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COMPLAINT OF "MALE

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Regret at the tendency to relegato women in business to purely rou tine work and a demand, for equa» }</ lity of pay and" opportunity for all

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EUROPE'S RETURN TO PEACE.

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Complete Disillusion,

men

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG,"

Is the Universe including Han,' Evolved by Atomic Force" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all

But on what basis. Both states-Churches of Christ, Scientist, an

ware tyros in the sphere of Sunday, June 1st. were expressed in an emergency finance, and Stresemann alone had The Goldon Text was:--I know resolution passed, with only two come with precise proposals, which that, whatsoever. God doeth, it shall men voting against it, at the had been worked out by technical be for ever; nothing can be put to twelfth annual, conference of the experts. Ho suggested that Gerit, nor any thing taken from it. Guild of Insurance-Offers in Lon-many should provide the necessary (Ecclesiantos 3; 14.)

sum for the support of the French fane, then almost at its lowest ebla, by means of an international bond fee of £75,000,000, of which 62 per cent would be set aside for French account. In return for this assistance France would agree to an early Allied evacuation of the Rhineland, and for an additional £15,000,000 to the immediate repur chase by Germany of the Saar Dis

The resolution, introduced by the women members read:"

"That this conference notes with regret the increasing tendency to relegate women in business to pure ly routine work and to positions of minor importance, and urges employers to give similar rejes pay to employees competing for any responsible administrative poststrict available.

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The conference further, urges

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SPANISH ARMY REDUCTIONS.

THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS BEING PAID OFF

£4,000,000 SAVING,

Madrid-A Cabinet Council held last month approved the scheme of the Minister of War, Senor Azana, for the reduction and reorganien tion of the army. As I reported the reorganisation has already be

WAR DEBTS AND REPARATIONS.

GERMANY'S REACTION TO AMERICAN STATEMENT.

CHANCELLOR BACK AT

BERLIN.

Berlin June 14-A profound impresion has been caured in Ger man political quarters. well as on the Press by the striking decla ration of the American. Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. W. R. Che

Among the citations which com-gun writes the Manchester Guardiantle, in Washington, that the United prised the Lesson-Sermon was the Correspondent. The scheme for re- States Government was not resolved following from the Bible:-But ask duction includes the disbanding of rigidly to adhere to the thesis of now the beasts, and they shall teach 37 regiments, 13 battalions of in absolute separation of reparations thee; and the fowls of the air, and fantry, seven cavalry regiments, and inter-Allied war debts, but was they shall tell thee: or speak to the two engineer battalions, and one ready in ease of a serious financial earth, and it shall teach thee: and railway regiment. It is expected crisis to consider whether a ten- the fishos of the sea shall declare that a saving of 200,000,000 (appro- posary change of Washington's unto thee. Who knoweth abs in all ximately £4,000,000) pesetas a year policy was called for, these that the hand of the Lord will be effected. hath wrought this in whose hand The present 10 army divisions is the soul of every living thing, will be reduced to eight, and the and the breath of all mankind" army (Job 18: 7-10.),

officers, numbering

$1,000, will be cut down to a little over 6,000. Many have alrendy applied to be placed on the retired list on full pay in accordance with the Government's offer, which ex

Some papers characterize declaration as sensational hold that it greatly increase the political significance of the visit to Europe of Col. Stimson, the U.8. Secretary of State, and the Sec- retary of the Treasury, Mr. Mel lon." *Berliner Lokalanzeiger"

M. Briand, however, was worried over the Stahlhelm. Your P ple," he said, "are so self-import- ant and they feel like nothing on

The Lesson-Sermon also included their women employees the same in-earth when they have crashed a hel the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, Science ducements to take professional ex met on their heads!"

and Health, with Key to the Scrip- aminations as are afforded to their "You misjudge them," Streetres, by Mary Bakor Eddy pires on Thursday, after which all that the practical value of Mr. men colleagues, both as regards, to

mann retorted. "That's just an Creation is ever appearing, and officers in excess of requirements Castle's declaration for Germany remuneration and opportunities of promotion."

Mrs. M. H. Godfrey, woman

organiser of the guild, in her ro

port, said: “I think you will agres

innocent popular instinct. Our Reichswehr Minister, Gessler, found the right explanation for these

people. They want to be able to offer the servant girls as much as the soldiers ever, did÷military

bands, gay uniforms, and, last. but not least, kisses." Whereupon Briand burst into laughter.

ronr of

must ever continue to appear from

the nature of its inexhaustibla source. Murtal sense inverts this.

appearing and calls ideas material, Thus misinterpreted, the divine iden stems to fall to the level of a

human or material belief, called

will be compulsorily retired on re- will soon be revented, but that the tired pay. The Government has declaration does not imply that the decreed that the army reorganisa United States is prepared to grant tion must be completed before July a moratorium te ita debtors.

