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BACON'S DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

Turk's Ultimatum to Poland.

INTERESTING PAPERS.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1931.

TRUE CHINESE SITUATION.

League of Nations

"Flagdoodle

SLAUGHTER AND PILLAGE,

A number of documents of great To the average Briton, the men- human and historical interest have tality displayed by the League of come to light, following the recent Nations passes all understandiûs, decision of the Earl of Verulam to writes a Morning Post, special.cor deposit the Gorhambary papers respondent. with the Hertfordshire County Council.

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How comes it (to take one exam- ple) that the Council of the League Many of these deal with Francis allows (nay, encourages) the poli- Bacon, one-time owner of Gorham-ticians of Nanking to use Geneva bury. They reveal many interest as a platform for their deliberately ting and hitherto unknown facts misleading propaganda? Can it be concerning his domestic affairs, the that, among the multitude of pun- keen interest which he took in his dits and experts who throng the estate, and the chaotic condition of marble halls of the Peace Palace, his property at the time of his

NEW YEAR'S HONOURS.

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School, Portsmouth, 1888; Com Pater to Solar Physics Commit- tee and Assistant to Sir Nor man Lockyer, 1889-1898; Ox+ ford University Extension Lac-: turer, 1800-95; Secretary of Educational Science Section of the British Association, 1901-8; President, 1922; member of Council and Chairman of tha Executive Committee, British Science Gulid, President of the Decimal Association, President of the Portsmouth Literary and Philosophical Society, 1922-24. ROBERTS, George Quinlan, C.B.E.; M. Oxon: Secretary and Re- ceiver St. Thomas's Hospital since 1903; b. Hobart, Tasmania, Feb. 1860; m, Mary Louise, d. of Henry Waters of Chisell Grange; one s. Educ.; The Hut- china-School, Hobart; Hortford College, Oxford. Rowed in the Oxford Eight. 1883; rowed In the Hertford College Eight to the Head of the River, 1881, and won many races, including the "Varsity Sculls and the Goblets nt Henley; went to the London Hospital as Secretary, 1888: House Governor, 1891. Publica- tlong: Short History of St. Thomas's Hospital; severni papera on the position of the TEGART, Sir Charles Augustus,

Voluntary Hospitala.

Kt. cr. 1926; CLE 1917; M.V.0. 1912; Indian Police; s. of late Rev. J. P. Tegart, Dunboyne, Co. Meath; m. Kathleen Frances, d. of Rev. J. L. Herbert of Dis- serth, Llandrindod Wells. Educ.: Portora Royal School, Ennis- killen; Trinity College, Dublin. Joined Indian Police, 1901; King's Police Medal, 1911. (Two bombs were thrown at a car in which Sir, Charles Tegart the Police Commissioner, was driving to his office in Calcutta, on August 25 last year. They exploded on the roadway and fragments wounded the driver

death. They include the deed con- there is none with sufficient know- voying Gorhambury to Bacon, his ledge or courage to tell the Coun- marriage agreement, and-perhaps cil that its august leg is being the most interesting document in pulled, none to say that it should the entire collection-a copy of his refuse to give its blessing and will. This begins in poetic style: "First I bequeathe my tomb and publicity to auch fantastic schemes Body into the garde of God by the being undertaken by Chinese off

as "the great health campaign Blessed oblation of my fantom."

cials in close consultation with the But the value of his subsequent League bequests is considerably discounted (vide League Preis correspon- Health Organisation 7" | by the fact that they are followed in this copy by a full account of awarn the guileless enthusiasts who dents, October 1). Will no one stormy meeting of creditors held direct this branch of the League's soon after his death. The detalls activities against allowing them- given here will be Invaluable to selves to become a sounding-board scholars and historiana in passing for the benefit of an extremely judgment on Bacon's honesty, and astute but untrustworthy group of business capacity. The claims en Oriental politicians? tered vary from sums of £1,000 to In being created a Knight 280 on

If the actual condition of the account with the local Chinese people were not Bachelor of the Most Dis-aixpence owing to an individual, humorous in the announcement by

