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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1925.

FRENCH SUCCESS.

BIBANE HEIGHTS RETAKEN.

BRILLIANT EXPLOIT.

(Renter's Service.)

Paris, Sept. 16. French troops to-day brilliantly recuptured the Ribane heights mid-way between Taunat and

Wezza).

RIG. POLITICAL GAIN.

Paris. Supt. 16.

DEBTS HOPES.

CAILLAUX'S AMERICAN

MISSION.

SEEKING "FAIRPLAY."

retinue.

(Reuter's Service.)

Paris, Sept. 16.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CORRESPONDENCE,

LOCAL SHARES.

(To the Editor of the China Mail).

WHAT THEY MEAN:

WALTER DE LA MARE'S

STORIES

"AMONG READERS OF BOOKS."

HUMAN PILLARS.

BURIED ALIVE TO MAKE

THEM SAPH.

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JAPANESE YOLİNTERIS, Sir, It is very desirable that the Share market should be re- To those who ask, "What is the Workmen engaged in restoration opened without further delay. meaning of Walter de la Mare's work on (be all wutel-towera and The Commission of Enquiry has prose stories?" it is only possible walls surrounding tha» main · Im- M. Caillaux, the Finance doubtless submitted its report to reply with, the counter-ques-perial Palace at Tokio, have go

કા Minister, and members of the and an official pronouncement tions: What is the meaning of arthed a number of skelstons be- debt funding commission have will soon be issued. If this is a spring morning? or of an autumnow the old foundations of one of -departed for the United States. premature or too optimistic view, evening? or of a sun-jewelled the main towers, crented some 800

years ago. Four senators, four deputies is there anything to be said in shower in summer? or of a snow-

They are the bones of the "humaa The capture of the Bibune and three financial experts are favour of the present. Stock and dlake?" The stupidest as well as

Until tot so very long ago it was heights is not only a military suc among M. Callaux's numerous Share Enchanges and their mem-the wisest among the sons of men pillure of the watch-tower,

hers being suspended temporarily, recognise that some of the love the belief in Japan that important cess but a political gain, as the 3. Caillaux, interviewed, was and licencra fasued to trusted liest of God's works cannot be structures could be mude and sand French now occupy the territory sanguine of getting an equitable men to curry out the work of analysed by the human intel-permanent if, within the founda- of the Bentourighels, whose de-settlement which would enable the negotiating shares? Safeguards Tigence, or interpreted necording tions, there could be buried alive a fection undermined the French United States again to demon-would have to be imposed to keep to any formal code framed by the garlain number of strong, healthy, political front along the Wergha strute her traditional Anglo-out the profiteer opportunist, but human mind.....

human beings. The occupation facilitates the Saxon spirit of fairplay,

this should not be difficult of ur- Do men therefore impatiently It is believed that the skeletons rangement. An official organisation of an uninterrupted

pro- dismiss the spring morning as now discovered are the remains of chain of strongholds, on the right

nouncement is highly desirable.. Washington, Sept. 16.

less desirable than some burr in vassals of Mosutoshi Inouye, a noble bank of the river...

Senator Borah, conferring

philosophical proposition whim of the Tokugnavn. Conck, who built, with President Coolidge, opposed

as they may say, "means" some- the tower in the 17th century. The France being granted more liberal

thing? Only the very few skeletons show that they had beon terms than were given to Britain

Nevertheless, among readers, of buried standing upright, with out- and is reported to have stated

books it is the majority, not a few swelched arms, palms upwards, in that the French capacity to pay is

only, who daily do things which web puhn and on top of each hend greater than Britain's.

are almost as incredibly silly, wing found un ancient coin.. They reject a song by Shake- speare or a sonnet by Kents, in favour of a ballad to some maid

EARLIER CABLES.

Madrid, Sept. 16.

A Spanish official communiqué mentions that some difficulty was encountered in landing supplies at Cebadilla Bay for the Alhucemas force owing to the uncertain weather.

