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PEXING, June 19. Apparently there has been no fur- ther fighting on the Eastern front.
The casualties in the fighting, are catinated to have been about 6.000 up to the present.
The Frontier Defence Force is sul fering from deficiem commissarigi,
The centre of interest has been transferred t the Western Front where. General Chang Tso-lin's troops are pouring in..
The city gates of Peking were closed on Sunday, but were re-opened parti aliy to-day...
The food problem is very acute and the Diplomats are being requested to approach the military authorities to
permit one food train daily to reach Peking. The foreign hotels have only pre day's supply..
OUT THERE.
Out where the spectres of twilight
evolve into living things. Where the dark veil is rent with the meeting of Earth and Sky:
Out where the sceptres of Ghostland
Telephone 29.
FLAMING SHIP STEAMING AT
FULL SPEED.
+
THE CHINA MAIL.
CITY HALL CONCERT. INTERPORT POLO MATCH.
FABLE AFTERNOON.
A CONSIDERED OPINION.
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HONGKONG PLAYED LIKE TROJANS,
That Hongkong's taste for good music has not suffered seriously from the surfeit of the light, if pleasing, music so popular in these modern days, wis demonstrated by the pre
The great outstanding feature of sence of
a very large audience the recent interport pelo match at
in the St. Andrew's Hall yesterday Shanghai for the Keswick Cup. afternoon to hear the excellent con-
"NOT WORTH WHILE.'
CARGO "BROICHING TOÒ EXPENSIVE
BLUE FUNNEL FIREMEN FINED.
Magistracy this morning, tes mem- Before Mr. N. L. Smith at the bers of the European crew of the Blue Funnel s.s." Crestes "-A. Malton, according to the N. C. Daily Neos, W. Perry, W. Arlert, C. Rooke, G. was the fact that it was anybody's Edge, P. Molyneux, J. Cooney, P. game throughout from start to finish. Kenna, G. Rich and W. Wood—were charged with the theft from the stup, Second to this in importance from s Signor Amelias proved himself a
at Mike, Japan, of ten rolls of khaki master of the mandolin by bis clever sporting point of view is the rare ex drill. They all pleaded guilty."
awsky's "Second Mazurka, Toto interfere far less frequently than for the Company, said that the ship
cert giren by Signor Amelias and by the obvious sincerity of the loud applause which greeted each of the well-chosen items.
and sympathetic treatment of Wieni- | perience, in polo-that the referee bad. Mr. D. J. Lewis, who prosecuted
gether with Mme. Silvestri, he fur. an average of once each chukiner over carried one bale of khaki dhe
quen."
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WEDNESDAY, – JULY
1920
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
New shipment of
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STATISTICS AS PROPAGANDA.
MY CHINESE DRESS- MAKER.
the
ther delighted the audience by skilful These two notable items combined from Shanghai to Japan. When the mandolin renditions of Suppe's afforded the onlookers the opportunity mistake was discovered on the voyage, Overture to Poet et Paysan." of witnessing a game which, although the bale was placed on deck and with Rossini's "Overture to William Tell" it could not be classified as first-class tarpaulin covering, to be delivered and Drigo's "Les Mülions d'Ariepolo, was certainly first class to all at Shanghai on the return trip. On who love a clean dashing contest with the arrival of the ship at Miike, the The vocal work was also of a high just a spice of personal risk attached defendants went ashore, and many ot standard. Madame Silvestri won to it.
then stayed ashore all night. When loud applause for her admirable To take the members of the they returned to the ship on the fol-. SAILORS' BATTLE WITH interpretation of Pinzuti's beautiful tean individually. the prowess lowing morning, they were more or 11. Libro Santo," and for her share of their captain, Mr. John Johnstone, less under the influence of liquor, FIRE.
Regards Quelle is already too well known to call for norwithstanding that none of them. in the duets Blanche Lune" (Campana) Les special eulogy here. Local praise for received any pay at Make.
