THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919“
BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH, BY TELEGRAPH.
Bouter's Service to the China Mail.) (Reuter's Service to the China Meil) | (Renter'a Service to the China Mail) BRITISH OFFICER WOUNDED
AT KUTOL.
LONDON, Sept. 25. A telegrard from Nairobi states that Lieutenant Jenee, of the King's 'African Rifles, following Captain Aylmer, bas been wounded at Kutal, Lake Rudolf, presumably by Abyssinian ivory hanters "Troops were already en route before the
news was received.
ULSTER AND HOME RULE.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT TO BE FORMED.
LONDON, Sept. 24. Unionist papers are devoting much space to the proceedings in Ulster.
Sir Edward Carson and General Richardson met the Unionist members of the House of Commons at Craig's [Note:--The following telegram was sent House, Belfast, yesterday evening to by Rewar on June 6th-The "African discuss the establishment of a provisional World's Nairobi correspondent states that Captain Aybuer, of the King's Royal government which it is expected will be Retor, 1110 becu shut dend by a Rides, and as Abyssinian Frontier fa-announced at a meeting of five hundred Abyssinian slephant poacher on the nor
bern frontier.-E. M.]
ANOTHER OUTBREAK IN THE BALKANS.
SERVIA'S WARLIKE
PREPARATIONS.
LONDON, Sept. 25.
A telegram from Belgrade states that sw regiments of reservists have been alled out, and the railway is wholly reserved for military traffic. BULGARIAN FRONTIER POSTS
ATTACKED.
A Sufia mesange states that the Berving troops and the Turkish Bashi "Bazouks are attacking the Bulgarian frontier posts at the Stromditza district
SERVIA AND MONTENEGRO
ACTING JOINTLY.
BRITISH POSTAL EMPLOYEES AND THE GOVERNMENT:
REPLY TO THE RECENT STATEMENT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ALEXANDER WASON.
Star Jozy, 1768--War avuust, 1813.
(Prom Our Scotriah Correspondent), a
Boixausen. August 36.
This week was celebrated the centenary of the death of Alexander Wilson, the Paisley wearer poet and American ornitho- logist. Wilson, (writes “M” in an article in the Glasgow Herald) was destined for the kirk by his parents, who came of Cavenanting stock. As he himself wrote latus in typical verse ---
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Loxoos, Sept. 24. The Postal employees manifesto, issued in reply to the statement made by the Post Office on the 22nd instant, denies that the recommendations of the
sight. Committee will involve an expenso of
When clad in sable gown, with solemn one million pounds yearly, and declates
air, that more than a decade will elapse.
back his prayer. delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council red. The manifesto goss on to say that
before such an increase will be incur. The walls of God's own house should echo
The boy was sent to the Grammar School AND REPAIRS On Saturday Sir Edward Carson it is mean and usturs to suggest that of his native town. Unfortunately his and his father, having soon contracted a inspecta Leurteen Belfast regimens, the recommendation will cause addi.mother died while he was in his auth your, ench 300 strong, with complete commiss-tional taxation, and exhorts the public second marriage with a widow who had a to remember that the present discontent family of her own. was unable to continue. ariat, signalling and ambulance units."
General Richardson will be Officer is not the work of the leaders, who therefore, Alexander was apprenticed as a Commanding and will be accompanied counselled moderation but were over-weavor, and completed his term of service in 1782-an eveût which he celebrated in ruled by an overwhelming vote of the his first recorded varses:— by bin staf.
members of the Parliamentary Com mittee.
today.
A feature of the display will be the qpferling of the largest Union Jack in the world and instead of a general salute there will be three cheers for the Union.
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERN
MENTIN SESSION. -
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Five hundred Ulster delegates met Ulster Hall. Belfast. Sir E. Car- san and Lord Londonderry drove up attended by a bodyguard of motor cyclists.
The Duke of Abercorn, Captain Craig and many peers were present.
The Conference finally approved of she articles of the Provisional Govern ment. Financial, Legal, Education,
At a conference of telegraph and pastal clerks held at Liverpool it was resolved to instruct the Executive to immediately agitate for an all-round increase of wages commensurate with the increased cost of living, and failing a satisfactory reply" within six weeks,
the conference will be again convoked to consider further action.
LIBERAL PRESS COMMENT.
