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CHINA'S WARSZ
KUOMINOHUN FORCES IN
RETREAT.
Peking, August 17.
ALKING FOR VOTES.
TAKING PART IN A DEMONSTRATION,
[By Jane Doe]?
like to try everything once,
Joy's Maecenas) uplifted HFY She wasn't quite sure about the quotation.? I was bure I wasn't. But the sky did look like that.
It was frightfully exciting Every few minutes the marshal moved no back, and then someone. else moved us forward. We had about an hour of this, and it was slready past three. But as the old lady said, and she had walked in every procession, she'd never known one to start on time yet.
It is reported that the Metro politan police have intercepted a don't you? letter addressed to a prominent So, never having done any ban Kusminchunite in the Lagation ner-wagging, before, and in re quarter, stating that the Keomin ponse to a colleague on a Man chun intend to evacuato Kaigan and chester paper, who asked me to Suniyuan, and retreat to Lanchow Join the journalists section of bustle about, and after a lot more The mounted police began to and Nanghsia, adding that they are last Saturday's demonstration for at present digging it along the Yellow River westward of Paotao chen, with a view to warding off
the Shansi columns,
equal political rights for men and courteous showing, and just when women, well talcum-powdered were beginning to feel like the insides of my shoes, and turn cheas-women,, made of butter, the ed up at Charing Cross Enbank bands struck up, and the front ment eliarp at half past one part of us began to swing up Tien Wei-chin's representative
Chalked on the pavement were
Northumberland-avenue.. at Feking confirms the fall of the stands for all sorts of groups: "Loft, left came the command. Husilat. He received a telegram Women's Guild of Empire, the Six But really I was the only one of last night announcing that Wa Point Group, the National Union those four who kept consistenly in Shih-chich, Tien Wel-chla's chief of Women Teachers &c. Vainly I stop, though I found it difficult, of-staff, captured Huallaf yes- tried to find the little mark for what with one band playing the terday. Ma Chi-ti reports that his the Journalists, so one of the mar "Marseillalso" and another "Land forces are driving buck the Kuo- shais told me to stand on the of Hope and Glory"
minchun troops in the direction of Groups of Other Women's Trades My feminist neighbour was in Chulo, which he hoped to capture and Professions, Eut there wasn't her element. "Beautiful! Beau- shortly.
a soul there, and I didn't like the tiful Isn't it marvellous?". Ime
A Notable Victory.
The Cabinet this morning allo- idea of representing all by myself deed it was attractive. The long cated forty thousand dollars as a the G. of O.WT.& P. I said as tail of us, as I looked behind, was reward for the Fengtierites who much to a Civil Service Sorter, toliko a jolly Chinese lantern pro- captured Nankow and Chiyun- whose group I had gravitated for cossion." kuang,
a little comfort. She looked at A fat chef from one of the clubs, me coldly. "I had to stand alone. with his attendan minions of There was no one here when I scullery-maida wrapped about. cama. By her tones she thought their middles with kitchen cloths. Later. poorly of me, who was obviously gave us some very hearty claps. Foreign military experts who prepared to do so little for the The nice person so different have inspected Nankow Pass are Cause. "But I've never done this from some of the club members amazed at the strength of the sort of thing before," I explained themselves! The lazy old bound- position, and the immensity of the weakly, and, I forr, auobbily
erst growled the old stager." feat. performed by the attacking That remark, naturally, was not And certainly they reminded me... forces in dislodging the Kuomin-calculated to improve mitters, so did these. Impertinent gentlemen, chun. The latter had an exceed-I walked away, and dithered be of their own fat club armchairs. ingly strong, well-constructed tween lining up with the Actres-Over-spring. Double-padded. Co- trench system, which was provided aes Franchise League, and a nice vered with thick hide. Such with shrapnel-proof dugouts, bar- bright-looking group in pink and smirks Such ribald private bed and live electric wire, and all green and Japanese sunshades, laughter Boiling hot as it was the latest improvements, spread and the Sanitary Lispectors, when and melted though my backbone, out like a great fan a distance of I was happy to come upon a young I felt cold all over as I watched twelve miles round the entrance Devon, woman (I can spot a West their various expressions. to the pass.
