'A TSINGTAO TRAGEDY.
ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A GERMAN.
ARMED ROBBERS THE ASSAILANTS.
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M. .CLEMENCEAU'S LETTER.
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PARIS, August 6th. In the course of his open letter to President Coolidge on the subject of war debts, M. Cleméanceau says that he is TRINGT30. August 6th.
confident the eyes of the man in the An atrocious murder took place here yesterday evening when two armed rob-street will soon be opening to the com- To-day most of hers entered a jewellery shop, belonging prehensive outlook. "to a German named Carl Fischer, in a France's anxiety is centred in America. busy section of the city.
If pations become merely commercial
It was just as the shop was being closed
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ROBY, August 7th.
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NEWS.
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SHANGHAI SENSATION.
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P.W.D. MAN SHOT AND ROBBED.
SHANGHAI, August 9th. Afr. W. J. Elliott, one of the Clerks The proposals of the Industrial Chris- of Works in the Public Works Depart tian Fellowship for setting the coal-dis-ment, was driving in Keswick Road last pute which, with certain modifications, evening when, five robbers, stopped his were approved by the mitiers delegate car, wounded him and robbed him of 360 conference and referred to the district It is reported that Mr. Elliott was not are still being discussed in the coal fields. ordered to stop, but that a shot, fired at Ninety per cent, of the Derbyshire him without warning, pierced his left arm Miners' Association have reached de- and slightly wounded him in the chest.
Mr. Elliott has been admitted to hos
for day and the shutters had beenhouses then banking accounts would cisions and by about five to one have
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MODERN GIRLS.
FICTIMS OF GENERALISATION.
THE VIEWS OF MISS KING-HALL.
An essay on the woes of being a modern girl is the title of a contribution to the Feekly Despatch by Miss Magdalen King Hall.
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THE TAI O PIRACY.
ALLEGED
A
WANTED MAN DISCHARGED,
WOMAN SENTENCED FOR PERJURY.
The alleged wanted" man of a gang of four, who are stated to have parti cipated in the recent piracy of a junk off Mise Ein-Hall is the authoress of Lap Sup Mi, near Lantau Island, in the The Diary of a Young Lady of vicinity of Tai O on May 20th, again appeared 'before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at Fashion," which purported to be a
the Central Magistracy yesterday after serious historical document. Lord Dar-
noon in answer to the charge of com- ling slyly declared that it would rank admitted that she wrote it as a joke,ship discharged the defendant, but sen- beside Pepys Miss King-Hall has since mitting piracy. shortly after leaving school..
After hearing further evidence, his Wor
It is with feelings of deep, trepidation,tenced a woman witness, the wife of coc she writes, that I approach the subject of the original defendants in the same of that much-abused and misunderstood piracy case tried recently, to imprison- creature the Iodern Girl "Only the
ment for perjury.
Chief Detective Inspector T. Murphy
placed that the robbers knocked at the govern the fate of the world. You de voted in favour of acceptance of these pital. "No members of the gang have feeling that I am one of that strange prosecuted, and Mr. L. D. Turner ap-
door.
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mand payment of our debt, yet you know Fischer, expecting customers, opened as well as we that our purse is empty. the door, and was shoved aside out of the you are asking us to sign promissory view of anyone passing. He was then struck with a meat chopper and grievous.notes, but the secret of the comedy is that ly injured. The defenceless man cried is a question of Ectitions dates, and out, and his assailant again struck and the promissory notes will end in a loan with a mortgage on our national property France is not for sale, even to her friends She will remain independent.
killed him.
"A shop "hög, hearing his master's- cries, ran to the police station and the
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terms as a basis of negotiation.
It is reported that feeling in Scottish
suggestion is advanced that a ballot of mining areas is keenly divided and a
all miners instead of vote by branches should be taken...
North Wales, Nottingham, Warwick- shire and Durham are reported to be voting in favour..
There is a good deal of opposition in
teen arrested
STEAMER ASHORE.
JAPANESE COAST.
species myself, and a desire to lift p
Recently, three Chinese were committed for trial, at the Criminal Sessions, on a
my voice in defence of my poor sisters,peared for the defence. gives me courage to write this article.
