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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHĮ MONDAY.

LANE, CRAW FORD'S.

"SLEEPY SICKNESS”

· BAKU'S ANNUAL FAIR,

(Continued from Pago v.)

SCARE.

Well-Known Personage

Succumbs.

London, May 25.

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mortality is betwoon 12 and 21 per cont.

Officlal and other researches have hitherto foiled to discover the cause of the disease.-Reuter.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

Much Brighter Prospects.

Moscow, May 25. tain the steady increase which

The annual Baku fair has has boon the feature of the Turn-

opaned. Five thousand tons of over done by this department. The cafe and bakory section have The death of the shipping goods have arrived, comparad done su excellent year's business magnata and racehorse owner, with four hundred tons last year. and your Directors have resolved Mr. Bower Ismay, front Numbors of Porsian and Turkish aro attonding.- to further develop the bakory encephalitis lethargice, commonly morchants soution. The very latest ma-called "sloopy sickudas," has Reuter. chinery is boing purchased and drawn fresh attenlon to the the Company's property known recent alarming spread of this as 17 Burrows Stroot, is under- lisoase in Britain. going special alterations for the Thore have bien 280 casos a installation of this plant. When wook this month, and 2,500 since all is completed we shall have we January 1st, compared with an believe the most up to date annual average of 889- The Bakory in the East. Thoma- chinery which we are installing] - is capable of turning out 1,400; is, of broad. per hour, and the broad will be untouched by hand from the time the flour leaves the Hück until the finished loaf is delivered to each customer wrap- pod in erystallino papor. Special; cako making machines are also being laid down and with their help our European pastrygook, Intely engaged, will be able to supply the daintiest of cakes and pastries made under the most hygionic conditions possible.

With the foregoing in view think that shareholders. will ngree with my co-directors and myself that we view the future prospects of the Company with overy confidence of sueceux. now beg to formally propose that

The children predominated and cheered vociferously when the the toport and Accounts of the Duke of Connaught walked on the dais and megaphoned that he had Company for the financial your sent a loyal telegram to H. M. the King, who had replied expressing unding 29th February 1994 his thanks.. (including the apportionment rev

The proceedings were broadcast by wireless and messages from commended by the Directors as Empire statesmen were read at intervals. In the evening a special theroin indicated) as presented he Commonwealth performance was given at the broadcasting station, adopted, and I shall be obliged if including Mr. Hamsey Macdonald, who said, inter alia: The parent some shareholder will kindly tree is still green and the sup of high endeavour at swells its second such proposal whareupon | branches. Our days of voyaging are not over. A world of mind questions as to the Report and and idea: Hes around us in the vast anexplored tracts of the Com- Accounts may be raised.

monwealth of nations centering 011 this Motherland, which still heads the call to go out in the Elizabethan spirit of gallantry and doughtiness to search for liberty, justice and peace."

The adoption of the report and accounts was seconded by Mr. Lammert and unanimously agreed to without discussion.

BUSINESS MATTERS.

EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS.

Londen, May 25. were on an unparalleled Empire. Day celebrations in London scale. Eight thousand, members of juvenile organisations particl pated at the Stadium at Wembley in a pageant of youth, organized by the League of Empire, and marched past the Duke of Connaught in the Royal box to maste played alternately by mussed pipe bands of Scottish regiments, a hundred strong, and a drum and fifo band, three hundred strong. The processionists were assisted by a choir- of a thousand Boy Scouts, who later sang "Hearts of Oak” and "Auk Lang Syne," accompanied by a massed band of six hundred draws from all units of the British Army, Rain poured throughout the night and morning, but the sun shone afternoon, when the proceedings began. spectators from all over the country and the Stadium was packed.

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Their Majesties attended the Thanksgiving Service inz the Stadium in Sunday afternoon, when the hands of a. thousand instruc ments and a choir of two thousand, which sang the opening cere-

On the proposition of Mr. Fung mony, were reinforced by Boy Scouts. The choir participated in Tat-hang, seconded by Mr. Good-impressive, ceremonies. all; Mr. A. 8. D. Cousland was re-

of the Empire. elooted a Director.

Messrs. Linstead and Davis wore re-clucted auditors for the ensuing year at, a remunera» tion of 31, 250 on the proposition of Mr. Jonas seconded by Mr. Abbas.

This was all the business, the chairman announcing that dividend

warrants were ready and could be had on application.

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The lay procession, symbolical of the builders. carrying Colonial fings and emblems, entered the Stadium arst, fol- lowed by an ecclesiastical procession, including Archbishops and bishops, representatives of religions bodies and the choir.

collection was takes on behalf of the British Empire Cancer Can- The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an address and as

puign.

Empire Duy was eviebrated all over the country by the ging despite bad weather, ten thousand school children, assembled at of ings and patriotic demonstrations, notably at Belfast, where, Ormen Park; were presented with commemoration parade of Body Scouts and Girl Guides was inspected by the Duke of medals and a

London, May 24.

