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Though a small party remains loyal to the Imperial tradition and family there is much to suggest that monarchy in "Germany is a lost enise, that the nation, has finally renounced the pultitudinous royal- Lies to whom it was formerly devoted. It is not that there is much wrong with the royalties them selve There are elever and am

The Chinese Athletic Association is giving a dinner in honour of its football team at the You Wo Res- taurant to-morrow night.

...Two cases of diphtheria, one Bsitish and one Chinese were re- ported on Wednesday. There was also one Chinese case of typhoid,

The St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club have this year secured bitious men among them, notably | a club bathing shed at Repulse Bay, Prince RUFFREURT OF BAVARIA, rends This is to be formally opened on and able to fill x regal role. But Eppire Day (next Thursday) at 3.30 the German people prefer their P., by Mrs. C. R. Duppuy. republic, and Marshal HINDENBRO.. a picturesque link with the past, and aptly described by Mr. LLOYD "very steady old man is an ideal president, better even than Herr EDIT, the ex-sadler, who first filled the presidential chair set up, in, the place of the. Hohenzollern throne.

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SIR EDMUND "GOSSE.

A GREAT CRITIC..

All students of literature will (regret to learn of the death of Sir. Edmund Gosse, the world famous. critic and biographer, at the age of 79.

Sir Edmund Gossa has been in-

timably connected with literature, and more. especially with the carlier literature of the English Henry Catchick (34), third en-language for his whole life. As.." gineer of the es. Hong Ping which early as 1667 he was an assistant arrived in Hong Kong yesterday Librarian at the British Museum, has been taken to the Government Civil Hospital for observation. He is a British subject and a Native of Rangoon.

According to a police report, a Chinëse widow living as Ngau, She Wan attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the sea from the Kai Tack Bugd. She was rescued

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to the House of Lords, Clark Lec- turer in English Literature "at- Trinity College, Cambridge, and President of the English Associa

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vian countrica as well as from his own native land, serve to em

The people will listen neither to and sent to the Kwong Wah Hos. corations, from all the Skandina- communist nor jingo nonsense. They pital. have settled down to work through the present difficulties with the knowledge that the nation is grow. ing daily in strength and that in the end the might of a

great people must tell. But it is not the old and menacing strength that is likely

The Committee of the Naval and phasies the depth of his learning, Military branch of the Y.M.C.A. his wide interests, and is unfail- announces that their new premises ing sense of judgment. But wide in the City Hall will be opened by ne his knowledge was of Skandina- Government (the Hon. Mr. W. T H.E, the Officer Administering the

was in the vian literature, it Southern, C.M.G.), on Thursday. the seventeenth and early eigh- literature of his own country during

May 24th, at 8 p.m.

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GERMANY OF TO-DAY.

WHEN the history of the present era comes to be written nothing will be regarded as more remarkable than the course of the German Revolution It has often been said that the war was forced by the military and aristocratic classes as a desperate

screened from Tuesday to Saturday Jeremy Taylor, and especially the of next week. The special times life of that ever fascinating per- for performances (only three a day) sonality, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir

advertised elsewhere in this issue. and the prices of admission are

KIDNAPPED FROM CANTON?

Edmund Gosse had always en- lightening and constructive critic- ism, to put forward, built on a solid and unchallengeable groundwork of fact. For auch "characteristics, in these personal studies alone bis work will always command the con-

"ELOPES" TO CANTON WITH sideration and respect of any con-

YOUNG GIRL.

FOLLOWED BY AN ANGRY SISTER.

A Chinese who said that he was

Germany, is building upon the very sure foundations of economic

thoroughness, without the old, weak- ness of a bluster that provoked a reaction of world wide, hostility. Germany's future is likely to be greater than her past. A nationaa actor, was arrested and taken cannot be held down artificially. to the Central Police Station last Her. greatness, if not met with hight on the complaint of a Chinese suspicion and repression, is more girl, who said that the defendant likely to be of advantage than had kidnapped her younger sister danger to the world. Germany will and brought her from Canton. The probably have to resume her role complainant is stated to be an as the main guardian of Europe actress in a Theatrical Company in against the militant and semi-alien | Canton. The complainant said that power of Bussis.

the defendant had been arrested in Canton on a charge of kidnapping, but with the aid of a chop from a Chinese firm, he obtained bail, and escaped to Hong Kong.

During the absence on leave of Mr. J. E. Henry, Mr. H. G. Mende will be Manager of the Hong Kong. Branch of Messrs. "Reuters, Ltd.

