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No 25,766 HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928.
GAIN IN POWER.
STRENGTH OF KWANGSI FACTION.
CANTON MERCHANTS.
Protection Demanded Against Labour Unions.
INDIAN ROMANCE.
Ex-Maharajah To Wed An American.
A HINDU CONVERT.
Second Wife Prostrate With Grief.
Colombo, Yesterday. The ex-Maharajah of Indore is
FIRE ON LINER.
Scenes on "President Polk."
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
INDIAN SCHOLARS.
Ellis Kadoorie School Prize Day.
'SUCCESSFUL YEAR.
CHINESE PANIC.
Officer Severely Manled In Struggle
Mr. A. el Arculi Pays Tribute To Mr. Ralton's Work.
Jersey City, Yesteray.
Mr. A. el Arculli distributed the
A fire broke out this morning prizes at the Ellis Kadoorie Indian
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THOMAS HARDY, O.M.
DEATH OF FAMOUS ENGLISH AUTHOR,
A LITERARY SOVEREIGN.
Great Novelist Passes At Age Of 87.
CHRISTIAN GENERAL REPORTED TO HAVE ASKED FOR $3,000,000. staying at an hotel at Nuwara on the Dollar liner President Bohool Booktimporthorning MAN WHO GAVE COUNTY OF WESSEX WORLD WIDE FAME. Chiya, and an American girl, Miss Polk" which was docked-yeater-With him on the platform were Miller, is also there. The day after a world tour. Mr. A. E. Wood, Mr. E. Ralphs, The cargo of 88,000 bales of Mr. J. Ralston, Mr. A. R. Suther- ex-Maharajah said he was ill and
Although not progressing in every direction, the Kwangsi mili-
London, Yesterday. The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M., the famous
tary faction which controls the two Kwang provinces has gained refused interviews, but it is ascer. rubber from Singapore is.bellev-land (Headmaster of the School), novelist and poet-Reuter.
tained that the couple are await-ed to be considerably damaged.
Fire beats from New York are materially in power these few days. Increase in strength for the pre-ing permission from the Indian
be assisting in the fight to save the sent administration means more settled conditions at Canton and in Government authorities to
vessel. married. Kwangtung generally.
The ex-Maharajah is communi- cating with the Hindu Missionary Society in regard to Miss Miller's conversion to the Hindu faith.→
Uneasiness about the withdrawal of the Ironsides army has been allayed. The General of a doubtful force on Kwangtung's northern frontier has taken his men away for obvious reasons. The Reuter. 5th Army of "Papersides" is showing a slight tendency to follow. General Li Chai-sum in preference to adhering to a negative policy. A capture of Russian arms and munitions is claimed. And the Can- ton merchants are now coming into the open in asking for protection from labour unions.
News from other sources is not particularly encouraging. War seems inevitable near Hankow. The new Nationalist Government at Hankow hus not solved the problems it is confronted with, and the "Christian General" is said to have asked for $8,000,000.
HANKOW DANGERS,
Observers who have moved out from the Canton-Kowloon Rail- way zone report conditions satis- factory to General Li Chai-aum's Government in Canton,
The rumour that his opponents, the Ironsides, intended embarking un a forlorn, hope in a bid for Swatow and the east coast has been proved to be unfounded. The Ironsides are steadily retiring northwards and Kiengsi province appears, indisputably, to be their goal.
watch on the 18th Army in its march to Fukien.
The Chinese crew have been taken off. All the passengers dis- embarked yesterday.-Reuter's American Service.
Mra. Sutherland and Mr., Bisben Singh..
Mr. Sutherland read the school report for the year ended Decemi- ber 81, 1927, as follows:-
During the year which ended on December: 81, 1927, the School has opened 225 times, the same number Blazing Hold.
as in 1926. The maximum enrol ment increased by 2 to 114 and the Marriage Not Favoured.
