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BIRTHS. EDWARD8 (nee Josephine Taggart, formerly of Watertown. New York. -October At Charlemount hospital, to Mr. and Mrs.

Stapley Edwards son. HUNT. -September 23. at Fairlight, Manly. to Kathleen, wile of Walter Hunt son.

(nee Gray October 5, at Englewood, Vale--a Burwood, to lolene, wife of W. G. Linosey, of Moss son. McDONNELL (nee Roslyn -October 5, at Nurse Fiford's private hospital. Campale, to Mr.

and Mrs. Tom McDonnell- daughter. pital. OWEN. Belmore, October to 1, 1937.

at Ardee private hosMr. and Mrs. S. Owen daughter Wendy. RAINE.

September 21. 1937. to Mr. And Mrs. Tom R.

Raine--a daughter. North 5, at Yootha private hospital, Strathfleld, to Mr. and Mrs. G. A.

Steeledaughter (Elizabeth Betty. I 6, to Mr. and Mrs. L. R.

Wetton, Gordon. New South Wales- daughter. ENGAGEMENTS. The Engagement is announced of Joyce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

R. H. Powers. of Mosman, to Howard, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.

L. 8. Rix. of Bleak House, Rowena, The Engagement is announced of Dorothy Gertrude, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

T. W. J. Spinks, of Eastwood. to Joseph Canynge, only son of Mr.

and Mrs. S. C. Bingham, of Christchurch. New Zealand.

MARRIAGES. DRAFFIN DUTTON GREEN. October 1937. at Christ Church. South Yarre, by Right Reverend Bishop Green and Reverend W.

Green, George Francis, son of the late Mr. W. 8. Draffn and Mrs. Draffn.

of Chatswood, to Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Dutton Green, of South Yarra, Melbourne. DEATHS.

ANDREWS. October 6. 1937, at A private hospital, Lakemba, Emma Ann, widow of the late Thomas James Andrews, aged 93 years. September 30. 1937.

at Goulburn. Alfred William, dearly beloved husband of Lena Ball and Joving father of Florence Mrs. A. Anable, Trixie. Bonnie.

Clyde Sydney, Edward, and Duthal. aged 72 years. At rest. 6. 1937, at his resiA dence.

Idaville, Wentworth Street. Blackheath. Ephraim Thomas, dearly-loved husband of Martha, And fond father of Ida Mrs. H. Collier, and beloved uncle of William Bellchambers, aged 74 years.

October 6, 1937 killed Prospect Bernard Barney, Burke. loved husband of Rose inee Coogan. and fond father of Francis and Margaret. aged 43 years. SURRELL.

October 5. 1937. AL the residence of his daughter. Mrs. C.

Doust. Menangle do Road. Camden, James Burrell. husband of the late Mary Burrell and beloved father of Sarah Mrs. W.

Staton I. Etigowra: Arthur. Tamworth: James, Menangle: Emma Mrs. C. E.

Doust Camden: and Ethel Mrs. T. Eugowra, aged 83 vears. CHERRY. October 6.

1937. Walter Henry Cherry. late of Latimer Road. Bellevue Hill. dearly beloved husbanc of Louisa and dear father of Eileen, Veronica Mrs.

J. R. Thomas, and Edna Mrs. E. Gwynne aged 63 sears.

Requiescat In CLANEY. October 6. 1937. at Randwick, Jean A Estella Claner. late of Forbes.

aged 21 years. 6. 1937. at a private hospital, Stanmore. Ethel Msr.

relict of the late Herbert Gordon Cooper And loving mother of Thomas. William. James. Edward, Gloria, Colin, and JORD, AFFO 44 vears. coX.

Scotember 29. 1937. st her residence, Tr vondale. Bowraville, Nambucca River, Susan. widow ol the late John Cox.

And dearly loved mother of Jack, Mollie, Jim, Harold, I.co, and Firen. R.I.P. DUNCAN. October 5. 1937.

private Mabel, dearly beloved wife of Joseph Duncan and loving mother of Mrs. Flora. Robert. Tris Mrs. Brown), Allan.

and October 6, 1937. at a private hospital. Waverley. Hennah. beloved wife of Richard Farleigh.

of 18 David Street. Clifton Gardens, and loving mother of Grace Mrs. O. Viesers: Evans, Edward, Marjorie. Adeline I Mrs.

H. T. rears. sad May I Mrs. J.

M. Pescotti, aged 69 FERGUSON. October 6. 1437 Jeannette. dearly wife of Donala Ferguson.

of 'The Pines, Englich Street, Cropulle aged 23 veera. PERGUSON October 8. 1937. Jeannette, dearly and only daughter of D. and M.

Kilgour, of Epping. aged 23 years. FOWLER. -October 6. 1937.

Evelyn May, beloved pile of Frank William Fowler, of 18 Myrtle Street. Crow's Nest. aged 47 rears. GOODE. October 6.

1937. BL a private hospital, Wilfred Goode, of Mcleod Street. Hurstville, and late of Rockdale, deariv loved husband of Myra wud loving father of Enid and Jack. aged 46 years. GOODE.

October 6. 1937. AL private hospital. Wiltred Goode. of Hurstville, and lute ol Rockdale.

dearly loved brother of Ethel and Awry Mrs. Mitchell. aged 46 veuts. 6. 1937.

at his residence. dearie 125 Cremorne Road. Cremorne, Charles Green, eri uncle of Nora, Molly, sud Marion Green. Prouiescat in pace. HANSEN.

October 6. 1937. AL A private hospital. Svaney. August Nicholaus Hansen, beloved busband of Edith.

aged 59 years. Abide with Me. October 6. 1937. al Sacred Heart MosDarlinghurst.

William James, beloved husband HEALEY.pice. Flizabeth Healer, and loving father of Bob. Ted of Lizzie. Alice, and Gilliam aged 68 vears. R.I.P.

HERRIDGE. 1. 1937. Annie Elizabeth. Is te of 2 Glebe Avenue.

Goulburn, widow of the Henry F. Herridge and beloved mother of Charles and Bert Wyalong, Alice Mrs. J. Barrett. Ethei I Mrs.

W. Painter. Vera Alford. and Nellie Mrs. R.

McKay, A1 test. October 6. 1937, al Western Suburbs Hospital, Edith Hogan, beloved wife William Hogan. of 6 Burns Street, Petershaw, and mother of John and Lillian, aged 52 years. HUNT.

October 6 1937. at Syduey, Benjamin Aunt. late of East a Malvern. Victoria, loving fether Dorothy. Ronald, Claude, and Glenda, aged 70 JACK.

