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[TROM QUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) «^. April 21st.
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EMPIRE DAY AT SHANGHAI, INDIAN RAILWAY TRAGEDY CENTRAL EUROPE'S DESPAIR CONSUL-GENERAL'S SPEECH TO MAGISTRATE'S WIFE SHOT DEAD. RECKLESS ORGIES AND STARVA.
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There, was a remarkably largo-attend ance of British residents at the Volunteer Parade at Shanghai, which was one of the features of the Empire Day celebrn tion at Shangbai, A Naval unit from the various ships in port participated.
In
On the arrival of the 3 Up, rail at Hazaribagh Road on the morning of April -- 30th, Mrs. Colebrook Taylor, wife of the Magistrate of Hazaribagh Road was found lying dead on the floor in the ladies' compartment, shot through the bead.
TION.
INDUSTRIES RUINED. The Daily Bopress correspondent at Vienna wrote on April 1sth
The
in the German.
What most strikes the wayfarer in Cen- The big sporting event" of the week the Scottish Cup final.
tral Europe is the extreme poverty of the Bix weeks ago
The compartment was locked and sealed poor and the senseless luxury of the rich. if anyone had aid that Albion Rovers and Kilmarnock would have the last
Sir EVERARD FRASER addressing the men and sent on to Gaya under Police escortThey call for comparison with the statę where the carriage was detached and the of affairs at the time of the decline and word be would have been laughed at. A said:
"Major Trueman, British officers, non-case made over to the Government Rail fall of the old Roman Empire. it was long odds on the Rangers
The rich peopis in Europe, from the winning the Cup seemed a sure pinch for commissioned officers and members of the way Police, who took up the investigation
North Ben down to the Mediterranean, are living an unparalleled life of happy- them. But now, Rangers are down and B.V.C., this our sixth Empire Day parade with the Joint Magistrate immediately.
Further enquiries by an Englishman go-fuckiness and vice All real production out, rank outsiders like Albion Rovers is notable in more than one respect. made the running and what is called the first place Empire Day has now been representative elicited the following facts: is at a standstill in this part of the world;
reduced output. for want of coal. provincial club has carried off the recognised as a public holiday. whichThe train was the Up Bombay mail, factorice are closed or working at a highly bonour. Kilmarnock were once before in regularizes practice instituted by your Mrs. Culebrooke Taylor had another lady only, way of livelihood is illid: tracing, Che and, and that was of years ago. The patriotie zeal and strengthens the bonds in the same compartment with her as far clied Schleich-handel
as Dhanbad after which she was alone. speaking parts of Europe.
Foting, feasting, dancing are the craze Albion Rovers, who have taken the place uniting all Britons throughout the worid of Armidale as the "whock" side, were in a common celebration year by year. The station before Hazaribagh Road, atat present, in the modern Babylons of Cen-
bardly Then again to-day sees our first assembly which Mrs. Colebrooke Taylor was to have tral Europe. Public safety at nights-
exista. Lucullan feasts are extend- ed until the dawn. Smuggled French Almost as a matter of course the final War which filled our anxious hearts for
after the definite conclusion of the Great alighted, was.Lidmob,
At Hazaribagh Road station, Conductor champagne, enviare, rare wa Ashes are
New Jazz steps- did not provide a great game in any re
become the rage, but the steps spect-a final racely if ever does. There more than four long-drawn years: prie Guard Mayne walked down the platform common at such orgies.
quickly passengers, whose resemble nothing ever seen in London was too much norve about for anything tically all our Shanghai man who came to inform the twe
destination it was, that they had arrived New York Dancing approaching fing, play. It spoiled the through the war have now returned, many at their station. It was past midnight
and night clube, of course, want finishing, which was very bad; there were I am glad to say to resume service in your and it might have been possible for them music. Quite, a. new generation of com- posers has taken the place of the old. long spells when it was almost deplorably
That they did well is what we to be asleep.
He saw a young man walking across the Gilbert Lebar and Leo Fall have dis bad. The styles of the two sides were looked for on the part of men drawn from platform and asked him You for this appeared. Engelberger and Stolz are new strongly contrasted. Kilmarnock played a Corps with your high ideals alike of station! The man said "Yes." He then musical "stars, and should not be nur- knew there was ong other-a lady in the prised if their catchy music soon capti- a short, sharp passing game, often making discipline and fellowship.
