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MONDAY, JULY 11, 1921.

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GENERAL ITEMS.

The King's yacht "Britannia" is being put into racing trim again.

Milk bas dropped to 48. a quart at the Sandback, Cheshire; in London it ja still Ed. a quart.

Sires August 1914 $18,805,177 has tea awarded in the Admiralty Prize Court, of which about half has been paid out.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

THE KWANGSI WAR,

One fatal case of plague, Chinese, ADVANCE TOWARDS NANNING.

was reported on Saturday.

Messrs J. Ullman' and Q.. advertise a fine assortment of per fumes just received from Paris.

An advertisement in this issue apnounces that the Committee of the British Legion (Hongkong and China Branch) would be grateful if firme having vacancies on their staff would notify the Hon. Secretary (Mr. H. K. Holmes, Land Office, Court of Justice) to that effect stating their requirements, and thus possibly assisting unemployed ex-Service men to obtain work.

A: Foon, a shroff employed by the Kong Heng Cheong vegetable stall at the Central Market, reported to the police yesterday that he was sent by his master to collect $20 from the Hop Yik vegetable stall, in the Yaumati Market. He had received the money and was on his way back to the ferry, when passing an isolated piece of ground in Yaumati he was

assaulted by a man who relieved him of the money and then ran away in the direction of Honghom police, who doubt the truth of the

The

story, are investigating the matter.

CANTONESE CLAIM FURTHER SUCCESSES,

LOCAL PIRACY.

TRADING LAUNCH ROBBED.

PIRATES AS PASSENGERS.

Piracy in Chinese waters was re- ported by the master of the trading The repeated success of the launch Takhing." on arrival here Cantonese Amy in the northernst 7.80 last night. Leaving Autau section of Kwangtung has entirely a Chinese territory at 10 sim, with freed that region of kwangsi troops, cargo and 47 passengers for Hongkong, who entered the province at the the vessel had been steaming for outbreak of hostilities. Following the about 20 minutes, aud was still in recapture of Yangshan, and Lin Autau Bay, when he heard a com Yuen, the Canton Times is informed motion on the steerage deck. A that the Cantonese troops have now moment later a man entered the wheel retaken Lin Shan the last city rear house, and at the paint of a revolver the border in the hands of the inforced him to steer straight ahead. vaders only a week ago. Now tha: When they, neared Sanhui, the man the Kwangsi troops have been defeat-ordered him to stop the launch. ed in the north and the Cantonese (Two sumpans then came alongside Army in other sections is meeting and took eight men ashore. After with great success, there is no danger the pirates had gone. he discovered of the invaders ever threatening the that $540 had been stolen from the province in that direction, adds the compradore's rotu. Two rifles and Canton paper.

| 250 rounds of ammunition were taken

The main force of the Cantonese from the guards' quarters. The two troops in the, Wehow section has guards werp taken by surprise ard Penetrated into Kwangsi and that in relieved of their revolvers and am- the scathera section of the providee munition pouches. The passengers is displaying a strong defence in were robbed of clothing, jewellery. checking the invaders from coming and money valued at over $2,00% in that direction.

All who claim to be Stevensonians will be interested in the ATTOLECU ment that 2 London bookshop is offering for sale a four-line manu saript poem by RL.S.

in Sven san's autograph, and initialled by him- sell, with the date. 1887. The tie piece is eno of those which the novelist-poet W25 accustomed te When a cat caught a young star write as a greeting to his wile aling at Acton, W., the mother-bird Having been defeated by the

"With the Cantonese troops in the each New Year. it has not hitherto flew at the cat and peeked it vig-guards of a certain village near southern part checking the invaders been published, and is, of course, orously on the head, but in vain. Samabui on a previous raid which and the north free, the main force in copyright. The author of "Treasure

resulted in the death of four of Wuchow is devoting its entire atten- The death is announced of the their number, bandits organisedtion to advancing toward Nanning. Island was of all men, most happy i in his form of greeting, and especially wife of Marshal Hindenburg, aged another raid and this time, began the While the allied forces from Yunnan

The GL, who accompanied her husband to attack at midnight. They succeed to those whom he laid dear. little pom begins: What can 1 Poland as a hospital nurse early ined in ransacking the village, the

and Kweichow are making rapid " and those four words the war.

total loss sustained by the villagers

progress toward the same direction wish extraded to four lines yield a most

amounting to thirty bead of buffaloes, and the Peking authorities are power- effective and tenderly dilicate gem.

cot to mention a large sum of money less to send assistance, it will not be and considerable valuables. The long before Nanning is captured and "A Jolly Good Sock."*

captain of the village guards was the Kwangsi warlord ousted from his injured and four aged spokesmen of throne." the village were taken out to the village limit and shot. Nons of the bandits was captured, reports the Canton Times.

