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The publication of wireless messages pick ed up by receiving: alations" in "varions, European countries relating to the Daily Merald has caused a sensation in the
THE LATE REV. ARNOLD FOSTER.. B.A.
AN APPEAL FOR A MEMORIAL
ak
BIG HAUL OF OPIUM. VALUED AT OVER $100,000. Bofüce, Mr. G. N. Orme at the Magis
THE PRINCE OF WALES TO START Labour movempat. It is a nasty knock for Committee of thrée L.M.S. mission-tracy, on Saturday, Inspector Spear of the
RACING.
thase, high-souled "intellectuals who aries was recently appointed to promote Water Police charged's Chinese woman and aspire to tench British, Labour. the pure
[TROM OUR OWN 'COBRESPONDENT] =
LONDON. August 95th.
gospel of government in the columns of the the scheme referred to in the appended a man, both boar people, with the unlawful Herald. The messages, issued by the appeal. The Rev. J. Wallace Wilson, of possession in their ampona Tunglowan, Government, grove beyond all reasonable Hongkong a member of that Com- of 8,306 of prepared non-Government opium Sportauen are keenly interested in the the Daily Herald, was in close communi-mitter writes:--"Nothing geed be added valued at over $100,000. The seizure was
doubt that Mr. George Lausbury, editor of announcement thas the Prince of Wales incation with the Bolshevists in regard to a to what the appent says in regard made by Sergeant Griffia. tends to start a racing, stable soon after supply of newsprint for this paper to the character And worth
The wireless messages passed between the great and greatly sateemed mis- the man pleaded "Not guilty." He said of The woman admitted possession, while his return from his Australian” tour. In this way he will carry on the tradition and Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign. Delegato at ionary who was recently taken from that he belonged to another boat, and did
Tchetcherin. the Soviet Foreign Ministers which made his grandfather, so popular. It Copenhagen, in which city Lansbury was nor is it necessary to say anything not know anything about the opium. As on a visit at the time Lifting as to in support of the happy, suggestion that Friday was the first defendant'a birth-day have, no doubt as to the willingness of the the splendid work accomplished by Mrs. Daily Herald to open its columns to
is understood that next year he will register his colours under the Jockey Club and National Hunu rules, and enter heres in
his own name..
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message clinches his argument for "sup"
The case
Bulshevist propaganda. For instance, Foster who we are glad to know is still he went to her bons at her invitation to tells Tchetchería of the Daily Herald in China, may be very fittingly associated take part in the celebrations. The Prince already has the nucleus of telegram inspired by mo"; and in the next with the proposal now made. The friends
Wax renianded antil" this morE- port of the paper by saying In Russian of Mr. and Mrs. Foster, in both Grent is the analyst's certificate had not beau questions acts as if it were our organ. Britain and China, are legion, and the rived. It needs 50.000f. for six months promoters of the scheme believe that this
I consider work of Daily Herald| as especially important for us."
appeal has only to be made public in order
racing stud in the Australiah steeplechaser, Kinglark recently prefented to him, and the hope is expressed that he will enter this borsa for the Grand National at lavercool
in March.
This is followed by another message at a Among racing inen it is being said that subsequent date in the course of which the Prince has great ambitions on the Turf, Tchetcberin tells Litvinod, "If you have and bas been heard to express the ferves pot enough ready money for the subsidy wish that one day he may have the suprema of the Herald tell him (Laonbury) at way
• RUGBY FOOTBALL RULES.
to, secare a prompt and adequate resALTERATIONS BY INTERNATIONAL ponse."
reputation or in person to many of our Alr.-Foster was known both either by
BOARD.
A number of important amendments to the existing rules of Rugby football were Board. It was decided that Bale, XI,
pleasure of leading home a Derby winner rate the subsidy will be,paid by those who readers and Mrs. Foster, as Miss Jackson, made at a meeting of the International at Epson. However that may be, it is the have authority to organise the financing of worked for several years in Hongkong Fact that His Royal Highness is a good our institutions abroad. The subsidy for under the London Missionary Society. judge of a horse,Moreover, it is no secret the preservation of control must be paid by that he has a small opinion of the animals degrees..." that have carried the Royal colours in past Chinese Bonds which were to be handel A. H. Harris, Commissionary of Customs There is also a reference to: Donations may be sent in Chins to Mr. One of the very first things that over to the feruli. may be expected to happen when he begins A LAME REPLY.
at Amoy (who had been a close personal his racing career is to place the Royal stable, as soon as establishes it, on #b- solutely business lines,
years.
