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MIXED
· ASHLEY STERNE-
GRILL
AVIMOR DE TWISTED TALES -
Goneral Bun Chuan-fang, the com- mander of the Cheklang forces which dominate Fukian, Chekiang,
THE SELFISH MAN SUFFERS Kiangsu and southern Shantung, is MORE FROM HIS SELFISHNESS supposed to be a vassal of Wu Pei- THAN HE FROM WHOM THAT SEL- FISHNESS WITHHOLDS SOME IM- fir's, but past history has taught us FORTANT BENEFIT-Emerson, not to trust too much to the loyalty of Chinese leaders who grow over-j strong. If Feng and Wu could settle their personal differences and
When "The Old Curiosity too, probably don't know that if all those big military commanders
Shop" was appearing as a serial they are expected to eat the under them were in the mood to
and Little Noil lay in sore attractive poisons put down for joopardy, Dickens used to receive them; but if it were once pointed remain loyal, then there would, at
many letters by every post im-out to thom that if they ate arso long Inst, bo a prospect of peace in
His Excellency the Governor ploring him not to lot the girl nical pasto they would never cat (Mr. Cecil' Clomonti, C.M.G.), has die. This past wook I have had anything els; I feel sure they the north so soon as the present consonted to become patron of a similar experience, for I have would cheerfully co-oporate in revolt in Manchuria has exhausted the local branch of the Y.M.C.A. boon simply inundated with lot-thoir own extinction. itself. The grent triumvirate of
tera, write, telegrams, picture Leave on privato affairs has postcards, telophone-calls, and Chang, Feng and Wu was always been granted to Capt. R. A. F. personal visitors beseeching me doubtless proved a welcomo foa- The advent of autumn has menace, and if Chang has been Montanaro, M.C., 1st Bn., East not
to let Mouldy Martha ture to many folks who have been rendered impotent and if the tum-urro Regiment, and to Major murder Connie Cornerako. Well, eagerly anticipating a resumption
Licut. C. J. Yoo, 1st East Sur rey Regimont, has qualified at at the Machine Gun Sobool. the 16th qualifying course, hold
R. R. Lewis, R.A.M.C.
porary alliance between Feng and Wa could be made stable, then
The following extract from the northern China might view the pros-Command Orders:-Major In- London Gazette is publishod in
Bt.-Lt.-
pect of peace. With regard to the structor in Gunnery, position of the South vis-a-vis with Col. II. B. L. G. Quan, D.S.O., M.C., R.A. relinquished his ap- the North, it should scarcely be tou pointment, 2nd October, 1925. much to hope that a peaceful and amieable arrangement might be come to.
The conclusion is being forced on as more and more every day that unless China soon becomes the home of a stabilised and central authority, she will inevitably fall
Amongst the passengers who richly as I think Connie deserves arrived from Home by the P. & this fate (for she is a silly littlo O liner Kashgar were Mr. J.fool I had decided to yield to the Komp. Mr. and Mrs. R: M. pleas of my readers, and give my Mr. and Mrs. G. P. de Martin, you will admit, when you read Hendorson, Mrs. Featherstone, story a happy ending. I think Miss I. A. Blair, Mrs. Stark and the final chapter below, that I Mrs. T. C. Todd.
have worked it very ingeniously. Heinrich Schmidt, the Scotch
confusing, and illogical to the ronder-are all accounted for in one short sentence; and I dare swear that not one of you, my
•
final
of those occupations and reorea- tions peculiar to the season.' Ita arrival leaves me, however, abso- lutely lacking in enthusiasm, for I cannot regard Octobor as any- thing but the vanguard of winter, and winter in England is always a hectic time for me, who am of Italian extraction (garlie on my father's sido, and macaroni on my mother's). In other words- Autumn tints of brown and
yellow
Fascinate the artist-follow: Promises of frost máko happy Every blossed plumber-chappy. Pheasants soaring on the swing Make the sportsman laugh and
KingTM Tootlings on the hunter's hom Gladden
Bulvior, gladdon
Quorn.
,
Groans of dying refereos Evory football fan will please; In the bitter cold of night Baked potato-men delight. Yot to me does Autumn moan Nought but swabs of iodine- On my fingers and my toes, On my ears and on my nose, And-down my throat-
QUININE
A Chinese woman, who was waiter, the mysterious man with a victim to the process of feudali-staying at the Choung Fat Board-only one whisker, the curious sation and become a country sharplying House on the Contral Praya, presents and cryptic messages
committed suicide yesterday by which Connie received-all of; divided into the spheres of in-hanging herself with a piece of which no doubt, seamed wholly fluence of respective Warlords with hemp rope on the verandah of the all the interminable fighting and
house. The remains were taken to the Mortuary. disruption that such a state would, Any who may have attempted to involve. It has all too long been The arrangements at St. John's hearties, will be able to foretell follow that conflicting mass of fact true that the military forces are Sunday in Advent are:-8 a.m., climax which I have devised.