Country face in a tick) looking The banner in front began to equally forlorn. She was hunting wooble-a bit in the wind. A kind The terrain afforded undoubted for the students section. "Don't taxi-drixer on a rank rushed to evidence of the power, accuracy bother about them, I cried. "Let's showed the bearers the correct and volume of the Fengtien artiloinn up with the actresses. They dip. The delicious new-green lery. There appeared little doubt look so nice."
that the Kuomiuchun troops were
grass of the park. Gay platforms. Crowds awaiting us. We laid. down our banners with a comfort able, and that's that feeling.
There was Mrs. Pankhurst, an
literally blown out of their posi- Well, they gave me a pink pen- tions. The place is reminiscent non on n stick with Emily Pertwee of the August battlefield in France, on it, and we stood four abreast it being evident that the Kuominwith two other women-one a real unexpectedly charming picture, in chun gave a good account of them live actress in pretty green shoes a black lace hat and the usual selves. The Fengtien troops are and stockings and her best green atik cape so affected by elderly reported to have lost two thousand hat, and one of the old gang, a women of affairs. And there was in casualties in capturing this very little lady over sixty, who was never a more ancomfortable, un- formidable redoubt, which is in such a rabid feminist that every wieldy garment. She was saying, the nature of a key position-time even so harmless and attrar- in her excellent platform voice, Reuter
recently..
tive a creature na one of those that it was just like old times. small boys who always seem at- Elesewhere someone was obsery- tached to stickle-backa in jam-jars ing, I am well over thirty, and Times have chang- took a peep at us she couldn't bear happily “
In memory of William Smith, it. Go away," she snapped. ed a bit. But how badly the the father of English geoglogy, "We don't, want anyone of your majority of women speak! And how surprising it was to-note that who saved Bath's prosperity, a beastly sex about tablet was unveiled in the city But she was a dear. In a heavy only a few of them have profited leather dorothy bag she had pamby the New Tidiness. So many In 1810 the town as threatened phetts Invieghing against fashion-futile and ugly necklaces, grenay by the failure of its hot springs able furs, lumps of bread for the faces. straggling hair, and shock- and the waters had found a new dear birds, and sugar and apples ingly distasteful frocks!
Only a few minutes of speech- channel, but William Smith de- for the dear horses. If the pro- tected and stopped this, so that cession would have waited for her hearing. My new Devon friend they flowed more copiously than she would have fed every mount and I jumped on a bus for tea at before. At the same time he suced policeman's gee gee on the her V.A.D. club in Cavendish- cessfully checked an influx of route. And had 1 read the life square. Cool ivory, walls and del
The phinium-blue chairs,, Hot tea and water into the coal, pit two miles of Mary Wollstonecratt? away, to which some persons greatest woman who ever lived. tarlets trimmed with plaits, Low- attributed the fiflure of the Pioneer of Equal Rights: "And toned chat. And footstools.
look at the sky. So like Shel- springs.
Oh, Joy
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SHARE REORGANIZATION. MEETING.
many explained to the shareholders. who had gathered that there wan mot a suficient representation pre sent of the issued, share capital to obtain a 75 per cent majority. It was not possible to proceed to Vote
Consequently the meeting hind At the adjourned miceting of the to be adjourned sine die. There Hongkong Amusements, La., it was fore the meeting will be called In decided to again adjourn, sine dic. the future when and if necessary, The question at Isade was the pro- He regretted that the valuable shisation of the share, time of those present – had been. Mr. Blackhouse, the chair, wastede MONA
TS. SASIANG WO
Passenger & Cargo River Steamer, built and soglued at Kowloon Dook by the Hongkong and Whempos Dock Co Ltd, to the order of the Indo-China Stam Navigation Co. Ltd. for service on the Middle Yangtate, Hankow Ichang. by
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