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CABLES.
BARLIER CABLES,
[THOUAN PETER'S AGENCY.]
UNREST IN IRELAND. AMERICAN INTERFERENCE
DEPRECATED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1020.
WORLD SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.
FRANCE AND THE. SOVIET GOVERNMENT.
ANXIETY INCREASING.
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS TÓ LONDON REPRESENTATIVEL LONDON, June 7th.
PARIS, June 8th. Anxiety is increasing over the prospects
It is Le Petit Parisien understands that M. of a world shortage of" wheat. pointed out that sowing has declined in Milierand has definitely-instructed__JL
Debalgouet, the French economic repre) NEW KAVIDI, CONN., June 8th.
"all-the-
"greas wheat" producing countrie inambers of the Yale University United States exports next season will be
sentative in London, not lo associato him- Sixty
als with any decision which might be ve at a protest to Congress against
practically all.
Australia has bene to interpreted as indirect recognition of the Any Congressions! resolution or item'in is political programme touching the relapare, while Rusia" is exporting only a Moscow, Government or in any way con promise the security of French creditors Lions of Britain and Ireland. The protest fraction of her former exports.
represented by the gold seized by the Bol-
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OUR LONDON „LETTER, SIR JOHN JORDAN AND BRITISH' RESIDENTS IN CHINA.
HOLDING THEIR OWN AGAINST
· COMPETITORS! **...
[YBOW QUR'OWS CORRESPONDENT. ] -
THE CHINA SOCIETY
IN..
LONDON.
AFTERNOON RECEPTION AND
DANCE
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WOMEN IN HONGKONG.
June 8th, The finals of the Tennis Tournament were played off yesterday, and once more a Chinaman carried off the honour", and a peretly wonderful giant, cup, which was too big for either Roms or "Panch." Miss Bowen dressed prottily in blue wish
The China Society held a Reception at the De Vere Hotel. Kensington. on the „Iternoon of April 9th. His Excellency LONDON, May 8th.
the Chinese Minister. President of the
a picture hat, presented the prizes; and -1-am glad to be able to record that Sir Society, and Madame Sze received the the fun started. The proceedings were John Jordan's arrival bone on retirement gasts, amongst whout were Sir John and
interrupted by nuny litt unrehearsed from his long and distinguished service Lady Jordan. His Excellency Viscount effiets, the sort of thing that can be mors in China bas achieved the useful purpose chinda, the Japanese Ambassador: and"
or less gonnted upon to niake Hongkong of directing public attention afresh to Far Viseuntess China. His Excellencs Taifunctions different from similar shows in East problems. The newspapers pay the Chinese Minister to Spain. and
'character, his matchless knowledge of the
recalls resentment felt in the United States). A loading miller interviewed by the beviste from the Russian State Bank, glowing tributes to his, work, his high Madame Tai, unl Hi Exellency Tang. any other part of the world, To begin during the Civil War of 1861-05 at any | Daily Mas declared the position to bo Anglo-French agreement in this connection) chinese, and his desire to promote cioser/ndy Addis and purty, Sir Edward Dení. with, people woückered whether the presence
foreign interference. RESULT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELBOTIONS.
LONDON: June 8th. The Irish Local Government elections masulted in a sweeping victory for Sion Teinism, except is the North East of Ulater County and Londonderry. A great! majority of the Irish County and District Councils are: now exclusively Sinn Feis, The position of Uister is substantially as
most serious. Failurs of next year's crops would mean 'famipe. The price of the lost would be nearer two shillings than mine- pence, unks home production were doubled DK compared with pre-war Sgures.
ANOTHER NATIONAL RAILWAY
Mi
BRITISH LABOUR.
STRIKE PENDING.
LONDON, June 6th.
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appears to be complete.
M. KRASSIN'S MISSION, NOT LIKELY TO BRING USEFUL
RESULTS.
trado relationship between Britain ned China
in-
Ross. C.1. and Lady Ross, Sir J. His Excellency the Governor, and Lady Stubbs had been an unexpected honour, . MeLeavy-Brown," C.M.G., Lady Hillier.
