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B TTOMLEY.

SEORETS OF HIS LIFE.

PRICE OF PERORATIONS.

Mr. Henry J. Houston, "cosfidant and secretary" to Horatio Bottomley, now undergoing seven years" penal

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servitude for frand, tells several good stories of his employer in the News of the World,

"Of his passion for champagne dozens of good stories could be told." he says. "I remember arriving with bim in the small hours of a Sunday morning at Carlisle, where he was to: address recruiting meetings.

"All went well until 11 o'clock. That

of

decided on first in the preparation any spouch he made, and loftiness of the peroration depended solely on the receipts,

* For an audience that bad quly

mustered £50 as his share of the re- ceipts his stock peroration was an ap- peal to the public to rally round the throne of the Empire, to regard their Majesties as the personification of the national unity, and whether they be that the King was the hereditary lieved in a monarchy or not, to realise President of the British Empire, Forget politics and politicians,' were the concluding phrases. Remember the words of the grand old anthem, which says, "Confound their politics. God save the King."'

HIGHER ELOQUENCE.

"For £75 the rescribed peroration concluded something like this:

"When this great nation emerges was an important hour for H.B. At from its period of trial-as, please five minutes to eleven indulgence in God, it will-we shall stand erect alcohol was to him a vicious babit. At shoulder to shoulder before the world 11 o'clock it was an imperative and declare with one voice that necessity. I never knew him to drink: Britain is the "Land of Hops and before that hour, and I never knw Glory, Mother of the Free"--and so him happy if the thirst-quenching on until 'God who made ne mighty ceremony was delayed much beyond shall make us mightier yet.

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A slightly higher degree of loquence was prescribed in the scale perorations for audiences that pro- duced from £75 to £100.

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WATER CARRIAGE

SYSTEM,

THE CHINA MAIL.

SANITARY BOARD'S POLICY.

SUN TALKS AT SHANGHAI

A MANIFESTO ISSUED.

WHAT HE THINKS OF CHAN.

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The aspal fortnightly meeting of the Banitary Board was held yester day afternoon.

SHANGHAI, Augu t 16.

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KISSED BY PIRATES,

WOMEN PASSENGERS* ORDEAL IN BLACK SEA.

Baven Georgians, short, dark- visaged men with long hair and sagged

Tot era to day issued & mani-clothes, were tried by an oxtraordinary Levant court hitting at Air-en- Provence, uear Marseilles, for piracy.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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Mr. D. W. Tratman presided, and

festo, there were present Hon. Mr. T. Lhin references

a feature of which in

to the Perkins (DP.W.), Dr. W. W. Pearse

Canton revolt.

! This Levant court dates back to the "The real facts are," (M.O.H.), Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son,

time when the Sultan of Turkey Mr. 8. W. Teo, and Mr. O. M: W. he says, "that Chan Ewing ming allowed French courts to have juris. Reynolds (Secretary).

instigated the second division of the etion over crimes committed in the The only business before the commerce attack, Brst looting then Levant. meeting had reference extension of the water carriage systemcendiariem. Chan Ewing ming was bombarding and committing in- na the Peak.

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French liner "Boairah," 2 839 tons, Altogether thirty pirates, disguised as passengers, were on board the which left Batom, in the Black Res. Marseilles on May 6, 1920, with 1400 passengers. About two hours

Applications from three houses in determined to destroy the Govern Bevern Road and No. 142, The Peak ment and drive me into a death trap, were referred to the meeting.

bat I

escaped And The Chairman moved that the applications be recommended to the accordingly tried to camouflage his Government subject to the following ment to force me into political retire attempted assasination, as a more- conditions:-

(1.)-The installation shall only met."A regards the present sitna- be made when the Director of Pabtin in China to-day Bun says the con lis Works certifies that the water when parliament is again functioning stitutionalist movement will terminate

completely fre ly. What, however, ia, for the security of permanent prace. immediately urgent i to devise meep

He still thinke the scheme of formin labour Fattalions out of disbanded

supply is available;

(2.) That storage cisterns, if pro vided, shall be screened to prevent their breeding mosquitoes;

(3)-That the servants' latrines

of these premises shall also be cold'ers is a good prescription for the structed on the water-carriage national ill-Reuter. system,

Dr. Pearce said a small storage. tank was advisable in case the water supply was cut off for repair work.

Mr. Parkina agreed with the de eirability of the suggestion, but said it would be disadvantageous if the general water supply of the house

were drawn from the tank which was apt to be neglected and the advantage in emergency would be nullified if the water was below the proper standard of cleanliness.

The Chairman: Would the water supply be drawn from the tank!

The Director of Public Worke: If it was not, there would be no supply for drinking when the water was cut off.

AT VLADIVOSTÓK.

A WAVE OF IMPERIALISM.

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after the ship left the gang threatened with revolvers, put the wireless ap the captain and wireless operators Paratus out of action, and robbed the passengers, who were compelled to

the hands of the women before taking open their trunks.

The leaders, who wore waske, kissed their rings, and loft the passengera with small change, even giving some

a them a few coins stolen from others.

