MONDAY, FEBRUARY:
BACK FROM CEYLON,
WHAT RAMSAY 'MACDONQLD). LAW.
CONFIDENCE IN CLIFFORD
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Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the- Labour leader, who, with his three daughters, has been on a visit to
Ceylon, arrived back in yesterday?
BANDIT'S HEAD,
GRIM REMINDER OF A FAMOUS RAID...
SOUVENIR FOR COLUMBUS,.
(Router's American Serviss.)
Chihuahua City, Feb. 7. The body of Franciso Vilin, the noted bandit, who was sinin by his own fellowers in 1923, it is report Londered, has been dug up and decapitat
lod,
In Interviews he stated that ho had greatly enjoyed the rest and charge: The main interest of his trip had lain in a tour of the far famed rutus of the ancient cities
of Ceylon.
Referring to politlund conditions: in the island he expressed cog- Adence in the ability of Sir Hugh, Clifford, the Governor, Boydeal with existing difficulties.
Mr. MacDonald declined to die- cusa Home polieient questions. He "made a focubt. réference to the talk of a Labour-Liberal rapproche-. mont, But decked that he had nothing to any on the subject.
NAVAL STRATEGY.
A note was found near the headless body saying that the head has been sent to: Columbus New Mexico, which Villa raided a decade ago.
PROHIBITION.
BISHOP MANNING ON NEW MOVEMENT..
..AGAINST MODIFICATION.
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(Beuter's American Servine.)
THE CHINA MAIL
CHINESE LANGUAGE, BEAT THE BOOKIES.
HIS EXCHELENCY.
-CRITICISED,
DR. LIM BOON KENG'S OPINION.
MAN WHO WENT THROUGH
* $150,000.
TWICE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
The following letter was clip Douglas G. K. Huntley, agell pled from the "Singapore Frau forty, who, it was stated in a Press January 26, and wit, weHomeper, had gone through a fuel sure, interest pur readers fortune of $160,000 pleaded guilty Sir-With due respect to Sirat" Westminster, Police Court-in Cocil Clementi, whose learned ad mall week to frauds on bookmakers University on the difficulties of the in a false name, receiving, cheques dress delivered at the Hongkong by opening credit betting accounts Chinese hnguage shows that he when winking: and defaulting has given the subject.much thought when he lost. and study. I beg to differ from His He was bound over on condition pofuts which are of great import three weeks. Excellency's opinions on a faw that he left the country within
Lance..
PIRACY MENACE.
GANGS ON A YANGTZE
STEAMER -
SEARCH BFFECTIVE, -
A Router's message from Tchang dated January 25, reporta
been
The number of bullet holes im the smoke stacks and frame-work of the steamer-plying between Ichang and Chungking-testify that seeing the flames leaping out of the the trip has other excitements than
tops of the funnel as the ship forces. its way up the tearing rapid; the occasional grind over some stones. or sudden. Hist. as she is gripped by a mighty whirlpool. But up A Scotland-yard officer said till now piracy has not (1) There is no Fuklon dialect Huntley became associated with a amongst the thrills of this journey.. in which the word for Tea is pro-gang of West End crooks and card-Last week, however, the military nounced T. as Sir Cect alleges. sharpers, and" had squandered his somehow got wind that a number of Tea was originally brought to money.
piraten had boarded the 8. Europe evidently by the Dutch who He had, it was stated, twice at "Fuhaing" Italian flag): au passen-" had factories in Formosa, from tempted suicide. He is an undisgers, intending to loot the ship Amoy where Tea in called Tay-charged bankrupt.
A number of soldiors were sent on just us the Malays all over Malays
board to search the passengers and pronounce it. The French word
three men were captured with re the confirms this. The German
volvers concealed in their clothes, theo ja Riso sounded Tay. The
and another dozen revolvers were native of London, in Cockney,
picked up in different parts of the fashion" pronounce Tea more like
Fahip, evidently thrown away by the jho Mulay Tay than Th
pirates when they anw the soldiers come on board.
(2) The differences of dialects in China ate due to the same kind elsewhere. The Mandarin langungo of causes which produce dialects
the lingua franca of alb Chinese: In Amoy
New York, Feb. He Bishop Manping, In a sermon RAMSAY MACDONALD SEES A said that the Church Temperance la now
BOGEY..
