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10 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1927 COURT PERSONAL STOP PRESS NEWS. man was temporarily stunned bv a OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE reported from North Wales and from the north and east coasts of Scotland. Sn-w fell yesterday in the north, utd stormy conditions prevailed at sea.

(11) A British. Legion hall in Dublin was burned down early yesterday. (11) Two people lost their lives and fifty were rendered homeless by a fire BY PRIVATE WIRE. a large aggregate to the racegoers and the Exchequer. Mr.

Churchill has roniit- tof. liimsplf in for this innova when decline means a fall in the standard of life and hope for all connected with it, or reorganise itself, finding by statesmanship and public spirit the secret of a new energy and power. The war has struck our civilisation the kind of blow that a catastrophe strikes an industry, and our chance of recovery depends on our ability to reorganise our life, our outlook, and our resources. The nation that meets this challenge with courage and imagination need not fear for the future. The nation that trifles with disarmament and trifles with reform drifts to its ruin.

mangold wurzel, and we imagine that he sees the joke as little as we do ourselves. If young blood cannot wcrk off its exuberance on the playing-field, it has no right to annex the police as supernumerary targets, and it is a poor advertisement for the University of London's claim to the Bloomsbury site at the national expense that it should use Bloomsbury for such infantile exhibitions of what it considers to be I fun. Circulating Pictures. A tures, of which we give an account to-day, is a sound one. It is sometimes said, derisively, that an art gallery is the last 'place in which pictures should be seen.

It is certainly not a place in which an idea can be got by the possible purchaser of their acceptability as part of his household effects. There is vigour and common sense in any plan that brings the artist's work out of the exhibition and into the daily life of his fellows Glasgow, a city of tearooms, with a vigorous art school, has the hapny habit of regaling the clients of its restaurants not only with the best pastry in the world but vith vigorous examples of its painting, which may be appraised with a Bemi-domestic judgment while the scones and shortbread circulate. And niany a Glasgow man must have decided over his second cup that the landscape on the wall, if not too preposterously expensive, would be good to live with in Kelvinside or Pollokshields. Liverpool goes one better. Under the Merseyside Art Circle's plan pictures will circulate as do books.

For a mere five-guinea subscription the Liverpool man can henceforth test the effeol upon himself and his household oi twelve works of art in the year, sculpture included. He will certainly be induced by this intimate acquaintance to withdraw certain numberB from circulation to the benefit of himself and of the artist, who would do well to welcome all plans of the sort for giving him a closer touch with those who will never realise that they need him till they know him better. The Totalisator. From Mr. Churchill's answer in the House of Commons yesterday it would seem that it iB only a matter of months before the totalisator, that abhorred bogy of the bookmaker, will be seen at work on British racecourses.

It will need a special Act of Parliament to authorise its appearance, but the 'Government has decided that if a private member's Bill is produced for that purpose, and if the principle of the Bill is approved by a free vote of the House, then facilities will be given for its safe conduct to the Statute- book. With the present House of Commons, and with the blessing which that autocratic body the Jockey Club has officially bestowed on the totali sator, there is little ground for doubt that the Bill, given luck in the ballot, will go through. It is true that it will involve the Parliamentary recognition of organised betting, but that point was conceded when the much more fiercely contested betting tax was adopted, and one of several arguments in favour of the totalisator (possibly the only one which appeals to ths Chancellor of the Exchequer) is that it will make that tax far less troublesome to collect. For that Teason he will probably be in favour of the additional proposition that all betting, whether in cash on a racecourse or by credit with a commission agent in a city office, should be made to pass through the totalisator. Over such details of the forthcoming Bill one can sec some lively opposition from any friends whom the bookmaker may has-c in the Commons or country, but thy answer to the outcry may be left until the text of the Bill is available.

