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THEATRICALS.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT.

Edward John Moreton Drax Plua- - kett, Lord Dunsany, is the eighteenth member of his family to bear the title which gives him a place in the Irish peerage. He was born in 1878 and received his education at Eton and Sandhursi. In 1999 he succeeded his father to the title and the Family estate in death, Ireland. During the South African war he served at the front with the Coldstream Guards.

He is passionately fond of outdoor

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MORE WILLY-NICKY LETTERE,

A FINE PIECE OF IMPUDEN CE,

LONDON, January 17.

Further "Willy Nicky" correspondence in the "Morning Post "shows that the Kaiser, writing on September, 25 1905, says. A continental com bine, flanked by America, is the sole and only manner effectively to block the way to the whole world becoming John Bull's private property, but your Allies are so hypnotised by Cowes and Brest and the Eatente Cordiale that they scarcely do anything in foreign politics without consulting London first. It would be a good thing if you would have Nelidoff advised life and often spends the whole day i to put a step to this 'Anglomania' and remind the French that their future in the saddle before ayting down si lies with you and us."

Later the Kaiser says:-The visit of the British Fleet to Swinemuende local University students are acting

his desk to write fate at night.. and Danzig went off without collisions. The public was civil and hospit able but without enthusiasm. I had one of my friends at Easjerg who two of his plays. under the direction. speaks Danish and English well. He went aboard the ships disguised as a of Mr. Sinclair. coal merchant and frequently dined and lunched with the officers. They told him they were sent to the Baltic to show the Emperors that he British Fleet would never allow them to decide anything as they pleased A fine piece of impudence

The Kaiser, writing on August 25. 1905, zays--" I ordered my fleet to shadow the British and when they anchored, to lay themselves near the British fleet, to give them dinner and make them as drunk as possible. to find out what they are about and then sail off again. I think the astonishment will be great, as the English, as well as our people, believe that our fleet will be in the North Sea, so don't tell anybody for the secret must be well kept. "Tata!"

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The Morning Pesi Stockholm correspondent says the ex Kalser, writing to his old friend, the Prince of Fuerstenberg, complains bitterly of the correspondence as a violation of justice and is preparing an open protes: through his Berlin lawyer,

is as fond of spiritual as of physical His work proves, however, that he exercise, and that he is an inveterate traveller in those mysterious regions of the partly known or wholly un- town where the imagination alone can guide us. It was the Bible that gave him the limpid style which makes bis "most fantastic tales as real as government reports-or rather much more so, For years no style seem- led to me natural but that of the Bible' he said not long ago. "and feared tha: I would never become a writer The Kaiser, writing on August, 22 1905, says: The arch intriguer when 3 saw that other people did not and mischiefmaker, as you rightly called King Edward, har been hard.

use it."

For something ke ten years he has been a pretty frequent The Kaiser then cites the report of the "German gentleman I sent to and increasingly valued contributor to Cowes to observe the Entente Cordiale of his conversation with King English and Anglo-English periodic- Edward to show "how wide a net of secret information Kings Edward als. He has previously published fire bad cast over Europe and over you. He first let his Press launch volumes The Gees of Pegans," the idea of a visit to me and when all the papers in Europe had taken 1905; "Time and the Gods," 1906; it up and talked it over, he suddenly published an insulting demanti, declar-"The Sword of Welleran. ing that my Foreign Office had started the idea-the finest le fever came A Dreamer's Tales." 1910, and across. After this, he invites my son, behind my back, to visit him in The Beck of Wonder," 1912. "All England. I have, of course, stopped. that business. His feet is in the act are collections. of prose pieces that of visiting our shores and I think this will open the eyes of many Germans defy accepted classifications. who are still to lath vote money for the extension of our feet. We shall are fairy tales and short stories and They send many down by rail and steamer to take an object. lesson and they will, essays and prose poems at the same I hope, learn the necessity of building a strong fleet."

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The Supreme Coub has decided with a view to remedying the hard- ships of the population of the interior of Russia, to permit the exchange of goods, on the basis of reciprocity, between the Russians and the Allies and neutrals, consequently it will give facilities to the Russian cooperative organisations, which are in direct touch with the Russian peasantry, to import clothing, medicine, agricultural, nachinery and other necessaries, in exchange for grain, fax, etc., of which there are surpluses in Russia. These arrangements do not imply a change in the allies' policy towards the Soviet government

EXTRADITION OF THE EX-KAISER,

FRIENDLY NOTE TO HOLLAND.

PARIS, January 16.

Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemenceau and Signor Nitti have agreed on the text of the note to Holland requesting in the most friendly terms the extradition of the ex-Kaiser. It will probably be transmitted on January 17.

GERMAN GENERAL LEADS RED ARMY.

LONDON, January 16. It is stated that the "Red" Siberian Army is led by the German General Blucher, furthermore that German military officers attended the recent military conference in Moscow,

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THE HUNGARIAN TREATY.

FARIS, January 16. The Hungarian Treaty, in the main follows the lines of the Treaty of St. Germain with Austria.

AMERICA AND THE TREATY.

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NEW YORK, January 16" The Senate leaders have begun conference, negotiations with a view to arriving at a compromise, on the question of the Peace Treaty,

THE TIGER WITHDRAWS.

LONDON, January 16 M. Clemenceau has withdrawn his candidature for the Presidency

HAT SNATCHING.

REPATRIATED C. L C. MAN VICTIMIZED.

time.

1908;

One has only to take a briel glance at those works to make the astound- ing discovery of being introduced to worlds of which no-one ever heard before. Even the "Arabian Nights "| have a clearly definable background of popular legend and myth. Nothing of the kind is to be found in the writings of Lerc Dunsany. may be said to have created a new mythology wholly his own.

He

He is

not only the master but the maker of the countries to which he takes us on such fascinating jaunts. His com monest name for them is the Edge of the World, but sometimes he speaks of them as the Lands of Wonder. This latter name is doubly significant, for the whole movement of which he forms such a striking manifestation has been defined as arenascence of wonder.”

To

The names of places and persons appearing in the stories of Lord Dun. sany are worth a study in themselves. There are hundreds of them, giving evidence of an inexhaustible imagina tion and eich one of them is as aptly suggestive as it generations of men had been at work shaping them. hear of Sardathion, the city built by the Gods of Old, is to see.its domes of marble rising sky-high in the sun- Sippy and Slorg, the three thieves who set lighted air. To hear of Slith and

went to the Edge of the World in quest of the Golden box, is to feel as if one were dealing with historica! characters like Aaron Burr or Chinese them, these fanciful creatures of Lord Gordon. And as we learn more about

Dunsany's brain assume still "more familiar characteristics, as if they had been studied in some Irish village or English street. It is this. fact that reveals one of the main secrets of Lord Dunsany's appeal that behind all his exuberant imagination lies a to endow the most impossible solid basis of observation, enabling

adventures with a homely and con-

to him and stood two on either of him. One of the men standing on his right engaged him in con versation saying: "Shanghaiis vincing air.

better than Yaurmati, Why do you

His five great plays have all been come here." As the unsuspecting produced. "The Golden Doom" and stranger turned to make reply, optit The Gods of the Mountain" have The new popular occupation of the men standing on his left snatced been staged most successfully at the snatching hats from unsuspecting his brand new felt hat. He turned Haymarket Theatre, London.

.." King round and grabbed the man Arigimenea and The Glittering citizens is no longer confined to Wan immediately passed the hat to one of Gate" have been given by the Irish chai. Yaumati is said to be compet his confederates who ran ayay players. In America, the first three ing. A man who was alleged to be Deciding that a bird in the hand was have been is the repertoire of Stuart, the first graduate in this latest branch worth two in the bush, the stranghy Walker's Portmanteau Theatre, and of crime had the good luck to be dis held on to his man and called for the "The Tents of the Arabs has been charged by Magistrate Wood this Police who came and removed him to given by the Neighbourhood Players. morning on the ground of insufficient the station. evidence.

He was brought before Mr. Wood this morning and after the abdva

For the theft. of two brass taps from the Naval Yard, a Chinese who was charged before Mr. J.-R. Wood this morning, was awarded two months hard labour, and 4 hours' stocks

The victim in this case was a story had been related, and the defen. repatriated Chinese Labour Corps dant had denied all knowledge of the man who had seen three years' theft, saying that he was stand service in France: He was a Shang near the complainant when the hai Chinese who had taken a fancy plainant missed his hat and grab to Hongkong and had fumped ship him, his Worship decided that Last night; feeling rather hat was undoubtedly snatched lonely, he left his cubicle in someone, but In the absence of mer house in Canton Road, Yaunati, conclusive evidence, and as the and went to the Tong Shum Hong was not found, he did not think hon Raliway store at Yaumati, a Brothel, No. 1 Temple Street, self justified in convicting the defe Yaumati, Whilst he was standing dant outside the house, four men came up

here.

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