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M. Wildu, the French Conan' Dioral bat Shanghai, who has lived for mang years in thin, was the speaker at a po cent meeting of the Rotary Club,
a
of the past, su it is it taramalte
A XEARLY COMPLETE SKELETON 'MR. H. E. ARNHOLD'S' FIGHTING {
UNEARTHED.
The Cheng Mai. Nors Age any of Voking
NEYS:
The locatan on which they are
I say that the situation in Chica, is into which these animals dropped and;
LIFE AT NANNING.
EFFECTS OF THE WAR IN WEST RIVER REGION.
A correspondent writes of bont after boat coming to Nanning while noue sean willing to leave,
This always, says, a sign that tare
chera to take soldiers down the river to
This year of 993, is worse that it has been there is a prolusion of hours to test florable stats of the government of Gus' as four, butter, ten and eindensed milk
kiner 1900
Was
At the twenty-first annual general mert- Excavating at Erblin some two hundred lot of shareholders of the Chim limport There are seme zal jacts which is so wenty miles from Knigan ti thi had Expert Lumber Co., Ltd., Shanghai, is war down below and the bouts ar themselves on speakers. The present, Urgs road, the Third Asiatic Expedition last, the Chairman 43r, if. E. Arnold), terrifioul of being commandeerd in Wu-
thing is now eno v dom, the under the beltershy of Mr. Roy Chapanen Sie said, 4 should say it is for us the only Andrews, is now at work removing what Before proceeding with my report on Shinhing and oʻlyr place, whore fighting
I have ha in this boatry fally
The meeting. I would like to comment that no goods, which mean no stores for 25 years; in little too long perials, for appears to be a nearly completo dyne-ane the necounts and the regular business of; is in "progress. The grauli people like ne are naturäily incliard to fossil,
business in China resulting from the dey strive from Hongkong and such necessities. eritre so the present me at the expense working is said to be an eddy of a river, pon the satisfac.ry editions et the live community of foreignes, enti rans luxuries, except for the country, as evidenced by the continued bein the heliled of the theory.
interference with the prdinary trading by happy individuals who have had the
124 126 YAR PRIETEN I have sprut most of uty to in The pit selt is about twelve feet sque legal taxation, giyi Western "China: Szechen and Yuman. which are real paradises for the traveller and the hes are faurel at a depth of parts of the country and bandit depins forte to lay in a good scrply before the It is a matter of constant wonter w And I have spent mutny happy days on about three feet. The tail ni the crenture dations. With its widespread organiza treable broke out,
the interior have been
Somehow the "perations in the roads of these dan away plages in the mentres, abous tori fort and every bond tion in China, the Lamber Campany's
was in its fight place. The largest bond most difficult. Fordign members our mails enne through. remotest ever of the world!"
sah that u the Wel
was about Your inches in diameter while of the company's staff have repentedly - postal authorities have a way of inspir so tapered down in size that the last hon fired upon by banilite in attempts ing such courage and patienos in their Thibetan border, or in Southern Kans
11 amongst the and Northern Schuen
tapleyes and inbourers have in variis, aborigines, in Western Yunnan where oue was a thicker through than a lead to seize then to raison. Our Chinese staff, that in spite at perils water and all the quest rates of the earth som pencil, The skill and experkser requered parts of the country ben subjected to im- perils by land, in spite of all-night work to have hug, never dat 1 enrouterra!
pesantes. Robbers I have met, by Dr. Guteger in their work may be pressant under rated military con- and constant and neersing vigilance in
briganlage. China is being allowed to doubt, many and many times, but I never evirgoal when it is explained that this trel hardly different in character fem watching the movements of trees of know they were robbers till I was told tall curled around in a circle, then drop" drift towards a state of chats and wide beats, their men remain loyal and cous
With ordinary regularity. afterwards, for in those times robers in China belonged to the old type who se pre a foot and engles back over itself spread disaffection such as existed in the 'tinue to deliver our mails with most ot
time there wer days and the Taiping Rebelina. the sate it to consider the foreigner as a gust: an while
practically to control large areas of tes uninvited and sometimes undesirable guest, anurons other bones worked in between landit chiefs and their hordes continuing ratory, and defiant militarist at Lines hat a guest B the same whose life and
it different levels, wellhdng had to be preserved.
