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NEW CLOCK.

"HIG BEN OF THE FAR EAST."

TO TOWER ON SHANGHAI BUND

Home.

DundHue. and

Shanghai's

THU NEW KOREA.

IF THINGS HAD BEEN DIFFERENT.

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Reference has already been made In these columns to a book entitled

will chime out the quar-born an

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEXT QUAKE.

IMPENDING CATASTROPHE ·

IN PHILIPPINES.

A FINGER PRINT.

USED IN CHINESE DIVORCE

ACTION.

Assistance of a local Chinese finger-print expert was employed

Following a

:

which the woman made an agreo-

JAPAN HOLOCAUST.

MEMORIES OF FOUR YEARS AGO.

Tokyo, Oct. 1. Four years and one month ago,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1927.

MINE DISASTER.

FORTY-FIVE MEN FOUND

ALIVE.DI

AFTER GIVEN UP AS DEAD.

Choutsun, Sept. 26,

shaft but it was not considered:

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A strong earthquake is here to Packed with infinite care and re-"The New Korea," in which the take place in the Philippines soon in the recent hearing of an appeal at 11.68.44 a.m. September 1,|

Mr. Alleyne-judging from recent disturbances in the Feking High Court against source in many cases and crates, American author, the gigantic clock which is to sur Ireland, gives praise to Japan for in the geotectonic line on which the decision of the lower court in 1925, Tokyo, Yokohama, and Twenty-five days ago almost ing. mount the tower of the Shanghai the work she has done in the "Land both Japan and the Philippines lie, a case for the confirmation of a surrounding areas in Japan were serious accident occurred at a coal Custom House, now nearing com- of the Morning Calm,”

according to Antonio Alvir, one of divorce agreement.

devastated by a tremendous beries mine near Chih Chuan. This

CAMPBELL MOORE pletion on the Bund, has started out!

Reviewing the work in the "Daily the foremost Filipino geologists,

long standing of earthquakes probably the mine at Hwa Wu Village is owned on its long journey from the works of its makes in England to Shane News," Mr. Stuart Hodgson says: a lecture on earthquakes at the domestic difference. Mrs. Chao, greatest natural disaster in the by Chinese. The shaft had been 19, Queen's Road C... Tel. C. 151

sunk near an old boring which was hui, according to information from It is an amusing and not altogether University of the Philippines. about 60 years old, secured a history of the world.

aninstructive pastime to imagine The fact that the Islands has not separation from her aged husband To-day, after four years of con-filled with water... There had long in this case, time will weigh how different things might have had an earthquake for a long time in the early part of this year. Mr. thuous labour, trates of the dia- been a certain amount of scopage heavy on the pinnacle of the beauti- been. If Alexander the Great hade another reason to fear the ap. Chao paid a lump sum of $100 aster still remain. But they are from the old mine into the newer ful grey structure 'now towering led to be an old man, for instance, proach of a strong earthquake, he an ally, in consideration of rapidly disappearing before the sorlaus. However, the water sud-

said.. above the many impressive build- or George III had died a young According to the theory of al- ment with Mr. Chao to the effect industry of millions of Japanese denly burst its way into the shaft inga constituting

the lock, machinery one; if the Normans had lost at ternation of earthquakes, the end and that esch might go his storation of the Fatherland.

that the nuptial ties were at an who labour ceaselessly for the re-with the result that many men were

drowned. Hastings or the Germans won at Philippines is the most logical reor her own way. As the woman

Pumps wore secured from the big dials together weigh

Tokyo, once quaint capital of tons and the five bella which the Marne; if Newton, had been gion to feel the reaction of the was unable to write, she sealed the an Oriental Empire, is changing Sino-Japanese mines a few miles Imbecile instead of recent earthquake of Japan, he pact with one of her fingers as Is with marvellous rapidity to a re-away but all hope of saving any of ters and hours weigh 16 tons, mak-genius, or Charles 1 a genius ip said. "After the earthquake of the custom among illiterate Chi-plica of any great city of the the miners had gone. Now after. 25 days over 40 men were discovered ing the total weight of the time stead of an imbecile. But none of California in 1906, Dr. Omori, nese.

