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The General Election for the first German Republican Reichstag has its romance as well as its tragedy:
There is tragedy in the wiping our of the Coalition Government's major ity: there is romance behind the sweeping victory of the so-called which is really the "People's party old National Liberal party. It has trebled its vote and its representation, this is the romance of a persmality of a man behind the scenes."
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HOUSING PROBLEM.
WHAT A KENT ACT DID.
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MAILS TO CHINA.“
THE CHINA MAIL.
QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
"NO IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF DIRECT
·WEEKLY SERVICE."
A STORY OF THE WARS BOASTING OPERATIONS.
THE PROFESSOR'S "DOUBLE.”
GERMAN SECRET SERVICE ERROR.
In the House of Commons on June
The following story was told, The 14 Mr. G. Stewart (CU. Wirrall) asked the Postmaster-General whether Daily Graphic says, to its special cor be was aware that the irregular and respondèrt, Mr. H. Robertson Mur slow postal service to China wasray, while on a Continental journey causing inconvenience to British re from which he has recently returned. sidents..in that country, and that;
When the German fury tell upon steamers often arrived before the shipping
whereby the devoted city of Louvain, one of documents, difficulty and delay in the handling the inhabitants of that town, whose and delivery of cargo was caused: it house was destroyed, was a retired
a he was aware that the arrival of professor of mathematics, letters posted via the United States Dubois After the catastrophe, M.
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ALLEGED LACK OF WARNING.
Bolore Mr. N. L. Smith at the Magistracy this morning a Chinese building, contractor, was charged with: failing to take necessary precautions. during blasting operations.
Inspector Aris of the Hanghom Police Station, who prosecuted, said that while Mr. Johnson, Chiel-Time- keeper of the Kowloon Docks, and his
wile were in their dining room yester day afternoon, a piece of rock broke one of the window panes and tell into the room narrowly missing Mrs. John- Mson's head.
Mr. T. Rowan who appeared for the
Magistrate adjourned hearing the case until to-morrow.
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FISH FROZEN SMOKED
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and Canada was very uncertain, and Dubois, with his family, fed to Brus- en padomed the teang of Selected Kippers 40
that there were often prolonged de lays between the arrival of succeed ing mails, and whether he could take any action in the matter; also whether the prewar weekly mail service to China, formerly provided by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. and the Messageries Maritimes on alternate weeks had been restored or was soon likely to be restored.
Mr. A. H. Illingworth, in reply. wrote: "Improvements in the mail service via Suez have enabled me to Local landlords will be interested provide a better service to China; in the following clipping from the The mails are now being sent out
·Englishman-The provisions in the by P. and O. packet via India rech Rent Act which permitted owners to week, except when there is a through charge whatever rents they liked for service to China ria Canada, cón- houses put up since the Act became necting with an Express steamer on law, has certainly had the effect of the Pacife, and they are now arriving encouraging building in. Calcutta more regularly, as well as in shower New and larger houses are springing time. There is immediate prospect up all over Calcutta in spite of the of a direct weekly service to China increased cost of materials. The by the two lines mentioned, but the trouble is that in many cases existing mails for China are already being houses are being pulled cow to conveyed regularly each week as make way for the new. The eighfar as Singapore, tie Bombay and as if an earthquake had taken place between Singapore and Hongkong or as if it bad suffered from a Hun and Shanghai is frequent"
bourhood of Park Street begins to look Negapatam, and
communication
WHAT THE FAR EAST REQUIRES.
sels, where he hired a modest Bat.
One morning, when he had nearly finished dressing, one of his daughters came to his room and in a trembling voice told him that two German off- cers were in the flat demanding to see him without a moment's delay. M. Dubois, courageously making up his mind to face the worst, completed his toilet, and then confronted his unwel- come visitors.
Their attitude towards him was polite almost to obsequiousness.
"Monsieur," said one of thent, after gazing long and fixedly at M. Dubois's countenance, are you the person whom they call M. Dubois?".
