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PICTURES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OF HISTORICAL INTEREST.
ORIENTALS AND DRINK.
Can Prohibition Work?
The question whether it is pos-] sible for a church in any part off the world to do honest work with- A London publisher has re-out coming into collision with the drink traffic is dealt with by a correspondent of the Observar obviously a missionary.
The most remarkable feature cantly issued an art edition of a of Saturday's football at Honio book on Sir Paul Chator's valu was the paucity of goalscoring, able collection of pictures relating the aggregate for the forty-four to China, Hongkong and Macao, English League matches being some of them dating from an for only seventy-one. Dorby defeated back an 1655.
Ho rolates at longth how the The volume in-prohibition onjoined throughout Manchester United and are level cludes historical and descriptivo the East by the ancient faiths of
DIVISION 1.
West Brom...36 21 7 Huddersfield 35 18 12 Nowoastle 38 15 16
7 59 35 46 üh
Bolton,...
own
TUESDAY, APRIL 7. 1926.
Your two "best" friends
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PRISMATIC
COMPASSES
COMPLETE
IN
LEATHER
with Leicester who lost to Black- lotiorpress by Mr James Orange, the people in in danger of broakingSHORT and MASON
authority on Japanoso down as the East gradually takes pool. The rovised league tablos the
one of the up Wostorn customs and modes including Saturday's and yestor lacquer, who was
Groat numbers of founders, of the local architoc-af living. day's matchen follow:-
Oriental peoplo nowadaye, he tural firm of Leigh and Orange.
saya, have the whisky bottla A
tho Work reviewer of
handy for a friend and koop it Goals states:-Realizing tho import-employed for themselves too, The P. W. D. L. E. A. 2 ance of getting together paint-correspondent complains that to 85431 49ings, portraits, aquatints, on the native distillations tho Euro-
and
dealing maps
peats have added their 5 59 24 48 gravings
and Ching, Hongkong inventions and whisky, brandy, 36 16 14 6 50 42 46 Macao, Sir Paul Chator acquired gin (or what bears their labols) Bury ...35 17 10 8 62 31 44 the collection of Mr. Wyndham with wines and bours of many Sunderland ...37 19 5 13 59 45 430. Law (Chinose Maritinio Cusorts, food the East to-day. Liverpool ...35 17 8 10 57 40 42 toms), which has been materially
Ho place the responsibilty for Tottenham...37 13 12 12 48 40 38 added to for him by the author.
35 13 11 11 33 25 37 The result is that his collection this state of affairs upon Europe! Notts C.
"Britishors exploiting West Ham...36 13 11 12 50 49 37 of pictures, etc., Manch, C..36 14 9 13 68 61 37 compass and in value any that ignotant people for gain," and Birmingham 37 13 11 13 40 50 37 has hitherto boon formed upon adds that it is timo this stain It may be was removed from our record. Sheffield U....37 12 12 13 48 51 30 the same subject. Cardiff...
36 12 9 15 47 49 33 added that 41 of those pictures Wo rather think the Oriental, Blackburn ...35 10 11 14 47 51 31 were exbibitod in the Hongkong whether prohibited by his ro- Aston Villa...5 9 12 14 46 63 36 Pavilion at the British Empireligious faith or not, had forment- ed drinks of his own long before Arsonal... ...36 12 5 19 39 52 29 Exhibition at Wembley. Burnley ...36 10 9 17 42 6 29 ...36 8 12 16 40 52 28 36 10 8 18 35 54 28 20 28 57 23 ...36 7 Notts F Proston N.E. 36 9 3 24 33 68 21
Leads
Everton
DIVISION 11.
surpasses in
and
in
Sir Paul Chater has had the purer and better foroign pro- taking to whisky and| the advantage of advien and duct was invented, and if he is.
wo very
much assistance from his friend, Mr.now
Orango, the well-brandy, which James known authority upon Japaneso doubt because he cannot afford load-them, it is bocause those can- who was a lacquer, ing resident in Hongkong for 35 coctions are safer and make a Loiocstor ...36 22 77 81 31 51 years. Mr. Orange has described botter appeal to his palato.
and precisely picture
It does not follow that if tho Derby County.36 22 7 7 68 31 51 each
...35 19 8 8 48 22 46 luminously and has attached to white man shouldered the burden Manch. U.
the traffic 36 14 12 10 46 33 40 a historical note of great value. of abolishing Cholson
...36 17 5 14 46 46 39 The book is thus a most im- European drinks the Oriontal Wolvoa
to be totally Portsmouth...36 12 159 45 46 39portant work of reference for would consont
Tbo 35 10 6 13 40 42 38 historians and geographore.
deprived of a stimulant. Port Vale Hull
...35 13 9 14 46 41 35
the chlof way China "solved" the opium Middlesbr'gh 36 10 15 11 31 36 35 Reproductions of Fulham...
