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KI.VO WIU.IAMSTOWN, Cape Province. May 13. Travelling through the eastern province of Cape Colony, with five halts at typical little wayside country towns, we have had to-day constantly before our eyes South Africa’s greatest need. That need is of more white population to develop these wide-stretching open uplands, says 0. Ward Price in the “ Daily Mail.” One glance at the crowds waiting for the Prince at such small stations as Bedford, Adelaide, Fort Beaufort, Alice, was enough to show how decidedly the black inhabitants outnumber the white. There, as everywhere throughout the Empire, the spread of education among the natives is raising up foi the next generation problems of racial rivalry such as we have never yet had to face. Theoretically any man. whatever hicolour. is made a better eiti.--.cn by education : practically, it results far too frequently in filling the native mind with precocious ideas of racial equality and so forth which are totally unfounded in fact and lead to sedition and discontent such as that which the native body called '' The Ethiopian Church ” is covertly carrying on under the cloak of religion. “ SHOUT OF TUOFSE.” l eft to develop along his own lines, the South African native is of a simple contented, trusting character. Ilis confidence in the while man’s good nature is well illustrated by a letter, entirely free from punctuation, which reached the royal train from a Kaffir inhabitant of the Bedford district whose wardrobe was insufficient lor him to attend the Prince’s i eruption, lie writes: "My children ask me what troiise you. going wear dad I say this is only the tron.se I have khaki lrouse they say know you will look ashamed of course they quite right sir I am short of trouso for that day please "ill you give me order for gray iter ol House cost seventeen and eleven.” SCOTCH CONI,)TEST. 1,0111) 111 UKEXfIEAD’S HUMOUR. f.OXDOX, May IS. Lord llirkenhead, speaking at a dinner in his honour at Glasgow l niversitv on Saturday—his last speech as hol d Hector —said : " 1 certainly have always found that the older people are the more they disapprove of me. and the younger they are the more they vote for me, and. therefore, had I continued in Iho House of Coiimiioiis, I should have committed myself to a flapper vote at fifteen. I.otid l.aughter.) ■‘Put- I am now more concerned with keeping older ladies out of the Holts' of fords than to admit younger ladies to the House of Columns, (l.aughter.) THE ONhV BRITONS. He had always found great difficulty in understanding the Scot's desire that the word Briton should he always used. " As a matter of fact, there are no (tritons except the few fugitive races, who. alter inglorious and uusiieeesslul I predatory expeditions. were driven into the lastnesses ol Wales by the victorious English, and whose descendants have rendered no service to civilisation except consistently to vote lot . Mr hloyd George, (hotel laughter.) "Observe how generous your nation has always been, olsservc in what numbers. in what hordes, 1 might sav. you , have been good enough for our conversion and improvement to descend upon us. l.aughter.)
"There is no part of the Hrilisb Empire m which good and tiselul work can be rendered —and can be renuiuerit 'll— > laughter) —to which Hie .Scotch nation has not adventured in heroic pilgrimage. ' l.aughter.) There was a time when it was considered an indecency that any who was not. a Scotsman should hold cither the Woolsack or the inferior position of Prime Minister, (l.aughter.) "We are passing into tttihitppier davs. to inferior standards, and both these oHiccs to-day to the great disparagement of tiie public service are held be men who were horn south ol the Tweed. <ha tight or.) In moni'etrls of depression we must, fondly ourselves by happier memories. ■ l.aughter.) “Englishmen in their cups claim that they conquered you at the hat tie of Pannockhtirn. Well, that is it long time ago. Wliai is quite certain is that you have been conquering them ever since, and it lots, keen a more sustained victory than any which, in mv recollection, history affords.’’ PRINCESS LEAVES A TIAREM. lU’'DAPEST, .Way hi. Princess Mcdjidie Muslaplia, the beautiful principal wile of Prince Abdul Kadir. soil ol the late Sultan Abdul Hamid, who lias been living in Budapest. has lelt him. taking several servants and jewels worth L’o.OOO. The princess, who is 2o and was married eleven years ago. found Western ideas 'of marriage superior to Turkish.
The print e appealed to the police at midnight. and his wile was lon tic I in a leading hotel in the city. She refused to meet her husband.
Her lawyer told her hit-band s lawyer that site resented the recent addition to his harem of a young dancing girl, because he already had three wives whom lie brought from Turkey when he lied last year. The princess has resigned her claims upon her two sons, who remain at the prime's villa.
She says that she intends to begin life again in Western style, heeuits* Mahomuiedauistn is " bullishness lor educated women.'' She will willingly return the jewels if the prince iu-ists.
The prince is described as broken hearted, lie says the other wives can not compusute him lor Princess Medjidie’s deserting. As a gentleman be considers that the jewels are her property. but he begs her to return t ' him, declaring that under Turkish law site remains his wile till he agreeto tt divorce, and to this he will never consent. BOGUS Y.C. LONDON. Mav 13.
Said LiV the police to have posed as a doctor, as an ex-officer who had been awarded the Victoria Gross, and as a cousin of Jack Hobbs, the Surrey cricketer. Leslie Sidney Carlton, 2s. an engineer, pleaded guilty at Surrey Quarter Sessions at Kingston yesterday to stealing tt bicycle which he had hired at Woking. Inspector Greenaway, proving four previous convictions for theli. -an, ( ar]ton eame to England with the South African Expedition;!!y Force and Wii- wounded in France. He met a voting woman at Hrentlord, told her he was a cousin of Hobbs, and married her in July 1917. Because of his conduct with other women she divorced him in -Tune 1920.
Posing as a doctor, lie married another woman at Palin:' Pari-h Church and deserted her four days later, taking all her jewellery ajnl leaving her to pay the hotel hill. Afterwards ho met a women in Hyde Park and absconded with her handbag and £lO which she had handed to him to take care of. Ke moved from place to place, haring a good time at other people’s ex-
pen e, and made a point of victimising women. He was a parasite of the worst type. Two (barges of theft at Barking were considered by the court and Carlton wits sentenced to six mouths’ hard labour. kx-kaiseu sawing. HOORN (Holland). April 2-j. While the German people were engrossed to-dav in thoughts of how t > vote to-morrow to select their second President, the ox-Empcror William appeared to he wholly absorbed in contemplating his proficiency as a woodsawyer. He stood beside a great pile of freshly cut timber within the barbed-wire enclosure of his estate, gesticulating with characteristic liveliness, as he talked with an attentive and deferential olneial of his toy -Court. This stack of sawn fit: 1 is a monument to the ex-Emperor's industry in which he takes keen pride. He considers it proof that he has forsworn polities and became a simple country landowner. Throughout the winter the ex-F.m-peror sawed wood. I lie result is more cut wood than Hoorn House can consume even in an English summer. His thrifty neighbours deplore this wasteful destruction of timber, but the Princess Hermine—v-htmt the Hutch by tacit consent address as “Kaisenu” -- explains to the ■, iilagers with whom she keeps tut friendly terms that her husband is “still an active man and must do hard work to keen himself well.” BORED HOUSE
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