MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1928.
MORE INTRIGUE?
QUESTIONS NANKING MUST ANSWER.
A RESTLESS PARTY.
DOOMED TO DIE.
MYSTERIOUS RADIO AGENTS.
COMPENSATION CLAIMS.
New York, June 5. The actions brought by the watch dial-painters has been set- tied out of court,
THE CHINA MAIL,
ORDINARY MEN.
·ON LITERATURE ^AND
LIFE
[By His Grace the Archbishop of York.]
The speech of the Prime Minister at the recent dinner of the Royal Literary Fund has been widely
raised the manuscript to his eyes and calmly, replied, "No, Master, excuse me, Boffocles," Such ad- mirable equanimity is, alas, beyond me, and the fear of exposure, you will be glad to hear, makes it quito. impossible for me to
turn my speech, this evening Into an essay on literary criticism.
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IN TIENTSIN.
NINE HOURS TO GET TO
'TANGKU, ~.
BACK IN 18 MINUTES!
TO CHURCH BY CAR.
*RECTOR'S INVITATION TO MOTORISTS.
'NEAR THE "ANGEL.”.
A good example of what con- The Fifth Plenary Conference
Hereford-Because he thinks of the Kuomintang is called to
ditions in Tientsin havo bean like that people to-day wait to be in- re-organise, or a better word
during the first half of this monthvited to church, and that it is the But I must profess with the is told in the following paragraph duty of the Church to invite would be, to revise, the policy and
The five girls will each receive reported, particularly in respect of gratitude to literature it is almost. It states that a foreigner who had rector of Callow-with-Dewsall,
greatest personnel of the Nationalist Gov-
possible sincerity my from the "North-China Daily Mall." them, the Rev. A. Manby Lloyd, ernment. If, writes Mr. George 10,000 dollars cash and a pension his reference to the work of the presumptuous to put it in that occasion to go to Tangku on businear Hereford, has inserted the 1. Sokulsky in the "N. C. D. of 600 dollars per annum, plus late Mary Webb. At the same form-for the constant solace and neas at the time mentioned took no following advertisement to the Daily News," the Fourth Plenary medical expenses.
dinner, however, His Grace the It was stated that 13 of their Archbishop of York delivered a strength and refreshment which it less than nine hours. to do the local newspapers: session of the Central Executive
To · Motorists. — Callow Committee was legitimate from fellow-workers had already died speech at once so amusing and in has brought in the midst of the journey by rail from Tientsin, burden and cares of public life, owing to the, blockade by military
Church, on the Ross-road. A the standpoint of the Kuomintang of a mysterious disease.
spiring that we are pleased to be Fifth Constitution, then the
[An earlier message stated:- able to reproduce the glat of it That is why I rejoice with many of trains. He did not attempt to re- fine objective for Sunday even- The New York, April 27-A tragic | herewith.
you to be in the company of the turn by rall, but an officer in the meeting is legitimate.
Inge. Plenty of parking room. Half a mile from the Angel. My love for literature is dia-Prime Minister. He has spoken United States Flying Corps station- pro-casa was heard at the Newark Kuomintang Constitution
The Angel Inn referred to is a vides for an annual election of Chancery Court to-day, when five interested. I have always got life already for many of his companions ed at Hainho who happened to be the Centrul Executive Committee young women, all of whom were out of it, but I have never attempt upon the dusty road of public life in Tangku at the time, offered to licensed house standing at the In the stated to be doomed to a painfuled to get a living. Let me tell you from literature, especially classical plane. The offer was gladly ac stated that he mentioned this
when He said that he had gained take him back to Tiantain by aero-foot of Callow Hill. by the Party Congress.
