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BELLICOSE RUSSIA.
NEWSPAPER PROPAGANDA AND WARLIKE SPEECHES.
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Rids. May 17th. The Suvist newspapers ar full of violent articks and descriptions of the monstrations
Britain, Grat Italy, Frauer and the Border States. Most ole e caricatures of Vienunt Curzon. Premier Masslini and Premier Poincare have been published i
Trotzky, in a bargh. declared that if revived the Border the blockade was States would fell dô first crushing blow, | Engies of Viscount Curzon and Premier Mussolini, bunging from a gallows, wers parashed in a demonstration at Mn now.
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ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.
GOVERNMENT ADOPTING A CON- „CILLATORY ATTITUDE,
Losbox, May 17th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Baldwin
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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 19TH, 1998
PROSPECTS IN THE RUBR FAR EASTERN CABLE.
IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY
FRENCH PREMIER.
PARIS, May 17th.
M. Poisrare, made a statement in coo- nection with the special Ruhr eredit at a secret sitting of the finance and foreign affairs commission of the Chamber.
Awording to semi-official message, the Premier optimistically reviewed the financial aspect of the occupation, and declared that a period of stabilisation
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NEWS
[DY COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN."]
CIVIL WAR IN SZECHUAN.
THIRD ARMY DRIVEN FROM CHENGTE, BUT RETURN,
RUSSIAN STUDENTS IN SHANGHAI
DESIRE TO GO ABROAD TO FINISH STUDIES.
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connection
with the
THE FORCE OF A SPENT BULLET.
of sight two minutes and Feturned very
BODO
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"SOCIALIST" TRIBES OF
PANAMA
17
FISH THAT TOWED A YACHT.
EXPERIMENTS IN US. ARMY.
- EXPLORER'S DISCOVERIES. Might a hullat fred vertically kill the A corre pendent writes to the ...] mark man on its return trip sits the
Mr. F. A. Mitchell Helgos, F.L„S, FRU.S., Daily News-
Literary Digest. Experiments made by the naturalist and ocean herman, ar- influx of Captain Edward C. Crossman, U.S.A.,rived at Southampton on April 4th in the
stran Kinderdyk,
after
spending nourly Russian refugees into Shanghai a number late fire control officer of the Government two years in research work in the Caribbean
'tiles exploration among of former students, both young men and spin'l arms ballistic station, leads him to Sea and
primitive brought women, formerly enrolled in the Russian ausser in the negative. It might give the triles of the hinterland of Pate 11
with him the twenty-ton yacht in which
carried through in cruise, und higher institutions of learning have mana headache, Captain CrossmTILL
many cases of interesting articles collected gathered within the hospitable walls of pires, but it would be very unlikely to
while he has been away.' injure him fatally. The captain's åring) Shanghai,
Mr. Mitchell Helges was met at this conten Most of the young men har been squad bus emitted volleys that stayed out during the greater part of bis TRANDISS
Brown, who accompanied Ludy Richmond hita participants of the German war and have nearly to the spot whenes they took their
Mr. Mitchell Hedges said that he bad visited! fuught on the German or Turkish border. flight; yet
village and island of the San of the bullets had Blas territory and had penstrated from the The civil war drove them eastward until, suffisat penetration to bury itself more
San Blas Const into the unknown Chacunarue country. The San Blas Indians after many trials and sufferings, they than two-thirds of its length in firm be described as an extraordinary people reached the Far East. None of them has sand; nor would it inflict a serious wound absolutely pure in brend.
la said,
Socialistic kind been able to complete the education com if it should strike a man's head encased
nan grows bananas, anotfær life. Op he menced in Russian universities and higher | in any fairly firm headgear.
plantains, and a third coconuts, and they urchnical schools. There are students from
Of a volley of bullets projected 9,000 ft. exchange their produce. If a house is to be Petrograd. Moscow, Kharkoff, Kazan.
built all the We, including the chief, share Saraton, Torsk, Vladivostock, and young into the air, and travelling for about one women who have been following higher mitute ap and one down, one struck in the work. They are reeking, however, with smallpox, and their eyes are affectisi by literary and pedical courses in various | fairly in a galvanised pail of water on a bic which KCÉS under the lids. uities of Russia..
