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OUR LONDON LETTER. ADVERTISING CONVENTION

young minister preaching his first sermon for an opinion on the performance." I had only three objections tan yer sair- mon," said the beadle with a jundicial air. First, it was read; second it wisanj MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND THE weel read; and third, it wisna worth

readin'."

UPENED IN LONDON..

READING OF SPEECHES.

AND HER

THE "CUTTY

SARKA FAMOUS SKIPPER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Loxpos, July 18th-

ADVERTISING CONVENTION.

London is invaded just now by an army of advertising experts from America and other countries, the occasion being the International Advertising Convention. By general consent there are now here the cleverest brains to be found in the wide realm of publicity. The" key-note of the conferences that have been arrang ed and that will go on daily is summed up in the phrase Truth in Advertise ments. If a man or a firm has a good thing to sell let it be known by all means; but in the interests of the public and of all honest traders, publicity men are en- joined not to lend their aid and exercise their undoubted talents to bolster up what is shoddy or shady. This Couven tion will endeavour to establish this prin ciple so that it will become an accepted canon of square dealing among advertis ing experts everywhere.

MONEY FOR RUSSIA,

1924

-THE SHAMEEN STRIKE.

There is no news to hand that the strike situation has been relieved, though there were said to bo reasons for thinking that a settlement of the trouble would he reached yesterday.

A SHANGHAI VIEW.

The Daily News, in "a lending article on the strike, says:

AMAH IN TROUBLE.

FINED

FOR STRIKING SMALL EUROPEAN BOY..

Mr. J. E. Hancock appeared at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, ' to: ummons Ah Tai un amah, for an alleged assault upon his son Petor, aged di years, on August 11th.

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It remains to be seen whether we shall be able to arrange business dealings with Russia as a result of the presence of the Soviet Delegation which has been, here

The defendant stated that the child for a couple of months, but however that may be, it appears that we are already raind. The strike at Shaneen, is only in

One thing must clearly be borne was in the Imbit of kicking her when- getting something from Moscow in the way of work for the Royal Mint. The name a servants' strike. The boys, cooks ever he met her, and on the occasion in and police are merely eatspw. The question, when she saw him in the street Mint has been actively engaged for scre weeks making vast quantities of Russian al quarrel is hetween the Chinese Counwith his own amah, he kicked her again."

munists and the, foreigner, a repetition on She, remonstrated, and the boy called roubles, for which the liver has been

a smaller scale of the Hongkong strike. supplied by the Soviet Government. The passport regulations question was out damn fool amah.”

This angored Altogether, the Mint is, 1 am told, tur settled so easily in the first negotiations, her and she hit him once on the leg ing out--10,000,000 roubles. «

Moreover, news reaches me that a cup-

that it is quite clear they were not the with her open hand. tenet has been signed by the Soviet to real bone of contection. Indeed, had any presentatives and the Mint authorities warning been given of the strike and the for the coinage of 40,000,000 five-kopek haseen authorities been notified that that on returning home at about 5.30 ceppar pieers, the retal being in this case this particular regulation was obnoxious, p.m. on the 11th inst.. he was informed we have good reason to know that it also supplied by Moscow. We shall get some profit out of this transaction. It would have her withdrawn. The fact of his auah that his son had, been is interesting also as showing that the the matter is that a great deal of bad thrashed with an umbrella, by the defend- Soviet ar slowing down the printing was enused over the bomb outrageant. The hoy looked cowed and very a the Hutel Victoria, the assumption by pate, and had long, red weals on his presses in the matter of paper money.

sone foreigners that its author was a THE SKIPPER OF THE ** CUTTÝ SANK,"

1 bear that Captain Woodget, the famous, old master of the Cutty Sark, most celebrated of all the swift-ailing tea clippers that were engaged in times In recent years there has been an inpast in the China trade is to have charge mense advance in the ingenious methods of his ship fogone more trip. The Cat of bringing sellers and buyers together. Sark is to be towed from Falmouth. In this country it is now apted as a where she lays been undergoing repairs, axiom that the newspaper is the finest to Fowey, where she will act as flagship medium of all for advertising. But the for yacht racing. The sea-going cura. annouenient must be properly present-munity wherever they may be will be ed if it is to get resulta. To do this interested in the mentina of the fact that successfully is an art, and indeed 1 bavi | the "Cutty Sark is to leave 'port once beard it claimed that now lays it may more, though not in racing trim, and be regarded as a science.

that her skipper of the old days will take command.

