WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER ( 1924.
SHANGHAI ARSENAL,
CHINESE CHAMBER ADVISE REMOVAL.
HEPORT ON ACTIVITIES.
ita
COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
MANCHESTER MARKET.
Messrs James F. Hutton and Co., of Manchester, under date of September 18, write :
In
the
PREMIER'S SHARES,
PERSONAL GIFT FROM
"OLD-FRIEND
HIENAL MAIL.
EGYPTIAN · ROMANCE:
PRINCE'S 22 YEARS IN ¡ASYLUM.
Londen, September 20-I an 22 years & Prince of the reigning London, August, 31.-For over Interview at Lossiertouth on
INK-SPLASHER'S CAREER.
BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO.
London, September 16:-That September 12, Mr. Ramsay Mac house of Egypt has languished in Arthur de Courcey Bower, 68, who Donald gave a personal explana on English lanatic saylum. For was charged with throwing ink ton of the allotment to him on the whole of that time his mother, over a woman's dress in the West
an aged woman living in March 12, of 30,000 E1 shares Innow McVitie and Price, of which Sir Constantinople, has fought for her End, once broke the bank at Monts Alexander Grant, who was created son's liberty, but has fought in Carlo, was revealed when he was a baronet in June, is the managing vain,
brought up on remand at Bow is director and the controlling share The Prince fabulously
wealthy, or would be if he had his street yesterday. He was also holder.
The bare facts regarding the freedom. His estates bring in the charged, with Walter Watt, 60, a allotment were published on enormona revenue of more than street vendor, with being drunk September 11..
£160,000 a year, but for 26 years and disorderly. Detective Sergeant The shares, the Premier stated, he has been unable to enjoy the Pearce said Bower had a remark represented the endowment of a fruits of his high station, for four Daimler motor-car with which Sir of those-years were spent in an abla record. At one time a Alexander presented him, and at Egyptian prison and the remaining wealthy man, he became a great his (the Premier's) death they 33 in hinatie saylum close to gambler and lost all his money, would revert to the Grane family. London.
and then took to drink. He served "I am sick at heart to have to
OLD FRIENDSHIP.
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sentence of imprisonment 20 years ago for a bankruptcy offence: Watt was a prominent actor a {few years ago, but owing to drink he had fallen on evil times and now sold matches in the streets,
NOTORIOUS GAMBLER. · aid it was true that he was
Mr. Philip Conway, for Bower,
the bank at Monte Carlo by win- notorious gambler. He once broke ning more than £200,000. He had
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The Chinese tieneral Chamber
Private American crop estimates of Commerce at Shanghai has
have not been so optimistic, owing issued a nemorandum activities during the war, partito reports of much damage by cularly its efforts to avert disorders heavy rains, and the markets have by keeping down the price of rice, been nervous, and prices irregular, eating for the refugees and provid. ing for the defeated soldiers. It although generally higher. Trade now suggests that the Arsenal be demand for forward deliveries) as removed elsewhere and that the been good, both here and in position of Defence Commissioner, America. The Bureau figures which is over a sourer of conten-
for the crop as on the 16th inst., tion, be abolished,
have just been published and these have more than borne out the fears Shanghai, October 23. that the crop had deteriorated re The sudden departure of a cently. The condition figure is Yung-baing and Ho Feng-liu very much reduced at 55.4 and the leaving behind them several tens yield estimate is even smaller
The Prince in question is His of thousands of troops in the im- than those received from private talk of this," said Mr. MacDonald, Highness Prince Ahmed Seifeddin,
diate neighborhood of this city sources. It is given as 17,596,000
'but I must protect my dear old one-time brother-in-law of King to he fed and cared for, has thrown bales against the previous forecast friend in the enjoyment of the Fuad of Egypt.. Shanghainty York pan of 12,787,000 bales: Naturally the honour which the King-so-worthily In 1808-Aired shot at and
Nitution. Fortunately) curious
markets have been taken by sur. bestowed upon him and with wounded the King, then Prince being prise here, people
and excited Conditions which this act of personal kindness Fund, and at the trial before the to myself, had as much to do as Egyptian Courts was sentenced to alive fu the gravity of the
with heavy buying caused an siteation, have exerted themselves advance of 40 points at Liverpool the man in the moon.”
a term of penal servitude. When with indefatigable zeal and the as soon as the report was known.
he had served his sentence he was returned soldiers hav
The allotment of the shares, the brought to England, and being proved
Further fluctuations in values are menable to reason, thus averting therefore likely in the near future. Premier explained. really re.declared a lunatic, was placed in what might have been a catastrophic The above figures once again shew presented an incident in a very an asylum, where he still remains: of unprecedented magnitude. best the absolute uncertainty that old friendship. The two men despite his mother's frequent and we should forget the principal prevalis until the cotton is actually were born close together in the inalatent demands for his release. asts of the crisis which bas harvested. It is hardly that any poorest of circumstances, one in
LIFE-LONG PENANCE," practically come to an end, it improvement can take place so Forres and the other in Lossles! Egypt, the land of ancient, himself put it, stooped to stich a might not be inadvisable to sum late in the season and further de mouth, and Sir Alexander's father fabled and mysterious romance, low, cowardly, and miserable act nurise here several significant terioration, is of course still and the Premier's uncle were both produces yet another enthralling
deliberately #8 ide of the recent Kiangsu possible.
