BARLIER TELEGRAMS."
(Bosker"). Berokoa to the China Mali)
MESOPOTAMIL.
BLABAS, Decembar 29th
official representative of the Arsh Government conferring with the British suthorities suggeried that British troops
return to Dairezzor to restore order. The representative Ramadkan Shalash, made similar application, and asked that the Commander-in-Chief may furnish funds to replace those looted by his friends and kahim restore law and order at Dairersor.
Both requests are refused as it is the Buty of abe Arad. Government to restore
situation. The incideal at Daireitor may be re pardod, as closed at present sa fac 13 Kopotamia is concerned. Any further negotiations will take place in Europe between the interested parties
HAVAS REVIEW.
A Havas motsoge klases (—
4,
PARI, January 2nd." The procedure fixed for the ratification of the Peace Treaty on January 6th is
follow-
INTERCEPTED LETTERS.
IV.
Ma dear Christine,
WRATHER REPORT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Jannery d. 112 35.No returns from. Vladivostock, Japan or Indo-China. A Happy New Year two ye, an ae Pre sure bai décroiser considerably. the ithers, an' thank them free us here fur their kind spelrin Langer the Yogtre Falley and slightly may a' yo'r luas reeks, and may yeralog the south coast of Chins. It is Kail-pots ne'er be emptied. It was early stationary over the Philippines.
latest draw New Year, wi" hooters, The anticyclone has weakened,
an' crackers, an bells, but A didna
be monsoon is interrupted to the Foochow It will remain fresh car ony o" they paper trumpets that ori
got at the Shows--ye ten the good to acrung over the Chine fo
Hongkong Rainfall for the 34 hours old Aunt Sallies, wi" the, awlu" -mugs. 1ding at 10 am to-day, 0,00 luch My, but we've been heina guida de Jantar at lashes time, what wi folk comin' the us, anant an average of 0.14 inches.
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THE NEW SNOBBERY.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
1L
REYIYING THE NEWLY RICH" (By Arrangement with the Pak Ts
ONDER.
The English are a nation of snobs. That is the opinion of a Canadian. Not once, but many times, he has
heard rypical Pall Mall clubmes and
'Yet Po.]
-SHANGBAN January 5. Leung, Ting-fan the well known pro-Monarchist died on the 4th inst.
The Japanese Minister at Peking society hostesses sneering at the still insists on the suppression of the So he tells me. boycott movement as a condition nouveaux riches. And this, he maintains, is a symptom for the withdrawal of the Japanese of the revival of a snobbery which, Squadron from Fuklen. before the war, had almost died out. Shun Chun-Hsun one of the in the volumes of Punch, for instance, proposes that in view of the anti- You had to go back many years Administrative Directors in Cantos. to find pictures of uncouth vulgarians Calrèse movement in Annam a us gaun cot, we're fair what they ca ^eramat”ine „che 24 hours under at
Chinese Consulate should be created in over-furnished drawing rooms Society- folk.
awn on Jazpazy 7th, 1920...
longing to Gap Boot. NE.shouting at scandalised butlers, he there for the protection of the
Chinese. said. Now those pictures are reap-
Luk Ching Cheung the Chinese pearing in your humorous weeklies. the only difference being that the Peace delegate at the European Con- nouveaux riches who figure in thera Shanghai on the 10th inst. The ference is expected to arrive at are labelled war profiteers." The implication in these alleged joses is Ministry of Foreign Affairs is sending special representative here to wel- that there is a well-bred class bora
come him. with the right to mansions and motors The Diplomatic Bady has seat and menservants, ind that persons representatives to Hunan to breath who have earned money to command gate the plantation of opium in that! these luxuries are necessarily ill-Province.
When A come back A'll be the Queen p" Paisley Society, an ye'll see ma photay in a the papers. The Colony is at peace the noo, the Peak and Kowloon are on the best o" terms, an standin' cach, ither New Year drinks. The weather is juist like.com Simmer, an" we're hae'in a sort o' Sports, an' there's gun tae be the races soon.
