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[To the Editor of the " "China MqL"]

A Bombay,'mesugen át, July 26. states:- Messrs.: Mackinnon Mac Before Mr. Justice WH.Dinsmore, kenzie and Company's steamer in the supreme Court, Penang, on

Patricia," 9,072 tons arrived at August 14 Mr. William Michael Six-As an undergraduate I am Bombay from Liverpool on Saturday Allan, salesman of Messrs. Pritchard most reluctant to- level any adverse lase with cargo and 150 passengers. and Co., Ltd. sued for divorce frota

The Times of India publishes the his wife, Josephine Mary Alexandra criticism at the institution to which following account of the treable ex- Allan, for alleged adultery, and cited belong. But matters have now perienced by the vessel. The passen Mr. J. J. Theseira, an overseer in the reacted such a stage as to leave me gers report an unusual incident in the | Poblic Works Department, Penang.no alternative. I must speak now Red Sea where forty miles or so an unmarried young man, a

or for ever hold my peace. respondent. before reaching Perim, the vessel ran

Mr. Isaac Tambyah appeared for. Before I had been long in the the petitioner, Mr. A. R. Thornton University I complained to one in for the respondent, and the Hon. Mr.authority about certain lecturers. W. H. Thorne for the co-respondent. He explained that these were to be

aground on a small island, on which there is a light house. The weather was a litle hazy at the time but it

is

sated that the light of the lighthouse was distinctly visible and no reason can be given for the grounding of the vessel. Fortunately the danger was seen though not early enough for it o be altogether averted. A sudden violent clanging of the engine room bells aroused the passengers to the realisation that something was amiss and a few minutes later there was a heavy grounding noise as the bows of the steamer struck the rocks and rose

in the air.

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Mr. Tambyah, having, narrated

the petitioner's case, called the replaced soon by men from Europe. petitioner, who stated that both he I was satisfied, the more so as they and his wife were Roman Catholics were fast arriving. But they have and were married in the Church of been.sgain spirited away and in their the Assumption, Penang, on the 14th place come once more those very October, 1911: After his marriage lecturers of whom I complained. be went to live in his mother-in-law's

To engage lecturers from local house, No. 343, Dato Kramat Road, where two children were born. Eschools is an undesirable measure. first became acquainted with the capable of doing permanent injury to co-respondent on his wedding day. What concerns me specially is the the reputation of the University. In July, 1918, he came to live in the When she struck the ship was going house as a lodger. He occupied a question whether such lectures will only very slowly and there was never room upstairs. In May, 1918, te be fitted for this work. With the BEELLY, August 18th. Sir Sidney Lee, Chairman of the any danger, although as a precaution noticed that co-respondent was becom- past experiences before me I fear A semi-oficial account of the disturbances Organisation Committee; presided the passengers were ordered to doning intimate with his wife, very often they will not

My attitude is not the result of any on forcing their way to the street where a Britisa Professors of English, who stand by. For a long time efforts to with her. She still persisted in going and a due appreciation of their work Kattowits says that tha crowd insisted over the Conference of American and their life belts and received order his wife and frequently had words i personal likes and dislikes. I have a i cordon of police and French Cavalry wore me at University College. London, get the "Patricia" off were in vain, out with corespondent for ricsha ata-toned. They demonstrated betere the quarters of the Inter Allied Commission Tecently, to consider means of main and during the night she swung round drives after dinner, returning as late and the French troops drew their sabres caining the standard of English scholars that she was broadside to the island as 1 or 2 in the morning. On the aza dispersed the crowd, which immediately ship. The Chairman was supported and lay in the channel formed by this 29th of May, he suddenly awoke and re-assembled on the arrival of a procession by Professor W.-P. Ker and Sixsland and another. The sea was found his wife not in bed; she was of high-school students who forod the Gregory Foster, and the Americas quite calm and eventually after being there when he went to sleep. He got crowd against the cordon of Pol

of Police. Shots Ambassador, the Hon. J. W. Davis, grounded for twelve hours she was out of bed and looked for her, and lecturers they must be specialists, were fired whereupon the crow

the crowd scattered

PARIS, August 201

The French Government take a serious view of the events in Kattovita They are of opinion that the German Government has encouraged the agitation. The water will be placed before the Ambasadors Conference, and the most rigorous penaltio demanded.

