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EDINBURGH, December 30th.
KAST INDIAN MERHCANT'S ESTATE.
TH,
1925
PEKING'S FINANCES. GOVERNMENT AGAIN BEHIND
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GENERAL LI FOOK LAM AND "BASE COIN."
Since the publication of this pars-
Major Robert Findlay, of Crossbasket,
WITH PAYMENTS.
A paragraph translated from a Chinesa High, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and of 16. Buchanan Street, ikasgow, chairman and
Writing on January 23rd, the Peking paper. appeared among the, Canton managing-director of Messrs. T. D. Find-
which was published in the Hongkong Writing in the middle of Christmas lay & Co. (Ltd.), East India merchants. correspondent of the Ft. Daily News News" from our Chinese correspondent Another Now Year settlement day is to fully Press of December 25th, 1994, Base Coin, implying that week, it is senteely possible to avoid a director of the British, and Burarse said: some mention of that festival which is Steam Navigation Co (Ltd.) und' vi. J. the principal family event in the English Dunn and Stephen (Ltd), vice-chairman; be passed by the Chinese Government headed year. A great charge has come over the of the Irrawaddy Flatiulla, Co. (Etd.), and without paying more than a fraction of General Li Fook Lam had been issuing attitude of the Scottish people towards largely interested in the Burmah Oil Co. its obligations. The amount raised this counterfeit coin in Canton, it. Not many years ago it was denour (Lad.), who died on March 9th last, left, year is probably the lowest on record, ced by the strictest seet of the Presby.in addition to considerable real estate and though the liovernment is deeper in debt
Fook Lam for damages for a libel can- terians, thes came a time when it was settled property, personal estate in Grent than any of its predecessors. The Minis.raph we have been served with a Writ No previous ignored, but now it has become generally Britain valued for probate at 1999.418, of ter of Finance, Li Shi Hne, reports that of Summons at the suit of General Li recognised us the great event in the which his interest in Messrs. T. D. Find he has raised some three and a half mil- Christian calendar. From Christmas to lay & Co. (Ltd.), amounted to £61,396, lion dollars from various sources, prin-tained in the paragraph,
Lam was made to us, but we accept the First claimants, of course, are the mili the third or fourth day of the New Year and in the Farmah Oil Cn (Ltd.) to oipally from the Salt and Custows funds, communication from General Li Fook is more or less a holiday season, full of £81,306.
tary, the local commands getting about Writ as an emphatic and truthful de happiness and, best of all, of kindnesses. OVERSEAS GIFTS FOR ST. COLUMNA'S.
St. Columba's Church of Scotland, 70 per cent. of a month's pay. The local claration by General Li Fook Lam that It is a dall season so far as public events are concerned." Very little news comes Pont Street, London, will be more than police also benefit in this percentage, the statements in the paragraph in ques through. There are plenty of happenever a resort of visitors from the Over-while the Navy receives a round $300,000. tion are false and without foundation."
per cent. of their
all imputations contained in the para ings, of course, but most of them are per-scas Dominions, for nearly the whate of The teachers in the Government schools That being so, we unreservedly withdraw
moothly salaries, and, last on the list. sonal and of interest only ip the family the magnificent chancel decoration (now have been paid 60
completed) is the gift of Indies pre- civil servants, have had 40 per cent. doled graph and offer our sincere apologies to Some out to them. All these people are very General Li Fook Lam, and express our
much in arrears in the paymens of their Some thirty-five years ago a near resenting the great dependencies.
Press has given to this Chinesa press re- lative of mine went to India in a small years ago the Baroness Strathcona gave pay or salaries, but a part of a month's deep regret that the Hongkong Hmilj
port, the publicity of its columns.
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CANTON NEWS. XROM OFE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)
ROTH CLAIMING VICTORY."
With both sides claiming
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all
fronts" between the Red Army of Dr...
