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IN “SECRET TREATY" DISPUTE.
Here are the chief characters in the "Secret Treaty dispute M. Clemenceau and Mr. Lloyd George.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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Mr. Eden Phillpotts declares that, for the credit of the think-
.AMOY UNREST.
A TENSE SITUATION.
Peking. Feb. 1.
STRANGELY WORDED
WIL
"Night-Walking In
Golden Robes.
The will of a Chinese testator who directed that his estate should not be distributed in Singa- por "as it will give rise to ridicule that a man, though rich and titled, if he does not return to his home is like one walking in the night clad in golden robes," was in dispute before Mr. Justice Acton in the Singapore Supreme Court last week, judgment being reserved. The above was oge of several unusual
passages contained in the will, which was made by Lew Chin-long, formerly of Singapore, who died in Mày, 1909. The plaintiff was Lew Yong-choi, a son of the deceased and the defendant, Lew Fong pheow" was the plaintiff and the sole executor of the deceased. The action was foradministration of the estate and for payment out of sums found to be due.
The statement of claim'stated that in accordance with the direction in the will the estate was divided into six shares and distributed evenly between. the wife, an adopted ing and the sake of reality, it is.
grandson and four sous. The time the third great political. Telegrams from Amoy report defence quoted the paragraph of party should be called by its that a tense situation developed the will which directed that: proper political name." Con- there resulting from the killing $10,000 should be sent to China servative" and "Liberal" convey of seven Formosans by General for the building of a house or definite meanings; but "Labour Tsang Ching-ping's troops "while houses in the deceased's native is a word that comes from, he searching for arms.
village, and that the balance says, another category of ideasi Fearing an attack from the should be sent to his wife, to dis- and is senseless as implying mainland, the American Consul tribute it among the sons for principle. Many thousands of General, on Sunday, wired to them to marry wives and buy men and women, who work with: Hongkong for a destroyer, which property." In accordance with their hands, voted Conservative arrived on Tuesday, returning the terms of the will defendant and Liberal at the recent elec- the following day to Hongkong stated that he handed to the widow, Nee Pob, when she was tion, and many, who work with as the situation had quietened.
their brains, polled for "Labour." It is understood that a Japan-in Singapore in 1911 the sum of "Truth and logic demand that we ese Daval force is shortly proceed- speak of the 'Socialist Partying to Amoy.- Daily Bulletin. henceforth, and by
so doing
enable the country, before an other General Election, to grasp those fundamental facts which a misapplied
of the word 'Labour has obscured in count- less minds."
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THE CAMEROONS.
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of $12,171. which was the amount of money due to the estate. Nee Pob executed a deed of release in respect thereof.
Counsel for the plaintiff, said the principal issue was whether that release prevented plaintiff from sueing the defendant as ex-
British were going slowly on the ecutor for his share of the estate.
traditional lines of colonial London, February 7-English The deceased had interests in
development. He found the Bel- Football Cup re-plays resulted as gold and silver businesses in Over (100,000 people at Home follows-Fulham 0. Burnley 1:Singapore. Counsel stated that if
gian rule in the Congo good. though rather too easy-going to have visited Sir Nevile Wolverhampton 1, Charlton, 0.-the defendant insisted
be altogether successful. The Wilkinson's Titania's Palace, Reuter.
having that paragraph of the will Mr. F.W.H. Migeod, who has French, in their part of the which has been on exhibition. In
read literally, he urged that the returned to England from another Cameroons, avoided this fault, banding over of the money in extended trip in Central Africa, but on the other hand were more Singapore to the widow was con- gave some of his impressions the inclined than our officials to pass trary to the directions of the will. other day to a representative of from leniency to severity or rice- rers. The French," he added, the London Morning Post. KINDNESS ENJOINED.
