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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 5, '192'.
MUSTAPHA KEMAL FASHA.the limit of sacrifice to which the Ottoman Parliament can consent to MAN OF THE HOUR IN TURKEY, go in order to assure itself a just and
Mr. Chair Price tells the story of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the man of the hour in Tarkey and throughout Asia Minor, the man who was To sponsible for the National Fact, the man who has upeat the Treaty of Sevres and who now as the crowning accomplishment of a wholly astonish
army and driven it in utter rout fram his Fatherland.
Tusting peace."
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wielded bis
KILKENNY CATS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MISHEL PIASTRO,
CITY HALL VIOLIN RECITAL.
Mishel Piastro is not unknown in
SLUMP IN MARRIAGE,
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S STRIKING FIGURES.
with some degree of Assurance that the post-war marriage boom is now definitely ended. In births, where the returns now presented aro for the June quarter, there has been a decrease of 24,760 on the correspond:
WEATHER REPORT.
October Bd. 11b. 42m.-Pressure tan increased moderately at Wladivo stock, and decreased slightly at the majority of other stations.
Fresh monsoon may be expected' along the S.E. coat of China and
Hongkong rainfall for the 2 bour ending at 10 a.m to-day, 0-63 inch
THE TALE OF TWO TAILS. Kemal set up a solidly Nationalist
When two people carmot agree, Parliament at Angers. The Grand
coaven- and are always at loggerheads, a
The anticyclone is now central over National Assembly
The outstanding feature of the Ro-ing period of last year. But this ha. Manchuria. The Guam typhoon ap er at Angora for the sole purpose of description of them as "quarrelsome Hongkong and his recitals of a few bas become years ago is conjunction with M
pears to be moving N...W." At 6 am. executing the National Pact, and in as Kilkenny cats
Miravitch are still remembered. To gistrar General's latest quarterly re. not prevented a total increase of the this morning it was about Lat 17 N. the remnant of the great Empire proverbial.
The story as commonly told is that the larga zphere of the Theatre one turn of vital statistics, is the population of England and Wales by and Long, 143 E. Hamid had over which Adul
absoluto two cats of Kilkenny fought so long realised to the full the beauties this striking drop in the number of 80 235, which is, perhaps, as much sa once rule. Field Marshal Mustapha Kemal and so lutiously, refusing to desist, able executant was able to bring ing career, has crushed the Greak Pasha had finally become master, that naught was found of them but forth from his instrument. In the marriages. Daring the three montha | the country can support under pre-moderate monsoon over the N. Chins
losser space of the old Chamber of ending March 31, the last date up to
sent circumstances. It is curious to Bea which general statistics ato available, Thereafter Ferid lasted long enough two tails!
A writer in "Notes and Queries" Commerce Room last night one knew marriages in England and Wales only observe the strict parallelism that at Constantinople to see the Sevres Forty years ago, when Abdul Treaty signed at Paris ou August 11, some years ago gave an explanation that with, the lapan of time M.amounted to 10.8 per thoumnd of the marks the proportion of the sexes in Total since January 1st, 80-91 inches
Piastre har if anything goiard, Hamid I was Sulton in Grand Con- but when it became apparent that he as to how the saying arose.
During the rebellion which occurred both as an executant and an in-population. This is a decrease of deaths and birth. Daring the month against an average of 77.05 inches.
6.8 par thonrand on the preceding stantinople and the Croscent and Star would be nonble to ratily it he
in 1798 (or may be in 1803) Kilkenny terpreter. A happily blended pro-
was submitted and the quarter. There is, of course, a fashion April, May, and June, 1,016 boys were still floated over Salonica, an under- was finally dropped from office.
Bottled up in Asia Minor, the As-was garrisoned by a regiment of gramme
ia weddings, and they are always born to each 1,000 gidle, sud 1,045 ling in the Salonica Customs office died,
more. understandable leaving his widow with a small daugh-sembly's only military contact with Hessian soldiers, whose custom it was light and
yest, so that it might be said 1,000 females.