Remarking on the poverty of the new cause it was xlow and took only a few her distinguished facher, the late High
North-inn Standard says: "The Chi- years passengers-in, this instance three, all Commissioner for Canada. Last Christ- years's settlement of these accounts, the
Canadian lady noted for lavish pese Government, which in former about to start their careers in the Indian tuas Civil Service. In the course of the though anonymous generosity, gave still runde frantic attempts to pay its settling day, has long given up the strug- voyage out Christmas fell upon them, rich series of mosaic panels representing employees all that was due them on and they did their best to celebrate it seven scenes connected with the eariblygle as hopeless. Only two or three years considered as absolutely necessary to in spite of the dour frowns and passive life of our Lord. On Christmas Day of ago suns of 10 to 20 million dollars were settle accounts. To-day the Government obstruction of the steward. Later in this year, the final mosaic, the gift of an the evening, after they had done their Australian lady, which fills the great regards itself as fortunate, having scrap- were there no Customs and Salt best they were invited by the Scottish upper space of the mural arch, was de-ed together three millions and "a half. I the present military situation or
dicated. It represents "The Christ in "This last addition was made and skipper to visit him in his cabin. They Glory,
some good assembled like its predecessor in a services the Chinese Government would went, joyfully expecting
famous glasswork at Venice, from designs not have a miserly million to pay its Sun Yat Sen and the anti-Bolshevista is "Scotch whisky, which was then a novel prepared in London, All three gifts are
But there was no of a mentorial character. luxury in England. "guid whisky" for the likes of them BOUND YOR CHINA, AND THEN TIBET,
Mr. Robert C. Bell, son of Mr. Johr DEPORTEE IN SHANGHAI COURT. by the Yunnanese unit of the Red Army heathen bodies. Instead of entertaining them, the skipper served out a grave Bell; Carriden, Bo'ness, is on the way to warning about their obvious future des China, where he takes up missionary the South-West Province of tination not India, but the Pit Evra work in merriment is the Red Sea-on Christ Yungan. His ultimate object is to pro-
ao far as Christ.no fixed abode, was brought into H.M. "closed land mas Day was in this Scotsman's eyes to cred to Tibet, which for many years has
ian missions are concerned. Mr. Bell is Police Court, Shanghai, before Mr. G. prooeding enstward along the Canton- merit and certainly to obtain Eterral been u
of the Kuomintang Military Damnation.
The marked change in Scottish opinion going out in connection with the Pente- King on January 29th to answer two Kowloon line. It added that the cadet
uf these went to show thas Grimble had corps 28 to Christmas Day celebration began costal Missionary Union of Great Britain charges preferred against him. The first
Perhaps the and Ireland, which was formed 15 years returned to China after deportation Academy at Whampoa was assisting the about thirty years ago shopkeepers had as much to do with ago by one of the well-known Cambridge The Court records proved that on May Reds invading Tungkur City, which bed it as the newspapers or the ministers. Seven, Mr. Cecil Polbill. The Cambridge luth, 1923, accused was convicted and
THE ANCIENT LODGE OF SCOTLAND.
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Seven were a party who went forth to China just before the Buxer Riots of 1900. Mr. Bell served on the staff of the Hamstead Bible, Schoul, London, for the past 18 months, and also acted, as pastor of the Hampstead Assembly.
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BRITISH CONVICT'S
TRICK."
" MEAN
rerplexing.
The latest official communiqué issued
was published on February 8th at Can too. It stated that the Kwangai-ites had on February 4th taken Sheklung from Joseph Grimble, a British subject of the anti Bolshevista and that they were
The Seuttish shopkeepers in the course of their travels visited London, and dis covered what a gold mine the Christmas Festival could become when cunningly salted. So they set to work to salt it with decorations and shop windows dress ed Christmas (or rather Xmas) fashion. BOMBAY MERCHANT AND ART. You can't escape from what the psycholo Anotable bequest to the Edinburgh gists call massstion. Christmas College of Art is contained the will of (or rather Xmas) is a product of mass the late Mr. Andrew Grant, sometime suggestion By Christmas I mean the merchant in Bombay and Liverpool, and it was easy to return to Shanghai from the Red forces of General Wong Shao time resided in Lawers Hongkong. and asked for punishment, Hung at Wuchow, but according to Kua- religicus festival; by Xmas the commer-who at one cialised ramp..
House, Perthshire, and at the time of his stating that otherwise a deportation order
General Wong is meeting with success. death, in October last, at the age of 64, became a farce. Grimble, said Mr. Mos-mintang reports of the 6th of February Information from anti- Bolshevist Imprisonment for two months was im- In the East and Far East there are was residing at Pitcarthio House, Kil-son, was guilty of a grave offence. vast multitudes of Freemasons who conqubar, Fifeshire. Mr. Grant was at
one time Liberal M.P. for Leith Burghs. posed, with a new order for deportation.
