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TELEPATHY.
AN HOUR WITH MR. RUBINI.
be given thaar by repeating here the commands which our re presentative mentally telegraphed to Mr. Rubini during the process
Walk to the fourth row of "I tell you, my fat friend, you cription given by books
What is telepathy? The des-chairs-turn to the right-ap- of proach Mr. Burlingham-take the have no business in that boat," reference to this term is that it is envelope from his breast pocket said Theodore Hook one day to a Sfat man in a dingy on the Thames ad or transmitted from one mind the envelope also grabbed fr
(here the telepathist in taking out a mental communication convey- "No business in this boat, siri to another. It is a phenomenon Burlingham's cigarette case) what do you mean?" "I mean what
No, no, put that case down on the table and pick up the
THAT ST. GEORGE'S MEETING.
WERE IT NOT FOR PLEASURE The writer of what follows is OP SPEAKING ILL, THERE ARE an Englishman who attended the NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE annual meeting of the Society of TOO ILL-NATURED TO OPEN THEIR St. George. If he has to offer a LIPS IN CONVERSATION.—Steele. few criticisms he will at least be absolved from any charge of national bias or prejudice against Englishmen. The suggestion made by Mr. Frost, in his letter to the
There Wag a clean bill papers on the day of the meeting, health in the Colony yesterday. that the gathering had not been regularly convened, proves, on examination, to be a little be-
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before the date of the meeting.
It was published on the 6th and
H. M. S. Hawkins and H. M. Cairo are again in harbour.
For the theft of a piece the 13th instant. All the same.jsilk from the s.s. Glenoriff, by no means sufficient put icity Chinese was to-day giren was given to the pending meeting, weeks at the Police Court. for the mere insertion of ani
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I say," coolly responded Hook. which has come to the observ "You have no business in it, and ation of but a comparatively I will prove it." "I think, sir, you shall number of persons, and velope only that's right-now Rear-Admiral G. H. Borrett, of will prove no such thing, said the those who have only heard of open
it are generally inclined to regard which it with the same
name degree of the side the mark, for the ad-H.M.S. "Cairo," with Mrs. Borrett navigator. "Perhaps you do net
did appear
well and daughter, is staying at the know that this is my pleasure scepticism that they give to
boat."Some impudent person, who within the requisite seven days Hongkong Hotel.
did not have the courage of sign-spiritualism. The writer must the fourth row of chairs-turn in ing his name, sent the following confess to sharing the common now put it in Mr. Ko's breast
feeling regarding these things pocket." letter to me. addressed thus.
until he made the acquaintance All these mental injunctions "Whoever FOU may bg.- You are at full liberty to write of Mr. Eugene de Rubini yester were responded to by the tele articles in the Telegraph, but day and was introduced into a pathist with such uncanny cor- what was written by you in last telepathic seance which com-rectness that it gave the news- advertisement twice in one paper. His Excellency the Governor evening's paper under the head-pletely breaks down the barrier of paperman a cold feeling down cannot be regarded as adequate will be present at the Diocesan ing An Islander's Diary is an and convinces him that tele-"divining rod had s
arguments he had built up the spice. He surmised that the notice to all the members of the Boys' School to-morrow at 5.30 impertinent act of yours. You
great Society. The St. Andrew's Society p.ni. to distribute the prizes All have to be careful in the future. If paths at least is a reality. The deal to do with this establish does things far better. The Ac-friends of the school are invited you have anything to say against that telepathy in some respects and as the result, was further
conclusion he has arrived at is ment of mental communications, "
this Colony, are circulated in printed form 4.30 pm.
say it only to yourself. You have resembles hypnotism. In tele-surprised when another exp r- to all members long before
to mind your own business, other pathy it is the audience who are iment of the same nature was the meeting, with the result
called upon to cominunicate made with a watch-chain belong liberal people's business-have-nothing their commands to the telepathist, ing to a member of the audience. that everybody knows the date response to the appeal for the got to do with you." The gods who acts upon them without To all appearances the chain Czecho-Slovak refugees from be praised with having endowed losing his sense of will, though in seemed as useful a "divining rod" more, is able to attend the meet-Vladivostock. A good quantity me with a humble spirit. In the
"after having thoroughly of clothing and some money have words of Horace.-
the reception of the mental as the original article. The digested the report and the
message he has to relapse into a seances reached a more advanced Di beng fecerent inopis me quad-light mental trance, during which stage when members of the of the St. George's Society, the
que pustit.
condition he can neither read, audience were shown that by All communications intended for publication should be address-members who did attend the
Finzerunt rara et perpunert write nor speak.
walking one or two paces behind ad to the Editor.
annual meeting had only a few.
In the Basket Ball League last loquentis.
