The victory of a woman in the ait race for the King's: Cup has now been. matched by Miss Marjorie Foster's appropriation of thats hitherto, exclusively male tropbyy the King's Prize, at the National Rifle Ascociation's annual meetings Women shots have shone at Bisley, for years, But they have never sueceeded—the opportunity was long denied them—in entering the King's hundred, much Jess in winning the blue riband of marksmanship. quarter of a century ago a familias! figure, known to all frequenters of ley on Saturday afternoons, inj the summer, was Mrs. Chapman, who systematically used to score her 102, 103 or 104 out of a possible 4105 in the Middlesex."spoon" shoots, 'Young women of to-day will smi when they Learn that she was me variably accompanied by her hue~ band who, @ proud admirer of her skill, took' care, as she lay, prone the fung point to arrange for a to guard the feminine attire of those days, against adverse criticism from the modest male marksmen present, Troublesome Bs, Brown, Brockway and Becket who have fed In toe latest scene in the House of Commons, are three troublesome thorns in the side of Mr. Ramsay Mace donald. Mr. W. J. Brown is the General Secretary' of the Civil Service Association and a Labous member who sternly hugs to his bosom the conviction that. courtesy, is the eighth and chiefest deadly.
Mx. Fenner Brockway, partly because he is built that way and tly because ho was born in Cal-father was ® mis~ Servent interest in politics and dis yes support Mr, Gandhi up to the hilt of revolution During the War Mr. Brockway was imprisoned nine times for his anti-recruiting tivities—a circumstance which he proudly broadcasts. in the usual works of reference. In contrast to him, Mr, John Beckett, who obvious~ ly ha Cromwellian views about the mace, served in the war as a soldier and was disabled. He can test the the truth of Kipling's remark that ism is "worse than serving'
1op oF scaring off the crows" for he has been both a shop sistant and journalist. All three are comparatively young men and, when they have cut their political wisdom teeth, they may be found in.
Labour—or Conservative—Oabinet of the future. The thought would depress them terribly at the moment.
The Reduced Cable Rates The announcement last Friday to the effect that, as the result of ce munications between the Chinese Telegraph Administration and the Cable Companies, the press rate to Europe had been reduced to Gold Fr. 0.83 will be welcomed by the many newspaper correspondents int China, who for many years have Inboured under the disadvantages of a rate which was considered by them and their papers at home a too igh. With very few exceptions it reduced correspondents in China to a maximum of "skeletonizing" in their messages, which with th absence of explanation which was impossible at the existing high cost, lo to considerable misunderstanding fon the part of sub-editors handling the messages at the other end. The new rate should tend to reduce error on this score to a minimum, which will probably please the _cor~ respondents just as much as it should do the Chinese who have so often complained of mis repre sentation. On the whole the move congratulated. unlikely that cone on which both parties are to
the companies' revenue will suffer; indeed, experience seems to suggest that it might even benefit, while of the good it will do to China there: can be not the slightest doubt.
"To Radiate"
A French paper comments on the anglomania shown in France by,
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