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EARLIER TELEGRAM.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mat.)|

(Continued from Fage 1) GOVERNOR OF KOREA

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DOUBT ABOUT LONDON.

CRICKET.

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A PLAIN TILE AND ROMANTIC PANCIES.

[BY A. G. GARDINER IN THE

"DAILY NEWS,”]

A month has passed since the

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that day Joffre came to him at Com. plegne and asked him to hold" his the round that his Army was not in ground. He peremptorily refused on:

́a condition to stand.. The next day Joffre repeated his appeal to French to stand and again French, refused. On that day, August 30, French There is a marked decrease in the

wrote a letter to Kitchener in which,

Shanghai, Seppedients arise out of a peculiar set in addition to the decrease in applica exposure of Lord French's romantic necessity for retaining in my bands "I feel very seriously the absolute, It is reported from Seong, that alot circumstances, and then take on bomb was thrown Baron Saito, the the authority of a ruling principletions made for them.

serial, and Lord French still remains complete independence of action and rew Governor of Korea, who was not alter these circumstances are no A "Daily Chronicle" representa obvious reason. He has nothing to power to retire towards my- base ¦ fajured.

Thus do tive learns that this decrease amounts say. He has been convicted of as necessary."

should circumstances predominant.. longer shibboleths come into being. In to 73 per cent in the case of women reprehensible a course of conduct as ticket there is one of them which, and 76 per cent for girls. On May any mac in public life was ever

THE CANNET'S REFLY. \\ EXPORTING SUBSIDIARY {so far as the writer is aware, has not 2 there were 453,448 donations paid guilty of and he can find no word to this extract and compare it with the Let the pubic mark the phrasing of yet been generally named for what to women and girls; for the week say in his defence. And, being what it is. It is a shibboleth you can hear ending June 27 there were only he is, he does not frankly admit the original document when it is publish- any day from the lips of old 109.065.

wrong he has done and apologise toed But that by the way. Observe that In most cases women and girls re those he has

French was demanding absolute A Chinese woman was arrested by cricketers, probably in these very

"What's wrong with the turn to domestic service, which That being so, the world would have words:

wantonly traduced..

"Independence" of the Government, the Police for attempting to export : to the exportation ordinance. The ward nowadays. They all play back at present, while dressmaking and not let it forget him. To-day he tons? They are given on page 14 ) $20.40, in subsidiary coins, contrary me is, that batsmen don't play for absorbs a great number of workers preferred to forget him. But he will and proposing to repudiste his in

structions. What were those instruc- too much." The tacit assumption home life absorb the greater propor republishes his Daily Telegraph articles woman told the Magistrate that her here, of course, is that forward play is tion in the residue of industrial in book form. One appearance in property in the country was destroyed the only basis of attractive cricket. workers.. by flood and she intended the money, But, first of all, before we examine

pillory is not enough for him. He to build a new house.

whether back play really is less

insists on pillorying himself again Mr. Smith fined her $15 and con- fascinating to watch than forward

and asking for a second exposure. play, let us attend to this shibboleth

At the end of the first week of lery designed for the attack and des at the point where it contains an

The purpose of the book is plain fighting French was asking for this fence of fortresses, and we had very amount of truth. Batsmen 05 a

enough. It is to anticipate the instruction to be cancelled. For little. When the trench warfare be Re absorption of juveniles into disclosures that are imminent to what purpose? It is indicated in his gan in September, 1914, everyone re- KAISER TRIAL WBBLE, rule certainly do not play forward

nowadays as much as they did in industry is difficult, but it is being create an atmosphere of prejudice letter to Kitchener. It was morealised the importance of heavy artil the so-called heyday of cricket. This carried out. Fifteen year old boys in his favour and to mobilise his clearly indicated in another docutery, but to realise the need and sup we may readily concede to our old prefer engineering, though this work friends. He dedicates his book toment. On the next day, August 31, Ply it were two very different things. cricketer. What one sust hasten to is difficult to find. Boys acquired Mr. Lloyd George in terms of he sent a telegram to Mr. Asquith. The question of high explosive shell Are the Government hedging over monstrate, though, is that there this taste through doing munition flatulent adulation and prints a You will not find it in this book, and for the 18-pounder field gun was ex- the trial of the ex-Kaiser in London? is a good reason, in the very nature werk. In large numbers lads take preface by Marsnal Foch, whose few it tas not yet been published, but tremely technical, and on it expert During the discussions of the Peace of cricket's development during printing, warehouse work, mana words of formal civility will not go Mr. Asquith has indicated its purport. opinion was sharply divided both Treaty Bill Lord Curzon let fall the recent years, for believing that for facture of optical instruments, wire far in rehabilitating him. The key It was that French proposed to leave before and in the early days of the significant remark that if the trial ward play had to suffer a decline if making, and factory work.

