and dive it to starvation. That called peace. The under sol attack the undersellers with firearms and shoot them dows perceive between the:
The economic factor precipitation of armed conflict now regarded as a potent, if not the most potent, cause of War. Lord Wester-Wemyss, once First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Lords two years og "apart from Machiavellianism or a desire to hurt or even ambition, the causes of war will be found ina combination of economic circumstances over which we have no control."
The adoption, therefore, by the Ottawa Conference of a general system of commercial Treati gives a most useful line to the world. Ahead lies the World Economic Conference on which the ills of the present situation will come under review.
There is no reason why the wit of statesmen should be unequal to the task of reducing to the lowest possible margin that. absence of control to which Lord Wester-Wemyss so accurately referred. The delegates at Ottawa represented nations between whom, it may said more the idea of war is Thus far they were fortunate. They had however to remember that the tie which bound them to each other was of the slightest in the physical, if strong in the spiritual, sense. They have found in the commercial Treaty the safeguard of their individual economic security and of their aggregate political unity. And, by retaining complete freedom to develop their relations, singly or unitedly, with nations outside their own circle, they have removed the danger of isolation. That is Ottawa's creed. It is worthy of the Empire: which inspires it. It can lend itself to extension outside that Empire with mutual benefit to all.
A ing telegram says that, in order to alleviate crowding in the prisons of Shanghai, a large modern gaol will be erected in the near future at Hein Ching Chino, Chapel. Negotiations are now being conducted for the purchase of 150 mow of land for the purpose.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.