October 3. 1937. 81 her residence, 267 ince's Highway Aincliffe, Lucretia Alice. dearly loved wile of Jack, and loving mother of William. Jessie Mrs.

H. H. Muriel Mrs. w. P.

Stephens. aged 75 years. By request. no flowers or mourning. JONES.

-October 6. 1937, Pt Marrickville, Louisa Jones. relict of the late Richard Jones, (late of and loving aunt of Gertrude Frost, A206 92 years. LAWRENCE. October 6.

1937. Dubbo. Edward, dearly beloved husband of Doris Lawrence BUG father of I nette aged 42 years. October 6. 1937.

at Dubbo, Edward. loving son of Edward and Biller Lawrence, of Hurstvitle. aged 42 years. LAWSON. October 6.

el 662 New South Had Roan Rose Bsv. Jane Lawson, widow of the jato James McMu. Lawson, and loving mother 01 Miss J. Lawson. W.

D. Lawson. Mrs. Agnes Kennedy. Mrs.

Jean Monaghan, Mrs. Nellie Hyde, and Mrs. Netta Walker, aged 82 years. LYNCH. October 6, 1937.

at his residence. Bathurst Road, Rev. Father Paul Lynch. late of Helidon, Queensland, aud A.1.F., 55 years. Requiescat in pace.

McDONALD. October 2, wt hospital. Donald. of Balmain. beloved brother of the late Father Allen McDonald.

South Vist. Hebrides, aged 80. Interred Rook wood. 1937. MAcKENZIE October 5.

1937. st Pairdeld. Ruth Woodville MacKenzie. formerly of Fort Street. Poiersham.

and beloved mother of Amy, Donald, and Dorothy, aged 70 years. Privately cremated on the 6th instant. MicRAS. -October 6. 1937.

AL Macleay Street. Potts Point. William, beloved husband of Isobel McRae. 62ed 76 years. O' October 6.

1937. Miss Nellie 0 Donnell, late of 24 Albert Street. Bexley, beloved of Patrick and William O'Donnell, aged 68 AIR. Requiescat in pace. PALMER.

6. 1937. al the Prince Henry Hospital. Oriel Ellis Palmer. of 50 Harrow Road.

Br airy. destiv loved husband of Alice. and dear brother of Claude. aged 50 years. ROGERS -October 6.

1937, 9t St. George District Hospital. Mary Jane Rogers, of 33 Vine Street. Hurstville, and late of Charters Towers, dearly loved wife of John Rogers. aged 79 years.

ROSSER. October 6. 1937. at Gulargambone. John.

beloved husband of Ellen Rosser, end loving tether of Violet, Jessie, Jack, Myrtle. and Jean. STAUNTON -October 6, at Royal North Shore Hospital. Edith Constance. dearly beloved wife of Stan.

and mother of Robert, Alan, and Betty, aged 32 years. At rest. -October 6. 1937. at Yasa fresult of Accident.

George Harold, eldest son of Harold and Ciarice Thornton, aged 22 years. See Funeral notice. TUCKERMAN. October 6. 1937.

Evenezer. Norman Percv. relict of the late Letitia Tuckerman, aged 74 years. 5. 1937.

at private hospital. Manly, Ernest Patric Walker isle date of Wood Comil. Limited). husband of the M. Walker and loved father of Max, Bert, Mervyn (deceased).

and Mabel. aged 75 years. 5. 1937, at the Balmsin and District Hospital, Emma Louisa, relict of the late Henry Rennie Weale, and loved mother of May deceased, Harry, Fred, Mahel (Mrs. J.

Ross, deceased. Gordon, and Albert (deceased): also 1o ing grandmother of lembel. Beatrice, Adrian. Gordon. and Geoffrey, and great grandmother of Ken, Noelle.

and Geoffrey, and loved sister of Frederick Brooks. aged 86 years. Privately cremated at NortheI'n Suburbs. October 6, 1937. 5, 1937, at private hosbial.

Edith Mary, widow of the late Edward Charles Williams, dearly loved mother of Stanley and Clare. of 91 Burke Road, Moore Park, aged 71. 1.P. IN MEMORIAM. loving memory of our darling and sister, Rosie.

who passed away October 1930. Just seven years to-dav. God took the one we loved away, Qitick and sudden WAS the call. Her sudden end surprised us all. We were not there in time of death, To hear her last faint sigh, To whisper just the two last words, Farewell, and A sad good -bye; Though her smile has gone for ever, And her voice we cannot hear, We shall never forget sweet memories Of the one we loved 80 dear: Sleep.

our darling. sleep. Sadly missed by her loving parents, sister, brothers. and brother-in-law. Leo.

tribute of everlasting love to my beloved husband. Hugh, who passed away October 7. 1934. Not A day do I forget you, In my heart you are always near. God alone knows how I miss you.

As it dawns another year. Ever remembered by his loving wife, Grace, and children. loving memory of Hugh, died October 1. 1934. Though vear: bring much that is mitered, And days bring much that is new.

There's one thing never alters. Our love and memory of you. Inserted by his mother-in-law and faintly. BR 181 ow In memory of my dear sister, Isabel, passed away October 7. 1930.

Remembered. till we meet again. Inserted by her loving sister. Maud Knight. CONN.

-In loving memory of my dear husband and our dear father. Edward, who departed this lite October 5. 1936. Inserted by his loring wife and children. DAVIN.

In loving memory of my dear husband and QUIT dear father. Edward Michael. who de. parted this Itie October 6. 1934.

R.I.P. loserted hit loving wife and family, THE SYDNEY SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. doing THE FEDERATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 16 BARRACK STREET, SYDNEY. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1937. STATE BASIC WAGE INCREASE.

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of little in and their sad loss in the death of their sympathy Ephraim Thomas. which will leave the Baptist grandson nephew. Ronald. SPECIAL FEATURES PUBLISHED REGULARLY IN THE "HERALD." Films (critical reviews). Supplement, Motoring Notes, Building and Construction.

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The Churches, Garden Notes, Real Estate, Magazine Page (including section "For the Music and Drama. The Sponen Morning Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937. WAR TO.DAY. President Roosevelt's speech in Chicago has struck a note of warning which seems to offer American cooperation in any effort to check Japan in her desperate assault upon China.

Until the situation develops along the new line now indicated it will be well to wait--but with a. lively hope. Meanwhile we may direct attention to the review which we offer, in another column. taken from newspapers just received from China and Japan. It shows clearly that the news of bombings and general savagery by Japan is substantiated, and that, while China may have been using similar methods of warfare in the north, the essential truth about the south is firmed.