Communique Issued..

1 next.

Two Regiments of Tanks.

Berlin, June 14. The eagerly

A Reuter telegram says that in the awaited speech by Chancellor Bru- mortal man. But, the seed is in future, the army will comprise nine oning at Hildesheim on the occa, itself, only as the divine Mind is divisions, one of which will be of sion of the meeting of the executivo the multiplier, and Mind's infinite regiments of infantry and ten of group of the Clerical Centre Party All and reproduces all-as Mind is cavalry. There will be in all 30 council and of the parliamentary

that during the war and immediate ly after the war managements were willing to let women get good jobs,

A few days later the disillusion now it is not only the managements was complete. Washington declin which are preventing thero, but ed to participate in the mobilisa-da, man, and the universe, is the cavalry, and each regiment will this afternoon in which the Chan-

product." (p. 507.) the male staffs as well have com-tion of any bond issue for France's benefit, so long as France had not bined in a conspiracy in many ratified her debt settlement with officis to keep the women down."

America And so the Rhineland was destined to remain for some years longer under foreign occu pation.

M. Poincare.

After a long discussion, it was decided to drop the extension levy formed to raise funds for organi.

several years, as Lord D'Abernon has been described with perhaps but slight touch of exaggeration, in worthy of a great muster.

which

have its own detachment of encellor was expected to define the gincers and sanitary workers. The Government's policy did not take artillery will he composed of twenty place, the executive council and the regiments, as well as two groups of parliamentary group having decid- aerial defence. There will also be ed to meet in private.. However, two regiments of light tanks, & at the close of the meeting a com "A mountain of a man, with a machine-gun battalion, a railway unique was issued in which the compartively small bead on broad, sation expenses, and to increase the Stresemann's single meeting with Venetian Senator on the body of a with telegraph staff as well as self in favour of an early solution square shoulders the head of the regiment, and a pontoon regiment party reiterates its full confidence, mange in the Government and exprrace. subscription by the amount of the M. Poincaré took pings on the oc-white nder the silver beard, a win each unit will divide into two. enn alone an

Collcone. A Southern head, with motor-car corps. In time of war of the reparations problem whic casion of the signing in Paris of and, under Speaking on this matter, Mr. Nthe Kellogg Pact, to which, already present mask upon the hard face. ning emile that lay like an ever-

alone save Germany as well a dying man, the German Foreign. He had none of the stiff, aus

as other European countries from Scott Allen (Belfast) said: "The Minister had insisted on affixing tere elegance that carries the fame

revolutionary upheavals and dire guild is the insuranec man's insurhis signature in person. Both men, jungle.

of Savilerow into the wildest.

The Spanish Ministry of Finance | distress." (Reuter states) has issued a note to The party in its communiqué ance for his job. The risk to our but particularly Poincaré, were

indeterminate looking the press expatiating on the alleged further appeals to all reasonable job has increased lately by ration-mere reserved than was their wont suite, trousers of fantastic volumin misdeeds of the Dictatorship in the

The Frenchman was courteous, but ousness, draped his gigantie form; matter, of exchange. Blame is cast necessary decisions before it may persons the world over to take the, alisation and other threats." :

his collar, always far too large, with a frigidity tantamount to encircled his rigid, neck like the on its intervention in the currency be too late.

collar of a cuirass, moreover, it market without plan or the requiChancellor Bruening returned to " stud plainly visible-and the gen was usually half undone, with the site resources." Loans were made, Berlin this evening and will 'ra-

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The German tried to use the method of direct interrogation that he had constantly found so affec tive. He wanted; before all else, to draw Poincaré into an appreciation, of the possibilities of a Franco-Ger- man understanding. Poincaré, how ever warded off Streeemann's ques tions by asking, others, mainly about the persistence of the feeling of revenge among certain classes in Germany..

Only on one point did the two men find themselves in agreement

pamely, on the necessity of defend

“Loose,

variably crooked."

Financial Misdeeds of the Dictatorship,

..

