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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1920.

LIFE SAVING.

Classes in Swimming Now Being Taken.

LAND DRILL.

o the swim-

ROUND THE CINEMAS

"Madame X" at the Queen's.

GREAT CAST ASSEMBLED.

must

With the advent

"Madame X", one of the ming season, the publie lathing famous plays of the speaking stage, beaches are open and the Rayala coming to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow 4.ป Metro-Goldwyn- Life Saving Society has again start- Marer's intest all-talking drama of ed classes in Jite saving at sen. Already many are taking lessons in

the screen.

THE

LUNDY ISLAND.

Owner Held to Be Within the Realm.

CHINA MAIL.

SHADOWS BEFORE

Mr. Martin Coles Harman, ownerİCOMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED of Lundy Iskaid, in the Bristol Channel; was charged at Bideford

(Devon) with unlawfully issuing "as a token of money a piece of metal

IN CHINA MAIL

Social Function. To-day-Ten and Dinner Dance of the value of one halfpenny count Peninsulalotel, 5 and 8.30 p.ni. trary to the Coinage Act, 1870."

Mr. H. . Bazeley, for Mr.. Harman, submitted that the Island was for all purposes outside the realm and that therefore the bench

respectively.

what is known as land drill, pro-features Ruth Chatterton, famous had nu power to deal with it. He"They had to see Paris,"

paratory to trying out the move- ments in the water.

Directed by Lionet Barrymore, it

stage star, in the heroine's role, with Lewis Stone as the husband and Raymond Hackett, of "The Trial of

said:

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May 30H.K.V.D.C. dinner, A FINAL DIVIDEND is intend- Volunteer Headquarters. 8 p.m.

ed to be declared in the Entertalaments

matter of TAIT & COMPANY, To-ily Queen's Theatre, AMOY, adjudicated bankrupt on the fifteenth day of December, To-day -Star "No rates or taxes of any kind "Midnight Rosu.” are paid, and whatever levies are To-day World the classes which are held practical Mary Dugan," as the son and de- made, are made by the owner him- "Wickedness.".

self. There is no such thing as a To-day Majestl A huge enst appears in the pro-register of births or deaths or mar-"Parisian Nights." chiction, in which the adventures of ringes, and no inqucats beyond an

Sports the heroine all over the world are inquiry which the owner might Sea Special Sports Diary on page shown in a series of lavish settings.

The Police are well represented in

ly every day of the week, and the numbers of members of various sections of the Forer who are taking the course Bre:-Europeans 21, Indiana 13, Cantonese 5, and Shan- tung 1.

The classes are held under the direction of Police Sergeant R. J. Hunt, who was recently appointed locul representative of the Royal Life Saving Society. The classes are under the instruction of Ser- geants Boirs, Fell, and Howarth, and the Indian Drill Corporal, who passed the course last season and are now qualifying for certificates

as instructors.

Tests Next Month. Examinations in and drill will take place at the Police Gymonsium at Headquarters on May 26, 27, 28 and 29 after whith the candidates

will be tested in the water early next month.

Yesterday afternoon a Chinh Mail representative watched a class of Europeans being put through their paces in the Palice Gymnasium; and The class very efficient they were.

of Police

WAN composed mostly Officers, but also included Lient. of the Howard and three men Somerset Light Infantry.

The course included five methods

of rescue, depending on the position

in which the drowning man is found

fence attorney.

"THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS."

Teamed with Frank Borzage, who transferred Homer Croy's widely read story, "They Had To See Paris", Fox Movietone all talking drama to the screen, was Bernard Steele, the well known singe direc- tor. Steele has played in stock companies, both dramatic and musical, and has been a successful producer. His friends call him the Belasco of stock.

Steele admits one excursion into the motion picture industry before going to Hollywood to stage direct productions for Fox Movietone. He

was an assistant to Barry O'Neill of the Lubin Cinemalograph in Philadelphia for a time.

Will Rogers portrays the lending role in "They Had To See Paris", the Queen's Theatre's current at traction, and the supporting cast includes Marguerite Churchill, Fift Dorsay. Owen Davis, jun., Irene Rich, Ivan Lebedeff and Reffix Bell.

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make.

Mr. G. R. Paling, for the Director

9.

Lammerts Auction..

of Public Presecutions; asked if the To-morrow-At Sales Room, Duid- Crawn had no jurisdiction why wasdell St., cloisonne wares etc., etc. 11 it that residents on the island were a.m. asked to and did vote?

Sir Hogh Stuclcy (the chairman) said the Bench was convinced that it fad jurisdiction.

Mr. Harman thereupon left the court with his solicitor. When he was ordered to remain until the con- clusion of the case he declined to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the court and refused to plead.

Home Malls.. To-day Inward from Europe via Siberia (Patroclus); Outward for Europe via Marseilles (Patro- clus), 6 p.m.

Meeting,

To-day-Sanitary Board Meeting.

The Bench fined Mr. Harman £5 noon. and £15 158. coats,

SHOT POET'S LETTER

Russian's Message to

Woman in London.