OF ALL KINDS
CARRIED OUT BY
his nou's education. At the age of thirteen, EXPERT
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Be't kent to a' the warld in rhyme,
That wi' right melk'e wark an' toi For three lang years I've ser't my timo,
Whiles fansted wi' the hazel of. For the next three years Wilson con- tinued at the loom, sometimes at Paisley, sometimes at Lochwinnoob, and latterly at Queensferry. The sedentary life of a weaver was uncongenial and in 1786 be began those wanderinge in the open air which wore nuly to end with his
pedlar he traversed Fife andthe Lothians,
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Lochwiznoch. La 1791 sa opportunity
The Liberal papers describe the pro-occurred for another visit to the ceedings as Sir Edward Carson's last At that time there existed in Edinburgh s desperate effort to smash the Tome Rule debating sxiety called the Forum, or the
Pantheon. Weekly debates were con Bill, and declare that the manufacturers ducted, and it was announced that on
would be, "Whether have the ar
exertions of Allan Hamany or Robert Fargusson dona more to honour Scottish poetry?" Hearing of the proposed debate, Wilson purchased works, lived on a shilling • Fergusson's
FAST, STYLE.
BILLIARD
CLOTHS,
From Cattinje it is toarnad that Customs. Excise, Post Office and of Belfast are alarmed at his reck April 14, 1701, the question to be discussed BALLS, CUES
Eervis and Montenegro are acting Volunteer, Force Committees were "jointly in warding of Albanian incur-appointed. wions Montenegro has sent sixty men of each battalion to Diakova.
THE DUBLIN STRIKE.
SENSIBLE "SYMPATHY." "
LONDON, Sept. 25. The Tra's Union Congress has decided to send a shipload of provisions to Dublin at a cost of £5,000 to anid the
strikers.
MEDIATION IN VIEW.
Sir G. R. Askwith has been asked
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MENT.
less apceches, fearing that the labour troubles prevailing in Dublin may be apsehood at Belfast, where the situation
The Standing Committee of the Ulster Unionist Council was
pointed the Executive, with Six, E. Carson, chairman, and Mr. Camp bell, Attorney-General for Ireland is
Assessor.
Details would be published on the day Home Rule becomes law.
The largest Union Jack in the world was spread on the platform.
Lord Londonderry opened the pro- ceedings, which were conducted with cloned doors, an official statement being supplied afterwards.
MORE CARSONISM."
LATER.
would be most serious with the populace armed with rifles and revolvers.
Mr. F. E. Smith has returned from Ulster to take up his duties on Genem! French's staff at the maneuvres as a lieutenant of Yeomanry.
THE LIBERAL PARTY'S
ATTITUDE:
LATER
AND ALL
week in order, to save snough money for ACCESSORIES.
bia expenses, and in a poem entitled Laurel Disputed "maintained the claims of Fergusson. Though he was unsuccessful. in winning the prize, he twice recited bis own verses before the Pantheon Society, and his favourable reception probably induced him to bring out a second edition of his poems. This second routure proved RS ucentiafactory as the first. Nor is the
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Though Wilson's somewhat numerous bingraphers profess to find great merit in his verses, the English poems are vicisted by the pootie diction of his favourite authors, Pope, Goldsmith, Young, and The "Westminster Gazette" in a Blair, and even in his Scottish poems long statement, referring to articles in hardly ever shows hitself, home especially attracted by the beauty of the vornacular. Only in "Walty and Meg", yesterday's "Evening Standard" and written in 1792 and published anonymous plamage of the birds, and he records that a red-headed woodpackar was the first that Sir E. Carson, addressing the Con Pall Mall Gazette," says that it mayly, did Wilson write vorse which secured for tall to his gun. After trying various Tataro No. 42. to Visit Dublin to mediate in the ference, said they must recognise that
of CORISE be taken for granted him twice contemporary popularity and a
place among the minor poots of his time, occupations, be settled down atascher in Pennsylvania. But the roving in. Labour dispute.
two hostile parties were face to face.
that the political situation has The story is the old one of the taming of atin
stinct was still strong, and on ons cc. If Home Rule were not carried there
public show, adapted to the circumstances of a the discussed by
Tion ke
800 miles to visit tramped would be trouble in the south; if car been
drunken weaver and his scolding
some relatives in New York State. About ried, trouble in the north. Great men who met at Balmoral and elseWatty tames his wife by the simple ex the beginning of 1809 he was appointed head to take the king's school at Kingnoms, near Philadelphia. Britain must be the accepted arbiter where, but there has been no meeting pediost of pretend Meg Promises to here be made thé soquaintance of Williams |
In her grief shilling
This old-established and world-renowned Company int Loxoox, Sept. 25.
