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THURSDAY, MAY 19, · 1927.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CAMBRIDGE WIN THE BOAT RACE.
Oxford holding a slight lead at Hammersmith Bridge.
Cambridge winning the Race by three lengths.
ARTIFICIAL SILK.
WOMAN MP'S RETORT.
ACTRESS AS LONDON MANNEQUIN.
Sir Burton Chadwick, Parlia- mentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, last month opened the se- cond Trade Exhibition of British Artificial Silk Goods, at Holland Park Hall, London.
ANGRY AT "REFERENCE TO
"SHE-MEN."
Ottawa-A skirmish in which
fence.
FREE WHISKY,
CASKS BURST ON GLASGOW,
STREET.
During the busiest part of the
WHEN SILENCE WAS FATAL.
HOW EX-KAISER MIGHT HAVE SAVED MONARCHY.
A startling account of events at the time of the abdication of the Kaiser and the inauguration of the German Republic on November 9, 1918, is contained in some pre- liminary extracts published from n. book of memoirs shortly to ap- pear by Prince Max von Baden, the last Chancellor ander the old re- gimo, who held office for only one month (writes a Berlin correspon dent of London Morning Post.)
BOGUS ENGLISH NOBLEMAN.
WOMEN VICTIMS CLAIM £100 RING.
New York Two women victims of Herbert Stanley, bogus. Eng- lish nobleman, faced each other in the Philadelphia court, claiming the possession of a diamond ring, valued £100.
of
Mrs. Margaret Hoffman, Chicago, received the jury's ver- diet, requiring Mrs. Rose Burken, of New York, oither to return the ring or pay £96 damages,
Mrs. Burken, who testified that she had so many diamonds that "I have a bookkeeper to count them," contended that the ring in quest. tion was the gift of her former
The Prince describes his strug- gle, when each minute was of vital importance, to guide incipient mutiny and revolution along con-husband, stitutional lines and if possible to Mrs. Hoffman insisted that it save the Monarcy...
Things had already gone so far that the abdication of the Kaiser could no longer be prevented, but everything depended upon the way in which it was done. At eleven o'clock Prince Max received the news that the Kaiser had taken the decision, but he could not get into touch with Spa in order to obtain authority for its publication.
A formal abdication would be less productive of chaos than no enforced by the street mobs, and the Prince therefore determined on his own authority to announce the abdication, which he did by the famous Wolff Bureau message at 12 o'clock.
""Too Late."
Princo Max was convinced that Herr Ebert was the only man who could deal with the situation, if the Communists were not to gain control, and accordingly he re- çeived a Socialist deputation under Herr Ebert, with whom he discuss ed the question of "Regency or substitutes within the constitu- tion, pending elections for a Con- stitutional assembly.
was part of the gems, worth £22.000, of which the bogus noble- man had defrauded her. where he is serving a year's im Stanley, brought from the cell prisonment for swindling a Phila- delphia woman, denied giving the ring to Mrs. Burken, but in face. of the double denial, the jurors decided that Mrs. Hoffman was the rightful owner.
END OF GREAT SALE.
LIBRARY TOTAL EXCEEDS £600,000.
Last month saw the last lot in the Britwell Court Library sale knocked down at Mesars Sotheby's, London.
The long-drawn-out sale of near. y 12,000 lots, which first began in 1910, has occupied· 67 days. Long As the period has been, it does not constitute a record, for it may be re- called that 202 days were oc- cupled during 1834, 1836, and 1836 in the dispersal of the great Heber Library. It was from the sale of this collection that "Mea- sure" Miller (as William Henry Miller, of Craigentinny, was call- Herr Ebert agreed to the sum-ed) formed the collection now acat- moning of the National Assembly, tered all over the world. No pri- and exacted from Prince Max the vate. library so valuable for the Chancellorship, "though," he said, grand total to-day stands at "it is a difficult office." When re £568,522, 39.-has ever been sold quested to come to the question in this or any other country, and. of a Regency, Ebert said "It is certainly none like it remains here now too late," the words "too late" to appear another day. The Brit- being echoed by the other mem- well is a landmark in the history bers of the deputation.
of our great private libraries. "How different it would have The total is far in excess of the been for my freedom of action," previous world's auction maxi- mum, the £356,41) obtained in New adds Prince Max, "if I could have York for the Hop Library, The replied to the Socialist too late, previous English saleroom record and that the Baiser had appointed was the £278,498 realised for the a substitute. It was the only solu-Huth Library. tion that could straightway have produced a fuil accompți." But there was no news from the Kai- sor, so Prince Max could do noth- ing.