"The boat of love has been wreck ed against. life,"

This is the first line of shert

poem attached to the letter written by Vladimir Mayakovsky, a leading Russian poet, shortly before he shot himself at his home.

in the next room, apparently not

ed by the Royal Life Saving Society. suspecting the intention of the poet,

Not Difficult,

is

when appronebed by the rescuer, and three methods of release by the re-

The course, while strenuous, scuer of the holds of the desperate drowing person, namely, clutching not dificult to learn, and the only the rescuer by the wrists, throwing requirement of one desirous of of arms round the neck, and em-learning is that he should be able to bracing round the body with the swim, 100 yards breast stroke, 50 yards on the back without the use arms pinned to the sides.

of the hands, and do a surface dive of 10 feet. It must be emphasised that the dive must be from the sur- face of the water and not a plunge in

After the rescue, the Schaffer metfiod of reviving the half drowned, man is applied,

There is no gainsaying the ad vantage of every swimmer knowing what to do in an emergency, and it is recommended that all should avail themselves of the instructions offer

Anyone interested should com- municate with Sergeant R..J. Hunt. care of Police Headquarters.

INTRODUCING

sut Veronica Polanskaya, an actress of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Mayakovsky's letter mentions the actress and Mrs. Lillia Brik, wife of a leading Russian writer. Mrs. Brik, It is understood, is at present in London.

Mayakovsky's last act before he committed suicide was to put aside 2.000 roubles (norainally £200) for the payment of taxes.

The letter he left contains these passages:

Do not blame anybody for my Heath and please do not gossip.

Lillia-love me,

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NAPOLEON'S BODY.

Tourists and Doctors Bother Tomb Guards.

United

Press,

N. Reynolds Packard, Special Correspondent, writes from Paris on April 29-

Only twenty-five people have ever seen the dead body of Napo- burial at Saint leon since his Helena in 1821 although hundreds

of scientists and thousands of tour- ists request to see the remains Colonel Pot Payard, every year.

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Liquidators.

director of the Invalides and one us. The documents of this astop- of the greatest authorities on the sy nre still in' the In the United Press in an exclusive shadow of a doubt that he did die little Corsican general, Informed valides and confirm beyond the

interview.

of cancer the same as his father "Scientists and historians are did before him." constantly demanding permission) In conclusion Colonel Payard to see the body of Napoleon, now said, "Any tales, about his body dead for more than 109 years," said being examined since 1840 are Colonel Payard. "Many of them merely fanciful tales and we want to confirm whether he died of French will never permit the de- cancer or Malta fever while others secration of his body even in the are anxious to study his brain in name of science. One of the moat an effort to discover the physiolo fantastic tales was printed some gleal secret of his military genius. time ago by American newspapers. On the other hand, there are large This purported that Napoleon was numbers of morbid tourists who carried away from Saint Helena in. want to return home and be able to | 1819, while still alive by an expedi say that they have seen his body. tion, fitted out in New Orleans by Cerosete on His Corpse. an adventurer named Lafitte. Na-

"It is naturally impossible now poleon died on board abip and was for anybody to have even a glimpse buried near New Orleans while a of Napoleon, for his body is seal-double, it was alleged, replaced him ed hermetically in six massive on the island. Needless to say this coffins. One is made of zinc, one story is most absurd."

REBELS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES.

(Continued from Page 1.)

of mahogany, two of lead, one of ebony and one of oak. Then, too, Napoleon was not, embalmed at Saint Helena simply because there was no material on the island at, the time of his death. Only some cerosete waa sprinkled on his corpse and 'Undoubtedly there would only be a skeleton and the from- Paseh to Nanning. --Colonel dusty bits of his uniform left, and Kam Yin-man is now directing: nothing more.

the Cantonese fleet at Konghow. Referring to the twenty-five peo- C.I.C. Chan Chai-tong, accom- ple who have had a glimpse of panied by 'Admiral Chan Chak, left the body, Colonel Payard explain-Wuchow on May 11 on the gun- ed, "Napoleon was first buried in obat "Kin Yu" for Konghow, per- the Slane Valley of Saint Helena insonally to direct operations.

a vault of ashler and Roman According to a wire sent to the cement, held together by cramps of Nanking Government by General fron and closed with dat slabs of Chu Shao-liang of the 6th Route stone and layers of pebbles. Here Army, the main body of the Iron- he rested for nearly twenty years. sides-Kwangsi-ites are now en- until he was exhumed in 1840. It trenched in the mountains in the was then that twenty-five officially vicinity of Kweiping. That order appointed delegates witnessed the has been given to the 8th and 50th opening of the coffin so as to make Divisions, and the 3rd Indepen- sure that it contained the real re-dent Brigade to besiege Kweiping, mains of Napoleon. These wit- with the aid of the 'planes and nesses, British and French, num-naval forces. bered twenty-five.........

Ironsides Remnants. Two Minutes Glimpse.

Chairman Ho Chien of Hunan, "The actual glimpse of the telegraphed to President Chiang corpse lasted no longer than two on May 10, saying that the rem minutes," continued Colonel Pay-ants of the Ironsides-Kwangsi- ard, but this WANTM longites were attempting to escape enough to show that decomposition to Lingning in the south of Human had already set in. He was clad and that Generals Líu Chin-shu In the uniform of a colonel with a and Chen Kwong-chun had been green coat, breeches of white ker-instructed to intercept them.

The mutineers underTang seymore and heavy army boots.

His cockey little hat rested on his Seng-ming, who invaded. Yung knees while on his breast were the ming, were repelled by the Hunan Chen Kwong.. Already mouldy decorations. His Division under knife and fork and metal plate chung, resulting in the capture of were buried with him while bits of several hundred of rifles. The money afhmped with his effigy mutineers have retreated to the were scattered on the white satin body of the Hunan loyal troops Kwangsi border, while the main padding.

"His heart, which had been put are pushing towards Kwangel out at the time of his death for the Canton News Agency. autopsy rested in an orn in the bottom of coffin. A gilt sponge- box beside contains the stontich which had been examined immed ately after his death to prove that he had died of cancer

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