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Chester---An Old Walled English City..

⚫tors found a Roman safety pin races which have been run around with the point still sharp and tho this field every year since 1540. In spring still working remarked the interludes, shee graze on tho one of the canonn of Chester thick award-so there is always a Cathedral to the Americans with mass meeting of some kind there! whom he was chatting.

luxuries. The general idea scom- ed to be that the ought, normally, to be just a jump DOM HAVE CARRIED THE BURDEN OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KING.

or two ahead of poverty. Hap- HEAVY CHAINS SO LONG, THAT pily, the people-have-in-the past THEY HAVE BECOME USED-TO THEM, decade been weaned away from THE CHAINS ARE PART OF THEIR AND ALMOST BEEM TO THINK THAT

that belief. The country at largo|| NATURAL LIMȚE WE ARE PAYING | TUST yesterday seme excuva- for exhibitions and for the horse has accepted the notion that pros. NOW, THIS VERY YEAR, TAXES

AMOUNTING TO perity is not worth having unless

Bright. It means health and a reasonable degree of prosperity for the work-: We are informed by the postal au

thorities that all mails intended for er. There has, in other words.

dispatch by the s.s. Pres. Cleveland been a brondening of popular con- Losiny will be forwarded by the a.s. ception of the working man'sTatsuta Maru to-morrow. rights. Hence the fairly wide prend reaction against wage cute. What is true of the United States is also largely true standard Britain, where the

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A safety pin which was new 1800 years ago is news-to-dny.

"And I have some other news for Admitting a charge of breach of you," the canon promised a little the Banishment Ordinance, a Chinese fater. "But wait! I won't tell you who was deported for ten years in

Amid many old datelesa customs, the earliest recorded date in Chea- ter's history is 47 A. D., the stablishment of Roman military came from the Latin word for for- base. In fact, the name Cheater

tification. "Enstra." This garrison

190 was sentenced to twelve months now. I'll take you to see it." hard labour by Mr. Hamilton at the) Very soon, therefore, his black held 500 soldiers from all parts of Kowloon Magistrney this morning, umbrella was leading the way the Roman Empire: Syria neross the cobbles of Eastgate Spain, Germany and France.

A small fire at 20, 11au Street,

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pay In Mtill markedly lower

The welding has taken place in Street into Foregate Street, Sud- Nowadays

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America. There Manila at the Church of the Atesen, donly ho whisked down Home Spaniards come in twos and threes is, of course, un important point Heacock and Company, and Miss basement below the streat..

of Mr. Samuel Schwartz, of Messrs. shadowy stone steps lending to to the hushed walls of Chester's

Cathedral. But other be kept mind-namely, Isabel B. Watson, youngest daughter

tourists The light of a candle fumbled in often come in large parties, intant of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Watson, of whether wage reduction in the iongkong and Manila.

the musty-smelling gloom. Surely on seeing as much as possible- as only or the most desirable stimu-

It would take a "nose for news" ex- quickly as possible. traordinary to find a hidden lant for drooping trade. Indeed,

But most groups, even if they Kowloon City, wus extinguished by place. But the canon was already come to hurry, remain to atroll, Any it can be argued that whilst cut-the Kowloon Brigade shortly after pointing to a corner. There the afternoon you can see thom slowing ting wages muy reduce produc-seven o'clock this morning, slight floor was scooped to a lower level, their steps in the dim aisles and discoloured lingering around the Byzantine VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED tion costs, it also inevitably re-damage being caused to the roof of disclosing

the kitchen

the outbreak masonry.

font, 1600 years old. Their faces AT OUR STUHRS ROAD GARAGE |duces purchasing power as well, pevurred among some grean.

"This old Koman crypt kas just wear a proper look of wonder when So the potentind epatomer who

been discovered and dug out. And they learn that the priceless old John flow. THE HONGKONG HOTEL cannot afford to buy things will. It is notified that practice will be here you are right on top of the font was found not long age in

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Artillery training runs on the follow-i "Well, the Romans must have being used as a horse trough, revival. There are other aspectsing datea-At Stonecutters, June 11, been cave dwellers, interrupted an of the problem. admittedly, but July and August 8; ut Pakshawnn, American who was still blinking at the bit of tile brought from this point must not be overlooked. May 19, June 18, July 8, July 16 and the gloom.

August ; nt Betchers, May 28, June One thing is certain, namely that 25, July 25 and August 20. the worker of the West, having

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THESDAY, MAY 12. 1931.

