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TOODLES

Story of a British Boy.

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The Assassination of Nicholas II.

The saasssination of a monarch fight side by side to protect Paris from the neglected spot of the always impressed the imagination.

Only the other day, as it seems,

It French and Eglish soldiers one would have thought

under. He came up again and took M. Paul Cambon's Life Work Toodles Corri, a worthy son a long gasping breath, and an of a famous father, has gone to other drowning man grasped kim hid last, long rest, and there is and creprod him down, so that hardly a soul throughout the he was nearly strangled with the langth and breadth of the Eng- sale water. Again he came up from the enemy, it is not former Forsign Settlement that and the brutal murder of Neholes lish-speaking world who will not The ship had gone on. All unconnected with the life-work of its days of prosperity bad gone II will win more sympathy for

grieve.

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he was then

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GRIL SALVAGE: ROMANCE

Rammed Fired, Scuttled and -Thrics Mined.

CHURCH SERVICES:

St. John's Cathedral, Hongkons

18th Funday after Trinity, 29th September, 1918. Holy Com munion (7.50 am) Mating (11)

Response: Ferial. Venite Savage Palms Turton. To Deum: Russell, Jones and Pra Benedictus: Langdon, Hymns * 193, 423, (235) God Save the King, N.BPsalm 139, verses 1, 6, 11, 15, 22, G.P. in unison, Hymn 423, verses 1, 3 and 5. in unison. Litany, (12 noon.} Evensong (6 pm:) Responser Ferial. Psalms: Rimbault and Stainer. Magnificat: Beethoven (27th morning. Nunc Dimittis: Wickes (10th morning.) Hymns: 424 (327), 550, 23. N.B.--Paalm 142, verses 1, 6 and 8, in unisoÁM Psalm 143, verses 1, 2, 7, 8 and

1 and 6, in unison. Hymn 550, verses 1 and 5, in unison. Hymn 23, verses 1 and 6, in" unison.

The following is from the pen around him the water was fall of M. Paul, Camber, says the Davy for evar, Fully one third of the him than anything he did in his of Arthur L. Oopping, special The story of this amasing boy, straggling wen wearing lifebalta. Chronicle. Exretly for twenty buildinge on the Main Street bore ill-starred life. Alive, he was correspondent in

the Daily he was only sixteen years of age, he swam to one whom he vere he has been French the ominous legood. "To Be Lot harmless because utterly discredit Chronicle-Island undulations is that of a modern Midshipman recognised as a steward, hoping Ambassador at

Albert Gate, upon them; now.sot s house, noted. Mordered; be becomes a formed a belt of ourving green Easy. Coming of such pronounced for air until he could recover Daring that long period he has even an apartment or office power.

above the chalk cliffe, and, at their sporting stock it was little wonder little more strength..

The murder was probably the foot, bright frooked children play- that "Toodles". took to games,

seen many vicissitudos in his own room is obtainable, and the Help me, Mr. Corri, I can't se in British politice, but he has same may be said of the side work of brei, ignorant men, ed on the pebble shore. Sen and his abarity boxing with bis swim." ralled the steward. never swerved from the line he streets branching off from it. The who had no conception of the sky compsted to reveal the richest brother Mickey all over she evan- **You're all right; you have laid down. Whilst serving his Union Estate and Investment Co. complexities of government. One shade of blus; for all the world try making the pair one of the belt." answered Cori, and swam own country with conspicuons has purchased the orner site can imagine the crise of his Rad was bathed in copirus ennshine. most popular "turns" in the on. Tarning to looked for the ship loyalty, he has kept ever before opposite the Internations! Build Guard: Hey, comrades, why and against that tranquil back- realm of boring.

be s that her headway had him the high purpose of Franco ing upon which it is erecting bother about him? Why drag ground we found a strange, Now Toodles" is dead, for carried her along for several British friendship. And the end building to be let out as him from pisos to place. He pathetic ship, foundered and half- pedoed by a German submarine handred yards, and as he looked crowns the work typified by the offices, but it will be some months drank our blood long enough submerged, and painted in bright 12, in unison. Hymn 474, verses in the Atlantic.

