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issued on Saturday, gives the fol- lowing particulars with regard to
correspondence, unclaimed waiting at the Fost Office, and also unclaimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph Office, Govern ment Building--
LIGHT.
NOVELIST INDICTS GREAT.
AUTHOR.“
OLD TRADITIONS ATTACKED. "
A
bo.
literary sensation. will caused by the issue of a novel with Charles Dickens as its central character.
The volume in question, "This The chief plank in the democratic platform at the last elections was
Side Idolatry," by Ephesian (C. E. the demand for Abolition of all
Poste Bastante Cofrespondence.
Bechhofer Roberts), seeks to reveal those territories enclosed within the
R. H. Beaven, G. Borodin, G. D. boundaries of a larger Power. Of Clarke. V. C. Cavista, Charles to the world a new Dickens. these enclaves the best known Cocks, jr., J. C. Finch. Clement It attacks the traditions which abroad is probably the Prussian Haynes, A. Kets, Lyen Bros., Miss area of Hohenzollern, which lies, Maloy, Miss E. Macnamara. H. have grown up round the great many hours journey from Prussia, Nitz, Mrs. H. M. Percy, M. Rejzes, novelist's character, as drawn by on the banks of that very southern Mrs. V. Reynolds, A. Simmons John Forster in his classic bio- river, the Danube, in the State of American Variety Show), H.
graphy, and attempts to supplant Wurtemberg. There was a very Siagle, Mrs. H. Schoenhans, S. J. good reason for Prussin taking An Solomon, Mrs. Ida M. Smith (c/o them with the figure of a self Interest in Hohenzollern as the N. Marger), L. N. Smith Mrs. F. centred, egotistical, selfish vulgá- ancestral home of its royal house, H. Steele, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. an. to-day a well-preserved ruin crown Tallennae, Miriano Tampan, E. C. ing the rack whose fortifications Wilks, Mrs. L. Watts. A. Weis- once gave shelter to the population mana; C. F. Young. nestling in its shadow,
Unpaid Correspondence. 3r. Brearley (c/o H.E. Hotel), Mrs. Newman Grey."
Registered Articlos.
It is in effect a biography in the form of a novel, and the author has adopted this method of telling the story because of the restrictions placed on the publication of quota- tions from any of Dickens' letters. Dramatic material derived from these and other sources has been
There is no cause for the Republic to cherish it. As a matter of fact the more usual term for the whole district is Sigmaringen, from the chiettown of the principality,
G. Borodin, Dr. M Everham. Sigmaringen has a population of some five thousand souls. Another Miss Mary Green, H. G. Levy, Clarence Martia (e/o Foreign town, Hechingen, gives its name to Club), A. Rassinussen, James used in building up a tale which, the line of Hohenzollern-Sigmarin-Schless, R. Collantes Tacloban. gen-Hechingen, which for genera tions has enjoyed as much local power us the bolder branch which settled in the sand of Brandenburg. and took its place, a parvenu, but a powerful one, among the crowned hends of Europe. The Revolution, which swept away the Hohen- zollerns of the north of Germany, forced their relatives to retire.
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The story of his final separation Talamba. from his wife, with her terrible in- Cholon, dictment of her husband, forms a Saigon. dramatic climax.
A
Saigon.
Choias.
I, Charles, am weary of hearing
Tawas
meaner
SheriffCut By Prince.
