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THE CHINA MAIL.
1
MONDAY JULY 14 1924
the
OUR MIDDLE CLASS.
that occupation is an economic A Strange Belief.
A youth THE WRONG SIDE. "began his one?. On the answer given to Superstition among the un-
career in a these questions the success of the educated classes of the Chinese local pit, and one of his first jobs Politically, it cannot but be London conferente hangs. has resulted in some, strange was to drive a pit pony. He got noticed that, for good or for ill, the beliefs. Among these is one that along very well until he came old middle-class audience no longer THE FLYING SCOTSMAN," is specially interesting at this time to a place where the roof was exists in its integrity. The crowds made have barely covered the cost
of the year because it concerns much too low to permit the that flocked to hear Cobden and of maintaining the armies of Those of our readers who search that terror of the China Sea-the pony to pass.
Consequently, Bright, that abhorred slavery, occupation, while the retaliatory eagerly for the intest Olympiad typhoon. Chinese often draw he took a pick and started that cheered Kossuth, that hated measures taken by France, includ-reaults must have felt a glow of attention to the fact that there to hack away at the roof. Athe income tax, are now watered ing the economic and military pride and satisfaction when they are occasions when native small foreman came quickly on down by a huge population who'
scene and asked what he was doing. occupation of the Ruhr, the richest Eric Liddell the
read in our Saturday issue that craft remain in the harbour even The lad, explained that he was do not know, and do not want to
Edinburgh after the "black" signal has been industrial province of Germany, University student, had won the hoisted and at other times scurry making a way for the pony to know, what the income, tux is, but have only served to intensify the 400 metre race in the phenomenal to shelter fully twenty-four hours thing to do," said the foreman. Government law going to do. for That's a very dangerous who want to know what the economic chaos in Europe. From time of 47.5/5 seconds. We say before the "red" signal has gone. You might have had the whole them in the matter of shorter all sides M. Poincare was urged phenomenal, because, only the day up.
To the boat population is roof down. What you should do hours, better wages, and constant before, Reuter informed us that credited the instinct of being able is to cut away the floor." 'D'ye employment. Will the rabble, we to agree to An international Imbach of Switzerland won his to discern by clouds over a Lantao think I am a fool?" retorted the wonder, prove as teachable as the inquiry by experts as to Ger- heat in, the record time of 48 height, whether a storm is coming jad "It's the pony's head that won't middle-class? many's capacity to pay. But to seconds. In a later heat Fitch or not. The greater majority of go through."" thest appeals he remained the American crack did even boat-men do not understand the adamant. The pressure was con- better, returning 47 4/5 sees. for typhoon signale in detail; they tinued, however, and in the end the distance; but this new world's only know that the signals indicate Current Comment.
record had as short a life as possible trouble. As a
metres was broken three times.
to bestow on the big-hearted Such a man is Eric athlete.. Liddell, the Shanghai Scot, whom we now congratulate.
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tent to be told their faults as meekly? Will they buy the photo- graph of their physician, or heave half a brick at him? It remains to be seen. In the meantime, it would be a mistake to assume that the middle-cinas counts for nothing even at an election.
-Augustine Birrell.
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M. Poincare acquiesced in the Imbach's one, for, in the final, quence they are reputed to look (The Cat for Armad Robbers.) appointment of two international"The Flying Scotsman" clipped off on the warnings as a check on Urging the need for drastic mea committees under the seal of the another fifth of a second. Thus their own observations. Regard-sure against the armed robber, the Reparations Commission, one of in two days the record for the 400 ing the memorable 1906 catas- NC. Daily News, says-Corporal trophe, it is notaworthy to record punishment has never been in- which was to address itself to the Last year at the A.A.A. meet the claim that the boat population voked against crimes of violence without immediate effect. It broke task of devising means of balancing, when Liddell surprised Lon-hhd sensed danger the day before
up the famous Liverpool roughs ing the German budget and of doners by winning the 100 yards but as no signal was put up till thirty years ago. When imposed, stabilising the German currency, in record time (9 7/10 secs.) and the morning of the typhoon, they by special "Act in, England, for while the other was charged with by winning the 220 yards from concluded they were wrong and white slavers and men convicted such fliers as Abraham, Nichol, the Observatory right. There are of living on the earnings of un- ascertaining the amount of Ger- and Matthewman, English-sports- still boat-people who to-day believe fortunate women, there followed man capital which had been trans- men realised that Willie Apple that the present Director's pre-a helter-skelter rush of these brutes ferred abroad. General Dawes, an garth's successor had arrived.decessor was removed from office out of the country. And in Hong- But something greater was to because the warning was not kong it has been found necessary to American financier, presided over fallow. A few weeks inter at the given sooner!
