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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH ALVYER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON CONFERENCE.

RUHR EVACUATIÓN.

A DEADLOCK,

up with

LONDON August 14th. The Franco-Belgian and German con versations yesterday settled' the question of the amnesty of the expelled German officials, hatt postponed the question of Leaving French and Belgian railwaymen · 5. the Ruhr after the military, evacuation hecuse that question' was bound the Rhineland sertlement. Though dis cussions have reached a deadlock on the subject of military evacuation, another litheil uestion was that of dyestils. The Germans refuse to include those and other liye products of cual in the list of commodities to forms part of the repara

The French fear that tion payments. unless these are included in the deliveries, the Germans may dump dyestuffs into France and destroy an industry which the French built up after the 'Will

and which is most important frous the viewpoint of the sumfacture of explosives. Another fear expressed in Paris is that if France harters the evacustrion of the Ruhr for favourable concessions in a congercial treaty, British inhustrialists may demand a quid pro quo.

The Big Sevin

met, at Dowging Street at 0.3 The tempaus "did not arrive until #1 'clock. The discussions with the French and Belgians were then continuél. An earlier meeting, was and ranged, but the Germans were delayed freemuse, store yesterilay, they had been continually in consultation with Herr Elet: aut their colleagues in Berlin by « meant of a priväte wire installed at their

hotel....

FEELING OF PESSIMISM. The meeting of the French and Belgian delegates with the tiermans Insted ogh 20 minutes. It is uncertain whether the Jucegings will be resumed. Feeling is pessimistle

PROPOSALS. As adjournment of the Conference book plare at one this afternoon.. It was Bounced that the Germans had bren given two hours in which to reply to the French proposala in regard to the military evacuation of the Ruhr, which the British joald American deferations have approved.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST

LATEST CABLES.

EDUCATION IN RUSSIA.

A BRITISH TOUR OF STUDY.

Moscoy, August lith,

Twenty members of the British Labour Party, including Mrs Dorothy Jewson, have reached Leningrad to study the Soviets erational methods,

EARLIER CABLES. TROUBLE IN THE SOUDAN, BRITISH WARSHIPS PROCEED TO EGYPT.

MALTA August 13th. H.M.8. Weymouth * ruse to Colombo, has been diverted to Port Soudan.

The battleship Marianngh has been despatched to Alexandrii from Zara,

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

¡THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.) NORTH OFINA FLOODS. LOSS OF LIFE ESTIMATED AT

50,000.

SHANGHAI, August 13th,

It is estimated that fifty thousand people perished in floods which have sub merged enormous tracts of Chibli. Honan.

Boman and Kwantung."

Famine is feared..

PERING, August 14th. The International Famine Belief Com-

mittas has reerived verified reports of 13,1th deaths from the foods, of which

1559,

THE CH'IEN-MEN-WAL.

MEMORIES OF PEKING

1924

WILLIAM THE SUDDEN." KIDERLEN WACHTER'S STORIES

A BRITISH LIQUOR BILL

REJECTED.

MAJORITY OF 118

OF THE KAISER. Mr. Somerset Maugham introduced the Ch'ien Men to London when he used it The letters of Alfred von Kiderler

By 168 votes to 50 the Liquor (Popular as a setting for one of the acts of East Wächter to his friend and confidante, a Control) Bill was rejected by the House the discussion showed no diminution of of. Suez." The picturesque scenic effect Mecklenburg lady, during & period of of Lords of July 8th. The third day of staged at His Majesty's" was a pretty twenty years, which are now published interest in the subject, and when the faithful replica of a bit of Peking, which by the Deutsche Vorlags Anstalt, are y Bishop of Barham rose and delivered a is one of the coronamest features it ever far the most entertaining volume of men challenging speech to his colleagues on Not only as a member of the House writes Berlin correspondent, as the of Lords but as the Bishop of Ducham day life to an Englishman living in their issued for some time in Gemmany, the episcopal bench, the House filled up. capital. He passes the Chien caniat temperament of the writer, bright he said he was going to vote against the tinually on his lawful occasions, he itens every page with some anecdote very second reading. It cashrines the prin

ciple of prohibition for local veto motoring out to the, Racecourse, backing well worth recalling. He had a nickname that-nd this principle is an unsound to the Temple of Heaven, or bound on for everybody, and the ex-Kaiser is for one for it carries positive law into a cario-hunt in sice part of the Chien-him William the Sudden." He reintes region where

to attempt to live law, ought not He also objected how this Sudden Ons (~ Der Plötzliche to the Bill in that it attempted to treat the liquor interest anfairly. The the trade itself compensation which it exacted from true sense compensation at all. It was difficult to distinguish, such compensation fention