All that need be said at piesent is that are now appreciably nearer a very great change in the organisation of the British racecourse, and that the change, whatever its other merits or demerits, should make that racecourse less of a little Alsatia and more of a civilised resort. NOBEL PRIZES. Award for Literature to Italian Woman. PHYSICS DIVIDED. (Reuter's Telegram.) Stockholm, Thursday.

The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1026 to the Kalian authoress Grazia Deleddi a. The award of the prize for 1S27 has been postponed to next year. The Academy of Sciences has decided to -divide the Nobel Physics Prize for 19-27 between Professor Arthur Comp-ton, of Chicago, for his discovery of the Compton process, and Professor G. T. R.

Wilson, of Cambridge, for his method of obser ing electrified particles. The Academy of Sciences has decided not to" award the Nobel Chemistry Prize for 1927 until next year. THE BRITISH PRIZE-WINNER: Professor Charles Thomson Bees Wilson was born at Glencorse, Midlothian, in 1869, the son of a fanner. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Sidney-Susses College, Cambridge. Since 1925 he has been Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge.

Professor Arthur Holly Compton, who was born in "1892, is distinguished for his researches on X-rays and radioactivity. In 1919-1920 he was National Beseareh Fellow in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. He has been i-xoiessor ot 1'flvsics at since 1S23. THE KING. The King motored to Windsor yesterday for a day's shooting in Windsor Forest.

He returned to Buckingham Palace shortly after 5 p.m. KING FEiSUL TO VISIT MANCHESTER. King Feisul of Iraq is to pay a brief visit to' Lancashire in the week after next. He is expected to arrive at Lime Street Station, Liverpool, ou Monday, Kovember Zl and, after visiting the Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the Gladstone Dock, to have tea with the Lord Mayor (Misa Margaret Beavan) at the Town Hall before proceeding to Knowsley as the guest of the Earl and Countess of Derby. On the afternoon of the next day he is expected to come to Manchester.

The Manchester arrangements, which are in the hands of Sir William Himbury, lnanagius dflrector of the British. Cotton Growing Association, are not yet fixed. Reuter's Agency states that King Feisul of Iraq, accompanied by his Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, paid a long visit to Sir Austen Chamberlain at the' Foreign Office yesterday evening, arriving -at five o'clock. Some colonial, officials were also present at the beginning of the interview, but they withdrew soon afterwards. BAPTISM OF BELGIAN INFANT PRINCESS.

Princess Josephine Charlotte, the infant daughter of the Duchess of Brabant (Princess Astrid) was baptised in the Royal Palace, Brussels, yesterday. Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, the baby Princess's young uncle, was godfather. The magnificent baptismal veil of priceless lace was presented by the. household of the Princess's parents. This veil is 300 years old, and was originally used at the baptism of one of the Stuart Kings of Englapd.

NEW SOUTH WALES AGENT GENERAL. The New South Wales Government (says a Sydney telegram) has decided to replace Lord Chelmsford, who is temporarily acting as Agent General for New South Wales in London. His successor has not heeu decided upon, but the names are mentioned of Sir Arthur Cocks, a former Stale Treasurer and Lord Mayor of Sydney, of Sir George Fuller, a former Premier, and of Mr. W. A.

Holman, who was also formerly State Premier. Sir- George Fuller is considered the most probable successor. LADY HOUSTON AGAIN SEES MR. CHURCHILL. Lady Houston, the widow of Sir Robert Houston, the millionaire shipowner, had another long interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Treasury yesterday afternoon.

Her visit lasted about two houra. The Press Association understand'; that an agreement regarding the duties ou her husband's estate was "practically settled" and particulars will be announce! in the course of a few days. BISHOP OF RIPON ILL. The Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Burroughs) is lying ill at the Palace, Ripon.

