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WU TING-FANG.

An American Tribute.

The following tribute to the late Dr. Wy Ting-fung appears the Philadelphia Public Ledure.-

In

The Far East cables say that Dr. Wu Ting-fang is dead, years, many, many years short of the 123 he had predicted as his life apan. He is gathered to his ancestors; but in his foutscore years he saw the world change and unchanging China and the unchanging East change with it. He was the first to impress upon Americans that Chias was

THE LATE REAR- ADMIRAL DUMARESQ.

Memorial Service at St. John's Cathedral.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.. MONDAY, JULY 2Y 1922

CITY EQUITABLE CO. DIRECTOR ARRESTED.

Beran's Devices.

-The Vienna police last month notified the British Legation that

A Memorial Service to Rear-they had arrested Mr. Gerard Loo Admiral Jobo Dumares, C. B. Beran. The Hon. Aretas Akers- CV.O. Commodore Commanding Douglas, the British Minister, the Australian Fleet, who passed immediately made a formal de- way at Manila on Saturday, msad upon the Austrian Foreign was held at St. John's Cathedral Office for his extradition. this morning.

Mr. Bevan was only takeo: Among those present were his after a desperate stroggle with Excellency the Hon. Dr. Claud two powerful detectives, lasting Severn (the Ocer Administering fully half an hour. He stoutly the Colony), accompanied by Mr. denied his identity, at first, but A. Dyer Ball (private secretary) 5000 made & full confession.

When the detectives attempted mation and not A queer, Mrs. Severn and Mrs. Bullock, picturesque Oriental fable. To the His Excellency Major-General to use force Bevar, who is a tall, West he came as a representative Sir John Fowler, General Officer powerful man, offered the most Forces inviolant resistance, and knocked Commanding the China, accompanied by Capt. C.S. down both detectives repeatedly. Fisher, A.D.C., Commodore and The Vienna police are accustomed Mrs. H. E. Grace, Col. and Mrs. to wrestling, but are no boxerst Orpen Sanders, Lt. W. St. A.and they were quite unable to cope Malleson, R.N., V.C., and other with Beysa's style of fighting. officers of both Forces. Mr. H. J.They had to summon assistance Timperley joint ben. sec.) re- presented the Ex-Active Service Men's Association.

of the real Chios and the genuine Chinese culture that was old when our Anglo-Saxon ancestors were playing about the North Se sand dunes, attired mainly in a tattoo of wood-blue.

The service was conducted by the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle and the Rev. J. T. Holman, with the Rev. H. S. Crole Rees. B.N., and Capt. M. W. Shaw, C.F.

before he could be overpowered.

When finally arrested, BarED suddenly took out a small bottle from bis pocket and swallowed the contents, which be declared to be only a sadative. The police, however, suspected polson, na` consequently burried him to a detention hospital, where the) doctors puraped out his stomach.

Dr. Wu made it clear in the earlier days of his diplomatic Career in Wastington that the Flowery Kingdom was as keen in its native And polished in- telligence as it was old in its culture. He came to Americs as the Chinese Minister in 1896, and for six years he battled, amused and even troubled that capital by

After the opening prayer, the his keen and confusing skill in choir chanted Psalin X,-Deo, MADNESS SIMULATED. repsite. He was the "Youth of pigiam The Lesson was takeo Bavan cext simulated insanity, China," its sew and westward-from Solotaon. III. beginning and was kept in hospital for two looking youth when he came out "The souls of the righteous are days. When he became quieter in 1874, sager, questing, comparin the bands of God, and no he was removed to the Criminal ing and questioning.

torment shall touch them." This Court building. He then confess- was followed by Hymo 491. "Oned to Herr Wybors, the Police the Resurrection Morning Commis joner, that be Was Prayers were then read, followed Gerard Bevad. who led from by the Hymn. As the wish'd for London on January 22. He said port draws near."

he knew & warrant was out for his arrest.

