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FORMER AGITATION.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
A review, In the Observer, of
the book describing Sir Paul Chater's collection of pictures of old China days, compares the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925.
BERI-BERI VICTIM.
PRAISE FOR ANNAMITE SOLDIERS.
An epidemie of beri-beri has broken out amongst the Indo- Chinese troops stationed for local defence at Shameen; Canton, and
Playing at Manchester, Lance-present outery for the abrogation has so far resulted in five deaths.
London, Aug. 11,
shire defeated Notts on the first Innings. Seores
Lancashire, 359 and 55 for two
wickets (declared). Notts, 228 and 75 for two
wickets.
Watson in Lancs' Arst innings scored 120 and Pewtreas 89. Batting for Notts, Davies compiled
One of the victims, a private named of "unequal Treaties" with the
Nguyen Dinhtang, was on Monday attitude of the Cantonese démage brought back, seriously ill, to Hong- gues towards the Treaty of Nan-kong-but-he-died-the-same-night- king in 1942, and the method at the French Hospital, Causeway Buy. The funeral took place at adopted in its manifestation.
Happy Valley yesterday the atten-
By the terms of that Treaty dance including the French Con- British subjects became entitled to sul, M. Yves Du Courthial, Cheva-
lier du Legion d'Honneur.
65. The Lanes trundler Palmer take up residence at the open took 4 wickets for 63 runs.
Yorkshire's Big Victory. Against Warwickshire at Dews- bury, Yorkshire won by an innings and 56 runs. The scores were:- Yorkshire 507 for eight wickets
(declared),
At the gruvos de M. du Courthal delivered a short oration, in the course of which he paid a tribute to the soldier who had died in the
ports, yet fourteen years later we find the British community at Canton still confined within the discharge of his duty. In express- narrow limits of the factory coming his profound admiration for pounds, subjected to continual in the qualities of the Annamite race, the Consul dwelt on the fact that sults and frequent murderous at although of humble rank, the tacks. In July, 1846, we read sacrifice which the deceased soldier For the winners Suteliffe knocked
commen with hie up 206 and Kilner 124. in War-the whole foreign quarters nar had made in wick's first innings Smith scored rowly escaped destruction at the
Warwick 323 and 128.
49 runs.
"Kent Does Well.
by nine wickets. Scores:-
Lion."
other comrades who had fallen victim to a strange disease was as 52 and Parsons 55, whilst Santall hands of a mob, which was final-noble and grent as could be made
When carried his bat for 113. Warwick followed on. Macaulay driven back by the armed resi-bynynone irrespective of his France was in- captured four wickets at a cost of dents, after killing three and station in life.
debted and greatly cognizant of the wounding six of the assailants sacrifice thus made in her cause, In October the residents formed and in the name of the Republic Kent defented Sussex at Hastings a volunteer corps for self-proteche expressed his sorrow and sym- pathy with the relatives of the Ten years later the "continuous deceased. and obsținute hostility of the Cantonese having compelled Ad miral Seymour to bombard the In the initial innings of Sussex, Yamen of the imperial Commis-ponded and thanked M. du
find an anti- Bowley compiled 67. When Sussex Bloner Yeh, we went in for second knock the British boycott, applied, not only Kentish bowlers asserted them-to the area of the factories at selves, Marriott taking five wickets Canton, but to the colony of Hong. for 31 runs and Freeman four for kong. "We were beginning to ex- 49. In Kent's first innings Woolley perience many compiled 61 and Knott 73.
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Sussex 234 and 97, Kent 290 for nine wickets (declared) and 42 for one wicket.
Rain Spoils Play.
Playing at the Oval, Surrey won against Middlesex on the first innings. There was no play to-day owing to rain. Scores,
"
Surrey 203 and 11 for no
wicket.
Middlesex 183.
In Surrey's first knock, Hobbs ecored 49 and Shepherd 57, Allen
inconveniences," wrote Mrs. Gater Lady) Harry Parkes in December, 1856, "as the shops were deserted and orders had been issued by the mandarins not to sell anything to us, Ho
M. Trinh Xion Due on behalf of the relatives and Annamite Community in general. suitably
Courthial for the sentiments ex- pressed and his kind, `attendance. at the funeral,
THE DEFENCES" OF HANKOW.
AGREEMENT REACHED.
Hankow, Aug. 12.
we could get no bread or milk, A conference between the etc, etc." Two days later a Chin-Chinese and British authorities has se mob set fire to the factories, reached an agreement regarding the and the whole European quarter system of defence of the Conces
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NEW SHIP'S LOG.
was reduced to a heap of ruination and co-operation with the GRADUALLY PACKING UP. Speed Read Immediately.. replaced in due course by the Chinese police. Reuter present Concession of Shameen.