...35 13 9 13 35 46 35 pictures, and full lottorpross des-ovil by growing her own poppy, all, bavo boon points to what would happen. Southampton 33 11 12 10 31 31 34 criptions of
'stain" Clapton ....36 12 10 14 36 37 34 carefully classified by the author. The small deficiency created by Lo Bradford C...35 11 12 12 34 37 34 Thus pictures of the China Wars tho withdrawal of the Stockport 36 12 10 14 32 43 34 and various diplomatie missions from Europa would
"samshu top and flooding the South Shields.35 10 13 12 38 35 33 10 China in connexion therewith made up by turning
a class by themsolvos, Crystal P. ...36 12 9 15 35 45 33 are in
China Blackpool 35 12 8 15 53 47 32 pictures of shipping and of the country wtih various forms of Oldham......37 11 10 16 29 46 32 East India Company's morch that vilost of dricks. Wednesday...37 13 5 10 40 53 31 ant ships are in another class, Express.
Stoke
Barnsley
Coventry
Τα 140
...36 9 9 18 26 41 27 etc. In all, there are 12 main ...35 8 10 17 37 57 26 divisions of the book and to each
DIVISION
SwanBer Bristol C. Plymouth Swindon
ww
Gillingham...36 11 11 14 30 40 33
33 12 8 13 30 25 32
...36 13 6 17 45 54 32: ...37 8 15 14 40 51 31
DIVISION III. (NORTIL)
UNTRUE REPORT.
soon
on tho
FUTURE OF CHINA.
Factors for National Unity.
"I think that one day China will be a real national unit," said
achieved."
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Union-squaro Mr. Hughes hired ja largo dignified nogro to im- personate an Eastern potoutate. A gorgeous uniform embroidered with paste jowol was made for the negro, who was driven up to ho the Tiffany shop, where alighted, carrying a handbag.
Pausing a moment, the negro tho handbag, and
Tho
36 97041 75 25 division there is, apart from dotaris of each picture, a valuable Reneral introduction. Those I. (SOUTH)
separate introductions give, in ...35 18 10 7 60 30 46 condensed bistorical form, all 36 1989 46 27 46 necessary information and are 35 19 7 9 37 34 45 a significant feature in the work, ...35.17 9 9 51 30 43 second only in importance to its
35 17 8 10 53 35 42 lavish illustrations. These in- Professor P. M. Roxby, Lecturer Newport Millwall ...36 14 13 9 50 36 41 cludo 18 fullpago coloured plates in Geography at the Liverpool! Exotor...
36 17 712 33 41 41 reproduced by a special, procOBS University, speaking recently at Brighton ...36 16 8 12 51 38 40 and over 250 pictures in half the Regont-street Polytechnic, Northanta 36 18 4 14 45 35 40 tone, while a frontispicos pre-London on "Some Aspects of the Mr. Brian G. Hughes, has just Southend 35 16 4 15 13 16 36 sent a photogravure portrait of Political Geography of the Far died at the age of seventy-five, of
The lecturer doalt in apoplexy, says a recent New York oponed
as if by accident it foll Charlton
...35 12 10 13 37 38 34 Sir Paul Chator. There is also East."
a hun- Watford ...36 138 15 30 43 34 a full index and a list of artists, detail with the physical features mossage. In his lifetime he often thon
of the differont Chinese provinces, caused a near approach to apo- from his hands, and
dred or more paste diamonds Norwich ..34 11 11 12 42 42 33
engravere and lithographers.
and showed how these had re-ploxy in the victims of his jokes. tarded the formation of a strongi His most famous and successrellod about the street. Reading
nationality.
ful joke was at the expanse of the negro shouted for the police, Abordare
China," he said, "has a long National Cat Show, which some protonding the diamonds word for Luton Bristol R. ...35 10 10.15 37 42 30
way to go before the process of years ago was an annual social real. An enormous crowd collect- diamonds. The police reserves building up the feeling of a united affair at Madison-square Garden, od, everybody searching Bournemouth 35 11 8 16 32 45 30)
Mr Hughes found a Q.P.R....
...35 10 7 18 33 55 27
national unit in an area so vast Now York. Brantford ...37
722318023 JAPAN'S CULTURAL BOARD. and so diverse can be completed stray cat in the strout a short had to be summoned, as rumours Merthyr ...36 8 5 23 31 60 21
China at presont is a civilisation, time before the show oponed. He spread that the diamonds had Peking, April 6,
long people wore holding them under It is stated that the Chinose a culture, feeling its way towards carefully cleaned and igroomed been lost from Tiffany's, and
national unity. The attainment the animal, and wrote
Ono summor at Asbury Park, a Darlington 35 22 8 571 25 52 Charged Affaires at Tokyo re of this ond must naturally be a pedigree of its descent, from the the law of "fludings, keepings". Nelson...
