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December 6, 1920, Temperature 71

·號六月二十年十二百九千一英

No. 18.126.

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1920

December 6, 1919, Tamperstore 6i

Humdity 100

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THE DOLLAR.

Today's closing rate 34 3.16

To-day's opening rate 3/4 3.15

(Renter's Service to the Chino Mail

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

ECONOMY DEBATE.

GOVERNMENT NARROWLY ESCAPES DEFEAT.

NASTY COALITION SHOCK.

LONDON, December 4, Yesterday's division on Mr. McCurdy's estimate for the Food Ministry

CURING A COLD.

TARIED EXPERIENCES. ··

MAY WHO TRIED MANY, REMEDIES.

guarded moment when, says a COITE- It must have been for me an^NA-

sponder of a London paper, 1 blandly asked the group in the smoke room, Anybody got a good cure loc a cold??

(mentioned in our earlier cables) is described as a nasty Coalition shock, the Government escaping defeat only after telephoning and sending mes sages to the clubs and private houses of Coalition members. Eventually Labour saved the position, all except one voting for the Government. Apparently Labour's attitude was that the Food Ministry was a protection against the

The effect was electrical Femest profiteer. Later in the debate Mr. McCurdy assured, the House that the men, who had been working out rec- Ministry in future would confine its activities on terminating Governing lots, laid down their Horses iment control of commodities as soon as possible.

ARMENIAN SITUATION.

LEAGUE'S EFFORTS TO TERMINATE HOSTILITIES.

GENEVA, December 4.

Worth Following" and drew up their chairs.

Robinson, who had been explain- ing, almost with tears in his eyes, hour his own faultless play at Auction the previous evening had been nullified | by the cross stupidity of his partner, dropped the subject instanter and man- Replying to the League of Nations Council's invitation to various Goved eagerly towards me AB the ernments inviting co-operation to terminate hostilities in Armenia, Britain demonstrations of readiness to hold others cleared their threats and made says that it cannot agree to an independent mission of mediation as pro- forth. posed by President Wilson, but the President of the United States can count on Britain supporting his efforts and according him the moral and diplomatic support he requests. The Italian Government replied promising to communicate any decision it reaches.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

AMITY ESSENTIAL TO BOTH NATIONS.

FORMAL ALLIANCE URGED.

PARIS, December 4.

But Brown, like the ancient Mari- ner, held me with his glixering eye and I could not choose but hear him first.

"Go to bed," said be. "Go straight to bed and don't touch a drop of liquid of any sort for at least twenty-four hours. After that 's fear spoonfuls of cold water only. To less than two days you'll be "

Probably stone dead," interposed Robinson ruthlessly. **My dear chap," he continued to me, “you can't beat the old fashioned remedies. Get a good fire in your bedroom, heap on the bed clothes, and drink a stif glass of rum-punch, as hot as you can drink it, before getting into bed. In the morning you'll be "

A Haras message states that the papers are devoting special attention to a speech delivered by the former British Ambassador in Paris, Lord Derby, before the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Èspecially noticed is Lord Derby's statement that French and ́British amity is essential to

Words bere failed him, but his ex- both nations and that the time has come for them to conclude a forma pression gave me to, understand that alliance. It is admitted that Lord Derby is quite right when he states that the the morning after the foregoing opera- war would not have broken out if instead of the Entente there had been in 1914 - tion I should probably be booking" a a definite alliance. Lord Derby was especially emphatic in exposing the passage to New York to knock pieces mischieveous insinuations which are periodically circulated by a certain out of one Dempsey. Press about the so-called imperialistic or aggressive tendencies of the French teer Ambulance car

Higgins, who had driven a Volun- in London for Government. Lord Derby staled that no French Cabinet inclining towards some time during the war, was in an aggressive policy of any sort could stand one single day. Such is the clined to be pontifical on account of his medical qualifications. He smiled superciliously.

naked truth.

FRENCH, NATIONAL LOAN.

MOST SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS EXCEEDED.

A GREAT RESPONSE.

PARIS, December 3.

A Haras message states that the results of great national loan just closed are not yet definitely known, but certain it is they are in excess of the most sanguine expectations. Some communities worked real financial wonders. Amongst the direst sights of the large broad belt of the war-stricken cities is that afforded by Lens, formerly a prosperous city in the heart of the French coal district. The Germans

left it in 1918 a. mere

**Aspirin," said be. "The best drug the Pharmacopeia." (1 can- not say if he pronounced the latter word. correctly. Frankly don't know." But the fast that he had pluck enough to tackle it reveals in some degree how we, Britons, won the Great War).

