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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. SATURDAY, MAY 12. 1928. 19. SIR AUSTEN; THE FRIEND OF FRANCE HARSH CENSORSHIP COMMUNISTS THE NEXT ELECTION.

CONSCRIPTS LEAVE PARIS. Calling-Up Scenes. PRACTICE FLIGHT CRASH. 'Plane's Sudden Dip. 'BE GOOD, SWEET MAID' (REVISED).

Dr. Norwood's Version. THE NEVV GIRLS' SCHOOL. Tetbuby, Gloucester, Friday. Dr.

Norwood, head master of Harrow, was present at the opening to-day of 'Weston Bi, the new publio school lor girls, described as The Girls' three miles from Telbury, Gloucester. The opening. ceremony was performed by the Duchess of Beaufort before a. gaiheiing of about fifteen hundred, including seventy girls who are already at the' school The head mistress is Mrs. Houlson Craufurd, who has never before had" any teaching experience, but who has neen -wun-tnn mn mnrt Rnv been associated with 'the Girl Guide and Boy otvu; movement.

Points from Dr. Norwood's speech were: Boys Buffer at 'times from enlarged hearts; girls are in danger of suffering from enlarged consciences. The boy will always do as much as he thinks is fair, but the girl is apt to try and do what her mistress thinks is fair. The girl is the nobler oreature, but the boy the more sensible animal, Women sometimes overstrain themselves, and then they invariably overstrain their pupils. Dr.

Norwood said that there was talk, not .3 girls. He admitted that was the fault of the described by' the Communist party as professional teachers, both men and women, tvnipnl fonstitiipneiea -should who were apt to expect too much in and caA out of school of those under their care. fought, order that a revolutionary hope Mrs. Craufurd will not make that i working-class policy may' be clearly mistake," he said, adding that he did not and sharply contrasted with the" Labour uver-ureaaura on recommend to Weston Birt the iaea Huuiliarised the lines- BetooO iwt nsid. ad let who will bo dtrer: Do DODIe thinxa.

fiat dream them all dy lonff: And to make life, death, aud tbs cut lorerer Or. graud iwcet tout. first line, he said why should we expose our sisters and daughters uwiresBing alternatives netween njrhters in these and. similar, con-tSnl vice- He sueested tois stituencies." A general election iund Be loud, met maid, and Jon can be cjecr. And dp-yonr-best; nor talk about 'it lonr: And ao let lit, death, and tho vast lorerer Juab crao alopg.

Mrs. Craufurd said that while she had had no teaching experience whatever she iind i. hpon i oo unwise IO assume uw mo vjuau- Tne ttro1Uafcl-t candidatures will materialise in present day the mow do I admire, respect, al or anV 9 the constituencies. Every-and believe in thm. haiiu i iuiZ thine- will denend on the monev that IS honest, candid They take nothing juins lire airaignt in whether the Uommunists can nna pre- courage' 0Wa ideas with sentable enough candidates." The list Girls who came to Weston Birt would'of nstitueCjeBv have a chance of developing their individual published Communists, them- IN RUMANIA.

Government Arrests Five Foreign Journalists. TELEPHONE CUT OFF. (From oar Correspondent.) Vikniia, Friday. The Rumanian Government is now instituting proceedings against foreign correspondents who sent, off reports about the Alba Julia Altogether five correspondents -have been arrested, among them- the "correspondent of the and -the Bucharest--, and Belgrade correspondents -of Ullstein Agency, which supplies- with news hot 'only the Freie Presse" and the "Vossische Zeitung" but also the "New York Times" and the Chicago Tribune." The Belgrade correspondent of the lillstein Agency is a Jugo-Slav subject who was dispatched as a correspondent to- Alba Julia, whence he telephoned to Belgrade a vivid and truthful account of the congress. But when in his telephone message he made the statement' that the peasants had started to march on Rnphn.rasr.

tha grade telephonist who took the news neara tne censor voice (presumably at Bucharest) interrupt with Your correspondent is telephoning false After this remark the telephone service between Bucharest and Alba Julia was interrupted, and was resumed only 36 hours later. Folly of Suppression. Did Rumania profit by suppressing the report of this correspondent Not in the least. The Vienna and Berlin papers, wanted the news, and, as direct communication was impossible, thoy used the only available channel and picked up news on the Rumano-Hun-garian frontier. Naturally such news was coloured nnd exaggerated.

