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LATEST CABLES.
(Taxodon BISTER'S ADENCY.]
ITALIAN FASCIST DISCORD.
SIGNS OF DIFFICULTIES WITHIN THE PARTY.
Rous. May 31st. The latest sensational incident is indi- estive of the diffenities arising within the Fascist Party.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 2ND. 1933.
EARLIER CABLES. FAR EASTERN CABLE
MINERS WAGES.
DISCUSSION ON WAGE AGREE-
MENT AUJOURNED,
LONDON, May 31st.
The miners conference at Blackpool by a large majority has adopted the execu- tive's resulation in favour of adjourning the discussion of the national wage agter-
until the mert
RENT RESTRICTIONS.
NEWS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
PROSECUTIONS.
"ADVANTAGES CONFERRED, ON. FOUNDERS SHARES,"
Paris, May 31st.
The trial of Andre Berthelot, Chair annual conferere at man. M. Pernotte, General Manager, six Folkestone, in July, pealing action in the | members of the directorate of the Banque House of Crannoma with regard to the Trdustrielle de Chine and two, chartered Deputy Misuri, an ex-member of the Bill providing for a minitaum wage to
Recountants, for alleged misdemeanor under the Company Taw, including the Party, wins, while a member of the: minces, based on the cost of living. Chamber of Theputies, criticised some!
irregular issue of shares, the distribution manifestations of the Fascismo and at-!
af feritintis dividends and the fraudulent pealed to Premier Mussolini to help aj
AT negotiation of shares, has been begun at turn to cermal ennstitutional methods,
the Criminal Court.
was seriously wounded last night, while in the street, by the or four assailants
A young offer of the Fascist Mitja has an arrested in ein metion with the incident, which caused univeral indig
nation.
The Minister of Justice has declared: that energetic stopy will be taken to bring:
the cfenders to justice.
TO BE
CONTINFED
HOME.
PIONEER MISSIONARY
IN CHINA.
Sex writes:-In 1843 the charter of the E. 1. Company expired after a manipoly of trade in China for two hundred years. During the whole of that time these privileged merchants systema treally opposed all efforts to diffuse knowledge Christianity and general
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SOME ANCIENT, QUACKS.
QUEER STORIES.
7
TELEPHOTOPHONY.
SPEAKING PICTURES PROPHESIED.
Remarkable achievements' were demon- strated at the Royal Institution last month by Professor Rankine of what" OTH could be effected in the way of transmitting speech by means of a bents of light, muni wonderful pessibilities were held out as being likely of accomplishment in the neur
future.
The Rev. P. H. Ditchfield has the fol lowing article in a Landon Weekly:-.
The relulity of mankind is immense. Impostors fourth white good, men neglect and derided. As Lord Bacon observed in his day in his "Advancement of Learning": "Many times the impos tor is prad and the man of virtue taxed Nay, we so the weakness and credulity of men is such, as they will aften prefer
He reminded his audience of the general a mountebank or witch before a learned
principle employed. The waves of which phys plan,"
Losgrave, in his "Treasury of Wit and speech consisted were so harnessed that they increased or diminished the amount of Langua, published in 1835, sketches a
selenium placed in an elect the circuit. The portrait of Dr. Pulefeet, a po: Doctor light that was allowed to fall on sonis resistance of the selenium varied according of Physick, whose malical degree, ohtain-sele
to the light that fell on it and the current cost him twelve French cross which also passed through an ordinary and Thirty five pounds of butter in telephone reesiver flactuated similarly, with Upper Germany.
the result that the sounds of speech were reproduced as is the ordinary telephone, In a sense the my of light corresponded with the wires connecting the transmitting and receiving ends of the telephone.
He boasts thus:-
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I can make your beauty, and preserve
it.
