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To-day's Poem.

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(Wedded.)" An amber-breasted thrush upon

the conference the necessity of

"Dr. Jacks his will say at once. "Oh but we could accepting the Dawes plons-

A STORY BY been telling the never do that in Shanghai!" The

DR. JACKS. following story answer is simply, Why not?, success is practically assured. For

in a lecture in unparalleled evil has grown up even if they had not already "A divine delivered a course of airos of equal force or it will grow America," says the Christian World. amongst us which calls for mea expressed assent it would be most sermons on the Five Senses to such bounds that life in Shang- Their Uses in This World and unlikely that the other Allies, who the Next." Coming at last to hai will become impossible. The have hitherto associated them the sense of smell, he assured mob has armed itself. against his flock that though in this world society and the bnly remedy is that selves with either. Britain or there were many smells, in the society should be armed against France, would adopt a policy of next there would be, only two the nich

Incense and brimstone. So, too, their own now that their leaders said Dr. Jacks, there is a well- have reached a common under-would have us believe that our known type of reformer who

atanding. Furthermore the con- present social system smells only ference enjoys the co-operation of of two things-luxury and misery.

We think him unfair," the United States, a factor of incalculable moral value. Already, too, the conference itself has pro vided evidence of a genuine desire to settle the problem once and for all. The speeches made at the opening session have a ring of sincerity, and it is significant that the British Premier, with his well-known views, should have been made chairman. Accordingly there is every reason to believe

BOONO|||O|||||||||||||||||||0|0||ONOMONE that the conference will fulfil Mr.

Ramsay MacDonald's hope by following the good example of the Dawes report and approaching the problem as a business, not as a Ltd. political, proposition.

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his "noble words." Although, as we have said, one might be for- MELHUISH.-On July 3, 1924, given after the events of the

George J. Melhuish, late of Kobe, in his 69th year. (By past six years for adopting cable).

wait and see" attitude; WILSON-On July 12, 1924, at although noble words have the General Hospital, Shang marked the opening of every hal, Elizabeth Wilson, aged single conference that has yet. 72 years.

tackled the reparations problem,

still we think it is not extravagant

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more

a thorn.

Made gind the wind-swept lea With mellow melody,

hearten buds and stars little leaves newborn..

He sang and loved and sang,

throstle blest,

"There

are To LONDON'S too many TRAFFIC CHAOS. people in London and there are too many vehicles,"" according to the Saturday Review which observes that "the streets are not only unsafe from the point of view of human life, but in traffic which is crowded on to sufficient to contain the wheeled

them. It will be necessary to organize and control the direction in which vehicles move at cros

and

that

Till from the ivy-tod. His wife cried, "Oh, my God, Do stop your noise and help me with this here dratted nest1"

-Eden Phillpotta From "Cherry Stones.""

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WEATHER CALENDAR.

sings and congested points, and probably it will be necessary in certain hours to banish horse- shall be sorry indeed to see the drawn vehicles altogether! We horse disappear from the streets 1804. of London; but a generation which reckons value in quantity rather than quality, and which believes prosperity consists In" size and cumbera, must have the courage. of Its convictions and pay theicprice."

Sir John Cock-

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Mr. John Cooke LATEST Hewlen, of Hillside WILLS. House, Beckenham, chemist, chairman of Messrs. C. J."

Kent, manufacturing Hewlett and Son, Ltd., of Curtain road, E. C., a director of the Northern Counties. Conservative Newspaper Company, £144.711.

JULY 17.

After the deluge which fell for my particular sina we have again got fine warm weather which I enjoy among the roses and honey suckles here, and the thrushes sing like mad.

Lady Lousa Start.

FEAR.

Men fear thought as they fear ruin, more even than death. nothing else on earth-more than

-Bertrand Russell.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised · In The Mail"

ENTERTAINMENTS.

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The Prince and the Pauper." July 17 Coronet Theatre;

The Unseen Forces." July 17-The Star July 17. World "Forgive and Forget" "White Tiger."