Jersey City, later. Bombay, Yesterday. The fire in the liner President average Increased from 98 to
107.56. According to the "Evening Folk's" cargo of rubber from News" the Indrabai of Indore, the Singapore was subdued after fire The only change in the Staff was second wife, is prostrate with boats, tags, and fire engines had made in February when I took over grief at the news of his intention poured in a continuous stream of from Mr. Ralston. to marry Miss Miller.
water into the blazing hold from The Public Works Department The Indrabai returned from midnight till six o'clock in the made a complete overhaul of the School during the Summer holl- Europe before the ex-Maharajah morning. and went to Colombo to meet The damage is estimated at days. They also installed a much him.
several hundred thousand dollars, needed flush system for the mas-
The Chinese crew stampeded; ters.
The newspaper states that ad- vices from Indore show that prac- tically nobody in the State favours the marriage.Reuter.
At the age of 87 the Sovereign of English Literature has passed
away.
Thomas Hardy, was born on June 2, 1840, in Dorsetshire-his beloved, Wessex-the son of the late Thomas and Jemima Hardy. He was educated at local schools and King's College, London, and was a pupil of John Hicks, ecclesiastical architect from 1856 to 1881. He came to London in 1862 and worked at Gothic architecture under Sir A. Blomfield, A.R.A., and was prizeman of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1868.
Hardy started writing verse in 1860 but eight years or so later gave it up in favour of prose, returning to his first fancy, as we all know, but a few years ago when his fame as a novelist was assured..
He was twice married, his widow being Florence 'Emily, daugh- ter of Edward Dugdale, the author of books.for children. In 1910- he was awarded the Order of Merit and holds the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.
HIS LIFE'S WORK,
His Work.
The following sketch by a writer in the English "Review of Reviews" appeared a year or so ago and provides a comprehensive guide to the famous author's works:-
It is reported that, on learning the news she fainted, and subse-when the fire started. An officer Discipline is distinctly good, the quently returned to Indore, refus- who tried to hold them back from prefects as usual being of great aa-
He has never courted popular- ing all food en route.
sistance in the playgrounds.
At the annual Examination all itý, and by remaining faithful to boys in Class 4 passed.
In the his Wessex as the habitation for lower Classes 92 per cent. passed himself as well as for his novels Seven boys falled.
Throughout the School written he has avoided the contact of the work is neatly done. Reading, Cel- cliques and the temptation that
Mr. Hardy is an old man. But loquial and Recitation continue to the clique creates to divorce liter- be good.
Dictation is fair, while ature from the fabric of life he is still a worker. In many a Arithmetic and Grammar require itself and to entangle it in dan- newspaper and magazine one may attention, especially in Classes 4gerous liaisons with isma and any day find a poem by him; and ologies and theories of this and he has just issued a new volume and 5. Geography is good and is a that. Many a little manikin of of poems-the sixth since, at the vary popular subject in Class 4 letters has managed to get him- age of 58, having already made Urdu is improving slowly but self more discussed than Mr. his fame as a novelist, he first
ex-
SOME DRIZZLE.
No Enthusiasm,
North enst winds, fresh, generally New York, Yesterday.
overcast, gome Other Kwangsi troops (from
The romance of the
drizzle, is the oflolal weather Canton) are posted along the Rail-
forecast until noon to-morrow. way to Sheklung, 40 miles down. Maharajah of Indore and Miss
A typhoon is shown over The rest of the line has no mili- Nancy Miller is the leading topic
North East Japan. The Anti- tary garrison except. at Sam- in the newspapers, but it has in
cyclone over China has chun, where Commander Lo Kwan no way aroused enthusiasm.
strengthened slightly, Strong (known as the "Chinese Black
monsoon may be expected along Douglas"), a guerilla leader who
the south east coast of China used to give trouble in the vicinity of Mirs Bay, is now in power.
AT WUCHOW.
