"REDS" ARRESTED IN JAVA.
A BIG MURDER PLOT DISCOVERED.
NATIVE COMMUNISTS..
In connection with the murder of the village headman named Datock Tumang Sati, in the sub district Kemang, on the west coast of Sumatra, over sixty nu- tives have been arrested to date, says a Batavia message of October
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany
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When the International Phil- "President Coolidge gave a din atelle Exhibition opens in New ner-party last night, and seven York about the middle of October fresh cases of ptomaine poisoning there will be found on view the
were admitted this morning th rarest stamp in the world-a one-hospital. An outbreak, of swine cent British Gulana, issued in fever is reported from Long Island, 1956, which is valued at £7,300. I and Mr. Lucullus K. Hogge has. in consequence of the sudden ill- don't know what makes this stamp hurriedly returned to New York ness of his business partner. Jack Dempsey has refused an offer of $100,000 a night to sing in grand opera, and special prayers are to be offered in all churches hext Bunday in consequence of the continous drought. Abian com- mitted suicide this morning by and Steele suddenly rose four points this afternoon owing to an unexpected shortage arising."
6, all of these being believed to rightfully rare, I imagine it be concerned in the plot to kill the native headman in question. must be ita scarcity. Anyway, it
The threeative communists,
has suggested to me an absolutely who actually committed the crime, topping method of making a have escaped and are now at large. fortune. My idea is to buy up Furthermore thirty men and wo-overy halfpenny stamp the Post men have been arrested for attend-Office has got, tear end all up ex- ing secret meetings of suspected copt one, and then exhibit the communists.
survivor at the Grafton Galleries,
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
Ice is to food
what heat is to winter comfort
Ice to-day is an accepted commodity 'on a par with Milk, Water, Light, etc. What would the present day meal be without the contributing forces of
You need Ice all the year round
Give
you relard its Torineraling valle and prevent the
di of
odors.
plot has also been discovered or somewhere. At half-grown swallowing 21 safety-rozer bindes, The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.
for the murder of Government officials who made arrests and house searches.
head. When every philatelist (this means a person who is kind to postage stamps) has whacked down his money to see this unique curios, ity, out of which I shall expect to net about 4 million pounds, I shall announce my intention of destroying this, the only British In Serang, a provice of Bantam, halfpenny stamp in the world, and in west Java, four communists thus make it not merely rarer were arrested recently, onc of than ever but absolutely ob these being the much "wanted" solete. This will provoke a Hilman,. two others being dis-most terrific public outcry, which charged employees of the Govern-(I fell confident) can only be quell- ment telephone department.. ed by the Lord Mayor of London
Three native communists in the Batak province have been sen- tenced to various terms of impri- sonment for carrying out com "munistic propaganda.
In the notorious Kebajoran dis- trict no less thun 800 members of the native communist association, the "Perseriketan Kommunist Islam" reported to the native Gov- ernment officials there and submit- ted their membership cards, nsk- ing for pardon at the same time.
According to an official investi-. gation, the natives in this district have become more tractable of late
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and are inclined to behave like opening a Mansion House to pur- "peaceful and law-abiding" citizens.chase the stamp from me for the
· CHINA'S PROBLEM.
MUST BE SOLVED BY CHINESE.
nation. The figure T'shall quote, I warn you, will sound more like German Reparations than a price,
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I am sorry to learn that Mrs. Moldeign Martbagh's grouse-shoot- ing party at Mildew Manor, near Macclesfied, has so far met with no very pronounced success, the total bag for the first week only amounting to one hedgehog, which was accidentally run over by the luncheon-cart.
a new one.
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BILLY SEASON LOVE LYRICS. As the hole is to the Gruyere, As the pip is to the grape, As the pump is to the milkman,
As the organ to the ape,
So are you, my best and dearest, Unto the, your doting swain, And if you doubt my meaning,
'I'll say it all again.
As the hump is to the camel, As the pint is to the pole, As the roo is to the herring, As the sausage' to the roll, Sp'um I, my own beloved,
Unto you, I love to think; And if you doubt my statement,
F'll rewrite it in red ink.
As the plum is to the pudding, As the powder to the jam,
As the molehill to the mountain,
As the river to the dam,
So are we to one another
You to me and I to you;
And if you don't believe it, I'll repeat it till you do.
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A reader writes to ask me if it is true that there is to be a total. eclipse of the sun, visible in Eng- land, next summer. Yes, Cuthbert:
just the same as thero is every summer on the-day I start for my holidays.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Rugby, Oct: 15. During the course of the state- ment on British Policy in China, made by Mr. Miles Lampson at the annual dinner of the China As- Nor did the second week yield Bociation held last night, he said any better result.
