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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 192ft. STOP-PRESS NEWS her. So much is perfectly agreed.

There are knew not how and he knew Hot why, but his TO-MORROW'S ELECTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. only two difficulties: the first is to find out heart was all tbrutched up." They simply denials of the Government and the absence leadership until a regular organ was estab- of a strictly judicial inquiry. A strictly i Mr i.v Bodkin is not unknown to hterature judicial inquiry has now been held. Judge He produced one or two good Bodkin has been investigating ithe claims of novels, some quite excellent detective stories, the inhabitants of county Clare for compensa-' and some historical books. He has much planted him in comfort, with certain appli ances attached to hand and foot, and there began to draw itself in ink upon a chart a how much blood she can lose without bleeding to death, and tho second is to perform the operation of transfusion without danger to the bodies of France and England or any other sharer in the spoil.

Both difficulties have been professedly solved I the Paris gently oscillating line relating how his heart, tiom. He has awarded 187.046 for damage outstanding story-xener, auu has a knowledge of fihakesoeare so extensive "like thine, did temperately keep time LABOUR THE UNKNOWN FACTOR. (From a South African OorrMpondenL) done by the forces of the Crown in 139 cases; he finds that in only five cases "were any Just such another sorrow seems to have now Agreement. The first may have been solved. befallen another branch of the great industry witnesses examined on behalf of the Crown that if any quotation is put to him he can continue the passage to further orders.

He became a county court judge in 1907, and is therefore one' of the most experienced as well as one of the most highly regarded of judges in Ireland. of fraud. Dr. Andre Chebon told the to justify, deny, or explain," and that in The agreement does at any rate specify within rather uncertain limits the amount which Germany is to pay. But the second has not French Academy of Sciences the other day The secessionist gage has been taken up by General Smuts with more avidity than the Nationalists had supposed, and soon we shall know the result of fhn no case was there any evidence to "suggest that the victims had been M.C.C.

v. VICTORIA. Melbourne, Monday. M.C.C. all out for 486.

Hendren Park McDonald 271 Douglas not out 133 E. R. Wilson c. Ellies MoDonald 0 Dolphin McDonald 2 Parkin lbw Grimmett 8 Hitch absent injured 0 LUNCH SCOBE. Victoria.

2nd innings: 25 for 0. bow much he hopes to incommode the modern painter of Old Masters by setting X- Russia's Reply. "guilty of any h9 states his TU, mi frtni- already sprouted from Nationalist electiwi platforms. The hardy old annal that Smuts has sold himself to the Imperial Gov-ernment" igf of course, well to the fore, bui some quarters the form of its production has been slightly altered. An artistic hand has touched it up, so that it now appears as a series of spocifio charges, instead of ont generic indictment.

Rmntn is eoine to flout been solved, and Mr. Lloyd Geobge's insinuation at Birmingham on Saturday that it had been solved is simply unintelligible. One rays to spy into his handiwork, and Dr. decision that these burnings were not neces- sary or at all calculated to secure the main umuuuaea rumours 01 uuic toral duel Qn wbjch isgue days ago are now contradicted by the arrival jt ig exceedingl of the Russian reply itself in the form of a inAA waMn.Urf.- tenance of or restoration of law in Ire- cannot even accuse Mr. Lloyd Gxobgs of not realising the problem he has t.

face. He telegraphio despatch from Mr. Chicherin. tQ land and he repeats an opinion which he has himself put it in a phrase. On January expressed some time since, that law and The Russian Government proposes certain 6 n- 'i uan "ImPeriaiBank" (whatever that maybe amendments to the final British draft taken P1" moment.

We know that General has earmarked Xsouth African export; Chebon's paper is summarised now in the "Journal" of our Imperial Arts League, which, eschewing rash haste, has just issued its excellently printed number for January 15. The X-rays cannot see everything; nobody can; but they can tell the difference between a canvas primed, before the painting began, with carbonate of 27, he said Germany could only pay by an order cannot be restored or maintained by out to Moscow by Mr. Krassin. 'Die first wuose political sagacny ai, least tor sale to the Imperial Government, so that excess of exports over imports. If she wnat felt constrained to describe as a A -i 1 1 I rirnr.

