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When it is remembered that

the British airships R33 and are copies of the German Zep pelins captured during the raids, and are not in any sense illustra tive of what British designes can accomplish, the merit of per- formances past and to come loses much of its fras zace. Happily an essentially British airship

completed R80 which will undoubtedly put up a finer performance than any preceding type, and will have some pleasant surprises for the public. It is to be regretted, perhaps, that the authorities have directed public attention so much to the R33 and R34: but the reason was probably a desire to make the best of what we possess at the moment. As a matter of

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Mr. Clynes moved the adjourn-inafted to violence and a breach emphasised how very powerful phasising the crying necessityAn Ex ment of the House of Commons of the law calculated to endanger Australia is in this branch of for immediate organised effort, leeting of the mem on July 16 in ander to call atten- the safety of the realm. If that sport at the present time. LI collectively and individually, of Hongkong Club tion to the speech of Sir Edward were a true description of that Col. Kingscote raised the hopes the commercial resources of the the Club House on Carson at Ballymeroolt, near speech, and if he were satisfied of ald England by beating O'Hara Allied nations, if German pre-war 8th September, 191 Belfast, and the absence of any that it was a true description, it Wood of Australia, and qualify trade operations are not to be declared intention by the Govern would be his duty to set the lawing to meet Patterson of Australia repeated in the future, Mr. Hall of the Chub ment to set the law in motion in motion and run the risk of a in the final of the singles. He Frederick Coleman wit33--- against the speaker for speeches | jury taking a different view. But was no match for the latter, how inciting to violence and breaches it was precisely bera that the ever, who proved himself a wor- dode by giving publicis to the In this connection good can be of the law and calculated to allegation contained endanger the safety of the realm. motion broke down.

the thy world's champion by beating work of a little band of Britons Mr.Cynes was eager, earnest

the Englishman and subsequently who have not waited, for official and indignant in putting on a question of law. They were Australis in the challenge round. intent upon gett'og a

The only question involved was disposed of Norman Brookes of assistance or subsidy, but are record the resentment of the not considering whether it was Patterson and Brookes were quite without delay and prosing a right Labour party at the diffidence of desirable that such speeches expected to win the doubles, but to a recognition that cannot be the Government in dealing with should be delivered, still less two of their countrymen in RV. denied their efforts when success the incitements of Sir Edward were they considering whether, Thomas and O'Hara Wood upset hes-crowned them, as it inevitably Carson to the people of Ulsir, at this particular time, auch calculations by beating them 3 do. In 1917 it fell to my lot and the House listened with close speeches should be expected from sets tol Perhaps the outstand-to investigate offcially the best attention to his temperate ad a right hon. gentleman who was ing feature of the lawn tennis methe Is for giving assistance to arguments. statesmanlike presentation of a leader and ornament of the championships was the sansation-local Allied war propt anda in

He assured the House that he Minister and Senior Law Officer Lenglen, the

Bar and quite recently a Cabinet al struggle spoke only from a sense of public of the Crown.

between Mallee Far East. In Hongkong I duty, and asked if the Govern different question.

young French found a number of the best British. ment were aware of the existence

girl, and Mrs. Lambert Cham-business men in the colony work- ONE DOLLAR ($1) per stare for AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of bers (holder) in the ladies ing hard to show South China the account 1919 will be payable on of the provisional government in The question at issue

singles. The latter played truth about the Germans. Thursday the 28th August 1919. Ireland, which Sir E. Carson rawhether the law officers ought to point in the final game to secure appointment of a war props anda apply for Dividend Wazzale at magnificently and only needed a obtained official sanction for the Shareholders are requested, to Could they ignore the existence that this speech of Sir E. Carson and 40-15 and 40-30. The French Hongkong gentlemen. which Building, Hongkong m

have advised the Government victory as she was leading at 6-5 committee from amor these the Company's Office St. George's applied to British airship work, any attempt was made to revive the safety of the realm, and that scored a dramatic auccess by 2 ment assistance to this work Thursday the 21st August 1919 The term "given a chance," as Sir Edward would invoke and use of the law, calculated to endanger stage, but she recovered and the Armistice was siled Govern the Company will be ofcase

of this other Government which incited to violence and breaches girt appeared very tired at this worked hard and well. is used advisedly. There is, as the Home Rule Act?

