FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926.
CANTON NEWS.
"GOVERNMENT AND POSTAL
STRIKE.
4
THE TARIFF CONFERENCE.
'i
The Canter Information Bureau
Canton, August .
atarted
informs Reuter as follows:---
nice disdom.
The Government's action was
ployees,
the postal workers also..caused a grievance.
Inves.
EMPRESS
“DEAD.”
FOR THE BLIND.
THE GERMAN ROYALTY SCANDALS.
WILL ENABLE THEM
PREMATURE REPORT.
Berlin:"
TO READ.
NEW APPARATUS,
the form
THE CHINA MAIL.
3loscow, July 15,
MILADI'S HATS
NINGPO SETS THE STYLE.
A NINGPO, INDUSTRY.
to the
connected with a telephone, appar rice and wheat straw, hata mate bats made of reeds. hats made o
SILK FOR HOME.
the
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH IT CAN BE SENT:
4.
П
CHINESE BURIALS.
THE PLACE WHENCE HE
CAME.
OLD CUSTOM DYING OUT.
the
по
his old bones a veneration which Two Millions Yearly. takes the form of a compulsory The number of hale turned out lapse af time before death und by this establishment is in excess. burial, and it is considered an in- of two millions a year and in ade decent.thing not to allow for this dition to this factory, there are lapse of time. Invariably the numerous others operated by period the remains are kept is men Chinese who have learned the art sured by the wealth of the decens- in the French factory. All of the ed.
15.000 employes who earn a livell Adhering strictly to this customi hood in the French factory are not has often led to many hardships!!
The "Almanach de Gotha," has Prof. B. L. Rosing of the metropolis of Cheklang Province, Down in Ningpo, commercial
The intention to.ship the remains been called upon suddenly to play Polytechnical Institute, Leningrad, there's a foreigner. Frehehman, Wen Yen, Consul General for China, His Excellency Mr. Chis
The Postal strike
on highly dramatic part in one of has invested an apparatus. "by who directs the handiwork of to his Native place in China for August 1.
Conferences between the latest republican campaigns which the blind are able to read:5.000 Chinese, mostly women, who interment calis to mind a custom strikers' leaders and offleial departagainst the ex-royal houses of ordinary printed matter.
The devete the greater part of theirs which, though still practised now, ments have been studying a rapid Germany and their claims for apparatus, which the professor has time
compensation. Public interest in called an Eptophone. is made in women's hats, manufacture of le nothing like so general as it was Persons who may years ago. It was a very common this master has been fanned anew
of a reading desk on be under the impression that New thing for a Chinese, of even moder- impeded by the action of the post by the prospect of a national re-which an ordinary book is placed. York and Paris have a monopoly late means, in the old days to direct administration whis instead of con- ferendum on entire confiscation The book mores along the desk la feminine head-dress, should that his remains be sent to the tinuing the negotiations, categoris of their property taking place in the same way as a sheet of paper visit this factory lo Ninpo in the place whence he came for interment.
The Government, however, con- and selfishness of those in once/scope. "As the type passes the little Frenchman, who probably may be found in the simple fact!
scandals showing up the greed under the object ginas a micro-China, for there they will find
this practice dwindling nowadays tinuing its efforts for eading the high places may be found in the 100ject glass there is a constant does not weigh more than 110fthat in later years most of postal strike, ofered a subsidy to columns of the. "Left Press" alequency and intensity of which are you what the styles in women's hats permanent homes here, and another nsternation in the light, the fre- pounds, who can tell you and show Chinese have settled to found their emplarers with a view to, ha most daily, but a story as full of determined by the construction of wilt be a year hence. He will show is that, most of them having lived Jening a settlement.
tragedy and mystery as any full the latters. The light flickers we you and take pride in the showing here for a long period. have The fact that the profits of the blooded romance ever writter has | caused 10: fall upon 1! Postal administration are paid to come to light in squabbles over photographie piate, which ia
special
Lats made of bamboo, bats made of more relatives or connections in its Peking instead of being applied to the affairs of the Duchess Luan, causes vibrations in a chuje silk hats made of China grass, China. raising the standard of living of Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein.
