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"THE CHINESE CONFESSIONS

OF C. W、 MASON."

Mr. Leonard Woolf writing in the Nation and the Athenrum, says:—

On the dust-cover of "The Chinese, Confessions of C. W. Mason" (Grant!

Richards, 73. ed.) one reads two nosices;

"One of the most extraordinary human documents ever published"; and "My career has been chequered-full of hard ships, sufferings, failures, and crimes. I have been a convict and I am a beggar." Inside the book Mr. Grant Richards tells us that he has known the author for more years than it is pleasant to remember, and that he believes his story to be

true in substance and in fact.”

Elve-

where the publisker has committed him

WORLD FLIGHT ATTEMPT.

U.S. PLANES' ROUTE ACROSS THE ORIENT.

THE ARRANGEMENTS IN CHINA,

Paxso. April 1st.

The official start of the American round the world fight is scheduled to be made

from Seattle to-day, and the four sea- planes engaged in it are expected to reach

the China roast toward the end of nest

month. Their first stop in China is to he made at Shanghai, nad after resting they will fly south to Amoy cu their way thore and overhauling their machines

the fight were obtained this morning to Calgutta. Some interesting details of

from Lieutenant M. S. Lawton who has come from Manila to supervise arrünge- inents over that section of the route lying. between Shanghai and Calcutta. Lieut. Lawtou arrived here yesterday, and will return to Shanghai to prorrow.

self to the statement that this is an unusual book, really an unusual book," Isn't all this enough to whet the appetite Visions of the grant literary scoundrels, and that strange company of men who The American expedition is not a have taken the "world into their on- fidence and have told it, not only mechanies have been furnished by tae ilitary ane, although the pilots and about their own virtues and heroiatus. Army. Its objects are purely scientific, but about their vices, crimes, mean the intention being to explore the pos nesses, and dishonour, hovered in my sibilities of nir transit between Europe, thoughts as I still ruminated over the Asia and America, and to study dying publisher's allarements. No one ens reconditions over the route covered. The sist a confession. and the darker the crime the better the confession; there is only one thing, however, which I insist on the crime must be a real one and the confession trued here is Mr. Grant Richards going all for his convict and the truth-so we may hope for an disors ing three, bours, and at the end of them to put C. WV. Mason up on the shelf be `side Cellini, Casanova, and Rousseau.

party consists of four pilots and four mechanics, under the command of Major Frederick L. Martin, the three other pilots being, Lieut. Lowell N. Smith, Lieu Eric H. Nelson and Licut. Leigh Wade. They are to make their journey in four Douglas aeroplanes, machines of

commercial type with a wing-span of fifty feet, a useful load of 4,500 pounds and fying radius of two thousand miles. From Seattle to Calcutta, these "planes will be equipped with pontoons for landing on water, but from this poiat onward they will carry landing-gear as niuch of the journey from there to Lon- don will be done overland. equipment which they were originally to have carried has been removed for the Bake of saving weight.

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The itinerary, which has been divided into six sections for the purpose of or

The three hours have passed, and, though I cannot give Mason the honour of a place on my shelf reserved for the great confessors, he has written a very entertaining book. It is also, as Mr Grant Richards aaya, an unusual book, This is the outline of Mason's story: In 1887 at the age of twenty he joined the Chinese Custonis Service, then under the rule of the famous Sir Robert Hart. Four years later he seemed assured of a bril-ganisation, is roughly as follows:-Leav liant career, for he had already been marked down by his superiors as one of the most promising young men in the service. He had, however, hecome a member of a secret society of Chinese revolutionaries, and in 1901 he suddenly resigned from the service in order to start a revolution. His first enterprise was to

to Chinking, but he got no farther than Shanghai, where his contraband was seized and he himself, after some adven- tures, was arrested, tried, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

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(C) Two Dynamor by Thek Kena & Co., England, having an cutpat of 750 K.W. each at 250 volt when driven at 120 evolutions, so Two Similar Dynamon of KW. each, complete with Switch-boards, and Instrumente. etc.