!fur they were left standing in the crowd The Daily Mail tried to interview Sir; and Sir John Tilly. Dancing was Joba a few days ago, but all he would tell dulged in, and at interval between the to listen to the species and watch the the representative of Carmelite House was dances Mi Dorothy Ewens, daughter of prizegiving, and when all was over they that he is at present"in attendance at the late Mr. Creasy Ewens, of Hongkong. had to push their way through the narrow LONDON, June 6th,
the Foreign Office. To an Evening) gave some violin" solos," which were much entrance, just as though the Governay wit The Daily Telegraph says that the negotiations with Mir. Krassin have hither.Sianord interviewer he was, howover. [appreciated. Miss Ewens is taking up the King's representative. It was profession. Lady surprising, and one could hardly think Ho stated that no violin pinging as more communicative. to not given results indicating that a pro- longed stay of M, Krassin in London is far as our trade is concerned British rest-Denison-Rims kindly accompanied her. In it was gratifying to many, to find so
the following guests attended : - likely. It is pointed ous that M. Krassindents in China often complain that the addition to the names already mentioned, strange an interpretation of democracy in one of Hongkong's oldest institutions, Dowager Lady Head. Lady Cameron,
While that "urt, of quitted" Moscow several months ago, and people at home do not appreciate an
Forcest, Mr.G. Stewart, M.P., and Mrs. thing is all very well in theory, as the re before, except that the Unionist majority. Mr. J. H. Thomas announced, ata has since lost the conâdence of the red fquately the magnitude of our interests in Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Townsend, Mrs, the Cricket Club
that country. He added:
Stewart. Mrs. Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. As one who has spent 7 years in Paul H. King and party, Mrs, and Miss presentative of the King, the Governor the Far East, I can certainly bear Parker, Sess, Mr. F. J. Abbott and Miss of Hongkong has every claim to our testimony to the splendid work that is Phyllis Abbott, Mr. A. G. Wood. Mry, being done by the British commanity and Walter and Miss C. Walter, air, and pect and it is for us to insist that there the immense potentialities that exist, Mrs. W. Meade, Mr. James Orange, is no laxity in this direction under, a pri China is a very wealthy country, huge Mr. Alick Maclean, Mr. and Mrs. text of democracy, in extent and of great resources. TH. D. C. Jones, Ms MIPS, MA British people out there are extremely enterprising, and are doing very good and Mrs. P. E. O'Brien Butler and Miss
Catherine Butler, Mrson, I tie them are details like the presenta work. Through Chambers of Commercs D. A. G. Bell, Miss R. Powell, Mr. C. B. tion of a cup to the retiring Hon. Secre they have accomplished great things, and Hill, Mrs. Crigan, Capt. Westergard, Mr. tary, remembered at the last moment as are holding their own well against com.
and Mrs. D'Iffanger, Lady Hart, Mr. and petitors.
de have no fear n all for our
Mrs. A. G. Angie, Mrs. Bruce Robertson, a, afor-thought when the crowd had, Mr. G. B. Dodwell, Dr. and Mrs. Beid. begun to disperse, so that the poor little The lamed often herd, however, Mr. B. Dipple, Major Percival Yelts Mr Words of praise tumbled over each other that we cannot get goods quickly enough! A. Dissy, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hillier, from England and in copsanence orders Mr. and Mrs. Hardid Hillier, Mr. H. C in helpless confusion, making a pretty have been sento America. A little Sandford, Mr. I. F. Brady, Mr. Watney, meilley of very good phrases in the wrong expediting in delivery of the goods from Mr. and Mrs Byron Brenns, Mr. näd
A KATROL ATTACKED.
LONDON. June 6th. A hundred armed men surprised a patrol -of-trulsu palicemen and soldiers between Carrigtwo Hill and Midleton and captured ➤ the patrol's rifle ammunition, and
bicycles.
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rulers who are only using him as a tool.
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
TO TAKE OVER EX-GERMAN ROUTES.
one in Tyrone has been converted into meeting of railwaymen, that the London ▲ minority of two.