No one can know what a dreary thing LARGE FREIGHTER AGROUND ON it is to be a foderà Girl but a Modern
Girl herself! It is indescribably weari some because one happens to be young, and a female, to 6nd oneself labelled, dissocted-and-pinned-down-like soms curious kind of insect; preached at by
Toxro, August 9th. The s.s. Silver Cedar, of 4,535 tons, -went-ashore this morning of the Shikoku
coast when proceeding to Dairea from the dignitaries of the Church, psycho- police quickly arrived, but the robbers President Coolidge feel otherwise if Yorkshire but the result is as yet Kobe, where she unloaded cotton from analysed by novelists and held up to
bad fled by a back window, escaping through an alley..
Amerien were involved i
Britain and America, like France,
been arrested
Fischer had been a resalent of Tsingtas for twenty-two years.
This is the Erst murder of a foreigner in Tsingtao during the past afteen years..
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unknown.
Meanwhile the position in the coal fields remains unchanged. Good order, which throughout bag characterised the conduct of the miners, still prevails.
With the exception of Warwickshire,
where a slowly increasing number of men are resuming work, pits are idle although a considerable number of Nottingham- shire, and Derbyshire miners are work- ing outcrop coal.
New York...
pescuc,
Japancae vessels went to her
weather, is hampering their efforts.
THE YANGTZE DISASTER.
FURTHER DETAILS,
HASKOW, August 9th. severe £re broke out on the N.K.K. Tuyen Muru from Hankow to lehang, below Chenglingchi on the 7th inst.
Most of the passengers were saved, but
ridicule and contempt on the stage!
The Modern Girl, so the elders and
charge of being concerned in the piracy of the fishing junk in question, and sub- sequently the defendant in the-present: case was arrested, it being alleged that he was the fourth man who was stated to have helped the other three in the piracy.
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A report of the earlier evidence in the case appeared in Saturday's Daily Press. Yesterday. the wife of one of the and her original defendants aid she busband were on their boat the neigh-
(the fact that the Eton crop is a mode boat came alongside. The original third of them, and she confined to the few is ignored). She is defendant was one
thought the other was the present defen- rude, hoydenish, loosetongued, and un-dant. The former produced a firearm Slial. She is amoking and drinking-her-and the other knife, threatening...bath. self into an early grave. She is dislocat she and her husband. Witness was com ing her anatomy by the contortions of the Charleston.
The "Label" Curse.
pelled to row the two men and after row- ing some distance the two men left the boat, jumping on to another one. Her husband did not go aboard. She saw the two men again on May 26th and she " was offered a pair of gold bangles. She refused to accept them but later agreed to take them for boat hire.
It is already stated that Lancashire. One of the rabbers fired at a police- threw their all into the abyss, but it is against acceptance, as also is the but it is reported that unfavourable | betters tells us, is all feg and no bair bouthood of Lam Sap Mei when another man, wounding a Chinese chauffeur. Both was Freach territory which was scicati Forest of Dean.
During three mortal miscreants escaped and, so far, have not fically ravaged.
years, while, tha, blood and money flowed -from-allour-pores, we awaited America's. word that she would come. Read the un- ending lists of our killed and compare if you like the strong sap of our lost youth. Isn't that a banking account? Like Russia at Brestilitovsk, America concluded a separative peace with Ger- many, To-day there is talk of a money peace between the Allied and Associated Powers. Why didn't we, under shellfire, summon a Council of Administrtaion of Profiteers to decide whether we were allowed to defend ourselves? The result
Meanwhile the condition prevailing is that America is gathering all funds."
M. Clemenceau concludes: "I have among the mining population is receiv- spoken freely to the honoured head of a ling much attention and exaggerated great people which I thought was destined to carry the torch of ideal ever higher, and it behoves him to render judgment on himself."
OFF TO AUSTRALIA.
EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARIANS TO MEET.
Ernay, August Eth. The Dominions' Secretary, Mr. Amery, was present at Waterloo Station, London, yesterday, to bid farewell to the British delegates of the Empire Parliamentary Association who sailed later in the day from Southampton to Canada, en route to Australia Southampton, where they were joined by the Irish Free State de- legates, they were accorded a civic send off.
