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DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928.
against the North. For, let it bo remembered, support to military operations involves a drain upon financial resources as well as man- power. It is not at present with- out Interest hero, to take note of some observations made last week by one of the Shanghai newspapers,
DAY BY DAY.
MEN ARE ALWAYS INVOKING JUS-
TICE; IT IS JUSTICE WHICH SHOULD MAKE THEM TREMBLE-Mòdame Swetching,
The B. L. 6.5. Takada, from Singa-
stant.
to the effect that Conton was doing pore, is due here on the 25th in- well by showing a disinclination to take
The P. and 0.8.6. Karmala, from active part in the Northern campaign. The attitude Shanghai, is due hero on Friday at of Marshal Li Chal-sum was, by the commentator, described as ono
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7 a.m.
The Empress of Asia arrived at of downright common-sense, and Manila on Tuesday at 10 a.m., leaves the only regret expressed was that that port on Saturday and is due at
Hongkong on Monday at 10 am Shanghai, by reason of its close proximity to Nanking, could not tako up a strong stand along the same lines. The point was further emphasised that a huge sum of money left Shanghai every month with no hope of return, being ex
H. M. S. Tern and H, M. S. Gan- net, the new river gunboats recently for Shanghai for service on the assembled at local yards, sail to-day Yangtsze. They will be escorted by two destroyers.
return of notifiablo
CYNIC, PESSIMIST AND ICONOCLAST.
CELEBRATION OF IBSEN CENTENARY.
Oslo, Mar. 20.
The Very Idea!
"Well, they've stopped the crime wave in Chicago.
"Good. How did they do it?"; "By charging for board and lodg-
·
A salute of twenty-one guns wasing in the jails." Ared at all Norwegian fortresses to-day in connexion with the con- tenary of the famous, poot and dramatist, Ibsen.
The centenary was celebrated throughout Norway And con- siderable interest was also taken in England. -
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Four queens and an empress call- ed on King George's next door nolghbour at his Sandringham es- tate. When the late Mrs. Eleanor Contes Tylden, Lady of the Manor of Ingoldsthorpe, who recently died Oalo was boflagged "for the in, her 106th year, was 100 years occasion, and a British represen-old, Queen Mary, the Queen of Nor tative was among the speakers at way, the Queen of Spain, the Queen a ceremony at the cemetery where of Rumania and the Dowager Em- the poet is buried. Reuter.
press of Russin called on her. Sho inherited this famous Old World the late Rev. James Bellamy, for manorial estate from her brother, many years president of St. John's College, Oxford.
Henrik Ibsen, who was born at timber port, on Mar 20, 1823, in Skien, a small southern Norwegian famous for his bitter satires on elvillaation with which he stung Europe into fury.
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BIRTH.
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The
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CANTON & NANKING.
His early years were unhappy, pedition and the maintenance of typhoid (one Italian and the others tanism and social prejudices of the loyalty among the troops and such Chinese), and one each of small-Norwegian provincial life, he pox (Chinese), diphtheria (Bri-gathered rich material for his allies as Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.tish) and paratyphoid fever attacks on the fabric of civilisa "Shanghai,” said this writer,","eun | (Indian).
Lion.
Ilis earliest work Catilina no more afford to cast money into
(1850) was purely historical and the
Chinese arriving from Hoifung was inspired by his rending of Hea than can the Southern metropolis." Tite conclusion reach-state that the notorious Communist Sallust and Cieero, but he became chief, Pang Pai, following the de-director of the Bergen Theatre in ed was that If the Nationalists fent of the "Red" Army, has gone 1851 and began to write for its succeeded in occupying Poking, to Amay. He is said to have productions, though unfortunately Shanghai might be in a position to rived there a few days ago, tra-most of the MSS has been destroy- velling under the name of, Cheung.
keep lier funds in her own hands for home development, but until that time comes,
If the Nanking Government is still intent upon further conquest, Shanghai might jual as well resign herself to her
fate.
