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SHANGHAI'S CRISIS.

With the despatch from Peking

MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1925.

In the Far East-in China parti- cularly the optimist is tried to the uttermost.” Whilst the pre- sent situation is indeed Bad, it might indeed be much worse. It will be if the forces of optimism are not, predominant and exer cised with caution. The optimist A LETTER. -if he is true to his cult-works- towards an end that helps to readers: make pessimists into optimists. He will see in present conditions offered for a reply to a letter from he ever drank double whiskies forces of progress and enlighten at affectionate niece, asking for a unless someone else paid for them, ment, temporarily submerged. In candid opinion of her fiancé, beer was his downfall, and you the words of a well-known melo- whom, though financially eligible, don't want to have a married life drama they have taken the wrong one personally dislikes and con-like your poor mother's had with turning. The forces are all right. aiders a bounder.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

cently set the follow young man even if he has got a A Home" paper re- whiskies neat. It ain't nice in a

ing problem to its shop of his own. You nover-

know where it's going to end. Problem CXXVII.—Pres are Look at your own father, not that'

The following letters awarded prizes:- I,

him. Don't think you can cure. wore Percy of his whisky-drinking

Habits after you're married, my. girl. It can't be done. If a chap drinks before he's married, he'll

They are suffering from attacks of astigmatism; or what is really the case, from bad management- bad leadership. It has been so from the beginning of time. If Dearest Hermia,I have been be ten times worse afterwards. the optimist cannot condone, devoting much thought to your Look at your father and let that neither will he condemn. He will engagement and to your fiancé. be a leason to you. meet the hasty Innunendo with As you want my candid opinion, calm and solid fact. If he de here it is.. It's folly in these days chup Alf Morton who used to What's happened to that nice plores sonp-box dogmatism he will of the Income Tax, so much larger work at the Maypole Dairy you show by his own manner that he than the Income, to talk of giving were keen on once? He's worth does so..

And if violence be-up half a million. I do see the comes necessary, it will only be great

ten Percys. adopted when all other things obliged to include Thomas, but Tell her I'll pop over to see her

disadvantage of being

Give my love to your mother. have failed. Whilst the generality put that on one side..

HARRY HOBBS.

world over, different angles of after dining with you the other Uncle, of human nature is the same the You won't change Thomas, next week. Your affectionate view obtain with different peoples. night I saw you might give up Recognising this elementary fact that idea at once. I do think it it should not be difficult. when was a mistake of your Mother's saner counsels prevail, to get to-to insist on everyone eating with gether and reason on the matters their knives.

Mark Twain and H. H. It's a thing that TANT. Rogers, the Standard Oil which he caused a temporary wants practice, and I don't think haired and a dislocation of human Thomas noticed, except when the for friends and that fuct lays.the colossus were the closest understanding. This is not to Bishop bled so profusely in his foundation for this story told in 64 suggest a weakening of the napkin. And then at ten. Drink-Francis Wilson's "Life of Him-

attempt to resist wrong and to ing out of the saucer is an art. itself:" uphold right principles.

On one occasion Mark » On the must take years before it can be Twain thd Mr. Rogers visited" contrary. At the same time, no done so rapidly and when it is so Bermuda together. Having been contention or accusation, which hot. Thomas, of course, but the made a fass of during their stay, is being made by those represent-others, and that new Asminister. ing the forces of disorder in the

they determined to show their Well, now north, should be allowed to go trate on Thomas. Your line is: tesies received by giving & jaint you must concen-appreciation of the many cour- without it is first refuted by con-"He is a Raugh Diamond." You dinner in return. The function vincing fact. In this way will the must make it a vogue to drink out was duly held at the Princess. dawn of intelligence come and of your saucer and things e Hotel. those in error see wherein they that.

About that time the I was sorry he was so firm accumulation of great wealth was have failed.

About High Tea I cant person regarded as a public crime" and ally support you there. Harm and the accumulators the proper and only in Shanghai but

hot buns with Stilton cheese and natural subjects tor thoughtless throughout the great cities.

The most important stage of half-past six; after all, it's a veryMudians to Mark: "Your friend strong tea don't agree with me at criticism. Said one of the evident that students outside of the American naval manoeuvres good hour for theatres, but as Rogers is a good fellow. It's a

has been passed. The result, it is Thomas says he has never. and pity his money is tainted." "It' Shanghai are only too ready and stated, has demonstrated the will never, set foot in a play twice tainted," drawled Mark. willing to seize the flimsiest pre possibility of a foreign fleet, equal house, and intends to cut off your "Taint yours and t'aint mine." text for breaking out.

