The "Daily Telegraph" today quotes from the ""U.S, Naval Institute. Proceedings"—which may be described og the semi-om cial Journal of the American Navy—a striking article Capt, Dudley W. Knox, arguing that events in the Far Bast will ultimately oblige Great Britain, the United States and France to take joint aval action to compel Japah to withdraw from China, Captain Knox argues that Japan's faun Is to get absolute control of all China's vast resources in raw materials for further attacks on world trade; and that force is the only argument she respects—both _self-evident premises. "Should she succeed Captain Knox holds that the west would: have to take action to prevent its standard of living being lowered by Japanese underselling. gun, a total of £76,000, had been wiped: off. One anonymous donor /gave £10,000, and contributions: came from every field in which the IMS, works, China, Africa, India the South Seas, Madagascar and [Papua, and from' the Australian and New Zealand branches.
Mrs. Macleod's four pictures at the exhibition of the United Society of Artists, opened the day before yesterday, included, rather unusually for her, @ landscape, or rather an old house and garden. She used to paint! such subjects In China but in London think has more devoted herself to portraits, Tt is the house of Mrs. Henderson, wife of Admiral Henderson, daughter of the late Mrs. Roderick Campbell of Shanghai and cousin of Mr. Harry and Mr. Gordon Morriss: Some years ago Mrs. Henderson. bought a jumble of old cottages and barns in Sussex and wove them cleverly together Into a charming: old house' Dullt on two sides of a square. The! picture, painted at the time when the house was fronted by masses of wallflowers, is a gorgeous piece of colouring such as Mrs. Macleod delights in, very English and incomparable.
Of the portraits, the pastel of Cars, Jdaughter of Maj. Oscar Quest, aged Jabout eleven, is reckoned by critics Jone of the best Mrs. Macleod has lever done. The child is dressed in Jan embroidered Persian coat and red pointed cap, an old family possession, brilliant piece of colouring. But itis the skill with which Mrs. Macleod has caught her character which makes the portrait stand out so strikingly. Cara is a descendant fof Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Queen Anne's friend, and looks as if she may have inherited a streak of liber strong. temperament.
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