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RACING NOTES.

(RY RAPIER.]

Macio Face Club, -

The next meeting of the aløre Club has been fixed for December 20th (Boxing Day) and an attrac tive programine bas been arranged.

Hong Kong Jockey Club. The following are the handicaps for the Hong Kong Jockey Club | Seventh Extra Race Meeting. Mr. 0.3. Alves is to be congratulated upon the promptitude and efficiency of his labours.

Race No. 2, Shek-O Handicap ** C**

'Ulász: Six Furlongs..

Bright Eve, 183 lbs.; Mowgli, 163 bs; Barley Grass, 189 lbs.; Wild Hawk, 135 lbs.'; District Call, 138

; Scooter, 137-lbs.: Loch Rap- noch, 134 lbs: Easter Day, 152 lbs. : Liree, 150 lbs.; Fire Call, 130 lbs. : Valour, 140 lbs. Sugar Loal, 143 1bs, Arabian Parrot, 143 bs.: Salvo, 14 lbs.: Perversity. 140 166. : Yorks, 1 lbs. -

Race No. 6, Shok-0 Handicap "A"

WORLD'S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

ANOTHER WIN FOR ALEKHINE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28th,

BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 7th. Alekhine won the 21st yame in 31 moves.

He has now scored four wins against Capablanca's two, the other sifteen games being drawn Alekhine wants only two victories to win the championship.

more

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.

A DEAD HEAT."

(TRADICH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

Losnos, Oct. 26th.

Stakes, at In the Cambridgeshire doud heat between Medal (2071) and Nicantie (23/3).

Insight I was third. Twenty one ran,

The stakes were divided.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.

Class: Bix Furlongs, City Hall, 18 lbs.; Town Hall. 168 lbs. San Francisco Bay 12 lbs. San Diego, 165 bs.: Shang.. hai Friend. 169 lbs.: Lustle Hall Clate Mississippi, late Douchefu), 162 lbs.; Chow Taze. Lon, 160 lbs. Iton Sin, 160 lbs.; Warrington, 139 Jos. Grande del Norte, 13 tbs.: The Gomeril, 138 lbs. Marno Beauty, 15 lbs. The Goblin,_153 lbs. Total Abatinence, 36, Bas. :)

Rrowy, Oct. 26th. Alhambra, 155 lbs. Tap Nise, 135 Abs. Sutherland, 15 lbs.: Mayfair,

The tig autumn handicap resulted 12 hs. May, 150 lbs.: Yuen Sin. in dead heat between Mrs. Cur- 1:24 lbs. : September, 150 las. War- thew's horse Medal and Mr. Sharp's lordship, 150 lbs., Chui Chow Ning, Vienatic.

Mr. Maccomber's Insight 119 lbs. Shan Mein. 147 lbs.: Angust, 147. Loch Tummel, 147, Secund was third, ths,

Race No. 3, Shek-O Handicap "B"

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Class: Six Furlongs, Dobbin, 163 be. Skidoo, 165 ibs. The Regent, 162 lbs.: Koni Tong Hall, 182 lbs.; Little Sit Tang.' 101 s.; Pottenbush, 160 lbs. Hum dinger, 15h a. Limestone Hall. Obs. Grey Knight, 155 lbs. Bing Boy, 155 lus.: Festive Eye, 153 lbst. Loongwa, 152 18.; Tangle

16 hs. The Gnome, 138 s. : Tunning Fork, 150 lbs. Dick Lo 140 lbs. Funchal, 144 s. Race No. 8, Shatin Handicap "Ä" Class 1 Miles.

Town Hall, ius ibs.; Ukeleler ici! lbs. San Diego. 183 is: Castle Hall (late Mississippi, late Doon-

TRAFFIC

CHIN

ARMS.

CHECKS ON MANUFACTURE.

A GENEVA PROBLEM.

EXPERT CRITICISES. AIRSHIPS.

NOT WORTH THEIR COST.

.

NO COMMERCIAL FUTURE. Reference was recently made in

LONDON. a leading article in the Daily Preu to the need of some form of restric- Mammoth airships, designed for tion, being imposed upon, the private world ecmmunication, have no real manufacture and distribution of commercial future; they are not

rests, particularly revolvers.

This matter has apparently been worth their cost; they are danger. rather tentative our; they compare unfavourably considered, in

manner by the League of Nations, with older types of transport. the proper international body to deal with the problem.

its

1927.

