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SEA-POWER IN THE PACIFIC.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3. 1921.

'MR. ASQUITH,

FOUR YEARS FOR FARROW.

"Prison Life has Awful

Presidential Address To The A Study of U.S.-Japan

Eighty Club. Relations.

Mr. Asquith delivered his Terrors for Me.” There have been two schools of presidential address at a meeting!

After a trial lasting 19 days thinkers on the origins and out of the Eighty Club, held in Lon- the Farrow's Bank ease ended at breaks of wars. Some persons, offton last month.

the Old Bailey with a vordiat Heaid that in the autumn of against each prisoner, and the the Bernhardi school, have held [that wars were biological neces./1918 the country had been told following sentences were passed: sities arising from the primitice that the Coalition, which, it was Thomas Farrow, 58, founder the and chairman, four years" penal instincts and antagonistic im-Generally accepted,

instrument for the pulses of mankind, and could no necessary

servitude. more be averted than could the victorious prosecution of the war, disasters caused br the was of imperative necessity if we director, four years' penal servi explosion of Krakatoa or the were to deal effectually with the tude.

Was

Wiliam Walter Crotob, 46,

mercy.

earthquake that almost destroy-problems of reconstruction. The Frederick Duncan Tabrum ed Messina. Others, pondering party spiric must be in abeyance, Hark 44, auditor, 1 months

the heaven-sent co-imprisonment more deeply, have seen that, while after all, wars result from the bination of the best "brains The jury were absent for an

and the warmest conscious actions of met--nien

bearts hour and 20 minutes considering And he who, for the honour of their (laughter)

might their verdict. They found Far- loosest tongues, to row and Crotch guilty of publish kind, may be credited with not add the having perceived the full can be found among aur statesing fraudulent statements regard- sequences of their acts. Who men. added by aspecially imported ing the bank, and Hart with aid- that could have foreseen the array of experts and supermen. ing and abetting since 1918. Hart harrors that followed August, and by the andinching support was strongly recommended to 1914, would not have shrunk from of the House of Commone, would setting the match to that sadlay firm and deep the foundations

JUDGE AND JURY THANKED. train of upheaval and calamity? of a new and better world.

The electors gave a blank with emotion, Farrow made a In a voice frequently broken It may yet be a useful task of the historian to reseal the respective cheque," continued Mr. Asquith, long speech from the dock. He influences, in provoking wars, of

a book of thanked the judge for his imparti- thinking discontentedly about blank cheques, to the Coalition,ality, and also his counsel, "whose national ambitions and rivalries, drawing upon the confidence with me to my dying day." He who went merrily to work words." he said, "will remain of talking about them with aag which they had so amply recair also paid a tribute to the jury, [incitements in the market-place

and the public Press, and fasily ad. The cheques were filled in which had listened with great of making calculated preparations in the roundest numbers, and attention to all that had been said for attaining the objects of war. whole sheaves of them are now in his favour. Proceeding he if war should come. Why now coming in for presentation and said are the United States and Japan payment. And the country is

But I do deeply regret the organising vast forces for destruc- beginning to realise that rarely verdict. I never thought I should if ever, in its history, has it been live to see the day when I should tion, and glowering at on: another across the wide-spaces so bear the verge of national be declared a criminal. I have,of of the Pacific?

insolvency.

Mr. H. C. Bywater invites Us, in his work. Sea-Power in the Pacific: & Study of the Americap Japanese problem," to study this problem. Apparently there are the two countries disciples both of the calculating schools of

WAT.

one

what is worse.

RELIEF FROM WAR SHACKLES,

course, deplored the result to those "What was the paramount duty through the sudden stoppage of unfortunate depositors, who. for far-seeing statesmanship when the bank lost their money, but the hostilities were over? It was, in loss of my life's work is to me my judgment. to secure at the hell indeed. earliest possible moment the

emancipation of our industry in FARROW'S LOST HOME. all its departments from the war

"I did hope I could build up an shackles, and, in view of the fact institution to which my children Mr. Bywater takes no side in this that we were faced with a debt could one day point with pride issue, and does not incite angoneten times, and more than ten and say my father bulit it. I have to break the peace. He merely times, what it was, the scrupulons lost my home. I had to sell up! | sets the pieces for the game and and even the ruthless curtailment everything to conduct my case. indicates possible moves, concert-of every form of national ex-task of running this bank s "I do assure you I found the ing which everyone may judge for himself.

penditure. He says that when the

"What actually happened? colossal one, the responsibility of United States fleet-in reality Embargoes, some of them since handling four millions of the

of its squadrons-passed declared by the courts of law toed too great a burden.

people's money sometimes seem- way to its ner base in San Fran-he illegal, were kept in existence,

"I made the bank my fosocís) cisco Bay a new chapter in the which artificially narrowed our child, and you can understand history of Sea Power was opened. interchange of commodities, and have come over me here when I market, preventing the influx and the extraordinary feelings that The remark is not original, but which helped to sustain an un-fourd that child being discredited is probably true. In this book is

natural level of prices. amingsed an abundance of facts

"In the case of the real koy innocent and I say it with all and denounced, and I, being concerning the forces apparently

dustries-no: those that opposed, illustrated by the juds scheduled coal, railways, agri-al. I had no ides there would be sincerity-deemed to be a crimin- ments of many competent persons. Nothing has been spared to do culture. is it possible to conceive found 12 of my fellow-country- justice to the subject.