you prate of cant and humbug and. As may be observed in all small principalities and
of
Brooklyn, N.. hypocrisy Is there a
Scerabaja Germany to-day, the bulk of the
cant than your empty catchwords? ropalace was unwilling to see thema
... Saigon. You're the hypocrite, you who boast go. These little towns still lived
Saigon. your contempt for money and break in the shadow of the great folks
Quinbon. at the castle. Shopkeepers supplied Chong Ka Hen, care the household goods of a more
Chung Fui Yun Jesselton. luxurious type than the sober Man. Heng Loong...Tangjong Balei. citizens were wapt to order; the Jos Cohn, Repulse Bay wives and daughters of professional
New York. men, civil servants, and other func Rita Cohn, Repulse Bay tionaries ordered gowns for tea
Hotel
New York. parties and soirées at court." The
Vanoven
Velterredan. socially ambitious had a never-end-Liogmadam, 84, Caine ing interest in life. It is perhaps Road, 2nd Boor
Batavia. Kremlin Daniel...... San Francisco
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NEW TRIUMPHS OF MACHINERY
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The fourth machine tool, and engineering exhibition at Olympia was opened by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Bridgeman,
quite natural, viewed from the local l standpoint, that while the Kaiser's gons appear honestly endeavouring to adapt themselves to changed circumstances and act private gentlemen," the minor" potentates of Germany find it hard; to part with established tradition.
The Prussian sheriff of Hohen- zollern-Sigmaringen, therefore, bas found it necessary to undertake a special journey to the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin to ask advice upon a point of etiquette which is causing a local war. The death of P. the head of the house, a man still
The exhibition occupied the accustomed tu royal privileges, whore of the floor and gallery, Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, and the most comprehensive ex- was believed to be the signal for a hibition of the industry ret held. radical change in the manners of No side of the trade was neglect the Republican administration of ed. It is estimated that about this little bit of Prussia.
of moving machinery 5,000 cons was installed, representing in value some three-quarters of a million pounds.
You faith with every publisher. who preach charity and pillory your parents and your friends in your booka. You who rant of duty and faithfulness and desert me for a painted actress.
Haven't I watched you year after year?.
**Selfish, grasping, vulgary vain, you, nag me perpetually for extra- vagance, and lavish gifts on every toady. You play off your friends one against the other, and cast them
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Kate, you're out of your mind,"
You've always retorts Charles. neglected the children, "you've been moody, hysterical, impossible." She swept his words aside.
"This Must Be The End," "I've been too busy bearing you children to have time to neglect them. Can you guess what it's meant to me, year after year, to be waiting another child, and then an other and another? I, neglect the childrent I Charles. I can en- dure this life no longer. This must be the end."
The "painted actress was Ellen Ternan. Ephesian defends Dickens against the accusations that have been often made against him that she was his mistress.
Hitherto the sheriff sent from headquarters in Berlin-no Socialist, but a Catholic Centre Party man, therefore chief asset of this am
The object of the exhibition was biguous party, acceptable to both
to show the results of the lessons Right and Left-had not been re- ceived by the Prince at the castle learned during the mass production when be desired to pay his official period which resulted from the visit. Wishful to let bygones be War, to an extent that made the bygones, he intimated that he progress of the industry greater would accept the excuse of indis- than could have been expected in position, and would pay a second half a century of peaceful develop ment. At the beginning of masa
The story tells for the first time call provided the Prince would re- turn it. The information was con- production some thoroughness was the truth about Dickens early love veyed to the sheriff that the Prince inevitably sacrifced to speed, but affair with Maria Beadnell, the was of no mind to do such a thing.it is claimed that in the last few pretty, coquettish daughter of a bas workmanship City banker, whom he met when Thereupon the theriff was ignored years not only
but he was a struggling law court re- locally by the best families of regained its thoroughness,
There Hohenzollern. Five of his own staff speed has been increased.
porter. He wooed her ardently who accepted a princely invitation has been a greater degree of ac- until the parental band of the proud banker fell upon them, and the which excluded himself were immed-curacy in workmanship, in
romance ended abruptly. iately transferred by the. Prussian se.ection" and treatrical of mate- Government in Berlin.
rials greater care and knowledge, and in technical skill a higher The local mayor, a loyal citizen standard than ever before. A con- varden in "Barnaby Rudge." A
tributing factor to this advance nisa, Routed Prussia by flagging the has been the imperative demand to city hall on the Prince's birthday meet the increased costs of labour On receiving an intimation that the and the shorter hours necessitating new Prince intended keeping up the the employment of the most elf family tradition of war with theent, tools, from which the lasting red silk, her flagrantly dyed Republic, the sheriff loft Berlin again with a document to be nailed
No Longer A "Highness."