Among the parengors was Mrs. Hoekell, wife of the United States Commissioner to Armenia, who, with her two children, was robbed of every thing.

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The pirates next compelled the captain to stop the ship and forced the crew to put them and their plan.. der ashore. Their haul amounted to £80,000. The men new on trial are alleged to be members of the gang,

TEETHING CHILDREN.

PEKING, Aug: 15. According to Japanese telegram from Vladivostok a recent meeting called to elect a new head of the Go- vernment declared in favour of im ·To thing children have more or less perial Russia resolving that power to

Diarrhea, which can be controlled b appoint a chief executive in Visdives-choes Rdy. All that is i giving Chamberlain Gli and Diur to lay solely with the Romanoff to give the prescribed dose as

....1 house. In the absence of a repre operation of the howels more than sentative of the former imperial fami- natural and then cas or oil to clonuse On this particular occasion I rang

should certainly not have it connected. Dieteriche be placed at the head of quickly cut by her sale by all The Medical Officer of Health: Ily, however, it was resolved that the most severe and dangerous cases arr the system. It is asfe and sare. Even promptly for the waiter and demanded a bottle of Pommery, 1906, bis

The Director of Public Works: If the Government and the latter took Chemi ts and torekeepers. favourite brand. Quite impossible, said the waiter. Sunday was a day ran, we shall be able to look the objection.

When this tragedy is over, it it is not connected, I should raiss no úlfice as dictator from M. Merkulov on

August, 8 On August 10 the cop of total prohibition in Carlisle.

whole world in the face and say that The Chairman suggested the follow-ference adjourned after appointing an **Send the manager up,' said 'H.B.'

this country, this England, has come ing amendment to clause 2, above:-executive council of forty members "The manager came, and Mr. out of this ghastly conflict with its That if, in the opinion of the Director and inter alia, resolving that all re Bottomley began one of his usual name ansullied, its escutcheon clean, of Public Works a storage tank is pablicans and socialists should be ex wheedling spproaches. All without an example and precept for all man and duly acre-acd, and not be M. Merkulov has been appointed to desirable, such tank aball be provided pelled from the martips provizes success. The manager was adamant. kind to follow.

"But, protested Mr. Bottomley, The grand petoration was

connected with the base supply. this is a serious neglect of duty on served for audiences that produced seconded. and the resolution, as

represent the new government af The Medical Officer of Health Washington.-Reuter. your part. I wrote you asking for anything over £100. When that news balf a dozen bottles to be placed in was conveyed to him he would say:

amended, was approved. my room, and nothing has been done." Right! I will trot out " the Prince" For a while the manager protested to right. That was a reference to that he had never received the letter, the fact that the peroration concluded. but-after H. B. had inquired if he with an allusion to the Prince of seriously intended to penalize a guest Penco. for the delinquencies of the Postmaster-General, the bottles were will read this with horror; but there is "People of a religious turn of mind produced:

"As a matter of fact, nosach letter at no time in his life had the slightest no ase disguising the fact that "H.B." was ever written, but 'JI. B. having sensitiveness on the subject givan his personal assurance of the religion. despatch of the missive, the manager, on the promise of being furnished with a copy of the letter, authorised the issue of the necessary stores.

Well, that's that!' was 'H. B.'s only comment as he raised his glass to myself and the manager, who joined

AMONG THE GIANTS.

and comb and impart an upward curl

A FAILURE IN THE CITY.

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of

RED FLAG" IN CHURCH

COURT ORDERS REMOVAL.

WIFE'S HONOUR.

JUDGE AND FRIVOLOUS DIVORCE SUIT.

The hearing was conclu 'ed in the

distory Court at Chelmsford, Essex, Mr. Justice Balter of the divorce pat- of Thaxted, Dunmow, Essex, a Con- Divorce Court in mail week before

On the petition of the parishioner

granted a faculty directing the reition in which Mr. Louis Duerden unally elated by very heavy box: had been placed there by the vicar, allaged the misconduct of his wife,

Sometime, when he was flag from the parish church. The lags of

moval of a Sirn Fein tag and a Bed Douglas Sewell, a veterinary surgeon, office returns, he would say "the Rev. Conrad Noel

Elizabeth-street, Westminster,

not only lead them to the Prince of asked for the removal of the flags on give them something to-night. I'H,

Beatrice Marion, with Mr. Donald The parishioners, it was stated, Spicer. The allegations were denied. Peace but I will lift aside the curtain the grounds that they were placed iu went to Franse in 1917 as an officer Mr. Sewel's case was that when he and take them right inside! the church without a faculty and that in the Army Veterinary Corps be asked ventured to refer to his levity, ho they were illegal ornaments. Four his friend Corporal Spicer to look after would say: 'It's all right. The or five times between May and July his wife and assist her on her removal "He had one littla vanity about bis | public like it, so what does it matter? last year the flags were torn down and from Aldershot to Chertsey, his hair," Mr. Houston continues, "after That was the precise state of his replaced. Once they were torn down parents' home. He alleged that during he had submitted impatiently to the conscience on the matter. barber, he would always take a brush

by Cambridge undergraduate.the ten days that Hrs. Sowell stayed A other time people invaded the at Aldersbot Mr. Spicer visited her "In financial matters his character church with laddere. A man scaled s and that there was misconduct. to the back of his hair. In other represented a perfect contrant. When ladder, took down the Red fag and specte his egotium was colossal. big financial schemes were sfoot he put it in his pocket.