Major Badde that the British Government beley Bostytte succeeded in winging Ileved that the difficulties present- ja moor-hen, but as he unfortunate ed by the present phase in the de-ly winged it in the tail the poor velopment. of China must be faced thing managed to scramble back and solved by the Chinese them to its nest where, though badly
Should Plumbers Perspire! selves, and that it was for them scared, it promptly and pluckily
Sir. I am only a little girl of alone to decide by whom and in commenced to grow what manner their country should Capt. the Hon. Gastley Muckupp five, but nevertheless
I "most bo governed. It was unfortunately, secured one bird, but as it chanced emphatically opinionate that the inevitable that until a system of to be the weatheréock off the roof whole question of sudatory exuda government had been established in of the stables it was naturally dis- tion is an ethical one, and hence China which received the support of qualified from being counted in the should not be regarded as a mere and could act with the authority of bag. The genial hostess, however, problem in transcendentulism-an China as a whole the relations be- remains full of the best spirits, error into which so many of year. tween the British and the Chinese fof which she fortunately still correspondents seem to have pre- nations must be affected by the possesses a large pre-war stock, cipitated themselves. Yours af and is hopeful, that before the party breaks up which it shows in the interest of both, to see re-signs of doing about thrice daily moved as quickly as possible. 1 at least one of the three grouse she the absence of any settled and per- has preserved so lavishly for many manent Chinese Government, Bri- tish lives and property were en-ruert past will fall a victim to her guests' prowess of dying of old dangered by the prevailing lawless- age:
abnormal conditions, which, it was
ness and British interests were
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lable at any moment to be pro- Wife (at breakfast.table): I'm judiced by the mêtion of irrespon- sible individuals or bodies. Where very sorry, darling, but Fm afraid no Chinese authority was in exis- the eggs are not quite fresh."" tence, the British Government was; Husband (engrossed in the bound to accord to their nationals "Radio. Time"); Send 'em up to the fullest protection and support the B.B.C. and ask them to be and to exact reparation for wrong good enough to relay them. done-British Wireless.
SCOTTISH WEDDING.
LOGAN-BUCHANAN.
A friend of mine handed me an
fectionately;
Lucy Timmins (still age 5.)
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Much Interest has been centred, locally in the arrival of H.M.S
There arrived in the Colony. Keppel and the 3rd. Destroyer Flotilla, which have been sent out yesterday by.. Mishima Mara four official delegates of the Aud- for special service in the Far East.tralian Federal Government to the These boats arrived last evening Pan-Pacific Congress which is and went to anchorage, where they shortly to be held in Tokyo. The have been the objects of much last Congress was held in Aug- interest.. The boats, with their tralia, in 1923, and the first in
officers, are:
Honolulu in 1920.
H.M.S. Keppel.-Captain C G. The delegation is headed by Sir Ramsey; R.N.
Hubert Murray, K.C.M.G. Lieuten- H.M.S.,.. Witherington-Coin-jant Governor of Papua, and the mander E. K. Boddam Whetham, other members are Mr. R. H. D.S.O., R.N.
Cambage, O.B.E..(President of the H.M.S. Verity. Lieut. Cdr. A. Australian National Research M. Donovan, D.S.C., R.N. Council), Mr. E. G. Andrews (Gov- H.M.S. Woolston-Commander ernment Geologist), and the Rav. C. C. Stuart, D.S.O., D.S.C., R... F. Pigot, S. J. (Director of the H.M.S. Veteran. Lieut. Cdr. H. Riverview Observatory, New South Clanchy, RN.
Wales).
H.M.S. Wild Swan.
H.M.S. Wivern.-Lieut. Cdr. P. Accompanying the delegates are H. Calderon, R.N.
Professor OU, Vonwiller H.M.S. Wolsey. Lieut. Cdr. C. (Physics, Sydney University), Sir. The question you propound J. H. Hill, R.NIT."..
Professor Woodruff (Veterinary is a very vital one, and serves to H.M.S. Wishart.-Lieut. Cdr., S. Science, Melbourne University}, Professor. Cotton (Geology, remind me of a curious incident Bar which occurred in Bombay in '98.
