TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1926.
THE CHINA MAIE
VAMPIRE, WOMEN,
INDIGNANT... BRITISH WIVES. AT SHANGHAI.
CHANG"AND WEL
CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
HOME CHINESE EXE
LIVE PROBLEMS YET TO BE COINCIDENCE OF MARK ON PRESENT PROCEDURE TOO
-FACED":
Passing through Mukden two days ago, after a thorough survey of conditions there and at such points as Dairen and Harbin as wall, a well-known foreign news paper correspondent wrote me "Here they expect Chang and Wu to begin fighting each other about August or September." In Peking, attention centres more immediately upon the Kuominchun. but the prospect of a Chang-Wu embroil meat is by no means overlooked. however distasteful eventuality might prove in certain quarters both Chinese and foreign.
Kominchun situation, from
TUTANKHAMEN'S FACE.
BOXER'S DEATH,
ALLEGATION AGAINST.
"QALCUTTA DOCTOR.
When the body of Tutankhamen Suggestions that the present
Calcutta, April 27 –Further evi was revealed to those who entered procedure of the Chinese authori-dence in the case against Dr. his tomb, a mark was found on his ties in trying and carrying out 5. W. Bussell, on a charge of face. The mark left by the fatal mosquito bite on the face of the death sentences on criminals con- doing a rash and "negligent act, late Earl of Carnarvon was invicted by the Mixed Court, Shang court of the Police Magistrate of
hai, is too slow, are made in the Alipore. exactly the same position.
report of Captain E. LM. Barrett, Commissioner of Police.
Benedite,
recorded yesterday In the
The case arose out of a boxing | untest in Calcutta on January 16, when, after fighting an apponent in the ring for two rounds,
upleen.
opponent,
HONS)
Valuable Leasehold
Situate at h Shaukiwan Road in the Colony
of Hongkong,.. and known, as The Ming Yuen Gardens, to be sold by: PUBLIC AUCTION
"on ``WEDNESDAY,
the 2nd of June, 1926,
at 8 o'clock pm.
Sek by R MESSRS LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers,
At their Salesroom No. 8A, -Duddell Stroot Particularm
PUBLIC
By Order of the
PARTICULARS AND CONDI
TIONS OF SALER-
of the Valuable Leasehold Property,
* Situste at 5 Victoria" in the Colony of Hongkong, and known, as
Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 24 Hili Road, to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION
WEDNESDAY,
the 2nd day of June, 1928, at 8 o'clock p.m.
by
Messrs, LAMMERT: BROS...
“Auctioneers,
At thoir Saleiroom. No. 8A, Duddell Street.
Particulars.
The property is situate on
The recent death of M presentative of the Shanghai box when, as a matter of fact, he the distinguished Municipal Police One was con was suffering from enlarged French archaeologist and Egypto-victed on two charges of murder
Sergeant Day's logist attached to the Depart and goveral charges of armed ab ment of Antiquities at Cairo, was duction committed during 1924 examined by the Public Prozes The property is situate on a further encouragement to those and 1925, three were convicted on tor, said that prior to the copies place or parcel of ground Situate
charges of armed abduction com- he was examined by Dr. Bussell at North Point and registered in piece ar parcel of ground register. who believed in the fabled curse.
M. Benedite, who was directly mitted during 1926 and the re- and he understood, that Day was the Land Office as Inland Lot No. ed in the Land Once as Section C connected with the excavations maining nine of attempted mur similarly examined. Day told him 1708 and covers an area of 207,900 of Subsection 5 of Section A of carried out by the late Lord Car der and armed robberies com- he had been declared at by the square feet. The premises are held Inland Lot No. 795 and cover an narvon and Mr. Howard Carter at mitted in 1924, 1925 and 1920 dector. During the fight he had for a term of 999 years from the area of 6,758 square feet, and is During April, 1926, a further never hit Day below the belt. 8th day of October, 1888, created situate in a busy locality,The Luxor, when the tomb of Tutank-
therein by a Crown Lease dated 1st premises are held for a term of 999 hamen was first opened, was the batch of 14 condemned, prisoners fifth archaeologist to die whilst were taken from the Municipal
February, 1904, and made between years created therein by a Crown the work was in progress.
