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party's hold upon its representa- tives. We may assume, then, that for the next week members of all political parties will concentrate upon the congenial task of repre- serting their opponents in the worst possible light-but knowing al; the time that there is every likelihood of no one party securing a working majority over the other two com bined. If such should be the case, will there be--can there be-a dual alliance following the present triple agreement Mr. LLOYD Gronor's" forecast of the result of the election

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News and Views.

One case of diphtheria and one of anterie, both Chinese, were reported over-the-week-end.......

Silk forwarded from Hong Kong by Empress of Russia on May arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on May having been 21 days in transit.

Tuesday, June 1, has been fixed for hearing of the Summary Court action between Mr. H. Cooper and the Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd, for alleged wrongful dismissal The claim is for

is interesting-6 million Conser vative votes, 7 million Liberal, and 7 million Labour, but it must be remembered this does not mean

distribution of seats in the of the former. Editorial and Business Offices: 11, same proportion. Such 4 poll $1,000.

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Before a crowd estimated at 5,000, Blaise Cendrars, a Swiss author the Rugby team from the British | living in Paris, seems to have more cruiser Suffolk defeated the Kanani | than the average sensitiveness of Rugby team by 23 to 12, at Koshien concience. Whilst hia latest book, (near Osaka) on the afternoon of

"Plan de l'Aiguille," was in the May 17. It was the first victory-ess, he suddenly had doubts about they scored since landing in Japan, the correctness of a passage in The British took the offensive from which certain Chilean "acenary is the first. Fourteen minutes after described, and ordered his publisher the start they scored a try which to suspend publication. He took was converted. The Kansai, after the next steamer to Valparaiso, re- several unsuccessful attempts, scor-inspected the view, and, satisfed ed their first points when Nakade about the faithfulness of his des- made a clean-cnt try. The British cription, has now permitted the continued their onrush and scored book to be published. another try, when Tyrit converted shortly before half-time was called. From then on the naval men kept pressing and increased their lead to 21 points.

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"Good. Servants and Bad Mas-

ters" in the slogan of a very dne exhibition entitled

" Gas and Water" recently opened in Berlin. A technical miracle, it is claimed Dr. Georg Zapp, director of the to be one of the greatest popular. Felten and Gailleaume Carlswerks scientific shows ever organised; the A.G., has designed a new cable for enormous plant and the perfect transoceanic telephone communica-models of whatever engineering tion. The cable's four 3.3mm, cop-tests could not be built up in a per lines are contained in a flexible limited space maks it a paradise the other two. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE'S WAS born in 1887, and was married tube made of light metal, and for schoolboya 3nd intelligent covered with a lead envelope. The grown-ups. Its scope is bewilder-

so amall as to be unworkable in

face of the combined opposition of

matter

Yesterday all warships in the harbour, including three Chinese cruisers and a Japanese gunboat, dressed ship in honour of the birth- day of Queen Mary. Her Majesty

în 1893.

When an Oldham motorist was.

special construction enables rubber ing. Several entire factorice of by insulation, with its high dielectric products of ccal are working ; glans- capacity, to be superseded by ordin-blowing from the beginning to the ay paper insulation. Fupin load-unished cut-glass article is carried coals are inserted every two out in minutest detail, at well ir kilometres. One of the two pairs of cooking in hotel kitchens; the lines would be used for traffic in amateur plumber and the builder either direction. It is claimed that of great irrigation works are both the cable would withstand the pres- catered for. Bure of the sea at a depth of 6,000 metres (nearly 19,700ft.)

