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ENGLISH GIRLS MR. LANSBURY ON

SHOCK POLICE.

BECAUSE THEY WORE

SHORTS.

Two London girls, on holiday in Brittany, had an extraordinary ad- venture în å village where the police objected to their costume. The girls are:-

Miss Phyllia Morgan, daughter of the Town Clerk of Actop, W.,

and

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Mrs. I. E. Bowie, the wife of the Revi W. T. Bowie, an Acton Baptist minister,"

They were staying for a fortnight at Rochenenf, a tiny village not far

from St, Malo.

DEMOCRACY.

NOT YET FULLY TRIED.

THE MAN WHO PUT A U IN POPLAR.

The man who put the "u" in the middle of "poplar." This was the happy description of Mr. George" Laushury, "given by Lord Gorell in introducing him as the luncheon-hour speaker to the Teach- ers' Vnsation Course.

I have had no scholastic educa. tion," said Mr. Lansbury of him- self, all I can claim is that I have graduated very thoroughly. in been in prison a couple of times. the school of experience, I have

EASTERN NEWS IN

BRIEF

PARS FROM, EVERYWHERE.

The Shunpao says that a goat owned by a grocer in the Hungjao village gave birth to 1b monkey which died on the same evening.- Believe it or not,

of the Nanking Public Safety The latest conaus takes by officials

Bureau shows that the population" of the capital is 342-720, of which

11,939 are women...

The lowest age at which ona may be registered as a probationary member of the Kuomintang is 16, according to an order issued by the Central Kuomintang Headquarters, Nanking.

While there they both had long

A total of 42 additional branch walks along the coast line and I have been in Parliament, and now post-offices and 98 new

Postal through the countryside. Because for my sins, or those of other peo-Savings and Remittances: Bureaux of the heat they did not wear stock-ple, I am a member of his Majesty's were established in various parts ings, and, in place of skirts, they

of China during the period between wore white shorts and silk pall

April and June this year.

overy.

Mrs. Bowie told, a correspondent the story of their adventure at her home in Acton.

Privy Council and a member of the Cabinet. It only shows how for bearing a race the British are."."" Mr. Langbury said that there was a great deal of discussion these days as to whether it was a good thing for persons like himself, com- From, to be in the seats of the mighty.

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months later states a.Nanking tele- gram to the Sinwanpoo.

"We were enjoying ourselves, and were taking pride in our prettying from the sort of people ho camele extended to Chengtu about three shade of sunburn, when we found ourselves walking through the high street of the village of Parame.

We were passing the village police station when suddenly we heard a voice call out: Hi! Made moiselle!' •

There is a sort of feeling abroad to-day," he said, "that democracy is not functioning as well as those who advocated it thought it would. It is too early to judge whether democracy will succeed or not. Up "We did not look round because to the present full-blooded demo we did not think anyone was callingcracy has never been tried out." us, but when the voice assumed a teno of command we turned and saw that an officer on duty outside the police station was calling' us.

"Then he ran after us and, point, ing to our shorts, began talking in voluble French. His face showed horror!

We both knew a certain amount of French, and we understood from him that we were breaking the laws of the village.

At first he was under the in pression that we were dressed in some kind of outlandish bathing costume, and he kept on pointing out that there was a rule that no one was allowed on the beach with out a bathing wrap.

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We were now trying a very won. derful experiment-that of giving all men and women the power to determine the destiny of the coun- try. Believers in democracy could say, at any rate, that it was not the masses who had been responsible for the great preventable evils that had overtaken mankind. The masses had very little to do with the War. The masses were not respon diplomacy that led to the Great

sible for the existence of poverty in the midst of abundance. Before condemning" democracy we must wait till democracy had had a fair and square chance. It was quite certain that the masses could not make a worse mess of it than the ancients had made.

"There was one thing we had not

Although we protested that we were walking and not bathing, heyet learned," added Mr. Lansbury, took us to the police station before the commissioner of police.

"After considerable explanation the commissioner understood ́ ́us, but he warned us that the laws of

and that was how to occupy ali the men and women in this country. who had a right to be occupied. The tragedy of life was that there were multitudes of people in this country for whom society, in effect, said there is no room.

the village did not allow people to walk through it attired in such

When he thought of all the wasta costume, whether bathing or not.

We protested that we had been en our land and in other parts of the world, and of the Fact all over that part of Brittany for that we acquiesced in the plea that the last fortnight in shorts and bad it was impossible for the unemploy not been stopped, but his answered to work and earn their living, he was that whatever the laws of other prayed that the young people who towns, those he had to enforce could came out of the schools would stand not be contravened.

up and say that such a condition of things would have to end some how. If it meant smashing up all the Protection and Free Trade as shibboleths, then let them be smash- td up so long as they really at

"Subsequently we had to leave the precincts of the village immedi. ately.

"We regard

most umsag, the whole afander stand the action of the French down to doing something to allow police. We had walked through St. these people to earn their living. Malo, Dinard, and many other places, asking questions of police- men many times. Not once were we stopped and interrogated over what is after all a sensible open-air attire."

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Both girls are about 2 years of age, and have been friends for years. Miss Worgan, who is tall and slim, is a clerk in an insurance office.

WHY A WIFE DIED.

"NO WORSE THAN CAPTAIN OATES."

Mrs. Ada Evans, of Green-lane, Hanwell, W., before taking her life, wrote the following letter to a friend-

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According to a Chinese Press telegram, seven gold mines have been discovered along the Mutang River in Manchuria during the past three months and a British firm in Mukden has applied to the Chinese authorities for permission to open them.

Acting upon instructions from

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(9301 the confidence. trick being worked in the same old way. The Irish youth, Bernard Kerr, was accosted in the street by Loftus with a re quest to be directed to a certain Look after my darling Jimmy, betting club, and when Kerr said He never expected this. He he did not know the address Loftus- offered to get help months ago, pretended to be greatly concerned, but I would not have it. He is saying he had an important betting a good darling and has done commission to place. Loftus spoke everything willingly and to another maa-believed to be a denied me nothing, but I have confederate of his about the bet lost grit for months and cannot ting club, and after some other con- pull up, and I will not break him versation Kerr was induced to part up. He is too, dear. I don't with Bs. to place on a good thing" think I am any worse than Capt. for that day's racing. Loftue went Oates. Look after him, dear. I away and returned with the infor- am so sorry but I know no rest mation that Kerr had won 1, and from nerve pains. I have tried later the prosecutor was induced to to be brave. Picase, all my dear make other beta until he had parted ones, forgive me."{}

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ilty to t coroner, at an Ealing inquest, that offence, and after it had been shown his wife had not had good health, that he had a bad record, includ and four or five years ago undering several convictions for similar went an operation.

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She told him that she would never months imprisonment.

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Almost her last words were: You

are trying to buck me up with your It is learnt in Amoy that negotia- lovely-eyes.""

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