ARLIER TELEGRAMS.
[Boular'a Service to the China Mall-) BRITISH GOLF VICTORY.
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Losnor, June 6th. Great Britain beat America in the Professional Golf Foursomes. Stat
Great Britain won three matches, and Amerian none. Two matches haired.
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THAT MATCH.
Londas, June 6th. Hebbe is unable to play in the Test match. The following will complete the Fry, Evans, Mead sad Strand
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ME. LLOYD GEORGE INDISPOSED,
LONDON, June 6th. Mr. Lloyd George has caught a chilli and has been ordered rest for some clays
MINKES STRIKE.
LONDON, Jase, sch
SHIPFEREN
BREAKUP OF FREIGHT GROUP INSVILÅRER,
LOWER RATES AVFEDERAL
increase of 71 per cent
much more than this"
THE CHINA MAIL.
the N. and S Atlantic, but to take #more local case, the UK-Singapore
rate is up over 100.
"The cost of running steamers lise advanced at least 300 per cent bila
LONELY WIFE,
DIYORGE COURT PLEA
SAD OLD WOMAN.
AMINELINE
DISINHERITED SON.
£22,000 WILL DECISION,
WAN TOK KPISODE.
the present Official Board of Trade
The following poignant letter from concerned in a dispute, heard by Two sisters and a brother were figure for the increased cost of living, a wife against whom the husband Mr. Justice Horridge over the £22,000 which entirely falls on the steamer, was asking a decree nisi was read in estate of their mother in Frances 144 per cent.
the estate to the two aistes. His.
Information received by the Nip: pon Yusen Kaisha in Yokohama that the Pacific West-bound freight Cot ference in San Francisco had dis- *The above will show that the the Divorce Court. It was a replyatt Higgins, late of Southport, who solved comes as no surprise to ship steamers carry a very much larger to her absent husband's demand for Mrs. Florence Haworth, of Bowdon,
died last year when 73, hang? Ring me there. The news which percentage of the increased costs an explanation of her condition: was received in a cable from Seattle than the passenger, and bad as the
Cheshire, and Mrs. Kate Hary Cool to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha was that Ceylon traders' position may be, the Dear J.-What ANZ I to be of Westor-inder Redcliffe, the Java Lane had definitely with present state of the shipping industry say to you! Written words are so Salon, daughters of the dead woman, drawn from the freight group and is even worse every ship abouing a inadequate; but I must try. All propounded, as plaintitis, & will of that the action of this firm would be very heavy loss at the present rates, through the dreadful lonely years of December 23, 1917. This, on the followed by similar action by "Strut and any reduction in fares would the war my one thought has been of ground that his mother was not of hers and Dixon," the Pacific Mail certainly mean laying up of more you and our girle, and how I might sound testamentary capacity, was and the Admiral Line.
chipe and the general restriction of make a little home for you and her, opposed by Mr. Frederick Wilkinson; Shipping men in Yokohama facilities.
and the wonderful time when you of Braintree, Essex. Mr. Justice Baid that
- the conference
"Not only have the running ex-would come back to us both. It Horridge pronounced in favour of had threatened to dissolve for penses encrmously increased but the hasn't been an easy part to play the will and ordered Mr. Wilkinson some time. The first crisis came on initial costs of new tonnage sa regards that of a neglected wife-waiting to pay his own costs... The miners' Executive accepted the April 1 when the Toyo Kisen Kaisha new boats and the repairs which for husband year in, year out, who Sir Ellis Home-Williams, K.C., for coal-owners invitation to a conference, ing to statements made by some, this have advanced out of all proportion
was accused of rate catting, accord-fall more heavily on the older ones gave her no encouragement.
the sisters, said the will cut out Mr. which opened today.
Mr. Thomas Spencer, & trustee of the rate cutting having been caused partly to the steamers earnings.
Oh, for a pen to express what I Wilkinson and his brother, and left. Derbyshire Miners' Association, speak by the competition of the Dutch Line passengers consider that while en for your arms all these years, sony after the death of her seconed husband, When want to say to you. I've been sching Platt-Higgins was twice married, and ing Alfreton, said that the miners (Holland-Cost Ane Lajn) which was board not only are they carried dear. No one is perfect. Have you Mr. Frederick Wilkinson was helped leaders must recognise that they were beaten on the question of a Pool They not a member of the conference.
