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- FOR

DINNER and DANCING

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MACKINTOSH

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE UNREPENTANT. HUN. WHAT WE OWE TO SHIPS.

"BUSINESS METHODS.

with a

RAISING THE

· “LUSITANIA **

FRENCH ŚCIE V TESTS PROPOSALA

In these days of reconstruction we are apt to forget the extent to which The Motor Trade gives an example we are dependent upon the Mercan of how coarse and offensive the Hun tie Marine for the realisation af still is despite the fact that he is every hope of recovery from the making strenuous efforts to get into widespread effects of the Great War.

Regarding the raising of the the British market again.

It is opportune that at this moment "Lastcania" a report is printed by the The other day Bennetts (Notting the Chamber of Shipping should have Excelsior of an interview with AL ham) Ltd., received a letter from one issued a more comprehensive report Emile Bertin, the scientist, a member Hans Landsberger, of Berlin, offering of its activities than has hitherto of the institute of France, and a immediate delivery of 30,000 com been available,

series former director of engineering in the pression cocks in various sizes. They of appendices containing a number French navy. The paper says: The were offered in brass, or, if desired, of facts and figures that go some proposal is to construct a fosting could be supplied plated. Messrs. way to explain tendencies and move chamber 300 yards long, 100 wide. Bennetts were told that if they were ments which most of us understand 20 in height which would be attached For instance, it to the wreck at low tide by "means interested they should telegraph their little, if at all.

Lands answers the question why freights are of some 800 steel cables and so requirements, whereupon berger would wire lowest price much higher than they were manipulated as to raise the wreck Messrs. Bennetts replied, and the steamship of 7,500 tons, which could from the bottom as the tide rose. following is a copy of their letter be purchased in 1913 for £47,500, Once lifted and supported by this Dow costs £232,500; the wages of floating chamber the wreck would be Herr Hans Landsberger,

seamen, fremen, and trimmers have towed towards the shore and deposit- Klopstock Strasse, 56,

trebled; and the price of bunkered at the most convenient spot where Berlin. Sirs-This sign-IA gilt stamp of coal has increased four or five times pumping operations might be carried the National Scheme for Disabled Everything is far more expensive out: M. Bertin expresses the opinion Men) will convince you that we than it was, and if it bad not been that the problematic part of the p bave not yet forgotten there has that our shipping is economically posal is connected with beaching the When your ration administered by keen business men vessel when it reaches the Coast. the probability is that freights would He sees no insuperable difficulty Brought the "Lusitania" victims be much higher than they are, for when once the necessary cables back to life; rebuilt Louvain; atoned shipping firms bave had to con have been attached in raising the for the death of Nurse Cavell; shown tend with unparalleled difficulties, wreck from three to four metres AN AMERICAN'S LECTURE IN repentance for the way you treated such as the failure of railway trans nearer the surface by taking ad vantage of each tide. Once part of the wrecks has been brought above the level of the sea the work of the divers would be greatly facilitated. dry dock exists which would be The difficulty will be in fact that no capable of receiving both the floating

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MINING FLOTATIONS.

"WILD CAT" SCHEMES,

A new regulation under the Min- ing Act, passed recently by the Wes- tern Australian State Parliament, is

being

gazetted. Since its object is to pro tect the pulous promoters of wild

the public from the operations eat" schemes, the new regulation may be expected to have a far reach ing effect on mining ventures through. out the Commonwealth. Mr. J. Scad- dan, Western Australian Minister of Mines, who is attending the "Premiers' Conference now held in Melbourne, stated re cently that since the discovery of gold at Hampton there had been something in the nature of a mining boom in the western State, and in such cases there was always a danger of the public, under the guise of being invited to subscribe capital for mining ventures, being led into

schemes whereby the bulk of their

ita articles of memorandum and

Telephone 29.

MORE ABOUT QUEEN ELIZABETH.

HER DEFENCE.

In his concluding lecture on the private character of Queen Elibabeth. at the Royal Institution, Dr. Frederick Chamberlin, the American, historian, made a carefully-reasoned defence of

the

traducers.