This broadly is the way in which modern warfare is being conducted. Japan's policy has been to annihilate the principal cities of China 30 as to hamstring Chinese finance. Whatever may be said in the way of palliation about the provocation Japan has received, It is clear that no feeling of mercy for women and children and helpless non-combatants has been allowed to interfere with Japan's determination to smash China into complete ruin, if she dares to continue to assert her nationhood. It may be, no doubt. that Japan's original purpose was simply to deal with the northern provinces.

The course of events may have forced her hand, and made the war one of China as a whole, with its 400 million people, as the prize. This necessarily involves the whole of Asia as the ultimate goal of conquest. Aerial warfare developed in unexpected proportions until we now are realising the horrors of its completeness. Not armies, but all noncombatants nations against nationsare involved. This, however, began with the Great War.

A recent correspondent asked in this connection what difference can be found between the giant shells which the Germans fred from their Big Bertha upon Paris and bombing from the air. It was the noncombatants in the streets of Paris that became the target. If Paris could have been laid in ruins and the French people had been paralysed into panic and despair, would not the war have been more than half won? Is not the Japanese objective the same? We do not offer these questions as a palliative for hideous wrong. It 1s one of the comforting things about a situation daily becoming more dimcult and complicated that the civilised world should be horrifed by the news of bombing atrocities which comes through day by day from sources of undoubted authenticity, and that America is making her protest. If there is anything in these rising choruses of condemnation and demands for boycotts of all Japanese goods, it must be in the growing sense among the nations that war must end.

But it is not ending. Mere shaking of fists and threats of execration will not stop a single Japanese bomb from dropping and spasmodic boycott may easily result in more desperate deeds of cruelty. But because war is with us. and because the horizon all round is so dark, it behoves us to try to realise that every mAn, woman, and child is threatened, and that what Britain la 10 MORNING HERALD, doing now in anticipation of the worst horrors of war must be our task and manifest duty. This then is the outstanding fact in modern war.

Britain. America, and the rest of the nations free from dictatorship ought now to be able to get together in speedy and hearty agreement to control warfare, but primarily to safeguard the helpless non-combatant. In the Pacific we cannot sit still with the probable certainty of a victorious Japan. Even the contingency is moving Great Britain to revise her policy of making one naval base at Singapore suffice for the Far East and Australia. Two naval bases are looming, and our own Port Darwin is growing more valuable as the months pass and the possibility of war extensions becomes more likely.

But this is by the way, for our argument began and must end with the meaning of war as it is being waged to-day. It is truly war to the death, and non-combatants and helpless women and children will never 1 be as safe until the nations join hands to deal with Japan. Then the possibilities of a long continued peace will be clear and within the region of fruition. If we can get back to this point assured peace will function, and the rest should be easy. President Roosevelt now has an opportunity of Immortalising himself and of doing for America and the world what Woodrow Wilson so badly missed.

CONTINUING CONFIDENCE. Restoration of confidence Is one of the main achlevements of the Lyons Government. The Treasurer, Mr. Casey, did well in making this claim for his colleagues and himself in his speech at Geelong last night. With the restoration of confidence, enterprise became willing to extend its existing fields and to launch out into new ones.

This in an increase of employment until to-day the numbers employed may be claimed as normal. The soundness of its Anancial policy and the stability of the administration of the Government enabled full advantage to be taken of the new capital brought into the country by improved world conditions raising the values of wool and wheat. The balancing of the Budget and better, in which Mr. Casey played his part as well as Mr. Lyons, and the progressive reductions of taxation, have encouraged enterprise to take full advantage of all the opportunities offering.

But If Labour were returned to power all that confidence would vanish, for, as Mr. Casey pointed out, according to the utterances of its leaders, Labour is resolved to make experiments in monetary policy and banking methods, and is determined to get by taxation all the money it wants to fulfil its promises. There is a limit to the taxation that people can bear. The depression clearly showed that fact. The earliest remissions of taxation heralded the Arst signs of returning confidence.

Increased taxation which Labour policy denotes would immediately put a brake on expansion and would ultimately lead to a contraction of enterprise. If it is to succeed, enterprise must take risks, but it will not do SO if the dice are loaded against it by taxa- tion, by Governments taking all the cream and leaving the skimmed milk as the reward of courage. To this the policy of Labour leads. It also encourages a leaning back on government, a looking to government to engage in industry, and for all to become Government employees. Government would then become autocratic, would insist on the workers slaving under conditions which the Government would lay down.

The function of government to-day is to provide Justice for all in every sphere of life. Were there a sphere in which the Government was the dominant partner, Government would be unable provide justice, for then it would be the judge of its own cause as well as the plaintiff. To-day government sees to it that labour conditions are reasonable, that precautions are taken against dangers in industry, and it appoints tribunals to determine the conditions and to enforce a wage suitable for the work engaged upon. With government controlling all avenues of labour, the chiefs of the bureaucracy who would be responsible for carrying out national works would see to it that only conditions and wages which would ensure profitable operations should prevail. The moderation of Mr.

Curtin is often claimed on behalf of Labour, but it is Mr. Curtin who is promising to get the money for all that Labour wants. The getting can only be by means of taxation, and that the amount is not that which Mr. Curtin desires, but that which the Lang group wants. The experience of Mr.

Casey In the House of Representatives, as of every other member of the Government side, has made it plain that the extremists are the real leaders of the Labour party. A continuation of the confidence which the Lyons Government secured for Australia depends upon the decision of the electors on October 23. The policy which the Lyons Government has placed before the electors is the sequel of the policy of the past six years. Sound finance is in the forefront, and all that Government can do to help industry, both primary and manufacturing, to progress. Wider markets are to 'be sought, and the tariff 1s to be used to assist emcient and economic undertakings, that is efficient and economic in the national sense.

The proposals for national Insurance are a natural expansion of social service already undertaken by the Commonwealth. Old age is already provided for. Under the national Insurance proposals costs accruing from illness will be met, and the Government Intends to legislate for a contributory scheme by which each party to the contract. employees, employers, and the people as 8 whole through the Government, will bear an equal share of the cost. A contributory scheme enhances the Independence of the recipient and enables him to claim the full measure of service as a right.

There would then be no need for him to ask for it as charity, and undergo an inquiry as to its necessity. On the main aspects of national life, Anancial, Industrial, and social. the policy of the Government ensures. so far A8 is humanly possible. A prolongation of the period of prosperity.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1937. ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT. WHAT IT MEANS. Queries and Sidelights.

