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P Boat and Auto Bish sir Hopes to Tbe 240 Miles on Hour on the Daytona Track in February; Expects to Skip Over the Water at Ninety Miles an Hour Sondon.ccthe Golden Arrow, in 'which Major H. O. D. Segrave, holder ~~ of the world speed record for motor cars, hopes to reach 240 miles an hour, is almost completed. Major Begrave will take the car to America In January for tests on the sandy of Daytona Beach, Fla. Stmultaneously, his new motor boat, christened Miss England, is receiving Anal touches. This craft will be a comrade of the Golden Arrow in seek- Ing to lower American records. Major Begrave expects to hop, skip and jump over the water at a rate of ninety miles ag hour cr more. "I intend to go for the records in February," Segrave declared in an in- terview. "It is hard to say which of | the two records will be the more ait | ficult to beat; I am inclined to think' the motor boat record will be the | harder, and it will certainly be at least as dangerous as the other." Judging solely from the design of his car, Segrave said he knew it would! produce a speed of 240 miles an hour.' Facts About New : Warships Now on Fleet Exercises Cruisers With Oil Kitchen Ranges and Electric Bakeries FIRST REHEARSAL Nelson and Rodney to Fire Broadsides From 16-in. Guns In Moray Firth during the next few days some of the newest and rost powerful ships of the Atlantic Fleet will engage in autumn everciscs, some of which will be so realistic that the cnly'stbstantial factor missing will be a real enemy target. Nelson and Rodney, the Navy's latest battleships, will fire broadsides from their immense 16-inch guns, Hood, Re- nown and Repulse, ships of the hattle cruirec squadron, will fire 15-inch broadsides while steaming at full power. NIGHT ATTACK. Cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers will shoot at Centurion--an old battleship which is the target ship of the Atlantic fleet--and destroyers will carry out a night attack on the Third Battle Squadron, = For the first time in autumn exer- cises Nelson and Rodney, the two great new battleships, are taking part. To say that they look odd is to be polite, "Ugly" would probably not be too harsh. The effect to the eye is a lack of balance, which contrasts strongly with the fine lines of the bat- tle cruisers. ONE TON, ONE SHOT. But these ships carry a bigger de- structive power than the designers of British fighting ships have ever at- tempted. The sixteen-inch projectile weighs just under one ton, so that a broad- side means nearly nine tons of metal and explosive. The guns have a maximum range of just under 22 miles, and it has been estimated unofficially that at ten thousand yards the projectile can pierce seventeen inches of armor. To build the ships costs nearly séven and a half million pounds, of which nbout three millions represent guns and turret armor. They carry complements of about fcurteen hundred officers and men, who consume two and three-quarter tons of food a day. 1,200 LOAVES A DAY The vast stores in the ships provide for carrying naval stores and dry pro- | Lee. visions for six months, while the re- frigerating system makes it possible to carty provisions for nine weeks. The ships' kitchens would make the average housewife green with envy. Coal is unknown. Oil, which fires the boilers, also heats the cooking ranges, and an electric bakery produces twelve hundred loaves a day. + Prmeie------ Shaw Sees "Dark Ages" in Ireland Dramatist Comments on Free State's Censorship of ' London--*"Ireland is going to relapse k ages," is George Bern- . warning on what will happen wh 'the Free State's censor: ] books will bacome law. Free | Tires, he declared, were the great problem for racing motorists, "Last time," Segrave related, "the company promised that the tires would stand up at 200 miles an hour for three minutes--and they did, This time they promise one minute at 240 miles an hour, and that should be. long enough." According to plans now announced, Segrave's car will present a unique appearance. It will be so low that the top of its tires will be the highest part of it, and it can stand upside down on its own wheels. Segrave's greatest problem fin con- nection with his motor boat is to pre- vent it from turning over. With a single propeller the twisting strain of the engine on the hull, called "torque," is so great that there is a tendency for the propeller to turn the boat over instead of propelling it forward. One way out of the difficulty is to use two propellers, revolving in opposite direc- tions. But there is twice as much re- | Bistance of the boat in the water.