west. Near skyscrapers rear alive. They had climbed into, an piece 30 tons when packed. And these suppositions seems to me to the great Japanese geologist, pre- "Repudiates Agreement. high above broad and well paved upper level which kept them out of strangest of all facts, the new conjure up auch solemn thoughts, as dicted that another earthquake

modern streetá, roaring with the water and had kept themselves clock is guaranteed not to lose more those suggested by the expedition would shock Chile which lies on After a lapse of some six months motorised traffic. New railway alive by sparsely dealing out their than 15 seconds per month.

Hideyoahi,. the clock of When installed the new

Japanese the same structural line, as a re- the woman regrotted her previous stations, many of them with all one day's rations that they had just will be the Big Ben of the Far East Napoleon,, to Koren in 1692. The action of the California 'quake," action and decided to ignore the for nothing approaching its size is Koreans happened to have a num- he said. "Not long after that agreement. She returned to the the efficient conveniences Japan taken down the mine, together with to be seen in any other city in this ber of large wooden ships which prediction, one of the worst home of Mr. Chao and told him has learned from America, have the water that was near at hand. part of the world. With move they had plated with Iron, and just earthquakes shocked Chile and that she was still his wife and replaced the wooden structures of They are stated to have caten the

asked for, support,

Chao refused pre-earthquake days. The ricsha, fetched. ments ponderous and impressive as his armies were aweeping all be- caused considerable damage to recognise her claim and the case once familiar in every Japanese Several of the men succumbed{ and chimes which will toll its mes-fore him, a Korean admiral fell on From the same principle, the was thus broug before the court.thoroughfare,' has all but dis-on reaching the surface. The sage of Inevitability with the spien-

At the trial Mr. Chao, who ap appeared.

reat have been taken to the Jap dour of cathedral hells to Shang-Hideyoshi's fleet and destroyed it; Philippines should have the earth- hai and its shipping, the new clock and that was practically the end. quake reaction of the Japanese peared as plaintiff, produced the Old Japan has turned the corner anese hospital at Chib Chuan where will pound out the truth of the for that time, of Japanese interven- disaster," he said.

divorce agreement and said that since the earthquake. New Japan, they are being well cared for. This Furthermore, according to the the finger-print thereon was that

unexpected" and "welcome discovery poet's declamation,

tion in Korea. Very shortly after- Constructed by Messrs. J. Bwards Japan sulkily retired into theory of periodicity of earth of the defendant. The defendant clad in garments of the western reduces the deaths from the Joyce and Company of Whitchurch, her own house and bolted the door: quakes, the Philipines must have denied this and on this oral testi-style, works in office and factory cident to about 160.

mony the judge gave the verdict to the last traces of the disaster.

to hasten the process of removing A recent case of abducting was Englund, who obtained the co- and was no more seen by her neigh-an earthquake about due.

followed by swift action on the tract, for it in international com-

longer it is delayed the

Yokohama and Tokyo have been part of the military. They got petition, a year has been spent on hours for a couple of centuries or ao, The

rebuilt largely with money bor-word that their quarry was con- ts construction and the clock and But if Hideyoshi had won, he would greater is the momentum gather- bells which will chime out loud and almost certainly have conquered ed, and stronger the shock. The

rowed from the United States. cealed in a disused temple and sur- The new Japanese armies might last earthquake felt in the Islands

is everywhere-and rounded the place. One man who musically the hours for huay Shang- China.

attempted to escape with a cap- hai were due to leave England at have appeared in India, while the was in 1882, and the next periodi-

Japan likes it.

tured child was shot twice by the the middle of August. The clock British and the French and the cal earthquake must have been

New Piers Built. will be erected in Shanghai, anys Dutch were still struggling for the considerably delayed, he said...

