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JASCHA HEIFETZ.

COMING VISIT TO HONGKONG.

PHYSICAL DETERIORATION.

Britain's C3 Population.

TRE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: FRIDAY, OCTOBER = 12, - 1923.

THOSE SHANGHAI "WHITES.”

Fifty to be Repatriated.

As we briefly announced re- cently, Jasche Heifetz, one of the

The report on Army recruiting; The Shanghai Times roports - for the year ending September Arrangements are now nearing world's greatest violinists, is coming to Hongkong shortly. He 1921, shows that we are still very completion whereby fifty destitute will give one performance at the much of a C3 nation. if not, in-Russians who have asked to be Theatre Royal on the 39th instant, deed, something worse, says a repatriated will leave Shanghai It seems that of for their homeland, via Man- booking for which open at Messrs. Home paper. Montrie's on Monday. The prices the 106,071 recruits who offered churia, at an early date. of admission will be $5 for re-themselves for service in the Re But a difficulty has arisen in served and $4 and $3 for un-gular forces during that year nofthe matter of clothing for these reserved seats. It is pointed out fewer than 31,000, or nearly half, men and women, the little they that the charges are not excessive had to be rejected on medical possess in view of the fact that Heifetz is grounds.

a world-famous artist, for the The authorities attribute this equivalent of $6, and more, would, wholesale physical deterioration

being altogether in- adequate for the long journey across Siberia. An urgent ap- real, therefore, is made for over- |coats, dresses, underclothing, articles of wear to supply their

need.

robes are being overhauled and At the time of year, when ward-

replenished in anticipation of the

cold weather, many garments

be asked for a front seat for such to the hard life led by stockings, socks, boots and other an artist in England or America, during the war, at a time when "We came twenty-five miles they were growing lads. They go to hear you play" two young on to say that the physical stand- ladies told Jascha Heifetz last fard of recruits is now improving winter. They were apparently although their educational attain very happy that they had made ments are less than in pre-war the journey, and of course delight-days. But this statement is only; ed at the opportunity of speaking partly reassuring. We can readily come to light that could be spare with the famous young violinist, but his reply surprised them "That's too bad", he said with a boyish smile, then turning to Mr. Benoist his accompanist he asked dryly: "You would not go so far to hear a violin would you?"

WITHDRAW OF SHIN

REQUESTED.

understand that for some few years after the war the physical quality of our youth was at a low The following despatch to the ebb. But after a while, under Consular Body on the subject of the favourable conditions of the removal of the three refugce. home life. mang of the ships, is published in the Shang- young nien. who suffered in hai Municipal Gazette for general | And in spite of the lightness of the war regained health and information:- the remark. Heifetz was really strength. Hence the gradual im quite serious. This naive mind |provement in the standard of it seemned ton much of a sacrifice recruits. This we fear, is a for anyone to make; he appreciat-tendency to which limits will be ed the compliment but it maceset bim uncomfortable. The boy in-

Among the million or mote variably shrinksfrom the sincerest workless individuals in the coun- flattery; he never allows the contry are many youths of the type

Council Chamber, Shanghai. Sept. 22, 1923. Sir. 1 have the bonour to in- form you that the Council learns that three ships named s... Ok-. hotak. Mangugai and Zashehitnik. have arrived at Woosung, and that the stores on the ships are |reported to include 4,000 hand

thousand rounds of rifle ammuni

tion.

I have the honour to request

versation to dwell long upon the that supplies the Army with grenades. 1.600 riles and several subject of his playing. It seems material. It is agreed that wing very mach as if the topic to the availability of unempley embarassed him, which is prement insurance these youths have bably the case. In this respect up to the present escaped actual that the Consular Body will be sof be resembles the average boy of destitution and its consequences. seventeen bashfully denying That, in common with all other good, in accordance with the affection for the lads of his similarly placed they have had to action in such matters which heart. And still he is very undergo privation is not to be

they have taken previously, to manly for his age, dignified on denied. But anything in the make such representations to the the platform. quietly poised and nature of serious demoralisation Chinese authorities as will result perfectly free from self among them has been averted. in the removal of these ships and sciousness. Une cannot help And those who were too young the Russian refugees on board to picturing the youth as a being to be eligible for the scheme be-

a place sufficiently far removed from Shanghai to present the much detached from his sur nefited to some extent by the roundings; his aesthetic self is relief which it granted to their possibility of the men and their kept tightly backed within him. parents. Still, there is a limit to Cargo entering the Settlement. He will not discuss his art nor human endurance and deteriora- his immense giftst he avoid- tion, both moral and physical, is anything that might seem to bound to set in during this com- attract notice to him personally. ing winter.

con-

One little incident -how this so clearly that it is worth men- tioning: reflects the real Heifetz. Just before boarding a train one day he bought e magazine at the news stand: it happened to a copy with a full page picture of him on the back cover advertising phonograph records, but he was quite in- nocent of the fact. Standing, by the gate, waiting for the train to be made ready, he turned through the pages of the magazine and presently discovered his picture. One of his travelling companions noticed the picture

and too naturally wanted to take a "good look at it," but Heifetz im- mediately rolled the magazine up and tucked it under his arm; "No, don't look at it here." he exclaimed."somebody will re- ! cognise me."

MONDAY, October 29th.

Jascha Heifetz

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Now the Nors of education

Once in are opened wide And the ch. en of the nation

Troop mingly inside;

Are they not pleased and happy

Where ther knowledge to be got? Well, to put it short and snappy.

They are not!