Rectify your body and maintain it. Clarife your blood, swifle your cheeks,
perfume
British were Among the Chinese, The later in their advent into the affairs of China than the Portuguese and others from Europe and the Russians from Asin. The, first English - veserts" anchoral off Macao in July, 1833, but the Portuguese did not want them and mad misrepres abroad. sentations to the Chinese so that Weddell their commander had to reply to attack by the Chinese on his ships, which led the Chinese to alow trade to carried on by the British. But very pres enrious were the conditions of trade with Canton, owing to the hostility of the Portuguese well as the Chinese, "In- teremtso of this kind, specially the opium trafike, which tho Chinese officials made a the history of dead set against, could not give tho Chinese a very lufty or true iden of this British The end
the exclusive trust dved ing capital and
privileges, and the resolve of the Eng ish the recognition and suggested that by Government to insist on arrangemenÈN, voting against profit-giving advan of a consul at Canton gave much satisfar- the 2,000 tion to foreigners outside the company
Academy or Robert Morrison, "arrived at Canton in
Exist in the case of M. Pernotty, not LONDON, May 31st A Housing Deentral "Bill has been all the accused are charged with every intristuest by Mr. Neville Chamberlain one of the aforementioned mísclennanours, in the House of Commons, providing that i
traced The Judge
the Bestrictions Act of 1998 shall con- the formation of the Bank includ-
tinne in free until June 24th, 1925.
INDIAN MILL STRIKE.
Luges
35
2:0
on conferred
D
Another sequel to Deputy Misuri'z WORKERS ACCEPT TWENTY FIVE funders shares, of which 1,000 each were When the first British missionary. Dr.
speech is the resignation of the Under!
Secretary of Agriculture, Signor. Gorgini, who congratulated Signor Misuri on his speech.
PER CENT REDUCTION.
held by the Chinese Governanent, the; Roynay. May 31st. Peking Syndicate and MM. Berthelot and The Ahinedalind mill strike. which
Victor. If these founders' shares were began on April 1st, shows signs of ending. : calculated adversely, it would affect the Prening Ma-matin? has neeepted the re- The workers at two mills are returning ordinary share dividends.
M. Berthelot said the custom W13. Bigrativa.
to work, accepting a twenty per cent, cut
OUTRAGE IN PARIS.
DEPUTIES ATTACKED BY MEMBERS OF ROYALIST ORGANISATION,
Paris, May 1st. A street attack has been de members of the loyalis organisation,!
LIQUOR CONCESSION. TO "FOREIGN SHIPS SAILING TO AMERICA.
votes
Lopos, May 31st,
writer for
Your skin, timet your hair, enliven
your eye.
How I WORKS.
The great difficulty was the small an:ount of energy in sounds, such as those enit-
Heighten your appetite; and as forted by the human voice. In the case of the
Javies,
in
ordinary telephore the diaphragm of the
In
Dentifrizes, Dyets, Minerals, Fricasses, transmitter only moved backwards and for- Domatum Funes, Italia masks wards by about one-thousandth of an juch. the cusn of the telephotophone,” as be sleep in. Either to moisten or dry the super fastoned by a small lover to a tiny mirror. called his instrument, the diaphraga was
Rays of light from SE
Geies. Faugh! Galen
Was a goose--Parcelsus-Patch, To Doctor Pulsefeet.
ed through
grating, Suuree were
and fell on the
which they if there
mirror, to be reflected through a similar
to a lens. grating on. issued as a besin of
Ins Ut
light.
**THE DUNCEN DIRECTORY. The education of a charlatan is set forth in a strange book. The Quack's was absolute silence the light passing the Dunce's Directory," through each gap of the first grating 1678. Loquacity and im fell accurately on to similar gap the published in
the second grating, with the result that pudence were necessary qualifications, a deceut black suit, a aducrus or conjuring maximum amount of light passed
through. reads the Japan staff in your hand, a lodging hung The tiniest dolcotion of the mirror that with Dutch ptures belittered with empty occurred when the waves of specch
direction of the rays, with the result that fully coloured, a skull obtained from a bottles and vinis filled with water care diaphragm vibrate slightly changed the sexton) in your window, and a skeleton part of the fight was cut off by the second the movements of the
Or Arabic
macie
1807 in an American ship, the company would not allow him to settle, but as he already had lone much Chinese in England and on the way out; besides working with a teacher for a few months at Canton, on the strong recommendation of a monkey huse ser the skull, to show seeming to
and the issuing beam of light yard copied from Gree Britain and the object! of the only Englishman who then knew; your skill in anatomy. It is advisable to diaphragm. The selenium at the receiving was to retain control A French hands; Chinese, Sir George Staunton, himself have a me musty old Greek
volume open on your table, some gild end thus intercepted light of varying otherwise. French coutroj might be in the company, he was allowed to remain shillings which your clients may mistaks intensity and modified accordingly the ear threatened by a coalitim of the Chinese coming interpretor and Government's and Japanee shareholders' the company. So he only drew his salary for guineas received that morning, and rent passing through the telephone, so that as a missionary for the year, which set to get all the publicus in the neighbour. the sound from the transmitting station was
hed and the nurses and midwives to reproduced.
