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NE WHO RECEITES" A GOOD, TURN suoULD NEVER FORGET IT; HE WHO DotS ONE SHOULD NEVER REMEMBER 17-Chorran
The engagement te announced of Mr. W. F. Hoyle, of Hongkong, to Miss Rose Maud Common, of Chel sea, youngest daughter of Mr
Keith Common, Ontarië. :
and Mrs. G. Costello.."
London
Mr. Myles Lampson, the newly appointed British Minister to Pek ng has returned to from Scotland, and sailed on the 9.8 Macedonia, on
Oct. 22 for Shanghal.
That contral thought should dominate our reflections on this anniversary of the great pence. Unfortunately, we out here in China are at the moment surround- ed by intolerance and non-co-the press of Russia, in addi- Amongst the passengers who left operation and the year has beention to H. R. H. Prince George and marked by friction and discord. Lieut. Halsey, R.N., were Mr. J. F It is claimed that all this la more MacGregor, Mr. N. C. MacGregor or less inevitable in the time of China's change of her awakening political consciousness—but it is to be deplored that the direction and guidance of her metamor- phosis is not in the hands of leas ombittered mea. In the world of International politics to-day, China stands out as being the only seri- ous menace to world-wide peace, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the British Promier, said on Tuesday at the Guildhall, that the situation regard ing foreign affairs was satisfac. tory, saving in the case of China, but he reiterated the truism that Britain wished sympathetically to consider China's aims and desires, It is devoutly to be hoped that be- fore another Armistice Day comes round to remind us of our debt to the gallant dead and of the joys THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1926, of peace, we shall hayo entered upon a mare ponceable and toleruat phase of relationships between China and the Powers
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It is eight years ago to-day that
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EPSTEIN V. PEER.
SCULPTOR ATTACKED AT
ART EXHIBITION,
"I do not think these statues have been exhibited as examples of artistic morit.
Unaware of His Lordship.
"I must admit that I had never heard of Lord, Wavertree before. this incident; still less was I aware that he regarded himself boriously as an art critic.
"It seems to me just another fa- stance of a wealthy man posing as I have no doubt he has done his pole his views on other people less Poor fellow patron of art, and trying to Im- best, but, after all, many other wealthy by means of ridicule. If poor artists could Have done much I receive the jetter you speak of batter if they had done their I shall regard the incident as worst!"
closed." This bombshell was dropped by In the course of the letter which ̈ ́ Lord Wavertree Art Exhibition. Alderman John Lea, chairman of The "poor fellow" is Mr. Jacob the committed, has sent to Mr.
.፡፡
Epstein, the sculptor of the much-Epatein, and which is now in the discussed Hyde Park Rima, and post, he says, after referring to the statues which provoked Lord the courtesy with which he and the Wavertree's satire are two life-curator of the art gallery were received at the sculptor's resi- sized busts in bronze.
These are "Anita" and Mrs. dece Epstein, which were recently ex- hibited in London,
I beg to assure you that Lord”. Wavertree did not consult me as The irony of the situation is that chairman before making his criti- mittee of the Walker Art Gallergy Committee I would suggest that Mr. Epatein was asked by the com-cism, and as chairman of the Arte
to send the busts for exhibition our retaining the works here would thore.
be the best answer to anything In an interview with a Daily said which may have wounded Chronicle representative in London your feelings. last night. Mr. Epstein explained I do hope that in the wider In- that five members of the committee terest of art you will agree to this: The late Mr. Aylmer Cavendish called on him recently and asked We earnestly desire your sculp Pearson, C.M.G., of The Old Fer- to be allowed to show the busts. ture, and we wish to retain it as
"The only two I could sparo," sonage, Offwell. Devon, and Gov- ernor of British North Borneo, who he said, "were those now at Liver
a valued feature of our exhibition. died on March 15, aged 49, left un-pool. The next I hear of the mat. Lord Wavertree's Rejoinder.. settled property in England of theter is that Lord Wavetree has made
Lord Wavertree, who is staying gross value of £3,669, with net per- these disparaging remarks about in Cheshire, when informed by a Ronally $2,305.
Daily Chronicle correspondent of at once wrote to the con- Mr. Epstein's request that his ex- Lieut. Thomas E. Halsey whose mittee, asking them to withdraw hibits, be withdrawn, said: engagentent to Miss Jean Margaret, the busts from exhibition, as I do
"It must be an admission on his tram Brooke, the Tuan Muda of as a sort of sensation, drawing a the cldcat daughter of Capt Ber-not wish them to remain merely part that he dare not face the
Sarawak, is announced, " is well | crowd just because they are known in Nuval circles as a cricket- notorious." er and rackets player. He left Hongkong for Home to-day with H.K.H. Prince George.
them.
criticism of the public.