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The Chea Mea, must explain. for those unacquainted with Peking geo apps in the Front Gate #high breaks the wall separating the Chinese

Ch'ien-du-wai is

took pictures of the palace in Berling with him on a visit to the King of Würtemberg and showed his host with pride the exart

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The sloop (lemntia has gone to Port | 3,000 aertrred at Kalgan. The Committee and Tartar Cities at point diesetly in spot in the palace ganlen where he gave from disguised, if not hypocrition, con-

Soudas from Hurghada.

ALATEJ

The Weymouth arrived at Fort Soudan yesterday. The Marlborough “left Zara yesterday:

Lossos, August 13th. Lord Allenby and Sirdar Sir Lee Stack has a lengthy conference with Mr. Ram- say MacDonald in the Foreign Offices on the subject of the "Soudan,

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Cario. August 13th. A demonstration of gathy, with the disturbices at Atbarn' was held here this afternoon in the public gardens Every- thing in the Soudan is now quiet..

MILITARY FROM MALTA.

M17, August 4th. One of the three battalions here, have been inlered to stand in rewliness to proceed to Eopt at a few hours" notier. A WEMBLEY FEATURE. SPEECH BY HONGKONG COMMISSIONER

LONDON, August, 13th. One of the features of Wembley has been the fortnightly" exhibition in the Civic Hall of the activitills of the leading English cities. This has proved" most valuable in bringing Overseas visitors into contact with representatives of British itulastries, and this was exemplified in the case of Salford. which yesterday gave a luncheon to prominent visitors from Africa and the East.

are front of the palace,

estimates that "15,000,000 people affected in the flooded areas of Hanan, Kiangs. Fukien, Ewangtung, Chihli, Shantung, Honas and Hupei. $20,000,000 is required for reliet.

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you Bülow his dismissal. On another occasion Kiderlen could not bring his

the name given primarily to the district. Egeria à brooch from Norway because all but more particularly to the main street. the jewellers in the place were republican lying "outside" the Gate, e. south in sympathy, and the Kaiser forbade his

of Willia Another story ward in the Chinese City. The street, party to make angle purchase. like most of the principal Peking husband and father (1587) relates he thoroughfares, runs in a dead straight during an inspection of Fort St Quen three eldest boys to see a certain fort, cOURTESY OF THE "DAILY ALLSTIN."] line for more than a couple of miles. n, the Kaiser only intended to take his exactly, lisecting the Chinese but the Kaiserin insisted on accompany through a gate in whore southern wall it reaches the open scuntry. It is a head roadway, comparable to Piccadilly in width, with generous pavements each side

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THE SURCHARGES,

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PERING. August 13th. The railway, telegraphs and postal sur- charges in aid of the flood sufferers will

perate from September "Ist.

SINO-SOVIET CONFERENCE.

PERING. August 13th. The meeting between Dr. Wellington Koo and M. Karakhay failed to arrange the date for the opening of the Sino- Russian Conference.

3hoever hos known the Ch'ien-mên-wai in ail the changing aspects of the Four Seasons--in snow and sunshine. Pain and hust--has a pack of Memories to choose

Lord, Cave, also speaking against the stor the old state of things and Bill, said that, if passed, it would re- est erce more in the justices the niso pensation and thus revive the old diffent- lite right to refuse licences without eeny- be ties. The remedy for the evil was to

in good- found partly in education, partly certain classes of the population. those things he believed the evil would used and montier Given eure itself. He also believe in im- ng with the little Princess Laise.

On the other hand, Lord Milner des heavy shower of rain tumed the ground proved public houses.

clined to, share the optimisms of his col- into ahorass of red clay, so that walk-

became a penance, even to the leagues about the present conditions of ing hardened officers, but William insisted keeping to the full programme,to teach those who had po business there a lesson.

