suet, by the Stn Sri a eae recent communiques which have Been 1
a note toco exlnations and criticised, paid to the task of keeping municipal expenditure down to the minimum, and the mal which prelimin-tex have been cut suggests. that this done effectively. Tt is to be hoped not too effective 2,000,000 was cut out
ner eases have been kept well within reason estimat result that the inevitable fable proportions. It is, nevertheless, an Import-fant fact to remember that while this has been effected on one hand, the rising price of food= sults has recently necessitated n further previo sion in the estimate of aver $1,300,000, Of those fifteen lakhs six represent. the' cost of feeding prisoners inthe Jail, a luxury with which [Shanghai could very well have dispensed when was obliged {o surrender the Mixed Court, is very much of an anomaly that the Inter national Settlement should be burdened with the maintenance of persons offending. against. the Jaws of China, and, while there were very good reasons why' the "cision to do so was taken at the time it was, it is suggested that those conditions no longer prevail and that as. soon possible the jail should be handed over to the [Chinese, Despite increases the Municipal orchestra, and band have been budgetted for with-Ju. the authorized $200,000, ut that has beea done by the expedient of applying the moneys the Reserve Fund maintained for the betterment of the orchestra to. meet, unforeseen circumstances. 11 appears to be justified under the Tatter heating, It is to be expected that the controversy rewarding the retention of the orfehestra—an old hardy annual—will be fought with greater' bitterness than ever before. 'The argument that the Orchestra is very much of Tuxury, something which has always been agreed upon, has in view of the' slashing reductions which have been made, greater cogency than jover before. It is one of the amenities as opposed fo necessaries to which the Council refers in its communique, and it is (or the ratepayers to decide whether they want itor nol, No fofcial statement has been made one way or the id Ht is not expected that any will be made, The matter rests entirely in. the binds lof the ratepayers who may be expected to ive he matter Just' about as_mueh. consideration this year as they have done in the past through opposing sighters. The great speed of modern aircraft makes it diMeult to hold a gun against the wind when firing from a wine dow or a manual turret, with the multi forward-fung fighter, the aircraft itself Is aimed at the farget, but the bomber designed to fight it out needs mobile guns to cope with its more manasivrable enemy. The power-operated un turret is the answer. Within its protection, the British gunner can deploy his battery of gunk {in any direction, without effort and with steady sim. Modern British bomber aircraft now have power-operated Kun turrete fitted as standard Pot and Kettle The Nazi press have seized upon the murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, and the wounding of three others by an Indian in London, on Wednesday, with high glee, revenge for the alleged n April, 1919, Murder must, of course mean Hie or nothing to. the gentry who have been engaged in it, wholesale, for years past, oF they may even, lori lets of the alleged "massacre" "are well known, On April I tive Ruropeans were murdered in Amritsar, when the rioters looted and fired the banks, the bodies of the Europeans in the National Bank fof India being burnt beyond. recognition. On April 18 the mob defied @ proclamation forbidding meetings, and, after due were fired on, tore bein 200 Killed "and wounded. Sir Michgel Was Livutenant-Governor of the Punjab at the time, but was not on the scene when the order to fire was given. His murder in London may have been for revent may nol. It i] becomes the Nazis to rake up story out of which the British emerged with siderable for they would. be their own very 2 time when it was, held that it ta be coloniz~ ers in. charg ries because of their tweetment of th Merreros, who, It will be. remembered, virally" exterminated, That attitude. with. the sage of time was modified until, as Into us the old. theory of die "colonial guilt of Germany was admitted to be a lie. may evi due in more respects than one to A real desire {0 come to tonic. better ake evidence to Support the is are pers Subjected peoples, smoke which came from
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