ounce of output can be extracted.
the
Maria was the original of Dora in "David Copperfeld and Dolly
quarter of a century later they met again. The vision fell on the erst while ardent lover of a stout, middle-aged woman arrayed in rust
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so his marriage rows. like Luther's theses to official doors machines were a broad drop hatn incessantly and so inanely that merely as a in Hohenzollern.
tone, Dickens fed from the room. He society of young "and vivacious seemed The Berlin edict provides that the mer with a punch of 60 to
which can strike 64 blows a minute, title of "Prince" is now part of and a device for lifting & similar afterwards revenged himself be women, whose presence
maliciously caricaturing her in necessary to the prosecution of his the surname and is not to be hammer weighing half & too, with Little Dorrit and Flora Fin- literary work, and whose society separated from it. father was Prince Wilhelm of punch of over 70 teas, and strikching, the blowsy widow who drank he cultivated with a callous dis-
brandy in her tea, and endeavoured.regard to the feelings of his wife. Hohenzollern, the new head of the ing 50. blows a minute.
To illustrate the great progress to faist herself upon a reluctant. It is suggested by the story that family's name is Friedrich, Prince
Whereas his
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“Süghted" Wife.""
there was inherent in his nature a of Hohenzollern." He is not to be of wood-working machinery during suitor of her youth.
tendency to idealise the unattain- addressed as "Highness," nor is he
able woman. When he had married to sign any papers or cause any
The cazance of the charge pre- Kate Hogarth be ceased to idealise letters to be sent from his house hold implying that he still considers a minute, or about 23 indles in a ferred against Dickens is that he her, and began to idolise ber sister normal working day. This is a slighted and neglected his wife, who Mary, After Mary's death, he himself a Highness." This, 50 Prussia orders, is to be given "the gain of some 150ft. a minute since bore him ten children in the first transferred, his idealisation to her the exhibition four years ago. So fifteen years of their married life, youngest sister Georgina, whom the strictest ttention" of all citizens.
The whole affair, ridiculous as it fast does the machine work that and that, Gaally, when they parted author makes him address, after the is, calls, according to the Re-it is impossible to feed by hand, after twenty-two years, that he final stormy scene with his wife, publican Press, for the withdrawal and consequently there is an auto-wrote a letter to the manager of in the words:
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of Prussia from the land of Hohen-matic table. The boards are plan his reading tours, to be shown to zollern. It might be possible to ex-ed at the same time, the shavings any person who wished to know the of south German land enclosed by in thickness, and the machine is he déclared that his wife had light up its darkness. God bless | PORTS of the MEETING change the spot for a similar piece being three thousandths of an inch truth about the separation, in which ever trod this earth of ours. You
Prussia horself. Others believe that looked after by one man.
the central Government at Berlin must now by hook or by crook, up hold the dignity of the Republic and hold on to Hobenzollern.
It seems perfectly clear at the l'outset that the loyal citizens of (Continued at foot of next-colupin.)
Hohenzollern will not conse addres ing the Prince as Royal High- ness," nor cease to circulate bills advertising themselves as verors to the Court
" pur-
ON BALE. TONG KONG HANSARD RE- the worse than motherless. Your of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCI always neglected the children, and you, Georgy, for your love for had left bis house under the in-
aacrifice shall live for ever on their for the Session 1927.
Revised by Members Buence of a mental disorders
lips and mine." There is no suggestion in the book Enough-haz been said to show.
TICE that Dickens was ever faithless, in that this volume will arouse a storm the ordinarily accepted sense, to of crificiem from Dickensa-lovers
and they are legion-the world over. (Continued on nest Column).
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS CYNICE.