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"AMERICAN POETESS,

LAUREATE.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

IN SHANGHAI

the North-Chino Daily News that they were taking this trip through the Far East for rest, and to get away from people." he admitted with a frank smile. It is unlikely, therefore, that Miss Millay's many amirers will be allowed the privilege of hearing her read from her poems, since she is leaving for Singapore on Friday, but those who watch for her lyrics in current magazines will be on the look-out for reflexions of the Orient in her published works. They party will go on to Europe Suez and thence return to the United States.

BAND CONCERT,

WEATHER CAUSES

POSTPONEMENT.

OBITUARY.

·THE CHINA MAIL.

REV. V. H. STANTON, D.D., AN ENGLAND.

HONGKONG BORN PROFESSOR,

CONCERT.

ENJOYABLE FUNCTION ON SATURDAY.

WIRELESS.

MACAO STATION OPENED. PIONEER IN ORIENT.

GOVERNOR ON TTS USE.

There was a large gathering, on Saturday night, at the open air Leoncert in all of, the Ministering Children's Teague. The scene The Res. Vincent Hoary Stanton, was laid on the lawn of the Water the Governor of Macao, took the Lady Hodriguez, wife of H.E. FI.D..

Emeritus Professor of Police Stition. Kowloon, which initial step towards the installation Divinity, and formerly Ely Profes had been encerted into a veritable of radio communication in the Far sor of Divinity at Cambridge, died fairly-ling for the occasion. The East, when she opened the station! at his residence at Cambridge on fine weather added much to the in. Macao yesterday. Saplune at the nge of 78. Profes enjoyment of the varied items, Stanton was boris on June 1. which were carried through with ARKS, : Victoria, Hongkong on a hitch. The expectedly here his father, the Rev. V. large attendance led to a shortage Stuntor, afterwards rector of of Seats, which, however, was re- The site of the new station is Halesworth Suffolk, was Colonial masted later.

Dona Maria Hill, close to the cen- Chaplin,

Procredings opened with antre of the city and overlooking the everture by the orchestra, rider Nine Islands,” the baton of Mr. J. H. Doni- thorne..

AIR, FORD POSTER,..

The occasion was, marked by a rudi concert, attended by a large number of Macao residents and visitors from Hongkong..

Mrs. Duncan, the feet long.

The nowe on Saturday afternoon. The vocal numbers were warmly Mat Mr. Fral Foster principal Lapplanded. www.ler at Laichiket gaul, by died possessor of at pleasing sopran the Civil Hospital,, rating, as "avoites give several selections which great shock, to his many friends, } wype all hourrily encored. Ple was, adimitted to Hospital about Mr. Kepwn was also recalled Owing to the inclement weather th ago suffering from dyphoid after each offering. and the bad state of the ground, fever, and appeared in bu pros Mr. West, in his character the Committee. In charge of the pressing favourably. At mid-day sketches, was distimetly, elever:] Band Concert, which was to have ground of the Kuwloon Football been given this evening on the Club by the Band of 1st. Batt East Surrey Regiment, has decided to postpone the concert..

There is a possibility of the concert being given some other evening this week, but

be made later.

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of the Orient Lt. have constructed The Hudio Communication Cov the station, and their representa of the working to inquiring visitors. tives Vesterday explained details

OPENING CEREMONY.

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on Saturday, however, he land a Mr. Olive, in a similar role, was,Governor and Landy Hodriguez, Mr. Edna St. Vincent Millay, an

sudden relapse, nad diezi, y as usual inimitable. He is A. Carvalho, the chief electrical American poeless acclaimed with

the Govpatent service for là no men order.

The late Mr. Foster lind been in showed himself a ventriloquist of engineer to the "Mucur Govern. ment, and who is in charge of all; the publication of A Few Fisa

wepes and was much respeted by From Thistles," as the laureate of

The Misses P. and A. Wireless mattors on their behalf, Fall wh knew him. He joint the gave a series of dances,

introduced the Broadcasting Com- the younger generation, is spending!

Prison Department in 1909, and called for repetitions,.. a few days in Shanghai, stopping

was previos'y in the Army,

pany to this audience. He con- at the Astor House. Her husband,

He Mr. Anniss's sentimental ditty gratulated them on having erected Mr. Eugen Boissevain, explained

served during the South Africion "Italian Skies was also re station which bud proved under when seen by a representative of announcement regarding this will War and was wounded on threewarded with an encore

various tests successful, and on oexašións, rrediving, the King's and The orchestrul anumbers were bell of the Goveniment he Queen's modals.” He was a pro- exceptionally well chosen and renderlared it an unqualified success. mainen Freemason, being, a fidered.

