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THE OSHAWA DAILY, TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY, 20, 1929 British Isles WORLD POLICE UNITY AIMED AT BY LONDON CONFERENCE Police Chiefs of Europe Confer in Yard Executives to Organize For Sending Finger Prints tsondon, Eqg--It is a fact acknowl wdged by other nations that Great Britain leads the world in crime de- tection and prevention. That is one reason why the German and French police chiefs conferred recently in London. 5 Scotland Yard is to be the head- quarters from which the world war on crime will be disected and is even now being directed. The aims of the Police League of Nations were summed up recently by Richard E. Enright, president: of the international police conference and for scven years commissioner of the New York police. Mr. Enright said: The police forces of the world must bring all their ideas together and pool their resources to check- mate that highly-skilled, globe-trot- ting crook who recognizes no fron- tiers--the international criminal: 50 Nations Join : This world-wide police crusade is Jo be waged against criminals in gen- pral and in particular against: White slavers and drug traffickers. International forgers and mail rob- rs. Jewel thieves: Confidence tricksters. Gangsters. Police methods of the larger na- tions dre being reviewed by the "Big Five" and the results will be laid be- fore a conference in November, at which at least 50 nations will be re- presented. : The scheme now being developed will ultimately line up every civilized country in the world-wide crusade against organized crime. : Among other things, the "Big. Five" are completing plans for the wide use of international police airplanes and the provision of the latest in television and wireless picture trans- mission. Delays caused by the for- malities of extradition of criminals are to be reduced to the minimum. Yard Branches Abroad An important innovation will be that the police force of each country will have attached to it a highly- trained contingent from the police forces of the bigger nations, who will also lend to the smaller nations some of their most competent officers. Thus ihbre would be Sootland Yard outposts. in Paris, New York, Canada, Berlin, Vienna--officers who are ex- pert linguists and who understand the mentality of the particular na- tion 'to which they are attached. The police forces of the bigger na- tions have each developed along in- dividual lines and Scotland Yard has been built up on the theory that the police constable of long experience makes the best man-hunter; Paris re- lies rather on the diplomatic type, the brilliant individualist detective. Austria places its faith in the lab- oratory; Germany has developed what is practically a human card in- dex system which "puts a card in at one end and produces the wanted man at the other"; New York has "wperfected the use of the mailed fist. In the world war on crime all these will be co-ordinated, so that one re- medies the weakness of the other--a combination against which the inter- national 'eriminal should be helpless. Dope and White Slavery The "Big Five" are starting from the point.that the day of the petty thief is gone; that this is the day of the big crime combined with politi- cal influence in many countries, and brains and money in all, As a beginning they will seck to regulate the manufacture and distri- bution of firearms throughout the world, The French chief, M. Chlappe, is to play a big part in the suppres- wion of international white slavers and dope traffickers. In France, he Is regarded by criminals as a terror, though physically he is the smallest lice chief in the 'world. He has a jace which is reminiscent of Napo- on. Recently M. Chiappe conducted a remarkably successful clean-up of Paris, sweeping "into his net hund- reds of white slavers, mostly Span- iards and Italians; dope traffickers who were smuggling drugs from Gernmany and Tunis, and confidence tricksters who made gullible tourists their prey. 'What M. Chiappe has learned he Js to pass on to the police forces of the world. German gangs are notoriously bet- ter oO ized than any others. There- fore Herr Zorgiebel has some experi- ence of value to Lord Byng or M. Chiappe. A few months ago he brought off two coups in Berlin which practically shattered the power of the gangs. 