Jail and handed over to the
his late Majesty King Edward VII Lease, dated 6th January, 1898, and made between. Her late Majesty Visitors returning from Egypt Woosting-Shanghai Martial Law
of the one part and The Hongkong Queen Victoria of the one part and Brewery Co., Ltd., of the other part Granville Sharp of the other part report that country is seething Force, making a total of 57 since with mysterious stories predict. January, 1928. Of these 57, 31
and are subject to the payment of and are subject to the payment of ing that further misfortune will have been executed while there
the annual Crown rent of $478, fail on tombs.
Peking, May 17-Dragon's teeth The conduct of the pretty
by recent military and Russian women refugees in China, Bown
political events are already sprout writes the "Daily Express" coring. Observers here ses more war respondent at Shanghai, has in sight. Dr. W. W. Yan's Cabinet precipitated a crisis in the homes seemed doomed before it was an of the British and American nounced and if It'sinks out of sight,
as appears inevitable, with it goes This remarkable coincidence is women resident in that country, the last hope of any immediate one of the many incidents, in con particularly in the Treaty Ports. political settlement. Refugees connection with the Luxor operations
The report states that 18 British wives there declare that tlaue to pour in, the number, now that has given colour to the claima these fascinating rivals from having reached 270,000 according of the superstitious, who foretold Chinese were executed by the Sergeant Day was removed to hon South-West Russia and Siberia, to latest estimates. Thus we have all kinds of disasters for those local Chinese authorities duringpital, where he died. The allega
in prospect the agreeable vision of who tampered with the tombs of the month in the presence of reon against the doctor was that he some of them princesses, many
political chnok and the Pharaohatte,
declared Sergeant Day to be fit to of them so-called aristocrats, and Aghting, virtually all of them with no for famine.
unes other than their faces and physical attractions. have (ured husbands away from them English and broken up homes. girls with flancées in the Far East similarly assert that the fair Russians are causing their be trothed husbands to break their engagements. An English judge in the Shanghai Settlement Court makes the unequivocal statement that most of the divorces he has tried recently were almost entire ly due to the fascinations of the Russian refugees, who are char- acterised as real vampires of the kind made famous on the films. The judge's statement has let
a standpoint of supplies, appears loose a flood of letters from in- desperate, Hemmed in above Nan dignant British and Americankow pass, they cannot be far from wives on the one hand, and from starvation. Now comes withdrawal protesting Russian women on the of various unita, Shantang and other, which appear in the English Fongtien chiefly from reports, and ing Post" representative, Mr. newspaper of China.
Although there is much talk of a
Arthur Weigall, the famous vigorous offensive in quarters Egyptologist, who has made a EXPULSION DEMAND.
other than the Nankow sector, special study of Egyptian super- The British wives attack the annot be overlooked that if Allied stations in general and of Tulank- morals of the Russians, and de asension Krows
to Bay great hamen's reign in particular, point- mand their expulsion from China. Jegrees with consequent milltaryed out that the object of the The Russians retort by describing weakening at Nankow, there in un curses sometimes attaching" to the British wives as that-chested excellent chance of a Knomiuchun tombs was to terrify the tomb and flat-fooled, and worn out by break-through into the fertile plain- robbers of the perigh, who-might hunting, hockey and golf. The and down to Peking Yen. the famash up the mummy in search- Russian women refugees, in fact.model governor" of Shamet, can doing for jewellery or otherwise. are presenting another Far East no more than hold his own to the damage the tomb in such a way ern problem in Chins that no one north, keeping the Kuominchus in seems able to solve. "The
recheck but starting nothing in the fugees owing to the revolutioni, way of nu ollensive against them have lost their nationality and are under Chinese jurisdictiona
Buch an
Fear Next War..
They are apparently permanenti Underlying causes are difficult
ut
the desecrators of the
Cobra and Canary." In conversation with a "Morne
that the dead man's identity would be lost. Such an event, in the opinion of the Egyptians,
would injure the welfare of the spirit in the underworld. On the other hand, any person who help- dead would receive the blessing of the departed spirit. · ̈
"While I cannot exactly say. that I subscribe in believing in the efficacy of such curses, I must admit that some very strange things-call them coincidences if you will-have happened in con-
seems, from a Peking, standpoint, too early to taik definitely of war between them, such a development is entirely possible before long present lines of thought and on duct are followed. The Kuomin- chun might easily ally itself with
nection with the Luxor, excava either Chang or Wu at presentions," anid." Mr. Weigall. “För since Feng Yu-hstan, obnoxious to both, is quite definitely off the firing ine, for, the time being at aleast.