Incidents to that engaged in this mimic war, allowance if you do it doesn't Chinkiang. Hankow. and capturing Oahu, the principal seem much use. Peking itself during the week-end stategical naval, base is

island of Hawait unless

Hymns to the this harmonium in the smoking room amply confirm this. The Diplo effectiveir defended. Situated as and not worse than a Loud.

A wealthy girl more on Sundays is newer than Bridge GREEN. America was attending a from matic Body will be the first to wel these island possessions of the Speaker. Say to yourself after try house in England.

social function, at a coun- come the fullest possible impartial United States are at the very every meal, three times enquiry into the Shanghai affair providing in that wide ocean, as and Half a Million." It will do have," said an English duchess to cross roads of the mid-Pacific, and "Thomas is a Rough Diamond,"

a day, "You American girls have not. -but the students must first they would in the dread' event of wonders.

such healthy complexions as wel cense from their reckless actions. War, a base from which a strong

at

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to

right Mimic Warfare,

It is

naval Power could prosecute syė- cessfully raids along the entire western coast of America, the naval authorities of that country

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Always yours,

W. MERRIMAN.

My

II.

Dear Maud,I

the girl. I always wonder why our noblemen take such a fanc to your while faces." "It isn' our white faces that attract them," responded the American girl; it's our greenbacks

Stratford-on- which

has just hid

MORE FRAUDS AND LESS VIOLENCE.

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The Foreign Secretary deare concerned that they should be scribes the Governorship of made 'impregnable against attack. LETTER 2: I was very pleased to Hongkong us a plum-something The defensive, weakness disclosed rich, ripe and juicy. From his by the recent operaticus, mainly, I days ago with reference to Percy. TANNER" TOWN, - Avon,

get your letter a few made before specch

visiting it appears, consists in a shortage in these days when so many chaps American and Canadian doctors of air craft, though it is pointed fare living on the Dole I suppose the annual Shakespeare festival presumably interested in tropical out that both the infantry and it is a feather in your cap to have has been nicknamed the "town of disease. It is to be assumed that he artillery arms of the local garri-captured a young ascribes this to the advance in sons would also require to be Percy with a boot-repairing shop tage you pay 6d.. at New Place

fellow like tenners." research devoted

At the "Bay's" Cos- tropical nugmented. The anxiety display-of his own, though with your good6d., at the Grammer School dd., at diseases which has evidently madeled over the position disclosed by looks, which you get from your Ann Hathaway's Collage 6d., at the Colony less a fever spot than the recent counterfeit invasion mother's side, I always said you'd the Memorial Theatre 6d, and so it once was. Hongkong has be- docs not, unfortunately, suggest do well. come a plum from reasons other that the existence of the Three tradesman ain't everything in England where, in proportion to Being a successful on. There is scarcely a town in than those which have to do with Powers Washington Pact is quite marriage. health. Its geographical position as re-assuring as the peace loving what I've seen of him, but I don't see

Percy's alright from size and number, it costs more toi a Diplomatic Mission to

is not the least of these, As a world had anticipated.

the shows, like his habit of drinking double "free days?"

There are distributing centre its influence Shanghai to examine the position has never been challenged, whilst on the sput hopes are entertain-its place in the industrial world is. THEY SAY THAT... ed of at least a temporary lull injust being made evident. It is the disturbances. The beginning trade and the problems con-

"Salety Brst" is by way of be of “discussions” always is regard-made Hongkong a plum. Second- nected with trade-which has

+ mania.-Sir Alfred ed as hopeful sign by those inly is its influence in matters

Mond the wrong. They set out to de-[diplomatic, although this is not!

No American comes to England"

New forms of crime which have dealing with these new crimes have mand the impossible, in the ex-often seen. Trade has brought uite a stranger.--Mr. Houghton, appeared since the was, set forth consequently been severely tested. pectation of exacting some conces-turt, as nothing else has or could, it class war revelation, or published by the Stationery Office, to 90,600 in 1923-21 outstanding

the British and Chinese into con-

If you talk to the Englishman in the Criminal Statistics for 1923, which, were 16,100 in 1913, roso Offences relating to motorcars, sion which never would have been With it, has followed British gs of that kind, he will tell dreamt of before.

traits of character, customs and you in forcible-language that be has are crimes of dishonesty coom-example of altered conditions. The only thing that may tend to ideas in the arts generally, which use for foreign theories or panied by violence, fraude, forgery, upset an optimistic view of the have had their own particular in-reign crimes.-Viscount Cove.. commercial dishonesty, crimes by fire-arms and motor-cars for crimes The gangs of criminals who use position is the likelihood of out-tions as the Hongkong University diod Almighty, and she is a fool if offences.

fluence to be seen in such institu Woman was made for one job by immed motor bandits, and sexual of violence manifest, says the re- breaks elsewhere throughout the and the effort to give the same she doesn't stick to it.-Councillor

port, methods more ebureteristic of country strengthening the irre-facilities in education to Chinese Tully.

