DUBLIN TO-DAY.
EXTRAORINARY DISCLOSURES.
Outwardly the tides of Dublin life fow much as they, have always done. Grafton Street of afternoons is as thronged as in pre-war days with shoppers and lounges, crowds be slege the picture houses, unarmed police regulate the traffic, urarmed soldiers, with güls on their arms, pro- menade College Green as unconcerned- by as if Irish front were a newspaper invention. No visitor, however short his stay, is likely, it is true, to escape the sight of lorries packed with troops in steel helmets rumbling through the streets, or of the swiftly careering Crossley tenders, perched on which Auxiliaries, fingers on the triggers of their automatics, rake the passers-by with watchful eyes. But, aspept for ninn v'dlock curfew, a stranger, pre- perly shepherded, might see little or nothing that would lead him to be
THE CHINA MAIL.
arrest is equivalent in the eyes of STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
the other to a declaration of hostility.
JUDGE'S CAUSTIC COMMENT,
NŠ.
LOANS TO CHINA “LOÁRS TO CARICA'S TRADE.
FOUR-POWER AGRETHEL,
NEW FINANCIÁL VONBOR==1UM..
SASTERN OFFENSIVE.
LA ANOTHER HONGKONG.
ington. It is learned here American commercial
in the Far East will
Curfew, which was fired first at ARMY OFFICER EVADES DERTS. midnight, and then two haws earlier, is now at mine s'elbek.· Ant long- before the official time the streets are clear of all save those who have
There is nowadays no systematic no objection to taking, risks The
The Fortin Office has issued the majority of the old and "eren" the reporting of actions in the Law middle-aged rarely venture abroad Courts, and many cases of interest correspondence relating to the fe ma after nightfall, except urgent bast-Bass unnoticed in the London daily tion of the new financial consortium by be the major movement, in ness compels Not, indeed, that they papers. For instance, a week or twn for providing Chins with bending world shifting of ocean
ago Mr. Justice McCardle heard in are much safer at home.
There is scarcely a street in Dublia the King's Bench an action in which capital required for construch routes, planned to build up
works,
which Briti Pacific trade in order to offset where the inhabitants have not been the Statute of Limitations was plead roused in the small hours by the ed under circumstances which deserve French American, and Japanes in commerce with Burope and hammering of rifle butts on door attention. The plaintiffs, Joharan, banking groups are participati America. The programme in- panels, and peering cautiously have Limited, tailors, sued, Major Herbert & summary has already been pes the establishment of new caught a glimpse in the glare of the Stewart Phillips, 27th Light Cavaky, liahod of the actual agreement, dship lines from San Francisco,
and
"attle, New Orleans, searchlights of friends and neighbours lodian Army, for £70, the balance of up, in consultation with the reston, other Gulf and South carried off as prisoners. However an account for goods supplied and Governments, and signed by antic ports New York, Boston strictly a man may have kept the letter delivered in 1910-11. It appeared sentatives of the various grouped Baltimor and a campaign to and the spirit of the law, he has no that on one occasion, when pressed Des. 15 last The scheme origieure heavy nerican investments guarantee that any night he may not by the plaintiffs solicitors for with the United States Gover Japan, Chis, the Straits Settle be seized in bed, bustled into jail, and, settlement, the defendant wrote from whose proposals may be summments and Australis. unless he has friends at court, held Icdia that he would pay when he as follows
Government is to co-operate with for weeks as a suspect. Not so long came home, adding
They must know that I, as a mem
1. The establishment of a private interests in making Manila of international co-operati to American commerce what Gibral four-Power, consortium, cor foreign trade. It is pointed out that the plan involves a programme of Great Britain, France, the careful commercial diplomacy with States, and Japan, sach Po
Japan. stituting representative hanks and financial houses prejudice to the claims off and Russia, be included date.
lieve that the situation is worse than ago the house of an ex-officer was 1 her of the Royal House of Step Chinese fiance in the shantar and Hongkong are to British
it was a year ago.
raided in error. The Auxiliaries rout- To Dubliners, however, the ed out an old bayonet brought home difference is startling. Little things as a war soavenir. Refusing to listen sometimes bring it home more vividly to explanations, the owner was put than sensations that in double-half-dressed into a tender, driven column headlines in the evening found as a hostage for four or five papers. One evening recently I was hours on a bitterly cold night, and passing along Camden Street, a great only escaped imprisonment through popular shopping centre, when a the intervention of an officer who man near me gave a strangled shriek and dropped in some kind of fit. The people close by ran to help, but when I looked up hundreds of people were stampeding wildly There are thrills for the civilian to cover. Nerves, of course. Yet who sits at home once curfew comes, there was some excuse for nerves. There are still more intense thrills The windows of the shup into which for the unlucky civilian who has to was carried be abroad. That the number of such
knew him. If this is the treatment meted out to ex-officers, it is not difficult to imagine what professed Republicans may expect.
would never fail to pay them.
