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FRIDAY-ARY 12 1923
KARLIER TELEGRAMS
PRANCES INDEPENDENT ACTION.
London, Jan. 11.
The Times correspondent at Washington says that the French action in the Ruhr is viewed with anger and repulsion. The American and French Governments are rapidly drifting to a situation wherein any effective co-operation will bèfers loog te impossible.
Berlin, Jan. 11.
A wave of protest agains; the invasion of the Ruhr is sweeping the entire country, The Prussian, Saxon, Bavariah” and -Wariembarg Diets have passed resolutions of protest. The news of the American withdrawal from the Rhine caused a great dhibgreb -af- enthusiasm at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag. This coming Saturday has been proclaimed a day of mourning in all the Prussian state schools.
Essen, Jan. 11.
The city is in a state of the greatest excitement at the prospect of the imminent French advance. Crowds are thronging the streets. wain arriving t and think and talk of nothing else. Every Duesseldorf from Cologne brings further troops.
The French arrived at 10.30 this morning.
THE OPIUM CONVENTION.
Later.
Goya, Jan. 11.
The Opium Commission has been informed that Turkey and Persia propose to ratify the convention. The Commission has decided to invite Switzerland and certain South American states to enforce the convention.
Mr. Campbell proposed discussion of the methods of controlling opium in regions where control does not exist.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
Paris, Jan. 11. the reconstruction and Jenouvrier of the Fanque Industrielle, Senators opposed the measure. The debate was adjourned until Friday.
The Secte resumed the discussitz a
Delahaye
- CALCUTTA STRIKES,
Calcutta. Jan. 11.
The city again pamilysed in consequence of a complete lock- ou in reply to the strike of stevedores. There have been disorders.
CHINA'S POLITICS.
Peking, Jan. 11. Sun Yat-sen has sent a letter to the Premier, stating that he the Premier's high recognisea
knows that qualifications and Chang Shou-seng advocates peace- ful reunification, so he hopes that he will settle the discord of past
years.
Wang Ju-chin, Defence Commis-
sioner of the Upper Yangtze, arrir ed in Ichang on January 5th. It is believed he will assis: Yang Sen to re-establish the latter's position at Szechuan.
Sun Chuan-fang is apparently
working to establish himself
C:
Kiangs: and drive out Tsai Cheng. shun.
to
some
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MISS GLADYS COOPER.
Obtains Divorce Decree."
In the Divorce Court, Mr. Jus John Drew, in his autobiogra phical work just published, "My tice Horridge granted a decrec
to Mrs. Glads Years on the Stage," makes anisi with costs and the custody of interesting comparison of famous the children
Buckmaster, better stage families of Japan and the Constance United States. When Mr. Drew known as Miss Gladys Cooper, was playing in San Francisco the actress, on the ground of the during the Panama-Pacific Ex. adultery and desertion of hor position, writes an American re-husband, Captain Herbert John viewer, one of the Japanese com | Buckmaster. The suit was not The petitioner, in her evidence. missioners, S. Yeghi, sent him defented. collection of eighteen character dolls, representing the leading said that she was married in 1908 actors in the eighteen plass of and had two children. The bos
tained a decree of restitution, bot Kabuki. The note accompany-band left her in 1920. She ob ing them said:
At present Sun Chuan-fang Threatened With Destruction, is consolidating his position youth
S.O.S. messages are beginning of Nanchang. His forces are mach
Tsal Cheng-shun's, to reach London that all is not superior hence the latter will probably be well with the Auld Brig of AFT. This will come as a surprise to forced to withdraw from the pro- vince without fighting-Reuter, these sho irasgined that the fata of this bistoric and beautiful structure was settled once and for all at the grear public meeting addressed by Lord Rosebery at Agron the 26th. September, 1906 It was then decided that the Town Council's plan to rebuild should not be carried out, but Lebikawa. that the bridge should be decent- "There ar eighteen plays preserved." This was done, which were selected by this and the danger of its tumbling into the river removed.
OUR ROYAL VISITOR,
Hoa.
Tiffin at Government
- House.
"In Japan there has been for be never obeyed it. After the almost 200 years the family of divorce proceedings bad started. Ichikawa, the family of the best her husband sent her a letter say- actors of Japan. In this familying that he objected to being if the son was not a good actor to watched. He enclosed evidence. represent the family, the beat including a receipted, hotel bill. actor of the time was adopted to Evidence was given that the re-i the family to bear the name of spondent had stayed at a hotel
with a lady.
family and they are called the ly whan present in both parents, And as in the case of the Drews and Eighteen Plays of Kabuki.
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His Royal Highness Prince Aimone Roberto, who travelling unofficialls en board the Italian
Now, however, it appears that to perform any one of the eighteen the Barrymores! The familiar- warsbip Sebastian Caboto, cam:
the Town Council of Ayr propose, plays, one should obtain permis ity of the phenomenon among aahore yesterday and motored to for the sake of the unemployed sion of the family, even if he is player folk is due solely to the Government House, where he bed to carry out a river bed construc- Ichikaw集
Kabuki fact that they are more in the tia with His Excellency the tion scheme between the Old and could be translated as Drams. public eye.
of the The Governor. Those present included New Bridges. Mr. James Morris. and in Kabuki there is also Dance
preservation Leveson who probably knows more about included."
classical repertory may not be Admiral Sir Arthur Major-General Sir John Fowler, the Auld Brig than any other
these Mr. Drew records four genera-accomplished bere as in Japan the living Mr. Claud Severn.
wrote to the
good actors. when they take Italian Ceasul-General. Bishop Coucci! pointing out that this tions of "all good actors," and by eugenic control of Pozzoni and Captain Neville, construction work would revive poicis to a similar persistence-of A.D.C.
the old river scour, which in the talent in the case of the Booths, in their youth to the produc- past was created by the harbour the Jeffersons and the Daven- tion of classic drama it is a mat- ports. Eogenists long ago notedter of no small algnificance. If deepening and was mainly re- sponsible for the dafaage done to the phenomenon not only in the there is pride there is also a fine at actors, but is that of humility in Mr. Drew's manner the piers of the bridge.
The case after Council,
hearing Mr. scientists, artists, writers, even as he passes over the Kabuki to Morris's protest read, decided by shipbuilders. Great genios may those young Ichikawa, Ethel, & vote of eight to six to proceed be what the biologists call a sport, Lionel and John-Japund.
but talent is hereditary, especial certiser. with the suggested work.
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