residents, because no other countofind in China, but Marshal Changed to perpetuate the name of the try will accept them, and they is unquestionably "miffed" dare not return to their own at Marshal Wu and while it still lands. They are unable to find employment as typists and school teachers, virtually the only avenues open to white women in China, owing to their ignorance of the English language. Many of them, owing to their good looks and attractive appearance, secur- ed employment as singers, ex- hibition dancers, and dancing partners in the restaurants and. elsewhere. There is always scarcity of white women in the
Indications at present point to an Far East, and the alluring Rus- Alliance with Chang, but predie- tians quickly attracted young lons in such a country are futile English bachelors who had arriv-Secause of the lack of streng prin- ed in China under the three-year business contracts, which pro- vided that they should remain un-
married until the contracts were renewed.
and
UNDER THE SPELL. Older men, husbands fathers, who had sent their families back to "Britain or the
"Face"
Cabra."
KEENAN
Mise Frances Hechan, 15 years old is the latest choice of the millionaire Edward W. Browning, of New York, in his campaign to shower young! girl with the advantages of his wealth, as he did Mary Louise Snow. Their friendship became known after A mysterious prowler poured neid on France's face.
Mr. P. S. Sparling, the referee of the contest, said he did not know whether both contestants had been medically examined before the He understood that Dr fight.. Bussell had examined them. When he stopped the fighting in the second round, Day looked round at him as if he were annoyed, and walked out of the ring in i. normą). manner.
This having closed the prosecu.. tion exidence the Public Prosecu- lor pressed for the framing of a chargo against the accused..
́-Dofeńces Counsel submitted that the evidences on record was not sufficient” for a prima facie case against'accused and the court could (not frume a' charge unious ho had
nade is subinission.
The hours who adjourned.
For further particulars and Con-the Sum of 828 being the propor
tion of the annual Crown renta ditions of Salo upply to...
MESSRS. HASTINGS, DENNYS &BOWLEY,
Solicitors, 8, Des Voeux Rond Contral,
or tog MESHRS, LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
No. BA, Duddell Street. Hongkong: May 27, 1928.
By Order of the Mortgager. PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Valuable Leasehold Property, Situate at
Victoria; In the Colony
"of Hongkong, and known as No. 19, Bonham Road, tay he sold by PUBLIC AUCTION
Ton WEDNESDAY,
the 2nd of June, 1926, at 8 o'clock .p.m.
A by m
MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
At their Salosroom No. 8A, Duddell Street.
- Particulars.
For further particulars and Con- ditions of Sale apply to
Messrs. HASTINGS, DENNYS & BOWLEY, Solicitors, 8, Des Voeux Road,
· Contral
"..or.to"
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS...
Auctioneers No. 8A, Duddoli Street, Hongkong.. May 27, 1920.
WRY LOOK OLD
YOUNG AT 50.
WEIGHING AND MEASURING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN,
The Council has decided that
AND KEEP YOUNG. the routine weighing and measur ing of school children by school
Dr. Legard's New Life Tablets nurses carried out in connection
A FOE TO OLD AGE: with the ordinary medical inspec
Imparts to the Old and Middle-aged tion of children in the age groups]
Youthfulness, Energy and Fitness, shall be discontinued. Present
retards mental and physical decay, practice involves the attendance
thus promoting longevity Pre- in the schools of the school nurse
serves the arteries and tissues. before the day of actual medical
Sufferers from Deafness, with Its inspection, and the spending, of
many distressing accompanying all- much time in weighing and men
ments as head ngises derive almost suring the children and entering
Immediate benefit Calm refreshing results on the medical record
aleop is assured Gloom, Dept. cards. The Committee reported
sion and Nervousness are ban that as little practical usele made of the records” and as the The property is situate on under the influence of these Life Council at the request of the piece of parcel of ground register ziving Tablets Wrinkles, hard Board of Education is now making cd in the Land Offico na Section Clines and blemishes disappear. The A special anthropometric Inquiry, of Inland Lat. No. Tot and covers skin becomes clear, tight.. which started on January an area of 141392 square feet, and elastic, and the Complexion bright 1, there
18 no need, "at In situate in a busy locality. The and smooth. Think of the bless any nate for the pre premises are held for a term of ings of perfect health, the posses sent, to continue the routine 999 years from the 7th day of Jan-sion of few, the Joy of a clear weighing and measuring. The uary, 1862, created therein by Youthful appearance and tingling Committee estimates this change Crown Lease, dated 14th June, blood, of lustrous hair, bright eyes of practice will release 150 weeks 1862, and made between Her late and health finted checks the of nurses' time in a year, and en- Majesty Queen Victoria of the one beauty of radiant life and, the able the committee to use that part and Henry Arnold of the realisation that Time has been put time on other sections of the other part and are subject to the back. Ten Years to the envy and work which have fallen into payment of the sum of $86.75 being admiration of your friends, and the arrears, viz, cleansing work; the proportion of the annual Crown unbounded, satisfaction of yourself. epidemic outbreaks and visits to rent Children's homes. The nurses For further particulars and Con will also be able to find more time ditions of Sale apply to
MESSRS HASTINGS, DENNYS for the special weighing and mea-
& BOWLEY,ORT Solfeltors, 8, Des Voeux Roud uring of individual children suffering from malnutrition and
Central, ...or to wasting disease. We are not
MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS, altogether satisfied of the wisdom of discontinuing the routine maa-
Auctioneers, surements at fixed intervals, and we hope discontinuanes may not be permanent.