'which terrorized the German capital. Prints by Wireless What Herr Zorgiebel and Mr. En- right (who. got his experience in New York and Chicago) know Shout warfare against the gangs will be at the depos] of the others of the "Big Five" and of the international con- ference in November. For some time Mr. Enright has been quietly visiting the police chiefs of all the European capitils, gathering material to be placed at the dis 1 of the conference. cotland Yard's contribution will be a large one, including the bene- fits of its wonderful wireless system, ifs amazingly comprehensive finger- print department and 'the latest de- velopments in television and wireless jcture transmission, at which the ard is unequalled. Soon the wireless broadcasting of a criminal's photograph and fin- gerprints will be as commonplace as ordinary wireless. / It is hoped also to establish an . international police "information" newspaper, to be printed simultane- ously in the world capitals. . At last the international crook 'is fori. ' London With Scotland Against Crooks -- Plan by Wireless ISLAND FOR SALE Tax-Free and ing Seat in Sark Parliament London.--Brechou, a romantic little Channel island, ownership 'of which carries freedom from rates and taxes and a seat in the Parliament of Sark, is again for sale. wi Angelo Clarke, hotel proprietor of Staines, bought it in February last and is now offering it for sale by auction through Messrs. Knight, Frank and Rutley. ; Of about 100 acres, Brechou is a quarter of a mile west of Sark. It has a dwelling house, a farm, an ar- able plateau with a mile of winding road, fishing facilities and a landing place for boats. : A neighbor of the island owner will be Compton Mackenzie, the no- velist, whose Channel Island "para- dise" is Jethou. BRITISH MALAYA TRADE CONDITIONS "Key Area" in Commerce of the Middle East KEEN COMPETITION Direct Trading Methods of Japanese and Siamese Get Results London.--The Department of Over- seas Trade issued recently a Review of the Trade of British Malaya in 1928 by L. B. Beale, Trade Commis- sioner. The review makes it clear that a prosperous future is assured for Brit- ssh Malaya, but that a share in this prosperity is by no means assured to Great Britain on the same scale as before. British Malaya is a "key area" in the commerce of the Middle East, and if Great Britain can secure and hold a substantial share of the trade of Malaya, her future trade in the Orient is assured. The steadily rowing domination of the Chinese in Malaya is the most important part of the change that has come over the "Straits" in recent years... Of approx- imately 4,000,000 inhabitants, 1,675, 000 are Malays,.1,600,000 are Chinese. There are 650,000 Indians, mostly small traders from South India and 20,000 Europeans. The Malay is charming, courteous, easy-going, and apparently incapable of sustained effort or continued ap- plication to wage-earning. Year by year the level-headed, long-sighted Chinese have poured in--20,000 a year or more--and taken hold of factory labor and retail trade. British Mala- ya produces about half of the world's dv and one-third of its tin, and the annual value of her exports is nearly £200,000,000, which, with the exception of 1928, has for some years sufficed to balance her import trade, in which she spends £40,000,000 on manufactured goods. "At some stage in almost every sale of imported goods the Chinese trad- ing element enters. . .. and the ten- dency of countries competing with the United Kingdom, such as Japan, Ger- many, France, Italy, Czecho-slovakia and to a more limited extent the United States, is to encourage and develop the direct importation by the Chinese and other Asiatic dealers without using the local European merchant as much as formerly. Chinese Domination In the years before the War, states the review, Great Britain enjoyed al- most half of the import trade. To- day her share is less than one-third. "The task before us--to regain and hold a share approximating to that of pre-War days--can be accomplish- ed, but it will require much more ag- gressive and intelligent action on our part than at present obtains." Great Britain still supplies the needs of the few European and the Government Departments, but in supplying the needs of the Asiatics, 99 per cent. of the population, British trade has de- clined. The truth is that many of our goods are neither as attractive in price nor as suitable in character or quality for this market as those of certain other competing countries; and, further, our relations in trade with the Asiatic are gradually getting less intimate than either those of Japan or Con- tinental Europe. ... On the other hand the United. Kingdom has un- doubtedly made much more progress than other countries in handling and controlling the export trade of Brit- ish Malaya. We sell and distribute the produce of the Asiatic much more successfully and effectively than we sell our goods to him, but there are some signs of even this advantage being somewhat curtailed as the As- iatic gains more direct customers for "Straits" produce all over the world. As yet, continues the review, Brit- ish Malaya is in her commercial in. fancy; but she already enjoys a per capita value of external trade exceed- ed only by New Zealand. In addition to rubber, which fills 50 per cent. of her bill of exports, and tin, British Malaya also exports copper in in- creasing quantities, and has, Mr. Beale considers potentialities of in- creased production=wr*Palm oil, pine- apples, and several other natural re- sources, Manufacturing is yet in its infancy in the country, although vast quantities of rubber and canvas foot- wear are supplied to the densely pop- ulated markets of Java, China, Siam, and the Dutch East Indjes. It is, however, with the decline in Great Britain's share in the import trade DISARMAMENT OF EMPIRE 15 FEARED Dangers of False Ideals Are, Urged by London Referee PRACTICAL FORMULA Says British Position Ad- mits of No Pacific Prevarication London.