Cathedral to-morrow, the 1st. the perfectly splendid and rumour which goes to make up controlled by mercenaries under Holy Communion; 10 a.m. Child- what is known as Chinese politica political chieftains who are not ren's Toy Service; 11 a.m., Matins, The name of the defendant in a must, as regards happenings in the secking political power but for clension and Ourselves
preacher the Chaplain, on Do- recent London County Court case North during the past few weeks,
6 p.m.. was Tscheknikowskovitch. The have been well-nigh bewildered by unless there speedily comes
revenue-bearing territory, and, the Rev. E. A. Rigdon, E.N., will advantage of a name like this is'
preach on "Tradition.
that when not required for use as the maze of cross-purposes and alliance of big.den for the country's
a patronymic it makes an awfully In connection with the recent good sneeze. the central figures sake and the consequent cessation kidnapping of forty students from New names of leaders and parties of greedy grabbing, the present Tuen, General Li Fook-lum has GARDENING FOR THE WEEK-END, time there is one incident in my the Pui Ying College at Fong crop up all around, an underling state will become chronic instead reported that, oporating with of transitory. Feng and Wu would armed launchos of the Naval
nctions of
one day is a warlord the next, an
an
Bureau in the vicinity of Leung
now appear to have a great chance. Sha and Cheung Mo, he has suc-
Return next-door's lawn-mower.
POEMS FOR THE PETS.
44
"However good one's memory may be," says an article on Evidenco" in a legal magazine,
thero always comes an occasion when it plays you false." I en-` tirely agree, though at the same career which I would cheerfully. wager your shirt I shall always remember. Some few years ago,' when all wo Acting-Brigadier Genorals (with the substantivo
(A series of moral vorses for rank of 2nd Lieut.) were cultivat-
arrangement one day leads to an open breach and fighting the next,
ceeded in rounding up many of and so on in a host of Provinces |
The Age of Utility. the bandits, as well as offecting until the mind cracks up over the
We notice that amongst the the release of eight of the stud-juvenile readers) more conservative sections of the ents and three merchants who details and gets back to bread citizens of Washington a protest were kidnapped from a train on generalities. One has to leave off is being made against dostroying the Samshui railway recently. trying to follow each little bit of can capital in the interests of the old-time beauty of the Amori-
a jazz mosale and stand back to get what
A very lazy littlo girl Was Rhoda Henrietta Searle, In spite of all her mother's
warnings
She wouldn't get up in the
mornings,
But snuggled down beneath the
clothes
To seek additional ropose.
ing Pelmunism, I took a special Intensive Course of Memory Training. At the conclusion of the course, in which I qualified with honours, I came away and forgot to pay for it.
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MOULDY MARTHA,-THE MACCLESFIELD MURDERESS :- OR, SHOULD THE GREENGROCER TELL? Captor. X.
A new domestic came one day, Not knowing Rhoda's little way. She stripped the clothes from
off the cot,
Slowly Connie Corncrake re- And to the laundry sent the lot, gained consciousness; but when Unmindful that within the heap she opened her oyes Mouldy Miss R.H. Searle lay fast asleep. Martha had vanished. Gone, too, Result: the laundry boiled was the apartment in which sho
young Rhoda
had so clumsily collapsed into the coal-box. And the coal-box had disappeared also. Instead,"
In a trough of suds and soda!
"
*** Charged with wounding an- is termed cold-blooded other female with whom she had the effect of the general picture, utility. A "greater Washington " been living, a Chinese woman And in doing so to-day, one finds those conducting the campaigning that she was suffering from movement is afoot, and the aim of told Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn-; that through a very big revolt is to attain a population of ful-an attack of dizziness at thei among his own men-Comman-million souls. In the process, time, and did not know what she many of the beautiful trees of the was doing with the chopper with der fighting Commander-Marshal city are being marked down for which it is alleged she inflicted a Chang Tse-lin, the great Mukden destruction because of a demand severe gush over the loft oye and
for wider Waflord who has virtually ter-numerous little parks, squares Inspector Peter Grant stated that streety, whilst shoulder of the other woman. rorised or defied Peking for years and circles are being demanded the woman was in no danger, past, has suffered at least a ten-motor-cars. "By the destruction His Worship remanded the case for use in the parking of though still confined in' hospital.) porary elipse. One cannut hope. of trees," says one writer, "several for a wook. at the time of writing, to indicate streets have been spoiled, and a the true position as regards Chang. Hand-in-hand with this move eastern affairs will see more than rats have been increasing in
campaign is on to spoil more."