I i- I Vrti, I. A important modification demand is to complete cannot be questioned, was extremely reluc "raised her exports too high she would competition in crime." It is scarcely the mutual obligation to refrain from propa- tant to mako thjs thfl casus fc CMTirfa. nnri i oil cnonificvl urMS i South African farmers lose the advantage of an open market and, most heinous crime nf fi. '3 goinS to abolish the colour bar 0-1 the Reef and extend the franchise to natives destroy the trade of Allies. Again on possible for the Government, after a pro Ve in ourWt added the wonfs "especially 11 Jt Saturday he said: Germany must not be nouncement of this kind has been made by iran5vaai siBiwans, sucu nwr tt- Absurdities 6Uch as Ansumiues kucii a ii ii union.

allowed to pay in a way which would in Asia Minor, Persia, Afghanistan, and Tielmpn India." The Soviet Government claims that RoPs Tlfiv, nnri UJ uruu--i, iirin frnnu niT7 rk nnnnrrrr in ri i jli j. judicial authority, to pursue its old policy of 1- iu s7srt.7od-;.itiZ sas jsf set Jia inflict greater damage upon the country thiR 4.i i Wo "BS larea Dewer dunne tne evasion and denial. But the competition in crime" does not diminish, and th offim'nl 1 r-r HZ lrade depression which has followed on the ire cmi uuus iion in wuuuim vj fireat. 4.1 o.j.i a mines, and adds a list of countries or Great -rtf- -i -7t -I receiving the payment than if she did not pay at all. For instance, Germany could pay in goods, but what good would that be to us? reprisals are still accompanied by others of a own, including all the independent States that were formerly a part of the Russian flt 6 Ph 1Cal i.

parties was deliberately aiming at a repro Empire and completely lawless kind; yet these are not "It would throw hundreds of thousands of things of which a British Government can admit the existence to the world. The logical 1 eiders by tho secessionist demagogues, such as Roos, Visser, and Brand Wessels. ji absurd though they are, it would te idle to despise their influence. The huge electoral tour planned and executed by the Premier is indicative of his resolve not to commit the capital error of underrating his opponents. It has been said of him in kindly criticism that he lacks one great essential of a leader, in that he does not suffer fnnic all the States that are anywhere in touch with Russia frqjp' Japan to Poland.

This is not an unexpected nor an impossible demand. There seems to be no reason "workmen out of work in France, in Italy, in duction of the conditions now prevalent in Britain, the U.S.A., and Canada. The life-blood of every country is capital, and the resources of the Union are such as to offer every "America, and every country receiving the in result of the Bodkin report should be that demnity." These words are perfectly mean why we should not give tho mutual under- the Government should put its foot firmly on bu action ro tne capitalist and investor. The lime and size, as the old masters primed it. and a canvas primed with stuff that has wax in it, as is the almost universal modern plan.

Again, there are certain pigments of which the basis used to be mineral salts, but which are now sometimes made with vegetable cub-stances, much more transparent. And yet again, some colours, of any date, are more transparent under the rays than other colours of the same date are. Thus white, being mostly made of heavy salt or lead or zinc, is much more opaque to the rays than most of the blacks. The way these facts may cut suggests itself at once. Suppose the rays applied to an ostensible scene of Flemish life, attributed to Van Ostade, and showing people playing music and dancing.

If it be a modern forgery the rays are likely to go right through what is seen by daylight, because of the much greater relative transparency of modern ingless unless they mean that Germany is to be made to pay by some method other than by rever, must first be stability and security stability and security all reprisals of the unofficial kind. That would not take us very far, but it would at 10 uring any reference to India into the as to tb acrrp-moT! us 10 tne of the Gov- acreement since it. ia nart of the British and there have not been lacking signs in his exporting goods. Yet not only has the Pbimb of that country. PeoDle with MUCH j-iiupire.

However, if. is ivo whn have brouffht least remove one source of grave discredit to recem. speecnes tnat ne himself has recognised this deficiency and has striven to remedv if Minister failed to give the slightest clue to xnuia into it and not tho Russians our name. Probably the greatest encouragement to" him in the arduous struggle on which he has what this method may be, but it is perfectly obvious, and he has himself stated, that no Specified Areas of Propaganda. STOP-LEAK NEWS I believe it to be correct that at one stage Boiling Over at Swansea.

such method can conceivably exist. What are Saturday's scenes at the Swansea inter we to think Is the Pbisie Minister trading money are not going to put it into a country which is threatened with disruption and civil war, and if the outside world gains the impression from these elections that the seces- wSti-agitat-ion has a cnance of success and that the Union in consequence may become involved in years of strife and internal unrest it is certain that it will put its capital elsewhere. The great historical parallel to our present crisis is the same question of secession which of the negotiations the Prime Minister was quite willing that Russia should name any countries she liked as areas where the British national match make one think that after al upon the supposed ignorance of a popular embarked was the 6plendid self-effacement of the Unionist party. Of them it may be saij that nothing became their life as the leavinc, it," for not only has the fusion dissipated all fear of suicidal contests in seats where party feelings ran higher than patriotism, but it will probably act as an incentive to man? an individual who previously was too apathetic there is something to be said for the business audience Or is he paying this compliment to "TEXO" cures all leaky roofs, tick anywhere and la pornuasnlL BAXENDALE'S the French, who do in fact, to judge by their management of Big Football. The crowd at a professional League match has been taught long ago that it is dangerous to boil newspapers, appear to be delighted with his Government would make an equivalent declaration renouncing propaganda and hostile action, but that later in the negotiations objections seem to have been raised to Russia specifying the same countries as we had al speech? Is ho relying upon his capacity for confusing an issue which cannot be logically pigments in general.

