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but exclusively of any rent or any mere book entries, such an-depre- ciation on plant, etc., $71,692, or more than $140,000 a year for ordinary expenditure an in- creasing Agure as time goes on and business expands. "Then there is extraordinary expendi-

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SATURDAY, MAI

MARVELS OF THE PAST.

SCENES SIR EDWARD STUBBS IS VISITING.

TEMPLES IN THE JUNGLE.

Audience With The Emperor of Annam.

Seemingly dead in the romantic past but with power to revive their ancient splendour in dazzling pageants are the old world scenes which HE. the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Edward Stubbs, is now visiting in French Indo-China.

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periods new machinery. 'new type, and so on. Our battery of Linotype machines will have cost us nearly $80,000 by the time it is complete, and some new adver- tisement type which came in läst j week was accompanied by a bill On the occasion of a similar if an hour; and the procession for nearly five hundred pounds "visit paid by Lord Northcliffe-a included Dver. 2,000 people, sterling.. On December 31 the twelfth century Buddhist temple, Princes, Princesses, Court. total number of persons employed wonderfully. and mysteriously officials, mandarins, many bands. in the different departments of built, abandoned long since, under of musicians, 50 elephants, the this office was 67."

the stress of the continual wars Royal borses, and bullock-carts of the Indo-Chinese peoples, to by the score. Yet there was not the jungle and its wild beasts, and the slightest hitch of any kind Inade once more accessible not and the huge cortège unrolled many years ago by French itself along the great causeway science and French energy, was of the temple without a single- made the scene of an imposing | pause. ceremony in which a modern King of Cambodia, living in peace of a Fower from the far-off and security, under the protection

Atlantic, expressed to his own people and to his distinguished foreign guests the religious and national traditions of his race,

CORRESPONDENCE. -

POPPY DAY DRIVE, 1924,

To the Editor of the China Mail

Sir- have the pleasure to enclose a copy of the audited balance sheet of the "Poppy Day -Drive," organised by the Hong- kong and China Branch of The British Legion in aid of the Earl Halg's Fund, which was held on 11th November, 1924.

From this it will be seen that the total amount remitted to Earl

Haig's Fund as a result of the "Drive" was £8,407 12a. 78."

I am also, in receipt of information that £157 11. 11d.). was sent from Shameen. Canton, and £24 19s. 3d. from Kiung- ehow. These sums are not shown. in the accounts as they were re- mitted direct.

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1. The thanks of the Sub- Committee are due to Mr. J. Fleming for kindly auditing the accounts.

Yours, etc..

H. GLANVILLE. Chairman,

Poppy Day Sub-Committee,

1924...

"Hongkong, March 27.

The American fleet in the course of a visit to Sydney and Mel- bourne is to cruise in the Pacific $22,338.39 and disbursements of i [The accounts show receipts of · and to carry out certain naval $1.185.42. leaving a balance of Į manœuvres, Ten thousand miles $22.202.97, which represented will be covered in the attempt to £2,645 1s. 7d. To this was added promote sea training and to take sums from outports which made. advantage of the unique oppor- the total collected £8.407 12s. 7d. tunities offered for studying The places which assisted were logistics problems of transport Amoy, Autung, Changsha, Che- and fuelling. Incidentally, the foo, Chingklang, Chungking |

visits to Australia's great ports Dairen, Foochow, Harbin, Man- will give opportunity for a display churia, Hangchow, Ichang, of hospitality and, friendship on Kuling (Redcroft School), Kui- the part of our Australian kins- "xiang, Mukden, men into which they are entering Nanking, with great zest. But already the Tsingtao," alarmists are on the dung heap. Wuhu.]

If some people are not "red" they are very capable of seeing red- often where it does not exist. I.. The proposed cruise. cannot be ascribed, as alleged, to any recent political Street,

developments between America and Japan.. It was decided upon two years ago when "wars and rumours of war were

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Lord Northcliffe described it 48 an entrancing spectacle. "Through the West and in the eyes of the West the East. lived again. The foreign, visitors came to the scene in motor-cars over admirable roads past miles sand miles of fertile fields of rice und tobacco and sugar and cotton. The organisation of the were mories was perfect and there were no accidents.”

The Princes, the Ministers, the Princesses, the King's wives, old dressed in shot-silks of every hue and young, the maids of honour.

in palanquins; and over the heads. and blazing with jewels, went by

of Princes and of great men nodded the many-tiered State umbrellas, denoting by their number and the number of their tiers the rank of their owners.

Followed the dancers, all glit tering in their tinselled attire, borne in bullock-carts; dancers, fan-bearers, Royal servants lying. in charge of the Royal elephants; the King's horses, which no man

but he may mount; white-robed Brahmins, musicians, tumblers.

And the King himself, sitting

THRONED IN ALL HIS REGAL GLORY.

Khai-Dinh, the Emperor of Annem, who is receiving Sir Edward Stabba at Hue next week..

