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Government

The Irish Sweep is Drawn To-day. Here a Dublin Reporter, who lives in Hopes Him- self, Tells of the

People I Would Like To Win The Sweep

BIG Irish daily paper keeps me as a reporter. As such I suffer the indignities, enjoy the privileges and thrill to the excitements that only newspapermen know. As such I am ordered, soollily enough sometimes, and excitedly enough at other ilmes, to go-out-and-get-it for the soulless machines that roll up from the press room when subs have finished drawing blue penelis through and my copy and when I am staggering home wondering if some careless waywardness of my story will meet with a rap from the Editor-in-Chief when the next day brings its newness and the usual morning reckoning up.

a reporter I am human. Five years of AS

dragging the sordidness and the alleged thrills out of life have made me human like the old men that have seen everything and can still get a kick out of a "scoop."

And as for this Sweep business, well, it's just another assignment as far as we are concerned, Not that we haven't reasoned out that the Sweep is a fine thing, mind you. Why, when we see the hospitals go up in our own city and know that in there mothers will bear their little kids, treated to all the best that science can give them, well, friend, we idinu of thank the world for its willingness to take chance on the Irish Sweepstake..

And even the old sheet looks human after all and the great machines are almost rhyming out a paran of halleluials sometimes when we publish the fact that there's going to be more of the world's wealth spent on heuling down-and-outs in this wee land of outs, even if the other columns are recking with the scent of munitions.

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ND when I see that the Sweep money is doing so much good I get to thinking sometimes that the money thul doesn't exactly go to the hospitals, but to the people who are lucky out of a great- hearted bunch of tielret-holders, should if things were right, do some good too.

And I'm not telling you off, you winners, but just hoping....

THERE are some people, for instance, in my roving life that I would rather win than millionaires, magnates, mere mugs, or even me.

KEY TO PEACE IN PALESTINE

Recently the decided to send an additional six full battalions of British troops to Palestine for per- manent duty there. This means that the battalions will serve for as long as there is unrest in the territories for which Great Britain is responsible; or per- haps as long as there is trouble across their frontiers, which may well be for ever. For the Arab is a man with long memory and fighting and raid- ing are in, his blood. The six new battalions will reinforce the troops already

in stationed Palestine, and they are amany numerous and costly enough force to make the people who pay the taxes wonder what lies behind all this unrest.

It is a long story and only the essentials can be touched upon. It goes back centuries before the time of the Balfour Declara-

to think about her

THE

HE flag, symbol of a nation's honour, has been prominent in

By

They are the brave, pathelle down-and-outs that can still give a friendly hand and a friendly smile when things are dead black, and can even fromo the words "good luck them" for those who walk off with a cool. £30,000 prize.

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YES, certainly I have some of them in mind.

inst year

'Once I was on an evletion story I was at an inquest at the morgue and a woman said that a man had been in Flanders through the Great Tragedy and hadn't got much to do since. then.

his body had been picked out of a not so long ago a great lad who had canal been on a paper here but just couldn't make the headway the Chief wanted, went out to India. There wasn't the same clear blue in his eyes when he came back last month. "Sand in the lungs" the doctors culled it out there. They put him in a sanatorium. I have heard of too many to die with the wasting flame they call consumption.

HERE are the people ond

you

I know of only too well. The girl with the shabby overcoat of three years back, tromping to the employment exchange and asking the same tired question day after day. You can even now conjure up the gatna stille of her as she calls to yet another establish- ment inter in the day with a poor little parcel all wrapped up and the man inside the door of the shop below the three brass balls says-"Nine-pence, take it or leave it," and the girl of the shabby coat and the tired eyes alghs settly and takes it.

JUST one out of the millions. How many more Kids out of the slums could you not tell of.

of the cities. Strong men whose hands are idle and whose hearts are breaking Mothers who ache to be able to cook them a decent meat, but who welcome them home for all that.

Girls and men in the bread-lines of the world. As a great Irish described them-"the poor

dumb suffering people.""

The Hospitals Trust of the Irish Sweepstakes are doing their part, readers of this paper, wherever you are. When you get that prize, that I hope will come to you in the next draw, there's a dumb sap of a reporter telling you to have your pleasure, but to remember always the down-and-outs of the world.

FLAG

of the "incidents" PatrickMonkhouse which punctuate the Chin- ese War.

flaming head-lines.

prefer to liquidate such

in-

more about it than the marine who has blown his nose with it for the last six months?"