abandon the practice of giving a the first and more important of triangular contest - England,
man, sentenced to imprisonment and the "cat." half the num. these committees, while of the Scotland, and Ireland-at Stoke
ber of strokes at the begin- second Mr. McKenna, former Liddell was the hero of one of the
ning and half at the end of The Rome cor his term, because the suspended British Chancellor of the Exche-most dramatic and thrilling races in the history of foot racing. It
respondent of punishment preyed on his mind. quer, was the Chairman, The was the 440 yards. In rounding
the Christian The obstacle to the reintroduction Dawes Committee's recommenda- the first bend Liddell was bustled
Science Monitor of the "cat" at the Mixed Court is flons are far reaching and, if off the track and out of his step reports that Signor Zarlatti has that, under the laws of the Republic adopted in their main features, on to the grass. He got on to the submitted to the High Commis of China, corporal punishment We will may easily prove the first definite track again but hesitated as he sioner for Railways an invention has been abolished.
saw the other runners away ahead for the utilisation of hot compress not raise the question whether step to a sound policy of European dashing towards the winning post, ed air and steam by means of an that law is not more honoured general meeting of The China reconstruction. At present a large Pursuit seemed utterly hopeless, internal combustion motor of the in the breach than the
vance. There it is, at any area of German territory is under for the 440 yards race is practi- Diesel type fed with heavy oil. the economic control of France, cally a sprint the whole way, and A successful trial of the now rate, and the Settlement obviously Registered Office of the Company,
combination was made over cannot inflict penalties which the a distance of 23 miles, under law of the country bans as bar The Dawes Committee "proposes against crack athletes such as
were running that day inches are the observation of experts. barous. But cannor that law be that this control must cease. Its important. However, with glor!- Smoke, soot, and ashes are entirely modified fer special cases? In cessation is indeed the first condi-ous, nay almost Quixotic, resolu- eliminated and cleanliness is one England there is in many p.m. tion of the scheme. But the tion, Liddell clenched his hands of the many advantages of the circles the strongest dislike for October 3-Second meeting of evacuation of France from Ger.and his jaws, and "set off on the invention. According to leading corporal punishment, on general the China Sugar Refining Co.,
seemingly forlorn hope. Picture Italian engineers the new system many's economic realm does not him with head back and agonised would mean a saving to the Italian principles: but when a few years Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Fedder Street,
enable magistrates to flog white mean that Germany is to be left face as he creeps up inch by inch. State railways of 500,000,000 lire ago the Act mentioned above, to noon.
The cost of trans-slavers, was being debated in Par The China Sugar Refining Co. October 20.-Third meeting of to work out her own salvation. foot by foot, yard by yard. per annum. International control is to take the Spectators are thrilled as they formation would be much more liament, there was no opposition Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, watch the tremendous effort. At economical than that of electric worth mentioning. It was generally place of French control, but 456 yards he reaches the foremost transformation because the exist felt that exceptional villainy called
be ing railway material could primarily in the interests of the man, passes him, breaks the tape, used. We believe that electric assuredly it might be felt in
for exceptional penalties.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. German nation. The inducement and collapses. Staid old veterans driven railways can negotiate respect of armed robbers, and the to France to fall in with the com- and blase followers of pedes-much steeper grades than any
The total output of the K.M.A. mittee's plans is the substitution trianism shouted and screamed other known power, but on low Chinese Government and Parlia
like schoolboys while experienced grades the new invention would ment would be rendering an immines, for the week ending June mense service if they would pass a 28 was 90,267 tons. The sales of other guarantees not less sports reporters searched their have an advantage..
law authorizing the " cat" for during the period were.. 87,849 tangible and more effective than dictionaries for laudatory epithets
them and extending its appli- tons. If the policy for
to cation those she is called upon to forego.
the Mixed Court, THE RIGHT American ship. At the present time no Chinese The bodies have been recover- The scheme contemplates the
ping co-opera- is safe from the armed robbered of two Chinese youths who institution of a new bank of issue,
tion rather than who practises his trade with equal were drowned whilst bathing in at the capital of which is to be raised For the statistician we may add competition with foreign steam effrontery in broad daylight and quarry hole at the back of Kok Un by an international loan and the that 400 metres is about 437 ship lines-proposed recently in under cover of darkness.