POWER SCHEMES FOR ENGLAND:

CURRENT FOR RURAL DISTRICTS.

THE NEW ELECTRICITY

AREAS.

the greatest boon of sit will be the carrying of electricity to the re motest ecuntry phees, and this will have a beneficial effect on Earning and other rural industries"

Power For Farms, The electrißention" of the Prince of Wales' farm at Lenton, Nottingham will not be so com plete as has been reported, and it will by no means be na "all-electric" farm. What should really be sac

that it will be an all-electric "

farm-house.

Anything more ambitious cannot yet he undertaken, as will shortly.

be shown in a report on rural cleć-

No Reasonable Proof." There de no ressonable proof,” he said, "that an airship can be rendered immune from the effects

electrical of the

disturbances. There is on the other hand, strong presumptive evidence that is may be destroyed by such a disturbance. "Despite the amount of time and money which has been expended on meteorological research there is not the slightest reason to suppose that

By the first part of the huge it will ever prove certainly prae scheme to be carried out ander the sicable to advise an airship of the

Electricity Supply Act, the Electri possible path or position of a stormity Commissioners hope eventually centre in sufficient time to enable that the price of current will be her to avoid encountering it. Rather does evidence point con- substantially reduced, and that clusively to the fact that it will be areas at present out of reach of trification which is now being pre- pared by a Department of the electricity will be supplied.. definitely impossible to do so.

University of Oxford. This on Mooring masts for airships "to

The main idea is to reduce the gineering branch has been studying which the new airships will bu an- chored at their air ports were, in number of small supply stations the problems attending the electri the opinion of the lecturer, quite and to get the whole of the currentification of rural areas with a view to providing information for the ineffective for, holding a great ship required for the country's use from Ministry of Agriculture and the when a sudden storm arose.

a few big generating stations. This, Electricity Development Commis. Comparison.

sioners to act upon. it is thought, will make for

The inquiry has chiefly been con- economy by reducing overhead ex-ducted in the North of England. penses and even out" the supply, where a certain amount of rural states the Sunday Times.

At present the demand varies greatly, and many stations have to continue at" work all day in order to supply those few customers who need electricity. Under the new scheme certain of the stations will close down in slack periods, the supplies coming from those siptions which carry on."

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"To take as a basis of compari-

son, for instance, the normal rail, anger, cargo ship running to India or Australia at sixteen knots, is to beg the question in favour of the airship. A substantial subsidy such as is being poured out on these airship schemes would soon see twenty-four-knot steamers cutting down the passage time, if the 'cut were really a matter of extraordin ory importance, and that I'am in- clined to doubt.

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Early next month the Central Electricity Board hope to make an

electrification, exists, and it has been found that there is no early prospect of farms becoming com- pletely electrified.

This indictment against airships made by Mr. Edward F. The diplomane correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph writes: Spanner, a great authority on Of the many reports recently sub naval architecture, at a conference of the Institute of Marine En- mitted to the League Assembly by gineers, held at the Shipping and

Third Committee (that on Security and Disarmament), the Engineering Exhibition, Olympia.

Mr. Spanner has a distinguished bretest and least pretentious was, perhaps, the most raluable and de- record. He is an ex-member of the serving of optice. Yet, in the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. peculiar atmosphere of Geneva, at He was, during the war, an assist- appears to have been almost en ant director of warship construe tirely ignored, possibly on account tion at the Admiralty, and since of-its-very-freedom from, all rhetoric then be has been a director of a and Bamboyancy, I am referring to ship repairing compasy, and is now the report dealing with the pria consulting naval architect. He vate manufacture and publicity of has written a number of standard the manufacture of arms and am- books on air policy.

munition and implements of war." His criticism, supported as it is

The greatest power load, the farm. It will be remembered that by the agreement of many aero

can provide, it has been found, is June, 1923, a Convention for the nautical engineers, is of particular

supplied by tillage operations, and, Dead, heat; length between first supervision of the international importance, in view of the present

this would mean not only the cheap two and third.

trade in arms was drawn up by a construction of the two giant air

conveyance of current to fields League Conference as a first step ships for the Government-one at

spread over a wide area, but the towards solving this question That Cardington, Bedfordshire, and one) "I would ask you to consider the

use of special electric tractors, Convention his, so far, only been at Hordes, Workshire-which are; accommodation plan for passengers

which are not eten in existence. ratiñed by France, the British to be used on the England-Egypt-in the new pirships in comparison announcement concerning the open- On the Continent hage, electric Government aiming at obtaining. India nir route.

