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RIOTS IN IRELAND,
MILITARY PATROL FIRED ON.
LONDON, August 15th Anti-Military disturbances, occurred to Dublin on Saturday evening folders were thrown off tram-care and maltreated. A few were thrown into the Liffey, while a
- heads of zu ziemā AKITA.
THE HONGKONG DAILY
*FREIGHT VON SCOAL
DECREASINGA
SHIPMENTS FROM CHINALS
LONDON, August 17th..
Tho zemes states that arrangements have bean completed for further largo shipments of coal from Australis to Bosodiaavia at a
ight of 150% sa compared with 1756. few wee ago. Enquirim are also being made for chips to bring ogel from China to Boundinavia
OREMATED IN PARIS
Paris, August 17th. The remains of Prince Radidi Rekridht were crema s Pere-la-Chaine cemetery of his brother, Prince absore, and many Siament and other notabilities.
A sister fack of the outbreak in that is Terzaln a new anti-Military movement by pivilians in Dublin↑ The latter, so far, in the Have 101, been actively satagonistic. The new spirit is pregnant with alarming pot- mibilities
In view of the widespread "and serious
JAPAN'S POLICY IN SIBERIA, REPLY TO AMERICAN NOTE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE ARREST MR. SHAW, MEMORIES OF JOE) | Logi
who
the
Irish, used to declaro
STRANGE CHINESE CUSTOM.
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CHAMBERLAIN,
THE PREMIER'S. TRIBUTE.
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THE LOCAL HERO,
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Gladstone,
party party back history of announced that he Town Hall That
and elogi
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and I knew that there had Intain the
And, at that ting should have pre
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was not in any way
JAPANESE STATEMENT.
Hery eloque funds
Aftes, the "HIS HOUSE A BASE TOR KORBAN PLOTSEN:
Ther all be to Alps,” said Napolean (1900) in history) The patice.. AT,
anjang," occasion. There shall be u Incat | were bestan sa ND soul, on August 10th
Call article in the Daily Prost!! Aas University said Mr. Joseph Chamber been defeated in awakened – memories of is great man, faim after the first meeting when he acted | Great Britain, Mr. George La Shaw of Some of the following incidente of his life as Chairman of the Council of the Mason would speak again in
akkave, menor been was down in print before: | University" College. The two phrasen att was the "night of nights in his life Erey are Gov nor brickbats two art bearing must have sounded equally Splendid in victory, he was magnifjons But, the «Midlands, in effect, în defeat. It was my good fortune to be malcontente, may all ready for Lloyd-George ter absurd.
cried the Birmingham hawker, answered 1 Chamberlain Certainly on the platform behind him, It was a his sympathy with the
We don't know anything about Univer- ger
thom
othe andah as he pushed along his wheel-barrow 00sities, and the idea sounds-expensive. 2. 3»1⁄2 Privilege not to be reckoned in terms of
Agama Faining ugly looking pieces of brick and established in his house a bureau for, com stone. He was in one of the main streets as you say that there should be one. in
Until thes might I had often munication with Shangha; and made it a of Birmingham and the metropolis of the Birmingham, of course, there must be a
Bir Midlands was in seething state local University. It was, however, not whether this elever mere military patrol of Bfty men was fired upon. SIAMESE PRINCE'S REMAINS bass for carrying on plots. The house was excitement. It was a day that will never only necessary to have the good will of politician wa
Midlandı; There was the Privy | beard known
orean outlaws as the "be forgotten by those who may the sequel The patrol fired twenty rounds over the
** invincible » fortress Antung, Mr.to the cries of the bawker and the infam Council of Great Britain, notoriously ing appeals to the public; by the Joenl
conservative body to persuade it only Shaw used his
for bringing bombs, newspapers. On that night about twenty could provide the authority for confer pistols and matory documents to years ago Mr. Lloyd George or within ring degrees. Then there was the batter Town Hall when
an ace of being murdered by an infuriated of finance Dificulties disappeared like hattered in the trunk Kores from Shanghai. An result of the mob, Hemenped train the Birmingham the morning mist, at the rising of the enormous polo in its frency us reach Lloyd serost, of several Korean outlaws on the Town Hall disguised as policeman when Jos set to work frontier, evidence" Mr. Shaw's offence was was one of the most dramatic nights of