Thus it happened that the most sensational newspapers in Vienna and Berlin, and especially in Budapest, printed fantastic news about the Rumanian situation. Revolution, anarchy, and punoajjua ouu police, as well as reports of the con- uiinittwuii oi ine marcn ot the peasants, wore reported 24, hours after- the peasants-had abandoned any idea, of a march on the capital. The lesson of this would be to open the frontiers and to abolish the censorship. Instead of that the Rumanian Government is attempting to intimidate the resident and special correspondents by arresting them. ITALIAN REPRESSION OF MINORITIES.

The Case of Jugo-SIavs. (From our Correspondent.) Belgrade, Friday. During a debate on foreign policy last night Dr. Pitko (Independent Democrat) drew attention to the treatment of Jugo-Slav -minorities in Italy, and contended that friendship with Italy was impossible while Jugo-SIavs in that country were being forcibly de- nationalised. i AccordinetO the atntpmont nf TVr while the 7,000 Italians in Jugo-SIavia have primary schools, the half-million JugOrSlavs in Italy have not one school in which instruction' in the mother tongue is permitted.

Despite Italian promises at the end of the war that Slovenes in Italy should retain their own language and culture. 533 schools i existing before the war have been I closed and the teachers dismissed and sent to non-Slav parts of Italy. All Siav societies, sports clubs, and similar associations have been disbanded and the premises burned and confiscated. Choirs are not allowed to sing the ueaucnui oia Slovene songs, nests may not hold religious services in the Slav tongue, hymn-books and Bibles in Slovene are forbidden, and all their newspapers suppressed. Even Slovene co-operative societies have been disbanded, causing great economic hardship among the peasants.

Marinkovitch, the Foreign Minister, replying, defined the principle of "the Balkans for Balkan peoples" as the right of the Balkan peoples to live freely without unwarranted interference from non-Balkan Powers, to have their independence guaranteed, while none of them should try to dominate others. He emphasised the need of sincere friendship with Italy, and stated that it would be dangerous to leave outstanding between them unsettled much longer. M. Marinkovitch resisted the Opposition proposals that the League of Nations should be asked to undertake a settlement of the Albanian question, since he believed that the League should be called in only when normal diplomatic methods had failed. The Skupshtina rejected the Opposition's proposition on this matter.

JUGO-SLAV OFFICIAL AFFRONTED. It is reported from- Zara that tne Fascist Commissary Avenanci publicly insulted the Jugo-Slav Consul and his secretary when they were walking in the street because they were talking Serbian. Fascists tried to demonstrate before -the Jugo-Slav Consulate, but the police intervened. SIR A. MONO EULOGISES FASCISM.

(Reuter's Telegram.) Boste, Friday. Interviewed hy a' representative- of the "Tribuna" Sir Alfred Mond. who is at present here, spoke of his admiration of the success of -Signer Mussolini's plans for the re-establishment of industrial peace. Fascism was one of the most mass movements since the war. It was a delicate matter for a foreigner to pass judgment upon Fascism, hut in this case his judgment was based on facts.

Italian industries had developed in an amazing manner and' could now face the world. Sir Alfred Mond went on to say. that Fascism had saved Italy from an incalculable 'As regarded the economic situation, Europe was split -up into too many economic units in face of 120,003,000 of people in -the -United States who formed a single economic unit. The secretary of the All Trade unions Council at Bombay, yesterday received, a cheque for 250 from the General Council of the. British Tradp Unions Congress for the relief of the lallooah striker.

Paris-Washington I i Intermediary. THE FRENCH RESPONSE Criticism of Messrs. George and MacDonald. (From our own Correspondent.) Paris, Fbidat. Sir Austen Chamberlain's carefully worded statement in the House of Commons yesterday on the Kellnrrir proposal is greeted in Paris with undiluted satisfaction.

It iB felt that in the delicate and difficult controversy that -was initiated by the Kellogg-Briand correspondence the British Foreign Secretary, true to the role that he has consistently adopted since his coming into office, will not leave France in the lurch. It should be added, by way of contrast, that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald do not escape criticism for their 'attitude. The "Temps," which on such occasions always speaks for the Quai d'Orsay, declares that from Sir Austen Chamberlain's expressions it is evident that he means to -act as intermediary between 1 Paris and Washington and that he accepts the Kellogg proposal only on condition that it is made acceptable to France and takes account of the French point of view.