China Sea,
stendily:
Miss Miller's aunt, Mrs. Caulfield, who was interviewed, was indignant at Nancy's inten- tion to change her faith. She said. "I have not slept for three nights thinking about it." She added that Nancy and her mother It is still admitted that the
own considerable
property in the gangway was severely mauled, Kwangsi army is unable to exert Kwangsi Government's Watch Alaska. The family were origin- The Police were summoned and sital Drill is taught every morning written he has carried forward accomplished. Some of his ad- direct pressure on the Ironsides,
on Reds.
ally Irish-Reuter.
restored order after vigorously by an Instructor kindly lent by the the tradition of a realistic apmirers are of opinion that, like his the latter marching away merely
Mother's View,
truncheoning the heads of the Hon. Capt. Superintendent because it is politic to do 80. Precautions are
of proach to the institutions which great contemporary, George. still being
New York, later, Meanwhile, Kwangs! units are fol-maintained at the Treaty Port of Miss Miller's mother, in an in-ringleaders. Reuter's American Pelice. Twenty minutes exercise man has moulded so powerfully Meredith, Hardy has done his
Service.
daily is bound to have a beneficial that they are only too capable of finest work, and given the clear- lowing in their trail and taking Wuchow against the entry of terview, said she was very much
effect on the health of the pupils moulding him. Be. the object est expression of the most intim- over possession of evacuated Communist agents.
against her daughter's religious The Wuchow is up the West River, conversion, but added: townships.
The health has been very good under view a dynast or a dynamo, ate trath of his mind and nature, the port of Kwangai province, Maharajah is a good man; if A fire broke out in the hatch of throughout the year.
Mr. Hardy will be thinking. in not in his novels but in his poetry. The School garden is in
Be that as it may, the way to which is ruled by General Wong Nancy wants to marry him she the P. & O. liner "Kidderpore," fourishing condition. This is due Shiu-hung, a colleague of Li Chal-can."-Reuter.
Hardy's poetry lies through his which was due to leave for Yoke chiefly to the interest Mr. Bishen
novels, And, even if he had Burn of Canton..
hama to-night, in the cargo of cot-
written no lyrical poems and never planned and carried out the vast, various and monumental "epic- drama of the Napoleonic war in particular and of all life in gen eral, "The Dynasts," without these the novels would be enough for the fame of any one man.
and fresh monsoon over the N. Almost every boy in the School Hardy, who in his Dorchester appeared before the world as a Poetry was his first home has kept the lion-hunter at poet. plays cricket, football and ping the door and has never been ac-love, but when he was 27 pong. At our annual sports with customed to give utterance except years old he gave up poetry for the exception of two boys every when he had something to say. fiction, to return to his first love pupil entered for some event. Phy- In all, that Mr. Hardy has when his work as a novelist was
LEFT IN FRIGHT?
13th Army Marching Away From Kwangtung.
Official intelligence from the northern districts of Kwangtung; confirmed by disinterested sources, is encouraging to the Kwangsi faction.
General Fang Ting-ying, com mander of the 13th Nationalist Army, has deemed discretion the better part of valour and taken the units which were willing to accompany him on a long trek into Fukien province.
This General has a number of ex-Whampoa Cadeta in his com- mand. He has remained "on the fence" during recent internal dis- putes but, apparently, he now fears that the Canton Govern- ment will attend to him. ̧
Not All Gone.
That confidence is being re- stored is evident from a report) that the censorship may soon bei lifted.
The Government, wireless in- stallation is now stated to havel been completed and ready for working.
ANTI-LABOUR.
Government Policy in Two Provinces.
SPURIOUS.
REPORT ON MEXICAN DOCUMENTS.
SENATE INVESTIGATION.
P. & 0. Ship Fire.
Bombay, Yesterday.
a
ton. It was got under control in Singh takes in it. We have been half an hour. The extent of the very fortunate in having no dam- damage is not yet known.age to repair after the heavy rains. Heuter., 20
BOMBAY COTTON FIRES.