--Come the three corners of the world in arms, and We shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If Britain to herself do rest but truc. , ~--Shakespeare. Out of nothing comes nothing. Id- ealistic pacificism, based on unreal hypotheses, beats its wings in the void. There is real substance behind real Peace. Did General Dawes and Mr. Ram- say MacDonald get down to sub- stance in their Peace-through-Dis- armament talk? Do they understand the nature of the force which they are attempting to muzzle? asks a special commissioner of the London Referee in this thought provoking article on the topic of peace. War is the historical counterpoint of Peace, a progressive unrest be- tween periods of quiet. It cannot be stilled Ry words. To thinkers who have resisted the seductive opium of phrases it appears to be a life-law, like the circulation of the blood or the ebb and flow of the tides; and life-laws cannot be stilled and framed as souvenirs of a Bad Past. The final reality, science tells us, is motion. And when motion ceascs death ensues. The Past surges thru Present to Future as we consider the question of War and Peace today. There is no death in natural process- es; there are only ends surging into beginnings; and motion without end. Who can doubt the truth of that? The political opium-eaters, getting aside the law of being, avowed that the World War would end all wars. What are the facts? Dragon's teeth in nearly every continent and country which is, indeed, a natural outcome. We are examining herc a medal, a sort of counter ot »*- al law; ob- vers and reverse are stamped. W and Peace. Lav coin we must, or we dic. Certainty of War Let useplay it, since we must, not blindly but intelligently; let us con- sider before we spin how the coin is likely to fall under a given bias, To begin, we cannot rule out the possibility of war. On the contrary, the certainty of war appears, at the moment, to be inevitable, Europe is walking on dragon's teeth in the cor- ridor dispute betwcen Germany and Poland, in the territorial conditions of Austria and Hungary, in Italian aspirations, in the Rhineland-Danube preparations, and in the Franco- German situation. Asia seethes with the yeast of coflict. Afghanistan is a barrel of gunpowder between Soviet imperialism and British Colonial in- terests, and the Russo-Chinese-Japan ese situation will almost certainly awaken the pacifist to a thunderous reality. The African deserts are aflame with rebellious tribes, ready to pounce like lions on a forgetful master, and in the southern part of the continent the coming clash be- tween black and white is already a slogan on political platforms. The New World is as old in its subjection to life-law as the rest. The South American Republics watch the Col- ossus of the North with ill-concealed apprehension, South of the Rio Grande the name of Yankec dissi- pates pacific ideals, In such a world, which country will lay down its arms? Which country will bind itself to strike no blow when the coin, spun by a cunning and interested, hand, falls with war sky-up? Which country is unnatural cnough to attempt to reverse the na- tural process of defending its own? It scems to me that three-quarters of the world, if its peace talk be sincere is dreaming, And I, with the rest of thoughtful students ot intciuauvuar affairs, would like to know what. General Dawes and Mr, Ramsay MacDonald are planning to surmount these in- surmountable difficulties, It is well that we should, therefore, put aside ideal panaceas for the aboli tion of war as, at the best, political gibberish, or, at the worst, diploma- tic skirmishings, and scek some practical formula, based on life-law, for the reduction of human pain and national dislocation to a minimum in the event of a future war. Peace talk, as I have shown, can achieve nothing since .it is based on unrealities. I say achieve nothing, I am forgetting, for the moment, its dangers; these I will deal with later. War cannot be abolished; but it can be humanized; and it is towards the humanization ' cof war that political jorkers for international goo direct their formula. Boo shou : Formula } That formula, by the very nature of the life-problem to which it is to be applied, cannot be revolutionary or hardly. anything, indeed, than