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PRESIDENT COOLIDGE DECLINES TO COMMENT. Replying to a speech by the Mayor
PLYMOUTH (Vermont), Aug. 9th. of Southampton, Mr. Arthur Henderson,{" who in the absence of the Marquis of When acquainted with M. Clemenceau's Salisbury who has already left, is the letter, President Coolidge declined to senior member of the Delegation, said comment beyond indicating that thẻ: the tour was a serious mission. The de- United States intend to conduct relations legation was inclusive of all political with France through duly accredited parties and at the Conference in Aus representatives; but this is interpreted tralia many important questions would to mean that negotiations regarding the be discussed. They must do everything French debt are closed, as it has beer they possibly could to apply the great long made clear that President Coolidge resources of these young nations not considers all authority in the matter of merely to prevent depression of the debta passed from the American Debt standards of life, but so that the whole Commission when the latter concluded community, might share in the develop-negotiations and transmitted agreements menta which might take place. Secondly, to Congress for ratification. they wanted more scientific redis tribution of population throughout the Empire as whole. They hoped by these meetings to make the Empire more solid and united.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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PARIS PRESS COMMENT.
PARIS, August 9th. M. Clemenceau's letter to President Coolidge is generally acclaimed in the
newspapers.
It is reported that owners in these countries are considering a
new offer on terms which the newspapers believe may attract men back to work pext week.
statement are corrected in a message which has been given to the United Press. of America,
M. Baldwin gives denial to reports which have been circulated that starva- tion prevails among miners' families and to the frequent assertion that the coal dispute is merely a first step to a general attack upon hours and wages by the Gov ernment...
THE NEXT MOVE.
She is a mass of nerves, yet bald-faced; Worst of all, in the eyes of the elderly over-sexed, yet lacking in sex attraction. it is supposed that several were drowned,male elders and batters, she has no figure. though inaccurate details are available.
(Oh for the days of bustles and in-and- The steamer has been reduced to a total out waists!) wreck..
REVOLTS IN RUSSIA.
PERSISTENT REPORTS.
DENIALS FROM MOSCOW.
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LONDON, August 9th. Extraordinarily persistent reports of widespread revolts in Russia, emanating principally from Rovno, Warsaw and Bukharest are emphatically denied by Moscow, where the semi-officia! Taas Agency, in a statement, says that "such rumours are spread in the interests of those hostile to Russia, and acting under
Rucay, August 8th) The majority of the mining districts instructions of States having a special have, it is believed, endorsed the pro-interest in diverting international atten- posals for the settlement of the coal dis-tion from our own plans."' pute which were drawn up by the Church leaders and the Federation Executive.
The next move of the Executive, which
will meet in London on Tuesday, is un. certain, but the Minister of Labour and the Secretary for Mines will remain in London this week in case there should
be any development.
The Prime Minister will also return from Worcestershire towards the end of
the week.
Mr. Morrison acts as treasurer of the
THE LAND OF YOUNG MEN.
LORD BEAVERBROOK ON WHAT
CANADA OFFERS. Answering the question, "What does Dominion Day message broadcast from Canada offer to Great Britain?" in a
2LO, Lord Beaverbrook said:-
It is useless for the average girl to protest that she does not live on cocktails and cigarettes, and therefore cannot be looked on as a good specimen from a collector's point of view. -She'is modern and a girl, and is there fore expected to fit into a definite type, in the same way that all bishops are ex pected to wear gaiters.
Surely this habit of labelling is one of the minor curses of the age? It is so that make up our present day society fatally easy to pop the different types into neat pigeon-holes.
Sailors, we know, are breezy, bishops changeable, and so on. No allowance is are genial, men are selfish, women are made for the claims of inviduality. In. Early Twenties."
The girl of to-day is the victim of this dangerous habit of generalisation. I say dangerous" advisedly, for what could be truer than the old adage, “Give a dog a bad name and haag it."