between the parties. All the art of the Cabinet and there is no necessity make all aments, and the poem ends with Mir, Koike has left for Tokyo, via fices of politicians and the subtleties for any new decision of the Government, the joyful reconciliation of the couple. Bartram, whose father had been pro policies under all the best and modern methods of Life Assura
self-taught botanist in the world." Hi to meet varying circumstances. Siberia, to succeed Mr. Abe, the late of Radical Pressmen would never
copies, it is said, being said in a few weeks.
son not only developed the botanical garden
For prospectus and fall particulars apply to Secretary to the Political Bureau, convert what was essentially loyalty for Ministers are of the opinion that the The poem had an instant success, 100,000 ounced by Linnæus to be who was assassinated recently into treason. If there was disgrace door has always been, and is still open Four chapbook versions in the British he had inherited but took a deep intercat
Museum tostily to its popularity. Varios wake is due on October 11, and will in the "fight before then it was set for the fullest deliberation on every localities claimed to be the home of the Another near neighbour was a Mi. Lan. every department of natural history. West- original Walty and Meg, but the question "enter upon his duties on the day of a disgrace to Ulster but to the men
his arrival.
who for their own base purposes had aspect of Home Eale. The The staff of the Japanese Erbaasy driven them to their present posi- minater Gazette" emphasises the cordial and a large and representative gather- tion. They had no right to take that relations existing between the Nation ing of Japanese bade hirn farewell step today, with its possible con-alists and Liberale, and says that the at the station.
sequences, if they had exhausted latter will not countenance any action every means to bring the Govern-which will betray the cause of the Irish ment to a real sense of the problem and its dangers.
party. It concludes that if Unionists desire pence, they should find woms method of dealing with the Ulster situa tion which would prevent itsblocking policy of conciliation.
OBITUARY.
A NOTED NATIONALIST.
Losbox, Sept. 25. The death is announced at New York of Mr. Patrick Ford, the noted Nationalist.
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TWO ROYAL BETROTHALS.
BERHARENT, Sept. 24, The betrothals are announced of Prince Charles of Roumania and the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and of Princess Elizabeth of Roumania and the Crown Prince George of Greece.
ND GOLF AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
LONDON, Sepw
THE BRITISH NAYY AND THE MEDITERRANEAN.
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Loxbox, Sept. 25
The concentration of the Navy, as mentioned in yesterday's telegraphic newk, will constitute the most im posing demonstration of naval power that Great Britain has ever made in the Mediterranean. “
CHINESE AVIATOR.
Student Who Has Invented His Oxa Aeroplane.
There is in London just now," says the Daily News" to hand, & young engi neering student from China who has in two short years not only mastered the art of flight, but has invented a new type' of biplane for uso in bis native country.
Mr. T. Wong, who obtained Lis jilot's certificate at Brooklands two weeks ago, and is about to return to Peking, explained to a Daily, News "roprescnte-
Baras told Robert Chambers that when
Wilson soon became imbued with the
whe psny of these friends Wilson's genius at tain Meg of the Seedbills of
of Paisley is supposed to have been settled by a cer. 50, an engraver. In the congenial com on reading the poem exclaimed D'ye last found its true bent. From Bartram of bird life he had acquired in bis done? He has poemed ns." "Nothing gare ken what lang Bandy Wilson, the poet has he learnt to tarn to account the knowledge Wilson greater satisfaction then the fact many wanderings, while Lawson taught that it was ribed to Burns. The wife of him the art of drawing bad the
Lng. Burns beard a hawker cry #Watty and idea of writing sa oraithology of the United simed; "I would make your pitck 1806 he was appointed assistant editor of Mag,new ballad by Robert Burns," he States, mastrated by his own drawings, and the project took definite shape when in baboo if it were mine?"