The very begint of Count

of military aircraft are recalled by a story of Zeppelin. in Würtemberg

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would nuke tentative steps towards a the liquos trate, and believed the Bill and practical reform. He declared out-and-out supporter of the

from The best perhaps is of those spring who, when Amb the airship of the drink trade, and jointed out

its

ordered the first had in mind from an old general mechanic

but

Lord Parmoor explained that the Gov- ernment were in faveur of giving the Bill

stem of public management and control mornings when our jogs dowri before breakfast for a' rids in the Temple of Hea

that the standard of national sobriety had ven through stred's bathe in the clean of "reputation in the city of Stutts en higher under the Liquor Control The Carlisle experiment had proved" early sun. First comes the Chien Men gart. This skilled workman looked at the Board than at any period before ur itself abruptly faring you as you turn model and shook his heuil, Count." out of Lexation. Quarter, Above, it is a he said, in the broadest Swabian dialet, that, without prohibition and without massive tower-like striature reared on the let it alone. It'll cost you a mint of unreasonable interference with individual pack of freedem, it was possible to effect and toys of the anft, wall, the green tiles of nines, and be nothing b

maintain a great improvement. three-decker", ronf", shimmering nonsense when it's done."

There are some interesting tales of dazzlingly in the sunshine; below, a cavemous funnel piercing the thickness visits to all the Courts of Europe. A du of the wall and casting so hinck a shadow ner with Queen Victoria, who appears in second reading. On the understanding that one seems to plunge from day into the letters as " Queenchen." left an undy- that afterward it should go before night as one rides under the archway. ng impressioil on this very lively Ger Select Committee for inquiry. The Arch On the further side is a cleared pace, man: scarcely less interior to his surprise bishop of Canterbury also supported the outer bastion of the gate now stands bugeishment at the sight of cne of the ladies at after second reading to a Select Com Court who possessed a heard of almost mitee, which he thought more satisfac

tory than a round-table conference. Per- once enclosed by curtain walls, where the at the badness of the cooking is his aston view that: the Bill should be referred,

masculine proportions. and dereflet between two railway termini.

deadly enemy of Von Tirpitz.sonally he would not vote for complete He was

to him, he writes, be prohibition, but he supported the Bill. Crossing the bridge which spans the past his policy will plunge us

cause I fear mont parallel to the wall, one comes into war with England." In In the interim Mr. Rell will act as the head of the Chien-men-val Freiter he is more candid still. I cou the height of one's pony's back one can

DR. SCHURMAN.

PERING. August 12th. ~ Dr. Schurin, American Minister. Jeft for Shanghai this morning, and he leaves Shanghai on the 16th inst, on board the President Tuf. Dr. Schürman returns to

Peking next Butgh.

Mr Halifax. the "Conmissioner of Charge d'Aglaiver. Hongkong, made a speech in which he emphasised that the rel object of thei

BRITISH AND AMERICAN APPROVE Exhibition would be unattainable without this interchange of leas, otherwise it would be reduced to the level of a muse- m. the Exhibition were re-opened in 15, the example Salford had given would make 1925- mors valanble than 1924. The Hajah Perak said that more at tention had been paid to the cotton re- quirements of the native rices by Britain's competitors than by Lancashire, but he had seen to-day certain cloths of royal colour, and would tell the native rulers

Malaya where they

TAX ON GERMAN IMPORTS. The Government, has derited perang ently to restore the 26 per cent. perante | 15. age levied on German ingiorts Aaruder the abtained. Reparations Recovery Act. The (Soréņu-j ment on taking office, reductil the per centage to five per cent

CONSTERNATION AMONG

GERMANS..

werk £4

THE WORLD'S SPORT,

HOME CHICKET

Losos. "August 13th.

THE DECAY OF ENGLISH.

MR.