Mr. Lloyd event of the Party Congress not death, brought an action against the sad story of four attempts In being able to meet for one year, the United States Radium Com- which I falled to become an author.iterature, "seme sense of propor- cepted, and from the time the plane because visitors might wish to there is provision for only one any. Counsel for the plaintiff's At the tender age of eight years I tion, a standard of values, and a hopped off at Hainho until it arrived obtain light refreshment. which declared that his clients, who was moved to write an epic poem, profound respect for the truth of at Tientsin, the trip occupied 18 anal postponement, would give
maximum were employed a few years ago short, simple, and touching, on
minutes. duration of the life of a Central by the Company to paint lumin-Labour, the virtue not the party-
watch dials,
were in- Executive Committee,
very different thing. The im to wet- their
pulsa was due to the simultaneous years. The Second Party Con- structed
their on
lips or visit of the muse and measles, but, gress met during May 1925, the brushes Third Party Congress was to
alas, both visitors departed never have met in August of this year;
to return! In my ardent youth I but it will probably be postponed.
designed to
'the
is
two jous
If the
tongues. Counsel produced X-ray photographs showing the horri- fied spectators in Court how radio-active agents were slowly but surely eating away the girls' Besh and rotting their bones.]
for
a
write
words."
we both found it most successful.
I well remember in the darkest days of the War taking on my Tighland holiday one book and one book only-Wordsworth. I found later that Sir. Edward Grey, as we like to call him, had at the very the life of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, same time for the very same reason but I aufered the fate which resorted to the very same cure, and think befell John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle-namely, that in
a servant-mald my absence signed my manuscript to the fames as rubbish, thereby proving herself unconsciously to be a
very com patent literary critic.
Once again I wrote a series of
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disorder, in the days of its greatness, and he was good enough to say that he liked them and that he would have published them, but unfortunately a strange coincidence had just occurred which provented him doing
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Lastly, my friend Lewis Carroll,
Every holiday for fifty years I have drawn upon the splendid and bountiful sanity of Walter Scott, and the may surprise those about to be enfranchised, I have never found that great resource to fall Later, encouraged by the Georgian Imprimatur of Mr. Michael Sadleir, I have returned to the Victorian found it most refreshing to turn from the later ecclesiastics of the Church Assembly to the earlier ecclesiastics of Barchester; and the study of the one Mrs. Proudie has and bachelor heart that I have brought a consoling reflection to my over run the risk of providing my self or my diocese with another. Every night my sleep is protected
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CHINA POSTS.
THE DIRECTORATE IN SHANGHAI
NOT NANKING..
trans-
How long the Directorate-Gen-
Standing on the rectory lawn and pointing to the beautiful scenery with the Black Mountains as a background, he said:—
Here is a view any motorist would appreciate. People may motor from all parts to enjoy our charming scenery without missing religious service in the evening. They are welcome at Callow Church. I know it is an unorthodox step I have taken, but I have never hesitated to strike out along a new line if I thought that thereby one might do good.
MISSIVES THAT LED TO COUNTY COURT.
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Why a Congress is Feared. The Genro of the Kuomintang feur a party Congress. It is sug-
Shanghai, June 20. gested that that fear is due to the.
Mr. H. Plcard-Destelan,
Co- supposition that should the locals fairly guided by the past in his Some
Director General of the Directorate have an opportunity to select de- survey of the present. legates, must of them would be things never succeed in history.
General of the Posts, is expected to arrive in Shanghai from the north
Mr. Lloyd, who is cousin of Communists or semi-Communists, For instance, such intrigues as
within the next day or two. The Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner Therefore, to avoid Communistic the Kuomintang militarists are Chen
administrativa offices of the Direc-for Egypt, has had a varied car- conducting with domination of the Kuomintang, now
Hakkas in
torate will be situated in Bhanghai eer, and is noted locally for hie being postponed. But the fear of Swatow, with Tang Seng-chi in sketches of Scotlah life and charage of Anthony Trollope. I have Hable information, and these will the Party Congress is constantly Chiung ming's
for the present, according to rebroadminded views..
After holding offices at Plum- the Communists largely Hunan, with the Chibli in Tien-acter, and I took them to Frederick
be opened on July 1.
stead, S.E., Saltley, Birmingham, illusory. If the membership of tsin, never in history produce Greenwood, who was then the
Coneldorable difficulty has been and Vauxhall, S.W., he went in the Kuomintang is pro-Commun-powerful nation; their concomit-Editor of the "St. James's Gazette" ist, is it not usurpation on the ants are chaos,
experienced by two representatives 1912 to British Columbia, where of the Directorate who have been he became vicar of Rock Creek, part of the Genro to prolong their insurrection. tenure of office against the wishes Intrigue Costly, and Fruitless.
in Shanghai during the past fort- of the party members?