Another Kew?

forecast, then, does not help as in any way to visualise the real result

Mrs. Meyrick's legal advisers of the coming election-and, as a have been instructed to prepare an of fact, the ex-Prime appeal to the House of Lords. The Minister is no more able to predict Night Club Queen" is now serving the strength of the parties in the sentence of fifteen months hard next House of Commons than the labour for conspiracy in connection A NOVEL TRIPLE ALLIANCE. youngest and least experienced of with the Goddard case. The case the women who will go to the poll will probably be heard at the end Those of our readers who have been for the first time. The coming of May or beginning of June. carefully scrutinising the telegrams election will be the biggest political recently received from London re-gamble in English history. It has lating to the general election cam-been always the rule in Great summoned recently for driving paign probably will have reached Britain that mass opinion insiste dangerously be indignantly com- the conclusion that there is no depot one plain issue being pre-plained that on the summons the finite, point on which the three eated to it for an expression of name of his house was given a New York judges, witting together, of the early rhododendrons and

political opinion. Battles have been Ashbyn. The name, he said, was political parties are absolutely agreed. Strange to say, however, lost and won on, straight issues Ashlyn. Superintendent Clarke said there is one matter on which the

that it was hardly correct to say that they had called it Ashbyn, as Conservative, Labour, and Liberal

there was an "e" at the end of it forces are absolutely unanimous. Headquarters of all three parties

which made it Ashbyne. have agreed that their candidates

such as Home Rule, Free trade, Lords e

Commons, or "Boisbe visin." This year the issue is sup- posed to be Socialism and if any body know exactly what is meant

Kew Gardens are rather and While a Boston jury was deciding sight this year. Everything is quite that Throdore Dreiser's novel "An three weeks behindhand, and the American Tragedy" is obscene three frost ruined the blossom of some have exonerated Miss Radclyffe magnolian Curiously enough, it is Hall's novel The Well of Lone-not thought that the great frost has lines. They have ruled that the done s

much damage & the book in question deals with a de drought of 1821. There are still be said to be in violation of the law things that are dying gradually licate social problem," but cannot

unless it is written in such a man- from the effects of that arid aum ner as to make it obscene, lewd, lascivious, or indecent." The judges mer. There is considerable anxiety about the future of Kew Gardens. The Boston decision was made u der a special Massachusetts law

It is felt that the time may soon which condemns the whole of a book come when its scientific use as a A voice: Time you were dead. ****

if a single pamage or even a phrase botanical gardens may cease. The Miss Megan: We've been tested in is held to be obscene.. Efforts have combined effect of the climate and the past, and found-

recently been made to have the law the smoke-Indeh air of London is A voice: "Wanting.

changed so that a book might be i Miss Megan: My father also has judged as & whole, but these were, been tested, and found----

defented in the Legislature. A voice: Wanting. "No, reliable," said Miss Lloyd George firmly, as she sat down.

shall not answer written question the word, it might be possible to Miss Megan Lloyd George (speak-held that this was not the case.

naires nor verbal inquiries by de putations coming from beyond the

frontiers of their own tonstituen- cies. A parties are agreed that the best way to avoid worry and anxiety over and above that which is unavoidable in a local fight is to prevent outsiders from coming to fish in troubled waters. According

get a straight fight on that issue, Were is not for the fact that more The Liberal Party, born in 1860 than three-quarters of the total

ing at a great Liberal rally at Tufnell Park, London, recently):

number of contests will be three-

cornered. This means that in every such constitueney it is possible the successfül" candidate will represent not the views of the majority but voters might vote Conservative and of the minority. For example, 5,000

!

ly, a letter has been sent from head-4,000 vote Liberal, but a Labour. Khayyam, Esq."

quarters to all candidates of all

candidate polling 5,050 votes would three parties recommending that be elected to represent a they should refuse to answer all written questionnaires from or-

stituency which contained 0,900 persons who would describe them-

overlooking the Southern Side of the ganisations outside their constituen-selves an anti-Socialist. These things Island. Ready for Occupation.

cies, and refuse to receive deputa- happen repeatedly in three-cornered tions from associations not estab-conficts, and in the coming election lished within the limits of the local such casualties are expected to be

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having a disastrous effect, and were it at all feasible financially there is little doubt that all the experi- mental and research work would be transferred a good deal farther west and south.

London is to have air-taxis in June, when the new air-park opens at Amusing mistakes by income-tax Park Corser, where Queen Eliza- Hanworth, twelve miles from Hyde con-authorities were related by Mr. beth lived as a child under the £25 a Word..