The following bulletin is issued: "The Bishop of lupous progress is on the whole satislnc-tory. The disease is running its usual course and has now reached the stago where complete bodily and mental rest is of the highest importance. His medical advisers have in consequence forbidden him to real with any correspondence during the neia fortnight at least." Princess Mary, who is colonel-in-chlef ot the Royal Scots, will on December 10 unveil a brass memorial at the opening of the new Presbyterian Garrison Church, Alderahot, which was erected in memory of the Scottish soldiers who fell in the war. The Queen of Norway was one of the first customers at a eale of beautiful handcraft articles made by disabled ex-servicemen at Lady Londonderry's house in Park Lane. London, yesterday.

The men belong to ihe War Service Legion Guild of Sailor and Soldier Broderers, formed by Lady Londonderry and Lady Titchfield Beven years ago. Miss Marion Stewart, who has secured tho Highland Society's award for itable management at Glasgow Veterinary College ui competition witn almost a hundred' men students, in an interview at Glasgow-yesterday said she hoped in her final tests to qualify as Scotland's first woman veterinary surgeon in two years' time. There is much selfishness abroad in the world to-day, but, as long as organisations such as yours flourish there is no roonvfor despondency," commented the Duke nf York last night, presiding at the Centenary Festival dinner of the Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution held at the Cen-naught Rooms, London. A double golden wedding was celebrated at Northampton yesterday by Mr. and Mrs.

John Barber and Mr. and Mrs. George Manning, of Shelley Street; Northampton. Mr. Barber and Mrs.

Manning are brother and sister, as ar Mr. Manning and Mrs. Barber. All are natives of Monlton, near Northampton. Dr.

Leo Blech, Director of Music At the Berlin Royal Opera, who has never yet been, to England, will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra on Monday. It was announced a few days ago that Herr Furtwanger was bringing the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to London for the first time since the war. The Pope has raised the Eight Rev. Monsignor Canon Edward J. Pyke, Vicar General of the Diocese of Lancaster, to the rank of Protonotary Apostolic, statei tho "Catholic Times." Monsignor Pyke was born at Preston in 1862, educated at.TJshaw, and worked for many years at Liverpool.

Bishop Gresford Jones, late of Kampala, was' yesterday in York Minister invested by the Archbishop of York as Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the Diocese of Liverpool. Bishop Tones was formerly, vicar of Bradford, and Archdeacon of Sheffield. Sir Robert Home, addressing two meetings of his constituents at Hillhead, Glasgow, Burma, New Zealand ICanadand Jth tky iht jesieruay, reierred to his tour yivuLvm. oeuevea be would return a very much more useful representative' in Parliament. A political reception was given last night by the Ladies' Carlton Club" at 8, Chesterfield.

in honour of Mrs. Stanley The Countess of Midleton (in a lace-teiinmed lavender frocW'and Lady Worthington-Evana; (in georgette ornamentedrwith. narrow -diamante) were -the -hostesses, and Baldwin (who was amethyst lace) shook hands many, of the guests'whb had done political work on Urc. Baldwin's behalf from time to time. LONDON, Thursday Night.

The Duration of Remembrance Day. On the eve of Armistice Day most of us are reflecting on the memories of the war and how the war has affected our lives in the nine short years that have passed since its. end. This is the ninth year of the observance of memorial ceremonials and the silence, and nowhere has there been movement that the time has come tu l5ut tllese rituals aside and leave remembrance to the individual heart. Four years ago the.

duration of the Armistice celebration was discussed by several military officers, who all came to the conclusion that the tenth year would end the public celebration. A friend of Lord Kitchener's tells me that his view was that the celebration should go on for one generation. Yet to-day all the signs are that Remembrance Day will be celebrated with deeper feelings than ever, and, although a generation has grown up that knew little of the war. with a yet wider public concern. What has dropped out is the victory sentiment that was so much part of the observance in the first three years.

We no longe" celebrate the victory, but only remember the sacrifice. In many public things this is shown. The big Victory Ball at the Albert Hall, for example, is no longer held, nor are any victory celebrations held on Armistice Night in the London hotels. This year the sentiment has gone farther, for there are to be very few Armistice celebrations on the night after. It may seem strange that people who had lost their closest friends in the war should have rejoiced so soon after wards and now, when time has covered the wounds, should observe the day with mourning.