FRENCH ANARCHISTS

IMPRISONED..

and

PARIS, August 2th Eleven anarchists have beer Sentenced to impraonment, ranging from four to twelve months, on a charge of inciting soldiers to disobedience,

going out with her. He protested to

genuine respect-for-them as teachers

in that capacity. But when they come as lecturers they are out of their element. As teachers they are required to have a comparatively superficial knowledge of many subjects. As Occupied a seat on the platforms.

taken off with the aid of a tramp. At found her in bed with correspondent. must have worked for years at those The Chairman, after welcoming Aden a diver examined the Pari-The latter slept in the same room,

subjects on which they are to lecture. the American visitors, said the Con- cia's bows, and when it was 'ascer but bis

Even assuming such specializeri ference was first suggested about a mined that there was nothing serious off by almeirahs.

partitioned

knowledge there remains another Petitioner TO year ago on the occasion of a farely wrong she was allowed to resume monstrated

dificulty. A lecture cannot be go well dinner which the leading mem

with her, but she bers of the University of London, Saturday.

her voyage, which she completed on said, she didn't care, and that she up in five minutes nor yet in ten. I:

could do whatever she liked, it being it is to be anything better than a together with Mr. H. A. L. Fisher,

her mother's house. The next day labour. I doubt if they have the farce, it must involve long patient President of the Board of Education.

the corespondent left the house. On gave the American officers in, com- mand of those American soldiers who,

SOME SENTENCE!

bed was

the 1st of June, petitioner saw him requisite time at their disposal

in the house again in the evening. My conclusions regarding the

zloze.

house. His wife told him that had disposal. One resorted to the artifice dent then got up from the table and i aloud the standard text book, nothing to do with him. The co-respon of devoting an hour a week to read- struck him, with his fist, on the punctuating it by remarks of his own, temple. Petitioner ran to the Dato the value of which none could see Krama: Police Stations and reported but he himself. He seemed to have

The other adopted a by no me235 unfamiliar method of procedure. He would us have the impression that his lectures emanated from, a brain steeped in learning, were so valuable,

BERLIN, Apgust 18th Latest despatches from Kattowiz report **all quiet," but the situation is very stria- ed. Martial law has been proclaimed.

The fighting on the 17th was very fierce after the armistice, elected to spend "particularly round the barracks, where the the summer term in study at British

At dinner time his wife laid a table fitness or otherwise of such lecturers for two, and asked the co-respondent have been based upon my past ex- Growd used machine guns

band grenades against the French troops, The Universities before returning home for With the appropriate heading to have dinner with her, but left him periences. I had personal acquaint- casualties ausungut the Germans were redemobilisation. The tons et origo of Some Sentence?" a recent issue of

ance with two such lecturers Each He called his wife, and read his trick of economising the ported to be su killed, and 70 wounded, the present assembly was the spirit the Morning Post contains the follow-monstrated with her, as the co-res- including the Commander of the Security of camaraderie which the war stimu-ng-Our good friend the Lancet, pondent was no more lodging in the limited stock of information at his Police

lated between the American and in its current issue, presents an et- British troops, and he hoped that this aging defence of moderate drinking spirit would be accentuated by the from a medical correspondent resi Conference, if not perpetuated. The dent in Buenos Aires. It explains it world's peace and prosperity depended elf: In response to the Hallelujah on the continued strength of that encantations of ascetic mummers whose the matter to Inspector Bartels, forgotten that he was not giving a nubling sentiment. of the war had brought inevitably

The dislocations psychological diapason is solely com-Paritioner left the house on the 8th reading lesson to a kindergarten slackening of the old intercourse, but radicate an abuser is recessary still frequenting the house. He was prised of one hyphenated falsetto to Jane, because the corespondent was

class.

is renewal in all or more than its top of the use--I have no compure continually embracing and kissing pristine strength was one of the plankstion in affirming that the rational his wife, Petitioner protested, but in the Conference's platform.