"I am M. Dubois, professor of mathematics."
"Fardon me," rejoined the officer, I would advise you, for your own sake, not to attempt to conceal any longer your reat indentity, for "we know very well who you are."
MAURITIUS STAMPS.
• TWO SOLD FOR OVER £2.500.
THE KING'S COLLECTION.
At an auction held. in Paris in mail week, a penny Mauritius 1847 stea Fetched 36,700 trans, while a two- penny stamp of the same dare fetched
99,500 francs.
Very few specimens are known of the very rare 1d. red and 2d. blue Post Office" Mauritius stampsy to above evidently refers. which the There are under 30 known to exist out of the 1.000, struck off. Origin ally it was thought that the words M: Dubois opened his eyes in Post Office on one side of the
"You stamp were an error for " Post-paid astonishment, and replied:
of mathematics.”.
that it was shown then the former was a separate issúa
make a thistake, gentlemen. I assure which appeared on the issue of 1848. you that I am M. Dubois, professor and it was not till many years later
The officer twirled his moustache. Just as you like," he said, smiling. We won't waste any more time about that. If you will be so good as to pack bag with clothes sufficient to last you
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Hugo Stinnes, Germany's news paper king and multi-millionaire, owner of coal and irin mines and ships and steelworks and paper factories and hotels, is the man who, though maining himself in the background raised the National Liberal party from the grave in which it was buried contemplated are ready they will that the Post Office consider they are a low days, we will await you here."lection into the collection of M. la i
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when the Monarchy collapsed. was he who mainly supplied the fight ing funds, who moulded public opinion by quietly buying up journal alter journal so quietly that hardly any-1 body knew anything about it until there came the starting anouncement that
bombardment, so busy are house- breakers at present. However, any
Judging by the reply given to Mr. temporary shortage of houses in the Gershom Stewart in the House of locality will be compensated for Commors to his question respecting when the new mansions and flats mails to China, one would imagine.
run into three and four storeys thus providing much more accommodation than had existed.
RICE CROPS RUINED.
The first known copies were found among the letters of M. Borchard, and their exact pedigree is known fill they passed from the famous Philbrick on!!
Outside a luxurious motor waited, Renoliere. M. Borchard's widow and in five minutes M. Dubois and the found 12 others among her husband's two officers were driven rapidly along old letters and many of them at first to the Hotel Astoria, where with much changed hands for quite small sums. ceremony M. Dubois was conducted to one of the finest rooms in the hotel.
You are here at home," said one of the officers. Pardon us if we set
he had purchased the Deutsche Allge. SERIOUS FLOODS IN HIANOSI "mediate prospect of a direct weekly a soldier on guard at your door.
meiac Zeitung for long years the semi-official mouthpiece of the Ger man Government.
to
doing quite well remarks the L&C. Express. That is scarcely the view of the commercial community. What the Far Eastern world desires
In the collection of the King there and requires is something like the
is the finest known 2d. "Post Office." pre-war alternative weekly service by
its origin is a romance. ** A collec- thé British and French boats. The official reply is that there is no im-
tor, visiting a friend resident in the It North-west of London, mentioned his service China, by the two is war you know. Pray take a seat." hobby to his host, who, remarking
SO the mails
One officer held out to M. Dubois that he once collected stamps, brought A Nanchang (Kiangsi) message lines mentioned,
China will continue to a morocle, speaking words in Eng-out his almost-forgotten schoolboy Then curiosity dated July 22 to the Canton Times for prompted inquiry, and it was discover-stated: Ten days ago the prospects be conveyed each week as far as fish: M. Dubois looked at him and album. Looking casually through the ed that Stianes controlled no fewer were excellent for the farmers to Singapore. via Bombay and Neg the eyeglass perplexedly. than 62 newspapers. And rumour has reap a very fine crop of early rice, apatam, and thence by whatever it that he is going to found a new but, alas! during the last week cal steamers may be available. During daily in Berlin. Now everybody in culations have been all upset by the the war period all had to put up with what was necessarily a haphazard Germany is talking about Hugo very serious floods.