to Lord French's intention, as I said the French." the lurch." He in war. Lord French was a member of Juvenile Exchanges, with advice in dealing with the articles when tended to go out of the fighting line, the Committee of Imperial Defence did take place within these shores. it batsmen were to make runs off mo- by no means followed that London dern bowling. The value of forward from advisory Boards. give a great they appeared in the Daily Telegraph, to take his army eight days before the war, and Mr. Asquith has is to be found in his treatment of march to his base and there to stated definitely that he did not bring would be the place chosen for it play cannot be proved a priort; you deal of help.

Le Cateau. In his dispatch, written recuperate. 1 have heard the the question before the Committee. This is directly contrary to what must take into consideration the

a fortnight after the battle, he gave scene in. the Cabinet, when In September, 1914, the War Office the Premier said in the House of fashionable style of bowling in a Commons on July 3: "The Aliled given period, which, of course, large-

extravagant praise to General Smith-this message and the agonised sent cut an experimental 1,000 Dorrien, spoke of the countries have decided quite unani ly setiles the, fashionable styles of

glorious appeal of the French President rounds filled with high explosive. mously that the tribunal should be "batting.

stand of the British troops," and said were read, described by one who G.HQ. (that is, Lord French) there without hesitation that the saving was present. At the risk of impro- upon asked for 50 per cent. of high an inter-Allied one, and shoulds it in The shibboleth about forward play London for the trial of persons who is current as gospel truth to-day

of the left wing of the Army under priety I shall give his words for the explosive and 50 per cent. of shrap my command could never have been whole truth of this business ought to el. A week later he changed his were supremely responsible for this simply because these cricketers who war." The choice of London as the give it circulation will not study their

accomplished unless a commander be known. "For two minutes," he mind and asked for 25 per cant, high venue was defended by the Premier own game historically. Time was

of unusual coolness, intrepidity, and said, we sat in appalled silence. explosive and 75 per cent. shrapnel. The French had adopted high determination had been present to Ther Asquith spoke. "If this is done, on Monday night.].

when a mão must needs make Lord Curzon's remark drew un- three-parts of his batting consist

personally conduct the operation. he said, the French left will be an explosive shell for their 75's (the usually animated cheering from the of forward play to get runs, And

That was his view when the facts covered, Paris will fall, the French equivalent of our 18b., field guns) Among the many letters of com- House.

here it might be as well to plaint, entreaty, and abuse which were fresh in his mind and when Array will be cut off and we shall before the war, and we on the advice The trial of the ex-Kaiser any explain that one is speaking of for members of the House of Commons there was no ulterior motive to serve. never be able to hold our heads up of our experts had equipped our field where, but particularly in England, ward play as it is classically defined receive by the score every day on the What does be say about Le Cateau in the world again. Better that the guns with shrapnel, and as the was strongly opposed by Lord Buck that is, of those strokes made in subject of liquor control at Home, in the book? The battle has become British Army should perish than country knew that in May: 1915, we were woefully deficient in heavy master He said the fierce gusts of front of the wicket by thrusting the few can beat for intersity of feeling a misfortune. "The effect upon the the: this shame should fall on us." passion which demanded his trial left leg forward, with the left elbow that from an eminently respectable sequent conduct of the retreat more Kirchener was dispatched to France them, it was easy to make play with British Army was to render the sub- From that Cabinet Council, guns and heavy explosive-shell for were beginning to die down, and a un in the initial stages of the hit, but constituent in an eminently respect difficult and arduous," And to make to tell French that he had to continue this fact and confuse the public aaner outlook was being taken by with the right toe behind the crease able South Country constituency, the people. He thought i was not at the moment the bat is brought to reports the Morning Post's Paria ut his case he says that the total in the line and co-operate with Joffre mind. How delicate the question in the best interests of the future the ball. This sort of cricket was mentary correspondent.