with the accommodation on boarding of the scheme. The country cable or windlass ploughing sets hitherto without success, simul- "I have come to the definite.com one of the sixteen-knot P. & 0.will be divided into areas, and the are used, but these are hardly re- tuntous ratification by all the big clusion." said Mr., Spanner at the vessels on which the Air Ministry first will be Londen, the Home garded as suitable for this country. producing countries. Apart from outset of his paper that there are have based some of their calcula Counties, and the South-East of. The tillage load, therefore, will not this, however, the 1925 Convention grave weaknesses in the airship tions. The accommodation is hard, England. Next will be the indus be available for electrical exploit- is unlikely to be ratified by any of projects on which the Air Ministry | ly enough for A cross-Channel trial Midlands, When the whole tion until engineers have first de the non-producing countries so long are drawing money from essential steamer on a night run-a steamer scheme is in operation-though this vised suitable field machinery, nor as the question of the supervision and heavily taxed industries. on which one might, at most, spend will not be for some years the will electricity be applied to actual of the private and State manufac

six or seven hours."

other areas will be Yorkshire and harvesting, though there is a bonu ture of aras remains unsettled.

Commander C. D. Burney, M.P., the North-East, the West of Eng that it may be ned very soon in The reason for this is simply that

discussing. Mr. Spanner's paper.land, Lancashire and North Wales, another way, that of a stimulus or under the 1823 Convention these

said he agreed with the main con- and South Wales and Middle fertiliser to growing craps, non-producing countries, which are

clusions that these vessels had to Wales.

Meanwhile, the Oxford inquiry entirely dependent on the manufac taring countries for their arma- ments, would have to publish parti culars of all their purchases abroad. On the other hand, no one would know what the stocks of the hig producing countries were, since the im- latter are not dependent on ports, but can quietly manufacture at home all the material they re- quire.

Powers' Reservations.

The Owners.

the

LADIES' RECREATION CLUB.

"AT HOME" TO BE HELD

The Committee of the Ladies Recreation Club will be At Home" to members and their friends at the Club ground. Peak Road on afternoon, November

Wednesday

5th.

The Hard Court finals will be played off the same afternoon. comunending at # ponu

The present report, after alluding to these difficulties, which the Special Commission which sat at

feld), 182 lbs. Shanghai Friend. STATE HELP FOR BRITISH Geneva laat spring failed utterly to

162.bs. Hon Sin, 160 lbs.: War- rington. 155 lbs. The Geezer, 155 Ibs. Misty Eve, 135 lbs., Total Abstinence, 153 lbs.: Girande del Norte, 1 lbs.: Flash Star, 153 ibs.: Mayfair, 152 iba, May. 130 lbs.; Yuen Sin. 148 lbs. Warlordship, 148 lbs. Shan Mein, 143 lbs.; Lnelt Tammel, 143 lbs.: August, 145 lbs. Race No. 7, Shatin Handicap "B"

TRADE.

CREDITS GUARANTEED UP TO FIVE YEARS.

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Since the publication in July of the facilities offered under the Ex Fart Credit Act for the guarantee of sterling bills of exchange there has beer very large number of in Dobbin, 16 lbs. Skidoo, 105 lbs.; suiries at the Overseas Trade De- Kom Tong Hall, 162 tbs.: Pottenpartment in Old Queen Street, Tush, 180 lbs.: Limestone fali, 156] Westminster.

Class: Miles.......

lbs. Grey Knight, 155 lbs.; Eestive The complaint of many British Eve, 153 lbs. The Gnome. 15 h.; Tangle, 132 lbs.: Moxg, 1 lbs.xrters used to be that the Bright Eve, 145 iba.; Easter Day, but get a footing in certain 140: Saivo, 140 lbs.: Loch Rau- reign markets because they could

solve, owing to vital and conflicting reservations by the British Empire. America, Italy, Japan, Holland, and Belgium, goes on to say:

In some quarters (namely, Italy and Japan) it is, thought preferable to adhere strictly to the terms of

"Not only do I held this opinion, but I am convinced that there is knowledge of these weaknesses in the minds of the scientific and technical experts,

.