He died as the Grand Did Man of China," with the rost of tbe guns of another Chinese revolution in his ears. Dr. Wo was a republican and long ago broke with the old order. His was the

The Rev. Mr. Holma read the first great appeal to the world that the Chinese republic be rec-prayers, the Lesson being read by ognized after the Mancha dynas. the Rev. Mr. Orole-Rees.

1y fled and the old Empres⚫ had The Service concluded with the zone. That republic is still a Dead March, on the cessation of vagua and uncertain thing, which the Last Post sounded. Dr. We did not live to see the end

of his work. He died a member)

of the fleeing Cabinet of Dr. Sun.

of Canton: bus the world will give

him a high place in Chinese his

DO

The Vienna police bad knowledge of the precise nature of the charges against Bevan, but they understood from the confes sion that whilst admitting that he was guilty of falsification of ac- counts he had had no material advantage therefrom.

He said he got bis French passport in London bot refused to

tory for his part in changing AMUNDSEN EXPEDITION. from whom. He also gave do

the tottering empire into the be ginnings of the Chinese republic. He was one of the world's great men and was in every sense & man of the world, a true cosmo- polite with an embracing intelli- gence. The new China could use A thousand Dr. Wus, and all the world has need of them.

"THE FURNACE.”

Preparations for Five-year

Exploit.

information as to where he had beep during the time he left Loc. don and coming to Austria. The police have found several clumsy falsifications in the passport with regard to age and other general Capt. Roald Amundsen's ex-descriptions of the holder. ploration ship Maud, crammed to Bevin'e apearance has entirely the last inch of her cargo holds altered, and be bears only a slight with equipment and supplies, left resemblance to the description in June on the first lap of the long furnished by the British police. orage through the ice floes about Instead of being clean shaven, be the North Pole.

bas now grown a full beard and

Two aeroplanes, to be used in dyed his hair black. Bis trunk meteorological and topographical was found to contain several World Theatre Attraction.investigations in the Docherted bottles of French bair dyes.

Polar Basin, were loaded aboard He had 6,000 French fancs. the vessel. A deckload of lumber(120) and 100,000 Austrian

M. LEON VERNIER

FRENCH ARTIST.

In point of story, cast, gestum-forms an important item in the crowns (about £Z at present rate inz. settings and atmosphere. Maud's cargo. The explore: ex-of exchange. The police say "Fbe Furnace," the new Wm. D.plained that after the ship is Bevan speaks perfect French, but Taylor Bealart Special founded frozen into the Arctic ice pack-only broken German. upon the new novel by the with which he expects to drift populer English writer. "Paa." the North Pole-living quarters which opened on Friday lass at for the dogs of the expedition and The British Legation notified the World Theatre, contains all huta for observations will be the Vienas police on May 16 last the fundamental qualities which constructed on the ide.

|that Bevan was believed to be st point to an nousual picture, and is

SHIP TRANSFORMED TO "HOUSE" Salzburg or somewhere DBAT. beyond a doubt one of the most

The ship, by means of lumber. Salzburg and Innsbruck it was From investigations made in spectacular, both in theme and scene, that has been released for will be converted into a "house" found that & French artist, & M. some time. Some magnificent where, for the five or more years Leon Vernier, who answered settings were showa. This in the vessel will drift, the crew will

somewhat to the persons de cludes an exterior and interior live.

scription of the wanted man, had replica of the famous Church of University of Washington been staying at the Hotel Kreida. St Mary's at London, where women students contributed their | at Innsbruck, in March.

wedding the

which

the ship's supplies, opens share to

The Vienna police next found.

the picture supposedly takes place. making candy for members of the that the man had lived as the There is also a large

and expedition. Candy, it seems, is an Hotel Krantz, in Vienns, from the unsanally rich setting represent-essential in the navigation of the end of March to Janel under the ing the interior of the hotel at Arctic wastes, and Captain name of Leon Vernier-"of Paris, Monte Carlo. Besides this there Amundsen gratefully accepted born at Lille, gentleman." Until "are several big social functions | the gift.

the middle of April be bad been

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bich quired the construction As Captain Amundsen drifts accompanied by a French woman of exterior scenes of two big Eng-slowly across the expanse of the about twenty-eight years of age, lish estates, magnificent ball polar basin, he will search the calling herself Madeline Vernier, roome, etc.

