EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Bouter's Service to the Chisa Maï.)
RUSSIA'S TRIBULATIONS.
LONDON, October 30th. "The Morning Fest correspondent at Helsingfors
that. General atates. Judenitch's entire operation has failed It is feared that the retreating army may be driven into the swamps west and south of Gatchina, which is apparently the Bolabevist plan.
andi
It is now certain that Finland will not assist General Judenitch, fearing that the triumph of Koltchak, Denikin Judenitch will threaten Finland's national existence.
LONDON, October 30th. It is now not doubted that General
Jh bus suffered a set-back which is
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serious in view of the rapid approach of winter. The report. at Hel singfors is that he has abandoned Gat china and retreated along his whole line which is now four miles from Gatchina, six miles from Tsarskoeselo and five miles from Krasnoeselo, He has little chance of securing S favourably base and renew- ing his attacks.
“A Bobhevik message elaina successed against General Denikin, and says that risings have broken out throughout the Ukraine. wpreading to Poltava and Ekaterinoslav. General Denikin's troops are Bercely 6ghting Makno's brigands who have reached Kherson: from the Criceu.
LONDON, October 31st. While a Bolhevik message asserts that the enemies are retiring on all fronts- Admiral Kolchak's rout is imminen Central Judenitch will be crushed in a
OUR LOCAL POETS,
ADIEU, FAIR HONGKONGE
Dedicated to Esanip, Adios, fnir Ialo that crowns the
Orient Sena,
Adieu, I leave behind your verdant
THE CHINA MAIL..
BECKETT'S FUTURE.”
(BY BERKELEY.)
Naturally we are all locking to. Beckett 'to go'a step farther in the direction of the attainment of the highest possible koncurs în his pro- fession That he will...ultimatety meet Dempsey in a fight for the heavy weight championship is our Adieu. I have to miss your breezandge, but he has several smaller fences to clear before he comes to that very big one...
trees!!
Adieu, enchanted land of joy and
bliss,
kiser!
Good-bye, majestic peaks I lose to
see,
Good-bye, fair granite rocks beside
the sea 1.
He now has Carpentier in a corner, for the latter can hardly sak for an- other postponement, seeing so many others are pressing upon Beckett's Good-bye, sweet nurses at the Cause-heels. I understand that Carpentier
way Bay,
is under a contract to Mr. Cochran Good-bye, I leave behind our which he must fulfil, or otherwise
Quarry Bay!
lose all claim to the heavy-weight championship of Europe.
Farewell, green Happy Valley of the
Muse
Farewell. I have your dead
you caressi
that
and
Farewell, fins roads and squares
buiklings high, Farewell, no more will I see you
well nigh!
Chin-chin,
FODK
and
Confucius' daughters fair, Chin-chin, Fride no more your
so04113rk
Chin-chin, sampan and ricshag and
your lates
Chin-dia. 1 mise your cyanbals
and your flutes i
Good-bye, land where the East
fortnight, and General Benikin's position Adieu, fair Hongkong, gem of Orient is hopeless-an authoritative statement in London says that General Denikin's advance continues, and that General. Judexitch's Army now holds the line from which Fetrograd can be re-attacked at any moment
War Office summumiyur, issued last. night says that a strong force of Rede, on October 19th, attacked two miles scoth-west of Ropacha at a gap between. the Eathoniara and the North-West Army. A counter-attack under Birikimi cut off and destroyed the advancing Bolshevik column and 1,300 prisoners were taken. Pirikimi, then turning eastward, marched on towards Krasaesk. The report adds that, apparently, the reported evacuation of fiatchina by tieneral Yudenitch is in
correct.
THE RISE IN SILYER..
LONDON, October 30th.
In the House of Commons, replying Sir Samuel Roberts. Mr. Chamberlain stated that he was giving elcse attention to the question of the price of silver. Hoarding buying, selling, ur offering to buy or self current British silver coins above their face value were already statutory offences.
An Order-in-Council was passed rester day making it an offence to melt down or break up current silver coins or use them otherwise than as currency. The export of British silver coins is already prohibited and steps are being taken t renew the prohibition of the export, of silver bullion exeept by licence,
Lospos, October 30th,
Joes tweet the West! Farewell, may all your days be long
and blest.. Chin-chin, may you love well your
peor Chinese
BENEDICTUS. Hongkong, Nov. 9, 1919.
LOVE.
Love is sublime! It is so sweet
Huntly dedicated to Pacita.
That life so deur sometimes we give. Its power makes all hearts forget. To live, and sorrows deep rovive. Love is the life of human heart! It is for love that poete mourn. It essence true will never part From poets hearts of love forlen Love is the world, of tortured hears And 'tis the soul it glorifies.
.
Tis bridge of hope that sets epart The depth of heart that ever sighs.
Love is divine! Love is our goal It is our life, our heart, our soul!
Hongkong, November 4.
ESANIP.
H.K.D.C.'s "EXCELSIOR."
