1924-11-21 — Page 9

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924.

JOURNALIST'S

MEMOIRS,

MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD AS LEADER WRITER.

́A STOLEN TELEGRAM.

SURPRISE, CEREMONY.

PRINCESS MARY'S BABY CHRISTENED.

of

LUGGAGE THIEVES.

SOME AMAZING HAULS MADE.

London. October 5.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SMOKING PRINCESS.

INCIDENT AT EMBASSY DINNER.

AWE OF KITCHENER

September

London,.

POISON OF DOLE,

SIR IAN HAMILTON'S STORY.

Glasgow, October 5.-Speaking at Ulverston yesterday evening, General Sir Ian Hamilton said that in Germany, France, Belgium,

ATTACK ON SIRDAR.

VICTIM IN GRAVE CONDITION.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, November 20.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. ·

FRANCO SINOÄNNAMITE COMPANY - LIMITED

(In Liquidation).

London, October 11.-The chris- tening of the second son

Hugo Princess Mary Viscountess stores of luggage stolen from tail- Lasceller, which took place behind way stations in London and all over I rather think, writes a reviewer locked doors on Saturday, October the country have been discovered in the "Daily Graphic," that the 4, at the Church of St. Mary the by the police.during the past few Glimpses of the lighter side of our one alngle disabled soldier fit for Egypt, Sir Lea Oliver Stack the above mentioned Company.

Virgin in the little Yorkshire village of Goldsborough, came as days. a great surprise even to villagers.

main effect of Mr. Lincoln Spring field's brilliant memoirs, Some Piquant People" (Fisher Unwin, 158.), will be to induce young men in their thousands to become journalists.

Lady Tree, as he tells us, once described the press as a fantastic monster, half-octopus, with a con- gummate brain, an uncertain temper, and a magnificent heart, living principally in Fleet-st., and never going to bed.

It is the angelic, magnanimous side that shines out in these reminiscences.

Mr. Springfield began early. At fifteen on a salary of twelve

man Front Bencher, was a pretty fifteen-year-old assistant.

the

It had been generally understood that the ceremony would be per. formed on Sunday, October 5. On Saturday afternoon the village was almost deserted.

the

that a meeting of Creditors of

Italy, and Poland there was not The attack on the Sirdar of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN any sort of work who was un- G.B.E., C.M.G., bas created a pro- will be held at the Registered employed. Hers in England we found Impression Newspaper

sion of a large number of cloak Rattigan,.just published (Chapman able-bodied ex-Service men still'in, only condign punishment for the Road, Central, on MONDAY, the

וננו

2

EXTRA MEETING- 29th November 1924.

By Order,

Q.-B.. BROWN, Secretary,

Hooghong, Plat November 1924,

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE

24. diplomuy abroad are reflected very Detectives had obtained pose Diplomat, by

entertainingly in "Diversions of

Mr. Frank

had 60,000 disabled men unem- leaders reflect the deep indigna- Office of the Company, Alexandra ployed, in addilon to the 800,000 tion that is felt and demand not Building (Top Floor), Des Voeux room- tickets.

They hope to re- and Hall, löp.) cover still more goods belonging to

the prime of life.

assassins, but energetic British 24th day of November 1924 at robbed travellers.

On August 4, 1914, Mr.

The English workman who was action to re-establish respect for 2:30 pm.

Hongkong, 21st November, 1924. Rattigan, with the rest of the stuff, fit for any sort of work at all did Britain in Egypt. The Egyptian The discoveries have been nude was at dinner with our Ambassador He was miserable. They of the especially Zaglul, are

and not sajoy his paasion or his dole. Government Just before, half past two the as far north Newcastle, and at in Berlin wlion the German mob Legion who watched him, saw the held morally responsible for the rector, the Rev. A. Hastings Kelk, many Midland towns, as well se smashed the Einbusay windows.

.. Chambers, largely walked across to the church from London, all in railway and

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. chapps for the worse creep over crima owing to their anti-British the vicarage, and a moment after hotel luggage deposituries.