(Offenbach) his hortemanship is samething akin resah of enquiries, it was found that Contes D'offmang"
An Irish correspondent of a Writing" from Bangkok to the and *Serenade
Legend to gilding gole. His rear side and the baie of khaki had been broached, London paper writes: I do not Daily Mail Hilda M. Love says Valacca" (Braga)" with Mile back-hand strokes were as good as and 12 rolls extracted. The rolks were know that at this moment one can fashion. In its dinginess his assistants "John's " shop is no hall of Rosa Filocamo. Mile. Rosa ever they were, but for some reason subsequently maced to the shop of a do better service than by continuing, machine steadily while the sweat Filocamo also submitted several after the second chukker he did not A stirring tale of heroism at sea was individual numbers of considerable seem quite at the top of his form, dealer who claimed to have bought even at the risk of being wearisome, glistens on their brown bodies bared
the khaki from a fireman of the sis. to merit, notably solos from Bach's' although in the first and second" Orestes." told at Liverpool recently when there Premier Preludis and Puccini's periods he gave the Shanghai No. 1 and the latter sumitted his guilt. ment revived on May 1st this old attains to the dignity of a white
bet forth
facts about to the waist. arrived twenty-four survivors of the
He identified that man,
"outrages" in Ireland. The Govern John himself is no Adonis, but he ship "Wasa" which took fire on a bution, and the one which most reveal whether playing a losing or a winning When the other defendants were ques- form of anti-Irish propaganda, the drill coat and a pair of spectacles,
Madame Butterfly." Her best contri- a very hard time. "A perfect captain. voyage to Sweden and was, with the d the possibilities of her voice was, game, and one whom it is always a boned, they denied af knowledge of publication of a aid of the, Fleetwood trawler "Hiber Tschaikowsky's "Aria Pique Dame." pleasure to watch in the saddle.
daily list of and over the latter he casts oblique nis, beached at Colonsay Island, Great interest, perhaps not unmixed
the theft, but finally made a signed
outrages." The lists from the 1st eyes round his workroom and the near Oban. The "Hibernia with amusement, was caused by the dier of middle age, but as hard as yen each out of their wages towards analysed by the Irish Bulletin, issued nips of brandy, he renovates a black Major Timmis, their No. 2. a sol- confession. They also agreed to pay 14 May to the 26th May have now been narrow street without, while, between scued Captain Vermullen, D.S.C.. appearance of little Elena Ficcamo, nails. An experienced player who the recovery of the khaki. The cor from Sinn Fein headquarters, with evening dress, muttering occasional and the crew except four men the who, her bare seven years notwith- has smitten the third engineer (F. Bowden, Birken- standing, gave very tuneful linle day morning contemporary) in many tain, who also made an entry in the discredit of the Irish people during
pellet" (vide Sun- fession was taken down by the Cap- the following results. The total of imprecation against the policy of re-
761 "outrages" placed to the novations. head), Greaser P. Maccabe (Birken- renditions of the sole "O Sole Mio," parts of the globe, including India, log book as follows "Enquiries were head), Fireman J. Foy (Birkenhead), and a duet from the "Dollar Princess", the home of the game. He played made at the Mathe Police Station, thus. Three handred and fourteen, patron and invites her into his tiny His countenance, however, is all those twenty-six days is made up cordiality as he welcomes an old and E. Hickford, AB. (Liverpool), which she sang with ber sister, throughout with a vim and dash, Miike, with regard to the loss of 12 The ** Wase "* was an American
Not a little admiration was excited and shot so often at his opponents' rolls of khaki drill, on June 25, and of
or 41. per cent, are acts. fitting-room. wooden ship of 3,500 tons.
by the excellence of the accompani goal that our younger players would it was ascertained that they were to prevent an intensification of mil-says the Mem. "What patterns have the Irish people taken “Just a plain morning frock, John,” According to the survivors at 9.30 ments as played by Madame Lottie do well to profit by the treat he gave soice by some firemen and trimmers itary rule (the burning of empty you got?" in the morning the engineer on watch Gordon and Professor E. Dapenbers, them and endeavour to emulate his of the ship and sold for 140 yen to a police barracks and other strategie called "Ship afire!" Fire had broken both of whom were ever in accord tenacious example.