The reason is, of course, that at the end of the ureas war everyone ieit a survivor. Nine Years On. The day and night procession that will pass the Cenotaph to-morrow are not more significant of the sentiment of the public than tho observance which goes on round the Cenotaph every day in the week. pass the Cenotaph frequently, and have discussed the matter with people whose business takes them there every day, and our general experience is that one rarely passes without seeing people standing round the Cenotaph, and that at least two-thirds of those who pass raise their hats. Even in the omnibuses which are past in a second the man who does not raise his hat is conspicuous.

Most of the 'hus drivers still salute as they pass, although they must pass several times in the day. Yet a generation has grown up that must have only a vague remembrance of the war. The men who are wearing war medals are not now youths. In the procession to-morrow there will be few soldiers with war medals. Even in the Household Cavalry, where the twelve years' service still holds, only a small proportion now of the noncommissioned officers bear war medals.

The phrase Veterans of the Great War" is not yet heard amongst us, but in America everyone who was in the war is now called a veteran." Gatherings of old comrades go on, but each year it becomes more and more of an effort for the average member to break off from his interests and mentality of to-day to take up the old ties and understandings thai once seemed as strong as life itself. Yet they all strive to rekindle these t.Id fires of comradeship, and the ritual ot Itemembrance Day helps them. Sir John Simon and Spen Valley It is not too much to say that the one interesting and important name in the Commission on Indian Reforms is that of the chairman. Sir John Simon. Sir John Simon was elected in a straight with Labour with a majority ot about 4.oou.

There is a great deal of hard work and some glory tne position that he has accepted as Chairman of the Indian Commission. But it would be too much to ask that he should give up his political career in order to perform that great duty. Sir John has pursued the natural and proper course of writing to the chair man of his association and explaining ijii.iu iic iius accepted tins duty, mas it is the kind of thing that an honest member of Parliament cannot refuse, and by implication asking his Association to stand by him in performing that duty. In his letter he has made it clear that, as far as the personal representation ot his constituency is concerned and that is a large part of the day-to-day work of a member of Parliament which i3 done regardless of party, he has made arrangements that should provide sufficiently for the needs of Spen Valley. It is quite likely that by the time Sir John Simon has finished with the work of this Commission the general election will be upon us.

or very near. 1 should be much astonished if Spen Valley let Sir John Simon down under these circumstances. Dr. Martin and the Foreign Office. Dr.

W. C. Martin, the Abyssinian Envoy, who reached Liverpool on Tuesday, is now in London. He has to-day acted on the suggestion made by Sir Austen Chamberlain and has told the foreign Office that he wotild like to be received there. It has been arranged that he will go to-morrow.

It may be expected that the odd conflict of statements that have been made about the dam will now be explained. The Coming of the Totalisator. Mr. Winston Churchill announced to-day that if a private member's bill to legalise the totalisator were passed by Parliament the Government would consider giving it facilities. This means that if Major Glyn or anybody "else can get a place in'th'e ballot for private bills and can get a second-reading vote-in favour of a Totalisator Bill the Government will see it has a Committee stage, and in effect will see it through.

This is, perhaps, as much as could be expected. I imagine that the totalisator partisans will be thoroughly satisfied. If we must have betting, the totalisator, after alL is the fairest form of betting. It is a calculating machine, or rather it is a machine with calculators behind it, and just as at Monte Carlo the zero against thirty-six numbers represents the modest percentage of the bank, though large in the aggregate, so the 5 per cent, or i- li. it.

i be a small burden on the gambler, but ivuaicvcr il ja, tne xotaiisator will tion "by "adopting the betting tax at all. Me nas not got mucii muucj of the tax, and instead of dropping mns. pprfainlv stiDDort all legislation that will legalise and will- regularise oetnng ana win simpjuij the means of collection. The Parachute Fatality. A man who has made several parachute drops told me the other day that though when leaving an aeroplane one might have one hand on the ring which releases the parachute ready to pull it, yet when one had jumped one mevitaoiy tnrew ones anna up one's hrnd.

