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DIAMOND TIARAS-AND IRELAND.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Kandandang

Co-operation.

DAY BY DAY.

WHILE CORRECTING YOUR DIS- Having regard to the wide- OBEDIENT OFFSPRING IT MIGHT spread talk regarding Chinese aud BE WELL TO REMEMBER THAT Western industrial co-operation, YOU DID NOT DIE YOUNG. there is a considerable element of

pox

was fatal.

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THE BOOKSHELF.

(By **Librarian.")

A GERMAN ON THE WAR.

on wer

of

BILLIARDS.

Kembang

The Open Championship.

To-night's Games.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANT.

so Weems evolved much of this! portion of his hero's life from his own imagination and from, books in the second round commenc-he had read. The cherry-tree and hatchat incident was takon almost verbatim from Dr.

which WAS published eight

death. Other things credited to Washington were equally untrust- worthy; for example, the assertion

thrown a silver dollar across the Potomac at Mount Vernon-a

9.p.m.-R. A. Tyrrell (-100) v. years hofore Washington's

feat which is manifestly impos.

侮

en-

James

at great trouble collected material

'Life of

Playing in the third round of George Washington, the the Open Championship at the only person I ever heard of always told the Wuth,” The world has been given books V.R.C.. last night, B. Guimarez who by Ludonorff and others of the defeated C. Botting, 500-314, and remarked Mr. Justice Darling intorest in a leaflet lately issued A Chinese was yesterday military party, and the late Dr. will thus play in the semi-final. during the hearing of a by the Kiangnan Dock and admitted to the Government Bethmann-Hollweg resorted to Engineering Works, an added Civil Hospital Suffering from publishere more than once after Guimarez made breaks of 40, 25, case at the Old Bailey As unswerving veracity was origin- timeliness being given to the injuries caused by being knocked the Armistice. The ex-Chan-24, 22, 21, 20 (twice), 19, 18 matter of fact, this claim for subject by the recent appeal for down by motor car No. 463. cellor's volumes had too much of (twice), 17 (four times), 16, 18ally made on behalf of one of the

(twice); Botting's best joint activity which Mr. Alfred

Judge's own apuntrymen, the the character of the special 12, 11

efforts were 29, 24, 21, 20, 17, eldest son of James Beattie, who Sze made when leaving London on

Yesterday's health return pleader to make them a depend-

died at the age of twenty-two. the Chinese his transfer to

The game between T. B. Gold The author of "The Minstrel showes one ease each of small-able guide. Except for the series 14 (twice), 18, 10. Legation at Washington,

(Chinese), diphtheria of documents issued by the Re- In 1995, when the Kiangnan (Chinese) and paratyphoid fever publican Government after a ing and Leung Kam Kong fixed soothed his grief by writing a Dockyard was "little more then

(Portuguese). The diphtheria case committee had investigated the for to-night has been postponed biography of his son, in which Amudhole," Admiral Yoh, an

archives of the Imporial regime, juntil the 21st at 6 p.m., on account appeared the story of the cherry- probably no publication from the of the former being at camp, treo and many other instances of officer brought up under British traditions, in conjunction with

German side has provided such a

young Beattie's faultless de- Mr. R. B. Mauchan, a Clyde man, Members of the Helena May matter-of-fact type of narrative as HO KOM-TONG CUPS. meanour. When Washington diod set about the task of constructing Instituto and their Friends are that lately published at Berlin At the Palace Hotel last night, an American bookseller named a thoroughly efficient, up-to-date reminded that the Bishop of from the pen of Dr. Karl Helf- Ho Shai Cheong (-150) boat H. J. Mason S. Weeme thought that a undertaking. The loyal co-Victoria will give an address at ferich, who was Finance Minister, Jeffreys (-75), 250-213. Highest biography of the first President, oporation between the representa- the Institute on Tuesday next, Home Secretary (Minister of the breaks:-Ho, 20, 15; Jeffreys, 23. written in a popular style, would tives of the Chinese Government the 22nd February.