By a lucky chance a boat suc- coeded in fishing up the missing target with a grapnel; and the French were at last convinced

mained unsullied,

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THE "VERY IDEA".

SPRING HAS KELLY IN IT'S GRIP

By Eddio Kelly, Convalescent

7Ehave decided to tra-

W

vel when we win the £30,000 Irish Sweep to- night.

Travelling is in our blood, in fact.

Having decided this, we are now somewhat per plexed.

Shall we go to Waiki- ki? Haiti? The South of France?

We rather fancy the Italian Riviera. A good holiday can be had in Athabasca.. We

are not sure whether Atha- basca is a place or a medicine, but we have heard good re- ports about it,

Athabasca, it seems, is a place where one can tle on one's back and lazily watch the clouds float by.

That's where we want to be. Way back in Athabasca.

in Lying beneath the moon some secluded spot-just dream- ing. We would be Signor Ed- wardino Kellarino, jdly strum- ming our gultar, with wild, red roses entwined in our hair. With long, sensitive flager we would languidly reach out and pluck # guava or perhaps lave ourself in some peaceful pool.

Not for us the deck chairs and boat decks. Give us the wide, wide open spaces. We want to smell the gorse and heather.

Cover us up with flame of the forest. Let us dwell in the scent of the thing-we could never think of the name of the stuff-- laburnum.

inight Or it

be It geranium. Anyway, doesn't matter.

Life is so full of sadness and sorrows let us not think of the

morrow, (Fortry),

That's

how we feel-soulful. Sometimes, when we're drcury

and tired of the world, we like to talk to Interesting people about our soul,

The trouble is that the moment we start they get the idea that they've fot more complicated souls than us. Which is ridicul-

ous.

There has been a slight inter- ruption.

A gentleman

wanting money.

has arrived

He will not depart. Tchi Tch! Now we have lost our mood-the world is full of mundane things. Nothing beau uful about it Shroffs hounding

every few minules. Sub-

you

Editors screaming for copy. Edi- tors who think you're overpaid. Girls who sing your face on the slightest pretextid wants is more

Give

a dog a bad

a bad name and what happens. He answers your whistle just the same.

We will now rejoin our friends at the Hongkong Hotel.

military operations in Syria, Bri- It is an encounter between Their bodies were found some

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In Shanghai an excited Japan---cidents by the patient methods that honour of their flag re give and take ese thrusts a miniature Rising of diplomacy. But still, despite Sun flag in the hands of an Eng the plain wisdom of this policy, fish bystander; the Englishman, it is impossible for the ordinary something

This notion that there is

peculiarly incensed, breaks the flag across man to read with indifference about the flag was of long and sacred his knee; and the Press of the that his country's flag has been gradual growth.

In future Mr. Kelly will burst whole world tells the story in insulted.

Early standards served a dou- into print on Tuesdays and Fri- The high water mark of the ble purpose.

days. Ed. They indicated! S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. tion, which gave the Jewish

From time to time there have flag as the symbol of national the whereabouts of the com- people a promise of "homo been reports of Japanese soldiers honour was reached in the mander; and, often bearing the Chater Road, land" in Palestine. It is this hauling down a British or Ame- nineteenth century. One old in- name or image of a saint, they other, Lieutenant Melvill, was Declaration which ostensibly rican flag. A century ago simi- cident will show how deeply it were supposed to secure the struck by a shot just as he was created the present anti-British [lar behaviour, even though per- was revered.

blessing and assistance of the reaching the bank. Coghill and anti-Jewish feeling among petrated in a spirit of irresponsi-

Nearly eighty years ago, when saint on the men fighting under turned back to help him, and. the tribes. But the chances are bility by ignorant and excited the French were pursuing some his banner.

both were killed. that whether the partitioning of troops, might well have had the

gravest outcome.

tish men-of-war were lying off Scots and English that one first days later with a group of dead Palestino had been attempted To-day the polley of British Cyprus.

comes on the idea of the flag as Zulus around them; and in the or not, the bedouin and his statesmen is directed above all One British vessel decided on something which must on no bed of the river the colours of brothers would have continued to keeping the peace, and they a little gunnery practice. The account be allowed to fall into the regiment, saved, as the his- to make trouble in the desert,

gunner set to work to prepare a the enemy's hands, even if the torians of the Zulu War put it, "from the degradation of cap- raiding into the villages and Saud had won control of all target, but could find no bunting battle is already lost. to the borders of the towns; for Arabia except Transjordania, to mark it with. At last a At Flodden Field, the stan- ture and contamination by the that is the nature of the Arabs. Palestine and a few small areas marine proffered a coloured poc dard of the Earl Marshal of hands of savages."

