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RED TAPE AND RATS.

An exposé of the red tape of war used for rodents in making' chemical gas tests recently was made in London, writes Norman W. Baxter, special correspondent to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in recalling Ellis Parker Butler's famous story Pigs is Pigs. The story, which always has been re- garded as pure fantasy, now takes place among those on which is based the epigram "truth is stranger than fiction."

The proof of Mr. Butler's story appears in the life of Lord John Fletcher Moulton, just issued by his son, which contains an example of circumlocution in excelsis as astonishing in every particular as that of the American author.

Phone Contra) 1500.

ANONYMOUS LETTER

LIBELS.

ASTONISHING SWANSEA

BTORY...

SHIPPING.

A NEW CITY LINER

PAPPROACHING, MAIDEN VOYAGE,

There has been added another worthy addition to the Ellerman City Line fleet in the City of Canterbury," which has just been put into commission on the com- pany's services.

Built by Messrs Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., at their Wallsend Yard, the vessel is a single-crew passenger cargo steamer constructed to the highest class of the British Corporation. She has the now familiar cruiser shaped stern, is 466 feet in lengthi overall, 56 feet beam, and has a moulded depth of 34 feet 4 inches.. Her deadweight carrying capacity is about 10,000 tons.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LATEST SHIPPING NEWS:

ARRIVALS.

CHINESE JEWS.

AN ISOLATED REMNANT:

Willesden, (Tuen Kee) from Swatow-Kowloon Dock.

Those fellows missed the Yang-tee-klang (Cheong Fat)bus," remarked my host, indicat from Holhow.-West Point

Wingsing, U.M. & Co.) from Canton.-C33.

Hangsang, (J.M. & Co.). from Bangkok, Swatow.C37.

Devawongse, (Cheong Fat) from Amoy,-Off Stonecutters.

Unkai Maru, (Sato & Co.) from Sarawak-Ynimati....

Yuan Hing, (Yuen Seng Fat) from Saigon.-West Point.

Arafum, (M. M. & Co.) from Yokohama, Moji.-A2.

Amakusa Maru, (0.5.K.) from Kecelung, Swatow-Co's Wharf,

Sungshan Maru, (N.Y.K.), from Canton-Off Stonecutters,

Liangehow, (B. & S.) from Can- ton.--Bo

The engines are of the inverted direct acting quadruple-expansion type, working on four cranks, balanced ол the Yarrow, Schlick and Tweedy system and, together with the hoilers four in number, were also construc- ted by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co., Ltd., Wallsend- Tourane-April 5.

Mohon, (Tung Tuck) from ton.-Off Stonecutters.

An astounding series of anony" mous letters, containing defainatory libols on Mr. Lewis Jones, seere tary of the South Wales Siemen-Tyne. Steel Association, Swansea, wer road to the Swansea magistrates when Annie Mitchell, a shop assist ant, appeared in the dock.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones and Mis

Among the communications wer the following -

DEPARTURES,

ing a couple of passers-by, as we were sauntering through the streets' of Amoy. They looked slightly different from other Chinese. The bridge of the note was higher, though hardly aquiline, and the eyes were rounder and more pro- minent. "Jews," he continued. "They, or rather their ancestors, came across into China close on thirteen hundred years ago, as the last Sassanian King of Persia, when he camp followers of

was chased at East by the Caliph Othman. The Persian troops went Can-home eventually, but a number of

Kwai Wah, (Shun Hing): for

Eurybates, (B. & S.) for New

Jews missed the 'bus, and found themselves stranded in the middle [of China. And there they have

been ever since."

On making further inquiries found that this was quite true. Up country, clustered together in the town of Kaifung-fu, in the inland province of Honan, there still ex- Sun Li, (Po On) for Fort Bay:ril.ists the most curious Bttle Jewish colony in the world. They even have a ruined synagogue, in which decades ago, and they are trying they used to worship, up to a few

The passenger accommodation | York, Manila—April §. extending over three decks is designed for 130 first-class and 48-April 5, second-class passengers, but a cer

Sungshan Maru, (N. Y. K) for Shanghai, Swato. Co.) for

5. Wing Sang, J. M. & Saigon. April 5.

for

Hok Canton, (Hong On) Kwong Chow Wan. April 5,

Hsinplagan, (Yuc Woo) for Cit- ton-April 5.