--A. P. dispatch. struction from the Archbishop of Tuam, have segregated all the Shav- ian works on special shelves not ac- cessible to the general public. "What the Galway libraries do to- day doesn't in the least matter, see- ing that in a few weeks no books, pictures or sculpture will be permit- ted in Ireland," Shaw replied, after which he added the )essimistic pro- phecy quoted 'above.--N.Y. Herald- Tribune. Byng Soon to Begin Police Work Reorganization of Force Will Be Started Immediately by fs New Com- mander London. --Viscount Byng of Vimy has gone to Scotland Yard to begin his reorganization of the metropolitan has gone to Scotland Yard to begin through the ears of a Royal Commis- slon headed by Lord Lee of Fareham, has been hearing what is right and wrong with police methods. as they now exist. Lord Lee, like Lord Byng, was once a soldier. He was the British Mili. tary Attache with the American forces during the Spanish-American War, and filled the same post later at Wash- ington. He married Miss Ruth Moore of New York. His present task is to find out what is wrong with London's police force, once the city's pride, but lately the recipient of more brickbats than -encomiums, Evidence so far taken has been mainly in defense of the police force by its present heads, many of whom will retire when Lord Byng takes command, Sir Willlam Harwood, Chief Commissioner, and Sir Wynd- ham Childs, Chief of 'the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard, who fall within this category, emphatically denied that anything like "third-degree" methods has been prac- tised in this country. The task of the police, they said, was to obtain from witnesses by all the artifices they could employ any information they required, but the moment those witnesses became sus- pected- persons and started to make statements that might amount to confessions, it was the duty of the police to warn them not to say any- thing that might be used against them. This duty was always carried out, they said. . Sir Wyndham, however, admitted that a belief in "third-degree" meth- ods had become rooted in the public mind. "Perhaps engendered by the preva- lence of crook films," suggested Lord A certain amount of indignation has been caused in feminist circles by the blunt assertion of the Chief Commis sioner and his assistant chief that women police are still an experiment whose success has not yet been dem- onstrated. They have been used to watch the drug traffickers and to con- vict fortune-tellers, but, according to Sir Willlam Harwood, they have been found "unfit or responsible work." The role of the silk-stocking sleuth apparently is cast on hard lines in this country. The only critic of the police yet heard has been a magistrate of long experience, and his criticism is rather of the use to which the force is being put. He pointed out the growing ten- dency to employ the police to protect and support morals rather than simply to enforce the law, which, in the long run, gave the best results. Changes of time and custom have provided new duties for the police. Drunkenness, he states, gives them less Stouble than of yore, but the in- h bo; it "possible for themselves 3 government lo It was a five-lap scratch event of the British Motor-cyling Racing Club's meeting at Brooklands tor the START OF GREAT RACE Silver Cup which was won by C. W. C. Lacly. ee and wanted to sleep until late In: the last session. Czar's Treasures at Auction Soon Soviet Government to Offer Priceless Objects for Sale VALUE £300,000,000 Signed Masterpieces of French Furnjture From Gatchina Palace London.