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Take such a point as the origin of
MEMORIES OF IRELAND. the alphabet
CHIEF SECRETARY WHO WAS PROOF AGAINST
POTEEN.
"Sir Henry Robinson, you are doomed. Prepare for death?" Des- pite that warning from Sinn Féin and despite the fact that all his private papers were destroyed when his house was looted in August of last year, Sir Henry Robinson, the last Vice-President of the Local Government Board for Ireland, has lived to make out of his "Memories: Wise and Other- caught in the cyclone, according to wise" a delightful book about the certain information received in Ireland he knew in forty years' Colombo this morning. The vessel, 'service under a score, of Chief the Captain of the Datch boat, Secretaries. "Kon der Nedorianden" reported Some of the best of his "other
wise" memories are of the person- to the loal Port authorities on al peculiarities of some of his the vessel's arrival in Colombo chiefs: from Sir Michael Hicks on Saturday from Java. ports, Beach, who was "a most cantanker- was sighted by his vessel in dis-ous and hypercritical person," to
Mr. Edward Shortt, whose powers tress on Friday in position 19 deg. of resistance to raw poteen were Nor deg. E. The "Liebenfels" from a remarkable contrast to those of Calcutta and the "Angers" from Mr. Balfour (as he was then). The Singaport also reported on arrival last, according to local legend, yesterday that they had intercepted once mixed a stiff dose of that SOS. signals from the "Okara" potent spirit, in the belief that it They also reported to the effect was water, with a glass of neat that the cyclone which raged be- whisky which he was taking for a tween Calcutta and Rangoon was cold. of the worst ever experienced by mariners, this side of Shanghai. The Gerowan Liebenfels" just succeeded by a couple of hours in missing the cyclone and he very much doubted, he said, whether any ship in the middle of it would be able to survive it..
the
LITTLE ROOM FOR HOPE.
"Rumour says that for the next two days, after this one dose, he could not leave his bed..
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The Phonicians can no longer be credited with the invention of writing. It is, however, known that they were importing papy from Egypt abont 1100 B.C... The old theory of an Egypta origin [of the alphabet] is agita favoured owing to the remarkable charactor found at the mines worked by the Egyptians in the Sinaitic peninsula (? c. 1000
B.C.).
take the appearence of the horse the East:
The first positive record.is in a Babylonian tablet of about 2100 n.c., where it is described on the "'os from the Fast" or "from the mountains," and was therefom recent acquisition among the ss using folk west of the Zagos
range.
Again, the traditional connection between the Jews and Babylonia (a is confirmed by such a fact as this:
Gorjista, (Nemizee) from ang, Singapore B28,
CHANGSHA SHOOTING-
INCIDENT
CHINA PROTESTS TO JAPAN,
· PERINO; June 5. is understood that the Cabinet today decided that the Chinese Government should protest through the Legation at Tokyo against the shooting of Chinese by Japanese bluejackets at Changsha Reuter.
When the "Binyo Maru” be- longing to the Sino-Japanese Steam, slap Company, entered Changsha, an immense crowd asssibbled at the wharf and demonstrated in a hostile
Pen-manner. The Japanese Consulate, Panama (J. Manners) from Copenhagen, Singapore. Kow Joon Wharf, alten die
Taito Maru,, (NY. K.) from Shanghai, Amoy-C
learning of the accurrence, despatch- ed several of the Consular staff to the wharf at the same time appeal- marines, with a view to maintain ing to the gunboat "Fushimi for
Tana, (Thoresen & Co.) from Consulate and the steamer, as the ing communications between the Gothenberg, Singapore A274 telephone could not be relied upon.
Cheribos Maru, (N. Y. K.) from- Sourabaya, Balikpapan A20,
Unkai-Maru, (Dodwell & Co.) from Chinwa tao B49
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Pt. Cleveland, (Pacific Mail) for San Francisco, Shanghai-June 6.
Haimun, (Po Shun) for, Hai- phong, Heihow.June 6..
Takada, (B.I.S.N.) for Kobe, Amoy-June 6.
Yangiszkiang, (Cheong Fat) for Tourane, June 6,
Mohon (Lung Tuck) for Tourane, Hoihow. June 5.
Gorjistan, (Nemazee) for Amoy; Swatow-June 6.
Manila. June 6
Pt. Jackson, (Ad. Line) for
Soshu Māru, (Q:S,K) for Canton.
Tymeric(Bank Line,)før Shang-. hai.-—-June 6. -
City of Corinth, (Hank Line,) for Keelung, Takao-June 6.
Yeigan Maru, (M.B.K) for Kee- Jung, June 6
The names Abrain and Abraham are found in Babylonia in the First Dynasty [circ. 2100 B.C.|—|—June 6. the latter as a small farmer-ind the wines of Jacob and (possibly) Israel are no less ancient. The wonderful romance of the de- cipherment of the Egyption and Assyrian inscriptions is well told, To-day there are just as great won dere tantalising the historian in the Hittite and Cretan inscriptions and tablets, which cannot as yet be mad. The key to many mysteries will be found when, these two languages are recovered--as they certainly will be one day. For in Crote:
Banka, J. Manners,) for Bangkok. June 6
Martinique, J. Manners,) for Bangkok-June 6.