She looks admiringly at some Daily. dealer by a fireman of the ship. The posts intended for the use of the Mail pages with Miss Bessie An out in the port engine-room, and the and sympathy with the artists.
Their No. 1 Captain Beaver must matter was referred to British Con- army of occupation, the searching of cough's designs that hang on John's flames spread and burst through the
be classed as a player of no mean su! there, and the latter ordered the mail-bags for police and military wall, and studies the artist's inimit wooden deck.
order. Quiet, unassuming and always on the hall.
culprits to-be charged at Shanghai, correspondence, and so on), which able women. Also equally The goods were obtained back from acts were not accompanied by any. But John is something of an artist ready to leave it and ride his man.
LIFEBOAT IN FLAMES, "In twenty minutes the fire had go a strong bold amidships before we realised where we were," said Austin Hester, an able seaman, in an inter- view. "We found the lifeboat on the port side burning like matchwood..
The
TYPHOON WARNIN}
At 850 am, to-day local signal No. 1, was hoisted. It was hauled down at 11.45 am. when the non- local signal was hoisted.
So we went for the arly remaining 0. HENRY'S AMERICANISM are vanishing last in fire-fings boar on the starboard side. Of the Monarch of Light climbing bo'sun, to whom I passed the painter. COSMOPOLITE ALWAYS AT HOME.
His throne-way on high. Out where the castles of Dreamland fade and are lost in the day- gleam:
Where the visions of fancy like elves
go floating away in the air, Where the world is elysium, wonder
ful, mystical gay-dream, Enchanting.. entrancing, bewildering
dreamland out there.
WILLIAM HILL... Hongkong, July 20, 1920.
CANTON GUNBOATS.
.
other men at the stern.
line. from the forwards main deck to
height of 30 or 40ft. to the men
aid of this line.
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He played for his side for all be the dealer by the payment to him of injury to the person, any loss of life, himself and knows that the East long was worth and in a way that clearly 140 yen. Each of the ten guilty men or any destruction of private pro- ago robbed the Mem of her ability to showed that, although new to agreed to have the sum of 14 yen perty. A hundred and forty, or wear one piece gowns, the China pony, he was not new debited against his pays con eighteen per cent, are acts (threaten "No, Mem," he says, "me thinkee to polo, having played it on tribution towards the recovery of the ing letters and proved police out that topside one makee nice piecee various military stations during his drill." Both the onelession and the fages) of which the police are them dress for Mem." And he points to career. MFR. J. Paterson should entry in the log book were read to the elves believed by the nation to be a Home Chat design. have played back throughout. He defendants and they all agreed that guilty. A hundred and thirty-nine The Mem herself is inclined to nasty fall he sustained comparatively On the ship's arrival at Shanghai, the rising directly out of British land rarely missed, and considering the the statements were quite correct. (of which only sixteen were serious agree, but the usual argument as to
cases) are acts of agrarian agitation price must follow. was surrounded by darting flames, but
early in the game in the course of defendants were charged before the legislation which is especially de Then.
How much, John ?" she asks. he stuck pluckily to his job... The fire caught him in the neck and he had to
which his pony stood on his striking British Consal there, but the latter.. signed to reduce the population of "What, ten ticals? Nominally let go.