super- ficial; but it can be practical, it can be real, and it can achieve rcal and practical 5 ts terms should include the aboli- tion of Conscription, Poison Gas, and the murder of civilians; the power to translate these terms into realities presupposes a power over masses and material which--though it falls far Short of the pacifist ideal--is not so casy of exertion as it might a , On this point the words 0, Frpean ilng will bear quotation : "It is true that the material forces. which in reality carried on the World War--from the high explosives and the levies of masses down to the as- sociation of interests spanning the globe--were set into the world by man. But once they had been creat- ed they proved cven more superior to their creators than the 'spirits of the magicians apprentice in Goethe's poem. Man had become nothing .but AAG Pay that the review is most concerned, the slave of his 'things. Their con- L) 2 She's 'an awful vedge," is Ish- bel MacDonald, according to her own collegiate vernacular. Which means that he neither dances, smokes, drinks mor swears--and thus should be a prime favorite with Queen Mary. Ishbel shown here with her famous father, the Premipr of Great Britain is 25 now, but she's the youngest hostess who ever presided over historic old No. 10 Downing street. catenation grew to be so terrific a power that onc felt as though wit- nessing the resurrection of antique Fate, of that absolutely irrational, overpowering Fate to which gods and men alike had to bow." The failure to subject masscs and material consciously in war has add- ed enormously to the sum total of human pain. Before the = formula which I have indicated, and. which 1 recommend to the serious considera- tion of Gencral Dawes and Mr. Ram- say MacDonald, can be practically applied, the nations must acquire conscious control of the forces at their disposal. Then, and not till then, can war be humanized. But it is within the immediate power of cvery nation not to make war obli- gatory to the masses by conscription; and once so much is accomplished national leaders may take - another step towards the humanization of war with security. If General Dawes and Mr, Ramsay | MacDonald are sincerely striving to confer a boon ,upon humanity they will eschew useless and dangerous academic pacifism and adopt a prac-| tical formula along the lines which I have suggested Useless and dangerous pacifism The phrase fits the situation admir- ably. Beware of politicians with ready-made nickel-plated doctrines of peace! They lock insight and mo- bility; and when the ccin falls the wrong side up they are lost; and so are the people whose sccurity they, hold in trust. Smith's Dock company, Souut Bank, Middlesbrough, are reopen: ing Ropner's shipyard, Stockton, which they purchased recently for overflow work. . LJ i S. Cressy, deputy borough rreas- urer of Rotherham, has been dp- pointed borough treasurer of Eal- ing, in succession to Mr, A, Rich- ardson, who is retiring. YOUNG GIRLS WHO LIKE OLDER MEN Cupid Cast Aside For Lucre --Few of Them Happy London, July 17. -- Surprising facts about the number of young girls who are marrying elderly men were disclosed to a reporter, recently _by a London registrar. "There is not the slightest doubt that there is a remarkable increase in marriages between couples of widely different ages," he said. "During the past few weeks I have least twenty couples where the bridegroom was old enough to he the bride's father, "In one case a man of 79 mar- ried a girl of 23. In another the girl was 30 and the man was 84." The registrar had been asked about the statement of an Ameri- can visitor to London, J. B. Eyres, in a letter to the press, expressing astonishment at . seeing so many young girls in the company of mid- dleaged and elderly men. "Three honeymoon couples are staying at my hotel," Mr. Eyres stated. 'In each case the bride- groom must be at least 20 years older than the bride." Inquiries have revealed that such marriages are now _common- place. Of the 40 marriages sol- emnized by a suburban vicar dure ing the past few weeks 15 have been hetween girls and men con- married at siderably older than themselves. The engagement of the picdidst debutante of the 1927 sec:cn in London, has just been announced. She is Lady Anne Cavendish, who appears above, the yougest daugh- ter of the Puchess of Devonshire, who spent five happy yeaty in Ot tawa, while her father was gover. nor-general She is 'to mavry Mr. Henry Hunloke, only son «¢{ Major Sir .Philip .Hunloké, .groom-in- waiting to the King, and the. dis. tinguished helmsman of the King's 'vacht, "Britannia." The groom. elect is on the stock exchange. POSTIAN SLEW LION IN HS Wat Ex-Canadian Soldier Uses His Souvenir German \ Revolver EXCITING SCENES Dorset Village Gets Thrill of Century Fram Men- agerie Visit London.