His Worship discharged the defendant on After hearing further evidence, and being briefly addressed by Mr. Turner, the ground of the evidence being insuf fcient to convict him.
The wife of one of the original defen- dants, who had given evidence in the other case, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour for committing perjury, but she was remanded for a week, and allow. ed bail in surety.cf 8100, in order that she might appear at the Criminal Sessions to give evidence in the case of the other appeared that her evidence given yester- three men committed «for trial there. It
day was contradictory to that given in the other case, and that she had not been speaking the truth
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JUSTICE BY CANDLE-LIGHT. ·
AN UNUSUAL SCENE AT THE
KOWLOON COURT. "
It is seldom that one has the opportu nity nowadays of seeing justice dispensed by candle-light. Nevertheless, such was the experience of a Daily Press reporter when he visited the Kowloon Magistreer
yesterday.
Entering the small and over-crowded Human beings are apt to live up or
court-room, the scene presented was somewhat reminiscent of what might down, as the case may be, to the accept have been the case in the days before the ed opinion of them. So it is with the utilisation of gas, electricity, or even oil Modern Girl She has been told repeat lamps, except that the Court room was edly that she is fast, made up, frivolous modern, as was also the dress worn by -a "little devil," in fact; and a natural the Magistrate, the uaber, interpreter, desire to keep in touch with her century police officers, the defendants and the and to shun any suspicion of dowdiness general public. prompts her to live up to her reputation. Hushed was the humming of the over- who, & few years ago, were perfectly lights which usually glow over the magin One can sec girls in the early twenties head fans, extinguished were the electric natural and spontaneous" flappers" trate's bench, usher's desk and solicitor's It offers the career open to talent becoming visibly transformed into table. In their place were five-solitary,
typical modern girla."!
and, ordinary wax candles. Four of these the field of opportunity to the young man of ambition and character in the home-
Other girls have acquired what one were placed on the edge of his Worship's land. It is to the young men here who might call a partially modern girl desk so as to cast a very subdued radi- feel cramped in their opportunities and manner," and their personalities are a
ance, compared with electric lighting, on are capable of daring and endurance that funny jumble like a patchwork quilt. the mass of legal papers. The outcast I make a special appeal. They will fad One will use the "Pygmalion" expletive candle was placed in the custody of the that Canada offers to them, but in a every other moment, yet ahun the lip-usher so that he might see where his pen higher degree, what it gave their fore-stick and the cigarette.
was travelling. fathers, who made it.
CREAT OPPORTUNITIES.
It presents in the swelling hope of its Prosperity an immense chance to make money. Let the young man who is not afraid of his destiny go out and make that money. If he likes he can come back and spend it in the Old Country before his hair is noticeably grey.
States before now have perished from
people is an event of the first importance. campaign, which is opening simultaneous too much order, from immobility, from
fly in the eastern and middle eastern
cities.
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WASHINGTON, Augustých. Countrywide plans to raise funds on Le Figuro says that the octogenarian,behalf of the British miners have been COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION who thought he had withdrawn from the worked out at a conference between Mr.
REGARDING SEATS.
world, has returned to the areas and is
Green and Mr. Morrison, president and BUGET, August 8th. striving to rescue his beloved France with secretary, respectively, of the Federation It seems probable that a special com- all the strength of his aged hands.
of Labour, with the British delegation Le Petit Journal says that the Ven- mittee of the League of Nations appoint
which recently arrived. ed to consider the composition of the dean Hermit's manifesto to the American League Council will hold a meeting of the Council, which is due to begin on L'Echa de Paris saya that M. Clemen- September 2nd. At its earlier meetings ceau has done well to attempt to end the this special committee unanimously ac- loathsome flattery of most French Minis- cepted a scheme submitted by Lord Cecil ters in their dealings with Washington."
L'Oeuvre myd-A is a noble letter, but for the allocation of mine non-permanent senta, But no recommendations were it is-a-pity that M. Clemenceau-did-not made with regard to permanent seats and see fit to tell Wilson in 1910 what he the committee adjourned zine die on has now written to President Coolidge. June 26th in the hope that the difficulty "L'Avenir refers to it as a moving with regard to the clash of Brazil and epistle which will up -set all politico- GOOD ADVICE WELL-RECEIVED: Spain might be removed in the interval.