Mr. Rubini is a Czecho-Slovak Mr. Rubini, they could transmi: Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
minutes in which to look over evening, U.S.S. Helena beat the
and arrived in Hongkong yester- their meatal commends to the The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $35 whilst as for a
three separate financial accounts, Y.M.CA. by 23 to 13, after a most
The week has been devoid of day, bringing with him a reput- telepathist without the medium Committee's interesting display. This evening
In this way per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
report there was none! The A.4.C. are to play South China, stirring events. All the excite-ation from Holland and Europe as of the divining rod. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a stated that the first item was to University "B,"
parture of the Hon. Mr. Severn, will give some public perfor- to an adjoining room, pick out the full month.
on long leave. It is well-knownmances at the Victoria Theatre objects that had been concealed receive the Report of the Com- The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addresses mittee and the Statement of Last evening at the V.RC. P.in social and official circles tha: at which his telepathic powers, there, walk up to the piano and is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies Accounts for the past year." The Yvanovich won his way into the should a releatively important in various phases, will be amply play on it. It was a startling all- delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies only report furnished was the the final of the Colony's Billiards British Colonies or Possessions, seance was given at the Hong-powers and the audience were all post fall vacant in any of the demonstrated. A private scientific round. exhibition of telepathic speech of the Chairman, which, Championship by defeating W. Mr. Severn will be given it, and presentatives of the Press, the Mr. Rubiri had exceeded their kong Hotel yesterday to re-unanimous in the opinion that the Society were concerned, con- was a so far as the year's activities of Hall by 750 to 539. The game the chances Ba that by
most interesting one.
Faculty Medical
and Mr. highest expectations of the time his leave expires needed is that the practice of the Golding. tained precious little. What is To-morrow, S. Gray meets Lieut. such
Burlingham, the Assistant Super-powers. 2 vacancy will arise.
When the fact is remembered St. Andrew's Society be followed.
If otherwise, Mr. Severn will intendent of Police. "In accord- come back to Hongkong, and be ance with the invitation extended that Mr. Rubini does not under Let us have a properly drawn up report and accounts, together the Police conducted
During the arms search which probably promoted from here. to him, the writer proceeded to a stand English the amazing nature at the Hotel in of the phenomenon is made more with a list of members. Then Empress
theIt is interesting to study the re- private room
its markable change that had come which the demonstration was apparent. In whatever language Englishmen who attend the arrival bere yesterday. annual meeting will be able to quantity of percussion caps were their estimation of Mr. Severn demonstrations which were re-rec ived in the telepathic mind. over the public in the Colony in given. He was there initiated the thoughts of the audience are into P series of telepathic formed. their message can be take an intelligent interest in brought to light amongst the On the departure of Sir Henry
luggage of a Chinese passenger. May many were not inclined to with which they were carried mysteries of the phenomenon, markable for the correctness How this can be so, is one of the The mac was arrested and was fancy Mr. Severn much as an fined $250 at the Police Court administrator. The change came out to conform with the mental but the fact remains that differ- to-day.
conductor ",ence in languages is not one of rapidly when it was recognised commands of the that he was one of the crowd. which is the term applied to the the bandicaps to the establish- " An Indian was arrested by the He possessed to a great extent, person who directs the subcon- ment of telepathic communic
ation between one person and piece of procedure was that by Police on a charge of being in what the French would style,scious actions of the telepathist. which those present were given possession of 1014 taels of opium. don de plaire, the natural disposi- First our representative was another. free choice to nominate and vote Revenue Officers, in their search tion of making himself agreeable given a paper which gave him!
It Wa5 explained by Mr. for whom they liked to serve on of the man's boxes at one of the to every one. It is not easy to directions for the proper conduct. Kokke. Manager for Mr. Rubini, A good many things of international importance happen in this the Committee, though the
of men, and enjoined him not world of which Reuter tells us nothing at all, at least not until it has absence of a list of members made wharves, came upon the drug, judge at the first glance of ing of telepathic experiments. It that too much importance could to "confuse not be given to the requirement become fairly stale news.
** mental this task somewhat of farce. which was done up in a packet the characters We were surprised to find on picking up in the ballot, we don't know. An attempt was made by the those who attemp: to do so
telepathy"! with that those persons who desire to the Canton Times yesterday that a monarchist revolution has broken
Indian to bolt with the packet, are frequently
"thought reading ", but to under-participate in disappointed.