"One of the biggest specialists in Europe told me one day when I was a loan of my cigarete lighter, in fact chatting with him he asked me 'for

that you can't go wrong with aspirin. I always carry a supply with me," continued Higgins.

He drew from his breast pocket a miscellaneous bundle of articles and

pile of blackened bricks. All around searched for the magic drug. Great the collieries were systematically destroyed. Pits were flooded was his disappointment when neither

and

and shifts and machinery blown up and buildings gutted. The inhabitants there nor in any other pocket was it were driven away or fed and scattered, but lost no time in coming to be found. I was sorry for him. back as soon as their native soil was freed. They built shanties as I felt sure that his day was spoiled.

at... ance started work. Now slowly Lens is rising again from its ruins. Better days are looming up and the inhabi- tants have eagerly seized the opportunity afforded by the national loan to give to their beloved France out of their scanty means material token of their unshakeable faith in her. The contributions of the inhabitants of Lens to the national loan aggregated £50,000,

"BEHBADED PORTRAIT."

PIQUANT DISPUTE.

MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN AND LORD LEVERHULME.

After that the conversation became general and I learned to my surprise that there is scarcely an article that cannot be employed in curing a cold. The most interesing of all the sugges- tions was a sulphur mud hath, but fos, that I should have to go to New Zealand, which I thought rather lar. The mest appalling cure of all those: case show "no sign of having been loaded to the gunwale with red pep suggested was a boiled Spanish onion, disturbed, and as they fit very tight-

per.

ly it seems probable that the brown peper inside the case.would have be- come crumpled, if not torn, by the portrait being taken out

It would appear that the portion te In the, Chenil Galleries, 183a, be cut out was carefully marked off. King's-road, Chelsea, S.W., there is Lines in red pencil or crayon were -or was a portrait with the head evidently drawn on the carves as a and part of the ppper portion of the guide. Traces of such lines can be body of the sitter carefully cut away seen easily.

It is the "beheaded,” portrait of Lord

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"JUST SUPPOSE."

THE PRINCE IN A PLAY.

NOT FOR LONDON.

The bero,

New Yorkers and Americans gener- | the picture whichï hes jed 20. such a piquant dispute between the Peer and chest, the abdomen, the arms and ally are excited over a

pending play, the painter. In a series of letters ads, and the upper part of the entitled "Just Suppose." which have passed between Lord thighs of a seated figure.

a thinly camouflaged Prince of Wales, Leverhulme and Mr. John, the former From the contemplation of this be visiting America, tires of his hide says that he cut the head of the por headed portrait, which, it is under-bound itinerary, and slips away to an trait out with the intention of putting stood, Mr.Jolm regarded as one of old Virginia, planter's home. There it in a safe after he had found that the best he has done, the reporter he falls in love with the pretty daugh- there was not, room in the safe for went to 28, -Mallord-street, Chelsea, ter, The British Ambassador "burries the whole canvas without the frame and had a high-speed interview, with down, and vainly implores him to te and that the remainder of the picture the painter.

turn A peremptory cable from the as returned in mistake by his house- "I don't want any more publicity King, however, recalls the Prince to keegler. In another letter he asked about the affair," said Mr. John gers-a realisation of his duty, and he de Mr. Johm to dine with him. Mr.ally from behind his bushy beard: parts in a giant battleship, after a John, in asking for an explanation of "I am fed up and finished with it. moonlit leave taking in an orchard. the treatment of his portrait, described "Besides, Lave nothing fread to Paris Collins will play the heroine. the returning of the remainder of SAY. and it takes up too much of my Geoffrey Ke, son of Frederick as the prospect insult I have ever tine. Also I have a sitter waiting Kerr, has pallod from London for New received in the course, bf my career."; for" 156,

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So far as a reporter was able to - Why was I unable to accept Lord No application has been made. In judge, the picture had never been Leverhulte's invitation to dinner? Britain, but the Lord Chamberlain removed from its packing case. The Oh, mat has nothing to do with the would- undoubtedly refuse a licence haltens By which it is secured to the case.";

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