"To judge by Sir Austen Chamberlains declarations," it says, the British reply will reserve every possi- elciiiunt on me uasis ot a genuine reconciliation of the American and French points of view." The Absolute Condition. Sir Austen Chamberlain's desire to play, the helpful part of go-between is already shown by his abortive suggestion, so welcome as it was to French opinion, of a conference of CHINA'S APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE. Japanese Acts of War." COVENANT INVOKED. (Reuters Telegram.) Geneva, Friday. The Secretariat of the League of Nations has received the" following telegram, which has been communi-imted to the Governments of all members of the Council of the League of Nations.

KiKKEco, Mat 10. Tn the name of the Government of the Chinese Nationalist Republic, I have the honour as President of the Government to rail your attention to the grave situation which has been caused by the dispatch to the Chinese province of Shantung of a considerable number ot Japanese troops, as also by the hostilities which have been begun in this province, constituting so many acts of war against China. On May 3 Japanese troops in Tainanfu, the capital of Shantung, fired upon soldier, killing Chinese civilians without any provo ration on their part. Ihey afterwards bombarded tlm residential quarters in the neighbourhood and over a thousand 7ersons wi-re killed and wounded. The most abominable incident took place when a number of Japanese soldiers forced their ay.

into the offices of our local Commissary for Poreijn Affairs, and, after arresting him, cut off his nose, and finally shot him dead with three members of his staff. The Japanese Ultimatum. On May 7 the Japanese military authorities in Tsinanfu sent to our commander-in-chief a note which contained unreasonable and impossible demands, allowing a delay of VJ hours for a reply. But without wi'ting tho Japanese troops resumed the offensive in the most intensive manner, and the lighting had not ceased at the hour this message was dispatched. Furthermore, ihe Japanese 'are sending additional naval and military forces to Chinese territory.

Nevertheless our authorities, both civil and military, have throughout this period acted with great moderation and have carried out the orders they received from their Government. I take the liberty of ailing your attention to the fact that the ii rritorial integrity and political independence ot China have been brutally violated, that peace among nations has been mreatened by the action of Japan, and I bet: you, in accordance with paragraph 2, article 11 of the pact of the League of Nations, urgently to convene a Council nf tho League of Rations. I urgently beg the League of Nations to call upon Japan to bring to an end the warfare being waged by Japanese troops and to withdraw the troops immediately from Shantung. With legard to a definitive settlement the Nationalist Government, fully conscious of the justice of its cause, is prepared to accept any -suitable" arrangement with a view to internatiotaJ iuquirv or arbitration. Tan Yex-ki.

JAPANESE ENTER WALLED CITY. (Beater's Telegram.) Tsingtao (via. Shanghai), PMDav. As the result of a conference last night lvtwen the' Japanese military authorities and the local Chamber of Commerce, the ouihemers were induced to withdraw from the walled citv of Tsinanfu. The Japanese carted entering the city this -morning.

ACTOR'S SHOTS AT MAYOR OF VIENNA. Two Years' Penal Servitude. (From our Correspondent.) two days' trial of Richard Strevinger, the unemployed actor- who on November 28 last, yoar fired sis s-hots at the Mayor of Vienna, came to an end to-day. Strevinger sentenced to two years' penal i-ervitude. The Duke of Spoleto is sailing from mite lo-aay lor jjomoay, wnere ne win lemain for seven months organising the.

fir- Exploration will begin in the spring ot 1939, when. the will leave an advance camo north. of Askole and inetuodicallv explore the entire zone around tn-. Godwin-Auaten peak. This work is mtb from, eighteen to twenty jurists, as it is equally manifested now ma jutsiBbence on tne necessity ot a complete harmony of interpretation of any pact before it is signed.

It may take a long time and involve long- (1 rawn.niit Ti rml'. I 1 uciure oucu harmony can be reached, but the icwuuiiBuon oi views is an absolute condition. "Better conclude no pact at all," insists the organ of the Quai dOrsay, "than sign a treaty all the clauses which were not interpreted in the same sense by all the contracting Powers, and which would not have in their eyes the same bearing and the same meaning. Sir Austen Chamberlain's exposition of hlR nt.t.ir.nrlA nrmfirma n. in 4-Tnn nnlninn that we have now to deal" with a diplomatic enterprise of a delicate and inevitably laborious character, which can in no event be finished off out of hand by a rash improvisation of any sort." The same interpretation the British Foreign Secretary's purpose anneara from th mn nf AT Anmob Gauvain in the Debats," and the same satisfied conclusion that the negotiations are now destined to be long urawn out.

isir Austen Chamberlain 3 M. Gauvain, clarify and corroborate nis recent speecn at sirmingnam. He contrasts the Foreign Secretary's wisdom with the unthinking simplicity of thp. lpfirlors rf -Vi rtf.Jioi. n.Ffia.

in the Commons. Mr. MacDonald nnrl Lloyd George would have liked to send forthwith to Washington a favourable reply without reserves. These two party leaders, who are animated by vehement passions, and who bother themRMvea 1it.Ho nVinnt. V10 interests of other Governments whose fTOodwill thpv n.r Tirf mil T7o i r.

