NEWS SECRETS.
SIGNING THE PEACE TREATY,
HOW-TOS NEWS WAS SENT TO
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THE CHINA MAIL.
WHEN CORRESPONDENTS BRITISH LEGION FORMED. MODERN NAVAL ACTION
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The Canton Times, (July 6) says:- It is interesting · indeed to study | how newspaper" edtors serve up the dews for their readers. The headings and subheadings, if studied closely,
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A 2,000,000 MEMBERSHIP.
A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
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MILLIONS LOST IN IMPORTS, AND
EXPORTS.
"I PLAYED TIK GAME,"
Delegates of various ex Service Tell my people that I played the men's organisations met šumi con= | In a lecture on International Tele
terence at Queen's Hall in order to game and stock it out" Those wert Some startling figures are embodied graphic News to students of journal will invariably indicate the pre-discuss the establishment of a British almost the last words of Commander in the official return of imports and ism'at Londod University, Sir Rodrick judices and real sentiments of the Legion, which '61), 1% computed, Rudolf Veruer, of the Royal Navy, exports of the Straits Settlemenita for editor. Take for instance a report erbrace the membership of be when his shattered arm had been the quarter ended March 31,2” Com- Jones, Chairman and Managing from a correspondent relating to thetween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 wen. Director of Renter's (Limited), capture of Wuchowwhich was Several hundred delegates were pre-amputated, and-young and activepared with the corresponding Decod said that so-called scoops were rarely | published * in The South China sent, and the main subject before and full of high promise as he had of last year imports have decreased the result merely of good luck. They Morning Post. The editor put a sub them was the welding into one com been, ha gladly-yielded up his spirit
heading in big type "Wachow Loot prehensive organisation the various in the cause of King and country. $180.591,072, equivalent to were more often the result of weeks ed. At a first glance ore received societies and federations at present He came of fighting stock; from bis 21,008,959 while sports bave or months of careful preparation, the impression that the Kwangtung working on behalf of ex Service men father, as well as from his mother, fallen away to the extent of $215- direct or indirect, of swift decision, troops after entering Wuchow com. Mr. T. F. Lister, who presided, said he had inherited great traditions 463,180, or $23,137,370. – Imports
mitted outrages against the inhabit in the forefront of their programme of escrifice
mervice. In into ·Singapore decreased- ~ -ly and of particularly swift action the ants and looted the stores. But after, would be the question of the disabled issuing a memorial volume, with $133, 423,437, into-faneng by moment the news became news."
reading the report through, you fail exService man, who should be coloured and other plates of technical $40,311,574 md. Maleta - 1 $0 - Sometimes that moment took one to find anything that would justity framoved from the ordinary com- Talos, of his son's career, notable for 856,061 and exports, fell short of by surprise and might find one 'un- ¦ such a sinkariohal bending.
peritive labour market, and by some many reasons, Colonel Willoughby the 1920 figures es falows: Singi- prepared. It was then that the really A great deal of credit is given to system of allocation compulsory, 'if Verner has not merely satisfied af pore $189,326,657, Penang (944-
secured natural instinct, but has given the 053,600 and Malacon 512,062,854. efficient correspondent showed his the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Sis, for considered desirs hiemate
his excellent work in saving the city amploýinent là order that he might nation, for Its Inspiration, a booki
Taking the various settlements, it worth. He brushed aside everything, from the horror of a bombardaient, not have to carry along with his dia- which it will do every man and
is found that imports for the first every he sacrificed everything, he subordin Mr. Sly deserves the credit, and ability the uncertainty which would woman, and, particularly. ated everything, to rushing his news should receive the thanks of the follow him through life if some British boy, whatever the class to quarter of this year were as follows: Wuchow people for bis valiant | auch · system "were not adopted which he belongs, good to read Singapore $131,545,941 Peng to the telephone, or to the telegraph, efforts on their behalf. But we They would ever, he was confident, Commander Verner was a typical the complete imports into and on- or both, and to being ahead of his believe Mr. Sly would be the last have as their care and at no time Englishman, moulded by his contact ports from by cul are not obtainable rivals if only by a single minute one in the world to claim that the more than to-day the question of with the great Service of Drake for the return) $29,353,064, Matacca by five or fifteen minutes so much occupation of Wachows by the the unemployed ex Service men, and Hawkins, and Frobisher, as well as of $3.848,668, compared with