A Tangier message declares that Franco-Spanish warships and steamers lying off Alhucemas were obliged to go to seu owing to bad weather and that the victual ing of troops already landed is proving most difficult.

BRITAIN'S BURDEN.

£12,500,000 PROMISE.

London. Sept. 16. - The fact that the French Gov-

erament has agreed to accept a £12,500,000 obligation to Britain was divulged by Mr. Winston Churchill.

✓.

Yours, etc.,

INVESTOR. Hongkong, Sept. 17.

TOKYO TO BERLIN.

BAD WEATHER DELAYS

FLIGHT.

(Router's "Service,)

TIRKIYER GODS.

It is explained that these humans the skeletons say of both men and in Honolulu or of an ode to Felix Ween-were not sacrificed but the Cat! They ignore, let us were volunteers, who gave their say, stories by Katherine Mans-lives in this dreadful fashion to Chancellor of the

field. Walter de la Mare, and benefit their lord. Even tony Exchequer. in a speech at Bir-i

others among the moderns, and such voluntary offers of death are mingham, though the agreement

Koenigsberg, Sept, 16.

wallow delightedly in the senti-medy. A Melilla telegram qualifies this is subject to further discussion

When certain important work was The Japanese airmen have, post-mental molasses and iridescent by stating that the barges which on. certain points, some of which oned their Bight to Berlin for passions of the Rainbow Maga-ing done a few years ago in the

-hariump”, constructión 49 Osaka, until yesterday supplied food toure of considerable importance.twenty-four basies owing to bedzine.

putriatić townsman volunteered the Spanish forres at Alhucumas

The difficulty urged by many air his living holy to he built. Bay have been withdrawn owing

renders in regard to Shakespeare to the roughness of the sen, which

and Keats and de la Mare, is that has also delayed the laying of a

the Sonnets of the one, the odes telegraphic cable between the peninsula of Morronuevo and the He declared the present British) island of Allneemus. In anti-Government stood as a solid mass. cipation of bad weather; however, or stalwart

commonsense and

A WARNING TO MOSCOW. The Chancellor said the Moscow propagandists hat singled out the

weather.

British Empire as their first main PRESS MEN'S TOUR. of the other, and the stories of

object of malice.

(Reuter's Service.)

the force hot been provided with moderation against all uncon- several days' supplies. Spanish stitutional activities and WOM

Brisbane,, Sept. 16. aeroplanes are constantly bomb-determined to take the concilia- ing the neighbouring villages, tory middle course to achieve the have arrived here and have been The Empire press delegates A later oficia message says ungern recuperation,, not only in very warmly welcomed after a improvement in the weather has foreign political and economic three days' ipuracy mostly by

nabled a resumption of the pro-spheres but in the domestic motor car from Sydney. visioning of the Alhuremas Bay sphere. force. Reuter.

COAL STRIKE.

WELSH CUAL FOR AMERICA?

(Renter's American Service,

New York. Sept. 16. The prominent coal marchant Mr. Wertheim has gone to Eng- land to arrange for the import of}

CHINA EXTRALITY.

HAHTAIN- AND AMERICA CONPER.

PENING MEETING PINED

(Reuter's Servicn)

London, Scal. 16.

communication with the Unit

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one of the concrete break- walts to onsare the permanency lined with thanks. of the structure. The offer was des

the third, do not seem to Thean

Practically every important bit of anything or perhaps, in more river conservation work in Japan modest and self-abasing moments, carried on). 200 years or more ago they remark that these writers are ins one or more human pillars built "very deep!" Browning's Fra | in to appease the River Gods.

have an itch to find the meaning Lippo Lippi was one of those who of the world: yet he at least had enough gumption under his skin to sec-un to say that

If you

get simple beauty and nought else.

In a speech at Lismore Sir Emsley Carr said the Australian Immigration Act did it encourYou get about the best thing God age immigration.

RAILROAD'S AFFAIRS.

(Reuter's Americon Service.)

invents-

That's somewhat." And you'll find the soul you have missed, Within yourself when you return

Him thanks!