Selenium was most sensitive to the in- funds free for other workers who settled applaud your skill. So arned and pre trinsic brilliancy of the source of light used, in Malaya and Java. Murrison's Anglo pare, the quack may expert innumerable and Chinese Dictionary was printed at
the patients. expense of the company, and his trans sisted by Dr. William Mine of Malacca. was printed by this British and Foreign Bible Society. He with his own carnings helped other missionaries, and founded the College at Malacca, which had as one of its principals, from 1839 to 1843, the learned Dr. James Legge, who after. Wards became the first Professor Chinese at Oxford. Marrison was also one of the founders of the Singapore Institution, who entenary is about to
celebrated as Raffles Institution.
SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.
Good Quren Anue suffered from weak
It is officially annoureed that alcoholic REAR ADMIRAL DAVIDSON URGES latin of the Bible, in which he was sight and employed two quack oculists."pparatus there was comparatively little
fiqitor for beverags" purpose, aboard
t
know as the Cumplute du Bourrign ships sailing to America before, Deputies – Sagher. "Munter and Violette June 19th will not be arized et Amorienu who were proveling to a meeting with the intention of spraking against Fascist. The attack caused a sensation in Paris.
MM. Sågning and Moust, esqit - their injuries, addresool the mporting scared
JAPAN ALSO ENTERS A PROTEST.
WASHINGTON. May 31st Japan las joined with the nther Powers 2nd balaged. M. Violette, who was with his wife when he was surrounded, in urging the drafting of American was thrown down and a bottle of ink was liquor regulations dealing with shipping, poured over their faces. He was unable with due consideration for international to attend the meeting,
BELGIAN STRIKE.
HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT ENTERTAINED.
Bars-es, May 31st. Although the railway and postal strike and the Hituation has been worse
comity. The Japanese eqmmunication points out that Japanese liners not only cross the Pacific, but go through the Panama Canal to Athuntie ports.
WAFD AGITATORS RELEASED
Mabers
SPEEDY COMPLETION,
Lobos, May 31st.
Rear Admiral Davidson, in a letter to ship Fress, urges the completion of the Singapore bus within five years instead of ten years, if acre will "permit. JAPANESE CLAIMS AGAINST TURKEY.
LAUSANNE May Dist. The Japanese delegate informed the pre-war claims against Turkey, which she some committee that Japan had some would discus, privately with the Turks. THE BANDÍTS' CAPTIVES.
EARLY RELEASE EXPECTED.
TRAUCHUANG, May 31st,
of
THE LATE LORD CARNARVON
AND MOSQUITOES. The statement that the illness from which the Earl of Carnarvon died was in the beginning caused by the bite of a mosquite lends interest to the following note from an old friend of the late Peer:
quently sunlight was the best source, as it was some 20 times na as artificial light. With proper
One of thera was William Reade, an wastage because the diameter of a ray only. ignorant. Inilor, whom she was silly increased some 17 times in travelling over had work. He employed a distance of a mile. The system nough to make a knight. a great street-poet to sing his praises in ed eficiently during the war between luch a poem called The Ceulist." The other combo and the mainland on the worth of was a charlatan named Grand, a cobbler the Firth of Forth, though owing to the and Anabaptist preacher. Some said he humidity of the Scottish climate, artificial
been ust wits a tinker, and a lampoon writer thus Bourres of light had
The system described was very similar in scoffed at the pair
reality to wireless telephony, but the wave lengths used, namely, these of light, were about a thousand million times shorter. waves being so short would not bend the earth's circumference, and this
Led
uate..