$89,584,638 Cantonese troops was accomplished he hoped they would make their St. Vincent, Collingwood, and Nelson! $284,969,378, The most dramatic fact bout the by his efforts. Wuchow was besieged; contribution in a proper way to some In these pages the story is told in $10,704,729, respectively for the Sauis quarter of 1920. Export Peace, Treaty at Versailles was the the forts had been taken; Chen Ping thing which the country needed very simple language of his early years, signature. In order that they should kun had flet on the 23rd. Only a much at present, which culd be and then of what he counted his statistics show: Singapore $81;
Penang $28, 1:10,649 and be Erst in announcing this great fact few hundred Kwangst soldiers re summarised in five words. "Good supreme good fortune-appointmes: 160, 184, to the world a certain news organisa-mained in the city. Its fall was only will and good management," He as gunnery officer and first lieutenant Malacca $4,968,578, the correspond tion made elaborate arrangements a matter of a few hours bombard hoped that whilst never neglecting of the battle cruiser "Infexible, which ing totals for the first quarter of last telephonic, telegraphic, wireless. ment by the Kwangtung Gunboats. the safety of the Empire they would shared with her sister ship, the "Io year being: $240,485,841, $64 motor, and other, down to the What Mr. Sly most probably sccom- never forget that the men who fought vincible," in the honours of the Battle 164,318, and $17,051,532, respec smallest detail, for days beforehand. plished was the prevention of looting had a wonderful opportunity of of the Falkland Islands, the most tively. These figures amount ronga so as to secure swift transmission to by the Kwangsi troops before they laying the foundations of peace. decisive engagement since Trafalgar. ly to falling away in trade during London. In the final event several evacuated the city. It is foolish to The title of the new organisation These pages contala firar hand the first three months of the current correspondents belonging to the say the Kwangtung army gained an was dixussed, and "the British account of the events, which led year, as compared with the opening organisation, posted at different easy victory and make it appear that Legion was approved by a large up to the destruction of Admiral quarter of 1820 by a half in valde in points between Versailles and Lon- Wuchow was evacuated by the majority.
700 Spze's aquadron and the imports and a tard in erporta don, were concerned in the tranemis-] Kwangsi soldiers entirely because of sion.
the persuasive arguments of Mr. Sly. Something more solid and substantial than arguments made the Kwangsi army take to its heels The advance and attack of the Can tonese soldiers in force mad- Mr. Sly's words seem good common
the better,
WORKING A
SCOOP."
By means which need not be dis cossed, a Mr. A. had secured a place Inside the Salle des Glaces. He wrote: Despite the fact that I had practically a front seat, and so was
by alternately trampling upon and to my special telephone with the Dews that the Germans had signed; I was the first person to send it from Vera-tiba.
"B. was at the back of the Galerie
setge.
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The conference, was resumed avenging of the defeat of the
Taking the various headings, and Mr. T. F. Lister presid Rallant Cradock. This is a tale which seen that under live animals, foods. ed over about 800 delegates. ought not to have continued to be and drinks, and narcoties the lamperta Previously the delegates had been buried in the archives of
the have decressed in valse from $131, to Whitehall, where a wreath was Admiralty, and it speaks well for the 679,683 to $58,004,815 and the T- placed on the Cenotaph on behalf good sense of "my lords" that they ports from $76,120,885 6 $43, of the Provisional Unity Committee. have raised po objection to its wider 157,626. Raw materials -abew Here the "Last Post was sounded circulation. It was the first personal falling off from $150,307,038 by Grenadier Guards, and a proces narrative of 'a, modera naval action sion, under the guidance of Major to be put on paper; it preserves the 561,773,762 in imports and $103,
728,009 to $41,840,502), Maruduo- hour of triumph, as the later. marched to Westminster Abbey.
The chairman said he had to chapter, dealing with the intervention *y, the of the Prince of Wales as the first acclaim with enthusiasm the election patron of the Legion. The announce, ment was received with prolonged
a jolly good fellow."
imports for-the-first"}
tragedy of the Dardanelles, tells of 352,026 as gxinst $44,879,006, and of the "Infiexible in the grimter of last year being-- $83,- defeat swallowed up in victory. If later the exports $46,853,797, 9% compare Renerations want to know how and with $21,241,383 for January,
des Glaces, and that is on the road Wachow was saved from fighting and cheers and the singing of "For he's Englishman-could die for his country February and March of the currest"|
A letter from the Prince was then read expressing his regret at being unable to attend the conference consequence of his visit to Cornwall and the West Country, and express
prove a complete success and that he might be furnished with a report of the proceedings. (Cheers)
A delegate inquired if the Prince of Wales had been asked whether he was willing to become patron or pres ident of the new organisation.