The TRANSFER BOOKS of matter of fact, very grave danger Government show that it motion. The advice he gave to 4-6 and 9.7. Milla. Lenglen is a kong committee felt the urgency both days inclusive.

Corld t'the law ought to have been set in sets to 1, the scores being 10-8. bade fair to cease. The Hong to Thursday the 28th Augura experience of several hundreds of geous as the right hon. gentle of the Solicitor-General, who was health she should dominate the educational efforts to that the incalculably valuable physically and morally as cours-the Government, in the absence remarkable player and with good of genuine, above-bound, open, of workmen may be lost by the only under the guardianship of trust he had since concurred, was this

our highly-skilled airship man. too fatally easy process of the worthy Ulstermen and Unionists,that in this speech there was The result of the Heavy-Weight antes by its chairman of 50,000 Were there in Belfast in Paris at the time, but in which situation for many years.

Britsh traie South Caiza. dispersion of labour to other fields enough rifles to make the Volun- nothing on which it was possible Boxing Championship between towarts its firs; year's Denses, Tais committee aided by a guar- have been studying and working of industry. Many of these men teers of service?

to found proceedings. on airships for ten years. They

Jess Willard (holder) and Jack is carrying on ". The question was whether Dempsey at Toledo, USA. has a London office, the

It I opened have gained much of their ex- The conclusion he was driven minal prosecution should Eve given followers of form much to which may be set forth under six jects of petence from special'st: who to by the statements and emphatic been launched. before the

war went to the threats of Sir E. Carson was that affirmative, then they world-fnd beight and measurement were forward to the Far Eri avail

If they decided

think about, Willard bad great headings as follons:- in e advantages so Zeppelin factory to sidy pro rifles and ammunition were in the

fer as weight, L. To collect in Linh and cesses. They have unequalled safe custody of his triends in themselves face to face et ace concerned, but in the all importable publicity mater experience in the specit metal-ister, and that when he thought with the technicality of the ant matter of age Dempsey. heidis industries and its cene.ce, Britain work so necessary in airship it advisable to call

out the criminal lar. constrvo, on and of increasing

Volunteers the men would be

This was not the first nor the 1895 being therefore 24 years of let, and platform in Sou importance to the aeroplane, properly armed and equipped for twentieto time that he. es wage, whilst Willard is at least 13 through the organised sanels

the a lvantage as he was born in for distribution by Fres mph JUST

China officer of the Crown, had been years older. Dempsey dominated of the parent come in Hong- any public man should, at such a

He (Mr. Clynes) regretted that called on to consider and decide the situation from the start and kong.

whether a criminal prosecution may moment as this, fur.her add to

should be launched He had practically

bave 2. To distribute throughout be sure, the airship engineers of doubt that Britain needs their had appealed to the working men himself any other step than this rst three minutes was a great medium of the Hongkong com

the difficulties of the Government sanctioned many and refused by this fierce It is beyond the shadow of a of this country. Labour members many more. But from fit to in the openir round.

bis man industrial and economical Britain Germany have not been allowing!

onslaughts information as to business par- the grass to grow under their special experience, and yet there to believe in constitutional means

last he had never proposed to knock down the champion in the

To twice sibilities in South Chios,

3. To place (through the feet. It is perfectly well known actually exists the very foolish and ordinary electoral methods that there should be one eight performance, and during the mitee) e Ivertisements of British that German faith holds as strong they will, for lack of work, be were felt with great intensity. and the influential and the power-ply battered Willard all over the newspapers

danger at this moment ly as ever it did to the airship as a

that to remedy their grievances, which and measure for the rich and poor second and third rounda he sim- goods in driven to seek employment in The answer they repeatedly got commercial vehicle, and that during the past six months & will be dispersed to the four was What did Carson do?”

other fields and far away. They at mass meetings of working men that a speech such as this should was unable to continue after the introducer between great deal of work has been winds, and in that event it woul

He regretted on many grounds practically knocked out, as he

ring, so that the holder

China. was

4. To act as medium" and done towards the production of

Poor and illiterate men were have been made at this time, but third round. The loser go some Britain who have goods to sell дет and more

be impossible to collect the n to- now in prison for saying less there was no law to be set in golden ointment for his bruises in and those powerful types. The Germans, it must ether again. At present these harmful things than had been motion, as no offence had been the shape of £20,000, being his immediate distributors of British be admitted, have an excer-highly-framed artificers are em-repeatedly stated in Ireland by

who may act as tionally suitable airship engine ployed in the fulfilment of war Sir E. Carson, and they ought to

share of the in the Maybach, and in this contracts.

