SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925.
THE CHINA MAIL.
HERO
MONS.
OFF TO THE POLE.
DEATH OF THE EARL
OF YPRES.
A GREAT WAR ECHO.
First Commander of Expeditionary Force.
Following a sudden relapse, which came as a surprise and a shock to all, the death has occurred in England of Lord French, Earl of Ypres who was first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expedi- tionary Force in France and Viceroy of Ireland during the most troublous time in that country.
FINAL BULLETINS.
(Router's Service.)
London, May 22.
A bulletin states that the Earl
Explorer's Aeroplane
Attempt
AMUNDSEN STARTS.
FORTY-EIGHT HOURS'
FLYING,
(Reuter's Jervice.)
Oslo, May 22. the relief of Kimberley of It is reported that Captain February 15, 1900, and the Battle Amundsen, the famous Norwegian the who discovered of Diamond, Hill in which he bore explorer the brunt of the whole Boer attack.
He was appointed to command
of Ypres spent a fairly comfort-in South Transvaal in November, able night. His condition this morning was much about the same but he was weaker.
Later.
The Earl of Ypres is dead. Viscount French is held nuty posts, une around which much controversy has rigged. This was the commandership of the British Expeditionary forces in France in 14 and 1915 Trom which he astired in favour of Sir Douglas Huig after the disastrous battle of Loos.
1900 and on his return to England the next year he was given the command of the first Army Corps at Aldershot, his next, steps up to the appointment as Field Marshal in 1913 being Inspector General of Forces (1907-11) and Chief of Imperial General Staff (1911-14).
Prior to his career in South Africa. French did good work in connection with the Nile Expedi- tion being present at Aba Klen, Gubul and Mexamineh, He also commanded cavalry with Sir George White's force in Natal,
He was born a Ripple. Kent, în 1852, the navy being looked upon by his parents as a future sphere. He in fuer served in the Navy fella 1866-70 and did not unter the Army until 1874
.SILK DUTIES.
THE DRAWBACK RATES ANNOUNCED,
(Reuter's Service.)
· London, May 22. The following are the drawback rates on silk articles produced in Great Britain and North Ireland from material on which customs ur excise duty ars puid.
Silk.
RAOLD AMUNDSEN.
South Pole, started at 5.35 p.m. yesterday. From King's Bay for the North Pole, which he is expected to reach at midnight it fall goes well.
Silk in an article of noil yarn
be thrown. yarn undis-good weather.
charged 454, per tb., thrown yarn
LORD FRENCH FAST 9 VERO)
Viscount French published a justification of his wär record in 1919 dealing particnarly with incidents during the retreat from and span gan wholly or partly Alons which had led to his pro- disentirged 494, per .. tissue un- posal to abeunion the French and dand troops in Belgium and thetischarged 616, per ih.. wholly or question of the metage which partly discharged, it proved to the involved him in a it with Mn Asmith. Sir George Arthur's "Life of Lord Kitchener al throws light on the matters ic. dispute.]
Controversy
A great stir war caused by the attempt made on Viscount French's life on December 19. 1919, while he was acting as Viceroy of Ireland, a post to which he had been appointed owing to the troubled conditions in that country.
satisfaction of the commissioners' to have been produced from im. porter undischarged tissue. 990. per 1. boll tissue, made from imported neils 194, per by any other case GBd, per 16.
Doubled
Artificial Silk.
“EMIRS* TRAVELS.
MANKENO -NATION WANTS.
PRINCE OF IMPOSTORS. Modern Romance And Trouser-Pressing.
Entitled by the very during of his affrontery to rank with William Voight, the shoemaker hero of the Köpenick Incident, which convulsed the world with laughter in 1906, Said Mahomed Kakelo, the trouser-presser of Egyptian birth, is now at Ellis Island, U.S.A., nwaiting, with a fine display of Eastern stoicism, the arrival of an order from the. American immigration authorities which will send him travelling across the high seas once more.
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1.00
,50
1.50
Chicken Breasts
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Mushroom Ketch
Oxford Sausage Cambridge
1.10
.70
bottle
.35.
