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to lay special emphasis have not! been-made known. Japan has not been slow to publish some of the points upon which she will make

Debts of HampLE.

With cheers the British House of Commons received an officiali statement that his Majesty's Government felt convinced that the time had come when the ques

AY SEPTEMBER S

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

"Had an accident

Dr. William E.Barton tion of the French war debt OVERHEARD ON up in your Aut?". GENEROUS whose "Life of Abrie

THE FERRY."Yes I turned g should be brought to a conclusion:

ham Lincoln is one of It was reported some time prothe bathroom and slipped out the recently returned after a world tour. round suddenly in the major hiogmphies of this decade,

viously that a French financial" mission had conferred with Bri-window. tish Treasury officials and had re- There is some biting sarcasm and

turned home in a huff, because:

In London be met Lord Charnwood, and had a delightful visit with him. the British biographer of Lincoln, It was when Lady Charawood entor ud the room that his host made this generous introduotion ---

Britain asked too much, it is not a little truth in the lines of

"free" verso 'which follow :- said that the French offer repre

I. sented the annual payment of one

"Rain," said the per cent on Franco's war debt of Formas CLIMES. Russian,

My dear, I present to you Dr. Barton, one of the very few men about £600,000,000 to Great Brl-

"I' &

crime, who know more than your burband tain, With this offer la con- against humanity.

about Abraham Lincoln,' trasted Great Britain's funding Skies

of her debt to the United States The cannot keep themsalvos

on the basis of 8 per cent. "The Blute and shining

experts of Great Britain still At 11 hours

visualise £20,000,000 from France From Christmas to Christmas, annually. It should be shown Must be taken down and replaced that this amount is impossible," By me.

comments the Paris "Matin."

During the whole of the debt:

As a relief from the

JEW STORIES Bootch story, the fol-

welcome.

lowing should be

A small boy of Jewish persuasion playing at the end of a pier fell

Commercial tru- off and was finally resoned with

negotiations France has display-KNEW ALL ABOUT vellers are noted great difficulty by an intrepid swim- ed a mentality curiously at THEM. variance with her chivalrous war

for the tales they mer, Half-an-hour later, while tell- all to having the pier, after resting from attitude. To the average Briton The writer mot one in this Hotel his exhausting effort, iby reamer money borrowed is a debt in-lounge the other day who proceed was touched on the shoulder by a curred, placing upon the borrowered to tall him of his early days as man. "Are you the man vot Raved personal responsibility to repay.

a book convassar Travelling round my boy Ikey's life?" he naked. This elementary procedure, does country distint, he reached a "Yes," said the still breathless hero.

small farm where he interviewed a Vell," not accord with French post-war tall, severe-looking woman in the "voro's his cap?""

"said the indignant Hebrow, ideas. By some queer method of reasoning. France pinces a war garden debt incurred by her in aur am sure you will be much in the country and came upon a "Madam," he said persuasively, Feldman was taking a walk in category quite different from serested in this book I am selling cumumber nursery. He strolled in ordinary indebtedness. It is muned. The Habite of Bavage. something which she can repay Animals. It is full of new and won and was shown over the place by when she pleases, and 1sdorful information,"

the courteous proprietor, who ex- indeed, more а matter of "Not to me," said the lady, cold plained everything to him. He saw grace than anything else.ly. It is subject with which I several fine specimens and inquired Britain takes another view.am far too well sequainted.”

if they were for sale. 'The pro

She might readily have pleaded Why," said the surprised can-prietor said he dealt only with distress when the question of re-vasser, have your over kept any such wholesale jobbra, but as a favour

would lat him have one, turning money borrowed from the animals?"

"That's United States was raised. In- "No," was the reply, "but l' have " fine fellow deny," said Feldman, stead she undertook an immense been married twigs 1**

pointing with his stick to a big. annual repayment to the. United This is something akin to the cucumber. "How much would that You can have that for a States over a long term of years, res given by the inte Marie be?