I am very grieved to read that in direct defiance of the Rat Act, for rumour has it that he has been ment is a big building scheme the mere interest attaching to numbers during the past twelve made a prisoner and then rumour term, which are described by their Rama VI was essentially a close that the rats themselves are un- now houses of standardised pat the passing of a king. The lato months. This leads me to supposo denies unour. But it is certain critics as deadly monotonous in friend of the European nations aware that the whole object of the that he has gone out of the centre style. "What the fire and who have territorios adjoining Act is their extermination, for I of the picture for the moment, for earthquake did to San Francisco Siam, and especially the British cannot think that any self- Reuter tells us that the Peking boostere will do to Washington if a large part of his western educa- persist in increasing itself in face comfortable chair in a room with is nothing to what the 1,000,000 poople, in whose country he had respecting rat would deliberately she found herself reclining in a Government, in making a number they have their way" says an-ation and military training. of the Health Ministry's express which she was vaguely familiar. of Cabinet changes in consequence that in these days of utilitarianism tions concerned is evident from
other commentator. We suppose What this has meant to. the na-edict to the contrary. for the Mukden coup, submitted its there can be little hope of pre- the very amicable relations exist-law is not accepted as any excuse her something,
A úgura in white was standing Of course, ignorance of the by her side in the act of handing proposals to General Feng Yu-sorving the old-time appearance ing between the Siamese admig for violating it; but I, neverthe hsiang for his
of big cities. The same process of istration and foreign represent-less, think, that better results mouth
"Thore ! formal approval. change is to be noted in London; atives. In passing, it might be rewould be obtained if the purport Cornerake," said the dentist.
Just rinse your That would make it appear that the and we
with chis, Miss "Christian" General has had his this Colony a reflection of the able to do away with extra benighted vermin. Many of thom,! hore in called that Siam, like Japan, was of the Act were explained to the position' so immensely improved by smaller scale. In some respects it system had been organised on same movement on a necessarily territoriality when hor judicial the revolution in Mukden that he is regrettable, but we prosume the plane of the western A collision occurred between a now holds the power over the Go-None the less, we have a measure remarkable example to her vast Mr. Fred Ellis' ear is Stubbs Road dino, Matheson and Co. at East that these things have to be. practices, and thus early set a Hongkong Hotel Garago car and at the coal depot of Mosers Jar- vernment. Chihli has had the bold-of sympathy with those who neighbour China, of a small state yesterday. The wheels and other Point was drowned in the small ness to declare "independence," regret the passing of old land-modelled on the best lines of gov. parts of both vehicles and that act in itself tells us how marks, for we remember that the ornmont, and ever progressing, damaged.
wore hours of yesterday morning. It is much control Chang has lost,
supposed that during an epileptic fit from which the man was stated The all engrossing question, at which so picturesquely fringe indupondent kingdom in Aain, road in front of an approaching fell over the Praya wall. A num
Through attempting to cross the to be chronically suffering, he the moment, is in regard to the its charm and dignity.
Nathan Road and add greatly to and almost the only one left be-car, a Chinese girl was knocked her of houtman who but heard nominal alliance between Feng Yu-
sides Japan. But in the death of down and was injured, in Pedder his cries took a boat out to the Rama VI we do not merely obStreet yesterday. Sho was taken rescue, but wore too late. hsiang and Wu Pei-fu-an alliance
servo the passing of the ruler of to hospital but not detained.
Thy into which they entered for the has come at a time when the end to a reign of great enlighten- The death of the King of Siema picturesque land, but also the
later brought his lifeless boly ashore.
see oven
fiat has gone forth against thoad despite the adherence to tho re fine old banyan troes in Kowloongime of a kingdom-the smallest
Siam's Loss,
THE END. (Thank goodness I)
A watchman employed for duty
Passengers leaving by the Em-
sole purpose of crushing Chang. whole world has its oyes turned mont, during which several mo- A raid which was carried out. Feng now becomes the
to the Far East and the olanges dern reforms were not on foot. In under an arms warrant yesterday dominating personality, because so shortly after the virtual deposi- Siamese people have suffered a covery of a quantity of prepared pross of Australa inclirlod Mrs.
grent therein taking place. Following losing their late sovereign the yielded various results in the dis the strength of his army, his spheretion of his Queen, and the birth of great bereavement, and their opium and a number of forged F. Ellis, Mrs. J. S, Masson, Miss a daughter by his secondary con-country has lost a man whom it labels. A house at Tung Street of Influence and bia control over sort, the death of the ruler of would be difficult to replace. For was entered by a police party un- Pik Won-ha (the noted Chinese Important subordinateu is very much Slam is in itself sure to attract Britain it means the demise of ader the direction of detective Ser-actress), Mrs. E. Stone, the Bev. moro an actuality than Wa' But in his demise the student of and ally.
more attention than otherwise. sincero admirer and an old friend geant Whellas, and two of the Murray Walton, Mr. N
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