"I should have thought, in view
It was explained to Mr. Epstein of the controversy aroused over that the committee had already Mr. Epstein's work in London, that the artist would have allowed the written to him asking to recon- sider this attitude and that the public in opportunity of Judging whether the criticism to which he At an extraordinary general letter was in the post.., meeting of the Bank of Canton,
"In that case," he answered, "has beor subjected is justified or
not." held Ltd..
.kt 2
p.m. yes-am quite prepared to revoke my
Reuter's correspondent at Nice version of its sterling capital into dissociate themselves from Lord)
says that a bull fight held there Hongkong currency, passed at the Wavertree's remarks... general meeting held on the 23rd
"At the same time, I am unable ended with an amateur contest,
the western front in France and politics, Mr."J. H: Thomas has had terday, the resolutions for the condecision, providing the committee
A Deserved Honour.
Since he entered the sphere of many honours showered upon him, but no greater tribute has been
the Great European War came to an end. In all parts of the world men and women will have gathered paid to his sterling worth than the ultimo, were duly confirmed us to understand what all the fuss is in which a British visitor named
special resolutions.
about. The busty are quite Powell was knocked down and had straightforward, and in no way his face badly mauled and his controversial.
body bruised.
The Very Idea!
conferring on him, by the Oxford together to-day to pay honoured University, of the Honorary De and respectful memory to those gree of Doctor of Law. It was in
Rumours were current in the who laid down their lives in that 1910 that Mr. Thomas first entered great armed clash. Here in Hong. Parliament, but prior to that time, Colony last night that HM.S. Wild although young in years, he had Swan and H.M.S. Wivern, destroy- kong, as
is told in our news made a name for himself, as the
crs which recently arrived from colums, Armstice Day has been railwaymen's leader and also in Home, were involved in'an incid- ent near Shanghai, resulting in four fittingly marked by impressive municipal work. Since then, he
has become one of the most promin-deaths. On enquiry at the Naval service in the Cathedral and inent figures in the ranks of Labour Yard thia morning, we were in front of the war Memorial, and and has had the distinction of formed that no news of such an in- also by a sale of poppies and street being the first Labourite to be cident has been received here.
Secretary of State for the Colonies. collection in aid of disabled sol-In all his work, whether in the
The Hector arrived from Europe diers and their dependents. Doubt sphere of politics or trades union in the late afternoon, with a heavy passenger booking among
Sir Rider Haggard, whose gla- kicked up a bit, but, then just less, Hongkong, will Have respond-ism, he has always figured on the whom were Captain W. Benson,
morous tales have given almost the same you always seem fit. ed to the appeal made, with as side of the moderates, and it is not Mr. H. H. Benson, Mr. and Mrs.
I've smoked you-let's see, now libera a spirit as-is possible incised a very effective restraint on Hawker, Mrs. P. and
too much to say that he has exer. H. Dont thorne, Mrs, and Miss as much romance to the world as
Miss H. have the soulful eyes and svelte for many long years, and yours these rather difficult and restricted those who have the same ideals but Lauder, Mr. A. C. Hall, Captain waistline of Rudolph Valentino, is is the sort of a spirit that cheers. days. But, apart from the special who would attain them by uncons. J. Lloyd, Mrs, and the Misses another so-called great one who I sometimes get low at the end of observances of the day and the all else Mr. Thomas is a constition- B. Petheram, Mr. F. Strahan, Cap-dent. He was a serious-minded the blues drift away.
titutional methods. Indeed, above M. E. and L. M. McHutcheon, Mr. found his niche through sheer acci- the day, but one puff at you and You send up in smoke all the sad efforts on behalf of those rendered alist, and the Public Orator at Ox-tain W. Thompson, Mr. H. Chee-gentleman who hoped to make a needy by the toll of war, it is fit ford well summed up his qualities tham, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Drake name for himself writing on agri- side of things. It's cheerfulness when he declared that the recipi- ford, Mrs. Lockhart, Dr. and Mrs. culture, He wrote a book called plenty your company brings. I sing that we should take opportu-ent of the honour was commended J. E. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. A.W.L. "Remarks on Recent Events in always can know that a 'dream's nity of seeing how far we have pro- by his moderation and sérise of Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Zululand" and nobody bought it, going to hatch through the fill to One Sunday in church Sir Rider the brim and the touch of a When one remembers that Read. gressed since those days of hate tice."
and his wife saw a mysteriously match, and strife which marned the years Mr. Thomas began work at the age
When down in the mouth and "Let's cach beautiful woman. 1914-1918, and it is in the contem-of nine years and spent a god deal of his early life as an engine-driver,
imagine a book about her," they when up in the air, I turn unto plation of the tremendous amount it is a tribute to his abilities and
said. So they began. Mrs. Hag you, 'cause it seems that you care. gard wrote only one chapter, but I settle me back, start to puffing... of repnir effected by Europe's force of character that he has riser. so high in public estimation. The
Sir Rider kept right on until he and then, the smoke floats away; noliticians and statesmen that one country could well do with more
had finished "Dawn." Then came I'm a new man again. may justifiably rejoice the most. men of Mr. Thomas' stamp, and
"She," and his name and fortune. was made. Since we marked Armistice Day athere certainly would be no need to year ago, very much progress has fear Labour rule if all leaders of the Party were as well-balanced as been made in the task of recreat- he is. ing a peaceably-minded group of nations in Europe, and there is evory justification for hoping thai a period of stability and prosperity has set in. We have seen the sign- ing of the far-reaching Locarno agreements, and we have also seen Germany made a full member of
MANILA SENSATION.