POSSIBILITY OF SPEAKING PR TUBES.
Her Majesty sure was in a surprise,
Or obe was very short-sighted;. When a tinker was worn to look after
her eyes And a notel ink Reade was knighted. fact would limit the distance to which it Dr. Radcliffe, Oxford's famous bene factor, was a bit of a miser. He dis could be employed, but it had several advantages over wireless telephony. The not like paying his bills. He employed a paviour to mend the pavement before his beam of light could be directed with absolute house in Blum-bury Square, and abused accuracy, and accruey could be guaranteed. the man's work. "Why, you rascaldo but fog put it out of action, and it possessed The process of tuuing in was also eliminated, you pretend to be paid for such-piece less range. work. Why, you have spoiled my pave- ment. and then covered it over with earth.
After installing an apparatus, Professor to hide the bad work,"
"Doctor,” replied the Inn. with Rankine then left the theatr, the only knowing wink. "mine is not the only bad contact between him and the theatre being a beam of light passing through an work the earth hides."
aperture in the wall and falling on to a loud speaker. Speaking into the trausmilter able to make his voice heard with case, of bis instrument outside the theatre he was And then counted the numbers from one to from time to time intercepted the beam with twenty. During the counting an ssistant a screen, when the sound absolutely and dramatically ceased. The success fact experiment can be gathered from the that even when the beam was intercepted his natural voice could still be faintly
That story reminds one of the reply of a lonely shepherd on the Berkshire travelling doctor. Downs who lived a very isolated life, and was asked by "Whatever do you do when you and your family are ill. Don't you ever see
doctor."
Doctor! We don't want, no doctor we allus dies a natural death."
It is estimated that the captises will
There is an additional note of tragedy be released within a week. Wen Shih!
in the sail death of Lord Carnarvon when Tsen says the secretaries attend to
I rend that it was due, in the first in. morrow's conference to begin enrolment stance, to the bite of a mosquito, for he of the bandits in the Army. The majority had endeavoured to avoid these pests all of the bandits are eager for enlistment. his life. There is an excellent hotel in CAIRO, May 31st. It was agreed to-day that all with Paris in which he would never set foot, Wr.fd volvos shall is supplementary soldiers as he had once been bitten there; while the Egyptian
and all unwilling to enter the Army shall in every new place he ever found him interned in the Seychelles will be released, be granted pardoes so that they can re-self his vikit was to the local chemist to-morrow, and their future movements turn to their homes. The bandits have to buy something or other in east there als al emperisation for distroyed were any mosquitoes about. Some thirty We were on a shoot. will not be restricted, »
villages. They wanted a million dollars, add years ago but it is belied they will accept one ing trip in South America, together with the hundred thousand They also hope for late Prince Victor Duleep Singh. One day
a wealthy estanciero invited us
A quack doctor accompanied by his mony for the Chinese prisoners.
ranch, situato an hour or two outside Buenos Aires, where, be informed us, there pupil one day attended a small tenant heard
on to the selenium the effect was were thousands of duck waiting to be hot. forruer who had a smart attack of bilious beard going on counting while when the [ox.coURTESY OF "THE DAILY DULLETIN."}
rning, and fever. After looking at his patient's so load that the natural We turned early in the morning, tongue and feeling his pulse, he said sorne- tone, wase use had been found for the photo- while we found that there were literally LINCHENG OUTRAGE.
what sharply: thousands of duck on the lagunas aul there were also millions of kwamp", OPENING OF CONFERENCE.
mosquitoes
After
hour of glorious THAOCHUANG, May Bist. sport we were in such pain, and our fuces The Government and gentry delegates, and hands were so swollen, that it was accompanied by Mr. Roy Anderson and impossible to continue. We held a coun-
COUNTY CRICKET.
engisemen and firemen at six important centres have now come out hopes for an early improvement have been occasioned by a meting of the joint ecmittee f the Railways Postal and Telegraph, Tinione deriding advise a resumption: At- tlar of work to-day.
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TURKEY AND AMERICA. · THE SIGNING OF COMMERCIAL TREATIES.