Council of Railwaymen had decided", to reject the Wages Board Award cabled: last week. Mr. Thomas warned the moot- ing that the only alternative was national strike, which would be disastrous: The matter was being decided at a confer eace on July 6th." MINERS AND NATIONALISATION,
LONDON, June 7th. The Rt. Hon. W. Brace, presiding at conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation at Cardiff, said that the miners had failed to convince the public or the workmen of other trades of their honest desire, in pressing for nationalisation, to secure coal at reasonable prices" for the people; hence the miners had no alterna-FAMOUS MAUSOLEUM RIFLED tive but to withdraw cheap coal from the
NO SYMPATHY WITH THE MURDERERS.
LONDON, June Sil.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, at a meeting of rail. waymen at Batterien, declared that no one would accuse him of want of sympathy towards Ireland, yet he never could con- done thus - present) systematic murders, ~(Cheer»);~~Not even a labour-Government would tolerate such a state of affairs. Ires
"unless an understanding was achieved,
exorbitantly.
NEW YORK, June 6th. As a result of negotiations with repre- sentatives of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, who arrived in America several weeks ago, the American Ship and Commerce Cor aporation bas taken over the trade routes which the Hamburg-Amerika Line "aban- doned on the outbreak of war. -----It is stated that the agreement whereby American ships will be supplied to re-open the German routes holds for.twenty years,
GERMANY."
COPENHAGEN,,,June 5th.
land was on the eve of a great disaster, industries free to sell their own products A telegram from Weimar says that rob
bers broke into the Princes Mausoleum and stole the gold and silver wreaths from the
Lector, Duke Karl Alexander.
MORE TROOPS FOR THE WEST COAST,
Lesbos, June uh. Tau gure destroyers eft Queenstairs to-day for the. „Wear Const conveying 300
marines,
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THE PORT OF LONDON,
SHIPPING FIGURES ON JUNE NÅ
LANDON, June 8th, Statistics for the Port of London on
OUTRAGE-IN COUNTY --KERRY. Jano and how that 97 ships with a tonnage hot 997,117, were discharging and 36, with LONDON, June th Concealed Sinn Feiners fired on a milia tonnage of 101,761, were loading. None tary patrol in County Kerry.. The troops wore waiting in dock or on the river... returned the fire, capturing three of the attackers
DISASTER AT GRANWELL.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £250,000,
LONDON, June 6th.
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TURKEY.
FORTNIGHT'S EXTENSION TO EXAMINE PEACE TERMS.
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home would be beneficiat, for the Mrs. H. H. Joseph, Str. H. F. R. Hater-plow for instance, The Cricket Club Chinese are always eager to take our Mr E Probst, Mr. and Mra. "Blackwell, has deserved, well of Mr. Hodgson," goods
Mr. M. W Slade, Miss S and M Susan
ABUNDANT OPENINGS.
effort
Slade, Mrs Crowe, Mrs. Amoy Lay. Mr. Well, the intention and the thought behind Wright, Mrs. N. J. Stabb, Mrs. Hilda it were gracious and it was a well-deserved Coming from one in Sir John Jonian position this testimony carries exceptional Beauclerk, Mr. and Mrs. W.il. Dickinson tribute to Mt. Hodgson and everything weight here may be noted that he and Misses Dickinson, Mr. Boisragon,
respecting the Mrs. T. E. Hughes wat Hi Fronar was nice and hopvely and very amusing, tort that is being made in certain quar Hughes, Mr. and Miss Greig, Mrs. Arnold though obviously, there was just a little Chaplin, Mr. and Mrs, and Miss Judd, ters to concert Chinn into a military nito, e Farrow, Miss Aglen. bis too much of the haphazard und tion Sixty-five per cent. of the revenue,
* Maskse " method in the organization. Mr. Gordon Williams, Mr. A. H. H. Sir John says, is now being spent on McLean, Fan McLean. and Miss Mclean, but then unseasonable weather had caused - militarism, and be mentions the
Arement
Mr. and Miss Murray, Mr. Charlton that only important feet on the world
ncan J Kent, Mr. and MeLennan, Dr. Duncan
tom of Schiller, Goothe, and their pro would follow China's acceptance of mil; Thorne, Dr. Roy Thorne, Major GA. many delays.