Jieretic use of the fermented juice of both of them rold witness to get out ENLIGHTENMENT OF MILLIONAIRES, the grape of the hop, and some of the house. Petitioner engaged.

The daily speech, he continued,

cereals is a' god send to man's diges house in Malacca. Street, and then in fact, as to call for taking down might be not at all points identical. on, and that while the indiscriminate wrote a letter to his wife asking her word for word. Later on I found We each had our own colloquialisms; or bestial abuse of same unquesto come and live with him. He still that the method of treatment of the occasionally we borrowed them from ionably speeds down to the grave, loved his wile, despite all that had subject, the multitude of facts and one another. Those were inevitable universal total abstention would tend happened. He received no reply and even the vocabulary in the notes facts which gave the philologist at any a comparatively short cycle of time, petitioner wrote to ber again on the bore a strange resemblance to those rate no genuine cause for regret.

o depopulate the earth, and, in all 1st of July through his solicitor. On in a certain standard work. Certain Meanwhile our literary language re-probability would compel whatever the 4th July a reply came from passages were suspiciously alike and it did look as though that book were mained to all practical intent one and night remain with human form ulti Messrs. Wreford and Thornton. the sole storehouse from which he j the same. They had met to confermately to seek refuge in the Simian charging him with cruelty, and asking drew his facts. If one were to go

for maintenance. Petitioner denied together as to ways and means of freedom of an arboreal existence."

Need we add that the writer is an All the allegations contained in the bit of mild plagiarism. But be it that he ever treated her with cruelty. further, one might even suggest that keeping at a high level the standard of

he had not disdained to stoop to some English scholarships There were two

letter were not true. He never ill- specific points afecting our commot

treated his children beyond a father's far from me to make such a sugges studies, one being the transferring.

usual chastisement to his children thoroughly that it had formed part tion! He must have mastered it so through the enlightenment of Ameri- A farewell dinner to the Hon. Petitioner wrote to the corespondent of him, that he could reproduce parts

through his Solicitor in connection

BALTIC STATE CONFERENCE.

Laypos, August 9kb. Reuter learns that the Baltic States Con- ference had adopted the convention whereby Finland. Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland agree to submit all disputes to arbitration.

COUNTY CRICKET.

Loybox. August 20th. Middlesex beat Somerset by seve Wicks.

Buseg beat Surrey by 223 runs. Warwick beat Worcester by nine wicket Lancashire bear Gloucester by tea wickets.

Yorkshire beat Essex by 121 runs. " The Keat-Notts match was drawn.

'BIG BERTHA" SECRET.

GUN LIKE INVERTED TELESCOPE.

Details are now given in the Paris press, based on discoveries recently made in Germany, which disclose the manner in which the Germans con- structed the colossal long range guns with which they bombarded Paris daring the last year of the war from points sixty or more miles from the capital. The Big Berthas," it is now stated, had for their basis, word our 15-inch naval guns that had been thrown out of service.

In the tube of one of these guns which was some 56feet long was in-. troduced an additional and much longer riße tube, having a calibre of over

eight inches, which projected some

42 feet beyond the mouth of the naval gun into which it was fired. Finally.

* tube of 20 feet in length was added. to this second tube, with the double" object of increasing the initial velo- city of the projectile and improving

the regularity of firing, The focal length of Big Bertha was therefore about 120 feet. The angle of fire was 55 degrees so that the projectile trariived in the zone of the rarefied atmosphere at an angle which ensured that it would travel. the greater part of its long journey through a medium where resistance would be much less than at normal-length:

Seven of these cannon were-con stracted by the Germans. Certain of them as the result of wear were re-- Hood to 1 calibre" of. 24 centimeters, and it was in consequence of this. re- construction that it was possible for the Germans to continue firing ou Paes-25 long as they did with the number of weaptes at their

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bruction VALLA

WALLA

Irishman and T.C.D.?