July 17-Queen's

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THURSDAY JULY-17- 1924

SHAMEEN STRIKE,

OUTLOOK FOR PACT MORE HOPEFUL

ZELL MARAN

SEAMEN SENTENCED! IRISHMAN, SWEDE AND

**PISTOL

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Sergt. H. J. Taylor said that on

DR. SUN'S OPPORTUNITY, A The story of the loss of a pistol from the Seamen's Institute, the From Our Special Correspondent.) somewhat sordid, circumstances

in which

recovered Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Generalissimo and the arrest of two European of the Constitutionalist Govern seamen on a charge of being in ment in Canton, will use his good in the small Court at the Central unlawful possession of It was told offices to influence the Shameen Chinese employees to return to Magistracy yesterday, afternoon service at the earliest date and before Mr. C. D. Melbourne.

The defendants were Frank at the same time, arrange with cipal authorities in Canton to mo- Tura Barggren, a young Swede. the British consular and muni- Eagan, an elderly Irishman and dify the traffic and police regula the evening of the 8th inst he was tions so as to remove all possible clauses abjectionable to the on patrol in Spring Garten Lane. Chinese without unduly affecting He saw six men standing outside the safety of the Foreign residents. No. 9. which was a brothel and It is understood that the Chinese overbeard one of the men, whom authorities have intimated to several be afterwards knew as the foreign officials in Shameen. that defendant Barggren, say that he the Chinese police authorities will had lost a pistol and $5 out of his be glad to offer such co-operation box at the Seamen's Institute, Wanchal. Witness tried to as is needed and that too rigid a regulation does not appear to be conceal himself behind No. 13, absolutely necesssary. So far the but one of the men saw him, and informal conversations between told the others: Barggren then the Shamech authorities and re- walked up and told him that some- presentatives of Dr. Sun Yat-sen body had broken open his box and and the Canton General Chamber stolen a pistol and $5. of Commerce have been friendly Witness took him to Inspector and it is hoped that the strained re-Aris at No. 2, Police Station and lationship will soon be remedied. the three of them then went to In certain circles, opinion is the Seamen's Institute and made of Chinese employees against what Witness.then went with Barggren current that the strike in Shameen $1 search but found nothing. they believe to be the unreasonable to the house in Spring Garden Lane. actions of the municipal authorities He searched the first room on the has afforded a timely opportunity left of the stairs on the first floor, for Dr. Sun Yat-sen to appear as and in a drawer of the washstand mediator. A foreign issue,

he found a pistol. Eagan was however local, always brings forth lying in bed, and witness arrested When Eagan was taken to a national pride and patriotism, and the Chinese attitude towards the station he accused Barggren of the Chinese exclusion act in Japan having given him the pistol to sell and the so-called discrimination for him. against Chinese in Shameen is A woman living in the house prompting Dr, Sun's party to action said she saw the sergeant find the which will overshadow its defeat pistol. It was found in a drawer in Southern Kwangiung and the of the washing stand. She told many complaints of military Sergt. Taylor the pistol belonged extortion and other outrages of to Eagan. She had seen him open mercenaries in Kwangtung.

the drawer and put something" black into it, but she thought it was a leather purse. This was at about 9 p.m., some four minutes after he arrived.

LOCAL NEWS.

In local circles it was learnt this morning that inembers of the foreign community in Shameen are policing the island at night in place of the Chinese constables who have joined the strikers. It is not definitely known here whether the Chinese police have all deserted or whether only a portion of the force has done so.

him.

Inspector C. F. Arls, in the winess box, corroborated parts of Sgt. Taylor's-evidence.

Eagan, in the witness-box, said that the other defendant came up to him at the Seamen's Institute, Handed him the gun, and asked him to do the best he could with it, stipulating that witness should not tell a third man what sum was obtained for it.

