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Show J V-- Editorial Mines Financial OFFICIAL REPORT FILED ON RIOTS. IN BRITISH INDIA a OS OS 05 Many Natives Shot Down F ollowing an Attack on Woman Dodo r King George and Queen Mary in Royal Robes Ex-Kin- The king and queen of England in royal robes at the recent opening of parliament, l'ompous ceremony characterised the event. Their royal high nesses were eonveyed to the house of lords in the royal carriage, accom paaied by Innumerable attendants in gorgeous array, . . . a Constantine and Daughter g E King Constantine of Greece with hla youngest daughter, Princess g Catherine, snapped at Bt, Moritz the famous wis ' winter resort. The tad hla family are In exile In Hwitzcand. Constantins younger brother, Christopher, and Mrs. William B. Leeds, widow of the American tin pinte king, were recently married st.Montreux, K ENFORCED LEVY r Leader of British Antarctic Expedition Tells of a pc Is r ,iV 1, V; .1 Thrilling Experience. Commander Uses Iron Hand in Quelling Disturbance and Soon Restore Order. f ;rvr.r ' evert surayvi ' S i ' ; c t: . if,:V.- - I I y. ' Austrian Government to Try, However, to Force Matter Through Assembly 1 Nearly Freezes to Death While Suspended Over. Bottomless Pit. Law Commission Has Since Tried and Sentenced 218 Persons. May Bring a Crisis in Rela- M&rtial March 33. (By the Press.) An official report regarding the seditious riots last April in Amritsar", Luhore and Other districts iu the Punjab, British India, has just Jrteu issued hero by the India, office, i ho disturbances at Amritsar were put down by Brigadier General H. E. Dyer, the British officer in command, with an iron hand, 290 persons being killed by rifle fire. Jt is stated in the report that the shooting followed murderous attacks ou Europeans and that General Dyer had not ordered the crowd, which had gathered in a public meeting place in, mritsar, to disperse, but that 1650 rounds were fired upon the thickest parts of the throng. It states that after natives had nearly beaten to death an English woman doctor, th general officer commanding the British troops in Amrjtsar ordered that the atreer lm dom'd where this at- ftd that persons who tack oeeuned passed through it hud to do so on their hands and knees. News of these occurrences did not reach this country until the end of the year, and then created a big sensation and not a little controversy, which has not yet died down. Tho report now (Hen-ou- t comes from tha Punjab government. -- LONDON, Is. Rales With Iron Hand. -- tlie. r Outlet of Suppressed Emotions Cure for Shell -- Shock Victims With ExcefrenURestilts, According to Former Medical Officer Hypnotism in British Army. he Shell-shoc- L the emotion repressed at thy" time d repressed experience once mors. We enhim to work off the emotion innduuls, and redirected from time .to courage volved tn It. rime where tho crowds wore thickest. For example, taka the case of a gunThe ammunition used was the ordinary ner patient of mine. He had been suf-- . On the conclusion ferlng for two years from a tremor of the .303 nrmV cartridge. the time he had been of the firing the tioops retired; the arm, dating from blown up at V pres. I sent him to sleep. lumber of casualties were not(eounted. Then 1 suggested he live again through A subsecpient mqnirv indicated that about 290 persons were killed. It was asserted that these included many small children, but inquiries have only MOVEMENT IS BEGUN been nble to establish the death of one bov under 10 and fm under IIP years. showed what had happened at the time. He apparently serving- the gun and someone else was handing him ammunition. Then I noticed he waa moving the handle Ida right hand; hla hand began to shake violently and soon he shaking all over. Then auddenly he became absolutely still. I suggested that he remember all that he had Just gone through and that ivoke him up. He looked at his hand, which was absolutely still, with amaietnent. His gun had been blown up and the emotion which this experience had excited In him had been bottled up for two tears. The next morning he was able to shave himself with an ordinary raior for the first time since Ills illness. a show doss of memory of greater or less extght. They may have forgotten everything that has hsppened since the shell burst, and they will exhibit other losses otfuncUon. They may show loss of voicyC of powers of walking, of hearing, of of the- power of voluntary control. It will he found yat swell a person is very easily hvpnotised. If it be suggested to him that he will remember the circumstances of his Ihjury he will act again the whole circumstances, and in that process hl various functions will return. What has been done7 We have brought up- - the lout mtqnorles, 4nd with But the memories tha lost functions. we havedone more than.thht; we have given mm an outlet, for an emotion which was originally experienced by him with m great an intensity that he could not da full justice to it and split ; In the attempt. , All such cases . - s Most Unusual Case. Another Interesting cure was that of a flying corps signaler, who was blown up by a bomb and found, on regaining conthat everything appeared sciousness, twisted at right angles to Its ordinary position.