Interior), and Deputy Chancellor. W. G. Gerrard (-160) bent J. be a profitable venture, and de and the European staff has

Some thought that he would have Caffin (-50), 250-297. Highest termined to write one. Little was resulted in establishing an en- To-morrow's Camera News" succeeded Bethmann-Hollweg as breaks:-Gerrard, 29, 16 (twice), known of Washington's boyhood, terprise of which both the page will contain an interesting Chancellor, but Count Hortling 16; Caffin, 17. Chinese owners and the European batch of local pictures. These was chosen. Subsequently Helf managers may well feel proud. will include groups takon at the ferich was one of the envoys to Besides being a naval dockyard, weddings of Mr. J. H. Gordon and Moscow, when the Treaty the Kiangnan installation has met Miss Shapland, and of Mr. J. S. Brest-Litovsk was signed. Gering to-night the following players little with remarkable success in mer-Smith

and Мівн Petersen; many was still high up in the will appear:-

6 pm: Sergt. Allen (-100) v. Beattie's account of his son, chant shipbuilding, as not only has portraits of Cpl. C.A. Grimes (the stirrups then-at any rate, soanted it constructed some fine vessels local Bisley champion) and Mr.to be. Not long afterwards Helf-J. Parkes (-200). for the Upper Yangtze services, Andrew L. Mair (the Kowloon ferich was engaged in connection but it has completed the s.8. Marathon winner); two photo with the most humiliating event T. Reeves (-150). Mandarin, of nearly 15,000 tons grapha of the start of the Mara-in his country's history, as he displacement, tho first of athon Race; and a picture of the played a large part in the German quartelte of vesssis on order from wrecked aeroplane which came to preparations for the conference one of his most important Reiche. that in his younger days he had the United States Shipping Board. grief at the flying exhibition last after his country had practically tag statements was not reported

surrendered. In this," it is observed, "thare Sunday.

at all. is a lesson to be learned by all

The first point that is brought!

Another of his enterprises was sible. foreigners who come to China to

A Hongkong cargo junk arrived out is the inadequate German the building of commercial sub- dovelop her natural and indus. in the Colony yesterday bringing preparation for

the marines, an expedient adopted trial resources. It is not only a report of a shooting affray to industrial side. The military and after Tirpitz had vetoed the use Weems's book, in spite of (or neeessary that the foreign staff which she was subjected when financial preparations were irro of the enlarged U-boats for that possibly because of) its obvious should be technicians of the on her way to Hak Ngan Point, proachable,

but "no similari highest attainments, but they in Chinese territory. According preparations had been made in purpose. The rubber and nickel inaccuracies, enjoyed an must have the courage to stand in the report made by a foki of the sphere of production and brought back by the Deutschland ormous sale, and together with from Baltimore "covered the the Bible constituted the entire by their opinions and be able to the vessel, the junk was on the trade." In spite of repeated prove by the quality of their previous night met by a strange suggestions that an Economic urgent military demand," he tells library of many American homes work that they are worthy of vessel containing ter men, and General Staff should be created, us, "for a good many months." during the early years of last When Ludendorff decided, in Mr. Hubert C. Fuller, complains [century. An American historian, the positions they hold." was fired upon. This was sub-nothing effective had been done. The dockyard has been run on sequent to the issue of a challenge The military continued to rely on October, 1916, that a measure of

that "Mason L. Woems is respon strictly commercial lines. It has from the cargo trader, as to Schlieffen's theory of a short war industrial conscription for men enjoyed no privileges from the whether they were friends or foos. on the model of 1866 and 1870 and and women was needed, Helfferich sible for our people having built Government that are not avail- The only reply received was a the civil departments neglected was asked to draft the project, in an entirely false impression

of Washington. able to any of the foreign yards shot from a rifle which wounded to think out the implications of a spite of the fact that he regarded operating in China. The whole the master of the trader in the blockade. Practically all the the step as too exacting. This is Barton, one of the best-known of of the material imported for the knee. After this, the vessel measures that were taken to his account of how he did it: "It the earlier American biographers, yard has 10 pay the

usual cleared off, and the explanation remedy this neglect were pure was on Sunday, October 29, that I Customs duty. This factor has for this was that each vessel improvisations. Within five dave undertook to work out a draft for an authoritative Parliament has reopened. According to Reuter, the occasion