√ B ́ETAS' TO THE KÄST.........
enclient.
Mr. Lanshury's reply to these awkward friend of Mr. Foster's for many years); revelations is to call the British Government Mr. H. Geary Gardner, H. S. Buck, & notorious line; and he adds that even Hankow; or to Rev, Arthur Honey,
if the messages were sent as alleged the
Was
The
mage a free kick may be demanded an shouki provide thas where at player does not immeditely place the ball in the seam penalty. The charge will be abolished in the case of penalty kicks. There will be
a Rule XXI. to read that in cases wherds
scummage is ordered for a breach of
th
Other
TWISTED THUMB CLUE. OLD ROMAN CARVING FOUND IN A YARD.
Abosutiful specimen of antique Roman sepulchral carving has been added to the British Museum by the generosity of Mr. Ernest Dixon, a landscape gardener of Putney.
Passages in all ships bound to the East British Government has noted as an pyes Grillith John College, Hankow
rale inside the 25-yard line, if the breach, are. I hear, booked up till the end of the dropper on a country with which
THE APPEAL. year. Not only so, but the pressure is such the Times, however, in describing this Foster, BA, Inte of Wachang, China, the scummage is to be at 10 yards.
not at war. Public opinion agrees with
occurs within 10 yards of the tonchline, the By the passing of the Rev. Arnold that the system of differentiation being defence as too puerile to deceive. the most London Missionary Society has lost one. amendments agreed to provide that in adopted in order that hardship on indivi ignorant. A general denial is not sufficient of its great Missionaries and the whole Rule XV., after 35 anspccessful try, the duals may be minimised as much as possible,
to prove convincing. Why should the missionary body one of its most devoted ball is to be kicked off from baliway, dad Lists of passengers are subjected to care Bolshevists speak of the Herald if it workers and saintliest characters. ful scrutiny, especially in the case of people were our organ," or why refer to a "b-place occupied by Mr. Foster in the esteem who makes the catch must kick the ball. travelling to India. They are required to The man in the street here is and affection of a very large circle was
that in the case of a fair catch the player fill ia forms stating whether they are going asking himself and his neighbour it. it not day so much to large and visible on business, the object of the trip. and
is to be supposed that the Bolshevists, who results of his great ministry, but rather when they propose to return. It is all very are keen enough where business is con- to its superlative quality. As a voluntary much in the nature of an inquisition; but corned, indulged in exchanging messages worker for nearly half a century hadevoted the idea is to take, such measures as will about the Daily Hield at considerable himself and his means ungrudgingly to prevent, as far as is possible, the over-crowd-expers merely for amusement in order to the service of his Master. To Chinese and ing of ships homeward bound from your kill time: side of the work next Spring. Berths to
to colleagues alike, as well as to others, The Herald has preached Bolshevism in! he always showed himself to be friend, India are being refused except in special and out of season. According to the paper helper, and living example. cases, als prospective passengers intend everything that Lenin and Trutsky do or to stay in India until next Summer at say is right; and the British workers are
Of course, discrimination is hard in some that can save them from capitalism
assured that Belshevism is the only system cases; but there has been so much ill-feeling But the British workers are essentially
Mr. Dixon purchased it from a St. John's -- over deferred leave from the Far East British, and nothing arouses their ire more
Wood contractor, in whose yard it had been that something bad to be done.
than the suspicion that they are being fool
his rock gardens, sad later, struck by its for at least fifty years. He placed it in . The Daily Herald boasts a circulation
unusual beauty, called the attention of the of 300,000 per issue, but it is a curious fact
British Museum authorities to it. They that it is boughs, because it has a remark.
have identified it as a long-lost antique. ably clever racing tipster.
The sculpture shows three half-length, HAR TIMES PREDICTED.
The Girls Boarding School, in Wa Full-face busta, net in There are signs and portents that next chag, for the daughters of Christian panel, and proves to be a conument to one a deeply recessed Winter will be a hard and lean time for Chinese, and others, was founded by Mrs. Lucias Amprdins Philomases, the protraits the workers in this country. The boom in Faster, and owes its succese largely to the being those of Lucius Ampudius, his wife, trade which fellowed upon the Armistice care und generosity of both Mr. and Mrs. and his daughter. There is a com measure has nearly spent itself, and, as anal, the Foster. Until now the School has been at each end of the panel, which, with, the working-classes are the first to feel the carried on in Chinese buildings which, inscription, leads to the belief that Ampa
besides being ansuitable for educational dius was a corn merchant reaction,
requirements, are in a very unsatisfactory Just now evidences of unemployment are condition. It has long been desired to carving of the thumb on his right hands Loudon clubs is an immense task. For in. conditions will grow rapidly worse or not more sanitary lines. It is proposed by AB of a miller in spreading'a sasuple of ment The annual spring-cleaning of the to be found in many directions. Whether build the school on more convenient and would be explained by the constant action stance, at the Carlton, in Pull Mallere miners develops in the next few weeks. Mrs. Foster to secure funds to carry out over his palm by means of his thumb.