Curious Consequences, Playwright's Mistake, atus, which reproduces alternating|
More Sften than not this aid cus-! By birth twice a member of the sounds in accordance with
of artifcial silk, hats made of wood tom has curious consequences and The nittional pesilion against Gotha family-her father was changes in the shape of the type shavings. hats made of delicate leads to an unlocked-for state of the pesumption of the Tariff Cop Duke Philip of Sachs-Coburg of the reading matter. The blindres brought to China from Italy, affairs in the Homeland. An aged Terence in Peking is extending to Gotha. her mother Princess Luise persons of course would have
from Madagascar, from the Philip-Chinese dying is never buried at all the provinces, as is shown beer Belgium-the Duchess, now learn the meaning of the convenines, from about every place an once, because tradition accords to
lar meetings denouncing the forty-five years of age, is the tional sounds hard in the seleler the sun. attitude. of foreign diplomacy more or less direct heiress of her phone apparatus, but having learned Philst demonstrations are daily Aunt Charlotte. This is the ex- ed the sound code, as it were, hej taking place in oumerous cities.
Empress of Mexico, whose mind will be able to read ordinary books Information from Hunan men became cleuded when the throne with facility.United Press," tions the success of the Nationalist of Mexico was lost for ever, and
The anneal situation has been work for over
who has been living-dead to the
fifty years- brought under Minister Soonghateau Bouchout, in Belgium. supervision.
The "Kreuz-Zeitung" of a year! The Canton Treasuryers paying j al financial requirements, without published the news of her
death. This was copied else! The following memorandum re-employed under one roof; they are on families of limited means who resting - Dew-taxation,
where, and several articles in thegarding Customs daty on articles rattered in families all over that Cread local sentiment but are com "German Press" gave long nosicas of Mikk taken Rome has been for section of the province. The syspelled by tradition to conform to of the tragedy of her life. Awarded by 1. M. Commercial Lem is something like this: The general practice in order very powerful and moving drama Secretary, British Consulate Gen-manager of the factory, and he is to escape the unpleasant reproachi by one of Germany's leading eral, Shanghai, who states that he the only foreigner in the place. of having given their ancestor a poets, Franz Werfel's Maxi-is constantly in receipt of inquiriesriginates the styles himself. Then 'dog's burial.' milian and Juraz." dealt during from intending travellers to thei
he sends the Bamples to New York, Coffins Never Smell The Earth. this past season with the youth United Kingdom as to the dueytt and Paris for Inspecting When the remains arrive in China Peking. Aug. 6. of this ill-fated woman. Play-chargeable on silk article:-
the atyie centres of the Amer-the interment does not take place Lin Peh-hsuni. the Editor of wright and public believed that Customs duty will not be charged. British and French metro at once: Aw a general rule the "Shih u Jih Pao" was arrested she was dead. Her niece, the in the United Kingdom on silk ortises, selections are made and coffin is conveyed to the family or last night by gendarmerie and Duchess Dorothea. believed it artificial silk articles brought by
instructions sent back to Ningpin some cases to community temple) shot at five o'clock this mornag. most firmly of all, and, pending passengers, ant resident in the Then the samples are handed out and placed there for what often It is understood that the execu- the settlement of the royal claims United Kingdom, who are passing, to the workers and in due course turns out to be an indefinite period. tion was due to hig having writ-in Germany, readjusted her scale with their effects, through the the finished product is turned in If daring the coffin's peried of de- ten something derogatory to the of living in accordance with the United Kingdom en route for and if satisfactory, shipped to the tention in the temple any near re- West where the finishing touches dative (and there are many) of the Shantung Tupan. Chang Tsung-sum" now due to her from the destination abroad: or on such 'chang-Reuter,”
such as shaping and blocking and family were to come in for a bit articles brought by passengers who A Bank's Inquiries,
are resident abroad but are making decorating are handled and ult of luck or to was prosperous, he But, when, six weeks ago, a a temporary stay in the United at the hat finds itself in rome would strenuously object not only millinery shop on Fifth Avenue to the remains being removed for bank in Berlin pressed for legal Kingdom.