--A roaring lion leaped through the fields at this seaside Dorsetshire village, scattering terror and panic at every leap. It had es- caped from a passing circus men- agerie, Men bolted, women screamed, chil- dren shrieked, but the lion went on leading. It roared frightfully, It sprang among a herd of cows and brought one down. The moment produced the mau. He was Mr. Percy S. Smith, the village postman, Mr. Smith fought in the 31st Battalion of the Canadian: Division in France, and a lion was nothing to him. He stalked the Lion with a Ger- man souvehir revolver, and shot it dead. Meanwhile, menagerie men with sticks and lassoes had sought to cap- ture the king of terrors, farmers had joined in with their guns, and streams of motor cars, motor coaches, and other vehicles going both ways along the Bridport-Axminster road through Charmouth were held up by the hunt. ++ Graphic Story A graphic account of the incident was given to me by Mr. Horace Au- ger, an East Dulwich resident on holiday at Lyme Regis. The men- ageric, known as Chapman's Zoo, was on its way to Lyme Regis to give a show. "J was standing on the Charmouth road," said Mr, Auger, "when 1 saw a tractor going up the hill. It was pulling two cages, one containing a lion and the other two or three tigers. The driver appeared to be in diffi- culties, and backed the vehicle into the side of the road. In doing so the cage containing the lion struck a tree. The impact caused the door of the cage to become unfastened. "The animal made a wild dash for liberty. 1 was momentarily dumb- founded when it ran into the road- way, and hardly knew what to do. With other people in the village who had scen the lion I took to my heels. Women were screaming with fear." The lion first of all prowled about the road, and holidaymakers coming along in cars pulled up in amazement, and backed away in a hurry. The road was soon crowded. with. cars, which pulled up at a distaince from the lion on either side. The lion eventually lay down beside the road, and there it remained quite upcon- cerned for about an hour, while the lines of held-up traffic grew longer. Then Mr, Flexmore,. the manager of the show, and 'Mr. Farber, the lion trainer, arrived on the scene and endeavored to capture the lion, Hun- dreds of pcople had by this time reached the spot, but they took good care to keep at a distance from the lion, which lay down awaiting events. The Trainer's Pat The trainer approached the lion, which knew him well, and allowed him to pat it on the head. He went as far as to put a walking stick in the lion's mouth. The excited crowd looked on in astonishment at this extraordinary performance on the King's highway. When, however, the trainer deavored to put a rope around the lion's neck it became angry and growled at him. All at once it sprang up and jumped over a hedge into a field. This was the signal for the crowds of onlookers to take to their heels. Some rushed for the. shelter of houses, and thereafter watched from bedroom windows. Others climbed telegraph poles and trees. The trainer, with four or five other men went into the field still hoping to 'catch the lion alive. The lion at first prowled among the cows in the field, taking no notice of them until ont of the cows, which had a calf, put her horns down and made for the lion. Then the lion sprang at the cow and mauled her badly. The trainer and manager realized that now the lion had drawn' blood the only thing to do was to shoot it. Two or threc of the men had ordin- ary shotguns, and although such weapons were useless as far as kill- ing. the lion was = concerned, three shots were fired at the beast while it was mauling the cow. The shots sent the lion into a rage. It aban- Soned the cow and leaped across the eld. Charles Goodland, a farmer, looked over his garden wall, and saw the lion glaring at him within a few feet. He immediately got his gun and join- ed in the hunt, Mr. Marsh, a Charmouth butcher, and the manager of the zoo both fired, and the lion was hit in the eye and hind leg: The wounds infuriated the lion still. more, and it chased one of the men around a shed. It dashed finally into a shed in which gardening iniplements were stored. Here Mr. Smith, the postman, fired three shots at the lion with his revolver. Farmers who had arrived with their guns, fired other shots, to make sure that the lion was killed. Mr. Smith, the postman, was just returning from, his morning. roun when he first heard the lion's roars, while it was attacking the cow. "1 immediately dashed into my house," he said to me, "and snatched up an old German revolver which I had brought back with me from France as a souvenir. I loaded it and returned to the farm, where I found the lion still attacking the cow, which by now was so badly mauled that it appeared to be dead. I fired at the lion and killed it almost instantly, "I don't think I am.a hero, T just did it for the safety of all of us. I suppose any other man who possess. cn- ed a similar weapon would have done likewise. It is X rarely that I am - Ishoel Maclionald, Daughter : LEGION'S PEACE POLICY Viscount Lascelles on The Lesson Of The War Speaking at a British Legion fete which he opened at Chadwell Heath, Becontree, thé other day, Viscount Lascelles said he had heard people say that the British Leglon was a militarist organiza- tion, but nothing could be further from the truth. Those who had passed through the - war had had their lesson, and they did not want to go through it again if they could help it. 