depends on the way the ine raised by the appen to the many friends of Mr. and are 18,000 square feet of parquet flouring But even should the calamity of coal this purpose, and thus to provide build-
Professor A. H. Smith, of the Museum,
* SPRING "CLEANING " IN CLES-LAND.
This being the dead end of the London Benson many of the cnim are clused, and the premises are in the hands of carpenters, plumbers, and decorators, The general practice is to shut up only one half of the clubs at a time. nnd the members affected are then offered hospitality by such as still remain open.
In some clubs, like the Oriental and the Junior Cnited Service, the membership is so large that it has to be temporarily taken over by, funt or five, others.
There is an crident desire that the ra membrance of this noble beautiful life should be enshrined in a fitting memorial, which shall perpetuais both its memory and its usefulness. And as Mrs. Foster as now retired to a less strenuous sphere carried on so much successful work, it is than that in which for many years she felt by their colleagues in the Mission that the memorial might with great propriety commemorate the joint labour, of both
Mr. and Mrs. Foster.
miller. The
shows a noticeable backward flexure, which
to be scrubbed and polished; and something strike be averted, both the Trade Unions ings and equipment that shall further the states that Ampudius probably lived be like 13.000 books in the brary have to be and local authorities are disposed to take cause they had so much at heart. taken down and dusted. The National:
The tween B.C. 96 and A.D. 25. The sculpture
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WAGER AND PRICES.
vast people,
THE RUBBER POSITION.
Messrs. Barker & Co., secretaries of the Rubber Producers Association of Malaya, have circularised ostato owners urging a reduction of 25 per cent, of the normal output for October. November, and December in accordance with the recom mendation of the R.G.A. The committee considers that the best way in which this.. reduction can be brought about a by- mediately putting one-half of the producing area of each state on to alternate day tapping or, in the case of estates already.. on alternate topping to rent one quarter- of the aren
UNITED STATES AND RUBBER.
Liberal, Constitutional, and Royal Automo somewhat gloomy view as regards employ amount required to rebuild the school will was first reported by Bianchini, al bile which have each a membership of averment during the coming months.
be, at least, £3,000 of which it is hoped Verona, between 1700 and 1715. It had 6,000 are the few clubs that cannot close of The real remedy for present conditions in China; the style of the buildings, oto,,
that £1,000 will be contributed by friends most likely been excavated about 1700. obtain temporary accommodation elsewhere. | They are too large a family party, and so What is wanted is production, and still made.
is in the hands of the workers themselves, will depend largely upon the response the problem of cleaning has to be done by more production. When the markets are The appeal has been generously approv degrees, a few rooms being shut up at full of commodities, time.
that there is enough, ed by the Directors of the London Mission- and to spare to meet all requirements, the ary Society. It is made to that large BIG THEATRICAL DEAL.
situation will improve. High wages do not circle of friends at home and in China This week one of the biggest deals on provide the remedy High wages mean who, because of their love and admiration record is connection with London theatres high prices, unless there is increased pro for those whose work is to be, commemo was affected by Ideas, Grosmith and duction. After every wages advance the rated, will gladly contribute to this special Laurillard, who already control half-a-dozen workers buy more freely, which is what object. popular playhouses in the
The aim of the Memorial is to further South of anyone might expect; but as applies are the great work of Christianizing the homes England. They have purchased the Adelphi limited the increased demand forces of the Chinese by giving Christian educa and the Guiety teatres, the sum involved prices, and, therefore, the workers, although tion to the daughters of China. No being well over a quarter of a million handling bigger wages, are no better off greater need than this exists at, the pre- sterling.
then they were before. They have gone into sent titae. The deal is a fairly clear indication that the market, it were, and put up prices strongest factor in the regeneration of this The Christian home is the in spite of some recent newspaper articles against themselves. as to a slump in the amusement world The operation of the law of supply and this enterprising pair do not believe the demand in this way is so palpably plain, prophets. No doubt we shall now bear a
and has been confirmed to often by experi lot about the evil consequences of bigence, that I have never been able to under- A BAFFLING CYCLONE. moneyed interests obtaining control of places stand why the Labour leaders do not ex- of amusement and directing the future of plain the facts to their more or less devot CURIOUS ATMOSPHERIC FREAK:
Mekes, Monson & Co., Allacca Street, the British stage.
