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ZAGĦLÜL PASHA.- EGYPTIAN LEADER'S CAREER. Sand Pasha Zaghtul, the Prime Minis- THE CASE OF THE MENELAUS"",
The Manila Times of the 20th inst.
THE PHILIPPINES AND THE VICTORIA BRITISH SCHOOL
LIQUOR LAWS,
PRIZES PRESENTED BY LADY SEVERN,
SATISFACTORY ANNUAL REPORT:
Quite a good number of visitors attem
It would be interesting to discover bowter of Egypt," has in every respect had a many people know which is the oldest out. ' remarkable carper door game of all those sow played in
He was born some 74 years ago at Imposition of the maximum penalty England. The honour goes neither to Riana in the Delta, and studied at and provided by law for the violation of quar-- cricket nor to football, not to royal and pasted through the University of Alantine regalations has been recommended of the Victoria British School, yesterday. ancient golf, nor to that game of Princes, Azhar, where he made the sequaintance to the insular collector of customs by. Dr. morning, on the occasion of the distribu- tennis. We know, indeed, that" in the of the afterwards eelebrated Sheikh Smith, ghief of the Philippine quarantine tion et prizes by Lady Sovern Just days of Agincourt there were tennis-balls Mohamed “Abdu. The two came under' service. In the case of the British steamer before the ceremony, songs and dances d flying, but, there are drawings two een the influence of the notorious Sheikh Vexetine which arrived here yesterday were given by the pupils.
After expressing pleasure at being in- turies earlier which show Englishmen Gamal ed Din el Afgħinni, one-time Prime afternoon with a large shipment of Booze playing bowls. After seven hundred Minister of Afghanistan, who undertook on board, but without consular hills of vited to take part in the function, Lady years the game is still vastly popular mission to awaken the people of the health from Glasgow and Hongkong. Severa congratulated the teachers and At a festival of the London and Southern Orient, and was chised from country to Dr. Smith urged that a fine of P4,000 pupils upon the entertainment provided Counties' Bowling Association they have country on account of his revolutionary be impose on the vessel, the maximum just been boasting that in London and its preachings. They took prominent part penalty provided by the administrative suburbs there are now seventy-four clubs, in the Arabist rebellion of 1889, and for code of the Philippines being P2,000 för with 1,300 meribers. These figures, of their activities were arrested and punish- each case of violation of quarantino re- course, leave out of account the host of ed in Kasr el Nil Barracks. While 'gulations. It is necessary to impose this players on the greens in the parks. In Mohamed Abdu, who died in pos, adher fine. Dr. Smith said, so that other vessels the North of England and in Scotlanded to his religious profrasion and be-, would refrain from emulating this we are assured that the bowlers increase came eventually one of the most enlighten. practice,
Miss E. M. Clark, Hend Mistress, pro-
sented her annual report, which stated:— The general health of the pupils has Been good. There have been sou malarial subjects and latterly a few casca of whooping cough.
The work, generally has been satisfac- tory: Some attempt has been made to encourage the children to work indivi dually and under Mrs, Lambert, Classes 6 and 7 have had opportunities of show- failure of the Menebine to secure billsing their initiative and have become more of health in Glasgow and Hongkong will self-reliant and self-controlled. The tone only impose a nominal fine on the offend of Class 3, under Miss, Cotton, has im ing steamer, he said this morning Future proved since the beginning of the year. violations of quarantine lay will be dealt and the children are taking a keener and with severely, he said.
more intelligent interest in their work. Miss Dyer has visited the school for drill, gates and hygiene, and the children thoroughly enjoy her lessons. Madams Moussion has taken French with Classes
It was, perhaps, but natural that gifted men like Sand Pasha and his brother The eneinus was grafited practique Fathi, whose premature death robbed Egypt of a great litterateur and juris- yesterday afternoon to allow her to doch. on board 793 cases of whiskey, consult, should be attracted to an intel. She had lectual centre such as the salon held at 20 cases of port wine, 75 cases of gin for that period by thas advanced and en- tightened woman, the late Princess Nazli. Manila. She is the first vessel to call ats and 7. Each child has had a small gar He became one of her most assiduous Mania without bills of health visitors, and it was through her that he was brought to the notice of Mustapha Pasha Fahmy (Prime Minister from 1800 to 1908)," whose daughter, herself a very eultured lady, he married in 1898.
