1926-12-14 — Page 2

Page

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1925.

XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS. ALLEGED OSCAR WILDE PLAY.

We beg to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable fur the Fortivo Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Bates

יו

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

•

1-Q. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial

Champagne.

1 Pt. Blackberry Brandy,

1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Martell' XXX Brandy. #Qta. King George IV White Label

1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.

2 Qta. St. Julien Claret.

1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Blk. S.

1Q Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 1 Q. Burgundy.

1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.

or Perfection Whisky.

No. 2

HAMPER-$34.

1.Qt. Quillemart Champagne,

1 PL. D.O.M.

1 Qt Burgundy

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy,

2 Qua. King George IV White Label

"or Perfection Whisky.

1. Qt. Burgundy.

1 Pt Peppermint G. F.

1 PL. DOM.

Qts. Taway Dry Port Qt. St. Julien Charo

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gis. 1. Vino de Pasto Sherry. Phini Pomeranzen: Bitters.

No. 3 HAMPER-$30.

2 Q. Superior Rich Old Furt.

2 Qta. King George IV White Label

or Perfection Whisky.

1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy.

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry W.S.

10. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Ota. Modoc Claret.

1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

Hong Kong.

TEL. CENTRAL No. 135.

CAN I WEAR THIS ACAIN

?

OF COURSE YOU CAN, WHY NOT TRY "OUR DRY-CLEANING SERVICE.

WE LIFT THE SHADOW OFF YOUR CLOTHES, AND GIVE THEM A NEW LEASE OF LIFE.

The Steam Laundry Co.

BEAD OFFICE & WORKS: Mongkok, Tel. K. 32. HONGKONG, DEPOT: 16. Stanley St, Tel 0. 1279 KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT. PEAK HOTEL DEPOT.

KOWLOON DEPOT; 19, Canton Road, HONGKONG HOTEL (Visitors only).

ASAHI BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED FOR EXPORT

DAI NIPPON BREWERY CO.

LIMITED.

TOKYO JAPAN

SOLE AGENTS.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA LTD,

"HONGKONG

"Hazeline Snow

(Trade Mark)

Ladies find it the ideal non-greasy toilet preparation. Men use i after shaving because it soothes and cools the skin.

(Trady Mark)

"Hazeline Rose Frost" for those who need a touch of cat the

Bath in glass potis

All Chemists and Store

BURROUGHS WELLCOME &

(Tam Wellcome Fourbation 702 London; Rus.)

LONDON AND SHANGHAI:

*** 4553

All Rights Ressened,

METHUENS LTD, ACCUSED OF

FOISTING IT ON PUBLIC.

W

INTERESTING LIBEL SUIT,

Mr. Merriman, EC., for Messrs. Methuen, said that Mr. Millard had been well acquainted with Oscar Wilde and was regarded as an authority on his works As a writer Mr. Millard was known as Stuart Mason.

RUSSIA AND NORTH CHINA RAILWAYS.

A CONTRAST IN MANAGEMENT.

JAPAN INTERESTS IN

· MANCHURIA.

A libel action arising out of statements

A rumour that is traceable to Manchuria that For Love of the King" was not a genuine work of the Inta Oscar Wilde and and has reached Peking through the had been "foisted" on the public was medium of a well known White Russian, brought recently by Messrs. Methuen & has it that several regiments of the Red Co., Ltd., publishers, Easox-street, Army are being held go the frontiers for Strand, against Mr. Christopher Sclater än invasion of the Chinese Eastern Rail- Millard, a writer and second-hand book-way zone and the occupation of Harbin, seller, of Abercorn-place, St. John'says Mr. Rodney Gilbert in the N.-C. Wood, N.W. The defence was an admis Daily News. This will sound to most sion of publication and a plea of privilege. readers like just one more manifestation of a familiar and harmless ghost, and Justification was also pleaded.

perhaps that is what it is; but it is almost certain to reach the Chinese, ap- pear in the native press as news and prompt a deal of speculation. It will be assumed that the Reds will seize the railway and the railway towns when the In 1991 Mesara Hutchinson published Kuominchun and the Kuomintang armies in their nagasize what they described as are occupying all of Chang Tao Lin's "a remarkable literary, discovery called energies and attention; and the wide For Love of the King,'" which was, or publication of this assumption, without purported to be, a small play by Oscar any particular foundation, would be Wilde. It was prefaced by a letter writ-enough to take a lot of the assurance and ten to Mrs. Chan Toon, dated "Tite-punch out of the Fengtien military street, Chelsea, November 27th, 1864, operations inside the Wall. Knowing and purported to be signed by Oscar this well enough, the Reds themselves would not be incapable of spreading the Wilde, and stating:

rumour nor, if it failed to have the de sired effect, of bringing a few battalions up to the border to give it a serablance of fact.