Mr. Spanner asserted, with re-be built to withstnad normal con- "We may look forward to is showing that electricity can ad- gard to the new airships, that no ditions with a factor of safety of period of slowly cheapering electric vantageously be used on farms for reasonably eatisfactory attempt had at least four. The actual structure power, for undoubtedly as costs lighting, domestic purposes, driv. more than twice the Prime Minister when first an- that the application to tillage. been made, on could be made, to of the R 100 (now under construc-fall we shall as promised by the ing barn and other machinery, hut determine experimentally the effect tion) was' of storms or squalls on the aero strength outlined by the Air-nouncing the scheme--pass this which is most desired by farmers, dynamic stresses to be borne by the worthiness of Airships Panel. benefit on to the consumer," an off- appears to be at the moment rather

cial stated recently. Perbage remote. airship hull.

DISASTROUS 1915.

NEUVE CHAPELLE AND SECOND-YPRES.

THE OFFICIAL HISTORY.

Daily ExpresA,

-Sir

4.

...Trade Union Rules That Killed

Englishmen. General Edmonds devotes one of the most impressively candid and able cha ters among many to an

The First Gas Attack, examination of the question "how attack for use in France, we must the deficiencies arose, and why, in be most easily, affected through caluctant to appreciate new means. go elsewhere; that Germany could

But the Germans were equally spite of the immense resources of the British Empire, they were not Turkey and that, in conjunction for the volume shows clearly their with Greece and Bulgaria, three failure, through disbelief, to profit immediately met,' By the spring of 1915 the delivery of munitions corps ought to be sufficient to cap-by their surprise introduction of had fallen much behind what had ture Constantinople.'

gas. General Edmonds tells in

Maurice Hankey—" in a formidable position." This de- paper that he drew up at the relay was largely due to seanty, in- quest of the Prime Minister, conformation and to the two corps waiting "upon each sidered that, failing the discovery commanders of new weapons or new methods of other.

Article 8 of the Covenant, and to CRITICISMS OF THE HIGHER been contracted for, and it became Such views were shared not only grent detail, yet with clearness, the

COMMAND.

confine the projected Convention to the supervision of private manufac tare proper. Others would like to include State manufacture. Among the latter, in addition to the United States Government. which hus expressed its view on this sub- ect very clearly and precisely, are

The Official History of the War, to be found many non-producing countries which fear to be placed i Vel." III., France and Belgium, a flagrantly inferior position as re- 1015, by Brig.-General Edmonds gards security if the publicity pre- and Captain Wynne not only

story of how the heroism of Cana dian and English troops and the initiative of their immediate com- mandera closed the five-mile gap in the French front, where the first discharge had come, and where, une fortunately, our Allies had only Territorial and African troops, Foch dictated the policy thereafter

clear that not one-fourth part of by Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. what had been ordered would be Lloyd George, but by Lord Kit- ready at the specified time." Yet chener, who, on January 2nd, 1915, the regula armament firms had wrote to Sir John French: The [BY CAPTAIN-5-H. LIDDELL HAL.chinery standing idle for want German lines in France may be

of hands.

The cause was looked upon as a forbres that can partly our haphazard system of re- not be carried by assault and also eruiting, under which skilled men that cannot be completely invested,

an investing force followed" had been allowed to enlist as in- with the result that the lines may fantry, when they might, by stay-be held by

else. ing at their jobs, have been saving whilst operations proceed the lives of the infantry. But a where."

After a review of the conditions and the projects, the official history culties.

sums up:

In view of the situation on the

noeb, 140 lbs.: Yorks, 140 the Wild not afford to give long credit cautions contemplated in the Con-maintains the scholarly erudition greater cause lay in industrial diffi-

Hawk, 140 lbs. Sepoter, in lbs.

LOCAL GOLF.

Members of the Royal Hong, Kong Golf Club are reminded that catrics for St-George's and St. Andrew's Societies match should be nade soon. The match has been fixed for November 13th.

FRIENDLY TENNIS.

That complaint cannot now be enter- tainesh.