- - The first attempt at hypnotism effected only a partial cure. 1 was then Informed that when he was a child of sit h had shown similar symptoms after a fall.After further hypnotic sleeps he remembered that wnen he was 3 vears of age he had upset some hot coffee down his right arm and had felt a pain In his left side. He remembered that whpn he awoke he feit tho bed to be the wrong way around. That waa the first experience' of disorientation he could remember. It occurred to me that ths scalding bf his arm produced a fainting fit In which he fell to tils loft and even twisted to the right, nut I effectedthing a complete cure on that man. - LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO RESTORE FORESTS HAS PALATIAL HOME Woman Doctor Beaten. "Martial law was '.proclaimed at Amritsar on April 13 hnd its adminisseems to have provoked a setration ries Pun ot romplniutsiigninst which the ink government has found it neces- sary to defend itself. "The firt timrge is that relating o the Kucha Tawsrian, a street in which Mis? Sherwood, an English worn was nearly beaten to death bv infuriated natives. The general officer commanding the British troops in Amritsar closed the street to public traffic, placing a picket at each end, and ordered that anvone passing it would have to do so on his hnnds and knees. "It College of Agriculture at Nankin, Residence of Duchess of Marlborough, China, Is Supporting Flan Through Formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, Leased Appeal to 8tudent. by British Government. NANKIN, china. March 13. (By the Associated Press.) Nankin" university's of agriculture and forestry la college starting a movement that has as Its ultimate purpose the reforestation of China's denuded nllls by inducing all the schools of the countrr, Chinese and foreign, to observe a Chinese national Arbor day. Addresses have been sent out In English and Chinese to the schools of the country, urging that an Arbor day holiday be Instituted and giving instruction in methods. ,1: Is Intended also to supply seeds to the schools. In the messages to the schools It has been pointed out that economists have held that leforestratlon la probably the In making over country's most vital need v lit national life. tree-planti- was clearly understood by everyapply to women. order was actually in force between April 19 and 24. and in all about fifty persons compliedon with the direcall fours. The saulted. These men were tions to go through implicated sergeant in charge of the picket sub- ia the attack on Miss Sherwood. Others sequently stated that one man crawled were whipped at area headquarters, at and be had three to times, through the police or in private. stopped from giving further exhibitions. The major charges arising out of one The that it did not Many Given Flogging. "A number of triangle (for were erected in flog- the city and ging) men sentenced by the courts to bs flogged. The onlv Hoggings that could be considered to be in anv wav of a pqblie nature were of ait men who were flogged in the twenty-si- x yrerl la turn-mar- wi.Vfc J.fas BWwood was at- y - es the disorder were tried by the martial law commissions, sixty-tw- o cases in sil being put before them, involving 296 accused. 0 these 218 were convicted. Eifty-onwere sentenced to death, 46 to transportation for life, 2 to imprisonment for ten years, 9 for seven years, 10 for five years, 13 for three years, and 11 for lesser periods. In six cases whipping was, inflicted. e T tried to look down, but below me. as far as I could see, there nothing but Ice and darkness. Now and again the roar of Ice falling down the sides of the UEBH-TRHLcrevasse reached me, sounding like distant thunder. After what seemed hours of waiting, I heard a voice calling me from above, and, looking up, saw the face of One of men of my party. 