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DISGRACED.

MR, LLOYD GEORGE AND HIS RECALL

Was Mr. Lloyd George guilty of the disgrace of a great British

Boldier 1

IS THE AIRSHIP DOOMED?

QUESTIONS RAISED BY

R.101 DISASTER.

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Airship or Flying-Boat? "Of qseful load, as it would be understood in a commercial airship, she carried virtually none.

There fore her entire lifting capacity was utilised in carrying her crew and feel for the fight to Egypt. The chief argument in favour of airships Flight, the official organ, of the has always been that they are long- Royal Aero Club, in a leading arti-range aireraft par excellence. The ele on the R.101 disaster, autlines distance from Cardington to Egypt possible causes of the crash and (9,300 to 3,000 miles) is not proceeds.:-

formidable, ono fa these days of nir "We may, on the present evi-travel, and if the only two ways in dence, rule ont absolutely the peas sibility of fire in the air, and we thisk that o Milure of the true The War Ofear, somebody-ture is equally unlikely. We can made Sir Hubert, the leader of the Fifth Army, the scapegoat for the

see no reason for sepposing that the insertion of the extra bay loss of 1,000 guns and 60,000 mer daring the German attack in March should have made R.101 any less 1918, and Mr. Lloyd George, in a

eficient aerodynamically that sho Gin.ph in Parliament, defended his

was before. That an instrument or a control may have jammed is a

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Lord Birkenhead, in a book (Turning Points in History, Hutchinson, 21s.) written shortly before his death and published recently, makes adatrments which, if they are right, show that General Sir" Hubert Gough stands wrongly- condemned.

recall.

Lord Birkenhend pays that Mr. Lloyd Gorge was supplied with

ENGLAND AND THE MUI TSAL

HOME ASSOCIATIONS DEMAND.

LICENSED HOUSE SYSTEM CRITICISED.

A public meeting held in the Friends' Meeting House, Manches- ter, organised by the Lancashiro and Cheshire Association for the

Abolition of the State Regulation

of Vice, concurned itself particular-

which that distance can be covered by airships in all-red" stages are cither by going to even larger air ships or by having an intermediate stop at Malta, for instance, then with the Mui Trai (or Little the wisdom of continuing with air-Ashworth, one of the most active Sistor) system in Hong Kong. Miss ships is open to challenge.

officials of the Association esid, that

wrong information-false facts that i possibility about which nothing can And one must take account here out an expert committee to the Far]

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were not facts-and he calls Sir Hubert Gough's terrife fight "The Triumph of the Fifth Army.".

"If one soldier more than an. other," he sayB, was directly res- ponsible for our victory in that

cu

that soldier was General Gough.

Lord Birkenhead describes how General Gough, expecting the at tack, appealed for men and materials. G.H.Q. replied that the Fifth Army, if adtucked, must fall back, and there were no effective

reinforcements.

be said at the moment. But it seems clear that the airship was too Bow at the time of the crash.

"If there was a reluctance to

gain height by releasing ballast, be cause there was not enough ballast on board, it shows either that the weight of the londed ship was a fatal defect or that the airmanship was faulty. We know that there was water on board, and we think it hardly likely that fuel oil had heen jettisoped. as has been sug gested. The airship, moreover, cauld have risen some distance by dyna-

"If larger airships are needed, it this subject has attained peculiar would moan another three, and possibly five, years before a much importance because the League of larger airship could be completed. Nations were shortly going to send

the progress which aeroplanes (landplanes or scaplanes) my he East to inquire into it and cognate nssumed to make in that period, | problems. Large flying-boots are now under "We feel that something should

construction which should have

range and carrying capacity sufli be done, if possible, to clean up giant for the needs of the British Hong Kong a little before the com- Empire, with the exception of the nittee of inquiry arrives there, for Atlantio crossing. In five years'

time, it is justifiable to assume, wethe sake of our honour and prestige. shall have even larger and botter It would not be very creditable to Thus, it might well our reputation if the inquirers, flying-bonis. be that by the thue a larger airship could be built, tested, and put into almost every score by the flying service, it would be outelaaned on boats of that time."

England Saved. When the attack came the British front was driven back thirty-eight miles-but the Germans were stop-mie lift. It seems to us that, MOST INDIGESTION REALLY

ped.

