The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-29
DISCOVER GRAFT IN
 ARMY OF bURMAH
Padded Payrolls in the Khed-
 hah Department
NEW INSURANCE SCHEME
England Much Concerned over Report That Rifles Captured at Port Ar thur Are Sold to Abyssinia.
 Lord Rosebery
By PAUL LAMBETH

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 quiry made by the privy council on ap- peal from the supreme court of Burmah has developed the fact that graft in the shape of padded payrools in the khedhah department elephant hunting) Is ram- pant. in fact as bad as 1t is in the British Qndian) army.
 Three of the principal officers who were convicted appealed.
 The government alleged that there were only 2s2 hunters in a certain expedition. The defendants. 1t was alleged. had cook ed up the accounts so as to make 1t appear $40 men had taken part.
 The defendants appealed to the privy council. which has decided against the grafters.
 The government has been advised that there is crookedness on a large scale in other Indian bureaus and departments and 1t Is intimated that investigators are at work in them to learn the extent of the stealing.
 The scheme of state insurance for sickness and invalidity, which has been drafted by the chancellor of the emperor, may be launched this session. The main outlines of the scheme as drafter are as follows:
 Compulsory insurance for sickness and and invalidity for the whole of the work ing population of the country whose in- comes are below the income tax level of 9160 a year.
 The minimum insurance is to be 5s per to ha Ia limit of tha Stata compulsory scheme; all insurance beyond the fixed minimum of 5s. per week being a purely voluntary insurance of 5s. week will be guaranteed by the state.
 The period which the state insurance will cover will be the working years of life between Is and 70.
 The contribution needed to- provide a sickness insurance of 5s. week will be calculated by the government actuaries, and the cost will be met one-half by the workman insurer and the remaining half in equal proportions by the employer and the state.
 The proposed scheme of insurance, be- ing compulsory and universal in it's ap- plication so far as the whole of the work ing population is concerned, will accept the risks of all lives, good and bad.
 The scheme makes provision for the es- tablishment of a central administrative .ouncil composed of representatives of the government, the friendly societies and employers of labor to deal with all ques- tions which arise under the working of the scheme.
 England is much concerned over the report that COCO stand of arms and some six millions of cartridges part of Japan's spells of war taken at Port Arthur, have been sold to Abyssinia.
 The price paid is not stated. but the seller states that he has already been paid. It is not improbable that a good deal more will be heard of the matter. the British government has been making anxious inquiry with a view of finding put why the arms and ammunition were bought.
 British warships have been patrolling the waters at the entrance of the Per sian gulf for more than a year, to pre-
 'ent the illicit trade in rifles on the
 orthwest frontier of India.
 Captures have been made, sometimes after severe conflicts. An encounter at
 )bai, near Lingah, resulted in the loss If four British seamen killed, one miss-
 1g, and nine wounded.
 Lord Rosebery has become confirmed calamity howler. With blood shot eyes, haggard face and screaming voice, he predicts the ruin of the empire as the re- suit of the budget. He sees behind Lloyd George the forces of socialism, the wreck CTS of home, the destruction of Christian ity, in a word the end of all things. And, like Burke, Lord Rosebery stands alone. L his party but his friends. Those who clung to him to the last now dis gusted at his attempt to pose as an inn partial statesman. while in reality he is in sympathy with the tories, and would prefer that he would play the man and go straight over What humilia ting position for the brilliant Lord Rosebery, once the darling of liberalism, the uncrowned king of Scotland, to be reduced to the role of political Cinderella whose chosen task is to do the dirty scullery work of the tory party Is the comment concerning him made by one of his former staunch- est supporters
 Five Episcopalian clergymen and 50 members of their churches at Brighton re- gently joined the Roman Catholic church and were confirmed publicly by the Bish- op of Southwark The Rev David Rhys- Morgan, a prominent Welsh parson, was recently received Into the Roman Catholic church at the Franciscan college, Oxford, England The clergymen are in Rome | studying for the priesthood. | The recent death of Mrs. Anna M Druce which has just occurred recalls one of the most remarkable cases which have engaged public attention during the | past half century. By coinincidenee the | death of the principal party in the famous | 'laim to the estates of the Duke of Port | land has occurred within day of the | third anniversary of the opening of the Druce vault in Highgate cemetery. What the public through a succession of years spoke of as the Druce claim rested upon the extraordinary allepat tion of idan