experiment what complexities presented out in Berlin, this statement being made on the authority of Reuter themselves to the scrutineers, but/ but he was chased and arrested. The manners and conversation of stand that Mr. Rubini could only must possess a clear line of own correspondent at Paris. It appears from the message that the
on mental commands thoughts for the guidance of the Charged before the Magistrate at the men of the world are artifici- act revolution broke out on Saturday, Marines of the Iron Division the fact remains that they the Magistracy to-day he was al, and it is only by some severe which must be pre-determined in telepathist. At one of the seances marching from a neighbouring camp, seizing the Wilhelmstrasse. took about half an hour to
fined $100, or, in default, three ordeal or by long experience that the proper order in accordance it was noticed that the telepathist The message further states that the revolutionary leaders parleyed arrive at the result and
their natural propensities are to with the succession of actions was sometimes thrown with the regular authorities during the night, but that the Cabinet by the time it was made known months bard labour.
be discovered. As Phaedrus very that went to make up the whole an undecided line of action rejected all their demands. A proclamation has been issued of fully three-quarters of the mem-
Two Chinese boys were fined aptly wrote, Decipit frons prima operation of the seance or exper owing to the fact that the lady monarchical character, but meanwhile, Herr Ebert and Herr Noske
bers had left. The consequence
these instructions, inferiore condidit cura angule. have issued a manifesto calling on the workers to reply to the so-was that this little handful of men $5 each by the Magistrate (Mr. Multos rare mens intelligit, quod iment. Having mentally dige. tel who was involved in the exper- repre-iment did not fully concentrate called coup d'etat by a general strike.
decided by a show of hands who E. A. Irving) at the Police Court
sentative thought out an exper- her thoughts on the line of actions Such, in brief are the details of what, if true, constitutes a very should be the twelfth member of to-day for assaulting a ricksha
iment which he calculated would that she desired to mentally coo. With the paralysed state of the administer the knock-out to the voy to the telepathist. This position of Germany, apart altogether from this latest news, is of for the place. Incidentally, the assault aniounts to the fact that freight market to-day and no most redoubtable of telepathists. shows how completely the actions important political crisis in the history of Germany. The whole the Committee, there being a tie coolie in Kowloon City. The extremely interesting character. Germany presents the story of a
three scrutineers were outside the when the coolie asked for his hope of an improvement for many He secured the visiting card of a of the telepathist, are under the people who have got to get back all that their mistaken rulers lost the meeting grappled with the between
room busy counting votes when proper fare for the distance months to come, I should have Mr. N. C. Ko, enclosed it in an control of the audience.
the Ferry for them. They have been militarily defeated after having been led'
Wharf thought that the China Officers envelope, and inserted it in the Mr. Rubini will appear to- to believe that they were invincible, they have had to suffer the problem as to the form in which and Kowloon City, his passenger, Guild and the China Engineers breast pocket of Mir. Burlingham's morrow at the Victoria Theatre. imposition of terms in contrast to their formerly cherished ideas of George's Day should be cele. one of the boys, rushed up to his Guild world have, on some ex-jacket. All these actions were, being enabled to exact--their whole outlook, nationally and interna-i
brated, and as one of the motions house and immediately returned cuse, got the arbitration inde-of course, concealed from Mr. ticnally has undergone a violent change. And it is bat natural that was declared lost by only two with a henchman in the person of finitely postponed. It is as plain Rubini, who had been sent out there should have been created a very deep feeling of resentment votes, they might have upset the the other boy. Together they as a pike-staff that the present is of the
and kept ander and also of distrust of any who shod gain administrative power.
made for the poor coalie and not the time to ask the Ship- the eye of one of the audience. decisión had they been present! We are very fond of talking about humiliation, of making Germany THE CULMINATION.
stabbed him on the arm with a owners' Association to arbitrate. When be returned, our represent- realise that it is not "entitled to all the sun, but no man was ever
knife.
The men of the Guilds were ative was handed s cariously. brought down from an airy castle and forced to eat humble pie Now, the retiring President of
well-advised to patch up shaped piece of metal workman-
The following team will repre- without being resentfully disappointed, We have seen that all through the Society (Mr. Pollock), being
reconciliation. Why not admit ship which bas the term of sent the Club against the Army the negotiations with the Supreme Council Such resentment has a legal man, ought to know
frankly that the time is not ripe divining rod" given to it. It on Thursday at 5.30 p.m-H. C. had a very regrettable manifestation recently in the insulting something about rules of pro-|
to ask the shipowners to pay consists of two pieces of spirally B. Way; J. W. Alabaster, A.MD. treatment that has been given to British and Allied officers in. cedure at meetings. But on
enhanced salaries? It is wound brass wires which run Wallace, A. G. Simpson, R. A. Berlin, but it is satisfactory to learn that those who were Monday he displayed a painful neth Matheson, after a brief il- open secret that many of the into a disc at the middle. One Brand: V. G. Smythe and R. M. in authority at that time promised
masters and engineers are mak-end of this "rod" he held in his Henderson; N.A. Harper, C. M. ก just punishment for ineptitude at the job when it such indiscretion and also expressed their regres. It is just as came to considering the manner iness, a distinguished social figure, ing good money outside their hand. while the other end was de Courcy, A. H. Cobb; H. N. and, until his unexpected mar will to realise that the Allies cannot have all the take; there of celebrating the next St.
were very reluctant to join the the seance commenced, a better McCann, A. G. Lamplugh, and has to be a little of the give as well, the only thing to guard George's Day. Three proposals riage in 1913, one of London's Par, and a large number of them taken by the telepathist. Then Pountney, P. D. Youll, J. S.