BERNARD SHAW ON SLOVENLY SPEECH

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CLEAN, STREETS.

second

see down its whole length to where the ler Von Tirpitz to be the biggest Far

who ever trod Berlin's pavements." ribbon of readway narrows almost to vanishing point at the Yung ting-mén.. Surthward, could one but see it. the line of the street stretches nú equal distance, passing straight through the centre of the Forbidden City, blocked only by, the in- umerable gateways separating the palaeo courtyards, to abat "ate last on the Coal Hill,"

LOURDES "MIRACLES.” DOCTORS NOT PROVEN ** VERDICT."

LIFE IN THE LONDON SUBURBS.

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AFTER WAR IDEAS ON HOUSE- KREPING.

car

Two rooms, and a two-seater' is the ideal of the newly married," says Mr. E Clephan Palmer in the Nineteenth Gen- Speaking at the annual assembly of the

Fifty-four doctors met as the Hos-fury. "It is correct in these days to smallest English Association at Bedlord College.

Often, a string of camels, roped nose pital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, be as homeless as possible. The Regent's Park, recently, Mr. Bernard.

possible engine Shaw made his protest against slipshod to tail, stop your way at this point. ent- St. John's Wood, recently, to investigate possible Hat and the smallest possible

a Lourdes care, chimed as a miracle car with the smallest English. He told the story of the family ting across the street on their way west-

with the fingers of the right hand tightly see these new idealists any week-end on the Portsmouth rond, motoring through pretty things deteriorated into sounds stone for the city. The traffic frour new parrot, whose Pretty Polly and other ward to the hills to fetch coal and me girl arrived at Lourdes on May 29th. 1923, what more nerd one hase! You enu

movable, and suppurating wounds there.

In the middle of gay and very happy: which were not in the least like the on is both dense and varied. Besides, the contracted into the palm with fingers in the Surrey pine-whorls and looking very

on original thing-a change which the family inevitable legions of rickshas, there is

Evidence to-day submitted to the dce the day you may find them siting by the

xide of the rond satisfying

small had not hotel-and said that was an streant of mile and donkey carts coming instance of the d

of language which in from the country a sprinkling of

Peking carts, striking a bright note tors gathered, at the hospital included appetite with the contents of a small lun cerred very extensively among human

the following statement by a nurse:cheon basket. From their snart little If a foreigner who had learned with their blue hoods and yellow varnish.

for her Erst When the patient came Jing.

amazed pity kind of they look with English well were put into Covent Gared woodwork all whire Shantung mules

bath on May 29th the fingers of the fight

at the occasional

of a Ford ever- hal passing den, be would not understand the langue between the shafts, townsmen en bicycles, hand were contracted into the palm, and loaded with children on the prewar scale..

Icleers age there, because it had gone through countrymen donkeys, and a few of there were suppurating wounds and "All round London there is springing a process of decay and the people there cial in motors with soldiers lining the in the palm and back of the fingers.

English. speaking

old unman- were not

What yon footboards. More likely than not a string when she came out of the inth,there was a new" suburbia designed for the ought to aim at said Mr. Shaw,

ageable bigness of no pas. In the afternoon she has her people who have revolted the

things.

The new sub- to speak English that will be intelli. of military supply waggons, ander wirunt The match between the South Afri zile to a foreigner. It is not sufficient ed escort. comes rattling past on their second bath, and in the evening urban house-detached, with two or three

bedrooms, and a garage instead of cans and Leveson-Liewer's eleven opened for us to be intelligible to one another, way to the Nanyuan harracks & few miles there was no sign

we are in the relation of the south of the city,

The street itself looks unusually clean The investigation took three hours, and nursery-is a symbol of the times."

The writer notes the refusal to solve at Eastbourne in unsettled weather, after because

family to the parrot."

and bright in the young fresh daylight afterwards the Rev. F. Woodlock, S.J. wása Binall overnight rain. There

Mentioning some of the dificulties met The irregular te, of houseters on the Medical Registrar of the English National the servant problem by any canamunal kitchen or dining room. That idea has attendance. Batting on a soft wicket the with in spoken language. he said: Ocen

tie dificulty of getting domestic help of Harlequins scored 23. Blanckenberg taksionally someone asks me gut. and eastern side throws a crenclated shadow Pilgrimage to Lounley, 1924, informed a

very exceptionally 1 accept the invitation. along the middle of the roadway, leaving representative of the Press Association definitely failed. In spite of the fantas half in deep shade, while the sunlit fronts that the doctors had passed a resolution

themselves rather than fall back on the ing 5 for 34 ani Pegler 5 for 34.