We.

|

He was wandering round the outskirts of a country fair-ground which the ruin had made into a shocking puddle, when the police- man found him.

Struck by his beluviour, the oler pulled him up.

"What's the matter, male?" he skod. Tost anything?"

The man hesitated; then, in dis- appointed tones, he told his story.

"No, it's not that I've lost 'ows, but I've been done in. One of the claps at the chab last night told us there wor a kerrible quagmire at the fair-ground, but I've looked in every age and I can't find it."

50,000 tons of Welsh coni a month states in the subject of the confer- tion of the railroad which at that everything shall be "crack. moral, all that it holds, as easily

if the anthracite strike continues, one on 1straterritoriality Jo China,

Miners' Counter Threat.

Washington, Bl. 15. Brussels, Sept. 16.

The committee to investigate The Congress of the uter extraterritoriality in China has been! national Miners' Federation decid-oked to me as Peking on ed to prevent the shipment of British coal to America to defeat the strike.

ember 18.

POWERS AGRIAD?

Laller.

38 M. P. H.

MOTOR LORRY DRIVER FINED.

which yields its meaning, its

as a hedge-nut yields its kernel. But where is the tangible kernel of "meaning" in writings of a different order?-in, say:

Season of mists and mellow

fruitfulness!

Close bosom-friend of the matur-

are 80 hot for cer- tainties......that we tend to depreciate everything born of the "New York, Sept. 16.

human mind which canot be Bouter karus that Britain is in of Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad own individual vision.

The holders of $168,000,000worth bronght within the field of our Parti- stock have assented to reorganisa-cularly in literature, we demand present is in the hands of the abie," so that, as from a nut, we receiver..

may extract the kernel whole and swallow it......It is part of the intimate lovableness of an Eng- fish lane that we may here and there pull a nut from the wayside hedge and munch it ruminantly: we assimilate, physically, some- thing of the scene; we get it inside ourselves. But we cun- not......swallow or munch the Andes, or the Victoria Falls, or the Grand Canyon, or the Lake only yield ourselves to the in Sometimes whoever seeks abroad District, or even Boxhill; we can

fluence of the pervasive beauty in

"may find these places, and, us it were, Thee sitting careless on а soak in their beauty until we be-

granary floor, come saturate. There are pieces Thy hair soft-lifted by the win- of literature that can be munched. nowing wind; " nature's daily food, by such and swallowed and used as human Or on a half reap'd furrow sound

asleep.. readers as find them assimilable The speed and sustaining:

The announcement of the con- vention of the Peking conference

PRIEST OF ANARCHY, is construed as indienting, virtually |

AMERICA BARS OUR

RED M.P.

(Reuter's Service)

Washington. Sept. 16.. Mr. Kellogg, Secretary of State, announces that instructions have

EARLIER CABLES,

Before the Kowloon

that all the Powers communiented with Juve agreed to the propesal.

A Chinese motor lorry driver was CESTUMS REVISION,

Magistrate Stockholm: Sent. 16.

this morning on a charge of dan The Swedish Government has gerous driving. elendeni to subscribe 17 the

Turiftic Sargeant Hollam said Washington treaty regarding the that he visited Ching Leong Tan, revision of the Chinese customs.

in the Castle Peak district, on re reiving a report of an accident Tokyo, Sept. 16. there. Romada hend in the fond been cabled to London to revakeemut, Japan made the press measured up and found that the Arvording to a Foreign Office an- where the vehiclo came to grief, wit The passport visa granted 1:0 the British Communist

posal, on September 10, thi Ainer-wheels of the hurry had skidded for ica should co-operate in organising a distance of 120 feet. Saklatvala who is a member of ong the Powers a judicial com- of the furry by the time of the the British party to attend the mitter to consider abolishing extra-accident witness estimated at 39 And not by eastern windowa only, inter-Parliamentary Union Con- territoriality in China in accordance miles an hour. ference in America owing to with the Washington Agreement. Saklatvala's inflammatory revolu- tionary speeches.