These new crimes are typified by

less settled communities. sponsible students in Shanghai, j girls as those given to boys. All. I am not sure that in the future warehouses by night and remotang nously, from £8.0247606 in 1913-14

breaking into unguarded, shops and

Although below strength the cost In that event, even the arrival on these and more, have helped to London may not disappear. I hope my in-motor-cars.

of the police has increased enor- the scene of the Diplomatic Mis-influence, and the Governorship

make Hongkong such an abiding it will.-M. Bernard Shaw.

These have increased so much as

to £19,871.200 in 1922-23. sion from Peking may not be at-such an important office in the lief for the guilty instead of a gether with frauds and conimer-ledge of the police numbered

Divorce is rapidly becoming a re-urmise the total of all crimes, and,

Crines which came to the know- tended by immediate beneficial Colonial service. This being so remedy for the results. So long as the Chinese there may be justification in tak- Justice Swilt.

innocent.-Mr.cl dishonesty, are assignable to 110,200, the highest figure recorded. Foreign Office takes for granteding time to fill the office whenever Take it from me, Dixie's the un conduct and character.

the debuging effects of the war in the statistics of the past 67 As yrs, and showing an increase that the Police in the Inter-,

ugliest place ever. Loyton (of the Recorder said at the Old Bailey, over 1220 (100827), 1021 (103,268), national Concessions are culpable

Layton and Johnstone).

violence is being largely replaced and 1922 (107,920). If the increase by fraud."

of population be taken into account, On the other hand, crimes of of erimes known to the police, while there is no increase in the number violence against the person und erincs Favouring of lubitual actual falling off in persons tried criminality- (much as burglary, pos mador Of heads, decrenses under 40, is indicated. There were increases Bession of houacbreaking tools, and

a vacancy occurs.

in firing upon "unarmed Unrést, students"-without pausing to en- The optimists should begin fine quire into the nature of the spirits these days. Whilst the attacks upon the Police half a possimists in the language of dozen Diplomatic Missions will side should see much in the pre- Parliament "have it" the opposite accomplish little. There is a time sent situation of the world that' for everything, and the time for calls for the practice of optim- an enquiry into the part played ism. There is scarcely a spot but by the Police has not yet arrived, has its own peculiar troubles, It is obvious that the duty of accentuated or minimised accord- the Chinese Government is to in-the two forces we have indicated. Ing to the quantity and quality of fluence the students to return to Europe still seethes with that their classes and the strikers to peculiar manifestation common to return to their work. Until that bombs and explosions. It is a is done it cannot be expected that pleasure to note that the attempt the foreigners will make the first has been frustrated. Optimists on the lives of the rulers of Spain move toward either compromise or score in this case; and they can settlement. To weaken in this well point to the exercise of respect would merely be the signalween various countries which is

patience in the deliberations be for more serious disturbances not surely soon to reap a rich reward.

TO-DAY'S SMILE.

Yce he was run over! "Did he die a natural death?" Sondage Nite Striz, Stockholm

Before the war crime was on the

so forth, tend to diminish, though and no charge under 10. this may merely mean that their professors have adopted newer and UP grado; it remuned at a lower more profitable forms of crime level when peace came, and has The reduction * bomicides, since shown a definite tendency to assaults, XBO and milicious further diminution.. durage to property is traceable to During 1922-23,58; rsone were reduced consumption, of intoxi- tried for nurder, as against 60 in caling liquors resulting from high | 1921-22 and 63 in 1020-21. Sex prices, restriction of hours of sale, cases rose from an annual average higher cost of living, and poverty of 2,208 in 1909-13, to 8,090 in due to unemployment.

1024, or nearly 40 por cent. There Since the war, the police, now were 402 bigamy cases, 294 forgery kept at 5 per cent. below sanction cases, and 29 charges of uttering ed strength no an economy measure, counterfeit coin. The Court of have had many, now duties and Criminal Appeal dealt with 98 mich expansion of existing duties, cases, an increase of 7 over11921- such as traho, control, calle dis 22. Whipping, wao ordered in 584: pass, etc. The force's resource for cused