Manchester guards on the Highland Rallway. story, in which there is some woman's dress in this way. The to damage a. Chikiang gonfiel of 40 days' dura market the enquiry for yarn and. When Mr. MacDonald became thing of romance, but much of dropping of the ink bottle was tion before dealing with the pro- cloth has been fairly large Prime Minister Sir Alexander tragedy. Twenty-six years ago, in quite accidental, and he was pre- Tiles of vital reforms totheek any but buyers still shew much declared that his contribution to the year 1808, when the United pared to pay for the damage, father menace of warfare in this hesitation and actual business the Premier's comforts would be a States was at war with Spain, and
The magistrate, Mr. Leycester, pars of Cisina which controls in has been patchy. The rapid rise Daimler motor-car.
"I explained,” said the Premier the eyes of the world were con- said he had no doubt that Bower comercial in cotton will no doubt further reppet the
check trading for the time being, that I would have been content, cident occurred in Egypt which though he did not suppose he the conflict, an-in-1 purposely threw the bottle of ink, as spinners have mediately with hiring one, as when I left advanced quotations. There is, office I would probably be a poorer resulted in one of the world's would have done it if he had been wealthiest men being incarcerated sober. He fined both men 10s. for a fairly large man than I had been.- however, stil!
all the years since in an English for the inksthrowing and ordered Sir Alexander.
Prince Fuad, him to pay £3. 108., the amount Sell I was unwilling," added lunatic asylum.
"I did not fancy-now, thanks to the British Govern--to the damage. that the inprovement in the basis the Premier.
WORTH £1,500,000. of cloth prices is serious and is myself as the owner of a motor. nient, King of Egypt, was then
Captain Arthur. William Frede It car. It was against the simplicity married to a sister of His Highness" not to be given away easily,
Prince Ahmed Seifeddin, who rick de Courcy Bower broke the may be said here that the effort to of my habits. In the end I agreed
comes of an historic line. He is bank at Monte Carlo in 1911, sald maintain these values is more deter with this arrangement: nined than it has been previously "A sum of money was to be descended from Ibrahim Paahu, a friend last night.
"During the last 20 years and the method of it looks more invested in my name, and the second son of Mehemet Ali, who,
won many The hold-up of rice supplies for alike achieving success. Weakness income I am to enjoy during my in the spacious/days of Nelson, Captain Bower has
great fortunes," he said. “At one time thickly populated commercial city here is consequently not to be ex lifetime, so long as I keep a car, Abercrombie. and the
Yarn prices and at death it is to. Napoleon, by intrigue and battle I should Say he was worth Mention of £1,500,000, but owing to his great like Shanghai means starvation to pected at present, the less fortanate of its inhabitants, are advanced about 1⁄2d per lb. revert to Sir Alexander Grant or conquered Egypt.
There has been a miscellaneous his heirs."
those days brings to mind the story generosity he got rid of large and this leads to possibilities of enquiry from India, but little Sir Alexander Grant said in an of Nelson's glorious victory of ilie sums of money,,
Nile commemorated by one, of "I have known him start off for breach of peace. Fortunately the anthorities lent their support to the enterprise in buying. For China interview.
there has been some enquiry. For "Mr. Ramsay. MacDonald is a the lines of braid on bur. blue. an evening with £1,000 in his applications made for special flags Java, the Straits and Egypt very old friend of mine. I have jackets collars, and of the day pocket and to have not a shilling allowing rice hoals to come to
business has been moderate, felt for him always the affection of when the old 28th Foot, the left on the next morning. He was Shanghai unmolested. In on Home and Continental demand a brother. He is a fine type of Gloucester regiment, earned ita educated at Eton junction with the City Chamber of has been very limited.
man, God-fearing, straight, and nickname of "Pacing both ways""Just after seeing a newspaper Cohmerce n fund was raisedī
without any humbug...