His father the War Barón slowly rose on heroic struggles of the Entente yet before the work is com- Let's kacak him on the head, and colours, though not by man. Also received the message of his belov-end, stern high in air, and dived. forose in Franca.

plsted. The demand for accommos we'll spite the counter revolution did we note a noise, a small, and, ed son's death in the National Huas' Derisive Shouts. He came to us after Frehods, dation comes, of course, largely ista No Government could snother ship-sister vessel to our Sporting Club last Monday night.

wished to own and anchored alongside the And now, through the falling There was still an uneasy feeling from those in search of new fields omoirshly have dukas, the German submarine in the air. Hemories maakled for business opened up by the make away with Nicholes. Chi- fantastic wreck, to bim, read it quietly through, esme slowly poking through the By hie parent authority and war. The permanency of their oberin's telegram to the German The noise was strong pulsations bowed his head, and without a wreckage. About twenty Gerrident goci will, M. Cambon conpation is another matter; but, Government shows that the of pumping machinery, whence word to anyone walked out. mans were or ber decks, and they cleared sway the debris, of us in your port, this proprietors, Bolsheviks had no wish unneces-prouted great suction tabes," Toodles" Corri was a marvel waved their hande at Corri and misunderstanding. How well he after a long spell of bard look, sarily to incur the displeasure of from whose raised extremities boy. At the age of thirteen, shouted derisively at the men succeeded every one now are making bay while the sun the Germans by the murder of a fountains of water gushed into an exceedingly drowning in the icy water. recognises. The public re the chines. The Bluff enjoys a like relative of the Kaiser and of the the sex. We were viewing sample Navy. Inside of three years his bat he knew the Germans would bakit did not at once realise who ordinary rise in the cost of mat bad nothing to lose. It was Salvage S-otion-st-crested well-grown lad, he joined the Carri was tempted to shout back, reenit in the greas pact of 1904, prosperity, though the extra Grand Duke of Darmateds. They operations of the Admirsity ships were torpedoed, twice sunk shoot him with their revolvers, was behind it. When the fall erial prevents the erection of what clearly a wanton set of a turbulent department which, by restoring by mines, and nearly always eo he stopped swimming, and, story comes to be written, we dwelling-houses for small families. of the Cacho-Slovake, whom they ships that had been sent to the is so badly needed-suitable gendarmerie alarmed by the case to Britain some 400 large cargo fighting submarines,

zalling slowly over on his back, shall see how great a part belong It may be objected that land there mistakenly supposed to be eager bottom of the sea, Las sasieted Young Oorri went through the floated with only his face out of to the French Ambassador. His experience of being torpedoed in water, expecting a bullet every sincerity and candour triumphed is difficult to obtain, bat many of re-establish a monarchy. the Mediteranean, where he was moment. In a few minates the over all obstacles?

invaluably to circumvent Bun the lots now covered with on

No Wish to Reign." piracy and maintain our food on duty for a year. On this submarine had gone.

Colonial questions having been bersome and inconvenient two- No party in Russia desited the supply. occasion the vessel was fast sink. The torpedoing, had been seen

from shore, and wireless signals settled by the treaty of 1904, storied houses and useless garden return of Nicholas II., except, s

A Floating Furnace. there remained other questions space might most profitably be tiny, powerless co'erie, Mouar. bad been sent for British between.

devated to the purpose suggested. chical feeling a grown rapidly setoanding story of that wreak, As a first instalment of the But the second time which was destroyers. It was two hours Amongst them wse the support utilised verandahed dwellings but it has groped rainly in search hours she drifted as a Boating

the two countries..

The days of the wide and seldom- since the Bolshevik Bevolution, let me mention that for many 6 year ago, January 5, off the before they arrived and found that each should give, in the Doast of England, Corri did not the survivors in the black winter event of a wanton attack upon

have long gone by.

of a suitable candidate. No one furasoe aflame from bow to stern. come off so easily. It was night. They ware two desperate either of them by a third party.

wanted Nicholas. The Provisional Tons all protective paint, was exceptionally cold mid-winterly ecld hours for the men in the This was settled by letters

Government did wisely to leave barat off, and the naked metal weather when the War Baron water. Corri said that he was exchange in 1912 between, Sir eoand, for it comes from the right him in peace and to permit him left to be coated quickly with went down. Engere Cari was tempted to take off his coat, for Edward Grey and M. Paul Cam source. His 36 years' experience to live in dull comfort, far from rust and with clinging forms of fourth officer.fle was fifteen be found it interfered with swim bon. It marked the beginning as Ambassador has given him a

the turmoil. Ha was harmless marine life, animal and vegetable, years old then, 51t. 10in. tall, and ming, bus comenow he felt that of a new and active era. Hataal large circle of friende and cor and had no wish to reign, Fire also was the clue to certain

■ splendid athlete.

it would be colder without the protection was carried a step respondeate, who keep him posted Father reads aloud to us in the grim features of the wreak reveal- Be had just been assigned to cust, so he kept it on.

wrote his daughters ed et close quarÌSIE, the War Baron, an American oil-

further when, on August 2, 1914, on all points. Thus his know evening, After a time be was so numbed on the eve of the invasion of ledge of contemporary history is from Tobolsk to their friends in burning vessel. Having served that the cold no

To peer down the main hold longer hurt, and Belgium, the French Ambassador unrivalled. It gives him un- Petrograd. in coal barning ships before he when be was picked up he was was able to assure bis Govern questionable advantage.