The Kok village. management of which is to be yards, which makes Liddell's time Boston, Mass., by Admiral Leigh police, foreign, Sikh and Chinese, for the 1/4 mile inside 48 seconds. C. Paimer, president of the United are doing heroit work and their largely vested in an international The official British record for the followed in both spirit and letter, they were twice as numerous as River, will give an account of her
States
Mrs. H. L. Clift of Emmanuel Fleet Corporation) 15 bravery is above praise. But if Medical Mission, Nanning, West board. This bank is to have a mile is the late Lieutenant another corner stone, it will they are, they would still be work at the Helena May Institule monopoly of the right to issue Hallswelle's 48 1/5 seconds. be found, has been laid powerless, while the armed robber on Friday 18th inst., at 10.30 a.m.
in the temple. of notes against a gold reserve and
interna-is threatened only with death for All are welcome. A dut. tional peace. Although it may which he cares little or imprison. to be the fiscal agent only of the
be acknowledged that certain ment for which he cares. less. ||__ || German Government. The rail-
difficulties appear to present we would ask the Diplomatic
In attempting to avoid a bank ways of the country are to pass
To-day French citizens celebrate forwarding of this ideal, few will subject to the Government; but yesterday morning, the driver of a themselves in the pathway of the Body to address a note on this of earth near the Yeung Woo into the hands of trustees of the the anniversary of the fall of the be found to deny that the thought specially we urge the Chinese
Nursing Home, Happy Valley,
Reparations Commission and their Bastille, which took place on July underlying it is basically sound.
car swerved into a ditch and surplus revenue to be applied to 14, 1789. The literary influences Some day the whole world will Chamber of Commerce and other knocked down R Chinese boy who representative Chinese organiza was collecting firewood. The boy the liquidation of Germany's debts which had worked to bring about awaken to realize that, whereas tions to petition Peking, for it was taken to the Nursing Home Gerather the Revolution were many. The selfishness 6. fets harmony and is their countrymen whom the and a severe cut in the head and persecutes. other injuries were attended to security the German Government reign of Louis XV. had but friendliness begets harmony and armed robben
emphasized the mistakes of the peace. Then the dawn of the The infliction of the cat" after which he was taken to the is called upon to transfer deben policy -of Louis XIV.; the millennium will be at hand. might be surrounded with all Government Civil Hospital. tures of the value of 5,000,000 gold privileges which still remained to
conditions required by national These scient: amour propre a Chinese mag- marks and bearing interest of 5 the nobility had brought about an
A "MOUTHFUL" ists are inistrate
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. would pronounce the per cent, to the Reparations Com- intense personal feeling between
corrigible sentence; a Chinese constable the classes; and the French inter- mission, which in turn will entrust vention in the American war of are going to have an epidemic doctor be
etymological.conservatives. They
Among the passengers who left carry it out; and a Chinose by the A.OL. 5.5. President". their administration to trustees on independence had led to the pro- laboratory at Singapore, but they process. Meanwhile the efforts of Mrs. F. C. Todd, Mrs. E. Danen- present during the Madison" to-day, were Mr. and behalf of the Allies. An inter-pagation of republican and revolu: call it an epidemiological bureau. representatives of foreign Powersberg. Mr. A. Basto and the
To all these Epidemiological!
might suitably be concentrated on Portuguese aviators. control the Customs duties on of Montesquieu, the
sentences for getting heavier encyclo.
Mr. Thomas smugglers of arms. With two alcohol, tobacco," beef and sugar, pedistes, Voltaire and Pousseau. LATEST WILLS. Murphy, of such reforms, public order would presumably in order that indirect French public opinion had thus
Chesterfield, be vastly more secure than it has taxation shall not in Germany fall been concentrated on the feudal Derbyshire, and of the Woodleigh latterly become. ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. below the Indirect taxation in the abuses extant and, most important Tower Hotel, Bournemouth, reiired of all, the "Contrat Social" of clothier and draper. left £10,000 to allied countries. Without excep Rousseau had been widely read the Chesterfield Royal Hospital. To-day's Poem." According to this morning's tion all the Powers concerned have and had aroused much interest, £103.576.