through the Panama Canal on its

An introduction clears the

|

a more bewildering series of futile and short-sighted acts of states-

| men who would unanimously say

Farrow is a criminal.

ground, and then Mr. Bywar man-hip, whether in the abandon- "Thank God I have six children plunges into a careful and gener-control? The haphazard fashion, of their father, and who, although ment or maintenance of State who still believe in the bonour ally exhaustive account of the United States Navy, its admins with kind of guiding of govern-I am going down, will bravely hold tration, material, and personneling principles, in which one after

In so far as the author reaches another of these problems bas P their father's name with pride onward to the furthest recorded teen handled, has been one of these to an unbelieving world.......... "I had faith in the assets of point of time, he runs the risk-most potent and most disastrous this bank. If circumstances had would have nay, ineurs the certainty-of be./factors in the creation of the permitted me I coming speedily out of date. In ampled embarrassments which devoted my life to seeing that his introductory pages he de/confront us throughout the whole everyb dy was paid to the last

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scribes a transitory organisation of the British Atlantic Fleet which has since been modified Japanese officers and men, but The idea of prison life bad and he says naval develop denies them any superlative exawful terrors for him, and be Gallant and self- was so constituted that it was YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.ments in Korope have, to all i3-cellenco.

standstill, sacrificing as they are, he bide us overwhelming. whereas the intention is to add not to attach too much importance "I ask you," he said." to enable JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the capital ships to the British Fleet to the prevalence of the Bushido me to get back from prison as not digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during a powerful as, or more powerful spirit in the Japanese Navy. quickly as possible, so that I can Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods than. ang he describes. His Having described the arma bold up my head once more. I of Infants and Dyspeptics: (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID account of the present situation meats on both sides, the author have never robbed a man in my INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes,of the American Fieet is excellent, next very capably explains the life. All this has been brought Bugs. Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and (4) though it is surprising that one strategic features of the Pacific. about by bad management and JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA who is an meticulously careful in Evidently the Americans gave want of foresight, but not through regard to the details of ships and hostages to Fortune when they any culpable error or crime an methods of training men should annexed the Philippines, and the my part." make no mention of the Japanese, if so minded, might, na

Crotch also addressed the judge frequent conferences of the many Americans believe, seize and said he never intended to Navy Department Council, which them when they like. Certainly inflict any injury on the public. Mr. Daniels and his nac- their selected momeat" would The judge in his summing up,| ressor in the Secretaryship. Mr. [not be when the Arcerican Fleet which lasted four and a half hours, Denby, consider a most importan: was in the Western Pacific, but remarked that the defendants eug in the administrative probably when most of it was in were, before the charges were It may be questioned the Atlantic. Such a coup would brought against them, roen of whether Mr. Bywater is correct andoubtedly place the United irreproachable character. in saying that, too for ton, United States in a most difficult position. States ships are built more Whether the Japanese cheaply than the British, there dreamed of making Hawaii part being peculiarity in the of the Japanese Empire,

B American system of accounting | Mr. Bywater suggests, 19 which separates the cost of the questionable, but the Ameri- bull and machinery from that offcans are now firmly estab-

HYMNS OF HATE? the gons cad armour, testing lished there, and are making the "She says things that are not thereby to confuse the estimate. place very formidable. They look nice and sings them, too, said

control all The author anticipates the future westward to Guam, which is a landlady, complaining of a sab

demonstra- where he says the Navy Depart-partially fortified, and to Yap. tenant at Clerkenwell County

tions and opposition of the Kiria menit already manufactures most A chain of fortified posts stretch-Court. of its guns.

ed across an ocean is valueless

associations of students, and sub- One of the most interesting without floating forces, bat, f

It is learned from well-inform.sequently a telegram was sent to The Chapei Street Union, the parts of the book is the descrip- Guam were really made im-Haining Road Street Union, and cd Chinese circles at Mukden the Peking Government, declaring tion of the Japanese Navy, more pregnable and, what is equally the "Chinese National Products that a conference was held there the necessity for the immediate especially of its administration important, self-supporting, and Lecture Society," have just issa- last month under the presidency construction of the railway and and personnel. These facts are were the base of great Botillas of ed a declaration of war upon of General Chang Teo-lin, at that the authorities of the Man- new to most readers, and are very destroyers, submarines and flying hungry spirits." At a meeting which many high officials were charian provinces will see that instructive. It appears that the craft, the presumed purposes of the other day, some 20 represent present, with regard to the loan the loan shall not be used for. administration embodies features Japan against the Philippines atives of these societies decided agreement of the Kirin-Huining political purposes. of the British; American, and might be arrested or neutralised. to start a campaign against cere- Railway,

It is further learned, that the. German systems. A point of Can this be the reason for the monies for the "feeding of hungry. The conference, after disous Manchurian provinces have given importance that clearly emerges building of the immense American spirits, which takes place annual-sion, unanimously agreed on the up all hope of concluding the lan is that the duties of plancing and flotillas? These and other points 1 in the seventh moon. Circulars argent necessity of constructing with Japan independently, bat of operations are rigidly separated are elucidated by Mr. Bywater, are to be issued urging people to the railway and decided to take base adopted the formality that from the business of supply. Mr. who quotes many opinions of abandon the practice and devote action towards speeding up the the conclusion of the loan should Bywater is full of admiration for authorities, and his charts are the expenditure to more useful construction. The conference be made by the Peking Guvern- the qualities. and training of valuable.

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