Queen against her many!

"In this lecture,” said Dr. Chamberlin, "we are to deal with. three centuries of slander and libel who ever sat on the throne of this against the most remarkable monan h country and one of the greatest of sovereigns. Froude ascribes all her success to Burghley and all her fail ings to herself. Anything further from the real truth could not be sug- gested.

as did Elizabeth.

MART STUART'S LETZERS.

been a war. bas

your prisoners, some of whom are now in our employ, we may be in terested in your compression taps but not antil.

us

In these circumstances, please spare from your circulars for the future.

Yours faithfully, Bennetts (Nottingham), Ltd. The Hun replied to it in the follow Ing coarse and profane terms

same.

Messrs. Bennetts, Ltd.,

28, Shakespeare Street,

Nottingham, England.

Port, the congestion of the ports, and intermittent Labour troubles. Their success is attested by the fact that wheat is being brought to us across farthing a pound, and that the the Atlantic at a cost of less than one carriage of sugar, bacon, ham, and

lard is but little more costly. We have, indeed, much cause for thankfulness in these days of world convulsion, for, though the cost of living is high with us, it is lower than with our neigh bours. At least a partial explanation

chamber and the wreck. It depends upon the state of the hull, of course, and this we can say nothing about at present but if the ship can be got to the coast there ought to bene serious difficulty in accomplishing of our good fortune is to be found in the task. It may be possible to SIRS,-Your letter of the first to the efficiency of our merchant fleet save the whole ship or it may be f hand. We acte with much interest British shipowners have been con- necessary to sacrifice the part where that you may be interested in our

! tant to carry the nation's the torpedo entered. If as we may goods on certain conditions, and have

goods at rates far lower lost no time in trying to comply with ships, although they have realised square it would be impossible to than those earned by foreign suppose, the hole made by the torpedo measures twenty-five metres that they will have to face a keener stop up. This would be the greatest As regards the "Lusitania" victims, There was never in this or any imitediately upon receipt of your CARpetition in the future, coupl feat of the kind ever attempted other country a monarch who kept letter we got into communication Crocs among the rivals being Ameri- The vessel appears to lie in a depth cans and Japanese firms. Since the of 250 feet. The process would be money is absorbed by manipulators, everything so much in her own grasp with them. They tell us that upon Armistice American ships have been long and costly but the “Lusitania' and little of it, if any, goes to the nothing to anybody that she could were shocked to find the place trade routes, and during the past been under water would be well She delegated arrival at their present abode they placed upon sixty-two of the great in spite of the length of time she has development of the mines. A number of cases had been brought do herself. She worked like a galley crowded with thousands and thous under his notice, Mr. Scaddan said slave. Her iron will and her wish to ands of innocent German women and five years the Japanese have started worth the effort, to say nothing of in which public money subscribed take her country great impelied her children who had died in consequ forty new lines, so as to tap the the moral importance of recovering ostensibly for the development of rail body to incessant toil. She has ence of the inhuman starvation markets, in particular, of the Pacific. the bodies of the 1,100 people

It speaks volumes for the confi- entombed. mining leases held from the Crown been slanderously attacked. She has blockade of your country. Many dence and competency of the lea- bad gone almost solely into the had no defence. Her side has never thousands of these children still keep ders of the British shipping indas been presented unt to-day. It has comming in every day from all parts try that, confronted with these

FILM AS WITNESS. pockets of a few manipulators.

Briefly, the new regulation provides taken years out of my life to lay her of Central Europe. The "Lusitania"

true character before you, her people. victims complain

developments abroad, in association bitterly that no new lease shall be granted to but if you at last see the real Elizabeth methods are making them feel most they should ask only that they may

your with various forms of State subsidy, BIOT PICTUE IT COURT. any company unless it first submits that made this mighty Empire, I shall uncomfortable in every respect. association and any contracts, in-never regret an hour of all the Just as their spirits were about to be permitted to engage in the strug gle in conditions of freedom which