Celery Salt Natural Honey
castor.
.35
bottle
.60
Tanket Powder
25
Meat Paste Assorted
.30
Fish
.30
Oysters
.55
Barataria Frawns
large
1.50
small
.80
Voight was content to assume them a woman whom he described
"Princess Fatima," comparatively humble role of a s
whose. military officer captain of the tinguishing feature of Penssity Foot Guards. Kakalo adornments was a large diamond prisferred to emulate that other attached "to, her hos by u ring, musier of this, cruft, the humble At that time the impostor moved son in tus of a photographer who, in such high sety that he and sous fifty years earlier, styled his companion were receiyod by Before this himself Pinoy Louis Marie Cesar President Harding. of Bourbian, and kept a small court Said Mihemed! Kakela hud played neur; Pau thiál he was "deposed" in dial part in Inidery, spending, by a police.
this nights at Westend hotels and i• The Egyptan, "with mujestic his days as a teaser-presser in the presence and hyrian cast literes usted. Perhaps it was the dis- in his favour, desumed the title closure of this Jekyll and Hyde
of "His Royal Highness the Emir existence which induced him to Amerion.
Te
o Kurchstar cloning descent fexplore now-fields in
Måler Caliph Harman-al-Whitever the reasons were which Ruschi, of Arabian Night" geoofed him to fold his tent and memory, The latest chapter in his prestuabiy his trouser+presser_da" adventures on both sides of the woll-he Beers to have made the Ameti me just been conchuled. Bath 10 one womla be so bad as to say the finishs hent Wrike ton to his carve of Silvatore » sitsin his fits to Utes the ri [šremis rot improbablesin bé con- veved brekwirds had forward- auss the oceans to the end of his her, he take na'connarys, not even
is
EMIR of KURDESTAN
mollerland by heth of adop on, wilt lake him to her boot. wandering prodigal of Elypas offered, pot the fallend The dying wit be ended within Jut the cell samfort of a At Liverpool only t prison cell. forty-eight hours from the start. The machines are carrying 2,400 few weeks ago, having been de ported from New York, he, tesek kilogrammes af benzine and pro- leave, the White Star liner visions for thirty days
Cellie, on which he had traveller). In the event of the necessity tote mwyn experts, in arrend states, return on foot. the ships "Hobby" any have fupresami and "Farm" are going as far his follow passquigers by the musi North as the ice permits and will end comely uniform of silver and keep a lookout for the aviators.
grey, with gold epaulets, which he Meteorologists predict two days' Faficted, "but the imaginative
|doelt policemár coghi not be in
duend to pay bini dut: homage which was due to his exalted munkest of his ang on aul he was escorted to the local Bridewell Comunications with side, for when he arrived in. Ton- the Home Office ensued, and "Histon again in 1929 it was to stay at It is true unt Royal Highness' was put on home the Savoy Hotel. the effie again, and taker hackį he did not stop there lufig enough to pry hy bill get the same, ris. fortune dugged His stops when he showed a perierten for the Hyde So far as is known, the "Emir" Park Boulea misings which first revealed himself at Washing-Lena Tom six contis"-imprison- in 1921. when. Tad with|ment But even then bis resources of impuišners were not eximusted. Cand dhon bạt came out of prison { ho wont to live ut unoflive fashion- able West-end place. While there! I be sought the math of the Press to ventilute is objection to the de portation order which, was thien, pealing.
MOROCCO FIGHTING,
BRILLIANT FRENCH
OPERATION.
DESPERATE RESISTANCE.
(Reuter's Service.]
Paris, May 22.
twisted thread A communique frorg. Fez stales advanced beyond the stage of that General Chambrun carried incies yarn, 198. per D., Lissue juut a brilliant operation in the made from staple fibre or other centre enabling him to relieve the Waste, 11d. per th.. tissues proved
to the satisfaction of the commis- sioners to have been made from other forms of artificial silk 210.
