THELD OfficialUEENS
WORLD Coming Here GOES BY In September
"SHANGHAI
The Paradise of
Mr. J. B. Clark, the Director Adventurers! The year's sen-
of the B.B.C. Empire Service, is sation, revealing the unscrupulous
making a tour of the Empire for and immoral practices of respecthe purpose of studying the re- table' people and otherwise regular action to the B.B.C. broadcast- criminals."
ing services overseas.
Yes, you've guessed it, writes the: China Press. Another new book about this so-called glamorous and "wicked" city is just about to em- erge from the presses of a New York publishing concern.
He is expected to arrive in Co- lombo to-morrow and will spend seven days there before proceeding to Australia and New Zealand.
It is anticipated that he will ar- rive in Hong Kong by the Kitano Maru on September 16 and will From the advertising literature leave by the Rawalpindi on Septem- sent out to local book dealers and ber 18 after conferences with of reviewers, the volume promises to ficials of Z.B.W. and any private. be extraordinary, inasmuch as it listeners who take the opportunity- claims to be an expose of the lives to get into touch with Mr. Clark. of some of our best citizens.-- -- -
The man who wrote it is hiding A A GIPSY'S
behind a nom-de-plume. He calls
pubishers indicate that if he came
himself G. E. Miller and his LIFE IS NOT out in the open, something unhappy A HAPPY
well
as
a
might happen to him. They do state that he was a special investi- gator in Shanghai as diplomat. They also claim that he was "eye-witness to the Japanese adventure in Manchuria,”
ONE
Prague, To-day. Gypsies in Europe are being bad- Looking over the advance bally-gered from pillar to post and North hoo, one finds several interesting extracts from the volume Here are a few samples:
itself.
"Several prominent residents
to Bohemia is the latest district institute measures designed to curb the activities of the roving bands.
The authorities have decided to of shave the heads of every gypsy, Shanghai have suddenly departed found trespassing, regardless of sex for other places on urgent business or age.
town in Bohemia, the au- due to the San Francisco opium
"hunting disclosures. However, if one is to thorities have instituted
aparties," in which civilians join believe the recent statement of high official of the French Conces-with gendarmes in capturing
truders on private property. sion, there really was no, reason for the sudden departure of these notables."
Speaking of love and booze "Shanghai laughs, drinks and loves outrageously, impudently. This old phenomenon may be due to the climate or to a peculiar something in the air which induces in its eager victims an uncontrollable amorousness commonly known as ""The Sport of Love.""
Mr. Miller discusses ‘a "Master Adventurer,” Let Shanghai try to pick this man out. -The advance literature doesn't say who he iế:
In one
in-
Every trespasser is "scalped" and. it is believed this measure will - rid the district of the gypsies, as a shaven head is the height of dis- grace among the Romany tribes.- Trans-Ocean.
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"Who could be this man whom A telegram was received by head the British Empire has relentlessly office from the Minister of Trans- LIONEL BARRIMORE IN “PUBLIC HERO NO. 1 "attacked and pursued with its. port, who congratulated the firm traditional bulldog tenacity? Is he on becoming one of the world's lead- the greatest adventurer of the ing shipping companies. Trans- twentieth century, as has been writ- Ocean. ten; or is he of such enigmatic and
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Nanking Instructs Mr. Tyau To Investigate
Canton, To-day,
There is a great deal more, even on the ballyhoo sheet. Some of it sounds like dynamite. Maybe it is. Mr. Philip K. C. Tyau, Special At any rate, the book is supposed to Delegate for Foreign Affairs in be off the press within the mouth. Kwangtung and Kwangsi, is to go But that won't answer the ques- to Swatow to investigate the incis tion, "Who is G. E. Miller ?”
dent which has given rise to re- newed: Sino-Japanese tension in South China. Mr. Tyàu is acting on the direct instructions of the Min- istry of Foreign Affairs în Nanking.
Our Own Correspondent.
Income Tax Bill, which intro- daces income-tax for the first time in Kenya's history, was read a third time in the Legislative Council.
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