The Japanese were rounded, and vete, being beaten, kicked and spat nipón. This situation was reported to. the Japanese Consulate, which again appealed to the "Fushimi," which landed a small party. The latter wers aurrounded and stoned. In order to clear a passage, the bluejackets fired a round of blank cartridges, and this evidently led the crowd to believe that the bluejackets were without ammunition, and they attempted to disarm the sailors, who thereupon fired, killing two and wounding five or six. The blue- jackets then returned to the Fushimi, leaving the marines to maintain a line of communications. The latest telegrams indicate that the Chinese hostility is so intense that the Japanese, women and children will probably be obliged to leave Changsha.1
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Representatives of the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish churches have Taito Maru, (N.V.K.) for Canton.joined in a formal statement de June 6
Tana, (Thoresen,) for Monouncing the recent report by Mr. Shanghai-June 6,
E. H. Gary upholding the 12-hour day in the steel indashy as morally indefensible.
Kaying, (B. & S) for Amoy Swatow-June 6.
· LOCAL' AND 'GENERAL.
TYPHOON WARNING..
The elaborate character of the civilisation and the size, and. luxury of the palaces seem to indi- cate that some form of political system must bave already been in
The following telegram was re- practice.
The Society of St. David is Further, the picta- graphic writing together with the holding a lunch picnic on Saturaived from the Manila Observatory use of complicated signete sens day afternoon. Tickets may be by the local-American Consulate- to imply an officialiom of an obtained from Mr. D. Davies, the General, at 2.30 p.m, to-day
hon. Secretary, c/o Sanitary Dept. Cyclone or typhoon East of Oriental type,
Balintang Channel moving North- The Daily Sketch of May I con-
cast.
·
FROOF AGAINST POTEEN. All the more strange, by contrast, was Mr. Short's immunity when, on a trip to Galway with Sir Henry during the war, he encountered the hospitality of the parish priest Grave anxiety is felt regarding After plying his guest with whisky, fate of the British India both before and after lunch, the steamer "Okara," which left Cal-priest produced a bottle of very cutta on May 1, bound for Rangoon, old poteen, which, he said, was a states a Calcutta wire of May 8,
A message dated the sixth from curiosity, and asked the Chief to
taste it. Rangoon, reported that a distress message had been received from a "It was a white fluid, very harm- | With all the excavations, we are position 19 91E about the niiddleless looking, and he poured out a still in ignorance who these Mintane tains an excellent photograph of of the Bay of Bengal. The steamer generous libation of this for of Crete were that dominated the Takada" from Rangoon and three Short, who drink it, without, Mediterranean, perhaps trade to other vessels from Calcutta were think, realising that it was raw the British Isles, and then die sent in search, and found no trace, spirit. I was sorry for him, and I
The "Okara," commanded by was afraid he would be furious appeared in some gigantic to- strophe. For there are signs cf fire Capt. J. C. Smith, carries a crew of with me for letting him in for con and earthquake, the latter probably Len Europeans and seventy Indians. viviality of this kind; but it was accompanying a terrific eruption in Other Europeans are the Chief sympathy wasted for the peculier Them which must have happened Officer, F. G. Potts, the Second and remarkable thing is that all this
about 1600 D.C. j^ Officer, W, O. Williams, the Third whisky had no more effect upon Officer, R. McAlister, the Chief him than if it had been water... Engineer, H. N. Cockburn, the In my car afterwards we got into a Second Engineer. H. H. Latter, the very complicated conversation Third Engineer, R. Chaplin, the about rating, and his bead, speech, Fourth Engineer, W. Dannett, the and mind were as clear as abell." Fifth Engineer, G. Talman, and the Marconi operator, E. Potter.
Relief work under Mr. Gerald Balfour (Arthur Balfour's brother) A severe cyclone has been raging provided Sir Henry with one or two characteristically Irish stories. Onc. in the Bay.
The Burma mail boat "Angor" 'alis of the priest who wrote to Mr. arrived at Calcutta yesterday, and Gerald Balfour stating that his the Senior Officer, beinginterview parishioners
were
Bubsisting
ed, said: We received an S.O.S. entirely without food." call from the "Okara" at 6.25 p.m. on Sir Henry went to investigate Saturday, and proceeded to the this phenomenon, and asked the vicinity indicated at full speed, ar priest, if his parishioners were riving about to o'clock the same Ilving entirely without food, what -night, bụt although we cruised was keeping them alive.
around the region all night and fired rockets, we could see no sign the memory of what yourself and Nothing," said the priest, but of her. About five o'clock the next Mr. Balfour are going to do for morning, other vessels which had them. picked up the distress message
them going?" I asked.
