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ITALY'S "DEVIL

EXCITING NAVAL

ISLAND."

ENCOUNTER.

250 Political Deportees French Sailors Resist

Content at Lipari.

Irish Court Order.

MODEL COLONY.

Thomas B.. Morgan, Rome mana- ger of the United Press, was as-

London, May 28, An exciting naval encounter be tween Irish Free State patrol men and French sailors occurred in Dunmore harbour near Waterford.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SCOTTISH “STYLE”? IMPROVEMENTS IN QUARREL LASTS 20

INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE AND SCENERY.

[By the Looker-On.]

Glasgow, June 2,

Is there a distinctively Scottish "style" in literature--anything by which, in the absence of all other Indications, one could tell whether a piece of prose was by an English

man or a Scot?

KUALA LUMPUR.

YEARS.

New Town Hall and Brothers Who Ignored

Municipal Offices.

Each Other.

LONELY RICH MAN.

The fact that two brothers had not spoken to each other for 20 years and often passed each other In the street was stated at the inquest at Croydon on Percy Thomas, aged 72, a recluse, reported to be rich.

Kuala Lumpur, June 20.

sident of Selangor, Mr. J. Lornie, At the request of the British Re- Mr. R. P. Davis, Town Planning Superintendent, Kuala Lumpur, signed by the United Press to in- It was started by the Irish

has prepared a draft lay-out for the vestigate the conditions of Mus- patrol boat Muirchu proceeding to

It seems impossible that there development of the land lying be solini's political deportees on the strip three French trawlers of

can be. Style is partly individual, tween Club Road, and the new road faland of Lipari, off the Sicilian their Bahing gear and lobster pots, partly an unconscious imitation of formed on the old railway track, on coast. Morgan succeeded in reach-in execution of the order of the what one has read and admired. the north or Residency side of Club He was found dead at his home ing the land. This is the first Court confiscating them owing to varies enormously from period Road.

in Greenside-road, West Croydon, time that an American newspaper the skippers not paying the fines to period, and within a country.

The lay-out, which is of a purely by police officers who forced man has ever been permitted to imposed on them for illegal trawl. What are the stylistic features tentative character, was laid before entry. set foot on the mystic soil. Mor- ing in Free State waters.

common to Malory, Hooker, the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board The Frenchmen were overcome Browne, Sterne, Fielding, Hazlitt, on Wednesday and approved. gan was accorded complete free. dom to talk with all the deportaes, with anger, and as a seaman from Thackeray, Meredith, in England; provides for the

conveying the to Lover, Le Fann, George Moore, Swettenham Road at visit their houses and even eat his the Muirchu was meals with them. The following last lot of lobster pots to the shore "E", Liam O'Flaherty, in Ireland. a motor launch from a French boat is the first of two articles:

charged him. The seaman leapt to safety and the Frenchmen trium phantly recovered their pots.

Lipari, Lipari Island, June 2. "I must say in all fairiess that life here is not infernal and that this is not the devil's island it has

been portrayed." said Doctor Carlo Silvestri, former political editor of Milan, irreconcilable opponent of Pascism and a political exile on this island, to the United Press correspondent in the presence of Aftý other political deportees in the deportees' library where they had' gathered to tell the United Press their story.

All agreed that the deportecą

colony was administered satisfac torily and without complaint on their part until the escape of Nitti, Roselli and Lussu, last July,

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1930.

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Vivian Thomas, a brother, of ItWest Ashling, near Chichester, said

THE diversion of that Percy Thomas was a retired

point chemist.

A

to Knox, James Melville, Urquhart, Swettenham Road at this point will there.

south of the railway bridge was in Australia and was buried

Wodrow, Hume, Carlyle, Stevenson, fork, one branch going in Scotland? All are merely per Road which it joins at right angles, to Club

opposite the Empire Hotel, the And English Itself is merely one other joining the new road, which had six

sonal variants of "English."

common

His wife died when he

There were no children.

Ignored.

He lived alone in the house, which rooma. Mr. Vivian

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The captain of the Muirchu then blockaded the exit of the bay, of a European family, deriving will be Residency Road, at right Thomas formerly lived in Croydon whereupon the Frenchman unsuc- from Greece and Rome and the angles.

and last saw his brother about cessfully tried to force a passage. Romance and Teutonic tongues."