"I believe that no white porn bef ra the platform near the gun and merely made a dent in the bottom of the pail.country. The Spaniards of old tried to the myself ever Entered the Chaconne Another bullet struck the pine boards of so, but failed. The tribes believe that their their own, and that no man must be allowed the platform, making a dent about a thirdly have told them that their territory is of an inch deep, but did not even stick
Their district. A to go in among world of its OWL
Perisa, May 17th. " It is reported from Szechuan that the Third Army, under General Hsiung Keh Wu and General Tan Mon Hsin, were driven from Chengtu, and were proceed- had now set is, and henceforth the costs ing towards the south-east when they met of the occupation would be covered by the General Yang Sen's forces. revenue. Supplies of coal and coka were Being attacked on the front and on increasing, the railway administration rear, the Third Army turned against had become self supperting, the exploita their pursuers, defeated them, marched tion of the forests was yielding appre-lack in triumph and again occupied ciable revenues, and the' requisitions now Chengtu, largely offset the expenses. He concluded by stating that the operations were likely to produce more than Was"at first hoped. therefore France avoukl be able to remain
One thought is common to all of them: in the Ruhe as long as she pleased. Sho
PRKING, May 171h.
they are anxious to complete their educa had devided not to abandon these pietlgesį
In spite of official and semi-official tion in some foreign institution of learn. as long as Germany failed to fulfil her statements, it appears that Wu Yu Lining, so that, when the time comes and they are enabled to return to their hourland,
quipped to take up, the burden of re- building their beloved country, together with their compatriots.
engagements.
EARL CAVAN IN POLAND.
CONSOLIDATING ANGLO-POLISH
RELATIONS
Warsaw, May 17th. refuzed definitely to promise that ther
Earl Cavan was ceremoniously erceived' would be no rasture until the House had Jeep consulted, bet bindlicate that that Cracow, where he attended a review of
Governumrats war, adopting a conciliatory attitude,
the troops, then proceeded to Warsaw.
Mr. Baldwin said he hoped that the British demands would be met fairly and reasonably, and that a rapgure would thing that the visit
LINCHENG OUTRAGE.
WU YU LIN DELAYS.
of
They
has not yet gone to the bandits' strong- they may go there mentally 'and morally in the indentation. Captain Crossman,high walls, is very iglu be enched
hold, though he offered to do so.
The Speaker. We Ching Lien, wired to Wu Yu Lin urging him not to go and endanger himself, saying that the local officials should arrange for the captives'
rehuse.
REISS
AFFATES OF MESSES.
BROS., LTD.
SCHEMES 'To CONTINUE OLD.
BUSINESS, ... ESTABLISHED
Loxpos, April 17th.
The papers publish long and onlogistic articles acclaining the distinguished re-, presentative of the Britsh Army, declar-
At a meeting of the creditors of Reiss will demonstrate
Brothers."Ltd., of Manchester, the Official Poland's parifie tendepairs and consoli-Receiver, in a statement, said that the M: KRASSIN AND LORD CURZON|| dato Angle-Polish relations.
Reis family already actively engaged on a scheme for securing a con- sinunue of the old-established family
averted).
CONFER.
Laxni, May 17th.
M. Krassin conferred at great" length with Lard Curzon at the "Foreign Office,
TIME-LIMIT MAY NOT BE
EXFORCED.
LATER.
CONTINENTAL AIR ROUTE. AIR MINISTER'S TOUR.
business.
were
The Offical" Receiver, after saying that! LONDON, May 17h. The Mir Minster, Sir Samuel Hoare, special conditions in the Far East häd hed to the regrettable failure, referred to accompanied by Lady Heare and Majur- the question of conflict of jurisdiction be General Braneker. jeft Croydon arxetween the English Ceury and the Courts Renter's "Agency understands that no drone on a ten day's tour of the Can-af Hougkong and the Treaty parts of slatement will at present be made con-
Linent to inspect the Continental air China, He felt that it was of paramount corning the negotiations „between 31.
importance to maintain the supremacy of Krassin and Lord Curzum, and it is not expected that there will be any further ters of the enuntries, traversed.