"Rees's Encyclopaedis" at a liberal salary. The year 1703 w other efforts of his employers undertook to publish Wilson's musa. By this time the wearing com work, and in 1808 the first volume of munity of the west was seething with the American Ornithology
"
appeared. discontent aroused by the now doctrines of For the next five year Wilson worked with the French Revolution as interpreted by
by unremitting toil to complete the remaining Thomas Paine. To stem the rising tide of volumes. He died in 1813 of dysentery disloyalty the governing classes began to brought on by over-exating. He had lived vote loyal addresses. Among others was
that of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, and to complete seven volumes, and he had the in an "Address" to that body Wilens gave satisfaction of being scknowledged daring his own lifetime as ons who had brought expression to the feelings of his fellow
s.country.. democrats with a force and directnes which honour and fame to his make the poem a valuable historical doorment
The Rights of Man is now weel kenned,
And read by many a hander, For Tommy Prine the baik bas penned,
And lont the courts a lounder. It's like a keeking-class to soo
The craft of kirk and statesmen ; Add wi's bould and ory gloo,
Quid faith the birky beats them
Aff hand this day.
tivo some of the details of the "drag None of the political societies of the period
SHARE QUOTATIONS,
Mr. P. U Potts, Victoria Building. received the following there quotations from London this morning,-
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of police new Chanli by Japanese sub- the National Physical Laboratory have posing what he took to be the grievances of Pahanga
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CHINA'S DEMANDS OF JAPAN.
A RETORT TO NIPPON.;
Sballs (** Beurer M. & PERING, Sept. 25. fly, na he bas named his now machine.were so amargetic as the Paisley Friends of Ural Campians --**
Tranpht In making her demands for com- is a tractor biplane, in which the prin- the People, and Wilson seems to have been Mexican Eagics
tion for the murder of Chinese ciplu stabished by the research work an active member. Unfortunately, in ex-
his class, he brought hinwell within the Indes (Combined) St. Andrews has disapproved of the jects, Chine has 1med them upon been embodied. The plance slope lightly pals of the law by scare invectives on in- Electris Trams.... inclusion of goif among the Olympic exactly the same lines as ored backwander an improvement which Mr. dividuals and he was sentenced on one by Japan in regard to the Nanking Wong says give increased power of con-occasion to burn the offending poems in front gamei.
affair. The Chinese Foreign Depart rol. The machine, owing to the absence of the Sheriff Court-Room: As the trial of demands an apology from of skilled working in aviation constructhe Political Martyrs showed, Sootland was no safe plass for an admirer of om Peise, Japanese military officers of high tion in China, has boor made as simple and in 1794 Wilson exiled for America, rank to the Police Department, the
as possible, and for the same roach, an then considered the land of ideal liberty by punishment of the offenders, and English ange, the Isaacson, has been ferrent democrats.
While in New York," he writes, compensation for the deceasede rela adopted, the Froach makes boing cor
The local courte ad Laon have just tives.
In toaking his ceremonius apology
Mr. Wong, who is a Chinese Governuthor of the Rights of Man. He lives decided case of considerable interest, to at Greenwich, abob way from the city. In Chan Fisun was attended by fourmont student at London University, has the only decent apartment of a small, indif railway travel in Piante. They hold officers and a bodyguard of twenty previously dudied in Australia Africe, ferent koking frame house, I found this has a pasonger who reserves « meat in soldiers, and not by an army, as and Cerlin. He has flown during the extraordinary man, sitting wrapt to a night the train by placing an objech thermomi previously reported.
past year at Shoreham and Brookland gown, the table before him covered with anginires a legal right to ity and ornnot newspapers, with pen and ink beside him be desired of li alfbough Es may have On Bleriot monoplane sa wall is in Paine B-Laos would have excellently: milodi free or four makes of biplanes the character of Bardolph, but the penis temporally quitted the onepartment.
"My present machine has no bamboo tration of his eye bepake the man of works in it," be-sak, hob in Chios it genius and inteligence and of the world. will be largely used. You see, in Pag- walk, an exorcise he was formerly fond of
He onarplained to me of his imbility to ABE you subjects het for a law days, and there are probably less than a diena Jaden itse, and the fame Sir Maurice Fitzmaarice, the eminent est in bed if possible, be careful of your men who know how to work widhi bamboo, of Immamerabis hardships, won the fame dint and take Chamberlain's Colie, Cholers which is Nature's own tubing. In Chin, that be redently desired. When be engineer, in seiling for Australia to and Diarrhoea Romedy This mediena on the other hand, there are on linded we had Dollars of introductio
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