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Lincoln In Ming Dynasty Costume.

Abraham Lincoln in Ming dynasty costume is only one of the curious features of a Chinese play now being staged in Hongkong.

tenance with a long white beard→→ is always necessary. This play has two. One is Lincoln's right hand man whose name 08. rendered in Chinese sounds very much like that of Seward who was Secretary of State. This charac- ter is made to plan, Lincoln's assassination and to join hands with the negro leader, who as the. fully empowered delegate of the slaves, presented a petition to Congress After Lincoln's death,

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(To the Editor of the China Moil).

LINCOLN

America's great President who appenre in a Chinese play now being staged in Hongkong as a striking figure, dressed in Ming Dynasty costume.

to deal with piracy should and other allegations as to the emphatically if only as a matter German industrial preparation for quantity of hidden arms, of of principle, be met from the war and upon the alteration of Navy Estimates, we agree that no railway rolling stock so as to make better choice could have been it adaptable for immediate con- made for the spending of this idle version into troops trains, General Morgan claims to have definite wealth than the giving of it to a data. Of the German Com- great Impérial service." The ship-mander-in-Chief he even goes s0. ping control surplus funds, it is far as to say that he may yet project a gigantic shadow across scarcely necessary to point out the face of Europe within the next to-day, represent the excess earn- five or ten years." ings of the ships which the Hong- kong Government managed for the Shipping Controller during the war. profits which, after paying the owners more than they would, have made in peace time, were turned over to the Colony by the Imperial Government.

Sir-As B looker-on witla no These profits could not be paid

axe to grind I have been interested to the owners, because the in the remarks attributed to a local Shipping Controller, who had representatives of a firm whosé been indemnified by the House of Shipping Controller in the War.

slips were commandeared by the

These are only some of the the same character aspires to the Commons, could not make any

delights of the show now being Presidency, but because he fails Boiled down, his plaint appears presented by one of the leading to get the post he breaks with the individual · concessions without to be the money was made with Cantonese companies at the Konegro.

our ships, we have a right to it.** for rendering himself liable

Others are the Shing Theatre.

Another leading character bears But surely he overlooks the fact

name which "Sounds like millions of pounds earned by ships that the reason why it was possible portrayal of Lincoln by an actor a

Reference

to the under control in all parts of the to make that money was that the dressed in a Ming Dynasty Cameron. world, and the Hongkong Governship of most formidable com- costume, with a flowing black authorities gives Simon Cameron ment, as it may readily be under-itors were requisitioned for the beard reaching down to his waist, as Lincoln's Secretary of War representing the Secretary of The Cameron in the play is a purpose-of-currying, troops. COX-On February 27, 1925, at stood, had no option but to obey Why should the shipping firms State as the master-mind behind Southernier and has three sons

Newchwang, of pneumonia, Home orders in this respect, whose boats actually made the the crime; and the staging of the and two daughters. John Cox (Messrs, Butterfield However, the money having been money he entitled to a cent more murder, not in Ford's Theatre, but son is the hero of the piece and he

Swire), aged 44 years.

than was paid the big lines for the in a garden where the President it is who forms the Ku-Klux-Klan DA CRUZ-On February 28, earned by shipping, it was only ge of their boats for conveying went to view the summer blooms! to triumph over the freed slaves. 1926, at Shanghai, Esabella fitting that it should be spent in troops? Imperial opinion was un- The play shows the blacks of The younger daughter is forced to (Lizzie) Maria da Cruz.." the interests, if not of shipping animous that the universal rate the Southern States as rising to draw water from a well after the GRAYRIGGE-On February 28,

paid for the use of all requisitioned power immediately after their slaves leave and to escape the 1925, at Shanghai,Gray solely, then in the interests of ships allowed a very fair margin of emancipation and assuming both unwelcome attentions of the negro Grayrigge, the dearly beloved mercantile trade generally. The profit, more than the profits earned civil and military office, over- sailor the one who fires the fatal husband of Lillian Grayrigge, Singapore base, for reasons which before they were taken over.

