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5th June. 29th June
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF "FAMOUS NOVELIST.
Paris, May 16.
VISIT POSTPONED.
MR. F. W. MAZE NÓT. IN HONGKONG.
·MAY 17, 1930.
POISON GAS PLEA.
CHINESE APPEAL TO LEAGUE,
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Contrary to expectations, Mr.
Peking, May 10. In a weekly press interview, Chu The death, in Paris, is an-F. W. Maze, the Inspector-General nounced of the famous English of the Chinese Maritime Customs, Ao-hsiang, the Kuominchun Repre novelist, William J. Locke-who was due here from Shanghai) sentative for Foreign Affairs, stated Reuter.
yesterday on the N.Y.K. liner that the principal armies of Mar- [William John Locke,
the Hakone Maru, did not arrive in shal Yen Hsi-shan and General Feng novelist, was born in Barbados in Hongkong, and later inquiries re- Yu-hsiang are not yet engaged, March 1863, and educated at the vealed the fact that he has post-but Generals Wan Hsuan-tsal, Shih
Yu-san, and Sun Tien-ying Queen's Royal College, Trinidad, poned his visit to the Colony.
This decision must have been fighting successfully. and at John's College, Cambridge,
Everything is proceeding satis- took matnematical made at the last moment as refactorily, the allies are ready to where be honours. He started life as anservations had already been made advance, and being under
on the Hakone Maru for Mr. Maze supreme command they are there- architect and from 1897 to 1907
himself, Mr. F. S. Wright, his per- fore presenting a united front. Royal was secretary of the
After the full of Marshal Chiang Institute of British Architects, oisonal secretary, and a lady sacro-
Kai-shek, which is a "foregone con. an hon. Astary. which he became
Seen by a Press representa-clusion", the most important issue sociale.
tive yesterday afternoon, Mr. will be re-construction under four general points, viz: maintenance of J. M. B. Osborne, Commissioner aw and order and the suppression for Kowloon and District, said of bandits, the eradication of cor- a cable had been received in the ruption, the lightening of taxation, Colony to the effect that Mr. Maze and the making public of all,
financial matters. had postponed his visit. Asked if he knew when Mr. Maze would be coming, Mr. Osborne answered in the negative.
He began to writh as early as 1890, mis prat novel being "At the Gate of samuria," but ne bad published eigat pooks betore ne gave distinctive proof his
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terary gilt in "ine alorais Marcus Orduyne." Hitherto most, unknowny he becamS of the most popular autora of the day, for he mud the power to 10 maku nis readers love alph Lemperament ac was more French than Englis and
Alarcus na been imagined by might nave
Que of the best contemporary
French writers. His irresponsi- ble galety, mis lightness of touch, his sceptical satire and gen.al Irony nail irom across the Channel. Locke spoke French like a native, ved at Cannes and was fond of placing the scenes
of his tales in France.
his
en-
in which he presented Paragot, a notable figure in literature, 2 strange compound of charin, wit,
-
The Government will probably be established at Peking early in June.
As Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has not a good arsenal, he is therefore It will be recalled that the buying much munitions abroad, but, Kun Min semi-official news agency Marshal Yen Hsi-shan is carefully stated some time ago that Mr. watching all-shipping entering Maze had been instructed to Shanghai, and when it is proved Hongkong to en-that certain firms "whose names we proceed to deavour to arrange for the rati- know" are active in this trade, it fication of the Customs' Agrac is highly probable that an embargo ment, which Mr. Maze drew up will be placed on their dealings last year while in Hongkong, but with the Northern Territory, and. which "the Hongkong Government list of such firms may be publish-
ed. has refused, to ratify on the sur- prising ground that China declin- ed to permit Hongkong steamers to trade under inland water rules."
Three or four foreign military advisers are actually at the front near Hsuchow. directing operations, and "personally I am authorised to declare, that there is little likelihood It was said at the time that if it of leniency being shown them, if was found impossible to arrive at they are captured on the field of a mutual understanding, the Chi-battle-Reuter. ness Customs would be reluctant- ly compelled to strengthen the preventive measures around Hong-
Use of Poison Gas?
Peking, May 16.
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As a reaction from the common place he enjoyed writing of "le vie de Boheme." A skilled tertatuer, he could maintain in- terest in
characters white neglecting the story. After "Marcus" came "The Beloved Vagabond," perhaps his best book,kong and to subject vessels to a Chu Ao-hsiang, under orders of closer inspection once they leave Yen Hai-shan, has cabled to the foreign and enter Chinese waters. Chief Secretary of the League of The serious nature of the ac-Nations.drawing attention to the genius and wisdom with hopeless, tivities of Chinese smugglers of fact that Chiang Kai-shek had than two hundred moral delinquency. In "Septimus," his most humorous story, he made foreign goods into Canton and bought more two heroes out of the most un-other ports in Kwangtung from cases of explosive ballets promising material. The Glory Hongkong has been engaging the drums of poison gas, and attempt- attention of the Canton Governed to send them to Yunnan through of Clementina Wing" provides one
most credible his ment officials for some time. The Indo-China, the Government of In- of the
of
do-China having found these explanation of the smuggling, it! characterisations.·
ticles, which are forbidden by in- KHYBER is said, is the heavy taxation imternational pacis, and seized them, As time went on his novels progressed from paganism to posed by the Canton Government and reported the facts to the French KHIVA
on foreign goods, and, particu-Foreign Office. Christianity. They began .to
larly on luxuries. show deep religious feeling. Critics, however, consider that
in his later years he chose the easier path to popularity and did not rise, to the heights that he might otherwise have reached. Many of his books are extrava- canzas and ultra-sentimental, hut they are always eminently read-
able.
Among them are "Simon the Jester," "Three Wise Mun," "Jaffery," "The Mountebank" (the tale of a circus clown who be came a general during the World- war), "The Rough Road," "The House of Baltazar," "Moordius and Co," "The Tale of Triona," "Stella Maris," "The Joyous Ad- ventures of Aristide Pujol," "The Coming of Amos," "The Great Pandolfo," "The Old Bridge." **The Kingdom
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