He, then introduced the two The susophone dust by Master of Dodge 848.

Messes. Duteau and Meek war cet engineers of the Company, Much sympathy will go out to also admirably executed and led Mr. R. G. Osborne and Mr. H. K. Thus a London paper just toleraveinent.

the widow and children in their one to wonder why players of this Flowers who had been responsible hand: Dr. C. R. Dappuy, Bishop

instensen: prostitute their talent for the erection of the station. of Victoria, Hongkong, is expected Valley yesterday afternoon. There

The finer took place at Happy by playing it in a jazz band.

Mr. Osborne remarked that on back in England this week, and was air attendants of deformance, Mr. P. Wodehouse, on Company he wished to think

At the eclusion of the per-behalf of the Radio Communica there will be a meeting to welcomeased colleagues and friends at Deputy Superintendent of Police, those attending the ceremony. It him at the Mansion House, by the grave-side. Numerous wreaths on behalf of the audience, heartily was going to be a very short one invitation of the Lord Mayor of were bid upon the grave at the thanked the artists responsible for but, be believed, an epoch making London, at 3 p.m., on June 17. Sir conclusion of the service.

the night's enjoyment. Charles Addis will be in the chair.

He also one in the Orient. The work in his diocese includes

paid a tribute to Mr. Donnithorne Hongkong and

and the members of the band, to: The Macao station was to be the Southern Provinces of China;

Mr. H. J. Everest of the P.W.D. just one link in a chain of stations DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP fil Sir Lieurge Kenneth Scott and Mrs, Angus for their organiza. is the Orient. The next would be Thudden death of Major for the laminations; to Inspector to be established by the Company Aionerit. The distinguished milition and to the members of the at Canton and another al Manila, tary engineer, tank phire on June water police for their valuable time it would be possible to 4. He was born in India in assistance:

have voice communication by rudio Betober 1865. After service in The vocalists were uncompanied between all cities in the Orient...

THE Chefoo Harbour Commis TH India in 1900-1901, he was' Com- on the piano by Mrs. McTavish,

indingRoyal Engineer in the another lady, and Mr. Sperry, all possessed a telephone in Macao one held at the Registered Office of the Dredger.

That would mean that if one ship Company, Limited, will be sion invites, tenders for a Grab type self propelled Hopper China Expeditionary Force, taking of whom deserve praise. part in the relief of Peking and in The financial result of the con- could very easily cull up a friend Company, 20, Des Voeux Road Approximate dimensions: Hope The lions ut Peitsung and Yang-cert should prove valuable Shanghai, July 14.

isim, For his services in this addition to the funds of the

learns that the siege" of Kweilin.. He returned to India, as

The Church Missionary Society campaign he was again mentioned M.O.L.

in despatches, and received the was ruined on June 26 and all missionaries are safe.

secretary to the Chief Commis- sioner, North-West Frontier Pro- vince, and served with the Waziristan Expedition in 1901-02.|

Miss Vincent began writing as a child and her first published poem was the remakable, mystical Renascence," submitted in a prize porta contest and published among other poems in "The Lyric Year," when she was only 19. While she was at Vassar College she wrote two plays and acted in them. The Princess Marries the Page," and " Two Stat- terns and a King, the latter of which was published in 1921." Re- mascence and Other Poems" gain- cd the admiration of real poetry lovers immediately, but were not widely known; they were express- ed in classical rhythm, with nothing of the contemporary post-impres~| sionism about them..

After college Miss Vincent came to New York and settied down in a Geenwich Village attic, in the days when struggling genius could afford to live in the Village." Here she brooded and wrote memories of her early days spent the coast of Maine, when asshe Always I climbed the wave at

says:

most of

covering an area of 400,000 square miles and apoptilation of 70,000,000.

SIEGE RAISED.

MISSIONARIES SAFE.

MALM

(Reuter's Service.)

GEN. SCOTT-MONCRIEFF.

Öre English case of paratye

did tauch valuable phojd, a Chinese case of small.pox work: MA the Great War. and a Chinese case of diphtheria He was theint the War Office, and were reported on Friday.

his Department, called upon in a moment of panic, produced

a

OLYMPIC GAMES. EARLIER RESULTS.