During the King's visit to the Front in December. 1914 he con
In the case of articles made forms the Onier of Merit upon wholly or partly of silk or artificial i the Field Marshal and the test silk which are proved to the 'sutia- year he was the recipient of faction of the commissioners to France's highest military honour, Kave been charged chaty and which the Mamilie Militaire. On relini Fare shown to be in such form and- quishing command in December, state that if duty had not been 1915 he was created Viscount paid they would have been able French of Ypres and on his return for ute sume rate of duty as home became Commander-in-Chief | already charged, then the draw- of the Home Forces,
back will equal the duty paid. His Beriod of association with Ireland as its Viceroy was not the only one during which his name was intimately connected with the country for he was one of the military leaders who tendered
In the use of made up articles consisting wholly or partly of silk or artificial silk; if exported in the form and state in which imported, then the drawback will equal the amount of duty paid, and if mant-
Abdel Krim.
to New York..
WEST-END AND FAST-END.
Lou
NOT THE WAY. ---
UNEMPLOYMENT BILL REJECTED.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, May 12. The House of Commons rejected by 216 to 118 votes the second reading of the Prevention of Unemployment Bill introduced by the Labour Party providing for the establishing of a national employ ment and development board with a State grant of £10,000,000 a year, the board to consist of Ministers
the other
At that time be somewhat ostenta. tiously displayed is wealth of bank notes, wild said big misfortunes wen dug a themahlenthuis of the Minister of a foreign Power. Anyhow, back be went to America, and on this vist hucceeded fa securing a daughter of a Ren- lucky millionaire as a bride, a romantic sediment Which was shaltered when the Emir was recognised as a far's tiresser in Chicago, Romance uns blighted,
of the Crown and to be empowered the hard-hearted American
their resignations in Murch. 1914 farinred in Great Britain or North | Upper Wergha district in spite of anywhere in the Empire for expensive site aboard the liner
to
to make advances to dominion or immigration officers saw this he colonial governmëhts, local and was deporte. Even then, he did i
He paid for public authorities to be spent not accapt deßig, purposes calculated provide he was forced to travel by, but not ir connection with the threatened Ireland from silk or artificial silk the furious enemy attacks with
employment.
even the majesty of his "title" or movements of troops from the the drawback will equal the large forces hurriedly rushed up Mr. Lloyd George declared that his resplendent attire could serve South following Lord Carson's amount payable as drawback in and the desperate resistance of nothing could be done under that him as an open sesame to this threat regarding arms running. respect of such quantity like silk others Armly entrenched in posi-Bili which the Cabinet was not country:
Bes rext move is with the His early career centred chiefly artificial silk as the commis-tions.
American immigraju authorities. round South Africa and his name sipners opine has been used in the is immemorially associated with manufacture of the article.
but whether they give him inother trip to Liverpool or any other port on the fnes of the globe, it is un- likely that the bust has been heard
this interesting character.
GREAT FLIGHT TO THE NORTH POLE.
The artillery and air force gave valuable assistance to the French advance. The enemy's losses were considerable and the French casualties comparatively slight.
Earlier Cables.
Paris, May 22:- "Le Matin's" correspondent in Madrid says that the ex-Minister, M. Malvy has completed his special mission to Spain. In the course of conversation he said that he was very, satisfied with the results.
It is learned that the conversa- tions between M Malvy and Con- eral Primo de Rivera resulted in a Franco-Spanish agreement re- garding Moroccan problems giving each freedom to carry out its plans. Referring to a possible collaboration between the French and Spanish fleets "Le Matin" 'thinks a big landing on the beach at Ajdir la more likely than the bombardment of Ajdir which is Abdel Krim's headquarters and the meeting place of internationa! smugglers supplying the rebels with arms and munitions. It is impossible to bombard Ajdir be Cause it contains thousands of Spanish prisoners.
Ready for Truce,
Paris, May 22
able to do without it.
A Conservative motion for the rejection of the Bill declared the Bill afforded no real solution of unemployment and would further handicap industrial revival by placing a new burden on taxpayers.
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