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gossipers are discountenanced; truth holds up its head again, and. the only thing to do is to wait for the next piece of "Have you heard." We do not pretend to teach people their business. A little bit of good-natured criticism however cannot be denied us. "And

it is given in the form of a sugges- tion. When reports such as the one we have ridicated gain cur- rency and are not true, they should be contradicted without delay. The only people who would suffer by such an act would be the rumourists. And they, being hardy folk, can stand it.

CORRESPONDENCE.

"BABY COMPETITION.

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1925

WHO'S WHO.

SOUTH CHINA FIGURES WHO COUNT.

OTHERS WHO DON'T.

Interesting Personalities in Complex Situation.

With the rumours of impending political changes at Canton, the following explanation of who's who may be of help to those not fully conversant with the situation.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen's subordinates four or five provinces, but he may are nominally in control in submit to Peking if he succeeds Canton. At least they wield the in ousting the Kuomintang from civil power which, however, is Canton. He is said to be in league subject to the overlordship of the with General Yang at Canton. military. Governor Wu Han-min, However, General Fan is barring who is also acting Generalissimo, his progress towards Kwangtung is chief of the Government of the and Fan is still, nominally, a sub- | Kuomintang, this being the name ordinate of Yang. One vernacular of the party. The Kuomintang paper reports that Yang has been can certainly rely on General Hsu appointed by Peking as the ruler To the Editor of the China MailShung-chi's armies, comprised the actual title la rather mainly of Cantonese and the ambiguous-of Canton. Looking Sir, You will remember that Cadets Corps from Whampoa. at these straws in the wind, it we held an Empire's Bonniest General Hsu has several corps seems, as if Peking desires Yang Baby Competition that year in commanders who hold away at to hold Canton as part of the connection with the British Swatow, the East River, Sz Yap re-union scheme with Tuchun Empire Exhibition at Wembley. districts and along the West Tang as a sort of super-Tuchun This year, we are again holding River.

for the South.

EMPIRE'S MOTHER AND BABY COMPETITION, 1925.

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Imperial Baby Week at the Bri- General Yang Hsi-man, .com- Lin Fu may also come out tish Empire Exhibition, July 6 to mander-in-chief of the Yunnanese openly on Yang's side against the 11, and in connection with it are mercenaries, is the strongest man Kuomintang but. It is not known conducting the

in the province. A few months if Yang.will accept his services as ago he was in the background as his participation will mean carving one of his army commanders, out some district for him when General Fan was actually in the campaign (or coup) is over. In this the baby will be entered is stated to have led his following obstacle to the Yunnan coup.. charge at Canton. General Fan General Fan is the biggest by means of a score sheet, giving from Canton, on a long trek up the However, there have been indica- details of its physical condition west River, into the neighbouring tions that interested parties are and photographs shewing the

province of Kwangsi,, with the trying to reconcile him to Tuchun competitor full length and un-nal objective of wreaking Tang. clothed. From these the judges

revenge on Tuchun Tang Chi-yao will estimate its physical fitness. of Yunnan province-Tang being The mother will be entered by accused of having put Fan's father means of answering 3 set ques- tions on mothercraft, appended to 10 death, rightly or wrongly, while Fan was winning his spurs in war the score sheet. 1

The awards will be made on the troubled Canton

Rather than wait for Fun, joint totals of marks of credit obtained by mother and baby. I Tuchun Tang sent out an expedi- am enclosing for you herewith,tion to meet him on nentral a copy of the regulations and one ground-the province of Kwangsi. General Yang, now at Canton, of the score sheet, and am sending These two rival armies of Yunnan- may be content to "mark time."

General Hau. Shung-chi's im- mediate following may be able to put up resistance but the other. Cantonese generals are not likely to,show fight. The odds against, |Hsu and, therefore, Dr. Sun's dis- ciples, will probably be too great.

There must also be taken into consideration the fact that

a supply to you under separate ese soldiers are moving towards His army is living on the fat of

one another and initial engage- cover, as printed matter.