loss was "at least 14,000 officers and according to his instructions. He was, and how unwise we should security of the nations that the project undoubtedly beautiful to watch-The whisky is so bad." he writes, figures are false. Every gun has with his purpose accomplished and of high explosives for our field guns men, about 80 guns," etc. The was back to the Cabinet in 24 hours have been to rush the manufacture should be further pursued. The ex when the bowling was in favour of it, "that I am constantly tempted to been accounted for in Major Becke's the peril of desertion averted. Four is shown by the fact that in May. Kaiser would be entitled to call But that was in the days of the good- blaspheme... I am witnesses from all the Chancelleries 1-ngth bowler, before the wholesale when Judgment has to be passed the official records, and the total lost began. And history will asked whetheir munition factories and placed sure that analysis of the fight compiled from days later the Battle of the Marne 1015, the French, who had expanded of Europe to prove that he was not coming of elaborate swerve and finger on 15, mortals the responsible for the acts with which spin. Classical forward cricket was Power will, in regard to this pars bered at the maximum 5,000. The the victory that saved Europe than experienced hands, lost a very Higher was 36. As to casualties they num ther any man had a greater share in the manufacture of high explosives he was charged. It would not be positively encouraged by a player ticular sir, judge the Control Board facts are notorious in the Army. If the British Prime Minister who in large number of field guns from enough to show that the man acted like Alfred Shaw; it was his delight and not its victims to be the sinner Lord French does not know them, he the most mementors crisis of the premature explosions. Had we with in the name ..f the nation; to begin by pitching the ball at a

A Scottish member tells how dur must have taken great pains not to war saved the British Army and the our exiguous recources lost gens in it would have to be shown length just reachable by a nice lunge ing his election campaign a teetotal know them. that the act was his and not that of forward with the hat at the side of heckler asked if the candidate was

British Dame from the indelible anything like the same proportion the people behind him. "If this the left leg. Then he would shorten not aware that Mr. Lloyd George years after the event, say that inflicting on both

Now why does he nearly five shame that French contemplated the result would have been disaster.

THE NEWCASTLE SPEECH. trial should end in acquittal, though the length by just the few inches had said that drink had killed more General Smith-Dorrien, so far from justice might be satisfied, the offence needed to bring the batsman's leg than German bullets.

In October, 1914, the Government These are the facts which French which would be caused to the people down the wicket so far that he lostWell," replied the candidate, Army, gravely imperiled its re-perty. He has hastened their publics Mr. Lloyd George was a member, to saving the left wing of the British krew would one day be public pro- had appointed a Committee of which of this country would be beyond balance and consequently the ability "I've been away fighting most of the treat? Why does he support this ation. He has added to the original and Lord Kitchener set all the indust deal with the supply of munitions, to bring his bat through with a tine I knew the whisky was bad, change of view by grossly inaccurate offence, the unspeakable meanness of al resources at his command both "If this trial is to be just, an acquit-straight swing. Shaw, of course, but I didn't know it was so d-d bad figures? The explanation is obvious. misrepresenting bonourable tal must be considered as likely as a had a vast influence upon cricket as that,”

Lord French's book deals with two eating his own words, reversing his the guns and shells of higher calibre in this country and abroad to supply conviction. The court cannot be the so much so, indeed, that batsmen

episodes, the retreat and the shells own judgments, insulting the dead fitted for the use of high explosives. "ante-chamber to the scaffold."

had no alternative but to come to- Lord Buckmaster drew a moving wards the bulk of the bowling sent

incident. The rest is more common- and defaming the living. His blunder picture of the fall of the Kaiser "to down to them. And Attewell was a cricketers practise it nowadays it is When Lord French wrote his dis- Any man may lose his head in such the war was carried on until the place. Let us take the retreat first. in generalship might be forgiven. And it was with these supplies that the lowest estate of man, in lone worthy successor to Shaw,

"unattractive. Too often do we find patch he did not know that he would circumstances. That he lost his head. summer of 1916a year after the liness, in exile, and dishonour, watch- MODERN BOWLING'S EFFECT ON them reducing it to a purely defensive have a very unpleasant incident to is clear. Ths: be miscalculated the great shell stunt." The Ministry ing the ruin and overthrow of the nation which had abandoned him";

function and making the move back explain later on, and that to explain German attack and underestimated of Munitions. was set up in June, and said it was no wonder that many Forward play began to decline, or to the wicket with a cramped full it he would need to throw an entirely the power of the British resistance is 1915, and it was not until May of people could trace in this a judgment, perhaps it would be juster to say back front to the bowler, the pads immedi- new light on the meaning of Le proved by what happened. But what the following year eleven months

play attained prominence, when ately behind the bar, so that "no Cateau. He could do General Smith-history will never forgive or forgettion-produced under the Ministry of master that a young Tamil wom bowlers came to the conclusion that forcing stroke is possible. But who-Dorrien justice then. Why cannot is that this man, to save his the wickets had become too hard for ever saw Arthur Shrewsbury will he do him justice now? We shall own skin, attacked brave colleagues orthodox length deliveries, and, as a agree that back play can be wonder see.

who had done their duty, whom he retaliatory measure, went in for the fully thrilling and beautiful. And And in order to understand clearly, applauded for doing it, and who him. He could not be comparti serve, short fast bowling, and in 10-day. Hobbs is almost daily demon- let us consider another personal saved him, as well as, the cause of himself who had been summoned with Charles I. or Napoleon. There tricate finger spin. Yet even then Strating that back play is both profi issue.. Lord French turns his guns the Allies, from an unthinkable dis from France, to state the actual was something grand, and almest forward play was taught in the public table as an offensive measure and not only upon General Smith-Dorrien aster of his owa planning. heroic, in the intellectual scope and schools as the method best calculated charming to watch. imagination of Napoleon, and some lo score runs. County batsmen.. thing picturesque and graceful about though, found out that it was almost

belief.

greater than"man's.