. The real beginning of his career as arma, and bearing in mind his weight, decided the as the defendants were Ireland by a short-story writer, remarks Archi- the method in which he handled his British subjects, and Shanghai was agricultural class who must emigrate her Scotch tongue.
creating a landless 15s.). Och, awa' wi' ye, man!” says "The heat was intense, and we hald Henderson, writing et O. Henry, ponies and the pace he got out of not a British port, he had no jurisdic- if they are to live. A hundred and dress like that! You be making were in the unfortunate position of not "After a Decade," in the Southern them
A plain little knowing what was happening.
was somewhat of a revelation. He ordered that the men be thirty-two, or 17 per cent, are ordin- your fortune, John." were cut off by the flames from the confinement of three years in the peni- thought he was a good deal newer Counsel asked his Worship. to take a tical significance whatever mostly piecee" declares John bizndly, a he We Review, dates from the period of his tion to those Shanghailanders who charged at the first British port of call. ary criminal cases without say poli Velly much work in that öne I threw tentiary in Ohio-all that he served of to the game than he really is. As a serious view of the case, as the trivial cases of small thefts, petty surveys the design, pointing sagely"
a five year's sentence for alleged em- team Hongkong played like Trojans broaching of cargo was becoming very larcenies, and the like. These give to the tucks." bezzlement of a few hundred dollars and with a little more of the lock common. In this case, where white a total of 725, or 84 per cent, which at the other end. They caught this. from the bank in Austin of which he which they really deserved they men who ought to know better, were are either acts of defence by an op taking up the argument on "prin
." Nonsense!"
says the Mem, and the bosun and Able Seaman was paying teller. Suffice it to say, might have reversed the order of the concerned, he thought it a much more pressed people, or acts of agrarian ciple. Nolen got across the flames by the that his biographer and those best in result. But it was fortunately for serious matter. However, it was not agitation, the outcome of evil alien
formed on the subject firmly believe Sharghai just that "little more"
At this moment the telephone desired to imprison the defendanes land. laws, or acts of ordinary cri- claims John. A French customer has HEROISM OF THE CAPTAIN, in his innocence, which Porter always that made all the difference.
here, as the ship was due to sail, minals left free by the employment not received the promised dress. "The captain stuck to the bridge as firmly asserted. His own rich and
and they were wanted back on board, of the police upon political aggrese John, using a smattering of English, while the flames were circling round variegated experiences in the South-
The Magistrate enquired how much sion. The remaining thirty-six, or 6 French, and Siamese, makes profuse him, and was determined to remain west and in South America; the
the defenčarks serned, and was in-. Per cent, are made up of eighteen excuses, which are apparently coldly until the crew were safe. He called strange and bizarre narratives he gain- H.M.S. "Robin" left Shamshui formed by Course! that they receive cases of action by the Irish Repabli received. out that he had seen a sal, and set ed from his fellow prisoners cracks yesterday morning to go up the £15 each a month.
can Police to suppress the activity of But the Chinaman is not greatly to work making a raft. We worked men, desperadoes, hoboes, men of the North River as far as possible. She
Addressing the defendants, the criminals (these cases are returned disconcerted, for being the only 23 outrages"), and of eighteen creditable dressmaker in the capital; says the Canton Times, the gunboats about the master, and called to him. lous alchemy of the creative imagina. Kuntoat Pompadour arrived at
stole things, they could not expect members of a police force which is ** Kong Tai and "Kong Goo" re to quit.
tion, he transmuted into the gold of Shamshui yesterday.
John returns to the waiting Mem always to get off by paying the value driving the people to desperation by and the interrupted argument. Eight cendy sailed for Macao secretly. Now **Then, to our horror, while he was literary art. With his entry into New!