Perhaps the rays, once through the supposed Van Ostade, are held up by something beyond. It may be over; the wise men who have the power say JOHN NESBITT, 42, MABKET STBEET, MANCHESTEE iron 1 it.i ii uiviueo. nortn and South in the U.S.A. iwo generations ago, and the solemn words uttered, by the great champion of Union, Abraham Lincoln, at Indianapolis on his journey to Washington' as President-elect defended? Or is he certain that the indem biiupiy, xenave, or we snail snut your ready specified. It was fully expected that Russia would regard this as claiming a sphere GBOVE INDICATING GAUGE AT 156.

TOOLS FOB AtiL JOBS. ground," and on the whole the crowd be nities, once they begin to work, will be so un even to register his vote. The unknown factor lies with Labour. Tt is common knowledge that between the genuine trade unionists and the extreme wing a split has arisen, and in a vain attempt to solder up the fissure Colonel Cresswell committed himself to a somewhat ridiculous manifesto. While still harping on the old theme that capitalism and "big interests'' rcrsm or lnnuence 111 Asia Minor, Persia, and Afsrhanistan whiVVi haves.

Not that the English crowd is given IVUO UblUl I.UUIUU GALE, SALE. Astounding BARGAINS IN Tripods to-day mutatts mutandis, by Smuts If the union of ihtvzo. ffoo ine wiioie 01 Jttussia's future ii-astern policy much to boiling over by nature it may break quite a different picture, painted with older and more opaque paints. In one case the radiograph showed, behind the superficial show of Flemings dancing and playing, a group of two peacocks, two ducks, and two hens. If now the transparency of the priming be similarly established pre the barrier's in one corner of a ground without ana in any case she could not recognise.

On the contrary, the Russian Govern- BEIGG6. 71.0XFORTm). AIX MANCHESTBB. Agi vni vjvu MbunuLJ, p.m. of this people bTlosTitis nt little to any deal nationalisation is the decisive issue of this the impulse to break them everywhere else spreading with the immediateness of an electric shock.

In South Wales the r-PiJ'y mill.1.on? wh? inhabit these States, and election, and secession is not. he yet almost mont puts in a clause by which both parties are to respect the independence and integrity of Persia-, Afghanistan, and the territory of the Turkish National Assembly. They also require a stiDulation in the Mming time. It is your i finTtlQ admit that secession wm.M ww-4Mjg jlaa 10. your popular in the countries that receive them that he need not make himself needlessly unpopular by anticipating their futility? One part of the Paris Agreement gives what is probably a clue, not to the way in which this particular difficulty will be met, but to the way in which its authors hoped peopU might be induced to believe it would be met.

The duty of 12 per cent on German exports, it has been claimed, is not really, a simple tax on exports, such as one might at first sight suppose, but an ingenious Hesf to rlse UP and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves, and not for me. I t.t.,i sumably by an X-ray attack on the picture be "the greatest tragedy that can happen to natural man is rather more volcanic in rear you have a strong prima-facie case, and the crust of discipline is thinner; treaty that if the recent judgment in the INDIGO SERGES Suit 6 gnS. to order LAWTONS, Cross Street. (Opposite EXCHANGE. at least, for supposing (1) that the canvas the crowd on Saturday was so keen to have or wooden panel painted upon is ancient (2) -ig-ir case as to -Kussian gold and goods in this country should bo upheld by the higher courts, then the treatv would bo automatic a good view of the game that it almost had that an ancient picture of assorted birds was if ostontly to bear in mind that not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with tueerlf ut WW yu is the question Shall the Union and shall the liberties ofthis country be preserved to the latest generation?" This last sentence in particular possesses a cogent truth of its own, which applied to our present crisis would probably illumine the real driving force behind much of this no game to have a view of.

The result ex ally annulled. Finally, they require the hibits Welsh football in the trough of a heavy withdrawal of a new clause in the British first painted on it; (3) that this was of low market value, so that a rogue would not this country." Consequently, Smuts has, in view of this reluctance to face vital facts, preferred to regard those not with him as against him, and therefore there will be three-cornered contests in about 30 Beats, and it is to be hoped that in none of these will the Nationalists snatch a victory. There can be no prosperity in South Africa during 1921, 110 security in the country for many years, unless the Union returns General Smuts with a sufficient majority to introduce the programme of constructive development of which we stand in such need. method by which the amount of the in draft making them responsible for the general sea. Karely her brilliant history has Wales THE GUARDIAN.

mind wasting it and (4) that on top of this demnity will vary with Germany's capacity been so weak in backs, and fortune will not smile on her desperate experiments. It is to pay, and, according to M. Bbiand, tho ueuis or previous trovernnient-s. All these amendments were expected, and I am not inclined to think that they will prove fatal to the agreement. Mr.