"TUPAN WANTS $3,000,000, A MONTH
No. BA, Dúddoll Street Hongkong, May 27, 1926.
Can you allow a golden opportunity. like this to pase Remember there are no arduous rules to follow, no restriction in diet, nor are there any Ill offcote after. On the con trary It gives the entire system a feeling of exaltation with Increased: mental and bodily vigour, Why not look and feel 30 at 50% Do not delay, commence the treatment at once. You will never regret the slight cost incurred for such incal- culable benefit.The price of these Marvellous Tablets including Mail Charges is 12-per Bottlo, dispatch ed in plain, wrapper on recalpt of amount
Obtainable only from DR LEGARD'S LABORATORIES,
example, there was the case of Mr. Howard Carter's canary which he kept in his house. On the very day on which the tomb of Tutankhamen was laid bare, a cobra, than which there is no rarer snake in Egypt during the winter months, got into the house. ples of the part of anybody, the and swallowed the bird. Now it. scadiness for treachery, and the
is a fact that the cobra was the riviality of causes for moves of symbol of royalty in ancient most vital Importance.
Egypt. Each Pharaoh wore it on and "squeeze" continue to play his forehead and headdress to heir part, and an important part, show his power to strike down his mainder are still awaiting con firmation of the death penalty a the squabbles of table-boys and anemies. Lovers of the mysteri-imited by the fixed court generals alike.
ous naturally interpreted the in-Arsongst the prisoners executed Dr. Yon-continues to be the United States, Jater came under scapegoat for every "I told you so"cident as the killing of the peace during April, one man named Lan the spell of the fascinating adviser in the capital, but he of the English Home by the Royal Hoshang, a notorious robber, can be particularly mentioned Russians in many of the Treaty declines to show anything but high
"Six Weeks to Live”!
Besides being the leader of a gang Ports. Following are typical ex
confidence in the eventual outcome
Mr. Weigall then related a re- of murderers and kidnappers, he tracts from some of the letters of his efforts as a Cabinet-maker. published in the Chinese English He appears to concentrate in his markable incident which occurred and his gang were responsible for Press: From an American wife: own person all the available, opti- when Lord Carnarvon first want the armed attack on the Shanghat "I sympathise with these Russian mism in all Peking. Many admire down into the Tomb of the Kings. Volunteers on duty on Nanking women refugees, but it is not his spirit, but few admire the As he entered the tomb he was in and Thibet Roads on June, 1926, the sort of sympathy
that judgment which led him to proceed a very gay mood and uttered After his arrest he made a graphic will let any of them take from with a venture, which he had pre several jocular remarks," said confession of the part he and his me my husband, who brought viously pronounced impossible of Mr. Welgall. "I turned to Mr. gang took in the shooting of the me away from home and my own success without universal support, H. V. Morton, who was just be American Troopera patrolling people to this country. This is a
when Marshal Chang had unmis hind me, and said, half jokingly, Chibet Road, which attack result
a chilly attitude 'If he goes down in that spirit, ed in the wounding of Corporal fair warning meant for my, hus- takably shown
give him six weeks to live. MeMartin and the killing of his
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS. band as well as his Russian lady toward itg : 940
'hought nothing more of it at the pony. It is significant from e friend.'" From an American
Wante Conference.
time, but exactly six weeks after Chinese point of view that this Peking, May. 20.—Prior to his
RHER
CHINE beg to Inform all "There seems to be little doubt ference, not a Cabinet. He has the effects of a mosquito bite, being shot.