Society's movement to modify pro-educated bibition was not unrepresentative University, students from all parts of the attitude of the Church watch of China speak, Mandarin and atiel supported Prohibition. He sten to lectures in Mandarin expressed the opinion that obser Throughout Malaya. through vance of the law was ricreasing. and modisteation at present would movement started by me and others mean, nullideation
(Reuter's 'Service.)"
London, Feb 7.
Interviewed by the "Observer," on his return from Ceylon" Me." Ramsay Mac Donald, the late Labour Prime Minleben) want his visit had convinged in more shan over that he was right in apposing the Singapore Base.
He said that there
was plain
Y.M.C.A.
مین
IN ORIENT..
(Reuter's Service,)
evidence in Ceylon that Singapore-NATIONAL SECRETARY'S TOUR was the beginning of a new navali strategy. Trincomalee, which was deserted before the war, was now awakened to new active naval life. Nabody could vidit Ceylour and see whad was going on without getting.
the idea that there was tremendous development of a specifie naval atratuer with buses for all the necessary subsidary supplies for u feel fully equipped for netion.
"STIFF BREEZE.
4
MORE DISSENSION IN FRENCH POLITICS
(Reuter'o Service:)) -*-
Paris, Feb. G *AR all-day sitting of the Cham- her of Deputies ended in the passage of siya prticles of the Pinaner Bil{"
The unwanted calm, which up to now has characterised the debate. was broken to-day by stiff breeze between M. Lamoureux"the Radical Reporter of the Finance Commis- sion, and M. Auriol the leading Socialist financial light. wiled out of the huse..
Both
The Gesternment adherents" wel come the incident at a tendency to dissension in the ranks of the Curtel, which must be a source of satisfaction to the Sovernment, which is widely believed to be hiding ibw time until a definite' split orcars and gives them the the Right Wing
support Cartelists.
of
KOREAN PLOT.
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
4
MENACED.
(Reater's Service.)
Tokyo, Feb. 6.
A special telegram to the "MED"
from Seoul reports that the Police
ment buildings."..
་
London, Feb. 7. Sh Anthly Yapp, the National Secretary of the YMCA is due. to sail on board the "Rancit at the end of February. He will tour India and, the Far East. visiting Bombay Rangoon,
Singapore, Shaeghaf undi-Japan.
"RÜM-RUNNERS."
the
Ha 1894. Munduria.is now the comf
read
in
BLUE v. BLACK.
INTER-BLOOD MARRIAGE
QUESTION.
NEW YORK DIVORCË SUIT.
counsel
the
announces that she fa
HONOUR FIRST
PRISONER WHO DECLINED -ESCAPE.
Mr. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, the son of an old Hurucot family and the hair to millions, will lodge the Court refusing to anal his jan appeal against the decision of marriage with Alice Jones, mulatto girl. Mrs. Rhinelander's TEMPTED TO HAVE A DRINK. fling suit for separation on the A prisoner at Pentonville who grounds of abandonment. The rave His word of honour not to case will thus enter upon a fresh escape, and kept it, although he stage, in which the whole inter-had frequent opportunities to get ce marriage question will be in-away has just been released after volveds
serving a sentence of 15 months. "In the first few months I was in Pentonville,” he said, "B
the outside work: eivilian painter was employed for
•
As the result of the court pro- ceedings, Mrs. Rhinelander was to deceive her husband as to her completely cleared of any attempt colours She will also, it is stated. proceed against her husband's. father for alienation of his son's affections.
mom speech of all educated Chinese, (3.) Mistrunslation of Buddhist sutrus. Si Cecil Clementi, evidently forgets that many sankrit words appear in Buddhist teratur, just us many Latin terms becur in Catholic publications. The Budd- histe
the Autrus Hankrit written in Chinese phone tically. With regard to the name Kwan-yisurely the Buddhist pioneers never abended to convey sound to the practical Chinese.. such honaense" as "overlooking The Chinese word. Yin does not storm of protest, and it is con- The Court's decision has aroused necessarily mean sound; thus Fu-tended that the whole of the future was frequently out in the streets yin-literally happiness-sound" relations of white men and negroes surrounding the prison, engaged "I gave it. As a consequence I
thrown into the melting-pot. The walls. in America has once again been in decoration work on the outer
--which
enough, but they are the equivalent
have
heldi
that
"As I was. a painter by trade was asked if I would give my word of honour not to escape I Were put on to this worki
seem quite ridiculous
of the Greek word for gospel Kwan yin is
juiry the title ol "the
young "I was sorely tempted often to Goddess of Mercy and is nu au Rhinelander was in full possession go and have a drink. Once, wher breviated formy of Kuan Shin Yin colour before the marriage.