Daam 1. 1 1 1 impatient to see the head of the Foreign Office throw himself into the arms of the American Secretary of State and sign without looking at it a magic document for the good pleasure of their following. Sir Austen Chamberlain, however," concludes M. Onu- vain, "is not thus to be rushed. Since the conversations are bound to continue for some time, however strong niav he their desire to please Mr.

Kellogg, the five Governments to whom he has addressed himself will be forced to think things over and to have important consultations before they can conclude a new pact of indeterminate CAROL CONSIDERS AN APPEAL. Counsel Consulted. PRINCE'S RATHER SEVERE CHILL." Prince Carol, after -receiving the Home Secretary's request that he should leave the country, consulted high legal opinion as to his position. It is understood that among the matters upon which he sought advice was whether appeal could be made to the High Court with any likelihood of success against the Home Secretary's decision. Sir Henry Slesser, K.C., M.P., Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., and Mr.

Harold Simmons were consulted. Yesterday Prince Carol was visited, by a doctor at Oakhnrst Court, South God-stone, where he is staying with M. and Mine. Jonescu, and it was stated that he was still under medical orders (on Thursday it was stated that he was suffering from a chill). In answer to a question Dr.

Hodgson Jones, of Caterham. who has been attending Prince Carol, told a Press Association reporter yesterday that he had been authorised to state that the Prince had rather severe chill, but was progressing satisfactorily. Prince Carol's condition, it was stated at Oakhurst Court, had improved sufficiently to permit of his leaving his bed for a short while. He had had tea in a dressing-gown with his host M. Jonescu.

The Prince strolled about the house for some time and then retired to bed. Mme. Jonescu and Mme. Lupescu visited London during the day. Oakhurst Court was again strongly guarded by police last night and several people who arrived in motor-cars were refused admission.

It was stated at the Italian Embassy last night that nothing was known of the report that Prince Carol had applied to the Italian Government for permission to go to the Italian Riviera. HUNGARIAN SENTENCES ON COMMUNISTS. Confirmed on Appeal. (From our Vienna, Friday. The Budapest Court of Appeal today confirmed the sentences in the ease of the ex-People's Commissar Szanto and thirty-one other Communists.

Last year Szanto was sentenced to eight and a half years' hard labour, and Stephen Vagi to four and a half years, while thirty others received sentences of from six months to four years' imprisonment. Most of them had appealed. NEW ANGLO-PERSIAN TREATY SIGNED. Negotiations Continuing. Reuter's agency learns that the British Government has received a telegram from the British Minister at Teheran stating that a treaty was signed, on Thursday night with the Persian Government whereby Britain agrees to the new Persian tariff, and reciprocal most-favoured-nalion treatment Is protuded An exchange of Notes regulates a number of subsidiary details, includiug the question of facilities for Imperial Airways and the question of the safeguards which the Persian Government are prepared to accord to foreign nationals in Persia now that the capitulatory regime has been terminated.

This ends the first phase of Anglo-Persian negotiations, but others are being negotiated. Xhe "treaty already signed gets rid of the awkward, question of what would happen when "the capitulatory regime ended on May 10. A-Philadelphia nurse, who had served in France during the war, was recently knocked down bv a motor-cycle, suffering painful injuries. She hailed a taxi and went to hospital. she explained-? that the young man who had-knocked her down was ao courteous and concerned that she asked him to eo away at onee, knowing that if he remained he would be arrested.

After some demur he' went." Constituencies Eor. THE CHOSEN SEVEN. (From our Labour Correspondent.) Some newspapers have been publish ing a list of more than a score of constituencies' which it is -said the- Communist party isto contest, at the-next general election. According to' a statement published "Oil themselves are not so connaenui behalf ot tne party mere are ni ti-sent only seven constituencies in which Communist candidates are already in tho field Dundee. Greenock.

V. Kelvingrove. Central Hackney S. W. Bethnal Green.

X. Battersea. The other list circulated contains, the names of sixteen, constituencies-represented by Labour members wJhiob, with. British canitalism acainst. tho workers." The party, announces that jt "is ready join handa with all class-conscious workers and revolu tionary Socialists candidature of real working-class has been opened in view of the expenses involved in fight -on -the large scale suggested." The list is, therefore, merely collection of aspirations, and it .1 a.