'Are you all right?' he asked, peering over the edge of the crevasse. " I replied, 'but I cannot get up. I'm hung ' here. Hang on, then, he VVs'U shouted. make a rope ladder.' And while 1 continued hanging there, the two men on the ice above set to work' to make ths ladder. While i waa thug tuapended my mlts fell from my hands, and very soon 1 waa mlts falling, half froten. 1 watched the . till they glancing off columns of from sight. At' last ths ladder was lowered down, but my hands were so frozen that I could feel nothing. LONDON March 13,iBy. tbc Associated Press.) Tho palatial London house which f. K. Vanderbilt gave to his daughter, Consuelo, as a welding she when became the Duchess of gift Marlborough, has become the home of the British branch of the League of Nations. The government has leased the mansion and ofticial business already is being transacted there, Thi house, which is situated in the heart of the fashionable section in Cur-zostreet, is one of the most costly in the city. It is built of marble and other stone in tho French style, and from the outside looks more like a bank than a residence, It is enderstood that the League of Nations officials and employees are having troubles, despite the magnificence of their surroundings. The great and ornate ballroom, for example, while much admired from an artistic point of view, develop cyclonic which cause much discomfort draught, to the unlucky officials and clerks who are stationed ia it. In addition to this house, the League of Nations has also taken two other buildings in Piccadilly, since it ner ied more acommolations than the home of the ducbfws provided. K n Ona-thir- Inte- T the '),' w-- Lodes Sense By DR. WILLIAM.BROWN, Late Medical Officer in the British ArmySuid Bender in Psychology at London University. k hla experience at Vpres. He did so and mi ClNDON, March 13. tlenta can be cured by workinwoff began to shout all sorts of things, which arrived, at about 5 o "eloek, he found that the crowd had swollen to several thousands, and it aas being addressed by a speaker on a raised platform. His troops deployed on cither side of the entrance, the ground Experience Recalled. n which they stood being some feet f While under shell fire the conscious higher than the general level of the personality was trying to suppress the emotion of fear, partly from a sense of a sold'er partly in of duty duty anything to get woaway from It In curing that patient bring up the "When between radical end conservative elements tn the parliament and country. Under this measure fortunes would be divided into two classes: Those which existed before the war and those acquired during and after hostilities. The former would be given an exemption of IS per cent. Fortunes of under IS, OOP crowns would be free from taxation. Beat that ginning figure, however, a gradually Increasing levy is provided for, commencing at 6 per cent and attaining a maximum of (6 per cent. On small an exemption nt 1000 crowns for each member of the family la made from d the total. of the levy in payable In cash and the remainder in the rest-bearing third issue war bonds. Compulsory contribution of wealth has been before the government In one form or another ever since It formation, but nothing tangible has resulted. The capitalistic and bourgeoisie ciasees oppose It by every means tn their power. The financial proposals, together with the reorganisation of tha army, are generally thought to be the crucial test of tha coalition government. The latter question again brings the two principal parties Into dtrvct conflict. The Social Democrats advocate a kind of national nillitia"or volkawehr, while the conservatives demand a standing regular, army, to composed 'largely of the officers el the Qnly Ice and Darkness. anti-Britis- h Fires Into Big Crowd. VIENNA, March 13. (By the Associated Press.) The Austrian government expecta that Its plan for an enforced levy on wealth as prepared for submission to the national assembly will yield fyoin I.OuO.Mo.Ooe to 13.00,00t'.!W) crowns. It s the product of Finance Minister Relach. The Vienna press hat been predicting that It will bring to a crisis the relations feeV-dow- After describing the growth of feeling at Amritsar, culminat- ing in murderous attacks on Europeans, the report tells how General Dyer was at length given authority to take whatever steps were necessary to reestablish civil control. This was on April 13. General Dyer accordingly considered it his duty to disperse prohibited and nn lawful meetings, such as had been held bv the natives for some time in the .lappcwnlinn Bngh, an open space, regularly used for public meetings, with houses on all four sides and three or four passages leading into it. The continues