I picked up the first stone-or him every day as he stood waiting attitude. wards he was followed by his wife, his sister; and his son,

rather rock-thrown, and have to draw money for dolug nothing. For over year the milway kept it as a paper weight. It was Don't let them try and persuade

CAIRO, November 20. Immediately they had entered been mystified by frequent thefts of England in the wal}

police on all the main lines have the first German missile against themselves that he did not know yesterday morning and only with CONDITION for Eatrics Seventh

The Sirdar was not feeling well the church the doors were locked valuable luggage Bags and cases from within, and the

the change within himself. The Bo effort attended the War

Race, Hongkong Autumn police disappeared so quickly after being

On the way home across the spirit of old England was being Ministry. He had not eaten any. Champions, Post Entries, shillings a week, together with constable in charge of the village phwed on the platform that the North Sea, Sir Edward Goschen poisoned by her dole, not slowly thing, which in the circumstances | E. V. Lucas, he was doing two or cleared everyone out of

was fortunate. Zaghlal interview- ing staff of the "Sussex Daily would be locked. thres columns a day on the report-churchyard, saying that the gates seemed to have vanished into air. told us how his Gerum servants but very quickly..

When, recently, a train arrived

bad belmved. As soon us they

Sir Ian Hamilton ended his ing the pressmen, deplored the News," living with his grandfather,

their speech with a little story, Just attack which was very astonishing who kept a millinery shop in which entrance to the churchyard from removed a large and heavy trunk

A few minutes later the private Manchester, a porter, who had were paid off they throw

Englishy, liveries the floor, to let you see and understand," he when the country had returned to a Margaret Bondfield, the first wo the Hall was opened by a man from the van, left it on the plat stamped and spat on them, and said, "what jolly good fellows our state of tranquillity on the with

servant,

refused to do another stroke of ex-Service men are, how hap drawal of his resignation, Zaglul form while he hailed a taxicab. and Lord Lascelles,

work."'

py they'd be if only they had is convinced that criminals wanted accompanied by his mother, then his retum, less than a minute Countess of Harewood, and fol. later, the rank bad" disappeared. Crown Prince find returned from a that, so many of them 'should be

Bårlier in 1914, when the work to do, and what a shame it is to disturb the peace of the country. lowed by a nurse with Hubert and although the owner and the

The Sirdar shows slight improv. Lascelles, walked into the church, police searched the station and all our of inspection of the fortresses

down and out.

ment but his condition is still very They were followed by the the deskirting cabs and motor-ears him if he was satished with what after an inspection at Gallipoli my

near the French frontier, I asked. "Walking back to my boat serious. Princess, with whom was the Hon. was not found.

"LATER, · Mrs. Edward Lascelles, the Earl of The police new.kun how the

he had seen, and he replied, Terigure. Standing strictly at atten very grave. Hemorrhage affecting eye was caught by a very queer The Sirdar's condition is now Harewood, and the Hon. Edward disappearing trick was long. The feetly, but that is at the region tion was a young man, stark digestion has set in, causing sick. Lascelles, and a nurse carrying just about to depart from the of his earlier service in Austrii, burn black with the sun, and twenty-four hours will probably

brother of Lard trunk had been placed on a train where the real fight will begin.

Ele recalls that at the time of shorts I ever did sec. He was abandoned

naked bar the shortest pair ofness, but the doctors have not the baby, who was wearing a long, este platform by huggage thieves most of the Viennese great ladies somehow it was comic to see him be decisive.

hope. The next flowing christening role of white who watch the owner and the of the older generation--for exnin- as correct and rigid as if he was lace.

porter out of sight When they had entered the By the time the loss was dis Princess Croy, and others--smoked I returned his salute, saying ple. Princess Pauling Metternich, on a general's inspection parade. church the door was locked.

Lovered the sink was on its way large Havana cigars." The baby was named Gerald to Sheffielä.. David, Gerald is one of the family

something at which, I remember I remember at a dinner at the all the Quée names of the Earl of Harewood, thieves would decide where to Princess Croy decline a large eigur mind. Well, two or three days

on hoard #

truin, the

escort laughed. The American Embassy and David is the name of the alight, and would pay their fares presented to her by the Amla ago I received the following hearing incident then passed out of my Prince of Wales, who stood sponsor to an inspector on the train, or at sidor, on the ground that it was effusion:- by proxy.