Before he abdicated be bad was to ees a black confusion of had a keen desire to inspect the delirione and did not know much ment that England would not about what was happening. The allow the bombardment of the engine room of the oil burner.

abandoned control. His apathy twisted girders, charred cake On the afternoon of the fires War Baron had gone down in northern coasts of France. And is his brother, Jules Cambon, thought he must have formed out of carbon alime. The faction His most valued correspondent was a great, that his sociates and burnt balee, all involved in a day out Corri went off watch at two minutes.

Corri secaped there followed, almost immediate who rules at the Qaai d'Oresy as some drug habit. "Oh, I am so tabes descended into that pit, 4 o'clock, and told the officer who death by the ten seconds or so ly, the momentous decision which permanent director of French sick and tired of all politics," he and so they were drawing "P of Scnpture, 8 pm. Thursday, relieved him that he thought he'd that he was in the stokehold, for fang English troops into the field foreign policy. Jales has been said one day to Protopopot. He not merely a double deluge of go down and look at the erginee. the engine room crew was gone. at Mone,

French Ambassador at Madrid, listlessly, wearily, without a sigh counted for the smell) such foul water, bui alzo (ind this so "You'd better not," said the Fifty-seven men were lost. The

Washington, and Berlin, and is of emotion, gave up his throne,

Taarakce Selo.

ing when he was beached, so that

the loss of men waa amall."

A Brilliant Improvisation.

A Diplomatic Pair.

to

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officer jokingly. "You know the Į sound in Corri's leg became in Though M. Cambon's eminenca declared to be a match for the and then took to gerdesing in Boisome gas, as is generated by ¦

fire when:

Orash!

Corri and the chief engineer

My steam gauge is gone! shouted the chief over a tamalt

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St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon- 18th Sunday after Trinity, 29th September, 1918. Holy Com munion after Evening Service Morning Frayer 11 am, Res ponses: Ferial. Venite: Savage. Psalm: 139 Turton. Psalm: -140-Barnby. Te Deum: Hayes, Russell and Stainer.Benedictus: Goodenough, 22nd Evening. 107. Hyman: 558, Grod Bay Bymn: 336, Hymn 53. Hymn:- King, Evening Prayer 6 pm. Responses: Ferial Psalm: 142 Rimbault Psalm: 143 Turle Magnificat Beethoven, 27th Morning. Nunc Dimittis; Pur cell, 1st Evening. Kyrie: Men- delssohn. Hymns: 105. Hymn: 80 (Tune 222 A. & M.) Hymn; Union Church, Kennedy Road,→

404. Hymn: 419. Sunday 29th September, Morn. ing service at 11 o'clook. Hymns:2, 551, 12, 225, 236, Preacher Rev. S. Whilding (RGA) Evening service at 6 o'clock Hymas: 373, 241, 237,. 191, 514 Preacher: Rev. T St. Peter's Church, West Point.

W. Scholes MA

11 am Morning Prayer and

Sermon.

Peak Church Holy Communioa at 8.15 am. Evening Service and Sermon at 6:30 p.m.

The Gospel Hall-No. 10 and 12 Pedder Street). Weekly Services:---Sunday, Breaking of Bread; 11 am. Gospel Meet- ing, 8pm. Tuesday, Exposition Bible Class, & p.m. Friday, Bible Class for Ladies, 3,30 p.m. ! Saturday, Prayer Meeting, 8

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wanchal. — Sunday Morning Service 10.15 am. Bunday Evening Bervice 6 pim..

soldiers

ssly,--Low Mases at 6, 7, and 9.30 am. High Mass at 8 am, 5.30 p.m.--Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament,

First Church of Christ Scientist, MacDonnell Road. Bundays, 11:15am.Wednesdays, 5,30 p.

engine room isn't a pleasant place ffected, and be spent six months

rotting portions of a submerged to be if a torpedo comes along." in a hospital.

in diplomacy is world-acknow Kaiser. Save for their pincenez,

Small-minded, with a curious-Cargo. "Oh, we'll never be hit by a

Now this youngster is gone, ledged, he was not trained for their medium height and their

And now note another facte in torpedo," said "Toodles" con- In the Sporting Times Eugene the career. After an education alertness and vigour at 70 odd ly formal sense of duty and s fidently.