Ile had an olaborále cat house popular seaside resort near New ...34 21 5 8 64 37 47cently reported that the Cultural very slow and laborious one, but royal cats of the Shah of Persia
constructed,covered with rosottos, York, Mr. Hughes buriod. A Southport 34 18 7 9:50 30 43 Board in Tokyo, which is at pro feel that in time it will be Bradford ...36 16 10 10 75 38 42 out under the Asiatic Bureau of
He on-sands. Thon ho spread a roport The lecturer dealt with the pretending to represent prizes the quantity of brass filinge in the
cat had won in Europe. Now Brighton34 16 7 11 62 46 33 the Japaneso Foreign Oflice, Rochdalo 35 16 7 12 60 46 39 would in future bo controlled by Reston 37 14 10 13 63 69 38 civilians instead of by officials, growth of the Chinos toward terad the cat in the name of a of a buried treasure, left bondath 37 15 8 14 44 53 38 and that the money would be system, the tendencies towards Persian. Every day, during the the sands by pirates conturios Lincoln
devoted to various enterprises the promotion of an all-Chinora!
and Thousands of people dug in tho Chesterfield...35 14 9 12 48 34 37
...35 13 10 12 45 42 36 instead of to cultural purposes in opinion and an all-Chinoso educa-show, a liveriod sorvent appeared ago, having been unearthed.
tional programime. All those, at the show with cream Halifax..
pression created was enormous, sands, getting the brass fillinge, and thinking they were gold. ...35 15 6 14 46 55 36 China.
ho thought, wore making for chickon to food the cat. The im- Barrow...
and when the judges made their The polico took notice of the The Japanese Logation has national unity. Crawo ... ...36 11 13.12 17 60 35;
awards Mr Hugbos' stray tom
disturbanco that ensued and Doncaster ...36 13 7 16 48 56 33 ont a Noto to the Waichiaopu|
won a first prizo.
traced the causo to Hughes. Ho Accrington ...35 13 7 15 51 63 33 saying that the report is untrue,
was taken before a magistrato Grimsby ...35 12 8 15 45 49 32 and asking that the report should ...35 10 11 14 51 57 31 not be used in croating misunder- Wigan ...
and fined for disorderly conduct. Walsall....36 11 9 16 37 46 31 standings.-Daily Bulletin. Tranmere ...34 13 4 17 50 33 30 ...35 9 12 14 36 63 30 Durham Hartlepools...35 9 9 17 38 56 27 Wrexham ..36 10 8 18 39 57 28 Rotherham...30 6 7 23 37 75 19
Though first described nearly two SCOTTISH LEAGUE: DIVISION L
conturiesago, the pearl ofcoconuts, ...34 22 9 3 67 23 53 or "cocospearl," is an almost un- Rangors
...33 23 6 4 80 28 52 known rarity. In a voyage to the Aidrio... Hibernians...37 22 8 7 78 41 52 East Indies, Dr. F. W. T. Hunger Celtic
34 17 7 10 70 39 41 has sought to solve the problem Cowdenbeath.37 15 10 12 73 65 40 of those pearls, and at last dis- Partick... ...34 13 10 11 56 53 36 0Dvored one in place in the fruit. Dundeo......35 14 7 14 46 50 35 The coconut's hard inner shell Raith R....333 8 14 50 54 34 usually has three thin spots, or one of which is closed ..35 11 11 14 60 64 33
The ...36 12 9 15 44 65 33 by a membrane through which St. Mirren 34 14 4 15 57 61 32 germination takes place. Hamilton ...35 14 3 18 48 57 31 pearl found, laoking the lustro of Bt, Johnstone35 10 11 14 32 65 31 the oyator poarl, was ombedded Abordoon...35 10 10 15 43 50 30 In the endosperm just under the Kilmarnock 36 10 9 17 47 03 29 spot whore the germinating pores. Motherwell...95 10 9 16 83 39 29 should have been, and the arrest Falkirk ...35 10 8 17 41 49 28 of gormination from absence of Ayr United...36 10 8 18 42 64 28 the poros is thought to bave! Third Lanark 36 10 8 18 47 79 28 brought about Queen's Park34 10 7 17 42 66 27 from the milk.
Hearts... Morton
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COCONUT PEARL.
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Elated by this success, ho at- tempted a similar hoax at the York more fashionable Now Horse Show. He acquired an ordinary working horso, fod it up, made a podigreo for it, and ontor- od the animal as an English hack a park. After formal communica- had boon exchanged, ney of Arab descent.
This was one of Mr. Hughosthe city accepted and appointed failures. His ontry passed several an official committee to receive the gift. It turned out to be a preliminary tests, the judges being much impressed by the lot moasuring two by oight foot in an inaccessible outlying part' pedigree, naming Arab Ricods
of the city. and aleo ancestors,
by tho care shown the horse by
ca
S&W judges
namo
A favourite joke of Mr. Hughos
its attendants. The animal had was to go into a crowded re- been named "Puldoka Orphan," ataurant on a rainy day with an aumbrella. Ho would place the and of tho
to umbrella in a conspicous plaos' resemblance in the
Pulled the car ofton." Sus-and then sit back and watch. picions were aroused, and a quiet investigation revealed the hoax before the judges had ranched the point of giving the horso & prize.
A NEGRU KING.
When Tiffany's jowallery shop, the largest in New York, was at
Almost invariably Bomeone without an umbrella would atoal the one he had brought. Thon bo would follow the person to the atroot and watoh him open tho umbrella, for inside, in white papor.was writton in largo lettors, Stolen from B. G. Hughes Amorion,"
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