In one quarter, in was learnt that Theatre; while all was quiet in the Chinese city yesterday, anti-foreign feeling Theatre; has been demonstrated to a certain,

The CS.P. You say that you' (extent, although no untoward In- Theatre;cident has occurred so far.

agreed to try to sell the pistol for the other defendant?—Yes. At the office of the Commodore's

How long have you been in the Naval--Secretary, this morning, Colony-Since May 2. July 19-ammert Bros., at was learnt that no message had Sales Roon, Brandy, Whisky. been received from H. M. S. ships: Do you not know that it is hock, liqueurs, eto., 11.30 a.. at Canton. It was therefore, to be-If I had not been in a state of against the law to deal in firearms?

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

The recent voyage of one of the "K" submarines to Singapore THE NEW ART. bern, speaking ata conference appears to have been given far

than it said: What life was going to 'be "significance " deserves. A writer in a Service he could say, Everything journal notes that the feat was more in the melting pot at the indicates a

present time than at any time in which is giving all the naval art would no doubt be despised menace to cruisere the world's history, "The new Powers food for thought. This and rejected by the wise critics stirs a writer in "Truth" to just as the old religions were des- remark that he is glad they can pised and rejected by the so-called get food so cheap. There is cultured ones of the past. Their nothing very wonderful in a business was to try to lay broad 2,000-ton boat making the passage the foundations for the apprecia- from England to Singapore un- tion of the new art." attended. Much smaller sub- marines have made considerably longer voyages, as witness the China Flotilla on this station. The trip of the "K" boat was doubtless undertaken for a definite purpose, which was neither strategical nor tactical. The British Admiralty, we are told, wanted to learn more about the habitability of sub-

Mr. Benjamin Smyth Gower, of marines when keeping the sen in Market Drayton Staffordshire, tropical latitudes. It is on record ironfoundel as agricultural Im- that the crew of the German rub-plement manufacturer, £53.090. marine which during the war bom Mr. Charles Richard Gunner, barded Free Town, the capital of solicitor and banker, of Ridge Sierra Leone, suffered terribly meade, Bishops Waltham, South

July 19. Taumert Bros., ut presumed-the-there-was-jno from the heat when running sub-ampton, £44.962. ---- merged through waters in which

Mr. Edward Griffiths, of North Sales Rooms, office requisites, material change in the position drink I should not have considered

since yesterday,

the proposition. the commander anticipated sight-street, Coventry, and of Johannes-DOOD

burg, formerly of Babbacombe,

There July 23. Lammert Bros., at ing our warships In the Tropics Torquay, £21,413.

present four It was proved that Eagan was apparently the "cool depths" lieMr Alfred Lloyd, of Upper property, 3 p.m.

180, The Teak, valuable leasehold foreign men-of-war at Canton, sentenced in Hongkong on May 6 these being HM.S. "Tarantula,

to 42 days' imprisonment. below the range of submarines Bognor-road,

the French gunboats "Argus" and Sussex, Bognor, at any rate of the class employed £13,671.

COMPANY MEETINGS.

"Craonne," and an American gun- in the late war. Such being the

September 16-Extraordinary boat of the "Pampanga" class, Sir Walter Parratt, of The case, it is easy to understand the Cloisters, Windsor Castle, organist general meeting of The China H.M.S. "Cicala" is in the vicinity, desire of the Admiralty to learn of St. George's Chapel Royal, Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the within easy reach. further data of what is required Windsor, and Master of the King's Registered Office of the Company, At 2 p.. yesterday, the Hong in submarines for use in tropical Musick since 1882, £9,472.

Pedder Street, noon..

kong and Macao Steamboat Com ivaters.

October 3.--Second meeting of pany received a request from let the China Suger Refining Co., the naval authorities for accom A MASTERFUL your "husband Ltd,, at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street,modation to be reserved on the

carry a latch-noon.

night stcamer to Canton for kay?"