· Japanese Owners Main Sufferers.
During 1927 43 boys received free education in this School. The Government provided eight Free Scholarships and the fees for the remaining 85 were paid from Washington, Yesterday.
In number they are fourteen, moneys donated by the late Sir Ellis The special Committee of the
not counting three volumes of Kadoorie, Mr. A. el Arcalli, Mr. U. Sentate which has been investigat-
short stories. The earliest novel ...Bombay, Yesterday.. | Rumjahn and Mr. H. M. H. ing the alleged Mexican documents
was published in 1871, the last in Six outbreaks of fire occurred Nemazes.
1897. Thomas Hardy, like many published in the Hearst newspapers during the last two days at cotton I wish to thank the Indian Com- has reported to the Senate that the green sewri, where the major por-munity for their generosity in pro-
another young writer, began by documents
paying a great deal of attention to and spurious and tion of the Indian crop is stored. viding prizes for the Sports and A commercial institution, re fraudulent-Reuter's
plot; and since his experience of American The damage is estimated at twelve the L.R.C. for lending us their
life, when he was 27, was natural- presentative of the merchants in Service.
lakhs of rupees. Japanese are the ground for our Sports and for terms of humen happiness and ly not so profound as it became Canton, has petitioned the Gov- Cables published on November main sufferers.
Cricket matches during the winter. human suffering about "the pale, later, we find that in his first enment to close all labour unions. 16 and 16 and January & stated: The Times of India" urges an Lastly I have to thank all the Mas-pathetic peoples" whom that ob novel, "Desperate Remedies," the The Government is lending a ready ear to merchants now be produces the facsimile of a docu- are due to damp cotton-Reuter. throughout the year.
"The New York American", re-enquiry and suggests that the firesters for their loyal, Co-operation ject will affect: No facile rhetoric plot is better worked out than are about progress or the marvels of the characters. It has, indeed, a cause of the $10,000,000 loan ment purporting to be an order
Another Outbreak, t which was "approved" this week, signed by the Mexican President
Satisfactory Report. science or the bounty of Pro- very ingenious and exciting plot, Bombay, Later. In addition to the demand Calles authorising the payment of Another fire broke out at the Addressing, the gathering after vidence will stir him from his com- constructed after a new fashion; against labour unions, the masters 100,000 pesos to Zepeda for the pur-Sewri Cotion, Green damaging 8,000 distributing the prizes, Mr. el Ar passionate contemplation of the and, though the characters are by Not all in the 18th Army left are also asking for restoration of chase of arms and ammunition for bales. The logs is estimated five still said that he thought that they victime. To people whose mood is no means mere puppets but real Kwangtung. About half the privileges which they held until the Libera! Revolutionary Army at Inkhs. It is estimated that 25,000 would all agree with him that the given over to a flimsy optimism people, whose natures fore- strength of 15,000 remains, a few years ago, in dealing with Nicaragua.
have so far been destroyed or dam-report which they had heard read this kind of utilitarian attack is shadow the greater work that These men belong to units which staffs after China New Year The Mexican Embassy describes aged.Reuter. General Li Chai-sum "lent" to matter of great importance in the alleged fascimiles of Mexican the 13th Army previously for a Chinese business. particular campaign.
Neva from Hupeh province (in documents as "forgeries unworthy General Fang Ting-ying has de- which is Hankow) is that the of comment."
The "New York American" is clared for Generalissimo Chiang Kwangsi Generals there are tak
meantime publishing further facal- Kai-shek. His departure, howing strong action against organ-miles alleged to hav been issued by ever, means the removal of a isations of labour, peasants, doubtful element from the pro- women and students, meeting President Calles of his sub- vince, with the prestige of the with the approbation of the mer ordinates, showing the trend of Mexican policy in regard to Kwangsi faction enhanced accord chants.
Nicaragua
ingly.
RUSSIAN ARMS.