First Clasebo also had to alight there. vates London. mistakes Albion Roverswung the ball
He, approached Mrs. Taylor's compart- about, but were not fast-sough to get the
ment, and found the door slightly open. pashed it in and entered and found a defence into trouble. In the result, Kil.
lady upon the door. He thereupon walk marnock won by 3 goals to 2, and on play
ed out to look for assistance. should have won by rather more. SCOTTISH LEAQUE.
There will be no rue for the League Flag in the last lap of the competition Injuries handicapped Celtic; they were only able to draw at Motherwell, and the point thus lost extinguishes all bopes of their close hauling Rangers: The task of Rangers, also, was made easy by the ab sence of two leading men-from the Queen's Dunden werd well worth theirs ang Ba lings and Troup being in sparkling Jura. Clyde made a remarkably fne appearance. Clydebank thoroughly deserved their goals on play.
ranks
The S.V.C. deserved well of us all during the war, not only those members who were able to realize your common longing to go to the Front, but also those who were compelled to stand and wait while their comrades took part in active service. I venture indeed to suggest that their's was the harder part whom insuper able reasons kept here in Shanghai and to meet of them the Corps afforded a means of keeping fit and ready for the eagerly expected day of recall home, and gave assurance that they were not in fact standing, idle while others strove mightily.
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MISERY
In sharp contrast to the rich stands the.. poverty of the poor Pen can scarcely
Charles Booth's. describe their misery. accounts of the poverty of London reads He found & Mr. Sullivan upon the plat-like a fairy tale of Paradise compared form and called upon him to assist. Toge with the suffering of the Viennese or the ther they entered the compartment and dwellers in the. Budapest slums. It is a turned on the lights. They found Mrs common sight to see sixtees or seventeen Colebrooke Taylor upon the door shot people living in one room I myself hav through the bead with the revolver lying seen seven babies sleeping in a smali bate- upon her jeg.
tub In Vienas the poor get a State sub- But the State The police and the guard were instantly aidy informed and the Gaffingo locked and subsidy is 8, farce. It amounts to Efty sealed and taken to Gaya.
crowas a week, and & pound of meat, costic Mrs. Colebrooke Taylor is described as twice that amount
The only solution is work, work, and a young woman of about 24 or 25. The shot is said to have entered through ber again. work. But how to start, the work right temple. There was nothing missing Europe is at present Balkanised. A hand- in the compartment. All Mrs. Colebrooke ful of amall States age barring each Taylor'ssuancy and possessions were found other's way. New Chinese walls-not of In our British community before the
to be intact.
stone and mortar, but of matnak 'distrust war the Empire spirit burned none too Conductor Guard Mayne is said to have-potty quarreis, pass revisions and pass- brightly Shanghai is not within the declared that he heard no report.
Carriage containing Mrs. Taylor's com borders of our Empire and there was &partment was a composite one. A neigh tendency towards a cosmopolitanism which cared for none but local things and deem sed rather bad form any display of pride in
being British. But a few months of war Mr. Harry Wilfred Colebrooke Taylor changed all that. Thereafter our patriot is a Deputy Magistrate of Hazaribagh ism triumphed and we gave all we could Road and has been in the service since 1913,
He is 34 years of to the Empire's causé For that happy cervico ere placed under the army reformation such credit is due to
the bis spirit inculcated in your Corps to which The British authorities turned again and
again for support,
The table shows Rangers with 37 games and '63 points; Celtic, games and 38 pointe Motherwell stand third with points; and Dundee are fourth with 46. SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
Rangers 2 Ayr, -1, Third Lanark, 2; Mothwell, a Partick Thistle, T; Hibs, 0 Hamilton, 3; Queen's Park, Q. Albion Rovers, 0; Celtic, B. Morton, Clydebank, 1. Hamilton, 2; St. Mirren, 1.
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PRIZE MONEY. "Truth" of April 14th has the follow ing pointed note on the much vexed question of prize money:
PATRIOTISM TRIUMEBANT.
The
bour (a man) in the adjacent compartment also declares that he did not hear any report of the revolver shot.
on
port regulations have been erected,
Glance at the industry of Austria Viennese industry depends entirely Czech brown coal and Silesian anthracite. Both are in Czech hands. The Czechs are reluctant to supply the necessary coal for Austria, hoping to remain masters of the industrial market. Austria, for the bun- dredth time of saying, cannot live under During the war presentence conditions at der saw- materials and all possibility of acquiring any have passed away into Czech hands
department and he was attached to the combined France Labour Depot at Ranchi
since February, 1917–
A.