tain portion of the first-class ac- Mitchell attend the same churchcommodation is so arranged that but are not personsily acquainted, it | when required it can be utilised for was elated.

the conveyance of second-class passengers. On the promenade deck is situated the first-class en- He can kill you in small men- trance ball and music room, the sures; he in doing it every day. Hlatter a charming apartment fitted can rob people of their vitality, und on three sides with cottage wind-gon their sleep.

ows of Queen Anne style. The Halvard, (Wo Fat Sing) for Can- Lord Moulton, during the war

He is a cunning murderer by scheme of decoration is in quietten.-April 5. was director of the explosives de-,

tones of white and grey, with Kojun Maru, (M. B. K.) for partment and he served as a shin-machinery, and is an abominabl

furniture in mahognay. Inmeren, Tsingtao-April 5. ing example of what governmental liar.

diatley beneath this

apart- Pyrrhus, (B. & S.) for London, red tape can be. The file which

ment is the.

first-class Singapore. April 5.

He has done his best to draw my passed hack and forth for six attention, although we all though months before the question-of pro-him a married man. viding six cents a week as ration Mr. Lewis Jones has confessed t money for each of six rats needed the murder of four women in chemical gas tests could be mysterious injections. Any woman

who does not surrender to him h murders.

decided.

The frantic efforts of the station- master in Pigs Is Pigs to get official sanction to do something with his embarrassing guests is revealed in counterpart in the correspondence.

THIS LETTER STARTED IT. The letter which started the trou- ble on January 8, 1918, follows:-

"With reference to B.M.Q.M.G.

7. 11,683, twelve special rats were obtained for the chemical shell store, and authority is now asked for an expenditure of threepence per week per rat for maintenance, as bestdes being kept alive they

dining saloon, extending almost the full width of the ship, and also fitted with cottage windows i place of the old-time ports. The decorations are carried out it white, the walls being relieved with panels and mouldings deli In the letter to Mrs. Jones thercately tinted. The central welf was the following passage, si counsel :-

Do your best to prevent your band murdering women by his Indian methods,

The chairman said a prima facie case had been made out, but ther

had bean a discussion whether there should be a further investigation into the mental condition, of th

weinan.

She pleaded not guilty, and was

tables, settees, and casy chairs.

Apoey, (Wo Fat Sing) for Sai-

April 5,

יו

to raise funds for its reconstruction.

So far as I could gather, however, foreign Jewry was not responsive to their appeal, and the numerous well-know. International Hebrew philanthropists had passed them over when distributing benefac- tions. This seems a pity, for from a purely historical and sentimentalį Du-point of view so strange a colony

of exiles might well be preserved,! and rewarded for its pluck in hold- ing its ground for so long.

Pakhol, (B. & S.) for Canton.-

The ruined synagogue, which April 5.

was practically rated to the ground,

Canton.-April 5.

Haiyang, (Yuea Seng Fat) for in the carly part of last century, at the instigation of the large colony Juno, (A. P. & Co.) for Shanghai.of local Moslems, was more than April 5.

100 yards long by 50 broad, and had four courts. It had a hall of ancestors, where Moses, Joshua,i Isaiah, and the rest of the famous personages of the Old Testament had the worshippers respects paid. to them, in Chinese fashion, at the about 1840, while away on a journey equinoxes. The last Rabbi died in the Province of Kansu.

A MUSIC TYPEWRITER.

and revolutions, and it may be that We live in an age of inventions the debut of a music typewriter, which took place at the Hyde Park Hotel, marks a change in the

must always be in good condition committed to the Assizes, buil being have been introduced, adding leader of the orchestra at Prince colony has always been so strong,

to serve for the purpose for which allowed.

they are provided.

LIKE FOOLS;

overhead, surrounded by handsome metal balustrade, adds to the at- tractiveness of this apartment. i addition to augmenting the lighting and ventilating arrangements. At after end of promenade deck is situated the first-class smoke room, which is a roomy and comfortable apartment furnished in fumed oak

A TENACIOUS, BAND. and provided with numerous small my of printed muse, says Kaifung-fu, and a few dozen more There are about 300 Jews in. Daily Telegraph writer. In the

are scattered here and there about Here also rectangular window: Presence of a few invited guests, Honan. Most of them are poor, the Mr. L Fortoni, the well-known reason that the feeling against the greatly to the airiness and cheer- ful tone of the room.

