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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an export but our readers are warned) to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altha.)
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HORIZONTAL 1-Oriental weight 5-Notable act 9-Makes laborious
research
11-Shrinks 13-Sixth part of a
circle
14-Refastens
16-5killful
17-Loyal friend of
Pythian
19-Herb of bitter
tasto
20-Pronoun
21-Goes upward 23-Feminine name 24-Walk like
paacock
26-Small barrel 27-A penetrating
Inste (pl.) 29-Sir in Spanish Ji-Cleango, 21 1
wound 33-Feminine suffix
(pl.)
35 Cela
36-Befall⭑
39-Crush
42-Diminutive of "Eleanor"
43-Letin feminine for
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©THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont) 46-Masculina nama
meaning "nobls"
47-Projection 48-Distressed [51-Beginning of new
geological
183–Kingdom of
formation 82-Abbreviation for
ons of the caser
& E. Ala [54-Ship'e record
56-Patriotic song,
U. 8. A. 58-Ascribos |61-Eluoper who
breather noisily 2-Lots 63-Connectiva pipes
84 An emperor
VERTICAL
*-Wab 2-Abbreviation for
word meaning "halght" 3-Heroine of Uncia Tom's Cabin 4-Accommodates
5-Demon 6-Ensign (abbr.) .7-Skilled avlator
R-Literating
VERTICAL (Cont.)
-WarshouEOS
10-Hay plie
11-Misrepresented
12-Blush
13-Allegos
| 15-9}ows
|18-A- reward of merit
21-Explating
29-Resistad
| 25-Join
[28-Partaining to the
Lambunt of surface 30-Color
32-Poetic for it " $4-Assemblage of
students for research
36-Glowe 37-Firat principle 38-Discerned 40-Smalting furnace 41-Men of courage 42-Volcanic mountain 44To assist. 46-Mean dress 49-Runs swiftly
50-Irish patriot
56-Specles of deer 57-Anger
59-Step (French) 160-A targa motion
(albr.)
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
Count Serge Fleury
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
MASS
AM
RETE
OAT
SETTER
thor and lecturer,
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
BRITAIN AND CHINA burden which was however in-most important of all, the tea trade
DAYS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
FASCINATING VOLUME
[The Chronicles of the East
trading India Company
to Chipa (1685-1884)" by Hosea Ballon Morse, LL.D.. Vol. V Supplementary (1742-74); pub- lished by Humphrey Milford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford,
creased by other exactions. "It is with the American Colonies. For a Custom here it seems to send same years tea had been accumulat. Curiosities to the Emperor threeing in London, Too much was times a year, for the Expenses of being imported by the Company which an Allowance has been for from Canton and large quantities, herly made from Court... In brought to Europe by French, course of time, this sum has been Dutch, Danes and Swedes, were reduced. Опе half (of the being smuggled in. The attempt amount) - ia absorbed in the 'to unload some of the stock on the Charges attending the long Jour- American colonies' led ultimately to neys to Peking, the other half is the Boston Tea Party and the rise ns an independent insufficient for purchasing the of the US.A. many valuable things that are sent nation. thither. This grievance the
The specialist will find much of Tsongtouk is fearful of represent interest and importance in this ing to the Court, nor will the Hop. volume as in the others. The trade In 1925 Dr. H. B. Morse gave po (whose province it is to in woollens and in cottona; in tin, and silk to the public in four volumes the provide the Curiosities) make good lead and specie; in tea results of his examination of the the deficiency at his own cost; it and blue and white china: the extan: records of the relations of therefore falls upon the Securities prices of these and other commo- East India Company with for the Shipping."...the Securi dities; the routes and seasons and China and thus laid students ofy is looked upon by the Hoppo loading and measuring of ships;
2nd other Mandarins,
the financing of the *48
trade from history and especially of Sino-
only Person to procure for them any Britain and India; the private trad- British politics and commerce
Curiosities or Merchandise brought ing of the Company's servants, and under a great obligation.
qn that Ship, and this at the moder-the trading of private traders; the ate Rule perhaps of One fourth of Contraband nature of 'ophium' and what the Security pays for them." the Company's orders to forbid it. The officials got the smiles and the merchants the kicks!
the
1929. 15/-]
The records, as was noted in the first volume, were practically complete except for two consecu- tive periods-1748-58 for which the records were "in a fragment- ary condition" and 1754 to 1774, for which there were no records in the India Office. This was a serious loss as the period is one
of the most important in the his tory of Britain as well as of the Company, including as it does the acquisition of Canada and India and the loss of the American Colonies, in the two latter of which regions the Company, was specially interested. By great good luck this gap has now been bridged and the volume under re- view completes (as far as can be completed at present) the four earlier volumes.