KEBUFF TO DE VALERA“ ·
SOUTHERN HOSTILITY TO SINN FEIN. SINA
The revolver used was an oid one, dod To you the memory of the war year cribed by those who have seen it as an must ever be satisfaction as well sa
Six photographs were a stimulus: and I am sure that, whenever ancient weapon." you and your successors recali that strem taken of the body prior to burial. Mrs. ful period there will be recalled also your Colebrooke Taylor is said to have been comirandanta, civil and military, who Road Station on the night of the tragedy. travelling from Howrah to Hazaribagh
At a great mass meeting attended by throughout these trying times gave un- grudgingly such eminent service to yourre Taylor's maiden name was Mary High Court, Judges, clergymen, men of community until the return of peace en- Bigby. She was the daughter of the late businces, and working men, beld at Bir
Dr. Rigby of Ranchi, and has a mother mingham (Alabama) on April 26th,
in Travancore. She was left a strong resolution of protest was adopted
nbied them both. to seek most honourable table ailowance by her father. She against the indulgence extended in other
rest in retirement. Major Trueman has set an example which every British volun- teer may well strive to follow an example second to none of unselfish work for the Empire's interest in Shanghai.
A further point of interest in to-day's ceremony is that it affords the oppor tunity to band in a public and official manner to wo Shanghai Britons marks of distinction won in the war.
DECORATIONS FRESENTED.
Lt. Col. Hayley Bell, D.8.0., then presented two returned soldiers to Bir
Married Mr. Taylor eight years ago and was mother of two children, a girl of seven and a boy of about five.
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NEW UNITED STATES
CONSULATE..
CENTRE FOR MONGOLIAN TRADE
When the attack was being held up by west
parts of the country to the mischievona activities of Mr. De Valera.
The meeting declared that the proposed isit of Mr. De Valora for the purpos of spreading contemptible falsehood, and misinformation in behalf of the clement in Ireland that stands before the world as notorious traitors, slackers, and ProGer- mans constituted an affront to the Stalo of Alabama It proceeded to brand as disloyal Americans all residents and or The United States Department of State, ganizations, ecclesiastical or political, in Everard for the presentation of decora acting upon the advice recently sent to this country who give comfort or sympathy ions, Mr. Grant Jones reading the record Washington by Mr. C. C. Eberhardt, to the Sinn Fein movement" and of the leats for which the decorations were American Consul General at Large, has declare that the treason and hostility of granted. They were:-
deeded
to open an American Consulate at the Sinn Feiners toward America and its Military Cross-god.-Lt David Guild Kalgan, in the northern part of Chibli Allies in the war forever bars that element from any favourable consideration at the Latimer, 12th. Battalion, Machine Gun Province
Province, Kaligan is situated on the hands of the Ameroon moopre Сотри
Finally the resolation called upon tho Peking and is the starting point machine-gun fire, he crawled forward in for the great caravan robte! across Gobi President and the Alabama delegation to full view of the enemy, and under intense Desert to Urga and Kischer. It is a large Congress immediately to take the necessary machine-gun fire, and with the help of a centre for the trade in, leking, hides and steps to effect the early deportation of non-commissioned officer, got a gun into wool, and the farge Amemican interests De Valers and all his foreign associates position, which he fired himself,, and put there are represented by Andersen, Meyer
The Alabast
resolutions have helped to the enemy gun out of action. Our advance and Company the Mongolian and bring the Irish, problem once more to the was then able to continue. His prompt and Company and the Standard Oil Company fore-front of public discussion.
Great gallant conduct undoubtedly saved many. As difficulties with the local authorities prominence is given to a London dispatch casualtice, and prevented a critical do and with the desert brigands bave velopment of the situation.
frequent in the past there has for some firming the existence of a Sinn Fein plos
in America
to foment simultaneous dia- Distinguished Conduct Medal:-Ser-time been a feeling in commercial tribunna the word "expenses" might a gedni, E. L. Gladwith, King Edward's that the United States Government should turbancer in Egypt, India and Canada. The World, on receipt of this dispatch, well be used frankly. The plain "fact Horse
open a constate at Kelgan. is that considerably more than one-third For great courage, initiative and devo- Mr. J Paul Jamieson is the American addressed an inquiry to the State Depart of the naval prize money has been spent tion to duty in action under fire.
