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GENERAL NEWS.

BAND OF THE WELSH GUARDS, An Army Order provides for the issue of an annual band allowance of £30 to the Regiment of Welsh Guards.

110 HOURS AT PIANO.

Mr. Albert Kemp complated 110 hours' continuous playing of the piano at a Croydon picture recently. The previous record of 105 hours was held by a New Zealander.

SIX-HOUR DAY REJECTED.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1920.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

CHINA'S RAILWAYS.

New York, Oct. 13, The Ant business meeting of the Chinese Consortium Conference was held in the Chamber of Commerce. Th the course of the speeches It was declared that no spechic loan to China bad yet bean considered, bat a far-reaching programme to enable China to "get on her feet" was being drawn up in outline.

Sir Charles Addis announced that the Consortium hoped soon to! complete a few railway lines and later to provide for the extension af transportation facilities in China.

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New York, Oct. 14. Speaking at the first business meeting of the bankers international representatives attending the Chinese Consortium Conference, Mr. The result of the Welsh tinplate Lamont, the well-known banker, said some Americans favoured the millaeo's ballot on the question League of Nations and some a League, There was a vast difference of the eight-hour shifts with help.etween deinite and indefinite articles. He assured their friends in

sis-hour shifts has been

or

declared. the young being: For England, France and Japan that America was strung for the aims eight-hour shifts with halp, 2,000, of peace and desired to enter some Association to support her gallant

Allies in the prevention of future catastrophes.

for six-hour shifts, 1925.

GREAT WHEEL TO BE DEMOLISHED,

The French papers stats that the Great Wheel near the Eiffel Tower is to be demolished. The material thus recovered will be ased for reconstruction purposes in the devastated regions.

PREMIER'S REPLY TO MAYOR

OF NEW YORK.

Mr. Lloyd George, replying to the letter of Mr. Hylan, Mayor of New York, appealing for the release of the Lord Mayor of Cork, states politely but firmly that he cannot interfere with the' course of justice or law,

UNSETTLED CHINA.

London, Oct. 16,

In an interview with the "Daily Telegraph," Baron Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador to Britain, professed grave disquietude about the present internal condition of China, where the national split. impotence of the Central Government and growth of an unhealthy militarist party offered a dangerous held for subversive propaganda, of which the Balsheviks were taking the fullest advantage. Russian money was being lavishly spent in various parts of China, especially Manchuris, and the propagandists and their converts were almost. exclusively foreigners.

AMERICANS IN HAYTI.

Washington. Oct. H.

FAMOUS ISLANDS TO BE SOLD. In the Shetlands this autumn the East and West Burza Islands, į General Barnett, ex-Commandact of the United States Marine together 3,300 acres, with the Corps, reports that approximately 3,250 armed Haytian bandits were rained House of Houss are to be killed by the United States Marine Corps or the Hastian Gendarmerie offered for sale by auction. West during the 5 years of American occupation. The Americans lost Burra is usually identified with only thirteen killed and, bat for American intervention, thousands the Westra Burgh of Sir Walter of Haytians would have been killed by the bandits. Scott's "The Pirate."

NEW LADY J.P'S.

Of new magistrates appoint. ed for Hertfordshire, 16 are WOMEN. They include the Countess Verulam. Visconatess Hampden. the Dowager Lad, Ebury, Lady Reynolds, the Han, Dame Beran, the Hon. Mrs. Maud Glyn, Hon. Mrs. 1. A. Smi:b, and Misa Ann Page Croft. LORD INCHCAPE ON NEED OF

RETRESCUMENT.

Washington. Oct. 15,

With reference to General Barnett's report regarding Hayti, cabled on the 14th inst. Major General Lejeune, the present Com mandant of the United States Marine Corps, says tha: two privates in the Marine Corps who were courtmartialled for killing captive Hartian bandits were acquitted on the ground that they acted under the orders of Commander Lieutenant Brokaw, who was subsequently found insane and removed from the service.

THREATENED SHIPPING STRIFE ON THE ATLANTIC.

Washington, Oct. 14.