Captain Woodget has been farming in Jast twenty years.

Mr. Hancock, in the witness-box; said

Chinese infuriated the Cantonese and the legs and thighs. He was very ili during strike was, partly, their retaliation. the ensuing night. On the following That it has been kept going so long by day, witness took the child to Dr. Moore, the Communists is due simply to the fact who gave him a certificate as to his son's back the police, they, the Communists, that if they man force Shameen to take injuries.

The Magistrate (Mr. E. W. Hamilton) will be able to claim a great victory and called the small boy on to the Bauch, auch silver will flow into their coffers.and guatly yestioned him. The child "The light around Shameen is really he did not use the expression com demonstration by the Bolsheviks against plained of hy the defendant. He de all lawfully constituted authority to test vared. however, that she accused him of their strength; and it is no exaggeration lling the proprietress of the hotel in to say that the Cantou Government are which he lived that the defendant was hardly less concerned than the foreigners kind to the childern in her charge.

She then struck him, in seeing that the agitators. do not win.

The chill's amah gare 'corroborative "As regards the foreigners of Shaween, In this connection I heard an amusingNorfolk for

our hope that the strike has been settled

His Worshipsfound the assault proved. is equalled by our hope that there has atory this week apropos of the arrival of the American contingent of advertis Naturally he is highly pleased at wing been no surrender of their stronghold. He was convinced, he said, that the de ing men. It is told of an individual asked to walk the deck again as master. They have settled down now to the irk-fendant thought that the boy had plained to his father, and not taken the who complained that newspaper advertis. No doubt many will recall stories of the someness of doing their own menial work maligned her. but she should have com- ing was unprofitable.

Last week," he amazing way he used to drive the Cast and we are. sire that the overwhelming jaw into her own hands. On the other said, "I had an umbrella stolen from thark through heavy seas, the ship heeling majority of then-we will say ever mas hand, knowing as he did the young of over sill the crew had to hold on for dear of them would far rather go on doing the human species, especially in Hong- vestibule of the Church. I spent more than double its worth in advertising, no life to the weather rigging. It is id so than give in. To surrender now would kong, he did not feci entirely mnie that I have not recovered it. He was asked how he had worded his advertisement, and he produced a cutting which read

AN AMUSING STORE.

A follows:-

thi

that no other master could have got sailors to do what he demanded of his crew, but they accepted anything from him because he was such a wonderful seaman

evidence.

the child had not said things to her which made her lose her temper. Sho would pay a fine of $20, or go to prison

Thine was paid.

for three weeks.

merely mean renewal of the fight a little later under worse conditions. To Sha ween the issue is vital. It is a little cu muhity, but with rights well established by many decades of treaty and old- cus "Lost from the vestibule of St. Peter's Church last Sunday evening à

He was constantly reading the Bible; tom. We are no believer in "gunboat black silk umbrella The gentleman and it is said that whenever he passed policy" we believe that more is to he who took it will be handsomely reward another ship on the race bome from China done with the Chinese by conciliation ed by leaving it at No, 10, High he always threw a quantity of religious than by pugnacity. But where just rights tracts astern, scattering them in the wake are concerned we hold that, in the pre- Street." "One man to whom he showed this of the Cutty Sark, because, as he explaisent state of political flux and anarchy, longed to the craft which is known ind, he was certain everyone on board his the foreigner should be unyielding and MAGISTRATE'S HINTS ON HAPPY America as the "adsmith" but to this rival was blaspheming. country is referred" to as the ad-writer"

Now" said this mun. let us try for your umbrella again. He thereupon drafted the following":-

it is also well known that where the masses of the Chinese know that the for-

JEALOUS OF PRINCIPAL WIFE.

MATRIMONY."

cigner is within his rights, they cannot One of the wives of a Chinese foreman easily he roused against him. Mistakes in the P.W.L. was charged at the Low- were made at the beginning by Shane loon Magistracy with attempting to com- but directly these were pointed out there mit suicide by taking opium.

reetify them. was instant willingness

Det.-Insp. Murphy said that the woman. In the latter stages Shameen has been had formed the opinion that her husband fighting against the worst clericats in was paying too much attention to his Southern China and in doing so it has principal wife. who lived in another championed the cause of all orderly and hous The man was supporting two respectable Chinese as much as its own homes,

AN OLD HOLS RECALLED."

