HEW PERIL SEEN.
If! ENGLISH LIFE
"What Is to Be Done With Un
married Woman?" Is Puz
zle Just -Now.
CAUSE OF VIOLENCE VITAL
When Lite Cheats Girls of Romance,
Sensation, Amusement and Ex
citement They Take Inevlt-.
ably to Making Trouble.
tONDOX. March IS. .(Speoial Corre
spondence.) -Amidst the welter of sen
timent and violence that the suffrage
movement has evolved of late In Eng
land one clear, plain and vital problem
has presented itself for the considera
tion of the most thoughtful of the
country's men and women. It is this:
"What is to be done with the unmar
ried woman?"
She cannot be left where she stands
at present." Her thoughts and her lack
of a career constitute a grave na
tional if not moral, dancer, .and if she
be isolated much longer in the con
fines of her own emotional and febrile
self, the whole constitution of British
society will be undermined. And the
real pulse of England will then be
found to beat through, feminine veins.
This is no scare picture: no fanciful
caricature of the truth. In one form
or another during the past week most
of the principal London newspapers
have discussed this new English peril,
and some of the bravest English think
ers have framed their contributions to
the panic with this frank declaration:
"This is a social problem that Eng
land has faced too late,'1
M,any Are Bewildered.
Others have given themselves ever
to flat-footed bewilderment and to
flurried and feeble protest. These have
merely marveled how it is that the old
cry, "What shall we do with our boys?"
has turned into this far mor.e poignant
question, "What, in the name of heaven,
shall we do with our girls?" Thus R.
A. Scott James, who is prominently
associated with politics and philan
thropy and literature, writes:
"In England, nq matter how many
women are married off. it always
seems that more and more are left
over. You ftnd them working by the
dozen in every office in London. You
see them swarming all over the omni
buses and crowding the suburban
trains. You hear them singing and
practicing the piano in the aquanes of
Bayswater and the villas of Hamp
atead and Streatham. You see them
those crowds of marriageable but
unmarried young women disporting
themselves in the sea, listening to the
band on the pier, or being shown off
by match-making mothers at hydros.
Matrimonial Ability Questioned,
"It seems that there is scarcely any.
thing that can be. done for this rest
less and exacting young woman. She
seizes upon a pleasure, but the end of
it leaves her bored and miserable.
She would like to be permanently act
ive and interested, but there is no per
manent activity of which she is cap.
able. She has been spoiled for work;
she has been spoiled for pleasure; she
has scarcely even been fitted, for matri
mony, should chance and her own
charms throw a husband in her path.
She wilj perhaps develop hysteria; she
will probably become conscious of
'nerves;' in any case she will be a
trouble to, everyone until she gets tired
of being a trouble to herself and be
comes a gossip instead."
One thing, however, emerges quite
clearly. This problem of the unwanted
and unbalanced girls of England will
not remain very long where it is. It
is too real, and much too acute. Today,
it is true, they stand a grim army of
the never to be married -hundreds of
thousands of them who do literally
nothing, unless singing, playing the
piano, flirting, be aocounted an occuna
tlon. What is to beoome of them to.
morrow when they get a vote?
SOUTH AMERICA CRY HEARD
"Come Over ami Help Vs" Is Mace
donian Plea to French Scientist.
CORRESPONDENCE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
PARIS, March 7.--Dr. F. d'Herelle,
the young French scientist who dis
covered that a variety of the cholera
germ will exterminate 'locusts and
other insect pests, has received numer
ous invitations from South American
countries to aid them in relief from
these scourges of agriculture.
Dr. d'Herelle was studying conditions
in Yucatan four years ago on behalf
of the Pasteur Institute of Paris when
he observed that the locusts there
were suffering from a disease of the
intestine, resembling cholera in human
beings. He succeeded in isolating the
coecobacillus. After cultivating t and
heightening its virulence he made a
solution which killed in 24 hours.
The method is to sprinkle the solu
tion on the. grass where the insects
feed. The first experiment tried in the
Argentine exterminated the locusts
within a radius of 50 miles.
Dr. d'Herelle returned twice to ar
gentine at the invitation of the gov
ernment, but his process was so effica
cious that it aroused the determined
opposition of the 1200 employes of the
agricultural department, engaged In
fighting insect plagues, who saw their
employment vanishing. He declined to
fulfill his mission under these circum
stances and returned to Paris. His
method has been used with great ef
fect in Algeria. In Colombia and Ven
ezuela it ib compulsory now, and he
has been invited by the British and
Turkish governments to conduct cam
palgns In Cyprus and Smyrna, both
devastated by locusts.
