CHINESE R.O. ON, SERIOUS CHARGE.
MAGISTRATE'S QUESTION TO WOMAN WITNESS.
The case in which Lan Sauja Chinese revenue officer, is charged? with obtaining 8300 from Mok Pak of 1, Mabrogar Street, Wanchal on February 1, by meins of ména cos was continued before Mr. B. E. Lindwell yesterday, and after evidenor was tales from three witnesses, hearing was adjourned
till to-morrow,at 2.15 p.m.
Mr. Geo, Hall Brutton appear. rd for the defence whilst Mr. F. C. E. Rendall watched the case on behalf of the prosecution.
Detective Sorgeant Lamont told. the Court that about 8.20 nm, on the day in question, defendant, accompanied by another man, writ to the said address and stal ed that they had authority to con- duct a search for opium, This they lid, and on the person of the complainant they found a small quantity of the drug, whereupon they demanded 8400 from the man, aying that unless this sum was forthcoming they would strike higand then plass him under ar-
rest
A FALSE MAHDI.
- DERVISH REVOLT IN TURKEY.
'FEROCITY AND ASS
SUPERSTITION;
The following account in the Manchester Guardian of the recent reactionary move in Turkey will throw light on the cabled news of the happenings, in that country, which culminated in 'mass hangings The Constan- a few days ago. tinople correspondent of that papor writes:-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1931.
PROCLAMATION OF NEW TSAR.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
AT PARIS.
PATHETIC BUT PROUD.
Political outensta, a people with out a country, members of the White Russian émigré colony in France, participated in an impres- sivo display of devotion recently when Grand Duke Cyril Vindmire vitch, head of the Romanoff famt ly, proclaimed himself the Tear of all the Russians
The reactionary attempt in Turkey lins proved more serious Tho ceromony was solemn
THEY PAINTED THEIR FACES!
A WOMAN ON THE PERSIAN EXHIBITION.
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11 to 11.30a.m.-Stock quotations. In the Persian Exhibition in 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. London are jewels from the Thou sand and One Nights, bowls of 12.30 p.m.-European programme. ophidian blue, and greens, spread 1.30 p.m.-Weather report, loen!
time and Rugby Press now. a net of fantasy over the admiring senses, pictures through whose en-2 pm-Close down. cuantod avenues wander hours of 5 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programmó,
6 to 630 p.m.-Chinese children's rose and gold and loown, almond- eyed, languorous. But the thing
programme. that pleases mo, most about the Indies of Persia is this:- They painted their faces,
I have repeated this refrain
than was at first suspected. Vari- affair. The followers of Cyril fillecitatieally in the tombs of Ur, of Gus napects combine to make it ex-ed the large lecture hall in the Mycena, of Thebes, and of Pom- The professor drone on tremely significant of the retrograda Avenue D'Jens Paris, There poii condition in which the public men were nearly 1,000 persons present, icarnodly, reconstructing this and tality has remained despite the gathering of simply end monthat. But one thing we know efforts of the revolutionary leaders and wonten in street clothes. They certainly in the past seven years..
came from all walks of life, but many had been among the nobility in Russia under the Tears,
It took place not in some utterly One of the men produced a re-buckward district to which modern volver and on seeing the weapon ideas could not have penetrated, the complainant became very frightmed and offered to give the but in the Smyrna hinterland, two men 820, which was all he had whore the civilisation of Anatolia, on the premiaca The men said that the least they would take such as it is, is at its highest. It was $300 so the complainant sent was prepared by many months of his wife out to borrow 860 to missionary effort carried out from: ma' up this sim The money place to place by adepts of the was then banded, to the men, who dervish order of Nakshibendi, It left, but complainant followed must have been known beforehand them and raised an alarm. One to many thousands of persons all of the men made good his escape over the country. It was organised but defendant was arrested by under the very eyes of the Govern- nient authorities, and in certain district watchman on a trament.
cases apparently with the con- nivance of Governinent officials. Though the Smyrne hinterland was chosen for the attempt, the rami fications of the plot went much further, not only into the ignorant interior but even to Constantinople. te organisers moved to and fro tween the district chosen for the attempt and the headquarters of the Nakshibendi order the
Woman Carrier Implicated? Complainant then дате cor roborative evidence, after which Mr. Brutton cross-examined him at length. Mr. Brutton put it to him that the reason why he did not raiso an alarm when the men were in his house wag breause at that time, there was a woman car rier with a large cunatity of opium in his cubicle. This woman, "con- tinued Mr. Brutton, arrived at
in
suburban villa of Sheikh Esand.
Several were former ladies-in-1 waiting to the Tearinn. All were scholars and aristocrats. Most of then are desperately poor. They ooked it,
The Grand Duke Cyril's asoca- sion to the exalted if meaningless, nt the moment title was hailed by the soniewhat pathetic but proud White Russians who have found asylum, if not happiness, in exile in France.
They painted their faces,
Undeterred by Criticism,
For five thousand years we have bren rafled at for doing. it. There was Isaiah, there was William Erynne, there was the indignant a budy round the table with a carving husband who chased Lady Some knife, and thero is always the ben- tenarian in the paper who says that he (or she) "docsn't know what women are coming to." But it has never. made any difference. We have gone on painting our faces.