Lord Inchcape, the Chairman Admiral Benson, chairman of the Shipping Board, announces that jot the P. & D. Co., delivered a American and foreign shipping lines have agreed to redace freights remarkable indictment of the to the utmost to meet the competition of the French line which refused Government financial and to enter the conference, and for the purpose of stabilising rates. He economic policy, in the House of declared that war to the knife would result unless the French line Lords recently. His lordship joined the conference in maintaining rates on the Atlantie. exiticised in particular the 1 lefects of Gucemment control of

industry.

PARI-MUTUEL AND MORALITY.

It is reported from Tokyo that the revival of pati-mutuel facing is advocated in certain quarters as a means of benefiting horse breeding. The Department of Justice is, however, strongly opposed to such a turasure, the Minister declaring that it would be bound to have the worst effectel ¡jon public morality-

MPR MORITA. CERTIFICATED MASSEURS. PATIRTI IMATED IN TEIR OWS Bomze 1.

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KOREANS ADOFT AZEIN

PROPAGANDA.

AN OIL WAR.

Paris. Oct. 16.

"Le Temps" publishes a sensational New York cable stating that as the result of negotiations between Mr. Bedford, President of the Standard Oil Company, and the Banque de Paris et Pays Bas, a subsidiary company will be established in France under the chairman- ship of ex-Ambassador Jules Cambon. The news caused a sensation in the oil market and the Bourse, where extraordinary fluctuations occurred. Royal Dutch dropping four handred francs and Shell eight points. It is generally felt that this is the beginning of a struggle between the two most powerful oil groups in consequence of the failure of private megotiations.

turnovers.

FRENCH FINANCE.

Paris, Oct. 13.

COMMUNISM × CAPITALISM,

Berlin, Oct. 15.

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The fundamental fact about brevigraphy is that the sounds of words are represented by letters or punctuation marka It has takon M. Daval four years of bard work, during which he examined. It is atated that malcontent,

A revolution equal to the re- one by ons practically all the Koreans in Shanghai inteed to;

volution which was caused by words which compose the French employ an aeroplane for the pur-

at his to arrive the invention of shorthand by language. pose of distributing independence!

The revenue returns for September show that the tax on business Sir Isaac Pitman is being accom elaborated system-an elaoration propaganda over the Peninsula. i The machine is said to have been turnovers has not realised expectations. It was estimated the plished in France. There is now which is a simplification. In this be Frs. 700,000,000, and it is actually Fr.no doubt that "bre-igraphy." brief notation of sounds there Beside the MASSAGE HALL. imported from America through field would

ay 107 replace is no-coafasion. Korean students who are attend-290,000.000, but indirect taxation of monopolies is twelve per cent.Bile : ing an American Engineering above the estimate. The total revenue for September is Fr. stenography. will at ang rate alphabet, he has used the French 10 express accents, such as the circumfier School

| 302,000,000 below the Badget estimates but twenty-three per cent permit everybody

the acute accent, and above September last year, not reckoning the tax on business their own thoughts or to take accent.

ad forth, fall stops. comma down the speech of others with a LES MINES AGAIN WORKING.

What he has not The firs: truck loads of coal)

facility and speed which are dashes.. from the Leas mines have been

simply amazing.

used are geometric or sabalistie dispatcbed. It is boped that the

The invention of brepigraphy figures. Two or three letters, or daily output will shortly reach 30

ia France has caused much com-letter and a punctuation mark ONGKONG JAPANESE tu 40 tons. The process of gexing

motion. At the demonstrations represent a word. It will be ap the other pits ready for the ex- Uproarious scenes occurred at the Independent Socialist Congress of the system which are nopreciated, of course, that these MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

traction of coal is going on rapid Hall during an address by Zinovic, the Soviet Government's emissary taking place there are somewhat representations are not arbitrary,

that to the and

they TOBY Mr. C. SUGA

1. Mr A SUGA

The work of cementing is to the Congress, who announced that the Soviet was prepared to completed in three pits, and is negotiate with German comrades and

rememberei.. Whe was able and willing to 2. Beaconsfeld Arcade.