He obtained the consent of Pariinident fous and an extraordinary and adventurous career Council for his achetav He persuaded the required authority from the Privy obtained. Mr. Shaw was very car rarely left his house, but he entere
The Intest cables report an eloquent fixa individuals, each to subscribe £80.000 on July 11th to meet his Japinaso
speech made by Mr. Lloyd George fall to an endowment fund and he promptly returning from Japan, snd-was arrested passionsin teibutes to the memory of Mr spent all that money and more, on nex Joseph Chamberlain. Yet, it was because buildings and equipment He was never the present Premier opposed the views of worried about the lack of funde--be hardly thuy
Joe" that Birmingham tried to injure seemed to think the subject worthy of diss know that
disgrac him some twenty years ago University into debt. He had supreme
-Such is the
cussionHe cheerfully rushed the Incal whirligig of fate DRIVING OUT THE DEVILS
confidence in himself. He collected After that night, when, in his e defeat, MA correspondent writes ----What Com
arect and challeng I was about twenty-two years of age about three-quarters of a million sterling opportunity presents itself for the novelist when I want to Birmingham for the first for this scheute and he boldly askel the ever in the old familiar place plat in China and in which superstition and time I had not been in the city we lada £16,000 per annum for the local centre knew that he was great man. It was
City Council of Birmingham to contribute form of the Birmingham Town Hall, I old custom holds away. Chinaman's before 1 realised that the Midland of learning. Of course the cite fathers wonderful scene. It argued hot Care destiny seems to be in the hands of super metropolis had only one Idol-- agreed. He asked other public bodies, the assembled themade world fat bim stitution, for from his youth up, any and celebrated politician who was always cali every incident which marks his growth is ed, locally Joe 1b struck me at the chas County Councils to engtribute speak-It was, I think, in actual fact abouts supposed to have a peculiar boering on his time that you could not imagine ange Then he suggested annual grants from 1. suppose everyone che was also affected, from their fands, and they abo agreed twenty minutes. He was visibly affected. Haggard, has unlimited material for the were the only Bill in the world, Bus Jconstruction of a park on thelmsenzorims and there, în- that nut very cultured manufa money. And all the time be was attend the cells of memory to run-the cinema fim
ing committee meetings at the Farvernity superstitions_tast_rule the lives of the rug city, the makes the start making speeches about the South African acto my mind, I 200 am affected by the Chinese. The other day, I was taking a in the jeweller workshop the war and persnedag the Midlanders to picture of that remarkable man, pa walk along Causeway Bay when I was man in the Council room the ladies who
led local society, all of them talked about he created A
provide money för University which At last, after a few efforts to speak, made. result of bix efort-fruitio be the emotionel-cboering, he put attracted to hang af komen, sitting
Not even Toe Chamberlain but de around some lighted tapers, I waited to see
what developments would one, and to my just simply About ninety per cent nearly all of the provincial cities in Eng np his hand. Then you might have heard the people who used the word always young men, who could never have gone victor-be was always victorious In Birs land have Universities and thousands of a pic drop in that great hall. The amazing Chinese chant and performing various were also enormously proud of ** Jee fantastic movements before the tapers. The minority who disliked him then in number of other women were baily engaged cluded many of the Quaker for in those in beating mate on the floor. My curiosity days Birmingham was stronghold of It is so long ago that it may be excus change artiste, became tannsformed into was aroused and I sought enlightenment Quakerimm: There were the Tangyes, the able to describe little incident in con. Shakespeare's typical Englishman. Ho of a Chinese friend who was accompanying Cadburys and the Sturges and several section, with the Committee for consider www King Henry V. in a monocle and wear. me, *** Oh thaf," he said, showing no signs; other wealthy families who were "Friends