BOARD OF CONTROL DECLARED ILLEGAL.
SCHOOLBOY'S DEATH.
DILATION OF HEART WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL.
1
The death of Peter Foord- Chance aged seventeen, who col-| lapsed while playing in an Inter House Rugby match at Dulwich College, was the subject of an in-. quiry by Mr. Douglas Cowburn, coroner, at Camberwell recently.
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Byron was not, the only poet who had simple tastes in food. Shelley had a great contempt for animal food, believing that it im- pairs the Intellectual faculties, and Bunyan's breakfast and sup- per consisted of a piece of coarse Mr. Hubert John Dixon, nasist-
bread and a bowl of milk. There ant mater at Dulwich College,
is the classic case. of Dante Ga said that on September 29 he was
briel Rossetti who, at one dinner, refereeing a game of Rugby foot
Big families produce the most was blind to the charms of turbot ball, and the game had been in progress about ten minutes when thinkers, poots, musicians and and much more interested in the Chance fell, and was taken to the artists. Opponents of birth con dish in which it was served. He Manila, Nov. 10.
trol recently made this assertion, turned it over on the tablecloth to. All Government owned enter-gymnasium. prises including the Manila Rall- Nell Pascall, a scholar, said that pointing out that Bach was the oxamine the marks on the back the League of Nations and, at the way Company, the Manila Hotel when the game started Chance re-twelfth child, Mozart the seventh, without going through the forma same time, given the status of a the National Coal Company, the marked that he must be in bad Lessing the thirteenth, Handel lity of having his turbot removed Great Power by being allocated National Development Company training as he found it difficult to the tenth, Schumann and Kleist frat.
and the Philippine National Bank breathe.
the fifth and Kant and Froderick one of the few permeant seats on were removed to-day from the
History Professor-"Mr. Brown, Another boy. Allan Shaw, said the Great the fourth. the League's Council. It is almost management of the Philippine that Chance and all the boys were
tell me what you know about the Legislature by an executive order
Commenting on the proposal of age of, Elizabeth." impossible to over-estimate the of the Governor General abplish playing vigorous football, but
(sleepily)She'll he: there was nothing unusual in the selfstyled scientists in Moscow to Brown tremendous value of those two ing the Board of Control.
This Board consisted of the game. Witness gay Chance run shoot a projectile, to the moon, nineteen next week" acts, and the exchange of felieft-Governor General, the Speaker of with the ball and pass it out. The Prof. A. W. Bickerton, astronomer, ous sentiments between H.M. King the Houto and the President of most time he saw him Chance was says that the stunt is impossible. The one-step and the fox trot
the Senate. It was created by lying on the ground.
He offers these figures ns, proof: have gone unsupplanted, in pito George and President Hindenburg Governe. Harrison.
It was stated that Chance had In order to escape the gravitation of efforts of dance masters and of Germany on the change over In practice it allowed the Legis
Jative members to dietate the con- his midday meal at one o'clock and of the carth, a projectile muet others to launch this dance and In the British Ambassadorship in trol, as it conlk outyote the Dr. E.F. Creed, pathologist at have a velocity of seven miles a that. A few fancy steppers pick Berlin la symptomatic of the im-Governor-General. It has born King's College Hospital, said he second. The average big gun can up the trick arrangements but, proved relations between these two blamed for heavy losses incurred found this still undigested. The give a speed of only about eno ond seldom got opportunity to danco
by these enterprises.
presence of the meal, if the heart hundredth of that rate, and the them.
At practically all the large dan- great countries. France is less Governor-Genern! Wood's order had been healthy, would not have most powerful, explosive known distrustful a factor of prime im- followed an opinion of the United caused death. It was quite a rea- would give only one-tenth, the re- ces In New York at this time the States Aftorney General that the sonable period to play at three quired speed even if it could be Charlostaners are viewed as a There are one or two board was legal. It la regarde. portance..
safely used.
variety of nuisance. Cornórs are little clouds in the European skyns the most far renching reform o'clock after lunch at 1. am.
ropod off and announcements poste, inco General Woud took office. The Coroner recorded a verdict
You're rusty old trusty with ed that the Charleston hounds can howaver, but it should not be be- It was issued immediately after of "Death from heart failure con- yond the wit of diplomacy, and the Logislature's adjournment thie soquent upon rapid dilation of the ashes galore. You're not just the use that space and thus give no samods when bought at the store. interferonce to those who wish to morning.Reuter.
heart while playing football."
Your stem is teeth-bitten; you're "dance."