Pair The situation looked serious, so Heine handles German 29 thus made available for development

The large square plot of ground eighteen months ago,

Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$ 4.50 Mr. E. C. Morey (deputy cor-Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 5.00 the Civic Guards, summoned from were French. Ste-Beuve handles

is proposed as a site for a new ner): Were you on speaking terms Black or Brown Shoes from 0.00 Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 Waterford, sped to Dunmore by French If it were German.

the last Black or Brown Boots from ..$ Town Hall, and for new Municipal with him? No, not for motor car, boarded the French Everything bespeaks a

8.00 Offices, the former to be on the new twenty odd years. The last time Children's Boots or Shoes from $ 2.00 trawlers and recaptured the pots source of Inspiration.

Best styles, most complete stock and fishing gear, despite violent And yet I am certain that the Residency Road, and the latter on I saw him I passed him in the tram

the Club Road.

of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. Scots note which is so perceptible

Beyond, again, and he was walking by the road.

WONG BIU WOON The trouble ended with the cap-in music, in ballad and popular space is provided for a children's He looked as usual, but his appear 21, Pottinger St.

Phone 21474. poetry, and in certain phases of park and playground.-Malay Mail.ance used to vary a lot. painting, can be traced also in Scota prose.

resistance:

tain of the patrol boat ordering the trawlers to depart.

but that following the flight new MINISTERS NERVOUS.

restrictions had been placed upon them and they principally objected to the night. patrol to ascertain their presence and the limitation of the area in which they were allowed to circulate.

GOVERNMENT AND IDLE BOGEY.

Government has weathered yet another storm, but it has not emerged unscathed from the Com- mons unemployment debate.

With

English and Scots. Knox Was accused of being English, yet in his writings there is a mingling of grim factualness, of cold sontentiousness, of half- farelal irony, of wild picturesque- ness, of sudden passion and sudden pathos that is not to be matched in any English prose writer. In Melville's Diary there is a delight-

CHANG JAILED.

TROUBLES OF CHINESE ·

PAPERMAN.

WIFE PROSTRATED.

!

You did not speak to him, al- though sometimes you had seen him as often as twice a week?-Yes, we just passed one another.

Did he speak to his other brothers?-Not to any of us, He was bound over in the High Court not to interfere or molest us in any way,

No Enemies: No Friends. To Prevent Escapes.

Shanghai, June 21.

Mr. Thomas added that, as far as Your correspondent later asked

Mrs. Samuel H. Chang, wife of a he knew, he did not think the dead Dr. Giovanni Console, commis-

ful and very Scots blending of Chinese newspaperman who was man had either any enemies or sioner of police and governor of number expected to reach the homeliness, kindliness, erudition, arrested by the local military au- friends.

end of humour and shrewd character-thorities Inst Thursday, prostrated

for study. The keen sense of cadence with anxiety for her

escapes."

1,700,000 now unemployed and the

husband's

Francis T. Orford, the next-door

the colony, about these restrictions 2,000,000 mark before the and he replied, "Both restrictions the year, there 19 reason were imposed to prevent further nervousness, in Ministerial circles. and of haunting vividness which predicament, went this afternoon to neighbour, said that his house was

The fact that the Prime Minister Knox and Melville display is shown the Shanghai arsenal, where Chang owned by Thomas,

"I frequently talked to him," said has assumed the Chulemanship of by the egregious Patrick Walker is in prison, but she was refused. the Cabinet Committee on Unem-when he cesses his raucous rail-permission to communicate with Mr. Orford.

Mr. Morley: What were your ployment is regarded as indicating ings and passes to pure narrative him

Mrs. Chang's maiden name was topics?-well about shares, the Im- Ruth King. She is an citizen, daughter of C. H. King, like that.

American perial Airways, and different things Chinese businessman of Salt Lake City, Utah, where her mother, sister and three brothers still reside.

The above is a general summing up of the two points of view. What follows is a general outline of what your correspondent found.

long

will another effort before

be

of its

or the expression of his own better self.

The central merit of the English, 15 a people and as stylists, consists in a broad, sane reasonableness, They are not keen thinkers; they are economical of logic and dialec.

or some

One brother, Walter King, ia em- ployed by the Salt Lake Tribune.

Since their return

the house.

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DRAWN THREAD WORK.

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Government's realisation Lipari is a most picturesque auch magnitude rather than fore weakness in handling a problem of island resembling the beauty of shadowing new drastic measures of Capri and about four times as big.