in substance: "General Dyer was not able immediately to provide for the purpose a larger force than fifty Indian troops, together with forty Gurkhas, armed onlv with kukris or knives. Accompanied by the European superintendent of police, he took these to the Jappe-waliaBagh. He had with him two armored ears in reset ve, but the lane through which lie entered wag too narrow to admit them and they were left in the street outside. He took no machine guns with him. tions of the Radical and Elements. Conservative J.ONDON. March IS. (By Us Assocl "ated Press.) John L Cope, leader of ths British antarctic expedition which la set ting out In June, In the courre of a lecture told tha following story of a thrilling experience he had while a member of the Shackelton expedition marooned on Ross Island. In 1916: While leading three men over a dangerous glacier I failed to notice a.sfevlce, which was almost covered with enow. my Suddenly I felt the eaow glverbenesth feet, and I fell hedlong.--- T Happily, my comrades saw me dtsappear'and promptly started to pull on the slydge ropes. These held, and I found myself susI was pended over a bottomless pit. and about twenty being held by the sledge harness, which was 1 around my cheat and shoulders. dangled helpless. About ten feet below my feet the opening suddenly widened until I could not scythe sides of the crevasse. Huge columns of ice, many of them of tns weirdest shape, were sticking out, some bluq in color, others of a whitish pink of Touch. 'I swung about till my feet touched the rope, and I caught hold of It. But my sense of touch vii gone, and I had to look to tee if I was clutciilng the rope before I dared trust myself to start "climbing. - - j j North Carolina. Negro .Is Great Britain Is Considering the Rockefeller of the Plan to GreatIJrieksJid TRADE WITH RUSSIA T Little Republic Production. PROVES GREAT LURE I LONDON, March 13 (By the Associ ated Press.) Liberia la truly a hermit republic, writes Alan Bourchier Lethbridge, author and traveler, tn the Dally The country, he adds, has Telegraph. ho tends, no railways, fio telegraphs, no steamboats on ber river. nor any practical exploitation of her wealth. Lodgings In Moarovta, the capital, virtually do not exist, with the exception of one place, which Is conducted by the mavor. Thia man Is an enterprising negro of North Carolina, who, besides attending to tha duties of the mayoralty and conducting his hotel, operates an tea plant and an Ice bream parlor, which fori Tram merlyr wera German property. these latter bin profits ore said to tie He also has to do glgantlo. something with the postoffae" and Is. a police court Swinging backward and forward over the pit, I climbed higher and higher, and, as I neared he top, the harness which had held me up fell from my shoulders. If I slipped nothing could aave me from being dashed to pieces on the Ice. I shouted to the men, asking them to lower the harness to reach me, for I waa to cold that I could not climb further, and my legs would not stretch far enough to reach the rungs of the ladder. They lowered the loop of my harness till I wss able to push my legs through It. and, half sitting on this, and gripping the rope ladder, I was literally hauled on the ' Icefield again. We continued our Journey magistrate. after I had been hanging over that botIn fact," say Mr.' Lethbridge. ' this and tomless pit for three a half hours. remarkable man, starting from nothing, has made himself ,a Rockefeller of Liberia." LONDON In Monrovia, says the- - traveler, there are horses, motors, rickshaws or other IS WOMEN wheelno vehicles; no street lighting, no drinking water and not Infrequently food thw for European colony- run opt supplies diving Valuable Instruction to Those and strict rationing Is enforced until the to . in - Eligible Higher Qualify ship arrives. Unless the twenty-thre- e members of Lines of Activity. congress appear at., parliament, house properly attired- - In. a black frock coat, fyONDdX, March 13. (By the Assocpatent leather shoes, white waistcoat and iated Press. ) Women who are out of top hat they are liablo to. fine of 35, or whose earning capacities have The thermometer sometimes registers 114, work, suffered as a result of the war, now have lnr the shads. the benefit of the direct help and advice of the central committee on women's training and employment, which has just appointed by the minister of labor as a standing. committee. GETS The new committee hss been empowered to take over the balance of the queen's work for women'' fund and a Electrolytic Copper Plant to Cost further sum of 600.000 has