Then I always find that, as I un the rele

communal cutlet. Hence the new sim- The South Africans compiled 102, (Taybrated Bernard Shaw, people want to be of the houses opposite sparkle and gleam as follows: On the evidence submitted any kind, women prefer to do the work Many of them cut it in all the pride of their gilded woodwork the case is not proven,"

plicity in furnishing, the elimination of anny is to Berlin to gonsalt, the Calineta lor C, Commaille 4) Bettington took introduced to me.

short by coming up boldly and claiming or moulded stucco. Sad, it is that the old carved shopfronts---some of them master-

everything unnecessary or merely orname before replying

that they have known me for years.

pieces fit to compare with the finest speci

A little further on the, Chien-men-wriental, and the ruthless scrapping of ang- mens of Gothic roodscreens are steadily undergoes another transformation. The thing that makes for work. The monk in giving place to sturen freude in the har-hode ready little better than inves, his cell is now. recognised as the best roque style of suburban cinema-palaces cease altogether, at the street crossing housekeeper. Carpets, linoleum, knick- with plaster birds and beasts perched on a stone bridge over a recently filled-an Knucks, ornaments all are strapped to the parapets of the roofs but at least

sewer, enters a region of disreputable lighten labour.No trace is left of the.. these manifestations of modern Chinese

Looths. Il-stalls and zimerark theatres, overcrowded work making reams of pre-

Wir days. All the beloved of taste have the merit of ample variety.

Years The last are, of course, doing no business Victorinus have been swept away. at this hour of the day; the food vendors.

The derision of the British and Ameri - can representatives to support the French has caused consternation among the Ger- pan, who feel that the adoption of the pinosal will precipitate the fall of the

Cerman Goverüment, The issue is garded so momentous that suius delegates

EARLIER CABLES. RUHR CONVERSATIONS.

LONDON, August 13th. The Big Fourteen" did not meet this afternoon as arranged, one reason being that no agreement was "reached at thei Franco-Belgian-German conference this- morning. The conversations of the butter will continue this evening. Interviewed by Reuter as regards the duration of the

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The Harlequins had scored 13 for the loss of one wicket when stumps were drawn at 6 p.m.

BRITISH RUGBY TOUR.

DRAW WITH XATAL. PIETERMARITZBURG, August 13th.. The British rugger team drew with Natal."each side scoring three points....

LATEST CABLES.

ATHLETICISM, IN SPITH.

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Eventually my hostess contes up and says, Oh, Mr. Bernard Shaw, may I have the pleasure of introducing to you-mum ble, mumble, mumble 1 sometimes feel like saying to iny hostess. If you had only been articulate when you enme to Miss Smith or the Countess of 50 and No, you would have been of some" use to me.'

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cumference, high authority said it might i (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE) | · be proud of a certain athleticism in ad

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LoxoUx, August 13th.

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WEALTHY WOMAN FOUND DEAD.

S. "BOXER DETAINED.

DISTINCTIVE SIDE STREETS.

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closed.

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on the other hand, are plying a brisk ago men who had to do their own house- The side streets you pass on the way. Another difficulty fatal to good convers down the Chien-men-wai have distinct trade with the country carters, naher work evolved, the labour-saving ousterity accept bareness of the new suburbia. the same ideal and produced the sation was the indiscriminate use of a characters of their own. First comes the of whom have let their teams standing of the monastery. Women have at last word or the net of jumping at its meat armourers street, where all-fashioned by the edge of the road and are engre

still manu-gated round the enormous iron frying The aim are and pikes ing

Prople should he

factured and sold: then "Lantera pans, where slabs of pinkish beancurd of furnish a home, but to unfurnish taught to cultivate words

Nearly all the furniture that is needed and

"Jade" streets-the Mecca and nauseous odour sizzle in bubbling fat.

PETTICOAT LKNY

in one of the new little, houses may be their speech. There was athleticism in Medina of the tourist and the fashion- articulation as in other things, and he did able T-shih-la erh. the Bond-street of

Back through the jumble of tents and carried in a taxi.