After very heavy rains lasting transmission, but after the Armistice Stinnes, and not a few are asking it he is not The Man for whom a many days the water in the river it was hoped that in time something This, it appears, is not to be yer. The former method by which the inwards mail was due generally on" the Monday of each week, and the outwards departures were on the Friday, is a consummation that we cannot look for at present; nor does the official reply lead to hopes of an early resumption.
Please place this eyeglass in your eye. said the officer in French..
-distracted. nation has been crying, the i bas risen, flooding all the low lying like the normal would be returned to, you wil! 6nd it quite easy.”
districts, and also flooding the islands and lower parts of the city along the
river front.
The distress in consequence will be very great. Yesterday the water in the river was still rising, and it was necessary to go along many of the streets outside the city in boats. Inside the city some districts are also under water. The small boat owners, sampan and ricksha rien are reaping a fine harvest, being in great demand in the flooded areas.
EIGHT HOUR LUNATICS..
OUR DOUBLE LIVES.
TRANS-PACIFIC MAIL MYSTERY. There is still no definite news as to when the mails that were unloaded Empress of from the CP.OS. $.3. Asia" at Vancouver are to be ex-
received no information in the mat- Pected, the British Post office having
ter.
M. Dubois. did his best.
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old collection the guest, saw, to his amazemex what proved to be the finest known unused copy of the two! I will try, if you like; but I have pence Post Office,' purchased by its never worn an eyeglass in my life." owner 40 years previously for a few So you say," rejoined the officer, perice; this stamp was sold" shortly "But, come now. make an effort-aherwards, at, auction for £1.450, and how adoms the collection of Mauritius stamps owned by King George V." tort his face as he would, the monocie Another famous example was in the collection of Mr. Hughes-Hughes, slipped and fell to the ground.
"Just as you please," said the off-which was begin in 1859. On the **It is not indispen- whole collection the owner spent £69. cer, "shortly.
and it was sold in 1896 for £3.000. sable.
Then he suddenly fixed his eyes en A pair were bought by Mr. H. J. those of M. Dubois,
Duveen in 1910 for £3,500 from the "Admiral," he said, "do not con- famous Avery collection. tinue with this farce. Tell me, now- A history of the known specimens we have shown for you all the regard was published in 1878 by M. Moens due to your rank and misfortune. In in Brussels. It would be interesting the German army we respect a dis- to know whether the two specimens
any longer." and chey. It is useless to pretend sold in Paris are new discoveries.
He waited a few seconds, and then
It transpires that every bag of went on: We know well that you mails, from European countries, are- Admira! Lord Beresford." Canada and the United States were removed from the Empress" at short notice, the authorities assigning no reason for their action, so that
confused.
I assure you gentlemer--I am You are mistaken.... really am M. Dubois, profes sor of mathématics."...
At the current rate of 32 franes, the prices paid were approximately £706 and £1,913 respectively.
."
And he pointed to M. Dubois' thumb, the phalanx of which was mise- But the officers did not wait. Withing.
