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SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1926,

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TSAO KUN

THE CHINA MAIL

PRESIDENT WHO BOUGHT HIS

J POST

O'S SPIRITS FIRE

BUDDHIST MASS SAID IN TORVOS

Tokyo, April 7

MENAC

BIRDS AND MON

BUTTOCATED:

aviest lose in animal The release of ex-President Tsao Kun, who has been in prison Buddhist mass for the spirits and birdlife recorded in the at Peking since October, 1924, 19of all the elephante which have annals of New York's Fire Depart one of the startling developments supplied ivory for Ivory carving ment occurred when a smoulder- of the northern military situation in Japan will be said at the ing fire which started in two which has resulted in Marshal Gokoku Temple in Otowa, barrels of sawdust killed 1,000 Wu Pei-fu again: acquiring Koishikawa, on April 15, under canaries, 500 love birds, and the auspices of the Tokyo Ivory numerous other birds, as well as ascendancy.

Tsao Kun was a member of the Art Objects Dealers Association 150 monkeys, all pets awaiting Chihli Party, of which Wu Pet and the Association of Artists in purchasers at a well-known animal shop known as The House of fu is the military genius Avory Carving. Chihli man by birth, he graduated The occasion also will be mark Pets. from the Felyang military school, ed with the dedication of a large The frightened jungle cries of and in 1920 he assisted Marshal monument in the compound of the macaws and parakeeta first at- Chang Teo-lin to smash up the temple for the spirits of these tracted the attention of a police- Anfu club. After that, he be-elephants. The mass will begin man passing on his beat, and when came Super-Tuchun of Chihli, at 10 o'clock in the morning, and the firemen forced their way into Shantung and Henan, and on is expected to draw a crowd of the interior of the building they October 5, 1924, he was elected to 1,000 dealers in Ivory objects and found the rooms Alled with help lass animals screaming with the Presidency of the Republic in guests. Fifteen priests of the fright and striving desperately to one, of the most corrupt elections Gokoka temple will begin the pro get out of their cages, while hunt ever held in China.

gramme with the reading of

dreds of others were already Not being very popular, al-Buddhist prayers. though he enjoyed the co-partner- "We feel that we are greatly stretched lifeless on their cage ship of Wu Pei-fu, Tsno Kun indebted to elephants, which have floors, having been suffocated by bought his way to the Presi-been furnishing the materials for dential chair and men who voted us to carry on our business," said for him did so at the rate of Mr. Kakichi Ikeda, president of $5,000 a vote. He was reported the Tokyo Ivory Art Objects at the time to have spent $10,000-Dealers Association. 000 to attain the Presidency. One "We who obtain our living from manifested the utmost devotion to them. One baboon for instance, of the first moves of General this ivory cannot help feeling had to be taken by main force out Feng Yu-hsiang, after the coup grateful to the elephants which d'etat which gave him control of have been furnishing materials Peking in the fighting of autumn, for us to work with. It is for 1924, was to imprison Tsao Kun this reason that we are going to in an obscure palace. Inside the comfort the spirits of the Forbidden City,

elephants by holding a mass for

the smoke.

Many of the larger animals, especially the monkeys, made. pathetic attempts to bring back their companions to life, and

of the cage where its mate lay dead, write a mother monkey saved the life of her baby" by stretching herself over it...

Another heroine was Minnie, the house cat, who carried her The release of Tsao Kun, says them

three kittens from their hiding the "Shanghai Times"

"The members of our organisa-place on the third floor to fresh air means? the triumph of Marshal Wu Pel-tion have been wishing to under and safety below. fu, who, foreign political take such a matter for a long time. prognosticators said, would cerWe think we also do honour and tainly stage a "come-back" as he comfort the spirits of our ances- is too big a man to hold down tors who were likewise in the ivory trade. When the monument is erected for the spirits of the elephants, we wish all artists and One of London's best-known dealers in ivory objects in the waiters, Mr. John Bull, of Ye country would make pilgrimages Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet

LIBEL BY WIRELESS.

FIRST SUIT" IN A

AMERICA.

in

The first radio libel case America is being started here in Chienge.

While listening-in at his home. the. Illinois State Attorney, Mr. Crowe, was amazed to hear a wire. less announcer from the Moulin Rouge Cabaret declare that Mr. Crowe was amongst the guests of the cabaret, enjoying the music and the companionship of the lady guests..

Mr. Crowe immediately sent out instructions to the police authori- ties, and a squad of detectives within five minutes had raided the cabaret and made five arrests. The State Attorney announces that he is filing, & libel suit against the

announcer

authorities.

FAMOUS WAITER DEAD

to the shrine when they come to Street, is dead, at the age of Tokyo-"Shanghai Times."

SHOW TEETHI

sixty. So closely did he resemble in build and ever-beaming coun- tenance the traditional figure of John Bull, that people doubted whether it was his name. But, ini Show teeth. This is the truth, it was He was a Bedford latest medical inspection order inshire man, and had been s. fami- the Army, and when these words liar figure at the inn for many are uttered by dentists the teeth i

of thousands of soldiers will be years, and his repartee and in- examined at Aldershot. Men inventive legend, always at the dis- every unit in the command will posal of American visitors, will Bull used to aver that John undergo a thorough examination long be remembered by them. of their teeth

Todd, who was a waiter at the The good condition of soldiers'Cheshire Cheese"" in 1812. and teeth has been recognised as an whose oil-painting is one of the important factor in their health, inn's heirlooms, was his grand- and instructions dealing with the father. There was certainly a preservation of the teeth and how facial likeness, but the relation and the cabaret to clean them are being circulated ship was one of Bull's imaginings. in the barracks by the Army Under his skilful treatment, Dr. "It is probable that Mr. Crowe authorities.

Teeth examinations will be car will not find any statute in the American legal records defining ried out in all units in every military station at home and radio libel."

There is, however, a law rend-abroad. ing before the United States Congress enabling a libel action Fashionable: Lady (to interior: to be started for radio mis-decoration expert): "I want you. statements and defamation of to decorate the under side of all character. Until that law is the tables and things in the passed, even the State. Attorney house. I have just realised that will have little chance of success it is really the only view our dear In an action for libel by wireless: little dog gets of them."

Johnson's favourite seat at the

table became more than an is- He made it a bringer

toric spot.

of luck to all those who wat 'thereon,

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