The days of war are surely past. Yet bureaucrats are holding fast
The balance of expert opinion at the present moment favours Beckett as against Carpentier; indeed, after the big speculators offered to lay 3 the show on Tuesday night one of
to I against the Frenchman. The experts say that McGoorty is a far. better trial horse than the French- man that the American is stronger and possesses much more staying power, and that Beckett's style would be much more effective against Car. pentier than it was against McGoorty.
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CAPTAIN MCLAGLEN... However these things may be, ! am going to pin my faith to Beckett to clear out all our home-bred boxers as well as Carpentier. That means Captain McLaglen for the Lonsdale that I think him capable of defeating'
be beyond his compass, Belt-a task which many believe to
Captain McLaglen is a dark horse, so far as our knowledge of his box ing ability is concerned, although most of us know what a magnificent specimen of muscular manhood he is. But Captain McLaglen has been a long time out of practice, and that is a very big consideration when you are contemplating a match with such
as. Beckett.
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVALS,
"Commandant arrived
| The M. M. 32.
Dorise" (Capt. (Gualbert) Festerday from Singapore..
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The s.3." Bendleach" (Capt. J. H. Mason) Gibb Livingstone & Co., arrived this morning from Singapore with 2,500 tons of gin, and 2 passen gers, "and maly from London.
KIDNAPPING A YOUNG. CHILD.
MOTHER IN CHAINE.
ketu
“A very seridua case of kiddapping was heard before Mr. R. O. Hlitchison this morning when “a. Chinese was charged with kidnapping a young child. It was stated by the Police that the mottier of the child left the country on account of some cuartels with her husband who had sold two of their children, and the brought the youngest one with her to Hourkung: She went to see a The J. M. & Co. as. "Yueu Sang' (Capt. A. C. Kennedy) arrived yester-friend who promised to find
A day, afternoon from Manila with employment for her.
visited her friend's house," and 7611 tons of general cargo, 150 bags he was. introduced to her. After of malis, and 6 European passengers. some days, the mat invited her to
accompany him to Taiping. Thef child was left in the house. The woman lived with the man for some time, and one day, the woman asked the man to go to Hong- kong and to brig back with hich her child. The seized the woman and took her indo a cowished where she was fastened up with chains. After being in this confinement for some hours she
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The J, CJ. Lsa. “ Tilfands” (Capt. Weidas) arrived this morning from Sourataya with 3,700 tons of gin, 3 bags of mails and from tuberculosis on the voyage. passengers. There was one desta
DEPARTURES..
I'm sin
H The M. M. 5.5 Commandant managed to break loose, and escape. Dorise" leaves at 5 pm. today for She walked for nine days begging fer food on the way, bat finally reached Moji.
the Churan Wan railway Station,
The OS.K...a. Koyo Maru" (Captain Umetam) left at noon to day for Keelung.
Medina) left at noon to-day for The 1.5.QuinnebatgTM" (Captain Foochow via Swatow.
The B. &S. ... "Shantung," (Capt. Monkman) left at noon to-day for Shanghai with 1.700 tons of general cargo..
The ss. "Kwang Tah" (Captain Stewart) China Merchant's, is leaving at 5 p.m. to-day for Shanghai with 1100 tons af general cargo.
"A few of us old fogeys have beer analysing and discussing the pros and cons of Tuesday's proceedings. The 3.Prinzessin" (Ciptan There were among us amateur Meagle) Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co, champions of a bygone day and other left at noon to-day for London via men who have grown grey in the Singapore with 300 tons of general. service of the sport. All were agreed cargo, and 17 European passengers. that it was a great fight, but not all were in accord as to the qualities' of the two men who had taken part in it.
such occasions most of the arguments As is almost invariably the case on
were based on comparisons with the past. For instance, said one man, how would Beckett have gone with
MAILS DUE
Maru" 6th.
The following mails are due.-- From Japan, per 8.3. Yamagata From Australia, per s.s. "EasternTM 7tb. such as Peter Jackson, Charlie Mit Mar 16th.
From Bombay, per 59. "Hwahwu chell, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, or Jack Johnson? I am afraid the present had few friends compared
The rise in the price of silver impels These men, of sterling worth and with the past, and that whatever he Beckett never wilted in the slightest
the newspapers to exhort the public not
to hoard silver, thus not to force the
price
Demobilize.
Licvernment to resort to paper money for Who cry oloud not once but twice, small amount. No apprehension is felt thai silver will be melted down, but the ime understands that the Government is asuing an Order-in-Council prohibit ing the melting of silver currency.
CESSATION OF UNEMPLOYED. DONATIONS.
LONDOS. October 31st.
From day to day as Governorward The China Mail pleads very hard, Utters its oft repeated prayer, Officials dek, with startled air, Demobilize?
The warrior by red tape bound Performs bis useless, irizon round The Parliamentary Committee of the While bury firms attempt in vir Trade Union Congress has passed a reo do their work, and pray again solution expressing indignation at the early cessation of the unemployed dona- tions and instructing that enquiries, be made regarding the Government's policy in respect of the unemployed.
HAVAS REVIEW.
PARIS, October 28th.