hundreds of miles per day by a ship never had anything happen in your bad been chasing a WH-o-the-wisp, The various steamship lines were incurring heavy daily expenses in life which you would give everything by his mother, who advanced in all while thousands of miners' families were gotten back into the group at that addition to Suez Canal dues and other you possess to have undone ! I hate about 2,500. In 1913, when shert starving The country was heading to time through the efforts of officials port charges, but are fed, waited an, appeals to anyone's pity, but you interest, and referred to herself in s niin. There will be no excuse for the whose companies were particularly and generally provided for at about must remember that I did my pour letter as "very old and sad, and the af money, she had to sue him for leaders rejecting the coal-owners' offer interested in maintaining rates. The 2.10 to £3 per day we think they will best to help you when you were in a old and the weak tern to the strong to discuss the wages question from China Mail Steamship Company admit that under present circumst-pretty tight corner over that report. practical viewpoint. The threatened withdrawal of the ten millions subsidy dropped out on April 2, and has not ances the fares ate most reasonable." Have you got so hard you've for and the kind" In 1915 she wrote cecessitated somebody making a move re-entered the agreement.
"THE "MISHAP TO THE "REXALTA,” in the direction of à settlement
gotten all we've been together? In Japanese shipping circles it is
Once the P. and 0. “Benallà's”· What babes we were and how. I am left to face the winter with The conference of coal-owner and said that withdrawal from the passengers had overcome their natural happy we could be together! When hardly any money or any prospect miners is proceeding. that the former's proposals will be sab of self-defence. For some time past, the best of things. One passenger a bean, fed up, hating most things wife will be called upon to pay interest It is expected freight group is more or less a matter fright they settled down to make we met you were just a baby without of getting any. I shall be 69 to-morrow and I don't think either you or your mitted to a delegate conference of officials of Japanese concerns are named Abraham Braids, bound for and most people. Do you remember 7 miners, which will decide the next step quoted as saying, non-conference forms Cape Town, describes how a terrific And I was hardly more than a child, position, at my age having to appear for very long. Do consider my Lave been trying to underbid the con- rash one morning woke up everybody.stunned with tragic experience, and ference shipping organizations, and When they found there was no im-so lonely, and I just crept into your against you for what, believe me, are as a result, it is stated, that some of mediate danger the passengers were aims, as I'm trying and aching to PARIS June 1st (delayed).
the latter firms already have been warmed up by refreshments and do now.
Ultimately, she made a will leaving According to Le Temps, the French forced to make special rate of proceeded to the dining saloons where I can't help it. I suppose it is undigni-
her property to her daughters, and intends to replace M. Bappe grant privileges that are not recogniz prayers were read and hymns sung.fied to want a man who has shown. Wilkinson was told his name had by appointing & Minister to China Med by the conference.
The piano was then taken on deck pretty plainly year after year that he than anticipated his share. Writing been omitted" because he had more Restraints such as the conference and a singsong and dancing started. has lost interest in you, but there it is to his mother in reference to the will imposed are said to be impossible It appears that the Newhaven lifeboat You know, J., in your heart of hearts Mr. Wilkinson, stated counsel, said: because of the great amount of cargo put off at 2.15 am, but owing to the that I am as honest and loyal as a PRINCE space now available. As one official impenetrable fog was unable to locate woman can be..
"It is not the actual money I am in Yokohama said, "It is the "Benalla" until six o'clock when This man, who bas brought about easy to maintain rates through at the Captain had already beached her. this climax is nothing to me but e PARIS. Juno ist (delayed). representative of the French reement when there is plenty of Host of the passengers returned to stefal memory. He was fed up and | President and several Cabinet Ministers freight and companies are taming London. As we have since learned lonely, a state I so understand, having welcomed the Japanese Crown Prince down shipments. But it is quite an- the "Benalla" was refloated in the suffered from it all these awful years,
I doubt if any low money lender upon the latter's arrival in Paris other matter when cargoes are as evening of May 14 and sailed south-So I tried to be helpful and kind, would have treated his son in this Troops lined up in front of the station scarce as they are to-day. It is eary west under her own steam. and rendered honours The Crown Prince to see why the conference has broken
with the result that he lost his head way I have finished with is to lunch to-day with the President down and companies are now out cut-
DUTCH SHIPPING ACTIVITY.
and took a mean advantage of me. you. For years I have feared you One of the vessels which will be ting rates or in other ways trying to arriving here shortly will be the Dutch ressed it, and my one feeling for
This happened almost before I would eventually turn upon me.