• October

GENERAL HSU, naval Extraordinary 20

ratings and two "Oh, just to humour him. He General Meeting of Douglas 8.5. officers

This detachment was NOW BLOSSOMS FORTH AS sarcastic in the likes to show it to his friends to Co., Ltd., nt the Registered Office posed

mainly of Royal month over Mr Grindell Matthews let then see how independent he of the Company, 20 Des Voeux certain specialist ratings for the

PEOPLE'S FRIEND. Marines, with the addition "of claims to have discovered a ray is-but it doesn't fit the door!"** which would real not only death and disaster but do various other things.

Lord Birken, THAT DEATH head was very.

RAY.

Times lact

When one reads of all the powers attributed to this re- markable Ray (writes Lord Birkenhead) one becomes lost

MALE.

Current Comment.

"So you

(Armed Robbers.) Writing under the beading

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are

Road, Central, noon.

operation of the Dalry Farm re October 20.-Third meeting of frigerating system. This system The China Sugar Refining Co..is at present being run by naval

noon.

„OTHER MEETING.

Remarking that Barggren was young and a Swede, and that that might be some sort of excuse for him, the Magistrate imposed a fine of 1500 on him, with the alternative of three months' hard labour. The punishment in Fagan's case was a fine of $1,000 or six months' hard labour.

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

General Hsu Chung-chi, Com-

| Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, men on the spot, and the draft mander-in-Chlef of the Cantonese extras are to release them for their Army, on whom the Cantonese November 5-Further extra-own ship's duties. The draft depend for the ousting of all The ordinary meeting of Douglas 8,5, travelled up by the Fatshan" last non-Cantonese mercenaries from in admiration of the diverse Armed Robber Challenge, the Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Road night.

Kwangtung Province, has finally

to sidė The Superintendent Engineer of come out

with genius of its inventor. Not only N. G Daily Necs says: We Central, noon. is it said to destroy life, set foreigners all, not only the Muni-

the Dairy Farin Co. also travelled the merchants of Canton. fire to anything inflammable, cipal Council, have a double duty July 18.-At Helens May In. up by the same steamer to supervise He has taken up the cause of the

the running of the whole plant. wreck aircraft, stop motorcars at as regards Shaughai.

people by openly objecting to the It is the stitute, Mra. H. I. CHft of Em

issue by: Dr. Sun Yat-sen's com POLICE RETURN? : a distance of 58 miles, and place set aside for our residence manuel Medical Mission, Nanning, explode ammunition or other

"It West River, gives account of ber the Shameen have received no General Hau may not be successful. Local offices with branches in missioner of finance of another Reries of unsecured banknoter. explosives, it is even claimed which we govern and defend. that it will cure caucer and de- is thus a well conducted city where work, 10.80 a..

further information. It is the in his effort, but he undoubtedly tect submarines. It is sublime to life is in the main peaceful and

general opinion, that the Chinese has the support of the Cantonese think of this death-dealing secure. And accordingly it is ac weapon turning aside from Alestia for the armed robber In CLOUDS ROLL BY.

people in this matter, its special lethiferous the delicate adjustment of out; and because we are responsi task order to keep Shanghai peaceful core the sick; to realize and orderly we must stamp him

HONGKONG ONCE

it to set fire to anything settlement it is to our own efforts typhoone signalled from Manila nieans to ends which enables be for the government of the For the fourth time this year the inflammable and yet arrest the

have

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Shanghai

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passed

Though local

but

have left to amen mention was made la one office of an unconfirmed rumour that the police employed in the French Concession had returned.

to hope that the, London con-magneto in a car without igale we must look and not to the and

SHARE QUOTATIONS. ference will achieve complete

ing the petrol. It is also a polg Chinese. The situation is not less Hongkong by, nant reflection that all these serious now than it was in the typhoon signal No 1, which was Messrs Joseph Gould & Co. incredible benefits are denied to epoch which culminated in the hoisted yesterday, was not taken kindly supply the following stare an unworthy country because Battle of Muddy Flate. Allable down until after 10 o'clock this quotations ruling on the Shanghai its purblind authorities refuse to bodied foreigners then made com morning, all danger is considered market this morning: put a considerable sum at the moon cause to secure the Settle typhoon referred to yesterday is inventor's disposal. This genment and once again the same aliing up and it is, therefore con- tleman must indeed deplore the publicity, which even his re duty comforts them. If their help cluded that Hongkong will not be ticénce has been unable entirely can be admitted, we do not doubt affected.