"I spent," he said, "eight are recruiting largely from the He proceeded to read extracts months travelling through the aire tribes, and are generally from the will which directed the Cameroons,
'said to send considerable numbers starting from members of his family to be Victoria. at the foot
north to Morocco and Alegeria. of the. kind to each other, to take Cameron Mountains, then tra- Gaboon two years ago there care of themselves
was talk of versing the tropical forest coun- abd Lady Beatrix Wilkinson, Four, incomplete words are their health and to keep them-try. emerging afterwards on to:
tion of compulsory mili- with contributions from a few given above. The first four selves in their station. When the grasslands, and so down to tary service being introduced, as other skilled craftsmen, amateur letters of each word are missing-they can sympathise with me and the Benue -River. I found the has been in North Africa, but and professional. The Palace is being indicated by the stars. accomplish all my intentions and country everywhere perfectly safe as yet that has not been done: a handsome and commodious: Those four letters are exactly the purposes my heart will be con- and, on the whole, quite healthyzat French feat of crossing the
Mr. Migeod added that the bril mansion replete with bath, same in each word-and they are soled." There was a direction Tropica Africa is no longer the Sahara in Citroen cars has not electric light and every fairy-in the game order in each case. which counsel interpreted to hot-bed of diseases it used to be been properly appreciated in this liko convenience, from State Can you supply the missing mean that if any of his sons "did When I compare even the unheal-j apartments and a private chapel letters ?
not observe proper rules and thiest spots with what they used country. principles and strayed into the to be 25 years ago, when I first
Mr.Miggod laughingly denied path of wickedness" the share of knew them, the change is extra-Africa hitherto unvisited by a that he had been in any part of the estate due to him should be ordinary. Sanitation and segrega white man, observing that he placed in the bank and not paid tion-the removal of the white]
12 months it has earned nearly £2,000 for charities which work for children. Titania's Palace is an elaborate and exquisite piece' of miniature craftsmanship. It was designed by Sir Nevilo Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms. and the taking of it was for: some years the chief occupation
of the spare time of Sir Nevile
to a motor-car, a perambulator, and a razor. It is built round a courtyard, so that all the rooms can be seen from the outside. The Palace recently returned to London after a trial tour in the West Country: it is to visit other parts of the United Kingdom, and then will go to the Dominions and America.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
TONY GRAM POLY
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Yesterday's answer:
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of the introduc-
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to him until 21 years after his men's quarters from proximity knew Africa as well as most men death. Counsel relied on a further with the natives-bave worked and considered it to-day the direction of the will to the effect wonders. that when the license of the
"In the Cameroon highlands Europe. He added that, in his pawnshop (one of the Singapure there exists a possible whits opinion, West Africa had turned businesses) expired whatever man's country, hardly inferior to the corner and could look for- The drawing shows how the capital and profit the executor East Africa. There is. perhaps. ward to a prosperous time. In With the removal of the equilateral triangular field was was entitled to receive as such more rain. Big game is not particular, the Gold Coast bad & Imperial War Museum, which is divided among the four brothers was to be paid to him and was particularly plentiful.
It is dis great future, and when the har- to be completed by the end of so that each had a plot of ground bequeathed in trust to be invest-appearing fast before the exten-bour works now in progress at March, the Crystal Palace will equal in size and shape to the ed, and when the profit had be- sive importation of cattle which Takoradi were finished would
come" much and large "it should the natives practice. A valuable,develop by leaps and bounds.. be distributed among his sons and crop grown in the Cameroons by
make a bid for further popularity; others.