"and the right to wear the regimen poster in London announcing that ensure reasonable prices being
"He stayed with me in Edin tal badge back and front of their an Englishman had broken the charged with the result that the
burgh shortly after he became headgear. At a critical moment in bank at Monte Carlo I received a price for rice of the best quality was Testricted to $15 per picul, and the
Prime Minister, and I noticed he the battle the Gloucesters fought telegram from Captain Bower ask was looking 1.
back to back, and turned the tide.. Ing me to join him at once. I went But to return to 1808. Something to Monte Carlo the same day and which his sister told him incensed Captain Bower showed me a lot of i money he had won hidden in a Prince Ahmed Seifeddin, and in a violent rage he seized a revolver large sponge bag in a toilet bowl. "He had won about £80,000 in And
one evening and broke the bank more than once. He had a run of he backed to the maximum-Ithink about nineteen on the red, which
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price for rice of the spend quality was restricted to $10 per picul. Special cheap-rico sales depots were created handle the supplies. In this way the rice crisis was tied
over.
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FINDS FOR DISBANDMENT.
district, permitting the resumption
of business as usual.
ABOLITION OF DEFENCE
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my.
"I felt that he was taking too much out of himself, and this was confirmed when I heard that he was travelling about by the Under ground Rallway.
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was
financial deals during his life.
"He has also had some big
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SKIRT PROBLEM.
FROCKS SHORT, BUT NOT ABOVE KNEE.
A woman correspondent writes in London paper an follows The skirt problem has reached
"No trains for the evening, though. Perhaps here and there you see one on a particularly splen did evening gown, but dresses are Bo simple that trains cannot be added with advantage."
the
"Thirty centimetres off ground" would seem effectually to dispose of anything like kase- length frocks!
VARYING THE FIGURE..."
M. Lelong revealed other dress.
It is stated that some Paris models be described as thigh waiste, ilins bave interpreted this instruction trating afresh the ease with which as sanctioning skirts that finish women can vary their figure,
No pleating this season," he their career above the knee. But maid. "A few gathers, perhaps i while some people may wear above godet or two. People who want a | knee-length skirts in
slight fullness in dress will have to they are hardly likely to be
get it by one or other of these two seen in London except, per-
devices. hape, on the stage..
Paries
In view of the above references in the nature of a brief account of the narrow escape which Shanghai has had from being involved in the recent conflict, it is obvious that
"I remonstrated with him about
BROT AT PRINCE FUAD. prudence calls for certain vital re- the way he was using himself. The latter was wounded, but, The war having caused an exmine forme conducive to the prevention urging that it was not fair, and I happily, not fatality, and Prince The war the railway lines of further prospects of war in this offered to give him a motor-car. Ahmed was arrested and charged; it was then £480-each time. He the scute stage once more..
It is in this light Sir Alexander added that the with attempted murder. ching and Sunghiang, popas that the following proposals are figure of 30,000 shares was arrived Egyptian court tried Ahmed, to while I was there, and, to the best that skirts must be shorterad
as Salony, Haugehow. part of Chitt
|| never played at the rooms again Fashion, it is said, has decreed Shanghas was suddenly offered for the consideration of the at after considering what the was convicted and sentenced to of my knowledge, he has never provokingly leaves it at that. secrets. He spoke of what might increased to the extent of nu ad- public so that all our fellow would be necessary to clear the
term of seven years' penal servi- played since. The countrymen working through their car of all expenses, Including tade, a sentence which ditional total of over 5,000), onestion of affording food and lodg-organizations will combine efforts to income tax and super tax. The reduced a few months later to our is to these Anr-steseken roftrees achieve the aim in view lest the 30,000 Preference shares would of four years. He also had to pay claimed immediats attention. This task of maintaining the prosperity give Mr. MacDonald no influence the expenses of Prince Fund'a led to the formation of the Stang of this city shall in the future be in the business of the Brm.
McVitie and Price. Limited, is prince Ahmed went to an Egyptian ness, which amounted to £1,800. Ini Peas Maintenance Association again jeopardised.
the well-known Scottish biscuit prison and expiated his offence, representing the elective efforts.
manufacturing business. It is a
but when the time enme for his private," company, offering no release he was, brought over to This post has been and will shares or debentures to the public England, and, being
Lamé for the evening, Euska declared
NO TRAINS FOR EVENING."
for sport, Reorgette and chiffon always remain a bone of conten- and its financial results and insane, was placed, in a lunatic
Mr. Laien Liélong, the well-
trimmed with fur for after.com The uden fight of Lu Yung-tion. This Chamber and other accounts
asylum. Thro ho. has remained
known Parisan stage dress de- sing and Ho Feng-in left the organizations have already appealed published.
ever since. Prince Fuad divorced
signer, who is visiting London in gowns." Thus briefly he summed the materials for the rew military situation in Chape and to the higher authorities to abolish
Ahmed's sister, and she dia-
connection with the gowns he is Benson. Kanted in a dangerous conlition force for all the post of Defence
Some discussion as to annual appears from the story. But there
designing for "Charlot's Bevue,"
Many sequins will be need on the froom that returned from the Commissioner of Sungkiang and running costs has arisen from the is an aged woman living in Con
PERTH, October 28. discussed the matter.