Erassin is ex probably worthless Old Master a clever modern rogue had painted a sham Van Ostade. Of MANCHESTER. MONDAY, FEBRUABY 7, 1921. tive propaganda, political ambition, and self, seeking. A policy that requires support by means of misrepresentation cannot be sound, regrettable consequence of the pact (the in an exciting situation for any country, pro jury which these increased German exports ana a nca crop or misrepresentations has vided it does not last, for there is nothing more piquant than a lost position which is would inflict upon Allied trade) would be over- pected to be back again very soon, and probably he will bring with him information and arguments to commend the changes, which in- themselves.

I think, are pretty much come. Mr. Lloyd George is reported to haye to be regained. What Test matches we shall spent a long time in trying to convince have this year in England I FAIRIES IN YORKSHIRE. Bbiand that this "regrettable consequence" could not, theoretically or practically, according to his own judgment.

On the whole, I regard the reply as hopeful. At any rate, it does not go beyond 3Ir. Krassin' own objections to the British draft in its final form which he took with him to Moscow; and Mr. Krassin is a moderate be escaped. If tho 12 per cent 0UE LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.

(BY PRIVATE WIRE.) London, Sunday Night. U.S. AND INTER-ALLIED DEBT. NO "OFFICIAL" PROPOSAL. New Yobk, Satukdat.

Treasury officials refuse to comment on Mr, duty did in fact provide a means TO-DAY'S PAPER. SPECIAL ARTICLES. The Crisis 12 What is Wrong With Bavaria? 12 To-morrow's Elections in South Africa 6 New Spring Millinery 5 The Premier's Speeohes at Birmingham. 7 The P.R. Test Election 8 The Brand Lane Concert 12 Book Reviews 5 CORRESPONDENCE.

The Rating of Land Values (Lord Sheffield and Mr. Arthur H. Weller) 4 Economy in Education 4 Women Police (Miss Elizabeth Needham and others) 4 course we may not have heard the last word yet. The offensive in this as in other wars will no doubt attempt to adapt its means to meet improvements in the defensive. The forgers may yet bring against the collector's armour of cathodic rays tho heavy metal of veritable mineral pigments of the ancient kind.

But in some measure, and for the moment, the way of sinners is made a little harder. The worst of it is that difficulties discourage them so little. Some men will go on all their lives expending on the relatively unremunerative trades of crooked cheap-jacks and three-card-trick men real talents and industry that might much more easily have won them triumphs at the Bar or on the comic stage. man. P50T0GRAPHIC EVIDENCE? Mr.

E. Gardner (London) lectured lost night in the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, on the subject of fairies, and claimed that a number of photographs shown on a screen were of genuine The Third International. Political Activity This Week. of escape, one would have expected its virtues to be proudly and lucidly explained. But Mr.

Lloyd George kept silence. Is it possible that he does not believe in the virtues There is on passage in the Russian reply After his visit to Birmingham the Prime which may cause some puzzlement here Austen Chamberiain's statement concerning the fairies. of this export tax? It has been suggested Minister did not return to town, but went straight to Chequers. He is not expected because the part of the discussion to which it suggested cancedation of the inter-Allied debt. A few months ago there appeared in a Officially, no mention has ever been made by monthly magazine a number of such oictures quite consistently with the phrasing of the refers has never been made public.

The pas back until Tuesday morning, and probably on Great Britain of the proposed cancellation, but taken at Cottingley, in Yorkshire. They were agreement that the tax will not be paid on sage refers to the Third International, and Tuesday certainly not, before Tuesdav the it is recalled that Sir George Paish, when in points out tnat it is no more identified with the Russian Government because its seat is in first Cabinet will be held to settle the new the United States, put forward some such pro stated to have been taken by two young girls who commonly saw the little folk in a valley at the back of their house. Mr. Gardner exports at all. Germany's exports will provide the measure of what is to be paid, but the tax will be borne, not by the exporter Moscow than is the Second International with posal, but his visit was not regarded as official, and- consequently proposal received no the Belgian Government because it is at Brus appointments resulting from Ministerial changes and to prepare the programme of legislation for the new session which opens on the loth.

showed slides and enlargements taken from 1 1 i sels. official consideration. liic tjj.u-vKri.uu-. auu Baiii uiJLtL ut? cngi The Defence of Education. O.v Saturday a big educational conference in London protested vigorously against the firmf of The explanation is that ait one time our Treasury officials are without recent advices negatives nau Deen examine oy xnree London photographers, all of whom three As to appointments, it doubt concerning the prospective visit 6f Lord draft included a clause requiring the Russian Government not only to refrain itself but to will cm -4-liA or importer, but by the German Government in whatever way it thinks best.