A. S-! forthcominR and, rather important, io Coaitituencr. Silling Labour Member. Cambeiwell, N. C- G.

Ammoru Poplar S. March. Aberavon J. Ramsay Macdonald Rhondda, D. Watts Morgan Caerphilly E.

Morgan Jonas. Ogniore Vale 3. "Vernon Hartshorni Sheffield, H. Wilson. Miles Flatting Clynes.

Ince Stephen Walsh; Barrow 1 J. Wall send Margaret BondSeld, Seaham Harbour Sidney' Webb; West Fife V. Adam son, Dunfermline W. Watson. Both well J.

Sullivan. LASCARS' MUTINY ON: BRITISH Four Men Sent toi Four Lascar, seamen- who assaulted the chief officer and the chief steward of the Clan MoNeil while in dock at Antwerp were at Grays, Essex, yesterday each sentenced to one month's hard labour. The chief officer said he was on the deck when aXascar rushed up to him and struck nt his head with a club. He warded, off the blow with "his' arm. The other LaBcars advanced in a threatening manner.

He wrenched himself free and obtained assistance from a constable on tii wharf. The chief steward said he met; one the Lascars in the forecastle. Lascar, hn declared, had given him a lot of trouble. He 'struck the witness on the elbow with, a piece of wood. Mr.

H. L. Tatharh, prosecuting, said it was, in- fact, a mutiny which might have resulted in far more serious consequences. Sheik Bola, one of the Lascars, said the steward had called him lazy pig and had! knocked one of his teeth out. ALSATIAN TESTS IN TATTON PARK.

(From our Correspondent. Knotsfobd, Friday. The remarkable sagacity and scenting instint of the Alsatian dojr were well exhibited in Tatton KnuUfoid, today, when the annual spring meeting -of the Alsatian League and Club of Great' Britain was held. Only tracking and identification tests took place, the more spectacular events being-reserved for Belle Manchester, to-morrow. In the senior and.

open. tests thirteen dogs from various parts of the country took part; their task was. to follow the' or a stranger over an irregular mile. Moft of the dogs although owing to the warm weather and the dryness of the ground, scent was not good. Hen Karl Michaelke, chief of the Berlin police dog section, worked a dog for Miaa Workman, and members of the' SaUord.

police were also present. One of the latter stated that Alsatians were invaluable to' country 'police foces, where large' areas had" to-be worked by a few but -in' towns were useless because was essential' that scents should not -be crossed. SMOKELESS FUEL. West Riding Investigation. (From our.

Babxsmsx, Famix, A party representing 93 local authoritfe in Yorkshire inspected coal-earbonimg plant'" at Barugh, oh the outskirts of the town; and visited working' men's bomej' where smokeless fuel ip being "burned. Tho woks visited were those of Low-tempera-i ture Carbonisation, Limited. The party; included the medical officers of health-and sanitary inspectors of towns and cities la the Wert-Riding Mn TL director of "the com- pany, in welcoming the party, said that in Manohester the company's product, (-coalite," had; Hall and tfiauiftive Cssls" fuels. -Sheffield bad made zhnttar ttstd, nd according to the statement. of the' chairman, of the Sheffield and Botherham Joint Smoke Abatement Committee the results there had been highly satisfactory; The outputs amokeleiaifuel at the work -inspected was; 100 tons n'week, and the last few.

days work "bad been started on the construction of a new carbonising" plant at'the Ask-enj. Collieries which would cost a quarter, of. a. millton. Within a relatively short time the output ot coalite" would be more than, doabled.

Other collieries were said, to be eager to make use of low-tempcxaturercsrbonisation, and If municipal gas undertakings followed their example before long there would be a chain of amOkeleas fuel plants extending from cam end -of the country to the other? TOO SEVERE1 SENTENCE. Broailrfegllthat thrf sentence of-, two. months MmprisohmeTili; imposed at. Marl-Wrough-Street. Polled Com: -TnA Jcfepl illiam'-Curran" for being al rogue anCt vagabond, wai too severe." Sir -Bobext Wallace, at London Sessions yesterday.

fi'Curran's I OFF TO THE FRONTIER GARRISONS. (From our own Correspondent.) Paris, Fbiday. The calling up of the military class of -1928 is nowin full swing. Since yesterday morning -the Paris stations, particularly- the Gare de l'Est, have been thronged 'with young conscripts going off to their allotted garrisons, and their mothers, sweethearts, and friends crowding the platformB to give them farewell. In the 'course' of yesterday- no less than 15,000 conscripts left the Gare de- l'Est in special trains1 for Strasbourg, Metz, Mulhouse, Colmar, and other frontier towns.