(BY T.I.M.) ments: to protect community of about a 20,000 to 25,000 civilians. "After their experiences in 1932, it is inconceivable that. confronted by 20 to 30 thousand troops drawn from China's German-trained divisions, they would have opened an offensive." If Shanghai hostilities started in 1932 as an "adventure" of the Japanese Navy, the present clash scems direct outcome of Japan's policy in North China, and the intense anti-Japanese feeling roused by It amongst the Chinese in the south. Japanese officials and papers certainly stressed the idea of "localising" the North China trouble, which meant confining hostilities to North China, as well as excluding Nanking from any valuable "settlement" with the local war "JAPAN'S ROAD WAR." It looks, then, as the Japanese militarists 10. wanted North China only, not war in Shanghai and China generally.

They aimed at local control and found themselves faced with a national war, It was China who decided to make the dispute A large fight. But Japan had forced Nanking to the dilemma of war or humiliation. She has been harrying the Chinese into patriotic indignation even national unity. Some of her motives are well set out in "Asia," by the late Professor Relschauer, of Princeton, just killed at bal. In "Japan's Road to War" he suggests that Japan is preferring this path because of her economic discontent, feeling she has "a choice between peace with poverty and war with fear of Russia and China: internal social unrest which tempts the ruling group 10 get harmony at home by war abroad; racial pride; the warlike character of the Japanese people, "a nation of fierce warriors with the high-strung.

emotional artistic and intense nationalism 1a8 we call It OT patriotism (the Japanese term for It). To these valid reasons might be added others. Japan fears Communism 83 a disIntegrating social force and its spread in China. Popular feeling urges that it. is time to "have it out" with China once and for all.

'The failure of the liberals in Japan and the success of the Manchurian coup have entrenched the extreme militarists in power at Tokyo. The Army has its way. It has had it since 1932, and we must be fair enough to accept the degree of truth in the claim of Dr. Tsurumi, when in Sydney, that the world has not given the Japanese moderates a proper chance. The policy of moderation, he states, met with no reciprocity.

Japan made sacriAces for conciliation, and then found the other countries closing the door to her. Her migrants were barred, her markets restricted. Japan must expand or starve. peaceful expansion is not allowed, then war is made necessary. This is the view of a Japanese liberal.

BOYCOTTS AND FUNDAMENTALS. All these considerations must be examined al least before judgment is passed on Japan by A boycott. Evidence should be heard from the accused before the black cap is donned. If Japan seys she must fight because others do not allow her suffcient trade, it does not get very far if one retaliates by restricting her trade still further. Boycotts are superficial movements in this sense; they do not touch the fundamental issues.

It 1s doubtful whether an The anti-Japanese immediate boycott sufferer could is effect its purposes. our own shopkeeper, retailer, and importer, who cannot dispose of made Japanese stocks bought wide, and our paid for. If it is wool -growers will suffer, for a boycott is nasty economic boomerang. Politically, between it is at least unwise to have hatred us and our Pacific neighbour. And boycott means bitterness.

Will such 8 boycott punish Japan? As Miss Freda Utley points, out in the July "Asia," Japan is particularly vulnerable to economic shocks. and boycotts will undoubtedly But harm Japanese industries and people. the Army will not suffer unless boycott is genuinely International on A collective basis. with American participation. In that case Japan might be defeated, the militarists overthrown, and a moderate policy ensured.

But individual or group boycotts will hardly stop the Army from waging war in China. In fact. AS with sanctions against Italy, they will almost certainly deepen patriotic fervour in Japan and drive the nation to fight bitterly. Nor will they stop aerial atrocities in the What will be the probable effects of boycott here and in Japan? Some sidelights from latest sources of Information and opinion on the war in China may help to answer these queries, especially the initial question of responsibility. 'The Brat polut, of course, is whether the reports of Japanese aerial atrocities are true.

since Japanese apologists deny their accuracy. Broadly, we may take the Indictment of need. less killing of civilians from the air as proved, and the protests of the Powers (including Italy and Germany with observers on the spot, would be based on fact. Papers from Shanghai confirm the raids with details. "The North China Daily News." which has been oritical of Nanking policy, condemus the Japanese air bombings unequivocally.

"OrienAffairs" states: "The amount of human misery resulting from the local hostilities simply bailies description. Day after day main streets and by-streets have been congested with homeless, workless, and, In many instances, destitute refugees, wandering about nimlessly and hopelessly from dawn to dark." Furthermore, the well-known authority, H. writing from Tokyo, gives reasons for Japan's aerial tactics, apart from the oue of terrorism given by A Japanese spokesman. "As far as one can gather, from sources which, for obvious reasons, cannot be revealed, the idea Is, by sustained aerial attacks on Nanking, Hankow, and other Yangtze cities, to destroy the power of the Cheklang Ananciers who are the backbone of the present Soong-Chiang Kal-shek regime, Having done this. it 1s conceivable that there will be 110 Chinese 'This situation would offer obvious adventages to Japan.

On the other hand. the truth is rarely black wud white. and in the Sin0-Japanese condict 18 8 complicated brindle. Chinese have been responsible for cruelties and barbarities as well as the Japanese. The Japanese "'Osaka Mainichi" and "Japan Times" give numerous examples of Chinese soldiers murdering defenceless children, Japanese in Chinese residents, cities.

including The women most terrible slaughter occurred in the Tungchow massacre, discussed by Mr. Redman, and also described in detall, with eye- -witness accounts, in a booklet, "What Happened at Tungchow?" published by the Foreign Affairs Ass0ciation of Japan. So, too, all the aggressiveness does not. appear to have been on the Japanese side. 'The general aggression of Japan is undoubted.

and it is North China that is being invaded. not Nippon: the bombs are falling on Nanking. Shangbai. and Canton--not on Tokyo and Osaka. These simple fundamental facts remain unshaken and eloquent.

They cannot be argued away, But to regard China as the pure and innocent lamb crying for help against the big bad Japanese wolf is a view! hardly justified by what information can be secured. Those who have lived in the East will hardly credit it. In North China, the original Lukouchiao incident remains tangled, but foreign testimony is rather to for the the effect clash that lay the technical responsibility with the Chinese. Neither General Sung nor the 29th Route Army can be termed innocent and lamblike. At Shanghai, the conflict appears to have been sought by China as much as, if not more than, by Japan.

SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES. Last month's number of "Oriental Affairs." edited by Mr. H. G. W.