Then it became necessary tn brinsr one's hand down and find the ring Willi it. ine ring is quite mu size, but, all the same, it was not so simple as it sounded to get one hand on to it, and a good deal of frantic fumbling usually took place. It seeins possible that Mr. Mackenzie Richards only got his hand on to the ring too late. So far as I know the Irving type of paiachute, which is used in the Royal Air Force, has never failed to open properly when the ring has been pulled.

My informant added that before cne nulls the rinsr one has no sensation of falling, but seems to be floating motionless in the air. Nevertheless it is known that a man loses consciousness in a long drop. The Winter's Food. A friend who has just returned from an extended visit to the West of England told me to-day that many farmers have refused to attend harvest festival services this autumn because of the poorness of their crops. The surprising thing is that some parishes the clergy have so iar sympathised with the farmers that they arranged a shortened service in place of customary festival, although other ministers have rebuked their parishioners for their narrow view.

Despite the smallncss of home crops, however, world harvests have been good, and there is every reason to believe that the cost of certain staple foodstuffs this winter will be lower than at any time in the last fifteen years. In the London provision markets the wholesale people have more bacon than they can get rid of, notwithstanding successive "cuts" in the price. Butter also is cheaper, and there is such a glut of milk that the making of English cheese, which I usually finishes in October, will prob-! ably go on until Christmas. Ample supplies of meat at moderate prices are also assured. At the London Coal Exchange this morning there was spme talk about a reduction in the prices of household coal, but nothing definite on the subject can be said at present.

The Trees in the New Forest. Many people have felt that portions of the New Forest area lately reafforested by the Forestry Commissioners are out of keeping with the natural beauties of the forest. There are blocks of conifers traversed by paths cut at right angles, which, although possibly profitable, give the effect of a nursery garden on a large scale. For many yeai's there has been an ill-regulated tendency towards making plantations of non-deciduous trees, but it should be borne in mind that the Commissioners do get the blame for misguided afforestation schemes which have been the responsibility of individual landowners in the past who have planted conifers whe" the Commissioners would have planted beech, the reason being that the individual, unlike the Forestry Commission, cannot afford to wait 150 years. Lord Clinton, the chairman of the Forestry Commission, to-day explained the present policy of the Commissioners.

Conifers," he said, are only planted in poor soil which is unsuitable to the growth of broad-leafed, deciduous trees. In the New Forest area pines were introduced about a hundred years ago to provide spars and masts for the Royal Navy. That need is past, and our policy is not to increase the pine. There were large plantingB of oaks in the reign of William III. and, more recently, at the beginning of the last century, but the oak has not done well in the New Forest in many parts.

The land is unsuitable. Eventually these poor oak plantations will be replaced by ither deciduous trees, such as the chestnut, beech, and sycamore. The Commissioners are always on the look-out for land suitable for the oak and other broad-leafed trees. Scots pine, which is less profitable, are only set down where it is quite certain deciduous trees will riot flourish. Our planting is always determined by the possibilities of the soil and the natural requirements of the various trees." Lord Clinton, in referring to the disnute between the Commissioners and the Commoners of the Quantock Hills, said Our survey has only just been completed.

There are still many ditfaculties, but we are looking forward to a settlement." Vilna and Geneva. 9 The news that Lithuania's appeal tithe League has been definitely included in the agenda of the Council meeting for December 5 confirms what one has heard about the unsuccessful unofficial attempt of the Western Powers which in this case means France to dissuade the Lithuanian Government from driving the matter to an issue. lhe Xiitnuanian uovernment was approached by and British intermediaries in Kovno and was asked to withdraw its appeal to the League The request was roundly reiected. The Lithuanian Government, which 1 a3 not in tne past received impartial tteatment from the Western Powers. has not been convinced that her interests lay in accenting the situatnm The Lithuanian item on the December 5 azenua will be one of the mnRfc comiortaDie tnorns the has suffered from, because the League ofVilna.COmPTOmiSed by MALHAM TARN SALE.