of the property stolen. However, as incessant aggression of the most ticals (128.) is the price finally agreed, three torpedo boats have been sent by getting ready to come down the line, York in 1902, at the instance of Gi
The Canton Government has the Company did not press for in-violent kind. the Government to trace them. Since the bridge collapsed, and he sank into man Hall, then associate editor of recently granted $12,000 to the prisonment, their services being re
and the Mem shows John the material Macao is a foreign part, the local the Blames and was up to his waist in Ainsice's Magazine, who urged him Geographical Survey Bureau, so that quired on board the ship, they would an official Government publication: Then, being a wily old creature, he
“Judicial Statistics, Ireland, 1918," she has bought. authorities have requested the Portu- them. He managed to scramble out to make the great adventure, begins in may continue its surveying in each be fired $25. guese Consul General in Canton to sgain, and grasp the line, and in a the period of his brief career which Kwangtung and also co-operate in
just issued, contains the following departs from the etiquette of his trade Defendants: Thank you, your Wor-information which has not been and lets her see all the garments be help in bringing the boats back. lew seconds we had him safe with us. was to close eight years later in his the publishing of the New Map of ship.
The vernacular press reports" chai "Our trouble was that the ship was untimely death at the early age of China.
published broadcast to the world by is making for other customers, divin- Outside the Court the defendants Dublin Castle. In that year 50 per ing" the feminine satisfaction in" Wong Lun So, a staff officer of the going full speed. The fire had driven forty-eight.
enquired how much $25 would amount cent of the murders in Ireland knowing which of his clients are Yui Cheung," sav. the gunboat the men our of the engine-room, and No one who reads the 250 stories
to. in sterling, and when they were were committed in Ulster; 40 per having their gowns made over or in- Kong Tai" the other day at 'Kui the engines were still going. The which constitute his bid for immortal- chow where an encounter, lasting "Hibernia "made a straight course ity can fail to be struck first and fore-
informed that it was between £6 and cent. of these Ulster murder's were dulging in new frocks £7, several of them remarked that it committed in Belfast. There were as Standing at the door facing the about two hours, took place. The towards us, and managed to get us most, by the outstanding fact that O.
|was “ not worth while."
many murders in Belfast as in the sun-drenched street, where the natives "Kong Tai" was defeated but suc- away."
menry was a typical American-a cos-
whole province of Leinster or the of a score of Eastern races pass, the mopolite who was always at home.
province of Munster, and twice as Mem gives final emphatic instructions even in his own country." With the
many as in the province of Conto John as to the day for fitting. But single exception of New England, all,
naught. Ulster's share of all the John's sleepy slits of eyes are resting At the International Dancers Con-
crime in Ireland was 34 per cent. In on the waiting car. the scenes for his stories--and
1918, when Ulster predominated so Eighteen hundred, Mem,” hesays, Mexico, Central and South America principal Affed countries, which has gress, attended by delegates from the
crime was no hindrance to the sup- distinctly in the output of crime, that as the chauffeur gets busy.. port by the British Government of told you not one tics) (18. 64.) less "Two thousand, John. Master the Ulster minority's cause against for this car."
SAIL FOR MACÃO SECRETLY.
According to Chinese Press reports, with a will, but were more concerned underworld-these, by some marvel. will return on Friday, The American Magistrate told them that when they cases of the wounding and killing of he is fa constant demand.
ceeded in escaping.
The torpedo boat Yui Cheung "
has returned to Whampoa. As there
are so many mutineers on board the DR. WU AND THE MONEY parts of this vast country furnished
gunboat Kong Tai," the Canton authorities, will employ four other ships to convey soldiers there to effect its capture.
..
HOW THE GÙNBOATS WERE SEIZED.
According to information received in Hongkong another report has it that the four Cantonese gunboats left Capton on Saturday without their commanders with a view to joining the
·ĺpirates, and, brigands at Kangmoori.
SINCERE COMPANTS
POSITION
ONLY AWAITING RETURN
DOCUMENTS.
The application of the Ministry of
The commanders were said to have Finance at the Canton District Court
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FIAT OF INTERNATIONAL
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When a Chinese was this morning are the habitats of many of his char-just closed, France's leadership in this charged before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, art was assured. The Congress de.
Acters.
