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GENERAL NEWS.

Clearances of cargo during the typhoon were practically out of the question: what with steainers and junks going to shelter, This morning a number of junks had returned to their usual stations to

PEKING FIRE,

"EIGHT PALACE BUNÚCHS

ARRESTED.

PEKING, July 3 In connection with the recent fire, the chief clauch and seven assistants have been held in custody on suspicion of incendi, arisa-Reuter,

V.R.C. FIXTURES.

ply for hire but owing to indefinito HONGKONG AQUATICS. shipping movements deliveries have been small. In, connection with ships which arrived just prior to the storm, little demurrage was incurred as the quantities already In lighters were unimportant.

SUGAR

TALKING ABOUT BOOKS,

SOME QUAINT CHINESE IDEAS.

Nations vary, to an astonishing extent in their attachment in books, writea Bassett Digby, F.R.G.S. in the Manchester Guardian, It is not a mere matter of relative literary. So fara 1 have been able to see, China has more book- sellers than we have, and far more than there are in America. The Bulgarians and the Filipinos have rdly any. Japan is the bookiest INTERPORT SWIMMING DATE nation on earth. Everyone In Japan has books-lots of them, The V.R.C. will hold their second Japan has had to learn Europe în night fete of the season on Friday, sixty years. A great part of our The first shipment from Java to July 6 at 9 pm, wet or fine. "savvy" is traditional. The berit Hongkong of new crop sugar per Entries close on July 4, the fees beage of instinct, the use of our eyes s.s.Tisondari" was delayed. It ing the same as for the first fete, and cars, the things our parents is expected that samples of this There are eleven events op the abnormally large cargo will be in programme, these beings 2 lengths taught us and that “everybody M Jean de Pierrefeu, who dur- Mr. Justice Sproule in the the hands of dealers to-day or to hurdle handicap for members, 2 knows," have saved us, a lot of ing the war served at French Penang, Supreme Court, has con-pected in the immediate future. length scratch race, high dive Europe by wading through ong morrow but little business is ex-lengths hurdle handicap for ladies, books. Japan has had to pick up Headquarters and had the task of cluded the hearing of the action in Yesterday a small lot of Java No. from the platform, 4 lengths book after another, as we pick up writing the French communiqués, in his new book, "Plutarque a which Mr. Thomas Fenwick sued 24 Rough White Sugar which has handicap for members, z lengths ancient Greece. Benti" (Grasset, Paris), has pre- Mr. Edgar Warwick for $2,282 for speculator for some time was sold cap for the Services, team race for been in the hands ofaharidicap for girls, 4 lengths hapdi-, pared a formidable, indictment of alleged breach of contract in giving at $11.92 per picul for immediate members, nomination race (Mixed), the French Staff. In fact, he be- lieves that that Staff, by its blun- noitco to plaintiff at Singapore clearance. This is considerably 2 lengths handicap for boys and ders, came as near as possible to that the tour had ended, whereas below market quotations. No. 24 water polo for members. losing the war. Its plans, and it should have been for six months Brown are nominal at $13.00 and Soft White and No. 18 Rough particularly Plan 17-on which the French acted in 1914-were, he certain, to finish in China.

$12.50 respectively. says. "worthy of Spiritualists."

FRENCH OFFICER'S PLAIN SPEAKING.

RISKS OF RELYING ON

FICKLE PUBLIC..

Mr. Hastings Rhodes asked his Lordship to hold that Mr. War, wick was not liable for damages, Mr. Fenwick having suffered none, especially as the payment of passage money had never been disputed but had been paid into court.

AMERICAN FLOUR.

Chinese merchants describe the flour market as" Leathery." Broad- ly translated this means tough and dead in that no transactions are re- corded but prices are firm.

RICE.

Shipments by the river steamers

been fixed for the annual aquatic September 26, 27, 28 and 29 have sports when Kobe, Shanghai and Singapore will be invited to participate.