The Hon. Edward their destination. The stolen og not strong enough for her taste! Lascelles was the only sponsorgage they would rifle on their way. She preferred her own, which were

The Earl of Harewood leaving the trunk or case at the represented the Prince, and the lonk-tom of the sintion at which huge and very dark in colom. godmothers were the Duchess of they lett the train. York, who was represented by the Countess of Harewood, and the Duchess of Northumberland, for Lascelles stood proxy. whom the Hon. Mrs. Edward

At the age of twenty he was promoted to the staff of the Echo "at three guineas a week, and lived in Love's Hotel, where the daughter of the house was Mabel Love, then aged twelve. On this salary he not only married

but kept his elder brother.

Within a year he was earning four guineas on the "Star" and giving young Mr. Asquith, the barrister, useful tips about in

vestments.

THE BACCARAT SCANDAL, When the Daily Mail" was founded he became its first news editor for four years at a salary of ten guineas a week, and was after wards Press agent to the Imperial Tobacco Company at £1,000 a year. When he took over the editor ship of "London Opinion" the circulation was 30,000 and it was losing £300 a week. He raised it, by introducing the limerick com petition, to a circulation of 160,000, and by 1913 its profits were £10,000

a year.

Lascelles,

present

THE BABY'S CRIES.

thieves that very often they had a

No busy and succesful were the time to go through the stolen lag age, but wraid Berely leave it at an hotel or station,

12.

Much of the biggage now covered by the police was, there for, found untouched.

But interesting and meteoric as his own career has been, the in terest of it lies mainly in the

The rector subsequently told a number of extraordinarlly interest. "Daily Mall" representative that ing people whom he has met and the simplest form of christening the carious cases which he wasservice was used. called upon to report.

music, and throughout the core- There was no From the start he appears to mony the baby was perfectly good. have had a penchant for crime" He cried only after it was all stories. He was the first to get the over. And," added Mr. Kelk detained.. news of the murder of Mr. Gold in

that was as it should be; for the the Clayton Tunnel, near Brighton. baby's cries were traditionally This occurred when he was only supposed to signify that the evil seventeen. When he was on the spirit had departed." "Star" he had to report the famous Tranby Craft baccarat scandal, in which the then Prince of Wales had to give evidence,

t

1

#

Dear Sir, do you remember,

MEMORIES OF THE PAST.

One day at Suvla Bay, When I stood to attention,

wore a pair of trousers, As you came on your way ?

Cut far above the knee,

My limbs were very sunburnt,

The sign-Gallipoli.

།

Do you belong to Scotland?" You asked me, and I spoke, No, Sir, My home's Newcastle, You smiled, then asked a question,

Amongst the miner's smoke."

The sun it left the fogs. Hold-Would you like to walk to

castle

WILL SURPRISE.

P

LIVING IN 13S HOUSE ON £9,000 A YEAR.

J

Mr. James Carr, of Higher Openshaw, Manchester, who had an income of nearly £9,000 a year, but lived in a six-room house in an upper_working-class terrace, has left £197,275 gross and personalty amounting to £186,958, He died on August 30, aged 87.

He left the income from £51,600 to his only two relatives and to two friends, made 20 legacies of from

MEETING will be held (weather armitting) at Happy Valley, on SATURDAY, 29th Novembar 1934 commencing at 3.30 gim. The first bell will be rung at 2 p.m.

The Chargo for admission to the Fablio Enclosure will be $1.

Boldiers and Sailors in uniform balf

price.

Mambors are advised that they must how their Sasson Tickstą, to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure.

Each member has the right of in- troducing 2 non-members to the Members' Enclosure, tickets for whom un be obtained from Mounts. Linstead

Davis af 85 oach up to FRIDAY. November 28th.

The Stewarda invite the Ladios of fongkong to be prement.

,

Hongkong, 21st November, 1924.

net THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD..

From MIDDLESBRO, LONDON AND STRAITS.