a river to bo drowned.. aged-50.

ing all whites. It is not necessary to enter into It is hard to understand the running the country and persecut-shot at the President jumps into SOUZA.-On February 27, 1925,

objection lodged against the Governin a Chinese drama, a villain That the playwright must have. Salvador now, meets that need as few other ment for altering the Indemnity usually an old man of foxy coun- had a nightmare in which he saW at Shanghai,

Lincoln's death, a screen drama of (Salvito) Jose de Souza, aged objects could. Therefore we Ordinance it was necessary to pass

Civil War days and a Kian episode, 34 years

heartily applaud the Govern from its orginal form as applied in England. I know little about lawy

is evident from the way in which ment's decision--it solves a local but I should think that it would

he blends his romance to suit, the problem and helps the whole be almost inevitable that there

demanda of the present day should be some alterations before.

Cantonese stage The Heroine is Empire at one stroke.

it could be applied to Crown

the daughter of Seward-if, of.. Colony

course, it can be presumed that Yours e

the author is giving the impres- sion that the scoundrel is the Secretary of State. Hongkong, March 5.

As a Red.

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DEATHS.

Hongkong, Saturday, March 7, 1925.

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in the main the arguments Hongkong has received so many against the building of the Singa doubtful advertisements in the pore Base may described as moral

Two salt fish -hawkers of Sai Gross nurse with the Federal Army she meets the hero from the Wan Ho wore charged before it South. After donning the proper past, what with the outery over and,not material; people are con-

J. R. Wood at the Central nurse uniform she goes back to its "child slaves," the "social evirerned not with the millions that must be expended in making a and other thorny problems, that naval base for the British fleet in (To the Editor of the China Mail). Magistracy this morning with the Chinese tunic and. skirt of to-day and the hero dons the fighting. Bobody can begrudge us the mild the Pacific, but with the effect ANY glory shed upon

on the Colony such a base is likely to have with Sir, It has amazed me to read Number one endeavoured to ordinary long-coat and jacket

worn by the "Saikwan Snob." in your paper that Chinese ladies convince – Hit Worship of the Leaning over a verandah In the m through our gift of £250,000 the nations with whom Britain is towards the cost of the Singapore That is all to the good. It shows take part in urging on their him by number two by pointing to the hero sees a negro persecuting at the moment on friendly terms. (1), attend football matches and serious nature of the assault on evening to ponder over matters, base. Such few people as had signs of idealism and makes the players as most crowds do Ibis chest which bore a number a white boy because the latter given any thought to the question arguments being used in favour scarcely ever attend a football

a rope. In despair, the boy picks of helping the Home taxpayer to of the scheme of the greatest match in Hongkong which may of large plasters. The other cannot teach him how to sip with

importance. We may take the account for my amazement. But I man, who smiled complacently, up a sheet and waves it over his. bear his burden in this respect "Times" ne being fairly repre-am an old player of the game and merely touched a hump on his head, Terrified, the negro bully were all agreed, in the words wesentative of popular Home opinion, possess a knowledge of how head caused by the blunt end of a runs for his life. Down jumps used

that in favour of the scheme. This crowds can behave and how chopper for which he said number the hero to say "Can it be that some weeks ago, tgreat organ of opinion free frora passions may be roused to the ince it was not only more grace the shackles of the late Northcliffe extent of using impolite language one was responsible, white (cloth) will triumph over

the black 7,"face ful but also more politic, to or present Bothermere domination. It appears to me that the atten. 4. According to the story of the anticipate any request for a dona-comes to the point in ample and dance of Chinese ladies at football constable who arrested the men, He at once preaches the gospel tion, our assistance should take direct language. The Base is not games, as regular practice, and the dispute arose over the position of the Ku-Klux-Klan. One result zas directed, at Japan. It originated the ordinary partizan way is of stall, and the second man is that his fiancee, being a the form, not of a military In the very he contribution, which levied, but of a single gra

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