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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1924.

MANDATES SYSTEM, whatever might be the ultimate

Inte of Mesopotamin, the mandate. for it would never materializo in its present form, Palestine, how- HONGKONG EX-GOVERNOR'S PAPER,ver, presented the best illustra lon we had of what could be nc- Sir Frederick Lugard, former complished under the mandatory In respect of order, Governor-General of Nigeria, and "ystem. British member of the Permanent Justice, sound administration, and material prosperity, Palestino had Mandates Commission of the made. progress in the last six years League of Nations, read a paper which would have been imponsible before the Dominions and Colonies

without disinterested external aid. Section of the Royal Society of

Owing to the peculiar history of Arts on "The Mandato System and the country and to the fact that it'

Lord the British Mandatea."

was sacred soil for three grent Milner presided.

rellglous communities, it was a country to which the principle of trusteeship was specially appro- priate. Palestine, he thought, could never be the property of any single nation.

Sir Frederick Lagard explained how the mandatory system come to be applied to the former German colonies and to such countries 9 Iraq and Palestine and said that the League of Nations afforded such a supervisory body as was needed. By insistence on being consulted as to the terms of the mandate, he thought that the United States inferentially shared responsiblilty for the mandates, and it was to be hoped that before long she would be represented on the Mandato Commission, where her co-operation would be of the greatest value.

Sir Horaco Byatt and Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore nlao apoke.

The company present included the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mme. Anna Wicksell, Sir Valentine Chiról, and Sir R. Ho Tung.

TAIL LIKE GLOVED HAND.

A Fish New To Science,

It was no small achievement in the circumstances that the signn- tories hound themselves to the general principle of trusteeship:

A fish which a British Musonm There were, however, derelictions from the conditions, laid down by expert reports is unlike anything Article 22, in 'relation to the selec-in the National Collection and le tion of Mandatories, and in the apparently now to science, was recently caught by the Hull the Interpretation

put upon

trawlor St. Hubert, fishing off French Mandates in West Africa

Iceland. in relation to the recruiting of troops in Mandated territory in case of a general war-an inter- pretation which preclupled the pos sibility of neutralizing these ter- ritories in time of war.

Similar specimens, it is stated, are found among fossils in the pider rocks of Britain.

Mr. T. Shoppard, ourator of the Hull Fisherion Museum, describes it as being about a yard in length, with flesh of a very soft and flabby nature: The head is none. what after the type of halibut, The United States hnd luken ex-but the entire surface is covered ception to the limitation of the with very sharp and hard conical white- elge of equni contmerclu: oppor-pnes resembling pure tunity to the Central African man ivory. The skin itself is coal dates. Whether the Mandatory black, like polished blackload,

The tail resembles a gloved should purchase all materials for publie works and other supplies hand with oight fingers, between in the cheapest market. nd not each of which is a thin web to In tho necessarily in its own, and whe-assist in swimming. ther loans for the development, of centre of the back is a long fish-. the territory should be open to fu-ing-rod liko structure, apparently

were used to attract the fish's prey. ternational subscription; points which had so far not pre- sented themselves for discussion. In his opinion, it would have been wise, whether Germany joined the League or not, to throw open the door to German commercial enz terprise In her former colonies. To deny access to direct sources of supply of tropical raw materials and markets, vitally necessary to' au industrial nations of 60,000,000 souls, must necessarily engender bitterness and resentment, and add to the inceritros. for a new War. The mandate-system-stood as an international acknowledg ment that civilization must be made to mean something higher than the aims and methods of the development syndicate, or the as- Biduous cultivation of new wanta to afford markets for commerce,

Lord Milner's Speech.

Lord Milner said he had always found difficulty in listening with patience to criticisms about the buri don of our Colonial possessions. Liberal treatment of dependent territorless invariably led In the long run to the development of the resources of the Colonies, and directly or indirectly brought 'n considerable acquisition of wealth lf, the manda- 199 ta. this country.

"RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE”

IN THIS PICTURE YOU SEE HOUT GIBSON IN THE TYPE OF ROLE THAT HAS MADE HIS NAME FAMOUS-A LOVE-SICK COWPUNCHER WHO LOVES THE PLAINS AND FEARS NO MAN. YOU'LL SEE CALIFORNIA IN THE EARLY GOLD RUSH DAYS WITH ITS ROARING CROWD, SOME SEEKING FORTUNE FROM THE GROUND AND OTHERS TAKING IT WHERE THEY COULD FIND IT.. PICTURESQUE & COLORFUL!

WORLD

NOW IN A TEMPLE.

CHINESE PRIEST 【CHARGED.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Singapore, July 4,

A Chinesa priest named Sin Shin-tak is obürged la Malacca with a grave assault on a Chinese woman in a temple at Briobang,

THEATRE

tory system was called Into, cxis- tence mainly as a way out of a di- lemma, It was also partly the out rome of the idealistic spirit in which immediately after the war A great many people approached The problem of world resettlernent. It had to be admitted, however, that in the long protracted nego- tiations which resulted in the mandates, the idealistic spirit was often submerged by a return to old rivalries and ambitions.

If first hopes had been fulfilled and the mandates could have been brought into force with reasonable promptitude. auch disasters ns befel the Christian populations of Amèrica and other provinces of Túrkey would have been avoided. More than that, the mandatory Required a system might have

THE WORLD FLIGHTS, Prestige which would have enabl

ed it to be gradually extended to other parts of the world in which it seemed that populations

Allahabad, July 4.-The Ameri- were incapable without external ean work fors have arrived at help of evolving any decent form Fatu had willed Multan.-Renter,

of government. it. otherwise.* Nevertheless, the system, in spite of curtallment and a more or less multilated form, re- Imained an important factor in the

STOWAWAY'S EXCUSE.

A coloured stowaway found in International situation, and it was

Three women went to the temple this West African liner Zaria gwell, therefore, that they should to pray and one made a romark to plained his prosence by saying take counsel as to the beat un which the nooused took exception.. that he was anxious to see the that could be made of it.

is alleged that the assault then British Empira oxbibition, in with regard to Mesopotamis, he took place The hearing was adspite of the fact that he was did not know where we were, and

penniless.

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