Henry was not wdy.in furnishing forth riculum many of the old-time dances.melon in Stone Nullah Lane, Was the national movement in the three "Me velly poor man, Mem,” grins
The distinction achieved by cided to abolish from teaching cur at the Magistracy with selling some
No East, No West" of the oratorical
"
REFLOATED.;
an intimate portrayal of numerous such as the polki, mazurka, schor-chat this morning, he denied the criminal record than Ulster. In that nineteen hundred, then can do.
province which bad by far a cleaner John. "Memaskmaster'makee regions, with their peculiar dialect, Irische, and even the watz. On the charge. habits and mannerisms," but also in other hand, the tango, fox-trot maxixe
year of 1918 the Government arrested "You wealthy old hypocrite, alfording a vivid contrast between the land one-step must in future be taught the arrest said that he saw defendant South of Ireland and deported them | she cannot repress, as the car starts, The Chinese constable who effected every prominent Republican in the John" says the Mem, with a laugh different regions. O. Henry para
without" trial. It arrested over: a Don't you forget that fitting !” phrased the "No North, No South, a more simple form.
The Tobega" invented by Madame Several new dances were adopted: sell a piece of melon to a woman,
thousand men on political charges. been present at a big dinner in Can for an order to direct the Sincere advocate of a reunited country into Lefort of Paris, La Berceuse, 20th stable made a mistake. He bought press Nationalist public opinion in The defendant said that the con. It used its military and police to sup ton when the junior officers and the Company to pay over the $300,000 the humorous: "No North, Little
21-YEAR WRECK crew seized the opportunity to take possession of the gunboats in order to due to Dr. Wa Ting-fang to the South, Not Much East and No West tagne, and "L'Italienne 4 and of use, and then, having several more vention when the Ulster minority's century of Professor Grandmon- the melon at the market for his own Ireland. It broke up the Irish Con- Ministry of Finance of the Military to Speak.Of.". His impartiality and Boston conceived by Mr. Cecil Tay Lane to buy some galt fisk. While ened by its findings. Today, when hand them over to me rebels or Government instead, will come up be his sectionalism were the by-pro- loc. A new toxtrot step invented by hes busy, bargaining for the fan, merciless represion has created Andrina, which has been dead to
coppera left, went to Stone Nullah predominance in Ireland was threat Curtin, sum, Clakning not to have fore the court again next week, te ducts of his cosmopolitan spirit; and Mr. Macieman has also been sple friend of his approached violent acts in the previously peace the shipping world since she piled up The four masted British ship ports the Canton Times The Ministry it has been suggested that no Ameriproved. It remains to be seen whether from behind sind for a joke picked up a fel parts of Ireland, these sets are on the rocks in the Straits of Magel alleged that the. $300,000. was the property of the Military Government so genial and even handed in sative st
can writer of the short story has been the public will take the teachers' lead. plece of melon from his basket He advertised as the proof that nothing lam in 1899, recently arrived in New and same should be paid over to the the contrasted tables of North and Ministry. So far the defendant of West and South:;"
snatched it back. The castable adequate can be done for the vast York Hying the Chilian flag saw the woman pick up the marion majority of the Irish people. Crime She was recently hauled off the
to be, are and thinking be (defendant) had sold when committed in Ulster is no rocks and reatted, on the anggestio The defeori hindrance to British support of the of a Chillam nayai oficer, he sig dant added
woman was later minority's undemocratic claim. captain says she required little
The Intense provocation in any other maker for Chill. She was built da part of Ireland, becomes the reason the Clyde when sailing craft were British opposition to fashioned for endurance, and 50 years sfer the democratic claim' of the "umas is the estimate of the lease of lite
of the Irish pe
given her by Chilan ship
ed any pay for the past three
NESTLÉ':
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Can Bomedy Doods marins bed well known to be of Batanes committed under building and had pored money
ISTRESS in the stomach after rating simple statement that all obomb te mall:
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sale by kil Chemista and Storekeegtet
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by all Chemists and Storekeepers