THE POTATO MAN.
Tried to Deceive the Police.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1923.
FARM NEWS.
SHANGHAI LAUNCH
· INCIDENT.
DAIRY FARM
Casualties on a Gunboat
Apart from the bulbs, the earli est spring flower to gladden the How an unlicensed hawkerlere in the London parks is the
Shanghai, May 3.-Further dis, resorted to an amusing dodge to beautiful golden yellow bloom of closures in connection with the deceive the police was related by the Forsythis auspades, which firing on a British launch by a Sergeant Elston at the Police just now is catching the shy North China Daily News from a Chinese gunboat,published by the Court this morning when he sunbeams in strands of colour! charged the man.
in all the shrubberies. We owe reliable source reveal thas white The officer stated that he this welcome guest to a gardener the Lauch стоя suffered цо visited Jubilee Street-always a named Forsyth, who came from casualties, one man was killed happy hunting ground for un-Aberdeenshire to London in the
and two injured aboard the licensed sellers and witnessed middle of the 18th century and Chiness gunboat. It appears that sales of sweet potatoes became superintendent of the two gunboats bad been lying close being conducted by the defendant. Royal gardens of St. James's and alongside since they renounced. When the man was searched, it Keusington, saya & Home paper. allegiance to the Government on was discovered that his pockets It is really a native of China and April 11. When the first war- were crammed with potatoes is but one of England's many ship opened fire on the launch, There were potatoes tied round his importations from the Far East. waist and potatoes strung round his legs and concealed under his trousers, and he shed potatoes all
two
consternation arose on the other warship, which also fired some shots which found a bullet aboard One of the most striking addi-her consort, resulting in the afore- the way to the Police Station. tions to the public statuary of mentioned casualties.-Beuter. After hearing a most uninterest-London is now being cast at a ing tale from the prisoner as to foundry at Thames Ditton and how he was caught in a shower may be expected to be complete and obliged to stay under the before the summer is out R verandaba, his Worship imposed comprises the two bronze groups a fice of $5, or seven days.
WELFARE WORK.
The second concert in aid of welfare work in London is to be given at Government House og the 7th. instant at 9.15 p.m., The programme will be
FORMOSAN PROTEST.
designed by the late Sir Thomas Brock, RA, for the Students Demand Reforms. Queen Victoria Memorial, facing Buckingham Palace. There are
Three hundred Formosan stu- two groups-one emblematic of dents in Tokyo beld a meeting at Courage as shown by the Navy the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Hall there and the Army, and the other on April 5 and vehemently de- typifying Wisdom and Intelli-nounced the Government-General;
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Government House Concert.gence in Science and Art. Each of Formosa. They passed a resolu- | group has two recumbent figures, tips to the effect that the existing; and the statuary will be 25ft. long. administration of Formosa, not be 8ft. high, and will weigh well overing based on the principle of cons- eight toas.
titutional government, should be reformed. The authorities in For- London motor auctions are the moss, they said, had trampled ou opportunity of the man with only the personal rights of the For- little roodey to spare. Perhaps mosans and would not allow free. would not be strictly accurate dom of speech. Such treatment to term all the transfers "second.ran counter to the policy of the 2-Songs: Sea Fever (Joan hand." Not one or two but balf-Japanese Government, was in- Ireland). Come Friend (Grahama-dozen successive owners have jurious to the peace of the Far Peel), The Ballad-Monger (East-driven some of the cars which East, and was against the spirit hope Martin-Mr. G. H. Pieres come under the hammer week of the times.
1.-Piano Solo: Poemas erotique, Melodie, Berceuse, A tes pied. Jour de noces. Souvenir (Grieg). it -Mr. Eric Rice.
Their
representatives |
3-Violis Solo: Meditation by week. Eren so, a two-seater The meeting rose at 3 p.m. The from Thais (Massenet), Serenade, at £20 seems a bargain. Such a students bad planned a procession (Gabriel Piernel-Mrs. Aubrey-car. sold at Messrs. Smallman but gave up the plan because of 4.-Songs: The shepherd's Brothers' auction, had had tweise the demise of Prince Kitashira- Song (Elgar). My heart and Lute: years on the road. On the
A would-be kawa. ling ho (Halfdan buyer, who can take £50 to £100 went to visit the Premier, the Kjerulf)-Miss Millicent Nicholl.with him to the auction-room. Home Minister, and the Gover
3-Duets:
Life's Heyday may pick up quite a serviceable nor-General who is now in Tokyo. (Denza), Belle Nut from Cantes car, though not, as a rule, band- d'Hoffmano (Offenbach). It was some. Of fifteen prices realized aLover and bis Lass (Walthew). in the firm's list of recent sales. KIN OF CHARLEMAGNE. -Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Collett.
ten ware below £50, and the top!
6. Piano Solo: Prophet-Bird zure was £238 for a 1931 Albert (Schumann), Sposalizio (Liszt)-all-westber." Mr. Eric Rice.
FINANCIAL CHAOS.
