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The most sensational portion of the book deals with the fabrication of evidence for the purpose of Bolahovik propaganda. The author tells us how, as far back na 1020, Russia was planning a "clossal trial to demonstrate the spionage work of England in U.S.S.R.." and how, the Tere-Kay, a M. Brunovsky prefers to call the
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COTTON MARKETS.
WEAVING DISPUTE IN LANCASHIRE,
IMPORTS FROM RUSSIA INCREASING.
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The following troporta have been portrait of Starridge is not wholly convincing (in the hands of the issued by Messrs. Hornby, Hemelryk areatest master he would have re& Co., Liverpool, under date, Jan mained aloof), but its framing in admiralty handled. There is bright ry 13:- colour, too, in the panorama- Miss Mannin stems as much at home in Bloomsbury's most auri- cus corners as she is on an Italian hill-top-and even though Starridge himself may baille you, his story is not disappointing. It not even depressing, for in the livelier is in the more tragic moments Mias Mannin is herself looking courageously shond.
ANGLO-DANISH BOXING.
THE HONG KONG NATURALIST,
QUARTERLY' Ilustrated
Journal Principally.
HOW OUR ARMY LOST THE HONG KONe and South CHINA.
TROPHY.
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The British Army boxing team had to give up possession of the Anglo-Danish Cup by losing five out of eight matches to the Danish team at Copenhagen, but if the
for
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The market does not show much change on the week, but it in in- teresting to note that the difference between Liverpool and New York has narrowed somewhat. This is probably due to the 8-loom dispute in Lancashire, to the low price of silver which restricts business with China, and to the fact that some Russian cotton, which competes with American cotton, is making Vor its appearance on the Liverpool his lack of timing. This was the at Cost Price if in Good Condition, any
Coloured Illustrations and to sho Owing to the High Cost of the Increased Size of the Journal the Edition is Strictly Limited. To avoid disappointment Intending Subscribera should send their Buberiptions Early 81 ParRS LADIES' SHOES to Dr. G. A. C. HERKLOTS, The UNIVERSITY, Hong Kong.
6 CASES CARBOLIC SOAPS
THE MODERN SHOT GUN.
market.
of
course,
TuE MODERN SHOT GUN." ..I. THE GUN By Major
Gerald Burrard, D.8.0. (Her Compared to New York, our bert Jenkins. 15s.)
market is to-day extremely cheap. The author of this book is writ Liverpool May is only 10 Liverpool ing three volume, on the modern points higher than New York, shot gun. This, the firet, is con- which means,
that orned with the gun itself: the America will have to continuo others will deal with the ammuni.carrying the surplus instead of tion used and with a combination being able to unload it in Europe, of gun and ammunition. It is well that this task has been undertaken by an ex-artillery offloor, for the details of mechanism that he goes into would baile most other peo- ple. We are shown the difference
According to the Department of Agriculture, ginnings up to De- cember 1 included 1,501,000 bales or untenderable cotton, against 2,802,000 bales last year.
The weaving dispute in Lanca
crowd had and their way, the match would have been a draw, at four contests ail, as they roundly booed the refutes for what was obviously a "raw deal" in the case of Pts. Brennan, the Army middle-weight, bronnan piled up an unbeatable lead of points in the first three rounds, and, although fought spiritedly, to wipe off the inficit, he failed, chiefly because of only bout which met with the dis approval of the crowd, although several fights went very close.
Jonzon
The Anglo-Danish Cup in a trophy presented by the Anglo- Danish Society. It was won for the first time by the Imperial Services team in,, May 1920, at Aldershot, but the Sparta Club of Copentingon regained it in the fal lowing year. ended in a tie of four matches all, hut the Services toom declined to bring it back to England with them When the Danes came to England in 1929, however, it waI
In 1928 the match
thes to three at the Stadium Club, and the Services, by drawing last year, retained the trophy. mark has now won it back.
Den-
was awarded to Pte Brennan, al
The cup for the best Englishman
though he lost his match, and the cup for the best Dane to Carl F. Jenson, the Danish light-weight champion.
VOLUME I is Sold Out. Owing to the Great Demand for Back Numbers the Editors are prepared to purchase, of the First Numbers that aro no longer required.