said, "Herr Ebert, I lay down the German Reich to the mercy of your have lost two sons in the war."
|
The Britwell total does not in- Mr. G. D. Smith, of New York, for clude the £30,000 given by the Inte
the Americana, In addition to this, the section dealing with the-. logy was sold by private treaty to Messrs Quaritch, of London- the price is believed to have been in the neighbourhood of £7000. Then again, in May 1918, a seleċ- tion, mainly of early Spanish romances, appeared in Messrs So- theby's rooms as the property of a private collector." These came from Britwell Court.
2485,670 represents heart.' Herr Ebert replied. "
If Kaiser Had Spoken.
Between Ave and six o'clock in the evening Prince Max went to take leave of Herr Ebert who urgently requested him to remain the only representative of the afternoon a berry laden with five on as administrator of the Reich. "weaker sex" in the Dominion large barrels of whisky was pro- The Prince declared that this was House of Commons gave a good acceeding down Stockwell Street, impossible owing to Ebert's asso- count of herself enlivened a debate Glasgow, recently, when a tramear ciates. At the dear," he con- on the estimates for National De-swung up against the vehicle, tinues, "I turned once more and The impact was so severe as to Sir Burten said that the chief
Miss Macphail moved to strike smash a wheel. This upset the impression left upon his mind out the vote of £100,000 for cadet forry, and the contents slid down after going round the exhibition training on the ground that it en-heavily on to the street. Three was the great beauty of British couraged the militarist spirit. of the huge.casks came down with workmanship. He believed that
Dr. Edwards (Conservative), a such a crash that they burst, and in the past twelve months a great former Minister, defended the cadet the next instant the street was advance had been made in the tex-movement and shift that the country awash with the spirit. ture, colour, and design of artifi- did not want a class of "she-men." The point at which the mishap dial silks. "I am sure," he added, Miss Macphail broke in to declare occurred is near the river side, a that no industry in the world is that it would be "better for a lot few yards from the fish market, so dependent upon the caprice of of men if they had some of the ut- and the spectacle of gallons of woman as the artificial silk indus- tributes of women." "It would be good whisky running to waste try." It had brought within the a very good thing for men," she says the Glasgow correspondent reach of those unable to afford continued, and I resent deeply of the Press Association) proved real silk something which served that the hon. member should be try-too sore atemptation. Quick as the same purpose, so far as beautying to insult boys calling them 'she-lightning, a fow of the natives and excellence of material were men. Since when did men become made a dash indoors, and next concerned, and its future was one greater than women?"
minute emerged with cups and tim of the bright spots in our indus- Dr. Edwards said that he had not cans, with which they scooped up trial outlook.
intended to refer to Miss Macphail the rapidly disappearing liquor, in any personal way, but he was which by then had formed into a convinced by the proceedings that stream, down the incline along "the female of the species is more the gutter and into a manhole. deadly than the male."
Several workmen who were pass- ing joined the work of salvage, and armed with flasks which had previously held their tea, eagerly reflled the tins and cans with a stronger brew. There were others cup nor flask,
London Fashion Centre.
Mr. Holbrook Jackson, who in- troduced Sir Burton, said there was no reason why London should not equal Paris, as a centre of fashion.
Miss Macphail's amendment was defeated and the vote passed.
Imitation Furs.
DANCING GIRLS OF KASHMIR,
ILLUMINATED BOATS FOR VICEROY,
purchasea
American Purchases. Of the grand total, no less than
made by the late Mr, G. D. Smith and Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, and It is safe to assume that the I have often since," adds majority of the literary prizes Prince Max, "discussed with my have gone to enrich the splendid self the question whether, if I had library of Mr. Henry E. Hunting- accepted the post of adminstrator ton, the Californian millionaire, on that day. I could have saved the who has already bequeathed his Monarchy, and have always come collection to his native State. back to the feeling that I could Who among those who have at- have taken this course if the Kaitended these, Britwell sales will ser had appointed me
as sub- stitute. But my conscience could ever forget that great day in De- cember 1919, when 108 books not have permitted me to carry brought the huge sum of £110,356 cut a coup d'Etat."
