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TO-DAY'S CABLES.

“(Reiter's Service to the China Mail)

JAPANESE DROWN PRINCE.

FAMOUS MALTA TEMPLE. VISITED.

A BUST BAT.

MALTA, April 25, The Crown Prince spent most of the forenoon visiting places of interest. After visiting St. John's Church where he was received by the Archbishop and Chapter of the Cathedral and conducted over the entire famous temple, he went to the Palace, General Plumer conducting him over the pcient palace of the grand masters. He lunched at the Casino Maltese which was decorated for the occasion. Before entering, the Prince was made the object of a very sympathetic oration to the crowd outside and the guests inside. The toasts of King George and the Emperor of Japan were honoured. į The Crown Prince is visiting the museum and after that he will attend General Plumer's at home at San Antonio Palace to which a large number have been invited.

·AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY:

LONDON, April 25.

There was a very impressive ceremony at the naval cemetery in the morning when the Crown Prince visited the graves of Japanese interred there during the war. The Prince was accompanied by Admirals DeRobeck, Webb, Barthelot, and Shand, also by Prince Kanin and Viscount Chinda

At the entrance to the cemetery there was a guard of honour composed from the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Crown Prince and Prince Kanin first laid three wreaths, one on behalf of the Emperor, and one OD behalf

the foot of the Japanese nation, at of the memorial in honour of Japanese lost during the war, after which they stood and paid their respects to the glorious dead. Then the Japanese ratings drawn up likewise paid homage to the dead. A Japanese staff officer read the Japanese funeral service. Admiral DeRob-k assured the Crown Prince that the Japanese graves were well tended the hands of their British comrades. Later the party returned aboard, after which the Crown Prince visited Saint John's Church. Wherever the Prince goes he is very respectfully acclaimed by the crowds.

A BRILLIANT. FUNCTION.

LATER.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.

VI-A DISC OF LIGHT.

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BY BAXE ROHMER.

(Continued from yesterday.)

[COPYRIGHT, 1917)

All the running of the Hashishin, the scheming of the sombrero mar, and the alertness of Scotland Yard meet in prosaic old Fleet street, where the thou sands pass with no thought of the grim tragedy being enacted in their.midst.

I stood in the foyer of the Astoria Hotel. About me was the pulsing stir of trans-Atlantic life; for the sour- ist season was now at its height and

opens on the little courtway, for this branch of the London County, and Provincial Bank copies a corner sire. ****

EXCESS PASSENGERS,

COLETING STRJMERS

OFFENCE.

MASS FISED.

At the Marine Cork resterday, before the Harbour Master, Lieut Conway Hake, RN, Lai Yee, the A ragged urchin, 'who was appar- master of the amall Chinese coasting ently waiting for me, handed me a steamer" Boiyick," was charged with nots written upon a half sheet of paper having carried 74 passengers in excess and, doubting if it was really intended of the number allowed by his for me, I unfolded it and read the licence. following:

Mr. Cavanagh, take the keys of the case containing the holy slipper to your hotel this evening without fait. HASSAN.

I ask Who gave you this, boy fed sharply, a

A foreign gentleman, sir, very

dark—like an Indian.” "Where is be?" "He went off in a cab, sir, after he gave me the note."

I handed the boy a sixpence and slowly pursued my way. An idea was

I counted myself fortunate in that. 1-forming in my mind to trap the enemy had been able to secure a room at by seeming acquiescence. I wonder this establishment, always so popularity movements were washed at with American visitors.

Bristol, the tall military-looking men who stood beside me, glanced about him with a rather grim smile.

"You ought to be sala,enough here, Mr. Cavanagh," he said. own chambers." I replied wearily. "I ought to be safe enough in my

Do you think if I told that prosperous New Yorker who is buying a cigar yonder, for instance, that I had been drives from my chambers by a band! of Eastern assassins founded some time in the eleventh century, he would believe it?".

