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CŻAREVITCH STILL ALIVE?
DIARY OF EVENTS.
PRIME MINISTER'S STORY OF A MYSTHERY MAN
RETURN.
A WET SUMMER.
VISIT OF NEW YORK'S CURIOUS MA YOR.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }
IN POLAND.
BIDING HIS TIME.
PARIS, August 23rd. Is the Czarevitch Alexis alive and hiding in Poland, biding his time! The Polish newspaper, Express Poranny, publishes a sensational story dealing with the mystery of a man of twenty-two-the age the Canyevitch would be were he alive who is at present living in the Polish town of Bydgoszcz.
massacre Family.
C-
Ivanci says he fled to Poland from his native country, Rusisa, Cosmick. Ivanoffuffers from the nine years ago in the company of a same mysterious malady as did the boy Czarevitch-hemophilia
Russian Monarchists who have
To-day.
St. Matthew's Day. "Tex Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. and King. Edward Hotel, &
p.m.
Hockey Nemads . Punjab Re giment, Marina Ground, 5.15 p.m. Ping Pong League: Hop Ying Club. C.CY.I.5. (St Peter's Club).
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.s.— "Cheer O": Whist Drive, 7.15 p.m.; "Better 'Ole": Sing-Song,
p.m.
Whitey Smith Orchestra, at Re- palse Bay Hotel.
5th Night Fete Victoria Rearea-
"Revellers Concert Party at tion Club, 9 p.m.. Kowloon Football Club. 9 p.m.
Forbes Russell Comedy Company present "Nothing but the Trath, Theatre Royal 9.15 p.
Oriental Strolling Players and 1st Northamptonshire Regimental Band, Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
LONDON, August 27th.
The youth calls himself Eugen The Prime Minister was given an
Nikolaevitch Ivanoff, and speaks enthusiastic welcome home on his return from Canada this week. It fluent French, English, German,
and Russian. He lives by is felt on every side that Mr.broidery work, at which he is an Baldwin has worthily upheld the dignity of his office during his visit expert, as was the boy who is sup to the Dominion. He is not an posed to have perished in the of the Russian Royal orator; indeed he cannot even be called eloquent, but he speaks with obvious sincerity and carries con- viction as a straightforward, up-
Queen's Theatre: Moana." right Englishman. After all, these
World Theatre: "Time The are qualties that command respect
Comedian." and admiration, and by all accounts
Star Theatre:** The Monster." Canadian audiences were impresa-
Thursday, - ed by Mr. Baldwin's personality
Birthday of Confuscius (Sheng- and charmed by his speeches. I seen him in Poland declare that the learn that what he said in public ne likeness between Ivanoff and the tan-chien).
Legislative Council Meeting, 230- Alexis is remarkable. dead" prepared most carefully beforehand, Ivanoff, however, denies that he is P., and did not run the risk of trust the Russian hair, but on Sundays South China Command
3rd Annual Swimming Gala of ng to the inspiration of the moment.
wears the old Russian uniRAS.C. Camber, 3.30 p.m. This is always the wise course when
Tes Dances: R Hotel and speeches are made that will be
The Polish Catholic clergy have closely scrutinised.
declared themselves supporters of Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.
- Football: HK.F.C. v. Police Ivanoff When the youth arrived
immediately Happy Valley. in Poland he
Polish priest in received by Chelm, who began to educate him, and Ivanoff became a convert to Roman Catholicism,"
Holiday And Work Ahead. After bis Canadian trip Mr. Baldwin is proposing to take a real holiday. He will deliver one address in Scotland, at Douglas Castle, Lancashire, and will then go to his favourite Continental re- sort of Aix-les-Bains, He is ex- pected to remain there during the whole of September. In October he is due to make a speech at the annual conference of the Conser vative Party at Cardiff,
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US. JUDGE APOLOGISES.
AMERICA TO BLAME FOR
GENEVA FAILURE,
Judge R. Binghamt of Ken. tucky, who is occupying Guthrie Castle, spoke very frank words on the Geneva Naval Conference when he opened a Forfarshire flower
This will be a very important occasion, as the Prime Minister will be expected to lay down the lines on which an appeal will be made to the country at the next General Election. He will also be expected to answer the critics show. within his own party who are dis- "I want," he said, to apologise appointed with the Government to you, as an American citizen, for delay in dealing with the question what may be regarded as of the House of Lorda reform, and failure of the Conference." openly annoyed that the Govern- ment have promised the vote to women of 21 within the lifetime of the present Parlament.
the
That it was a failure, was the fault of his own country and his Those who re- own countrymen. presented them failed to realise that a nation placed as Britain was The ackleness of the English must at all times keep open the
Cool and Wet.
seas.
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elimate is proverbial. But this Summer there has been an ex- asperating constancy about the wea ther, for it has been cool and wet-1 by no means easy, it is stated, find & translator with "dual especially wet. In the present holi to day month of August, a month when qualifications & a chemist and as Chinese scholar; but eventually it is customary to expect Faden Dr. C. L. Eso undertook the task sunny days, the sun has hidden himself, and there have been 15 and he has carried it through with. successive rainy days in London up the aid of the medical staff at to the time of writing. The holi Shantung Christian University. day-makers at the "seaside are The translation is sponsored in aggrieved, and the farmers who this country by the London Cham- want to harvest the corn crops are ber of Commerce, and is described unanimous in consiguing the Clerk as a comprehensive and reliable of the Weather, or whoever is work technically accurate and of responsible for the untimely rain. sound Chinese scholarship.?! to a place where even one drop of water is unattainable,
The wet summer has also inter fered with outdoor sport, especial
· The Unpunctual Mayor.. Mr. James Walker, the Mayor of New York, who has been staying here for a week or so, has provided
Forces,
Kowloon Football Club annual meeting, 5 p.m.