Possibly for the "first time in a

the depart again there seemed to be give the inherited instincts of the criminal case, kinema bas cluding auctions, for inspection by drudgery of the last eight years." the Under-Secretary for Mines, and

great excitement amongst them.

race full plays The community appeared as a witness in a law. CESC. that the Minister is not satisfied Dr. Chamberlin said he had They said another lot of defenceless generally will watch this contest for Before the court which is investiga- and to the company's ability to fulfil investigated every source of informa German women and children had the economic mastery of the seasting the cause of the disorders which its obligations under the lease he maytion, including those of Rome, and just arrived, they were the victims of with interest, for shipping is the took place on the occasion of the withhold the granting of such lease. had discovered twenty-six charges of yesterday's shooting in the streets of essential industry of this country. It Nebi Musa, festival, the film which

"I do not think it likely that the immorality against the Queen, but Frankfurt by your dear" Allies. Government will have to use its new not one of them would bear careful in face of such evidence you will not only opens to us the doors of all was taken near the Jafla gate, was

the marts and gives employment to produced in evidence. power." Mr. Scaddan added. "as the analysis. One of the most interesting agree you are making our task a no small proportion of our population,

The operator's intention had merely knowledge that such power exists pieces of evidence was a letter pur difficult one. should deter unscrupulous promoters! porting to be from Mary Stuart to We have also spoken to Miss Cavell. especially to men engaged in ship- been to obtain a record of an in- building, marine engineering, and ship teresting ceremony but when rioting and manipulators from attempting Elizabeth, retailing a number of Slie seems to have decided to remain equipment, but it goes some way to suddenly started, he went on turning to beguile the public into mining accusations made by the Countess of where she is; she holds her sacrifice adjust the ominous balance, never the handle of his camera. schemes which are not genuine. It Shrewsbury. The letter alleged that has been well worth providing the greater than today, of imports over As he mentioned to the mylitary is not a case of judging whether the a certain Prince Alencon had been Northcliffe press with a first-class exports. In the report of the Cham-authorities what he had done, they mine concerned is good or bad; it is seen at the Queen's chamber door at propaganda "stunt." She says, how her of Shipping it is admitted that it had the film developed and, when a matter of ensuring that public night, and that she had allowed him ever, sometimes she feels it is rather is a matter of some difficulty to thrown on the screen, it supplied money subscribed for developing the to enter and remain in her chamber: mean of the owners of that press not calculate the extent to which the evidence that at least one local police- mine shall be used for that purpose." that the Queen would not marry as to give her part of the huge profits country benefits from the "invisible man, instead of trying to restrain had taken 14 she would not give up the liberty of they have made out of it.

exports" represented in freights. It demonstrators making love and being made love to! As regards Louvain, we take a is, however, computed that from aggressive part FIND IN MANILA:

the affair in sup- by other men.

more optimistic view, and think half to two-thirds of the adverse port of the side with which te The authenticity of the letter, your condition will soon be met, trade balance of the nation last sympathised. however, was doubtful, as it differed since throughout the world one is

The film also gave a useful record | Jezr was made good by the from the other 736 letters of Mary now agreed that most of the damage earnings of British shipping. It of the demeanour of other persons Mr. Bogumil Sykora, the 'cellist, Stuart's that he had examined to Louvain only happened in the is a mistake for us to rezard which may be acted upon. who has returned to Japan after a Accepting it as authentic, however, pages of the Daily Mail. (often more ships merely as carriers of goods The picture niay be exhibited tour of Java and Sumatra, had the the investigator was met with the fitly called the Daily Liar.)

and Tassengers; they are far more publicly but probably not in Jerusalem. unusual experience of discovering in sworn statement that the writer of Regarding the prisoners, we are Manila a cello which he believes to the letter did not believe the charges glad to learn you are providing work that that. In the last analysis they it is not a complete record, as the are powerful agents in adjusting operator was obliged to ~withdraw- be a' real Stradivarius. The instruit contained.

for at least some of them. For the exchange, and thus enabling us to before the end of the affray, owing ment is in perfect condition and In defence of the Queen, Dr. Cham- poor devils we are really very sorry, buy and sell to advantage. Nelson's to his machine being mensced. shows all the rare qualities of a berlin cited Barghley, who put it on for if they have gone through only Hardy, who became First Sea Lord genuine Stradivarius.