If that is so it is just- an addition, of a fluctuating amount, to the fixed annual tribute. There is no reason to suppose it can be paid with less injury to Allied trade than any other Chalmers, but it is expected that when Sir restrain Russian subjects from propaganda amd War Office in succession to Mr. Churchill, and that Lord Lee will go to the Admiralty when Mr. Walter Lone retires an event whirl. Auckland Geddes returns to Washington Lord Chalmers will accompany him, and it is under riosuie action in ine specmea areas, rnis was intensive and already partially successful campaign directed against the application of tho Fisher Education Act.

This meeting was fully representative of the working-class stood they will be charged with full authority obviously an impossible demand to fulfil, but under pressure I believe it came out that what to negotiate a Convention regarding British in debtedness to the United States. Press cuttings covering Mr. Austen Chamber the British Government really had in mind was not any chance propaganda of any wandering Russian subject, but organised propaganda by (the Third International. cannot be long delayed. The Premier and Cardiganshire.

When Mr. Lloyd George meets the Welsh Liberal Council (the Welsh equivalent of the National Liberal Federation) at the Central part of tho indemnity. We find that many people, in spite of the warnings of Mr. Lloyd George and, on one occasion at least, of M. Briand, are still a little sceptical about the danger to Allied whether they could have been fakpd." With Sir Arthur Conan Doyle he had made a most careful investigation covering, considered, every point of view, and he claimed that tha photographs were in fact photographs oJ fairies.

It was rather interesting to note that the circumstances under which the pictures wen taken were such as would appear most favourable. The valley was a beautiful one; it was private property, and was seldom visited except by the children, and the children themselves were sensitives." The first pictures were taken two years ago. After he had examined the prints he had endeavoured to get more, and in the autumn of last year the two children were again brought together and were furnished with a much better camera than they used 011 the first occasion. The first picture they took was of a fairy iumnine ud and down from a lains speech at Birmingham yesterday have been 1 understand that this passage of our draft inserted in the records of the United States Senate. Beuter.

was afterwards withdrawn and tihat the clause was then limited to official and authorised organisations, both political and educational, and it was not animated by party motives or working for party ends. The presence pf delegates from the Adult School Union and the Co-operative movement shows that it was not merely a trade union protest, and this, following on the letter signed by prominent employers and published in our columns on Saturday, shows that the division of the community on this issue is not one of class, party, or wealth. The question gains rapidly in urgency. Birmingham's lead in suddenly FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS LEFT representatives of the two Governments. It would seem, however, that some representations about the Third International have been HOME.

Tie -Prime Minister, in speeches at Birmingham, said that Germany could pay the Allied reparation demands if she meant to. Ifc was a question of good will and good faith. Everything depended on whether the men of 1914 still represented the German people. (7) Mr. Lloyd George also replied to Mr.

Asquith's recent speech at Wolverhampton, in which he (Mr. Asquith) wished to convev the impression that if he had remained at the head of affairs all would have gone well. (7) County Court Judge Bodkin, iu a report to the Irish Chief Secretary, says that 130 cases of criminal injuries by Crown forces in county Clare were proved in liis court and compensation amounting to 187,046 awarded. It is impossible, he says, for the ratepayeis to bi-ar this burden, and he contends it should be paid out of the public treasury. (7) The Consistory Court at Lincoln Cathedral 011 Saturday found Archdeacon Wakeford jiuilty of tho two charges they had been investigating.

The Archdeacon, in an interview last night, stated that he was considering the question of an appeal to the provincial Court. (12) Iho final result of the P.lt. test election lust -week is given this morning. (8) Mrs. Paruell, tho widow of the Irish leador, died at Brighton on Saturday.

(7) In his Lenten "pastoral" the Bishop of Salford deplores "the growing indecency of women's costumes." (12) TO NEW GOVERNMENT. -VASHINGTON, SuVTUBDAT. Senator Lodge to-day read in the Senate a -Hall, Westminster, on Tuesday, he has decided, I am informed, to make an important speech to the delegates a speech addressed, of course, to Wales and Welsh Liberals, but a public speech in the sense that representatives of the press are to be present to report it. I understand tho Prime Minister came to this decision just before he left for Birmingham on Friday. It is understood that the speech will deal made.

Better News from Greece. branch. This was taken at a range of about three feet. Mr. Gardner showed a lantern letter from Mr.

Houston, the present Secretary picture of the negative: an exquisitely poised of the United States Treasury, to the effect traditional sort. Its movements. If true, the report that M. Caleroghopoulos has been asked to form a Cabinet in Athens trade if payment from Germany is pressed. Mr.