REPAIR AND FUELLING' STATIONS.
SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG.
Ten years later, at the suggestion of Lord Cromer, who, as he said in his fare- well speech, had marked Sand Pasha down as a man who would be heard of in In an article on repair and fuelling the near future, he was appointed Minis stations, published in the Empire mum.
den and the perseverance and interest shown by the children have given the staff much satisfaction.
Boys of the school started football, and Mr. R. R. Wood, a parent of two of the boys, has interest himself in, and helped the team.
and multiply and are grimly keen. This ed Grand Mnitis Egypit has ever known, Colector Aldanese, however, in view is. surely proof of a singular fuscination Sand Pasha turned his attention to the of the circumstances, surrounding the in the gume or of its singular fitness to law. He practised for many years at the the British temperament. In the Middle Native Bar, where his eloquence and in Ages it proved so alharing that Kings telligence soon brought him to the front, and Parliamenta fenred it would prevent and in 1893 he became Counsellor of the adequate practice at the butts, and as Native Court of Appeal. England's military power then depended on the archer and his longbow, statutes were passed against bowls. We think of Mr. Kipling's thunders against the flanneled fools at the wicket and muddied oafs at the goals who would not karn to use a ride. King Henry VIII, being masterful man, forbade artificers, labourers, and prentices to play bowls except at Christmas, and commanded that no one should play at all except is bis own garden, whereupon, very con- sistently, his Majesty had a bowling green made for himself at Whitehall. We regret to add that when he playedter of Education, and in 1910 he became ber of the Whichester fordid - thanking the members of my staff for Minister of Justice, in which capacity itmercial, a special correspondent says: their co-operation and enthusiasm during he used to back himself to win His fell to him to plead before the General As The repair work done at Singapore-is | the year. nervous courtiers must have thought it|sembly the case for the extension of the rapidly increasing, and the Harbour concession held by the Suez Canal Co., Board and privately-owned plants have fat robbery. Queen Mary tried to stop which that body rejected with but one proved capable of tackling big jobs the game; the Puritans, in this only dissentient voice. His career in the efficiently. They have to compete keenly agreeing with her. abused it violently. Cabinet was, however, arrested in 1912 by with Hongkong, the Hongkong and Wham- Yet the tradition has it that once John disagreement with the Khedive. Abbas pon and the Taikoo dockyards having Hilmy I, whe, resenting the domineer made great names for themselves with Knox visited Calvin on a Sunday anding and overhearing attitude of his native labourers under white supervision. found him playing bowls. Whether Minister, complained to Lord Kitchener, bourgapore has an excellent har whos Board is determined to Master Enox took a hand, or what he who made him resign.
Sand Pasha did not long remain in keep abreast of the times, while Hong did or said, no imagination is old en active. however, and, when in 1913 the Kong, even in typhoon weather. is as good and well-equipped a port as any. ough to suggest. There was a Bishop of Legislative Assembly was creates, he body could desire. Singapore farmerly stood for election. So great was the had a very bad reputation for the quan London about the same time who often Buence he already at that date enjoyed tity of goods lost in lighters, but that played on Sunday afternoon, but, most with the people that he was returned for was very largely owing to poor super unfortunately he used language which no less than three constituencies, and was vixion. Under the present policy matters elreted by the Assembly as one of its justly exposed his character to re Vie-Presidents.
are rapidly improving 1 proach." What Calvin's language was like we have no information. But the Elizabethaas were very keen. We all re- member how Drake's
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During the war nothing was heard of him, but when towards the Armistics |
I should like to end this report by
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THE PRIZE WINNERS..
The prize-list was as follows: Scholarships.Class" 6, Betty Moss, Class 7, John Hanter.
Prizes.-Class F 1, Alec Taylor, ipitin- tive; 2, Betty Moss, concentration; 3. Molly Brown, application..
Special Progress Prize. Reggie Wood, Class 7-1, Phyllis Cossart, concentra- tion; Sidney Fowler, application.