First they used to say that it was has begun to pall somewhat tail.be- had for our souls. But that line cause most people nowadays, right- ly or wrongly, are not interested? in their souls; (b) because byon the most ardent puritan has never Bucs- ceeded in gathering really eatisfac- tory-statistics to show that mur- deresses, baby-desorters, undutiful mainly distinguished by an in- daughters and shoplifters have been aordinate passion for powder and
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The Royal Group. While guests were greeted, Cyril's 13-year old son, Grand Duke Vladimir, stood by his side. His wife, the Grand Duchess Victoria, and a few trusted aides formed little group around the Tsar.?
Grand Duke Cyril's proclamation But what has particularly hor. Wanchai in a sampan and was rifled and alarmed the enlightened of himself as ruler was, the occn- traced to the complainant's ad- leaders of the revolution is the sion for a great demonstration of dreas. This the latter stantly mentality which was displayed by White Russian "ghock troops," denied.
the public during the attempt. The The complainant's wife: then dervish missionaries had spread the held as a gesture of defiance to went into the box and she also idea that a Mahdi, a saviour, was Moscow. The demonstration had gate corroborative 'ovidence.
about to appear and that the to be held, more or less in speret, The magistrato: Wore you in at Moslem religious Ink and d. re- the kill; that is to say were you ligious government would be restor because France forbids demonstra
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kon of no consequence,with a especially since Moscow protested really look much better without it," Evidence was also taken from small band, started out from the woman from whom complain Manissa, passed through a number against the recent march of White and, "Why don't you give your ant's wife borrowed the 850 after of villages, where he and his fana- Russians to place flowers on the own natural good looks a chance!" Once upon a time I decided to which his Worship adjourned the tics were hospitably acceived by the tomb of the unknown soldier give my Natural Good Looks a Mr. Brution applied for inhabitants, and so arrived at the der the Arc De Triomphe. Chance. I went down into the bail but this was refused, the ma-village of Menemen. Here the gistrate saying that the charge was poople had been prepared. Going
The "Monarchists Youths" parad-country and walked about with my rather a serious one."
straight to the Mosque, Dervish ed several hundred strong and Mehmed found the faithful at
were reviewed by the boy Vladi-| prayer, announced that he had proclaimed himself the Mahdi, and mir. The young Grand Duke ar- received from the imam the flag rived at the secret spot where the of the Prophet.”
drill and review was held, in the
Then an elderly friend of unim. first of three taxicabs in the barty-peachable propriety, who hasn't the He was accompanied by his uncle, least bit of the cat in sr disposi the Grand Duke Andrius, and the tion came down to stay. German Prince Noiningom, Vindi- mir's brother-in-law. Fallowing
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The Grand Duke Øyriaan- nouncement that he had become
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After that I rushed up to town and spent two guineas on, a mud adorable apricot rouge. Then I pack, a new bleach and some most went out to lunch with him who had recommended me to give my Natural Good Looks a Chance,
And he said. “You're looking wonderfull. Didn't I tell you.
Not being an advanced, thinker or a progress fanatic, I submit that i thing has endured for five thousand years it is because it'satis- fies some fundamental need of humanity. And the fundamental need in this case is
To look beautiful? Not alto- gether some brychlomake-ups To atract, men Not wholly, Most are not really beautifulin the lenst mon- say they are, and many really
ro, repelled by 'cosmetics.
What then
in the leg. He then approached the Sultans. It bad 305 monas the fallen man, and, despite histeries all over the country, and 52 pītcon, appeals to be shot, dragged in Constantinople before the war. him to a stone seat in the mosque Among its rules are silent prayer courtyard and there proceeded to without movement even of the cut off his head with a sickle. The langue-and no laughter. Since divadful scene took twenty minutes, the dissolution of the monasteries and the hundreds of people pre- it has kept up its organisation sent applauded the doud of the clandestinely, porforming its rites false Mahdi. When he had done in villas, forests, and cafes. Its it they gave him a cigarette, and thief sheik Essad, called the Because We Elke It.
flag of the Prophet which he
a big villa in a Constantinoplitan We do it to please ourselves Wo carristhi peke
Buburb ncross the Marmora. Hore like playing about with our faces, What particularly strikes the ro-everal hundreds of people, have being pink and cream one day, rose volutionary leaders in that it should frequented the rites of the order. and amber the next, black and have been possible for an act so He is 03 years old, and he and white the day after. We love barbarous to be completed not only his son aged sixty and his grandson | fiddling about with these soothing without a protest, but actually with have been taken off to be tried by creams, these adorable Idtions, then signs, of public approval. It is court martial for the Menemen caressing clouds of perfumed pow-
der, clear that the potators cannot all reactionary attempt. have been frightened by the sinadi Tub Obvernment insists that it is It is a rito, the feminine art, the band of Dervish Mehmed consider.
ot anti roligious as the fanatics| Eleusinian mystery where man can- ed as an armed band. What they claim, and that it allows absolute not intrude, cannot miel. It lat were frightened by and what held freedom of conscience. But the use fare us, fortifies us, makes is fool thein spell-bound was their super, ef religion for political purpose is patent, t a:itutious foar of the Mahdi and of
a crime, and will be ruthlessly
the coming judgment of Allah on stamped out Revival of the
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He said Can you teach
PRINCE EDWARD ROAD,
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The Nakshibendi arder of Dor
A woman who has just Toit, her men may have six legs or one ore Detached and Semi-detached Villas vishes which fomented the preacht
lover!"
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Thoso Are Mome.
But women all paint their faces, most powerful of the monastic or tricts, and the Government is r
--TONA MILZAR dors and the host patronised by marted to be in complete centro eta beauty parloure.”
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