Woodhead. correspondent in the Far East, points out that "Nanking appeurs to be in the grip of a warlever 88 intense 8.8 that which has overwhelmed Japan." It holds that "it 1s a. grotesque misrepresentation of realities to suggest that the Japanese sought and provoked the recent hostilities in Shanghai." The most provocative action. it suggests. was not the Japanese occupation of the Eight Character Bridge, but the despatch of two Chinese regutar divisions--the 87th and the 88th--into the demilitarised zone, thus breaking the 1932 agreement.

This breach could only be explained "on the theory that the Nanking Government decided that if there WAS to be military showdown with the Japanese, it would elect its best troops and material in the Shanghai area, rather then in the north. owing the fact that enormous international interests were involved, and international intervention might, therefore, be expected." "Oriental Atfairs." In explaining partly why "it is not tenable to pretend that the Japanese were the aggressors in Shanghai. whatever they may have done in the north." points out that when hostilities began, the Japanese had only up to 4000 troops (including reinforce- LORD MAYOR OF PERTH. PERTH, Wednerday. Mr.

Charles Harper WAS yesterday elected Lord Mayor of Perth. with 2924 votes ageinst 2173 for Councillor H. O. Howling and 264 for Mr. F.

C. Swaine. The new Lord Mayor WAS A city councillor for about 17 years until the end of 1934. DOMAIN BATHS. £25,000 for New Structure IF GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE SITE.

Alderman Neville Harding stated yes-' terday that the City Council was prepared to expend £25.000 for the construction of new municipal baths if the State Government would give ground for that purpose in the Domain. Reports had been received from the MetroMedical Officer of Health and the politan City Council Medical Officer of Health stating that the water in the Domain Baths was at present polluted and that there was no means of preventing the contamination, said Alderman Harding. 1t WAS desirable that different swimming clubs of the city the should support the City Council in the provision of baths that would be clean and suitable for all carnivals. What the City Council had in mind. added Harding, was the construction of Alderman baths nearer to the centre of the city.

The for the Alling and replenishing of the water be pumped from A section of baths would Farm Cove, where there WAS little filtered danger of pollution. The water would be before being allowed into the baths. It would be renewed at regular intervals. In this way the municipal baths would be A credit to the City Council and free from all possible danger to swimmers. PRIVATE ELECTRICITY COMPANY.

Minister Unlikely to Impose Restrictions. It is probable that the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner) will not accept the recommendation of the Electricity Advisory Committee that the Electric Light and Power Supply Corporation should be mitted to Install one small generator at its Balmain powerhouse. The company desires to install two large generators. It.

Is understood that the Minister feels that the corporation. which Is the only private generating body in the city. acts AS A very the useful check on the production costs of Bunnerong power station. under the control of the County Council. and the Railway Commissioner's power plant at White Bay.

It. CAn only do this if it. is allowed to keep its plant up-to-date and efficient. The committee, in to recommending the refusal of permission install two generating sets, was of the opinion that one set, would meet the present needs of the corporation, but the corporation claims that it should be allowed to provide for future needs. Mr.

Spooner believes, it is understood. that not only does the corporation serve 85 a yardstick to measure the costs of the Bunnerong and White Bay powerhouses, but that to deny it the the opportunity to Government's expand general polley of would be contrary to encouraging private enterprise. MANY CONFERENCES. 150th Anniversary Features. DISTINGUISHED DELEGATES.

"Although many conferences and congresses which have been arranged to take place in Sydney as part of the 150th anniversary cele- in brations next year Agure Inconspicuously the programme of events, many of them are of the first. importance," said the Minister In Charge of the Celebrations (Mr. Dunningham) yesterday. "Some will be attended by people of world distinction in their particular spheres. One important conference will be the Australian Law Convention, to be held from January 27 to 29.

Mr. Justice Evatt (High Court). Mr. Justice Lowe (Melbourne), Dr. T.

P. Fry (University of Queensland), Mr. E. L. Piesse (Melbourne), and the Federal Attorney -General (Mr.

will read papers." Mr. Dunningham said that he had received a suggestion that the brides of 1888 who were born in New South Wales should organise to make next year their special golden wedding commemoration. It was probable that an international ice hockey test series would be arranged between Canada and Australia. Already participants fror. other States were assured.

and it was expected that skaters of good callbre would be included in the team representing Canada in the British Empire Games, 'The set of stickers in 15 different designs which had been lasued by the Celebrations Council were In great demand, And large numbers of applications for supplica were being received by post. TRADE WITH POLAND MAY BE INCREASED. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS TO BE. EXHIBITED. CANBERRA.

Wednesday. Two cases of Australian products and 50 photographs depicting Australian scenes and industries. which have been forwarded by the Commonwealth Government to the Maritime and Colonial League In Warsaw, will probably assist in increasing trade between Australia and Poland. In trade relations with Poland, Australia has a very favourable balance, despite the smallness of the operations. In 1935-36 Australia.

exported to Poland goods valued at 6982,021. of which represented shipments of greasy wool, and received goods of Polish origin valued at timber and seeds being the principal imports. One of the main functions of the Maritime and Colonial League is to exhibit oversea goods, display photographs, and secure statistical data and other information about oversea countries, showing them 88 potendial markets for Poland's import and export trade. PERSONAL. VICE-REGAL.

His Excellency the Governor-General. at.Lended by members of the personal staff, was present, at, the Australian Jockey Club's race meeting at Randwick yesterday afternoon. His Excellency entertained guests at luncheon and afternoon tea in the Vice-Regal rooms. His Excellency the Governor-General, ALtended by members of the personal staff. was the guest of the president and members of the Union Club at an "at home" yesterday afternoc 1.

His Excellency the Governor-General QR.VP. R. dinner party Al Admiralty House yesterday evening. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Wakeburst, attended by the members of their personal staff, were present at the Australian Jockey Club's race meeting at Randwick yesterday, and entertained guests at luncheon and tea, His Excellency the Governor and Lady Wakehurst, attended by the members of their personal staff, were the guests of the president and members of the Union Club at An at -home at the club yesterday. Sir Geoffrey Whiskard has left.

Admiralty House, Captain A. Frame, commander of the Talping. is on leave, and during his absence the vessel will be under the command of Captain D. D. Tyer.

Mr. Norman, B. Mighell, chairman of the Repatriation Commission, who returned from abroad by the Monterey on Monday, left for Melbourne yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel L. M.

Cosgrave, Senior Canadian Trade Commissioner, left for Queensland on Tuesday night on official bustness. He will be absent for 10 days. Brother Benignus, Provincial of the De La Salle Brothers, will return to Sydney by the Oronsay this morning. Brother Benignus WAS summoned to Rome eight months ago on business connected with the teaching order. Mr.