Special Prize for, French. John Hamer. Class 8-1 Betty Cossart, initiative; 2, Ina Mill, concentration; 3, John Duck- worth, application:
Infants James Clark, Mary Taylor, Arthur Wood, Ernie Fowler,, Alix Moss...
plans for the political advancement of When negotiations eventually broke Egypt were developed by Rushili Pasha, down, his activities became so dangerous John Duckworth, Jean, Clark and Dorthy the Prime Minister, and his friends, the that the authorities had once more to Moss, for progress, Was playing at Plymouth a rubber of choice of spokesman fell upon Sand deport him, first to Seychelles and then
.bowls
Pasba Zaghal, who readily accepted the to Gibraltar. When the great Armada came,
But he said,They must wait their
turn, good souls,” And he bent and finished the gaine.
charge. Shortly after the Armistice he, After the abolition of inartini law and, in the company of Mohamed Pasha the promulgation of the new Constitu- Shaarawi and Abel Aziz Bey Fahmy, call- tion he was allowed to return to Egypt Fed on Sir Reginald Wingate, the then for the elections to the new Parliament.
It is the only association of a popular High Commissioner, and submitted to His party swept the country, and he br
CINEMA NOTES.
QUEEN'S THEATRE,
Heralded as one of the most pictures
game with an event decisive of national bim a formal demand for the abolition came Prime Minister in February, 1924, que and compelling screen versions of fortune in all history. The Elizabethans of the Protectorate and the recognition and thus attained his great ambition of any James Oliver Curwood story get also wagered high. There is no reason of the independence of Egypt, and np being solely responsible for the conduct fined the tofden häre," produced to suppose that when the fool Cloten in plied for permission for himself and cer of negotiations with Great Britain. He under the direction of David Hartford Cymbeline. talks of having a hundred in other Egyptings, to go to England has come into power committed to a pro for release by Associated First National pounds on a game be was exaggerating to lay the Egyptian. case before the gramme of complete independence for comes to the Queen's Theatre for an Egypt and the Sudan-whatever that "ngagement of four days, commencing more than silly sportsmen generally does. British public. A few years later Charles I, lost a thou-
may really acan-and it is in order to day, Lewis S. Stone, who has dis sand in one afternoon. Even the respect-
obtain a settlement which, while provid- tinguished himself in other Curwood what they regarded as a rebuf, Zagblul este, will satisfy national aspirations tured played in The Golden Sharu, in Permission was refused and resenting ing for the safeguarding of British inter- pictures. notably The River's End" And Nomads of the North," is the fea- Pasha and his immediate supporters, who that he has now necspted the British at that time included Adly Pasha and Government's invitation to visit Fondon, which he is again seen in his familiar Rushdi Pasha, began to organize what
and popular role of a member of the A TYPICAL PELLAH.
Royal North-west Mounted Police. Ruth Never of a robust constitution, Saad Renick has the leading, feminino part,
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able Mr. Evelyn used to play for £10 a game. It can hardly have been this heavy wagering which sent bowls out of favour, for the eighteenth century played as high as any We must suppose the has since been known as the Wafd"— mere chance of fashion ordered it that for a hundred years, and more after Stuart committee which claimed to represent times the game should have been out of the Egypting nation in ite demands in Pasha Zaghtul has suffered of late years and others in the cast are Wallace Beery, virtue of delegations," which it caused considerably in health, but he posseases Melbourne MacDonald, Wellington Play- favour. The nineteenth century saw a great revival, which began in Scotland, to be signed all over the country. Zughlal amazing vitality, and what he has lacked ter, Francis MacDonald and Baby Esther was much stimulated by Australia; and Pasha, in characteristic manner, directed in physical strength he has more than Scott.
THE CORONET. in the last forty years has made bowls this movement, and so seriously did the made up for in unflagging energy and.
Douglas Fairbanks is said to have put what it was severe hundred years ago, a
authorities consider these activities to be mental alertness. His indomitable spirit true game of the prople. Daily The affecting the existing regime that he and has carried bim through all the exacting his last shirt on, or in. the production
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three of his most active colleagues were experiences that have fallen to his lot of his film "The Thief of Bagdad" whica deported to Malta. Then followed the during the past years, and he is still is coming to the Coronet Theatre to great upheaval of March, 1919, which his as full of enthusiasm and fire as he was morrow. That is to say, he ventured his
in his younger years
nat inconsiderable fortune in this dream. party had undoubtedly organized.