official designated to open the Kalgah ment, receiving the reply, natural enough Consulate H a member of the Ameri in the aircumstances, that the oficiale are mainly in counsels' fees and other law} /
alléged without costs, Prize Court in a necessary in stitution of determining the validity of The nenal festive gathering marked the can Consular Service in China, having
The interesting sugge tion, however, a captare. But there ought to be some reception given by the British members of risen from the ranks of the student interplot. Information of
preters, and was last stationed as Consul protection for the Service against auch & the Shanghai Club to their fellow memat Nadking. Mr. Jamieson went to the was vonchanted to the World' that "the monstrous levý on the funds before the bers during the tiffin hour. Mr. R. G. United States on home leave last year and disposition here is to believe thaty Bol
MacDonald welcomed the guests on behalf Court, simply for the benefit of lawyeth of the British-asembers, proposing the still at Washington. He is expected to sheviste rather than bonade Irish gy- Now that there gentry-have-skimmed the arean off the milk perhaps the Account sal loyal ton followed by that of the take up his new post in China within ant-General will get on with the business lives to save our liberty.
men who died in the war and gave their & ley Rock-Japan Advertiser. of sharing.
The Navy has become tired of posses sing its soul in patience pending the distribution of prize money, and i will not find much consolation in the official statement of the receipts and payment in the Admiralty Division of
the Supreme Court in prizes. The total amount collected down to the end of Varch last year was £16,889,597. Of this £26,098,294 has gone in what are called payments, but as there has born no dis
PEKING CANARD OF AFGHAN INVASION.
10,000 CAVALRY GO INTO BRITISH TERRITORY
RECEPTION AT THE CLUB.
AUTOMOBILE MAGNATE VISITING JAPAN.
STEAM YACHT “* SAPPHIRE."
ARRIVAL AT KOBE.
LEANINGS.
exists, inasmuch as it is definitely known that the Bolsheviste have fized. pathizers, are behind the movement if ne
plans for an uprising in India and Egypt. Mr. Frank R. Wsich, who wan one of the delegates who visited Ireland during the Peaco Conference, replied to a question concerning the difference between the Irish Republic and the Soviet Govern- Viscount Furnese, one of England's ment in Russia, saying that there is no M. C. G. Fisher, who, with her, hus realest shipowners, with Viscountess difference...
The impression thas created is
deepened band, recently endowed the £900,000 Barns and a party of friends reached Aquarium at Miami, Florida, is a visitor Kobe from Southampton on the steam by the violent. tirade delivered by Mr. According to a Chinese dispatch pub in Japan, arriving board the as, Siberia yacht Sapphire on May 18th. The party Daniel Cohalan, a Justice of the Supremet lished in Japan paper
the Maru accompanied by Miss Meri Hagen. includes: Lady Drogheda, Lady Bars Court of New York, whose, Pro-German Peking, Government has received Mr. Fisher is one of the big men in the Wilson, Captain Straker, Captain Wilson, sympathies during the war were notoriour... dispatch from General Yang Teng-hsin, automobile industry in the United States, Dr. Garvin and Mr. Rankin, besides three Mr. Cohalan describes Bir Auckland Geddes's statement as a tissue of arrant Military Genernor of Hsinkiang, report who inspired and put through the Lincoln maids and two valots. ing that 10,000 Afghanistan cavalry, are and Dixie Highway, the automobile road Viscount and Viscountess Furness and hypocrisy and English midd-class imper invading British territory.
that connects the Atlantis and the Pacific, party left Kobe for Kyoto, and proposed linence, and proceeds to declare that Instructions were accordingly sent to shine he also built the great automobile spending several weeks in Japan before Americans will only consent to friendly the Military Governor to maintam a race track at Indianapolis, where most of leaving Yokohama for Honolulu, whence relations with England when that tonate
attitude concerning Aigle the ld's automobile records have been they will go to San Francisco. From Ban takes its Army out of Ireland, India, and Afghanistan hostilities and for this established. Mrs. Fisher is a member of Francisco, the Sapphire will make for Egypt. He repeats the well-worn argus purpose to guard the frontier and to za party of about twenty-five who are to New York, by wax of the Panama Canal ment that the Irish Repubile farnishes the permit naither the transport of provi tour the Orients under the guidance of and after spending some time in Now only means of safeguarding the world from overmastering peril of British Navaliem, Fons nor the pusage of Afghan troops representatives of the American Express York the party will return-to-England the
hough Chinens territory.
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