with a price tag attached. documentary evidence of the charged 01 any such articles
burial but even to the coffin being death and could obtain no answer brought for persons in the United
Could It Be Known. And could the retail selling price the temple for the reason that
shifted from its original positioni from Belgium, it appealed to the Kingdom. editors of the "Almanach at
It is a strict condition that allome known the little Chinese village in Cheklang where the hat
tampering with it might bring a Gotha for the facts. The first silk and artificial si articles,
WAS woven, it doubtless would series of misfortunes or ruin to him. QUEEN, POPE AND MUSSOLINI ¦ reply from this unimpeachable whether new or worn, must be de-
or to any other relative or relatives. | cause considerable conversation source was guarded. I stated clared to the Customs officers, and
As is often the case, no one mem- and possibly a demand for in-. Rome, July 15. the death, and had not seen it Passengers are not excused from creared wages. It is not implies ber of the family will be willing The Queen, Pope Pius. XI. Benito that the editors. toor had declaring articles on the ground of course that the Chinese women to incur the anger and perhaps sub- Mussolini and the Entire pasfer of
heard of The death, and that they believe them to be
en- whose deft fingers weave the hatsequent curses, and so nothing is the Church aided by the organisa had
titled to pass without payment of
are underpaid for most of them done to the coffin. The net result, tion of the Fascist state, have com- but would themselves make in-duty. Failure to declare may ex-arn thirty and forty cents failver; it often happens, is that coffris "bined on solid front to stamp out quiries in Belgium to ensure thee a passenger to a fine and to day and it is said that some hats originally intended to yo six feet
swearing'in Haly. The Chamber data being correct in their own
confiscation of the articles, on the require a month for one worker to underground never so much as smell of Deputies will join in the reform 1926 edition. A
ground of attempted smuggling; produce. Some of the fibres are so the earth! In the meantime, coffina
ion can arise if the articles are do the weaving under water or "S.F.P." second letter but no question of fine or confisca-elicate "that it is almost necessary/in the temple keep on multiplying.
Properly declared to the Customs in the cooler portions, of the day.
Customs' Procedure.
The retail selling prices of the totul rutput of this one factory would The Customs officers will, usate diffeult to estimate, for we know rule. antisfy themselves as to the of no economic rule that could be
EDITOR SHOT.
PENALTY OF WRITING IN PERING.
1
SWEARING.
TO MAKE SWEARING
PUNISHABLE.
Chateau Bouchout..
not veen
it denled
officers.
Ent
duty will be
when, according to Signor Gentili followed a month ago, saying that Mattel, undersecretary for Justice the Empress of Mexico was still! the anti-swearing clause in the new alive, and that the "Almanach penalcade comes up for approval. 10f 1926 would confirm this fact.
Swearing and bad language will This curious error: fatal to the beron offences under the new! Duchess's finances, has served penal code and legislation which both to enhance the shroud of facts by questioning passengers, applied in the valuation of women's Fascist lawyers are at present en- mystery surrounding the castle, but absolute discretion is reserved hats on Fifth Avenue. But it COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED vaged preparing. A tea lire and to illumine the plans of aor them to require passengers to must be enormous.
11
And when we
Jon an average of thirty cents The officers may, 1 the sidery and that they are employed for
Shadows Before.
IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments.
AugustQueen's Theatre:
Gne payable immediately to any syndicate, formed, it is said, with substantiate their statements by agensider that the 15,000 Chinese police offers wha heard the Dutch capital, to make the ex- formal declaration in writing or by women who produce the hats earn blasphemy, will be collected,
Empress's estate a "modern, pay-other evidno. The inclusion of a clause in the ing proposition." ". new pinal code punishing swearing
Vivid Situation. is directly due to the efforts of the Ax vivid a situation, directly deposit the appropriate amount of realised that a considerable sum in "Excuse Met
it necessa.require..passengers.. to: a-goodly portion of the gaur, it is Norma Shearer, and Conrad Nagel! anti-blasphemy League with head-calling for the attention of French duty as security that the articles expended in China. However, the
The League dramatists of the old school, has will be duly taken out of the United most interesting phase of the sub- Empty Cradle!
August 6-Star Theatre: "The has carried on a vigorous cam-been-evolved out of the claims of Kingdom; but the demosit will be jest is the fact that a Frenchman Island."
and "Trumpet paign against bad language for the the Duchess Juttu of Meckien repayable the articles being pro- Ningpe, China exerts a consider last two years, and its notices, bürg, sister of the late Duke, to dared to Customs officer on the
August G-World Theatre; Lilian "bingphemy dishonours us abroad" 15,000,000 gold marks from the passenger: departure from
able influence upon the style of Gish in "The White Sister." and "no swearing allowed" are to people of Mecklenburg.
Her United
the ladies' hats in New York, Parts and August 6-Promenade Concert Lendon, and in so doing furnishes on the Volunteer Parade Ground, employment and helps create 9.15 pm.
quarters in Verona.