Its finances have benefited by
the rent of £25,000 a year paid by
the Government in respect of the i
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grandsons. Counsel's contention the natives is cocoa, though this CAPTAIN BESNETT'S DEATH, was that it was the deceasd's in-cannot compare with what the Captain Bennett, the amateur museum, but this source of PRESIDENT OF R. 5. A. RESIGNS. tention that the children should Portuguese produce. Economi- steeplechase jockey, who income will now disappear. It is Sir James Lawton Wingate be maintained out of that money cally, the country has gone back the Grand National last year, believed by the trustees that resigned the presidency of the but that their shares should not since 1914 The Germans did and who was injured by a fall the return of the Crystal Royal Scottish Academy, owing be paid to them until they had well in the Cameroons with their from Arden at Dunstall Park on Palace to its old arrangement to ill-health. Sir James, who come of age.
very thorough system of planta 'December 27., died on January and scheme of decorations is is most noted landscape Counsel for the defence, on the tions, and the country is the 13th in a nursing home. Ha most likely to ensure a steady painter. was bora in 1846, other hand.. contended that it was poorer for their departure." underwent an operation and st flow of visitors. Much reliance and studied at the Glasgow and quite clear that at the end of 1910 ADMINISTRATIONS COMPARED. first it was believed to have been is placed on the facts that there Edinburgh Schools of Art and the defendant had to realise and
Speaking of the present admin-successful, but subsequently the is Dow a new generation which the Academy Life School. He band over to the widow, which istration of this vast tract the patient gradually sank..
not seen the Crystal became president of the R. S. A. bad been done. The question Palace as it was, and that the in 1919.
bes
Palace has always been a special attraction to visitors from oversea. For the present, therefore, the
turned upon whether he was just. ified in paying the money to the widow in Singapore rather than turning it into boxes of silver and
THE "HERO.
BY BERTON BRALEY.
scheme of the trustees will follow | Arnold said that it was impossible sending it, or a bank draft, to traditional lines. It is proposed to read a certain passage of China. To do that, he remarked, to restore the famous courts Macauly without a cry of pain when the widow herself was in which were a feature of the That may be as it may. Certainly Singapore at the time, would have They gave him twenty minutes but he finished up in ten; Crystal Palace before the war. it is impossible to read any book been an absurdity which the law Oh, there's a prince of speakers and a servant unto men! The Alhambra Court and the by Mr. Kipling without a blush.would not lay upon an executor. His diction wasn't such a much, he hemmed and hawed a bit, Egyptian Court, both of much Most of his books, of course, are If there was any trust beyond But still he spoke a lot of sense, and after that-be quit historical interest, will again be worth a blush or two. The show-payment over to the widow it was At first we sat plumb paralyzed, then cheered and cheered again; furnished. The lower parts of iness, the knowingness, the osten- a direction to the widow to invest They gave hira TWENTY minutes, and he finished up in TEN." the grounds are to be renovated ation, the dreadfully artless, art- and she had done that. and improved, and the figures of ulness, though they are always
In all post-prandial history no finer deed is known, antediluvian animals which they there, are often rendered invisible
Among the dinner orators his figure stands alone! contain will be restored. In by the adjacent blaze of genius,
A gratitude unlimited from all of us he's won, many directions efforts will be as leaser lights are extinguished
We'll vote for him for president if he should care to run, made to render the Crystal by a larger. But when the great
He pulled a stunt that hitherto was quits beyond our keni Mrs. Florence Harding, widow They gave han twenty minutes and he finlihed up in ten Palace more attractive.
fire burns low, the common little
of the Iste President, twinklings re-assert themselves; has been elected a director of A deed without a precedent we can't express our thanks, and that is why Mr. Kipling, at the Harding Publishing com-But should he furn to piracy, or busting open banks, The Saturday Retiew is rather his worst, is so much worse than pany. She will become associate We'll treat these things as trivial and let him go his way. down on Rudyard Kipling in a one would believe possible of any editor of the Marion Star and And, when he's dead, a monument we'll rear aboys his clay notice of his Scout Book, Land one who is at his best so fascina. plans to write under her-own And the shall be the epitaph we'll carve in marble then, and Soá Tales" Matthew tingly and astonishingly good." signature,
** They gave him TWENTY minutes, but he finished up in TEN.
MPS. HARDING ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF MARION STAR.”
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