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A similar hush 'always hangs over

Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. "No, this crypt was on the level. Near by atands the altar, made of of the Roman street. But the de-woods from the Holy Land: olive Metro-Goldwyn-bris of centuries drifted and pack from the Mount of lives, cedar of had to battle hard for the rights Mayer's miracle fim of 1931, has just ed into the Roman ruins until the Lebanon and oak from Bashun. and the privilegen which he now completed Its premiere in Shanghai, streets have been raised several You are now standing in a enjoys, will not readily consent to breaking all record for Chinn, The room which was an outpost of the later, upon reaching the small mis

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However, only a few minutes a lowering of his standard of life, previous record was established by Roman Empire!”

sion chapel, a visitor's vision veera M-G-M are releasing their super-film | All Quiet on the Western Front,"

Thus the people of Chester live to familiar apots like Scaradale, N. in Hongkong through the Hongkong partly in the past. Indeed, any dayY, and Savannah, Ga. In this will Ahown boy maing to school may kick a chapel a great glube twirls under Amusements and it sultaneously in three theatres here stone and upturn a serop of old Ro- the hands of those who follow the

Queen's Star and World, This is man tile.

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ning in three Theatres at the same A rugged wall guards Chester's on the pink and green continents.

In fact, Cheater | Most visitors, too, take time to printz will be used. The opening peaceful streets, dates will be May 28th or May 30th with its dim: dreamy houses #search out the tiny carved

quiet, squares is walled just as turking high on the shadowy wall was when the Romans qunked at of the nave. When the Cathedral the menace of the Ordovices in was an abbey, the monks carved Wales. I remains the best-pre-him there: to frighten away the served example of an old walled devil who, they said, used to glower Jeity in England.

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After walking two miles atop the g the evening prayer. wall, the visitor has completed a But more robust reminders circuit of the old settlement. To- abbey days than that linger in the wors bristle at. intervals within Cathedral. The monks' refectory Charles's Tower received its name by an arcaded staircase leading to bowshot of cach other. King at lifta its grey stone walls, slit Jon. Sept. 24, 1645, when Charles the pulpit, lofty as a bird's nest.

took refuge there to watch a battle

Although the beginning of the between his followers and the Par- liamentarians. Now the Tower Cathedral is lost in antiquity, it has holds a small neglected museum in existed for more than 1000 years Its top and, at Ifs feol, a cluttered as Roman church, Saxon church,

since 1541 past-card shop. Farther along is abbey and finally the Water Tower which has been Cathedral of the diocese of Chester. battered by many steges,

The timelessness of the Cathedral

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as the

Curfew in Chester leaves tho streets still and almost deserted. An alluring time it is to walk among the ancient houses which hold so many of Chester's' secrets. At nine the late summer twilight has thickened the shadows in the eaves of the old half-timbered houses. But the curious panelled carvings keep their outlines, and the mullioned windows bold the last chips of sunset.

„Choir of the Russian Church

TU.C. Exret Themselves, of the Metropolitan of Paris,

The Royal Commission on Un- ---Praise the Name of the Lord (Ivanoff) ... Chuis of the

Russion Church of the Metropolitan, of Paris, Įdustrial depression is to be overfor the purpose of investigating

employment Insurance, establislied,

Con The British Economic Mis-the abuses of the system and to C-2099—Rolling In Foaming Billows ("Creation"--Undyn}

Peter Dowunu,sion which recently visited the advise the Government (211 thu

Far East has stressed the point steps to be taken for restoring it Through the Darkness ("Stabat Mater”—Rossiní)

Peter Dawson. that the price factor is by far the to an actuarial basis, if possible. heaviest handicap with which Erimay well be forgiven expressions (-2104-Barry Lauder-Voend Gems (1st Record)" .....

er astonishment at the proposals. Scottish Male Voire Singers,tish products have to petfend in

of the Trade Union leaders. Soon The Orient. It goes on to state after the Commission was set up. Harry Lauder-Vocul Gems" (2nd Record)

that sacrifices will be required the General Council of the T.U.C. from all classes of the community annoured they had at Home if lost ground is to be ready for submission which was freeaptured and the present mar-rapable of solving the problem..

held. When we are tointimating ni the same time that however, that in the wooden and

it might prove rather revolution- ary. Interest was arousel. The worsted industry Yorkshire wages impression left that

WHA

the

is not merely a whisper from the and costs per unit of production Unions had faced the problems)

The wall-top walk among the past. It is a voice which grows ireetops discloses a panorama three times

of more vigorous with the passing pre- those of squarely, had done some unific

Chester: its jumble of zigzag sent. For instance, only a fow Japan, we can appreciate the difll- | thinking and were prepared to

eaves, the #ashing crescent of the months ago, an old Norman porch culties of the situation.

