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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930.

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LENOX SIMPSON -

THE MAN.

Appreciation by

His Friend.

HIS WORK FOR CHINA,

Because I knew Lenox Simpson, both as employer and because I was closer to him perhaps than any man has been, I would like to say a little re- garding the nature and character of him whom I learned to ad-

THE CHINA MAIL.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

AUTUMN FASHIONS.

GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.

SPECIALISTS IN BEAUTY.

PLUS FOURS

AT

THE SMARTEST TAILORS

IN TOWN,

mire and revere, writes H. V. WING HING CO.X

Millington in the Straits Echo.

Just a little regarding the hectic happenings that have cen- tred round his name dur- ing the past few weeks. He hus been accused of seizing the Tientsin Customs, and it has been declared that his "crimes against the Government and people of China were deserv- ing of the severest punishment by due process of law."

Treaty Rights.

Lenox Simpson did not seize the Customs, and even hadl he done so, he would merely have perpetrated an act which the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen unsue- cessfully attempted while he himself was

The & 'rebel.' Finance Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong, is a member of a govern- ment which was itself rebel when I was last in China, but there was no talk then that the rebel armies of Chiang Kai-shek were committing crimes against the people of China. Had Lenox Simpson committed a crime, he could have been punished for it by British law. If he were guilty of illegally aiding and abetting a crime against the Government, then every foreign envoy in the Legation Quarter of Peking should have been placed in the dock with him, for they aided and abetted him.

Gentlemen's Tailoru

64 Queen's Rd C. Tel. 21417

The Customs are controlled by a Briton, according to treaty be tween the Powers and China. THE The Inspector-General is the Eng- lish head of the Customs. Had Lenox Simpson séized the proper. ty under his control, the Inspec- tor-General would have asked the British Legation to arrest him. But the Inspector-General did not do so, and the entire Diplomatic; Body, representative of every foreign power in China, allowed him to continue at his post.

Lenox Simpson was the occu- pant of the official house of the Tientsin Customs Commissioner at the time he was murderously attacked from behind. He had just returned from Mukden, where he had gone at the urgent request of his old friend Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. This fact was not reported by the cables which reached Malaya, for pro- paganda has an insidious way of carrying out its mission,

Saves Eugene Chen's Life. Lenox Simpson was appointed Commissioner and High Advisor to Marshal Yen Hai-shan for the same reason that every President of China with the exception of Chiang Kai-shek sought his ad- vice and help, particularly when they were in trouble. Years ago, before he had the whole world at his feet, Eugene Chen was in trouble; in fact, he was waiting to be executed, for he had pub- lished something in his news- paper which amounted to a "crime against the Government." While he was in his jail be sought the one man whom he knew would! help, hence he sent the following message out to Lenox Simpson, "My real name is Ah Cham. I

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AND

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DENTIST.

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am a British subject, having been born in Trinidad. If you cable the British Foreign Minister he|'HAT?1 will confirm it." Lenox Simpson did cable the Foreign Minister, and confirmed Eugene Chen's claim, hence he promptly de- manded the latter's relcase. On attaining his freedom, Eugene Chen fled to Tientsin, where he renounced his British citizenship. Gratitude!

Years afterwards, when Eugene Chen and Sun Yat-sen

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were in Peking, the former asked ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.

me to thank Lenox Simpson for the service he had rendered him in 1917. It was not long after this that Eugene Chen carried on the most virulent anti-British campaign which has ever been known in China. Such was hiat gratitude.

Because I knew Putrain Weale so well, my estimation of him, may be exaggerated, but it is be cause there are so many among the Chinese of Malaya who do not know him, that the foregoing facts have been stated.:

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FOREIGN GOODS STORE.

YEE HING

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PRESIDENT & WORLD COURT.

Issue Held Up Owing to Depression in U.S.

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM,

em-

Washington, Nov. 12, Because of the grave ergency created by widespread unemployment, the business de- pression, and other problems, President. Hoover is not expected to submit the problem of the World Court to the Senate again

Retail Business Executed at when Congress meets next month

Reasonable Prices.

for its short session, it was learn- led to-day..

THE UNION EMBROIDERY CO. No. 16, Wyndham St. 1st Floor, Opposite "China Mail,"

In the now apparently Im probable event that the President

mentions the World'Court at all in his annual message, it is not expected that he will request

XMAS SALE early action.

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Get the best choice for

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from

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83, Queen's Road C.

PERFUMES.

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PHOTOGRAPHERS.

PHOTO

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12 Wyndham St..

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71,

Des Voeux Rd. C,

Tel. 22191. RADIO SETS,

BADIO PARTS, ELECTRICAL

APPLIANCES

SILK STORE.

GREAT REMOVAL SALE

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THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT

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XMAS SALE at SOUTH CHINA IMP. & EXP. CO. 90, Nathan Rd., K. Tel. 57767.' Dealers in Hand-made Drawn-Work, Embda & Curlos. Prices are moderate,

SPORTING GOODS.

ATHLETIC GOODS!

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CRICKET “WISDEN," "BATS, BALLS, STUMPS, LEG GUARDS, ETC. Inspection Cordially Invited.

Leaders in House and Senate. desira to bring about the earliest possible clearance of supply bills and the general programme de signed to facilitate business re covery, and the Chief Executive ia understood to be in hearty con--

currence with this view.

To introduce the question of the World Court would only be to

court a fight with the Democratic

and independent Republican fac tions and to block the way to wards immediate constructive legislation which may play a part in relieving the painful plight of the Administration through re [ducing anxiety throughout the country, it was pointed out to-day. -United Press.

"BRIDGE & WHISKY” WIVES.

Gambling Parties in Suburb Homes.

"OLD-FASHIONED "

HUSBANDS

Bridge playing among women In the suburbs of London hay growa. to such an extent that thousands Gf wives are losing their good sense and thrifty habits.

These card parties, arranged by suburban wives who found time hanging heavily on their hands, were formerly confined to play for an hour or with tea and cakes.

But the gambling craze began to spread, with the result that now play goes on all the and afternoon, into the evening, sometimes until late at night.

800

The tea and cakes vanished, to he replaced by cocktails, and now the whisky and brandy and soda etage has been reached.

Unofficial Clubs.

Suburbia has innumerable un- official bridge clubs, and there is uneasineas, in many homes where husbands are finding that wives' bridge bills make considerable in- road into their incomes,

"With play going on' hour after hour women find themselves faced- with paying their debt from their housekeeping allowances.

Women's golf clubs are well known to be havens for the bridge: parties. When nobody's home is available the women go to the golf club and play there to their hearts' content, with the added attraction that drinks can be "ob- tained at call.

A Husband's Letter. The following remarkable letter reveals the present state of affairs:..

"Sir, I would not have written, this letter If I did not feel aure that I am voicing the feelings of hundreds of men such as myself, whose homes are boing threaten- ed by bridge playing wives.

has "My home

become 2 gambling club for my wife and her friends. Where they used to give tea parties, at each other's house, they now, play bridge for three days and nights a week.

I sit still and watch my wife' losing money I can. I afford on my £400 a year salary.

were

"Tea used to be trunk at theso games and then cocktails

fashionable. Now, if you please, [ they drink whfaký and brandy and .... Boda If I complain I am told I ar selfish and old-fashioned."

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Rockland, Maine, Nov 9. Stanley Boynton, 18 years of age, to-day - set `n West-to-East junior transcontinental flying record with out stop by spanning the distance. from the Pacific coast to Rockland In 20 hours 29 minutes.United