"BENREOCH"

£200 to £1,000 to friends and be-THE Steamship queathed to charities £63,000, as well as the reversion of the capital Consigners of Cargo are bereby appropriated to the four principal informed that all Goods are being and the residue of the estate. beneficiaries during their lifetime landed at their risk into the hazar

daus and/or extra hazardous Go-

To his neighbours-working- downs of the Hongkong and Kow- New-class folk who thought him aloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd,

Dressed in those tiny togs?" Yes, Sir, I'd greatly welcome

MEAL OF A REPTILE. Tangier Mr. Rattigan witnessed the

From the Legation garden frenzied ecstasies of the Aïssasra, a fanaticul Mahomaedan sect, ou the occasion of their festival.

I wa member of the weet seize

particularly important puff adder, a horrible yellow and black In connection with a aspeted stake about three feet long, and as” yesterday at Yarmouth. luggage theft, a man was afsted thick as a men's wrist, which is, I.

lured he was a knight, and warmly soakes known, to Science.

He de believe, one of the most poisons resented being questioned and ing it behind the head, he stuck out his tongue and allowed the shake to fix his fangs in it Не then drew the snake head into his mouth, bit it off ind swallowed it, The Tyneside street again, and then slowly devoured the still And would go without my trousers writhing body of the reptile.... his horrible meal, the man

But hopes are all in vain.” To my surprise, having completed You asked if we were happy, Sir William Gordon-Cumming for his action.

finned his wild antics without any Just said we all were cheery,

I answered you I think i had been accused of cheating at cards and had signed an under-

One of the questions which are apparent ill effects,

. But longing for a drink. On his transfer to Cairo Mr.. taking not to play cards agalo if

agitating the At his fourteenth fall he was Just Dow

world of the world were kept ignorant of picked up by a policeman, upon outfit should include & muf. It is Kitchener was perhaps the hardest

Tashion is whether the winter fur

Rattigan found thunt Lord I got home safe, so thank you, the accusation. The affair some whom he prevailed to imitate him. how leaked out, and he had to sue A passing inspector. was

My seusts since muffs were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson, for induced to try, and they went on seen, and although there have been Mander. In spite of the fact that trying until they were the milk time popularity, it is entirely his car to the bazaurs" in search Naval Division, Edinburgh.

several attempts, to revive its unie- the defendants won their case, Sir an early postman and the Willliam's financée married him man, who broke his leg, and had pered from the fashionable of antiques. on the day following the verdict, to be carried to the hospital by the woman's wardrobe. Discussion of

The others according to Shaw,"

the question of a revival bas en Kitchener would, however, crente FAMOUS JOURNALISTS.

Ikord consternation amongst the native antique dealers. They were

Questioned as to the closing of the church, Mr. Kelk said that this

WINTER FURS.

was done by his orders and he WILL, THY MUFF RETURN? would accept full responsibility

also

at the Great Spink Pearl case porters all wore top-hats and jag of one or two sample muffs at

whom

....

('01)-

For you wished me best of luck; worker under

I hare I'm working and contented served."

And in Reekie now am stuck. Whenever he had a moment to spare Kitchener would "dash off in -Ex-A.B. Jas. Laverick, Royal

appearance

of

Mr. Springfield was also present Fo those days, apparently, re-ed recently following the show which is supposed to have been spent their spare time in throwing the London Fashions Exhibition, filled with such awe of "El Lord," |

the inspiration for "Mrs. Dane's cards into them from a distance of But it must be admitted that

!

CRICKET.

MR. JOEL'S TEAM IN

AFRICA.

MATCH IS ABANDONED.

(Reuter's Service.)

PIETERMARITZBURG, Nov. 20. The match between Mr. Joel's

whence, and/or from the wharvee, delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godown, and all Goods retaining undeliver ed after the 28th inst, will be subject torent.

man of simple tastes, comfortably cff, the news of Mr. Carr's wealth came as a surprise. His relatives knew of it, but respected his dislike to having it talked about.

A BACHELOR. Mr. Carr was a bachelor and retired 25 years ago with a com- All claims against the steamer petence made from a Manchester must be presented to the Under bleaching business. He continued signed on or before 12th Dec., to live in the 13s a week house he or they will not be recognized. had built, together with three others, with the first money he made. He spent extremely little, invested wisely, and let his fortune grow.

