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ABLES.
· LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH ASUTWR'S AGRICT-]
SINN FEIN OUTRAGE,
POLICE COMMISSIONER BHOT DEAD
LONDON, July 18th. The Munster Police Commissioner, Colanet Smyth, has been asasinated in he County Club at Cork...
Fourteen armed man forced their way into the club and fred on the Commissioner who fell riddied with bullets and died
almont, immediately."
-There is unusual military activity in Cork, and some arrests have been made,
An ex-soldier who became friendly with the military has been killed,
HOW SINN FEINERS ENTERED CLUB. A dozen men at 11-o'clock at night walked một thẻ Cinh. Some guarded the door
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18T, 1020.
END OF THE WAR.
WHEN IT WILL OFFICIALLY COME,
Loyoos, July 18th.
An Order in Council itates, in order to remove misapprehension, that the date of the tormization of war with Germany was January 10th last, but the termination of the war as a whole will be when the last of the peace treatise is signed and ratified. SUICIDE OF GERMAN PRINCE SUFFERING FROM MELANCHOLIA.
BERLIN, July 19th. Prino Joachim who was suffering from great mental depression has shot himself, INTERNATIONAL MERCA N
TILE MARINE. LARGE INCREASE IN GROSS
EARNINGS.
NEW YORK, July 19th. The gross earnings of the international mercantile marine last year was $87,500,000,
as compared with $34,300,000 in 1918. The grote in 1919 were $17,825,000, a com- pared with $13,000,000 in the year pre vion. The surplus was $30,195.000.
EARLIER CABLES.
and others proceeded to the smoking room, where Colonel Smyth, who was a Victoria Crosa holder, was talking to two other gentlemen. The raiders fired several shots-INSULT TO THE FRENCH FLAG
Colonel Smyth, who rose, staggered, and tried to run again, was shot and fell dead.
The County Inspector, Mr. Craig was! wounded in the leg. The raiders then dis-! 1 appeared.
Colonel Smyth's same was prominently
GERMANY AGREES TO MAKE AMENDS.
SPA, July 18th.
A Havas message says! --- It is reported that France has since the
mentioned in the House of Commons last following demands in connection with the week owing to the speech which he was insult to the French flag in Berlin: The alleged to have made to the police at chief of Police to be dismissed; a personal Leniowel (7- Listowel), ordering' the men apology by von Daniel and the German not to be afraid to shoot effectively. He Foreign Office to be given to the French bað just returned from London where he Embassy in the presence of a guard of had given the Irish Office an explanation | Reichswehr-saluting-at-the-ceremony-of- of the affair.
re-hoïsting the flag. The German Govern, -FIGHTING-IN-MESOPOTAMIA--ment-is-said-to-have yielded an all pointy
COMMUNICATION RESTORED BETWEEN BASKA AND SAMAWA..
ALLAHABAD, July 17th.
CZARINA'S JEWELS IN
·AMERICA.
A message from Bagdad states that IN POSSESSION OF A MASSACHU
SETTS CLERGYMAN.
THE SITUATION "AT PEKING.
6,000 CASUALTIES IN THE
FIGHTING. Hon.
ACUTE FOOD SITUATION IN THE CAPITAL.
..
·{FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
PING, June 19th. Apparently there has been no further Aghting on the Eastern front
the fighting are estimated to have been about 6,000 up to the present.
The casualties in
The Frontier Defence Force is suffering from defciens commissariat.
The centre of interest has been trans ferred to the Western Front where General Chang Tso-lin's troops are pouring in.
JAPANESE PIGEON SERVICE. BETWEEN TOKIO AND ISLES OF IZD.
The project of a sobniarine cable to Hachijojima kaving been given up, the | Japanse Government has now decided to → insugarase a -ystem-of-carrier-pigeons a
a means of communication between Tokyo and that remote island.