Allen Lane, in a lecture on Pub-

guardianship of Catherine Parr.

A Liberal candidate has achieved lishing Without Tears," before mem- Two aerodromes are now being laid Orange Tree Café, New Bond-street, one for the air-taxia which will fly out of a repartee. Usually the bers of the To-morrow Club, at the out in the midst of its 250 acres,

a remarkable feat in making money ties," he said, are often source shilling a mile, and for test and form thinks himself well paid for a London. "The income-tax authori of great amusement.

to any part of the country at a harassed "heckled" on the plat my knowledge during the past ten with lock-up aircraft garages, as happy thought if he manages to put

We have to demonstration flying; the other, years received two applications for part of an aviation country club, the heckler off his stroke with it. more numerous than ever before.

assessments, one addressed. to Mr. with ballroom, residential accom-1 It is not only the largely increas- W. Shakespeare and the other to 0.

At E

recent meeting. Mr. E. J. tennis and squash Edwards, who is fighting against thrillers," he said, started writ- rackets. At the outset, it was stat Mr. Ammon in North Camberwell, that perplexes the political pro-ing for a bet. One was Mr. E. Ced recently, sixteen light aeroplanee ...Students of political pheta There is another factor to Bentley, whose novel "Trent's Last will be stationed at the park, and dunfounded an interrupter with affairs know that when three anta-be takes into consideration, and Case" was written as the result of six instructors will be available for the phrase "Liberalism pays all gonistic parties suddenly come to

a wager laid by Mr. G. K. Chester the use of members. Each member one still more puzzling-the women's ton, and the other was Mrs. Agatha learning to fly will come under the ways." It worked so well that Mr. agreement on some point; there

votes. These electors now total 14 Christie, who wrote "The Mysteri- personal supervision of on obviously,must be something wrong

Edwards adopted it at other moet- millions, outnumbering male voters ous Affair at Styles" for a bet of perienced instructor, and the pilotsings, with the same success The somewhere. What is the some-

£100. Speaking of autograph Col- engaged in this work will be drawn Liberal party has been busy in the thing in this case-e three-fold by 14 million. It is assured-per lectiona, Mr. Lane said that scarce from those who have specialised a search for effective “slogans" for haps too optimistically-that marly a day passed without several instructors. It is intended to hold the election, and Mr Edwards sub- ried women will vote the way their parcels of books arriving at Max big dying displays at Hanworth, mitted his discovery for the com- busbands do, and as matrimony ture.

Gate for Thomas Hardy's signa and to give Londoners the oppor petition. Once more it succeeded, One enterprising American unity of seeing the latest develop coined a phrase but he has coined and Mr. Edwards has not only usually has no connection with went so far as to buy up the entire ments in flying, and to organise a

money (100), which he will que politics, all three political parties block of Hardy's works in the circus of exhibition Biers, may be expected to share equally them to Hardy's house, about a mile Dorchester bookshops and conveyed

to push his campaign in South, questioning-verbal or written-a

London, where Liberalism was once candidate may give an answer or But what of the single women, who

the votes polled by married women. distant, in a wheelbarrow.

well represented and may be again." make a pledge which is not strictly have given no more serious con- Egyptian Marine Service.

It is rather amusing to read that a championship arranged by the Our Highly Polished Army. within the official programine of the sideration to political affairs than

"Ancient Order of Foxtrotters" party machine. Having been trick have the young men of their own R.N., has been lent to the Egyptian expression) at a ballroom in Ken- there's no need to worry anymore

Engineer-Comdr. Geoffrey Morgan, was danced off (if that is the right

"It's all right, it's all right now, ed or trapped in this way, the un- age, mainly pre-occupied with the for duty with