*he China Mail.

Foremost among the reasons for this belief is the fact Boxokone, Thursday, July 17, 1924 that the meeting is free from the disturbing influence of the "NOBLE WORDS.”.

implacable Poincare, hitherto possibly the greatest single force against equitable settlement of Cynical after the many futile the reparations problem. Repre- attempts that have been made to senting France in his place is the settle the reparations problem, one aminently reasonable Herriot who

past for the time being.

The

The forecast for to

to avoid, now alas ! surrounding that it will be abundantly given morrow is brighter and there is a discovery top confidential ap- and we are convinced that it will every prospect of fine weather parently to be set forth even in be effective. Incidentally, we do over the week-end, since but little a secret pe danger of Mr. not be invoked to out ronds and b a patent," not see why the Volunteers might rain is expected.

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the Cantonese to see the reduction Natwithstanding the desire of of the size of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's mercenary army in Canton, 800 mora Yunnanese came in last weck. It may be, recalled that Dr. Sun's mercenary army has been reported as 132,000 strong, but he is now unable to support it," his income daily not amounting to is to be expenditure

amonats to $90,000.00

According to Mr. Chan Gee-hee, Tis. Langkats 18- Buyers, managing director of the Sunning EWGST Buyers, Railroad in the Saeyap Districts of Shanghai Docks 100 Buyers, Kwantung, military interference New Engineerings 614 Buyers' on the line has reduced its income Orientals.

3.40 Buyers.from $3,000 to less than $800 daily. Shanghai Cottons 56 Buyers special service cars without The bandit troops would order

compensations to the fine, and often the railroad authorities might be forgiven for adopting a has declared his faith in con- Grindell Matthews selling his search all Chinese. That measure THE BOLSHEVIK

WANDERWELLS. had to spend $1,000 daily to sceptical attitude towards the solidating peace, mot 6

by blind discovery to France Lord would a first cause offence and in-de

supply military transportations DUE HERE SOON. without receiving anything in London conference. Lloyd George national strivings, but by inter- Birkenbend anggears that Britain convenience to dine respectable DEATH, FOR SMUGGLERS. suggests

return. Mr. Chan has pointed out with his golf, Bonar Law with his national agreement. Moreover the admirable frugality of our titans, but they would soon

(From Our Gron CowespondenBy) to Dr. Sum that the SummİN 190E is a private, concern and that the husky voice, and Baldwin with his new French Premier has pro- friends across the Channel to relate the purpose of it for the

SINGAPORE, July 16, shareholders cannot all the time pipe-ench hits atramed every claimed for unreserved acceptance make it certain that they are common welfare. Bot the ann

Captain and Miss Wanderwall, render free service to the govern- nerve in vain. Will Hamsay of the experts reports, Conse- largely the offer (whatever it that which the Iris

not likely to Incredse "vary | cipal measure, employed, should be MacDonald succeed where they quantly with Britain and France may be) which our experts have Government found so successful. the of opium across the frontier Penang. They hope to sail for friends for monetary considera

Free State fenced to death for smuggling Ford car, arrived here to-day from still lending their basketb falled Ramsay MacDonald with agreed upon the main point before made

We are aware that many people from Turkestan

Hongkong on Friday.

Gen (eutar's Service:)

THE

WAY

RAMoscow, July 16.

iTwo: soldiers have been': sen. I who are touring the world ́s aga ment. Moreover, some' troopE "STRADORE