LAWN BOWLS. SOME SURPRISING RESULTS.

On Saturday, Taikoo No. 2 went down to Civil Service by 64 to 52, this being their first defeat of the season.

The secret of the disastrous battles with which the war opened he sees in the fact that Joffre was entirely in the lands of the "Young Turks" a number of junior staff officers who wheedled him into adopting their ideas. They were the peo- ple who hatched Plan 17, by which the French army assembled be- Mr. Justice Sproule, in giving tween Mézières and Belfort, leav-judgment, said the case had been ing 100 miles of the French frontier flogged to death with irrelevancies, west of Mézières unguarded, and and he had listened to technical to Canton has not only relieved the by which they were merely 20 army and legal opinions from all wit-shortage up there but has also corps (or about a million men) nesses. There was a lot of quite brought about a congestion as wrong in their calculation of the irrelevant matter relating to the difficulty has been encountered in that Kowloon Dock beat them by characters of the parties and there sending the rice inland. Never-6 points, giving them their seventh might have been good reasons for theless, dealers are still buying league win. dismissal in Singapore, but these small to medium lots of Saigon did not appear to be accepted in Rice for Canton, prices for No. 1 the argument. It was a risky thing (not sifted for percentage of broken to bring companies here, especially rice) averaging about $6.20 per

German forces.

The Police established a com- fortable lead on two rinks but lost 23 points on the last, with the result

Taikoo No. 1 overcame Kowloon Bowling Green Club by the big margin of 79 to 33, and now have the same number of points as the

in hand.

The Superior War Council was never consulted. Its members, though they were intended to com- and armies in the event of war, only learnt of the plan by reading the first directive issued. So that to a place as Philistine as Penang,picul, gross weight for nett, im-Police; but the latter have a game the very pick of the commanders, and to rely upon the fickle public, mediate clearance and cash. the generals who were thoroughly but it had been clearly proved that There is not much Siam rice in prepared by their experience and defendant intended to go to China, the Colony at the moment. Little their practice in handling large un-Plaintiff was promised that he of this grade goes to Canton, it be its, had not the least part in the should be taken to Shanghai at the ing transhipped for points along preparation of the plan of cam company's expense. He could not the coast. Nominal quotations for paign.

recover salary in respect of re- No. I are about $7.17. A "CRAZY" FLAN,

hearsals in Colombo. The tour When everything went wrong

as the result of this plan, which

began when the company started COASTAL SHIPPING. to move. His Lordship allowed

The s.s. "Tjiwong" and the

the French author describes as $128 for hotel bill at Colombo,Lake Farrar" are both expected

crazy, the leaders in the field passage from Shanghai to London were blamed and punished:

in cash as mentioned in the agree-in a few days with shipments of Whoever did not obey blindly ment and a second class P. and O. Dew Crop Java sugar, but the was broken. Every-officer suspect-passage.frun Singapore.to.Shang. quantities are not large. ed of showing a critical spirit or hai with costs on these amounts.

not sacrificing everything to the fetish of clash was sooner or later got rid of. One hundred and fifty- generals were sent to meditate in retirement.

Lanrezac, commanding the Vth French Army, who was posted on Sir Jolm French's right, was not only"engummed,” but was with infernal conning" accused of want of energy and courage.

given a great opening for an attack on the German Bank, and with great difficulty induced Joffre to make use of it.

COTTON STANDARDS.

WASHINGTON, July 2 The Liverpool Cotton Association has accepted the agreement-regard- ing the standards of American cot. ton, but is despatching two dele. Joffre when he acted on his own gutes to endeavour to afange for never showed any slavery to pre-certain changes-Reuter, conceived ideas. He was more ac- cessible than almost anyone to common sense, which was his best

I have been a personal witness, says M. de Pierrefeu, of this terri-quality. His collaborators, how- ble campaign of calumny carried ever, remained deaf and blind to nut, now against Foch, now against the soundest suggestions. They Pitain.

suffered from swelled head,”

ent

north:

THE STATE OF TRADE.