Dural has, indeed. about to be completed in three financially support the German proletariat. There were wild cheers opposition of the professional easily be

stenographers. This opposition isther M. (Opposite City Hall.

others.

foolish and useless. Brevigraphy presente brevigraphy in its final from the Communists, who rose and sang the "International"

Zinovie prédicted that it would require a generation to ac- what it is claimed to be and form may be open to-question- complish universal Communism, which would entail the mobilisation there now seems na dunha about The system, perhaps, will be in It is reported that the Japanese of the Asiatic nations, who must be freed from religions tradition, then it is better simply to proved. It is only necessary to 2nd German Governments have after which a boly war would be waged on capitalism.

accept it. Sooner or later the note that the system exists, and agreed in the choice of Professor

struggle will spread to England. that extraordinary results have Bollen, of Genera University, as

and 1 propose, therefore, to already bɔan show.

Doubtless, if bravigraphy is ap- Presiding Judge of the Japanese-

indieate briefly what brevigraphy is, and bat is claimed for it. It is plied to another language, a new not for me to assert that all these set of rules will have to be claims are justified, but I have elaborsted. M. Dural has worked satisfied myself that brerigraphy on the French language, and is at any rate worthy of the most somebody else will have to work

on the English language, serious attention.

Brevigraphy, declares M. Raoul It may seem at first sight the Duval, its faventor, can be learn- these rules of abbreviation ed in four hours, while stenogra-sufficiently complicated, but

GENERAL NEWS.

MILKBOT MILLION SIRE

THE JAPANESE-GERMAN

ARBITRATION COURT.

News bas just reached Noting-German Mixed Arbitration Court. ham that Mr. Samur! Knighton.fie was present at the second

a former milkboy of that city World Peace Conference which

one time he beld the post of Pre- sident of the Military Appeal | · Court.

LEAGUE OF NA IONS.

Washington, Oct. 13.

The State Department announces that it is not expected that the has become millionaire president was held some years ago at The United States will be represented at the first meeting of the Assembly of the Federated Flour Clubs of Hague as a Swiss delegate. At of the League of Nations at Geneva. America.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST IS JERUSALEM. of all kinds, especially for ship-

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MXICAN AFFAIRS.

New York, Oct. 14.

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General Felix Diaz, nephew of the late Presiden: Diaz, has been phy requires mouths. He has would appear that in reality they deported to Havana.

BOMBAY STRIKE.

HOW "BIG BERTHA "YAS

British School of A description has been publish- Archæology in Jerusalem, sed of a device belped to save preparing to excavate the famous Paris from the bombardment of Crusader city of Ascalon. He is the huge German

gon, "Big hopeful of early and momentous Bertha," which was firing at a resulta.

distance of 300 kilometres.

Bombay, Oct. 13. GEORGE ELIOT'S NIECE. But through the genius of a

The strikes continue but give little inconvenience. The death has occurred at scientist the

exact spot was hands are delivering telegrams and gradually relieving the Boy Scouts Torquay of Mrs. Edish, Grifiths, found where this bavoo working who have hitherto worked uninterruptedly since the beginning of the Į stenography is written with (graphers. On one occasion. Her a biece of George Bijot. She zon had been placed, and the strike. was the widow of the Her.bermbardment was checked. The

Will Gifts, formerly Vidar French Government has now

of St. Nicholas, Birmingham, and granted the sum of 10,000 f, to was seventy-six years of age. promote the farther work of this Her father wan Isaac Evans, of remarkable scientist, Abbe Rous- Nuneaton, the original of Tom selot, priest and Professor of Tulliver.

Physics in the College de France.

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DEATH OF MRS. OGDEN MILLS.

London, Oct. 15,

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several demonstrations are simple. The speed with given which certainly seem to prove which they can be learned is the that his system, let it be clearly most surprising thing about stated-is not a mere modification brevigraphy. M. Duval has pro or an improvement of existing doced pupils who, after two hours, bave assimilated all his systems of shorthand-writing.

The essential differens be-system, and have been able to tween the two methods is that hold their own with steno Special signs, while brevigraphy took a number of persons at employs the fetters of the alphabet (hapirazard. They were completely, and the conventional punctuation [ignorant of brevigraphy, AUG mata. Now these fetters and a few hours training he showed signs are knows to all the world, that they could take down from and it follows that the work of a dictation isolated words at

The death has occurred in Faris of Mrs. Ogden Mills, wife of brevigrapher can be read by, all speed of sixty to eighty WordS American financier.

the world.

minute.