record that Elizabeth was guiltless, one-tenth of what our unfortunate of the Admiralty, used to declare An authority on the subject, Mr. and in a letter to a diplomatic agent men had to suffer in the Allied prison that" Happen what may, it is Eng- Hill, of London, in a Stradivarius abroad he declared in reference to camps and in the Colonies, and being land's daty to take and hold the book on Stradivarius 'cellos, writes Elizabeth and Leicester, there is kept there for nearly a year after the fead." He was thinking of ships that there are 27 known Stradivarius nothing more in their relationship war was over, then they really have of war; we shall do well, while not

cellos, but that there are also-seven than that which is consistent with much cause to complain. or eight which so far have not been virtue and is most foreign to the But we feel, Sirs, you are still traced.

baser sort of love." Catherine de victims of a rather unscrupulous

from When Mr. Sykora arrived in Manila Medici and two of her sons did not press propaganda, and heard that a poor man possessed believe in the scandals, and an happily most of your countrymen are 'cello with a wonderfully sonorous entirely new piece of evidence never beginning to free themselves It tone, he bought it at once, and find before made public was offered in a would be an eye-opener to you to see ing that the instrument was of such report of the ambassador of another the thousands of your countrymen exceptional quality that it is very country to his monarch, who offered in this and all large German cities, DIFFICULTIES OF TRADEES. probably a Stradivarius, be traced its Elizabeth's hand. "I saw," he states, representatives of biggest firms in history.

no signs of an immodest life, but I Britain, bidding readily against

A GENUINE STRAD?

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which

A DUMB TYPEWRITER.

One of the most striking things ignoring the Navy, to interpret his shown at the recent Business Ex- words in terms of ships of commerce.hibition in London was a noiseless

Daily Telegraph.

typewriter, which deservedly at tracted much attention. The clack to typewriters, although not equal to the din of a calico shed, is not ery helpful either to business or to literature, and it is a comfortable thing to ser a girl sitting at a key- board and apparently pretending to The conditions in the Penang tap the keys which ordinarily, rap

PENANG BAZAAR.

י

It seems that the 'celle was brought did see many signs of chastity, of each other every day in order to bazaar have acated considerable out the letters, but which in this to Manila by a Spanish count about virginity, and of true modesty, so secure goods "Made in Germany."

150 years ago. He was an amateur that I would stake my life itself that who used to play in quartettes. After she is most chaste."

his death it remained in the family)] --- but an heir of the second or third

CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK? generation presented it to the church, where it was well kept in its box and WERE you ever seized with a severe attack of cramp.colic or diarrhe‹ only used occasionally. At the without a bottle of Chamberisin's Colic time of the revolution- in Manila,; and Diarchos Remedy in the hours↑ when properties were abandoned, a Don't take such riska. A dose or two. priest took the 'cello to his home will care you before a doctor could

You will also come along even tually, we are quite sure, for it would be a pity if you bought our goods indirectly at less advantageous terme, instead of straight from us."

Until then we beg to remain.

difficulties for traders, and some case write, as it were, in dumb show. European firms are affected to the The invention rests upon a new extent of many thousands of dollars principle; the type is at the end of as the result of failures of a few a bar which is advanced horizontally Chinese dealers, The Chinese dealer a short distance and pushed or pres generally have intimated to Europeansed with a spring touch against the firms their inability to meet their paper, instead of striking a sharp current accounts fully, promising a blow. This is accomplished by an proportion till trade revives. There ingenioun action which reminds one Comment on this reply would be ass been practically a cessation of of that of a pianoforte. As in addi-

Yours truly, HANS LANDSBERGER.

13

THURSDAY F JULY 18

NOTICES.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

POULTRY

Owing to the high price of imported poultry, our prices for own housefed poultry will be as follows on and after the 8th inst:----

CAPONS CHICKENS.

55 cents per lb. 60

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

Hongkong, 7th July 1920.

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