Hachijo-junu is the largest and souther most of the Isles of 1ựu, lying off the sust coast of Japan. Owing to the difficulties of irrigation, sericulture is the main capation of the inhabitants. Hachijoori is a particular weave of silk that is known over Japan. The island is abo famous for the camelis oil used by Japanese women for their hair which comes from Last March we received a request from pigeon said the military officer who is an official of Hachijo for 20 carrier. in charge of this branch of military com and munications. We granted his request,
and Since that time Mr. Kikuchi of the) to island has been studying the method of to using and the training of our-carrier
Tokyo
The city gates of Peking were closed on
Sunday, but were reopened partially to-day...
there.
..
OUR SCOTTISH LETTER. KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS.
ing tennis.
its
of it is illimitable; it has a vast spacious ness; and bracing winds sweep over sanda and turf. It is a place of freshness, -SCOTTISH RECIPIENTS,
of vigour, of movement. [710M OUR OWN COALESPONDENT]
Carnoustie's energising qualities react surprisingly on plifferent individuals, siya Junė stk.
"H." in the Sentiman 1 reenil,, ab The King's Birthday Honours list in one of the boarding-houses, a young woMAR Sir John Lorne Macleod, who is made a the day with a pre-breakfast swim. cludes a number of distinguished Scotsmen, from an effete London suburb. She began The Order, was much in the public wye as Lord noon she rested by again, bathing and play Knight Grand Crong of the British Empire forenoon was spent in golf. In the after-
khole time of the war. Provst of Edinburgh throughout the
In the evening there was aa- the post of Food Commissioner for Scot-any one to learn that in depth of colour He now occupies other round of golt. It will not surprise
she could give points to any native put Among the K.B. E.'s art James Dundas brown maidra." On the other hand, ab Grant, M.D., the eminent aural specialist, ablate from and adviser to the Ministry of Pensions, languid dip on sunny forenoons whet sko
Edinburgh manager. and Alexander Walker, director of John tide was suitable. Walker & Sons, Kilmarnock, a firm which he lulled in a deck chair in the garden, this year attains its centenary. He held several posts under the Ministry of Minifter the evening meal he managed to stroll tions, and since the Armistice has been a far as the newsagents for an evening "gged on reconstruction work.
paper. Thereafter he felt that he bad Baronetcies have been conferred "upon
earned a night's repose
landi
The food problem is very secta the Diplomats are being requested approach tha...military authorities permit one food train daily to reach Pigeons at Nakanu in the suburbs John Anderson. of P. & W. Anderwun, son-
Peking. The foreign hotels have only on day's apply.
F
During the afternoon
There is an alluring natural avenue, Recently an experiment with the tractors, Glasgow. He organised several sheldered by turf-covered ridges of sand. Pigeons Was successfally carried out from works for the Government, and had under which, on Sundays, is 'n fhionable pro Kojima, one of the Icu islands. Another his direction 15,000 men. The firm offered menade and a favourite spot for a siesta. experiment will be tried soon from Aoga-
hima, 36 nautical miles from Hachijo, and their whole organisation and staff to the During the rest of the week it is part of
the golf cour“. we have great hopes of sucčes. After this War Office as a complete working unit.”
This golf cotre a we will make the attempt from Tokyo." which was accepted, and as a result a very į
Carnoustie has discometrting effects om If communication with Tokyo and this large number of men were recruited for peuple. There is a stream which isolated spot by means of the pigenas is! actually established. the old saying "Tori the Royal Engineers. Peter Jeffrey golfers have been known to mim no chance. ma kayi wa u Hachijo-jima." To Mackie, of Corruith, Ayrshire, Chairman
For playing into it. Thus there has spring Hachiju. Island even the hire du not fly of Mackie & Co distillery. He has it regular industry
among the "The bark and forth (will pass out of the minds
Japan, into a thing of the past. At the of pedigree cattle to Bliodesia, and financed - of the people, like many other castons of tea mugh on Tariff Reform, made a gift meander all over the place, aad · good
Carnon the people of recovering golf balls. present time there is steamer communica
It is tion between Tokyo and Hachiji-jima with the Mackis Anthropological Expedition to from the water at a fixed tariff.