The defendant came home, but the plaintiffs were not paid, and nothing was done in the matter during the war except that, in 1915, the plaintiffs' solicitors communicated with the de- fendant's sister, who, it was under stood, was attending to business of his. The lady replied that she could not trace the account, and asked for particulars of it. Finding that the defendant was back in England at the end of last year, the plaintiffs issued a writ against him. He pleaded the Statute of Limitations. The plaintiffs contended that his sister's letter can stituted an acknowledgment of the debt
Mr Justice McCardie decided that this was not so, and, in giving judgment for the defendant," according to law and precedent," said
Lily Feed
tra-
2. The four groups to sh in all Chinese Government loans, industrial as well as tive and financial, which
but facial public operations Chinese Goverment
issne
not ind
ee.or
THURSDAY, MAY
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
JUST RECEIVED
4.
consignment of Smoked Fish direct from the SCOTTISH FISHERIES,
Fillets, Haddocks,
Kippers.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
WHITEAWAY'S
SHOCKING FATALITY HALF PRICE
A SINGAPORE ACCIDENT.
OLD LADT'S TERNIHLE DEATH.
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were pierced with balf a dozen bullet adventures is steadily diminishing ( which took it out of the Statute, but ƒ a public issue to be opsting sary to record for a long time,
Even
As a result the defendant, an officer Ain His Majesty's Service, having
A terrible road fatality, the Nike of which it has happily not been neces
and future options, exf
3. The groups to Pch con- occurred in North Bridge Road, cessions as might be al opera-opposite St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. It resulted in the death
tion
the unfortunate man
holes, the result of a volley fired a need not be wondered at. few evenings before after an attempt three months ago shots at night were to bomb a military lorry. Dubliners still a sensation; now nothing short may be jumpy, but they manage at of a volley at close quarters provokes critical junctures to adjust themselves surprise. Not all these shots are
4. Each ustional receive of an old lady, Mrs. Boyd, wife of to the situation with less fuss than one discharged at buman targets. would imagine. I learned this another good many rifes go off by accident obtained goods of considerable value the active and exchpport of Mr. Boyd, who is the caretaker of About 7.30, it seems that at a spot right ona tram which stopped sudden in the hands of boy soldiers, and from the plaintiffs and received from its Government in here thus Burlington House, Coleman Street. ly with an ominous jerk. No one knew nervous patrols approaching them every courtesy and considera-indicated. what was happening but amidst con- dark path often fire a few rounds to tion, was enabled to escape liability.
In May, 1919, tatives of directly opposite the block of flats recently erected for a Chinese owner, The Judge's caustic comment the four banking go
fet in Paris
Mrs. Boyd essayed to cross the road fused and threatening shouts outside keep up their hearts. Apparently, a cry was suddenly heard, They're there are either no penalties for speaks for itself. It may be added and drew up a dement fox from the flats side to the Cathedral scing to fire. Instead of the shrieks wasting ammunition or any explana that Major Phillips lately contributed submission to thepectiva Gov-side. She had done so in front of a that might have been expected, every tion is accepted by those ta authority. to the Morning Fost a letter in which ernments. Prolonrespondence tramcar which was approaching from man and woman in the car flopped] An armoured car pulled up the other he advocated cleaner sport and the followed with rege diplomatic a motorbus was also approaching in) ertain points, the direction of Stamford Road; but from their seats without a word flat | night outside a Dubita police station, elimination of undesirables from notably the exted to the British the narrow road track, from the same
a
you'd think yourself damned lucky you weren't-shot."
racecourses.
JAPAN'S CENSUS.
NATIONALS ABROAD,
200,000 IN CHINA.
The number of Japanese residents
Australasia
support to be aco
the
The Straits Times understands that?
VOILES,
PRICE SALE
TOBRALCOS
PIQUES,
GINGHAMS,
MUSLINS.
COMMENCING
ON
TUESDAY, May 17th.