HOME COMMENT,

Trade is stili, on the whole, quiet. The prospects in the Near Esat aro slightly better, but the Continental situation remains uncertain and menacing.

against Kowloon Cricket Club by Craigengower scraped home point, this being their third victory.

Scores are as follows, home teams mentioned first:-

selling of books is frequently cont In Manchuria I noticed that the bined with the selling of shoek,

That is a quaint Idea of yours. I said to a Chinese in London. "Na ing such incongruous wares as quainter than your custom of self- cigarettes, toffee, and newspapers in one shop," he retorted. I sup- pose he was right. Chinese books, or the general run of them, are quite differently made up from ours. The cover is not attached to the book. It isa kind of binding case, pin that slides into a socket. The fastened up with a neat little bone

dangling thong of cloth. The book pin is attached to the case by a inside is in four, six, ten, or more sections, each unattached are printed on one side only of the to any other. thin glazed rice paper, and the As the leaves

blank sides touch, in pairs, and are uncut except at top and bottoms, onc turns over two pages at once, and occupying one page, are in: Illustrations, always in line block cluded now and again.

Chinese books, but for some reason or other there seem to be no old

would he profanation to pear to be held in such respect that bookshops in China. Old books ap

hawk thent around to dealers. of by private arrangement are apparently disposed They

One interesting find I made, how- with friends or acquaintances. ever, in the shape of a modern map of China, which; with charac- turistic contempt for the usages of the rest of the world, liad been R. W L Pts.graved with the, China Sea at the 14 botton or south of the map instead of along the cast. I wonder gwhether the same engraver pro- 8duced a series of maps, or an atlas, 8 on the same lines. If we cannot have new worlds to explore the

I was on, the look-out for old

Civil Service 64, Taikoo No. 2, 52. Police R. C. 65, Kowloon Dock 71. Taikoo No, 1.79, K.B.GC..33- .. K.C.C. 58,Craigengower, 59,

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Kowloon Dock...... 8, 7 Taikoo No. 2 6 5. Kowloon B.G.C7,4 3 Police R... 7 4 Taikoo No. 1. 8.4 Civil Service C.C. 8. 26 Craigengower C.C. 8. 3 Kowloon C.C 17

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Shots For and Against.

For.

Agst.

Up.

Kowloon Dock --498 Taikoo (2) -

K. B. G. C. Taikoo (1) Police R. C. Craigengower Kowloon C. C. Civil Service

...373. 302 ...427 382 ...503 435

911 Down.

..407 416

441 463 -408 488 --395 562

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Japan is producing her books on

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George Henry Hubert Lascelles, the son of Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles, is still at Goldsborough hire, Lord Lascelles's country seat, Hall, near Knaresborough, York

where he was christened and where

Commenting on trade in mail Yet it was Lanrezac's insight, which prevented them from show-week, tlas Afanchester Commercial by retreating in time, which ing good sense. The misfortune Guardian wayn:- saved his army from a new was that generally Joffre beard no

they resemble our own. One is Sedan and the Allies from com- other views than those of the

much struck by the contrast with plete disaster in the war. With no people about him,

magazineless China. Japan is the little sarczana the author draws at-

only non-English-speaking foreign the docks, and was offered, The Young Turks" have spread

greater than in the corresponding city one can always find a shop devotional treatise dated 1843! tention to the fact that the French the tale that Gallieni spoilt the

country in the world where in a as it genuino antiquity, а Staff ordered Lanrezac, move his Battle of the Marne by attacking

period of last year or the year before army siumitaneously in two differ-too soon, before the Germans were except for a slight drop in the last here when the dearness of sugar will books of various kinds. The owner are to be found in the half-dozen For the first time this year and, that. But the time will soon be with a large number of English The old Scandinavian books directions eastward and completely in the trap." The two months of 1929, for the first inevitably make itself felt upon con- to a language manual and hunts up They are fascinating old book-

author demolishes this statement, time since October, 1921, the sumption, for when the preserving the price for you.

