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No. 18,219.
三拜福 號十三月三年一十二百九千英
ESTABLISHED
Barometer S0.07
348
Humidity $6.
March 30, 1920, Tamperature 69.
Rainfall 006 inch.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1921.
日 廿二西率-
年十準中
THE DOLLAR.
Today's closing rate 2/4 5/8
To-day's opening rate 2/4
(Reuter's Savica "to the China Mail)
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THE HORROR IN IRELAND.
STILL CONTINUING.
LONDON, March.29. Four armed men shot and killed a Dublin Castle official named Captain Rees, outside bis hotel in Dublin at ten this morning..
MALLOW COURT ENQUIRY.
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A White Paper report on the Mallow court enquiry into the shooting of railwaymen finds that it was an unnecessary castom for railway mes off duty to remals in Mallow station after curfew hours; that these railwaymen were taken to the barracks but were not beaten, Inhumanly treated, or in any way abused, nor were they told to run and fired upon when released from the cells. That party of railwaymen was not fired upon when leaving the railway station for the barracks. Finally, the remainder of the allegations made in the House of Commons are not substantiated by evidence. The report mentions that a president of the court, Colonel Cumming, was killed by rebels on March 5. The remaining mein bers of the court heard the evidence of 56 witnesses.
The official shot in Dubllo was Captain Cecil Lees, formerly of the Chinese labour corps, and son of an ex-British Consui in France) Five shots were fired as he left his hotel for the Castle and he was killed instan- taneously. The assassins escaped down side-streets.
NOT THEIR FAULT.
BUT PEEVED POLES BOMBED BRITISH TOMMIES.
LONDON, March 29.
GABY DESLYS.
RELICS BOLD.
HER MANY TREASURES.
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Sables and East End leathers" silk hats and caps. were strangely mixed in the crowd which attended the sale of poor Gaby Deslys's treasures in Basil-street. Knightsbridge. S.W., writes "A Friend" in a Home paper.
Many who were there realised for the first time that the gay, glittering, onderfully dressed Gaby had a love for her home, an exquisite taste, and an art of creating an atmosphere of beautiful things far above the average.
Those Persian, Chinese," Indian rugs were among her most cherished possessions and used to adorn the Moorish drawing-room so dear to her. On the grand piano, sold for £210. she used to accompany her own songs. That fine old Dutch bufet, which letched 454 stood in her dining- room and witnessed many a merry supper party.
This gilded Italian bed-to be offer ed for sale had been a long-coveted aqdition to Gaby's home, which she loved with the passion, of a
true French woman. And this severe ivory Ferucifix was in her bedroom in front
taket.
With regard to the attack on British troops in Upper Silesia as called of her prayer-stool, on which was 47 yesterday, Reuter understands that a band of Poles on March 15 bombed old prayer-book. Her Gothic throne a lorry-load of British troops without serious casualties. The attack has chair. in which one of her most no political significance and was merely due to the unreasonable anti-successful photographs was foreign feeling of the Poles owing to their disappointment at the result fetched £38, and a rich Eastern loin
cloth £8. of the plebiscite.
I saw at the sale many girls who from the ranks of the chorus used to look up at Gaby as at a sort of half They were touching the
PARIS, March 29.
New
Art
Shades.
Just received a large selection of newest Art Shades in Lovat, Heather, Brown and Grey as now being shown in London.
Special display at MACKINTOSH
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From Oppeln comes news of another outrage in Silesia. A motor-car belonging to the inter- allied commission smashed into
a wire stretched divinity. across the roadway and was wrecked against a tree. The French chauffeur had been hers, as one handies a sacred was killed and two French officials Injured. The commissioners continuerelis. to receive numbers of threatening letters.
NO REAL IMPERIAL FEDERATION.
DOMINIONS WOULD OBJECT.