Ma voerd, we're lead-
mecnisters dinns start in wi" a big hell-damnation fur Hongkong if they dinna live like the guid folk they used tae be in the wee bit land."
in" an awfu gay fb athegither, an" Fins, the Germans will sign the proto-A'll no be surprised if some coor oul of November 1st which specifies the reparation for the Scapa Flow scuttling and then the documente certifying the tification of the Treaty of Versailles, Afterwards, M. Clemences will band the Chief German. Delegato. (Baron von) Larmer) the letter containing a resume of the verbal segurances that the Allies are ready to reduce the quantity of the tonnage demanded it Germany can prove that the amouat ja excessivo,
A wus ill pleased the ither nicht when A saw in the China Mail a lot
blather of a new society of Com- fades of the Great War which is bein" talked about. As ye weel ken, The increase in the price of bread the Comrades was cracket up by you which, according to a recent semi-official Jauid gas bag "I'm winnin' the war," statement, would not go into effect until
Av course, there was August is now announced to come into somethin' behind it a", aa, weel, ye
at hame effect on February 1st..
The Government proposed to raise thecouldna trust a word the muck- He did a bit o' guid, but it price of wheat sold to millers from 43: raker.
tae look at him. was juist so's he could get ither folk
to
franca per 100 kiles and raise the
price of four to 31 fraces, thus increasing the price of bread to consumers from 50 to Do centimes.
The Chamber of Deputies as approved the authorization of an increase of rail-j *way fares by 160 to 121.
French, circles have been much im- pressed by Admiral Kotchak's col lapse, and the wish is universal that Japanese forces be entrusted with the test of barring the way to the Boi- shevist advance.
TRADE COMPETITION.
JAPANESE GOODS IN CEYLON.
No better example of what Sir Auckland Geddes has described as the wholly artificial hold which Japan- esé goods have obtained on British markets can be found than in the Pentah trade of Ceylon, says the Times of Ceylon. During the early days of the war the Japanese captured this Ceylon market because there were no other competitors, and the Japanese were able to adopt a "take it or leave it' policy. As time went on the Pettah merchants showed what their feelings were in regard to the methods of the Japanese and the products of Japan by preferring, whenever poss sible, to leave it," and so far as the future is concerned Japan ought never to be a serious competitor be- cause of the prejudice she has creat ed against her goods. On the other hand, it has yet to be seen whether Great Britain can win this trade. I must frankly, be recognised that she could not do so before the war. Apart from the question of long credits, Germany made it her business to supply the Pettah trader with just what he wanted, and in those days he was able to do so at a price, which attracted the local merchants. It is very questionable to-day whether Ger. many can under-sell British goods, but it has yet to be seen how far the British manufacturer will go in giving the Ceylon trader what he wants in- stead of what the manufacturer con- siders the trader ought to have. The Penah market is hungering for goods. Undoubtedly, it would prefer British goods. Certainly it does not want Japanese goods. But the goods that the Perth will ultimately buy will be those of the manufacturer who caters for the market and its varied idiosyn crasies. Sir Auckland Geddes might achieve a useful purpose if he would. expend some of his eloquence in bringing this fact home to British. manufacturers.
DEAFNESS
AND KOMES IN THE LO Boures of Apparently "hopelum" onnan haya heck Hoverpiately cured by the wall known Franc
Orir. NOTHING EQUAIR TUDM MIMPLE EMEDY. Priez 46 per Bax. Bontlet Free 'Orlene' Co., Station Ed Craydon, Eng. [Ant good' claw Druzint can obtain this remedi to your order, a 1t enn be obtained it from -na ipon receipt of evet:
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ROTAL OBSERVATORY,
CONGKONG, DAILY WEATHER
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Weel, they're talkin' o' tryin it on If they'd only be sensible an here. mak, a branch of the D.S.S.A. they'd be dacin' weel, fur then the folk that had been through it would ha'e it tas themsels, an be weet rid o' they ithers wha didna ken what it meant tae be at the Front. They men wha hale ne'er had a day's drill but were sneaked into the W.O. havene ony rich; tae themsels soldiers Anither thing, the Comrades is as bad is the Army itsel, bein' as it is fair bandaged in that awfa' red tape, whiles the D.S.S.A. is run by the pukka chiels wha went through it, fur
Paihoes 5,30,58 59 95 the pakka chiels whe went through itinan
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behaved and contemptible outsiders." It is learned that American and
The Feeling against profiteers is so Japanese Capitalists have come to: strong. This Canadien critic contended terms on the $24,000,000 loan to that the nouveau riche sneer "gets China. It is expected to be con- across "when its innate snobbery cluded this year. ought to kill it.