FOR
5 DAYS ONLY.
ALL NEW GOODS
NO PATTERNS. The above goods will be BOLD. FOR QASE at time of purchasement. £4,000 worth of Summer Dress material will be offered at
HALF PRICE.“
These will be îti many cases considerably less than makers* cost, BEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY,
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
HONGKONG.
on the floor. Fortunately it was a Aa officer and sergeant entered to false alarm. Soldiers had halted the make enquiries, and stayed so longį
group by his 1s Government direction, and Mrs. Boyd apparently car merely to search the passer- that the rest of the crew began to gers. I told the incident afterwards grumble. "I fetch 'em out all
and as to the cordon of the group stopped to avoid the bus, which is itself. Certain at claims by stated to have been practically run- to a business man, but instead right," said one of the men; and
Japan in relat Manchuris and sing alongside the tram, and either of being impressed he was critical raising his revolver be fired three
Mongolia also le frank discussion stepped or slipped just beneath the corner of the tramcar. She' 7as run You know," he said seriously, shots in the air. The policeman who "this lying down trick isn't much related the incident told it as an excel-.
between the and Japanese over and killed instantly. A dis tressing feature of the occurrence Governments. good. One of my clerks, who was lent joke. Judging by experience, caught in the Terenure ambush, flung | curfew patrols are usually composed
were, however, was the fact that the body was These diffi himself on the footpath. Next minute of the rawest of raw recruits, who abroad, is frequently the subject of disposed of satisfaction of all rightly wedged beneath the car and every soldier in the forry concentrated look more like schoolboys than sol-speculation. The Tokyo Government parties, and /eptember last the about two hours elapsed before the fire on hint, thinking that he was diers. One bright youth, through has just published the result of its representatr the four Powere in Tramway Company's staff with the potting at them. The trouble is to steer clumsiness, ripped 'from tail to census investigations, from which it | Peking Sed to the Chinese assistance of police and others were know what to do." In Dublin people collar with bis fixed bayonet the appears that-those residing outside Governmze memoranduma in able to jack up the beavy, vehicle have learned to take it for granted waterproof of a journalist whose Japanese territory number; in gross with ametlined the scope and suficiently to allow the many out that they may be fired on at any permit was being examined. To antótal, approximately 650,000, of purposes of scheme and the man- be withdrawn. The horribly muti- moment, and their chief concern is, indignant remonstrance his officer whom 80,000 are living in Kwang ver in wit was to operate. Inflated body was removed to the as my friend put it. to know what replied: "If you knew this private rung Province, 20,000 in Tsingtao, this docft the Ministers stated which had been previously called. mortuary in the Municipal ambulance
to do.”
3.500 in the South Sea Island's under that the nsidered it advisable to The driver of the tramcar was The hours betwen dusk and curfew
Japanese mandate, and 550,000 in are the most dangerous, but the day Curfew patrols may be unpleasant other countries. Of the six Co make thition clear in regard to an arrested and is detained "pending is not without its perils. At any to encounter, but they are angels of tinents Asia heads the list in the essentiafint which might other investigation moment one may find at one's elbow light compared with the unofficial number of Japanese residents, with wise giyse to misapprehension a punctiliously polite agent in mufti people who, armed with pistols, prow! figures approaching 340,000, followed namely, amount of support to be sons-in-law of the late Mrs. Susan who marmurs an invitation to accom- about at their own sweet will during by North America with 140,000, given be respective Goverments Emily Boyd are Messrs. C. Jackson, pany him to the Castle. Should there prohibited hours. Dublin is full of be any hesitation the butt of a relate, of these mystery men, tales America with 50,000, Europe with consort as a whole
with 120,000. South to theptional groups or to the W.R.A. Godfrey and B. Laybourne, who are, with the Eastern Extension volver is promptly produced as a which I flatly disbelieved until I ran 2,000 and Africa with only 70.
"Ito be understood that the Cable Co. warrant. In the Castle Yard papers into a gang myself. It was exactly
Of the Japanese population abroad, Goverite of each of the four are demanded, and, with an assur-like an episode in a film play: Walk a considerable portion is formed of auce that these will be examined as ing along a quiet street well after Koreans and Fersonas, the former particing, groups undertake to speedily as possible, the secret midnight I saw four figures in the numbering some. 130,000 and, the give complete support to their
The Tempo reports from Legboen service officer disappears. Most of distance. There was the usual shout: latter 10,000.