Mr. Thomas did most of his own relief.

cooking, but Mrs. Oxford did some, The town of Lipari where the de

The rank and file of the portees are confined has a popula

Labour Party are strongly of the

and the cooked food used to be put outside his door late on Saturday tion of 13,000. The deportees can opinion that a solution of unem. circulate freely in day time with ployment is impossible on the lines the; but they see life steadily

evening. Last week-end some Unusual New Designs Mrs. Chang is a graduate of the cakes were provided, but they were in the city and a short distance be of negotiation with capitalists such though not too steadily--and have

as Mr. Thomas is pursuing. Hence a large grasp of essential realities. University of Utah and holds a not taken in, and there was no re- yond the city limits.

the general impression that the They have a sense of measure and medical degree from Rush Medical sponse to knocks Live With Families.

on the door on There are

Sir Oswald of justice.

College at Chicago. She also has Sunday. 250 deportees, all crisis is only deferred.

The cardinal defect of the Scots received training at the Women's polítical. Sixty live in barracks Mosley's resignation and his speech

On through the provided by the Government, newly in the unemployment dehate un-18 that they are apt to be seized by Medical College in Philadelphia, today he looked that the FOOK WENG & CO. chain of where she met her husband who was Thomas must be in bed with a cold. THE ONE PRICE STORE eonstructed and provided with doubtedly created a new situation. some chimera,

imagery or argument, and carried then a student in Haverford College. As there was still no response to modern sanitary arrangements. Sir Oswald

a Mosely scored

for out into howling deserta or The remainder live in either houses great personal triumph and

to China, further knocks the police broke into made roaring seas. This happened to Chang has been engaged in news-

China Bldg. to Induce Gov-nearly all the "highflyers" of the paper work and she has been prac- Fifty live with whom they have crnment to recast its unemploy. 17th century; and, naturally, it tising medicine in a local missionary

Five. Wills. In addition to the affected their style, which is for the hospital. Chang's brother, Sulee brought with them from the main- ment policy,

Mr. Orford said Mr. Thomas land. Since the colony was estab threat from the Left wing, Governmost part intolerable, reaching its Chang, is connected with the World made a will about eighteen months lished three years ago, thirty have ment is also menaced by another nadir in Samuel Rutherford. It Peace Foundation in Boston.

ago, and he and his wife witnessed awkward situation due to the Right happened occasionally to Carlyle.

"Local foreign newspaper men have it. He (Mr. Orford) retained the There are twelve in business and wing or Trade Unionist section of When he takes to byphenism and petitioned Chinese officials for will in a sealed envelope at Mr. have set up stores selling clothing, the party demanding a repeal of the tub-thumping, this greatest of Scots Chang's release, asserting their un- Thomas's request.

-An belief that he was engaged in in- grocery and other commodities. Trade Disputes Act of 1927. This writers becomes horribly like

Mr. Morley: What was on the One of the cafes is owned by a would add still further to the con- educated Patrick Walker.

trigue against the Nationalist envelope?"To be sent to Bartho Urquhart and Stevenson. deportec. Another has

fusion of politics, for the Liberals, tallor a

Government. Thus, far the local lomew's at once in the event of my "Lilies that fester smell far worse military has not divulged the reason death." shop. One has an exporting office, with whom negotiations for a sending wine, fruit and pumice Liberal-Labourite co-operation are than weeds," The Scot is by nature for Chang's arrest, and continued

an artist. Or, to put it more ac incarceration. stone, the products of the island. £till alleged

proceeding to the mainland. One deportee, a behind the scenes, are strong-curately, artistry is the only thing

that can save him from the worst Chang was a Government 'em- former communist, is the porter of ly opposed to the restoration

of his intellectual vices, Having ployee, serving the Government the principal hotel while another of the old Trade Union rights of fewer of these, the Englishman is in news agency here. He was arrested is the engineer at the power house. levy and mass picketing. This work is regularly paid, and

or rooms in the town which they rent themselves. their families

. married local girls.

to be

has nothing whatsoever to do with BURMA DISCOVERY. the serving of their sentence, as all deportees are free to exercise any work or profession so long as

they comply with the discipline of

630 - CARAT BLUE SAPPHIRE.

Did you send it?—Yes, Right way-practically the following day. Mr. Orford said that he had wit

red five wills for Mr. Thomas. He did not read them, but had an idea that they were all the same.