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between a cheap gun and a bestshire is causing a certain amount won by the Services by five mat TUESDAY, 17m FEBRUARY, 1931. grad one in many details, starting with the steel from which the bar of anxiety as the employers have rels are made. The advantages of decided to close all weaving sheds a really high-class article are shown
on the 17th inst, unless the disputo chiefly in durability and in safety employers are firm in their attitude is settled in the meantime. The the cheap gun being safe enough though they have offered to apply under ordinary circumstances, but not so reliable in a really hot cor- ner, when birds are coming thick and fast. Some beginners may not know whence the terms by which the His picture of prison life stira boro of a gun are described arigi- the imagination with disgust. Honate, but in this book this infor- tells of sadistic and perverted war-
mation is given very briefly and ders and of official crimes, conceal cloarly. Guns have not altered very ed for ever by the execution of the
much really sincs breech-loaders victim.
were first introducél, in fact, "ex- trators" are almost, the same now Lancaster in 1852. na when invented by Mr. Charles
In matters of detail he is scrupu lou and his record of prison rations is enlightening. In the morning he recoived three-quarters
There is a chapter on "single of a pound of brend; hot water triggere," and although it is claim was issued once a day; three-quared for these that they are a little fers of a tumblerful of sugar was allowed overy 15 days; one tables- poonful of ton (made from burnt apples) and one tablespoonful of coffee made from acorns) sufficed for the same period. Dinner was an "ordeal." It consisted of a bnsinful of terrible reeking soup, cooked with offal and dried potatoes. The soup is made of stale,
quicker than double triggers, yet ful whether a really slow man can the anthor remarks, it is doubt be turned into a quick one by the changs from two triggers to one
"Over and under guns" are dealt with at some length, that is, guns whose barrels are situated ollo
the new system gradually, but we fear that the lack of any-spirit of conciliation on the part of the the dispute. They refuse to march trade union leaders may aggravate with the times, although it is ob vious that the operatives will have to give way sooner or later.
We understand that the employ- ers have found a way of stopping the weaving sheds whereby the oporatives will not be able to draw the, dole, and in view of the trade unions, poor state of finance, the dispute cannot presumably last very long.
at MOUTRIE'S.
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Col Casson said the best fights were those in the light-weight and I STAND middle-weight olnases, between Carl
Jensen and Huxham and Knud Jensen and Brennan.
The hissing by the spectators at the referee's decision in Bren-SERVICES
ran's match showed the great sportsmanship of the Danish pub- lic," ha declared, but in my opin- ion a Danish victory was all right.
"The meeting formed a link in the chain of previous excellent en- counters between the British Army and the Sparty Club. Wo more than ever appreciate and want to co-operate
with the hospitable Danes."
The cool situation in this country is also having a depressing effect, and yet in spite of all our labour troubles, the markete in general have remained fairly steady. There has been no further: drop in any article, and the stock markets have shown a distinctly firmer tendency, This is probably due to the fact The advantages claimed for that, after all, there must be an we are told that guns of this tyne there has been such a very drastic are popular in America, The ill-deflation in every article, people are ustrations consist of photographs hoping that the decline. has now CHINA MARKET FOR U.S.
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With grant fortitude and ingenu- ity M. Brunovsky during his long imprisonment ananaged to municate with his wife by moane of smuggled letters. Despite the fact that his coll bore the notive, "If
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BRILLIANT NOVEL BY LORD BIRKENHEAD'S DAUGHTER,
run its course.
In his annual report, the Chair- man of the Chase National Bank, the largest banking institution in Amerien, expresses himself in a similar strain and takes a rather hopeful view of the situation, em phasizing at the same time that it
The Army team, returning home from Copenhagen, mat a Jutland team at Esbjerg. Although they suffered two knock-outs the British team won by six contests to two,
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any prisoner approaches the win- "FLAMENCO." By Lady Eleanor would be good business for America interest in China as a potenial Booking for the General Public will
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Smith. (Gollancz, 78. ed.) "Flamenco" in its setting is back in the earlier years of the
dow, the sentry fires without warn- ing," the author instituted A pigeon post, which when discovered led to the organised slaughter of all pigeons in the vicinity of the.neteenth century and we are in- prison, and actually devised a "rope railway" for the transport of provisions-a device which, was also discovered.