Musicians in the Olympic, by mears of wireless telephones, entertained the "Aquitania's passengers to banjo selections, while the ships were at sea 270 miles apart.

The gut of to-day is getting a great deal of unpleasant attention from the peopi: who specialise in ad- vice. Only the olur day she was teing denounced for indulging in sports that are declared to unft her for motherhoed, and now she has ven characterised by some speakers of Bristol as "only out for a good red or purple. tim and incapable of responsible i citizenship." Of course, there al-

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Striped stockings that will "marry themselves," as the Parisienne says. with the shoes which they accompany are to be worn with summer frosks in France. The stripes will be yellow,

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A wife told the Highgate magis ways have been croakers who despair- trate that she pawced her wedding ed of the modern girl, and I suppose ring to get food, and that her hus she has been so long and persistently band, getting the ticket, redeemed assailed that it is matter for surprise the ring, refused to give it to her, that our young women's work and wore it himself. war ought to have sikrced the croakers for ever, and that the modern girl

to her never has had justice dore She is simply and sincerely a jolly

good sort.

Asleep On A Mine.

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The various types of aeroplanes own during the war are included in the design of a memorial erected in St. Mary's Church, near the Scampton and North and South Carlton aero- dromes, near Lincoln.

A drifting mine which came ashore

Bounding down the mountain side, en the Durham coast some time ago,

an amusing incident an avalanche of large rocks, one of gave rise to which might, however. have easily them weighing more than 2 tons, wrecked the small station of Tenay resulted in a tragedy;

On a Saturday afternoon the Mine-pear the Swiss frontier, on the line

from Paris to Geneva. sweeping Division at the Admiralty | received a long-distance telephone call from the local Durham police. dogs (which are making as much as £500 or £700) are sending experienc-

who stated that a mine had been

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WATER POLO.

R.HKY.C. vs. R.G.A.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE

BRITISH LEGION. Hongkong & China Branch).

THE COMMITTEE of the BRITISH

LEGION, would be grateful if firms having vacancies on their staff would notify the Bon. Secretary, (MR.) . F. HOLMES, Land Office, Courts of Justice) to that effect stating their requirements, & thus possibly assist tnemployed Ex-Service men to obtain

work.

CHEFALO

will be at

The water poto enthusiasts of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club have been putting in some hard work at the game, and to-night a team is to be selected to play against the Royal Garrison Artillery on Wednesday at 6 p.m. It will be the "Royals" Grst appearance in a real match and the given result of the fixture will be watched THEATRE

A Chinese man and a womanwere this morning charged before Magis trate Orme with the unlawful possession of 160 lbs of dynamite and fuses. The man said that he bought the explosives from tbe woman in order to catch fish. The woman denied this and said that the mas engaged her junk to transport cases which she did not know con tained dynamite. After Lance Sergeant Maskell had evidence regarding the Inspector McDonald'said that each of the boxes weighed about four stones. Altogether approximately 1 CL of the explosive was seized. The бrst defendant admitted that he had been catching fish with dyna mite for a long time, this in spite of the fact that he had lost an eye in an explosión some time ago. The Magistrate sentenced the man to two months' hard labour and the woman to one month. The contraband was

French breeders of Alsatian wolf | confiscated,

washed ashore, but that before they led commercial travellers to push the or the Coastguard eculd warn poeple sale of the breed in the principal off, a miner-who had lunched well countries of the Continent. -had clambered on top of it and i gone to sleep.

What were ther to do?

The number of visitors to the They Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, were given strict injunctions not to N.W., during April was 113.629 and attempt to arouse the man. because the receipts for admission £3,519. in waking up suddenly he might break The total number of visitors from one of the horns." with disastrous January 1 to April 30 was 342,646. results to himself and others.

Two hours later the police, in a very relieved velce, reported that the man had awakened of his own accord and had slid off the mine into safety. ---Morning Post.

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Smelling salts is a preventive of sea sickness, says Dr. Robert A. Fleming, of Edinburgh, in the British Medical Journal. He experimented on two passengers on a rough Channel passage with "wonderful results."

seizure,

CHINESE INDUSTRY.

AN AMBITIOUS SCHEME.

"COMPANY WITH $150,000,000 CAPITAL."

The Canton Times is staggered by a report in the vernacular press that from certain Chinese capitalists abroad are proposing to organise a huge company with a $150,000,000 to establish a tea fac- capital of tory in Fukien, a sugar facturing and refining company in Kwangtung, a silk factory in One of London's famous old Aus-

At the conference of the National and a bank in Shanghai.

Chekiang, a cotton mill in Kiangsu Iralian clippers is.