ས་

I am sending you a fairy play entitled "For Love of the King just for your own amusement. It is the outcome of long and luminous talks with your dis- tiaguished husband in the Temple and on the river in the days when I was meditating writing a novel as beautiful and as intricate as a Persian praying rug. I hope that I have caught the atmosphere.

I would like to see it acted in your Garden House on some night when the sky is a sheet of velvet-and the stars like women's eyes. Alas! it is not likely. I am in the throes of a new I met a perfectly wonderful comedy. person the other day who unconsciously bas irradiated my present with sinuous suggestion: Swedish baron, French in manner, Athenian in mind, and Oriental in morals.. His society is series of revelations.

Mrs. Chan Toon, said Mr. Herriman, was the wife of a barrister of the Inner Temple who was a nephew of the King of Burma, and it appeared that there sub- sisted between ber, and Oscar Wilde friendship dating from the days of child bood. Mrs. Chan Toon later became Mrs. Wodehouse Pearse.

The play was "a Burmese masque" Before publishing it Messrs. Methuen obtained from Mra Wodehouse Pearse's solicitors the original typescript, --

Mr. E. V. Lucas's View.

Mr. E. V. Lucas had read the play and he would state that even now he thought it was genuine..

· Not to be Taken. Seriously, No resident of the East who paused to think could take such a rumour or even. a threatening movement of troops very seriously. The Soviet isn't ready to fight Japan, and Japan could not for an in- stant tolerate a Soviet occupation of Northern Manchuria. Japan gave up a lot in China to concentrate upon the development of Manchuria as a source of supply in time of war and her hold upon Manchurian resources is absolutely essential to her status as a first class military Power. Ner is anyone bere ready to believe that Russia is going to defy Japanese hostility.

Something in the Russian Check.

On the other hand, strange as it may seem, it is doubtful whether the Japanese merchant, or the merebant of any other nationality, would care to see Soviet in- fluence eliminated altogether from the One Chinese "Eastern Railway zone. bears from all manner of folk who have lately been, in North Manchuria that the last thing the commercial communities want is unadulterated Chinese control of the C.E.R. These communities are ray-

thing but Red, set they assert openly that the existing degree of Russian contro! on the railway is a most efficient check upon conventional Chinese methods and alone accounts for the railway's solvency, its honest administration, freedom from military abuses and its highly efficient "service, as contrasted with the gruesome mess that the Chinese make of every rail- way that they run themselves.

Mrs. Wodehouse Pearse tried to sell to Mr Millard the originais of six letters to her from Oscar Wilde. Having seen the copies, Mr. Millard became convinced that the originals must be forgeries and also became convinced that Mr. Wode- house Pearse had forged the play.

On August 17th, 1925, Mr. Millard sent

These opinions are corroborated not a letter to booksellers and others stating:

With the assistance of Mrs. Chananly by travellers but by every dealer in Toon (Mrs. Wodehouse Pearse), this railway supplies. This is no tribute to the eminently respectable firm of publishers good faith of Red Russia. It simply. has succeeded in foisting on an unsus pecting public 1,000 copies of a book at 86. 6d. net for which, but for Oscar Wilde's name and the imprint of one would Methuen & Co., Ltd, no have paid 84d.

In 1926 Mr. Millard stated in a cata logue that "For Love of the King" was a forgery, foisted on the public by a unscrupulous woman (now serving a sentence of imprisonment for theft) and her publishers.'

Mr. Merriman said that Mrs. Wode- house Pearse was convicted of the theft of £240 from a woman with whom she WAR lodging.

Mr. George Ernest Webster, managing director of Mesara. Methuen in 1921, said he considered that both the letter and the play were characteristic of Oscar Wilde.

Mr. Justice MeCardie who is a consider- able literary authority said that he had read the play daring the adjournment It had colour and it was profuse in its richness, and some of its phrases were most striking Take, for instance, the sentence, I should like to see it acted in your Garden House on some night when the sky is a abcet of violet and the stars like women's eyes" That was essentially like Oscar Wilde in instinct and colour.

means that any kind of an alien cheek upon a Chinese administration, even the least desirable, results in some degree of efficiency. Yet the excellent service, good credit and prosperity of this line, as con- trasted with the shabby, semi-bankrupt Peking-Mukden Railway, is worm-wood in the ten of every Chinese official in Manchuria, from the Marshal (zotto voce) down to the licensed Hunghutze It isn't because they could get more money out of the railway or the district through which it runs, because they could- not. The direct revenues from the Bipe, scraped into the military war chest with- out thought for credit, upkeep salaries, might be large; but a de moralized and abused railway would soon. bring about a depression in trade, agriculture and industry that would re duce revenues from taxation to a fraction of what they now are. This every in- telligent Chinese in Manchuria would grant without hesitation.

or

It isn't because they are anti-Red that they want to climinate the Russions, The railway is not run on what we con scive to be Soviet lines, but in a strictly business fashion (whence its excellent credit), and a Enssian check on the rail- way puts no obstacles in the way of s Chinese war upon Red propaganda and conspiracy. It's simply the old story of

face again..