PANAMA COTTON COUNTRY
South Carolina "Aided In Experi
ments by Iiittle Republic.
(Correspondence- of Associated Press.)
PANAMA, March 10. John H. Har
rell, a cotton planter from North Caro
lina, has Just demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the Panama government
that a lonsr fiber cotton can be grown
on Panama soil. Negotiations are
pending for a concession of 25,000 acres
on which to grow the staple on a
large scale. For more than a year Mr.
Harrell has been experimenting qn a
small plot of ground at Balboa, the
Pacific end of the Panama CanaJ.
On his experimental farm he has
grown cotton that has fiber from 2 14
to four inches long, which Is said to
be longer than the cotton generally
grown in the United States. The Agri
cultural Department of the Panama
republic declares that the texture also
Is liner and more silky than any
other cotton.
The Panama government Is aiding
Mr. Harrell in his experiments as also
is the Isthmian Canal Commission In
the hopes ot reviving the cotton grow
ing industry in Panama.
ENGLISH FOLK VISIT AMERICA
ROW AND TO GIVE UNITED STATES ADVANCE IDEAS
IN GREEK METHOD OF LIVING.
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SHIP DECIDED. CEXTER MRS. WATTS IX BOW-A.VD-ARKOAV POSE.
1IHLOW MRS. WATTS IN ANOTH ER I'OSK.
GREEK IDEAL VOICED
Mrs. Watts, English Physical
Culturist, Here.
BIG MATCH ON TOMORROW
Racquet Clmiupionliip of World Is
Title to Be Played For and Eng
lish Come Over to Witness
Great Athletic Event.
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(Special Correspondence.)
LONDON, March 3. America Is to
have another English sensation, for
Mrs. Diana Watts, the noted physical
culturist, is now in the borders of
the United States, having reached New
York on the ' Lusltania, with her re
vived Greek ideal for the perfection
of the minds and bodies of the Amer
ican man and woman.
Five years of study, during which
time Mrs. Watts isolated herself on
the Isle of Capri, off the coast of It
aly, has convinced her that she has
rediscovered the Greek Ideal of phys
ical fitness which has been lost to the
world for centuries.
Though she admits she has reached
the age of 47, she stands before the
public today a new type of perfect
woman. The flush of youth is in her
cheeks, and In every line of her sup
ple body Is traced the v contour of
youth. The energy and vitality of a
strong man Is in her pliant muscles.
All this she has achieved in five years
after working out the methods em
ployed by the ancient Greeks.
Mrs. Watts has the distinction of
TJIE SUNDAY OREGQNIAN. PORTLAND,
TO SEE TENNIS MATCH TOMOR
being the only woman who appeared
on the platform of the Institute Marey
of Paris. At the invitation of Profes
sor Rlchet, the president, she lectured
in the presence pf more than J.00 sa
vants on her new discovery. Later
she was made an associate of the insti
tute. Mrs. Watts will lecture at Yale,
where, it is said, aesthetic danoing has
been made a part of gymnasium work.
She also will lecture at the British
Embassy in Washington.
Other English folk have betaken
themselves also to America within the
fortnight, the Hon. Neville S. Lytton,
the amateur racquet champion of threat
Britain and his wife. Lady Judith
Lytton, having gone there to help their
good friend, George Covey, the profos
elonal champion of Great Britain, who
is to meet Jay Uould in a championship
match. Covey is Lord Lytton's profes
sional on his Surrey estates, and since
the match on March 18 is for the rac
quet championship of the world there
is unusual interest in the result on
these shores.
It has reached here that Lady Lytton,
who is on her first trio to America,
broke all traditions when she invaded
the Philadelphia Club, where the match
is to be held (the first time in the his
tory of the club that a woman did this)
and trounced her male opponents In al
nveiy matcn wnicn was much one
sided In her favor. She hopes to be
permitted to witness the match be
tween Covey and Gould, saying that It
seems a pity that when such rare sport
is going on women should be excluded
from the game by the Philadelphia
Racquet Club.
Humprrdlnplt le on Tour.
BERLIN, March 14 (Special.) Herr
Englebert Humperdinck, the composer,
who Is still feeling the effects of his
nervous breakdown two years ago, and
has been advised to have a sea voyage,
has started with Frau Humperdinck
and his librettist, Herr Misch, on a trip
to Africa, in the course of which he
will visit Trafalgar. Tripoli and Tunis.