REGRETTABLE DECISION. But these will soon know why the right hon. gentle-

purse, whilst goods in South China markets, detail we have not yet surpassed to an end. To provide for man had not been prosecuted as reply of the Attorney-General see Dempsey meat Carpentier formation in case they wish to Sir Donald Maclean said the to the future, we shall, no doubt,facturers by supplying full in- Dempsey received £5,000. As 5. To assist British madu. the situation airship construction the poor man was. The harm would be deeply regretted through of France or Joe Beckett of Eng-establish branch business on a well-defined national policy, done by all these poor men collec-all classes of society. It should be land before long. the provision of shed-room, should that caused by the incitements to was no distinction between a and the question of supremacy is with the Colonial Office, Foreign which would of course, involve tively wes considerably less that easily demonstratable that there undoubts lly all three good men,

Hongkong and South Chiga. be framed and ordered..

6. To keep constantly touch disorder by Sir E. Carson. Hebreach of the law committed by a hardly a matter of "prophesy Office, and Board of Trade, and called for an assurance from the person of privilege and authority. This much can be said, however, accept such assistance frein them Government that there was to be and a person who occupied the that we cerainly have a real as may be forthcoming. Service. A great proportion of The same remarks apply to the

humblest ranks in society. There fghter in Beckett, and should be Those interested should com- A UNIONIST SUPPORT.

would be in the minds of hundreds be fortunate enough to beat municate with Mrs. Guy Vaisey, the personnel of the Royal Air

The Hon. Aubrey Herbert, reasonable and ordinary citizens, support for &

and thousands of steady-minded, Carpentier, he will not lack secretary, British-Chine Tre le Force, whether having to do with nephew of Lord Carnarvon, an idea that such a distinction American. be replaced. But with a small the Labour member.

match with the Bureau. 10. 11 and 12, Regent æroplanes or with airships, could was the first speaker after had been made between Sir E.

House, Regent-street, London, nucleus of highly expert and as searching an

He made Carson and the mob orator, or

W.1. This is a practical step technical officers and other ranks; Sir Edward Carson as Mr. Clydes made improper speeches. this is not the case. Yet in the himself, marred only by a little

attack the trade unionist leader who the amateurs and professionals lesson to Governments.

The important match between forward and may prove an object- turmoil of demobilisation some of irrelevancy. But, as a censure pro-where it was, based on rather went the latter gained a big The matter could not rest conclusion, though as far as it was not brought to a "definite

JAPANESE ACTIVITIES IN the most valuable elements in this nounced by one Unionist member nice legal points, and he appealed advantage. The amateurs made the course of a letter from Peking,

THE FAR EAST. personnel have been allowed to on another, it was remarkable.

Mr. Moore-Bennett, writes in get out of the Service, and entirely dragging law and order to its moral authority of Parliament ture, whilst the professionals

He charged Sir Edward with thing to try to bring back the for? wickets in their second ven- Manchester Guardian-

to the Government to do some 141 in their first innings and 100 under date May 24, to the In this great question it is the country back into the vortex Sir Edward Carson for the declaring the innings closed, the greatness and righteousness wreckage, and in trying to throw and to condemn the, conduct of scored 216 for 1 wicket before us who believed suficiently in necessary to look ahead, for the of war. The words he used at language he had used.

There were, and are, many of question of ehed-room for the Belfast, he said, were "easy words huge airships of the future is to slip from the lips of the man cussion at 10:30 to tell the Gov-Hampshire was also responsible nation's rulers during the past concerned. At Pulham, in Norwho has never known what the ernment that the impunity of fo

Mr. Adamson entered the dis- inrings of 120, whilst Mead of of the statements made by our Hubbs played a splendid not out of our country to think, in view folk, we have a shed capable of smells of a battlefield are like." housing the R80. That shed with His boasted loyalty was but th. had led to the imitation by ex-mainly

64 not out. The small five years regarding international its surrounding offices and ground

snch speeches as Sir E. Carson's score of the amateurs was law and righteousness, that never cost the country something like.

loyalty of a Shylock...

due to the great gain would it be possible for one $7,000,000.

