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LONDON'S LUXURY

HOTELS.

"PALACES" TO COST MILLIONS.

Modern luxury hotels costing millions of pounds will take their place in the contour of now London during the next three years.

Thero is now hotel accommoda- bion in London for. 100,000 visitors, and that will be shortly increased sunather 3,000.,

ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.

INDIAN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

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RUGBY, Dec 30) Many aspects of the franchise question were discussed to day by the Franchise Sub-Committee of the Round Table Conference, es

INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM BITTERNESS,

"UNTOUCHABLES” EXPELLED BY POLICE.

THROUGH KEUTEN'S AGENCY.!

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JALGAON, Dec. 30. The rising indignation-of-the Untouchables agnitat casie Hin-. dus was vented to-day at a confer ence when the leaders of the "Untouchables" protested against "humiliating treatment." The purpose of this Sub-Com ittee is to recommend to the full against their exclusion from the Conference the terms of reference Caste Conference which is meeting with recommendations when posat Jalgaon simultaneously. sible for the expert franchise com- The Untouchables" followed up mission, which is to study the sub-their protest by beseiging the meet- ject in India.

ing-place of the caste Hindus, squatting at the entranone with a view to obtaining admission,

One of these modern palaces is ncaring completion in Parklane, |and during the last two months has risen at the rate of one floor a week, each floor comprising sixty rooma. The Dorchester. Hotel is one of the

During the discussion the view greatest feats of modern hotel con- found general favour that the fran struction, and when it is opened chise commission might consider in the spring will make Park-lane, the introduction of an educational the London equivitlent of, thâ!

quakbeati of a satisfactory stan Champs-Elysées in Paris or Park- dard, provided this could be done avenue in New York

without confeting with the recom mendation lant an extension of the franchise should to distributed us far as possible equally among the different communities. -

Work has also begun near the Marble Arch on an hotel that will be completed in three years, and will be a "palace of silence," for there will be no shouting boys or ringing bells.

Hundreds of workmen will be en gaged in the construction of what will be the largest hotel in Europe, with 2,000 bedrooms and bathrooms.

New Multi-Store.

It was also agreed that the co- mission, might be asked to decide tion should not be extended to in- whether a military service qualifica

oludo service in military and terri torial forces in India.'

The now building will have front- The question of women's franchise ages to Oxford-street, Edgware was also discussed at length and rond, Bryanstop-street, and Great the women delegates asked that the Cumberland-place. Thore will be recommendation on this subject four restaurants and cafés of made in the Statutory Commis- various types and a multi-store on sion's report should be given effect, modern lines. The promoters of the except that they desired the qualify scheme are Messrs. J. Lyons & Co., ing age to be 21 instead of 25 years.* Ltd.

The Sub-Committee generally ex- pressed dissatisfaction that the

Plans are also advanced for the erection of a £1,300,000 hotel on the site of Lansdowne House, Berkeley square, W., of 350 hcd rooms, each one of which will con tain a painting by a modern British artist.

Another hotel in Mayfair will be the New Curzon, rebuilt on the latest American lines.

umber of women voters was so small compared with the number of minle voters and thought the fran- chise commission should examine the methods whereby the numbers closely, and that in so doing they might be made to approximate more

should take into account together. with any other evidence the pro

"The hotel on the Lansdowne Houso site will be a palatial build-posis of the Statutory Commis

ing of concretae, with a facade of white and gold-coloured marble,"

sion.

It was also thought that the com-

a Press representative was informed mission might ostmine the disparity

which it was suggested existed in urban and rural populace

provinces between the

in franchisement,

at the offices of the designer last month, "There will bo shops on certain the ground floor, and the hotel building will be intersected by shop ping arcades."!

A site has been secured by the Canadian Pacific Railway on which they propose to build the finest hotel in London." The area is 77,000 square feet, and incea Berke ley-squaro and Bruton-street-

This new £3,000,000 hotel will have 700 bedrooms, each with a bath- room attached, and will includo six

restaurants,

In regard to the extension of the franchise, it was felt that the mat ter was one in which provincial legislatures might exercise their discretion as to what extension should take place siter a period of years, not less than too.

North-West Frontier Province Sub-Committee,

The meeting of the North-West Frontier province sub-committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. MARTIAL-LAW IN SMYRNA. Arthur Henderson, heard a state.

"RELIGIOUS REGIME"

CONSPIRACY.

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ANGORA, Dec. 30. Martial-law has been proclaimed throughout the Province of Emyrna, the centre of the movement against the Kemalist régime in Turkey.

The military authorities who failed to suppress the Menemen demonstrations, in which several persons wore killed, will bo`court- martialled, and it is expected that many connected with the Menemen revolt will be hanged.

The Government fears that the revolt is not an isolated incident, but the first phase of a vast con spiracy for the establishment of a

religious regime.

The casto Hindus called in the police who dispersed the invaders.

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The Prime Minister will to-mor row morning preside over the meet- ing of the minorities committee.

Tears for mon on public occasions are coming into fashion, Bays Home paper. At Beauvais, when, for his services in connection with the R.101 disaster Lord Tyrrell pre- sented the Mayor of Allonne with a gold watch. And the Mayor was

The continued increase of women

unable, so desperately did he cry, in the various professions, busi to make any saswer. Had auch an nesses, and trades in England is reincident occurred at Nimes or flected in the increased number of Taraston one would have attributed failures of women given in the

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bankruptoy returns for 1028, issued it to the emotionalism of the south. by the Board of Trade. The total But it is strange that a solid number of such failures in 1920 was northerner should thus have lost his 602, as compared with 484 in 1028. self-control. Is it perhaps the de- The trades in which the greatest.)

numbar of failures among women cline in the public school spirit occurred were-Milliners and dress which has brought with it this pro- makers, 95; drapera, 54; grdoðra, 28.

clothiers and out atters, 27; lodging: pensity for weeping in public 1. Our house keepers, 18. The mimber of greatest herous, it is true,*; were insolvencita during 1920 in England vory liable to sob. Nelson and and Wales were 5,900, a decrease

on the previous ve-of-381A Pitt, Casterreagh and the Iron Duke estimated by debtors the linbitios often allowed themselvea tho manly last year aggregated £14,388,316, an tear. Bub: Dr. Arnold alteret all increase of £2,187,695 on the pre- that, and although Tennyson, cas vious year, while the assets totalled late as 1800, was hurt if people did £5,182,140, an advance of £1,857,937 | (not cry a bit when he rend them his on 1928,

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