Fold- With her it was purely a matter (relli as to why she never married, shilling," said the grower.

of honour.. Such

Quixotic She had a cut, a cuntry and a parrot in mused a while and looked for These smuller one. Finally he spied it notions are not shared by France, that was sufficient, whe would drive a hard bargain, sort of libels should be stopped by Unfortunately the propriety of

Act of Parliament. mentioning thia when she borrow- ed the money escaped her.

THEY SAY THAT

We live in most beatiful, mysterious marer-Hir Oliver Følge.

and said, "How much is that little one? "Tet you have that one for "sixpence, mid the heat. Well They tell us to "go FR have that one, he said, and HARD WORK. to the ant thou promptly paid the sixpence, The sluggard, consider ursorym stooped to cut it off, her ways and be wise." Some of when Feldmax stopped him. "No, Hongkong's workers should he no he said, von't take it now, T'hem along in about a fortnight

·for it."

minded of Thomas. Dreier's sermon on

a - Bee, He tells us that a red clover blossom contains less- than Dr. Jones was sleeping soundly one-eighth of a grain of sugar and after an all-night case when his tele- We electors are not such fools that seven thousand grains of phone vang. "Drugging himself to definite chim. Some of these th politicians imagine.—Mr.

Alfred Hopkinson, points suggest matters of con- froversy. In all of them there is The leading article in the "Daily the insistence of the right of

Mit is not ridence,-Mr. Justice Aveny.

worst.

sugar are required to make a the instrument, he answered im- pound of honey. Now a vaga- patiently. It was the voice of one bond bee, seeking everywhere for Aaron Bumburg, who frutically. sweetness, must get this material implored the doctor to Como at from fifty-six thousand clover uneo, on a matter of life or death, hends. To do this he must insert. Little Aaron and swallowed a shill- tube and there are about sixty ktor dressed hurriedly. of these to each head of clover called his car and drove madly to Sixty times fifty-six thousand is the abodes of the Bimburgs. On his three million three hundred and arrival he found the parental Bim- sixty thousand. That means that barge calm and apparently much re- the bee performs the operation vnd.

"1's all right now, does that many times and gets only for said Bimburg, "you needn't nectar for one pound of honey-bave come." and then some one else gets the furious, and said, "Did kogeb it

The doctor wh honey!

up?": And then we talk about hard it was only a thrumpeony bit.

"No." aid Bimburg, but Ve found th, shilling on the floor. "'

Japan, to what may seem on the The voics of the people is not the his proboscis into each flower. g and the parents fear the surface to be preferential treat voice of God, and never has been ment. But it can be said at once since a famous excasion when the that these points or claims are voice of the people cried. "Crucify

Him!-Dein Inge. secondary to the insistence that Chiou must stabilise herself and make herself a nation to be respected and trusted. If the first

The man who believes in God does not need a Church. Mr. J. Middle. ton Murry.

Sometimes my plays he ten miles of the Japanese claims does not long in the original--Mr. Bernard state this in so many words, it Shaw. leads to the conviction, for it pass in Rugland as al pretier, | work! reads:

the increase of man, und, as a matter of fact, right--

y-Lord Hallane. customs revenue shall be used to Street.

readjust China's financial condi- F-ther is the substantial reality lion and settle outstanding obliga-phenomenon-Sir Oliver Lodge.

mittent is ambrely a milky, cobwebby

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Hongkong. Wednesday, Sept. §, 1925.

THE PEKING PARLEY.

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PRINCIPAL DEMANDS

SECURED.

BEIRA STRIKE OVER.

THE AUTHOR'S

RIGHTS.