We are very anxious to have a ments have been fought. Far Has the land and he may be satisfied Speaker himself is in the Chair. good representative entry from the assistance of two or three with his present position. With- The China Mail He receives, and has earned, the every part of the Empire, and, guerrilla commanders who have out his goodwill, if not his co-operation, Tuchun Tang could studied respect of every section of therefore, would be most grateful resented Tang's intrusion into not overrun Kwangtung. Still the House. The impetuous on the if you would announce the full their temporary preserves.

details of the Competition from In Kwangsi there are two other there may be sufficient inducement Opposition side have taken his time to time in your columns, and names which have come to the for Yang to throw over what measure and have wisely restrain-invite your, readers to apply to front of late. They are General vestige of authority the Kuomin cd" themselves. They are now you for a copy of the score sheet Shen Hung-ying, at one time the tang still possesses in Canton and

and regulations.

strongest man in Canton, and set himself up as the undisputed. testing

· his deputies whose

ruler. In that case be is likely to Entries must reach the Lam Tsun-ting. Shen's fortunes methods sometimes lack the National Baby Week Council in have fluctuated. From his army go even further by offering allegi- mellowness of their chief's. That, London, by June 13, 1925. being annihilated, reports about ance to Peking and thus paving at least, is the explanation of Mr. sure, to know that through the recent capture of Kweilin, the

You will be interested, I feel him have swung round to his the way to reunion.

Last year, at about this time. Kirkwood's brief suspension forth- agency of the Fress last year, we capital of Kwangsi. Lam is there was also talk of the mer. coming from a perusal of the had entries from Perak Fill, desired by the people as ruler.cenary armies getting out of hand. latest mail papers.

Kuala Lumpur. Penang, and Both Shen and Lam have small Then Dr. Sun's influence asserted Straits Settlements generally. military followings but they would itself. After Dr. Sun's death, the Singapore and Hongkong. In be swept away at any time and on military have been described as a fact, one of the eighteen £20 prizeno pretext. winners was a Hongkong child, Wandering about on the East Elsie Mary Hallowes. This was River sector is the Kwangsi army

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of China is primarily responsible for the protection of foreign residents. The joke arose out of the fact that missing missionaries are causing worry to their friends. They have been gone several days. But the F.O. is calm and serene. Thé Government of China is primarily responsible so all's right with the world and anyone who may be *Was "primarily missing. It responsible" at the time of the Lincheng outrages; when people well known in Hongkong were besieged in Kweilin; when various kidnappings have taken place, to to say nothing of the practices of way nothing of robberies, boycotts,

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every part of the Empire this army has also been reported as prestige and

even greater success from Stephen's College sports. This troops aspire to enhance their

enlarge homesick and desirous of leaving epheres of power. Kwangtung.

It is felt by those who know NORAH MARCH.

General Chan Kwing-ming and that some such coup will have to Secretary.his satellites count for next to come sooner or later. The capture London, March 10.

nothing now in South China of Swatow by the Kuomintang has [Not many forms have been politics as they have been defeated had the effect, not of adding to sent, but we shall be glad to dis-on the field and have lost all the their strength, but rather of tribute them in order of applica- prestige and fighting strength weakening it, as the armies have tion. Ed.-"China Mail."],

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they ever had. Chan's ally, Lin been separated and rendered more Fu, has succeeded in keeping his vulnerable to attack. If it has to army intact an out of the way. be accomplished, it is hoped that According to the latest political the trouble will be over, as quickly gossip, Tuchun Tang is desirous as possible and that a stable of making himself the ruler of government will be set up.

WELSH NOTES..

OUR NATIONAL EMBLEM."

[BY "AP RHYS."]

Fresh life has been given to the a national

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countries was adorned with their respective emblems. While, how- ever, the English stamp bore the rose, the Scottish stamp the thistle, and the Irish stamp the shamrock, the Welsh stamp was adorned with the daffodil. On being questioned on the matter, on the floor of the House of

•Commons, by the present Duke of Atholl, Mr. Lloyd George, who was responsible for the innova tion, justified the choice of the daffodil on the ground that he had followed the precedent estab- lished in the design adopted for the Prince of Wales' Insignia on the ocasion of his Investiture at Carnarvon the previous year.

of the relating to the personal accounts of Princess Mary, the oldest child of Henry VIII, in which appears an entry recording the gift to her

