decision is awaited with interest-

NEW CABINET PERSONNEL

RECENT AFFILIATIONS..

PEKING. November 25th.

ing. If he had treated his Liberal allies with even common courtesy he might have remained in power not merely until 1923, but for some years to come, possible for a decade.

L Shih Hao is a member of the Anfunity of lasafting and deriding those who

But instead he has missed no opportu

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representative.

HOME SECRETARY'S STATEMENT. "I do not want you merely to take my word, although I think you would. (Laughter and cheers.) My attention was drawn to this statement of Sir A. Mond's for the first time this morning. I had not seen it before. As soon as I saw it I sent a telegram to the Home Secretary, and this afternoon I received the follow- who is fighung bis battles at Burnley,

ug reply; Si: Alfred Mond's statement that Home Secretary brought five gentle. men, including the Attorney-General, to see you at 10, Downing-street, or else where, with regard to Campbell case is absolutely untrue. Home Office exercised no influence to secure withdrawal Arthur Henderson. (Cheers.)

Wa Kuang Hain is a Fengtien placed him in power.. From a purely General and a brother-in-law of Tunn Party point of view such a policy may or Chi Jui.

may not be justified-through we do not Wang Chiu

believe it can be; but from a national formerly Ling

noint of view it. certainly cannot be Finance Canimissioner in Yunnan, and, therefore may is considered the Yunnan Justified at all. Why, if he is a democrat, should be utterly despise the opinions of the million electors who voted last year for Liberal candidates Why should he "Now there are four statements in the cherish such intense personal feeling newspapers to-day regarding this Ense." against Mr. Asquith, who, after all. That is one of them. Every one of them, whatever Mr. MacDonald may think of so far as I know, is absolutely untrue. his opinions, is probably the greatest and (Cheers.) But, my friends, we are put quite certainly the most disinterested of, going to fight the election on that. We living statesten. da alliance would have are far more interested in the solid sub for if we are to classify puliticians neupon any legal point here and there. been easy and wholly unembarrassing, stance of politics than upon any guibble

cording to their real opinions and with- say about that case, and I cannot be con out regard to party, we should probably tradicted, that nothing was done of au have to place. Mr. Asquith a little to illegitimate character, no pressure of a the left of Mr. MacDonald. But Mr. purely party character was brought to MacDonald lacks generosity. He is best upon anybody, so far as I know, and jealous of those whose personal competi- certainly never influenced anybody with tion be fears. At the first breath of criti- whom I have talked over the matter. cism, whether well or ill-founded, he gets "I say that it was left to the control up on his high horse and complains that of the Attorney-General, and all that wo he is being unfairly treated. Every argu- did, either individually or collectively, was ment used against him is dishonest," to sxpress personal opinions, my own every parliamentary attack 4 mean being agienst the withdrawal, and then conspiracy" As Leader of the Opposito say to him. We authorise you to go tion he was tough enough, but as Prime and do as you like. (Cheers.) But that is not the issue of this election; the issue Minister. he is too thin-skinned to live..

is, is the Governmen: to have a chance of going on or not !”

"APPOINTMENTS' TANGLE AT A

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lose his head.

in uncivil terms

own colleagues.

Lord Curzon

MacDonald has been, even towards his

The main issue will be as to whether

Chang Chih Chao belongs to no party, but he recently was associated with Tuan Chi Jui as a legal expert.

Yang Shi Chan was recently asso ciated with Chang Tso Lin, but for merly was Civil Goreruer of Canton, and be may be considered as Sun Yat Sen's representative.

Yeh Kang Cho belonged to the old LIFE AFTER DEATH.

Chiaotung party, and he has been A K.C. ON HIS CONVERSIÓN.

closely associated with Chang Tsa Lia. -TO SPIRITUALISM,

The Cabinet includes three experienced -Ministers, Tang Shao Yi ex-Premier: **Survival," edited by Sir James Marsh Hao, a former Anfu Minister chant, dedicated to all who in divers of Finner; and Teh Kung Cho. a former ways have sought to bring immortality Minister of Communications. to light, and just published by Fut nam's, contains affirmations of spiritist faith and experience by distinguished sur- Sir Oliver Lodge: The human soul or spirit is not extinct at death; it does

SHANGHAI,November 25th, continue with its aptitudes and character

Shanghai faces another interesting preserved; and, under certain conditions, though perplexing complication with two it can get into touch with those left beclaimants to the Military Governorship LONDON, November 25th.

hind, so long as affection lasts. Y

"MEET. HAVE, LOST HIS HEAD.” and two for the post of Commissioner of Viscountess Grey-Those who see in Foreign Affairs. With a view to strengthening the