Uganda." John Henderson Stewart, Funderstood that the National Insurance trailings a month. 11"
sask Castle, Perthshire, sole partner of authorities considered carefully whether Alexander Stewart & Sonx. Ixtillers, this employment could properly is consid Dander, deputy chairman of the Sheffield' *red casual, and therefore free from the Steel Products, and chairman of the Soricity of stamping cards, as the regular- ty of the arrival of the balls seemed to Rubber Sponge Products. Professor James exclude that theory. The Social Affairs Bureau in the kaheld several academic poses tu, Glasgow Blacklock Henderson, a Glasgow gaan, wha Municipal Office entertains very optimistio
(THROUGH HAUTER'S AGENCY.]'
JAPANESE PROPOSE TO OCCUPY
RAILWAY...~
PEKING, July 17th. Fighting has occurred at Kwanhua. The wounded are: arriving to Teking. city quiet, but telegraphic and railway communication with Tientsin is interrupt Mediators despatched to reconcile the opponents have returned, having proved unsuccessful, in their efforts to mediate, I in reported from Tientsin, that the Japan- ewe were anxious to occupy the' railway to prevent the transport of troops, but the other commanders failed to agreo.
BISLEY-RESULT
LONDON, July 19th. "Lieut. F. D. Evans, Malay Staten, won the N. R. A. Badge and £a in the King's Prize competition at Bisley.
"
DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
"The
following diplomatic note way.
12
:
OSAKA UNEMPLOYED. TO BE EMPLOYED ON MUNICIPAL
ENTERPRISES.
views with regard to the question of the University, and is now Professor, if. unemployed, which is now becoming p Applied Mechanien, RN College, Green finent throughout Japan.
WHAT HE TOLD THE WIFÊ.
Of course a man does not tell his wife
That, at least was the view of a husband what is true, only what is convenient.""
wich, ga
as reflected in his evidence in the course Kaighthood's have been conferred up of a domestic inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Brown, Aberdeen, prominently Court. The husband was the first to step into the witness-box, and in answer to the
According to the hatest returns issued by the Bureau, the total number of workmen thrown out of employment up to June 20th.
Joha in that city numbered some 18,000. Of these, 12,000 men have been sent back to identified with the trawling industry. agricultural districts, but the rest are still Joseph Dobbie, S.S.C.. Edinburgh, a unemployed. The authorities intend to
them in a series of municipal enter employ
former member for Ayr Burghs, recognised Sheriff replied that he earned £3, s. a prises ander contemplation.
It is pati as an authority on mercantile and agri.week. He was followed by his wife who, A handsome fan. bought by the Czarrently handed to the Chinese Govern-mated that some 20.000 workmen will be cultural law. Henry S. Keith-Provost-off in the course of her evidence, remarked
required for the reclamation work "pro- The Foreign Powers have previously 100 posed in connection with the waterworks Hamilton. Walter Guy Kirkwood, late that her husband only earned £3, 104. per often had occasion to express their reconstruction, the construction of the Secretary of Post Office, Edinburgh.
fortnight... "But your husband tells us he nation of fighting at many points in Osaka Bay wharf and the repairs of the James Simpson, LL.B., Edinburgh, James carned £3, s. a week," said the Bench. China and also in the environs of the roads in the suburban districts. capital. The Diplomatic Corps wish to
Lawton Wingate, President of the Royal The look of amazement that passeal · fremra wife to husband caused the Sheriff hastily express their confidence in the President and trust that he will be able to exercise
to apologise for having intruded on domestic secret.
operations on the Lower Euphrates are continuing. A brigade, under Brigaller General Conyngham, has been concentrated of Russia as a love tokan for the Cearina in the Diwaniyah area and communication the first time, the royal couple visited Paris has been restored between Basrah and after their wedding, a baptismal bowl, Samawa by means of armoured trains 1,100 years old, from which all members of which co-operated with the defence vessels the royal family were baptized, several and troops at Samaa. "The defence braglots belonging to the Czarina and vessels recently sharply engaged the Arabs, number of other intimate trinkets. owned There is considerable effervescence in the by the adfortunate. Ciarina and her
FARM LABOURER'S FORTUNE. SENSATION IN MASSACHUSETTS HAMLET.
the generous principles of humanity, which FLOOD DAMAGES IN JAPAN. the loen factions may not understand.