Herr Humperdinck has recently com
pleted two new comic operas which
have been accepted by the Royal Opera
House. The text of both is by Herr
Misch. One is entitled "Die Market
enderin." The other- has "not yet been i
given a title.
AMERICAN BRIDE IS
IN ENGLISH HOI
After Long Tour Lord and Lady
Camoys With Young Heir
Reach Ancient Estate.
TENANTS GIVE WELCOME
Marriage Will Be Remembered as
Romance Springing From Wed
dins; of Lord Secies and
Miss Gould Shortly Before. .
LONDON. aMroh 14.-( Speoial Cor.
respondenoe.) .- Some charming old.
English scenes were witnessed when
Lord Camoys took his American bride,
for the first time since their mar
rlage ever two years ago, to his an
cestral home in the little , illise of
Stonor In Oxfordshire. Lay Camoys
is the daughter of Mr. Sherman, who
was at one time Mayor of New York,
and Lord Camoys was be.st man far
Lord Decles when he married Miss
Gould, and Lady Cameys, . or Miss
Sherman, as she was then, was brides
maid. Owing to agricultural depression and
other causes. Lord Camoye' estate was
much encumbered, and Lord Camoys
has not lived at his ancestral home
for a long time; it has been left to
various tenants, Now he will be able
to enjoy -the 3400 acres which go to
make up his estate, with its lovely
parks and grounds and old English
home.''
Little groups stood outside the cot
tages waiting for the automobile cgni
veying Lord and Lady Camoys to pass,
and all were dressed in holiday at
tire. The men folks congregated at
the road-ends and smoked as they
awaited the opportunity to oheer.
Every house had its little flag flut
tering, while the hedges and garden
gates were decorated with a variety
of banners.
The little village of Upper Assendon
was made gay with a display of bunt
ing and flags. Across the road was
the motto. "Welcome to Stonor," and
further on was another, "Long life and
happiness."
The village blacksmith had a typi.
cal idea- Upon his anvil he had placed
a large quantity of gunpowder with a
train, the firing pf which was to be
a welcome, and a signal to the wait
ing crowds outside the park gates
It was at the park 'gates that the
biggest crowd congregated and where
the decorations were most elaborate.
Over the gates was the motto, "AVel
come home," and suspended across the
road from old oaks were many Union
Jacks and Stars and Stripes.
Lord and Lady Camoys waved a
greeting to their well wishers and the
little heir was held up for them to
tee.
ZEPPELIN , SHOWS SPEED
Military Dirigible Travels at 65
Sliiles Per Hour.
BERLIN, March 14. In dirigible baU
loonlng there is . a steady advance,
despite disasters. The latest military
Zeppelin, which has just crossed Ger
many In a trial trip at a speed of 65
miles an hour, has a oruislng radius
at a height of a mile and a quarter. It
will carry a mare efficient battery of
machine guns than its predecessors
and has a new device to carry escap
ing gaBes clear of the car and prevent
explosions like that which destroyed
the second naval airship. Another in
vention, to be tried out on, one of the
Parseva! balloons, is an tinsinkable
gondola, entirely Inclosed in water
tight sheet steel. The gondola, which
resembles a submarine, can be detached
quickly from the body of the airship,
If the latter Is driven down upon the
surface of the sea, and will float for a
day of more. Practical tests soon will
be begun.
The American General Staff follows
these and other developments in the
German army with the closest attention
and intends, it is understood, to send
over more observers to Germany in
future. Captain Henry C, Whitehead,
Tenth Cavalry, has fpr a year been at
tached to a German cavalry regiment.
Jiving with the officers and taking part
in the daily routine of the regiment,
with such successful results that four
more officers, it )s reported, will' be
sent to Germany next year ta undergo
a similar eeurse.
10 .WIVES UOH IS PLAN
German Eugenlsts Would Start Farm
With 100 Men and J 000 Women.
BERLIN, MarehTT (Special,) With
the object of peopling Germany with
aristocrats in place of the present pro
letarian population, a joint stock com
pany has been formed under the title
of "Mittgart Agricultural Society.
The company is under the control of
Dr. WiU'bard Hentschel and ether
strong Conservative politicians, who
see a national peril in the growing
power of democracies,
Its way to preduoe aristocrats Is to
breed them. It has bought near Jena
a farm that It calls a "Menschengar
ten," or human garden, and here it will
breed, on strictly eugenic preinclples,
the aristocrats-
The parents of the aristocrats are to
consist oi luu perreot men and iouu
perfect women. The perfect men will
choose from the perfect women wives,
to whom they will be strictly faithful
"till the purpose of marriage, the prom
ise of offspring. Is attained." After
that they will seek new wives, and so
on until 1000 baby aristocrats blossom
forth.