To the Labour Party Conference, Mr. these phenomena what appears to them Hands of Viscount Allenby in the present worded that there was not the least just proof of Human Survival are often General Chan Tuan Ming and General MacDonald delivered a quite extra- critical situation. Mr. Neville Henderation for the grave insinuations against charged with desiring to lay the founda Kung Pao Do have been appointed, ordinary speech. If we were not aware son has been appointed Minister Plenipo the Cabinet Ministers.

tions for a new religion. It is not always respectively, by Peking and Chi Haich of his rigid, sobriety we should have said Yuan, and the former has gone to take that no sober man could say what he tentiary whilst employed at the Residency BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET Paychical Research can be used to dis Wen Shi Then bays been instructed hy He suggested that the report of the pro

M Camille Flammarion-To ask ifup bis post, and Mr. S. K. Chen and said. His epithets almost passed belief.was certainly never more aloof than Mr. Peking, and Nanking to take over the posed select committee to enquire mto post of Foreign Affairs

ihe blunder of his Attorney-General was the British taxpayer is or is not to lend

already drawn-up "i" refcction upon Sir Edward Marshall-Hall:-First let the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. A

Yesterday Chang Yuan Ming took over the honour of the House which, if it had a large sum of money to the Russian me say that I was a most hardened

come from any newspaper, would prob- Communists. Undoubtedly we shall re- sceptic before the message [about his The complication, which is possibly dueably have involved a summons to appear fuse to do anything of the kind and brother in South Africa, now dead] came to Lu Yung Hsiang's aspiration to return at the Bar and an exemplary punish Mr. MacDonald knows that we shall through to me, which converted me to Chekiang, makes an understanding ment. He must, for the moment, have refuse. Why, then, does he insist on Sir A. Conan Doyle:-I have clasped between the Yanglaze provinces and lost his head altoether. That is his weak asking us about it? Is he a statesman materialised hands. I have smelt the Tuan Chi Jui môre difficul

point. He is generally one of the ablest or only a party politician who vainly believes that he can gain votes on such peculiar ozone-like smell of ectoplasm.

and coolest men in England, but he can an issue That is the main question- have heard singing beyond earthly power

3r. MacDonald insisted that the two which has now to be decided. Is the and whistling done with no pause for the

issues upon which the Government was Labour party a national party, or is it. Government was simply absurd.

lights shooting round the room, or dart-

threatened the blunder of the Attorney merely a party whice wants, office at any General and the Russian Loan were priced V

Why could he not for a moment "We must consider Mr. Chamberlain's 126 in long dashes from the medium's

head.

mere-pretexts, devised by Conservatives The Hon Mr. Alfred Lyttelton :- note not only an attempt to exert pres

and Liberals who wanted to turn the abandon those personal and utterly un- sure on the Sorict Government with From the side of the living can come the The House of Longruun, now known as Government out of office. Did he believe important enmities by which his present view to compelling it to grant concessurance of faithful love and memory

Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., fast he was speaking the truth? If he did, policy seems to be determined and give we regard unmoved. Our position is affirmation of life and courage and activity, mainly under the control of onsed Prime Ministers in the political his. He has shown himself capable of doing

triumphant vindication of love. Those family, strong and we will not retreat;”” adds the

tory of Great Britain. For the majority that as Foreign Secretary. Why can he journal

who have experienced these moments long Mr. Harold Cox, in an article in the of the Tories do not want a general clee hot do it as Prime Minister? In the anxiously for others to experience them Adinburgh Review, says the House of Lion, and the Liberal party, as everybody matter of the money which he has taken The Prarda accuses Mr. Chamberlain aloe We are one with the stars Longman had its origin in the enterprise knows, would pay almost any price to from the millionaire to whom he gave of trying to shuffle the cards.

of Thomas Longman, one of the junior avoid one, short of a complete repudia title he has been treated with a genero- ZEPPELIN'S NORTH POLAR

members of a family established in tion of their own principles. Is it possity which is not-deserved, but which is CANCER RESEARCH.

Bristat 13. ap. makers; who in ible that Mr. MacDonald really believederiainly without precedent. Might he TRIP.