Washington. Then, after gather. was marked by pageantry of the most brilliant and gorgeous Dockyard at the head of the ship, it being too dark at the hour Hern Walther Rathenau had set further discussion. Although I was in his notes and realising the description. The account of the ceremony which has come over industry in China. It has had to

to permit identification.

on foot the organization of the very much occupied at the mo-manner in which Washington was the wires brought to mibul Cinderella's triumphant procession to the justify its existence by financial

Raw Materials Department of the mont, in addition to my usual work deified by the people, he destroy- ballroom, with a touch of the Delli Durbar to sustain the note of results.

could never write a biography of A complaint in respect of German War Office. He was las Minister of the Inter or and ed them, with the statement: regal pomp and circumstance. The adjectives employed by Renter

General Washington, consistent were many and varied. We hope our readers were suitably Social Evils at Shanghai.

to-day heard by Mr. G. N. Orme and a lecture which he gave in Reichstag negotiations over the with my ideas of historical ac- unusually malicious conduct was afterward replaced by a soldier, Deputy Chancellor], by impressed. Frankly, we were not, Descriptive drivel of royal

late in 1915, and consorship and the state of siege

curacy, that the American people purple robes, rivers of diamonds and Pecresses vying one with A little while ago we remarked in the case in which a Chinese Frankfurt

would tolerate." Foreign Affaire, which not on another in the display of diamond tiaras leaves us cold. That sort upon the progress which Shang woman, living at Third Street, subsequently published, explain by the Bundesrat Committee on of stuff is real "meat" for the extremiste, and we could not help hai was making in the diminu- charged a neighbour and bar soning and defending his work, was

one for October 30, and by the Polish

to question. at that time on thei Is there something more than thinking, when reading it, of the contrast provided by the spectre tion of social evils. It was with assault. It appeared from the an extremely useful

of decision the de-coincidence in the brilliant of unemployment which is at present stalking the land. If there reported the "The Wheel" had evidence that the youth was in English-speaking readers as must be these spectacular displays, which road very like a descript-been suppressed, and that the the habit of knocking at the the preoccupations of the Ger- brink

November 5, 1918], I" Ministerial hopes" this winter. ion of a circus procession (frankly we don't see the need of them), Chinese authorities had decided complainant's door, and using ex-man, authorities. Helfrich him-cisive proclamation was issued scholastic achievements of three

responsible for the on thon the less said about them the better. To flash the glittering to

Trenches, pressions which were not cal-solf was details round the world by expensive cabling is about the most as the result of representations culated to soothe her sense of ZEG. (Zentral-Einkauf-Gesells. was able to go over the main the sons of Mr. Asquith, of Mr. Central Purchasing heads of the bill with Gen. Groner Runcimas, and of Sir John effectual

and made to them over the Hazelton personal dignity. As this form chaft, or cun think of to breed Bolsheviks way WO Communists. If we get much more of this kind of stuff, tragedy; while the International of ragging had been persisited in Office), which unified the system on Monday, November 2, and to Simon, FONC of these morgings our Manager will get over the officials had reduced by 20 por with irritating frequency and of German purchases in neutral arrange for it to be discussed point Home journal. Will heredity representatives of sion in these cases? Ordinarily wrong side of the bed, and Renter will probably hear something to cont. the number of "licensed "always with the accompaniment countries and thereby prevented by point during the following take the straight line of succes- his disadvantage. Having got thus far, we must confess to feeling haunts Recently it was an- of the same filthy expressions the inevitable competition be-week with

it may be said with some con- was probably his mastery of detail fidence that heredity runs truer better, and would ask our readers to bear with us while wo say pounced that "The Wheel" had the lady eventually decided to go tween rival individuals, German employers and employees."

beon revived-that' is, something on that interminable subject-Ireland.

the over to her neighbours residence Departments, and Alties.

that made him porsona grats to in the case of statemen than in One of its most notable

Beth mann-Hollwag and During the recent e al crisis, the Government were fortunate premises had been reopened under and have it out with her." There

his any other-which may or may enough in lighting on the datums line as one way out of the difficulty another name. The position in then ensued the usual squabble, achievements was the purchase successors, and also, in spite of not be a compliment to the con- Now, is it not possible to find a datum line for the Irish tragedy? regard to the Tronchos is causing and, apparently getting the worse and transportation of most of the grave differences of opinion, to ditions of public life. Gallon used Apparently not. Mr. Lloyd George has agreed to the necessity of much dissatisfaction to the better of the exchange of verbal shafts, Rumanian harvest of 1915, as Ludendorff and the military, as to say that the son of a judge He goes further. He is of the opinion that class of Chinese residents, as the complainant turned round to against the active opposition of well as to the Kaiser and the had 500 times as great a change negotiating a iruce.