Harold Cox, for instance, has argued that, just as the Free-trader asserts that cheap goods are a help to the country which receives them, so must it be still better to got goods for nothing. Up to a point we should be inclined to agree. But the cheapness which comes from capital and labour being allowed to flow freely into the channels where they can be most profitably employed is a different thing from the cheapness achieved by political bargaining or at the dictation of military victors. If Germany pays the enormous sums demanded of her by the politicians she will have to make violent and sudden inroads upon the markets of the world, and particularly, since she is is thought by Greeks here to be good news dropping its continuation schools is being widely canvassed as a model of municipal At the crisis of 1915, when King Constantino wnn wnat ne maintains are misrepresentations during the Cardiganshire election with regard to himself and the Coalition Government. The intended order of proceedings at economy, and the London County Council is dismissed M.

Veniselos from office for the second time, there was a quick succession of Governments, including those of Gounaris. that he would not during the remainder of his obsers SSSwSmiS, themoT term as Secretary proceed with any further ment of a soap'bubble. Another picture of the financial negotiations with foreign Govern- showed ifYairy -standing on a leaf and ments There have not been the letter naii. S2ldl2g. rt? hand a buncn of firy bluebells, ments.

inere nave noi Deen, tne letter said, The third picture was perhaps the most in- "any official proposals on the subject that teresting, and showed a number of figures rathe would in any way bind this Government or any obscured by grasses and flowers. One, half in foreign Governments other than the agreement he 8aid' apJoying of the foreign Governments contained in their ,8 Xch it LTL being chided for its slowness to cut off the ieoeiib is mui, as jrresiueni; or tne Council, Mr. Lloyd George will first meet the executive new-born life. Every day new points are arising which make more flagrant the folly of ruthless educational economy. For in concert nan, when the executive's business will be transacted in t.ti it 00 1 1 1 .1.1 1 XT- TT-ll 1 71 aemana oD.ig-.uuns ueia uy we unuea states uiaue a son.

01 cocoon wnile the air was instance, there came into force on to give long-term obligations, if requested, in January 1 of this year an Act (the Women, a highly developed industrial State like our exchange." The letter further stated that in August, 1620, Young Persons, and Children Employment Act) which closes the greater number of Lambros, Skoloudi, Zaimis, and Caleroghopoulos, but the last-named alone ever showed any sign of ability. He was then, and still is, sincerely pro-Ally, and if the Greek Delegation comes to London on the 21st with him at its head the prospects of the conference from the Greek point of view will be rosier. It was over the question of the delegation that the Ministerial crisis of the last few days arose. M. Gounaris has for some time been more and more identified with tho anti-Ally feeling in Greece.

His influence is very small, and" he counts only 72 or 73 deputies in a Chamber consisting of 365. M. Rhal'is. damp, and the sun striking through produced the bath. One critic of this picture had told nim that, she had seen as many as a hundred fairies in such baths on a gorse bush.

The theatre, was full, and. a small crowd which gathered outside before the lecture began were unable to get inside, so great was th press. selves, upon the markets, including our own After that Mr. Lloyd George will make his speech. As to the Cardiganshire election itself, a Welsh correspondent tells me that Captain Evans is handicapped by the capture of the existing Liberal organisation by the Independent Liberals.

This has meant that the Coalition candidate has to form fresh committees in every district, which in a scattered constituency like Cardiganshire will involve a good deal of speedy work during -the next few arrangements were made with Great Britain in respect of $122,017,000, the amount of her home market, which we have been accustomed industrial avenues to those under fourteen to supply. This can only mean a heavy blow Those children debarred, and rightly debarred, obligations held by the United States, under at important British industries. Still, the trom so eariyan entrymto the factory or work which some of the principal together with the accrued interest had been paid, remainder, continues letter, becomes due in April strict Free-trader may argue, that will be to shop should be guaranteed full-time attention in the school Otherwise their only fate is the our advantage in the long run. Fresh capital and May, 1921. After that date the interest will who, as Prime Minister, was M.

nominee, was naturally anxious that days. I gather that Liberals who are used to organisation work would be welcomed in tho constituency, but it is necvssary that they 1 T7 1 1 instead of going, say, to the British cotton and steel trades will go to Germany, where proverbially fatal idleness, for they can hardly be expected, as a body, to live laborious days MANCHESTER COALITION LIBERALS. NEXT FRIDAY'S DINNER. Some misapprehension has arisen from a statement in last Friday's Manchester Guardi-Hi" The feature of the London money market on Saturday was the demand for long-dated bills, in view of tho possibility of the bank rate being reduced at an early date. Spot bilver was uucha'nged, but forward was id.

per ounce dearer. New York exchange was rather more unfavourable to this country. Spot cotton advanced 25 and futures 25 to 35 points in the New York market. (11) FOREIGN. German Labour bus joined in tho revolt against the Paris reparation demands.