The case against Chan Kwok- a sen-going cruise and the fleet will never be within 3,000 miles chan who was charged on remand of Japan. Much of life is spent in the export lof prepared opium with doing an act preparatory to contradicting the false. This is valued roughly at $40,000, namely but another illustration of the the purchase of mirrors and sugar

We saw the King in the in a lofty palanquin of wonderful fact. The false manifested itself in which the opium was found, resplendent 12th-century durbar designed, studded with jewels. in the discussion over the Singa- was continued at pore Base, but it signally failed. Magistracy yesterday before Mr. ed and produced. I say "pro Lambodia are protected native Cochin-China in the south is a the Central which he had personally organis French colony; Annam and Truth is triumphant and will ). R. Wood.

duced" advisedly, for no other kingdoms, and all together are prevail!

The case arose after the discovery of the opium in four word can describe the astonish- administered by the French Gov- cases out of seventeen alleged to ing result of his minute and arnor-General of Indo-China. contain mirrors and loaf sugar on

laborious supervision. The Administration is left as far as March 7 shortly before the spectacle lasted for three-quarters possible in native hande. Native s.s. Lorenzo sailed for Cabu. The Preventive Officer S. J. Clark discovery was made by Chief |

One man who was charged with attempting to export the toplum has already been discharged.

INDIAN CHANGED.

Never in its history has the Colony known such a strenuous period of activity as the present winter season, has witnessed. There has been a welcome breath- ing on numberless sets of dry bones in every branch of life, and Trouble In India. the resultant quickening has been' It will come as welcome news

tradition and sentimentare of untold good. The world of art, to all interested in the well-being

respected French authority is and entertainment has probably of the people of India that the

firmly but not ostentatiously dis played; and the great task has been more active than most. Council of State has passed with

been achieved of opening up the Within three short months the out division the Bengal Crime Bill

after its rejection by the Assem- Mr. J. D. Lloyd for the prosecu. for perjury or contempt of court.

That he would be imprisoned country, developing agriculture, Colony has had offered to it the bly, for Bengal had looked like tios described the story of the the wamlus siven by the and turning decaying and per- communications, and commerce, acknowledged greatest play of the becoming. the greatest stumbling seizure. Subsequent investigations Magistrate (Mr. E. W. Hamilton) petually warring Oriental king- century; a piece in a lighter and block at the most promising disclosed that the mirrors were at the Kowloon Police Court doms into a secure and flourishing amusing genre; and two of the moment in the history of the supplied by the Tat Cheong firm yesterday, to a witness region without denationalising operas of two of the most nimble advance of India towards self- and were taken delivery of by the for the prosecution who the people or interfering with

government. The trouble in re- Yee Shing shop, 121, Queen's Road was cross-examined at length their faith and forms of life. minds of another age-Gilbert gard to the non-co-operation of Central This address proved by Mr. Bisley Zaidyn, counnet for Ten centuries ago, or there and Sullivan. The University has the Swarajlats in Bengal would to be an unlicensed boarding Karem Bux, of No. 34 Halphong abouts, the then people of Cam- provided lectures of a stimulating, appear to be getting acute and the house un by the accused, Roid, charged on remand with bodia built the town and temples "Times" commenting on the situa- On the verandah Revenue Officers possession of poisons and of Angkor which His Excellency kind; and the same can cordially tion doubts if even Lord Lyttone found a signboard with a piece of as a doctor without being is to visit next week. Their be said of those organised by a earnestness will enable him to aper bearing the characters Yee registored.

ruins, in far-away Indo-China, Shing pasted above it on the wall. body connected with St. John's build anew upon such foundations. On the afternoon of the same day Mr. Zeltlyn asked witness if he are now among the greatest won- Cathedral. There have been "If he fails only two courses the tian was torn down Cotton offered $50 to persons to take dera of the world.

remain open, Either he must several exhibitions of pictures order a freak election or advise the tng. Mr. Lloyd said that he had no packet of medicines to the Not in India, nor China, nor evidence to contect the accused Police and say that they were Java, nor in any country where revealing the artistic bent of a Viceroy to declare Bengal a back with the suppliers of the sugas, and given the medicine by defendant, the early civilisation still lie half number of residents. The Helena ward tract under the provisions of the makers of the cases.

This, the witness denied. Counsel buried, wrote Lord Northcliffe May Institute true to its self the Government of India Bill. The The Magistrate What le the pulled winess up sharply after the "is there anything exactly li

like imposed task, has again been fore might have produced a solution. Mr. Lloyd and was the parata thief when he had previous relict but its extant is a hand's former course some time ago act preparatory to export? panty lattor had admitted blowing a Angkor, Karnak 1 remember as a police whistle and calling defen- tremendous, „; an overpowering most in social and intellectual To-day the ordinance, absolutely chasing of the mirror. the effort. Religious bodies theoso-necessary but bitterly resented, case of a Chinese firm it was

1. denied, fil-feeling towards: phical, and otherwise, have pro- has given the Swarajista a handle, hard to find out the person who defendant to w much of Angkor. vided food for thought, and the which would enable them to sweep actually ordered the goods. The case was adjourned till already freed from

the province in the event of an The Magistrate You have to Monday afternoon. advent of a body in opposition to election."..

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