The point that arises out of all;
Singapore papers state that Mr. A. C. Wentworth Lewis, editor of the Straits Times, whose death was reported a few days ago, had been ill for several weeks, and that shortly before his demise he underwent an operation in the General Hospital.
the
Female defendant: I want this
I'm going to legal proceedings. result a soliciter.
Solicitor (pleading for leniency The defendant has for client): not, been convicted since she was last before the Court.
Female defendant: If you give me time to pay, yer washup, I' go right away atraightaway and you won't hear of me no more,
Magistrate: No time, then,
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Someone had blundered very Bad- ed with the notable exception ofly. The company had marched and vigorous historical drama marched with full kit 26 miles along "Lady Inger of Ostrat:"|
the wrong route. So the Colonel Ibsen, the cynic and satirist, | tried fact. however, did not make his debut until 1862, when he wrote Love's Comedy,
cleverly written in epigrammatic verse. In "Brand" he attacked pictism, and in 1869 he began writing his remarkable prose dramas which gave him European significance.
these thoughts is that the Nation- A student, hamed Lui Ming-fai,
He attacked the whole fabric of allats could be far better employ-13 years fo age, was admitted to ed at present than in expending day suffering from concussion of the full the possibilities of heredi- the Government Hospital yester-modern government, gave brilliant studiça in feminism, exploited to their energies on military expedi-the brain and minor abrasions is tions. It is certain that, whatever a result of falling down several Nanking does, Canton could find Ellis Kadoorle School.
stone steps while playing at the
much more valuable and construc- tive work close at hand at home.
ranks.) "Men, you have done splon- "Halt" (sighs of relief from the didly, but we've taken the wrong road. We are scheduled to reach billets to-night. If we can't, there's nothing for it but the roadside hero. Now, men, to the other side of the road those who are not willing to walk back, the 25 miles now."
To the other side sprang the en- now, and he did not look a hero. tire company-but one.
He was tary disease as a dramatic motif The Colonel muttered his disap in plays concerning marriage: pointment In the rest, and then Everything he wrote was con-amiled at the splitary one, "I nd- summately skilful in technique, mire your pluck, my single here," \ and he gained for himself a place he began "but why do you want to in Art which is only enhanced by go back? Just a soldier's grit?"
The recruit pulled his weary foot the passage of time.
together. "Scuse me, sir,, no. Me walk back '25 miles now! I'm
CHIEF.
Senterice of six months' liard WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928. It is to be presumed that im-labour was passed this morning portant decisions affecting this by Mr. R. E. Lindsell on a Chinese who had returned to the Colony point will be reached in the con-after having been banished for five CANTON'S NEW POLICE too darned sore to cross the road.” ferences between Marshal Chiang years from 1927. The defendant
previous and Marshal Li-decisions which had two
convictions will have a considerable effect on dinance..
against him under the Opium Or-
There is Htill considerable the duration of the latter's absence. speculation in Chinese circles as to from Canton. According to yester- Nowa has been received from the precise reason for Marshal | day's telegram, the Southern Pening of the death of Mr. D.
for appendicitis. Mathieson, following an operation Mr. Mathieson wan electrical engineer with United Engineers in Penang and was just under 40 years of age. He joined the firm in 1914 and was for about ten years in Singapore before going to Penang..
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THE SEDITIOUS LITERATURE
A mysterious, silent, crippled. young woman, claimed by many to be the only survivor of the tragedy of Ekaterinburg, where the Russian Imperial Eumfly were murdered in 1918, was hurried off the liner Berengaria at New York Into a waiting motorcar and whisked away to the country estato of Mrs. William B. Leeds, the former Prin- cess Xenia.