WASHINGTON, May 31st.
LONDON, May 31st.
defented Ovul Surrey Glamorgan by nine wickets. In Surrey's first innings Hobbs compiled 75 and
Ducat 120.
At Derby, Yorkshire beat Derbyshire
|
na
. to his
A SHREWD DIAGNOSIS,
"Ah! it's no us doing what's right for you, if you will be an imprudent,"
Goouttres, doctor, what do you mean?"
"I have done replied the sick man.
"What! de-
Nothing imprudent? Who, nothing imprudent"
completely
in Derby's Wen Shih Tsa, proceded to Wanchlaoba cil of war, and the majority of two bless me, man, you have had green peasly were the real longitudins! waves which
by an intangs and 12% runs, Fur York- shire, Robinson scored bil The State Department has authorised | second ienings Kilner took 5 wickets for Mr. Grow, the US representatives at 32 runs., Lausanne to negotiate and sign commer cial treating, with Turkey.
A
BRITISH SUBJECTS IN MOROCCO.
ANGLO-FRENCH CONVENTION.
PARIS, May 31st, An Anglo-French Convention, has been signed, settling the dispute regarding French nationality decrees in Tunis and Morocco, mentioned in a sable message alated February 7th. It is understood that Great Britain largely recognises the French contention.
NEW ARGENTINA LOAN.
LONDON, May 31st.
W66
Lancashire at Gravesend defeated Kent by 125. 10 Lancashire's first innings Makepeace knocked up 80. Parkin took
of Kent's wickets for 24. At Gloucester, Leicestershire defeated by Gloucestershire by five wickets, For Glodgester, Mills took 5 for 46 und 7 for 33. For Leicester, Ceary, in the first innings of Gloucester, took 6 for 13.
HANTS DEFEATS WEST INDIES.
Hampshire at Southampton beat the West Indies" by 144. For Hants, Mead compiled 64 and 87, and Kennedy took 6 for 58 and for 13.
DAVIS CUP CONTEST.-
Bruşezze, May 31st.
In the Davis Cup contest, Lycott and Gollfree beat Washer and Watson, 6-1.
The Argentina Government is issuing a Joan' in London of £2,500,000, 5 per cent., at £86 108, for the purpose of extending 6-4, 6-3, the Port of Buenos Aires,
MARKS STILL FALLING.
LONDON, May 31st. Marks are pursuing a downward 'fall and closed at 312,000 to 315,000.
MRS. MALLORY IN FORM. LONDON, May 31st.
The Middlesex Championships was Mrs. Mallory's first real text. Shu beat Mrs. Bearish 7-5, 6-2, in the fifth round.
for dinner.
compare t
with
rooghur
drowned different in Another phone, namely, thug recording automatically of the human voicu. In the gramophone the waves of sound took the forms of wavy lines rauch like a hospital temperature chart, bat with the photophone the principle was different, and what was recorted direct-
can perhaps be this morning to hold a denite conferencecided that the only thing to do was to go Mr. Roy Anderson is acting as guar back to the ranch and seek relief and re-
"So I have. sir. But how did you find the variations in pressure the spite under the mosquito curtains in our
in a autor and bodyguard,
In your pulse-in your pulso. It was was miner full of air in which
moved to and fro. These Yesterday's conference was merely the bedrooms until the hour fixed for the fiesta out?"
which our host had specially prepared for us. opening discussid, and the releae of Carnarvon would not bear of this, and, very foolish. Mind, you must not com be photographed by form of cinema-
barrowed Major Allen and Mr. Smith was in
after further discalloped across the pampa cost you your life
the mit such an indigestion again. It might camera, and when light was passed through them and thrown on to the selenium the fullmens of a promise made 17 days
peon's
sound that had produced them was repro- ago,
duced. This also Professor Rankine very
demonstrated. effectively
The chief diffi culty at present was to get antisfactory loud speakers, but some day this would doubtless be overcome. Naturally active investigations were in progress, and he ex-
Mr. Anderson insisted uponi their
relpas Before the disenssinn commened.
The outlook is hopefid.
MR. SMITH ON HIS EXPERIENCE.