MANY TOWNS SUFFERING. They also recall the solemn obligations, undertaken by the Chinese Government con-
Scottish Acadenzy.:
A GLENEAGLES GOLF STORY.
Colonel Bogey is a little late with this
HONOCE FOR LAHDER PROFESSOR
Professor John. Stephenson, Principal of Lahore College, Lieut-Col. I.M.8., has Shadyah district, irat elsewhere all is quiet, daughters are pow in the possession of the cerning the protection of foreigners, and Japan, reports continue to come in of dam. Society of Edinburgh, for a series of tale, but he says he has been out of town"
With the advent of the rainy kenson in been awarded the Keith Prize of the Royal Rev. Dr. John Logan Findlay, pastor of declare that they hold the Government reages caused by floods in various parts of papers on Old South Church, Worcester, Mass., andponsible for all injury incurred by fur the country.
Oligochaets and other Annelida. Ted Ray, of Oxley, playing in the recent The authorities annually
golf tournament at Gleneagles, lost a hole are stored" away in a local bank for sale
The first Royal Caledonian Ball sincy rather curiously. He broke the rules of eigners, or damage to their property re estimate large, Aums for the reconstruction ROYAL CALEDONIAN BALL, keeping, says the New York World.
Corps express the hope that dispositions that rain-swollen rivers, overflowing their the war, held in the Connaugh: Rooms, was the game by picking up an obstace that These articles were all purchased by the troops into Peking, and the use of aero
will be taken to avoid the entry of armed banks, annually are responsible for New Yox, July 18th. Rev. Dr. Findlay from rum-crazed soldiers planes to bombard the city. "
A message from Toyama reports that attended by the elite of Scottish Society lay in front of his ball in a bunker. That' The hamlet of Boyleston in Massachusetts of the Kerensky regime as they staggered JAPAN'S POLICY IN THE CRISIS.
owing to the successive and almost contins in London. Twelve, reels were danced. any professional should do so seems remark- ous falls of rain in that locality the Jinzu The first was a Sixteensome," and taking able bas experienced a great sensation by the out of the great Winter Palace in Petro-
But the explanation is that the river, which flows past that town, has m flowed its banks and nearly one third part in it were the Duchess of Athail, Lady obstacle was a lady's gold wristlet watch discovery that a local farm labourer David grad heavily laden with all kinds of "pro- Cant is one of the heirs to a million dollar perty owned by the Czar, Czarina and her We have been furnished by the Coast Fanatsa
| submerged."
the dwelling house in Toyun have been Alice Douglas-Sett, Sir Malcolm Murray, that had evidently been dropped by a fair" estate in Dundee for whom lawyers have children.
that several Lord James Stewart-alurray, and Lady member of the crowd upon the course. The soldiers had looted the place from following translation of an official cum the heavy rains. Many people are report danced in the other reeis were the Marquis doughty Ted.
General of Japan in Hongkong with the dinidges were swept away as a result of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Among those who Perhaps it was meant as a gift tn. the searched for years.
Did not Roman ladies of cellár to roof and seemed to take expecial muniqué announcing the policy followed to have lost their live, while over 20 joy-in-the-various trinketa-and-banbles by the Japanese Government in regard to were submerged,
of Bute, "Lady Margaret Douglas-Scott, fashion in the old days throw their jewels the present situation in China;—
the Countess of Elgin, Lady Semphill, the
a famous gladiators i found in the apartments of the Czarina
ENGAGEMENT. Marchioness of Bute, Lord Erskine, Lady and her unfortunate doughters,
Hay of Haystoun, Lord and Lady Edward Hya, the Earl of Cassillis, Bir Simeon
Cant is leaving Boyleston, to claim his inheritance,
GOVERNOR COX.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S SUPPORT.