An exporter care obtin insur-

vention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms-are Del and intense research for historical extended to cover direct purchases

from national factories.

ance for the debts due to him from of arms by producing countries accuracy which distinguished the remedies for lack of hands, which Western. front and the subsequent

beul, since the department may guarantee bills up to 75 per cent. of their face value for all markets ex-attitude is connected with a letter

Thin Air

volume.

fighting.

success

All this time the most obvious had already been applied in France

"For ill now, al-

General Foch ordered immediate counter-attacks which General Putz was not in a position to execute;... whilst the British whole-hearted ap tempts to carry out their share by means of offensive action, which whs as a rule neither a true coun. earlier volumes, but upon this The above reference to America's secure base it develops a critical and Germany-the dilution of skill- failure of the French and British ter-attack nor a deliberately pre-

ed labour by unskilled, and the em- offensive in 1915, the wisdom of the The Koston Golf Club will play cept Russia, and (so far as textiles from Mr. Kellogs, in which te power which is rare in histories ployment of women were practi- decision to make trial elsewhere without these lock to heavy losses a match against a team from the are concerned) the Far Eastern American Secretary of State wrote published under the stamp of sally beyond the reach of manufac provided that surprise was ensur- without restoring the situation. Europeni Y.M.C.A on Armistice markets.

that to be effective, such an agree Governmental authority. The pre- turers in consequence of the restrised, can hardly be questioned. But though for weal in the last year Day. There will be twelve à side.

all attacks in the West on He may go further, and abtain a meat (as that now contemplated)] face early inaugurates the mole of tions imposed by trade union rules, once that decision was reached of the war, General Fach was the The Y.M.C.A. are furning eat a

very spirit of the offensive, “. General Edmonds relates how a large scale should have been pro-Sir John French then became con the manufacture of good side in the hope of lowering it remains responsible to arms and ammunition in both pri. candour which distinguishes the these were eventually relaxed by hibited, for in 1915 there were vinced that he must withdraw. his

guarantee up to 100 per cent, of a should cover The colours of the Golf Club for the department for not less than 23 vate and Government factories."

long and arduous negotiation, neither the munitions nor the men

troops, and passed, from optimism the first time and the mintch shoulder crat: while, if the importer $20,000,000 Worth Vanished Into The year 1915 is not one on which coupled with fresh legal measures, to sustain two serious efforts. ・ to pessimism. It was naturally- prove a very interesting affair..

fers satisfactory security, the de-

the nation or the Army can look

Misplaced Optimism.

The Plan Of Campaign. most difficult for his subordinates partment may relieve the exportër

In the League's volume of statis- back with satisfaction. It was the

Yet the faulty construction of the

The offensive plan for 1915 on the to follow his moods, particularly of all responsibility on the bill. tical information for 1927 an the year of the disappointments of.

when at the entrenty of General -Financing Contracts

-present-trade-in-arme-there-is-a} Giallipoli, the retreat from Ctesi- national machine, and its con- Western front was that of converg-Foch, he more than once agreed to phon, the overwhelming of the-requent-bad-running, although -ing-blows-from-Artois-and-Cham- Long credit may now be given by summary of the world's trade which Serbe, and the great retirement of just excuse, is not altogether an pagne upon the great salient form- wait a hitle longer and to an exporter on terms that relieve certainly shows the urgent neces the Russian armice from Poland exculpation of the military drivers. ed. by the German front in France,

order ons, more counter-attack...

The man who had early realised him of all anxiety, within reason sity of establishing international

control over the traffic in arms, and Galicia. Nor was there any For the volume throws light on too to be followed by an "offensive in the position of the French and the alle limits.

achieved by many ill consequeners which were Lorraine against the German rear. The report deals with the published substantial The department guarantees credits statistics of only a certain number French, or British in the Western due solely to their own errors of Thus the idea was similar to that need for a timely withdrawal was up to five years in a form which of countries, and much of the stores, theatre, to counterbalance these, rei outlook even in details For ex- of Foch in 1918, but the vital differ General Smith-Dormden, the Second enables an exporter to finante con-

In that theatre the enemy ample, the lack of trainingence lay in the conditions and the Army Commander, and this insight accumulated during the first three verses.

manuals which could be understood methods. But the first stroke in contributed to his supersession, kl- or four years has already been used undoubtedly had the best of the and correctly acted on without ex-1915 was not even a combined one, though he was to see his idens On Sunday, on the United Ser-tracts on favourable terms.

Another facility is to provide a vices Recreation Club ground the

planation by an expert was a grave "The failure of the British" to ac-| adopted Inter and carried out by Premature Ozenkives." U.S.R.C. will take part in a friend guarantee for the whole of an ex-

cause of delay and error."

complish anything in, the, Decern his successor-after thousands o ly-tennis match against the Chinese Fofter's turnover on bills of ex-

Unready for action, with our.old

In the sphere of strategy, the ber Battle in Flanders had un- British lives had been" uselessly Recreation Club. The match begins things during one year in "one or

sacrificed.