Sydney University), Professor A second cousin of my wife's ac-
"It is probable that eight of the Osborne (Botany, Adelaide Uni cidentally trod on a fog-signal out- boats will leave for Hankow on versity), and Mr. Halligan side a pork-butcher's one day, and Monday, and that the Wild Swan (Oceanography). on turning round to pick up his will later proceed North as well. umbrella was surprised to find that he had not dropped it. At the same moment he experienced a. sharp pain between the shoulder blades, which he at once attribut- ed to a liver attack he had con- tracted when a boy through watch- ing a goat trying to put a vege- table marrow into a cricketbag. Yours respectively.
Ivor Tyleloose.
LIBERAL PARTY.
THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP.
From the Philippines, Father ML.: Selga, S. J. (Director of Manila Observatory) dad Dr. Elecano (Geologist of the Bureau of Science) are also proceeding to Japan by the same steamer, which leaves at 1 p.m. to-day.
CHUNGKING RIOTS.
(Continued From Page 1.) " Customs Outdoor Staff bunga-
Rugby, Oct. 15. The resignation of Lord Oxford and Asquith from the leadership Sir. When somebody or other of the Liberal Party raises the low. Everything removed includ asked Abraham Lincoln or Bis-question of who will be the new ing verandah. Only walls and marck or somebody for his views leader,
roof. left.
"
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American paper the other day wherein the news of the moment, was compressed, presumably through lack of space, into a solid block of type no spacing, po jolly little asterisks, not even separate The marriage was solemnized at paragraphs, The reault was
on Bimetallism or something, the The idea generally prevailing in Tarry's bungalow in Gap. All Union Church, Kowloon, resterday somewhat bewildering to read, as irrefutable reply was, "What I Liberal circles is that for the locks cut out of doors, window afternoon, of Mr. James Stanley the news-items were sort of shot have, I'll hold," or something like present Mr. Lloyd George will con glass broken. Two of the Tsang, Logan, of Capa D'Aguilar Wireless at you two at a time,from that: and it seems to me that some tinue to lead the Party in the Hain Kino tuan in uniform, with Station, and Mias. Helen Holiday machine gun, and had to be men- answer or other, somewhat to this
House of Commona as le bas done five others not in uniform, were in Buchanan, of Dumfries, the church tally probed out afterwards. I effect, is the only possible one to since Lord Oxford went to the house when visited, they said they being prettily decorated for the won't attempt to quote verbatim, the present question.-Yours
House of Lords, and that. Earl had been peut there to protect the occasion.
but bore follows a transcript of drivellingly,
Bedaley Tosher (The Plum
Beauchamp will become the leader bungalows. The bride arrived in the Colony the Impression I gained from this
From information received from ber's Poct.")
in the Upper House. It fe realised, yesterday morning by the 5.8, verbal bombardments:
however, that eventually a choice people In the vicinity of the Mantus, and the service, Rev. J.
will have to be made of an actual bungalows, and the watchmen, Horace Johnston officiating, was
leader of the Party, Various looting and damaging of the conducted from a Bible with which
early place, and communications personages have been mentioned bungalows in every case was com the bride was presented on de
by sea and air, wireless and cable for leadership in addition to Mr.menced by the fuan and finished parture from Home.
loom large. The internal relations Lloyd George who holds strong by the local farmers.
claims. Viscount Grey, Sir John I am of the opinion that if it is between various parts of the Simon, Lord Reading, Sir Herbert ever decided to repair the damaged Empire provide opportunity to dis- Samuel and Lord Beauchamp bungalows the following will cuss the treaty-making machinery have, in turn, been named. Dis pratically have to be rebuilt: London, Oct. 16.
and, incidentally, to consider sonstons, which have expected in Burry's
3 (Consul's The Britlah Cabinot to-day Locarno. Another knotty point the Party, have rendered the ques
and 2 A.P.C.) completed the arrangements for will be the question of Dominion tlon of leadership dinlenlt. Mr. Mackenzie opening the Imperial Conference "Independence and Imperial De-Lloyd George will make a speech Co.'s...
fonce, which will be discussed at Barnstaple to-morrow, when he Naval bungalows 2 An authoritative forecast of the secretly when the redistribution of is expected to make a pro J. M. and Col's. 2 agenda shows that foreign affairs the burden of armaments is raised, nouncement on the position Moyhing's and imperial affairs tako ar probably by Mr. Bruce.-Reuter,
British Wirelces.
Charmingly attired, the bride was given away by Mr. JE. Ander-
THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
son, Mrs. Hardinge being the FORECAST OF THE AGENDA, matron-of-honour.: Miss D. Hard- inge and little Miss Everest were the bridesmaids, and Mr. W. Q. Gee was "best man"..
A reception, was held later at tho residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Everest, after which the happy couple left for Macao, whore the honeymoon is being spont
on Tuesday.
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