General Plumer's at home at San Antonio Palace was a brilliant affair.of this dammable case." favoured by ideal weather for which Malta's spring is famous. The company comprising the elite of Malta, assembled in the gardens which are one of the beauty spots of the island. In a gorgeous array of variegated flowers, they presented a striking picture of life and colour. The Prince was manifestly delighted and stayed until the end of the evening.

The Crown Prince is giving a state, dinner on board the "Kateri Prince George will be among the guests.

AMERICA'S NOBLE DEAD.

SOLEMN PROCESSION PASSES THROUGH LIEGE

that momenti: Since it was more

then probable Freturned to the bank, erzered and made some trivial inquiry of a castrier, and then came out again and willked on as far as the Report office.

It

I had not been in the office more

a telegram from Inspector Bristol. than five minutes before I received

had been banded in at Sobe, and the message was an odd one. Cavanagh, Report, London.

Plot alone to steal keys. Get them from bank and join me 11 o'clock at Astoria. Have planned trap.

BRISTOL.

It

boarded the vessel on April 17 as it A police sergeant said that he

was entering the harbour through Futsumon Pass and counted 266 people on board.

Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, for the defence, said that he was prepared to admit an excess of only 30 passenger:" The vessel, he said, left Shanmi on the 15th inst., and as it was the only steamer on the route that day, an musually large number of passengers rushed on board. His client had done his best to restrict the number of passengers, but it was impossible to check the rush.

Remarking that the Goverment had granted special privileges only to the "Suiyick" and the "Kong hong" on the Shanmi run, the Magistrate said that in view of the fact that the defendant had made an effort to regulate, the number of passengers, he would be fined. only $50 this time.

CHEMICALS.

The report of Sir S. W. Royse & Co. Ltd., Manchester, on March 23 was 65 follows:

"I am certain he wouldn't! replied This was very mysterious in view Bristol.

Chemicals-A rather better enquiry "I should not have credited of the more so recently received by has been perceptible this month, but, it myself before I was put in charge: me, but I concluded that Bristol has though prices generally are somewhat hit upon a similar plan to that which steadier, little improvement in actual truth in mcredible one.

My position at that hour was in was forming in my own mind.

The sacred seemed urinecessarily hazardous, "business can be reported, and manus slipper of Mohammed, which the late though, actually to withdraw the keys facturers are finding considerable Professor Deeping had looted from El- from their place of safety.

difficulty in keeping their works going. Medineh of Mecca or Arrat-I knew Fendering deeply upon the perplexi- The demand from the textile trades is not and cared not where lay once ties of this maddening case I shortly quiet and present prospects are not more in the glass case at the Anti-afterward found myself at the bank. bright. Sulphate of Copper has been quarian museum from which Earl With the manager i descended to the in better request for export account at Dexter, the American cracksman, had strong room and the safe was unlock-the-lower-prices-but-little-has-been- stolen it. And what was its history, ed which contained the much sought doing for home consumption. Green to date? In brief it consisted (1) in for keys of the case at the Antiquarian Copperas is firmer owing to reduced a series of mutilations, for no unbe- Museum

production. There has been some Hever who had touched the ghastly "There are the keys quite safe- thing bad failed to have his hand mys- and by the way this is my second Pressure to realise stocks of Acetate terionsly severed by an unseen assail- visit here this morning. Mr. Cava ant; (2) in the assassination of Pro- nagh." said the manager, with who Moving scenes marked the passing through here of boats bearing the lessor Deeping and the death of two I was upon rather intimate terus bodies of 96 Americans who fell at St. Mihiel and who are being transported of the pursuing fanatics; (3) in cease-A foreign lady who has recently less espionage upon myself (since become a customer of the bank de- along the river from Verden to Antwerp for conveyance to America under Deeping's will, I held the keys posited some valuable jewels here this doing in Montreal Fotashes. Only Troops rendered military bonours as the boats covered with flowers moved of the Museum case) by weird, ma-morning-less than an hour ago in moderate business has been passing towards the quay where they were awaited by the leading officials and derous creatures of Hassan of Alep- fact."