Do they not discover glamor

In the things their schoolbooks teach?

Do they not, in learning grammar,

Sense the magic of our speech? Do they not with eager yearning.

Hurry to the destined spot

Where the lamp of wisdom's burning?

They do not!

•

Now vacation's silly capers

Have been finished, put away. Do they not find books and papers

More enthralling every day?

Do they not begin perceiving

Just how lucky is their lot

To be studying, achieving?

They do not!

With unwilling feet they're trudging Back again to enter school. Which to most of them is drudging

Underneath a tyrant's rule.

It takes many years to tame them

And to show them what is what. Do I blame them?

I do not l

H. G. SIMMS.

Chairman.

Comm. G. de Rossi Consul-General for Italy

and Senior Consul.

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An Asian Monster 23ft. in Length.

Professor H. F. Osborn has re- constructed from the bone« found after many years search, an im- mense prehistoric animal called the Balachiterium Osborni, of gigantic size.

The Baluchiterium has been proved to have stud from 12ft to 13ft. from the ground, and have been over 23it. long-

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A gang of about 20 turi swind- ler are at work in London and the provinces attempting frauds on bookmakers and backers, says the Daily Cheyndele.

ANTIQUES CHOU DYNASTY.

Wonderful Relics Incalculably Damaged.

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Peking. Sept. 30. Information reaching here from Honan in- dicates that the big find of Chon dynasty bronzes and other an-, tiques excavated from an cient tomb at Hsincheng south clubs. of Chengehow, might have been as valuable to archaeologists_in this quarter of the word as Tu- tankhamen's tomb has been to Egyptian scholars, if it had been properly done. As it happened, the methods employed by the diggers not only did incalculable damage to the antiques them-

Some of the men are ex-officers of social standing, who belong to well-known We-t-end. Three American confidence men are associated with them.

Among the devices which they have employed in their attempts to swindle bookmakers is that of forging the date on the post-mark, and "faking" the delivers, of letters containing betting com-

missions.

BOOKMAKERS TRICKED,

selves but also rendered it im- possible for scholars to study the grave or the mode of burial, By means of forged references,

Immediately after the dis- members of the gang have opened covers and excavation General credit accounts with well-known W

Peifu bookmakers, arranging to send Mr. Carl Bishop, an archaeo

telegraphed to their bets through the post.

Ingist then in Peking 24

representative

of

the

Mr. C. Forster-Cooper, who describes the reconstruction in Nature obtained bunes of aumer- ous extinct animals in 1910 in the Early Miocene deposits of Baluchistan. Many of these animals were unknown.

During an expedition to the same place in the following year

Letters have been sent from the further remains were obtained. and more recently a Russian London addressed in pencil. The him to visit the site and study the provinces to accomplices in Smithsonian Institution. urging paleontologist Borissiak. dise covered the remains of a very out, and the envelope readdressed Bishop was moved to tears upon pencil address has been rubbed the antiques. As a scientist Mr. similar large animal in Turkestan to a bookmaker, after having been his arrival at Hsincheng. In a but he could not get a skull.

steamed open for the purpose of letter to Peking he writes: "The An American expedition, how- ever, has found a complete skull horses which have won races on anything I ever saw. It is really inserting a letter placing bets onwonderful End of bronzes beats 5ft. in length, and enough bones that day. are now known for Professor

colossal, both as to the size and Osborn to have reconstructed this has been cleverly altered to make they were lamentably smashed Then the date on the postmark the number of the pieces, though curious monster of the past,

It has proved to be a

it appear that the bets were postin excavation.. I want to ed on the morning of the race, and utilize the discovery here to strange animal indeed..

the latter left in the bookmaker's bring home to the people the limbs are at large as those of a letter-box as though it had come need of scientific digging: from elephant, but the feet are differ- through the post in the ordinary a purely monetary point of view ent, and the "wrist" is three times

the damage done to the present At the same time there are BOGUS BETTING OFFICES.

find amounts to many tens of some striking resemblances to a

thousands of dollars,

It This scheme misfired, because horse, and its anatomical struc-many bookmakers, to safeguard the actual physical damage done was really beart-rending to see ture is unique in that "the Balu-themselves against this kind of to the objects themselves, to say chiterium in order to combine fraud, have all their letters de nothing of the last opportunity lightness with strength, has hit livered to them by special mes-for studying a first class ancient upon a design well known to senger in locked mail bags. engineers in the construction, of

Chinese burial."-Ex A number of documents have girders."

been sent by bookmakers and It has a horse-like neck, and others to the Turf Guardian its head seems almost too small Society, and an investigation is for its body. It probably fed upon on foot.

as high as an elephant's.

tion.

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SOME WONDERFUL SIGHTS. Dr. Stanley Kepp Kemp, of Calcutta, lecturing before the British Association, stated that he

tree leaves. It is hoped that an It is alleged that members of American expedition will find the the gang have defrauded backers front part of the lower jaw to by means of running bogus. bet- bad visited a mysterious cave complete the anatomical reconsting offices, and that they have three quarters of a mile deep in been engaged in other kinds of the Garo Hills, Assam, and found fraud.

there an unknown cat-like crea- Nearly all the men pose as ture, which plunges into the naval or military officers. Some water with a noise like a rhino- have, in fact, held commissions céros. He also saw giant frogs, and belong to well-connected and myriads of swimming bats families. They use their club and fresh-water prawns which notepaper and address to inspire danced on the rocks. Zoologists MOUTRIES—Exclusive Agents. confidence in their intended expressed the hope that more in-

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