WASHINGTON, July 18th After conferring an hour with Governor
BAPTISMAL BOWL OF SILVER, -
OFFICIAL DENIAL OF RITMODRA.
reports
The engagement is announced, and ther marriage will take place shortly in India, of Patrick Robert Cadell, C.S.I., C.I.E.,
Since the outbreak of disturbance in Hunan. which had every promise of still quite independent from the Frontier De- further complicating the political situa-fence Army itself, and are, therefore, shnt tien in China, the Japanese. Government ort from a semblance of interference in the The ancient baptismal bowl is small, of have maintained the attitude of strict neg- mobilization or disposition of that Army Stuart, Lord Carnegie, and Lady Mary Indian Civil Service, younger son of the silver, with an exquisite flower design on trality and impartiality, warning their They were, morever. admonished by the its exterior, which is carried out on the officials and subjects resident in China Japanese Government at the outset of the
Carnegie. inside the bowl. The Bower against any action that might be taken for present disturbance to have absolutely TUZ KORRISON FAMILY AND SPORT. Cox, the Democratic candidate for the motif inlaid in gold leaf on a rich, old interference in the political strife. As was nothing to do with the activities of the
centrepiece. Fresidency, President Wilson stated that blue enamel background, with the petals of feared, the winning hay down why. The instruction has been faithfully to Glasgow when his brother Reggie was Morrison of Peking was a frequent visitor the flowers, which number hundreds, setrated to a point where provinces of North followed by these officers. be had found that they were absolutely in in pearls and other precious stones. Tifern China are threatened with dire evils accord regarding the League of Nations. fany of New York valued this treasure at of military conflicts, the results of which,
$2,000.
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"
nobody can forener. Ax is gustomery in s
TSAO KUN'S MANIFESTO,
Iat Colonel Thomas Cadell, V.C., C.B., of Cockenzie, and Agnes "Aimce, elder daughter of Mr. John Kemp, of Lincoln's studying medicine at Edinburgh Univer. Iun. barrister-at-law, 1 Onslow Square, sity, say the Herald. One of his most inti- mate friends was the late James Steel, a
Iondon,
MARRIAGES.
Mr. Cox will have the support absolutely
The most gorgeous object of the collec.situation like the present, there have been. The following manifesto recently ad city-stockbroker,-who-along-with-Briga Mix Peggy Tennant, a popular men of the writed party in championship of tion is the large fan. The long white wat rumours that a certain group of insert by Genres Tago Kun to the P the honour of the United States and to feathers are mounted on carefully selected Chinese approached Japanese capitalists 'secure the peace of the world,
mother of pearl sticks. On one corner of with a secret demand for war expenses, and sident, through General Chang Teo-lin diar P. W. Hendry, Dr. John F. Fergus, ber of the Tennant family, the elder daugh the fan is a coffee stain, the story of which more recently it has been alleged that the throws light on the circumstances leading and Dr. R. W. Wesley, now Professor of ter by his second marriage of the late Sir
up to the present disturbazee:-
Charles Tennant, Bart; former M.P. for After the conference with President was told to Dr. Findlay by Tatiana, the Japanese Government are covertly backing. The wicked An Fu Club, which has dis Moral Philosophy in one of the American Wilson, Governor Cox declared that, if fore ber tragic death. The rtain came upon amours concerning the part which Japan has long been hated by the people of the Bicycle C.ub.. Dr. George Morrison was a married at Holy Trinity Church, second daughter of the Czar, not long beam one for against the other. The turbed the peace and order of the country. Universitics, formed the old Lanarkshire Glasgow, and for Peebles and Selkirk, elected he will endeavour with all bis keenly interested in sport of all kinds, the Sloane Street, London, to Mr. John de strength to give what President Wilson venturesome as well as the contemplative, Vere Loder, of the Foreign Office, only
jattended, and she was greally distressed the development of disturbances, have girepeatedly requested the Central Govern- | - promised to those-sacrificed in the war faffect the valuation of the fan which even said that a conferenes or meeting is the clique, but my requests bare all been and his brother, Dr. R.H., ɓgures among and grandson of the tenth Duke of St
He and President Wilson agreed in regard
Tiffany put as $5,000.