LONDON, March 29,
Long, long ago I remember visit- ing Gaby at her modest little Paris flat -a Bat furnished hurriedly for a few thousand- francs. She used to say... C'est tout a fait tapissier, mais un jour j'aurais autre chose." ("It's very ugly, but some day "I shall have better." These things that are being sold now are the realisation of the "autre chose”—a realisation which
work.
Enquiries in authoritative circles dispose completely of the suggestion that the question of imperial federation will be discussed at the June con had cost Gaby many years of hard ference of Dominions prime ministers. It appears to be fully recognised that even if a definite constitution of the Empire found favour in Britain [which is nowise certain] opposition thereto in the Dominions would be sach as to outrule even any hint of a concrete proposal - The agenda of the conference so far as Britain is concerned will mainly consist of items previously cabled, although co doubt arrangements for the so-called con- stitution conference in 1922, such as venue, date, personnel, etc. will also be discussed.
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ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY.
FALSE REPORTS,
PARIS RIVER MYSTERY.
PUZZLE FOR DETECTIYES.
A SHERLOCK HOLMES WANTED.
A Seite mystery, which might well attract the attention of psychologists of crime and make an appeal to a modern Sherlock Holmes is at present engaging the activities of the police. it is a case of the dead bodies of LONDON, March 29:
two men fished up from the Seine! Reuter learns that reports regarding a new development of the Anglo- and the Oise. One was without cloth- Japanese alliance treaty are quite baseless. The question has not yet beening, and was identified by means of In the formally raised between Britain and Japan. The statement that a new the scar of a war wound. draft treaty with certain modifications has been drawn up is a pure fiction clothing of the other were found the Japan, as well as
the Britain, realises
necessity of certain papers of the naked man. What the police are trying to find out is how! modifications in view of the requirements of the League of Nations, but the these two men met their death. The main fact is that the Dominions have the fullest right to be considered and naked body was taken from the Seine It is perfectly well known that nothing whatever will be done until after the at Argenteuil, and it was by the scar meeting of the imperial conferenċe in June. “
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WIRELESS BETWEEN CANTON AND AMERICA.
- SHANGHAI OPEN FIRST...
WASHINGTON, March 29.
The Department of Commerce, announces that work is shortly con- mencing on the erection of a wireless station at Shanghai-under agreement between the Chinese government and the American Federal Telegraph Company. It is anticipated that it will be completed is eighteen months and enable, direct wireless communication across the Pacific without relay stations. It is also proposed to establish stations at Peking, Harbin, and Canton.
THE BOATRACE.
CAMBRIDGE THE FAVOURITE.
LONDON, March 29.
on his forehead that the dead man's parents recognised him. He was Fer- nand Pearron, a butcher's assistant. 23 years of age, whose family resides at Soisy-sous-Montmorency. His body was found on February 4.
From the Oise. at Pontoise, was taken the body of a young man whose papers and military book showed that he was Fernand: Pearron, a butcher's assistant. How came this second man into possession of the papers of the first? Detectives are endeavouring to find an answer to this question. It is the key to the mystery, and the answer will indicate whether the papers were stolen, and, if so, whether the theft was accompanied by a crime-the throwing of Fernand Pearros into the Seine after he had seen stripped of his clothing
There remains the mystery attend- ing the death of the second Ferrand Pearron. How, came he to be drown-
"The weather, which has become cold, wet, and stormy, may be the ed in the Oise? To his case the hypo- thesis of suicide committed through decisive factor in the boatrace, which promises to be one of the closest in remorse, for a crime is discussed, as recent years. Cambridge stili starts favourite but the odds offered are is also a suggestion that friends of the fractional compared with those laid when the crews first appeared at real Fernand Pearron may have track- Putney, Oxford has improved at every outing while Cambridge retains its ed him to Pontoise and throws his body into the river out of revenge. It supremacy in style. Oxford bas shewn staying power forecasting a
is a troublesome double mystery that thrilling finish.
the detectives ere seeking to solve, and their solution is eagerly awaited.
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