The second charge, brought by the sources states that the anti-Bolshevista own fealty to the Scottish constitution, and every one of them has known or has He left estate. amounting to £607,746 A heard of Mother Lodge Kilwinning. codicil to his will authorises his trustees, Police, was of a different putare, being led by General Lia Fu have ousted the may take of the after the death of his wife, to pay over an attempt to gain credit by fraud, the Hunnanese from the district of Namyung legends of history of the craft in general, the residue to the Lord Provost, Magis victin in this case being a Russian or of the correct interpretation of the trates, and Council of the City of Edin-mase who supplied the defendant and will be able to attack the Reds in Sebaw statue of 1599 one cannot escape burgh and their successors in office an with an electrical instrument and Canton, from the north. from the prestige which attaches to governors of the Edinburgh College of on Grimble a representing himself to be Mother Kilwinning, the ancient Judge Art to be held by them in trust for be doctor, with a sanatorium at Kuling, of Scotland.' There is therefore a pecu- hoof of the institution, the income to be who found himself in difficulties liar interest connected with the cere applied to the provision of scholarships or Shanghai. monial which took place last week at bursaries to deserving students of either Kilwinning, when Lord Elgin, Past Grand sex at the said College of Art either Master Mason, supported by a large de- during their college course or in the way putation from the Grand Lodge of Scot of travelling scholarships or otherwise land, installed Bro. James Arthur, Mont after their college is finished gomerie, Tarbolton, as Master of No. 0, BETTING BY BOYS. and thereby as Provincial Grand Master of Ayrshire. There are always notable as sociations connected with the installation
that General scat tu prison, to be followed by deporta-hitherto been held by the forces of
failing this, Wuchow reports state tion or the finding of sureties. On August General Chen Chiung Ming suretics for $2 each, 7th a formal orer was made to find two deportation. The order was confirmed on Shen Hung Ying, who once turned » September sth. 1921, accused being de-
against Dr. Sun Yat Sea, but recently peried to Hongkong on September 4th.
Mr. A. Mossop, who appeared on behalf renewed his allegiance, is again turning of the Crown, usked permission to draw traitor to the Kuomintang, by attacking His Honour's attention to the fact that
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At the Headmasters' Conference at " Cambridge it was stated that "out of class of 42 boys, whose average age wan
of the rule of the Mother Lodge. For 11 years, 10 owned to backing horses,
instance there was no presentation of the thiefly on the days of big races." The
in
Describing Grimble's action as a "mean trick," His Worship passed a further sentence of two months' imprisonment.
WISH WYNNE. COMING TO THE "STAR" THEATRE.
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source
The Publicity Bureau in Canter is denying the charge that Russians are fighting on the side of Dr. Sun Yat Sen; bat information from neutral leaves no doubt that Russians are" in charge of the afmed mootor-cars of the Aviation Department of the Red Army and the cadets of the Kuomintang Mili tary Academy in Whampoa, an institu tion stated to be subsidized by Soviet funds.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen's agents in Fatahan
ing the anti-Bolshevista.
Mr. Edgar Warwick is bringing Wish charter of the lodge nor the usual charge same state of affairs exists in Scotland, Wynne and her talented company to the as to its being handed over as received. and this is how a Glasgow paterfamilies Star Theatre on Tuesday next for a short have advised the merchants there that The Mother Lodge has no charter from tackled the matter. When he discovered season, and, in view of the immense popu- they must re-open their businesses before Grand Lodge, having possessed all the that his boys indulged in tarf transaclarity of Wish Wynne, it is advisable to February 7th or they will not be respon
book seats 'early. « rights and privileges which such a char- tions, instead of playing the traditional ter can confer prior to the institution henvy father," he on his own sugge
Wink Wynne leapt into fame in a single sible for the protection of the traders of of Grand Lodge. On the formation of tion was accepted by the delighted night, and since then she has become a the city. It may be recalled that Fat-
Betting world-wide favourite,
shaa was a strong anti-Bolshevitt city the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736, youngsters as their bookie."