of all the facts regarding his wife's working opposite the Railway nike, the Boddisatva whose that he merely figured in the trial found a shilling..
and Tavern in the Roman Road, 1 interests are in this world Khan
as the result of his father's dieta- NEW SHIPS TO JOIN IN THE equals noise. sound effects: Shih fought it will be with young Mrs. equal regard or look after:: Visi
"Did you succumb and have a tom When the *CHASE.
next battle" is drink 77° Yin equals the world's noise Rhinelander as the plaintiff and wouldn't have done.."
"No." was, the reply!.. "It (Reuter's American Service)
world's affairs. Kuan-yinthenold Mr. Rihelander on the defen-Payne, who worked for nearly [means "interested in the affairs of
the world"-guite a very different ur the young couple has
sive. In the meantime no reunion a year at decorating and similar Washington, Feb. 6. The House of Representatives thing from "the nonsense" of
taken tasks, mentioned that when dis- has approved the expenditure "overlooking sound"-which
place, and the wife will seek heavy charged he. received 15 He $3,000,000 on coastguard vessels. Cecit made it out to be.
damages as compensation for her worked for eight hours a day and The new ships will be ased against
wounded affections.
five days a week. FUM-TULEEN
www
KRASSIN BETTER,
EARLY ARRIVAL IN LONDON EXPECTED.
(Reuter's Service.).
Paris, Feb. 7.
of
many
of
Sir
this
worki
It may be of interest to remind your readers of the fact thint Kuan- yin refused to enter Paradise heit Are should be extinguished, and the last soul should have been 3,000 B.C. have all been dead long 16. contemporaries of extricated. Hence the title of God- dess of Mercy, given" to one of the o-even those of 500 BC. are medte extinct.. The classical languages of Greece and Rome are Universities. But the language of only kept alive in the schools and Confucius is still the language of China to-day, and of the Far East for the Koreans, Japanese, the Chinese by means of the Chia- Annamites en communicate with
se sepse, ther
transformations. celebrated Bodciactva,
The challenge of His Excellency to the nendemicians of China absurd and ridiculous since the greatest Oriental scholars have acknowledged their debt ti
Chinese
the
wers not
M. Krassin has been suffering tests. The
The Soviet Embassy states that Chinese translations of sankrit from anaemia. He is now. Detter buffed," as Sir Cecil imagined, and able to go out daily. He but had a definite object in merely hopes shortly to present
his making credentials in London.
phonetic transliteration. just as the Catholics write down in English "Pater nester" and "ave maria" purposely, not be cause they do not know the English equivalents.
EXTRALITY.
COMMISSIONERS INSPECT JAILS,
During his stay in, the prison Payne wrote an article on the mix- ing of colours, and illustrated it prison library. with a chart. This is now in the
NOTICES.
and HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
can be registered: which period no transfer of shares By Order of the Court of Directors,