If you have helped me in the past I obtain shipments,
consider your treatment absolutely Japanese shipping men continue boat, "Alderamin," belonging to the him is one of loathing. I've not seen nullifies anything you had done. United Netherlands Steamship Co. or written to him, he knows nothing Consider the scandal one had to live
smong for years.
HOSTELI MIK
MINISTER
*PEKING.
LATER.
Le Fleury, who was for long time the chief coadjutor of M. Paul Cambon- Horas.
JAPANESE CROWN
The
"Hasta.
PARIS.
TRAVEL AT SEA.
THE HOMEWARD SEASON.
THE ATITUDE OF P. AND U. COMPANY
STEWARDS."
A Bombay message of May 13 states:-The P. and O. "Narkunda" sails to-morrow with the biggest number of passengers of any boat. this Homeward season. She has no fewer than 600 first-class passengers. The Stewards, who have been giving trouble on all the P. and O. ships. threatened a hold up. They marched
shipping in general. The Toyo Kisen
to her son:
bare necessities of lifel
anxions about but the hypocritical: and deceitful way in which you have treated me," and added:
"ZHAYE ŽINDEND' WITH YOU,”
Sir Ellis Hume-Williams said this suggested there was a scandal between
solicitor.
to attach mach importance to the She is a cargo vessel and is one of the of me, nor I of him beyond that he attitude of the United States Ship-largest Dutch ships which call at has gone abroad. ping Board as this attitude affects this port. The ship has a dead As usual, no matter whose the real Kaisha and the Nippon Yasen Ksiahsweight tonnage of 32,300 tons, 7,700 fault, I being a woman, must pay the mother and her second husband are both members of the Freight gross tona, and 6,900 nett tons. It so I'm facing this situation quite while her first husband was alive, andĮ Conference, and they will of course be feet, a beam of 61 feet, 2,000 h.p.,
is 495 feet long, has a draught of 28 alone. It isn't all fux being a woman the mother sent the letter to her affected by this decision which seems with a speed of 12 krots. to mean the final breakup of the con- ference The Pacific freight con- ference, it is pointed out, have never been of the same comparative strength as have similar European groups. One hope expressed by shippers here was that the chance for free competition for freight might finally mean the eventual establish-
Japan Advertiser.
GENERAL NOTES.
sald 1,200
£1
in a body to the P. and O. offices and ment of lower rates on all lines.extend the working day to ten hours the autumn of 1919 he received shares in a cotton mill during the
-pow
EX-GERMAN STEAMERS,
58.4
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The President granted a decree.
SUPERSTITIONS.
TIGER-LILIES.
UESDAY, JUNE
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
JUST RECEIVED
"consignment of Smoked Fish direct from the
SCOTTISH FISHERIES
Fillets, Haddocks,
·Kippers.
THE DAIRY FARM, IGE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
BATHING SUITS
AT
WHITEAWAY'S
GENTS,
FOR
LADIES,
AND
CHILDREN.
We have just received a small Sample consignment of the Latest Styles and are offering them at much below usual prices.
LADIES'
BATHING CAPS
from $100 to $2.50 each.
BATH TOWELS
GOOD SIZE,
GOOD VALUE
At Popular Prices.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
HONGKONG
VLADIVOSTOCK-NEWS
NEW GOVERNMENT.
BOLSHEVIKS FLEE.
"
Members of the late Administration will secure their liberty, except those who are liable to prosecution an criminal charges.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed. M. Merkuloff states that he com- aiders Ataman Semenof's authority to be unacceptable to the mass, and that therefore such authority will not be established.
NO MILITARY. DICTATORSHIP.
Vladivostock, May 26-A new Priamur Government has been formed, and M. Merkuloff, chairman of the non-socialist organizations, has been
General Verjbitzky, who has as- sumed command of the Kappel nominated as President, The con- vocation of a Constituent Assembly
troops, announces that he and his army stand for democracy, and that for the Priamur is announced.
in maintaining order in the district Some of the militin made a deter they will merely execute the orders mined stand at the docks, and the of the Government. No military In the rural districts of New Eng-Kappelites only occupied the head- dictatorship is premeditated, General land, the Middle States and the Middle quarters of the militia after over Verjbitzky declares. The overthrow West there is a common superstition coming considerable resistance, losing of the Communists at Nikolik that looking closely into a tiger lily killed and several wounded.
Ussurisk, adds the General, wax will cause freckles. Here is another Leafiets have been found in the carried out without bloodshed, or instance of the resistance in modern streets, demanding a mamacre of the excesses. No arrests were effected, man of the primitive mind; an ex- Jews. M Medvedieff, the former the Militia surrendering without ample of how it asks to-day just as it Premier of the Priamur, has been fighting.. did in the dawn of the ages:
arrested.