Among other pre-war institutions not know why it was that so many young Peking, with its high-built houses and barrows runs Petticoat Lane," a double that have been sacrificed are the spare people who were quite properly proud of forest of pendent shop-sign Further line of booths with awnings stretched bedroom and the week-end guest. Théra "Athleticism in lawn tennis and other

is no space in the new houses for an sports

idle room or an idle bed. The ocasionat guest must go back to town bensinst

should yet be think they ought to be made

and west to the guter of the Chinese City.

"and indication at a Wo committed suicide in a fit of culation I am. for example (laughter) { evident. We have left the fashionable

depression.

ladies.

train.

“But the people who live in the alool.

The Franco-Belgian-German conversa tions with reference to the Ruhr ad journed until tomorrow. There is great

when they came to tolerably slovently down a street cuts aeross which runs east overhead. The name, though the author's Los Angeles, August 14th. reticence in all quarters regarding the

Up to this there are nothing but WD, is not entirely inapt, for ut only and it is believed the negotia prog have reached a decisive point.

The middleweight boxer, Kid McCoy,

Peking but the chief articles for sale are expected the Germans will definitely has been detained in connection with the little ashamed of it," he said and be better-class ships-curio-dealers and tillehave, we here the "ole in matt of reply to-morrow on the points enumera- death of Mrs. Mors, the divorced, wife of taught to understand that the most in-nerchants, fruitcrers, furriers and money: actually petticoats,pretty things of em

a wealthy antique dealer, who was found telligent and cultured people are gener changers and other respectable trades, broidered silk of every colour and shade, barely furnished houses that are giving don are by no means cut off from the ed by M. Herrios."

The has the

the discarded finery of fashionable Peking a new character to the cutskirts of Lem- Once past the kist of the theatres the outside world. It comes automatically to but generally, speaking in public, con quarter for district of humbler preten gone a change,

sions. Excepting a few curio-shops which road opens out and, nothing but bare them in the convenient form of wireless has to be." are not so optimistic. The Rur

You must not make the mistake of have overflowed the lines the shops are tracts of dried mud lie between it and In the newest houses wireless is laid on ations apparently have reached a deadlock. The French delegation insist

trying to get a correct language," con- devoted to more pleiitan trades, such as the walls of the two temples-on the right as a matter of course. Ike water or tinued Mr. Shaw There is no such basket-making and tinsmith, and, above the Temple of Agriculture and on the left gas or electric light. This easy conta

with the outside world may perhaps that evacuation cannot be carried out

thing. You will not get any two people all, pawn-brokers' shops, whose strange the Temple of Heaven. A short canter under a year from the specified date,

suburban about whilst the Germans contend that the

the new Auth who agree as to what correct language assortment of "junk" spills over onto cross the mud, dodging a series of rub account partly for there being

the side-walk. A host of curious objects, one to the entrace to troops should be withdrawn within the period of a month.

There was, however, a grauine public uld stirrups and harness, red and brown bish heat, bringing the gate into the The old sneer, never justified. has lost any melhing it ever demand for something else. People knew leather boxes, bells and gonge out of tem- temple park ons escapes from a dust had. Wireless, a better railway service. very well that certain sorts of speech ples, eunuchs' staves and bits of banner-ridden world into the fragrant freshness and cheaper motoring have destroyed that cut off

narrowness of outlook which used to be person for ever from getting

spread with a tangled mass of "morning associated, quite unfairly on the whol more than £3 or £4 a week all their life men's armour are stacked in picturesque of juniper groves and grassy glades over. glory.-G.ER, in the China Express."

with suburbia.". long-sorts of speech which made them piles along the edge of the pavement. entirely impossible in certain professions, (Cantinned on next entumia.)

It is stated that Mr. MacDonald has been approached to act as a mediator.

According to the present arrangements the French, Belgians, and Germans will west early tomorrow, after which there will be a mecting of the Big Fourteen"

EARLIER CABLES.

CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF. GENERAL PERSHING'S

SUCCESSOR.

WASHINGTON, August 13th. Major General John Hines will be Chief of Staff of the United States amy when General Peribing retires on Sep tember 19th,