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THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, 1925

OUR CONTEMPTIBLE ARMY." RUGBY FOOTBALL SENSATION,

KAISER'S SPEECH DENIED. The following latter bas been addressed to the editor of the Nation and the Athenaeum by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., respecting the phrase,The con- temptible little Army":-

Sir,-Arising out of the correspond.

ence in the Nation last Augus: with re- gard to the origin of the phrase, The eontemptible liile army, i invited tho assistance of a German ex-general and

HARLEQUINS REFUSE TO MEET NEWPORT.

GAME LIKE A FIGHT.

A great sensation was caused in Rugby football circlsa a month ago, when the Harlequins, who play at "Twickenham, cancelled all further fixtures with Now, port, the famous Welsh team.

This decision followed a match between

the two teams at Twickenham, when the

writer on war bistory to have a specias referge, Mr. E. Potter-Irwin, imposed search made for the phrase, which was said in this country to be an extract frequent penalties for play which one from one of the ex-Kaiser's speeches

during the war. There would be little prominent critic called "indescribable." dificulty in looking up all the Imperial Newport won in the last few minutes by utterances and discovering the sentence one point, after the game had been stop of which this was supposed to be a transped to allow the temper of the players lation. Al endeavours, however, to find to cool. any passage in the speeches in any way Mr. Adrian Stoop, secretary of the remotely resembling the expression in Harlequins, and formerly a famous in question failed.

Not content with bar-ternational, said after announcing."

ng the jog had the archives and the Press Ales decision:- ransacked, my friend succeeded in getting We do not like the football which is a request for information into the pre-played by the Newport forwards. We sincts of Doorn. The ex-Kaiser has enn get plenty of games with other clubs written the following marginal note on which are much more enjoyable, and it this paper referring to the point in quesis for that reason that we have decided

not to play Newport again.

tion:-

Ich habe eine solche Rede niemals" gehalten, sondern stats in Gehentheil den hohen Werth der Brit. Armee betont und vor ihrer Unterschätzung eft schon in Frieden gewarnt.-W. "(Translation. I have never deliver. ed such a speech, but, on the contrary, centionally emphasised the high value of the British Army, and often, indeed, in peace time gave warning against under estimating it.')

I was wrong, therefore, in believing the phrase was a mistranslation. It was a pure fabrication.-Yours, etc....

ARTHUR PONSONBY.".

LAND OF LABOUR AND WEALTH.

SIR ROBERT HORNE TELLS OF AMERICA'S PROSPERITY.

from

If they like fighting, let them find some one else to fight.

The Harlequins are not afraid of fighting, but when they are on the feid they very much prefer to play football."

THEIR OBJECTIONS. ·

A member of the Harlequins team who played in the match informed a Daily Express representative that they objected to the obstruction of players, who were frequently held by the jerseys when they did not have the bail, the obstruction of their scrum-half, and also the kicking of some of the Harlequin players "when they were on the ground.

Harold Daries, the 'Newport captain, an-id: There certainly was no foul There was some play on either side. haphazard play by both sides. Some of the players did not know where they Phe were because of offside decisions. Harlequins were equal offenders, and the only difference was that Newport were penalised in good positions."

decision na childish.'

Mr. Walter Martin, the old Welsh I "The most striking thing in America at the present time is its immense pros-ternational, who is secretary of the New perity," said Sir Robert Horne, who report team; and acted as touch judge at Lurned to England from America inat Twickenham, described the Harlequins' month. This prosperity springs conditions which seem to me to be not at all temporary but likely to last.

There is no quantity of stocks in the country, and everything manufactured goes practically at once into consump tion Employment is excellent, and the only trouble is the temporary dislocation caused by the dispute in the anthracito coni field!!

He indicated that the tending in Americh was to reduce taxation in order that the money so realised might flow into trade. The present view in America seemed to be that they would be able to exempt from income tax all people with incomes from £1,000 downwards.

THE HAPPY LAND.