Romance of Commerce
Even as a separate productiun, this volume makes fascinating reading. There could be no bet- ter
example chosen of the romance of commerce. It is im- possible in a brief review to do justice to the variety, or the im- portance of the facts here record- must content ourselves
ed: we
with the mention of a few that should appeal to the non-special- iat. and invite all interested in the story of British contact with China and who in Hong Kong should not be?-to get it (and the volumes to which it is a supple- ment) and read for themselves,
Chinese Officials
Nothing is more fascinating, be- cause so human, as the accounts given throughout the volume of the dealings between the British and the Chinese merchants (both shrewd in the extreme) and the attitude of the Chinese officials—
The Foreign Visitor
the
An Amusing Passage In a hook of this calibre one does not expect humour but the sailor's Life for the foreign visitor, be traditional love of the cloth' in the following comment afforded amuse- he merchant or sailor, ever lucrative at times, not by any were chartered at 499 tons each, mant to one reader: "The ships means comfortable. Movement was owing to the legal requirement that greatly restricted; aport or exer- chaplains must be carried on all
ships of 500 tons or over."
was, how-
Returning to the East
This recent and exceptionally fine
abows Sir portrait
Rabindranath Tagore, beloved Indian poet, author and philosopher, who was recently in Hong Kong and who is returning in disgust from America,
crafty, diplomatic, domineering, cise next to impossible, a serious in the days of sail accommodating - towards
"all matter strangers." The old story of the Typhoons and shipwreck, scurvy inaccessibility of the higher off and other diseases with inadequate cials occurs again and again and medical attention, even impress- the difficulty if not impossibility ment into the Navy ("We are sorry of getting interpreters and trans- to find that the Company's Ships of last season are likely to be much lators WES almost insuperable. Chinese were bambooed and other-who were taken out of them for the distressed by the want of the men wise severely dealt with if they
Service of His Majesty's Squa- assisted the foreigners in any way dron-such were some of the
age.
On page 126 is related the story of
The format of the book is what we have been taught to ex pect in any volume bearing the name of Mr. Humphrey Milford. There is an adequate index which makes reference casy and two illus trations, engravings of East India- meu, add to the attractiveness of the volume.
-W. L. H.
BOOK OF FUN
WITTICISMS SOME NEW AND SOME NOT
["Fun with the Famous," by H
Cecil Hunt; Ernest Bena 7/6d.]
This anthology of humorous anecdotes told by or about famous men of the present day is intended) by the author to bring an "epidemic" of laughter among its readers and the'r friends. To people who like this kind of reading it certainly will do so.
Many of the stories are genuinely reader, at any witty, and (to me rate) quite new, though a few are frankly dull and rely rather on the celebrity of their teller or actor rather than on intrinsic excellence. Still, if an after-dinner yarn is urgently needed, here is store to choose from. It is another merit no hint of vulgarity that there is on any page.
If any one wants a new "good one" to impress his friends, he must buy the book quickly before too many other people have the same excellent idea.
to learn or use the sacred langu attractions" of the China trade! Look Inside of Yourself
"The school master who has hitherto baught Messrs. Bevon and Barton the Chinese language without any interruption whatever was yesterday and this day order ed to attend the Narhoyen.. In the first day's attendance the
from Manils which she left in pression. the voyage of the Admiral Pocock for the causes of ill-temper and de- Most likely torpid liver March, 1764, only to be forced back
Master
... was
or a congested state of the intes
by bad weather leaving again in tinal tract is to blame. The night September and arriving in Macan remedy is Pinkettes, which gently on June 12, 1765. Her reception yet efficiently stimulate the liver, advis- from the natives of "the Port of dispel constipation, restore activity
Turan in the Kingdom of Cochin to the digestive. orgaus, China" was exceedingly warm if not royal!
ed in a friendly manner to for- bear going to our factory
by the Chinese as the alleged mur- derer of a Chihaman; the British occupation of the Philippines; and
as the Tsongtouk did not approve of it but to-day (for what Reasons he knows not) his recep-
British in Philippines tion was extremely severe, and There are in the records a great the Namhoyen was weak many references to persons and enough to declare that by our events of historical importance. people's learning the Chinese Lan- One is surprised to and none to guage it would at least enable us Clive but Warren Hastings is men- to trouble the Court with Com- tioned on four separate occasions. plaints." The Chinese Master to A few others are the case of executed our two young people being fear Francis Scott who was ful yet of appearing, we have agreed with an old man who for merly taught Mr. Flint to give them lessons privately," Dr. Morse notes that it was a settled policy at Canton to allow the Europeans to have no independent means of translating official documents or of interpreting; for both they were supposedly driven to rely on the pidgin jargon of the Chinese merchants and linguists or had| to depend on Portuguese (who were not always reliable). or French missionaries. A few did learn it almost secretly--and be- came indispensable to the Com- pany's agents. Of these the Mr.. Flint mentioned in the quotation was incarcerated by the Chinese for daring to contract "an Ac-. quaintance with: "Low A-junga Chinese they agreed together to
representing make out a representation to the France at the fourth triennial con- Emperor." Loo A-jung lost his ference of the National Council of head and Flint got three years! Education held at Victoria and
Vancouver in April. Count Fleury
is deeply interested in the soll and
Ship Securities
Each foreign ship had to have
In art and these formed the topics] securities among the Chinese mer- of his addresses at the conference chants who were responsible for and also at various cities en route. the good behaviour, honesty, etc., Chevallers of the Ispion of By his ancestry, he is closely at of the foreigners as well as for Honour, attache of the French tached to the history and literature all official payments. The secur» Ministry of Foreign Affairs, -ads of France.
ities therefore carried a heavy
Of chemists everywhere, or post. free, 60 cents per vial, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Ce., 60, Kiangge Road, Shanghai.
PINKETTES
The Dainty Little Laxatives. TAKE TWO TO-NIGHT "You'll feel better in
the morning!"
Spring Song
what set that few into the fight" The le tus of several photographs published by the Tourins. Department of the Canadian Packie Rallway to remind the unhappy angler thak *Spring has came --- and iil the streaza kar t-open. PhotographsA near Lake Archambault, north of Montrealestate
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