Claim of Big Capture by "Feiying.'
The torpedo gunboat "Felying" which supports the Canton Gov erpment, claims to have effected the capture of a shipload of Rua sian arms and ammunition from a fleet of junks. A
"The name of the place Chinese) 18 given but several islands along the Kway cosst bear this name, The Fel ying? was at Swatow recently,
Kwangsi troops at Swat hinterland have been – General LI
hal-sum to
REDS FROM CANTON,
Join Communists of Holfung Arca.
A, report from Swatow says that some of the Reds who took part in the rising in Canton last month have appeared at Holfung (where a local Soviet Government has been established),
East of Swabue is Swatow, where the people have also been uneasy with regard to Commun- ist agitation
RED EXILES. FATE OF TROISKY AND HIS COMRADES
IN REMOTE VILLAGES.
Mr. Ralston."
by Mr. Sutherland was very satte insufferable. When their catch- Hardy was to do later, it is the factory, and he congratulated the words are probed and found to be plot which gives the book its pecu- masters and boys of the school on either empty bladders or vessels liar quality of interest. For that It, especially those boys of Class IV. of destructive venom they can reason though it is a book worth who did so well at the recent an- always retort with another, and reading,. It is not a book which nual examination. Mr. el Arcull so Mr. Hardy has had the word it is necessary to read in order to said that they were all sorry that "pessimist" flung at him until understand and appreciate ade- Mr. Ralston (former Headmaster) one's mind sickened at the mean- quately, Hardy's genius.
If I were asked for advice by had left them upon going on leave, Ingless, monotonous charge. In but they were glad to have him a preface to some of his later someone who wanted to know poems Mr. Hardy has, with a Hardy's, novels, but had not the with them that morning. ⠀
quiet gravity, put this kind of leisure to make a special study of Handwriting experts, including
criticism in its place. He has de them, I should call attention to Berlin, Yesterday. three employed by Mr. Hearst. him-
The Berliner Tageblatt a Mog. They were all grateful to Mr. fined his own attitude by assert the three divisions under which self, have testified that the docu- ments purported to have been taken cow correspondent sends details of Balaton for all that he had done for ing that "If a way to the better the author himself has classified from the Mexican secret archives the banishment of the ex-leaders of the school not only in the class there be it "demands a full look his works of fiction.
the Bovlet Option. M. Ogpu rooms but in the play ground. It at the worse." If this be pessim are spurious.
Informed 80 pinent members of was Mr. Ralston who had caused tem then the sooner we are all the Opposition on January 3 that the Beautiful ground outside to be pessimists the better for the state they would be deported: Immediate covered over for the boys to play of the world, ly to remote pass in European and in and also provided the shelter. The straigtforward advice to vironment. The irst division, Asiatic Rusal and simultaneously from the rain and sun during the test all things, which seems to be "Novels of Ingenuity" includes summer months, Mr. Ralston was the plain conclusion of much Desperate Remedies, "The King's College with their that Mr. Hardy has written, does Hand of Ethelberta" and "A leaders to departo the specified re- beat ishes for success in his new not imply the emotional barren- Laodicean," and all three might; ness of the thinker. If it did nq, | perhaps, be left over until some the Wessex novels, would be no of the others have been read, be- thing for their strength is at least as much in their compassion as in their thought it is idle to suggest that the steady outlook and the rational survey Bigue of the flinty heart, since Mr. Hardy's work is there to give the lle to such pretensions.
BARON'S DEATH.
WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
TRAGEDY::
Rugby Yesterday Lord Glantak died audden day whilst opening
So far as te known, no military hospital
edition has been sent to quell ; lesa/ the Reds in Holtói
as the pro-Canton (Government) Lord Lieutenant of. troops are busy watching the 1905)
sides' evacuatic
one
South
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that he had noticed that
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First, there are the "Novels of Ingenuity; next the Romances
Novels of Character and En and Fantastes," and third the
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