The affluent condition of their finance is-ovidenced by the fact that the Seco tary of the Treasury proposes to reduce taxation next year by £60,000,000, and it appears not unlikely that the full amount of the faxation imposed, in the form of both income-tax and super-tax, will be very little greater than the amount which British citizens, have to

in income-tax alone."

Fay

He was very much struck by the evidence of great efficiency in industry in the States, and had formed the opinion that everyone in America was working hard, including employers and work- men, while in this country there appear ed to be a great desire to get off with less work.

It is felt among followers of Rugby that all is not well with the game. This incident follows the sending off of Cyril Brownlee, the giant New Zealand for. ward, in the match between England and the "All Blacks" last season at Twicken- ham, and the more recent suspension of A. . Blakiston, the English forward.

PRINCE OF WALES IN THE

HUNTING FIELD.

TWO- FALLS WITHIN A WEEK,

LONDON, November 8th. The Prince of Wales had a fall, while bunting with the Whaddon Chase hounds yesterday the second fall in a week After taking fences in good style, the Prince's horso fell at a fones where a gap was hidden. The Prince was unhurt, and he rejoined the Duke of York in the chase. Lord Daimony also had a fall, bat con- tinued the hunt on another horse,

One fox gave the pack over an hour's run, which the Prince and the Duke greatly enjoyed.

M. MAX LINDER DEAD WIFE DYING BY HIS SIDE.

The French flm actor, Al. Max Linder, and his 21-years-old bride were found at Neuilly last month lying unconscious on their bed in a pool of blood, with the arteries of their wrists sovored. The mar ringe was a love match about three years

go,

M. Max Linder's intimate friends state that he had suffered for many years from neurasthenia, which grew worse as he tried to care it with drugs. Otherwise the reason for his death is a mystery He was a millionaire, and his wife was also rich..

Recently M. Linder and his wife had been in Switzerland to visit their 15- months-old girl, who was at Glies with

har nurse.

He had had built for himself a private mansion at Neuilly and had furnished it most artistically, but when it was ready for occupation, he declined to live in it and cented a suite of rooms at an hotel

It was then that he and his wife were found dying when Mime. Linder's mother, Mme. Peters, caused the door of their room to be burst open, after having vainly attempted to obtain a A reply from her daughter on the telephone.

They were breathing feebly when found. Three doctors were summoned and ad- The couple were ministered first aid. then taken to a nursing home. Mnie. Linder died shortly afterwards, and her Eusband several hours later..

It is believed that the couple had made a pact to commit suicide together, and that after having taken large doses of veronal, a quantity of which was found in their rooms, they opened their veins with a razor, which was found on the bed beside them.

M. Max Linder bad tried on three occa- ions, say his friends, to put an end to his life. He is reported to have told several friends recently that he was tired of life. The film star who made millions who saw him on the screen laugh was in private life extremely morose.

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DIVORCE MADNESS. CANON CARNEGIE'S IMPRESSION OF THE U.S.

Canon Carnegie, of Westminster, who recently returned from a visit to Ame rica, told a London reporter that the canker in the life of America is divorce. He said:-

I say with all seriousness that Ame

human rice is degenerating from society into a monkey house.

It may well mean the end of their civilisation. And, if it spreads over here, it would mean the end of civilisation altogether. Life simply could not go on under such conditions.

Luckily, England is having none of this divorce madness. Over here it is only the degenerate rich and degenerate poor people who have nothing else to do but think about sex-who follow the Ameri can folly,

England is too sane and balanced, a country to lose her head like that.

far ahead of America.

In civilisation and culture England is

You must remember that you can breed the best Anglo-Saxcas only in an Anglo- Saxon country. The breed is pure here, and the urge forward will be the more powerful. Ia America the breed is mixed.

I am convinced that the American man

The money the American carns is spent

THE "WELSH WIZARD" ON

THE SCOTS.

Speaking of the conspicitous part played in history by the City of York, recently when he received the freedom of that city, Mr. Lloyd George said it was there that: Severus decreed the exter- minatiohof all the Scottish race (Laughter.) "He was very angry; the Scotch were rather troublesome. Some of them still are. (Laughter.) They were very troublesome, and he was very gouty, so naturally the combination made him vary angry, and he issued an edica that they were all to be killed, man, woman, and child. There are still a few of them left (Laughter.) They generally admirals, veld-marshals and prime ministers, and archbishops, and people of that sort (Laughter.)