Why." he remarked, "It's sim- ply ridiculous, the way some of your pre-war rich folks talk. At dinger
the other night my neighbour was an aristocratic lady, and she spoke as though these people whom she called profiteers had no business, to enter the swagger hotels and restaurants which
she patronises. Yet she's never done; an honest day's work in her life, and the ancestor who found her family's fortune was himself a profiteer, by the standards of his day."
stanka
The Cabinet has instructed Mr. Wong Yap Tong to arrange peace proceedings. with Mr. Tong Shao Yi and Dr. Jun Yat Sen
Itis reported that the Chilli party are comtemplating the supportoi Pre- sident Chu Sai Chong as their leader after the death of General Fung Kuo Chang.
ANOTHER BURGLARY.
DRESSMAKNA VICTIMIZEU.
He pointed out that in Canada and j America the man who makes moneyj
A burglary is reported to have and rises in life is respected, not taken place in La Favorite dress- amee.cd at whatever his original making establishment on Sunday night. A large quantity of silk and "I think it shocking every sane other dressmaking material, valued. individual thinks it shocking that at $1.950, was stolen. The theft was anytedy should have become rich discovered by an assistant, who, on through the war," he added. But trying to open the store, fond it bthe parties, who, by exactly the same closed on the inside. An inspection
methods-namely,
(revealed the fact that the padlock of worse ones-namely, filching land the back door had been broken. A from the nation), became rich before Chinese coolle employed in the shop, i the we are living in glass-houses. is stated to have decamped. and it is funny to observe the gesture of virtuous indignation with which they throw stones.
b
business
$240.81 worth of property has since been recovered. No arrests have yet been made.
The working man who strikes. for In connection with the above burg. higher wages is merely imitating his lary, the Police this morning made- berters that is, trying to get as an application before Mr. N. L. much morey as he can; and for those Smith for an order Calling upon three betters to pretend to be shocked at pawn-brokers to return certain goods, him is humbug. And for himo de-which formed part of the burglars' ery them is equally humbug is booty, and were taken into pawn by
them. their snobbery, in an inverse sense!
The case was, on the application
"One of your business magnates moaned to me that his stenographers of Mr. Mattingley, remanded until were Fashionably dressed and powder- Thursday.
THE NIGHTMARE.
1
ed their noses. But his own daugh ter does the same. Only a snob would have failed to see that such con duct for the girl who was a mere
Nearer and nearer it crept. parasite on her papa was actually less justifiable than the same conduct on could not move; I stood as one petri- the part of girls who, by honest toil, fied. Those terrible eyes held me. have earned freedom and freedom's They burnt into my brain. Chi the T. F. CLAXTON, Director privileges.