Two months later Zaghiul Pasha was In build and physiognomy a typical of an imagination. And he has won released and allowed to go to Europe; fellah-tall. gaunt, auare-shouldered, through, for wherever it is "shown, the and from Paris he directed the boycott with pale brown complexion, high check picture produces crowded audiences and of the Mission which was aunt out under boncs, and narrow eyes, that give him a critical comments of a very high order Lord Milner to inquire into the cause slightly Mongolian cast of countenance from those who pretend to know a good Thousands of bank clerks will do no of the troubles and recommend a solution disposition at times remarkably at Drury Lane it moved an eminent per- Saad Pasha Zaghluf is a curious mixture picture when they see it. When shown hand-writing during their work if the Later he himself negotiated in London
The Thief of Bagdad' in proposal of the heads of one of the "Big with. Lord Milner, who handed him the courageons and outspoken, at others son. to say: Five group of banks to use machines famous memorandum embodying the strangely hesitant and apprehensive, at one of the films that in one's memory for ledger-posting, and the writing-up of terms which the Mission was prepared to times most fascinating in manner, at top this year and many a year behind. passbooks comes into force.
recommend to his Britannic Majesty's others outrageously overbearing, almost, It is the first real fairy tale to be shown on an English screen-the first, that is Such a machine has been used at Government What the Mission offered, insolent.
He is an astute debates, extraordin- to say, of any length with this consistency Doyds Bank branch at the British Em was far more than what Zaghlot Pasha pire Exhibition at Wembley and has and his colleagues had ever expected, and trily fertile in argument and repartee, which is the pure spirit of fairy lore. given satisfaction. In the United States; he was on the point of accepting. But with a keen sense of humour, and has Much more of this in words of praizs and in Canada thousands of these at the last raoment he hesitated and in oratorical powera far above the ordinary, which, coming from England about an machiurs have almost abolished pens and sisted on first submitting it to his fellow which enable him invariably to capture American film, cannot be said to he over. countrymen. When the delegates whom his audiences; at the same time, like anel prejudiced, but paying ji tribute t he sent to Egypt returned with what was other great orator, he is inclined to be a magnificent production. The story? Offe shown to a London newspaper re- practically an acceptance, be, to meet inebriated with the exuberance of his thieving slave of the bazaar who fulls porter, recently, has 178 keys, like those of a typewriter, is worked by electricity, certain elements whose hostility he feared, own verbosity and to be so excited by love with a beautiful princess and Snus and, it is claimed, can be operated by made such reserves that settlement be the plaudits of the crowd and the taunts that his own happiness is alventure
of his opponenta as to be led often to say from Bagdad to the home" of the Old came impossible. ·· any man or woman of medium intelli- gence after 10 minutes' practics. In 1981 he was permitted to return to
Monsters to the Citadel of the Moon. Ha Egypt, where he received a remarkable justify. Instead of a pass-book the customer popular ovation.
He was invited to He has a remarkable personality that climbs wondrous stairways and skims receives a typed" statement showing collaborate with Adly Pasha, then Prime exercises an almost hypnotic influence over palace floors, jet black and shining debits and credits, and the current Minister, in the negotiations that took over his fellow-countrymen, but tempera. like glass. And on every act, in cach balance. The operator, after entering place that year with the British Governmentally be is a Mazzini rather than & massing of light and shadow and the debits and credits, presses a key marked, ment, but he made a condition that he Cavour, far more fitted for the arena rythm of every stair, the post in Fair Total," when the balance appears. should lead the delegation. His request than the forum, for the militant lander banks has left his mark The Thief of If, however, the customer's account, was, for obvious reasons, rejected, and he ship of a popular movement than the Bagdad" is lovely. And there who are ia overdrawn the machine refuses to at once started to work up opposition, diplomatic negotiation of a delicate poli- fortunate enough to see it will cordially
(Continued on next Uolumn.) [tical situation.-Tinux,
agree. Thiday at the Coronett,
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