"butter-woman," and the

BQ tragic. eum of there might be something grimly tinguished Order of St.whose name has unfortunately been Geneva of China's determination to Michael and St. George, Mr. obliterated by the passage of time. embark upon a campaign of mass William Woodward Hornell,

vaccination And Inoculation CLE., will be the recipient of a

No less Important are the other againat. smallpox and malaria at unanimous chorus of felicita-

miscellaneous documents, letters, Shanghai. There might also be and deeds, which go to form the matter for innocent merriment]-and damaged the car. tions. "Hornell" and "University" Verulam Collection. One of these that the Lengue has evidently dis- have

come to be regarded asia a contemporary translation of an covered nothing peculiar, до synonymous terms. In his exalt-ultimatum sent some time in the ulterior motive unconnected with ed capacity as Vice-Chancellor, Emperour of Asia and the East to has elected to start this campaign seventeenth century by the "Turk hygiene, in the fact that Nanking Mr. Hornell has preached only one the King of Poland, The Note around and about the "Model Set- gospel in season and out of begins in the approved diplomatic tlement," where for years past all Beason. His wonderful faith and style: "We greete thee and doe the latest discoveries of medical onthusiasm have already won him of Embasenie that we offer mercie Institute, have been freely offered let thee known by, this our Jetter, science, including A Pasteur golden words of praise and and safety to thye Countrie and to the Chinese population. admiration from Governors down Person."

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cends

Bloodthirsty. Turk.

A Grim Coincidence. to "mer-in-the-street." He has Soon, however, the Emperor, des-

Py a grim coincidence, on the to blunt threats: achieved what very few, if any, imperial salutation inferiour to ite latest expression of apprecia "If our saine day that Geneva broadcast Vice-Chancellors of Universities none bee hot sufficient to winne tion of the Kuomintang's progres- have been able to achieve. The thee to subjection and to acknow-sive activities, there appeared in honour now conferred upon him ledge us to be arch-commander of the Press brief cabled accounts of is not one. that he would person-fortes, and castells, than must oured inhabitants of a town, besieged thie lands, provincies, territories, the massacre of some 8,000 wretch- ally seek; but if that honour is Turks enter the kingdome to the and captured by briganda, in the responsible for still greater atten-meare depopulation and disparage province of Kansu. tion to and interest in the Univer-castells upsie-turvie-for we intend pillage and slaughter has China ment thereofand turn thy Pollah

To such appalling conditions of nity, he will to-day be a very to throw Sulphur and balls of fier" been brought during the last de proud and happy gentleman! - There follows a glowningly im-cade of "Nationalist" misrule, that Mr. Edgar William Carpenter's aginative description of the victor-events such as this have almost honour of M.B.E. comes as

fous Turk, while as to the Poles, ceased to attract attention they a "their wounded bodies weltering in certainly evoke no signs of Indig- This Colony has fared

natural reward not only of many pooles of purple blood shall serve a nation-either in Ching or abroad. usually well in the list of New years spent in the Public Works festivalls for our wolves to feed Yet even the highest brows" in Year Honours. All those. singled Department but also as a deserved upon."

Geneva must perceive that when a out for a mark of Royal favour recognition of his great services in the account of the mustering of such conditions to become chronic Interesting particulars are given, Government which has allowed will

be whole-heartedly con- during the prolonged water Oliver Cromwell's army gratulated by all sections of the drought of 1920. His advice, his Albans. The Mayor apparently did operate with it in instituting an at St. invites the civilised world to co community, for the Colony as a suggestions, and his personal not believe in half-measures, and anti-malaria campaign, it is either whole has likewise been honour-labours during that period could put on his sword, saying lacking in intelligence or good ed.

not but command the apprecia-years; but now I doo itt to encour

have not worne a worde: these 20 faith. His Excellency the Governor tion of the entire community, dge ye people to fight against yo is not the only means whereby the Wholesale, slaughter by brigands receives promotion in the Most which will most cordially endorse Kluge." All the citizens of St. population of China is being, Distinguished

Albana were not, however, so loyal steadily decimated, while its rulers' Order of St. the mark of Royal favour now to Cromwell; for we read that "Mr. representatives, at Geneva talk Michael and St. George, notwith extended to him.....

Ivary a poore, man, for sayinge, glibly of vaccination pour apater le standing his previous rank of The similar, though military,God bless King Charles' was bourgeois europeen. the Knight of the Order of the honour conferred upon Sergeant sort to prison."

A vast toll of human life is being British Empire conferred on him

Major William Harold Edmonds

taken, and much misery endured,

:

For. distinguished services in Bri- is one that wil be appre- RETIRING CONSUL,

tish Malaya,

clated by the whole of the The additional honour new conferred upon His South Chins Command, whilst Excellency may perhaps savour

Police both

and Civilian circles will sincerely

con-

of the automatic routine affect-

Chief Secretary to the Govern ment of the Federated Malay

News in Brief.

PRAISES CONDITIONS IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,

because of the famine conditions, wholly preventable, which exist and persist in several Provinces,

These things, the frue causes of China's pitiful state, are seldom mentioned in polite circles at Geneva, certainly never in the pre- KH. Kwong, the new Chiness sence of the Chinese delegates.