The reporter. of the Paris "Midi" thus describes the scenes at the station: On the platforms soldiers-in horizon blue, helmeted and chinstrapped, control the farewells farewells moving, almost tragic, in their simplicity. To-day the Gare de l'Est is without exaggeration the heart of Paris, a heart that bleeds and suffers as each "Good-bye Dad; don't cry Mammie." With a shrug of the shoulders the young lads in civil clothes hitch up the haversack that contains their belongings. As the trains steam out there are songs to drown the sighing and the weeping. MAILS TO INDIA DESTROYED.

Ablaze on Train in Egypt. (Reuter's Telegram.) Cairo, The Sitmar Company's Bteamer from Genoa discharged in -Alexandria on Wed-nesday 140 mail bags for India from European countries. These were at once dispatched by rail to JPord Said for transportation to Bombay. About six miles from Port Said the mail van was observed to Ijb on fire and the mail bags were almost completely consumed before a fire brigade arrived. As the Sitmar Line carries British mails it is possible that some London letters may have been involved.

The postal authorities from Fort Said are at present searching the debris to see if anything escaped. EMPIRE AIR ROUTES. Minister's Hopes of Early Developments. THE SERVICE TO INDIA. Sir Samuel Hoaie, Minister for Air, speaking at University College, London, last night, said that lie believed we were on the threshhold of a very big development in air Eervice.

His own flight to India proved that long journeys could be made with safety and punctuality. He wanted to a step further andjregularly organise Empire air routes. He was doing all he could to organise a weekly or fortnightly service between London and India, and hoped to see it started in a few months. They were trying to develop the airship, with its range, for transport purposes, and had been making intensive experiments during the last three or four years with two great airships now on the point of completion, and one would be completed before the end of the summer. The airship had great possibilities, too, particularly for cheaper and safer transport of gold, and he thought that in future we should see the transport of gold upon an extensive by airship between South Africa and London.

Long-distance flights over the Empire were not "stunts but to devjlop our air routes. One of the most important of these flights, which was still in progress, was that of four metal fiving-boats to Singapore and Australia. Flying in formation they would cover 28,000 miles. Data for greater mobility and economy in national and imperial defence would be obtained, and the effect of tropical climate on metal machines discovered. NO IRISH TAX ON IMPORTED FLOUR.

Reasons for- Rejection. (From our Correspondent.) Dtjblei, Friday. The Free State Tariff Commission has rejected the application of the Irish Flour Millers' Association for a tax of 3s. per 2801b. sack of imported flour.

One member of the Commission recommends that a bounty be granted to encourage the growing of wheat. The Commissioners' report points out that the position of Messrs. Jacob, the well-known biscuit manufacturers, is of considerable importance. The firm employs 3.000 persons, whilst the flour milling industry only employs 1,792, and a tariff would only give employment to ISO more workers. On the other hand, a tariff on flour would compel Messrs.

Jacob to divert a considerable portion of their trade to their factory at Aintree. The directors of the Aintree factory had been urging the directors of the Dublin factory to transfer more of their business to them in view of the higher profits to be made there, but the firm were endeavouring to keep as much work as possible in Dublin. The Commission was also of opinion that a tariff on flour would increase the cost of living, as it would be passed on to the consumer. A CHARLES II. ANNIVERSARY IN YORK.

Commemoration Ceremony. (From our CorrespondentJ York, Friday. On Friday, May 11, 1660. Charles IL was proclaimed King from the steps of the south entrance to York Minster, and to commemorate the event Mr. James Melrose, of York, who will complete the hundredth year of his age next August, has presented a stained glass window which' is inserted in York Guildhall and which illustrates this episode in-national history.

To-day in the presence of the Lord Mayor, the Sheriff, and members of the York Corporation, and a large number of the general public, Mr. Melrose unveiled the window, the inscription on which, proclaims the fact that -the donor was Lord Mayor for the year 1876-7. The window was formally accepted on behalf of the Corporation. All the fourteen windows in the Guildhall are now of stained- glass, each, representing an episode in the history, of city from, the tim of the Saxons. TWO R.A.F.