New piers have been built in escaped without injury. The child soldiers. Fortunately the child He also decried the apparent

Yokohama, a new and modern is now in school. the local Times" under the per- mastery there. Japan might have

The 15 men sonal supervision of Mr. Norman discovered Australia. She might lack of attention being given to

customs house greets the incom- that were captured are being dealt Joyce, director of Meurs, J. B.. Joyce and Company, who was due have got into America long before the structures built in the city.. agreement was that of the de- ing tourists from America, a new with in the usual way. Three were

"Coupled with the fact that

a

rom Liverpool me don on there. And a Japanese America is, Funnel September 17. Mr. Joyce is due to you will admit, a solemn thought. arrive in Shanghai on October 24 Instead she has merely at long arid it will take him somewhere in last got into Korea. Mr. Ireland, the vicinity of two months com-queer, dry, matter-of-fact writer pletely to install the giant lime-with the mind of an excellent but piece by which Shanghai will re- gulate its bustling commercial slightly dried-up Colonial governor, is concerned to prove that Karen ́is existence.

the better for it. And I do not

CHINESE PORCELAIN. think the bare fact can be denied.

AN ART OF ANTIQUITY.

In five years, 1919 to 1923, the Korean birth rate rose from nearly 28 per thousand to nearly 41 per The Chinese have manufactured thousand. The death rate fell from porcelain for upwards of eighteen nearly 23 to considerably less than hundred years, and their ancient 20 per thousand. Between 1910 and history shows that early rulers were 1923, the value of agricultural pro- to Korea) chosen because of their skill as pot-ducts (a vital matter ters rather than for any administra-increased nearly five times.

The tive ability. The Chinese them- |foreign trade increased six times selves credit their Emperor Hoang-between 1912 and 1923, and deposits

There is no real room

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lie on an earthquake belt, is the fact that Manila is resting on a foundation of loose sediment, which intensifies the shock of an earthquake more than a solid rock foundation," he said..

REMARKABLE RECORD.

New York, Oct. 1. After 30 years of action in the Spanish American War, the Boxer uprising, the Philippinco, Howoli, China, France and in army posts throughout the country, during which not one disciplinary action was made against him, Sergeant James J. Kelley has quit the United States Army.

He WAS never

a prisoner and never out of ranks.

United Press.

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her.

Decision Appealed.

then appealed The plaintif against the decision in the High Court. After sifting all the re levent evidence the trial judge came to the conclusion that the whole question hinged on the issue whether the finger-print on the

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Chuan-shou, the finger-print expert Grand Hotel, rapidly is being com- hang from trees as a warning to in the police department, to testify.pleted. There is a new foreign others. The rest are awaiting

their fate. "Shanghai Times After careful examination, Hala found that it corresponded to the club or the bund and new bridges, r middle finger of the right hand of new buildings and new streets are A new and broad the woman. The court is expected everywhere. to reverse the decision of the court modern highway, flowing with accordingly.

motor traffic, has been completed between the Tokyo and Yokohama boundary lines and is being ex- tended into the heart of each city.

Toledo, Ohio, Oct 1, A year from to-day the great earthquake, and the terrible days parachute was responsible for the A young woman's Jump from a of raging fires which followed it, reunion and remarriage of ber will be little more than a memory. estranged parenta. Miss Myrtle Reconstruction will have been Jarboe lesped from a plane, and In completed.

the crowd running to reach her Memorial services were held to landing place was her father, and The 5-cent taxi is fast driving day throughout the Empire for mother. Overjoyed at their the ricsha from the streets of the thousands who died in the dis- daughter's safe descent, hér Tokyo and the other large cities aster, Buddist priests chanting a parents made up their differences in Japan. Ten years ago there requiem for the dead. A statisti- and married again. United Press. were a thousand husky rlesha men yelling for fares for one taxi cal volume on the disaster, tf, who is reported to have come to /in the banks ten times. The num- which the revolt of 1919 was stamp- | driver. To-day the taxi

recently published by the Bureau the throne in the year 2698 B.C., ber of students in schools increased ed out. He admits--and the admis number, the ricshas and other pic of Social Affairs of the Home with the invention of pottery. The betwen 191 and 1924 from 110,000 aion from such a witness is rather turesque features of life in the Office, states the total number of actual data when porcelain was first to 542,000. These are not the sort startling-that the Korean Inde Far East is disappearing before sufferers from the holocaust was made in China is uncertain, but of figures which a grinding tyranny pendence movement contains an the march of Western ideas and 3,404,898. Of this number the Reservoirs. on October 1, 1927; there is reason to believe that it produces.