"meetings before the Whitsuntide reevss.
From thus it is deduent that the time- limit of the British Note, which expire on May 15th will not be enforced.
The Soviet representative is not pen paring for inediate departure. from London.
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ANATOLIAN RAILWAY DEAL
BRITISH BANKING GROUP OBTAINS CONTROL.
Losoas, May 17th. British financial and industrial circles are most interested in the Anatolian Railway transaction, mentioned in a cable message dated May 16th, which re salt in a British group, comprising five London winking institutions, nequiring Irom a Swiss bark the control of the Anatolian railway!
runs
This originally German concern is entirely distinct from the Bagdad, rail- way, which is now in French hands.
The Anatolian railway
from Haidar Pasha on the coast to Konia, with Ar Italias a branch line to Angern. [nancial group has accepted an offer to participate in the deal and it is anticipat ed that a French group will also aceipt.
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THE DEPORTED IRISH.
WELCOMED BY FRIENDS IN
.. LONDON.
LONDON, May 17th. The Irish deporteca were welcomed by friends on their arrival at Euston, where they dispersed to their homes Bix of the Lordon and four of the Liverpool deportees are still detained or have bech re-arrested.
INDEMNITY BILL.
LONDON, May 17th. In the House of Coinmons, the Indem- nity Bill, to most the situation arising from the Art O'Brien case. was read a first time.
The Bill morely prohibits the institu- tion of civil or criminal legal proceedings against the Home Secretary, and othora concerned in the Irish deportations.
A few of them are desirous to go tol
Hongkong and enroll in the Hangkung University, mainly in its medical and engineering departments. The majority. however, are endeavouring to cross the ocean and work their way through some| of the higher institutions of America. Over 400 students of Russian universities have already gone to the States and are making a fine record there: these young people have gone there from Harbin and Vladivostock and many of them are new students of the State Universities of California and Washington.
In February, 1923, a Union of Russian Students was organized in Shanghai, whose aim it is to assist students desirous | of going abroad for the purpose of com- pleting their studies in helping them to secure work, roview their studies, esp. cially mathematics, study English, and secure the possibility to go abroad. Their aims have nothing in common with politics
ALL ABOUT COFFEE.
THE BEVERAGE WITH A HISTORY OF PERSECUTION.
writing in The Popular Science Monthly
(New York), says :--
In these tests ww use the standard infantry and machine-gun cartridge of the Ameriena service, bullet of 150 grains, velocity 2,700 foot. But when we tried
out
about the
by high wall is by bout it. 3. in | height, and the women wear vos ringą, would be punishable by death. They are Immorality is unknown among them and simple and honest in character, and thieving is unknown. They do not use money, and
hey have no steel weapons."
In reply to question
JL Chucanaque religion, Mr. Mithell Hedges
aid that
bad it
curious Tentures. He had brought lack hundred of their gods." These were of wood, and each tribe had its own special god. The people believed that when they
died they entered a canoe upon a river and their spirit guided them until the river divided into many streans. The pirit then pointed to the stream they were to follow,
land. and they were lol to a happy hat in a
spth other
than
route, and to enter with the Air Minis- the British Court's winding-up proceed fault, we are sure, is not bis, for to fill This led to the conjecture that the time pears, and other things, which are all boiled.
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PRESIDENT HARDING'S
ALASKA TRIP.
ACCEPTS INVITATION TO VISIT
VANCOUVER.
VANCOUVER, May 17th. President Harding has accepted the in-
vitation to visit Vancouver in June while
Purut to Alaska!
AEROPIANË. *JOYSTICKS."