Our correspondent in Berlin says these proposals have mado a irreat impression on the German be payable half-yearly, and the principal is due to be paid in four annual instalments, Gounaris should not go to London for the conference. The latter, however, had the we have arranged that the German workmen in seii-imposed pursuit of knowledge. Again, beginning with this year. 'Beuter. snouia speas: weisn.

Ana 01 course, as in every election, motor-cars are wanted. the continuation schools offer a part-time' must work at bare subsistence wages and so occupation to those over fourteen. Of course, Sir Auckland Geddes's Return. produce more and cheaper goods than we concerning the dinner which a. group of Coalition il 1..

Lr--T support or tne and, thus emboldened, he finally issued a public ultimatum to the Premier demanding that he himself, and not the Premier, should represent Greece at tits conference. M. Rhallis, who is a man of about 80, thereupon resigned. It ant-em SENSATION IN WASHINGTON study in these schools is supposed to coincide could produce for ourselves. Our consumers I am assured that there is no foundation with the beginning of an industrial career, iuex-MB will now at the Manchester Reform Club next Friday.

The statement was: "The Coalition Liberals will be allow. in hnU th-ir will gain more than our cotton and steel manufacturers will lose. Even that might But the industrial world is in no need of new whatever for the curious rumours that Sir Auckland Geddes was in disagreement with the Government and that he would 'not be CANCELLATION PROPOSAL OPPOSED. that the immediate danger'of a new Ministry being formed under M. Gounaris was averted bo true if jthe conditions imposed upon feople regardless of their political leanings, a.

manifesto the union of organised labour in Germany says they are not prepared to perish for the benefit of international dinner in the club on the understanding that the speeches aire not reported in press and that no resolutions are passed and. communi recruits, and to cut down the continuation schools at this moment is to force into the overcrowded labour market many boys and returning to Washington. I am (bold that, as a matter of fact, he is going back to Washing Germany were to last for ever. But just as wc were reconciling ourselves to stationary and si. Ualeroghopoulos emerged instead.

Ip the opinion of certain Greeks just returned from Athens this means that n. cated to the ton on the 15th. girls whose parents might under the circum New Yobs, 8t.20.at. The statement made by Mr. Austen Chamber-lain in his Binntagham Qwech in regard to a proposal made to, and not accepted by, the or declining industries and getting to rely combination of all the Darties.

includinr. ha He came over here with one or two definite it has been thought in some Quarters ibat U. xr 1 mi i stances have kept them at home, provided some of their time was given to study. The suggestions to make and to seek instructions upon the situation created by the entrance of a new Administration in the United States. implied a qualification of the laubVoansent.to the holding of this pwticular ftwrtion-VAs a fact, the court taken in iej.ard to-next United States for total or partial remission of closing of continuation schools must seriously debts between the Allied and Associated Powers has caused a sensation in Washington, The consultation has been valuable and satis pinner is customary whenevof a the upon the forced labour of the whole thing would come to an end.

There would be a fresh tremendous upheaval and we should have to set about recapturing the markets which we had for forty years been compelling Germany to supply. But of course the whole idea is ridiculous. Germany, affect the appalling figures of. unemployment, quite apart from its threat to the factory, and in some respects rather eniseusi, wm ue rormea against, al. liounaris.

Opinion in Greece is now represented as indecisive, and many of the well-to-do and intellectual classes are sitting on the fence. They await a lead, so it is said, from British opinion. Solidly pro-Entente, even though anti-Veniselist, they place their faith in British support during the forthcoming conference; and it is further argued that if exub. desires to bold a eatherincr. The nil i and is attracting wide notice in the press.

important. that a form asking iottbe use of a zoom shall High officials' of the State and Treaeury Be. capitalism. (7) The Bavarian Cabinet, says a Iieuter telegram, has decided to adopt a non-possumus attitude towards the Entente demands both on disarmament and reparations. (7) Our Budapest correspondent says a serious breach was caused in the Hungarian Govern-niout party when the Premier proposed that the- Royalist, question should be left in abeyance.

Later, however, the Tree Electioneers gained a sweeping victory over those I who want the return of the Hapsburg dynasty. M. Briand continues his vigorous Communist hunt, but our correspondent in Paris suggests that this activity Is more for tho prospect of a thoughtful and critical democracy. Judge Bodkin. partments decline to comment on the matter, although the reading of cuttings from newaj.