Corri in a paznetic manner telle on the lines of the old "baman-years, the brothers do not reeem bindness to larger issues, weak, these strange proseedings. Two

and Saliors Home ble que another physically. M. with the fartive obstinacy of the men slowly termed a kind of

Arsenal Street-Sunday Event He dressed for dinner first, and all too plainly the terrible grief is, of which he still retains &

faculty for latin verse, he became Paul Cambon's features are more feeble, eaepicious pf

handled any double

windlass then, in his dinner jacket, went the loss of his son has brought.

ing, Gospel Services 8 pin. dawn into the engine room.

traditionally French and are set indications of strength or in pump for sending air along a St. Joseph's Church, secretars, as a quite young man,

Garden "A Giant for his Years." He had just noted the way in

to Jales Ferry, member of the cf by a emali pointed beared and tellect, treacherous to all his rubber tube, which could be Road-Mass, and Sermon at *Torpedoed, he, with some Provisional Government of 1870, carled moustache. M. Jales, on Ministers in turn, identifying the traced through the guardianship

10 am; followed by the Bene which the oil is sprayed into the nine others, made a raft of wreck Then he went to Nice, in the the other hand, has a more ragged power of Rassis with his own of three men, and so over the

diction of the Blessed Sacra age, and on this with but miser midst of the Commune, as general and severe sir. The two brothers attenuated personality, this very side and down into the water. Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glen-

ment able rations they clung," writes secretary at the Prefecture.are devoted to each other, and average guards, officer became Hard by was a duplicate of that Mr. Corri. "For nine or ten days Marseilles, still simmering with their united knowledge, character an instrument of far-reaching apparsing, with its similar crew. were throws violently to the these boys held together; tossed, political excitement, followed, and Bavoir faire" are the twin eslamity. He had unparalleled In each cass the five men minis floor. They scrambled up. buffeted, riven with hunger and Thereafter came foar posta as

rocks apon

which Franch opportunities and he missed them tared to a diver at work below on Tumult of Strange Noises. cold, with no sat ideas as to what prefect in the south, centre, est diplomsoy is built, Ministries all.

the ship'e hall. the end would be, but clinging, and north. From the Isst-named may come and go, but the Cambon Yet all who knew him, inalad. Not while I locked on did 8 you may suppose, to the hope, he became Resident General in policy happily endursa: ing the revolutionaries who had either appear. However, before terribly remote, that they would Tanis.

Distinguished in appearance to do with him after his abdios coming to the rusty wreck, we boys would have no fear; I know became Ambassador, frat at Paul Cambon ut sleo distinguished charm. He was devated to his stricken by the Bas; and at one. To begin with, her magasine

From being a Governor, he and in this quality of mind, tion, testify to bie great personal had visited several other vessels them. I have seen them they Madrid, then s: Conetsatinople, in his language. In his letters family, and the one passion of his going close in a pinnace, I had blew up. But soon log's But there was no live steam in would watch and pray, and com- and finally in London, where he and speeches he has the art of melancholy life was for his little seen a pair of divere come up intrepid commander had fasten- the engine room. Instead, en fort each other. I can hear this has remained ever since. It is saying the plain thing gracefully. son, bright, olever, very attras- from the water. In their time ed his hawse to the bot they reached the door, they saw youngster and that youngster say said that Constantinople makes He is precise and a parist. He tive boy who is repated of have bonoared costume and helmet, ing

ship's – Beza, wall of water rushing along when spirits were drooping sad from a great hole torn in the steef cracked, and eyes were blood past mestere in the srt of congeslihan ever the language of- of a compisint of which he was monsters with hard heads of a struck and that hawset parted im the tunnel into the engine room throats were parched and lips had the diplomst, for the Turke are the made his mother tongue more died a fortnight before his father they looked like ponderous haman bolarda tarboard

It proved frue, in this diplomacy. And yet, so we have doomed to die, hamphylia or particularly swollen order; and she explosion. To the port stern red, and hanger was gnawing All lights went out. In the cat their vitals, Hold on: we see, and M. Cambon established Been in his dispatches from the bleeding, a complaint hereditary thus it was carioas, on peering bollards another fug faatened its

bestern in bis mother's family,

into their great eyes, to see the towing gear, So once more the such a reputation that when he Bosphorus, he can darkness the rashing water swept are not dead yet. We inust be was ill his confreres gathered enough and direct enough. Even

The monarchical movement in small pink faces of young men ship of tragedy voyaged slowly Corri and the chief across the picked up Cheeržo į’

round his bad to consult with him when he talks to his Government, Ramis now has its martyr.