"We can't let theac cursed unassimilable aliens shame us on our own soil." Thus speaketh the nör- thern militarist with as much intensity of feeling as the southern nationalist...

The word "foist" which he had used meant that Messrs. Methuen had passed of the play unwarrantably without mak ing suficient inquiries,

Mr. E. V. Lucas, chairman of Messrs. Methuen, said that he had never doubted the genuineness of the work.

Cross-examined, he agreed that his statement that Oscar Wilde and Mrs. Chan Toon were brought up together was inaccurate, having regard to the birth certificates When he had described the play as "tosh he did not mean that it was rubbish, but simply that it was inferior.

Mr. Lever, for defendant, said his case Mr. Justice McCardie: Do you to-day would be that there was zo evidence to charge any dishonesty whatever against connect Mrs. Chan Teen or her play with the plaintiff I never have. Oscar Wilde. So far as internal evidence Mr. Justice McCardie, summing up, was concerned it was impossible to say said it was important that there was now that the book was not a work of Oscar no charge against the honesty of Messrs. Wilde.

Methuen The jury must attack to the Mr. Millard, in evidence, said that in words the meaning which fair.minded mea all Oscar Wilde's documents he found so would put upon them. In cases before reference to Mrs. Chan Toon or to "For the courts the word "foiat" was oftes Love of the King" He had seen hun used to decote dishonesty. Literary

➡HERE is no worry or anxiety in-rearing' Baby healthfully and happily, even in a tropical climate, when Glaxo is used as Baby's food.

Glaxo is the food that has been used to rear the children in five Royal Nurseries. Court Physicians see that Royal Babies have the best and most nourishing food that is why Glaxo has been chosen.

Give your Baby Glaxo, and watch the differerice after a few days: see how restfully he sleeps, how contented be is and how steadily he increases in weight. Ask your Doctor"

glazos

The Vitamin Milk-Food

"Builds Bonnie Babies”

W. R. LOXLEY & CO.. ROLE AGENTS.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

Best Portland Cement.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS,

HONGKONG.

THE SOUTH CHINA KNITTING FACTORY

A Modern Factory fitted with the most up-to-date machinery in Hongkong

Throughout S. America, Australia and Africa, as well as in North China and India, the

MERCERISED AND COTTON SOCKS

which are made in this Factory, are in the highest favour amongst all Import Firms who appreciate that

these goods are absolutely reliable, always vary in quality. up to sample, and never

Enquiries welcomed from Export Firms, to whom full particulars will be gladly sent.

OFFICE AND FACTORY: MONGEOX, KOWLOOK CABLE ADDRESS: BOUCHIENT, ExeLoza,

TELEPHONE KOWLOON 193.

WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH IS IMPOSSIBLE,

VETARZO BLOOD

VMEDICINE

Kaver before was there anything like it, nor are its marrellons properties likely ever ta be equalled in diseases arising from impure blood. It emanches out and expels from the vital current every lurking trace of poisonous matter, enring blood and skin dismass, scrofulous and glandular swellings, bad lega, abscesses, alcara, ezzema, gout, rheuma tiam, goitre or Derbyshire Neck, etc. It improves the general health and quickly remores long-standing bronchitis, asthma, and hacking, straining, spasmodic cough,

too often the precursor of consumption.

LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH AS LIVING DEATIL

BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD.

dreds of sheets of manuscript supposed authorities were divided as to the VETARZO FEU Brandown Chronis Wonder

to be by Wilde, which, in his view, were genuineness of the work. The jury found

in the bandwriting of Mrs. Chan Toon for Methuen Co., Ltd., with 2100 dam She had got hundreds of pounds from ages. publishers in London, Dublin, and New York for such manuscripts,

Justice After the jury's verdict McCardie granted an injunction restrain (Continued at foot of next colunin,) ing Dr. Millard from repeating the filela

VETARZO REGULATORS. Safe and Relable

English Price 2 (either remedy), The VETARZO REMEDIES CO., Gospel Oak, 8.W.B, London, Eng. Unprinsipled Dealers may try to sell you something else for erize proff-do not sccept it. Insist on having VETARZO. The genine has words VETARZO REMEDIES" on Government Stamo. Sold by Leading Cast Chemists,

[A.P.B]

PODOS MARVELLOUS FOR HALW

OR DIRBOT ON,KELUKT,18,QUAI TROUBLES, REDLICH PRIOR 3/--ALL PHARMACONG PARAPIRATION, ZAD ODOURS, AND ALL". FOOT TENDER AND BOÁN TART

VAN

DYCK

ANTVERY