Amiens

was saved:

во was allowing, for all the difficulties con. Paris; so were the Channel ports; sequent on the weight of the ship, So was England.

"Whereupon Gough was recalled she ought to have been Aying at a in disgrace.

greater altitude, It is known the G.H.Q. neither recommended nor approved this action, which was due wholly to pressure from England, where only the apparent success and not the real failure of the Charman advance

was as yet understood.

On April 9 Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, discussed the battlo in the House of Commons. It is evident that the information which had been given to him was largely incorrect, for several state ments which be made, implying dis- credit to General Gough, groundless,"

were

Lord Birkenhead gives what he states are the real facts, and says that Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Curzon promised that there should be an inquiry into the battle. No inquiry was ever held.

-' ACIDITY,"

Nearly everybody suffers at times after eating. Some folk all this

heartburn, others kastritis, but no

when they got there, found that there are still 200 houses of ill-

repute under Government jurisdic tion, to say nothing of the number that are not, and that there also exists a most objectionable form of slavery of which young girls are the victus."

Sold and Resold, The Dean of Manchester, who

Even if the Court of Inquiry indication, oora kristne presided, said that they had got to should decide that no material de-matter what you call it the chances create the public opinion which feat caused the accident, but that are ten to one that the cause of would be the motive power of re- this was due to the airship finding stomach acid soura food before it

the trouble is acidity. Excess form. The work was difficult, but itself at an altitude over the ground has a chanes to digest, fermenta- they had been greatly encouraged too low in the weather conditions tion sets in and painful gases form, by the success which had so far obtaining at the time, and that the. The surest and only logical way followed the ngitation for the de to relieve digestive trouble there. fore is to remove the acid that

olition of the vice area in Bom.

couraging was that in Bonday Hindoos, Mohammedang, and Chris- trans had joined together in the work for reform,

ship simply grounded while under way, the needent cannot but have causa it Bisurated Magnesia bay. What was particularly en- a profound effect on our future air. Dot only does this instantly, but it also soothes, hoals and protects ship policy. For it R.101 was at the inflamed stomach lining so that that low altitude because she could healthy digestion follows painters not attain a greater, it shows that ly and naturally. Get a package she was loaded to a dangerous ex- of Bisurated' Magnesia from your tent, and the only reason for so chemist to-day; it is the one thing loading her would be to make sure that will really help your stomach. of her having on board enough fuel and rid you of digestive trouble

completely. to carry her to Egypt.

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CONCERT Arranged by

Mr. F. MASON, A.B.CO., LT.C L. IN AID OF

THE TUNG WAH · EASTERN HOSPITAL

under the lui Trai system a young THE HONGKONG ORCHESTRAL girl of five or six years was secured by payment by an employer as a domestic servant until she was 18 or

20. It had been argued that these

SOCIETY

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children were not alaves, The At Mas. R. H. GREGORY (Dramatic torney General of Hong Kong had

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argued this before the Legislative Mrs. SNOWDON-JONES (Eoprano) Council. But the slave was gold money so was the Trai. More over, the children could be resold, and they were sometimes lent out to the factories where they worked long hours, the wages being paid to their masters. It was argued that the Mui Tsai were not on the whole treated badly. But there was specific evidence of cruelty. And where girls were subject to sale unil resale, and a large number of cognised broibels existed, the girls must always be in danger of je gradation and chamo...

The system was to have been brought gradually to an end under ordinance, but in 1929 informtaion that began to come through showed that the ordinance was largely a dead letter. During the first five Jears of its operation the number of Mui Tani actually increased, and Guring those five years when the traffic was admittedly persistent. not

for single prosecution ['breaches of the ordinance had taken {place;

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Reports Not Received,

In November of last year 'n new ordinance was promulgated. They must not, however, go to sleep in the comfortable belief that all was well. Lord Passfield; the Secretary, of State for the Dominions, · had demanded that a report on the sub- ject should come from the authori ties in Hong Kong every six months. But after ten months' a report had not been received, und the public would know nothing of what had happened until Parlia ment mot again. They must insist that these reports should come in, and that they should be made puh lic. He himself had naked the Foreign Secretary if he were pre: | pared to send those reports to the League of Nations and find received a favourable answer.

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