the vernacular go, when, at the staircase, she was the British, who, however, came Crown Prince. once the murder campaign were etapped it would never be renewed appears from

of success in life as an ordi- That sounds pretty hopeful, and most folk would naturally Press; and a petition headed by followed by the mischievous boy into the field too late. By dint of

The Deputy Chancellor was nary mortal, and yet how few, Why not stop, then ?" Ah! but wait a moment. Those the Chairman of the Chinese and kicked. As if this insuli acquiring a Danube flotilla of

unrestricted comparatively, of the sons of responsible for order," he says, "strongly urged against a truce Chamber of Commerce has been was not enough, the boy's mother its own, making frosh sidings and much opposed to without an express condition for the surrender of arms." Well, addressed

Military emulated her son's example by other improvemets on the Hun- submarine warfare, foreseeing judges have been specially distin- that's maybe just us it should be, coming as it does from Governor, complaining of the giving the complainant a push garian railways, and of agree that it would bring America in.guished; how few, of the sons of soldiers, anyhow. But who really is responsible for order in gambling, immorality, and fight-which throw her down the stairs, ments with the German and After the debacle of November men of letters, of artists, of Ireland ? Isu't the onus on Parliament, with Mr. Lloyd George as ing that prevail. It seems that the She sustained a fractured wriat Austro-Hungarian military tran-1918 Dr. Helfforich continued for soldiers, of eminent Churchmen. its mouthpiece? Of course, and as it should be, too. Unfortunate- proprietors of these low-class bars in the fall. The Magistrate, sport authorities, the whole of some time to participate in the It seems to be in public life alone of the nation as that those peculiar gifts which ly, or otherwise, according to our political creed, the tail more resist the Chinese police in the after hearing evidence, the purchased grain had been counsels

the midnight decided to make an example of taken

of the coalition between make for success are transmitted to Gormany before one often than not wags the dug. Boiled down, then, Mr. Lloyd George enforcement of

the Majority Socialists and with any regularity. It will be is the one responsible for order in Ireland to-day. That fact ad-regulation, and the Governor, the culprits. He sentenced the Rumania entered the war.

and the less-compromised mem-said, of course, that a successful mitted, we are compelled to hazard the opinion that our worthy after conferring with the doyen mother to a fine of $20, and order Holfforich had been an early bers of the former Government. politician has special opportuni- Prime Minister is, for a reason best known to himself, sheltering of the Consulato corps, ed the boy to be given a good advocate of the opening of the Later be dropped out in the ties of placing his sons, but there behind those whom he has placed in the Green Isle to preserve has notified the people concerned flogging. A sum of $10 was to be Danube and the securing of course of the changes that the is something on the other side. order. That they have not succeeded is only too manifest to-day. that feture breaches will be dealt deducted from the amount of the through communication

Ministry underwent, but it may "I have lived too long in the: Indeed, we go further. The very folk whose present mission is to with according to Chinese law. fine and paid over to the complai-Turkey. He has ground for the be that his political career is not shadow of a great tree," said the secure peace in that country have apparently been guilty of creat- But why not carry out the closure nant us

assertion that had the Salonica finished.

second Duke of Wellington, when ing disorder. This tho Premier admits himself. At last, in reply to of these dens of iniquity, if

frant been driven in, Germany

someone reproached him with Mr. Asquith's demands, says a Reuter's telegram. Mr. Lloyd necessary, by concerted action ?

would have been spared the)

lethargy, and the truth of this According to the Publisher's has a wide application. George agrees that General Strickland's report in regard to the

seen it suggested before that he Rumania intervention. burnings at Cork shows that the Black and Tans committed acts of The "Mask" Again.

was the older of the pair. What Another of Helfforich's achieve- Circular, the output of books "indiscipline" in the city on that occasion. Such has been suspect- ed for somo time past. The Sina Feiners and the Labour Party Soviote and other democratic book