BRACELETE:600 YEARS OLD.,
protest with the Japanese Government.
sun of Mr Gerald and Lady Louise Loder,
going to be held for the purpose of lodging ignored. It is now reported that this cli- the immortals of Edinbergh University Albans. The bride's mother is now Mr The Japaness policy of non-interference has made a desperate attempt to bring.
Geoffrey-Lubbock having married-Major &ennin of Lora and impartiality towards any internal melation to the brink of perdition. The Athleo.c Club. Reginald played Rugby for Geoffroy Lubbe,
It may not, however, beaming General Tuan to organize a Cabinet, hone in it three, international gameg in 1886. Church, Denton, of the Master of Balton Chita has, on occasions, been de members of the clique have decided to get his University, and represented Bootland Avebury,
The marriage took place at St. Andrew's » Democratic. Party in the face of the collection. The dd fashioned design of at the present moment, to declare once policy is to sell the country. It is found
threatened bad faith to the world in the tho engraving as well as the shape of the more, that that attitude of neutrality has that Hu Shu-song-is the promoter of the while on the path he enrned distinction the Hon, Alexander Arthur Fraser, M.C.
to the meaning and sufficiency of the
Two quaint silver bracelets, 800 years old, Temperatio platform and the duty of the which were taken by a soldier from the Czarina's apartments. are also in the
name of America
SUPIC GAMES.
UNITED STATES“ STARS,”
BOSTON, July 19b.
feuds
einred.
Included in the historio curios are already been given to civil and "militars," shinge and men of my army have been
of Brigadier-General Lord'. Baltour, C.M., and Lady Saltnun, to Dorothy, daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Maris Welby, of Denton Manor, Grantham
bracelete bespeak their antiquity.
not been and will not be changed; that treacherous policy nad has been doing bie over distances from the furlong to the Gordon Hizlanders, eldest son and heir necessary instructions to that end have work to betray the interests of the nation. half-mile. knife, fork and skewer, said to be among officials in China, and that rumours and
at, the treason, and some of them CAENGUATIE. the first malls in Europe. The short ivory allegations bonis stanced trade watirely eve ever gone so far ar to demand as in To every Scot, and especially to every handles are oddly engraved, and all thres groundless,
Imediate march towards 'Peking to destroy show beanty of design and proportion. As for the Japanese military officers who the clique and all the traitors. It is re- Scot North of the Earth, Carnonatie spells These were among the curious as the
Palace,
are in the employ of the Chinese Govern- guested that steps be taken by the Pregof." There is no poetry about Car Over a hundred leading athletes mostly Winter pod boxing irons are other ment for the purpose of training the Fron- cident to depriro Hru Shu-iseng of all his noustie the name stands in the way, son Precocits in children takes the form of a surprising diplomacy in some cher. Bo College "stars," have been finally chosen objects of interest in Dr. Findlay's colles tier Defence Army, nothing is further from decorations etc. If the President cannot get a rhyme to its syllables. And it was in that of the little afrl who to represent the United States in the use to which they were put in olden days medinm interfering in the internal poli- and I will not hold myself responsible for pestic dreaming. It is a bluff, cheerful, quantity of prevor whiskey. After look. Lion, not for their beauty, ant for the eso military authorities are through that lo-appease the Indignation of the army, the nature of Cainouatio is all again entering a cróstiled, bus, bid to sit beside.
the truth than the inference that the Japan shook hesitate there will be no other means
a gentleman with accers evidently to vo Olympic Games at Antwerp, including With one of these in the palm of each hand, tical disturbances of China. The officers their actions, bat will have to allow them to open-air sort of place. It has quantities in round iringly for a few seconds,
liebthink on her. She turned to her
Meredith the winner of the 800-metre race, between armiesma pustom which at bolong to the training schools, which are act according to their own wishes, I of sand, enough to make jany walrus 01 BucherAnd remarked; "What a lovely
Tun at Stockholm in 1912...
two combatants often decided the issues
| prevented great sacrifice of kuman life.
(Continued'nt foot of next column.)","
awaiting the President's mandate" to de- prive me of my Yank and öfica, etc."""
rarpenter weep copiously. The sea in front; moll of tail