Be after various

Association of Schoolmasters at sides these enterprises, says the vicissitudes, about to come up for Cardiff a resolution was carried de

report, these ambitious capitalista

An Old London Clipper.

maru-

auction in the City. This is the full-manding on moral, physical, and are going to open a steamship com rigged iron strip "Hesperus," which in psychological grounds that boys from parry, and mining concern. The the nineties ran regularly between 7. to 17 should be taught by men sole object of the proposed organisa. the Thames and Australia, carrying teachers.

tion is to manufacture and export passengers and a large company of cadets. The good ship Hesperus" and}

machinery.

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As the King's bounty of £3 could native products and to import foreign a similar packel. the "Harbinger," not be claimed owing to one of the wore acquired in 1890 by Messrs. triplets dying, the King has sent £2been appointed by the organisation Two gentlemen are said to have Devitt and Moore, who carried on to the mother, Mrs. Forrester, of to make a general survey of the pos what was known as the Brassey Carlisle, whose husband is out of work sibilities in China while the chairman scheme of ocean training. Year and 2 of her 6 other children are in of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce after year the "Hesperus" ran out to the infirmary.

at Rangoon and the chairman of the Melbourne, making the passage on

Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Manila will look after the matter of soliciting shares to the proposed organisation.

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one occasion in 69 days from the When returning from the South Lizard. Given the luck of the winds Goodwis lightship to Deal the she was a speedy craft, and her old chaplain and crew of the Missions to master, Captain Barett, well knew Seamen buat had a 5 minutes' view how to drive the last knot out of her. | during a slight baze of a mirage

On her homeward runs she came by which reflected in the sky three ships MUI TSAI IN HONGKONG. way of the Cape of Good Hope, mak-sailing on the water.

ing a call at St. Helena, In 1899

Truth of Jupe I says:--I am sorry

to see that the writer„of the article

an Hongkong in the Empire Number

she passed to the Russian flag, and Treasures of great antiquarian in under the name of Grand Duchess terest are believed to lis buried in Maria Nikolaevna was kept at work the mud of the moat round the of the Times attempted to excuse the as a training ship. She has now Bishop of London's palace at Fulham, continued toleration in that colony come back to England being at 15. W. An antiquarian correspondent of the Chinese custom of "mui tsai,” present moored in Wallasey Dock, suggests that this mad should be dug which covers what is really a system Birkenhead. Once again she is and sifted before the moat is filled by | of child slavery. The statement that under the British flag, and bears the the Fulham sanitary authorities. the many questions on the subject in name "Silvars." A beautiful example

mest.

...

the House of Commèns have been

of a Clyde-built clipper, the old "If you want to me a monument met with replies "in the direct "Hesperus" has had her full share of aised to tenacity you must not go to negative" is not according to service, but being a staunchiy-built he. Dardanelles: you must come to Eansard. The Colonial Office bas iron packet, there may yet be before Warwickshire," said General Sir Ian been unable to deny the essential her a further useful spell of employmemorial to the 20th Division on the sack verbal quibbles as speaking of Hamilton when unvelling a monolith | facts, though it has had recourse to

spot on the London road near Raghý | sales of girls for money payments as where the King reviewed the division | “transfers.” Quite recently the Un- A merry crowd of holiday-makers before its departure for the front. der-Secretary admitted that the in' a West London suburb, the other |

custom has been declared legal in diording were waiting to go for a A fireman named Llewellyn MorgKO, *China generally," but added that it motor-coach ride to Brighton. They working at Bettlafield Colliery: Flat nevertheless remaida « widespread. had all booked sexts and arrived in abire, who collapsed and died while there. Hongkong, however, is not good time. The coach did not come walking on a plank, was found with a China genérally," beita British at the appointed hour, and at last it chestnut in his throat. It is thought colony. The local police courts and dawned on the expectant passengers that as be stumbled the jerk caused the feemi newspapers have provided, that they might have been tricked. the mut, which he was, appuently more than enough evidence of the They reported the matter to the carrying in his mouth, to dip into iniquities of the system to justify the police.

bie jullet

demand for its suppression.

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with a good deal of interest.

PASSENGERS.

DEPARTURES.

Fer: "Diwan" on Friday:-Mr J. V. C. Earis, Mr, Melonie, MT. Uge jima, Mr Hagiwara, Mr and Mrs KTO Hai Chwan Mr Targ Pui Wa. Mr W. M. Dempster, He O. H. Soper, Mr and Men C. D. Bilas. M. McCallum, Mr P. R.

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ALI, preliminary notices of forth. coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the China Mail, The 8-a Protesilaus," Bine Funnel'are charged for at the rate of $1 each, Line) left Bhimonoseki on July 10 for (as announced in May and June of Hongkong and is doa here on July 14. -last year) providing that they do not

The N. . . "Kitano Mara," occupy more than four lines. (European Line) left Londos for this future if this space is exceeded they port vis Buez on June 25 and is expected will be placed in the advertising here on August 3.

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