A lavas metange says:- M. Clemenceau made public his deci sion to retire from political life in a letter issuert last night declining the offer of the Radical caucus of Strasbourg to contest the legislative sent formerly occupied by M. Gambetta.
Demobilize.
There is the D.C. tuzzing grey
Useless though capable they'll stay Till on those bureaucrats so queer A bomb falls from some higher
sphere
Demobilize.
STREET INCIDENT.
may ultimately prove to be Jos Beckett is not yet tacitly accepted as a real champion.
A GLORIOUS DEFEAT.
degree. He was content and fear less from beginning to end, and to day is no more the Joe Beckett that, defeated Wells and Goddafa in double quick time than I'am: ‹ He~is}" a hundred per cent; better, and what is of greater account, I believe he will. go on improving.
Although I was correct in my pro- phecy as to the actual winner, my estimate as to the probable duration of the fight was further out that is usual with me. I am glad it was, Beckett's boxing is not sitibox. for if the contest had not gone as far It is reminiscent of the old days of as it did we should have been robbed the prize ring, yet it is wonderfully ot some of the heftiest and cleverest effective. He has several deadly boxing we have seen for many a long strokes, notably his right band upper day. With the possible exception cut for the chin, and, his left book of the Burge and Conolley fight The latter he did not use as much as which tock place at Birming is his went on Tuesday night. No ham many years ago, I do not recall doubt he remembered that McGoorty anything to equal Tuesday night's has a pretty good weapon of that encounter for throbbing interest. sort himself, and that a cross counter There was not a doll or halting is never, a pleasant thing to “dap” at moment in it from beginning to end, any time.
and never at any single point copld Where Beckelt had a distinch it be said that either man was not advantage was in strength and pur- trying to the fullest extent of his pose. He fought his battle according capacity.
to plan, and once he found that Beckett might have been able to McGoorty had no adéquate defence pull a little bit more out of his sleeve to the right to the ribs he pounded than he displayed, but McGoorty him there for all he was worth. certainly not McGoorty refused to be I am perfectly sure that one of beaten until he had expended every these blows-would have split the ounce of his skill and energy. His ribs of the average man had He he received it. If it was true, as was was a simply glorious defeat. went down with all his colours flying, said before the fight, that McGoorty And what a splendid sporting touch was not even half trained then he
when the latter came over at the steel girders. broker, in desperation (seeing that finish to shake hands. Whatever M. Roll, one of the best known French it was just upon closing time) got else he may be McGooriy is a great painters in the modern school and President out of the rich and as he did so aportsman, and a man in the best in of the Fine Arts National Society, died in we overheard the following remarka: possible sense of the word. Paris yesterday.
The London House of Commons last instead of
"I trey would cely catch robbers lag about with night agreed to so amendment enabling rashes carrying busy men, we should French manters and mates to zavigate their be glad." ships into Newhaven and Grimsby, Mr.. Bonar Law said that neither in the Hause
And so say all of us!
A NATURAL REFLECTION. The general election period has now
Yesterday afternoon, at about 3.25, fairly opened in Fizace, the first ballut a great, big fat lukong, who looked being fixed for November 16.
There is likelihood of a split in the us if he would be more in his Socialist party concerning the vote of war element in the cashier's desk of a credite sad approval of the stope raken intea shop, held up a ricshe coolie the struggle against Bolshevism.
who was pulling a very busy bulion Telephonic communication from Paris to broker. The usual unintelligible London, interrupted cn August 1st., 1914, jabbering Ensued whereupon the was his effort to congratulate Beckett must have a frame of cake hardened was re-established last night
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LONG FRED FULTON. By defeating Arthur Townley # few minutes on Fred Fulton
tig no possible "TO GO ON IMPROVING." chance of forming anything like an that lot may have been abler boxers bring myself to believe that such an Jackson, Mitchell, Corbett, arid al: estimate, of his worth. I cannot than Beckett, but none of them could elongated specimen is a champion la bave surpassed the Southampton man embryo. Yet ont must not erect for courage, grit, and pertinacity. prejudices on that account. Remem A FAVOURITE BUB DOWN. In many ways Beckett's form was aber what a long, lanky giant Giá THE golfer, the football player and revelation. He was thought to be Ruhlia was, and yet he was a great boxer and might have been the all round athlete know the inferior to McGoorty in speed and value of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It is resource. He was nothing of the champion of the world If he had just the thing for a, rub down after a sort. Some would have it that he lived in leaner times. Of course bard game. Ad soreness disappears President Wilson's condition is so im
like magic and sprains and swellings are could not take a punch. Ask his Fulton has challenged Beckett, but I proved that the issue of daily bulletins cured in one-third less time than by opponent whether he found this to be am afraid he will have to wait until bas ceased. He is eating and sleeping other treatment For sale by all the case. Some of the American's that young fellow has got a few
blows were real pile-drivers, yet more pressing jobs off his hands.
nor the country was there any feeling against our gallant Allies in this matter.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S CONDITION IMPROVING.
well.
WASHINGTON, October 30th.
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