A destitute Chinese was found by the police in Canton Road in a state of collapse, due to hunger. The police had the man removed to the Kowloon Hospital,

remedy against the rising tide of Mr. F. Castilho, secretary of the PPEARANCE Is Everything to a Socialin which menaced their "We" billiard team, informs us Woman and Certainly Permanent order. The cure certainly proved that his team, and not the Catholic more disastrous than the disease. Union Club, lost in the recent match But the Revolation in Germany against the Chinese YMCA. remains a most astonishing. phano- menon. The ant

Hair Waves done by Man BETEN (late of Boxo Koze" EoTEL), improve. This Greatly 2, PATTS BUILDING, Kowloon Tu KC, 9457074 [343 {

antion appears, almost A report was made to the police

However, before his departure he wrote a letter to the complainant's younger sister saying that he had a "good fortune" in store for her in Hong Kong and persuaded her to accompany him. They left for Hong Kong on the morning train,

scientious-student of the period.

Sir Edmund Gosse, besides being a biographer and a critic in's far wider field than has been indicated above, was also a "maker" him seif. A poot in his younger daya, he turned to prose in later years, and at times was capable of a very high standard of writing. It will. however, be through his criticism and his biographies of earlier writers, rather than through his owa original works that his name will always be remembered among these who study the beginnings of modern English literature.

WEATHER REPORT, Yesterday's weather roport, fore- cast and remarks issued by the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong at 4.46.p.m. state in-

Changes are slight since this morning

to

Local forecast:-Southerly easterly winds, moderate, generally overcast, rain,

CAPTAIN D'OISY'S CRASH.

PLANE COMPLETELY WRECKED.

but unknown to them they were fol-

{THROUGE NEUTRE'S ADENOT.] lowed by the complainant in ab- other carriage. She shadowed them

BANGOON, May 18th Hong Kong where they took a

The details of the cranb show room in a boarding house. The that d'Olty decended at Akyah with complainant then called a Chinese constable and a district watchman engine trouble, and after working on the machine to repair the defect, and had the defendant brought to the Police Station.

an attempt was made to take of the plane had scarcely wisen when the engine failed again and d'Ony was forced to land in a paddy-Beld near the aerodrome. The under carriage was carried away and the

Sgt. Fitches who took charge of the case, sent

a Chinese detective to bring the young sister" to the Police Station.

It is understood that the def a Central Magistracy this morning.

TILATS - TO LET AL CAMBAT without effort, certainly without by the manager of the Tai Sundant will be brought up as the

BUILDINGS, NATHAN ROAD Kow bloodshed, to have altered its whole Barber's shop, of Hollywood Road, LOON, No. 2, Second Floor, (orner), No. 3, Ground Floor, No. 4, Ground nature. It is even beaming dif-

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that a foki absconded on May 2nd taking with him two electric fans, valued at $30.

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At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- overshadowed. Europe, when the

terday, a Chinese youth was ined ONLY THREE CASES FOR THIS conquest of the world by that great

$4 for riding a bicycle on the wrong empire was a grave possibility, when civilisation was liable to be side of Salisbury Boid. "Another. into a state of who was caught in the night riding thrown any apprehension by the words and without a light was fined $3. gestures of the Imperiál figure who

A report has been made to the was that militarism's symbol, and autocrat.. It is significant that the Folios by Mit Blagh, an Indian dehumanised, drill sergeant, at the living at the Bikh Temple, that on head of that Empire has become a Tuesday night someone stole the tedious old gentleman, reminiscent sum of 852 from him while he was of our own Gronas III. in his latter asleep. On making enquiries the daye. Certainly no one now wants complainant found that another

was missing. Indian, Arjan Bing

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Two of these cases will be tried by the Chief Justice, Bir Henry Gollan. The prisoners are Li Heng, charged with having moulds for coining in his possession, and Kong Lau Yuen, who is charged with being armed and assaulting a person with the intent to rob, t The acting Puisne Judge, Mr. P.. Jacks, will hear the case against Chan Shing, who is separately charged with returning from banish ment and also with committing burglary and larceny,

machine wrecked. B. Negle

It will be impossible for the flight to be continued.

The airmen had a miraculous escape from being burnt to death when the petrol poured out of the tank after the brush,

DR. STRESEMANN,

[THROUGH REUTERʼR AQUEST.]

BELIN, May 18th Dr. Stresemann is somewhat

better to-day, though his medical advisers have not ceased to be anxious for him.

PRINCE CAROL LEAVES ENGLAND.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 16th The ex-Prince Carol sailed to-day from Dover for Ostend. nounced yesterday, he is to take residence in the Ardennes.