This attack was the direct result
the
capturing five wickets for 40 runs. of placarda posted in the streets Hearne compiled 63 for Middlesex, of Canton and Hongkong, in which
the Chinese "population of colony were called upon to leave) it forthwith, just as they have lately been compelled to do by the leaders of the present agitation.
four of whose wickets were taken; by Fender at a cost of 64 runa,
Northants Excels,
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Playing at Peterborough, North- ants beat Worcestershire by an] One of the most interesting
Scores: Worcester 117 and 98. Northants 889.
Innings and 114 runs.
dismissed five batamen for 128
runs.
ار
Mead in Form.
features of these manifestations
undisturbed
DISTURBANCE. AT TIENTSIN.
MILLWORKERS CHECKED BY
boats were moving down the river germinated at the end of the
The inhabitants of London's Chinatown are moving many of theni-to Belgium and Holland, Visitors to this most interesting quarter of London may soon find no Chinatown loft.
A new type of ship'a log, in- vented in Sweden, has been re- cently put on the market and several large vessels have already been fitted with it, according to
· | Shipbuilding and Shipping Re-
If you want to see what record. mains of Chinatown you must The familiar ship's log for ins POLICE.
turn when you go along the dicating average speed and total West India Dock-road," to your distance travelled constitutes an Tientsin, Aug. 12. The Chinese police and military
left up Pennyfields, and not to important item of the navigating of "national consciousness" is just yesterday were compelled to fire on
your right down Limehouse equipment of every seagoing CAUSEWAY.
vessel. This log comprises a' TO- In the first Worcester innings P. 3s persistently conspicuous to striking millworkers, wounding "Wright took five wickets for 47 day as it was seventy years ago, eight mostly in the legs.-Reuter. Pennyfields is double line of cording dial, usually fastened on
Chinese boarding-houses,. 19
the ship's rail aft, or on a pro- runs, and in the second V.C.W namely, the calm manner in which
staurants, swactstuff shops, and jecting boom, and is operated by Jupp took five wickets at a cost the average, patient, hunger-
butchers' shops. Many of them an impeller trailing astern some of five runs apiece. For Northants, driven native, politically uncon-
The longest authentic case of are shuttered, either because of hundred feet or more in the case W. Timms made 68, Woolley (N) seious and inarticulate, continues 64, Jupp 70, and Bagnall 71. Root to go about his daily business, ail longevity in goods in found by the emigration or because of of large vessels. During slow Edgar Brown, of the Washington the rotiring naturo of the speeds in congested water-ways, by tumult and
or when maneuvering to onter Biological Society in seeds of occupants, the shouting. George Wingrove certain legumes (Hoves linearis
Although the Chinese residents harbour, this log must of neces Cooke (the Times correspondent), and Goodia latifolia) collected by of Chins-town, se distinct from aity be hauled inboard, after describing the bombardment and Robert Brown in Australia and the seafaring men from overseas which the actual speed of the At Cheltenham, Hampshire-de-capture of Canton in December, germinating after 105 years. Of from whom they earn their living vessel can only be gauged from 1867, noted with astonishment seeds buried by Prof. W. J. Boal by entertaining, now number only passing landmarks. Even under feated Gloucestershire on the first that, while the firing was at its 40 years ago, to be taken out at about five hundred, the place still full-speed open-see conditions Innings. Scores:-*
the actual speed of the vessel at Hampshire 244 and 244 for six height, "sampans and even cargo intervals and tosted, about half boasts of two clube..
wickets (declared).
One, the Chong Yes Tong, is in any instant cannot be read from like Landon lightermen in the or-time. In 1902, Dr. W. T. Duval, Limehouse. Causeway. The other the dial, tut must be calculated Gloucester 181 and 20 for no dinary exercise of their calling" formerly of the Seed Laboratory in Pennyfields. When and if on the basis of distance already
He also observed that "sampan-buried to depths of 6. 18 and 36-you are elected a member of covered in a known time. men were all day long selling inches the seeds of 107 species of the club in Pennyfields, part of the The new device comprised two batted well for 66 while Mill came fruit and vegetables to the sailors many different families, and at ceremony of initiation, so it is pipes terminating on the lower out with the good figures, four for who were bombarding their city" the end of 20 years 51 of the spe- said, consists of cutting the club shell of the ship. The inner of eighteen. Mead tallied 94 in the
Leven as the natives of Peking cios germinated. The seeds buried mark on your cheat.
