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themselves, and, although there will undoubtedly be nows of FOAM TYPE FIRE FIGHTING ably tauch fighting, one wonders further political murders and prob-

HAPPINESS IS NOT THE END OF just how the Chinese are going to Ward Beecher.

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: ASHLEY STERNE·

GRILL

"AVTHOR OF

TWISTED TALES

For all practical purposes, Canton Wook-end tidos To-day, high is now but à Russian town-at any water 6.58 p.m. (4 ft. 3 las.). To have been a lively place to live in Khora," that I am encouraged to Red Doar Valley, Alberta, must this direction, Knook-Kneed rato all the executive control is imorrow, high water 5.48 a.m. (6 in prehistoric times if that lengthy say that my new story, which an It. 8 ins.) and 7.59 p.m. (4 ft. 5 reptile, the giganticosaurus, flourominent literary critic who has the hands of Russians or the pawns inches).

ished there in anything like con- read the MS. describes as a of Russiaus. Are the Powers

siderable numbers. I see that litany of love and laughter" will going to stand idly by and see Kowloon Inland Lot 1992, sit- the bones of this playful and capt- simply knock spots off the Canton reduced equal to the ruins rate at Ma Tau Kok, is to bo solid voting creature have just been former, So look out for mouldy of Russia in Europe? Would, not The upset price is $95,000, or one skeleton measuring well over 100 Murdeross; or, Should the Green- at auction on September 14th. found there, the reconstructed Martha, the Macèlos fiold the Chinese themselves welcome dollar a foot.

foot in length, thus beating the grocer tell?"the first instal- intervention for the purpose of

Diplodocur Carnegie in the Pitts-mont of which will" appear very burg Museum, which has hitherto shortly, or perhaps soonor. ousting these men who first came Passengers arriving from held the length record, by sixteen' and preached a plausible doctrine Manila yesterday by as. Pres- feat. This has caused me to

ident Lincoln included Lieut. wonder how prohistorie nun tack- For this wock's experiment in and then turned round and deprived Colonel Beadle and Mr. Edger T. led these reptiles when; as must poetry I have selected the old the Chinese of their governing H. Tsen of the Epidemic Preven-occasionally have happened, one Scots Border Ballad, power? These questions decidedly pertinent and demand an, early answer.

The Latest Incident.

The

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tion Bureau, Peking.

nows of Japanese sailors being fired upon by the Cantonese, MUSTARD & CO. with the result that one of the

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DEATH.

ALMEIDA-On August 22, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, Pauline Mary d'Almeida..

The Telegraph.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1925,

Hey-

Softly, softly, on the mutod

strings.

entored the night-nursery and hit diddle-diddle, the Cat and the the baby, I can only suppose he Fiddle" and presont it to you killed the animal on the Easy In in the manner which I imagine In commemoration of the birth-stalment principle, as, with his Walt day of Her Majesty the Queen of little stono hatchet; it seems im-written it:

Whitman would have Holland, the Consul-General for possible he could have slain 100 the Netherlands will be At Home foot of solid reptile all at once. at the Chancery on Monday be-He probably killed the tail on tween 11.30 a.m. and I p.m.

Monday, the hind legs on Tuesday the trunk on Wednesday, the The silk shipped por a.s. Fres forelegs on Thursday, the neck on idont Madison, which sailed from Friday, and the head which by this port at 5 p.m. on August 1st, then would be comparatively arrived New York at 3 pm, on August 25th, having been 23 transit. calendar days and 22 hours in

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Capt. II. B. Northcote, master of the P. & O, 8.5. Nagpore, has been removed to the Peak Hos- been taken ill in harbour and has pital. His place as master on the, Nagpore has been taken by Mr.Jharmloss) on Saturday-the re- Gibson, the Chief Officer.

ward of his labour being Irish stew for dinner on Sunday,

Nearly 5,000 workers of tho Commercial Pross. salos dopart-

naval men was killed and two were wounded, whilst an M. B. K. launch was sunk, comes at a time when the "Reds" can least afford to antagonise more of the nations, and is likely to lead to serious re- sults.