Mrs. Sewell said that during her Around bis room at King 'reet he would display a recklessness that was grabbed at the pocket and pulled out at her rooms four or five times in the Mr. Noel ten days at Aldershot Mr. Spicer was hang portrait studies of great figures in amazing. The thrill of a battlefing which proved to be a Union ovaninge. He came to nistory. There were Napoleon, Brad- of wits

see her at against other langh, Haig, Foch, Beatty, Kitchener, men was the most stimulating tonic police, "I give this man (Mr. Noel) in tion three or four times,

clover Jack. The invader" raid to the Chertsey at her father in-law's invita The Saviour and Bottomley! He he could have. loved to sen himself among the gianta.

charge fo picking my pocket." "Yet in one respect he exhibited a *He was particular about having a meticulous scrupulosity in finance, extremely undignified thing for the

Mr. Charles, K.O. (presiding): A crowded ball to bear him. Empoy He would never knook a book-Ifouse of God. Beata, wounded his vanity deeply, and, maker. A lost bet was in his eyes a Mr. Conrad Noel said the flags were if necessary, people were to be paid debt of honour absolutely sacred. first placed in the church in 1916. to occupy them. He insisted. tuo, that To pay such a debt promptly he de disturba.ces were not caused by the applause marking his entry on the would borrow, if necessary, at an parishioners, but by strangera who platform should ever be left to extortionate rate of interest.

forcibly entered the church. This Red "Then the money obsession reacheded with being a clever City man. As

"Bottomley has often been credit: fing was not a Bolshevist fing. stage when he felt that he could not a matter of fact, he was always a raid that the flaga had been a definite Mr. Charles, granting the faculty, go on the platform until he knew completa failure in the City and in locus of disorder in Thaxted Church how much was in the house.*

chaare,

panies be founded had more than aj business generally. None of the com- aladowy foundation.

*Asr liable information concerning the receipts was rarely available until the meeting was alm at due to start, "The City only attracted him as e When H. B. was usually in an sate possible happy hunting ground for room of the ball being lionized by the the sport of money-making, and he decal potabilities who were to support only remained there while he could de

KOFEMENTS OP. STRAMERS.

"

Canada" from Hongkong on July 28 The CP., RM.5. "Empress of arrived at Vucouver og tag. 14.

The C.P. R.44.8 Empress of

Mr. Patrick Hastings, K.C., her since -No. counsel: Have you ever seen him

with him 1-No.

Have you at any time been in love

:

Has he ever kissed you?-No. tainly not.

Have you ever kissed bim-1-Cor- Have you over committed adultery with him?-Certainly not. for the husband, Mr Sewell said that Cross-examined by Mr. J.D. Causals, at Aldershot Mr. Spicer usually left her rooms about 10 p.m.

Were you and he ever together, alue in your bedroom -No, oh, yes, but the door was ope, and I Washing his bands. might have walked in when he was

it tamaud is due at Manila on Aug. to at p.m. lea 3 Slaughst on Aug. is on commission before he left for Naw

10 at 6 a..

bim on the platform, I Lad to devine this. His knowledge of finance Australia" arrived at Shanghai oo Avg. A code in order to convey the desired prao'ically nil. information to bim without disclosing *Distance and directions were hid to those around him the sordid den mysteries to him., Two hundred character of his chial interest, miles conveyed nothing to him and "That train you were inqu'tig afforded no clue as to the time it about leaves as 4.15.' I would say to would take to cover it. Of the psi-nd Manil, boir due ut Hongkong bim when my assistant had advited tions of towns and cities in the Unit-on Aug. 21.

red at Yok hama on Aug 16 and anile The F.K.K.... "Taiyo Mard" ar Aug is via Kobe, agasaki, Shinghat

read the evidence of Mr. Spicer, taken Mr. T. Buokaill, for Mr. Spicer,

Zealand. It said that he was a mar- Sew, before leaving, Aldershot, ried man with three, «ildren. Mr. asked him to do everything be could" for his wife and he acted in accordance with this request, visiting her simply in the ordinary way of "Once when we had finished a late lie and Diarrhoea Remedy because it

Physicians proscribe Chambariaiu's misconduct or familiarity.. erting at Manchester he asked where relieves cramps in the steach a d - 24-25,7 He had à seci s of stock perora he was to speak next day. It was intestinal

Mr. Justice Salter: I think that to ting, graduated into degreas of Sunderland. When I told him he repreparation they.can.compound,deco years or so ou such beidense as this pains quicker than any bring a charge of adultery after four eléquence and loftine of thought plied, Gut auxi and let us go now, bought from any ducatis. A bottle borders on the frivolous. The peß- Te perorations were his great I'dn't want to stay in Manchester complete without The For sale by all tion fails completely and must d

will keep for year, and no home is intials. They were always to-night !'"

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me

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