bideousness of the thing. Like an Yang kong (3) se vatory, Jan. 6, 1930, those rypists just as snobbish in their
"However, I must add that I found enormous spider, save that it had three horas. Its body was quite four feet BAROMPTER igend to doutlook on shopgirls and domestic serin length, and its legs, of which there hrenheit so the level of the san fr
Ye'll be gled tae hear, Kirstee, that at last A've found some nice wum-Aparri men. No they're no on the Peak, for Dazaman ma yins ha'e nae pokers fur spines.pl
Manila... They're just real hamely folk, wi' nàc side, an'il ye ever cam oot A'll tak↑ Nolle ye along. But there's yin silly wum-durigaom
77711 man takin in the paper aboot if yetre husband is in yin o" the big concerns here ye're accepit intas what they cal Guid Society. She's bletherin'. «If] she'd said at the value o' yer guid man's monthly cheque, "A'd ha'e be lieved her; but," jings, A'm shair she wus lookin' at things through a glass o guid toddy. An' what's mair, altha she fancies ye're accepit by they snobs, she forgits that you, and ye're faithers great graund aunt gie- them enauch tae talk aboot until anither unfortunate lassie arrives here, an' drifts intae their clutches. A'm gled re're no here, fur A can see ye get- tin mair ner mad when they try tse oull the bits the reputation ""a real McGregor. They'd want ye the sk oot ve're family bible se peuve it,
ch
tonths and h ndredtha.
1 TIMEFRITT in the shade in re
Faroobelt.
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gloomy, bhail lightning, overcast thunder rriaibility w dew, vaki p' shower, q equal. era n. 1 TRO=
an' yet, some of the leadin' yins hereinfache cical d dr zzling rain, ! fos wadna ha'e a leg tue stan' on, if there was an examination of what they were afore they were what they are poo!
An' noo A must rin, fur A'm gaun wi' Wullic an' the bairns tae the Pictures.
A' oor guid wishes for 1020.
MAGGIE MACKAY.
THE JAIL CASE..
BA in factes tentar sad' ban.
fredth,
Wong Kwong, the escaped prisoner who has been re captured by the Police, was again before Mr. J. R Wood this morning charged with the murder of Warders Speed and Har nam Singh within the walls of View. toria Jail in the small hours of the Thur morning of Dec. 15.
vans-Daily Chronicle.
UNIQUE SEA FIGHT
STORY OF BRITISH SUBMARINE AND GERMAN DESTROYER."
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were twelve, over ten feet each Slowly, very slowly it was coming towards me. How I longed to shrick, to call out, to move, to run. It was cov only a yard away. In another two minutes it would reach me.. Its mouth
was opening, revealing a Honble to bi ghastly fangs.. Its
A story of a fight to a finish in the tongue kept darting in and out, a Wrap, weeniing to North Sea between a British sub-ronomous looking weapon of destruc- marine and a German destroyer was on. Suddenly it made a swilt lunge told in the Prize Court when prize and caught my leg just below the bounty was awarded to British officers knee. Those terrible teeth sark deep and crews, or their survivors.
into the flesh; I could hear the bones The mutually fatal duel was de. crunching. Yer I did not feel any
pain. scribed in an affidavit by Sir Oswyn Murray, Secretary of the Admiralty, beast, but I could not move. I felt How longed to strike the
The fight took place between the L:10 my leg fall away. I remained stand- (Lieut.-Com. A. E. Whitehouse) and ing on one leg. Then the beast start- the German destroyer S.33 on Octo ed to ear me all up one side. It was ber 3rd, 1918, and an intercepted my left side.. Quickly my thigh dis- wireless message from the latter sald appeared, then half my abdomen, ther the vessel had been torpedoed by the ribs began to go. My heart weni; British submarine, and that the sub one lung. left arm and shoulder. Then marine had been sunk by gunfire. made a supreme effort, and, strain- othing more was heard of the de- ing my remaining lung to its utter- stroyer and the submarine had been most. I let out a fearful yell
Then I woke up. missing with all hands since the date; of the fight.
WILLIAM HILL.
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Evidence similar to that taken at the inquest, and reported fully in the China Mail at the time, was entered. into and the case is proceeding.
The case is expected to last a T whole week.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, who conducted the case. said it was unique as a fight to
o finish, and Lord Sterridale, in award award. He was told such an order
ing £450, stated that the order would had not occurred before.
be without prejudice to any question Other prize bounty was awarded
as to whether personal representa- tives were entitled to prize bounty
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1920
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