We write this before any further details are available, but we presume that naturally the launch was flying the Japanese flag, and in any case it was in open waters, where vessels of any nationality are supposed to be free to go to and fro. At the very least, the Chinese forl should havements in Honan and North Sze- | given the people on the launch an inent in Paoshan Road, Shanghai, chuen Roads and printing depart CANTON'S DICTATORS. opportunity to declare their busi-were thrown idle last Saturday ness before opening fre. The un-morning when a general strike.

was declared. The news of the past few days provoked attack is an act of war has made it quite clear that Canton of the most glaring description, is completely under the domination and adds to the list of provocations of "Red" influences and that the already marked down to the Canton last vestiges of purely Chinese authorities. "Satisfaction will have control are passing into the hands to be prompt; and fall. Every of non-Chinese dictators. Begin day is definitely bringing us near ning with the assassination of Linger the end of putside toleration Chung-kai it has apparently been of these flagrant broaches of in- realised by the Bolsheviks that ternational peace. there are strong anti-Red forces at work, which realisation has driven

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RHYMES WITHOUT REASON, A strict vegetarian of Green-

wich Was making a meal of dressed

speenwich,

When a furious" skeeter Stuck his sting in the eater, Which made the unhappy man's

skeenwich..

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Waft the sweet cadence! From thy gut, O.Cat, Draw the vibrant diminished

KaVonth.

The tremulous augmented fifth. And you. Dog, laughed-- Laughed at the inevitable, The Ineffable, the Com-

mensuratel

(O Brooklyn 10 Manhattan 1).

When, lightning-like, loupt thio

Cow

Over the silvern disc which

lights

Nocturnal Democracy i Demomcracy, the groat En

Bloc I sing..

Dish and spoon, spoon and dish, Elope sach to each

In the climactoric of the 'Soul! (Tread softly there's crepe on

the knocker!

So long, camerudo Push off!

read with much interest that who is to attempt the Channel the Japanese champion swimmer, swim very shortly, is principly concerned with the temporature of our "sea," which, of course is

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EAST POLE

Mossrs. Carroll Bros, are in re- coipt of a cable from Singapore advising that there is no change that raw rubber has advanced to ing-the use of starch in the bath use in Japan. To accustom in the price of rubber shares and A doctor has been recommend-much colder than the sort they $1.28 por b. They also advise as boneficial to the skin. And himself to it, he is spending six 10 per cent. interim, and Teluk tion that ere long some doctor which seems to me an excellent the following dividende:-Pajams, Jones Minor is living in tropidu-bours every day in the water, Ansons 5 por. cont, interim, will recommend soap. "

plan. When, some few years' ago, I was preparing for my new Mariano Hong, Chinese chauf-

celebrated expedition to the West feur, was seriously injured and Hungarian gentleman who is hours a day at the Hehmonger'e' My allusion last wook to the Pole, I used to spend several Architecture.

S.. Sing Ko, were slightly hurt carrying out a seventy-days' fast sitting on a block of ice, all' Architecture, in the opinion of when their auto collided last has brought me a letter from my amongst the lobsters, in order to them to adopt the sternest of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, is, with Tuesday night with a strout car old friend, Dr. Codley Veroyle, get used to the extreme cold 1 oz- measures against all and sundry the possible exception of music, reports a Manila paper.

at Rizal Avenue and Azcarraga, wherein he narrates the following pected to encounter on my jour-

The story who could in any way be suspected the greatest of all the arts. So automobile was virtually demoli-: A prisoner had been sentenced my memorable journey to the East ney. Similarly, before started on of half-heartedness. The affair at declared

shed while the electric car sus- to death, and on the morning of rolo 1 hardened myself to not the former Labour Shunichun the other day was the Premier when opening an exhibi-

tained only slight damage." the execution he was permitted temperatures by forcible replacement of a small tion of the Liverpool School of

in accordance with custom to Correspondence Course in Boiler- -taking El A well-known China Coast per-choose what he liked for break- Stoking: The fact that I even- garrison by an ultra-Red force, and Architecture lust month.

He sonality passed away in Shanghai fast, A chronic dysoptic, he had tually reached both Poles clad in the fact that the garrison was not asserted that if architecture is on August 1st. in Captain John for many years had to deny him- a sports jackets, Oxford trousers,

Meathrel, of Messrs Butterfield self pork and pickled cabbage, for even given a chance of going out merely to provide shelter for the and Swire. The late Capt. Meath-which he entertained a pas- quietly and had not been guilty of body of man, then the cheaper and rol first came to China in 1895 and sionate longing. Now cume his any anti-Red acts but was driven the uglier would perhaps be the had been with Messrs B. and S. opportunity. He would be dead out as though hostile, shows to more efficient. The training of the inand sf many of the steamers of and so he asked for a generous over since. He has been in com- before the. indigestion. got busy, what lengths the fears and architect, he added, did not end the China Navigation Company. portion of his favourite food, suspicions of the Reds will drive with u knowledge of the composi

which he ate with relish. them. Then, later, comes the news tion of bricks and stone, and how Moscow, Mr. Sun Pao-ch, re- Somebody had confessed to the