destined saviour of his country. Per haps the exact extent of his worldly possessions is unknown to himself, so varied and involved as they are. But one thing certain is that he is far away the richest man in Germany-richer, Roo, than any woman-that has to be added because before the war, at any rate, it was Bertha Krupp who sat on the biggest pile of German gold. One milliard marks is the figure at which some Berlin bankers assess the value
At the time of writing the water of Hugo Stinnes's properties. "Oh, marks are not money," some cynic is stationary, so we can hope the may comment; but still a milliard limit of the high water has been marks represents nominally fifty mil- reached. fions sterling, just the amount which The other day the German Government thought of suggesting as the whole county's yearly indemnity tribute to Of his thousand million the Allies. marks he has made all hut nine mil- lions himself-at least the latter was the value of the estate which he in
"It is very strange that we should
The opinion has been expressed they swung round and disappeared.is the result of a cab accident I had herited from his father in 1897. The all be leading two lives, the one that the mails were taken from the For two days M. Dubois lived in some dozen years ago. My hand was growth of Stinnes's fortunes at vari rational in the real world and the
Empress of Asia" for a short luxury. The maitre d'hotel himself badly cut by glass, and ous periods has been traced by some other irrational and fantastic in the examination only and that they would attended to him at the table and every enterprising person who has examined world of the brain," remarked Mr. be sent by train to San Francisco to body treated him with the profoundest tint State income tax records. These William Archer recently in a lecture be despatched to the Orient on one deference. On the third day the two show that in 1904 bis yearly income before the Royal Institution of the trans-Pacific boats ruaning officers returned in full uniform and was between 400,000 and 500,000 Dreams, with especial reference to from that port. Whatever has hapook him to Zeebrugge.
the august gathering was profaned by marks and four years ister it had run psycho-analysis."
At length M. Dubois found himself a coarse oath emitted by an officer That men are irresponsible lunatics pened to the mail in question, how up to 900,000. But the biggest jump
Stinnes for eight hours out of every 24 shows ever, there seems no doubt that its in a spacious apartment at Zeebrugge, who was examining a photograph
"How dare you?" cried the co- being removed at Vancouver will where several elderly officers of high was made during "we war. enjoyed enormous contracts for war that man was not intended to be a delay delivery here for at least a
rank sat round a table covered with mander of the German naval forces in maps, plans and photographs. Belgium, in a terrible voice. material, especially iron and steel priori a rational being," he continued. wares; and he also did a big business Treating of the popular supersti-
An officer, his breast covered with..But look look it is the left in Belgium during the German occupation that lovers frequently dream tion. Known as "The Rockefeller of of their beloved, Mr. Archer.
In order to prevent the sale of orders, advanced with outstretched thumb of the admiral which is muti- lated, whereas this gentleman bere hand, was not aware immoral books, the proprietors, and Germany," Stinnes, in his industrial said
Admiral, he said.permit me why, it is his rig.thumb.". supe goes far wider than that of the of any prosaic evidence in its sup the employees of the book Stores in
The photograph passed. hand | "Indeed, the sincerest of Canton have decided to organize ao offer you a hand-grasp which we American oil king. In addition to port. such trifles as the 62 newspapers and lovers was quite capable of for Self-Government Society shortly to Germans are proud to, give to the to hand amid a silence which could be Then the commander confronted! encalies we esteem." the largest hotel in Berlin, he controls getting the existence of his lover regulate trade among themselves.
M. Dubois, speaking in a strangled M. Dubois. Then you are not Ad-
"I am very mirat Beresford?" On account of the hot weather, voice, managed to say:
that he
during his dream life," he went on.
either alone or in combination with Most of the dreaming of ordinary
is difficult to imagine what the real catses were.
fortnight
a low bow, and an "Adicu, Admiral," Pardon." cried. M: Dubois, "that
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** Please don't insist. Admiral," said the commander, with an air as if imparting moral reproof
At this moment the solemnity of
handful of other great leaders of in healthy people had no more portent residents of Canton are suffering, no honoured. gentlemen; but I any Man M. Dubois, professor of
dustry the whole of Germany's in land shipping, most of its iron and steel, and practically all the Rhine-i Land coal. It is this man, with this immense,power embodied in these possessions who has
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mathematics," replied that gentleman, with his eye on the door.
than the shapes imagined in the dying end of inconvenience because of the Dubois, pru embers of a dying fire."
irregular water supply. Consequently You are so far from being M
Then what the are you doing numerous compliants are being made Dubois professor of mathematics," the to the Water Supply Company. commander inerrupted him, "that here?" cried the commander.
M. Dubois, without taking any. you carry on your right thumb the marks of a wound received six years formal leave, went with alacrity. ago aboard ship as the result of a gun, followed by the two officers, who had. explosion.
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