Government for three years, sington recently. The organisers ran a popular song about the fortunate man finds himself and his study of "form "in various bran- workshops of the Marine Ser order in existence, for it was

the feet and must be about the youngest "ancient Amy during the war. If there party involved in a

were any who, felt doubtful about RICHARD COMPREHENSIVE AND COM which may lend to most disastrous think out logically which of the effect, supervise the Egyptian dock the very word foxtrot first appear drcas regulation which ordains that controversy ches of sport! How many will vice in the Sudan. He will, in only in the winter of 1013-14 that the Army of to-day they must have been reassured by the newly issued consequences. A series of innocent three platforms appeals to them dredgers, and eraft generally on the in the following spring that the generale and colonels on active.

yard at Khartoum, and the tuge, ed in Great Britain, and it was looking questions, answered hurried-most-how many will be affected by Upper Nile. Somewhat similar dance began to be a serious rival service and manœuvres shall-in- ly by a harrassed candidate in the influences other than political-how posts have been held in the past by to the Boston. For a long time future wear gilt buttons on their throes of a keen political contest, many will actually avail them other engineer offibers of the Royal both steps and music were suspect cops instead of bronza- ones. As in ean producc reactions and repercus to vote? On these points the result G. E. Boad, under Lord Kitchener, instance of this was to be noted Folish" are the sign of salvation. selves of their newly-acquired right Navy, including Engineer-Comdr. with the older sort. An amusing 1014-1918, so in 1920: Lapit and sions such as may split his party of the coming election very largely and Engineer-Condr. W. Scott Hill, just after the war. By that time At the height of crisis eleven years completely. And if the party turne, and on these points the wisest now a retired engineer reac- it was, in practice, impossible for go belte and badges had still to be of political prophets know nothing, admiral. Engineer-Comdr. Morgan any hostess to overlook the existence meticulously bright; a dirty button machinery breaks down, what is to There is no dats on which to base rendered gallant and distinguished of the foxtrot and one-step. And

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Venerable Foxtrotters.

an opinion, and at every one of the service at the battle of Jutland as when the frat big bulls since the bardment. It is in the Army as it is fear and anxiety as to whether rior. He remained on duty in the Palace in the summer of 1990-these-miralty-in-H.M.6. Pinafore three political headquarters there engineer-lieutenant of H.M.S. War war were given at Buckingham Was with the First Lord of the Ad- the women will do the right engineer-room after an explosion, dreadful dances received royal re- I polished them up so carefull-es on just as usual, even if all three thing" when polling day comes endeavouring to save the ship, and cognition. But only in a queerly That now I am the ruler of the political machines

No triple alliance can be arranged in consequence was trapped for over cautious way on the programme of King's Naves broke down by party organisers to meet this two hours, narrowly escaping death the ball the titles of the dance music-polish leads to promotion. Ho simultaneously, but of course so difficulty, Each party is looking to by drowning, scalding or suffoca- were given but not the name of must shine who would reach the party politician would ever con the women to save the nation from tion. He was almost overcome the dance itself. Walts and stars. If it were not for this the inevitable disastere which will when rescued. Fromoted to engineer Lancers were named in full punctilio of adornment we might less the fact. And so it comes about overwhelm the country it either of lieutenant-commander for these ser- together with the titles of the music begin to fear for the Army's that British electors have been in the other parties should get into vices, he was in the battleship Marl for them; but there was a gap be efficiency; when the Army censes to. formed by the various party or-power. For once women are being rough during the last two years fore the titles which everyone who worry about the borders of ita ganisers that candidates for election generally credited with possessing of the war. His promotion to en- was then dancing knew were intend phylacteries we shall know the a remarkable amount of sound gineer commander was at the end of cd for foxtrots. The Court of St. country is going to the dogs. But are bound strictly by the official common-sense by those of the 1921, and he has since served on the James's had accepted the thing, but al is well. The watchword of our policies of their respective parties, opposite sex who are anxious to staff of the Commander-in-Chief, it was not in 1820-prepared to high command is still devotion to and no questions can be permitted secure their votes. After the elec East Indis, for duty on shore at accept the name for it. Nine years beauty; our brigadiers are not. kien nie, may expect to hear, cum! Colombo, and as first assistant to the factors and mus "addreséda" to their such as ↑

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