WAR-ABSENT HUSBAND." Major William Joha Bovill, at Mr. George Percy Haworth, of present serving at G.HQ. in Mes- Manchester, a son-in-law, said Mrs. opotamia, was the petitioner. The Platt-Higgins was a clever basiness The Amsterdam and Rotterdam
|co-respondent was a man unknown_:" woman, and used to say she had the Mr. D. Cates-Preedy read an brains of a man. Answering Mr. shipyards are so overburdened with affidavit by Major Bovill in which Patrick Hastings, Mr. Haworth stated orders for repairs that the Dutch he explained that his duties took him that he and his wife had received Labour Minister has found it necessary to Persis and into the desert and he from Mrs. Platt-Biggins £1,650, most- to suspend the operation of the Eight was not able to write to his wife as ly as loans. He added that Mrs, Hours Day Act in this trade, and often as he could have wished. In Platt-Higgins demanded the removal of one of the ship's officers, alternatively placing
information concerning his wife, and boom for £12,500-making about The Times of Ceylon of May 17 as a result of inquiries wrote that he £11,000 profit. the prospect of a strike before the
The list, just issued, of ninety-four local Director. They were
steamera which remain to be sold says: No further news has been did not intend to return to her until Later, Mr. Patrick Hastings said plussed when told that if they wanted
shows that substantial progress is received in Colombo of the Swedish he was in full possession of the facts. that after heating the evidence of the to strike they were welcome to do
being made in the disposal of the ex: boct 1,000 miles from Colombo, reply.
liner "Elmaren" which is tying ashore The letter given above was his wife's witness who attested the will he could so, as nothing would please the Com-
enemy vessels. Since the former)
not continue to dispute the document. south of the Maldives. It is believed pany and the passengers better than
list
published thirteen
that her wireless apparatus has brokened his wife. He was ant the father Major Bovill denied that he neglect to replace them with Goanese
cargo steamers offered on account of the Reparations Commission have down Another Swedish limer, the of a child born to his wife on February stewards. It is believed that the trouble has now blown over.
found buyers; and of twenty-one prize Maimen," which is at present 1, 1920 The shipping position generally is
vessels offered on March 19 for cash Colombo, is making preparations to very unpromising. The Anchor Line down, eleven have been sold, so that go to the "Elmaran's" assistance. has cancelled one outward and one
in all twenty-four steamers, represent! ing 142,145 dead-weight tons, have
The "Alderamin" was built by the Homeward sailing, and it is an open secret that the P. and O. but for the been disposed of during the month Vulcan Shipyards at Vegesack, a mail contract, would reduce sailings.
not far short of one ship per working town bear Bremen, Germany, for the It is unlikely that the P. and O. will
day. The prices are not disclosed; German Company, the Roland Line, but it is considered that this deliberate but when in the stocks was exchanged build more boats of the N class in these days. They are too expensive
method of sale has, in the present with the Netherlands Steamship to build and too expensive to run.
state of the market, been more pro- Agency for 10 smaller steamers The It is reported in connection with the
ductive than would have been an offer German firm also included her sister- building of one ship at Home that
of the ships by auction. On the ship, the "Alderbazan," She was later one deck included in the plans is
assumption that a revival of business, allotted to her present owners, with a corresponding rise in exports When the ship left Hamburg on being omitted for the provision of additional cargo space. There is
and in freights, cannot be indefinitely her outward journey to the East se Tatsudo Hatton of Baidams Pre-times. Yet this gorgeous, freckled maining Bolshevik resistance has been little hope of cheaper passages to the
delayed, shipowners are apparently did not carry much through cargo, fecture. According to the report, lower at once arouses in the movercome and the town is now normal. East. The "Loyalty, formerly is finding such vessels as are adaptable but did a large interport busines en by means of the new invention, silver conscious" that old, old belief in Noo-Kappel provocative elemente are hospital ship, and now ma between
to their particular trades attractive route. She reloaded very little cargo and other metals can be produced homeopathic magic so firmly held by spreading rumours of a forthcoming at the prices now ruling for second-in Japan, but picked up 5,000 tons out of all things." The inventor our primitive ancestors like causes Jewish pogrom in order to discredit ance to the new Priamur Government. India and Europe by an Indian
Band tonnage. The list now issued deadweight of soya beans and wheat has spent his private fortune for more like. company, has been lying in Bombay for the last six months. She is
includes four ships classified as adat Dairen for Europe.