seldom knows English, but he goes Antikvariats" of Stockholm. What are we to think of a High which is, indeed, shown to be cecurity index (for the month ended season starts the position will be Command, he asks, which places foolish by the orders issued to the May 18) published by the Bankers come critical.

shops, dusty and cobwebbed-four. the head of an army of 180,000 1st and 2nd German armies not to fagazine shows a setback,

In Japan I found some of the of them with numbers of tomes men Lanresac's own account gives follow the French south of the

Last Friday, after a period of com- world. They sell nothing but dreds, and some even a century most peculiar bookshops in the dating back into the sixteen hun- bis ration-strength as 300,000] in Seine if their retreat had continuin the chief markets at home are started on upward course, most (and seeds and plumbing fixtures, three years ago a lot of Elzevirs at he has remained ever since, drink

Reports from our correspondents parative quiet, the market again catalogues--catalogues of clothes before. In one of them I found the situation of having to directed, but to turn on Paris. such a mass of men antwoos-Even after the Marne and Aisne, summarised below :---

descriptions being advanced Ed. ite direction: ?

stamps and furniture and vehicle, very low prices. In another a couple Jure did not realise the true Cotton Raw material steady evt. In Mincing Lave this is re- hats and stationery and bedding, of very ancient Bibles hound in ing into his little lungs the health- Not only Lanrezac, but the character of the war: "Confident cloth market reopened quietly. British Expeditionary Force was and calm he asserted that it would Wool-Yarn spinners quiet; good ber of similar moves, for the market chandise. And all of them were yard of iron chain attached. I

garded merely as the first of a muro- catalogues of all conceivable mer-worm-eaten wooden boards, with a giving North-country air, gravely imperilled by the extra-all be over in a month." The ex- demand for better qualities of cloth is still dominated by America.

Now nearly four months old he is. secondhand British and American often wonder why those mas-proving as strong and well-doing as ordinary Plan 17.

planation of all these blunders and Other Textiles. Linen manu. A curious feature of the position catalogues. More and more sive medieval Bibles failures which were common to factors quiet; yarns quiet but is that while a large increase in foreigners are going to Japan, you chained to The British general's unique the Germans as to the French-M.| firm.

could be wished, and particularly wore their lecterns, has this been the case since he has care was to march swiftly south

Jute yarns active; labour Continental outtura is expected this see, and how is a Japanese to know When the masses could not read been living in the country. Its on [after Mons. To criticise this de Pierrefeu finds in

dispute restricts cloth trade. Silk year very fow offers of this sugar chases? No longer does he charge Church was both swift and com- allowed herself to be separated what to charge them for their pur and the intelligence service of the this account that his mother lins attitude of his is to show that the the result of fifty years of peace.

The decay of the military art as trade restricted.

Aere being made The Culmin har situation was not understood. Fifty years devoted to theoretical Cutlery, silver, and, olectro-plate, tion, and should the lower ostimates house in Nagasaki and you casual trophies that a stolen Bible stay with the King and Queens Drapery, etc. Retail slack vest is rapidly approaching comple-fellow countrymen. If you have a rully realised among gleaners of one or two visits, and during her

the white what he charges his prehensive, it must bave been gen The merit of Sir J. French was exercises, krickspiel and paper quiet,

from him while she has been paying that he showed no, exaggerated memoirs, untested by experience, pride. With his positive English had led the various staffs to con-mand for biglier-grade boots: Lea strength,

Shoes and LeatherBotter de- dear market will and further fitted the first thing the native car phant. If chaining was a wartime her

turn out to be accurate, the already want a set of shelves and cupboard was pretty much of a white ele- Aldershot for, the Army__>man“ mature, looking realities in the face, he was in no mood for use-ive an art of war which had ther factors quiet; bides dearer. -less displays of heroism. Better nothing in common with the art of

Napoleons.

than massacre

preserve His troops for a favour able moment them at the start,

GALLIENI'S VICTORY.

assumed that her little roba wil bo

punter does is to go round and buy precaution it surely could not have Whether he will stay there Motals-Copper, tin, lead, and BANGKOK RICE EXPORT.

an English catalogue and get a been very effectual, for a few through the summer or be brought spelter easier. HIGH COMMANDS BANKRUPT.

student or clerk to discover from it slashes from the halberds of a to London for a time is at present Throughout the war, in its later Chemicals.Quiet; prices steady.