NO DISTURBANCES AT THE
"ELECTTONS
tary ideas. He regarda China as a coun try without a beat, for the President's power is limited, and in the present transi tion period there are possibilities that BERLIN, June theither we nor thing can affect to ignore." The elections throughout Germany took BRITISH EMPIRE POWELL, place to-day: There were no disturbances SOME OF THE ELECTION RESULTS.
BELLIN, June 7th.
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The military contingent came out strung Mrs. de R. Latard, and Miss Layard, Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Hyman, Miss M. Painter and Mr. A, S. Haynes Many in the prize list, Civilians have been of the members brought each their own heard to say that soldiers have more time party, bringing the total-of-g:wests-to- hearly two hundred,
for games than business, for our local then never can manage to get to this Tennis Courts, via the Club, mach before It seems, however, that the
No doubt comparison of sometimes. inevitable, but is it our fault that the war left the British Empira larger in extent than it was before the great upheavalsary it is infinitely more cruel and undown, According to a message from Paris Maltogether intolerable to fetter the other starting ebances must have been about
It is a bad thing to The first provisional results of the Elec-Andre Fribourg, & Deputy who is also sure who tions show that in North Berlia the Secretary of the Committee of Foreign be a log: hut it is worse to be chained to scratch, for moet of the military men have Majority Socialists poiled 19,000; the "Affairs, is telling his countrymen to mark log. This is the view which I find gen-ben playing a more serious game than
erally heid by the secular Press, n how Britain stands to-day. He points out
tennis during the last five years, Independent Socialiste, 4000; the Centre, that it is possible to go from the Cape to fairly represents public opinion. 3,000; the People's Party, 11,000; the Singapore overland without leaving Bri LABOUR AND MAY DAY. National Party, 10,000; and the Com- tish territory or territory which is under
British influence.. muniste, 1,000.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Junosib. The Allied High Commissioners have At Halle, the Majority Socialist polled informed the Porte that the Peace Coo10,000; the Independents, 34,000 the ference has granted a fortnight's extension Democrats, 13,000. The of time to examine the Pence terma.
One hundred and fifty of the most modern aeroplanes were destroyed by fire in a shed in an aviation, school at Cranwell. damage a estimated at £230,000 An enquiry is being held
SCHOOL FIRE AT BIDEFORD.
PLUCKY ENG. 18H GIRLS.
LONDON, June 6th.
IMPUDENT ULTIMATUM FROM
THE NATIONALISTS...
Lepon, June 7th." The Daily Express correspondent "at Constantinople says that in reply to the impudent ultimatum of the Turkish Nationalists, ordering the British forces so withdraw from lemid, warships in the Bea of Marmors shelled "the Nasionalis
British deacbmm advanced from the smoke-filled dormitories and marphed amid to Adabazar to strengthen the
A fre broke out at two in the morning in a Methodist boarding-school at Bids ford. One hundred and forty girls, roosed positions. by their mistresses, paraded very calmly in
in their nightdresses and barefooted`into | present line. the gale-swept grounds, They thes
pluckily assisted the volunteer firemen The building, and the clothing of the girls, were destroyed in half an hour. The AN AUDACIOUS CAREER. "damage is estimated at £40,000,
THE SPA CONFERENCE.
MAY BE POSTPONED AGAIN,
:
At Frankfort, the Majority Socialists polied 21,000; the Independents, 19,000.
leading in Offenbach and Nuremberg..