'The business of a sol- dier," added Viscount Lascelles, "is to end war and not to begin it. The people who begin war are generally the politicians, I am afraid." The one definite rule they had in the Brisk Legion was to leave politics out. INDENTURE LABOR Natives Eager to Pay Taxes --Bonus Given to Big Families London.--Native labor in Papua is understood to be contented labor, and the conditions of the worker is well safeguarded, so it was with spe- cial pleasure that the members of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protec- tion Society listened recently to an account from Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant Governor of Papua, on the labor system and how it work. Few white men, said Sir Hubert, know much about natives, and the natives knew even less about them, but he thought they were always learning, and that in Papua this knowledge was less obscured by priggishness, formalism and pedantry on the white man's part and by ignorance, super- stition and distrust on the natives part than was the case twenty years ago. In Papua under present conditions imported labor was impossible. For- ced labor was not allowed and flog- ging and all other forms of corporal punishment were forbidden, He en- tirely agreed with the poligy that for- bade imported labor. Such labor would mean an Asiatic population, and would take away from the Pap- puan his old culture and all incentives to ambition. Women Workers Papua had to rely entirely on indi- genous labor which was altogether voluntary. There were two systems, one of free labor, under which neither the employer nor the employed was bound by any statutory requirements, and the system of indenture under which their relations were limited and conditioned by statute or regula- tions as to the length of the term of service, wages, rations, hours of labor, his home, and so on. Breachds of these conditions in the case of the cniployer were usually punished by fine and in the case of the laborer usually by imprisonment, The indenture of women except as house servants, was not allowed in Papua. Most of the indentured lab- orers were unmarried, but a married man might be accompanied by his wife. The maximum period allowed of indenture was three years, but as a rule natives only works for eight- cen months. No laborer was allowed to remain away from his own village for more than four-xea#s because the administration realized that the existence and prosperity of the vil- lage is essential to the Papuan's in- dependance. He is a landowner, but if he. drifted away from village lifc he would become nothing but another mian's laborer. For the same reason women were not allowed to inden- ture. They remained -in the villages, whose existence primarily depends on them. Indentured labor cannot work more than ten hours a day or fifty- five hours 'a week, and Sunday work must be paid for as overtime. Sir Hubert said that, at best, in- dentured labor was a necessary c with the pursuit of deserters and the imprisonment of those who broke] their contract. It was really rather like slavery and could not be accepts ed-as a final settlement of the labor problem. But its abolition would be ruinous to both cmployer.and em- ployed in Papua. "Our task," He SYSTEM IN PAPUA PREMIER'S DAUGHTER IS THE YOUNGEST CHIEF HOSTESS of Premier is Most Youthful Chatelaine Ever to Reign at No. 10 Downing Street-- Is Popular With Queen Mary, and Has Many Accom. London.--When . Kamsay Mac. Donald moved into the house wut No. 10 Downing street as the prime minister of Great Britain for the second time, his eldest daughter, Miss Ishbel, once more took up the difficult position of hostess in the rambling old house provided by the government for its chief minister, She thus again becomes the most conspicuous young woman {in the kingdom, except for members of the royal family. Five years ago, when her father suddenly was called to the post of prime minister, she was a gir! of 20, studying domestic and social science at King's College, London, with a view of fitting herself for social welfare work, in which she always has been deeply interested. The hearts of English women went out to the young girl, who was forced into such a prominent place with so little warning. MacDonald is a widower, but his aughter showed a poise and a knowledge