From time to time in the course of this correspondence I have referred to the chaotic way the London streets are dug If the man who was seen to take up by various authorities responsible for the umbrella from the vestibule of St. local Government and by gas and electric Peter's Church last Sunday does not light companies. One of the London wish to get into troeble and have a Forough Councils re-makes a street with stain cast upon the Christian character a couple of feet of solid concrete for a which ho values so highly he will return Foundation at enormous cost; and a week it at once to No. 10, High Street." or so later a gas company will come along Next morning after this advertisement and tear up half the roadway to put If the fight is not yet over, we trust that In Linding the defendant over on her had appeared in the newspaper the ad new main into a house or repair an old the Chinese will give this view of the husband's personal bonil in 250 for her vertiser was surprised on opening his on In both cases the traffic is dis-matter impartial consideration and for to be of good behaviour for six months, front door to find at least a dozen un-located. Nobody has apparently been the foreigners, that their employers in His Worship (Mr. Hamilton) advised the brellas. Many of them had notes attachable to devise means to prevent the folly other ports will back them up through man to divide his attentions between the ed to say they had been taken by mistake of permitting the system of confusion thick and thin.

and begging the owner to keep the matter quiet,

·PARLIAMESTART · ELOQUENCE-

1.

For some time past members of the House of Commons have gradually drift ed into the habit of ruling their speeches so much so indeed that the attention of the Chair has been called to it. As result the rule has been laid down that while it is quite in order for honourable gentlemen to refresh their memories liberally from notes the actual and obvious reading of spreches must be

discontinued.

and lack of control to continge uncheck- ed. Where the Loniton streets are con- cerned all sorts of people em to be a

aw unto themselves.

PICKETING THAT WAS NOT

PEACEFUL.

FOUR MEN BOUND OVER AT |

"KOWLOON.

wiven with a little more impartiality in

future.

TIFF OVER TICKETS.

"COURT STORY OF TWO SEATS ON BLAKE PIER.

An amusing side-light on this peculiar manner of doing things was given this work in the House of Lords lebate on the London Traffic Bill. There was an- other Bill coming of the same afternoon

Ching King and Li Kwai Leung, two designed to give legal sauction to the admission of peeresses to seta in the

A disturbance between some coalies at Chinese clerks, sat in two seats on Blake Gilded Chamber. The peers do not want Mongkok led to the appearance of four Pier on Saturday night, for the use of They women to sit on the green benches, and of them at the Kowloon Magistracy which a small charge was inde

paid the money to an Indian police ser.. decided to block this Bill by talking at fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday. length on the Traffic Bill and thus

Mr. R. E. A. Webster appeared to degeant, who, however, had used up his. This raises the point whether Paris-vent the other from raching the discus-fend two of them, who were employed book of tickets, and telephoned for more. The two Chinese, receiving no tickets, mentary eloquence is on the wane. Persion stage. It is, of course, an old Par-by the Sui Heong Yuen Company. He sonally, I do not think that it is belowliamentary gabe."

said that bis clients were on their way demanded their money back, whereupon. the average of previous periods in our,

to work, when several coolies stopped the Indian gave it to them, but told them them and tried to prevent their working. to vacate the seats. They refused, and political history. But the style is diffe. TWENTY YEARS AFTER. rent. There is far less colour and pic reading of the Traffic Bill, and Lord were forced to take refuge in their go

Lord. Parmoor had moved the second Bricks were thrown at them, and they be charged them with disorderly conduct. When the case came before Mr. R. K turesqueness of phrasing in speeches on Birkenhead supported it on the ground down. They then got some iron barn, Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yer hears in the House of Commons. The that the problem of street control in and rushing out again, drove their terday, his Worship did not quite see prevailing fashion is to adopt a matter London could never be solved unless some aggressors away. The whole party were eye to eye with the sergeant about the of-fact form of address, like the chair authority were armed with the power taken to the stat an, and sent away by matter.

not Remarking They are man of a business undertaking talking the Bill was intended to confer. He bethe Inspector with a nation. to the shareholders at the annual meet-lieved that some 27 different authorities

coolies, they are respectable-looking he ordered the defendants to ing. Now and then some Member lets had the right to take up the roads iad, on leaving their work, his client be discharged.