At the last day of a three dajrs Fale held at Main am Tarn, Settle, 170 ws paid by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, of London, for a first edition (1624) of Captain John -Smith's Virginia, New England, and the Summer Islands." The three days saL of the cmv tents of the mansion realised over 3,000, the top price being 550 guineas fox a Jacobean oak cupboard. Eight- Queen Anr-e walnnt dunng chairs were sold to the same uujer, -nr. ol for 220 guineas. Sime mahoeanv IhairT made 9SBguineaS; in a DiocK 01 nats as Windsor yesterday.

(15) Mr. Justice Shearman, reserving until to-day sentence on Enoch Dix, found guilty of the manslaughter of a gamekeeper, said he disagreed with the jury, whom he had already told that he could see no evidence on which they could reduce the charge of murder. (3) FOREIGN. Our Paris correspondent telegraphs the principal clauses of the Franco-Jugo-Slav Treaty, which will be signed to-day in Paris, and discusses their bearing on the British and Italian Locarno guarantees. (14) Dr.

VoronoS claims to have produced' super-sheep by gland-grafting. (11) Our New York correspondent outlines a shipbuilding scheme now being advocated in a campaign by Mr. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board during the war, who suggests Government loans to builders that would constitute a subsidy under another name. (14) Our Shanghai correspondent says that Feng Yu-hsiang, by his recent victory over the Governor of Shan; tung, gains control of the Lunphai railway. (M) The Nobel 'Literature Prize for 1926 has been awarded to an Italian woman, Signoca Grazia Deledda.

The physics prize for 1927 has been divided. (10) Armistice Day. Of all the illusions that we nursed in the war none seems stranger in the light of tho event than the illusion that the war would dominate the memory, the imagination, and the out look of the next generation. Peaci is not yet ten years old, and yet o-er a wide world the war is already for gotten. The change that time has brought so swiftly is in one respect a salutary influence.

iten ana women who swore that they never would forgive their enemies think today of the Germans without bitterness' or mistrust. But in other respects it is a grave misfortune that we have escaped so soon from influences that moved and affected us so deeply tell years ago. At that time we felt that war was so overwhelming a calamity that mankind must put peace before everything else and that each nation must make the defence of peace its first care. When we have taken the fullest account of the progress we have made in tho last nine years in organising the League of Nations and in drawing Europe out of the fatal atmosphere of past quarrels, we have still to admit that war is not seen to-day in the perspective in which we saw it when civilisation seemed' to tremble on the brink of a bottomless abyss. If it were, cur statesmen would be much more seri ously preoccupied with disarmament than with anything else.

If the anxieties of those days still ruled our minds and temrier, the collapse of the negotiations at Geneva would have been impossible British Ministers would not look with cold suspicion on projects for arbitration treaties and we should not be warned so often of the danger of letting our zeal for the League of Nations diminish our loyalty to the British Empire. It is right and proper that Armistice Day should be made the occasion for a solemn tribute to the sacrifices of the dead. But that hour of memory and gratitude would be wasted if it were not made also an occasion for rousing public anxiety over the slow and timid pace at which we are reforming the system of which they were the victims and creat ing that new world for which they gave their lives. If we could recapture the spirit of awe and resolution, if we could take again the passionate vows that we took when men and boys in thousands were going to their death in Flanders, or Gallipoli, or Mesopotamia, we should give short shrift to the' pleas and excuses which are offered to us for making peace a bad second whenever we have to choose between peace and the traditional way of defending our special interests. We promised then two things we promised to put an end to war and we promised to make a better England.