Despite much ridloule in the press
this scheme is being seriously pushed.
Where the 1100 perfect persons are to
be got no one knows. ,
MOTOR LIFEBOAT IS TRIED
Xew Equipment Provided for Alsa
tian of Allan Line.
LONDON. March 14. (Special.) A
motor-driven lifeboat, equipped for
wireless telegraphy, has just been fit
ted to the new Allan liner Alsatian. The
boat, of mahogany and teak, is 38 feet
in length, with a beam of 8 feet. It is
compactly built, and expressly designed
for the heaviest work to be encount
ered In ft seaway. Over half the length
Is decked In, and there is a water
tight, 'self -draining cockpit abaft the
cabin., from which the boat is driven
and steered.
The engine is a four-cylinder paraf
fin motor, but the most striking feature
of the boat is the complete wireless
installation, which has a range of 100
miles. This boat and a similar craft
were put through a series of trials on
the Clyde during the moderate gale and
behaved magnificently, attaining a
speed of nearly 7 hi knots. The motor
power Is sufficient to tow eight or ten
ordinary ship's boats in a moderate sea.
MARCH 13, 19X4.
AMERICAN GIRL, BRIDE OF BRITISH LORD, NOW ESTABLISHED
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FLYING FEVER IS ON
Son of England's Prime Minis
ter Makes Glider.
MANY BOYS INTERESTED
Flights Are Made With Models of
Aeroplanes at Playing Fields of
Nearly Kvery School in
, Greut Britain.
LONDON, March S. (Special Corre
spondence.) The flying fever has at
tackled the home of Mr. A6quith, the
British Premier. A modal aerodrome
is established In Downing street, in
the garden of No. 10, the Prime Minis,
ter's official rewidenoe. Anthony As
quith, the Premier's youngest son, 11
years old, is In control.
Writing to the editor of Flight, An
thony Asquith says of his first mud el:
"I thought perhaps you would like
this glider. ... I am afraid U Is
rather battered and a little warped,
but, for all that. It Is an excellent
glider. I tried it today in quite a gusty
wind; It behaved splendidly, banking
up against the wind. It rose about 10
feet, and then turned round and glided
about 80 feet. If you send this glider
very hard and very much down It w(ll
rise up vertically, and sometimes loop
the loop."
It would appear, therefore, that the
Prime Minister's son has achieved with
aeroplane models what M. Pegoud has
been so daringly performing at Brook
lands, Model Shows Stability.
The construction and flying of model
aeroplanes has recently gained an
enormous hold upon scientifically in
clined boys of all classes, in England.
The reason is not surprising, because,
apart from the growing interest in
serious aviation, models have been
performing for some time past feats
which, until the advent of the Dunne
aeroplane had not been accomplished
by full-sized machines. Two or three
years ago, for instance, a young Sur
biton experimenter produced a mono
plane driven by elastic which would
not only rise from the ground and uy
a quarter of a mile, but would pre
serve equilibrium in the strongest
wind. A copy of this machine is among
those which the Prime Minister has
purchased from time to time for his
son s amusement.
Robert Grimmer, who Is now asso
ciated with the chief English business
engaged In the production of model
aeroplanes, suggested that the Prime
Minister's home was pot the only do
mestic circle high in the social scale
where "flying fever" exists. He knew
personally of models purchased by the
Duchess of Abercorn, the Earl of
March, the Earl of Radnor. Lord Set
trtngton. Lady Swathling, Mrs. Maxse,
Mrs, A. Gladstone, L. Hardy, Member
Parliament, and many English and
foreign persons of title for their boys
and those of intimate relations and
friends. The children of officers in
the army and navy are particularly
keen, but they are followed closely by
the sons of clergymen.
School Bays Interested.
While Anthony Asquith keeps an
aeronautical interest alive in the
Prime Minister of England, thousands
of boys at the British public schools
are now. spreading a similar interest
among their fellows. Practically every
school playing field has a portion rec
ognized as suitable above all others
for model flights, and upon these the
budding airmen now dally congregate.
Model clubs, too, are springing up In
every community of boys in England.