TOO COWARDLY TO BE A MARTYR.

Lord Curzon, in reply dealt with the argument that the trial of the ex Kaiser would make a martyr of

. ran away from his country as soon

not be treated as a martyr!"

BATTING.

WORSE THAN GERMAN

BULLETS:

› TRUMPER AT OLD TRAFFORD.

visit of his

to

France

men,

later that the first round of ammuni-

Munitions was sent to France.

As to the Newcastle speech of Mr. Asquith, we know that it was made on the authority of Lord French

home.

And there we may leave Lord

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What may at any moment tú out to be a double murder OCCULT on the afternoon of Aug. 17 at t Holland Road station coolie quarte On information given by the stati

had been murdered by her husba at the coolle lines, a corporal a some policemen of the Bukit Tim Road Police Station immediate made for the scene, and on the way, met a Tamil man, walki along the railway line with a-child- his left arm and a blood stain knife clutched in his right han

release him

up the knife, and topk him

husband. The woman was fou was identified as the wrong

'dead on a sleeping bench at the ra way quarters with a deep st wound in her neck The coron viewed the body later in the afte noon and sent it to the hospital f post mortem examination:

living "as man and wife, wh

who is living, but who has been

THE SHELL "STUNT,” .

facts and said he had sufficient refused permission to reply by a There remains the question of the ammunition for his immediate One of the most brilliant lanings Government which has no word of shells. It is not necessary to spend Lord French's tribute to Lord Promising to

requirements. Finally, we have Charles L. which had always enshrined suicidal to take the leg out towards ever played at Old Trafford was rebuke for Lord French's outrage many words on this subject, for ME Kitchener in the House of Lords in: he surrendered the police effect him in the affectionate memory of a twisting ball in the old way. You Trumper's century in the Test match upon decency and discipline: he Asquith has said all that needs which he gave the lie in advance to the man's arrest on his givi - large sections of his countrymen, night succeed in smothering the break of 1902. It was almost entirely a turns them upon Lord Kitchener to be said. His speech is 20 all the implications in his book, and "But I do not see in, the German at birth if you kept the bat very near study in back play. Time after time who is dead and upon whom the answered because it is unanswer bis letter of grateful thanks to Mr. the Bakit Timah Station, where Emperor the stuff out of which a to the leg. But it was nu stroke Trumper went back on the right unqualified eulogium in the House shell incident was the most im Asquith, against whom he now tells

same Lord French delivered an able. The plain fact is that the legendary hero could be made," her scoring purposes, with the ball foot almost to the wicket with the of Lords. He attacks him because pudent political" stunt # os record us he had been secretly intriguing, went on, a man who ignominiously turning and often turning the speed of thought, and using it as a