Amid all the agonies of the war it was this double hope that kept the best minds from despair. The war, which had shaken the world from its basis of tradition, had excited eager expectations and generous dreams. Men asked more from life, for war is a revolution, and revolution gives wings to hope and passion that custom keeps captive. But the hopes of reconstruction have faded like the ardour for peace and for a new spirit in the relations of peoples with one another. It is absurd, we are told, to expect more from life after a war that has destroyed all the treasure won by toil and industry instead of expecting more, man must put up with less.

It is true that our towns have disgraceful slums, and that any man who looks about birp can put his hand on degrading evils, but a nation impoverished bj war has to accept what it cannot mend. Thus the good resolutions of the war have suffered together. If these good resolutions have suffered together they must be restored together. In disarmament lies the key to domestic reform. We can spend our money on building ships against America, or we t-n spend it as wt thought of spending it ten years ago.

The war has put the same question to all Europe: Do you mean to get rid of war and your slums or to keep them both, to get, rid of war and ignorance or to keep them both Our civilisation is like an industry that has fallen on 1 evil such evil davs. When that happens an industry must either decline, FRENCH FLIGHT TO EAST INDIES. Eeuter Lyons message italc-s that tic osniUuie Oiaeau Tango arrived at Bion JuscmIkuxia yesterday afternoon in pre-jnuiuion, -it its understood, for a flight to 'the SUut Indies. It is expected to leave to-day tor Istrei, vrhenoe it will take. off.

NEWFOUNDLAND GALE. An Eiehangv John's (Newfoundland) measigo bUtvs that thb south and north-east euaat of Xawfoundland were suept by- a. 50-railwn-hour gale yesterday. Thciu was tremendous iea running at I'uit Au. Basques (St.

John's), and all' lines, wore tlov.n in the west of the Avalon All fishing nfl had a timely yarning. HEATING STOVES oi every description. BAXENDALE Miller St. rllE RES1AURANT FOB GENTLEMEN. DBRE9FOKD 3.

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Mr. Churchill announced yesterday that tho Government have decided to leave the question whether the total-isator shall be introduced on the racecourses to a free vote of the House of Commons. (11) After further strong criticism by Labour members the Unemployment Insurance Bill was read a second imo in tho House of Commons esterday. (6) If they wanted to get agreement on the restriction of armaments it was said Lord Haldane in the House of Lords yesterday, that it should come from a higher point of ievr than that of the armaments immediately concerned. Before the Geneva Conference our plan should have been described and prepared, not liv the Admiralty, hut by the Govern iiit-nt with tho aid of tho Committee of Imperial Defence.

(6) In it letter to the Spen Valley Liberal Association Sir John Simon explains tho responsibilities of his chairmanship of the Indian Reform Inquiry Commission, describes the arrangements he has made to keep in touch with his constituency, and gives an indignant denial to a rumour that ho would not defend his seat at the noxfc election. (12) Mr. d. Wells, in a letter to Mr. Alostnn.

the Liberal candidate in the Southend bv-election. supports his on the cround that vote fur the Labour candidate will in effect lio a vote for the Tories. (0 The ninth anniversary of the cessa-lion of hostilities in tho Great War will lie csi-brated to-day in ceremonies at the in London and through out the country and the Empire. (11) Mr. Georce Bernard Shaw gives characteristic replies to a questionnaire on his schooldays.

(11) The Merseyside Art Circle's scheme hir a lendiuc library of pictures was formally launched yesterday. (12) Mr. C. B. Fry spoke at the Lancashire County Cricket Club dinner held ast night to celebrate the team's championship success.

(13) The Bishop of Blackburn, speaking at the first Diocesan Conference at Blackburn, announced the appointment of six canons and the fact that the six honorary canons of Manchester within the Diocese had consented to the transference of -their canonries to Blackburn. (5) The President of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations has issued a long report on the failure of the recent conferences on working arrangements with the Yarn Association, and the president of the latter has issued a reply- (11) No one is to enter the Club who does not feel thoroughly sociable that day," said Mrs. Corbett Ashby, when cpening the new Liberal Women's Club Xifinaon yesteraay. i5j Oscar Slater, who was convicted of murder in 1909, is to be released on licence. (11) The reduction in the capital of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was confirmed in tie Chancery Division yesterday.

