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Over 5,000,000 Slaves: British Draft Proposals: Regarding London With A Critical Eve: "Schwanda" And Arabella": A Famous American Girls'

College: A Great Achievement:

London, May 31.

OVER 5,000,000 SLAVES, Slavery as it exists to-day was described by Lady Simon at the annual meeting of the World's Evangelical Alliance on Thursday.- The Rev W. Talbot Rice presided over the meeting, which was held af Caxton Hall

we

Lt. Gibbs' Exhibition.

(Special Air Mail Service)

his (or her) companion to discries. The service. I should add, will be free to the students. A small fee, however, is to be charged to pro- fessors and lecturers.

MISS BATTEN'S ACHIEVEMENT

Miss Jean Battan's lowering of Mrs Mollison's time to Australia has rightly been welcomed as a great achievement.

Misr Batten, however, had the

tion to prohibit air bombard-, ment.

TIDYING "UP NEW YORK

Mrs. Herbert Shipman, regard- thinks it a remarkably tidy city. ing London with a critical eye.

She is the founder of New York's Clean City Committee, which has enrolled 100,000 citizens to carry on's campaign to instruct people in the evils of litter

She told me yesterday that un- der Tammany New York was the

make it the tidest dirtiest city in the world. The Clean City Committee hopes to

Mrx Shipman's husband, who died four years ago, was suffrag». an bishop of New York, and en-. deavoured to inclucate principles of cleanliness and tidiness among the poorer people in his diocese.

Believing strongly in propagan- One cannot help comparing the da among the young, Mrs. Bhip- good will the airman nowadaysman's caniittee is enrolling meets with everywhere with the children, and for their benent the much less friendly reception given cardinst principles of Public to the pioneers. Mahi.

munityblon, have been pufo

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Lady Simon said that this year were celebrating two great

The fact that her plane was four centenary events -- the

of the

or five years old and might, there- emancipation of slaves in British

Lore, have been flown by her only Dominions, and the decision of all civilized nations, under the leader-shows that aircraft construction woman predecessor on the route, ship of Great Britain, to attempt has now passed the more rapid to do for the world what Great stages of development. Britain' did 100 years ago... To-day there were still from 5,500 000 to 6,000,000 human creatures enslav-advantage of flying on a route that is better equipped with ground ed. 'and calling out for this crime to be wiped out.. At the very doors stations than it was four years of civilization slavery" continued. ago. Slaves were captured in Ethiopia and taken down to the const; and there was stili Middle Passage in the world to-day, as its former times, since at least 6,000 ware car ried every year across the Red Sea. to be sold in the streets of Mecca

Lady Simon quoted an eye-wit- ness's account of a slave train making this journey only last year, the men, women, and child- | flight near Bilboa ren all chained together and driven like cattle. She also dis played a deed of sale of a Chinese child. Little children could be bought in China, she said, at the rate of Bd. for every year of their Life. Two million "children were crying from China for help. All slaves were not ill-treated, but there was no security for any of them, and no one was it to have complete control over any other human being.

.COLLEGE. BUREAU FOR "DATES "

STONING THE PIONEERS Twenty-four years ago, for in- stante, one of these, Lt. Gibbs, had arranged to give an exhibition

***His plane, which came by train, was delayed, and when it was wheeled on to the field the 30,000 spectators showed their impatience by handling it roughly. This necessitated its being taken back to the hangar.

Thereupon the crowd attacked it with stones, disabled the mechanic and set fire to the shed and the machine. One of the spectators tried to knife the airman, saying that flying was an impossibility; and crying, "Down with science." LIMITED AIR CONVENTION

As a result Ministers are already aware that a lirited alr arms con- vention is no more likely to be at-

Vassar, the famous American girls' college, which has decided to allow students to marry, has a rival in Brooklyn. College, where, Itained at this stage than the larger am told, an even more genial at conception embodied in the British titude prevails.

Craft proposal.

At Brooklyn, which unlike 'Vas- sar, admits both sexes, two of the students have started a college bureau for "dates."

An elaborate card index han been planned. In it are listed each applicant's name, which his (or her) age, address, telephone number, height, weight, and" per- sonal description

If a young man, for instance, prefers unfreckled blondes he will be able to find them-in the index.

This will also show the type of subject the applicant would like.

Here are the reasons;

I. France's adherence would be conditional "on Germany's; Ger- | many's on Poland's; Poland's on Russia's; Russia's on Japan's,

Japan emphatically refuse to be limited.

2 - Thus West separated frort: East.

cannot

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THE “GERMAN” OPERA SEASON

Two new operas, Schwanda" and "Arabella," were given for the first time in London on the 11th and the 17th of this month. Both had a success. Yet "Sci- wanda" had its Thst performance for the season last night, and “Ara- bella will be given for the last time next Tuesday,

No wonder that opera, as Sir Thomas Beecham has repeatedly said, cannot pay.

the

The approachifig end of brief, but very successful, German season, as it is popularly called. reminds me of a common miscon- ception. This is that in the casts in the German operas singers predominate.

German

A ROUMANIAN ARÄBELLA The title-role in "Arabella" was filled by a Roumanian, Viorica Arabella's .delicious Ursulesc. younger sister was played by a Hungarian, Margit Bokor. Their mother was Ruth Berglund, a Swede,

The two chief male parts

were filled by Austrians and there was an Austrian conductor.

Even in the Wagner, operas be Lauritz Melchior, a Dane; Ehran- uel List, formerly an Austrian, now a naturalised American; Alex. ander Kipnis, a Russian who has and also become an American. Lotte Lehmann. an Austfian, show that there is no German predo- minance.

3. An effective convention im- plies sanctions against a violator. "Sanctions mean war,” says Mr. Baldwin in practice, no coun“ try is prepared to apply them. This is equally true of a conven-

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