FRENCH INVENTOR" AWARDED
HEAVY DAMAGES.
PARIS, May 17th.
All About Coffee is the title of book by William H. Ukers, which the Ooserver reviews thus:
If Mr. Ukers has not get in "all," the his massive and handsome eight hundred pages he has ransacked the ages and spoiled the climes. The most intriguing thing about coffee is the uneven distribu. tion of taste. America drinks coffee whilo England drinks tea, and Mr.
the 175-grain boattail - bullets-n remarkable new type with tapering tail that donbles the range of a rifle-some of us nearly came to grief. After a minute and seven seconds there came the bullet whirr, louder than that of the service bullet, and then the usual splashes on the surface of the lagoon. Then the splashes ceased, although not all of the bullets had been accounted for. Some of the For burial the dead body was placed in a gunners had stepped out of their shelter, hammock and carried to a grave house, and the watches had been stopped-when thatched structure 200 feet long by 150 feet suddenly certainly half a minute after wide. When the hammock had been placed the burst had landed, there came again in a hole a vine was put down into the hole the bullet whirr. Machine-gunners duck- so that the spirit could come out at night. od for shelter and down whirred eight The dead man's stool and the utensils from or ten more shots,
which he ate Whereupon we discovered an astozi was believed were placed near by, and it
came forth te shing fact that when fired from aait on the stool and talk
er spirity. machine-gun boatrail bullets vary widely. The Chucunaque Indians," Mr. Mitebell in their time of flight. In the next burst Helge added, "have
mond haulers we found that the bullets returned in a
have very and are mostly low-legged. They duster in about 67 or CS seconds, while a big heads. The women seem to be the secoud group returned fully 40 seconds superior sex. They live chiefly on a kind of later. Later wo repeated this sort of corn, plantains, and bananas, which are firing un-the hard sands of Daytona Beach, cooked in on uurije state. No desh for is Fla., and found that the boattail bullets eaten. I did not era four-legged crest ure country. They like fish, however, from were as likely to return to earth sideways in the as to fall as most bullets do-base first. the river, and they have a dish of pineapples,
in a common pet for a large dwelling, discrepancy is due to the way they turn and travel on their return light die may house thirty females and their children.
During his wise flight resulting in increased air Mr. Mitchell-Hedges caught some astonishing
hahing
in the Caribbean Sea resistance), and that the variations may monsters of the deep. One was the largest ho due in part to vibrations in the
saw-fish ever known to have been landeul. machine-gun..
It was 31ft.
long, 21ft. round, weighed a Normally, when fired vertically, a bullet
the saw was ft, in length. creature of any sort returns in the position in towed the yacht for five linnrs before it was which it went up. If you fire normally, beaten. The bait used weighed 75lb. and bour
a contary and a half ago. That diet
point first, it returns with the point still hook of half-inch tool steel was attached to should accept the dictation of politics in this
apward and the base downward. If you stout manilla. Mr. Mitchell Hedges also members appear strange, unless we
invert it in the shell and fire it with the caught a tiger shark weighing 1,70lb., iatouse conservatism of
point down and the flat base up, it shovel-nosed shark weighing 1,450lb, and a ordinary
in all that concerns food). people It is certainly remarkable that Canaria, shar-returns point down and base up, but in hummer headed shark weighing 1,350,
much shorter time. than the bullet so many
American conditions, ing
normally fired. faithful to
-tea, like the Dominions, with the excoption of South Africa, where Dateb traditions favour the coffee pot. It seems to be a matter in which
habit does "follow the fing Americans drank aine pounds of coffe annually per hout before the war, and now either Prohibition or prosperity has
* Bent it up to twelve, while there is less tea drunk than fifty years ago. Curiously enough, although we have had neither Prohibition nor prosperity in this country, our tea ligures show a very similar ins provement from the date of peace, which LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OFs perhaps to be credited to the price of hear Great Britain is a ten-drinking oasis in Western Europe Coffee secins to re- main one of our social boundary-lines, for its
gross consumption makes no headway. Why," said Thackeray, do they always
It put and into coffee aboard steamer
question which democratic coffea" continues to provoke upon dry land.
ings, and he thought it was now fairly hopeful that an indivisibility of the sss as a whole and their distribution amongst the creditors pra rata would he
curl.