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CONGRÈSS ADJOURNS, · HARP REBUKE FROM PRESIDENT
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You have learned by the cabled reports The great event of last week, was that how May Day celebrations passed off in Reception and Ball at Government House The British have 3,000,000 square miles Europe. There were some broken beads and for once, opinion as to the success in Asin, siys M. Fribourg, 5,400,000 square in Paris, where the Socialists fell foul of the evening is unanimous Everything
ments. Beautiful decorations, splendid- miles in Africa, and 3,200,000 in Oceania; of Authority: but in Enginnd the occasion with top hole--no hitch in the arrange and be proceeds to contrast this vast area was unmarked by any untoward incident. #ith the size of England, which consists The May Day demonstrations held here supper, and gracious lost and busters, and were on a larger scale than anything of humour was supplied by the long row of only 121,377 square miles,
this of official-looking pillars of State, whe Of course the Frenchman's implication the kind ever before attempted in that the British did very well out of country. But they proved a bitter dis The Majority Socialists are likewise war in the matter if territorial appointment to our extremists and prof with their consorts, sat in grim splendour upon the seats of the mighty, consoling dominion and power. But what would signal fomenters of trouble. These enter themselves for exclusive dullness by get you have? Before 1914 Britain was prising gentry tried all they knew to ting their heads together and discussing already sated with territory, and since organise something on the Continental the sartorial efforts of their friends and then as a result of the world war which model, but their efforts at strife-making
Girie, I am told, feel slightly aggrieved we tried to avert-the march of events has proved abortive. In London and sovezal entries. What an opportunity they had given still larger possessions. It of the big industrial centres of the
pro- reminds me of Mark Twain's joke that the vinces there were monster processions with because the lovely and romantic garden British are mentioned in the Bible: bands and banners, and nothing could was so brilliantly illuminated that you Blessed are the meek for they shall in have been more orderly than the crowds might have been sitting in an open air everywhere. The demonstrators whom I restaurant at the Paris Exhibition. Thus, watched marshalling themselves on the hopes of resulta from a favourable com
of circumstances-thean, Embankment and afterwards marching to catenation Hyde Park were simply a huge, cheerful, the girl, the garden and the moonlight
not heard that Lady. Stable' first-hig holiday-making throng, chiefly concerned were blighted. Up to the present, we have in having a good day's outing.
If there were any real Bolshevist fecing effort has resulted in any society engag widespread in the country it would have mant. Perhaps next time the lights will manifested itself on May Day. It can be be less disturbing. Costumes were more. truthfully recorded that no evidence of remarkable for painstaking effort m
There this could be found; and this confirms what smartness than for effectiveness.
WILSON.
WARRINGTON, June 8th. President Wilson, replying to the re-berit the earth ** quest of the Railroad Brotherhood to pre-- THE PRINCE ABROAD. vent the adjournment of Congress, sharply | criticises the failure of Congress to deal with the cost of living, and deplores its insation in other vital matters.
Ha declares that Congress is not only Thure is no, intention o connju | preventing the conchesion of peacy with Nationalist territory...
Europe, but has failed to present a con- siructive plan dealing with the deplorable Foonditions there.
LATIN Congrown has adjourned sine die,
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
TOUR OF VICTORIA CONCLUDED.
MELBOURNE, June 6th. The Prince of Waien pubbe programme. in Victoria coscluded to-day with a bril- Hart gala performace at the Thestra,
MURDERER MEETS HIS FATE.
LONDON, June 6th, The audacious career of an ex-soldier named Toplis,who murdered a taxi- driver at Andover in April and had since eluded pursuit throughout the country, will probably be adjourned until July 8th ended at Penrith, where he was surround
PARIS, June 8th. Le Matin states that the Spr Conference
Stories of the Royal Australian Tour are beginning to come back by mail. The enthusiasm evoked at every place visited by the Prince has been quite extraordia- ary; and the addresses presented to him so numerous that one wonders what will be done with them eventually.
I think that out of the many addresses received that presented to the Prince at I have repeatedly emphasised in this cor: is no getting away from the fact that our Panama deserves a special place because respondence that British Labour opinion pleimage wilts in summer, in spite of a it is so quaintly worded. It rend: " In on the whole is not represented by the feminine desire to look smart and up-to- frantic supplication we fing ourselves frothy outpourings of these extremists who da. Everything is against us in the the feet of Almighty God to shower His gain the upper and fram time to time, hot weather and new-comers, arriving in If we and have ancceeded, occasionaly in stam our dog days, always describe us as n blessing upon your Highness.
workers into be allowed another paragraph may we then peding sections of the be permitted in this final gasp to expres our desire that your Royal Highness will greatly enjoy your short visit to this port
It can well be imagined how that final gasp amused the Royal traveller. -DIVORCE LAW.HEFORM.