In these days of Republics, does Mr. Tighe Hopkins, whose ments was the organizing, with published in the United Kingdom

year totalled 11,004, Yet in politics there are many analysing the claims financial support from the State, last said so on the day following the outrage. They wore disbelieved. forms of polity, there is an ele-of the various candidates of the manufacture of nitrogen practically the pre-war level, cases of transmitted brilliance. And rightly so. With the ruins of Cork smouldering, and no ment of variety in the news that for the Mask" ship solves the from the air, without which This is a matter for astonishment There are the two Pitts, for

agriculture-not authenticated evidence to band, there was no sense in taking any the rightful King of France" has mystery in quite another way, Gorman

to considering the heavy increase instince, and there are the Peels. Only death in war broke the thing for granted. But now the House has got the facts.

transmission in the case of the It cannot be too strongly urged that the Government must do all been unearthed. The discovery think of the discovery? If there speak of the munitions industry in the cost of production.

in rendered more dramatic by the were anything in the rumour of would have suffered far more

Gladstones; Lord Salisbury was in its power to steady the armed forces of the Crown in Ireland. Sinn claimant's descent from that mysa Royalist restoration in France, severely from the loss of Chillan. The Manchester University the father of one solid and Fein has never apologised for physical face and is not likely to do torious character the Man in it could hardly be a tranquil nitrates. He was also responsible Press has issued "Captain Miles two brilliant politicians: the so at this time of day. Nor will our people accept an apology from the Iron Mask, as readers are affair. The new aspirant's for the form of the "controls Standish," study of the Selbornes are carrying on the murderers. But surely the present situation is not altogether informed by a very well-known claim, from the point of view applied to German trade and genealogy of this leader among tradition respectably, and so are hopeless. A way out must be found. Tactful men are needed at lady writer, Miss Cicely Hamil of descent, would take priority industry as the effects of the the Pilgrim Fathers, an opportune the Chamberlains. The the head of the armed forces to re-establish civil anthority. States-ton. Monseigneur Henri de not only over the Duke of blockade began to be increasing volume when the tercentury of downe tradition has manship of the highest order is required to plan the fature. The Valois, a dignitary of the Church Orleans and the Napoleonic ly felt. One of his most difficult the Plymouth embarkation has continually in the politics of a who e Empire is now for sheathing the avenging sword and for the of Rome, is grandson two or representative, but over the now-tasks was the rationing of paper been lately celebrated. coming of peace. So much hangs on pacification-the recognition three times removed" of the celebrated Naundorf family, who to the Press. He made up his

argue:

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century. There were the three Redmonds; there has been the great Russell tradition, and so on.

of the sacredness of human life, public economy, the strengthening Mart, who married and begat claim to be heirs of Louis XVII mind that it was undesirable. of the Empire and the goodwill of the world. Reprisals simply son in spite of hle life-the "Lost Dauphin"). Nothing is to allow the smaller local The Spanish novelist, Ibanez. intensify the trouble. Murder and outrage never brought victory to long imprisonment, the narrative said about. Monseigneur's proofs, and provincial papers to fail whose "The Four Horsemen of any cause, bowoyer good it may have been. Our Government must tells us. The theory that the though. Happily, Mgr. de Valois, through lack of paper, and there the Apocalypse" was certainly have clean hands. On its rectitude the record of our country stands unfortunate prisoner was a twin as becomes a good Churchman, fore he figerously restricted the one of the most-talked-of works of £4,000,000 NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. or falls in the eyes of the world. The Premier counsels patience, brother of le Grand Monarque, has no intention of forcibly supply to the bulkier papers in fiction of recent years, has just

The amount of prize money and then he is confident that order will be restored in Ireland. That as related by Dumas, had a good asserting his claim, which is the larger pontres. This drow on published

The Enemies of authorised by Parliament to may be so. But neither Sinn Fein morals nor a code which exacts many believers at one time, but just well, seeing that him fierce opposition from the Women," whichis receiving many members of the naval forces i and eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth will help towards we do not remember to have Europe has disturbances enough, Berlin Pross, so much so that encomiums.

approximately, £4,000,000,

#olution.