The world is, we fear, but little him, und the novelist won the case;

Loreign countries." Chinese diplomacy will probably knows what it want. Charles or their wrongs. Your man of letters, ings, Juries, wo my hope, would. I do not believe da, the public interested in the rights of authon,, but he was nevertheless exposed to Hong and brassing legal procend- rise superior to the cruel facts of Chaplin. the present situation in China. In suffering Rigs-street to be observes a Hunc popr. But even for the defendant, but no one who is not sympulisetic charioter, always, in such circumstances, find pointing to the fact that the destroyed we have lost the supreme an author should have justice, and has watched juries and judges in Peking, government has seemingly example of good manners in archiwe hope that Parliament will not their dealings with tibel ensus củn no power to enforce its rule, nor

tecture.—Mr. A. Trystan Etwards. ignore the B which Sir Williamsel nbluto confidence. Move- Neither the Earl of Oxford nor the ability we had almost said Amerion has nothing to teach you, roints in the law hearing hillyful defendant to know that As for your telephone - work, | Bull has introduced to change two lover, it is but little conicit to the Lord Balfour will represent desire to bring to an end the Mi. Eugene White Assistant U.S. upon the profession of autioista.all-ensonable people are agreed the Britain at the Customs Tariff ( intolérable conditions at Shanghai Postmaster-General).

|Ono is rather a matter of principle charge inghit not, to have bam. Revision Conference to be held on and Canton. Whilst Delegates of

than of general importance. A brought. We have also to m October 26, as had been rumoured all nationalities will probably come ORDERLY STRIKERS. plus or obscene the publisher be several wise, thigh nevar present, when a book uppeuta i to sider that for every such cuso which By sending men of this calibre, to the Conference with an open

"someone De puthority sections, blas.comes into court there will certainly Britain, the gossipe suld, intended and sympathetic mind, they will

| is, prosecuted, not the author, was going bayond threats, caused much to make a bid for lost prestige." come, to it also armed with

the author has no right to be heard worry and, some expense. What in his own defenca, fuel nor are Sir William Bull proposes-and his There should be satisfaction in stubborn facts. It is inconceiv-"

very seldom fought by the publisher, Bill is backed by merabera of ill the fact that prestige does not able that any decisions will be

who, very naturally, prefers to plead parties that no action for libel enter into the matter and that reached which will not be qualified

fignomejor Huidvertence, futher react of references in a work than defend the character of the of fiction shall be maintenable un Britain has entrusted her side of with some protective conditions

book. It is luunlly to be denied that it can be paw the author m the case to gentlemen who may having to do with a reasonably

this is equitable, If the author aided do, libel the complaint. If well be described na experts in permanently settled China and

has a defeito haought to be allowed this becomes law-it will no longer be, that they have full knowledge of the insistence of the policy of the

to make it. On the other hand, if possible for Mr. X Y Z Beira, Sept. 8.

He has not he probably quite as threaten a novelist becomes a novel the subjects to be discussed, and open door with the freedom and The strike of the Mozambique guilty na thy publisher. Therefore this makes some X. Y. 2, the a practical knowledge of the protection that term should con- pany has conceded the prin proposed reform that when such pro misguided novelist does deliberately Company has ended. The com- we must support. Sir William Bull's villain. On the other hand, if some temperament and mentality of note. Increased trade will mean cipal demands of the strikers, ecedings are taken in future the pillory man or woman he will be. those with whom they will meet increased Customs duty: both will whose orderly attitude and con author should be bought into court Just as liable to pay for it be now to the conference room. The mean not merely prosperity for videration for the public earned Yet vo confose that it is but a small he is. This is we submi the point Prosecutions of this portare rational way of dealing with the forthcoming conference will be the foreign nations, engaged in

general sympathy,

rare, and rarer still the case in matter. Under such a law of libel among the most important that trade with China, but for China

which there is much room for turgu: Leigh Hunt would have hud, a good The strike of employees of the ment about the chatuctor of the chance of winning an action against has ever taken place regarding herself, with jucreased revenues Mozambique Comp for. Im-book. The second room is of moći Dickens for describing him China. I will be the first, prob- to meet her many loan obligation

Harold Skimpole On the ably, of several conferences that and to assist her to put her affairs

hand, the chance which at will be held under the terms of on reasonably sou

vyists of some waltown the historio Washington Agrees Hongkong will take

drising to prosecu libelling him, ne Uria ment, and may will presage a est in the progress of

and their the

sion, not mer

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the greater vimp