In this twentieth century, they can rear. In coin and bullion there is a turn to this book, "The Battle remarkable drop. In the first three Canisers at the Action of the Falkland months of 1920, the total value mu Islands." When we come to the ported amounted to $120,881,420; episode of the Dardanelles, we read of which no less than $115,389,213 how the "Infiexible steamed up the compared with $1,409,380 as 11 three quarters; the fore-bridge be year op to March 31 shews «^« iz came a mass of flames; then aportation of cour and ballions totalling shell struck the foresignal yard, only only $13,444,532. -Exporta; „boo; a few feet above the fore control are of equal interest. The stenstics station, the post of danger where shew that in the first-fixes months of Commander Verner and some others 1920 the total vice of corn and bui- were no duty, and; bursting, sent its lion sent away from the Colony was fragments downwards, perforating valued at $54,659,785, while in the the ront and sides of the control corresponding period of this year-the Three of the men were killed instant-figure was only $6,580,041. 1, and Commander Verner and Lientenant Blaker, who was with him, as well as four of the five re maining lower deck ratings, were struck down. For some time the wounded had to remain in this blazing inferio for rescue was
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far away from the door, I managed, As to the looting of Wuchow by crawling over people, to get out first the Cantonese troops, some horses General Sir Frederick Maurice, then impressions of a naval officer in the tored articles have likewise -- ŝales -
were searched and the soldiers took away articles of wearing, apparel, it is til they was only a few isolated is claimed. But instead of general cases reported. A correspondent to China Mail wrote-"While bloog which I had to pass. When he saw me dash through the Cham plunder, thanks first to the efforts of ber bis face lighted up. "You have Mr. Sly and next to the strong "Yes," I said, and measures taken by the Kwantung it?" he cried. bolted on. We had a special line authorities to suppress pllage, some Direct from the Palace to our central of the villages further up the river are reported to have been le-a for- rice in Paris C. there took mytunate and to have been looted by the ing a hope that the conference would Straits under a, hail of fire from 2 gold poin, while the record for this! tuessage down instantaneously, and in- side a minute be was through to D. retreating Kwangsi forces. Perfect "D. bad hypnotised the French order prevails in Wuchow itself. official in charge of our line to thanks to the determined efforts of London with the idea that Lloyd the Kwangtung authorities who are George. Clemenceau Wilson; and gradually gaining the confidence of
the populace," Waley Coben (Colonel Cohen was the head of the British Communica From the above, we see that the
The Chairman: The Prince was tions Service at the Peace Conference) South China Morning Fost b. had stop watches in their bands, scarehead type greatly exaggerated wings to accept either position waiting to see how soon the news the small-offences of the Cantonese (loud cheers)--but after careful con- would be got through to London. soldiers while no mention was made sideration the Provisional Unity Com. mirtee decided to invite his Royal The spell was effective, for D. was at all regarding the looting.com
touch with E., standing by at the mitted by Kwangsi troops. If loot. Highness to be a patron. (Cheers)
For the office of president two London end, under a couple ofing is done by the invadi garmy
names were submitted. Field Marshal
is included under guns, dyes and to $11,674,581 in the corresponding inutes." This correspondent had during the first flush of victory and
Earl Haig and Captain Colin R. Coote,
resins such articles as Benjamin, quacter of 1921, the exports were the news in London long before before officers can get to the scene,
A ballot was taken, with the result
Dragons Blood, stick lac safflower $7,290,285, & decrease of "over anybody else, and as a result his it is not anything unusual, for the
that Earl Haig was elected by 658 impossible. Their sufferings need all of which are well-known to the
$6,250,000. Wheat flour to the organisation was easily 5rst in giving same has happened even among the
votes against forty-eight, amid loud not be described, the commander, very latest arrival here, but that vahe of $2,254,278 million odd was A to the world.
best disciplined troops. But when the defenders turn about and loot cheering. Mr. T F Lister was elected thought be had received terrible injur which concerns us most in the cate imported against $5,260,251. Con
chairman, Colonel Crosfield vice-ies, remained conscious, collected, and guy is Pars rubber. In the first densed and sterilized folk valua prehensible. their own towns, it is extremely represident, and Major Cohen treasurer.filled with that pride which Nelson garter of 1920, there were imported $2,229,724 was imported into the More than two years ago a piece Major-General Sir-F. Maurice, in exhibited in his last hour, sending, into the Colony 866,350 pirals, Colony, and $1,928,814 was export of metal fell on a boy's foot and That brings us back to the point moving the constitution of the mong other messages by the or valued at $80,871,476 whereas Sago Boor showed redaction fractured a bone of the great toe. By headings and sub-beadings editors Provisional Unity Committee of the dinary mechanical means of com the three months under review the in imports from $2:083,072 which was amputated. The lad will cable-certainly not in the near
reveal their bias. Do we need to be
four bodies now amalgamated as the munication, one to the captain that quantity received here amounted to $357,834. And in exports from ese, if ever it was extended to this the South China Morning Post lie? expressed the conviction that they died soon after removal to the $16,811,582. Corresponding gportators of black pepper amorted other trenas stopped growing for use, if ever it has extended this told on what side the sympathies of first Executive Council of the Legion, he was unable to carry on." He 486,667 piculs with a value of only $3,031,758. 10. $597,044. The felt great pain in the stomp, and the country, the public would have to The editor of that paper minimizes raise its voice, and that was the the victory won by the Cantonese stitution.