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lightning strikes and other aggressive dowdy, uninteresting, plaia-looking crowd. manifestationa
M. Millerand and Mr. Lloyd led by Police corden, after an excha¤g® The Prince was accorded a tumultuous Passing through the House of Lords maken ibly promised them by some of their re- woman. It takes & Frenchwoman to wear
or 6th. George.will meet at a French coast town of revoluez shots in which Tophia wna thời before the end of June,
through the heart. Toplin was also accused
THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT
SENATOR JOHNSON OPENS VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.
*LONDON, June ätb.
The Timer mye that Convention sacile mont bas begun in Chicago, where the Republican Nations Convention is being held next week. Benator Hiram, Johnson has already opened a vigorous compaign.
-reception.........
of shootings in Scotland sad numerous
FAR
hold-ups.
OBITUARY.
BIR CHARLES MATTHEWS.
Loxnow, June 6th,
The death is announged of Bir Charles Matthews,
A FAMOUS NOVELIST. The death is animæed of the noveliss, Mias Rhoda Broughton."
The British workingman is frankly out
In winter we smarten up in tailor-made- to get as much as be car for himself aa regarda higher wages and shorter hours. uit, dark hats and nice dark shoes and
stockings, which "hide our tendency t We shall probably have serious strikes in develop thick ankles in this trying climate. future. But the workers-show-not the
"The tailor-made neat style of dressing in The Duke of Northumberland's amend lightest inclination to try any of the short ment to the Divorce Bill which is slowly cuts to the Earthly Paradise which is so the ideal ostume for the average English- sloppy clothes becomingly, and even the the plain man almost dispair, The Duke volutionary guides.
Buffers and deteriorates in the East. AIT moved to amit a provision that incurable FUTURE OF PALESTINE:
the modern fashion plates portray one insanity should be deemed a ground for The statesmen at the San Remo confer slender cool-looking young things deckril divorce and be was supported in this by ence decided that Palestine is to be a na-out in clothes of such unnatural curves the Archbishop of Canterbury. Another tional home for the Jews, Naturally the that they could only be worn by a special" EASTERN CABLE amendment was proposed to knock out a Zionists are jubilant; but an old jearn. ly manufactured woman. Perhaps evole
NEWS:
olance making habitual drunkenne alist friend, who has just returned from tion would produce the type, if any parti stopnd: and bere again the road towards a mission to the country, tells me that if cular fashion, lasted long enough. Whe reform was biocked (but without muccess), the people were placed directly under local tailors try to make dresses, like the {THROUGH ELUZER'S AUKNOY.}
Jewish rule it would convort Palestine into pictures, and local Amahs wash and iron by the major clergy.
According to the Archbishop it would be second Iraland. The mixture of races them, pathos results, and after futile ŠIR JOHN BUCKNILL.
cruel to inflict on aspouse incurably there simply will not have the Jews over efforts to fight nature, and mould oneself irizine the additional suffering of divorce them; and recent disturbances in Jerusalem according to
"The Vogue" art But to this the obvious retort is What have their chief erkin in thie. Perhaps Fashions For All one decides to he Sir John Backnili, Chief Justice of the of the spouse who is sane and well. What as Britain is to be the mandatory Power content with an ideal state of comfort and Strait Bettlements and formerly Attorney-eyer may be the ideas of a hopeless lunatic it will case hostility to the Children of and freshness in dres, and the tenamby about the marriage tie-if, indeed, auch Israel; but we chall sce Meanwhile it
tions do not really suffer for their sanity General of Hongkong, has been appointed person, can know or care about it at aliis interesting to have the testimony of an
unbiased observer..... Puisse Judge of the Patna High Court, (Continued at foot of neat onluma.).
LONDON, June 5th.
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