The net result, moderato; fair. ter and an infant sen on her bands. the Greeks was the frontal contact of to tie together in one of their barrack of the items found a ready place fewest is the opening quarter of the males of all ages died to each
that comparison of the first three The Bon was intended by his mother the line from Eaki Shetr to Afius, rooms two cats by their respective beside the extremely classical. for the mosque schoal and the career With a British military mission now tails, and then to throw them face to this respect the centre pieces consist of a hojs but he became fascinated attached to the Greek bigh command, face across a line generally used for ing of "The Lark." Edward Elgar' months of 1921 is not a safe guide to sexes in the total populatoa is cou-winds moderate; fair.
4-South ourt of Chips hÈS WER "La Capricienso," an arrangement of by the uniforms of the army-officers the Greeke encircled the left Bank of drying clothes.
The eats naturally became infuriat Chaminade's "Spanish Serenade" by general tendencies. But if the com- cerned, is that is thoss three month ingkang sad Halasa. N.E winde, whom he saw about the streats. In the makeshift Turkish forces in front
in previous years the result is not less females has been reduced by 1,827. time he succeeded in passing examina
Farison is made with the same period the numerical preponderance of moderate; fair.
tions for the military preparatory ashcol
striking. Against the 19.8 per thon- at Salonica, where his mathematics teacher became so fond of him that be left off culling him by kis given name of Mustapha and dubbed him Kemal, a Turkish came meaning rightness. Today the name by which his mathematics teacher once know
horizou.
ABRIANOPLE.
graduated
a
Io
in-
months of 1922 with the last three aa far as the distribution of the
of Afiun, and sent them pell-mell into ed, and scratched each other in the Kreisler, and the haunting " Hindoe Some abdomen until death ensued to one or Chant" of Rimsky-Korsakoff were disastrous retreat.
the rear both of them, and terminated their much enjoyed. Miabel Piastro's and in the fitat quarter of 1922 we Thus in a very slow and gradual way seventy five miles to
of sufferings. The officers of the corps touch
sure: his
have 16.3 in 1921, and 14.8 in 1920. Nature is working to restore the and only forty miles in front
the effort faithfully We must, in fact, go back ten years, balance of the sexes upset so heavily Angora itself, they reformed on a were ultimately made acquainted with aistence on
fine alozg
the these barbarous acts of crudity, and to portray the pictare rs the Com-
to the first three months of 1912, to nor h and-south Sakaria River, whers Mustapha Kernal they resolved to put an end to them, poser bas in mind is constant; the find a lower marriage rate. In that by the war.
artist effaces timself in his work and year it was only 9.9, but in the sub-slight increase on the second quarter Fasha himself took command. Here and to punish the offenders.
In order to effect this purpose an the result is a thing of rhear beauty soquent quarters there was a rapid of last year, but a very welcome the Greeks sought again to encircle
before Anaferta in 1915.
A PERSONALITY.
the third, 17.7 in the closing months of
the year. Will a similar recovery be experienced this year, and shall we
The death-rate shows a
[ it mounted to 17.7. That high figure was to a great extent accounted for
and some of the leeway lost in the by influenes and the prevalance of quarter under review made up in its infectious diseases. prediction that this is very unlikely. accessors? One may venture the
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come the same by which the world forces to meet them. Crossing the barrack-room daily, and to report to pieces which opened the programme thousand in the second quarter 18.2 in first three months of this year, when bim as a soft boy at Salonica has be their left, but Kemal pulled down his officer was ordered tà inspect each This was revealed in the two heavier increase, the figures being 15.5 por decrease of five per thousand on the knows his as a man of iron at the mud Sakaria, south of the Turkish lines, the commanding officer in what stats Cesar Frank's A. Major Sonats town of Angois in Asia Minor. To the Greeks drove some fifty miles due be found the room. The cruel soldiers, and Weiniawsky's Second Concerto in day Abdul Hamid, Enver Pasha and east in a vain atterapt to find the determined not to lose the daily tor D. Minor. The former is in four Damad Ferid Pasha, ono alter the Turkish left. With the Turkish posi- ture of the wretched cats, generally movements. The first gives the motif other have dropped out of the story, tions now shifted to an east-and-west employed one of their comrades to which is developed through the other although for the first twenty-eight line at a distance of some fifty miles watch the approach of the officer in movements until the chrysalis of years of Mustapha Kemal Pasha a southwest of Angora, t'e Greeks bam-order that the cats might be liberated sound is broken and the Sonato ends in life-be is forty one-Abdul Hamid mered away for twenty-one days in and take refuge in flight before the a beautiful and captivating melody. The slump in marriage is one of tho loome above him like a great blick su effort to break through-a struggle visit of the officer to the scene of their The feeling is that the Composer ha glump in industry, and there is not
at last captured the fancy of his
likely to be much change as long as dinn above a wanderer on a lonely which some day will be appreciated torture.