Model aeroplane flying has the dual
advantage of being an intellectual oc.
cupation, and one that is essentially
sociable in character. Good models are
expensive, and keen eyes are required
for their recovery after a flight of a
quarter of a mile. For this reason
model flyers invariably work ifi pairs
or in groups.
How many victims of the flying
fever will ultimately become actual
aviators, remains to be seen.
Sim'
ilarly, it will be interesting to know
how many models built by young am
ateurs In private aerodromes, such
as that at 10 Downing street, will in
spire steps in the path of aerial prog
ress. Anthony Asquith's successful
paper model favors the bird-like out
line, His use of sealing wax as one
Of the means of securing stability Is
not an original procedure, having been
employed for centuries in the affairs
of state. Here, at any rate, Anthony
Asquith will be regarded by many as
showing a complete Independence of
parental influence.
WRITERS' CLUB FORMED
Weaver In London Cotton Factory
Scores With "Miss Nobody."
LONPON, Marph 14.-(SpeciaU Ethel
Carnie, whose novel "Miss Nobody" h
just been published by Methuen &
Co,, one of the best firms In London,
was originally mill hand; and Meth
uers have the reputation of never pub.
lishing work without distinct literary
and artistic value- liar heroine is also
a working-class sir), and a small part
of the story deals with the industrial
side of her life, which Miss Carnie,
from her own personal experience, is
able to describe with an accuracy not
passible to those who study such con
ditiqns frem the outside,
From the age of 11 until a year or
two aKo she was herself employed at
a Lancashire cotton factory, first as a
"nair-tlmer, when she worked as a
reaener' and later as a whole-timer.
when for eight or nine years as a
"winder" she filled the bobbins ready
for the weavers use.
It Is possible that in the not far
distant future we may have a crop of
novels dealing with various phases of
wqrKing-ciass life, for Miss Carnie has
recently founded a "Rebel Pen Club,1'
Which has for its object the encour
agement of working-woman author
esses.
-just inins," says she, "what a
chance they have of writing of the re
alities of life if they will take the
trouble to learn how it can be done."
BOYCOTT OF JEWS GROWS
Two Hundred Families Kxpelled
From Village Commune.
ODESSA, March 14. (Special.) The
boycott of Jews in the Vistula province
not only shows no signs of abatement.
but is becoming daily mora rigorous
and harassing. The "utre Rossi'1 says
that in the government of Petrikau the
boycott has lately resulted in the ex
pulsion of 300 Jewish families from the
village oommune of Dombrovo, S00
from Strzemierzyee, 40 from Qrabesln,
30 from Nlemets, 7$ from SSombkowlce,
15 from Ujasd, 15 from Wyssoka, 40
from Klimontoff, 40 from Laay and 100
from Nowkl. These 750 expelled fam.
ijles aggregate 3760 souls.
In all the village ' communes men
tioned the Jews have hitherto enjoyed
the right of domicile. The Polish boy
rotter profess that their object is the
nationalisation of Polish trade , and
commerce, which, they allege the Jews
are endeavoring to monopolise and ex
ploit. Hence their antt-Jewiah cam
paign is benevolently regarded by the
Russian authorities.
TWO WIVES PLAGUE MAN
Geneva Manufacturer Finds He Has
Two Legal Families.
GENEVA, March 14. (Special.) A
wealthy Geneva manufacturer has just
found himself with two legal wives,
two different families, and two separate
establishments, And the legal author
ities, instead of prosecuting him for
bigamy, are trying to aid him.
The first wife, after attempting to
set fire to her house, was found to be
insane, and placed In the local lunatic
asylum some years ago, and later was
declared by the medical experts to be
hopelessly Insane. On the strength of
the medical certificate, the husband ob
tained a divorce six years ago and mar
ried again, He has two children by
each wife. 1
Recently the medical experts declared
that the first wife had recovered, and
she was "discharged as sane.
The ground of divorce was "Incur
able insanity," but as the woman is
now legally sane it is believed that the
divorce docs not hold good.
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LOSS
People Subsisting on Straw.
Bark of Trees, Acorns arid
Buckwheat Chaff.
AGED DIE OF STARVATION
For Past Three Years District of
Hokkaido, in North Japan, Visited
by Crop Failure and Cause
- This Year Is Krost.
(Correspondeace of Associated Press.)
TOKIO, March 9. The famine dis
trict of Hokkaido, in the north of
Japan, cuvars more than a million acre
which ure devoted to rice culture and
general farming: the loss has amounted
to about tlO.oou.Oud, and tjfi.uuo persons
are in need oi help, according to an
official report. It continues:
"For the past three years the farm
ers have had poor crops ami the fail
ure on account of the frosts tins year
leaves them in a pitiable condition.