evening gowns, but madame will be fighting zone were unprovided for. Singhai so that there shall be no transfer of the shares to the Prime stantinople, Ahmed's mother, who The MC,C. won by an innings **Truly alċirts will be shorter," he more or less soberly, attired in Knowing the peril of facing unrension for the stationing of large Minister.
longs for the return of her son, and 120, West Australia in the said, "very short thirty centi- shades of brown and beige by day of soldiers with empty bodies of troops in Shanghai, there
An official of Daimler Hire, Lid, Time and again she has applied to Recond innings acering sixty nine, metres (about 113 inches) or ac discard belts altogether for sporía diminishing its stomachs, special funds were im-by
of Knightsbridge, S. W., who have the British Government for his Tate taking three wickets for 10 above the ground, but longer in the purposes, and affect tunic gowns diately raised to procure daily significance.
had considerable experience of the release, but always in vain. Bri- and Freeman 3 for 13.
and three-quarter costs. rations for the returned-widiori ======B}}}@${HER-PAIS-ARSENAL.- "cost of running 30-home-power jih Governments tame nu went:: This prompt action had the effect The arsenal may be fairly cars of this type, gave a Daily but noon brought any amelioration of preventing the inhabitants from regarded as a source of peril to Mail" reporter the following of Prince Ahmed's position, The bring molested by the troops Tor Shanghai because its possession is approximate estimate, on a basis great war and all the manifold The direct outcome of any mutiny a singular asset tending to military of 10,000 miles a year. would be a dislocation of trade all
of this Chamber, the City Cham- ber of Commerce and other trade
and charitable organizations.
FANGENS AT CHAREL AND NANTAO.
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round.
COMASSIONER
military
conquest. The higher authorities
have been entreated to have this Tax ....
arc therefore not
KUNNING COSTS.
PERID OF LONG NEGOTIATIONS, arsenal diamantled and removed Insurance
King Fuad. Thus the question of
1. 0.0 Princo Ahmed liberty comes up:
again. The prince is confined in
changes which followed have had d. no effect. Britain held Egypt until 3000 year or two ago but now the ******3000 country has been funded back to With Kiangsu troops and elsewhere for there is no solid Chauffeur's wages ... 203 00 the Egyptians, and Prince Fuad is Chekiang troops on one side, and reason for its being retained in Servant tax and driving the remnants of troops formerly Shanghat. The force of public. Heenca.......... commanded by Lu Yong-hang opinion being essential to the suc- Depreciation at 1271⁄2 per cent, on and Ho Feng-lin on the other, a cessful, accomplishment of reforms, | original" price, £1,500 187 10 0lan asylum on the outskirts of rewed outbreak of hostilities this Chamber, carnestly solicits the Garage at £1 per week... 52 0 0 London. He has a devoted Eng- would work havoc in Shanghai, enthusiastic support of all leading Petrol at 15 miles to apart from throwing the people into organizations to join this Chamber gall............ 3 restless state. Efforts at con- in making the above appeal effec: Oil at 500 miles to galion vincing the leaders of the gravity tive so that the stupendous sacri Set of 4 new tyres with of the situation and the absolute fices of the present conflict will not tubes necessity of displaying mutual con-ljavo been endured in vain, fidence in order to save the sit conclusion, we wish to emphasise tion were fortunately successful, the need of extensive generous co and the final stage of the negotin operation is the henry task of - fiona was reached,
rehabilitating trade conditions and "The average life of repairing devastated areas. car is at least 15 years," he said,
PUNDS FOR DISBANDMEKT
In Overhaul
Total..
Five days before his
To deal with a problem of These are factors which have an partially disbanding and partially important. bearing on the restors. re-enfisting up army of several ton- tion of normal conditions here and thousands of soldiers means that as such deserve very sympatheti special fond amounting to very consideration This Chamber legs with a local nurse. Mrs
Devonport iadam large mum inust be at once created to renew its heart felt thanks to the - The Kingsu Provincial Tecasm Nantao Chamber of Commerce, theedand still misin was declared to be deplete of funds unde organizations, and charitable for this purpose. The merchants organizations for their wazed co- When Com and bankers, got together unid solved operation in the matter
the problem smitst very great dif the covers triste us, which the Dealules. The result was the with munity of Shanghiat has rec drawal of troops from the busmeer been subjected.
Coalled "wom Commands
of
linh man servant, is allowed to go 5179, out for motor drives, but has no
40..0.
4 10 0 liberty of action, . He has vast estates in Egypt, larger than an English county which bring in a revenue of mething more than £150,000 per annum Ever since
65479 his conviction his estates have been
sing, officially administered. Mean such a while, Princo, Ahmad Seifeddin passos his days in an English Innati
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