--of this total. Mr. G. D. Smith ulone provided £34,705. This sec tion included the little volume, originally found in the lumber rooms at Lamport Hall, containing the fourth edition of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis,” 1599, bound in with the first edition of "The Passionate Pilgrim," which creat- od a sensation by fetching £15,100, u figure which remained an auc- tion maximum until last year, Srinagar, Kashmir-The Mah- when Dr. Rosenbach, in the An- araja of Kashmir entertained the derson Galleries, New York, cap- Miss Ivy Trésmand, one of the London actresses who are volun: All forms of real silk can now who had neither turlly sparing time to act as man- be duplicated in artificial silk-Conscious, that pleasures, like time Viceroy of India and Lady Irwin ped it by paying £21,000 for marocain, jap, and tide, wait for no man, they at a banquet in the old palace on copy of the "Mazarin Bible," be nequins at the exhibition to show crepe-de-chine,
of the Jhelum,longing to a London bookseller. the beauty and utility of British taffeta, and foulard are followed Kot down on their knees, and had Illuminations on the riverside The auctioneers' valuable salo dress creation, appeared in a spe-so closely in texture and finish deep, deep draught. It cially designed gown, and she was that only the expert eye could dis-mild Bacchanalian orgy, which at- made a scene of dazzling beauty, catalogues are all that remain to ele of illuminated boats floating well Library. These catalogues followed by several professional tinguish them from pure silk. tracted an ever-increasing number which was enhanced by the specta-remind us of the glory of the Brit mannequins whose daily parade Among the novelties
of the ex-of participants.
silently down-stream in the moon are to be shortly augmented by The police arrived on the scene, is an attractive feature-of-the-ex-hibition are imitation-furs-which
dressed in wonderful list of the English books. This hibition. During the week they reproduce the effects of gazelle, but the stream was far spread and light and bearing Kashmiri danc-the-issue of an alphabetical hand
ing girls will wear 400 different garments, leopard, and mole in soft and rapidly dwindling, and no preven
man, who was librarian at Brit- According to official figures, the pliable materials. Here, too, are tive officer could have withheld costumes. Theatricals were after is being compiled by Major Coll-
Speaking on future relations well. Court. world output of artificial silk has the latest developments in velvets the crowd as they scurried hither wards held in the Durbar Hall,
between the Indian States and.
The top price in the sale was 6500 times. In 1891 the output artificial silk with cotton or wool man was observed demonstrating British India, the Viceroy wal- £440, given for "A Proclamation
increased more than and plushes. The combination of and thither. Some time later one
comed the chances of visiting the for Settling the Plantation of was 30,000 ID. Last year it was has reached a degree of perfec-the Charleston, and he
which Great finn, und, the cross dyeing pro-promptly marched to the police States to obtain an insight into Virginia." printed on two follo 197,000,000 lb., to
their unique and profoundly ab- sheets, 1626. A first edition of Britain's contribution was 28,000,- cesses mark a definite advance.
sorbing problems. The time for James Thomson's "Summer," 1727, 000, à figure second only to that, New cloths and new colours
decision had not come. Much inscribed by the author "To him bear striking testimony to the
Several hundred dry Glasgow technical improvements in the In-
tion I have writ. in vain. To yesterday found that a spirit of lustre of certain kinds of artificial drinks from the gutter last month The Maharajah, In proposing Aaron Hill, Esq." sold for £105.. optimism prevailed concerning the silk has been conquered, and in when three casks of whisky fell off Lord Irwin's health; expressed his "A Proclamation Touching To past and future developments all classes of material
a softer a lorry which had come into col keen regret that his offer to China bacco (0 April 1626)” (2 sheets), British trade in this newest branch sheen is noticeable. Glass-printed lision with a tramway-car. A had been declined, but he fully re- with edges uncut, £120; another of the textile industry. At the fabrics resembling embroidery in crowd, armed with flaske, cups, cognised the great responsibilities dated February 17, 1626," £116: 120 stands is shown marchandise beads, sequins, and diamante show bottles, and all kinds of utensils in a ruling State which guarded and a series of nine year books, all in every stage of production from the skill of designer and manufac-was goon busy collecting the 100 miles of frontier "where three belonging to the reign of Edward the yarn to the completed garment. turer.
liquor."
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of the United States.
station.
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was
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Trade visitors to the exhibition austry. The unpleasing metallic citizens were-provided with fran.clearing of the ground was neces-without whose generous approba- ·
sary.
Empires meat.”
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