Ping Pong League: W..O.B.U. . C.B.C. (C.C.Y.M.S.).
Steel and Coulson's Billiard League: Northants 7. · R.A.; K.O.S.B. v. Queen's; R.E. and R Sigs. v. D.B.C.; Revenue v. St. Patrick's Club; Garrison Sgts. Mess. Police.
Naval and Military F.M.GAL:- Cheez O": Informal Dance, 1
p.m.
After dinner dance at Lee Gar- dena.
Forbes Russel! Comedy Company present In the Next Room,” Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Oriental Strolling Players, and at Northamptonshire Regimental Band, Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Masked Bride."
"Her Sister
World Theatre: from Paris."
Star Theatre: "Sea Horses.** Principal Mails:-Outward:.. Canada, Americs, etc., and Europe via Victoria, B.C. (Achilles). 10.30
a.m; Australia, New Zealand, etc., (Tango Maru), 9.30 am; Europe vid Siberia (Nyanza), 2.30 p.m.
Friday
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hotel, 6 p.m.
Garrison School Aquatic Sports Service Relay
Телц
R.AS.C. Camber, 4.13 p.m.
Race
Club and Service Hockey Officials meeting to arrange fixtures, Volun- teer Headquarters, 5.50 p.m.
Ping Pong League: W.Y. Col- lege v. St. Peter's Club (Y.M.C.A.)
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. "Cheer O": Concert, 7. p.. "Better 'Ole
le": Concert, 7 p.m. Forbes Russell Comedy Company
My Heart, present "Peg Theatre Royal 9.15 p.m.
Oriental Strolling Players and ly with cricket. Many of the inthe gossip writers in the evening 1st Northamptonshire Regimental portant matches could not be play ed to a Shish. Naturally the wea. papers with plenty of material for Band Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
their special brand of humour. To Queen's Theatre! The Masked ther has affected the attendance of the public, with the result that begin with, there is something Bride,"
World Theatre: "Her Sister the gate receipts are seriously amusing in the fact that in Mr.
Walker we have a American from Pari diminished. Some of the leading straight from the Land of Hurtle Star Theatre: "Ben Horses." counties like Yorkshire, which has who lies in bed till eleven o'clock
Baturday. 8,000 annual subscribers to
Entries close for H.K. Jockey County Cricket Club, have reserves in the forenoon and is always lite of capital, but the smaller countics for his appointments His excuse
Autumnal Equinox (Ch'iu-fen). : who exist more or less from hand for rising in the middle of the day to mouth, or from year to years that he feels tired and wants mainly on the turostile receipts will sleep; and as for his unpunctuality, Reception in honour of Governor be faced later on, with heavy he says anybody can be in time who of Macao, at Club Lusitano, 4.30
deficita.
the
primary object in view in under taking a task of such magnitude and difficulty was to familiarise the Chinese medical profession with official British pharmaceutical pre parations.
has nothing important to de.
in the carly part of the week he
Club, 8th Extra Race Meeting. noon.
"wid
Launch
Football: H.K.F.C. v. Queen's A Chinese Pharmacopoels...
xent over to Ireland to visit his Royal Regiment, Happy Valley.
Chinese Recreation Club annual The translation into Chinese of birthplace, but he got so hopelessly the British Pharmacopoeia which behind with his engagements that At Home" (Champions of Tea- was undertaken under the "joint he fled the country after a few aia Leage. The Rest; distribution auspices of the London Chamber of days. He was always late. He kept of prizes by Lady Clementi), 3 p.m. Cricket: K.0.0.r. Military Sub- Commerce and the British Chamber the Governor-General waiting for of Commerce, Shanghat, has been him on an official visit for nearly an acribera, I.B.C. e. D.B.S., Indian
luncheon given R.C. ground, 9 p.m. completed and the resultant work hour, the guests at is "published here this week. The in his honour had to wait for forty St. Peter's Y.M.C.
minutes, and it was the same in Picnic, Launch leaves Queen's everything else. Mr. Walker in- Pier, 340 p.m.
Tea Danoes: LK. Hotel and variably contrived to be from three quarters of an hour to two and a Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. quarter hours late.
Ping Pong League H.K. Univer- Even in Dublin where time is sity YMCA (S.C.AA)
Dinner Dansant at King Edward A note which I have received usually regaced most tolerantly from the London Chamber of Com Mr.. Walker's habit began to be Hotel. recalls the fact that the remarked, and so he suddenly left, merco translation dates from May 26th, by the mail boat and returned to 1921, when a meeting of the then London. The general opinion here Chemicals, Dyes and Drugs Sub is that he is late as described in Committee of the General Com- order to draw attention to himself, mittes of the Chamber to authorise. It is the only way he can look im the work to be carried out. It was portant. But English people-con-
(Continued on next Column.) sider it ill-mannered.-H.B
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Forbes Russell Comedy Company present "Fallen Angele," Theatre Royal 8.15 p.m.
Oricatel Strolling Players and at Northamptonshire Regimental Band, Lee Theatre, 9.30p
Queen's Theatre.
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