KILLED. MEN The Air Ministry announces that as 'the result of an accident at Old Sarum, Wilt shire, to a Bristol Fighter machine yester-' day, Flying Officer Gerald Arthur Under-down, the pilot, and. Leading Aircraftsman Donald Martin Thomas were killed. The accident occurred when the machine was engaged in a short, practice flight over the aerodrome. It was.

not flying at a great height when suddenly it dipped and crashed. Members- of the'ataff. of the 'aerodrome, rushed to the scene -and found, the machine, wrecked. It had "not-caught fire and the two occupants were killed instantly. An official court of inquiry is being held.

MISHAP AT START OF LONG FLIGHT. Crash into Motor-Car. (From our Correspondent.) Masbis, Fbiday. Captains Jimenei and Iglesiaa set off at 6 SO this morning in the aeroplane Jesus del Gran Foder on attempt to heat the world's -long-distance non-stop record- by flying from Tablada aerodrome, near Seville, to Karachi, An attachment under the tail of the machine appears to have caused it to swerve, and after running a thousand feet the aeroplane struck an ordnance motor-car. The consequent damage to one of "the wings I has caused the flight to be postponed until the necessary repairs are made.

Colonel Kindelan, head of the Military Air Corps, has issued an official statement to the effect that he had to oppose the intention of Captains, Jimenez and Iglesiaa to fly the Atlantic to Cuba as their machine is not fitted with the instruments necessary for such a flight, which, in these circumstances, would be a rash adventure. The aviators, it is stated, submitted to discipline, but may try the Atlantic flight to Cuba in a properly equipped seaplane after the conclusion of their Indian flight. Colonel Kindelan quotes Major Fitzmaurice's statement that the experience of the Bremen's airmen showed that wireless equipment is indispensable to this sort of flight. AIRSHIP LANDS ON STEAMER. Mails Transferred.

(Reuter's Telegram.) New York, Friday. A good deal of attention is being given in America just now to the speeding up of trsns-oceanio postal communications by picking up mail at sea, and another successful experiment has now been carried out. The 200-foot United States Army airship TC-5 yesterday came down on the deck of the steamer American Trader off Ambrose Light, picked up a sack of and took the air again, returning to its hangar at Lakehurst, New Jersey, the time of the transference the steamer was travelling at about six knots, rwenty-one men waited lor the airship settle on- a special built on the American Trader's deck, and held her fast for about three minutes while the mail was transferred. The weather was good and the Bea calm. The platform on which the TC-5 came down was 40 feet above the water line and measured 20 by 300 feet.

Tho airship, which was nearly as long as the steamer, descended slowly and settled without difficulty while the landing crew hauled in and made her fast. This experiment is characterised by the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board as a new step in the co-ordination of air and water transportation, demonstrating that under normal conditions lighter-than-nir machine can exchange passengers and cargo with a surface vessel at sea. THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW." London, Friday It is not often that a stage detective can do no wrong. Hanaud in "The House of the Arrow," by A. E.

W. Mason, which was presented at the Vaudeville Theatre to-night, is a marvellous Frenchman who thinks aloud, a wily exponent of third degree who brings the play along 'by the discoveries ha makes under our eyes. Suspicion of caus ing the death of old Mme. Harlowe at Dijon mostly falls upon her niece, Betty Harlow, and the latter's companion, Ann Cpcott. But "The House of the Arrow" as played is not as simple as that, far too much of the novel is sought to be conveyed in the play.

Beally the whole evening is spent in' listening to M. Hanaud orating chapters from the hook. The mystery becomes so involved that at times the very things being done upon the stage are themselves a mystery to the audience. When Mr. Dennis Eadie is down on hands and knees one knows that he will not rise ud emntv- handed.

In the wealth of incidental discoveries secret passages leading to a house of dirty work, poisoned arrows embedded In bouquets, an apothecary slain by the way- it was a prodigiously rich night. But there was too much plot to keep the audience at its ease. Scarcely anybody could pass an examination in the play; these was so much of it, mostly in long talkative Mr. Eadie never tired, and he was a really strenuous detective who shouted a lot. Miss Phyllis as the much- wronged Arm Upeott, played with girlish charm, conveying the qualities of timidity and ingenuous sincerity which were in the author's mind.

These, with Miss Valerie Taylor (Betty Harlowe), who was limp in the quiet scenes, but came to life in her angry moods, were all the people who mattered to the play. Thus a character like Frobisher, the English solicitor who- is important to the novel, is in the play a stock-still nonentity. The array of French police officials never comes to life. and. indeed, the task is seldom attempted with them.