County Court Judge Bodkin, who has just be Ailed in. room is requiredis Cftdd 'inoinue is pads to observe certain reguUUon, including one that no report shall amjear in it is quite possible, may find the means of paying the relatively light indemnities de paper reports in the Senate has evoked criticism of the Administration for concealing infe-ima for the second time, by the way spoken very plainly and fearlessly from the bench about uritisn opinion clearly snowed that its support of Greece was not the same thing as support of King Constantino the Iatter's A JUdge and Reprisals. We give elsewhere the text of a letter any public newanaoer.v nor shall nn4r 1.ki..:n. tion on the subject Senator Walsh, of Massa the destruction of property by armed forces manded of her in the first few years, and it is even possible that our manufacturers may passed be iidvertfeed with the name of th aays as nong worna oe recognlsably of the Crown in Ireland, is well known in London, for be was a member of Parliament submit to her doing so. But that they should submit to the unloading of 400.000.000 of chusetts, said: article In the press to-day contains the first information that has been given to the American public that an actual proposal was made by a debtor foreign Government to cancel, foreign obligations." ,1 Several sens' ton, interviewed on the subject for Roscommon in.

the nineties. He was STOCKPORT AND SUNDAY TRAINS. I uulvous reactionaries than a -u-iu attached without. the written consent the Gmroitoe." In lne ewe of the Coalition liberal dinner the i Committee's consent to publicity waV notfitaked for. an ou a menace to the State.

(7) German goods a year for any considerable Fn-iAfe': AommiW for innmber of years is frankly incredible. We then a dapper, genial man with a strong Gal-way accent, whose pleasant manner scarcely indicated the firmness of purpose which he Bramhall Counoil has received a communication from the Ministry of Transport promisr addressed to Sir Hamar Greenwood by Mr. Bodkin, K.C., the county court judge for the county Clare. It furnishes, so far as we are aware, the ouly judicial pronouncement that has been made on the' unofficial reprisals perpetrated by the forces of the Crown during the autumn and winter months; the only parallel pronouncement, that of the Strickland Report on the burning of Cork (which was made by a military court), has up' o- "iia.u Xiora uurzon are busy getting out an Anti-dumpinir Bill to Dy ainerent newspapers, nave wiinout excep- SALPORD CORPORATION STOCI "i waue, savs me to reconsider the questiof reintroducing tion opposed khe cancelUtibn proposal. Snndav trains on the 8toc-Tjart to Thi was evidenced urine the Parnell split.

the 1 Soviet Government insists upon reciprocal P108." any from exporting goods, by the Mr. Bowcmpuarry was then derntiiuns obligations being undertaken to discontinue of a dePWciated mark, at a somewhat hostile activities abroad and upon political cheaper rate than we can make them What fr Mr. TOam olrieri gS 4 if Allied debtor, can Py they oi The SaWord.ConncU. considerlvMw jfei: wife wgard to the should piy. their debts to this country, as there as editor of "United Ireland" during the necessary arraneemeiits before the neU time alliance of that gentleman in America.

Not- tables are issutd. for Bill likely to think of an agreement and: will- be asked ii' iriiXSuuCto conclude an agreement. to the present been suppressed by the Govern withstanding menaces Mr. Bodkin conceived I 1. 1 0) is believed to jbe.

no valid reason for cancella-tjoii. However, they are not inclined; to press the Allies for payment either of principal or interest beyond weir 'economic capacity. -J Vr'. it his duty to oppose the continuance of Mr. jg hoped that by July next Pri-js will 48 louna compel Germany to supply goods for nothing which it intndSa'to ment.

There had not, of course, been any doubt about the reality of these reprisals, of which there was -detailed and Parnell in the leadership; and the result was see the res -oration of the local steamboat ser-the famous incident in which Parnell at vicethe UtttofbaU-mvick so in ri It. rtsur Tim-m AiAA tne sanieso.to. cthfctot! Tvr.TTf r-c tjommenting; eoi-oriauy on jut. unamDeriain's Making- Germany Pay. The mystery the indemnity deepens, and after Mr.

Lloyd George's speech at Bir the head of a band pt loaowers-attacked and. SfySL ZattttTKtttt3-fSZ2i kv tvSiitit t. is uhule equipment of tbo, company wbii.h for- X.Rays and It was a sad blow to the skilled malingerer when the doctors invented th tone and impntatiqn it is irritating raptured the newspaper office et artninV Mr. Bodkin was not to bo and produced a litt-e sheet which he called "The conclusive evidence, but the attempt had been made in some' quarters by suggestion audi innuendo 4o throw doubt on 'them, and the mingham lapses into yet deeper gloom. ran tne.

service, comprising. D.si'les ili, floating' landing-stage, -61 vessels, of which 21 are said to be in good condition. There will do only one class." Gennaoy is to pay whatever can be got out of Thenceforth it was no good to say that he Insuppressible and in which he carried on a' vigorous arainst" the 'Parnell attempt was helped by the evasions and I lieoples.