Women residents respe national group members. those who are called upon to undergo
and hands up." I stopped dead, abroad are markedly outcumbered of assortium in operations under that a bomb explosion took place there this ordeal are well aware of its real and two crossed the street to by men, the former numbering takenruant to the inter-group horn railway shortly after the Rome towards midnight on the Rome-Leg- meaning. They know that the wards me, the others heading straight 250,000, as against 400,000 of the amament entered into by the train had passed. It is believed that examination of papers is an excuse, along to cut off my line of retreat. lattes. Classified in accordance with bankat Paris, which arrangement intention was to wreck this train, and that posted behind the windows All were in multi and carried countries, the Japanese in China in turclates to existing and future on which it was supposed Signor overlooking the Yard are dozens of revolvers in their hands. This was number 200,000; in the United loanreements involving the issue Giolitti, the Premier,, was travelling. people who were witnesses of mur disconcerting enough, but as the first States 110,000; in Hawz for scription by the public of loans It transpired, however, that the Pre- ders, or who profess to be able to pair stepped into the light of a street 110,000; in Brazil 30,000; in identify members of the murder lamp I saw that they bad dark Canada 20,000; in the Philippines havya Chinese Government guaranmer took the following train.
An owl's-hooting at night is a very gang." Remembering some of the coloured handkerchiefs wound about 10,000 in the Straits Settlements (and tee bject to the proviso that exist- evidence of identification at resent their faces, leaving only their eyes F. M. ?) 11,000 Selectati ingreements for industrial under-
unlucky omen-in some sections it is courte martial, the stoutest loyalist exposed.
On the 24-seater Lawson Before I had time10,000. In Italy the Japanesë re taka upon which substantial pro-
believed to portend death in the breathes a sigh of relief when the to think I was gripped by each sideats number only 34. in Spain 18. greas been made may be omitted respective markets are to be made at
liners," which are to fly with express family. This superstition is so uni- officer returns his papers with arm and swung roughly round in Belgium 12 and Sweden 10. frothe scope of the arrangement. substantial parity.
Any one or more of the parties who mails between New York, Chicago, verssi, existing not only among rivi apologies and informs him that he is towards the lamp behind Ine, As compared with the returns Tconsortium agreement as appro- free to depart.
with two revolvers at my head. recorded some years ago the Japan vey the four Governmenta, sets ont shall have accepted its or their and other cities, it has now been lized races but among the aborigines. The most innocent behaviour may. Having scanned my features closely ese population abroad, indicates the This agreement is made on the participation in any businema shall be decided to carry passengers, not at of Australia and among the American bring the unwary into the net. A well they asked me what I meant by being decrease by some 300,000. The priple of complete equality in every entitled by notice in writing to call any fixed fee, but as so much a pound Indians, that its origin, like that per- known Government official had an on the streets at that hour, I ex decrease, however, is largely due to rect between the parties, each of the others who propose to issue that according to their weight
few years scarcely exceeding 2,000.
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TRIALS SOLICITED BY JAMES STEER
THE CHRONOMETEK AND;; WATCH, MAXER (Contractor to HL M. Naval Yard) 9, Ios House St, HaraLONG.
BY WEIGHT.
AIK PASSENGER FARKS"
NEW SYSTEM IN AMERICA.
SUPERSTITIONS.
OWL..
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appointment with his wife in the plained that I had a permit. The the withdrawal the Korean W will take an equal share in all own respective participations to isset The question is also being discussed taining to the crow, must be looked centre of the city. She happened to leader, a tall man who, if not settlers, the number of Japanese relations and size all contracts and for the sccount of the pazby or parties in regard to the airways between for in the depressing effect which the be late, and as be stood looking into British officer, mimicked one exoced- turned from abroad during the past r an equal share of all charges giving such notice either all or one-half London and the Continent. Passen./ bird of night with its lugubrious voice a shop window be heard a peremsingly well, ordered me to produce it tory voice in his ear: Walk in and put me through all the regular
pordingly, preliminary advances of the amount which may constitute zera, as well as officials, have raised produced upon primitive man
A very small, light The owl, it is true, in the classic front of me, and turn into the second curfew questions. He, handed the
to be borne by each of the the participation of the party or parties the point.