been allottto Be Erected at Newton ed to It by the national relief fund. The new committee, which constats of Abbot fourteen members, ait social workers, under the chairmanship of the NEWTON ABBOT, England. March Marchioness of Crewe, will begin at once to train, eligible women to qualify as 13. (By Associated Ires.) Tnis little teachers of domestic science, higher grade town has been chosen as the site for rookery, physical science and welfare the first electrolytic copper refinery ia work, and a selected few will he intro- Great Britain, to cost 10,000,000. duced to the medical and legal profes The war revealed the fact that there slona. was no refinery of this kind in Great COMMITTEE HELPING MANCHESTER. England,' March 13. (By the Associated Press.) LancasWre'a entire cotton trade at a recent conference here to urge upon tha government the Importance of Increasing the supply of yaw cotton within ths British empire, heard Lord Deruy, president of the British Cotton Growing association, declare that failure of the government to the Industry would turn Lancashire Into a hpwlfng wilderness." Sir Herbert Dixon, formerly president of the cotton control board during the war. said the United States could not growth of cotton, and greatly Increase tts of tha United States that the demands for cotton for its own use wera becoming greater. It wou'd be a mortal blow t Lancashire, to Great Britain, and the United Stales as well, he said,. If prices Continued to soar. Edwin Stockton, president of the Manchester chamber of commerce, presented a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, expressing appreciation, of the cotton employers' decision to contribute a levy of sixpence per twle toward the fields and coat of expanding asking the' government to tnmake financial combination provision which would, with the money subscribed In the Industry, give effect to the proposals of then empire cotton committee td promote growing within the empire. Vice President Shut of the' Liverpool Cotton nsnoctatioii said he bulleted a well thought out project invoking the purchase of 'land for the cultivation of cotton could be made an absolutely sound I proposition. pre-aer- ythe-cotto- cot-to- $50,-009,0- well-kno- Britain. The nonferrous trades comMANY WILL ATTEND mittee formed ty the government, strongly recommended a plant capable SUFFRAGE CONGRESS of . producing 100,000 ton of copper should be established in the United MADRID, March 13 (By the from at least Kingdom, for which, as far as possible, t1 Ptess.) Delegates are expected to attend the British copper in blister form should 51"" the International Women be used. The government promised finsncial Suffrage alliance to be held here early In Mnv. These nations are the United assistance if required, and Bir Gerard States. Great Britain, India, France, Por- Muntz, a member ,of a big West Bromtugal, Swltserland, Sweden, Finland, Ice- wich copper firm, who was chairman land. Germany, Rumania ami Serbia. Since the' last congress was held at of the committee, now heads a synditnlrteen cate which will erect the new copper reBudapest, seven years ago. countries have extended the franchise to fining plant. women and thus, for the first time, the At Newton Abbot-tbe- ra are tidecongress will have behind It the author- water facilities, in addition to a tied ity and weight of targe bodies of enof more than 800,000,000 tons of ligfranchised women. Spain, however, remains unconverted. Mrs Sarajtnf Nladu, nites for the generation Of electricity poet and orator, is expected to be among at a very low cost. the delegates from India. e Theoretically It Appears Posidbla to Turn 19 Pounds Into 100 by Taking Short Trip. LONDON, March 13. (Bv the Associated Press.)- -' Theoretically, it would 109 seem possible to turn 10 into merely by taking a short trip through France, (Switzerland and Italy, av a Hwis correspondent to the Daily Graphic. II (fives this formula: Take a 19 banknote into France and change it for 420 silver francs. With these enter Switzerlan t, where they-w- ill buy 2190 Italian paper lire, then pas into Italy and eash into You now have 2100 Italian silver. Italian silver lire. Take these back into Switzerland, and you have 21U0 Swiss francs, as the silver lire are accepted here as equal in value to Swiss francs. . Now buy French paper money, and you will receive 4200 French francs. Return to France, where you buy En- ffhsh notes, and you get 100 more or E BERLIN, March 13 (By Ahe Aasoclat. ed Press.) Employ vee at the aniline dv works at Ludwlgshafen stole 30,H)0.0'0 marks' worth of the company's property last