A
BOXING. BRITISH CHAMPION DEFEATS
DUTCH BOXER.
In another bout at Olympia of fifteen rounds, Bugler lake, the bantamweight champion of Britain, won ou points over Van Dyk, the Dutch Champion. Van Dyk twice floored his opponent in the second round, but thereafter Lake piled up The Appeal Canet has awarded "ML points and won easily. The Dutchman Peltorie, the inventor of the aeroplane put up a very game Gght, he had **joy-stick " Fore 7,500,000 damages reattivation at the conclusion, against the French Government, and three of the leading aircraft manufac turers for a breach of the patent,
The Government's infringements mostly occurred during the war, when it in sisted on contractors fitting the "joy sticks,
GOLF TOURNAMENT. KIRKWOOD DEFEATED.
LEEDS, May 17th, The first round of the golf tournament for the Yorkshire Evening News £700 was played in fine weather, but there was a troublefame wind.
The surprise of the first round was the defeat of Kirkwood by Kinch of Woodcote Park 3/2.
Duncan beat Vardon 2/1- Ockenden beat Braid 3/2. Hagen beat Barber at the 21st hole. Sarazen beat Seymour 5/3..
The complete second round results
were:--
H. Jolly beat Al Mitchell at the 25th hole.
Falkiner beat May 1/3 Duncan beat Williamson by ons hole. Mackenzie bent Leach 3/4. Hagen beat Bingham 3/4. Havers beat Kinch 5/4. Barazen brat Gudd, 2/1. Ockenden beat Wingate by one hole.
EUROPE.
of
In a twenty rounda contest for the lightweight championship Europe, Harry, Mason of Leeda beat the holder, Seaman Hall, the latter being disqualified in the thirteenth round for hitting low.
BLOOMFIELD BEATS MAGILL.
Jins
LO explination to offer, apparcatly, be yond tha invidious associations which the latter commodity acquired in Boston har
15 a
of LONDON, May 17th.
At Olympia, in a 20-rounds' contest for the light-heavyweight championship of the British Empire, Jack Bloomärld beat the Trish champion, Dave Mogill, the latter's seconds throwing in the towel in the thirteenth round.
CRICKET.
LONDON, May 17th.' Hampshire beat Worcester by an in- ninga and 26 rano;
For Hampshire, Kennedy, in the second innings, took six wickets for.54 runs
DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
FRANCE DEFEATS DENMARK. BORDEAUR, May 17th. In the first round of the Davis Cup, France fente Denmark by three matches to one,
FRANCE WINS THE RUBBER. LATER.
France won the final match and the rubber, making the score four matches to
onc.
bug.
other
we ru
The best coffee known to the reviewer is that of the Norwegians, who do not grind but merely crush the berries, and bring the brew to the boil repeatedly with additions cold water. Mr. Ukers recomiends a certain coursenem of grind, and the pour ing of boiling in a cloth bag water on the coffee contined The beverage has a singular history of persecation. As a stimulus to social inter course, it has repeatedly awakened the The use and coffee houses has been pro suspicion of uneasy Governments. scribed at different times both in Meces and Stamboul; it was vainly attacked in Venice
the Council of Ten; and Charles by forbade the consumption of coffee chocolate, sherbet, or tea ""on the
premises" in un edict which had to be revoked after
ten days. The Loudon coffee house had already become the penny university, and the intellectual associations of the berry Have remained illustrious. Mr. Ukers has brought together the best that has been written and said of it. It was Talleyrand who summed up the ideal cup of coffee as "noir comme le diable, chaud comme Tenfer pur comme un ange, doux comme l'amour."