The party has been working for two joining forces with bandits in order to?. exercise of Governmen! The weeks on the reterval of this one specite natkrity, the advent of conditions as they hut it in thought that practically a com existed in the days of Taiping Reillion plate skeleten, will be the result. The rils is by no means a reinate contingency, a in the upper side are nearly all in plac
The Percat heideas the attack on while on the under side some are missing
a passenger train of the Tim-in-Pukow, Prelous stones, some of which are said Hatay and the seizure of a mucber of to have come from an aigrette formerly lanes of a similar size anal shape wee found close by, showing that they as well-kwa foreign residents and business belonging to the late Sultan of Rhio, was bolig to the animal in question. A lag people by bandit, is merely one of the“
THE CHANGING TIMES,
Prevent
THE INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT,
SINGAPORE BROKERS
JEWELS.
WIFE CLAIMS POSSESSION.
The ownership of certain jewellery and
While it the Chinese Shan States which stretch between Burnah proper, Yunnan, and Western French IndChina, we had to ero & a vast stretch of the trap lead forest: It took us four days to !do it and apart from the large handy of
monkey which accompanied is, te anly fio en un our way; two soldiers who were bringing a arderer, to the next town, and a Cantonese pear whs Sold Pink Pills, We were told after that that fossil-like tail is broken off in sections indications of the inability of the tior in mail werk the subject of an appeal, in Cant be packed in woolen rent to control the country. In ordi- the King's Bench Divisional Court köföre mary eircumstanes, I would not wagonly 31r. Justics Lush ani Mr. Justice Salter. 'CuButry was infested with dangerous so that it
carrying case.
criticize that so-called Government of
Mrs. Evelyn Dalares Pewny, of Crouch rables
Chinn, but not only have the operations
pritl
HDB IS FOSALES.
to
at Poking of the Great Powers must united diamond ring valued at £150, about sixty- to make Chinese officialdom realize that! five luose diamonds intended the altruistic ideals concerning China pro ke or to add to diamonds in the minted at the Washington Conferene
The w tire days where one's
of the China-lipart and Expmri Lamber End, N., appealed from an „prieë in was always forgotten in a box
This are pit alone has given tipe niunt Co, fad, bren mest viculsy interfered. Chambers by the late Mr. Justice Bray in favour of her husband, Mr. Lionel packed on the last mate of the caravan. The wee the days when one's escort a thmsand pounds of fossils and Dr. with by civil war and bandit depeda. Granger states that they could spend de tous, but very heavy lowes have us a when asked why they left their gang
sumfner working it. Howeye, result thereof: had to be written off in Herbert Penny, of Singapore, now living hind answered! As long as we are entire
The time has come for at Southampton. She claimed that cer- they must move on to the west and the our accntifits, going with you, we are not afraid." „
It include a single store Tinos have changed and so this it will be covered over with warth to plain speaking. Not only is co-operation tain jewellery had been given her by leve wonder if we foreigners have mat our prevent the loss of the untouchet fossils, amongst the large business interests in part of the responsibility. Proud as we The End has been se grena, in fact, that China necessary, but the representatives, husband, are of our eivilisation, have not we been the supply of cloth and burlap ineel in too quick and loo ready to impose it on the excavations, which was expected to last people who can quite rightly last of the whole trip, has alrendy fwen enpsum
bar af grd, and snasdva their own! Were we quite sure that word.
When a part of a bute is tancovered can no longer contime to serve as a pre-aigrette, the forse ilianzotula being valued could replace the ideals which we huse.
it is immediately brusled off with camel text for the infringement of treaty rights at £130, helped to shatter!