smiling self-consciously on bestern foremost towards the shore. stokehold and against the ladder. "Now, Toodles for his years His dispatches, as they appear in hs. is noted for a certain rude

holding visitorn, Poly

Anon, böwever, she struck another Up they climbed in desperate was a giant. You who have seen a Yellow Book, have lost nothing vigour of speech if the occasion

Among those other vessela was mine, and injuries were emblained haste. Corri could feel the chief's him box will remember him as of their force. It was st the warrantais, A certain letter will be TO AVOID DYSENTERY

hage oiler, which also had wary on her quarter. Still the salvage big hand sapporting him from very big and strong boy, and yet,

decks and much crinkled plating, people persisted in their efforts, behind when he missed his foot so terrible was his experience moment of the Armenian mase recalled, which became current, in

of strange noises, and dashed for

the door in the bulkhead, Curri

neck.

with him, running neck and

hall.

be picked up. I know that these

ment.

PINKETTES

weck. Denied 2avigation lights, was suck and another battering they collided in dark and thick was sustained by the hall. westher, where upon the oiler It was a contest between the burst into flames and her burning colosal and apparently endless benzine swept coross the other bad luck of that floating fornace crait, whose crew, penned in by and the dogged patience and cries for three minutes. Eight. The rescue orowa gristed their fire, were beard attering loud plack of H. A. Balvage: Booties. succeeded in jumping overboard, teeth and great on red and were afterwards resoned by a Afirst shallow waterish the j destroyer; but 32, including the Then came the task o master, perished.

ing the famen. A destroy directed to seattle the unfor The oiler, emitting columns of Tessel. Only alte smoke and fire, was towed into some shota on her water shallow water, there to be soutiled she begin to settle and afterwards asived, with some foundering being The opening of the new Kow. 8,000 tons of her inflammable she following through. Then he was in the

strong point is psychology. He school as "shirt-sleeved" in his loon Cricket Clab ground, cargo. The smaller Toneel, can and salt water, and the up-ended boat, you will so chape their fatare judges men and things with an methods. He is modern and par- advertised to take place, to-day, opied with roaring Ramon, have falling on him gasbed his left that they will carry on

inet fortiñed by long observa- ticularly so in his dislike of rød a postponed ount of the blundered through obenter of that

ing on the steep ladder, in the that at the end of nine days he acres, and the French diplomatist which he apbraided the pettiness and Diarrhoes during the sam.its story was tangled with the and a little more progress (wins inky blackness" of that roaring could not cling to and hold on to 98w through the hollowness of of Parisian politica sad its neglest mer months a gentis lazativa story of the zusty and bainsoled made, after which another -mise - Tarkish reforme." His words, of warnings. This ability to speak should be used whenever necees pit.

the raft any longer. A great Bes On deck he reported at once came swishing and roaring and too, were prophetic. They are in out with all the courage requisite ory to keep the system clean, to the captain and was sent to Toodlee was swept away. And process fulfilment at this hour, to a crisis is one of his most take charge of his bant. The twenty-four hours later his com quarter of a century after they precious qualities. It separates him from time-servers and placen were written, sailora were already clambering panions were resoned,

"Time will heal the deep cute nothing to regular channels, Le Thus, he is a combination of dispel oxastipation, liverishness,

If his skill in diplomacy owes him on a pedestal.

are laxative perfection. They into it where it swang on the davitz. In the wintry dusk they that have been stabbed into me, is all the stronger for en experi- strength and nose. Being sick headaches, bile. As good could see that the War Baron Toodles, and I, mother, Mickey; snoe which, es prefect, brought cultured Frenchman, he enjoys for the children as for adults was sinking fast. Corri took Sidney and Johnny will for ever, him inta fonch with administre the resources of his guage. Of chemists, or post free 80 cents his place and ordered: Lower be with you. And remember, Too live problems in France. To that wit, and, we this heroes the vial, from Dr. Williams

dles, though you were really only As the heavily loaded boat a child you have by your example circumstance is due, perhaps, his well-timed, arouse his humorons Medicine Co., 98 Baschnen Hond

strong political sense. He judges appreciation. He is not afraid of Shangbai, started down, suddenly the tackle and your sacrifice given to your first sa s citizen, then es a diplo the lighter side of life, though he broke. The men were hurled little brothers a book, which, into the water. Carri could hear though unwritten, they have mat, and thus be escapes the has little aims for its enjoyment. already read, and will read all arrow view of some of his pro- From long seeociation, he adopts

away.

the thrill sareech of the blooks se over sgain. You have intensif feesional brethren. He is the readily, the forms and toner of K. G. C. Event Postponed the rope of the bow tackle ran the chivalry that is in them, statesman tumed diplomat. His diplomery, but he is ne littla "old |

Bi information is always

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