But whether this is a cd followers. Instead of doing so they are
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Singapore, isano a bote an plantation rub good or bad thing for theatrical art the content to talk round the subject or to
bor importe into the United State. In fact remains that the tendency in recent burke the issue alogether Perhaps the The Morning Post wrote on August 1918-19-20. The conclusion stated is that years has all been in the direction of conreason is that prostic facts relating to 23rd:
the United States can easily handia in trol of theatres by powerful syndicates. It comics do not lend themselyce so well The week-oud has witnessed-one of the ordinary times 16,000 tons monthly Of would surprise most people if they knew to platforme rhetoric as flamboyant periods curious atmospheric freaks which from plantation rubber and keep prices at bot to what extent numbers of theatres in with regard to the claims of the workers time to time baffle the most expert meteo- less than $1 per th When the arrivals London and the provinces are under the and the rapacity of predatory capitalists! rologists--a cyclone returning along its over a fairly long period as from Octo- samo groups of capitalists,
path. A striking instance of this occurred ber to March-exceed an average of 20,000 CITY CHURCHES,
Although houses are being built very at midsummer 1817, when one of these tons a month the market has not appar- slowly to meet the tremendous shortage tors, after travelling castward as far ently been able to hold up, but this may Prebendary Carlile, whose name is so everywhere, some progress is being made us the eastern part of the Baltic, suddenly be attributed in large part to the finanolat well-known in connection with the Church One welcome result of this is that there is down to the Flanders battlefront, attended (1990) an accumulation of dead,
retreated westward to the North Sea and situation arising in April. This year Army, has inaugurated a most interesting actually the beginning of a slump in house
stock bas departure from custom and proosdent at his values in the London area. It sounds he fly strong winds and gales and undoubtedly boeie tuking pisce, since (say) Church; St. Mary-at-Hill, in the City almost too good to be true, having regard”. heavy rains.
February arrivals. The writers of Being struck by the numbers of the poorer to the mad scramble which has gone on freak have not been quite so bad.
The results of the weekend cyclone's note believe that if the situation had been girl workers who, unable to buy food at a for houses during the last two years,
On normal in the United States the importa restaurant, are to be seen raunching a frugal It would seem that people are no longer but on Saturday morning 16 was back on bean maintained at a price of not less than Friday it was passing away to the Baltic, tion of 20,000 tons monthly would have meat brought from home as they saunter willing to pay "fancy" prices to landlords the Danish coast, and by yesterday morn along the streets in the dinner hour he has, in order to obtain a roof to shelter theza ing it was on the Dutch coast. Las night tion this year, in spite of the severe finan- $1 per lb. The expect the total consump opened the Church to them. A welcome Owners of property, who made extortionate however, it was making eastward again,cial conditions, to be not less than in 1919, is accorded them there, free tes or lemonade demands with shameless disregard of the and the barometer was rising on our side fe., 18,000 four monthly.... is provided, with chairs and tables in one public need, are discovering that they have of the North Sea. These eccentrinities the part of the building which serves as a over done it, I learn that is one of pine the dulness and rains of the week dining room, and a kinema is so there to London's inner suburbs houses for sale, and in the eastern parts of England and entertain them, Suns received as offerings have recently come down in price by on Scotland, and also the unusual coldness of Dond (entering Bandy's tailor shop to pay the cxptome
much as 20 per cent. After all, there had the motherly wind, which has produced the pay £2 for his auit); "Well, Sandy, I've Pradendary Carlile suggests that other to be a limit somewhere to what a purarest Augus-femperatura in thirty years come to pay for me suit, and I've just London elergymenght be dy outthing Chaser would pay a property-owfier, and it: The anticyclone is now outside our been thinking we on the ante of City can mals two bashoca are empty all the week, and in some in- reached
tribution in the north is becoming irre Ay Bays Bandy," and hoo's that?!? stanco the incumbent is an absenteo, At the Ministry of Health I am inform-gular. The situation, therefore, is more Well, It's this way, Sandy. You just although he is in receipt of a couple of ed that the shortage of building material favourable for showery conditions and oak that account inte. £119, 11d. You thomand a year, a parste being employed, has been overcome, and all-that-is-aw some increase of temperature, with north save the stamp, and there's a bawbee for to act on Sundays.
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