The

what Waring and Gilley of Maple maurauding band of enemy troops uncertain, but it is known that corrected return of the Ex would charge. That sum, or very would have chopped down the Princess Mary will not permit him asin its earlierstiges he insists on

Coal-Firm, but now business part of Rice from Bangkok for the slightly less, will he charge you, lectern, or the part of it to which to be away from her for too long the total nullity of the High Com-restricted. Coke easier. As for the legend that Joffre mands:

month of April gives a total of fit will be; of course, about three, the staple was affixed. Perhaps it and if she decides to star at Iron and Steel,--Pig iron lifeless. 2,050,202 picule, valued at Ticole times more than a Japanese would was done merely to impress the Chesterfield House, for any length planned the retreat to the south of They pushed the art of war to its Now business scarce in finished iron 15,809,318. These figures are bel be charged, in a land of cheap simple devout with the value of the of time during the season it may bo Mame in 1914, in order to" trap" last limitsmasssere, universal and steel. the Germans, M. de Pierrefeu will slaughter. By a kind of tacit con have none of it. The Battle of the spiracy the High Cominands con- casier.

ame, was fought mainly through cealed their confusion: They hid the action of Gallient, the general the truth that their pretended THE HOME SUGAR POSITION commanding at Paris, who was no science no longer existed in face of bellifer in the "Young Turks, but the gigantic reality:

envoy sound, clear-headed, Their attempts f

The remarkable tumg about the determinço' soldier." K through are characterised as sheer sugar business is that, though prices

break

ter than those of the approximtita labour, but that is your look-out. Sibley Freights Dull, with values return by 47,537 picule (Tes: Thus is "business efficicacy" be Down in Outer Mongolia, vising brought thither to join her. It

227,176). Of the total amount ginning to permeate the Far East. the strange Jamaserais established indicative of his rapid prod

bookshopa. Christiania, of course, found food for intich thought in the in weight, exported in April 68 per cent, went Noc way, like China, has no old by proselytising Tibetan monks, that the boy is now more than

as only a provincial town in monastery libraries with their Scandianyia when, a few years boards of ancient books, bound sp the partition occurred and the wooden stabs and enveloped of

[df knows what wonderful revelations

Alexantina for

the thick and the Young Turkte i insanity, leading to terribic-and-re bays been on the rise since Febru-Ly Jopoll. Der pengen now, as the Norse Capital, it wrapping of yellow silk Who

weparing to fall back behind sultless sacrifice.

"Seine and were even ready M. de Pierrefeu wields a tren- to abandon Paris, according to chant pen and has a pretty wit. His ale Pierrefeu. Gallieni saw woskis the sensation of the moment mat Kluck and the Germans had in Paris.

to Hongkong and China. 26 pen cent; to Singapore and the British Malay: States, 19.9 per contato Europe including Pory Bead and

a good deal less metroos aryconstiption has not been

per cent, tomosphere and trading checked, suyen home paper in mail: Netherlands India, and the balance than Portsmouth or week. Indeed, the official figures to South Africa and Bouth Americe or Cardiff. After assiduous for the first four months of this year Among the European countries quiries I managed to ren show that the demandwa, specified are une, Italy, Ger- forlorn bookshop? many and Portugal.

of the early beginnings of civilisa. tion in Central Asia, the womb of

in- mankind, en lying there walk a rathering the deciphertment of We

near scholars on