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FRIDAY: MAY 26, 1992,

DAY BY DAY.

Evidence of Sun Yat-sen's pro- pensity for stretching the truth when he is placed in a tight corner was forthcoming in yesterday's IT BY STAYING ON THE LEVEL news from Canton. He now tells

HE WHO GETS TO THE TOP DOES

military commanders that the --Mr. and Mrs. F. X. D'Almada reason be accepted General Chan were passengers by the Suwa King-ming's resignation was that Maro, which left for London yes ho wanted him to aim at some terday. bigger post than a relatively un- important position in Canton, evan hinting that he might chow, nearly a hundred casas Plague has broken out at Wai- by taking part in the expedition being reported during the past against the North, win his way to the Presidency. Uabappily for San, the public's memory is no: so short sa to make an acceptance

Today is the 55th. birthday of of this flimsy explanation prob- Her Majesty Queen Mary. In able. Sun makes it appear that honour of the occasion, naval Chan resigned, but that is in direct boats in port dressed, ship...

conflict with the slatement made

faw days.

Com-

It is proposed to construct a railway from Shiuhing to Hoi- ping, a distance of 130 . The company will be a joint-stock

сорсета.

THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Librarian.")

|JOY-RIDING ON THE BIG SCALE.

ANOTHER HONGKONG

STRIKE?

Demands by Restaurant Employees.

good long one, was evidently the employees in the restaurants and When taking a joz-ride take a To-day's Gaston Times says the

motto of Afisa Daratby Dix, who eating-houses in Hongkong ars has recorded her experiences is going to declare a strike, accord (Mills and Boon. S. 6d.) "My Joy-Ride Round the World" ing to information obtained from

the Restaurant Labourers' Union, Miss Dix shows that berlin Canton. It is reported that the faculties were pretty actively atjemployees are demanding from work during her jaunt, and bar the proprietors of the restaurants descriptions are excellent. The housing secopimodation and an Japanese, she tells us,

increaseof twenty percent."which put into the water little twigs was objected to by the capital- and sticks, and when these lists."

i bave been covered with the pinkish shells (that are found in the Bay of Tokohama) they mat them together between bamboo poles and mako of them a fence that looks like a wall of mother-of-pearl. It is the most beautiful, the most ethereal, the fraillest structure. And it isn't touched. Get that? A small boy and a mother-of-pearl

The question of nationality and fence existing at one and the same time and the same place-lof discussion in the British Court, registration was again the subject I regard that as the chiefest of Shanghai, on the 20th fast, when all the marvels of Japan.

J. J. Corbett was charged by Mr. This passage is evidence both C. V. Hutchison, an American

[“JIM” CORBETT CHARGED

AT SHANGHAI,

Ex-Pugilist Says he is Por- tuguese Subject.

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by Sun himself to a Telegraph The Canton Finance correspondent less than a month | missioner is seeking to facilitate ago that he discharged Chan the formation_of_the_proposed bacause the latter would not Commerce and Labour Bank. follow his instructions and he (Sun) could not tolerate insub- ordination. With regard to this fantastic story of Sun's anxiety that Chan should sim at bigger {jobs, it is worth recalling that in the interview with our corres- pondent Sun stated that he was

Two weeks' bard labour each ready to give Chan another chance if he chose to show that were inflicted this morning on he realised his error and was

five Chinese stowaways who ready to come back, but he was boarded the Tilstisp at Borneo of Miss Dix's capacity to regard citizen, with assaulling him on not willing to entrust him again and were discovered when the loas, hurried, and tiring journey the North Szechuan Road.

as a joy-ride," and of her gift with the important office he vessel was well out at sea.

Corbett claimed that he was no formerly held.' One of the two

for imparting ber pleasure to her assertions is obviously a lie. A The health return for yester readers. She really does locker British subject. He had cases of with delight at the obvious things November 10 last. There was changed bis nationality on month ago, Sun was sneering at day shows 12 more the possibility of opposition from plague, with six deaths, four of which are the only things that evidence of this in the correspond- Chan. To-day he is apparently small-pox three fatall, one fatal globe-trotter has an opportunity ence that passed between him and SEELEY-JOHNSTON,-At | willing to do anything to placate case of enteric and one non-fatal of looking at.

the British Consul-General. the Registry Office, Hongkong, the former. Governor. But his case of cerebro-spinal fever. All Miss Dix set out from New.

York westwards and ended her that he had seen the British Magistrate C. W. King said on May 23rd. Edward Austin latest utterance is altogether too the sufferers were Chinese. Seeley, Purser 8.5. 'Xanking' | transparent to deceive anybody.

tour in Boston after having see Capsular authorities and found to Lydia Andrita Johnston. much less Chan...

A new stoo is to be construe:many notable sights in the that a person by the name of " ], ed in Canton from the east gate Hawaiian Islands, Japan, Korea, Gago Corbett" was registered as to the White Cloud mountain. China, the Philippines, Singapore, British subject. The accused It will be 150 feet wide and have Jaya. Burma, Indis, and Ceylon gave his name as J. J. Corbett 15 feet tootpaths on each side, or these-the volcano Kileaua,

Corbett explained that be planted along the sidewalks.