the movement, but there is no danger According to advices from Chita, than ten years in study and about mmable to get a surveyor's certificate
ditional vessels which, it is under-
This and nature worship sometimes of Kappel's forces allowing hooligan the Morrow Soviet hes sanounced three years ago he came to the con- separately, sometimes interwoven, ist or the Government of India certificate
stood, are to be sold for cash. It in The Swedish motor ship, the "El closion that everything can be re-have been the parents of the majority General Verbitzky has arrived here the Irkutak and Baital regions that it will take over the defence of stated that while offers for all these mazen," which grounded on May 10 duced to metal. At first, the scientific of the ancient cults of ancient and to take over command of the Kappel against Barta Ungerty steamers can be made up to the 30th on a reef a thousand miles off the world of Japan did not take, any modern superstitions. It is an in- troops. The Bolshevik leaders are as to allow Chito to concentrate all April, such offers will be dealt with coast of Cevion, in the neighbourhood notice of the invention, but recently teresting fact, though, that while the in the hands of the Japanese. by Lord Inchcape se received; and of the Maldive Islande, is reported to a section of Japanese scholars acknow- persistent primitive" perpetuates
for carrying passengers, and the pro-
babilities point to her having made
her last voyage as a passenger carrying ship. The "Loyalty" was the subject of severe critician at the last meeting of shareholders of the com- pany,
BOWEL COMPLAINT IN
CHILDREN,
*URING the summer months mothers.
Jonsdom of the child's bowels. When vas prompt attention at this time - serjous trouble may be avoided. Cham- Ekrisia's Colic and Dishoes Remed ten always be depended upopal or m by Alli & basta and StoromorperE.
Du should ratch for any mansiaral
SILVER FROM SAND.
A WONDERFUL INVENTION.
C
·ECIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN JAPAN.
Tokyo, May 30.-The Tokyo
The tiger lily is a native of China BOLSHEVIK REAISTANCE OVERCOME Vladivostock, May 28-The s
invention made by a Japanese named en world until comparatively modern Asahi reports about a very interesting and was not introduced into the west-
that the system of deferred payments be in a very serious position. Accord-ledged it, after testing it. The in-in popolar superstitions other forms of
A STATEMENT OF POLICY.
is still open in the case of the passenger ing to the information received by ventor is said to have succeeded in pro ancient magic, such superstitions are Vladivostock May 29.-M. Merkaloff, or cargo vessels offered on account the local agents, No. 1 hold was ducing in the presence of the scientista, inherited, as it were-have a definite Head of the new Government of the of the Reparations Commission, leaking, in addition to the leakages silver but of earth and sand as well pedigree which can be traced. So, too Maritime Province, has issued a
HIGH FARSENGER FARES, A
reported previously As far as cap as from the flowers of the ins laevigata. those superstitions inherited from statement of policy of which the Messrs. Paterson Simons & Co. be gathered the crew of the ship are Dr. Tersawa, one of the eye mature worship and the cults ofheathen main points are as follows Ltd., Peng, agents for the Bibby safe, as the "Valdieri," intercepting an witnesses of the experiment, states gods and goddesses. But the genera The primary task of the new Gov. Line, write to the Penang Press as 8.0.8. signal, made immediately for that it will take some time before it five day for those forces of superstition emment will be to restore order in follows-We give you hereunder the spot and rescued the whole crew will be announced publicly ass is gone Homeopathie magic alone the country. extract of a letter from Messrs. Bibby She is now standing by. It is stated science, but if the inventer's claim retains such vitality that it is able to The composition of the Administra Bros. addressed to Messrs Carson that a part of her, cargo has been that all things can be reduced to create new superstitions from day to tion will depend on the people's will, & Co., Ltd., Colombo, which we think soned and that there 18 every metal, such as gold, silver, copper, day. So it you look into a freckled tiger The Popular Assembly, will remain, of gelung her off Her cargo iron, be positively proved scienti- lily: you will be freckled yourself, but in the Communista ise
tops of wheatfically
will prove of interstate
"The fare to and from Ceylon in
trapait for London, be fundam
Vladivostock is gaily beflagged with
the Russian National Tricolour, re- placing the Bolshevik red banners
Most of the late Militas have fed
to the hills with their arms. The remaining Bolshevik forces have been disarmed by the Japaese
Grodekovo has notified its allegi
its forces on resisting the anti-Com- munist peril in the Russian Far East."
CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM
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For me by all Chemists and