(How A Little Girl Sang.) The Hon. Dame Katherine cables the Senate has expressed approved the experts' reports but The States-General met.on May 6, ita confidence in M. Herriot by it now remains to be seen what 1789. The Third Estate immedi Frances Gosselin, of 13, Ovington- Ah, she was music in herself,
ately demanded that the Assembly square, S.W., widow of Sir Martin A symphony of joyousness. 239 votes to 17. This overwhelm-attitude they will adopt towards should meat together and not in Portugal, and second daughter of
Gosselin, formerly Minister She sang, she sang from finger O'NEILL-LANE.--On July 7,
tipa, ing majority augure well for the the recommendations when, the its three ordere. In June, the the first Lord Gerard of, Brys, From every tremble of her dress. 1924, at Shanghai, to Mary London conference, as hitherto the London conference opens. Ger- malcontents adopted the title of £41,312,
I saw sweet haunting harmony, and Timothy O'Nelli-Lane, a
and Mr. Morris Richardson, of Hur. 'son."
French Premier's uncertain posi-many, if they are adopted, will be the National Assembly, HOGSTED JESPERSEN. — Ontion has caused some anxiety, the under
opposed by the nobles and ordered ley, near Marlow, Bucks, formerly An ecstasy, un ecstasy, an obligation to pay
by the King to dissolve; they of Messrs. Richard and Small, In that strange curling of her lips, July 8, 1924, at Shanghai, to opinion being held that the annually, by way of reparations refused, but banded themselves solicitors,
Burton-on-Trent, That happy curling of her lips
And quivering with melody Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hogated negotiations could not achieve sumns rising from 1,000,000,000 together to make a new constitu- £40,506. Jespersen, a
son.
complete success unless cach gold marks next year to tion for France. Events moved Mr. Lewis Alfred Tones Mar. Those eyes I saw, that, tossing
with startling rapidity. The King Retts, of 370, Old-street, E.C., delegate received a full' mandate 2,500,000,000 gold marks
unnerved by the tendency of solicitors, £141502.
Sir Nathaniel Joseph Highmore..) And so I saw what music was, ' from his country. Consequently 1927-28, and France will have to events, concentrated his troops CROCKER GOULD-On June it seeras that at long last a united loose her economic grip on Ger-round Paris. Mirabeau demanded of Harbybrows, Worcester Park Tho still accursed with ears of editorial staff, Daily Express, has
Surrey, late solicitor to HM. 5 at All Souls. Langham-effort can be made to settle the man industries. Will Germany King refused and dismissed wards secretary to the War Trade the disbandment of the troops; the Customs and Excise, and after- place, John, son of Mrs. M. Ereparations question in a business-consent to these payments in the Minister Necker. The National Department, £13.381. Crocker, of Newquay, to Helen Constance, daughter of like way. The politicians and absence of any reduction of the Guard was formed by the people, Mr. Henry Morgan Veitch, of Mrs A Gould Little diplomatists have been struggling tot sum of £6,600,000,000 the and the Bastille stormed and Norfolk House, Norfolk-street, Common, Sussex with the problem ever since the amount of her, present indebted people have seldom had cause to a known member of the taken. Since then the French Strand WC, solicitor, formerly Ano Versailles Treaty was signed and
ness as fixed by the Allies in 1921 regret July 14, 1789, and in Corininians Football Club £1,604 have only sticceeded in making ADOTZ
and, suppposing har consent given, Lobserving the 185th anniversary Mr. John Palmer Johnson, of SASSOON-Ronald Edward) confusion worse.confounded. The
will fance agree way cunto Keto-day, they can look back with Weston, near Newark, Notts David, on 11th inst., in great which three years ago and the theso far as ride on past achievements and miller, corn, factor, and farmer Bagdad. (By Cable)the totalism, 26,600,000,000, was
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to the Allies.
Fall of the Bastille.
The China Mail, national Commission will alas tionary ideas.
influences were added the writings
BONGKONG, MONDAY, July 14, 1924.
in
head.
Iend.
Vachel Lindsay.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
JULY 14.
We took coach and, to take the ayre, there being a the breeze abroad.
Герул.
Sir Robert Ho Tung will be the guest of the members of the Over- seas League at a luncheon on June 13 at the Criterion Res- taurants
Mr. C. F. Young, inspector of shipwrights at Portsmouth, is com-. ing to Hongkong as acting fore man of the Yard.
Formerly president of Singa* Dore Municipal Council, Mr. W. Evans has been elected to Croydon Council (
Lleut. C. D'Acaistrong, the well- known marathong runner who achieved not a little success here, was among the passengers who left on Saturday by the "Karmala,”
beeb
Mr. Roswell, S. Britton of the
Peking appointed by University to organise and direct a Department of Journalism which will be opened this autumn. The Department is to be equipped andạ endowed at a cost of approximately £100,000 Dr J. Leighton Stuart →→ proxident of the University, recently in London, points out there are now more than 1,000 native newspapare în China, and has caused an exceptional deinand for journalistic instruction, det