ing equipment, Joe presided as a ing an orchid, And he made the greatest of the curiosity I felt is the result of the of rather an inflexible outlook. They did meeting and listened to a request from appeal of his life. Are we downheart- superstition which has worked itself into not approve of the South African war and the Professor concerned for a certain ed?" he cried out, in his most challenging. the very marrows of the ignorant classes, the dreams of Imperialism which Joe expensive machine estimated to cost about voice. The phrase was new them it was When a person dies, the relatives, assemble had indulged in. But, the workers in the 3,000 He was always most emphatic the first time many, if not all of us, hac dutside the house and invoke the aid of many factories, the merchants who sold that the scientific equipment must be as heard is. But it was the one phrase, for the spirit which has looked after the the products of the factories and almost deceased in his life-time, to drive out the everyone else in Birmingham, simply loved as that to be found in America. that paychological moment. The audience. Will this be the largest machine of its thundered back again and again: “No!!! devils who might come to claim him la
Jo He was the wizard who always kind in any University 7 said the to the challenging figaro on the platform. But what about the women beating the told the just what they wanted to be told always alerte. Joe He was told that Birmingham recognised then
and who had often given them just what there were bigger machines, especially one. At the fortnightly meeting of the Sani-mate?" I asked - -
"they needed. He tary Board, held yesterday evening, Dr. off That' replied my friend,“ is the way
the devil is deixen out of the home, for fear Pungentothead, din his younger day in the United States about two and a habefore, that, her idol was worthy of ber
political as a red times as big as that proposed for Birming affection: Pearse, Medical Oficer of Health, drew he mould creep in and cisim another person wearing 22 aftention to the fact that 1 saholders had | who had lived with the deceased:155/
rnature of the disorders, it is a surprising
fact that there were no casualties reported,
WASHINGTON, August 17th. RIOTS IN LONDONDERRY.
The State Department has received the. LONDON, August 15th-
Japaness, reply to the American Note as Bione throwing and revalver firing simul regards the landing on the Isle of Sakka aneously occurred at Londonderry neces-lim. It is believed that the reply lengthily ditating the calling out of an ermonted car, discusses Japan's policy in Siberia,.. The Military dispersed the crowd by rife Both Notes will be published during the fre and a bayonet cfarge.
Malthe amris of the riots six DeTRONA "SECO bold up, besten and removed to hospital.
DISORDER AT TRALEE. Talee, Kerry, four vonstabier WELD
Brod, ons two were wounded,
current week;
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
HIS TRIP TO INDIA.
LONDON, August 18th the House of Commons, replying to
carver,: A Novelius of the type of Sir Rider calling Bir. Gladstone Billi Parliament, and Parlament": voted" the Even today, as I clow my eyes and allow
i
of
At midnight, military stores wagons at bird W. Forrest, Mr. Lloyd George said surprise heard the women draning out med to hang on it with aection. They to Oxford or Cambridge, receive higher | mingham-throws off all fraces of the?
Tralee station was destroyed by incendiar ism, while the offices of three Tralee nowy papers were set on fire and gutted
Considerable Ering in the streets was reported. On Saturday morning, a smag- -tional affair took place near Banteer, Cork A military force guarding a damaged sero, plane, was attacked by armed civilians, Fierce fighting ensued. One of the soldiers was killed and another wounded."." It is bo- Hiered, that four of their asanilasta were
Tified and "Thres- waunded."
SERIOUS AND WIDESPREAD
OUTBREAK
Loxdos, August 15th. comunque immued from the Dublin,
Headquarters declarm that saults upon soldiers were evidently carried out according to a pre-arranged and systematic plan. Individual anarmed soldiers were knocked down and carried off fram-cors and kicked when on the ground. One soldier who was thrown into the Lifley Was gallantly rescued by an ex-soldier.
CRISIS IN POLAND -
GERMAN WORKMEN STOP FRENCH
TROOP TRAINS, CE
BELIN, August 15th ASilesian newspaper reports that Ger
that a full announcement would shortly be made as to whether the contemplated visit of the Prince of Wales to India could be carried out this year.
CLEANSING
OF SERVANTS QUARTERS,
HOUSEHOLDERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WORK,
education,
^& CHARACTERISTIC SCENE.