On one occasion the "look out imagination and joy abounds.
the industrial condition of the country as one of the world's bistoric battles In Kemal's career it was almost as man" neglected his duty, and the Wieniawsky's D. Minor Concerto is
remains as it is. Nor, perhaps, is it The military preparatory school at brilliant an episode as his victory officer of the day was heard ascending notable for its gypsy-like ending, desirable that there should, Thaif observations taken by mesas of so Welhalwola 31.10
the barrack stairs while the cats were and M. Piastro brought out to the undergoing their customary torture, full the abandon of the last move greatest advocate of the population Water Police Basin at Tsim Sha Tegi, štokiang - *| Salonien, the officers' school at Monastir, and the War Academy a
One of the troopers immediately ment. The "Loudly Wanderer" of theory can scarcely welcome marriages
where adequate means of subsistence | Before and since the Genos Con seized a sword from the arm-rack, and Grieg, arranged for the Violin by M Constantinople finally Kemal, head-atrong youth of ference Kemal's chief anxiety is to with a single blow divided the tails of Piastro, played on muted strings was may be lacking. twenty-two into the army with the recover on that new basis of equality the two cats.
which is laid down in the National rak of lieutenant.
During the years when the Empire-Pact, the understanding with England was crumbling to its end, Kemal's which Abdul Hawid lost in 1907, life was that of the Turkish army The now defunct Serres Treaty was Enver exiled him to Tripoli, the logical result of a sequence of Izzet Pasha returned him to Salonica. Leadership in Turkey which descended to Enver Mahmoud Sbevket took him to from Abdul Hamid Albania, and Eaver sent him back Damad Ferid. The ruin of Turkey to to Tripoli to
command native day-whether it be just or unjust irregulars during the war with Italy. irrelevant here was ace suplished Without British support the crash under their Iradership and not under of the old Empire had begun. During Kemal's. Hatery has not yet writ the first Balkan war Kemal was per- ten its verdict on Kemal. mitted to twiddle his thumbs on the I never think of Kemal vithout 'Dardanelles, but it was he who was recalling him ne I saw and talked called on to recapture Adrianople with him last in a small room off the when the opportunity offered. When corridor of the Assembly building at Enver joined Germany in 1914 in a Angera-a man with a face of iron lipped and the flash of much gold in last desperate gamble for the life of beneath a great iron-grey kalpak. In his lower teeth gave sparkle to the the Empire. Kemal threw up his post on koglish ahcoting suit of weed with hard incisiveness of his manner as he of military attache at Solin and re-a grey soft collar and a grey tie he sat talked. He was a man of iron in a turned to Constantinople still a young back of his desk with the limp folds of situation which would break any man but a man with a brilliant past, a tall green banner inscribed with man of leas durable metal. Kemal is a a batred of Baver which was both Turkish lettera of gold in the corner man who sees things as they are. To perzonal and political, and a degree bebind him. His eyes were hard and me he is one of the hardest and of personal prestige which made it no blue, his mouth was hard and thin-soberst leaders in the world to-day. longer possible to disregard him.
officer.
KEMAL'S FORESIGHT.
Kemal was convinced from the fi st that the Empire as in no condition to enter the wr, but Eaver gave bim the Nineteenth Divisina uad dispatched him to the Dardszelles, possibly, hoping that a British bullet might put an end to him.'