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Co., or HONGKONG LTD. Hongkong, 28th March, 1924. [

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ing Seattle, the party will bug the Cana- dian coast as far as Alaska, and then turning west will follow the Aleutian Islands to their western extremity. From here a long "hop "must be made across the North Pacific to Cape Lopatka at the The above Vessels were put out of Commission southern end of, the Kanchatka Penin-in April, 1928, and at that time were in good gula, and this promises to be the most Repair and Running Order, having bee kept hazardous part of the journey across the in high abs

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Each Tender must be accompanied by a and follow the Kuerile-Islands down past Remittance of 10% of the amount of the Tender Nokkaido to the coast of Japan proper which will be returned to unsuccessful Tender A stop will be made at Yokohama, and another at Nagasaki, when land will once. If the 10 is not with Tender it will not Mason's confessions eover" a certain more be left behind in a straight fightidered.

The Purchasers or their Representatives must amount of rather sordid vice and murder for Shanghai. This is an alteration of remove the Vowels from the Govement besides the lying and treachery which the original plan, which was to include his double-dealing necessarily involved. Chemulpo and Tsingtao. From Shanghai rings at their own expense and risk within 2 Calendar Months from Date of Acceptance of Where in confines himself to a straight the party will fly Amoy, Hongkong, Tenier Pending such removal. Fessels

rensels` will forward statement of facts or to charac-Haiphong. Touraine, Saigon, Bangkok, remain at moorings at risk of Furchase.. ter sketches of the people with whom he Rangoon, and Akyah to Calcutta. Thence The Balance of the Purchase Mohin Que cale in contact, he is extremely enter they are to cross Northern Indiai pail by the Successful Tenderers taining. In the early chapters there is a

Delhi to Karachi, and" their course then Calender Mouth from Date of Acceptance of OFFICES & 1984 Wanchai Road, vivid picture of the life of the small Eng Bacharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Paris and moorings. If Balance is not paid and Vorwein

leads them northwest to Baghdad. | Tender and before Vessels are removed from | GODOWNS. lish community at Chinkiang, with its cations mixture of boredom and vice, and characters those eccentric characters there are some aduirable sketches of which seem so often to develop in Euro peans who, when they first passed east of Suez, appeared to be quite ordinary, bumdrim persona, As I read about Kopsch and Rickman and Ready, said to myself: "This is not a novel, but a human document.' a confession: if a0, these must be real people who had real Being of a suspicious nature, despite Mr. Grant Richards's assurance, I confess to have been still troubled about truth. A little truth mixed in fiction may do no harm to a novel, but a little fiction mixed into the facts of a confession may he fatal. However, I was greatly reas. sured by fading that Mason in two com pletely unimportant details. (in whic happened to be able to check him) was sticking closely to facts. The people whom he describes are real people, nod, in two instances at any rate, he gives them their real names.

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London. Continuing up the cast pas of wall behind, they will proceed to Iceland, England and Scotland, and leaving Kirk thence to the East coast, of fireenland, and thence alá Labrador and Newfound and to New York, for their final lap across America to Seattle.

sentatives within the Time specified, the Deposit

ΕΠΙΔΟΤΗΣ Ly Purchase OT their Repre- Ta No. 269, tat of accompanying Tender will be liable to

forfeiture for the benefit Vessels will be Resold.

of the Crown and

does not bind himself to accept the highest or The Director of the Royal Indian Marine

any Tender.

Applications to view the Vessels may be made to the Commander of the Yani, Royal Indian Marine Dockyard, Bombay, and further par ticulars may be obtained from the Director of the Royal Indian Marine.

יי

EDWARD HEADLAM,

Captain, R.1.M., Director of B.I.M. DocEYARD, Bombay. March, 1924.

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The task of preparing for the care of the planes on their long journey is one of no small magnitude, particularly across the North Pacific where they will have to rely on their own personnel for any work to be done at the depots. These depots in the Pacific will consist of stores of fuel, provisions and spare parts, de- posited at suitable harbours where the machines can land and overhaul in safety. In the Pacific, the navy will co-operate landing-points to safeguard the airmen and destroyers will be stationed between

against loss at sea Once this continent A is reached greater facilities for repairs and reliable. will he available.. and even new engines are being distributed along the route in case they are needed.

It has, naturally, heen impossible to As a picture of life and as a story, the make any close estimate of the time the book is successful; when one considers it flight will occupy, but it will probably as a confession and a human document, require the entire summer. In the Lone is forced to measure the difference course of it the airmen will pass through between the author and the men who three continents and twenty-two coun- bave made their crimes, sinsy and mean-tries. Every possible provision has been nesses immortal. Towards the end of the made against mishap, and the organisers book the author apologizes to the reader, are confident that it will be carried out at a critical point in the narrative, for successfully.-Reuter, delaying the action a moment to amental state." My excuse is," he

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