(2) For the lengthening of the Malay Peninsula;

(3) For the importation of five million coolies, estimated at the
rate of five hundred coolies each, to give employment to ten thousand
second-loots;

(4) For the importation of elephants, tigers, lions, buffalo,
hippopotami, giraffes and capercailzie.

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AT PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE.

[Mr. GEOFFREY DAWSON has resigned the Editorship of _The Times_,
owing to a disagreement with Lord NORTHCLIFFE over matters of
policy, and has been succeeded by Mr. H. WICKHAM STEED, formerly
foreign editor.]

"Once more upon the waters! Yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a Steed
That knows his master."

_Byron_, "_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_."

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[Illustration: _Inspecting Officer_. "WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NUT
ON THIS LORRY?"