*In 1005, while I was in Chengtu, 1: hair brushes and then covered with paper, and the endangering of the lives and
the articles mentioned, which he awarded had the first inkling of what could be and four pisto and as mors is brought to party of foreigners. The sincers well- autique (hese gold belt. The judga was light. n second covering of cloth or burlap wishers of Chima must heartily creur fund for the wife exerja ja regard to The change A young Chines
to the misimid. He was as applied so that when the exenvation in the views recently expourled in a brought in my office. student in the railway school for white comes deeper the fosel is envered and leading article in the Bourdon Times, res there never has been a railway in S ready for packing with "its burlap g."commending an International Commission churn there has been a railway school in A certain amount of earth ani rekla to investigate and report on the best
in Chin, which might evolve as Englishwoman by birth, but the adapt- its capital for afreen years or more. That protection of the fossil is kept with it so mussures for the protection of dreign in young man started telling me about our, that the thousand pounds taken out will, terest-
with political and centimie ruin, a land ed daughter of a rich Swedish brok revolution, the French Revolution. What I considerably less when they have been remedies for the amarely which ares.
wen thy peaceful and law director and his wife, while Mr. Penny he admind the most in it, was its bloody cleaned at the museum in Anierien.
Colonel Dunlop and Major Williams of naturally sido. And ha Anally concluded the interv view in asking me as one good revolu- the American Legation Guard who at abiding. Smething must be done in the tionary from another to help him to get som dynamite through our consular mail, He wanted to blow up the victor.
REVOLUTION FAILS,
Coungel said that the marriage was in March, 1918. in, Sweden, Mrs. Penny hing
There is but one firm of Sockbrokers in Singapore. In Who they Tachos and bandits 11 he became a partner. up to visit the expedition recently, tell immediate future, te stops to foreigners was an Englishman in the employ of as of the hard conditions under which the their former greuring, scientists have to work at thes. They too thin,
Mrs. weather at Erblin is quite variable at this the reniuled by signs, visib's and time, with ie at night and very high palpable, that behind fovign Notes asi, a to England in 1920, they brought
are also protestations stands the stora reality of hack jewellery worth about £5,000, There ΠΟΡΕΙΑ
Penny swore that the jewellery was given L'is Jeep The revelation in China has not been temperature t the rapid and radical transformation frequent and storm, but the work of tuilitary furer, that some of its best people and stame of racavation goes on just the same unless China's friends, too, expected it to be. It it is so bad that the fossils will be damag-
has been dragging, in fact, to the present state of things, which may be said to be deplorable.
ed
Enloe Duntop and Major William
I made the trip from Kalgas by car, ding
*CHINA'S PERIL
ON YELLOW
RIVER
COMPLETED.
"Bat na bad as it ming be, we have one hundred miles the Brst day and one, 131PORTANT CONSERVANCY WORK still the best rusone to believe that it hundred and seventy miles the send will turn out all right. For if there is a day. quality which is to be found in the
Mr. Andrews, shortly after his return
Chinese character, it is common sense, from Mongolia this fal, will leave for We must rely on the Chinese common; America where he is booked for sense and I am pretty certain that if the strenuous lectura four,
PLATE GLASS WINDOW.
"Loking through my Torle lenses
is
CHINESE IN BANGKOK
At
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The bud and and a.fe parted by: agres em in March, 1922, and up to that date the jewels were in the bank under the Divores, proceedings by the wife were now pending, but had been wife's control. delayed. It was only when the pro ceedings started that the husband claimed In the correspond 'nce, in
o'clock on the morning of Marthe jewels. 1oth the water of the Yellow River was which thoinashanal reqásted the r turn of turned into the completed leading channel
unny chansands of pounds of jewel-
at Kung Chin K'o, Liching Haien. Shan- tung. At firat but a small portion of the ery," be exerted thos: articles which he stream was let through for the purpose of had given so her for her personal adorn- softening the bed of the newly excavated ment. During this correspondence Mrs. channel which had became baked and
Penny was ill in a nursing home.
Judgment was reserved,
hard.