in Continental supplies. There has delegations of ex-service men. After sympathetic speeches had been made, the "Guardian of the Relics," "Indeed," I said and my mind was been a good demand for white powder- to the officers accompanying the convoy wreaths were laid on the coffins had pursued the slipper to Europe; came in the large bive car, a gray-and Cornish have been reduced. who, with his company of hashishin, working rapidly. "The lady who ed Arsenic and stocks of both foreign and the boats resumed their journey, cavalry accompanying them along by Earl Dexter, and by a beautiful haired lady?"

Tartaric Acid-has moved slowly for the river bank. Large crowds on both sides of the river uncovered their woman, violet-eyed, bewitching, who

"Did you near delivery but the forward position heads as the solemn procession wended its way past.

aided him in his warring against Eng- lish law and Eastern deviltry-for Hassan of Aleppo and Scotland Yard alike pursued him. "

LIETE, April 25.

CHINESE ENVOY HONOURED."

INTERESTING CEREMONY AT PARIS UNIVERSITY.

LONDON, April 25.

The presentation of a doctorate of the University of Paris to Mr. Con Chix Chen on behalf of the President of China was conducted with great ceremony. About 2,000 people were present including M. Poincare, Marshal Joffre. General Fayolle, M. Painleve, and Cardinal Dubois. M. Milleraid was specially represented. Speeches were delivered by the Rector of the University, Mr. Chu Chih Chen, M. Painleve, and members of the French Institute and Academy. Mr. Chu Chih Chen arrives in London on April 30. He will present the King an autograph letter from the President.

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I nodded and said no more. For in somewhat better request, but

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I was outcast from my own rooms powers of Hassan of Aleppo, but! British makers of Bichromates of and compelled, in self-defence, to live doubted if even his omniscience could Potash and Soda have just reduced amid the bustle of the Astoria. So tell him (since I had actually gone their prices about 21d. per 15. Oxalic

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wholly non-plussed were the police down into the strong room) whether ed is dearer with the possibility of "HE BATHING COSTUME. authorities that they could afford-me-when-1-emerged had the keys-or

no protection. They knew that a whether my visit and seeming accept-curtailment of supplies from Germany. group of scientific murderers lay hidance of his orders had been to more Early in the month, prices of Borax den in or near to London; they knew than a subterfuge:

and Boracic Acid were reduced £4 and

A HOME COMEDY,

REÄLTH MINISTRY RIDÍCULES. :

SUPERSTITIONS,

PIER MAN HORSES.

In some parts of the country they that Eari Dexter, called the Sombrera That the hashichin had some means £5 per ton respectively and there is a

say that if you make a wish when was also in the metropolis-and they Astoria was evident from the contents continues to be offered freely from the Ministry of Health. A Govern- your wish" Man, the foremost crook of his day, of communicating with me at the steady enquiry. Phosphate of Soda

Our sympathy must be awarded to you see a piebald borse you will “ get could make no move, were helpless; of the note which I had received, and stock Alum and Sulphate of Alami- ment department, though it has no piebald horse simply means good

In others meeting indeed, as Bristol had confessed, were as I walked in the direction of the ua are unchanged. With a view to body to be kicked nor soul to be

luck. This superstition has its hopeless!

hotel my mind was filled with all sorts stimulating export trade, makers of saved, may yet collectively and in its origin in taythology instead of magic Bristol, on the previous day, had of misgivings.