Abercorn. Reuter..

A United Empire was the theme of the speeches at an Empire. Day dinner held under the auspices of the Colonial Institute this evening, the Duke of Connaught presiding. A distinguished com- pany of fong hundred, including the Duke of York, Sir Joseph Cook, Sir Hugh Clifford, Sir James Allen, and Sir Gordon Guggisberg was

present.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Among the discoveries at Kish is a great treasure in the shape of the oldest known pon. Pro- fossor Lungdon, the director of the Wold-Blundell and Field Museum Archeological Expedi- tion, who was delighted finding this bone stylus for writing. cuneiform. says that

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, ex-Premier of New Zealand, replying, many

scholars had vainly wurned the Government that it must change its procedure if oversea tried to reconstruct the instru-

representatives were to continue to attend Imperial conferences, as mont. The style is a triumph they were litterly disappointed if they saw no effect given to recom- of simplicity. It is a bone, Gin mendations of the conferences. Referring to the Singapore schemie, long, with a triangular cross-he said that if ever Australisis felt away from the Empire it would section and pared ende. After be through responsible people in Britain not providing proper pro- Bitlo practice Professor Langdon tection. was able to make cuneiforin Inscriptions on clay with fair rapidity. Professor Langdon con- siders that the mound 20 milos south-east of Nippur may bo identified as the sito of the city of Isin, the city of Isin. Isin was the capital of a dynasty which ruled over a great part of Babylonia after that of Ur from about . R. C. 2280 to about R.C. 2050.

Mr. J. Thomas, proposing the principal toast made appeal to drop miserable class warfare and class talk-cheers)-and let all, no matter of what class or creed, unite in making the Empire worthy of the sacrifices-of-those-of-all-classes-who-defended-the- Empire in the war.

Sir Walter Parratt, whoso death occured a fow weoks ugo, possessed one of those brains in which

music and chess

lodge in secure alliance. Certain

The proceedings were most enthusiastic-Renter.

KARL MARX.

London, May 24, According to the Daily Express, the Soviet delegation in Lon don las petitioned the Honie Office for permission to Moscow the body of Karl Marx, interred in Highgate cemetery, Lon- remove to dua. It is doubtful, however, whether the Home Office has the power to grant the request, since the grave is Marx's descendents, the principal of whom, incidentally, is Freuch

The property Socialist, who is anti-Bolshevik-Renter

AVIATION DISASTER.

Helsingfors, May 26.-

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Three army airmen were killed here to-day through their aero- inontal processen wora e plane catching fire and crashing-Reuter inalinatiya with him that

ha could not understand how they could possibly be barred to other people." He was once explaining, at the request of & duffer in chose, his undertaking| to sit at a plano and play fugues,' direct the moves on balf a dozon boards, and eludo ba Ming assaults with soft cushions,at one and the same time. The listoper wondered, how all this was pos- Bible. "Oh," said Sir Walter, modostly, "it's only a question of keeping the moves in your bead. You yourself, though you can't play chess vory wall. know that after a game ono falls naturally into retracing the stops in it. Going home, say, you recall every Indood move you have made," I don't" sald his companion. Oh, yes you do." he retorted "Why, I couldn't, to save my life, oriod the other. But no thing he could say would por- Buado Sir Walter that a perfect momory for chors was not the universul gift of the gods.

SONG

Still to be neat, still to be drest.

As you were going to a feast;

Still to be powder'd, still perfumed Lady, it is to be presumed,

Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair is free- Such sweet neglect more laketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mme eyes, but not my heart,

--Ben Jonson.

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Valuable Manuscripts Collected.

otho Eunfold like a scroll, others move along a string like cards of a card index, and others, again, close up like an accordion or fun. They form alincet an and the unique collection, Hebrew Union Calloge is to be

The "Jowish World" of April 3 contains a remarkably inter-congratulated on obtaining thom. osting note on a collection of It would be interesting to more than 20,000 raco Hobrow know whero this ancient Jewish books and M5S, which Professor colony in situatod. VIF"woro- Adolpho S. Oko, librarian of the member rightly we have heard of Hebrew Union College of Cincin-it in Honan; but wo should bỏ nati, Is taking acroga tho glad if some reader could givo- Atlantic, as the result of five fuller information, SaуB tho years' research in Europe.

North-China Daily News,

Among the treasurus (wo read); are some Jawish-Chinese manu- soripts which are of the greatest, possible intorest. Dr. Oko abtain- od them through Messrs. Maggờ. Bros.,of Condult Street, from the London Society, for Promoting Christianity among the Jews It appears that some 25 years ago the Sooloty sont a mission into China for the purpose of convorting body of Jows whose forefathers had sittled there as early as botwoon the yours of 205 B.CE. and 220 C.E. The missionarios, woró not successful in obtaining any con- vorts, but they brought back Homo sixty Hebrew manuscripts. Some of them open lika book,

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