1914-08-25 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Sentence for Lese- Majeste.

A private soldier named Wag- ner was sentenced at Magdeburg on July 13 to three and a half years imprisonment for writing insalting words below a picture of the Emperor and for insalting the membora of a military Court,

Singapore's New Postal Motor Yan.

The new Post Offios motor ker vice van has arrived in dinga- pera and was to be seen upon the roads early yesterday morning, says the Free Press of August 11, employed, however, upon what hardly seems its proper use. It wis seen in Serangoon Road with about a ton and a half of iron girdera in it, which, if it did no other damage to the vehicle, would certainly damage the bright new royal mail red paint.

Protection to Foreigners. A few days ago the President wired to the Governors of the various provinces, ordering them to afford special protection to the life and property of the foreign residents in the various treaty! ports. The despatch further' enjoined the Cloverpors to instruct the magistrates of the districts to despatch detachments of emer- goncy corps to protect the churches in their districts and further gave them permission to appropriate the funds formerly belonging to the local self-govern- ing bodies for recruiting soldiers

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The question therefore arises to discuss the steps to be taken in the craft which travel not on but whether fighting ships will in the the various places infested by the under the waves, it follows that oud be necessary at all. Is it not bandits, after the death of their the seaplane in turn is able to probable that the next step in the chief. As a result the authorities administer the eventual coup de evolution of the new warfare decided to adopt the following grace to the submarine, because, when thess vessels of the air and meseures: 1. To search for and like the whale, the last-named sea are an accomplished fact, will extirpate the remaining brigande. must come up to breathe. When be the creation of heavily armed 2. To station a portion of the it does the seaplane, like a huge aerial Dreadnoughts, capable of troops employed in the suppres hawk, will awoop down and de- travelling equally well in either So that the seaplane element? The Germans at all sion campaign to guard the various Biroy it. important places, while the rest would mean then the end of naval events accept the possibility of of them shall be withdrawn at warfare as we now know it, some such development. Their So far I have not heard any great Zeppelins of to-day may onca. 3. Delegates shall be sont to the various places infested by naval authority even hint at such well he mere highly expensive the outlaws to quiet and pacify an extraordinary possibility. That experiments as things stand now, How but when one compares the latest the people. 4. Order should be is quite understandable." promptly restored to places which could any man belonging to it of the big naval airships with the bove boon infested by the ever permit himself to conceive first of the novel oraft created by brigands. 5. Rewards to be given of the great British Fleet, the the genius of Count Zeppelin, the the military officers who pride of the Empire, the envy of remarkable progress in even a few rendered meritorious services in the world, rendered not merely years opens up a vivid prospect of the suppression campaige. impotent, but so much scrap-iron? what the future may have in existence which could ride out, articles of association of this Autumn Manoeuvre of Fengtien Yet the Navy, has realised very store.

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is. B100,000, divided into 10,000 held in the next month in the said the facts and consider the con- what would the world have said The efficient sooplane scoat, shares of R10 each. The abjects province and the authorities have clusion to which they point, the days of the old Royal however, is a thing of the im- of the Company include those of requested the Central Government however fantastic that conclusion George, say, if an inepired pro- mediate future whether it is a carrying on a business as Baw to appoint special delegates to may be.

phet had talked of a modern bat"deep ses craft" or whether it is miil proprietors and timber.mer- inspect the troops on that occasion. So far as the chain battleship Reship. Only quite recently it used from a base or mother ship chante, contractora, store-keepers Some days ago the Headquarters submarine-seaplane goes it may was suggested that owing to the of the kind that is now actually and general merchants, general of the Commander-in-Chief of the be dismissed summarily, because, effect of recoil it would be impos-in course of construction for the carriers by land and water, barge Army and Navy wired to the although Sir Ferey Scott may be sible to arm air craft. That objec- Admiralty. But once the seaplane builders and owners, lightermen, HEAD OFFICE 7, Jinkee Rd. Chiang Chun of Fongtian, stating right in regard to the first two tion has already proved to be scout is achieved, the seaplane forwarding agents, and ware- that owing to the financial links, he is according to the largely unfounded. The same scout-destroyer comes as a matter housemen. Mesars. O. C. Raffel, difficulties the Government haa balance of expert opinion, qaite objection would probably have of course: and at that point the Justin A. Rode, H. M. Rodrigo, limited the activities of every wrong. The point is, which is been raised had anyone suggested great revolution will have begun. Nicholas Peris, S. Satheen, G. I. department of administration to going to develop with the greater the use of the biggest weapons Globe's aviation correspondent. L. Perera, and L. J. Arnolda are the narrowest possible compass, rapidity, the seaplane or the sub of our super-Dreadnoughts when that the much-talked of autumn marine? Unhesitatingly may the first ironclad was introduced. manoeuvre of Pei-yang will not the first-named. Before the sub- be carried out for this year and marine menace to all vessels that that the Fengtien authorities float on the water is really acute: should try to reduce the expenses the challenge from thy air will super-seaplane and the Dread-

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to the wonderful, at the moment of "auxiliaries," proves nothing and was given up as dead by bison can mark my word for it. inconceivable craft, that will Logically, it seems that they must people, who buried him in the have travelled a great deal in plough the seas, skim the waves, take the chief part. It is the sand of a river near Mandelay. Various parts of the world and I With regard to the abolition of or wing their way through the air, seaaraft that will be relegated to The funeral duly performed, the have never seen a more cleanly Likin, the Government has decided

second place. That the Dread- deceased's relatives and friends kept place than this city. Seaplanes of the Future to start the enforcement of the What will these oraft be, or, nought dirigible and the super-are stated to have applied them Slamp Tax: therefore in the rather, to what present type will seaplane, to call them that (for selves with assiduity to the Ministry of Finance an Office for they chiefly approximate? It want at the moment of a better customary death rites, including the Enforcement of the Stamp Tax seems evident that the first of the term) will come, may be accepted the feeding of the priests. These has been established, and the kind will be a sort of. Dying desas certain. Germany has gone rites were still cooupying Finance Bureaux in the provinces troyer, winged amphibian too far in regard to the one and attention when, on the thirteenth have been instructed to officiate monster of steel which will hurl England in the other, to leave day, who should turn up but Birj as branch offices. In places like lightning shafts of destruction any room for doubt on this head. Lal himself. When the mourners Nanking and Wachang the tax now from the surface of the waves, But all this is of the future, had recovered from their natural "THE QUEEN OF has been enforced without the now from the heights of the air. and the quite distant future. If a surprise they questioned him s8 least objection from the people, Against such a foe what will the war were to break ous now the to his experiences. Quite briefly therefore the Ministry of Finance battleship (of the sea) be able to seaplane and the dirigible would he said he regained consciousness is of opinion that should the do? No use for defence in these play a very small part in the and tried to get up, and, Stamp Tax be enforced properly circumstances its great gana operations. At the most they fortunately, the sand gave way. its annual income will be far (enggestive of throwing brickbats would be confined to scouting, With great difficulty be made hie greater than that of likin. It is at, mosquitos on the wing), it and even here unless the weather way to the nearest village, where now proposed that as the Fidance would have to have special wea conditions were remarkably he convalesced for ten days, and Bureaux of the provinces are too pons to deal with its foes. Even favourable, they would achieve then made his way, home,

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