Arrears in Salaries. Peking, May 2-Shen Jul-lin,
Foreign
Vice-Minister
At Aldridge's List of Famous Descendants. prices ranged from £54 for a 1908] Wolseley limousine to 490 guin-| London-Now that the tomb eas for a 1910 Rolls-Royce land-treasures of Tut-ankh-amen have aulette. Some of the two-seaters been discovered in the Valley of made from £90 to £195.
the Kings, a venerable Copt, living in a suburb of Cairo, has so- nounced himself to be a lineali
The 200-years-old ascendencs descendant of that ancient mo-j of the Stradivarius violin has narch. Whether or not his gen been challenged by a modern ealogical tree is complete is not English-made violin. A test held disclosed, but there seems po pro- Aeolian Hall in London bability that the unearthed trea- recently, at the adjudication aures will be turned over to him, were not any in funds to pay the Legations and for English-made stringed in-
the Cobbett competition as their inheritor.
Meantime Miss Kimball,
Fairs, resigned
cause there
Was
CF
yesterday
AL- be-
公司
Consulates abroad. His resignation struments may not have been English student of genealogies,
not accepted.
Yesterday's decisive, but it was extraordinari has published a presumably com Cabinet meeting suggested that a curious. Mr. Albert Sammons plate, if not official, list of Cher- million tacts of the Customs sur-played (behind a screen) on alemagne's decendants. They in- plus be allocated for the payment of Strad and a violin just made clude King George V of England, arrears in salaries of Ministries by Mr. Alfred Vincent, and the Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt abroad, but as already reported, the audience voted for the latter as and John D. Rockefeller. Customs surplus is scarcely suffi-giving the better tone. There was cient to meet the interest on the comic show of chagrin when the all the populations of the earth Besides, according to her, almost amortisation of domestic bonds.majority realized that they had who use the English language- Consequently, the Vice-Minister downed' the Stradivarius, and descend from Charlemagne thro- the minority (a considerable ugh Isabelle de Vermandois, who Peking. May 2-The Govern minority were duly proud of them died in 1131. ment is still negotiating with the selves. This result will not be the means of causing "Strads "to ba
was not satisfied,-Reater.
--Heuter,
A PUZZLE A DAY.
There is a certain number
Four Group of banks. The latest sold at six a penny, but it ought suggestion is said to be a loan of to have a quickening effect on the twelve miliona secured by next native craft of violin making. year's salt surplus. Should nego There is no doubt that new Eng- tiations fail, it is understood that lish-made violiss are as good as the Government will attempt to any nowadays made anywhere. which, multiplied by 3. gives float a twelfth year domestic loan. Mr. Alfred Vincent, the first prize total made up of the same figure winder, was warmly congratu-repeated three times. Multiplied lated.
by 6, it gives a total composed of another figure thrice repeated. The importance of the Rosetta The same thing will occur if the MOBILIZATION IN THE Store in disclosing the history of number is multiplied by 9, 12, 15, Egypt is told by Mr. J. R. Crow. 18, 21, 24 or 27. What is the land in the Teachers' World. number? Egyptian documents in the "drawing-languaga "
NORTH,
Cabinet Deny Any Movements.
(hierogly-
phica) were unreadable to the world in general till the discovery
of the Rosetta Stone, be writes.
Poking, May 2-Movements of Thie piece of black basalt, which troops, ammunition and supplies to is 3 feet 9 inches by just over 2
Yesterday's answer:
VICAR
IRATE
CANON
ATON E RENEW
In the above square, formed by
the Jehol District is continuing, feet, we found in 1798 by a the word "VICAR" the five likewise the commandeering of carts French Artillery officer among
by the military, as well as other the ruins of Fort St. Julian (near words. "VICAR," "IRATE," warliko signa. The Cabinet, how. Roselta). On it are three kinde "CANON." "ATONE" AND ever, denies these reports whole of writing, carved in the stone.
RENEW," can be read from left-
sale, and states Feng Yuh-siang has The Erst is in the hieroglyphic to right and from top to bottorn.
style, but horizontally instead of
"A CITY'S SUIT. Springfield, Ill., April 18.—The
requested a denial to be given out. in vertical columns, the second He says not a single soldier in his is in Demotic, the later writing command has been moved, and of the Egyptians, and the last in messages have been received from Greek.. Scholars could read the state supreme court to-day affirm- Wang Cheng ping stating that no second and third writings, and ed the decision of the circuit court soldier of the Übibli forces has found them to be the same. As that the city of Chicago cannot moved from his original station ex- the names of kings appeared, and maintain its libel suit against the cept for bandit suppression in as they knew that in hieroglyphic Chicago Tribune which was accus-
writing the king's name had a ed of damaging the city's credit. cartouche to enclose it, the through aditorial criticism.
Jebol and Kaila-Beuter,
Peking, May 2- Manchurian scholars traced the king's names, members of Parliament have wired and thus found a key to the old to Tsao Kun and Chang Teo-lin, writings. The Rosetta Stone urging peace." The Chinese Cham-passed into British hända in 1801, bers of Commerce despatched. and is new in the place of bonour similar communication to Chang in the Egyptist rooms of the) Tec-lin-Reuter,
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