which was little expect- ed in one so young. Five years ago Miss Ishbel was the youngest hostess in the history of No. 10. Although now nearly 25 she still is the youngest hostess in English history. The last time she was a success from the start, To the old official house she suc- ceeded in imparting an atmosphers of home to some of the rooms where her father could get away from the cares of state. THe family's. own sitting room was very plainly furnished--zrey paper on the walls, two writing desks, a few chintz covered chairs. There was only one picture on the wall--a framed photograph of a seat in Lincoln's Inn Field, ine scribed. "This seat has been placed here in memory ' of Margaret MacDon- ald, who spent her life in helping others. She took no rest for do- ing good." The picture was significant. It was symbolic of the great love the Socialist leader bears for the memory of his dead wife and the equal worship the chldren have for her. Queen Likes Her At that time Miss Ishbel, using the slang of her college, called her- self "an awful vedge" which means that she neither smokes, swears, drinks nor dances. She thus is the kind of girl who ap- peals to Queen Mary = The royal family had her and her father as Easter guests at Windsor castle, and "afterward the Queen describ- ed her as a charming girl. Since she left No. 10 and re- turned to Hampstead, Ishbel led a busy. happy life. She finished her studies, travelled with her fa- ther in 1927 and in Canada in 1928. She showed herself a flu- ent speaker in public while helping both her father and brother came pagn for parlament. She herself was elected to the London County Council for the Poplar division and takes a very active part'in its debates. One of the most charming inti- dents in her popudar life occurred when her father as prime minister was entertained by the Press club. It also happened to be the time she was celebrating her coming of age, The club sent her a silver ink- stand inscribed: "From the London Press club {0 Ishbel with love on her twenty: first birthday." On another side were quant words: "Say what you like, careful what you write." the pl but be said, "is to make it work as harmoni= ously as possible, and in this, I think we have succeeded. #Labor must be quite voluntary: p to the moment of signing his con tract before a magistrate--who must] remain quite neutral--the native must have power to change his mind and if_he refusc to sign the recruiter must take him home again. It was always generally recognized that the native labor legislation protected both) partics to the contract. The native labor ordnance which gave a native rmission to work for three months called up to deal with such an em- ergency but I suppose it all comes in the day's work of a village post- man, "Crack Shot" The manager of the show gave the postman the credit for the "kill" and said that he proved "an absolute crack shot." : Other witnesses informed me: that Lupo indenture has now been al« tered. The time limit has been abol- ished, but the casual native laborer may only work within twenty miles of his home and women only within four miles, so that they can returns home at any time if conditions of service do not suit them. : "There are many casual laborers, but it is risky to run a plantation with nothing but casual laborers wha the lion was chased by its trainer, a German, and three other bers of the 'circus. The trainer attempted to lasso it, .but was: unsuccessful, and the lion then bounded away, sending thé onlookers racing for shelter. A man with a shot-gun fired at it. This caused the. lion to become more in- furiated. It turned back and sprang into a field just outside the village. Here it' attacked the cow, seizing it by the throat. The lion was named Pasha. He was seven years old, and had a black mane. He will be. mourned at Chap- man's Zoological Park, Chestnut, by Mrs, Pasha and her three young' cubs, who were born about three months ago, soon after Pasha was taken away to travel with the show. Pasha was considered a perfect specimen of his species, and was valued at $1,250, , may be stampeded at any moment by a sudden longing to go home or by fear of sorcery, and who may leave the plantation entirely without labor, perhaps at a critical moment when every man is badly needed." : ir Pager Taxpayers Charles Roberts, who presided, had asked Sir Hobert how he had man- aged to make taxation as popular at it seemed to be in Papua. Sir Hu- bert said the administration was paid for out of the customs, and there was also a grant in aid. The native taxes were devoted -to the benefit of the natives themselves, the medical ser- vice--which has almost entirely stam- ped 'out some. diseases--and so on. This was explained to the natives and when they understood it they paid willingly. Only the villages. that could afford to pay were taxed, and taxed according to their means.