Even when his income amounted to several, thousands a year he never spent more than £400.

The two remaining relatives are: his niece, Miss Hines, of Fairfields, Manchester, to whom he left the income from £18,000 for life, and his grand-nephew, Mr. Stanley Carr, of Trafford Park, who receives the income from £10,000 for life.

Defence and "Loyalties." fifteen yards. The top-hat, so Mr. these new muffs were received very asked the price of an object, accom

as lie was called, that when he this trial things were looking very! Springfield tells us, was killed by frigidly-ein fact, no one seemed to manying the query with a flash of, black for Major Hargreave, the Lord Ronald Gower,

want to give them the glad hand, is deep-set eyes, they would for busband of the owner of the pearl

Mr. Springfield bas praise for al flowever the reappearance of necklace, when "Owen Hall," the good many of his colleagues, but the muff is being discussed, and get all their Oriental rules on uncle of Mr. Gilbert Frankau, he reserves his highest encomiums some authorities profess themselves bargaining and mumble a price brought a letter to the Star for G. W. Steevens, the shy young as satisfied that the fashion will what they would obtain from the equivalent to about one-fourth of which made certain the fact that Fellow of Pembroke College, return.

a cousin of Mrs. Oxford, whose death at the age of treat these prophets seriously for succeeded in amassing an import-English cricket team and Natal a couple of weeks' at Blackpool | the thief was

average tourist. In this way he 'Hargreave.

thirty-one at Ladysmith was a tle reason The most fascinating murder tremendous loss to the world of insists on simplification, and how ant and beautiful collection of had to be abandoned as a draw, case in which Mr. Springfield was letters, like a beautiful cigar con one get simplification by antiques.

porcelain, rugs, pictures, and other owing to rain.

the first innings (Kennedy 44), and The 20 small legacles are chiefly

concerned was the Ardiamount smoked in a high wind." Steevens case, in which, the tutor, Monson, was hailed by Kitchener as the was charged with murdering his finest war correspondent he had pupil, Cecil Hamborough. He ever met, and by W. E. Henley as escaped on this occasion on a 000 of the finest descriptive verdict of "Not Proven," but got writers in the language. five years' penal servitude later for blackmail.

One is not inclined to

that modern wonkon

carrying out? On the contrary,

a muff distinctly complicates mat. ters, even when a muff chain or con holds the muff when the hinds

are otherwise engaged than in Lyme Regis Treasure." fondling its lining. So long L Whether or not, as is being con- Colonel Arthur Lynch was the rests with fur collars and cuffs temniated, Lyme Regis parts with remain popular it is unlikely that the fifteenth century tapastry in its

A KAISER TELEGRAM

Mr. Springfield seems to have star reporter of the Daily Mail" atmuffs will be wanted, and there, church, there is one work of art had among his colleagues nearly that period, and is described by is no sign of clunge at present. all the famous men of the day. Mr. Springfield as "talking six Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was a languages, possessing seven leader-writer on the "Star" in his University degrees, following

OPEN-AIR INL.,

:

with which it can never be dis soclated. "Persuasion" is its chief monument (points out the time, and Mr. Gordon Hewart, now eight occupations, and on the It is so much simpler to have "Morning Post" Miss Austen, Lord Chief Justice, is described as occasion when he lay under sen- one garment which combines the with her family, spent some weeks "the youngest man on the editorial tence, being entertained by his virtues of protection for most parts of autumn in the town, in a house staff, by years, and very, cheruble warder with nine stories of of the body, and this the fashion still standing near the Cobb, when in appearance

terribly bungled executions."

ahle coats do. Then, of course, she was 28, and twelve years later learned, with Oxford honours thick One of the most extraordinary the vogue of the fur coat is partly she settled the Harvilles there, and upon him. ... a youth of great stories in this entertaining book responsible, for the muff being in so immortalised it. "Take me to character. Our haunts did not concerns the sending of a tele- disgrace, while fur gloves and fur the Cobb and show me the steps appeal to him, our more careless gram by the Kaiser to Lord trimmed gloves aro now gen- from which Louisa Musgrove fell!" talk, and our Bohemian outlook on Lonsdale, complaining that the emily worn that further protection as Tennyson's demand of Francis life, rather awed him,"