In the evening, Mr. Webster proceed-| people,” himself go," as one might my, and some-

one un again met the other two defendants, when one in the Press Gallery will remark, London without reference to

Ahi that reminds me of Gladstone other's movements. The House would re- another quarrel arose, and all four were

collect, he went on, the practical joke

arrested. Mr. Lloyd George stirs the House ocea played on London when some young men sionally in this way. nd appens to

of ingenious fancy went out, dressed as

All the parties were bound over in their

peace for six months.

the emotions, in which are he is an avvies, with all their paraphernalia personal bonds of $25 each, to keep the

knowledged past master; but it is only ou a big occasion, and that, of course, means very unfrequently.

THE FRIME MINISTER'S SPEECHIA.

CINEMA NOTES.

THE CORONET.

SHIPS IN COLLISION.

INCIDENT AT SWATOW.

A collision took place in Swatow Har- bour on Thursday between the s.s. Kiu- king of the Ching Navigation Company and the -ss. "'Straiklorne." "

up 100 yards of Oxford Street, and worked for a whole day before someone discovered they had no authority.

Thereupon Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald reads most one of the foremost Ggures in the instar-

It appears that the ... Kiukiong was of his speeches, but there is some, allowing world in these days, confessed that

turning in harbour at the time when a ahee for him in this respect since he is he was one of the culprits." It hap The Great Impersonation, which is strong ebb tide was running. The vessel. Foreign Secretary as well as Prime pened. 30 years ago, and was the result the current feature attraction at the Cor was caught by the tide and she failed to Minister. When he has, to make a proof a discussion us to the case with which onet Theatre, makes several notable respond to the heim, despite the fact nouncement in Parliament he adopts the any authority was able to dig up, the claims apon the cinema-goer's interest that it was put hard aport. She was wise pinn of reciting careially prepared streets. Actually was the corner of First of all the story was written by that carried across the bow of the Strathturne. atlements written down beforehand. Trogmorten, Street in the heart of the famous author of mystery novela, E Minor damage was sustained, several of His predecessors nt the Foreign Ofte City that they dug up, and nobody came Phillips Oppenheim, who ranks high Kinking' plates being bent and some have done likewise. There are not near them to inquire for six day. At among the most popular writers of the rivets started..

The A.B. Strathiorne statesmen who would venture to the end of that time some official appear day. The Great Impersonation is apparently received little or na damage. upon their memory or the inspirational fed from the City Surveyor's Department one of his best books, an exciting tale The 8.8. Kiuliang came into port dur the moment, for the right choice of words to ask a few questions. Lurd. Mentaga of international conspiracy in which a ing the wek-end and she has gone into when referring to a subject involving and his light-hearted friends were unable the name suggests, the chief event is lock for repairs.

deligate and difficult relations with some to give any information, and as a matter laring As a matter of

man.

BISHOP, LANDER.

is undertaker in foreign Power. In the ordinary way, of fact, the yawning gap remained in the fact the however, the Premier speaks with ease street for 10 days an

South Africa by German spy who This and precision, with only a few notes, and Having made a clean "breast of the poses as a well-known Englishman.. in the approved Parliamentary style. matter Lord Montagu expressed the hope difficult dual role is ably undertaken by

Now that attention has been formally that the Statute of Limitatione would James Kirkwood, famed both as a dire APPOINTED ASSISTANT BISHOP

tor and as a leading

Ann Forrest called to the reading of speeches in the apply in this case; and the Iaughter of

OF ST. ALBANS, House of Commons there is not much the peers at the story was a sufficient un favourites are included in the large cast is the lending woman and many other fear that the average M.P., will trans-awer that the crime would go us. The Great Impersonation," which was Shanghai Mercury states that the Right The London correspondent of the gress the rule that speeches must not be punished. In the end the second reading directed by George, Melford, represents Bew. Gerard Heath Lauder, D.D., Vicar read. The ambitious man who wants to of the Traffic Bill was carried without

fortune in

in settings. Specially make a place for himself has always a division. This means, it may be hoped, is the one representing led since 1920, has been appointed Assistant

their i

of Holy Trinity, Lycusdown, New Barnet, avoided the practice, because he knows that we are an appreciable stage searer secret war chamber, that unless he shows readiness and con- the solution of the problem of street chaos models and plans of war engines. Alto Bishop of St. Albans in succession ta Sdence as a speaker he carries no weight. that exists in regard to the ranking and gether The Great Impersonation is Bishop Badges. Bishop Lander was Members are apt to be hypocritical, like mending of the London ronds, and the credit to its producers, Messrs. Pare Bistop of Victoria, Hongkong, from 1802 the Scottish beadle who was naked by a control of vehicular trafic.B.

to 1920,

mount