Chang Tsung-chang Intimated interested in safe deposit, that they that the Russian, woman is by far particular and not unnatural and Mr. Morton reminded me uf On March 81 there were 30 Dr. Yan that for the purpose of A better fellow' than the average antipathy toward a Cabinet in what I had said.”
condemned prisoners in the Muni maintaining his troops, he expects have actually in their new build-108, Liverpool Road, Barnsbury,
ing, 6, Queen's Road, safe deposil woman from other countries. The which he is represented with only Mr. Welgall went on to point out cipal Jail and 25 in the custody of to get the sum of $8,000,000 monthly boxes at the yearly rate of 18 for AVOID USELESS IMITATIONS. Russian girl is not mercenary; she two portfolios. He has not for that Lord: Carnarvon was not in the Milltary Court, Leadquarters, from the Minister of Finance of tacitly shows a man that he gotten that Dr. Yen was Premier very good health at the time, and totalling 105. On April 30 there the new Cabinet At the same the email size and 312. for the must exert himself if he wishes at the time of the Tao Kun was certainly in a receptive con- were 68 such prisoners in the time, Mr. Fan Fu declined to head to' hold. her interest, and this
punitive mandate against Mukdendition for mosquito poisoning Municipal Jall and 26 in the the Tsaichenpu arouses the hunter's instinct in theas, things combine to make Another instance of the seem-custody of the Military Court This demand of General Chang. him. She is also brought up to him antipathetic toward the ing efficacy of the curse of the Headquarters, totalling 14, a re-a regarded as no joke on, the part be interesting she fits in with Regency Premier. And Wu Pol-fu gods noticed by Mr. Welgall was duction of 11 from March 31, General Chang, who has just her husband's affairs as well as his does not yet rule Peking. Chang the case of an Egyptian who 1926, and a reduction of 12 since seen nominated to the post of moods. It is for this reason that Teo-lin is very much alive. How smashed at Karnak the statue of January 1, 1926
jeneralissima the combinest he finds in her a friend, a aweet-ver much Dr. Yen may feel him.Bakhinier, a goddess with the head. In all cases wherein prisoners Shantung-Chihli ith General heart, and a wife"
self the man of the bour he has of a lioness, supposed by the are handed over by the Settlement Chu Yu-pu as big assistant. It is THE ALTERNATIVE.
a hard and lonely row to hoe with Ancient Egyptians to have been Authorities to the Chinese for thought to an Indication of the From a Briton who married aout Chang's backing,
employed by the Sun God, Ha, to execution, a re-trial of the case anti-Cabinet Russian.The plain truth of the it appears that Dr. Yen did not destroy mankind is necessary before the execution Foreign matter is that many men out here approach his Cabinet nominees "On the day the statue was can take place in some cases lation are faced with the alternatives of person, but took the word others smashed, I made inquiries in the prisoners have been condemned to Makder going home to be married, which that all would accent. Now he village with a view to finding out death for many months and to ob- Les gavernment will not be
the necessary, witnesses tain is prohibitive in cost, or marry says that he will proceed to all the whether any native had fast a ing a Russian. The influx of Rus vacant posts with men who child, he said. I eventually after sian women to the Far East has accept. An herole gesture, perhaps, found that a man's son had died by a very dificult and at times an been a godsend. boite foredoomed to failure in and that the map in question was almost
From a Russian girl refuges in Peking and Perkave in any other China. I wish to defend my world capital under circumstances Sekhmet Russian refugee slitery and to-in-ever approximating the circum form other women that they are stances Herd
who married a Russian refugee. Marshal Chang wants a conwards Lord Carnarvon died from man was beheaded instead of departure from Peking General BANQUE DE L'INDO
afraid to call a spade a space. We Dr. Yun is well liked, but it must Russians have not the flat chest, never be forgotten that Chang and the fat feat. We are not the Wu the reins. The pathetic
"Goodfellow-how-much you got | fathi
kind. We do not take up
fox hunt or hocks
get so tired we can
The men, meanwh
women fighting
day are appreciate
he who had smashed the statue of It
knew
of time
attitude of
the
large size
Please apply to the Cashier. Hongkong, 21st April, 1926.
Quality Price
Batisfacti
Wines ad Epirit
by Those of
MACKIE
FINDLATI
TODD & CO LTD:
{Purveyorečto
H. Major
Cicer Comm
London, Englalk
HERE'S "GETS-IT
World's Fastest Com Ender