(Reuter's Service.)

Paris, July 13.

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CHEFOO HARBOUR COMMISSION.

TENDER FOR GRAB DREIXER.

and usual warping winches; wipd-brik- lass; 2 suitable mooring anchors with 45 fathoms of cable on each; crew space; latrine; galley; etc

4-1 Cwt warping anchors;: necessary fairleads, etc.

Delivery at Chefoo, complete and ready for immediate use before acceptance.

The Commission does not bind:

in Manile-just as it was possible Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on per capacity 30 tons; Length So on the present telephone system to SATURDAY, the 18th day of feet A Beam 20 feet; draught: 85* call up a friend in the same city. October, 1924, at Noon. for the loaded 6 feet; speed 's knots; He was going to ask Lady purpose of considering and, if extreme working radius of crane Rodriguez, be continued, to turi thought fit, approving the draft 20 feet; 3 Sand and 2 mud grabs on a switch which would operate new Articles of Association of the the whole of the station at once. Company which will be submitted He would ask His Excellency to to the Meeting.

A print of such draft new give the first speech, opening the station. (Applause).

Articles and a print of the exist- Lady Rodriguez then mounteding Articles of the Company may the platform and by turning the be seen at the Company's said necessary switch put the whole Registered Office, and at the office After our report had closed on series of ups of the British Isles

station into operation, and was of Messrs. Deacons, 1, Des Voeux Butler (Britain) Saturday of the fatal fire at 191,marked with the camping grounds.

presented with a replica switch Road Central, Victoria aforesaid, itself to accept the lowest or any Queen Road West, the Police and Scott-Moncrief was quietly able to

Time: 47.3-5-seconds.

Solicitors for the Company, and of the Tenders submitted. "ASUNA Fire Brigade recovered the dead demonstrate the unfitness of most world's record time to be accom-

Liddell here put up the third inscribed

"Presented to Lady Rodriguez Articles which differ from the sent to the Treasurer,

the portions of the proposed new Tender and drawings should be! bodles of the mother and child, of the grounds selected, and pro-

Chefoo. who were reported missing. Later duced instead the maps on which plished over this distance in two at the opening of the Radio Cou-existing Articles are indicated by Harbour Commission, care of

Масло Company's

Commissioner of Customs, an or being underlined in red. from the second flour into the marked the grounds they them-the 100 meter in 17. seconds on, the concubine who jumped he and his stuff had long ago days. Fitch, in his semi-final did munication

Broadcasting station) July 13, Liddell, the winner of the 400 1024.

before the 1st day of August, 1924. strect succumbed to her injuries ar selves bad inspected and approved.

such new Articles of Association the Government Civil Hospital.A: home and oversea the supply of metres, is the Olympic Games, is THE GOVERNOR'S SPEICH.

with or without modification, the Yesterday the funeral took place engineers material to all our University He intends to remainducted to the studio and sent ont posed as an Extraordinary Resolu at present studying at Edinburgh

His Excellency was then con-subjoined Resolution will be pro with full honours of the Chinese troops in the field meant an enoruother year to complete bis fireman who was killed when the mous and never-ending incrense in theology course, and will then go the first message, which was heard tion, namely:- The editors were not immediately verandah collapsed.

duties. Sir George Scott-Mon- to China as a teacher in a Presby by the audience through the responsive, and there were many

crief he received the K.C.B. interinn Missionary School.

medium of a loudspeaker erected discouraged days, when returned New York, July 13.-While 1915 and the K.C.M.G. three manuscripts suggested that she pursuing r-rumers in the dark-years later-afterwards gave

10,000. CROSS COUNTRY: before them. This message was should make a more practical use news with its lights, extinguished,erount of the work done by the

Nurni (Finland)

"listened-in" to by members" of of her education and find a definite, the Qumrantine Island police Royal Engineers, in combination

the Club de Recreio, Hongkong. romantic but remunerative job. launch suddenly came under the with the civil engineers of the

He said, "Hello everybody. This But fortunately the creative gift fire of prohibition agents who

is the Macao Broadcasting station. 'would not be denied and she kept miswok the launch for tum-run-

1 greet all my Portuguese friends ners. on writing.

The commander of the

and-ulse all others listening-in to Janel was seriously wounded.-- Reuter's American Service.

the first Radio station opened int the Orient."

morning,

Shook the sand from my shoes

at night,

That now a canght beneath

great buildings,

Stricken with noise, confused

with light..