1724 bought for £2.282 x 6d. the pub what he said? It is very difficult to not in return-have curbed his sensiti **If cancer were only so painful in its lisher's, and bookseller's business in think so. For if he did he is a fool, and likes and dislikes and without regard to early stages an toothache it would be a Paternoster-row, E., of William Taylor, Mr. MacDonald is not a fool..

party interests considered how best be very good thing for the world at large," who bad five years previously published The Prime Minister had only to say might serve the interests of his country! said "Professor Lazarus-Barlow, in the first authentic edition of Robinson Of sily prosecu- If he could sink his vanity and his pre- Presiding over the meeting of the Dr. Nansen has agreed to participate lecture on October 22nd at the Royal In- Crusoe The House of Longress is still00, course, I stopped this steption of judices and admit the possibility of there

stitute of Public Health, Bussell-square. Anglo-Persianí Oil Company, Su John North Pole on a Zeppelin equipped with on the subject of cancer propaganda) carrying on a business of the same char-i the duties of Government to make being other men, besides himself who are martyrs of Commurist wind-bags and able and honest, he might be in power if Where one in every ten persons of the It was in 1746 that Dr. Jalinson signed the whole business would have been at an this time next year and even the year population, he said, incurred the disease anargerment with the firm to produce and; the votes of almost every Liberal after

There were many of us who honestly and some 48,000 persons died annually his dictionary. He was to moniva £1,575, in the House would have been in his through its agency serious investigation and the dictionary: took nine years to pocket. But instead of that he chose to believed that when a Labour Government H WORLD FLIGHT. -

Referring to the various chronic con- complete. Shortly before the end of that assert that there had been no blunder, at came into power there would be low period the publishers met Dr. Johnson at all; not even in the Attorney-General's party politics" and a more genuine Tax Haouz, November 25th. ditions of infiammation and irritation a tavern for a settlement of accounts: original authorisation of the prosecution. concern for the real interests of the map On the occasion of the arrival of the preceding the cancer, sad upon which it Johnson had apparently overdrawn the And that was not honest. An in- in the street: The opposite if we are essed throughout the world, early Datch airmen in Batavia, the Presidents engrafted itself, he said that if only agreed sum; but the publishers decided quiry is refused and an election pre to judge frour the tactics of the present counterbalancing the increased prodno | General paid a tribute to their courage would take medical advice a great deni/his share of the entertainment" paid for body said has wounded Mr. MacDonald' it appears to care for nothing mye is of the two Chambers of the States people instead of letting some growth or that he should be forgiven bis debt and ciptated merely because something some Labour Ministry seems to be the truth. tion Further developments in the Com-and perseverance.

We don't by those present. De ridiculous amour propre. If the leaders own estimate probably mistaken of i pany's new field fully confirmed the valu-

of pain would be averted that in 1842 Lord Macaulay offered to Long-of the other parties had gone on their party fortunes in the future. Instead of want people to worry,!! sableness of the area, and further drilling.

don't let them play the fool Drawing mans the copyright of his "Lays of knees to him with personal apologies and raising the standards of political con attention to the rapid strides made in Ancient Rxue, and later his "History assurances of their confidence in his hontroversy it has lowered them. If M frecent, Fears in the science of radiology• *im £20,000 on account of the profits of possibly have consented to reprieve Thaj to be taken as a model politien) oratory, of England." and in 1600 the firm paid our and his immense abilities he might acDonald's almost hysterical speech is he declared that bis to believe that he time goes, en cancer the third and fourth volumes of his House and the country from the sentence ancial year should be between 4,950,000 that the French loan was subscribed five that further progress will be made in the Beaconsfield for the copyright of "Endré reprieve would probably have been couché - almost as much as decent, and reasonable": The newspapers learn from New York research will still further advance, and history. They paid £10,000 to Lord of disointion. Though even then the

curative side."

• 40intinised on sert column.)

A royal decree adjourns Parliament for communist international and the Soviet, intake of breath. I have seen bright

month from to-day,

TWO EITISH BLURJACKETS MIRSING,

· ALEXANDRIA, November 25th.

Two British bluejackets of good char

200 YEARS PUBLISHING. WHEN LONGMANS PAID LORD MACAULAY £20,000.

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acter have been missing for forty-e150 | Bions, but as a great provocation which and bope; from the side of the dead an month complcted 200 years of continuous I then he must be one of the worst inform first place to the interests of his countryt

bours

The authorities have been informed.

INCREASE IN WORLD PETROL CONSUMPTION,

ALSO GREATER U.S. PRODUCTION.

ANGLO-PRESIAN OIL COMPANY MEETING.”

Lownon, November 2th.

DE NANSEN TO PARTICIPATE

CHRISTIANIA, November 25th,

in the forthcoming expedition to the

Greenaway · pointed out that last fear landing apparatus.

German airman Lieut. Bruns,

The plans have been drawn up by the

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the consumption of oil secared to be over taking production. This would have happened if the new fields in the United States had not been brought in, but the conmmption of petrol had enormously in

in the Argentine had led to striking.coo siderable quantities of oil. The Com pany's production during the present in

ind: 4,600,000 tons.

FRENCH LOAN IN US:

FIVE TIMES SUBSCRIBED.

·Paris, November 26th..

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decat and reasonable people in Great rain will soon learn to despire politier people do in America. We cannot «wallow- such stunsucir palpable nonsense,