.....

itical partics tomorrow morn-

eral disorder of his appearance was it is said, to the National Bank at emphasized by a broad necktie, in 34 per cent, while at the same time sumo his, negotiations with the the bank's discount rate was raised D'Abernon's character, as well as

As the author remarks, in Lord to 53 per cent. Compensation was bites to the Cabines willingness to ing. The prevailing opinion attri- in his outward appearance, there paid to foreign petroleum commodify the emergency decree in fe was a marked divergence from the panies in such an unfortunate man gard to details of the total sum to traditional British austerity:

ner that a loss of 52,000,000 pesetas ba olitained by the new taxation, "A man without prejudices, with, put preconceived ideas, with

(about £1,325,000 at present value and economies will not be reduced enormous curiosity about his fellow- was entailed. It is added in the by such modifications. man and an insatiable, thirst for Note that the Government is con- knowledge. And yet, impervious to sidering the question of responsiof the Reichstag will finally decide The Standing Orders Committee. elery influence, self-enclosed, and

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on Tuesday whether, Parliament ir It is announced that the duty of to be summoned immediately, but

utterly self-dependent. A lonelybility. because the world always brought man who never felt. his loneliness, him new impressions, and the force stopping the export of capital has the general feeling is now that the, ing the national individuality within him had at last found. a been transferred from the Customs Chancellor will succeed in some against the adrance of Ameri- field for its setivity. A cool, Coon officials to the police in view of the thing over the political difficultice. caniem. Otherwise Poincaré listen of a burning interest in everything "small activity" shown by the form

scious man, in whom the pulsation

ed with a perfectly blank face to that went on around his produced Stresemana's explanations of how the illusion of warm sympathy."

the policy agreed upon at Thoiry had miscarried, and not so much as the twitch.of.a. muscle revealed his reactions to Stresemann's nine rative."

All Idealists.

A fascinating book, with hardly blot, and but one weakness. which will be readily condoned. That is

er.

The Minister of Finance is con- from Boulogne to St. Omer with sulting the Minister of Public only 28. in his pocket, taking a day. Werks and local bodies with a view and a night on the journey. to the suspension of work on the Was found sleep on the roadside

the strange lack in a woman of so new Madrid-Burgos line, started by by a French farmer, who took him. lively an intelligence and of so the Dictatorship with the object of to a cafe. wide an experience of the political

world is Frau Vallentin, of any improving railway communication real critical sense when she is dent between Madrid and the test of ing with the various representatives Europe. of the different nations. Not only her own hero, but equally his foreign colleagues, friends and rivals, become unformly and indis. ESCAPADES OF BOY OF 13 criminately subjects of landation. questioned,..

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Stayed at the cafe two days and was then sent to Boulogne bi train

-with-00 francs given

police

to

him by the

Took steamer

Tolkestone motored to Brighton, and walked all night

Two of the most attractive fea tures of Frau Vallentin's book are her portraiture of leading statesmen of Europe and her keen dramatic sense in the narration of great his torie events. Here is M. Briand:

With his slightly founded back and disordered hair, his sensitive mouth half covered by a straggling

WENT TO FRANCE WITH 21. landen, arriving with Frau Vallentin refuses to sea in moustache, drooping eyelids, and a any of them anything but the most

Walked to Watford. knowing, mocking look in the car-transcendental of idealists o Warrington boy surprised the magis. shop and cycled to Aylesbury, where The escapades of a 13-year-old || Stole, bicycle from cutside a ners of his eyes, a look of amuse-and pardonable admixture of less trates in the children's court at he left the bicycle and took a motor

ignores the more or less judicious ment and disillusion that sought to commendable elements that of neces- Aylesbury when the ind was charged car from behind a picture House. strip men and things of their dis-rity must underlie every speech guines; with the half-mile that from the "rostrum, as also every Jurked in the downdrawn corners diplomatic negotiation. At times, of his mouth, the slender vivacious indeed, she makes one long for a hands and tapering fingers, the little asperity of Judgment; so deen, rich, warm voice that con- much so that one would frankly to Widnes and took train to Ches.

whole orchestra of tongs relish here and there just a touch tor.

kof-feminine="lenttiness P

ocalod Land undeitanes 2.

But the gem In n the gallery is the portrait of Lord D'Abernon.

Lord D'Abernon.

The British Ambasador, the de facto Chancellor of the Reich" for (Continued on next Volumin.)

But this shortcoming, if it must dotract somewhint from the value of of her personal appreciations,, does graph as a well-informed and artis pot impair the merits of her mono- the portrayal of great men and

ovents

with stealing a motorcar.

According to his statement he Stole £8 58. at Warrington, cycled

Was arrested asleep in the car at High Wycombe.

The boy stated that at Brighton. he paid for a bent and £1 to have it painted, intending to row: himself to France. He admitted

– Travelled by motor coach to Lon-stealing and abandoning two CLTS" don, and then to Brighton and at Warrington: Folkstone.

His escapadca were attributed by Took a day return ticket by sleeping, sickness.

bin father" to 'a recent attack of“ steamer to Boulogne and walked

-Tho, boy "is to be sent for three (Continued on next Column.) years to a suitühle school.