I (4) Further flooding "as the result of high titles combined with strong galea is A Kite Mb. Baldwin at the Guildhall made a reference to Bussia which may mean nothing at all or may mean that he is really looking for a return to working relations with the Soviet Government. He declared, at all events, the readiness of the British Government to meet the Russians in a spirit of liberality and goodwill" so soon as they are prepared to drop interference with our domestic affairs. This, of course, has been the official apology all along whenever the breach of diplomatic relations has been challenged, but that Mr. Baldwin should volunteer a statement of the kind may mean something more.

If it had been made by the Home Secretary nobody would attach significance to it, but Mr. Baldwin is supposed never to have really approved of a formal breach and may, therefore, be willing to hold out an olive branch. The Arcos raid was an adventure planned and "executed by the Home Secretary with what appears to have been only the most perfunctory consultation with his colleagues of the Cabinet. The missing document which inspired the raid was never found, and the documents which were discovered revealed nothing of a seriously incriminating character. They must, indeed, have profoundly disappointed those who imagined that the Trade Delegation was about to be melodramatically shown up as a dangerous agent of conspiracy.

But since the raid had been sanctioned the most had to be made of it. The Government could not admit that it had acted on false information, and the Russian Charge d' Affaires was sent packing. One can well believe that Mr. Baldwin feels a little uncomfortable. The blow to our trade is now proved to have been considerable not that reasonable people ever have had much doubt about that.

At the time of the raid an agreement with a British bank was on the point of being negotiated for financing credits for the purchase of British goods to the tune of some 10,000,000. In the three months ended last September our exports to Russia were reduced by over 50 per cent compared with the same three months of the previous year, or at the rate of over 4,000,000 a year. That this was the consequence of the deliberate deflection of trade by the Soviet Government is the irresistible conclusion, since Russia's foreign trade is entirely in the hands of the Government and since our own imports from Russia showed a normal increase. What have we to show on the other side of the account? Is it seriously contended that the facilities for carrying on propaganda have been in any way diminished 1 Such propaganda as there is any evidence of the distribution of litera ture and so forth could be carried on just as effectively, or ineffectively, by British Communists who would not even be committing a legal offence. Moreover, the Arcos raid revealed nothing so bad as had previously been alleged against the Russians by the British Government.

Sir Austex had more than once said that he already had sufficient evidence to justify a rupture of relations but, in spite of die-hard piessure, consistently refused to take a step which, he declared, though morally justifiable, would in no way advance our interests, would give us no weapon for fighting disorder or disloyalty or revolution within our own borders, would create division where we seek union, and "would in its echoes abroad increase "the uncertainty, increase the fears, increase the instability of European "conditions which it is aud ought to "be our chief object to remove." Sufficient harm" has been done to save the face of Sir William Jovnson-Hicks, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Baldwin and the Foreign Secretary are now returning to the policy from which there is reason to believe they never willingly departed. Sportive Stupidity. A students' masquerade which takes the form of a turbulent carnival of highwaymen working on charity's behalf is a pnase ot university lile whose licence nobody grudges. But the mere rag," though it be staged as a mock-battle with a mascot for prize, is a very different matter.

The sportive brawling which took place in London yesterday was the kind of stupidity which reflects no credit either on the combatants or on the college authorities, who appear to regard tossing the turnip as a permissible, if not desirable form of exercise for winter afternoons. What members of colleges are permitted to do on their own premises is a matter for the particular authorities concerned. But there is no reason whatever why the police should have to be called from their proper duties to clear the streets and ride an unnecessary whirlwind. The staffs of hospitals are usually hard enough driven to keep up with their normal routine of work without having to waste time and trouble on the relief of cuts and bruises suffered in such billy scuffles. It is reported that one police-.