Piccadilly, demonstrated the use of especially from the Moslems, that The first-class staterooms situat-4 music typewriter of his own in-the more ambitious and prosperous ed on the promenade, bridge and vention. Twelve years hashwe found it advantageous, from upper decks, comprise one, two, worked towarda perfecting a worldly point of view, to disso and three berth rooms, each one machine, but, little farger than an ciate themselves, and marry their having an outside porthole, and ordinary typewriter, which makes children necessaryJUDGE ON DOUBLE DIVORCE being fitted with an electric fan, possible a neat and direct copy of Buddhist families. The most Moslem and

SUIT,

wardrobes, chests of drawers, &c, any description of musical composi-popular trades in the colony are The staterooms throughout-are-tion piano score, vocal score, dealing in old clothes, and change particularly spacious and the entire band parts, etc., ready also for any ing the money of Chinese way- Judgment was given in the cross-scheme of ventilation in the pas duplicating process. Thousands of farers bound to and from other prO- petitions for divorce brought by senger quarters has been the sub- copies of a new work can be provinces with different currency. Mrs. Olive May Dodgson and her ject of particular care to ensure the duced in a few hours by printingThey manage to get, however,only husband, Mr. Eric Colville Dodg- utmost comfort to son, aged 29, an insurance agent whilst traversing Eastern waters.

passengers directly upon transfer paper, and at the crumbs of money-changing. and formerly an officer in the

A stone still stands in the ruins, a great saving of money. The Army. Mrs. Dodgson alleged extensive, is particularly comfort is hardly more complicated than the memorates the building of the

The second-class, whilst not sa mechanism of the Forloni machine with an inscription

that com- cruelty by her husband and adulable, the cabins being designed in typing machine in common us. synagogue in 1163, during the Sung tery with Miss Ethel May Love similar manner to those of the Furthermore, by the simple moving dynasty; the arrival of the first

Mr. Dodgson accused his wife of ing saloon, with attractive inge made to transpose mechanically and

public apartments, consist of dia of a lever the instrument can be Jews in the dynasty of Hon; adultery with Mr. Wallace Kyle adjoining, and a roomy smoke roon front one key to another. A minia synagogue.

the rebuilding of the Heney, a married man, employed situated on the bridge deck.

350 years ago, at the General Post Office,

A feature of the steamer is the tre piano keyboard, occupies the are touching, dramatic, and bizarre in the dynasty of Ming. There Mr. Justice Hill, giving judg-spaciousness of promenade decks, position of the space bar in front of episodes In the history of these

There followed in the course of a week or two one or two reference notations and then the dictum of an economy expert who said i

"No objection to expenditure within threepence(six cents) a week a rat. We have no information as to cost, but should have thought it might be. less." After a fortnight's interval there appeared the remarks of a man who either knew rats or had read Pigs Is Pigs. He remarked:

"Expenditure up to threepence per week per rat approved. You will no doubt take steps to see that the establishment is not unduly

increased."

Unfortunately that is just what had happened already and in March the original proposer of the rat money scheme reported;

"Twelve rats were originally purchased, but the flock shortly increased to thirty-four of which six were sent to a trench warfare filling factory and three destroyed, leaving a total of twenty-five."

MUST FIND JOBS FOR THEM.

But having murtured and nursed his rats for three months, the writer had evolved a way of finding jobs for them all, so he add:

grove, a woman of 42.

ment, remarked that the conduct of all the principals was in many re spects not that of persons who had any regard for the ordinary decencies of behaviour, The husband and Miss Lovegrove be haved like fools, but he could not find adultery between them.Neither had the charge of cruelty against the husband been made out. Nor "In view of the chemical shell could he find the wife guilty of store at Gatwick shortly opening it adultery. Both petitions would be would be a pity to destroy these dismissed. All the parties be rate, as at least a dozen will behaved with such egregious folly

Gatwick.. It required for

is that I am not going to give costs to therefore considered necessary to anybody," he concluded.

Finally his lordship allowed the keep a stock of thirty rats at Wool- wich and Gatwick, ie., eighteen wife's costs up to the amount of Woolwich (including reserve of the security already given by the six) and twelve Gatwick, Any husband. surplus above this number will be

sold if possible, and profit credited

to rat fund or else destroyed,

Authority is requested for the amount of the allowance for wh ch above establishment to be we requested authority was based." maintained."