One of the strangest posts held by a woman in that of Mrs. Eliza- beth Pratt, of the Royal College of THE RIGHT MAN FOR
Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn-fields, THE POST.
whose work is the cleaning of 10,000 odd skulls and skeletons. Since the resignation of General "I have been doing this work for Li Chai-aum's visit to Nanking. leader asserted that the troops of
Tang Yin-wah from the post of twelve yours now," she told a Press "Some There appears, however, to be a Kwangtung and Kwanga would
Chief of Police and the appoint-representative recently. consensus of opinion that, in view need to be thoroughly reorganised
ment of General Tang Shi-chang of them are very fragile. One, for to the position, rumour have pre-example, is a Neanderthaloid skull, of the urgency of the call from before they could join the Northern
valled in Canton that the latter which was found in Gibraltar, and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the expedition, but, whether that re-
would not be likely to hold the is one of the oldest human relics in Canton leader could not very well mark implies any willingness to
Another very delicate post for any length of time. In the world. have refrained from obeying the take part in the campaign, time
terviewed by a reporter, however, task is dusting a 6,000-years-old
Egyptian mommy." The amalgamation of two well-a prominent official of the Govern- summons, especially as he has all alone will tell.
known Chinese newspapers in Can- ment asserted that General Tang along, stressed his loyalty to the
ton is reported. The papers are Shi-chang was the right man for
The touring computy had not the Huo Min Sía Win and the Afix the post.
struck oil, and some of the actors Kuomintang Party. That military
Kub Yut Puo, both being Kuomin
The official added-"As Com-were forced to sleep on the stage for matters are to be discussed when
The Zinovieff Letter.
Lang organs. It is stated that re- mander-in-Chief of the Canton the night. One of them woke up Chiang and I meet there cannot
cently the Canton Political Council City Garrison troops. Tang Shi-exclaiming with a shiver, "It's Mr. Stanley Baldwin cannot be decided that those papers should chang was and is still known for beastly cold here, laddie." be any doubt, and In this connexion accused of the habit of sensation combine and come under the direct his activity in checking the Com
"No wonder," answered his com→ munistic elements and in adopting panion, "we're sleeping in a feld, see whether netive Southern parti-the weapon placed in his hands
the most drastic measures for the Hi! Stage Manager! Lower an by the public-spirited Mr. Conrad cipation in the big military camp Im Thurn. The disclosure follow- World Theatre is "A Society actionary movements. The plac
The current attraction at the defence of the city against re- Interior." nign against Peking is being ing the Labour allegations of de-Scandal," featuring Gloria Swan-ing of the policing and defence sought by the Nationalist Com-berate concoction of the Zinovieff son. The story has to do with the of the city in the hands of one mander-in-Chief. Marsha! Li, in. Letter, and of political intrigue plot by a divorced Society lady to man, as the Government is now the interview which he had with fluencing the General Election of whose ruthless handling of the stability being attained."
for the express purpose of in- have revenge against the lawyer doing, will result in security and Shanghai vernacular newspaper-1924; was almost as dramatic in case took away her reputation. men yesterday, is credited with say notorious document. The genuine-ed climax, in which Gloria Swan- its way as the publication of the There is a thrilling and unexpect ing that he will discuss withness of the letter must now be son is responsible for some power. Chiang Kai-shek measures for beyond question, and though we ful acting. Rod La Rocque, Ricar pressing on with the Northern Ex- can sympathise with the Labour de Cortez and Allan Simpson are pedition, as well as plans for the Party that the bombshell was cast included in the cast..
All efforts of reporters to inter- into the political field at a critical
view her were unsuccessful. New, reorganisation of the Southernmoment, and, the Conservative
paper men who went down the bay Armies, but nothing was disclosed argument notwithstanding, un-tion. And yet sume-one once
to meet the fogbound liner found as to the possibility of the Southern doubtedly affected the national wrote that a fool lacked a sense arrested in the course of a police guarded by Mr. Gelb Botkin, de The three Chinese who were the lady's stateroom locked and troops being required to go luto tegrity of British politics has come
poll, it is gratifying that the in-of humour.
raid on No. 7, Cross, Street, and scribed as the son of the physician. through the scandal unscathed.