In justice to myself and to those who send me here I feel myself bound

to raise a protest against the con- tinuance of a practice for which I lecturers of the past and those of the an see no justification. The external

future come from the same school

can millionaires, of the rarest exem- Mr. W. E. Cleaver, prior to his prominis conduct, and the assault of it word for word. plars of our literature, ancient and eeding home on retirement, was modern, and American purchasers ziven in

the Runnymede Hotel perpetrated on him. On the 3rd of were to be congratulated on their en- Penang, on August 12 at the invils July he received a reply through ightenment. In the interests

otion of the Hon. Mr. W. H. Thorne, Messrs Wreford and Thornton deny scholars on this side who were un

hose present including representa ing among other things the assault, able to pay pilgrimages to America, tives of the Bench and Bar, among dimages contained in his letter to and repudiating petitioner's claim of he trusted that of the making of ac-them Sir John A. S. Bucknil, K.C curate facsimiles there. would he no the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Barrett him, and in turn threatened to take and are likely to be the same per- }

The second specific point was Lennard, Mr. Justice Voules and Mr. he peril which threatened scholarly fustice Dinsmore, says the Pinang study from the peculiar conditions Gazette. The Hon Mr. Thorde pro- created by the war in the printing and posed the toast of the guest of the publishing trades.

evening, Mr. Cleaver replying and

2nd.

Proceedings for demaging his (cores- ings however, had been taken by the pondent's) character. No proceed.

corespondent, and his wife, too, had not taken any steps to claim main- tenance. Petitioner's mother-in-law

"He observed that the American Proposing the health of the Chief died in September, 1919, and in

Justice, is also leaving Malaya

shortly.

was, triumphantly upholding, nay, was improving on, all its high traditions, not least of which had been the 'main. tenance in Full measure of the grace study of English is to begin the study and force of English diction

[of Anglo-Saxon at a much earlier age. The American Ambassador said poli-in education he went on, it was im ics and discords could never destroy possible to, confront children too early

Dato Kramat Road, and went to live. in co-respondent's house in Irving Rozc. did not desert his w fe, and he now She took her two children and two sisters with her. Petitioner

claimed $2,500 damages against the corespondent for adultery. He had not taken the proceedings earlier be

them, that they will somehow be bet- ter than they were? In my opinion,

sons. What guarantee is there that there will be a marvellous change in

S. S. S.

None.Yours, etc.,

Hongkong, Aug. 20, 1920.

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ENGLISHMAN'S DEATH.

Mr. Charles George Stephens. A hairdresser of Bristol, gambled his life against the power of the Niagara Falls, and lost.

About half-way down the Falls the barrel disappeared in a cloud of spray. The crowds on both sides of the lower river waited for an hour watching for any sign the barrel and its pot pant, when a black object appeared in the swirling water's and floated rapidly down the stream. It proved to be a shattered section of the barrel. There In a 6ft. barrel of Russian cak, was no trace of Stephens, who, it was which cracked like an eggshell on the evident, had perished, rocks, Stephens took a 158ft. drog Though he carried on z flourishing over the Falls while thousands of men hairdressing business in Bedminster, and women, including Mrs. Anne one of Bristol's most thickly pop- Edison Taylor and "Bobby" Leach, Leted districts, where he lived, with Dear Sir, Your statement in your the only persons who have survived his wife and family of nine children...

Stephens was a man of remarkably

BIDS US CARRY ON.

[To the Editor of the China Mat),

he bond of our common language. with the unfamiliar... In presenting.cause the priest and his wife's grand leader of Saturday that because à jaker similar attempts, looked on. This tongue of ours was symbolic of the merely familiar, they were doing father were trying to make a settle.Statement is true it cannot therefore be An hour after he went over the adventurous disposition. He was: 58 ployed it, and who had carried it the fore, and they could, therefore, claim going on between him and his wife that you have never heard of that waters at the foot delivered up brokenic had seen three and a half years" ne character of the people who em- nothing which God had not done be- ment; and correspondence had been contradicted proves beyond a doubt brink of the precipice the boiling years old and carried himself well,

world over.