The recent substitution of the on St. George's Day of a leek by daffodil to the coveted place of the Welsh Yeomen of the Guard. honour as the national emblem by Reading in black and white not the Government Stationary Office only of the presentation but of has been attributed to the per- the impression it left in the mind sonal predilection of the Welsh of the Princess. (that the leek member who, during last year even at that time was regarded held the Postmaster-Generalship. by Welshmen as the emblem of Commenting on this, J. Hugh

It is a compact chamber of plain it is safe to go to Canton shall police officers are stated to have leek v. daffodil as

have our assurance that no matter found a box containing seven of emblem controversy by the re- green benches, devoid of desk-what may happen to him, the the bombs and five in another box. collection of a writer of the dis- Wds to be banged or bells to be Chinese government is primarily The explosives are said to have

covery New elements with responsible for his protection. been placed in empty, cigarette revolutionary designs on the if he should be so foolish as to tins.

ask us "which Government." we The seizure was made while calm procedure of the House shall, with befitting dignity, and the steamer was at the wharf and gravitate by custom to the back in the language of his own

a. Chinese has been taken into benches which are overhung in great poet, reply "Search us" ! custody pending inquiries.

That the bombs may have some part by the surrounding galleries.

connection with Canton politics; is What, after all, is the use of

hinted in the report of the "Wah shouting and gesticulating when

Taz Yat Po, which also says that you will probably skin your

the explosives were put in con- knuckles on an oak pillar, are cut The crowd values few things

Old chap Cicero was right:-tainers made of tinplate.

Foreign Make. off from the roof lights and public according to truth, but many

A number of the bombs are re gaze by a low balcony above, and according to report. Apply it in posted to have been picked up in their nationality) one can only Edwards in the "British Weekly have half-a-dozen rows of sober such a place as Hongkong, and watchman's cabin. Investigations strong enough, that it "knocks daffodil in the Welsh insurance the captain's cabin and five la a

Bay to use an expression writes: The inclusion of the its truth is not to be doubted, made by the palice point to the "old hands" sitting between you Have you heard" whispers 60 bombs being of foreign. make, the bottom" out of any argument stamp and its récent incorpora- . and your antagonist always ready and-so. And quickly there follows The bombs consisted of tin. canis that the leek has only come to be tion in the official stationery of the to pull or hold you down if the the latest bit of gossip, scandal, ters with a stick of dynamite in recognised as the national emblem Post Office as the national emblem worst comes to the worst. or business "tip" that more often each, bits of gisss and other materi- because of the "error" of Shakes of Wales, may be regarded as the peare in mistaking cenuin, the triumph of aestheticism over Generally speaking, it is only when than not is about worth the breath al completing the make up.

expended upon its utterance. Of A small quantity of opium was Welsh word for leeks, for cendin authenticated tradition. A gen- a whole party is seized with frenzy course you haven't heard. And also discovered in the compradore's pedr, the Welsh equivalent for eration hence the leek will have or when the Unair loses patience you later," and being an """old" "safe" ---

daffodils: This presentation-quite-lost-its-prestige-among-us- must have taken place at least unless indeed the Welsh Guards that there is a suspension of woman, all but the skirts, etc.,

sixty years before Shakespeare continue to display it with the members or of the sitting. In the you repeat the "Have you heard.” And so the good or bad-game

wrote his Henry V.

same exuberance of pride as they present Parliament heated out goes on. Thus it came about that

When the National Insurance now do, in devotion to its colour breaks are more to be expected Mr. Taggart was going. Of that ups, comforta elderly people that's Act was passed in 1921, and of green and white-the old. there was no ete, possible doubt, It Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhosa separate Commissions were ap- Tudor colours which have repre- from the Labour benches than has all been dissolved in the solid Remedy. Used for Infantile cholera pointed for the constituent coun- sented the national colour of sudden - pain in stomach, griping from other quarters of the House atmosphere of the annual meeting cramps, anusea with prostating tries of the United Kingdom, the Wales during the past four and those are unlikely while Mr. Jof the limited company. The diarrhoes. For sale everywine, it insurance stamp in each of the centuries.

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