·
emotion which the wonderful welcome had produced in him, and, lizec soms~ quiek-
акпитет
frequently neglected to keep their servants quarters clean, also to the lack of proper night soll receptacles. Householders were under the impression that the Government
itended to all this. He, therefore, thought A SHANGHAI DOCTOR AND ficent Corporation Street. He sketched next meeting Joe" met with a mixture of Uriah Heep and Den Quixote,
that public statement should be made drawing attention a to fact that the householder was responsible for providing the necesary receptacles and ping the servante quarters clean. The population was changing continually and it was desirable to draw attention to the regula tion from time to time,
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB
D. LYON WINS CHALLENGE DEVENT.
HIS CONTRACT.
CNA CASE IN THE COURTE.
ham, Can you baud, one three times
ARTE WAYS OF"""308SA lanas big as the one you have proposed t There are a few personal matters wurih and wh Perchid in
buttonhole other renders for further information con. But fate he went to Westmington me tion of expense began tho Profen who do you as haben
was the next question ** Les bus the ques remembering, doc was heloved, but he
cerning the superstitions of China.
civic affairs Birmingham.
sen to that ” was the decuive purered him with renom in his pen. He was Lord Mayor for three successive reply. Kindly obtain estimates und Svend, possibly the cleverest writer in the years in his early thirties. He cleared
proceed with the plans of buildings, etc., newspapers of his day, disliked the local shims and he built the magai for the big machine. But before the and the latter called Steada curious out plans for splendid public buildings, accident in a bansom cab which prevented in a public speech. Gladstone never forgava inch a new Conheil House, Art Gallery, his attendance The new Chairman and Joe" for wrecking Home Rule, and etc., and be carried all his schemes the Committee met, studied the estimates, Queen Victoria never really approved of through by the sheer force of his great and in alarm, reduced the size of the him. Yet he always retained the friend personality. He was not a native of machine. A month later "Joe" was ship of John Morisy. A young man ngmed Doctors S, A. Ransom Lionel Street, Bram but he married into the wealthy back again. When the minutes were read Alfred Harmsworth first of all called his American Court Shanghai to enjoin educated at University College, London, the big machine; does anyone object! and A. M. Massey have petitioned the local family named Kenrick He was he said, But I said that we would have proposed tax of corn in stomach tax.” Dr. Paul A. Martin from practising medi. but he had the commercial, rather than A rather feeble explanation by his under cine within one hundred miles of Naaking the academic, instinct. He, radical, attidy was swept aside The University Road and the Bund during the not five established what was really the English had the biggest machine then in existence. years, The petitioner, declares that Dr. screw trust" for the Kenricks and their lu Martin had violated huse
'doc," as always, decided...!!
Despite the activities of his enemies there contract with them friends in Birmingham, In those early ⠀⠀⠀
never was a breath of scandal concerning and demanding that he give a proper days he scoffed at the Dukes and the
his private life. The Irish members of accounting of money collected by him. Barons. They toil nut, neither do they It was my good fortune to hear the Parlament loathed him, but, may coul
according to the petition of the plain sine tried out in one of his speeches famous speech in the Birmingham Town did nothing to discredit him concerning his tiff Dr. Martin signed a contract on at those republican times and the BirmingHall when the amazing suggestion of a family affur, He married three times, February first by which the three does an audience wito toiled in workshops, tax on core for Imperial purposes we and all three of his brides had money. employed him to work with them as surgeon yelled with delighted approval and the first made. That war, and general practitioner. — The contract amazing Tack Bust be reprod that, turists, the only occasion hen Bay
about his sons Birmingham used to think Merille as submitted to the Court, provided for or forty years later, when he was accou. astounded by Joe To That the colleague mara brilliant, more like “Joe” then remuneration of $400 Mexican a month, paned on to the platform by Dukes and of John Bright the friend of Cobden, and Austen, a great domestic sorrow was kin patients brought by Dr. Martin, and one previously held up to scorn-the Birminghould announce hi new view in the subject of Tari Reform one third of all collections made from new Barons the very class whom he had the former Erdent, advocate of Free-trade quarrel with his brother. Arthur on the third of the fees paid for any operations ham audience stood up and cheered him hell which had to often schoed the ilver His last few years were pathetic. Out his that these proportions were to be increased which he might perform. It also specified and them as enthusiastically as ever notes of John Bright's loquence and where aftieth ann
workmen held up a number of French In spite of the inclement weather the Victoria Recreation Club Swimming Pele, troop trains in the vicinity of Ratibor pro held at night attracted a large gathering coding to Upper Bilesis, side-tracking A string band was in attendance and dis- them and establishing guards and demand coursed pleasing selection of music ing that during the Russo-Polish war Allied | Chief interest was centred in a six engths to one-half at the end of the year. In six The Soulb Afric troop movements should cease, The work challenge race, in which the best swimmers mo men threaten to enforce their demanda
EARLIER CABLES, HIGH LEVEL OF EMPLOYMENT MAINTAINED.