D. G. Mackay, resident partner Al Melbourne of Macdonald Hamilton and Company, has become resident. partner AL Sydney In succession to Mr. D.

J. Mackey Sim. ME C. R. Duncan and R.

G. Weeks have been appointed joint branch managers at Melbourne. HOLLAND'S NAVY. DEFENCE OF EAST INDIES. Destroyers, Bombers, and Submarines.

EMPHASIS ON MOBILITY. (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) News of Holland's plans for giving greater power to her navy in the East Indies directs attention to the unusual character of the forces she has built, for the defence of this vast archiup pelago, which extends more than 3000 miles from east to west. To Australia, the Dutch East Indies navy must always have a special Interest, because she and Holland share the same seas, and, if attack is to be feared, it must almost certainly come to each from the same direction. Each, however, hes designed its navy according to a very different model. The Australian Navy developed from British Navy, and has always had more or less the character of an outlying squadron of that navy -a.

cruiser force with a minimum of attendant vessels. Holland, on the other hand, with powerful metropolitan feet to look to for no support and for 8 variety of specialist ser-, vices, and with A limited purse, has built mosquito fleet into which she has tried up a 10 put the greatest possible striking power and mobility at the least possible cost. THREE CRUISERS. Cruisers there are in the Dutch East Indies squadron. There are three of them, the De Ruyter, Java, and Sumatra, which are all a.bout 6500 tons and approximately equal power 10 the Australian cruiser Sydney.

is clear. however, that Holland has relled rather on her torpedo-carrying craft and bomb-carrying alrcraft to deter an aggressor from venturing into the narrow seaways her island empire. Her destroyer dotilla comprises eight vessels. each carrying four 4.7in guns, A seaplane. need be, and 24 mines, which Is formidable equipment for ships of only 200 more tons than the class destroyers of the Australian Aotilla.

To lead this flotilla is Tromp. 3350 tons, and the most powerfully armed ship of its class in the world. Four more destroyers are to be added. POWERFUL SUBMARINE FORCE. Holland's submarine force in the Indies the most powerful outside the navies of the greater naval Powers--Britain, the United States, Japan, Italy, France, Germany, and Russia.

Fifteen submarines, half of them built in the last few years, are in service, and three are to be added. One of these made A record unescorted voyage for A submarine by way of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from the building yards in Holland to Java. It. is significant of the direction from which Holland fears attack that by far the number of her torpedo craft, as well greater All her modern cruisers, are in or are inAS lended for the East Indies branch of the service. RELIANCE ON MINELAYERS.

To close the narrow straits through the Malay Archipelago Holland maintains, addition to her minelaying destroyers, four minelayers, pure and simple. the largest of which, the Rigel, can carry 160 mines. Several of them are equipped with a seaNo in Dutch home waters carry Airplane for scouting purposes. ships craft. but the ships of the East Indies squadron are equipped to carry more than 20 all told.

In addition there are probably now about 40 Dornier Wal (German) flyingboats. and A larger number of Fokker seamade in Holland. Although Holland possesses the famous Fokker aircraft factory, planes, which builds most varieties of civil and military was 'planes, pointed out in General Berenschot's she is buying additional bombers, PS the report Glenn In the L. Martin oversea news factory in the United yesterday. from Interesting deduction to be drawn from States.

An General Berenschot's report is that, and instead of boats concentrating she has on done in the past, Holland floatplanes flyingas plans to construct. aerodromes and the more for landplancs not. only in Java, Borneo, settled of the outlying islands. but even little known Dutch New Guinea, AUSTRALIAN CONTRAST. tons of naval shipping that.

Of the 34,000 Australia contributed has in the cruisers. On the other commission, 27,000 tons by hand, Holland's three cruisers, one-third aggregating of 19,000 tons, Of naval aircraft, Holrepresent: only total land in these several seas. squadrons in the East Indies: has Australia maintains one squadron of marine aircraft, No. 5 (fleet co-operation) Squadron. at Richmond.

Two of with headquarters Australian cruisers carry an aircraft; Holland. smaller cruiser force, has 20 seaborne with a occasions a small submarine force On three has been added to the Australian navy. tiny Aotilla of two boats WAS lost in first in New Guinea waters, and the other war, one The second, acquired after in Turkish. war, was soon placed out of commission: third was sold to the Royal Navy. The official naval opinion has been expressed submarines are not suited to service along Australia's long coastline, and in her Australia's sea frontier is in oceans yet and in just such narrow seas as those north.

in which the Dutch maintain their powerful self submarine has stationed the considerable submarine flotilla, and the Royal Navy force that belongs to the China station. USE OF AIRCRAFT. There are other interesting contrasts between the composition of the Australian squadron the one hand, and of the British on Dutch Far Eastern squadrons, on the other. Outstanding is the relatively greater interest taken by Britain and Holland in marine craft, minelayers, and (in the case of land) in equipping even small craft with seaplanes for reconnaissance. In own Dutch squadron ships comparable with sloops Swan and Yarra, carry their own Genouilly 'plane.

(So do the French sloops Rigault de And Amiral Charner, which are well-known in Sydney. In the past. Australian naval policy seems often to have been laid down by administrators whose eyes were turned rather than north. Recent developments, particularly the fortifcation of the announcement made at the presentation the last naval estimates, of the intention build three small vessels (so far undefined) and to devote more attention to anti-submarine work, suggest that this policy is to be modifed. In any case, the naval policy of our neighbours, the Dutch, must in the future be increasing interest to us.

MUNICIPAL LIBRARY. Extension to Suburbs. PRINCIPLE APPROVED. The Anance committee of the City Council yesterday approved in principle the establishment, of branches of the Municipal Library in the suburbs, on condition that the municipal council contracting for such a service should provide the local building and also pay the City Council for the services rendered. Alderman Sir Samuel Walder, M.L.C., who presided, said this was in accordance with the recommendation of the Libraries Advisory Committee at present dealing with the extension of the Free Library Movement to larger towns of New South Wales, and with the scheme submitted by Mr.

Ifould (Public Librarian) for dealing with the supply of books to the metropolitan area of Sydney. The approval of the City Council will be forwarded to the Libraries Advisory Committee, with A request that the final details of the scheme adopted should be forwarded to the City Council for further consideration. Y.W.C.A. HOSTEL. Donations to the fund established by the Young Women's Christian Association to meet the cost.

of constructing a new and modern hostel for young women on the site of the present. hostel at Kirribilli, now total 2 The following additional donatons have been acknowledged 2390 0 Mr. Norman Orr 40 Mrs. P. J.