If there is, then, insincerity of
and suitable accommodation for the OLD MAN'S EFFUSION night scouring the town trying to Communist Party is so powerful purpose in Kuomintang, if the that the more calling of a party Genro really seek to unify China,
staff and equipment of the ferred headquarters. Available Congress would return them to to modernize and rehabilitate se; it was that he had just accepted
quarters cannot be obtained at the power, ought not the Kuomintang China, then one of their first from an author named Gavin to admit the fact and appeal to tasks should be the suppression Ogilvy a series of papers on precise- from the worries of public life, not local Chinese Post Office, though it
lenst of ecclesinatica, by my con- is understood that in case nothing A retired insurance superinton- the Chinese people to support of the costly and fruitless in-ly the
same theme. It appeared stant bedside companions, "The suitable is possible to acquire, the Tent's effusions, stated to have them against the Communist trigues of the Kuomintang mili-Inter that the rest, name of the
or the staff residence on the top of the heen directed to his landlady, were] Oxford Book of Verse" Party? No Government in his-tarists. Poking has been attain author was tory has long survived usurpationed by the Kuomintang not by everybody here, I have spent many Laureate; and recently, on a cered into the required offices as
James Barric. Like anthologica of Palgrave or the Poet post office building may be convert-rend during an application for pos and suppression and the Kuomin-fighting but by reliance on Mar delightful hours at the plays of
a session heard before Judge L. C. tain December night when the temporary measure.
Thomas, at Cardiff County-court. tang is facing political decay beshal Feng Yu-haiang and General James Barric, but I owe him a
House of Commons arose and slew cause the lenders have lost con- Yen Hsia-han. Who have yet to rudge in that he
The applicant was Mrs. Alico forestalled me fact with the rank and file of the see whether such strategy is not then and ruined a promising liter- an innocent Prayer Book before my cral will be kept in Shanghai is a Southard, a widow, of Alfred- membership. We are being told Pyrrhic. General Yen has started ary career. However, I dare say of that harrowing tragedy by in a position to understand the for possession of two rooms
eyes, I escaped from the memory matter of some surmise, but those freet, Roath, Cardiff, who asked that the Nationalist movement in his carcer in Chihli by appointing there are many of you
any thankful that there was one spade travelling to Arabia in the letters, situation point out that Nanking upied by George William Gray. China has succeeded, but we are all local officials without
which certainly are literature, of would be highly unfeasible for Nanking's
Mr. Gordon Williams, solicitor, bound to ask, does the National- consideration
Gertrudu Bell.
these headquarters at the present said that the defendant, a retired ist Government represent any ap-authority. This may be adjusted less to dig the kallyard.
time. The co-operative organisa-nsurance superintendent, about 76 preciable element of the Chinese or, the likelihood is that Nanking people or is it a mere substitu- will issue a blanket appointment
There is a sheer delight in the tion of the Directorate, which from whose-praise-is-in-all-the-world-and-
pars of age, took rooms at appli- tion of the Kuomintang Genre avoid that appearance of a con-
of-the-more-named by Yer"-to- whose value has been just shown in music of words and the fitness of May 1, had one Northern director nt's house Although--he was for the Tucuns of the North?
ict But if that is done the re- the manuscript market, proposed phrases. You who are not placed general in Peking, one Southern in living there with his wife, who was Questions Right and Left.