day, period, was assigned as the bird of street on the right. Don't attempt paper back, and after, a pause one of
rties in equal shares, and each giving such notice, and the party or a was the other
charged an extra fee for some Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, bo- You are covered from the his companions, digging the barrel the reply, “the fellow you've just let it be entitled to participate parties-so-called upon shall issue the excess luggage. Yet the total weight cause the creature has a wise look, to run. other side of the footpath. With a of a revolver into my ribs, said: into the house. It is never an easy ally in the existing agreements and said amount of amounts ("the residue of himself and all his baggage was,
But it never lost its sinister signi. thumping heart the official obeyed: Beat it now; run like blazes job to tell a complete stranger that offer to the others an equal partiary participation") specified : such as he pointed out, less than that of once for the proletariats which is Hall-way down the second street a Shot attempting to escape" was the good liquor has made him see double.pation with itself in suy future loan notice upon sind subject to the terms a heavy fellow traveller who paid no not to be wandered at when we con Barrow unfrequented lane he was formula, that flashed into my mind The task becomes still more difficult
usiness falling within the scope of and conditions laid down in the agree more than the normal fee ordered to halt, and turning round as I turned away. I didn't run; but when the stranger holds a pistol a
If the Continental airways should wider that, in addition to his uncanny saw in addition to the first man three all the way down the street. I kept couple of inches from one's walscoat, he agreement. Should one or more of ment
No participation is to be given by follow the American lead and charge appearance and doleful boot, he is a others, each with his right hand in edging close to the wall, expecting and one's mind is running on the he parties decline a participation inthe his jacket pocket, a pose which every second to get a bullet in the possibility of an unsteady finger press-xisting agreements or in any future any of the parties outside its own passengers, say, at the existing load camivorous bird of prey and that small has only one meaning in Dublin nowa. back. Fortunately for me my friends ing by accident too heavily on theloan business the party or parties ac market. Any participation given in rate, a man of average weight could birds and squizele instinctively st days. The official was searched for were out for loot, not blood. The trigger. I tried to bar persuasive cepting participation will be free to units own market will be for its own travel by air express from London to tack him when he is caught dozing in The American Indian stops where taken to the Castle for violating the of a shop close to where I was stop vehemence Between us we managed or their markets only. arus, and then told he would be next day I learned that the proprietor Se made up for incoherence by dertake the same, but will issue on its account only or in the event Paris for fee of £7:10s. A 15-stone the woods. A
of these including any of man would pay £10 10% while a allitary order against loitering inped had been routed out of bed by to rouse half the street. As window.
All contracts shall so far as posmble the residuary participation for 20-stone traveller would find the cost he is and covers his head in fright when
of tris ticket as high as £74. :- the streets Luckily for him, he was masked me who, onder presence of opened the automatic would be waved
At the new reduced load-rates, he hears an owl hook, in Xach hut able to produce a document which a search for arms, demanded his towards them threateningly and then be made so as not to impose joint liabi- the accounts pro rats of the issuing showed that he was in the Govern keys, cleaned out his sales, and come back with a jak to myty, on the parties, but each shall bank and the party or parties giving which are promised this season, the upon which an owl alights is toen down, ment service. After scrutinising departed to waiscost. The storm died down at everally liquidate its own engage such notice as aforesaid, and in giving normal man would still further the Australians of native race say that this his captors agreed that it was My second encounter, if less spe suddenly as it had risen. He comments or liabilities The parues any such participation the party.com bereft On the weight basis, he he "smells death, vints, the neigh- not Lecessary to detain him. As tacular, was more unnerving, I had descended to examine my permit so far as possible come cerned shall use is best endeavours to would fly between London and Pacis bourhood of the dying and is an agent he was turning Back the man who reached my own door, and as I turned and professed not merely satisfaction to an understanding with re-secure that no part of such participa for £4 138, 9d. The extra space of the 8pit of Evil. In Entope and had stopped hins said. "If, I were the key was congratulating myself but overflowing goodwill. I hope to the realisation of the operation shall be transferred to parties out apart from weight, that a passenger America, an dud hooting news farm you I shoulda't go that way. It's on a safe passage,when figure you're not annoyed old man, he tons, but so that such realisation inside the market. Any other participa takes up must, however, be borne in house caste, a presage of death or dis ride saw you being taken here.Put 'em up and come down). At land, by God, we're going to do it hall be for the separate benefit of each sent of all tie parizes and shall be carries 2,000 of gooda can, for And all this becsum of the fires: pretty certain some of the other lured out of the shadows, shouting said: We have our duty to do.hatever, manner this may take place ton shall be given only with the con- I mind. A 450 11.p. seroplane which aster into the souls of ita habitanta, coly find, space for about the owl's appearance, habits and dinle- now, that you gave us, Informat, cap pulled over bis eyes and the a wow that while finty was being regards their respective participa barne il panel shares by thap 1200th of wright when it is reore for cry maciones
The agreement is to remain in forceental by peager: An extrative mind. He looks wote handal done to this fashion I would make tions there, and so that each shall be
für five years, it my duty to keep inside four walls entitled to realise la part
at any time. average man that to thickly. What other fellow during: Curfew hous"X" in the the operations
side and escape asked. Dos'cy that on came New Statement on
It is understood
They'll probably think, if you go the gate 1 mef a man in mufti, b wasn't annoyed.I with registering
to say the advice inevitable.. mutomātie And it is a pleasant-Where's the other
usues in the by a maj
Phazetermined
this sit and
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