The opening was widened from time
WOMEN INVESTORS. DECORATIONS FOR CHINESE
part of the Chinese population which
njoys it the most, that is the inerchants! ned the prisante, put their shonlders to i the whol, the cart will soon be out of the ditch. But that cannot be done without
2 TH Bình lại cmnh on the cloent cooperation of all who are; interested in the welfare of this wonderful the growing separation between Chinesa country, co-operation between foreigners, and Siamese in Bangkok. Formerly very between foreigners and Chinese and few Chinese women came to this country, to time as the softening process was ac among the Chinese themselves. And my and the children born here to Chinese complished and at o'clock the entire earnest hope is that the Chinese people immigrants had Siamese mothers. Now river several hundred feet in width was will accept willingly this cooperation. a-days that is coming to be the exception. flowing on to the sea in its former course The change is quite a between the old dikos, having eroded and The time are passed when they, with not the rule.
Women who invest in industries or some mason, would be afraid of it. No-natural one, no doubt, but it is all the scoured out any irregularities in the Dew
industrial banks or help promote such body wants now to conquer China, but more important to see that this rising channel that did not coincide with the
generation of foreign children shall know itens of Mother Nature.
The next morning bonts were operating ororyou want Chinn i conquer itsrif,"
the language of the country they are living in. A large alien population, on the river above and below Liching Cityrprises will hereafter be d'orated speaking only heir own alien tongue, as they did before the river broke through with Phoenix Media (Wer Feng Chang). must have elements of possible danger in its dikes in August, 1921. The diversion These are of five classes which, according any capital. Siamese is, of coure now was very successful, the water flowing to the regulations promulgated by the compulsory in all Chinese schools heres freely and, with a strong current which Ministry of Agricultar and Commer
following way :— but the growing separation of the Chinese, was contrary to the predictions of many on March 31st, are to be awarded in the like looking through a fine plate glass immigrants from the people of the "I told-you-so'x,**
A sini! portion of the water still country certainly affords one reason for
through the break.seeping This, however. window" said pa American lady, in the bringing the compulsory Education Act passes
into force in Bangkok as soon as the rough the jock dam.
2nd class for those who invest $100,000
or moro or raisa. $500,000 or more. course of her remarks while in a trameer change is practicable, Not all Chine will be a'ed within a work or ten days
3rd laga for those who invest $50,003 the other day. She said just the right can be described as Jaw-abiding, but on with sand bags and will finally be covered the whole they are a peccable and cer- with thousands of fangs of arth which
or more or raise $200.000 or more. thing. It cost a bit more to build &tainly a most useful sertion of the comį, will entirely shut off the water,
4th class for those who invest $10,000 munity. They will defy all law in the There still remains soune dikes to be
or more or raise $50,000 or more. plate glass window and it cost a bit more feuds between their many societies, but
5th class for those who, invest $5,000 to make a pair of Toric lenses than the they accept without question the adminis built and strengthened int it is expreted
or more or raise $25,000 or more. tration of the country to which they that the entire work will be completed by June 15th which will be ahead of the ordinary at kind. Tories are mere than have come, A knowledge of that coun.
These medals have in the centre a green worth the small difference in cost to you try's language is necessary if this large anal bigh water period of the Yellow body of people is to sympathise with the
The methods employed in accomplishing Phoenix on a red disc with a golden mar peonies with green leaves, and golden in the added comfert' you derive from aims of the administration, and under.
stand the action it has on occasion to take, this work are unprecedented in Chios but Bin, which is surrounded with four white their use. Toric lenses of any prescripIf we are not mistaken, the list of the 108 are familiar to Hydraulic Engineers of stems. The first class medals will have 8 students who passed the Final Examina Western countrim, particularly to pearls studded between peonirs, the second tion ara manufactured by The Hongkong tion of Ministry of Education the other several of the Asia Development Com-class fi, the third class 4, the fourth rina 2 and the fifth class none. They will be Optical Co., successors to Olark & Co. day, affords some evidence of the growing pany's Engineers who have assisted in ac Mandacturing and Refracting Opticians, arparation of the Chines from the Fomplishing similar tasks on American 'awarded to women industrialists upon
Next Jardine's Corner.
53, Quora's Road, Central--ADVI
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River.
Siamese The names of the 108 fathers Rivers.
em to be pretty well all Sitness, and The sufferers are already preparing to some years since sons of Chines often re-occupy their land and rebuild their
villages in the flooded district, Sgured in such lists.-Bangkok Times.
1st class for those who invest $230,000 or more of their own money or raise $1,000,000 or more from others.
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