DATE IS HISTORIC

into

which afford ample room for games the keys of an ordinary typewriter, extraordinary exiles. Their holy and recreations being engaged in.

a movable indicator pointing to the building razed to the ground, at Of a special type, two vertical musical sign required. Sharps, last, after they have held out for doors leading to the reserve bunker flats, slums, dots, clefs, bar-lines, more than a thousand years, their and one horizontal door leading to marks of expression, etc., can all be last Rabbi dead, despised and the tunnel have been supplied by written in completo view of the persecuted by the Buddhist Chin Messrs. J. Stone and Co., Limited. operator. Six different impres-ese, hounded by the Moslems, they These doors can be released from sons can be operated by one lever, still preserve, in hiding places here the margin-line as well as locally and of levers there are forty, a lid and there, copies of their Scrip- and, when released, close by their ing seal at the tide controlling the tures, their ritualistic literature, own weight. When released front mechanism. It is understood that and ancient records. I have heard, the margin-line the movement is the cost of inanufacture will appro from a man who had business eded by a loud warning at the sinto tint of the ordinary type dealings with them, that they once door itself. This system was sup writer. plied to satisfy Board of Trade re

displayed some of their documents in the bazaar of Kaifung-fu, terbury" is the first ship so fitted. quirements, and the "City of Can

in the hope of catching the eye of a wandering-religionist, for not a man of them any longer remembers a word of Hebrew. They talk Chinese, but the fervent among them, to whose breast the steady finne of nationalism has been transmitted from generation after generation of exiled ancestors, are eager to recapture their lost tongue. They realise that without it, they are becoming submerged; } els

Six of the rolls of the Hebrew

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It is of interest to note that the Tempered by the discretion City Line (Geo. Smith and Sons, English readers expect, Messrs. managers,) in conjunction with A. M. Philpot antiqunico that they their colleagues Messrs. Hall Line, will shortly publish a translation of Ltd, Liverpool, have new twenty- Victor Margueritte's banned novel one passenger carrying ships! La Garconne under the title, engaged in their various Easter he Bachelor Girly": passenger services, in addition to a large number of modern freight A few more perfunctory nota- June 6, 1918, became a historic carrying steamers, all specially tions and the file in April once date in this correspondence, for it constructed for their particular

scane time past,” bilt more reached the desk of the great was the date of the following letter trades. The combined tonnage of Pears that the fu economist. In the weeks which from the office of the quartermaster the various lines controlled by Sir to their design were had elapsed he had thought of general: N en John R. Ellerman, Bart, CH, now sufficient data. hads another possible saving and said: "No financial objection, provided approximates one and a half million from the solive kary

"We have no objection. No it is clearly understood that three tone, deadweight, and further of the Moldavis, which doubt care will be taken to avoid pence per rat per week is the steamers are presently under her maidon. Ynysge any unnecessary expenditure on maximum within which expendit- construction.

1 colours, and is undoubtedly an food where rats could be fed coure.is allowed."

The City of Canterbury failed exceedingly successfal, ship, which stale bread, etc., which might other The file again omitted to say how from Liverpool on her maiden will be wonderfully po wise be thrown away”

many rats there were and what the voyage to Calcutta, closing at The advent of state of their custodian's feelings Birkenhead on March 5. was when on June 18 this momen- tous decision trickled down to him as follows:

On the last day of May, through some mistake, the growing file reached the desk of an entirely new official, who sought informas tion' on the 'following point not sufficiently clear to him:

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an MAN D CRIMINAL LUNATIC'S LOT. Pull when you are in here. It makes faj a lot of difference,” he said.” He

It might be worse. I have found has now got back all the privileges Law, und several small books. (E it worse outside often enough of the occupants of the gentlemen's

There is something to be said for wing at the asylum. Hebrew) of the Rarashtothor

synagogue readings of the Lawthe order and the quiet of life here were obtained, luany years ago,

In these, words, Ronald Trie,

He it continually suggesting ad-

from Kalfung-ful, and some of these who was found guilty of the 'ditional comforts that he desires, are now in the Bodleian: and the murder of a girl of the and one of the latest suggestions. British Museum. They are, ores unfortunate class and reprieved cisely identical with those of by the late Home Secretary on the outf Europe.

ground of Insanity, commented on his lot in the Broadmoor Criminal Lanatic Asylum to a recent visitor.

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