Do the against being any attempt on the part of Germany to erede ine were made:-1, That on the day wealthiest bachelors, has passed strikers.
Guilds description of which could not J. Ralston. lawful and accepted conditions of the Versailles Treaty. If any some effort, such as the award of way. His successor and half- really want the shipowners to
brother, Sir Alexander Matheson, monarchical group has succeeded in wresting the power from those scholarships to British schools or settled in
prove to them that they are not Western in whose hands it formerly was it will undoubtedly lead to a the bolding of an Essay Com-where he proved not only
Australia, making money at present? The great many complications and further sad days for Germany. For petition in the schools, be made capable business man, but whole thing as been badly our own part we do not think that any people would go back in to interest the children in affairs politician of some standing. The saying. Those whom the gods the property of the Government, believed,
handled. Remember the Latin
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. 1920.
GERMANY'S INTERNAL POSITION.
momentous phase,
.
THE BALLOT.
As to the meeting itself, we have never seen one that was worse handled. The only sensible
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particularly allegiance to the party that brought them such ruin as the clique pertaining that took them into the late war and, in any case, we feel that thej England;
father both of the late and of the wish to destroy they first make will, I understand from a very this plot of there be new baronet was a member and
reliable source, shortly be put certain workmen and the great mass of the people, who were so solidly no celebration of the
one of the founders of the great. behind Herr Ebert and his party after the armistice, will not have beyond the wearing of a badge; frm of Jardine, Matheson and [We cannot agree with "Ajax." up for auction. The property bidding, in spite of the present a great deal of time for anybody else. But whatever has happened, and 3, That an English ballad Co.
will be auctioned in lots, stringency of the money market. The decision to arbitrate, sugand, it may be safely presumed, I wish we had in our midst en Germany is entitled to a little sympathy, no matter what we have concert be held. As these were against her for past faults. She is passing through her most procedure would bave been to
gested by Government, has at any will fetch more than the upset American millionaire, for it would all separate ideas, the proper
rate postponed a serious strike. The owners will now have ample price. The sale of this building not take him long to realise what One has only to think for a little while of the great changes in vote on the third idea first, the President calmly intimated opportunity of proving that the had been inordinately delayed, a splendid opportunity awaits the past five and a half years to realise what it must all mean for the other proposals. But no, the doubt consider the matter! Then should be far more illuminating appreciated considerably. It is Hotel, similar to
regarding it as an amendment to that the new Committee would to times are bad. Their books and, thanks to this, its valce has the man who establishes another people who were industrially prosperous if nothing else. It has first motion was put and carried, what on earth was all the voting than mere general statements. Company is going to make a big see almost every day batches the Hong. bean more than a revolution to them and one must expect that & the same was done with the about? A more hopeless muddie Ed. H. K. T
rumoured that the Standard Oil Kong Hotel. It is disgusting to considerable period of time must elapse before things settle down to. anything like a normal state. The Allies are trying to act justly second, and then, although it had we have never seen. For a body
hid for it, for an up-to-date office of applicants at the Hongkong and even generously to Germany from an economic standpoint and the day, the third suggestion was vote against celebrating St
just been decided not to celebrate of Englishmen to cold-bloodedly!"
for themselves. The structure Hotel being turned down for lack Is there room in the Colony for will be a very imposing one, and of accommodation. As I have itis to be hoped that nothing will transpire which will upset-thealso put to the meeting and George's Day is bad enough. But, another up-to-date Hotel? Un-in all probability the upper floors previously stated, such a state of plans of those who, whilst being victors, would like to see Germany occupying her former position so soon as is ever possible. There declared defeated by two votes! having done that, for several of doubtedly there is a splendid will be farmed out to local offices affairs must eventually redound will be a lot of trying circumstances to contend both within and The muddle did Dot end them immediately to vote in opportunity awaiting one who who cannot get accommodation to the discredit of the Colony, without but there is legitimate room to hope that Germany will there, for when it was enquired favour of a concert stamps them wishes to form a limited liability at present. There is yet another and serve to drive away a good eventually emerge from out of the transition as a nation purged of
whether the holding of alas something not far removed concern for such a purpose. The Richmond in the field, I am told. portion of the tourist trade from her evils and strengthened in her better points.
concert was thus prohibited, from fools. By George ! Old Post Office building, which is He is Sir Paul Chater, who, it is Hongkong.
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