Here
Kemal's light military abilities and the unvarying luck which had become proverbial of him eventually gave bim command of the entire Turco- German force on the peninsula. Alarmed at his popularity, Limanvon Sandera Bocused Kenal'e transfer to the Russian front as anon as the British had evacuated the Dardanelles. Ou "the Russian front Kemal was appoint- ed major general and given the Sixteenth Army, but be e me into speedy conflict with Falkenhayn over the project to recapture Baghdad
froca the British. Throwing up his command in protest, Kemal returned to Aleppo and on September 30, 1017, dispatched to Eaver a lengthy state. ment of his position. In this remark- able statement written at a moment when the entire country was expect. ing a German vistory Komai declared that the corruption of the Guvern mant at Constantinople, the disrup tion of the economic. life, and the constant drainage of the country's gold away to Germany, could have but one end..
AT ANGORA.
The Greek occupalion of Smyrna, led Kemal to tear up the Mu 'ros mistico, but he contiuned to direct his efforts toward cue building up of A Nat qnalist majority in the Par- liament at Constantinople. He now ved his beadquarters to Angara, a town of mud and malaria which happened to be within easy com- municativo ol Constantinople both by sal and viro Here a group of-twelva
· leaders of his now powerful Nationalist Farty drew up
the National Pact and dispatched it to Frid's. Parliament in Constantimple, which sdopted it on January 28, 1920, declaring the principles thereï's announced ito ibe
PRONISIFED
ANCHORAGZ
GREEN 15
CHANNEL
is
not the least of a splendid programme The cats,
of course, escaped which concluded with Bazzin's game through the open windows of the what Growork" piece, the Witches room, which was entered almost Dance, immediately afterwards by the officer
Mr. Piastro bad the advantage of who inquired what was the cause of Mr. Harry Ore's assistance at the the two bleeding cate tails being piano and the work of this artist alike suspended on the clothes line, and in its restraint and sympathy was was told in reply that two cats had beyond question. been fighting in the room; that it was The audience might well have been found impossible to separate them larger for such a notable scension. It and that they fought to desperately was certainly appreciative, that they had devoured each other up with the exception of their two tails."
-Pall Mall.
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TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quote below was received by the local American Con- sulate General from the Manila Obser- vatory at 1.20 p.m. October 5, 1922. Cyclone or typhoon neror over the northern Ladrone or Mariana Islands moving N.W. or N.N.W.
Cyclous or typhoon N.E. of Luzon direction unknown.
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The sudden drop which thess' statistics record is more than seasonal. It comes at the end of a period when weddings were quite abnormally popular. In 1919 and 1920 there was boom, due mainly to the retura of millions of soldiers to civil life, and helped greatly by the peeudo-pro- sperity of the first post-war years. The boom may be dated from the second quarter of 1919, when 101,000 marriages were recorded, the third quarter the
figured tem mounted up to 100,000, and in t the fourth quarter returned to ther, 101,000. Then, after a compara- | Fri. tive relapse in the opening months of 132. 1920, they rose in the June quarter. of that year to 109,797, and is the September quarter to 109,947. Since then there has been a gradual foll. There were in all-389,411 marriages in
An Ali to Digestion. 1919, and 379,982 in 1920. In 1921 When you hire a follness and weight there was a drop of 50,000, the num-in the stomst after eating you misy bor recorded being 320,786. This know that soulava caten too much, and should take one of Chamberlain's Tablets year is almost certain to see an equal to aid your digestion. For sale by all or greater decrease. It may be said Chemists and strekeepers,
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Incher, tonths and hundredtha
Fahrenheit, on the legal of the sex in
2. TEMPERATURr, in the shade ia de- grees Fahrenheit.
3. HUMIDITY, in percentage of stars tion the humidity of sie saturated with moisture being 100.
4. DIRECTION OF WIND, LO two points. 5. FORCE OF WISD, according to Beadford Scale.
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The Ball is boisted half maat at 55th minute and full mset me the 57th mianto. Should the ball fail to drop at the correct timò it will be lowered-16.5 minutes past the hour and the ordinary routine reposted at the following hour. HL postib'a.
Should the Time Ball be cus of order the above routine will be earrind, and With the dag, en tho Storm Sigor maty~~-
Time Eigoals are also girop at nighi by means of three white lam s mounted. vertically on the Obervatory wireles mask
are
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