killed, injured unusually high percentage of quite hustle."

missing was in use for sixteen hundred for doubt that the average Korean is

The number of motor cars in totalled 156,693. unselfish patriots. His own passion years before the process of manu-material and most intellectual res- his blas, in a dry, cool sort of way, day there are 14,500. In 1921 the sible. Wider streets, improved Tytam

far better off in almost every is clearly for sound administration: Tokyo has trebled since 1921, when A repetition of the disaster, in

there were 4,097 licensed. facture was discovered in France.;

To the opinion of experts, is impos- The Chinese are a wonderful people, rects than ever he was under his in favour of any government which streets were filled with ricshas, fire fighting equipment, more fire-Tytam ya

own old, corrupt, effete government. does this job wall. He evidently to the pumber of 17,695. To-day proof building construction, and as is well known, and were even And it is not fair not to recognise cannot understand the feeling which that number has shrunk to 8,776, using movable types, made of baked clay, over a hundred years before result to the wise conquerors; and governed to almost any extent with in the suburbs.

the credit which is due for such a makes a man prefer to be mis and these are mostly to be found increasing modernization of the Wong Nei Chung, Gutenberg's discovery, but many of

especially to the able and public-his own consent rather than to be

The ricsha pullers of to-day are their old secrets have been forgot spirited Governor-General Saito, to admirably governed without it. But mestly old men, who cannot change ten. At one time illustrations pieces of their pottery were in- whom Mr. Ireland pays a just I think most people can, I think their employment. No young man visible until liquid was poured into

most of us can imagine the sort of draws a ricsha any more, and in the vessel, but the method of pro-i

answer which the Koraan patriot ve years' time the last puller will ducing this remarkable effect has

have disappeared. Yet with it all one has a vague makes in his heart to Mr. Ireland's been lost, with the secret of making sense of dissatisfaction. Mr. Ireland figures. "I'll build for thee a silver its popularity in Japan in 1900, The rienha was at the height in the thin blue porcelain of Tch'ai, is rigidly honest. He deprecates sty, honey," said ahe. "Hunka," when there were 300,000 in the once so valuable that even broken. (though

not quite vigorously eald he, "Chiss Express, and Tele- country, 60,000 being in use pieces were preserved and worn as enough) the atrocious cruelty with graph,"

Tokyo. ornaments. But although secreta have been lost many others remain and are still in use, and it is to the. credit of the country that the name. of each artist of note connected with the industry has been remembered. Every piece of Chinese porcelain was dated until 1677; the custom, which had ben observed for six cen-| turies, was finally abolished because it was considered that the breaking of a piece bearing the current date W38 an insult to the reigning monarch.

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According to an old Chinese re- cord that has been translated the emperors were big buyers of por celain, one having ordered 31,000 dishes, while orders for ten or twelve thousand pieces appear.fre quantly, but there is no Information available as to whether this enorm ous quantity of crockery was actually used, broken, or sold.

MONEY DISPLAY.

CRITICISM AROUSED

·IN PARIS.

The growing practice of cram ming crumpled banknotes into one's pocket has aroused criticism În Paris. Americans are blafted, for getting the example

This apparent contempt for money, says one objector, is becom ing too common and the blatantly rich and those who would be thought so "pull out handfuls of billa In which thousand franc hotes are mixed with five franc bills. This grand gesture is often intended "as

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Although Americans are accused of originat the habit

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