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A valuable hunter named A to Z-the is not as mad about money as he is supposed to be. Englishmen really care title of a revue-which the Prince of more for money than he does. Wales frequently visited belonging to the Prince, dropped dead while being by his womenfolk. The Englishman exercised by a groom on a road near

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A correspondent writing in a Home paper on accidents to the Prince of Wales says:-

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whose falls in the hunting field are always recorded, may I point out, for men pursue money for their own sake."

Mrs. Carnegie, who is a daughter of the benefit of those unaquanitod with Judge Endicott, of the United States, the sport, that it is almost invariably the and was the widow of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, went to America in "The fearless riders take constant advance and was joined by her husband A STRIKE INCIDENT AT SHANGHAL | risks, while the timid ones, not so sure later

of their seats, avoid fences and ditches,

WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK. | good riders who have tumbles!

Speaking of race problems, we are and make for gaps and gates. The con- under obligation to the Jama Chronicle sequence is that, the good riders fall fre- for this ancodote of the Shanghai strike:quently and return home after a good A Shanghai cook who had no wish to run, covered, as a matter of course, obey the strike call found a way out. Ho with mud and glory. The Prince of told his missie about it on returning | Wales belongs to this category.” from market. His story was about az follows: Strike man he

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That milk is "the salvation of the child, but the damnation of the adult is the contention of Professor B. Colling wood, lecturer on Physiology at the London University, who, addressed a micsting held, under the auspices of the That our knowledge of the history of People's League of Health, at the Fely. 1 dia would be entirely changed, by state technic, Regent Street, last month. In ments he had discovered written in the no way, said Professor Collingwood, did A Manila contemporary wonders if third century after Christ on walls of nature indicate that milk was a natural this cook expected to make the usual ten ¦ solid marble, was the claim made by food for adulta. * per cent on household expenses. The Professor Ernest Herzfeld, the great One of the worst things that could" sight of a Celestial trying to squeeze a authority on Babylonia, who arrived in happen to a man was to get rich at Caledonfan, it says, should be a spectelo London last month from Persis sad lec- about 40 years of age, for he then ac gething short of the sublime.

tured in the evening before the Boyal quired a motor car, and suddenly gave Asiatic Society.

up all forms of exercise. Une generally Interviewed, Professor Herzfeld said found that as a man's bank-roll went up his statements would prove that the whole hill, his "health began to go down hill." of North-West India was a vast province As regards diet, fa person only took of the Persian Empire in the third the food he was able to digest he would contory and was guverned by Persian get indigestion, whereas if he took only. officials

Indigestible food he would be free from He had brought back photographs and indigestion. In other words, a person. writings incised in marble in the old must eat foods which could not be digest Pahlavi language which were fulled in order to avoid indigestion. To keep human interest,

free from indigestion and constipation allį Professor Herzfeld had also discovered fine foods, such as white bread and sloppy great castles, bridges and palaces hitherto milk foods, should be avoided: Foods unrecorded in history, the most romatic described na 14 entirely digestible" should' Mr. Noyckoff, her partner, said: "The of which had been proved to belong to never be taken. Instead, coarse, foods popular dances of today are nearly all the first Sasanian King, King Ardashir, rich in collulose, wholemeal bread, coarse alike, and it is not too much to say that no trace of which had ever been found oatmeal, salads, fruite (caten with the as they are done in many placce they are before.

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The "Basantan Draasty, founded by be taken. A plentiful supply of water. You cannot possibly compare the Ardashir, or Artaxerxes, reigned in una also needed. "To sit on an office foxtrot with such dances as the gayotte, Persia from 224 to 851, A.D. Ctesiphon etcol all day, and to feed on fine white the schottische, "the pinues and others was their capital; but Istakhr, na the bread and to drink milk is taking for which were to beautiful, and the music religious centre, enjoyed great in trouble,” added Professor Collingwood. to which war also beautiful.”.

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