One of them who seemed -a harm, less nincompoop became the key villain of the play, to the surprise of those who had not read the book. The criticism is that an exciting novel may make a dnll play. C. O'L. In response to requests from all parts of, the country Miss Beatrice Harrison, (he 'lias decided to hold a.

musical' iite on "Whit Monday at Foyie Riding, near Oxted, Surrey, to "enable tho public to ee the actual garden and woods the song the nightingales was originally broadcasted. The fete will be under, the patzonag of tho Princess Victoria, and ti proceeds -will, be devoted the Beatrice Harrison "British lgion fund. bent. the world not an indifferent con of a hov. uua vj ki will KU out into but young woman able to take whatever place in the world is waiting for her." Miss Faithfull, late mistress of Cheltenham Ladies College, said that she hoped this great adventure would not ha "There sre ayrae things so well tried that' I think we should still continue them.

It 1 is still that frirl f-bnulrl good foundation in learning, and they can still be good wives and mothers if they have had a fair amount of learning. We can still manage our houses if aven in the dark ages of the past we learned -Latin. I should bi ashamed not to tiorub a floor against f.nybody, or clean a hearth, or turn out a loom. Weston Birt girls 'can hardly expect to do more than that in the matter of mere housewiferv." LONDON MAGISTRATE IN DIVORCE CASE. Cited as Co-respondent.

Mr. Vernon Rodney Montagu Qattie, the Metropolitan police of Tower Biidga Police. Court, was the co-respondent in a suit which occupied the attention of Lord Merrivale, the President, in the Divorce Court, London, yesterday. The petition was brought Mr. Frank Burton Leach, a member of the Indian Civil Service, now living at the Marble Arch Hotel.

He sought a decree nisi dissolving his marriage with his wife, Dorothy Mary Leaoh, of King's Avenue, Ealing, citing Mr. Qattie, of St. Oeorge's Square, as the corespondent. The suit was contested by both Leach and Mr. Gattie.

Mrs. Leach were married at Ran-Koon on" March 18, 1911, and lived for some time in Burma. After 181 the wife lived at Ealing and the husband in Burma, except for periods of leave. Mrs. Leach and Mr.

Gattie admitted having committed adultery until 1916, but pleaded that the association then ceased, and -it asserted that the husband "then condoned his wife's previous offence. Mr. Leach contended that there had' been no condonation since October, 1917, and he further alleged that the association had been" maintained between Mr. Gattie and Mrs. Leach up to last year.

This was deniad. Evidence was given by Mr. Leach and by private jiquiry agents in Bupport of the charges, and Mrs. Leach and 3Ir. Gattie went into the witness-box and denied the further allegations made in the petition.

The evidence Was concluded, and the hear ing was adjourned until Tuesday, when counsel will address the Court. END OF SAILING SHIP RACK: (From a Correspondent.) A Lloyd's report states that the Swedish barque Beatrice has been spoken by a steamer off Ushant and reported all well." Beatrice and Herzogin Cecilie, both I four-masted barques, left Port Lincoln, Australia, on the same day, their masters agreeing to make a race of the voyage to England. The two vessels remained in sight of each other for two days, after which the Herzogin Cecilie drew steadily away. She reached England on April 24, accomplishing a fairly fast of 96 days. The Beatrice has already been at sea for 112 days.

The four-masted barque C. B. Pedersen sailed from "Svdn'ev a rlav before the Herzogin Cecilie, and the Beatrice left Port. Lincoln. She was sighted in southern- latitudes by the Herzogin Cecilie, which at first mistook her for the Beatrice.

"The fi. Pedersen reached Queenstown on May air passage oi lua aays. PAYMENT FOR ALTERATIONS to SCHOOL. Education Committee Surchargexf. Members of the Heywood Education Committee who were present at a meeting when it was decided to pay 50 towards the, cost.

of erecting a partition ''aqdl making alterations in fit. Joseph's Roman -Catholic School, Heywood, have; been surcharged that amount bv tre Government' auditor? who holds that it is an illegal navment for the Committee to make. The resolution to. to the approval cf the Government auditor," and it is therefore contended by biiity for the payment must' now 'fajl on the managers, of toe school. MINIMUM "FARM- WORKERS.

iy At yesterday's conference in London-of the National Union of Agrietiltural Workers a resolution was carried demanding a minimum wage on a national basis. Tola' should be a lirirur -wae adeaua to main tain the and fan familr in reasonable 1 jp I TJ week ejumrjpith a. eeIv imtf.