Sombre reading as the volume more markets,

Army almost annihilated and our greatest error was a misplaced op-doubtedly impressed the French at 3 p.m..

new only forming, we were drawn timism. The volume conveys the very unfavourably, and it is more The facilities are eniculated not

into a costly and abortive policy impression that there has rarely then probable that they did not affords, the factors are too complex only to stimulate trade, but to Committee's report will enable the cf offensives largely through the been such a trinity of optimists in think that the Field-Marshal was to fix blame unduly upon any in- effect on Sir John French of "con- whom faith was divorced from ren- in earnest." To prove this, a peti- |dividuala." Tout comprendre, stant insistence and pressure from son as Joffre, bis deputy in Flan- ful-handful of British troops under digest the lessons and to profit by

c'est tout pardonner." Generals Joffre and Foch to take ders, Foch, and French-albeit the Haig was launched in an isolated the mistakes of our first was on the offensive," and "his knowledge; latter appears to have fuctuated attack at Neuve Chapelle. that the French army, and the violently. In contrast, the British In, design, however, it was both a national scale is essential, for French public at every opportunity Government, cur in December, original and well thought out, and to repeat them would be a crime Counsel at Shoreditch County British Empire was not making its munitions and the danger of a subsequent attacks to the end of

expressed the opinion that the 1914, appreciated the shortage of was indeed the foundation of all beyond pardon. Where is this pain of utmost effort for the common Russian collapse. But General the war. On a front of only 2,000 Court.

cause. It was miracle that the Joffre professed himself not in the yards a gun strength was concen- which you complain?

Workman: Just here (indicating

national army of Britain survived least nervous about the situation, trated, which was unmatched in a part of his back).

Chim the tumbar regions.I the strain on its immature phy and firmly refused to consider the proportion until late in the war, consequences of a Russian defent" and after a hurricane bombardment don't know what you call it sique.

The narrative begins with an ache deemed the British Cabinet of only thirty-five minutes the initial count of the half-hearted general "affolé." He was equally sure of assault obtained a surprise that was tensive on December 14th, 1914, early and decisive victory in rarely repeated or attempted: there- Dat when, in the second in which everybody was to wait France, in opposition to the more after:

view of the British phase, the front was extended, the for the mah on his left," and there realistic was no attempt at a properly ar- Cabinet, who had the strongest artillery support was inadequate, artillery preparation." objection to seeing the new Armies while the delay in the British nd ranged

The officers, as they left the con- thrown away and shattered in .. vance gave." the enemy" five clear ference with Sir John French the impossible feat... . of break- hours in which to strengthen the That was to test your sensitive-felt that it had not been inspiring through the German defences, strong points, arm them with The secretary of the machine-guns, and make this part ness.-Yes, and I felt it, tooing, and their feelings were reflect.

ed in the course of the operation." Committee of Imperial Defence "of the line into the beginnings of. (Laughter.)

PING PONG.

LEAGUE RESULTS.

enable the manufacturer to keep a large proportion of his capital for the development of the industry, instead of lending it out to support his ledger accounta

Premium rates are low. They are charged on the amount of the guar ante, not on that of the bill, and vary according to the standing of the parties, the importing country, and the length of credit,

The chief condition is that the goods must be wholly or partly manufactured or produced in Great

The Chinese, Y.M.C.A. defeated the South China A.A. by 115 gaines against the latter's 107. They thus maintain the 2nd position in the League, having lost only once to the Chinese Athletic. The University also beat St. Louis by 160 to 83.

Results of the various matches to Britain. date are as follows:

The idea was born during the P. W. L. Pts. Coalition, and successive Govern

16 ments have competed with ench other in endorsing and exending it, The greatest extension is, how 10 ever, that of the past few months, especially in the department of long credit guarantees, which is the special creation of 3r. A. BL Samuel, the present Minister, for Oversens, Trade..

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up. Yet statistics reveal a strange. discrepancy between the total ex- porta and imports, "over $20.000,000 worth disappearing into thin arr." It is therefore to be hoped that the compromise suggested in the Third Council to summon an Internation- at Conference to deal with the matter at any early date.

TEST FOR SENSITIVENESS.

(Laughter).

All I know is that it hurts very much if I attempt to stoop, "**"

But you were able to move your back quickly and apparently had to pain, when the doctors examin ed you.-Quickly! So would you have done. Why, they, stuck a pin into me. (Land laughter.)

But to

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