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THE GREAT BACCARAT CASE.

THE BACCARAT CASE", Edited by W. Teignmouth Shore, Notable British Trials Series, William Hodge 10s. ed.

The Bacoara Case," in na ex- citing and interesting as the most exciting play or novel,

It is the account of the biggest scandal of Victorian times. Tho drama of battle, the excitement of doubt and the unfailing interest of varied human personalities, all these are contained in it. That a Lieutenant-Colonial of the Bente Guards should be found cheating at cards and that the Prince of Wales including baccarat counters in his luggage, these were the son- sational elements of the scandal,

A. Perplexed, Hostess,

...

For us now thero is much addi- tioand entertainment and drama. There are counsel for the prosecu- tion and defence, both suggesting to the scandalised British public that baccarat is as suitable game for the nursery, as, for my part, I think. all card games are. There is. tho-3 judge, so blandly incomprehensiva. of the nature of the play, that at one point in the trial he imagines that young Mr. Stanley Wilson, who detected the cheating, had been able to profit by it throughout the evening.

There is the hostes, whom we cat

envisage torn between the desire to give her Prince a good party, to support her son and to destroy in famy, and concerned at the same time for the illness of a brother ar apotheosis of the mingled anxie- ties of hostess-ship.'

The Horo of the Plevo.

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KING EDWARD IN THE

WITNESS BOX.

Prince of Wales (King Edward VII.) in connection with what was called 'The Bncenrać Casei? !! He quotos Sir Edward Clarke as any. ing, I believe the vordiet was wrong, and that Sir William Gordon-Cumming was innocent of the offenen charged against him,"

We are asked to believe the con- tention of Sir Edward Clarke that Sir William consented to sign the admission of guilt, not to save him- self from a large sonidal but to keep the name of the Prince of Wales out of the business,

MAY 25, 1932.

SHIPPING STRIKE IN SWATOW.

JARDINE'S AND B. & S. AFFECTED

CONSIGNEES AND FREE

COOLIE-HIRE.":

(From Our Own Correspondent.);

Swarow; May 18,

In the midst of a Japanese boy. cott another matter of importance has cropped up on Swatow to broak the monotony. At the moment, a cargo enolie and lighter strike is in operation, of which the victims are. B. & S., Jardino's and the Chine Merchants S.N. Co.

The so-called 'discontent on the The Urime ct Talllug.

part of the coolie-taos" (head coolies) has been brewing for some No one who reads this volume months past, and the matter only. through will be able to agree with came to a head two days ago when Mr. Teignmouth Shore. The suma strike was declared against tho ming up of Lord Coloridge who above companies failing a tried the case, is the best answer. compromise between them and the "Do you believe," he asked the Labour Union, Chinese-like, the, Jury.

lightarmen joined in a sympathetic

Bolid

that an innocent man-a perfect-strike. ly innocent man--would writo down his name on a dishonouring document, on a document which, in fact, stated that he had cheat ed and takon, money out of the pocket of the Prince of Wales by craft and sharping, simply that it might not be known that the Prince of Wales had played baconcession was made more in the shape of an inducement to relieve carat for very moderate stakes? the congestion in the godowns at Is not the consequence far too

that time than anything else, but great for the cause ?

the consignees think otherwise.

Cause of the Trouble.

aumarised as follows-It has been The cause of the trouble can be a local custom for quite a while for the three shipping companios to allow consigess free coolies hire, from the godowns it delivery was taken by them within ten days of the arrival of their cargo. That

Of course it is. What strikes us also, however, is that the worst erima in the affair was the telling of the secret.

FOR CRICKETERS,

changed to some extent, however, Trade conditions" sincer have

so that towards the end of 1931 the the consignees that that concession shipping companies intimated to

was withdrawn, which meant that. they had to defray the coolio hire. themselves from then onwards.

Some instances have occurred" whereby consignees repudiated pay- There are the urbane. kindly men

ment and referrad it to the shipping of the world, who are all for bush. "OVER! SOME PERSONAL REMARKS companies matters dragged on until ing things up and forgiving the ON THE GAME OF CRICKET." By

this week when the storm burst, cheat his peecadillo. There, is bot-

Hugh do Selincourt. Howe, pocket. Having meagre prospects with the " coolio-taos" out of headed youth, impersonated by Mr. Stanley Wilson, determined to about. virket, Hugh de Selin- strike weapon was resorted to.

I happen personally to be mad of a refund from either side, the administer justice and exact penal-court confesses, and all who share ties, and there is the still hotter this particularly blissful form of and thicker-headed MFH who mania, and are about to exhibit does not shine in cross-examination, but who will not withdraw his

acute symptoms, of it, will gloat over his latest addition to cricket charges.

literature..

And there is Mr. Berkeley Lovett, the herd of the piece, who grieves to find his superior officer cheating; closes his eyes to the recurrence of the abomination; refuses to take nny part in either the detection or punishment of the erime; tries to avert the trial and behaves through out like a mixture of a angel and "a gentleman, Igbominy and fine- ness and the issue in the balance, all these things are to be found

hero.

for those who actually, play the Over is essentially a book game, especially on the village the charm that belonged to "The green. While exhibiting much of Cricket Match," its scope and in- tention is practical-oven technical rather than romantic, Its design is to help enthusiasts to improve their style, and it should also en- courage the right-minded spectator to look on even more, intelligently than he is accustomed to.