Lamp Salammoniac reduced their

and is a-vestige surviving from the unearthed a Greek cigar merchant,

When I reached the Astoria, Bris- prices by £25 per ton; but so far the of humble humanity, from being lower," and the story of Diomedes component parta shrinks, like the mass myth of Hippolytus, "the borse one, Acepulos, of Moslem persuasion, tol had not arrived. I lighted a case (for a monetary consideration). to avait his coming. Presently a boy He had performed a similar service aproached. handing me a message when the blood-stained thing had first which had been taken down from the LONDON, April 26.

been put upon exhibition at the telephone by the derk. It was 25 Lord Derby, in an amended denial as regards his visit to Ireland, had disappeared, but quite recently

Museum, and for a considerable period follows:

Tell Mr. Cavanagh, who is wait admitted in a speech at Liverpool that he went with the Premier's cognisance, he had returned again to his Sono ing in the botel, to take wint I am He obtained interviews with a number of personages in Ireland on the i shop, in time thus to earn a second expecting to his chambers and say ness remains very quiet in Tar Pro-So the bond of common humanity i ferocity and made of a piebald breed. that I will join him there in twenty

IRISH PROBLEM.

LORD DERBY'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

check.

understanding that be communicated the results to Mr. Lloyd George. He intended paying a further visit to Ireland. He admitted that he was about the foyer of the hotel, a plain-

As Bristol and I stood glancing minutes. depressed with the situation there and went incognito in order to avoid clothes officer, who I knew by sight, came in and approached my con- panion.

pressmen.

GERMANS SECURE "AMERICAN PATENTS.

WASHINGTON, April 25, The War Secretary, Mr. Weeks asked Congress to pass legislation limiting the gract of patents the foreigners. He said that 201 ordnance patents had been obtained by Germans since July 1, all of which had been transferred to Krupps at Essen,

The detective whispered something

INSPECTOR BRISTOL.

(To be continued.) |

with wild animals which lost their

who had replaced the slipper in its cigarette and sat down in the louse response has been poor, and there has made ridiculous. Of all false accuss who built the god's sanctuary.

also been little call for Mariste of tions, the accusation of absurdity is Ammonia. Bleaching Powder and the cruelest. There is, even for the the head of the Adriatic, was a sacred La the territory of the Veneti, at Caustic Soda are in slow deinand and individual, no legal remedy. There grove dedicated to Diomedes where outside supples are on the market at is no means of clearing the character, a herse was annually sacrificed to competitive prices. Chlorates of

for what should a ribald world think him. The horses of this district were Potash and Soda have been in better of a man who solemnly engaged to famous for their speed, they asso- request but stocks are ample. Bus-prove that he never was ridiculous?ciated in the sacred grove fearlessly ducts and values generally are lower constrains us to sympathise with the which latter fact was accounted for There in a moderate demand for Ministry of Health, for it was un- by the priests of the sacred grove by Benzoles for motor purposes and justly accused of making itself ludi- saying that they were marked with prices are steady. Talroles are negerous, and, most unkindest cut of all, a woll, the similarity between the lected. Enquiries for Solvent of making itself ludicrous over the colour of the spots on the otherwise Naphths are for spot delivery only decency of hathing, costumes, a sub-white horses and the wolf's coat be and values if anything are easier.ject which no creature of common-ing the evidence. Naturally these There has been a slackening in demand sense would touch, which has long horses acquired wide fame and a for Creosote and lower figures are since been abandoned by rational mystic character; and naturally it is accepted Naphthalene continues to animals to the frestists and the fad good luck" to meet with one of be pressed for axle, at lower prices. dists and the seekers for notoriety.

the sacred breed to-day.pga Practically nothing has been doing in Some, inventive mind declared that any grade of Carbolic And Pitch the Ministry had sent forth to the local laws for approval by the Ministry continues wreak and low prices are authorities of seaside a circular re- of Health. One of these sa diafted being accepted for near delivery.