"Men are subsisting on straw, the
bark of trees, acorns and buckwheat
chaff powdered and made Into gruel.
Mothers living on such food have been
unable to feed their babies und have
made a milk substitute out of the hulls
of rice which they beat into a powder
and mix with boiling water. The
young men have left home In search of
work, while the aged and the children
are left behind to freeze or starve un
less relief, is brought to them."
A sad story of the famine district is
told by Rev. Chigan Takahashi, a mis
sionary, A tenant In Yubarl district
whose wife was dying from starvation
and illness, stole a bale of potatoes
from his landlord.
The wife was sratefnl i. r i:ie kind
ness of her husband, but aid; "I do
not wish to live any linger if It must
.be on stolon fowl," und. urtsed him to
return the soinls
The husband, irpce stricken,
was carrying back lu potatoes, when
he met the landowner- lie confessed
his theft, and asked forgiveness.
Tile landowner was Impressed by the
sad story, and net only forgave the
offense, but made a gift of the potatoes
to the farmer. The happy man returned
home and found his v.lfj hanging
dead.
The husband then hanged himself.
The Japanese have organized a Na
tional Relief Association. Contribu
tions have been generuiis am) have
performances arranged by Japanese
and foreigners. The sympathy and
contributions from the I'niled States
have made a profound impression on
the Japanese people. The government
also will alleviate the situation by
setting aside money for engineering
works In the affected district, thus af
fording employment for the sufferers
and placing money in circulation.
"LIGHT BOMB" INVENTED
Device Makes Safe Aeroniunt Land
ing by Mght.
BERLIN. March 14. Two Austrian in
ventors announce the perfection of a
"light bomb" which wjll make safe the
landing by aeroplane at ntirlit. The
device, which is attached to an aero
plane and may be released at will, is
fitted with a parachute and burns
four minutes, illuminating all the
country below. In a recent test the
bomb, released at a height nf 5(u yards,
lighted up the country for a radius of
about a mile and a half so brightly
that the aviator had no difficulty in
selecting his best landing place. The
device can also be used in warfare for
scout work at night, the aeroplane
above the light being invisible.
Buoh a device has long been needed,
for up-to-date aviation is calling for
flights at night in order to break long
distance flight records and to take ad
vantage of wind-still hours, Most of
the competitors in the last grand prize
race in Germany accomplished parts et
their flights by night, but this was so
hazardous that a number of aviators
were killed in trying to land in the
dark.
LABOR UNREST CONTINUES
"I-aiy" Strike of Wharf Laborers in
N"ey South Wales Is On.
SYDNEY, March 14 (Special.) The
Industrial unrest which was a feature
of the early months of last year In
New South Wales has been a notable
characteristic of this year, also. The
wharf, laborers continue' throughout
the commonwealth what Is popularly
called the "laz.y" strike, refusing to-,
work overtime. This is causing serious
inconvenience to the shipping industry,
A compulsory conference was sum
moned before Justice Uiggins at Mel
bourne, but no agreement was reached.
The dispute in the meat industry in
Sydney necessitates the closing of
butchers' shops. It is possible that It
may extend to the slaughtermen and
other workers, which would bring both
the local and export trade to a stand
still. The strike of rural workers in sev.
eral districts still continues, but the
farmers have so far been enabled to
carry on harvesting operations and dis
patch their produce by their own ef
forts ant those of their families, with
the assistance of free laborers.
SOCIALISTS ARE ATTACKED
German Chancellor Leaves Court
Rail to Address Farmers.
BERLIN, March 14. (Special.) The
annual dinner of the German Agricul
tural Council is always the occasion of
a speech from the Imperial Chancellor,
Herr von Rethmann Hollweg had to de
sert even a Court ball to attend the
gathering, and, as was demanded of
him, he attacked the Socialists with pe
culiar violence, and dovetailed with the
necessary skill the maintenance of
agriculture and the defence of the
state. In -proposing the toast of the
Emperor. Count bchwerin, tormer
President of the Reichstag, and pres
ent President of the Lower House ot
the Prussian Diet, had solemnly raised
the question whether the foundations
of the German Empire are as firm S.i
they were 40 years ago, and discussed
the anxiety lest the forces that are.
gnawing at the bases of the state and
of society have already done enough
harm to make the collapse of the Im
perial structure a matter of time.
Good Results.
(New York Globe.)
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