wrong way"! The forward stroke pivot ewung the ball to the leg bound- Sept. 1, says he (French) "deeply Mr. Lloyd Gorge and Lord North British General in the field had onHitherto it had been assumed that for having given him support such se he was in a tight place. He could is from its sheer muscular action ary as it whipped across. No forward resented being called away from cliffe were its sole and undisputed ever had from a Government at speculative: that is, one does not cricket could conceivably have pro the field to Paris to meet him and authors. In this romantic compilation He complained that Lord Bucks the ball at the moment the bat duced so much thrill and splendour charges his dead Chief with asserting Lord French claims a third share in French and his book for the scorn master had talked of the trial of the actually strikes it. Consequently to One, indeed, reed only enumerate the his right to exercise the power and the transaction. His argument of posterity. In the fight of the ex-Kaiser as though it were anmike the forward stroke in the scoring strokes which are mainly authority of a Commander-in-Chief broadly is that from the beginning electioneering cry put forward by classical manner you had to be sure associated with back play to realise in the field. This is transparently he was a voice crying in the wilder-revelation he has given of himself the Premier. It came into promin that the ball would follow the line how brilliant it may be at the hands, false. Lord Kitchener summoned ness for the high explosive shells that the wonder is not that he was ence at the election, but the decision of fight after pitching Which is (or feet) of a good exponent. There Lord French to Paris to avoid the never came, that he was confronted removed from the command, when had been arrived at long before, both just the very thing a modern bats are the leg glance, the hook," the appearance of interfering with his with the obstinate attachment of he was, but that he was not removed in this country and in France) Was man can never take for granted at late cut" (how exquisite this was the ex-Kaiser as safe and harmless all. He is forced to go back (unless when J. T. Brown did it I), and that authority in the field. Had he wish Kitchener to shrapnel, that his at the end of the first week, as Lord Buckmaster imagined? the ball is so well up to him that wonderful wristy forcing shot, just would have gone to headquarters, the Newcastle speech, that thereupon Bravely unequal to the task imposed ed to assert authority in the field be patience succumbed, when he read when he had shown himself so Already in Germany there was a he can jump to drive), in order bat: 28 the ball is about to hit the wicket Lord French knows this; but he he entered into m intrigue to upset Kitchener is due to the suspicion demand for his return. The military the ball may pitch well in front of which urges the ball away straight thinks the public will not know it, the Government as a means to that that great soldies removed him, on him. If his attack on Lord party still regarded him as a hero.bim, lose its spin, and so become or towards "long on the stroke He himself had never ceased to more playable,

that R. H. Sponser could execute so He is mistaken. claim that he was supreme in war, The old cricketers, then, who get beautifully,

FRENCH THREAT. and it was difficult to tell from his exasperated because modern bats It would appear, then, that back But why had Lord Kitchener sud- speeches whether he regarded himself men do not go forward to every ball, play has been criticised rather undenly gone to Paris ?The battle of as the special protege of the and instead may at home a good intelligently. We have seen that it Le Cateau had been fought on August was under his special patronage. these old sportsmen are simply under the sheer necessity of coping with opinion Justifies Smith-Dorrien's: ac-

It was true that the case and the the influence of a shibboleth. It is a modern bowling; we have also seen lon in fighting the battle, agrees that of falsities to fragments decision, it is removed by the dis criminal were both without preced case of autre temps, autre maurs, and, that back play can be productive of he had no real alternative and that if there were two quite distinct que ent, and that the law by which he of course, old age does not always grace and fascination. One is, of he had not given battle the losses in tious, one the provision of heavy artil would be tried was the higher law, recognise it. And is it so certain, course, passing no reflection on for retreat would have been at least as lery and of heavy high explosive shells but Lord Buckmaster had magnified after all, that back play is less fas- ward cricket, in the circumstances serious and would have been sustained to meet the conditions of french war the difficulties. The trial ought not cinating than forward play? The which favour It. The thing of without the enormous compensating fare, the other whether the shells for to be a spectacular show, and ought secessity for back play against ma course, for a modern batsman to aim advantage of having checked the our light field guns should be filled not to interrupt the daily thread of dern bowling has, the writer hopes, at is a mastery over, both methods, German advance. Three days Inter, with high explosive or shrapnel. There cur national life. No decision had been proved; sutely it is also possible. But don't let us jump to the old con- August, 29, the French fought the is no evidence that the part which bern arrived at on the point, and if to make out a case for this sort of clusion that because modern batting battle of Guise. In his dispaten Heavy artillery would play in modern the trial did take place within these cricket even from the point of view depends so much on back play it is French said, "It was not a part of war was foreseen by our milfary ex- Hiltona or, constipated. Yon are shores, it by no means followed that of beauty and fascination Back making a mistake of tactice and is General Joffie's plan to pursue the Peris of by those of France and Gertain to be much pleased with them They se onny to take and plesnut in London would be the place chosen.play is not Bound to be ugly, though not worth watching even at its best advantage. But in his book he tells many, though both France and Gerect For sale By All Chemisia and (Cheera)

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alleged that a railway employee a the deceased woman Amacuity we Krishnamy, the prisoner was AW in Johore. Hearing this, the busbar came away from Johoć on Sunday la finding his wife and the other m went to the porter's house, and

with his eight month child in in compromising circumstances, stabbed them both, and walked achieving his purpose, and that he, he is mistaken. Now, as Mr. Lloyd arm, when he was met by the pol through Lord Northcliffe and Capt

and taken into custody, The wom Guest, was one of the architects of George has hastened to say, was he the first Coalition Ministry and of the responsible for the act. That great did not survive long, and the m new policy of the Ministry of Muni-vice to the Allies was done by Mr. who is in a very critical condition tions that saved the situation absent in Greece. If any doubt formerly employed as a detective Asquith, while Lord Kitchener was hospital may also die Prisoner w

time of arrest was a watchman

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