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Show DniTISII EMPIRE SEETHES 111 REVOLT I Dissatisfied Millions in Far J Separated Dominion Harass Government' i - i LONDOX. Feb: 11. Half of Oreat Britain's dominions and depndnci. are either in open rebellion or wethinc ""with" diaconlertt. They ana Keeping h, government on the anxious Mat and continuing the burden of taxation on the overburdened people. When John Bull starts to appraine his "good will' as an anset he finds Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Itrltlnh Guiana, the Malay Ma-lay H train Settlements and Hrttlah Kaat Africa behaving. Hut Ireland. India, Krypt. South Africa, Mesopotamia Mesopo-tamia and Palestine are volcanic with anti-British feeling. When one gains a point in Its fight for home rule or Independence It goads the rest to new endeavor. IRELAND. The Sinn Fein IcadVra, who are not In Kngllsh Jails, continue to demand complete Independence. The district around Cork Is under martial law and Dublin Is practically In a state of siege, with armored cars and tanks parading the stream. The British government has CO. 000 regular troops in Ireland. In addition to thou sands of other forces. Hundreds of Sinn Keiners and many government operatives have been killed or wounded In fighting. Cork, Balbrlggan and other places have suffered suf-fered from Incendiary fires, and millions mil-lions of dollars worth of property has been destroyed. Kamonn de V'alera, -prealdent of the Rlnn Fein republic, la hiding in Ireland or France. Arthur Orlffitha, the vice preaident, la in Jail, aa are many of the members of the Plnn Fein parliament. parlia-ment. The British parliament haa paaaed a horn rule bill which neither southern Ireland nor Deter wanla. It providea for two parliamenta. one fur southern and one for Ulater Ireland. Theae- Irish parliamenta will each make lawa for their aectlnn of Ireland, but they can't do anything about armed forces, foreign r.l.Hw.. aumy ot postage. The six Ulster counties are making ready to work the bill. It la not believed be-lieved southern Ireland will pay any attention to it. INDIA. The lr.O.000.000 Inhabitant of India are seething with diacontent t auch an extent that it haa overridden the natural barrier of racea, rellgiona and raatea and largely united them in th demand for horn rule. t They look toward complete Independence. Indepen-dence. In an endeavor partially to meet thla demand the Montagu-C'helmarord law naa been put into effect. Thla providea pro-videa limited self-government. Th franchise la restricted to male of certain age and property qualifications, qualifica-tions, ao that out of India 'a vaat population popu-lation only about (.000.000 are voters. Th bill providea for a central government gov-ernment conaiatlng of the governor general and executive council named by the crown and a leglalatur of two chamber. Th council of atat would have thirty-three elected and twenty-seven nominated members; and legislative assembly would hav 16 elected and forty-one nominated members. Kight of the more advanced prov-Incea prov-Incea of India are to be ruled In local affairs by governora and executive -council named by th crown.- Knett la alao to have a legislative council part nominated by th governing authorities, authori-ties, the reat being elected. The elective elec-tive bodle will only hav partial control con-trol over certain subject. In the recent election tbouaanda of qualified votera boycotted the polls to show their dlaapproval of the law !hJy.?! ycottlng Hrltiah goods and taking other nonrealstant measures. meas-ures. .- EGYPT. The people of . this Mohammedan protectorate hav been demanding Independence. In-dependence. lord M liner went with a commission to Kgypt and conducted negotiations with Saad Pasha ZaghluL, th nationalist national-ist leader. They cama to an agreement agree-ment to be submitted to parliament thla month. At the lm time II m ILL be conaldered by the Egyptians. It practically providea fir the Independence Inde-pendence of Kgypt. which i to be a constitutional monarchy w' representative represen-tative institutions aecun by treaty with Britain. An Kgyptian conalltuent asaembty Is to frame the organic law to regulate the futur government, whloh Is to b ntlrely in th bands of th native. Britain I to retain strategic, point a In the Hues canal son. SOUTH AFRICA. Th election February I may decide whether th cltiSen want to remain within th empire or to ced. General Hertaog, on of th old generals gen-erals of the Boer war, la th had of th Nationalist party, which I largely mad up of lioers who are demanding secession from th empire. General Smuta, another Boar war hero and prim minister, heads the Houth African party, which I loyal to the empire, flmuts has laaued a manifesto mani-festo denouncing republicanism and calling for formation ot a new party based on resistance to secession. MESOPOTAMIA AND PALESTINE. Th council of th league of nations meeting In Geneva February tl will conalder th British mandate fnr Mesopotamia, Meso-potamia, prepared by th British in conjunction with th French. L'nder this mandate Ureal Britain will continue In charge of th country and help the natlvea to aet up a government gov-ernment which will hav full authority In purely local affairs: otherwise will act on Ureal Britain' advlc. The mandate providea that nationals not members of countries within the league shall hav no right in Meaopclamlu. Arab trlbea resent th presence of British in both Meanpolaml and ll-eatlne. ll-eatlne. During tha past year lh -r naa been much flghtlnT. Including a revolt at Mosul, an uprlalng Involving Big-dad Big-dad and th slaughter of a Manchea-rer Manchea-rer regiment near Babylon. Britain la maintaining 100.000 soldier In M?s potam'a at a coat ot 130.000,-iOf 130.000,-iOf a year. Knrllel.men call th country, coun-try, ao dearly won during th war, Mei.Dot.M |