Wallis 25 "R.W.O.T." 25 0 Robt. Dey. Son, and Co. 5 0 Amounts under £5 7 0 Total 2492 7 0 THE ELECTIONS. NOTES AND COMMENT.

"It's nice to get up in the morning," runs the old music-hall ditty, "but it's nicer to stay in bed." Mr. Curtin. Beasley, And their respective cohorts have evidently taken the song to heart, for they undertake, in the event of Labour's success at the polls on Ociober 23. to so arrange matters that everybody miRy stay nicely tucked in bed on two mornings week instead of one. There has been some impulsive unbosoming by the leader of the Opposition on the subject of the 40-hour week.

and on what. he regards as the cloying inactivity of the Government In relation to it. It may be that A really expert. politician should have an answer to every question and shut his eyes to consequences, but, when he 1s promising the moon. the stars.

and the carth to his delighted supporters, he should reniember that, some promises are worse than threats. An Old Question. We Are all aware, or should be. that the question of the adoption of the 40-hour week as 8, standard has been before the International Labour Conference since 1932. From being a new and startling proposition, it 18 almost decrepitly old.

At: the International Conference of 1935. when a general convention was approved. the Australian delegate, Sir Frederick Stewart. was instructed to vote for it, and to intimate that if the leading competing nations consented to ratifcation. the Commonwealth would follow suit.

The Lyons Government reported the situation to the State Governments, but these falled to agree in their views, and still disagree. week has been tried in Italy and France, with results that quickly forced both countries to Meanwhile. the I experiment of the 40-hour modify it. New Zealand, taking advantage of the present boom in export trade, is also teating out. the Innovation, but, even there, with socialisation in the Air, the Attempt is tentative one, with strict qualifications.

When Labour Refused. So that the States might have guidance in coming 10 a decision, the Lyons Government proposed a public inquiry by A committee of six representatives, each of employers and emand ployees. A woman representative of consumers. an economist of high standing, with the president. of the Federal Arbitration Court as chairman.

The Labour party was asked twice, and refused on each occasion. to co-operate, and thus the inquiry had to be abandoned. Later, the Government invited the unions to join in a reference of the whole question to the Federal Arbitration Court, but. WAS again severely snubbed. But not for nothing.

for there was more than met the eye in this attitude of aloofness. The Labour party and the unions have never been lacking in strategic resource. and can scarcely be blamed for side-stepping the question of the shorter working week until such time As it could be made An election issue. They visualised it. AS A particularly luscious bait, and have little doubt that it will be eagerly swallowed.

Commonwealth's Limited Powers. The position as it stands seems to be this: The Commonwealth, as a member of the International Labour Conference, 18 required to obtain the consent of the several States before It can ratify the convention. It is not petent. for the Government to pass legislation or to take any other action to give effect. to the convention generally.

And that, naturally, is a point on which Mr. Curtin maintains a stony reticence. The powers of the Commonwealth Parliament, are, al present, limited to the adoption of the 40-hour week in the territories directly under its control. Otherwise, even in relation to Industries regulated by awards under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, it is apparently as helpless AS a newborn babe. This view of the constitutional position is shared by the more important legal advisers of the Opposition, though Its leader and his lieutenants have not been candid enough to say so.

A Matter for Caution. Apart, however, from meticulous considerations of law, what responsible government would rush into A. serious international commitment, without the fullest Information that the most exacting inquiry could elicit A.S 10 its Inevitable economic and industrial repercussions? What, for instance, would be the effect on the standard of living, on wages, on employment, on prices, on trade, and on production? Would the 40-hour week mean increased work and better conditions, or would it mean less work and worse conditions? Obviously the Labour party has no intention of answering these questions, if only for the reason that it cannot possibly do so without the necessary data to go upon. The wish being father to the thought, It has made a promise, and is prepared to legislate blindly, so long as the electors are sufficiently incautious to give a mandate absolv. ing it from responsibility.

After all, there is a shorter week than even the 40-hour week. It is the week during which a man may look in vain for work. (J. R. W.

Taylor, 38 Hunter Street.) FUNERAL NOTICES See preceding page. IN MEMORIAM. PERGIE. In loving memory of my dear wife and our dear mother. Minale.

who passed away October 7. 1924. Always remembered by ber loving busband and family. la memory of my deer husband, who passed Away October 6. 1936.

Inserted by his loving wife. Estber. GOODE, 10 loving memory my dear wife Bad October our 1. dear 1936. mother.

Bertha. who passed beentiful mnemors left behind. 0: 8 loving mother. good And kind. Her sufferines 111 silence patienily bore Till God called her home to suder no more.

Inserted by her loving husband and children, Belly and Pisok. HARDMAN. In loving memory of our dear mother Alice. who died Ocrober 7. 1931.

R.I.P. Tour memory is PS dear -dev Inserted by her loving daughter, Mary, sons. As in the hour you passed I away. Lauri. James, and families.

HART. In loving memory of our dear brother Godfrey who deperted this life October 6. 1936. Inserted bu his sisters and brothers. HODGES.

In loving memory of our dear brother. Jack, who died October 7. 1936. Clone. but not forgotten.

loserted by his loving brother. Tom, sister-inlaw. and family. HOTTON. In loving memory of our dear mother.

who passed away October 7, 1925. At rest. Inserted bv her loving daughters. M. Cromie and family, Mr.

and Mrs. Fraley and family. JARVIS. Loving memory brother Sid, died October 7. 1933.

Arthur. Vera. loving memory my dear wife. serted by her loving husband, John Johnston. Annie.

who departed this life October ode 7. 1931. KIME. In loving memory of my dear wife and our dear mother. Kezia Kime, who departed this life October 7.

1935. Inserted by her loving husband and children. LORING. In loving memory of my dear husband and father, Alfred. who passed away October 7.

1936. Always in our thoughts. Inserted by his loving wife. daughter, and grandsons. loving memory of my beloved hushand.

who passed on to fuller and belter life on October 7, 1936. Inserted by his wile and family. MOSS. In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother. Margaret Moss, who passed away October 7.

1936. Sadly missed by Jack, Ivy, and family. O'CONNOR. In loving niemory of our dear father 'Ted. who passed away October 7.

1934. at Echuca, Victoria: also our dear mother, Elizabeth, who passed away July 26. 1929, at a Elwood. 000. Victoria.

Inserted by Maggie, Jack. and Pat. -In loving inemory of our dear father. who departed this life October 7. 1927.