venue of the North will go to that we should write a book to-liko the Prime Minister and myself, Nanking, and in addition & repre- also over 70, he made himself very | These questions are not only Shansi and not to Nanking and gether. I was to supply an account constantly under the exigencies off sentative of the Northern Director- abjectionable by paying attentions being asked by foreign observers the authority will be Shansi's al- of the religious problems but by Kuomintang members, though the responsibility will be beset the late Victorian mind, and The proscribed Left and Right Nanking's. Such confusion is he was to supply the solution of wings constitute the bulk of the possible because both Marshal them by his method of symbolic Kuomintang membership. The Feng Yu-hsiang and General Yen logic. When I read the first solu- gentre was always opportunistic; Hsi-shan regard Nanking as a tion it was so fantastic that I it is now militarised. Principal military satrapy under the aegis declined to proceed with the enter positions in the Government are of General Chiang Kai-shek. The prise, for I knew that the only at- being held by non-Kuomintang thousands of troops who have ting title of the volume would be members; there is now even the been killed in these wars and the "The Falth of a March Hare" or suggestion that anti-Kuomintang millions of dollars which Shang "The Theology of a Mad Hatter." politicians will be put into import-hai expended on the Northern Thus the world lost a man of ant positions. The real authority Expedition will have been in vain letteral
Acquiring.courage and parhops has been transferred to military if nothing more is accomplished
audacity as I go along, let me boldly men. One Kuomintang lender re-than a change of Tuchuns. This I must confess that I have been claim that, after all, I need not be cently told me that even the question of intrigue will be known to publish sermons and to so apologetic, because we ordinary Party Congress would not save brought to the Sixth Plenary reap some reward from them, but men who love literature but do not
STORIES OF HIS WEALTH. the Kuomintang, for the Genro Session of the Kuomintang By there are few here present who profess it are the ultimate judges would engineer the votes so that opposition members of the Cen- would describe sermons as litera-of its value. Aristotle taught us
Paris-An hotel in the Champs only militarists and officials tral Excutive Committee.
ture. Whether journalism is a that the ordinary honest, carnest Elysees has among its guests an would be on the New Central Principal Leaders Absent. branch of literature or not I will man is the final judge of ethics. Indian maharajah and his harem, Executive Committee. He said Another serious problem which not attempt to say. (You, Mr. Lawyers know that the ordinary who occupy suites of rooms in the should be alive, he will be elected faces the Genro is the absence of Chairman, attempted a short and reasonable, man is the final judge first and second floors. He is one of the wealthiest of Indian poten- to the Central Executive Com- the really important Kuomintang pot wholly conclusive distinction of law. I would claim that it is
It is this between them last week with regard precisely mittee, for surely some of Nan-lealers from China. king's allies like General Yang which has given the militarists to the literary efforts of Cabinet education, the lovers of literature, tates, and it has been calculated Still another read: Sen in Szechuan and the Chihli their opportunity to establish a Ministera!) But in any case I have who ultimately decide the value of that he could spend 6,000,000
new Tuchunate. Kuomintang never taken to journalism: I felt any book in literary history, for we francs a day if so disposed...
A string of motor-cara arrived at Party in the North are no more leaders have been exiled because that the genius of the Dean of St. represent the communia sensus of
In them were heavily nationalist than Chang Tso-lin.
be left in possession mankind; we stand for that great the hotel. When I repeated this conversa- they were either pre-Communist Paul's ought
The Left of the field of journalist divines or continuous tradition within which veiled young women accompanied tion to another leader, he said or anti-Communist. without sarcasm or even a smile, Wing were forced to go because divine journalists, whichever you all literature, if it is to justify it by their guardian, a yellow looking self, must ultimately find its place, man as silent as the Sphynx. From that General Yang Yu-ting and they were suspected of organis. prefer.
We are the jury to determine with the last car the lord and master of General Chang Hsueh-liang woulding the Communist plot in Can- surely be elected.
regard to any book whether it will the young women descended, find itself within that place or wore a white turban.
that if Marshal Chang Tso-lin
which
ton against the Kuangsi faction, I must here make a confession, of while the Right Wing were sent Although my love of literature le Now, it is not the concern of a-travelling because they support wholly disinterested it has never any foreigner who is elected to ed the Kuangsi factions against been marked by accuracy; It has
public work, can scarcely under- General stationed in Nanking and Mrs. Southard."
one Southern representativa sta- stand the joy which comes to us
In spite of her protests, he left make our tioned in Peking, with notes in her rooms, and she gave who are obliged to
our letters Picard-Destelan 18 Co-Director
i'm notice to quit. She later speeches and dictate instead of writing them, and who General, will, it is understood, be found the notice had been returned acquire thereby a habit of dull subject to changes with the re- and placed on her dresser, with the
which you are moval of the Directorate-General
following attached:- prolixity', from suffering now! The joy of reading from Peking. a phrase which makes music and exactly fits the image or the idea. behind it!