BUT UNFAVOURABLE SIGNS.
LONDON, August 16th. Replying to Mr. J. M. Hogge, Mr. Lloyd
kaliz: thats the information at the
Government showed that the
of the Club competed. J. Johnstons, who was much fancied for the
had to under to D. Lyon who won the ovent by margin of 4 second and was deservedly ap- Pisuded. Of the other events, the Fout Lengths Hand
famous.
was the great he had echoed
and
remier's famons: Limehouse speech.
TARIFE REFORM
but it was not long before the Daily Mark and the allied papers were strongly sup porting Imperia Proference.
of enteri
he himself had pasionately attacked the ham-1
was kiso, his 70th idea of Protection, created a local sensa the city organised
Joe did not allow the genas to get motor car tion. But only for quite a short time. my good
to be ander kis feet, any period of his fle
rrah
months time, Dr. Martin was expected to te In all his tios of snoceeding Dr. Street as a member give a definite answer regarding the
Gladstone's Reform of the firm,
and he had
so brimful of energy woe he Aciocal Correspondence submitted with the pet Trunche
* unauthorised pro tion indicates that the exact interpretation.
granime hich the Tory journal of the organisation, sprang into being. He made of the contract was later called into que day regarded with the same horror as few more speeches in Birmingham and later they expressed concerning the theme and mly thing that would keep Birminghaer was quickly convinced that tion, the plaintiffs emphasizing in a letter that Dr. Martin was to receive one third provided of the fees paid only by new patients whom
Chamberlain had been all against the British Empire in being was Imperial halting pla
Preference he had drawn On June 9th the plaintiffs days. And then, as be matured he follow- war and adventures abroad in those early
not kider for D
Dr.Martin broke his contract with the Imperial trail blazed by Disraeli
adulatio and out cause and set up is praction be him and became one of Gladstone's most taat subject and it was alyays my good luck to broke
He made many local-speeches on the to the prodigi self. This was in violation of a claum which stated that if the agreement was gerous opposents. He swung right round bear them. It was the time of the "hig (swimming terminated for any reason, Dr Mertip to contemplation of the vision of F and little loaf controversy produced by
from a concentration on the parish pump by Mas would refrain completely for a period of
his words Zmanush, put = fax Hamany, The Bervices team Faco attracted description within a hundred miles of the ham, but the whole of the Midlands round the Freestrade fond shout twice the wiza
focus five years from doing medical work of way pire. And he carries, not only Birming The Daily Neur inital porn how the
tilors, the R.G.
intersection of Nanking Hasd on the with him. It would have been marprising the Imperial Pasference loaf
vel If he had done that with a Anglo intel- Band
the best comp Logan man Roza Pereira by
dress
The fully
ployment shown early in
- been ? maintained.
A water polo match and the dia tribution of the awards, by WLogan
ninated proceedings
however:
in the coMSA
konsidering the who
ex-Servicemen.
Texoeeds the
seri
The following were the results Two LoraS HANDICAP (GIRLS) Miss D Chae Miss D. Spanton,
the
SEE THE GREAT FLÖRTER
The fact that be has not done so lectual audience such as you may find arowded a
assembled at: meeting of the Union 21 Oxford: Bid that he could per
ade the Always pract tolled long hou in fro
orkers who
ated facon of the Bli Country
plaintiffs say, threatens their praction
with great and irreparable davisge.
They claim that the legal restraint wh they ask is just and fair, and grants of their medical practice in China. more than is necessary for the protec In a separate petition they deman nocount of all of the money he collected complete list of the patients whom
cluding the continued presence of a list of BIX: LEXOTHNA CHAZIKNOW BACKD. Dr. Martin be obliged to render an
END
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