10
Ite
a pistani
to the nearest railway station, at which The patient was much impressed by the he chartered a special train and returned doctor's cleverness, and an was the pupil
Next day, when who later on inquired:— Buenos Aires. two pitiful figures of fun,
"How did you know he had taken pea with leads and hands swollend him with his
to the size of Pfection. for dinner, sir? Of course it wasn't his musks, Mr. Smith says that he is glad to be: he smiles sweetly at us, and informed us use that told you."
Why, boy, I saw the pea-shells thrown released, but is sorry
as be lived he would to lose his good that as loug
in
out into the yard, and I drew my inpressed himself us confident that before long, through the telephotophone, speaking pictures, the dream of the cinema trudle. comrades Ho never met truer friends never remain five unnecessary minutes throughout his long life. In the darkest a place where he was liable to be bitten by
would be achieved. hour, when we were told that we would nosquitoes. be shot unless the troops were withdrawn, we commenced to sing. The bandits were amazed at our mong furd. The Chinese prisoners also were astonished.”
of
Doro
..
FOOD OF MORE VALUE THAN NEGOTIATIONS, Mr. Smith expressed the utmost gratitude for the food supply, which was
immediato
than valuo negotiations.
Mr. Smith intends to continue his Eastern tour, but he is doubtful if he will visit Mukden, "because of Chang Two Lin.?!
Mr. Smith says is capture wana wonderful experience, but he would not again undergo it for a million dollars.
Mr. Smith and Major Allen nre both well.
POPEN SOLICITUDE.
JAPAN AND THE SOVIET. HIGH OFFICIAL'S EMPHATIC STATEMENT.
Toxxo, May 31st "In no circumstances will the Japanese Government unconditionally recognise Soviet Russia."
ference."
The story pus on that this pupil visiting the sick man, and sooing a saddle hanging in the kitchen. accused him of having eaten a horse, thus bringing down upon his head the patient's maledictions vote the required sum. Bishops and and the consure of the doctor.
.doctors testified to the merits of her
A quack was once asked whether he be cures, and this is what the nation received lieved in phrendo He replied, with
becoming gravity, "I never keep it, and for its five thousand pounds
My medicines are a Powder, a Decoc I never une it. But I think it highly tion and Pilla probable that, giron frequently and in liberal doses, it would be very useful in certain can of irregular gout."
"
The powder consists of egg-shells and anails--both calcined.
The decoration is made of boiling some THE QUEEN OF QUACKS,
horbs (together with a ball consisting of This emphatic statement from a high official may be regarded as answering the
There have been many doctresses, "wiss, swines cresses burnt to a blackars widespread reports from various sources women and female quacks, but the most and honey) in water. The pills consist of anaila calcined, wild carrot seeds, bur. in the newspapers assorting the unanimity sucessful of all undoubtedly was Jonna dock seeds, ashen keys, hips, and hawes
of the Cabinet vis-a-vis recognition.
Stephena, an ignorant and vulgar CTEN
blacknices-soup and
The good ludly was kind enough to ex-
It is authoritatively stated that while ture who flourished about the middle of all burnt to the Cabinet is closely considering M
the eighteenth century. She proclaimed hodey
sovereign Jaffe's proposals, no decision has been that she had discovered & reached.
The Japanese Government is no nearar remedy for a painful discase, and for the plain the method of preparing these in Could ignorance, Father Laafers received a telegram from the Pope urging him to so the agreement with M. Joffe than at the small sum of five thousand pounds she gredients, but with them we need not mankind Crowds of rich folk paid her superstition, and quackery proceed far- bandit chief and chalu Mr. Musso's time of breaking of the Changchu would ruake it public for the benefit of trouble the reader,
It is thought probable that a definite enormous fees, subscriptions poured in, ther1 Quackery, however, still survives. it will die aratural death and be baried decision will be robed at the Cabinet and Parliament was actually induced to Let us hope that, as education advances,
(Continued of foot of west column.) in the oblivion of forgotten nightmares meeting to be held on Jane 2nd.
release. If he was unable to do so, then he should stay and comfort the captives.
(Continued af foot of neck column.)
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