--The Soviet Government will offer for sale in Berlin on No- vember 9 picures, furniture, tapes-; representing Raphael's "Scheol of Athens" was prebented with three others to the Russian Crown by the French Government just before the French revolution. Empress' Furniture The French furniture consists main- ly of signed pieces by the most cele- brated cabinet-makers in the Feign of Louis XVI, specially executed for the Empress Catherine II Some estimate of the value of this |, section of the sale can be formed by the total of £150,000 paid for a few pieces by the same master furniture makers in the Cichelham sale two! years ago. Other objects of art to be offered: are jewelled snuff boxes, candelabra' tries, and other are objects that once ' Il ormolu and lustre, exquisite French belonged to Czars and Russian noble- bronzes, Italian bas reliefs, French men, The Bolsheviks have confiscated, or Limoges, enamels. all private art collec: | tions in Russia, and by this means | collections of the Rus8ian princes, "nationalized", have become possessed of art treas- ures worth about £300,000,000. If the result of the forthcoming sale of a first selection of these treasures fulfills expectations, it is likely to be followed by other auctions. The works to be autctioned in Ber- lin next month include pictures, sculp- ture, tapesteriés, bronzes and signed masterpieces of French furniture from the Gatchina Palace, which was a per- sonal palace of the Czar, and contain- ed 300 pictures; from the Mikhailoff Palace, the world-famous Hermitage Musuem, and other "nationalized" collections, The Soviet Government, as is well known, "nationalized" all the great private art collections in Russia, add- ing thereby four thousand maser; pleces by old masters to the Hermi-' tage Museum, which already contained eleven thousand pictures, and incal- culable wealth in ecclesiastical and domestic objects of art of all kinds. The contents of the Hermitage Museum alone were valued by ex- perts early this year at £650,000,000, and the total value of the Soviets art treasures cannot be less than £300,000,000. The pictures to be offered in this first sale include works by Boucher, Greuze, Canaletto, Hubert Robert and ! other favorite eighteenth century mas-' ters. The sculpture includes J. .B. Lemoyne's selebrated marble bust of Marie Antoinette; the tapesteries are Gobelins of the finest period. One great piece of silk and wool A Ton of Death Just Launched and German gold and silver work, and The Russian royal palaces and the archdukes and noblemen were especi- ally rich in French eighteenth cen- tury ort. All the finest furniture and pictures, except the pieces made favorite artists' works. best pictures by Huben example, were in H The treasures no Detectives Trained in stant Registering of F, and Form During the past few days a noted burglar was taught in the ¥nglish Midlands purely from observation 3 his habits, writes a student of crime in the London Daily Mail. Far too afternoon following the robbery. It has been his habit after "cra ing a crib" to go to any hotel i near-by town and ask for a yoom/ ex- plaining that he had travelled all night ned the . ag - Forke,- -- afternoon. --{ work © Minis "and Colonization, stal t issued on 1 a three weeks' vis ada. The' purpose with the proviuce " During his- ; ferences with the$ rs and other prominent memb@rs ofthe Govern- ments of Manitoba, Saskatbhewan, Al- berta and British Columbia. His ef- fort to establishe closer co-operation had « Butler With the provinces was in keeping 1 a the NOSCNEMERdations of the se- i which Be hom the ae enquiry "The Governments of both Manitoba From observation of his habits Scot-| and Saskatchewan have announced land Yard knew this, and inquiries' among hotel-keepers in towns near the scene of the robbery soon dis-/ covered the afternoon sleeper. To the detectives whose mind, through long association with crim- inals has become a veritable picture gallery, and whose faculty for memor- | sna faces, has become so keenly de. Such tasks 3 prosent but little dimes i Hous Yard is a crim- inal Re Office containing nearly 200,00, rtraits of criminals. A good port | time, others 'have reformed and are now good ci , while many others have gone abroad. All thése portraits are classified with the record of the particular type of crime and fall into' different catalogues, Althuogh there may be several persons wanted for | similar offences, the trained mind of the detective, after a few minutes' study of the portraits, retains a com- domestics in Gréat Brij plete picture of the profile and full-| England and one in Scot faced appearance of the fugitive. Result of Training from a mind deyeloped and trained in ipstanees. hurder, was ar- Sir Bermg Spllsbury, the eminent patigglogist, an outstanding example of (Mg. ed, observant, analytical mind, $E° considéred by the authorities to T° prince of observers. . At all times of the day and n a detective's powers of observanton may be put to the test. A few months 8g0 a Scotland Yard detective was told that a man whom he had never seen was in the stalls of a