VERS DE JOHEMIA, The first poem in Pigs from "Thistles" strikes the Familiar half- reckless, all-banggi note in which so many of her songs are. sung:

And in the concluding sonnet My candle burns at boil ende; she phrases her philosophy:

entreat me with your loveliest lie

It will not last the night;

But al, y frase, and oh, my

friends-

It gives a lovely light! And the second is similar:

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly

houses stand:

Come and see my skining palace

built upon the sand! It is youth come to a sudden, flaming awareness of itself, the post-war, mood of freedom.

Ome

To

If you

I will protest you with my

favourite vow..

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THE ULTIMATE SİFTING DUST,"

» "Second April shows a deeper mood, for this author has many nuances, an even franker handling of love, a repudiation of the body, and exaltation of the immortality of art, as she puts it:

Ab, when the thawed winter

splashes

of the older generation it' may sound merely eysical but toj the young-hearted of any genera- tion it expresses a passionate truth- fulness, an unwillingness to give Me,

ip-service to outworn tradition. Bho writes again :

Ob, think not I am faithful to a

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Faithless I am save to love's

self alone.

Were you not lovely I would

leave you now : After the fect of beauts, by my

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by no means dead

In that hour, but surely When this book, unread,

Rots to earth obscurely,. And no more to any breast,

Close against the clamorous

swelling Of the thing there is no tall

ing,

Are these pages pressed'1.

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Ritola (Finland) Johnston, USA, Harper (Britain) Nurmi won by 500 metres. Time: 32mins. 54.4-5sece. MR. R.E.D. SASSOON. --- 400 METRES RELAY :

1st Heat-Britain beat Greece. Messrs, David Sassoon & Co, Time 42sees.

(a world's re- "Ltd., are in receipt of a cable from cord). Americe, however, later Bagdad, announcing the death excelled this record, winning ber David Sassoon on Friday last. there of Mr. Ronald Edward heat in' 41.1-5secs.

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Should the Meeting approve of

"That the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and, "for the purpose of identifica- "tion, subscribed by the Chair- "man thereof, be and the same 66 are hereby adopted as the "Articles of the Company to the "exclusion of and in substitu- “tion for all the existing "Articles thereof."

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY He then specially called the ALSO GIVEN that a Further Club de Recreio and sent a mes Extraordinary General Meeting of sage of farewell to the Portuguese the said Company will be held at aviators who left the Colony this the Registered Office of the Com- morning by the "President pany, 20, Des Voeux Road Central, Madison.*

aforesaid on WEDNESDAY, the TBE FUTURE.

5th day of November, 1924, at His Excellency then returned Noon for the purpose of receiving and delivered an interesting ad- ja report of the proceedings at the to the Portuguese above mentioned Meeting, and of Tourna- dress

present. Speaking of the after-confirming, if thought it as a noon's function he said it was the 'Special Resolution the above men. first step to real improvement in tioned Resolution.

Mr. Ronald Sassoon was a partner in the firni of David Sassoon and Company, General Merchants and Insurance Agents who have a branch at Hongkong. He had been on a visit to the Far Eastern branches of the firm and left Hongkong in March. He visited branches in Karachi and Bombayment. Final placings are→→ before going on to Bagdad. He was due back in London early in July, but apparently contracted Illness and reinained in Bagdad. Mr. Ronald Sassoop was 28 years of age and was single.

Benito (Argentine) Tunlose Finlandi Distance for jump; -15.525m.. (a world's record).

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A Quantity of Cape Regulate Fears old son alone on board. The steam; and motor vessels are work. It would be his great plea-

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The afternoon na spent in Road Central Besides these poems Mina Millay

those parts where the banks and inspecting the station apparatus premises at No. 6 Des Voeux, Road Romeo Duplicator, Typewriter, oce has written two playa, Mário da Between 11.30 and one o'clock from the washe

dykesare liable to suffer damage and listening in to a programme Central on the 14th July 1924. of music to which Mr E. Gr! Hongkong, 14th July, 1824, - Copo," which was first presented today, May 1 N. do Counthial,

Dduino of Hongkong con by the Provincetown, Players and Consul for France, was "At Home"

The. Lamp and the Bell; the at his residence, 13 Peak Road, to Every Used In £Thunbaren CUDJOKOH PHT Vassar play for 1921. She is also oficials and pumerous others, who people who have been cured by Chamat zusov gal to

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