Wish Wynne is unique. When you see following the example already set in was carried on in the ordfancy way, * England and Ireland, the various lodges strict account for each boy being kept her you realise that she has no imitators. before the recent defeat of the Merchants represented received such order of pre- After three months' experience, with the Before you stands, not a Wish Wynne, Volunteer Movement. In the last three cedence as could be established by docu-accounts always open for their inspec but another. Therein Ees the secret of months the City of Fatahan has been fined Fremier place was tion, the boys agreed amongst themselves her great success. She acts no part-the twice, in all about $48,000, for support- mentary evidence. thus assigned to Mary's Chapel, Edin and informed their father that for the lives it burgh, and Kilwinning Lodge was, rele-future they had resolved to cease back- gated to second place. This resulted in ing horses. And a night at the circus the latter seceding from the new body with the boys and other members of the the bookie" with few pro and remaining outwith its establishment family left antil 1807, carrying on its own existence
Being Respectable," with the ancient rights as an independent- MISCELLANEA.. sovereign body. An agreement was then'
Since November last, very little timber come to that Mother Lodge should take I heard a Bolshie remaking at anthers classic, is now the featurs at the premier place; that she should renounce open-air meeting the other night that World Theatre. When it came to that her right to grant charters; and that the there was at present no hope of a "ris portion of the atory where Irene Rich is Master of Mother Kilwinning should be ing in this country. Once the footppored to be seated idling her time has come down from the inland districts much as she knew not a single game of Kwangtung to Canton City, the distri ipso facto Provincial Grand Master for ball season starts, he declared, "the in a game of solitaire, she was lost, inas of the three principal rivers of Ayrshire
These were the essentials, working man forgets his destiny."...
One, hundred and thirty years ago solitaire in the well known Hoyte. and thus, whild Mary's Chapel retained the number 1, the Mother Lodge became Glasgow had a Provost, John Dunlop, Mr. Rosen, who directed "Being. Res-buting centre for this product, Conse No. 0, and so they have remained to this who as such and as a merchant would peetable," took a few moments to teach quently, the demand for timber in Can- no doubt, like many others, have been her one of the best, known games so that ton City alone cannot be supplied ess
sicne properly, day
forgotten had it not been that he posses she could do the DEATH OF RETIRED BANK AGENT.
sed the poetical faculty. His est-known piece is The Year Thats Awa "the
fits on hand.
The death has taken place at a saca torium of Mr. James Keddie, Dunferm-rst verse being:-
Here's to the year that's awa" |
CINEMA NOTES.
'QUEEN'S TELATHE
A Warner Bro
WORLD THEATRE
Bo
The prolongation of the Chinese New Year holiday was intended as a protest against the Reds who control the city.
SCARCITY OF TIMBER
days, and many construction works have "The Misfit Wife," a Metro producto be temporarily suspended.
THE EXTRA TAX ON CEMENT. tion featuring Alice Lake, was seen last night at the Queen's Theatre, It gripped.
We will drink it in strong and in sms'; the interest of the spectators from the Importers of foreign cement in Canton, start and held it throughout. But, it are instructing their Hongkong and. Was the performance of Alice Lake as other agencies to stop consignments of Katie Malloy, that counted most in the
And here's to ilk bonnie young lassis
we lo'ed While swift dew the
1.
that's awa""
line, who was for many years.en official of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Mr. Keddie, who retired in 1913, served the bank first at the head. quarters at Calcutta, and he was subse quently in charge of the branches at
The song was set to use and became picture's success. For Alice Lake, as the cement, for the time being as a protesk Singapore, Hongkong, and Bangkok, and had the bonour of opening an agency very popular, even got, when, Scotsmen former laundress and manicurist thrust against the extra, tax The Kuomintang, for the bank at Kuala Lumpur at the are gathered together at home or abroad by marriage into a coldly fashionable however, is assuring the local; merabants beginning of the rubber boom. He leaves to see the old year out and the new me New York social atmosphere, played on that the proceeds from this new tax will
versity and cot the war. amezing virtuosity. a widow and two children. He had been in, it is often sung along with "Auld the heartstrings of the audience with go to the support of Kwangtung Uni in in-health for some time.
Lang Byne."