WEDDING.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 26th May, 1922.

MORE PIRACY.

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The Haslewood Case.

Some lurther questioning in the House of Commons relative to the mui si problem elicited the whilst thousands of trees will be the temples at Nikko, the gardens usually went under the name of

official version of the treatment of Commander and Mrs. Hasle wood. It has been intimated in some quarters that the naval authorities here, at the instance of the Governor (this was prior to the e.s. Pleiodop; a group of over

Our Picture Page to-morrow will include, amongst others, two photos taken at the launching of

of Buitoenzorg, Everest from "J J. Corbett," except when he Tiger Hill-she finds the words figured in boxing, when bis name suggested by fresh, keen eyes. was "J. G. Corsett." He was She contrives, too, in ber sum- DOW 3 maries of national characteristics citizen.

registered Portuguese

to give an idea of the setting 19

Sir Reginald Stubbs" appoint 200 local Chinese students in/well as the jewel. To the Malay summons and asked the com-

medt), visited their displeasure mass calisthenic drill; and part of Singapore upon the Commander, causing group of Queen's College athletes. him to leave the Colony, because

The Magistrate dismissed the

will come a Tamil Southern fore the Portuguese Court

plainant to take the case up be- If India, black as ink with nothing the Portuguese Court would not save a scarlet loin-cloth. exercise jurisdiction, he could He is driving a pair milk-white have recourse to the Mixed Court. bullocks, whose borns have been painted a vivid blue. Then will come a rich Chinese lady

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Only a few months ago we had the sensational piracy of the

Yesterday in Canton, a few be refused to use bis influence Kwang Lee. €5 coyage from

with his wife in order to restrain enthusiasts in motor cars dis-i Shanghai to this port, a youthful her activities on behalf of the witributed circulars pleading for the passenger being remorselessly am. Commander Haslewood, i:restoration of Kwang Chow Wan

China, is explained, was not asked to to shot dead. while property of retire nor was

pointing out that

in a limousine, with her jacket cational Language Movement”. he subjected to Britain has promised to retute

pinned together with balf-a-(Unwin, 21s. zeb). takes it for estimated value of some $200,000 any expression of displeasure, Wei-hai-wei, but France has done!

dozen splendid diamond sun-granted that the closer and more was made off with. The device his retirement being allowed on nothing.

bursts. Then a Malay woman urgent communication impelled employed was the familiar one of his own application, as he wished

in a magents sarong the strip by politics or business will to accompany his invalid wife on A small boy was ordered by Mr. the robbers shipping as passen ber

of cloth that men and women eventually bring return home. Commander R. E. Lindsell to be whipped on A

alike west BS 2 skirt in so some common mediam of gers and producing their arms Haslewood, as a matter of fact, conviction being proved of the

many parts of the Far East. speech, and, formidable as the when the vessel had reached the retired from the Navy some years theft of a pair of field glasses, the

Then groups of coolies maked alternative claims may be of high seas. That time it was the ago but temporarily re-entered property of Mrs. Large, of No. 39 On being ques-

to the waist and skimpily clad actual languages like French and the Service on account of the war. Nathan Road.

below. Then men by the English, he seems to think that authorities Sbanghai who So far so good. It is admitted, ploned of the Magistrate as to

bundreds dressed in a sort of the drawback of their nationalist were eluded.

however, that at the request of hor be succeeded in entering the

draped pair of trouserettes, and implications will in the long run the then Governor, the naval house, defendant said he climbed Now we find that a batch of Commander-in-Chief here inter- up the waterspout.

wearing every possible variety prove insuperable. He reviews of torban. And through the with great care the qualities and the same kind of miscreants most viewed the officer for the purpose

crowd, dominating them all, hardships of the various artificial to exercise have succeeded in eluding the of inducing bim

In the early hours of yesterday

tall, lean Englishmen in im. substitutes that have been pres- restraint upon bis wife, which morning, a burglary occurred at searchers at this port, for when Commander Haslewood refused No. 9 Changshs Street, the first

maculate white from bead to ented. Solresat, which has been foot.

almost forgetter, was La in- the Wahsun, of 250 tons, bad to do... Col. Amery, on behalf of floor which, occupied by a

Moreover, Miss Dix seldom genious structure of permutations passed some six hours out of the Government, defended this Chinese woman, being entered, omits to include in her broad out and combinations raised upon the action, saying that the Governor and clothing and jewellery of the lines some significant detail that basis of seven primary Founde port On Sunday the pirates of any colony was entitled to ex value of $9 stolen. pulled out revolvers from ander press his views regarding the occasioned by the closing of the deal more if she bad the mind. scale. Volapuk at its highest The noise suggests she could tell us a great corresponding to the conic-solfa their clothing and quickly judiciousness of propaganda. Indoor awakened the tenant who She relates that around the success seems to have boasted had the passengers in a panic. this instance the procedure went rst to the head of the staircase Summer Palace at Pekin were some 200,000 students, and Esper- past that. If our authorities and was just in time to see two groups of half-starved men-the sate before the war had possibly Evidently the pirates had got consider that any resident is act-men disappear into the street. eunuchs, actore, scribe. and three times as many. "Ido is a wind of the fact that a number of ing detrimentally to the Colony's

courtiers of the old Empress's schism from Esperanto, but Pro- passengers (Chinese) were return-interests, there is a remedy. To