Sundries--American Pearl Starch commending by-laws which should stipulated for universal bathing make it an offence for any bather to costumes reaching from the shoul eastward; for I had occasion the Municipal Court of the Broux district, has been offering at lower figures and wear less costume than one which ders to within four inches of the knee.

one of the boroughs of New York has commanded more attention extends from the "neck to within The Ministry struck out these latter Then, at the door of the bank, I City, The ruling was delivered pecially for forward shipment; stocks four inches of the knee." But the words. It is, on that ground, accused found frost matter for reflection. When, after several hours' discussion, here are lighter. Only limited vision which instantly rises of in of recommending them to all and The assistant manager, Mr. Colby, counsel bailed to agree on the selec business has been done in Japanese spectors on all the populous foreshores sundry, Saah is the life of the Gor I stood aside, he walked with her to clothing manufacturer sued two re has been confined to small late from there on parade is fallacious. It will that dreams are made of are the was escorting a lady to the door. As tion of a jury to try a case in which Farina and trade in the Dutch product applying tape measures to the legs ernment functionary, and of the stuff a handsome car which waited, and tailors for the recovery of money stock. Dextrine has been in steady not happen. There is nothing true charges brought against him That, handed her in with marks of great alleged to be due to him.

request at lower prices, Sulphate of in the story of the circular, or no more no doubt, is one of the morals of the

to Bristol, and the latter started and BLONDES "TOO FICKLE," paled. He turned to me.

"They haven't overlooked him this:

!

time, Mr. Cavanagh," he said. "Ace JUDGE REFUSES THEM ON JURY. pulos has been found dead in his room, nearly decapitated 1”. -u

Blonde women are ineligible to Bristol started immediately for serve on juries is the dictum of Judge Soho and I parted from tim in the Viam Morris, of the First District Strand, he proceeding west, and I

→ } morning to call at my bank. /

0.8. MARINE ENGINEERS' STRIKE TERFATENED.

NEW YORK, April 25, A great strike of marine engineers and allied workers is threatened on May 1. Trade union circles state that British engineers have deferred negotiating with their employers until April 29 in order to await the

outcome of the situation in America.

RECEIVED BY THE QUEEN.,

LONDON, April 25.-

and Mrs. Wellington Koo.

stately manner.

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deference. She was heavily veiled I am sick and tired of hearing you Barytes has been moving more freely. truth than there was in Falstaff's affair. The other, which, we recom and I had no more than a glimpse of men argaing about the relative merits Trade in Turpentine confinnes anall, tale of the fighting on Gadahill That mand to the inventors of the story, her, but she appeared to be of middle of jurymen," anounced the judge. there being very little confidence is to say, a Ministry of Health does to the rulers of seaside towns, and to The Queen received the Siamese Minister, and Mr. Navarath, and Mr. and had gray tidy, and a very "I will put a quietus on both of you the market. Parafin Wax and Scale exist, and so do bathing costumes; all who may be tempted to meddle by making up the jury of men and are only in poor demand and prices are but no circular issued by the first ever with other people's bathing costumes, I told myself that I was unduly women.

lower. Superphosphate continue in applied to the second. So the Minis is that by doing so they will only be suspicious, suspicious of every one. Then while the court officials were good request and heavy shipments are ty more in sorrow than in anger, come a laughing stock. The subject and of everything; yet, as I entered busy in the lobbies collecting the arriving. There has been a fair protests and sets forth the amall, dull is one of those which nobody can touch the bank I found myself wondering necessary number of jurywomen the quiry for Bone Meal and makers are hum which this efferent without disaster. A man who shown where I had aces that dignified gray-judge leaned over his desk and said well supplied with orders, Cod Liver con grew. The Eural District Buy Tichoston in that direction 4 atrod Bgre before, area. to the clerk of the court. There will 01 has fallen about 60/- per barred Council of the Isis of Thanet sub instantly suspected of weakness of in

My business musacted. I came out be so blondes on this jury. Blandes during the month. sgaff by the sido engrance" which) are too Bickle”

misted in the ordinary routins

AMERICA AND GERMANY.

ASHINGTON, April-25- The Senate foreign affairs committee has reported favourably on Senator. Koor's resolution to declare the state of

Germany ended.