Á verdict of Death from natural

less Deed of conscious artistry. He yesterday, charged with having con. upon a faithful and just rendering rebel faction. Chang was previous- does not often employ. He relles nections with the Feng Yu-hslang of the truth of things. Consequently ly a member of the Feng Yu-halang causes was returned. his work is sometimes languid, group, when Feng was a member of the Nationalist Government,' but It heavy, and formless. the administration. The dentist,

Jacobean and Caroline England is not thought that he is affiliated of the island, probably the only

Bombay, June 9.

produced un prose works so effec-with the northern cause-Chicago ETHIOPIAN RULER. one who ever 'settled there is Dr.

their A 630-carat sapphire of rich tive, in

own way, as Sir Theodore Sardos, a deportes from cornflower blue colour has been die Thomas Urquhart's. Urquhart de- Trieste.

The aaalatant physician covered at Mogok, Upper Burma, in liberately exploited his own exuber- of the colony is also a deportec. Pagoda Mine.

Get Daily Pension.

The rough gem weighs 930 carats,

about fifty cents in American will be valuable when cut off.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-icord puzzle has been made by an expert, but

our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic

spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho)

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19

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CORONATION AS EMPEROR FIXED FOR.NOVEMBER.

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ance to artistic ends. His transla-a wide expanse of hill country, ton of Rabalais is a resounding Often it is dull, featureless, depress All deportees receive ten lire, but goveral fragments themselves of a great original. Note, too, how ugly. But all of a sudden the The coronation of Ras Tafari, the

triumph; It has the organie rhythm ing. Sometimes it is downright money, every day, The correspon- It is impossible to estimate the he works a great climax in his atmosphere changes. Delicate mist ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), as dent attended the dally distribu- value, but in this connection it may extraordinary Life of the Admirable rises up from between the aucces Emperor Hall Sellasaye ( name tion of the day'e free allowance. be stated that a 1,000-carat sapphire Crichton

det sive planes of fronded ridgea; the he has taken which means "Power

In return for this they are not re- found last August fetched £12,000, An artistry like that of Urquhart, hills are of dove-grey, faintly shot of the Trinity"] has been fixed for quired to do any work whatever. while a rough 42-carat "peace" but more widely and more critically with blue. Or, of a morning, the November 2

If they are lucky and have the ruby, reduced to 24 carats, fetched selective, accounts for the greatness whole vast landscape shimmers and This will be his second coronation, Inclination to get work, that is sil, £23,000.

of Stevenson as a stylist. His sparkles with a beauty aimost as in October 1928, after being clear again..

dominant note one of high senten- Intolerables-

Regent, he was crowned Negus They must all be in at 9 o'clock

Housness and gravely picturesque Scots "style" is like that. It is (King) as joint Sovereign with his at night. Patrols of the Fascist force reaches 200 men. Patrola factuallam, tempered by congenial largely the reflection of our country. aunt, the late Empress Judith, On militia call at their various homes are established on the wharves and fantasy and humour is fundament-Reading of what Irish writers, the. Empress's death on April 2 last to check this. They make other at the limits of the area in which ally. Scots, going back throu_h the whose withers are unwrung, are he becaine Negus Negasti (King of visits during the night. The de- the deportees are allowed to cir 18th century to the vernacular, prose making of our "glorious. Highlands, Kings) and sole ruler. portees must answer "Present" to culate. At night they patrol the writers

polsoned to us by their social dio- their call, by coming to the win streets, two by two. They are al- Two weekilea" filled respectively asters and anomalies, I have wou dow and showing themselves. This ways armed with rifles.

by English and Scots writers would dered what they would mean to

is the feature they object to, be- The health of the colony is present an Interest contrast native Scots writers, were they as cause, they state, it disturbs their superb. The deporteen all have The English weekly would show a integrally Scots as the fjord regions sleep. From 6 in the morning the appearance of being well-fed mellower wisdom, sounder erudl of Norway are Norwegian until 9 in the evening they can do since the daily allowance of tention, 's aunter humour, more de Arisalg and Morar, Jura and as they please and do not have to lire la more than sufficient to keep licate wit, and a higher average of Mull-what visions await us there! report to the police except when them. Their general mien in good. style. The Scots weekly would But to try to seize they call at the barracks to collect There were four sick cases in the show defective balance, and patches while the Highlands their ten lire, Some are even hospital, which I visited. exempted from this call and make Each deportea is supplied with dullnes their collection at the end of the one suit of civilian clothes a year would

-- as they can wear regular : street

Health Superb

garb. Shoes are also supplied

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