certain theatre and that a warrant had issued for his arrest. i A few seconds' study of his\Ph graph at the "Yard" sufficed. In YB half light of the auditorium the offi- cer, standing by an exit door, was able to Dick out his man and make an ' There was nothing distinctive at about Ihe man's face, and to an un- trained mind this task would have been Tavonimie + | femal Acute observation can only come | work ir the constant registering of facts and | situation, has brought many crim-|as I tou ViThe annals of erim- | of the hal 4 Not | on Canada atenced to death | ficulty. hose powers | only purpose Wi to pick | trouble as the; 13 their willingness to co-operate With the Federal Department in its scheme for the settlement of British boys in Canada," said Mr. Forke. Under this scheme the Dominion, Provincial and British Governments join forces to "give the boy an opportunity to become a farmer in Canada, British boys, especially selected, between the ages of 15 and 20 | ndertaké to engage in farm wo period of three years, will b boy has attained a ct edge of farm work and livegtoe become 21 years of age, and I up about $500, the Governmem cerned, Will make him a loan o for the purchase of a farm of his ¢ the loan to be repaid over & pel 0 wenty years. : Ate scheme which wig favorably regadéd provides establishement of {rE six weeks' course will he domestics contemy anada. prd to the m Minister "With ry to be sett! "There were Def Jiftaiio's Yea Nog LC lose er $1 350,000 Te Treasury s Toronto.--Ontario's fiscal year 1927- 28 closed at 3 o'clock on Oct. 81st. >, One of the last acts of the Treas- ury was to deposit a cheque for $1. man of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Rallway, This represents net operating surplus of the railway for the year, and is the same as the surplus of last year. It was stated, however, that the amount indicated the best year in the history of the road when an expenditure of $300,000 on track and right of way repairs was taken into consideration. Full interest charges had also been met on the $6,000,000 loan negotiated {in the spring to.carry. out an exten: sion program. Neither Premier Ferguson nor Pro- vincial Treasurer Monteith would comment in regard to the condition of the Provincial purse, but it is under stood that the Government expects to be able to.announce a surplus-of approximately $225,000. the grea The '| ple were 000 were rebellion 800,000 from George W. Lee, chair whom he had chosen 5a be Governas Shantung. es Mobammedan uprisings in China have always been events of ul- ness. The last one, abet 1870, pre- 80 costly that it root and branch" of every men impli- cated. The Moslems have never forgotten. They do not count themselves as Chi- nese, but rather as followers of the True Prophet. They have hated, and waited, and conspired. Seven years nga Cased uprising w the leads ce Kanu experienced one of test earthquakes ever known. K mountains walked," 300,000 ge killed, and among this ------ ng is called a great By a All of Central Asi Strange an 5 diss whispering gallery. in Egypt and in Afg ghapistan fan 0 returned is said that PY his widely ad- y was largely a ve intended to lessen the jrard him of the millions of ns who live in the prov- he controls. pot, known whether the 'new merely a reaction against' ananerushing taxes or _inepif®d by Marshal "enemies. If it ie these it will prove of énly importance. ; if the néw rebellion is a revival general anti-Chinese feeling h inspired the rebellion of last y, it may well ruin not only Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang but may pro- foundly affect the whole course of de- velopment of the Nationalist move- ment in China.--N. Y. Times. Discuss Problems 3 of Western Samoa League Examines Report By Government of centu Geneva--The League of Nations Mandates' Commission recéntly com- cluded the examination of the New Zealand Government's report of the administration of Western Samoa. Sir James Parr, high commissioner for New Zealand . in London, in. reply to questions, sald there was no differ- ence made between the white inhablk the repression of crime. He sald that the police'force was large enough to maintain order. Certain schools clos- ed owing to the recent agitations were nd reopened anf an attempt was bets on the sims cipitated a long campaign which was the leaders in the plot for - torted tales of events in Persia, 38 in | tants and the natives, in regard to J LS VR