Prince of Wales had swindled is necessary. Add to this the Falgrave when he visited him in Bernard Shaw was writing musi-him out of a yacht race, cal notices over

fact that the modern girl is an Lyme Regis the signature A telegraphiat from the G. P. O open-air and sporte-loving ght who Sir Landon Ronald. "Corno di Bassetto," One night he brought a duplicate of the telegram doon. not feel cold as did her

was so pleased with the wonderful to Mr. Springfield, when he was grandmother, and one sees at once- Sir Landon Ronald is one of our; pirouetting of Vincenti at the news editor of the "Daily Mail,that the muff has small chance of most brilliant chief d'orchestre. Alhambra that on his arrival in and he was sorely tempted to use again becoming popular, in this But he is probably at his greatest Fitzroy sq., he tried to go round it, but "one couldn't accept stolen generation at least.

as an accompanist, and no one can

manner of Vincenti.

the circular railings after the goods the purloining of a tole- In regard to fur coats, there is a really know what accompanying Kram was in a category no differ strong tendency towards browns in means: till they have, heard: Str ent from the theft of a baskote." various shades, and in this commee Landon at the piano (remarks the

RCXOR

He sent the telegraphist shout his tion, one notes that there are "Morning Post") The chances of business, and there wasn't a line several new finds of fur. Con- this nowadays are few. Once.or about the incident in any paper.binations of two or more fure are twice last year at bis Albert Hall But this is the kind of Book from also favoured. A feature of the Promenades he played the ac which it is easy 30 quote and new season a models is the number companiments to his own songs. only about piquant people, but it is fact, more attention is often paid vided with a grand piano and a difficult to resist quoting. It is not coate that are fur-lined in la a perfect musical world Sir

Landon Ronald would be pro itself is piquant volume of renowadays to the inside of the cont miniscence as I can remember.

then to the oulade.

Miss Hines told a "Daily Mail" reporter that her uncle was a testotaller and 1 non-smoker, spent his time pottering about his tiny graden, read a good deal, went to St. Clement's Church, | Openshaw, on Sundays, and had

every year. His only Indulgence was to hire a taxicab to go into The visiting team scored 179 in town,

108 for 5 wickets at the second to old friends as keepsakes but attempt (Ernes Tyldesley 40) several ane to working-class Natal, in the first innings, scored | relatives of people he had koown 292, Taylor maktog 58.

when he was poorer.

SHIPBUILDERS. SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKDES. FORGE MASTERS.

OXY-ACETYLENE, ANL ELECTRIC WELDERS,

MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL)

1.

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Go- downs, where they will be examin ed on the 28th inst., at 10 a.m.

No Fire Insurance effected.

has been

Bills of Lading will be counter signed by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agents. Hongkong, 21st Nov., 1924.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction

ON

WEDNESDAY, 28th Nov., 1994,

commending at 9.80 p.m. thair Balay Booms, Daddell Street, A Fine Private Collection of Chinese Curies Comprising:- 5-Coloured Bowls, Vass, and Platos,

Hand Paintings, Lacquered Ware, Brose Ware, etc., etc.,

Ou view from Tuesday the 25th, November 1924

Catalogues will be immand. Terms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROB., "Auctioneers.

LIMITED.⠀⠀⠀

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

ENGINEERS.

MASOF HONGKONG,

T-D. AUDENCE **Tartoqbode,” THEMPROMO-CHNERÁL No. 119

-DRY DOCK-

· Length 787- Test. Length on Bisnis.754 Weat

Depth en Centre of ¡9[1] (H.W.Q.B.T.)+34\\TE 6+ Lus.

-THREE" SLIPWÄYS-

'Japable of Handling Ships' Up

to 3,009 Tour Displacemisias

· Esctrja. Orans at Son Wall Capa Lifting" | 100

BUTTERFIELD. & SWIRE

TRAN

کا