M.P.

Mr. Kellogg added that it was not desirable to admit foreigners to preach anarchy.

Mr.

Later.

As Amerien was delighted with ble popsition, the Foreign Office expects that the convening date will be settled shortly with Chinasi approval.

CUSTOMS RRVENUE.

A fine of $15 was imposed.

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL.

The name of Miss Hercilla Barros has been by mistake omitted in the list of Elementary Shorthand

pankes published

yesterday.

Decision Opposed.

Poking, Sopt. 16. Washington, Sept. 16. The grose Chinesa Customs Re Kellogg's announcement venues, for the seven months ending banning Mr. Saklatvala was issued on July 31, are 3,000,000 acls Ing immediately after conferring with an last year. In June there was President Coolidge. The decisionnet falling off of 1,000,000 taels was directly opposed by Senator and in July double that amount. Borah 'who said to-day that he The returns for August, which are thought it unnecessary and unhut not to, so great an extent.

not yet complote, reveal a decline

A number of moon watching blast- wise to exclude the Communist and added that all revolutionary trade now appears improving and Red yesterday ran in front of a It is authoritatively stated that ing operations at Morrison Gop utterances, attributed to Saklat-it is hoped that the September remotor cycle and one of them was vala were made publicly in Britain turns will show recovery,

locked down. The mad was not where no effort was made to

injured, but the cyclist hurt punish him. "Mr. Borah therefore

hand. deprecated a policy implying. greater restriction on free speech in the United States than in Britain

LEAGUE COUNCII

$25,000,000 LOAN.

(Reuter's American Servicoð,

is

The imposing Chinese funeral which passed through Queen's Road | and Des Vaux Rend Central during the tiffin-hour to-day was that of the wife of Mr. Li Yau-tsub, chair- The $25,000,000 German Governor Chamber of Commerce. The man of the Hongkong Chinese Gen- mout agricultural loan has been whole procession took considerable over-subscribed..

The price yields investors. 7.08me to a given point

(Reuter's Serviss.)

Genera, Sept. 16. With reference to the Chinese re | per cent. solution with regard to the election of six non-perrgonent, members of the Cmimoil, the dommitten's, renort

to the Assembly savá that innanäch

aú tho Assembly ban already como to

a unanimous decision several times |

Now, York, Supt. 16.

$45,000-ON STRIKE:

during the matter, it is un- refer the proposal to

but could be sub-ext

(Reuter's Service.).

Bombay, Sept. 18, The strike of cotton operativen is

idiagrand. 45,000

Butler left home for his work i the early morning and when ... hia son 1060 later he saw - his fathe dinner still lying on the tab you after his dad, and ufler sp ink for kro mileg eight him)

dinner ut

Tommy

Home

When daylight comes, comes in

the light.

In front, the sun climbs slow, how

slowly,.

But westward, look, the land is

bright!

That is a kind of writing

EXCHANGE.

Hongkong, 17th September, 1985. In London,

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he

ing sun; Conspiring with him how to load

and bless with fruit the vines that round

the thatch-eaves run; Who hath not seen thee oft amid

thy store?

Drowsed with the fume of

poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swathe and all its

twined flowers.

Or what is the "meaning" of this other?

Thanks to the human heart by

which we live,

Thanks to its tenderness, its joys..

and fears,

To me the meanest flower that

blows can give Thoughts that do often, lle too

deep for tears,..

Unless we are satisfied to use some sixth sense, in order to inter- pret the metalogical significance of autumn "sitting careless on a granary floor, and of the tiny flower giving thoughts that "lie too deep for teara poetry has not I power to speak to ush

The employment of that sixth sense is demanded by all Walter de la Maro's work-by his prose no less than by his verse. In fact, the key to appreciation of his non-metrical work Hes in the recognition that the subject- matter of his prose does not vary in kind from the subject mattér, of his verne. Whether in verse or in prose, Walter de la Mare always writes poetry.

Walter de la Maro's stories are beauty truly blent by Natu

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