Manila, Dec. 22.

DUELLING STUDENTS:

Sir Charles Tegart was unhurt but one of the assailants,, was hit by the fragments and it la believed was mortally injured.]

The

Knights.

ANGELL, Norman; author and fifty-four Knighthoods created include:-

lecturer; b 26 Dec. 1874; s. of late Thomas Angell Lane, J.P., Mansion. Houso, Holbeach. Educ. privately: Lycee de St. Omer, France. Youth passed in Western States of America, first ranching and prospecting, and later in newspaper work; re- turned to Europe, 1898, as cor- respondent various American newspapers; Editor Galignant's Messenger, 1899-1903; staff ́ of Eclair, Paris, 1903-5; General Manager Paris Daily Mail, 1905 14: frequent contributor Ameri- can press and lecturer, in Ameri- can Universities. Publications: Patriotism under Three. Flags, 1909; Europe's Optical Illusion, 1909; The Great Illusion, 1910; Peace Theories and the Balkan War, 1912; War and the Essen- tial Realities, 1918; The Four- dations of International Polity, 1914; Prussianism and Its DOE- traction, 1914; The World's Highway, 1915 (in America); The Dangers of Half-Prepared- ness, 1916 (in America);Why Freedom Matters, 1916 War Alms, 1917; The Political Con- "Uftions of Allled: Bueccas, 1918; American Democracy, 1919 (in The British Revolution and the America); The Economie Chaca and the Peace Treaty, 1919; The Fruits of Victory, 1921; If Britain, is to Live, 1923; Must

Britain Travel the Moscow

Road? 1926; The Public Mind, Its Disorders: Its Exploitation 1926.

LITTLE, Ernest Graham, BA, Cape University M.D. Lond. FR.CP. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng. M.P. (Ind. C.) University of

charge of the Skin Department

Bity of fandon Lecturor on Der At St. Mary's Hospital, Univer matology. St. Mary's Hospital Medical School Senior Phy alclan East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell; member of Sebate, University of London, since 1905, and Chairman of the Council for External Studants: Corresponding Momber, Améri can Dermatological Association, and of the Dermatological Society of France, of Germany; and Berlin,

ing the appointment of Governors gratulate Mr. Walter Kent on reconsul, will arrive on January 1, Nevertheless, they are the basic London since 1984; Physician in to the Crown Colonies; but that eving the King's - Folice Medal 1931, the day before, the departing facts of the situation, the remed nded not detract one leta from to mark his impending, retirement consul general. H: H. Rwing leaves his causes of a vast amount of the congratulations that are un-

from a force with which he has for China to take his post as coun-human suffering, and until the col doubtedly his. Since his advent had a very long and honourable sellor to the ministry of foreign lective humanity of the world to the Colony from the position of connection.

affairs to the Chinese government faces them, all the League's at Nanking, according to K. Y solemn talk of introducing scienti Mok, deputy Chinese consul.tide hygiene for the benefit of the The departing consul genoral Chipche masses is shear Bap States, he has given evidence of a

was feted by the Chinesa Chamber doodle. Is it too much to suggest willingness to view every local R. E. Undsell opened an inquiry cup was presented him as a token

On Wednesday afternoon. Mr. the Cosmos Club. A sliver loving it!

of Commerce last Saturday noon at that, behind the scenes, they know problem

and these have been into the circumstances attending of appreciation for the services be many-from every possible angle, the death of Traffic, Lance-Ser-has-rendered the Chinese - com- Where there has been criticism of geant John James Post of the munity in Manila and in the any of his 'announcements or deernment Civil Hospital to severe Consul General Kwong declared clamp out duelling led on Wednes

Police who succumbed at the Gov- Philippines as a whole. cisions, that has been very far re-injury received in a motor cycle ace that he would report to the Chineed day, to a raid on the ballroom used,

Berlin, Nov. 26 The efforts of the authorities moved from the realm of the cident in Lower Albert Road on the people in Ching the conditions of fax chelling purposee where several personal, it being fully recognised the Chinese here and how they are duels, were in progress het one a that he would be the first to The dinner dance carnival

establishing friendship with the sink personal opinions in the Hotel. Cecil, which held it firs

Fulpinos and Americans,. He laude adfence of alx hundre od, the progressive body of Chinese hermetically closed, wider Interests of the whole New Year's Eve functi

The building Was W kind was attended to the extreme cial success of the Chinese mer ng ice officers order. 510

Manila, who guide the commerprised sudants ubm His Excellency and capacity of the floor 1 The

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