A. H. BARLOW,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 8th February, 1926.
in translation but they occur in ally Meeting of the Shareholders in Of course, there are difficulties that the ORDINARY YEAR-
nature, and they depend upon the City Hall, Hongkong, on SATUR- languages and are of the same this Corporation will be held at. idiosyerasies of different authors, DAY, the 27th February, 1926, at wishing to adopt different roots Noon for the purpose of receiving and different interpretations. the Report of the Court of Direc (4) Chinese only a kind of fact that certain specifically Chin-of Accounts for the year ending On the other hand. It is also ators, together with a Statement linguistic bed of Procrustes! At only to hold Chinese ideas and un-literally into English, or any
ene ideas can hardly be translated 31st December, 1925 suitable for word, and thoughts The Extraterritoriality Inves-alien to the Chinese. I sincerely have many, terms expressing rela- MONDAY, the 15th February, to European language. The Chinese Corporation will be closed from The Register of Shares of the have discovered a plot by Korean February 1, under the guidance ed orator is totally wrong, although ions and relationships that require SATURDAY, the 27th February,
tigation Commissioners on regret to say that the distinguish- malcontenta to blow up Governo Dr. Wang Chung-hui, inspect-it la true foreigners' And it difficult lengthy descriptions. But this is 1926 (both days inclusive), during
The three ringleaders are refort- ed the 1st and 2nd Jails, the to express technical matters in really not peculiar to Chinese. ed to have been arrested; but Supreme Court, the Higher Court Chinese, and even Chinese scholars (5) It is a pleasure to And others escaped. A quantity of and the local Court in Peking.find it difficult to understand myself in agreement with Sir Cecil bombs and revolutionary literature
Upon returning from the in- English. But this has nothing to: In his advocacy of a second was found
spection, Mr. Hioki, the Japanese do with the nature of the language.language, and of English as such delegate, stated:
Einstein has been translated into language; though his reusons are "Inasmuch as the foreign Com-Japanse and Chinese. Every sub- sound. Chinese is not "a very missioners to-day merely inspect-ject of modern sulence has been refractory medium for interpreta ed the Chinese judical institutions ably translated into intelligibletion of Western Ideas." English os without exchanging views with Chinese. Japanese have used accond language is necessary in.. one another, I am not in a position Chinese entirely in their transiarder to hasten the acquisition of to state what impression the other tions. The modern Europeana have western thought and culture, since, Commissioners have obtained had to fall back upon Greek and the number of translated books is from the inspection, but in my Latin roots, except the Germans still inadequate. opinion, the two Jails we inspect who delight in their own incantle I have ventured to make the ed are splendid. At the Higher polyayllables of Teutonic origin. and Local Courts, we saw the The fact that certain relations, position of Sir Cecil Clementi may ERAL MEETING of SHARE- ectual scenes of trials and I found have to be adopted does not mean mislead many readers of his speech HOLDERS in this Company will that formalities they were going Why, the Arabic numerals and language is really the linguistic Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the that a translation is not possible into thinking that the Chinese be held at the Hongkong Hotel, through in their examination were Greek: lettera in English do not bad of Procustio" which His Ex- 20th February, 1926, at 11am, not in the least different from diminish the value of English celleney the Governor, of Hongkong for the purpose of receiving the those practised in foreign courts. works in mathematics.
seems to believe it to be. Chinese Report of the Directors together newspapers to-day, discuss dally with a Statement of Accounts for
OIL DEAL
BROKING FIRMS OBTAIN CONTROL.
(Reuter's American Sartice.)
New York, Feb. 6.
The Bair Company and the Chase Securities Corporation have obtained control of the Associated Oil Company, which, it is consider ed most likely will be combined with other properties in which the same brokers are, interested.
SOVIET DEBTS.
OFFICIAL NEGOTIATIONS
WITH "ERANCE
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Ruove criticism since the the N that the ANNUAL GEN-
I have myself heard most and comment upon world events the year ended 31st December, abstract lectures in Chinese of posientific progression they
-Little "Urvid's mother had been logle, paychology, biology and sifghest difficulty, and the Univer reading him to sleep chocsing for evolution, and I have myself talked sity of Amoy or any Chinese Uni- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the this purpose the story of the food. on fairly abstruse problems of versity for that matter, will be ex- Company will be closed from the When she had finished David still modern medicins, such as Erhlich's ceedingly pleased to send to 10th February to the 22nd lay awake and was evidently think alde chain theory the Professor Hongkong a lecturer to discourse February (both days inclusive), Paris, Feb, 6. ing very hard. Mummie," he said, Leo of the University of Amoy upon any western topic In puro during which period The arrival here of M. Rakovsky, after a long silence, Tve been discourses on the most recondite and elegant Chinese at any moment of Shares can be Registered. from Moscow, foreshadows the wondering what would have hap-questions of argonie and analytical four faithfully JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & 80 opening of official negotiations for poned if Noah had sont a seagull chemistry entirely in Chinese, the liquidation of the Russian out of the ark instead of the first The fact is that Chinese Je ku debts to France.
dove
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