Two nen stopped an amab household whose occupation fessor Guerard thinks that the ask Comisscder ing from Singapore with their

Haslewood returning to her home in Ship's bad ceased with royalty: At parent cult has recovered ils vital- to restrain his wife's activities Street yesterday afternoon and Nikko she notices that the deity, and he looks to the League savings. The four Indian guards

WAS at best อ questionable relieved her of, jewellary and signer bad utilized the grain of of Nations baing impelled by ile (the number having been doubled step, and the applause with which money amounting in value to 836. the wood to represent the hair of own necessities to throw itself consequence of a previous Parliament greeted the announce Where the robbery occurred was a tiger or so widespread is, the into the leadership of the move- attack) engaged the numerically-schoed.

ment of his refusal will be widely at Kennedy Road, near the Wan superstition of the evil-carved ment.

chai Gap, one of the men being his figures upside down that per- superior pirates, but were over-

reported to be armed with afection may not draw upon itself) Lord Haldane, who contributes come after half an hour's firing,

dagger which he brandished at the jealousy of the gods. Her a preface to a popular exposition the women. Subsequently, on eighth chapter, one of them being fatally shot

doubtless information being laid with the barried one on the methods of by Charles Nordmann, "Einstein of Einstein's Theory of Relativity police, one was arrested and dis-the Japanese in Kores is summed and the Universe" (Fisher Unwin, covered to be in possession of part up in the comment of Korean 10e. 6d.), says: "I know no book of the stolen property.

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SEVEN SUSPECTS.

"Banish the Lot."

PEKING WIRES.

D

Wu Pei-fu's Statement.

more

If this plague continues as it bas been doing, we may awake

on the pulling down of the old better adapted than the one now one morning to hear of another

historical Royal Palace by the translated to give the average Namos case, But what is to be After an all-night vigil, Ser-

Japanese-"to kill our memory." English reader some under- done? The searchers, we believe, geant Rozeskwy, of the Wanchai

When in Honolulu she saw standing of a principle still in its generally perform their duties Police, at 6 o'clock this morning

lepers embarking for the leper infancy, but destined, as I believe, decided that it was the suitable with diligence and efficiency. hour to conduct a raid on the

colony, what abe felt most to transform opinion in poignantly was not the horror of regions of knowledge than those only they have to deal with suspected headquarters of a gang.

their disease but the devotion of merely of mathematical physice." fraternity who can emulate the of armed robbers at No. 177

their relations who sometimes M. Nord maan, the distinguisbed Praya East. Three daggers were A Peking telegram states that accommpany them into exile from astronomer professional conjuror. At the discovered in various places of Wo Pei-fa, has declared that his which they will never return.

of the Paris Observatory, bas the Frenchman's same time the fact that not one concealment, as also were two support to the suggestion of The book contains many lively characteristic gift of investing his bat several of the Wabsun's gags and two packets of pepper. reconvening the old Parliament is impressions, some of them of a subject with a singular charm. pirate-passengers sacceeded io Evidence was given this morn-galy intended to convey that he more thoughtful type than is His clarity of thought and wealth getting arms through suggests ing of the search, when seven favours the resumption of the often met within tourists' records. of illustration.

Chinese who were arrested in Constitutional Conference. some slackness on the part of the raid were charged..

Another Peking message states the searchers, who are reckoned

that many representatives from to be experts at this task. Per could not convict on the evidence, ag, Kwaichow, Szechuen, Hunan which the British mind's

Bis Worship said that he various Provinces, including Yun- the kind of intellectual product haps it is that the pirates exert bat advised Sergeant Blackman, and Kwangsi, have arrived at proaches with any zest, sad we their ingenuity to keep one trick who conducted the case, to have Paoting and are requesting the re- must probably be prepared for

the whole lot banished."

assembling of the old Parliament, witnessing faster progress on the This order was complied with, In consequence of a report from part of such movements, among Washington, May 13-Tha ingly we must wait for the day but, before this, one of the the Customs Commissions in East peoples which are in more con- House of Representatives today when the Chinese Government prisoners created some excite Manchuria that Chang Tao-lin has stant contact with the difficulty agreed to the senate amendment will be able to guard it waters meat in the Central Station by ordered the retaining of the Cus-for which schemes like Volapak to the postoffice appropriation bill endeavouring to escape, but was toms duties, the Diplomatic corps and Esperanto are an intended providing $1,900,000 for a. Kew adequately. But when will that brought back and temporarily held a meeting, the result of which cure. Professor A. L. Guerard, York to San Francisco sir-mail

lodged in a cell with the others. will be made known later,

in his "Short History of the Inter-service during the next fiscal year

ahead of the searchers. Seep-

be?

Univeral languages are not

reduce this difficult principle to the simplest possible term, and make his

non-mathematical reader - can

hardly be too grateful. exposition z triumph for which the

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