HIGHWAY ROBBERY,
A shop-keeper of No. 11, Upper Station Street, reports that on Thuraday morning at 3 o'clock he was held up by a number of rufians. Two of the footpads caught hold of his wrists and another searched his pocketa: After taking $1.00 from his Pockets they stripped him of his long
coat, valued at $20, and took it away with them.
We tried out various types of guns and bullets in this vertical firing,. The results showed that almost any bullet fired into the air remained away 20 seconds or more. The little 29 long rifle, with its 1,000 or 1,100 feet a second volocity, took 35 seconds. The large, slow 4 automatic pistol bullet took 30 seconds. The 20-30 bullet took 50 seconds, or nearly as long as the service sharp point. The Reming ton 35 auto-loader byllet, 200 grains at 2,000 feet a second, took 68 seconds. The quickest trip recorded was that of the 175. grain boattail, which was loaded inverted. It returned in 21 seconds, as compared
sonende with 87 to 107 normally.
when fired
VATICAN ETIQUETTE.
AUSTRIAN
CHANCELLOR'S VISIT TO THE POPE.
and
+
STAMP EXHIBITION.
WORLD'S RAREST STAMP TO BE SHOWN.
Th
An International Stamp Exhibition, was opened at the Royal Horticultural. Hall, London, on May 14th, to run for a fortnight. As the first International Stamp Exhibi tion held in London since the war, this event has been attracting world-wide at-7 tention, and visitors were coming in largo numbers from oversens," notably from the United States, whenco generous financial for the exhibition has been forth- support
From America, too, come many of the most
interesting cotries in the various classes into which the hundreds of stamp Notable among collections are grouped. these is one which includes the world's rarest stoop, the 1
and
mich
of of
black ccnt issued in British Guians in 1866, only
one copy is known. This stamp fetched the record price of over £7,000 in Paris a few months ago. The American Government also announced its intention of exhibiting.
A curious detail of Vatican etiquette was revealed during the recent visit to Rome of Monsignor Seipel. As head of the Austrien Government, the. Chancellor Apart from the stamps exhibited at the paid his first official visit to the King exhibition there were to be numerous other of Italy, at the Quirinal. The Pope attractions for visitors A model stamp would not concede hin an audience in his factory is installed in the building where philatelists can see all the processes which ecclesiastical capacity until he had left Rome for a day or two and made a fresh go to the making of the finished stamp return to the capital. The Monsignor wh
while
lantern lectures will be given popular Seipel's first visit was paid to Pius XI. by leading collectors in another part of the hall The Philatelic Congress of Great He was necompanied to the Vatican by Britain, an annual event, takes place at the Baron Pastor, Austrian Minister to the
same period, and will add still further to the Holy Sec.
influx of philatelic visitors to London.
Pope dealt solely with church matters in Monsignor Seipel's interview with the
Austria
countries.
NEW DISCOVERIES AT POMPEIL.
1 The Austrian Chancellor was visited at his hotel by Don. Sturze, the political
The Giornale d'Italia states that the to discuss the iden of an International tions of Tompoli to be opened to the. Secretary of the Popular Party, who camo
Government has ordered all the excava Party compond of the Italian Popular public, and announces that the opening Party and similar organisatious in other will take place shortly. The newspaper Summing up his impressions of Italy, zola, Director of Excavations, stating that.
reproduces an article by Professor Monsignor Seipel said I have derived 500 yards of the Roman road from the the distinct impression that Italy has Forum of Pompoit to the amphitheatre. every intention of keeping up amicabla have been cleared of ashes, also len more" relations with Austria, while she is also houses on the road, the interiors of which disposed to help her in her work of re- were found intact, with mural paintings, construction. I have been able to study which permit, of the reconstruction of the the Italy of today at first hand, and I life of the time when Pompeii was buried am convinced that this great nation is under the ashes of Vesuvine. One of the making every effort to reconstruel her most interesting of the discoveries made provinces devastated by the war, to eslab by the excavators is a jowciler's shop, linh internal order, and to place ber
with the jeweller's tools and precious, finances on a sound basis. "
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