year, according to a dispatch to the Rundschau. The thieving waa going on so openly and In such a systematic manner that' the' company finally waa obliged to call foe 140 armed deputies. When they arrived. the worker attacked them and rest of the depInjured nine. DUBLIN, March 13. (By the Associated rreasb The holdups In the south of Ireland of bank officials lias fled to an A Interesting counter-movparty of thirty civiliansA escorted two officials of Munster Leinster bank from Tipthe perary to a suboffice at GSIhally, County Limerick, wine miles distant, where a cattle fair waa held. Two members of the escort went In front on horse hack and the remainder followed in cars. uties fled. e. ly if . , CUTE LITTLE SHOPS DOING BIG BUSINESS j j Girls With Good Taste as" to Disptijr Are Prospering In London East-en- (By Universal Service.) LONDON, March 13. Women like their clothes to hav a copy right-nothave discovered that the Last-enalmost rivals the West end number of cute little shops which are springing up. Mile-en- d Whitechapel, road, and Commercial road are the thoroughfares i a which these little millinery and blousa There shops blossom most profusely. is taste in the way five or six hats and blouses and little frocks are arranged in a small window, across wnicu is splashed, in great gold aud black Practically, it ia not so easy," as sil- letters, a fanciful name. ver coin is rare on the continent, and Most of the girls who set tip for there ia the French prohibition to carry sho have more than 1000 franc out of the coun- themselves ia these little workprobably graduated in a West-entry. a said the of shop, manager big milestablishment, when a Universal linery RAILWAYS Service representative naked him to ex NEXT NEED plain, if he could, the chic which DYE WORKS OVERHEAD TAKEN ANILINE ROBBED OF, BIG SUM LONDONS TO THWART ROBBERS COUNTER-MOV- (COPENHAGEN, Starch IS. (By the Associated of Press.) Representatives American commercial interests and those of other countrlea are gathering in Copenhagen and Stockholm as well aa in Baltic porta, attracted by the lure- - of trade with Russia. They think the day (s near when the Russian markets will be opened to the work!. As there is scarcely a commodity ihat Russia doesn't need, the demand tor every kind of manufactured article, from hairpins to locomotives, will bo In the opinion of business men with whom (lie correspondent has talked. It will take years to satisfy Russia's needs. Owing to Russias finsncial and credit conditions and the fact that the people are represented by government with which the allies say they will have nothing to do, the difficulties of dealing with that country would appear great. But trade experts In the Baltic state do not regard the situation as hopeless. In Finland a committee of busineaa men has Just bean formed to study the question with the object of hitting upon a possible basis of trade. H is generally believed - that when with Russia is resumed it will trading be along tne primitive lines of barter. Russia Is known to have on hand immense quinuties of hide and flax which she wants to swap for foodstuffs, raw materials and manufactured goods. ; ; Ksthonln has sn ambitious program, headed by the proposed railway, to become the world a gateway for Russian trade. It hopes also to set up factories to manufacture many tn tne articles Ruotfa requires. Before the war, manufacturing -plants 111 Letvia and the best of RntvU's employekilled laoor for working up Imported raw materials. , Reval-Moaco- LITTLE ENGLISH TOWN PLAN, IS PROPOSED HUGE REFINERY - TO GET RICH QUICK h-- en For a Time, However, Primitive Line of Barter Will Be Followed, Say Expert. distinguishes the Whitechapel model. ."The (act is, further, that Jcwieh have an extraordinary color people Prm, Tr4 Moo tarn of Bu!!m If you analyze the contents of tlmt within a fw yar tiw of sense. in London win compel tho one of the shops tnffl jou are referring t,j fcntlftto of oTortooa nltviri ttml of hUUr you will find that a great vrt of t' tot Ud tor- - Neither atrvta. rnUwava tub-- , r success lies in daring but supreme y fby iit today, to mr, iii ndrqaat to roe fry tn UUf traffic right color schemes. Thr aharropora of Now T orh h nddj "Those girls are artist in their wee, maretfk'ent and itriklogly hoatitiTnL Ti nd, making use of the love fur etrt.t.g, abort tb atnwta la far porvr than which wpsrprirrat.nu 1m 9 eolors, down, and i ho more or Imm pniMintt amokr tayor Loadna la eehHn Mghrr than tot taught thur race j to mgt, the 10 foe t tn nbrmnt wUier. produce wond rful rtx.t..'1 LOXDO.V, MftHi tt ll.w-Y- Rf ii Anntatl -- |