troduced to the strangely uncom- fortable household of the Lavells. Their story is told in su masterly way. Indeed, had an extra. Bronte sister managed to ship into exis. tence and followed the family tradi- tion, one might be tempted to say that "Flamenco" was her contri-
In the Butyrski Prison the au ther once attempted to get into communication with the famous Captain Reilly, who was incar cerated in the prison hospital. Sobution to letters. closely was the captain guarded, covered using landed dice at his
Richard Lovell has been dis however, that he was allowed only London club, and henceforth is ten minutes exercise a day, and was constantly watched by two warders. The author definitely dis- misses as untrue the Bolshevik re. port that the captain was execut. ed in 1925, and suggests that be may still be alive in the inner pri- son, in a scoret cell, antil re quired.'
ETHEL MANNIN'S NEW NOVEL.
Allied debts. to initiate a reduction in inter-
But, in the meantime, specula-
tion is absent, and by speculation
wa
Empire Cotton.
M. Hyde, the Secretary of Agricul ture, dealt extensively with con- ditions in China
"General Chinese peace, if ac companied by the suppression of bandit activities and the other law. lessness which disturbs trade, might prepare the way for a marked in- crease of industrial and commer Hyde wrote in his 1831 crop fore- cial activity in China," Becretary cast. This would tend to streng then the demand for tobacco, oot ton and whost, from the United Statca."
́Increased Demand Lákoly, However, Becretary Hyd, pointed out that increased commercial and industrial activity under pencofu) | conditons in Chins might simult nooously result in larger shipments el roya beans, peanuts, vegotable oils and eggs from China to the United Bengal and Sind 1,130,000 1,173,000 the United States for Chinese silk State Secretary Hyde 1930/31. 1020/30. said that an improved demand in American sced... 500,000 467,000 Oamra Dholera 9,870,000 3,104,000 flected in China by an increased
and wood off would in turn be re Broach and
demand for Amarican agricultural 449,000 847,000 products, Total 5,840,000 6,200,000
The survey notes an improve Grown for hand-
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Trading in the new Eastern to do, but the arrival of some An- dalusian gypsies in the neighbour futures contract, in Liverpool will be inaugurated on February 2 for hood payce the way to a curiously
im-delivery in May, 1931, and onwards, interesting drama. On an pulse-not so strange as it seca A well-known authority revises to be, for he has "Egyptian" bloodite estimate of the supply of East in his own veine-this Lovell buys Indian cotton this season (in bales a gypsy girl from her parents and of 400 lbs.) as follows:-... brings her up as his own. In dua course the marries his second son, "RAGGED BANNERS." By Ethel after the father he attempted
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make her his mistress, but he is "Ragged Banners" is primarily a miserable waster, and it is the portrait of a misit. Young Harry, the elder brother, who is Starridge is one of thoes strangely the father of her child. And it is sensitive creatures--the philistines to Harry that she goes for ell may have a rather different epithet time, when, in his turn their son to apply who must always be des has been rescued from the gypsier. tined for tragedy in a “bourgeois” Such a barsoutline, however, world. He is a poet, & potential does no more than the scanticst genius if you will, who is for over justice to a wholly, exceptional courageously searching for freedom. piece of work. These Lovells stand All he asks is to be left alone, and out in the clearest relici. Richard that, of course, is the ong blessing himmlf slowly sinking down, but
the fow real friends who come near time dignity; his wife, shut up in ta understanding him during his her room with her paints and wanderings across Europe demand powders and preposterous dresses too much. And whon at last it Harry, the farmer, doggedly wait doos stem as though he has founding for his woman; and the effemi fair.
In a report taped on crop, condi- the ideal companion, the German nato. Evelyn, who has married Max, a woman whom he has un. Camila-overy one of them is as
Tanch 60,000 bales. The acreage this tions. ruling at the end of Novem 2 FLOOD. EXCHANGE BLDG., the rear will be increased by possibly has the finder Charmermart ph spurned, comes between them Rover intrudes. There is a sustain as much as 20 per cell mates a total output of 157,457 bales “More, she taunts him with her | ́ed grimness in the story, but it It 18 reported that the next (of 400 lbs.) of Sakel cotton, com SHOW BOOM: WHITTA'S MOTOR on on all subjects of enquiry victory, and in a moment of mad has its beauty. Following her fine Brazilian erop in the State of Saopared with the previous estimate of nean he kills her.
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