now had a thoroughly sound con hospital ship. This volume, with his of exports were 909,688 piculse $131,220 compared with 82,763,- two years. circulation of newsby foreign Govern and makes it appear that Wachow
valedictory words. "Tell my, people $123,011,497 and 554,789 picals 827, the exports being $172,890 that I played the game and stuck and
Ár the end of that time Dr. Hildred ments containing insidious inferences.
$22,938,332, The resolution was farried, the cour" is a worthy, legacy to future From the statement shewing the value of $6,209 127 was imported. Hapital, diagnosed the case as ope
respectively: was looted after capture. But the
against $4,044.351 Sugar to the Cartil, physician to Westminster After representations made to them plain truth is the Cantonese deserved period of office of the council to be generations. It was such men as quantity of Para rubber transhipped and $3,424,590 worth exported com- of hysteris and tried to reason the the Marconi Company frankly the victory which was never in doubt limited to Whitsuntide, 1922 Athese who died that we might live at Singapore and Penang tampared with $4,897,629. abandoned the idea they once held of and, after the city was captured, further resolution called for the The time of the publication of this Malacca and the Malay Peninsula becoming publishers of wireless news behaved very well
removal of all women's labour in memoir, with all it suggests, is bring the first quarter of this year Government departments, and an opportune. ́other declared that every Ex-Service man should have the right to work for maintenance. On the motion of
WIRELESS PROPAGANDA. Wireless, while a most valuable duxiliary to the means of communica tion, was not going to displace the
in Britain,
-Viscount Burnham, who presided i alluded to the high.reputation Sir Roderick Jones earned in South Africa, and paid tribute to the pre
eminent position "ccupied by Reuters
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Referring to some of the specie ems mentioned in the report, there
it would appear that the total was
TOE HYSTERIA
DOCTOR'S STORY ON BOUGH AND TUMBLE CURE:
boy out of it. "The patient would i not tolerate the slightest-touch, but pne day, says Dr. Cérii in. x ́recent- lecture, quoted in the Lancet:
88,458.piculs, or 5,265 vs against Embracing the minister and say
"I took off my coat, grasped, the 130.703 piculs, or 8:137, tous in the ing she wanted to make a confession RE you ever sized with a severe Colonel Crosfield a resolution was to be used towards furthering employ. Arst three months of 1920, decrease of an incident in her past life, a wo-stump, and held on. Over and over attack of eram colle ne diarrho carried in support of the principle of gent, so that they had only £25,000 of 48,247 piculs, or 2,672 toos man entered the pulpit at Trinity we went,"round and-round, the as a news agency. Its conduct, he | without a bottle of bamberlain' olc the League of Nations.
for the relief of distress. The distress From Malacca the exports were United Frés Church, Ayr, as bene-roper, the roum of the boy arousing. said, bad bern characterised from the an arrbana Remedy in the house?
Major-General Sir F. Maurice account was overdrawn to the extent 17,512 pics, from the F.M.S. diction was being pronounced. A the Mospital, but in 15-minutes be kind A dise or two earliest days of ita history by an Don't ta e such risks" dactar could stated that the total amount received of over £1,000. Be assured the con- 57,943 picúls and Johore and the church officer on entering the pulpit stopped his struggler kod I had wont.
wil cure belo o a integrity se well as an intelligence was his hou, it over balls by the Unity Relief Fund amounted ference that the most strenuous-Federated Maley States 13,003 to remove her was also embraced, as Be at once put on his bring boots, that had won world-wide recognition, wen in the most severe and dangerous to £175,932, of which £150,000 cams efforts were being made to relieve i picules –
a were afterwards” several people in the und 11 w whatwia Dáčk and it stood to-day just as high as cases For sale by all Chemists and from the National Relief Fund on distress "utong, ex-Servicemen Rice imports dropped from $60,-fond outside. The women was enken, the dockya Sh months later be ever it did.
Storekeepers.
condition that this latter amount was (Cheers.):
150,408 in the first quarter of 1820] way by frienda,``
was still full of gratitude.
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