Inserted by his loving son and daughter-in-law, Alf and Kathleen. PAGE- To loving memory of my dear wife and our mother. who died October 7. 1936. You have left us besuciful ineinory To treasure whole life through.

luserted by her loving husband and family. loving memory of mg dear mother. Annella Clare, who passed away October 7. 1936. Sleep on.

dear mum. free from pain: In God's own time we'll meet again. Inserted by her loving daughter, Eisle. loving memory of our dear daughter and sister, Kathleen Lorna (nee JacksoD who passed away October 7. 1932.

Loved and remembered by her loving parents and sisters, Marjorie and Dorothy. -In loving memory of my dear brother, Maurice, who departed this life October 8. 1936. Memories are treasures no one can steal, Death leaves wound Do one can heal. Life is eternal, love still remains.

In God's Own time we shall meet again. tribute of love to the memory of our dear mother, who passed away October 7, 1925. Just a token. mother dear, To say we all remember. Sadly missed by her family, Mollie, Netite, Bessie, sud Dick.

800 HOO fond memory of my dear mother, Elizabeth, who fell asleep October 7. 1928; also dear dad. Rev. George 800 Hoo Ten. passed away September 24, 1934.

For ever in the of Elsie and Charles Chan. Emily Louisa, who died October 1936. -In loving memory my deer wife, Not forgotten. Inserted by her husband. BIll.

loving memory of my dear husband and our beloved father, Reg. who fell asleep October 7. 1930. God's greatest mittSY -In loving memory of Reginold Omega, who departed this life October 7. 1930.

Not forgotten by mother, sisters, brother. and families. THOMPSON. -in loving memory of our dear little daughter, Lorna. died October 1936.

A little rosebud in Heaven. Inserted by her loving mummy and daddy and baby sister. WALKER. In loving mempry of my dear wife ADd mother, Esther Florence (Floss), who departed this life October 7. 1928.

Always remembered. Inserted by her husband, Edwin, and SOD, Albert. and my loving -Sweetest memories of my dear husband dad. Sergeant William Robert Wark. who tell asleep October 7.

1935, also my dear mother. October 2. 1936. Time Thoughts return to scenes long past, Inserted by moves his on, devoted memories and lest. but Noel.

daughter. husband -In ever -loving memory of my dear AWAY at Baulkhem Hills. October 1933. and our dear father, Joseph, who passed Sadly missed. Inserted by his loving wife and family.

died October 7. In 1931. loving memory of darling Ted, Loving memories linger still. Inserted by Uncle Fred. Auntie Ivy, Freddie.

On Active Service. loving memory of our dear son and brother. William Carl, who died of wounds received October 7. 1917. Inserted by his loving father and mother Mr.

and Mra. B. H. Gauld, brothers and sisters, Sydney and Brisbane. loved remembrance of Oliver W.

Knight, killed in action Passchendaele. October 7. 1917, beloved son of Mrs. M. Knight, Lawson.

Ever remembered by his wife and son, Vera and Rov. SHIMMELD. In loving memory of our dear son and brother. Harry, who died of wounds. October 7, 1918, in France.

Sergeant in the 20th Battalion. Age RETURN THANKS. Mrs. HINCHCLIFFE and FAMILY, of Drummoyne. wish to THANK all kind relatives.

friends. and neighbours for expressions of sympathy, tribites, letters. cards, and telegrams, in their cent sad bereavement, especially thanking Sister Kinred and Rev. C. A.

Grieve for their personal attention and kindness. Mrs. D. JAMIESON desires all kind friends and neiithbours to accent her heartfelt THANKS for pressions of sympathy and foral tributes in her recent and bereavement in the loss of her dear little son. Ronald.

Mr. J. PARKER and FAMILY. of Railway Street. wish to THANK friends for Morel their kind and espressions cards, of received sympathy, letters, tributes, in their beres vement.

this personal thanks. POINT PIPER FLATS. Outnumbered by Houses. MAYOR'S STATEMENT. 'The Mayor of Woollahra (Alderman Griffith: stated vesterday that private dwellings outnumbered flats by more than two to one in the Potts Point and Woollahra Point Arcas.

Mr. Griffith said that in a statement, published in the "Herald" on Friday last. Mr. Henry E. White, architect for the fats at Point Piper banned by the council, described the rejected proposal AS one for A building of nine stories.

Mr. White had certainly expressed his opinion AS witness before Judge Sheridan, that the bullding was one of nine stories. but his contention WAS rejected by Judge Sheridan, who held that the bullding WAS one of 13 stories. Mr. White further stated that if Ave separate flats were erected on the area, there would then be 70 separate residences.

It was somewhat difficult to follow this statement, unless, of course, one R8- sumed some such proposal as one to erect five separate buildings, each comprising 14 flats. and that such application were approved by the Woollahra Council, both of which assumptions, at this stage, seem somewhat large. Alderman Grimth said that the sketch produced in Friday's "Herald" was definitely not a sketch of the block of flats which was submitted to the Woollahra Council for 8D- proval. One of the principal differences WAS that the submitted plans were of a building with an internal light well. which expert evidence and Judge Sheridan united in condemning.

The treatment of the foreground as shown in the sketch WAS Also entirely at variance with the true position, as Mr. White conveniently omitted to mention that the existing building, known AS Schofeld House, was to have remained in its present position immediately In front of the proposed new building. "One can. of course, excuse A certain amount of artistic liberty in preparing such 9. sketch." said Mr.

Griffth. "but in the light of the true facts the liberty in this case Appears to have gone far past the bounds of LONELY OUTPOSTS. North-Eastern Arnhem Land. YOUNG CONSTABLES LEAVE DARWIN. DARWIN.

Wednesday. Probably the most Isolated stenographer Pitman in Australia will shortly be studying his and tapping island his off the extreme north const of typewriter in a bark: humpy on An He Constable Jack Stokes, of Australia. is Territory Police, who has been the Northern watering appointed and control refuelling officer at base at Elcho Island, the pearling north-costern Arnhem Land. One hundred miles further west will be another lonely policeman. Constable Peter Riley, digging a vegetable garden cutside his humpy at the mouth of the King River.

The two police left control this stations. morning by They lugger will to establish the months. but have taken bc sufficient absent for stores three for four. Their only callers will be -owned luggers, Occa which ate manned by Japancse and Larrakla will look Malays. slonally Both the patrol men will have native boys hoat in.

young in building their own bark to assist them habitations. and shortStokes book, has in taken addition a to typewriter miniature library, band shooting, fishbut Riley In his spare time. will concentrate on Inz. and gardening wireless sets will arrive In A month's will be time sent. out to the policemen here, in touch with to enabie them to keep tion..