of the two pipes projects beyond the abell of the ship about 4-40. second innings and Bowell reached sold fresh eggs to the gentries or deepest, mostly gorminated bast The "calling of the dead," a the half century. Parker took five the city wall during the siege of
Chinese function that takes place in the form of a Pitot tube, and twice a year, in February and the laner opening of the pipes Cemetery, has been ahorn, with by s diaphram. With the ship the decline of Chinatown, of much stationary, and both chambers of its ancient ceremonial Two full of water, the pressure in roasted sucking pigs,, are still each obamber is that due to draft taken to the Chinese cornor of alone, and the diaphragm will ordered by the courts recently to at a dollar apiece, contending for Canton Government immediately back to Chinatown again to be the ship under way the pressure In view of the fact that the the cemetery, but they ara brought assume its zero position. With pay his wife, who was divorcing the privilege of carrying for an after the incident saw fit to notify eaten.
in the Pitot tube displaces the him £220,000, states the Daily enemy their own city's treasure." the Consular Body, and in particu- Mail According to Mrs. Lott, Well might he (and well may we) lar the British and French Con-tes that are brought as offerings which is a known function of her husband on three rorant.
ber. The ask, "Who can pretend to under-sular Representatives, that the fir- to show the dead that they are the ship's speed. Suitable record- occasions slapped court awarded her £73,933 for stand such a people as this?"
"wicket!
In the Hants first innings Brutton
of the six wickets at a cost of the Legation by the Boxers in 69 runs, close.
Ruin, interfered at the 1960). Later, after the capture of SHAMEEN MASSACRE. November, at the East London lead to two chambers separated,
the city and of the Imperial Com- missioner's Treasury, he com- ments on the extraordinary' spec-
Mr. Charles Henry Lott, a ríob tacle then witnessed of "a thou-| hotel owner of Chicago, was sand volunteer Cantonese, hired|
osch slep. The verdict eclipses
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The fruit, sweets, winos and diaphragm through a distance
ing had started from Shameen and still remembered are distributed that therefore the foreign authori-amonginoody sight-seors.
lug mechanism makes it possible to read from a speedometer dial the alimony record secured in The affectionate title "The ties were responsible for the affair, One can still digs very sumpt- the actual speed of the vessel in A dish knots at any instant. Perform- Chicago by Miss Peggy Hopkine Boautiful Child," by which some have availed myself of this op-nously in Chinatown. Joyce, who was awarded £300,000. of the nativa Chiefs of Southportunity to bring before His that is known as a "noodle" costs ance recorde have been stated to Africa have referred to the Danish Majesty's Government the 5s in its most complicated form. reveal an orror not greater than
an actual facts as seen by myself. Its basis is macaroni, with I por cont. Professor A. E. Douglass, dires. Prince of Wales, reralls tor of the University of Arizona amusing incident years ago when There is not a shadow of doubt in other delicacies added. For a Observatory, at a mesting of the deputation of Swazie was re- my mind that the affair was pre-crab omolotte the charge is 2s. If
"Many Siberian peasants would Pasific division of the American coived by Queen Victoria at arranged; and the fact that fully sou require bird's nest soup or Aesoolation for the Advancement Windsor. The spokesman opened armed troops in great numbers shark fin soup you must order willingly give a cow for a Bible. of Boinnos, stated that photo- with a declaration they had took part in an otherwise peace boforehand, and pay extensively. Yet every endeavour to get a Bible Pucka-poo is the principal Into Ruusia has mot with a cold graphs he had made of Mars brought thoir babe to the great ful demonstration precludes any indicated considerablo atmosphere Quesa Mother and appealed to doubt as to the intentions of the game now played in Chinatown. and firm refusal from the Bol- You are supplied with a list of 40 shoviet authorities. In overy on the planet, the markings of her to take him to her breast, organisers, for which the Chinese Chinese towns and are allowed a thor part of the world the salos which were green, signifying This being translated, her Government must be held respon certain number of guesson, vary of the Bible during the last year vegetation. The actual temper Majesty locked about in some sible the more so as they were pre-ing with the fee you pay, at the have been record-breaking, and a furs had been measured, and had surprise and asked: "But whoreviously warned against the conse-names that will be drawn, as in a total of over ten million volumes been found to be between the is the child? I cannot see him."quences of such an action,
He is bare, O, Queen our babe "Royal"
swoop-stake. Badge is reported. Over 400 tons woŁD ranges conducive to life. This
Danish Consulate at Two Chinose sailors the other shipped from London. Those was most important, and the latest is here," replied the epokesman, Canton, 26th June, 1925.
day-se you con learn in China-statements are from the report of of the discoverion concerning and indicatod a stalwart young
(Sd.) WALLACE J. HANSEN, town-won a hundred pounds the British and Foreign Bible chief of at loant six feet.
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