later charged before Mr. R. E. Mr. Botkin says he is positive that. to the Russian Imperial Family, In his recent speeches during the pressed of the authenticity of the There has always been doubt ex-
Lindsell for possession of acditious the young woman is the Grand literature, appeared again before Duchess Anastasia, and claims that exchange of official visits between document, but Mr. Baldwin's fur- Russia is making a brave show his Worship this morning, when he played with her as a child, and Hongkong and Canton, Marshal Lither disclosures regarding M. by her sweeping proposals to the the police asked for a further re- that they grew up togather. laid much emplasia on the task of Chicherin's conversations with his Disarmament Committee request mand, as the translation of some reconstruction which lay before thoroughly satisfying to the most the principle of complete disarma- had not yet been completed,
colleagues, must being it to base its further efforts on of the documents seized in the raid the Canton Government. His ob- vigorous opponents of the Government of all the nations of the Sergeant Wheelan,, who was servations, together with those of ment, Soviet intrigue has had to world. The Soviet expresses will-prosecuting asked his Worship to some of his colleagues, left an im- bear the light of publicity to an ingness to abolish afl land, sea and withdraw the charge against one pression that the Southern leaders prominent Labour leaders to re- other nations are prepared to no evidence to offer against him. land came to a ford and hired a boat extent which, has caused all fair forces within four years, if of the three accused, as there wEA regarded the securing of peace and act violently against Communist do the same. The idea is not His Worship accordingly dia- to take him across. The water order and the carrying out of large with Bioscow, We are not sure millenium has not yet come. We hearing of the case against the able to him, he asked the boatman doctrines and to sever relations new, but, unfortunately, the charged this man and fixed the being more agitated than was agree. schemes of reconstruction in the whether Mr., Ramsay MacDonald suspect M. Litvinoff will look in remaining two for 11.80 am. on if any person was ever lost in the Two Kwangs as of greater im- feels happy at being linked with vain for immediate active support Friday. portance than military operations. Sir Austen Chamberlain in the from any of the Powers, including frequent traducements of British the United States. We remember In that view, Chinese and foreign politicians emanating from Mos-that Mr. Curtis Wilbur, In advocat observers alike concurred, and cow, but the leader of the Labouring the building of more cruisers, there were strong hopes that Mar-Party may be certain that the urged that the impressiveness of stul Li and his colleagues would average man will look upon it as warships flying the Stars and & recommendation. A despairing Stripes would be an advertisement
Mother had been very annoyed grasp the opportunity of showing note has already been struck in to the United States and would states. The anti-cyclone has weak by the noise made by the dustbin
To-day's Observatory report what could be done to make model Moscow, and the forlorn hope of tend to Increase commercial prosenci. It is now central over the continually being rolled round the provinces of Kwangtung and making progress by waging open pects, For these, and other Bonins. Another has formed over Yard by hor small son. "What- Kwangsi. Past experience had is the latest decision of the Plenum duced cruiser programme will be deepened and fa central over Hok-
war on all British political parties reasons, we doubt if even the re- North China. The depression has ever are you doing that for?" she shown that, once before, largo re-jof the Executive of the Komintern. sacrificed to the new and awe-{ kaldo."
The monsoon will set in the reply.
"I am just amusing baby," was construction projects had to be There is even talk of Mr. Tom Inspiring Disarmament god, which again along the China Coast, abandoned when the call came for on to oppose Mr. Ramsay Mac in the labyrinths of a Moscow row is: North-east winds, moder-
But I don't seo baby," said his Mann being nominated at Abera- could only have been conceived: The forecast up toƐnoon to-mor- Southern troops'to go into the field Donald at the next General Elec mind."
ate, cloudy; some rain later..
"Oh, he's inside the dustbin"
the field.
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The lady's future plans, as well. as the reason for her journey to America, are unknown. It was stated that an announcement would be made later..
An Englishman travelling in Ire
passage.
"Never," replied Pat; "my brother was drowned here last week, but we found him again the next day."
asked