Dee The recommend sacrifices with the

River, the cliffs of tho was suddenly discovered within the Cathedral, the dour old castle of walls of the vestry. It wns ex. whole question of wage and living object of reducing the burden on

Saxon days. At the northwest cavated-and, as its faded frescOER standards as between the West the exchequer, Now the ent is nothing. Ifad they set

them-corner of the wall, a glance takes dawned, it was identified out to embarrass and the East is raised in un acute of the bag. The T.U.C. have selves

Mr. in the green distances of Wales. A oldest portion of the existing build.. nothing better to alfer than Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Snowden few steps farther on, the wall over-ing, dating back to 1960. It had form. Indeed, the issue becomes particularly crude expression of and the Labour Cabinet generally, hangs is great green saucer--the been lost for 300 years! one of whether competition is aSocialism in our Time."

The no better method could have been meadow which is the meeting place Jall possible with underpaid Orien-only satisfactory feature of

of Chester. There the townspeople the chosen.

gather for pageants, for athletics, tal labour.

ropols is their clarity. No Not in regard to the Eastern possible room is left for doubt as markets in particular, but with to principles of the "remedy" which the T.U.C. would apply. the general rade depression exer- cising a dominating influence, we Unemployinent Insurance system Any slight resemblance which the observe that threats of wage re-might still bear to insurance would thetion continue to darken the in-disappear. It would become dustrial sky in the United States. "dole" la every sense of the word. On the one hand, Labour leaders No contributions from employers and polticians are insisting that for employed would be asked or the present scales must be main-expected in a regular way.

levy an incomes-as if they hadh [tained: on the other. steadily

not already a heavy enough harden growing rumours are heard that to hear-would provide the neces reductions are about to he made sary fands, out of which still in certain key industries. Occu- larger payments would be made to sinnally, a banker will hazard the the jobless Mr. Hayday, M.P view that no industrial recovery who presented the TU.C. pros is possible until Labour

Kramme was 'aof perturbed by the agreed to heavy wage cuts. Pre-incomes by deserting their jobs

thought of men receiving, targler) eisely what will happen depends than remaining in employment. largely on the duration of the de-He merely deplored the fact that pression. If genuine business re-workers ware not getting higher covery is deferred many months wages for their labour.' That the longer, it is all too probable that cost to the Exechuquer would be euta will be made.

On the other over £100,000,000 per annum, lund, if recovery

Instead of about £50,000,000 under should soon

the present unantisfactory system, come, less and less-will be heard he declined to believe, though he of talk along these lines. It is admitted (remarkably enough) interesting to note the contrast in that such a sum would be imprac- America's attitude to wage reduc-ticable. We can very well leave it tions to-day and its attitude in fat that. If the T.U.C. cannot pay the post-war alump. In the de-the slightest regard to the ordin pression of 1919-20, business and arylowa of economics, their General Counell would do, the political tenders, were almost un Labour Government

better animous in demanding that In-aorvice by sitting still and saying bour should be "deflated." It was

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As dusk deepens, the streets look Juven more like a seme in the Middle |Ages--with_old dim-lit inns Jean-

ing over the road. Second-story.... covered aldowalks overhang the four main streets. These Rows, 48 they are called, exist nowhere but

Chester, Pasansownys have been scooped through the second- story front rooms of a long row of buildings-making a wide pro- menade above the street level. Day- time crowds do most of their shop- ping in the little shops tucked along thia aerial walk.

Though the Rows may have originaled in Roman times as places of defence during Welsh ralds, they were used for peaceful purposes in the Middle Ages. Then the trade guilds gathered in the little upstairs shops. frontmongers' Row, Fish- mongers' Row, Shoemakers' Row, Bukester Row-they were called in those days.

Chester's present-day business cannot be held within the Rows of even within the walls, Factories, sproad in the outlying hills, maks anchor, bricks, palata, elèctricni- equipment. The Doo River fonts the products out to men, following the same route of Chester's earliest trade. For the Domesday Book In

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