He hoped it would re- no credit. No boy of brains at twelve. He had not brought this case in tain and exemplify the spirit of ad- he said, could make anything of a collusion with his wife. He did not and Gallipoli gambler-Winston trace of the adventurer's body

**Insistent, persistent, consistent liar pieces of the barrel, but there was no service in the Great War. In dero nautics he was particularly interested, venture that had always characterised passage of Anglo-Saxon, and it was, consider it safe from a moral point Churchill. However, the best cf us it, and that the peoples whom it served therefore, good mental, training. The of view for his children to remaindrop into these things at times, and authorities, Stephens, had maintained Parachute descents. His daring found Fearing he would be stopped by the and had accomplished many daring

sities and their activities, which play

ed a great part on the other side, as

with his wife,

THE CROSS-FXAMINATION,

might never lose that spirit of courboy would get, riot the whole, but zgeous progress.");

as the China Mail is one of those the greatest secrecy regarding his outlet in some amazing and original good deal of the benefit derived by Sir Gregory Foster paid a tribute study of the classics. Though bedid

institutions which makes Hongkong point of departure, but a small army cats, among them the kissing of lions: to Mr. Davis for his interest in Univer- not like systems, be would pardon the

worth living in you are let off this of cinema mer took a film of the be-in their der, and shaving his clients Minister of Education, who insisted petitioner said, that, there were so so as your opening paragraph in Poin, three miles above the Falls American knife thrower, and had an Cross-examined by Mr. Thornton, time with a warning, more especially ginning of the fatal trip from Snyder's in lion's cage with lions prowling around him. He stood before an that at such and such an hour, every other lodgers in the house except that same leader made me burst the Canadian side of the river. school in England should be teaching but soon, the co-respondent's bed thirsty day. Cheerio and keep We'll meet you below the Falls safe is may be

corrapondent, all of them slept in into laughter at the end of a very Anglo-Saxon to scholars between the being separated by two almeirahs going.

"Good-bye: good luck," they said. apple placed on his throat cift-in two

sges of twelve and fourteen,

It may be recalled that Captain brian and sound." "I'll be there with a Webb; the first dian to swim the Eng- There was no other evidence of adul

smile," he replied, ---

lish Channel was drowned while at tempting to swim across the Whirlpool Rapids at Niagara in 1883.

he hoped they would before long do

in this country.

ANGLO-SAXON IN THE SCHOOLS.

dies

Yours,

FORMĄZONE,

but his mother-in-law told him not

A discussion followed on The Place Ar the afternoon session, the chair tery, except hissing and going out of Old and Middle English in English was occupied by Dr. M. Carey driving The only one was on the Studies. Almost all the speakers were Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr night of May 29. He had been on,

The barrel was towed, more than a agreed that not hall enough attention College, when "Mears of Co-opera good terms with his wife until co

mile into mid-stream by a inter-bost is at present paid to the teaching of tion between English and American respondent came into the house.

The tow-line was then cut and the the English fanguage in its carlier Scholars in Advanced English Stu

barrel Boated slowly down the stream, In reply to the cross-examination to fear as she had known him for a gathering spoed as it neared the rapids SUPPLIED BY ALL CHEMISTS. forms & Y

were discussed. Those con of the Hon. Mr. W. H. Thorne, long time: He had no evidence that above the Falls. Passing through Profescor George Saintury, speci-tributing in the debate were Professor petitioner said he did not know, if his wife, and corespondent slept the rapids it floated steadier in the Cole and

DHYSICIANS prescribe Chamberlain's. ally invited by die chairman to con Carleton Brown, of the University of during his engagement with his wife, together in Irving Road, He did more even waters just above the because it relipris cramps in the stomach Diarrhoes Remedy tribute to the discussion, was Minnesota, and other American represorespondent had been visiting the not like the idea of his wife being brink: Twenty-six minutes elapsed and Intestinal pains quicker than any staunch atrocate of Anglo-Saxon for sentatives, Professor VA Culcis family. He did not rex bin will employed as housekeeper to during the voyage down the lixei prepration they can compound. It can "hic $750l boy, loss plways btenir Israel Godanez and Professor Athe day of his marriage. Petitioner Theseira.

moment mone and the trail-booking wil keep for years, and no home is be bought from any chemist. A bottla. as ich of mine, he said, * that one. Pollard, A reception and tea folcbjected to the corespondent, being After other evidence the Court black and white, object was pver the complete without it For sale by All of the Bree Boligs vonalonia to In The Dowell, it which Lord Ende presides, sirin eccommodation in the roomyfadband Gulli August 15,

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