A welcome, seasonable little book -“very good and very pleant, especially when the sun shines and the green turf is dry and

D. H. LAWRENCE ON THE

A Distinguished Party. What is the story? There was a house party at Tranby Croft, the house of a rich merchant and ship- Į fast, owner, Mr. Arthur Wilson, for the Doncaster racca in September, 1900; To this party came, among other distinguished persons, the Prince of Wales and his friends, Lieut.. „Colonel Sir William Gordon-Cum- ming, Bart. At night haccarat was played on an improvised table, and the son of the house, Mr. Stanley Wilson, observed that Sir William Sordon-Cumming, increased his several occasione after the 'cards had been shown. (This is) like betting on a race after you know which horso has won.)

stake

BIBLE.

"APOCALYPSE."' By D. H. Lav- ronce. With an Introduction' by Richard Aldington. Seckor. 78, 64.

"..

that the consignees insist upon a The crux of the whole trouble is. continuance of the aforesaid con- cession, very pluckily though ab murdy pontending that the concee- sion cannot be cancelled without and obtaining their consent! the companies first consulting them

Britiah Consul as Mediator.

In the meantime the British Consul intervened and the question was brought to the notice of the Mayor (newly appointed) who up parcntly sides with the labourers. A meeting of all the parties in terested was arranged for last Monday in the Mayor's office, with Mr. Blunt, the Consul, expressing is willingness to attend, but it did not materialise as early in the morning no lighters could be seen alongside vessels of the affected Companies, qutte contrary to the previous, understanding that a strike would not begin in the meantime. Is, was not before about two in the afternoon when the lightors com: menced work that the conference was hold at 4 o'clock and con tinued till a late hour.

Shipping Companies' Offer. During the meeting the shipping companies went a step further to affect a compromise by offering to D. H. Lawrence begins his last phy all coolie hire in arrears from liked the Bible as a boy, because present month, it being understood. book by telling us how much he dieNovember 1 last till the end of the of the way in which it was read inflat from June 1 the coolfe hire is By means of unobtrusively slip-chapel. ping more counters forward Sir he declares, must, from earliest The proposal was turned down and Without realising it," to be for account of the consignees, William contrived to be paid, on childhood, havo detested; the pie-pie tatious occasions, fifteen or twenty mouthing, solemn, portentous, loud

so the meeting was a wash-out. pounds, when he should have been way in which everybody read the Douglas steamers Hajyang and Hai- On Tuesday and Wednesday the paid only five. The discovery was Bible, whether it was persons or discussed in the house party, Sir teachers or ordinary persone. Anding were unable to work their William was How to cheat by of all the books of the Bible he cargo owing to the absence of several other players and the affair appears

lighters and Id to be overcarried. ended with his leaving the house

to havs disliked the Though Jardine's are the local "Book of Rovélation" most. early one morning without saying good-bye to his hostess, having signed a paper in which, very sen- sibly, he had been made to promise never to touch cards again.,

In return for this promise the party was pledged to secrecy. It was a virtual admission of guilt

An Anonymous Letter.

mature opinion of the book, and labourers thought it to include In Apocalypse" he gives his agents for the Douglas Co., the it cannot be said to be much more gory, a thing conceivable only in their steamers under the same cate flattering Apart from some page China. However, a protesthes book the Christianity of tenderness and it is believed the strike against splendour, he holds that in this been lodged against this irregularity is utterly pushed aside by the Daugins bonts will be ablqdoned, Christianity of self-glorification: self-glorification of the humble. Christian lora in other words, gives place to Christian ey

Firm Attitude.

The shipping agents are maintain-

The secret was not perfectly f Lawronce believed that in this ing a firm attitude and are not pre- kopt, however, by whom we do not book the poor and the weak learned pared to concedes an inch more.. know; rumours got about, Bir to dream of the longed-for destruc-The China Merchants N. Co. William. received. nin anonymous tion of the rich and powerful. He being under Government control, letter saying that people wore is filled with an extraordinary have little or nothing to shy in the

talking" and foaring that he hatred of the triumphant saints prosent issue": would become an outcnet from the and martyrs "How vile is their Army and the whole of society, ha spirit, really," he writes, " insist took an action for liberal against ing on wiping out the whole uni- renco was always trying to think his accusers at Tranby Croft, Hu verne, bird and blossom, star and things out for himself; but he was lost the action.......

river, and above all everybody ex by no means a profound thinker, In his preface the late Mr.eapt themselves and their precious and his exposition of the Apo- Teignmouth Shore states that this saved brothers".

calypse, throws little light on thu volume is an attempt to win justice Apart from Lawrence's most ca deeper problemci buman life AL for the memory of a mun much thusiastic admirers, it is improb- best, it is a mring of. sxelamation wronged and to clear away theable that "Apocalypse will be by one who was ecstatic and angry sonndal that was so stupidly attach read with much enjoyment Law by turns, and who gonius lay in odby Press and Public to the (Confinued at fort of next column)", "other" Aolds that this

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