Auctions. August 7-Lammert Bros. will
their Sales Rooms,
be seen is thousand of cafes lawyer. fighting this claim for wideshops and small restaurants her in Paris. is no less than M. given this week during a debate wealth for a considerable number ll' over the country. The anti-Paul Boncour. Her claims, now in the Prussian Diet. It.appeara of Chinese who otherwise might blasphemy League numbers many the referendum is to be a fact, that the ex-Crown Princess Cecily experience diffeulty in obtaining self the Steam Launch "Chinese highly placed-gcclesiasties and recall she marriage which made wished to inspect some valuable the wherewithal for their daily Prince" at members of the Italian aristocracy her Princess Militzar of Monte Sevres vases at present in the owl of rice "China Weekly Re-Duddell Street, noon.
its subscribers.—"United
among
- Fress,"
ANCIENT EGYPT.
negro, and are based on a para- Schloss Museum, together with view." graph of the Versailles Treaty a number of silver ornaments) which provides compensation for some centuries old and other all members of the Allied nations objects of considerable value. "Bread lines have always follow of property in Germany during museum and sent to her at Oels. who suffered loss or depreciation, These were removed from the ed a reduction in the tariff." —
the war. Representative Darrow.
The Duchess Jutta, This took place before the last once a Montenegrin princess, ia stages of the present crusade had "Legislation is no substitute for But-queerest link of all in this talk of her desiring to exchange a
now a Jugo-Slavian by marriage. been reached. There had been STRAIGHT SICKLE WITH FLINT thrift, energy, self-reliance, and complicated chain-the ex-Royal Rembrandt "painting for them, prevision "Charles S. Thomas. family of Montenegro" do not but the museum authorities were
recognise the fact that they have awaiting an earlier satisfactory
"
SAWS.
August 7-Under instructions from the Official Receiver, Supreme Court, Lammert Bros, will sell by (public auction; at their Sales Rooma, the stock-in-trade etc., of the Tai Fung firm of 13 Wing On St., and the furnitore etc. of the Ying Kos Co., of 2 Wing On St., 11.30 a.m.
Meeting. 10-Fifth ordinary meeting of Egkong Amuraments Ltd., at Croen's The noon.
"No nation can rise, above the
-Brooks Fletcher.
CORN GRANARIES FOUND.. "A generation go there were been swallowed up, root, and conclusion, and did not press for 1,000 men to every opportunity; branch, by Jugo-Slavia. They the return of the valuables until straight sickle armed with flint anws Ancient Egyptian granaries, a while to-day they are 1,000 oppor- call themselves still Montenegrins, Intely. The ex-Crown Princess to cut the corn, and fint arrow level of the ideals of its citizens." Lunities for every man."-Henry No woman ever suffered more now refuses to part with them. heads and knives are among the j Ford.
complicated change of nationality It is possible that resentment at latest discoveries made by the Eri-| on marriage, and no lawyer ever the wedding-present from Prussia tish School of Archaeology now at "While proper advertising is the than the Monsieur Paul Boncour, bottom of this action; the silver and Sohag
fought more complicated à case which she never received is at the work in the region between Thebes "My people with black faces use foundation of successful busince, the genial supporter of the dinner service which took so many
paint to make them blacker. no amount of advertising will create. League at Geneva. The acorn of years to fashion that it was not tie edifices which comprise the powder them to make them whiter," To those familiar with the gigan-notice you people with white faces a market for an inferior article." the German Left for the lady finished before the war began, is modern granary, these miniature-Ratu Meli Halabogi.
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--Sir Henry W. Thornton.
'GOOD FOR THE WHOLE, FAMILY.
OTHERS always give Chamberlain's
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LIVERY family should be provided Mo
E Tenacious Princess.. gates of Prince Friedrich Leopold Rome beautiful overcast basket: all times. Sprains may be cured in with. Chamberlain's Pain Balm at Cough Remedy for croupy coughú, | The curious reserve maintained of Prussia which colds, difficult breathing, bronchial and by the ex-reigning house of held up in Potsdam as a breach granaries," said Sir Flinders Petrie Laras back, fame shoulders, pains in was work has also been found in the much less time when promptly treated. influenza coughs. It is good for the Hohenzollern during the long against the regulation which has "The grain found was mostly emmer the aide and cheat and rheumatic rains little ones and grown ups too and period of controversy. has been confiscated all ex-royal portable and barley, but some true wheat is especially valuable. It can be pur every one knows it contains no narse-rudely broken by information property until further notice.
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