tremists of others, and that bowline of Wodley who took 6 Power to treat another Japan Government in Pekin which A tribute to the memory of Mr. the Attorney-General's opinion wickets for 69 runs is the first has treated China sincs 1914, and contro's the Chinese Army is sup It is empty, and Redmond his soldier brotter and was as dangerous as the offence innings and 3 for 41 in the second se It is perfectly certain that one urges the Government to to the cause of freedom was

going to waste. To remedy this, Sir Mark Sykes for their sacrifices itself. arships will play a big part in direct the employment, and the closed by an appeal to the Mr. Bonar Law wound up the cricket of J. N. Crawford after us consider the policy only from se male to confine their efforts iz upholding Japan's por her in seeing that the the commercial future of aircraft. continued employment of labour Government to take the opport- debate in a few pithy sentences. several years

MR. BONAR LAW'S REPLY.

innings. Another feature of the avowed policy have treated her. The public have little conception in a direction that will lead to unity now presented of uniting He pointed out emphatically that Australasia. It is understoc3 that put into Pekin a number of ber

match was the return to English

Japanese are protected in the Let us put morality aside; let sterior, and that other foreigne of the comprehensive and assured profitable results, plans of our airship engineers, or

absence in its economic aspect. Japan has to the treaty ports, the certainty that can be given

and conciliating Ireland.

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the Goverment must be guided by he will soon be playing for his own paid nom 1603 all of them be king in towas as far

She has instituted a to airship navigation and regul- arity by the provision of mooring that this country is to play in the way, contributed a characteris illegality now.

Not less important is the future the corner seat below the gang action unless there was some welcome.

Lork Hugh Cecil, rising from this-that they could not take his reappearance will be very regime, all of them kemi office Lanchowfu in Kant

their legal advisers, and it was old couner, Bucay, rail, and officials with experience in the old coast as Siamin Bhen masts and the possession of fine cor duct of the serial highways of tically brilliant piece of casus. He seed with Lord Hugh mention may be made of parse. Japan has durio the past we have duration and speed capabilities. the future. We can lead the to the debate.

by threats of the Japanese Army Ast vitios, are patent in The public. - read

flamboyant world if we like, if we do not Clynes's protest

Of other important matches and by power of the Janess province of China. speeches and articles by Ministers

Accepting Mr. Cecil that a man might be morally the draw between Nous and five years maintained in London, Japan set-back or mishap recoils with by our geographical position; pointed at the same, time to the justified in not punishing the man Festures of this were the century experi-coed Gover and others, and then any little accept the part clearly offered to ster

gainst the justified in breaking the law; but Yorkshire which was slightly in Washington, Aris and leader's language, he the Government could never be favour of the latter County Cles pudicit 'depart added humiliation.

our temperament, and our history, fact that Sir Edward could not be who breaks the law.

great mes we shall become merely fourth-prosecuted for provoking someIf the Government were fire, three are innings in high: Pekin, None of this

atmosphere of rate. It is absard to judge of the thing that had not taken piece advised that Sir Edward Carson class cricket, and the remarkable Kong hysterical elation and alternating future of the airship on anywhat about inciting bouted had broken the law there are two bowling of 3 Gaan, of Notts, who direc

by P. Holmans, of Yorkshire, his and he gloom is found in the company of basis of the navigation of the air Col Will Taome across the floor. courses open to me either I should took a wilkets for 6 runs the men who make the airships, over these islands. We must You must incite tosomien ng prosecute the right hon. gentle- for the men who navigate and man look also to our dominiens across that is going to happen, insiste them. They know perfectly well the seax, to the great regions of Lord

chance, the airship's comparatively equable climatic

rs, or I should, rosig at my before another Year conditions in the colonies and in

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Unfortunately, there is a rea

danger, as a result of the blacken- ing off of industry after the war, and of the wholesale demobilisa- tion in the Royal Air Force, that the very great experience that has been built up during the war and previously may be thrown

away.

"THE BRITISH TYPE. Admittedly Great Britain ha achieved no great success in airship construction particular ly in the big rigid division prior "to the outbreak of war. But since that date no expense has been spared. The great calamity found us with a powerful nucleus in the splendidly equipped and organized airship works of Messrs Vickers, at Barrow. From that

ding effort can be traced. Barrow to this day is the only British rigid airship original de- "sign centre. From it, during the war, assistance was given to various other constructors called upon by the Government to build airships.

nucleus a great and ever-expan-

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