And how long will that keep
came up and we steained on, being satisfied that the "Okara" was not in that neighbourhood. Since then, "Not one day after Christmas,"
GRAND DUCHESS'S ·
JEWELS:
APPEAL AGAINST £10,000 VERDICT:
L. E. Haynes, who was recently convicted in the conspiracy case, "THE FORTY THIEVES." also one of E. A. Enever, who was sentenced with Haynes, Enever, it appear, is a Eurasian born in India, a fact of which Reuter made no mention when cabling the de tails of the case.
AMAZING SMUGGLING
SCANDAL
London, May 4 The Bonn (Rhenish Prussia) A fat volume full of statistics, correspondent of the London maps and photographs, the annual Daily Chronicle saya---A remark- report for 1922 of the minister for able smuggling scandal has been Mines In British Columbia. has discovered in the village of reached this office. It gives a Hennef, about five miles east of comprehensive survey of the min- Bonn, and an important, frontier ing operations by which over control post. It seems that hundreds $35,000,000 worth of minerals were of mailway trains which carried produced in the province during thousands of tons of merchandise the year.
have been smuggled from Hennef tounoccupied portions of Germany, and that forty French soldiers were bribed to such an extent that
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. -
A Home paper learns that an appeal has been entered against. the verdict, and judgment in the trial before Mr. Justice Darling and Among persons of note passing they are now multi-millionaires in special jury, when the Gand through Shanghai is Mrs. Helen marks. They fixéd a regular charge Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Fitzgerald, the well-known author for smuggling trains through, and Russia, sister of late Tsar, and nece and lecturer, who has made an ex- German exporters were not slow of Queen Alexandra, was awarded tended tour of Europe and is now to take advantage of the opport
is now appealing, was Mr. Albert £10,000 damages
making her acquaintance with unity. Each train was composed The defendant to the action, who China and the Chinese..
chiefly of fifty or sixty trucks laden to their full capacity, and the trains Frederick Calcert, traveller and Command Orders, state that were sent through at night, when author, of Royston, Eton-avesué, Captain V. Da, state that one of the forty thieves was on Hampstead.
Bombay Grenadiers (K.E.O.), hav-duty to collect so-called export Sir Ellis Hume Williams told a ing embarked on the "Nyanza" for dues.
The Customs officer is here, remarkable story of how the mem-the United Kingdom, on 30th May patting his pocket.
monsieur," said the French soldier, we have heard nothing - from ho assured me.
bers of the Russian Royal Family 1923, struck off the strength of
It is believed that the forty her. We left Rangoon about 12.30 It was another priest, in Galway,scaped the terrors of the Revolut-the Command. p.m. on Thursday last, and on Fri-who tried to get relief out of the ion, and had very little to sustainab
thieves" earned about 100,000,000 day moming ran into a cyclone. It Government by telegraphing
thom, except such family jewels as There is an erroneous report in marks per train and that more than was a severe one, and by 8p.m. the "Send relief or coffins! they were able to take away the Chinese press that Mrs. Sun 100 trains passed through the gap. vessel was tabouring heavily, des- pite the fact that the Angora" rides WHO STOLE THE CROWN JEWELS? a rough sta vory well indeed. We When the Crown Jewels were then altered our course, in order to stolen in Dublin the King Slr combat the storm, and also had to Henry recalls, had little patience graphic invention, and that Mr reduce speed. Naturally, some of with the many people who put Calvert had the money A con- the passingers were slammed. We forward various wild theories to spiracy between him and a Maurice had 94290 board altogether, but we account for their disappearance, Stembach was alleged, alternatives were well prepared and despite and remarked to one theoriset, fly fraudulent misrepresentatio terrific wind suffered to damage to don't want theories, I want my the ship. The storm lasted until we owels
reached the mouth of the river.
The passengers were alarmed. Probably the King did not bear
The Grand Duchess stated the Yat-sen has left for Hongkong, with about forty thousand tons of was persuaded to part with her says the Canton Daily News She manufactured woods. But a Ger- jewels, which were pawned, on the has no intention th leaving man revealed the scheme, and promise of big profits from a photo- Canton, Mrs. Sun visited Dr. Sunile French surprise party
Yat-sen at Sheklung yesterday, arrived in Hennef on Wedn returning to town in the evening,
by Sternbach as agent of Calvert.
•MOVEMENT OF 'STIMERS.
Staabach was sentenced to ini- | Liverpool ni Juur prisonment, followed by deporta tion to the United States va con pool
"I never saw anything like it the most ingenious explanation of viction of an offence not connetied and Hanko was the comment of one of the all which was given to a friend of with the pearls f
passengers. The wind was so Whisper, now Sure, it, dental of liability. It is fierce that to go up on deck was madness, while the vessel plunged was the Kings himself who took that the appeal will be hea and, tossed amid the waves, that them. He was afther having greate
Sir Henry by a Dublin jarvey. Mi Calvert's defence.
rose like mountain peaks every card-playin' with the Duke of where Down in the cabins, we Devonshire and he dhropped could hear the steady hiss of wind power of money, so he sent round and water raking the depkabov Dawhile avery now and again"
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Their ill-gotten wealth boat fiscated and they
prison in Bong, tere they tried - by," Court-r serious. chargen v
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