Long before the Great War, under the domination of great ket handkerchief, green, red and Scotland was carried by

This incident produced the powers, Meanwhile, white, he had bought at Malta. Black John Skirving, of Plew profoundest effect in Britain. MOST COMFORTABLE | and as far as historians can take western

This faded handkerchief was land Hill. us, there have been wars in and the old animosities and hatreds,

Queen Victoria, deeply moved, The Scots were defeated, and bestowed the Victoria Cross ALL SIZES

around Palestine. When, short-the fierce blood feuds of the duly nailed to a staff, which CREY and BROWNly before the Great War, Britain Arabs had burst into flame again. the whole target was towed into Black John was taken prisoner. posthumously on the two men.

com That fire has never since been the was towed into But he succeeded in concealing

When the colours were munications with India and her quenched, though Ibn Saud has a suitable position and eventual- the precious banner about his brought back to England, they oil interests in the Near East, as near to pacifying the tribes ly sunk by gunfire,

person-presumably stuffing it were taken to her at Osborne, because of German and Turkish as any man who ever lived.

inside his shirt-until he regain- where with her Royal hand she ambitions in that part of the

Meanwhile the captain of a ed his freedom. Ibn Saud's fanatical fighting

attached to them a wreath of would march against French brig which lay close by A similar expedient for sav- immortelles. world, there was considerable men under-cover diplomacy and Britain or any other great power had watched the firing, and min- ing the standard was adopted by treaty-seeking with the various if their ruler gave the word.taking the colours, had convin- Ensign Walsh, who carried one No commander made more of: native rulers. When war finally They do not like foreigners and ced himself that the handker- of the two regimental colours the colours than did Napoleon.

of the Buffs at the battle of came Britain had allies who "heretics" and unbelievers. And chief was a French flag.

His famous tri-colour stan- harassed the Turks, and Hussein, it must be admitted that they Going on shore, he collected Albuern.

dards, surmounted by an eagle, Being severely wounded, he were chosen by him to recall at one of Turkey's former Gov-have a good argument in that all the Frenchmen he could find, ernors, was promised the rule of they claim to be fighting for informed them that the sacred tore the flag from its already once the "eagles" of the Roman the Arab peoples for the part nothing more than their desert lag of France was being grossly broken staff, and thrust it in his Empire and the badge of Charle be played in the long campaigns, and their freedom to live and insulted by the British Fiest, breast, where it was found, magne... But while the Indian and graze. their flocks without and induced them to sign a vehe- saturated with blood, when the He issued these standards to Egyptian Governments and the molestation from outsiders. The ment protest, which they went battle was over.

the Grand Army with resplen- British Foreign Office were Palestino partitioning can be en masse. to deliver to the

dent ceremony in December Perhaps the classic Instance 1804, and once a regiment had making their separate agree-made an excuse for Ibn Saud's French consul. ̈

The consul in turn, forwarded of an attempt to preserve the lost its "eaglo" some outatand- ments with various leaders and tribes to raid here and there and Lawrence was with Hussein, keep the frontiers restless Tbn the protest to the British consul colours at all cost was at Isand- ing feat of arms was required probably the greatest of the Saud is the key man in the Inner and sent to Boyrout, the French hlwana, where 20,000 Zulus before a new one was granted. Arab rulers, Thn Saud, was more Desert. He can control the headquarters, for a French war overwhelmed a small British Each standard was placed in or lens forgotten. He was, in tribes. If Britain secks lasting ship.

a charge of two young officers: fact, underestimated. It was peace for Falcatine it would bo The next thing, French and When the day was lost, two not until after the War, when well to consider the influence English met to argue it out, the lieutenants of the 24th Remed only with pistols, and charged with no other duty than he, in spite of the protection and far-reaching intarosta of French swearing that it was ment made a desperate attempt to shoot down anyone, attacking: anemies, waged war and cons misjudged, and strike with Ibn and which was now lying in six by swimming across the swift;

The most rótable-fight.. quered, that His Majesty's, Baud a. Bargain which will make fathoms of water, the British deep and rocky Buffalo River, officials discovered, they had of him a permanent and willing, captain retorting to the

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