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stand outside,
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WITH HIS HAREM.
MYSTERIOUS INDIAN IN
FRANCE.
He
When the party ascended the hotel staircase they were confront-
The reply
dinner go, to “a
Oh, don't you remember sweet
Alice, Bon Bolt; Sweet Alice lies under the atone? How she wept with delight when
you gave her a smile,
And trembled with fear at your
frown?
Another missive left by defend- ant on Mrs. Southard's dresser read:-
I waited at the garden gate: Till half-past eight..
You ne'er should make me walt, For I'll let all such cruel folks
нее
They ne'er shall make such a
fool o me.
Roses red and vollets blac, Carnations sweet, and so are you, And so are they that sent you
this,
And when we meat we'll have a
Opportunity is a fine thing, when and where shall it be? Shall it be at the cinema, and what time, oh?
Mr. Williams added that when written to by himself, Gray replied
"Fire away your gunner's powder
and shot." AN A
.
The Judge, who said that defend-
the Central Executive Committee the Communists in Canton. The been a delight, not a study. If If We must indeed, of course, keep ed by a femme de chambre, who de on a postcard:.. of the Kuomintang, but it is absence of these lenders, whether were to attempt to deliver a liter our ears open to new rhythms and danded who they were. everyone's right to have his facts it be Wang Ching-wel or Hu Han-ary discourse this
evening there our minds open to new images and was: A maharajah with bis suite Defendant had since stated he correct. Nationalism in China min, leaves the present Kuomin- are scores of people present who ideas. There was profound truth and his bare has come to represent the ideals tang organisation in Nanking would very soon and me out; in in the remark of a reflective Scot. The women lead a happy and con- Would leave, but had not done so. of rehabilitation, reconstruction, without prestige among those deed, I am always haunted by this as he contemplated the bust of tented life in Pariz: They take unification. ever, point to
The realities, how-Chinese whose support has made fear of being found out. As a Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon luncheon in their rooms, but at ant seemed to be a rather foolish :
a revival; of Tuchunism and that must be tang is to be re-established as A would like to present the theme to been a malataxtraordinary man, and the maharajah to a big restau- alon in fourteen days.
success possible. If the Kuomin token of generous forgiveness I "Mun," he said, "he seems to have night time motor-cars convey them old man, made an order for posses- noted with keen interest, People's rather than's Tuchun's Sir James Bapris for one of his von Willy Shakespeare: there's rant, where there are private rooms.
plays; it would be a
After, and the path SOBBING HUSBAND. the Kuomintang and other parties asked to return to China. But on which the curtain,Bcene after cam Into mineWo must always in China is that the Kuomintang their presence would serve to ecene, fell upon a speelous person be ready to let new surprising has represented itself as the minimise the importance of the who was always on the brink of things come into our minds or party of modernity, the party Genro and the Tuchuns. There being found out, and I would offer otherwise traditions will become Afterwards, if the maharajah is v which would put an end to feudal-fore, it is not be presumed that myself as a study for that part. If plagrant, and it is for each genere in the humour, he and his wives At North London Police Court a ism and which would create out invitations to return will be may steal a story from my friend, then to see that whilst tradition make a tour o the night" establish- husband said he had entered into of chaotic China a modern state, issued with sincerity. This is your friend, the friend of all lovers never loses hold upon equal in prestige to other Powers, another question which will be of literature, Sir Edmund Gosse, I keops Itself always enjoying a similar area, man raised at the Central Executive would not be equal to the composure future. If the consen power and economic and natural Committee conference.
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resources. No, one expects that
China will attain to the position
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