RUGET, August 8th Spain has now asked for a further session. financial combinations. Although apprehensions, are said to pre- Le Matin, however, says that as one of Newspapers state that the advice ten vail in Berlin that controversies might the chief artisans of a bad peace, Mdered-in Sofa and Belgrade, not only by arise at such a meeting that will hamper Germany's speedy admission to the Clemenceau should have kept silent or at Great Britain but by France and Italy; League, it is pointed out here that what least have talked to Britain as well as has been well received and there is now ever further recommendations might be made by this advisory hody the allocation to America.
"of seats to individual Powers would re-
Le Humanite zake by what authority main a matter upon which the Assembly the hoary tragedian meddles in the would in any case decide of its own free
settlement of inter-Allied debts?
will,
The British delegation is taking charge of the activities of numerous other citica,
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BALKANS FERMENT.
Another will have a mouth like a pil- lar-box and throw cigarette "ends about
NOT AN INNOVATION.
to the "vast annoyance of ber relations, At first our reporter wondered if candle and yet is really so circumspect in her lighting was to be an innovation in the Court, for it is always necessary to have behaviour.
some illumination at the Magistrate's end of the room in view of there being no windows in this section of the court. On enquiry our reporter was undeceived and found that this novel and pictures que lighting effect, although it must be
At heart they are all very much what their ancestresses were; their characters are a very human medley of virtues and vices, stupidity and charm
The superficial differences in manner and outlook, which to the older genera-
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tion, make modern girls seem a different a slavish acceptance of regulation. If it race, must be blamed on the changed and was the elder sons who made Great distracted world we live in since the Britain it was the younger sons who Armistice made the British Empire. They were the men who were prepared to live "dan-Means to an Eud. gerously" in the political and economic sense. They put their trust in their own fate and fortune. All of you cannot be elder sons, and it is to the younger sons that I appeal. For they are not bound by regulations and precedents.
Who built the British Empire? The
ventarers Who will maintain it? Men Young men, the individualists, the ad of the same type and stock. That is the message of Dominion Day to the youth of Great Britain. Canada is young; its potential wealth is unbounded. For both these reasons-it-believes in and-depends on individual effort and marit, and will pay any price to those who can supply the morale and the ability which it deeda less likelihood of the dispute, which has to develop it.
Canada offers that spirit of in arisen between Yugo-Slavia and Bulgaria
dividualism its highest chance of realisa over the Kriva Palanka incident, develoption. I say to the young mes. ing unfavourably.
England, "Go out and take that chance.'
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confested an unsatisfactory que from the point of utility, was not to be a perman- ent feature of the Court.
The explanation for the presence "of the candles turned out to be a very simple one. On Sunday night there was" Financial difficulties bare forced many- a fire in a premises near the Magistracy girls of the old leisured classes into (reported elsewhere). Through the fire strenuous careers. It is not their fault certain electric wires were fused and if money-making, not love-making, oc damaged, thus necessitating repairs cupies on increasing place in their While these repairs were carried out the thoughts.
current in that area was cut off, in ac cordance with the recent rider at a
electrocuted while working on wires when enquiry on to Chinese wireman, who death. the current was passing through them. This rider suggested that electric cur- rent should in future, be cut off whenever repairs were being carried out. In cut- ting off the supply adjacent premises were... effected, and among them the Kowloon Court. It is expected, however, that the current will be on again to-day.
Contrary to the general belief, it is not
at the same time, cultivate the minor so easy for a girl to earn her living, and, graces that the women of a past genera tion used as such effective weapons against the opposite sex.
Financial independence in women may lead to elegance and chic, but it is also hard for them to guard against a certain briskness which is not altogether pleas ing to masculine tastes
The young men and maidens of today. have worries and problems to face that never troubled their serene adolescence.
Patience! We shall be elders and "betters ourselves one day!
Thus the useful candle has made its entry and exit on the stage of a Court. of Law in the twentieth century only to give place again to the modern and up-to-date electric light