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A tradesman, appearing on si the "phantom fleet" the weat to Paris, and Bevan then left the designers at the studio must frozen company of lost abips that Vienna and want to Reichenbau "My husband is a busy msa

judgment summons at Shoreditch: have worked overtime to turn out the Eskimos claimswings around and Semmering, two favourite nowadays; be carries, ice on his County Court yesterday, was the hundreds of gorcous gowns the North Pole, year in and year mountain resorts near Vienna aboulder," said a woman at Mary- 8ked by the solicitor for the creditor if he backed horses, required for the big society scenes out, gripped in the clutch of the In the film. So, merely from the great ice floes.

"No," be replied, "I've a wife and 6 last and went to live in modest Man at Willesden-What shall eight young children.” point of view of a gorgeous spect-

quarters in a suburb of Vienna in I do about my wife annoying me? acle "The Furnace" would be a

At Manchester Police Court the house of teacher of Magistrate-Do like so many yesterday, during the hearing of astisfying picture, well worth the Scouting over a wide area on languages. It was there that he other husbands-beat it

en assault case. Woman (to price of admission. But it each side of the auxiliary power-

was arrested upon the formal ha ether merits. The cast is all-ed schooner Mand, the explorer charge of not having reported

"I am not supposed to speak to Magistrate)-Am I allowed to my relatione," said a wife who tell you sil I know? Magistrate star, and in it are numbered some will have an extraordinary op- himself to the police. of the most popular and famous portunity to investigate reports

asked the Acson Magistrate for a (quickly)-Off; no! "Life's too figures of screendom. Agnes Ayres of the "Eerie Fleet" brought out

summons against her husband short. (Laughter). for assault. plays the principal role that of from the farthest reaches of the

A Willesden husband told the Folly Vallance, while Jerome north by the natives.

A railway porter, giving evid-Magistrate how regrettable Patrick has perhaps the most im-

ence at the Old Bailey-"There affair with his wife came to bap Vessela have disappeared A message portant male part as Anthony strangely in the unexplored polar states: A Court-martial dealt as cape and uniform costs. We money for you.. I'm saving gy from Mayence are some porters who wear civil-Įpen. "I said to her, I've 10] basin since, the beginning of with the case in which fourteen call them Black-and-Tans.". for a new suit of clothes, and it's Arctic navigation. In one swoop ex-officers of the German

: A Government clerk, charged time I had one-yon, with Mour the ice pack in 1876 carried, off Imperial Army are charged with at the North London Police Court costores and me in rage, Then 30 whaling ships from the waters having founded in Wiesbaden with stealing ladys handbag, my wife up and broke a window Permission for officers to 1.99 Both of the American continent branch of the German Officers' stated that he was at a loss to and screamed murder, troop borses for polo at the dis Most of the men led to the ice Association, which organization explain bis conduct, He could cretion of general officers com and escaped to Point Barrow and aims at perpetuating the spirit of only suggest that he was over- manding-in-chief, is contained in other points on the Arctic coast, revenge. The alleged founder of come by the heat an Army Order just issued. Such but 70 refused to desert the ships.the branch was sentenced to three Réferring to high heels, Mr. use must not however, interfere The slow but ceaselers movement months imprisonment, whilst his Green, barrister, asked a WISDOWS with the military work of the of the ice carried them into the associates were sentenced in abhoreditch County Court-Are horses. The charge for birs will mysterious unchartered north contumaciam to terms of imprison- those the things that come off and be £d for the season for each region that comprises 1,000 000 ment varying from one to four you on stick them on again? Here,

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