The new Chinese Minister to however,

On his way to the scaffold, of the virtual imprisonment of Wu to deal with dry rot; it was an ceived a letter wrapped round a crime, and he was at once re- reprieve arrived, Hon-min, than whom no one seemed architect's business to reveal the live cartridge. The letter said leased with a handsome apology. more Red a few weeks ago. Wu beautiful, and it was a profound must demand that the Russian terrific hammering on the prison

that on arrival in Moscow hel An hour later, there was could never be accused of being mistake for him to imagine that Government inako good to the knocker. When they opened the "pink" for, by all his utterances of when engaged in the production of Chinese losses through depreciat-door, they saw the released Jat he has been as anti-Hongkong small domestic architecture he had It is reported that Dr. C. T. Wang indigestion, imploring them for detracts from the merit of my ed roubles, or he would be shot. prisoner, doubled up with acute and an opera-hat, in no way and as Red as any. With Wa's not the same chance as if he were received a similar postal packet, the love of Mike to take pity on Spartan training, arrest there was also the incarcers-planning a great Town Hall. The says the Central. China Post.

him and hang him." tion of a number of military leaders success of the architect," said Mr. effectedmen whom we all thought MacDonald, "is to hide his materials.g. President Jefferon yesterday The passengers arriving on the

It is estimated that the side, were truly Bolshevik. In fear of in his iden, so that when we afternoon included Mr. H. C. An-shows at the reopening of the only luke-warm support instead of approach a house or a cathedral, derson, of the U. B. Treasury White City in May 1927 will cost enthusiastic bucking, the Bolsheviks the spirit is alone revealed." Wo Manila; Messrs. H. E. and H. L, dreadful lot, but I have no doubt

Departinent, on his way to a million pounds. This sounds have brought off coups, much to the would that these words could be C. Aked, Mr. A. Baxter of the that the Fat Lady will be three- surprise of the Chinese. And kept constantly in mind by the men the Standard Oil Company of

Canton College, Mr. O. T. Boss of ponce as usual,

+ there is not the slightest doubt that who design our homes and our New York at Batavia, Mr. Walter Warning-In compliance with the preponderance of military commercial buildings. What Mr. Champlain, Mr. T A. Hinos numerous requests I have pre- power is now in the hands of these MacDonald, or others who think as gadier-General E, B. MacNaugh this column

accompanied by his wife; Bri, valled upon myself to write for Bolsheviks who threaten to make he does, would say if they saw some ton, of the British-American To- Sorial Story. So great was the a Splendid New Canton just a little bit of terrorist of the so-called architecture in bacco Co; and Mr. W. T. Stanton. success of my former venture in Russia. There are reports of fight this Colony, we hesitate to con-

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£32,000,000 SCHEME.

COPING WITH LONDON'S GOODS TRAFFIC.

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NOTABLE SAYINGS OF THE WEEK. William

Who and what is this Mr. Shakespeare?Mr.

Justice Duckling, dangerous thing-Prof Piflinger A lot of knowledge is a very Rottenbleiter

Nothing exceeds like excess. Sodbury. The Archbishop of Chipping

Mr.Ashley Sterna (speaking at The same again, please, Miss. Lincoln's Inn). bywlle Mr. Lloyd George.

Llwch pwll gwyddydd y cwyr

ing between the Whampoa Cadets template. In the building boom of it is true, a few structures which and the troops of Gen. Li Fook-lum, a few years back, there were do credit to the best of our and we may later hear of fighting structures erected in Hongkong architects, but these are, unfortun on the East River front. It is which should make their designers ately, the exception to the general extremely doubtful, however, blush with shame.

These build-rule. In inspiration, regard for whether those Chinese anti-Redings, unhappily, stand as monu- beauty of line and in general Detalls have been desued of

London, Aug. 28. forces will be able to dislodge the ments of the inartistic proclivities artistic taste, all too many of our scheme for deadng with goods £32,000,000 Anglo-American Bolsheviks from the very strong of men who have little conception architects, appear to be woefully traffic in London by means panse and lack of adequate hand. position in which they now find of grace or beauty. There are, deficient.

an underground railway connect

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B

ing all the principal goods for minals and the London docks.A

The scheme is now being consi dered by a committee of repre sentatives of the big railway com: panies, It is hoped that the pró- ling of overseas traffic at the Port. Ject will revolutionise the hand-

lost to the Continent owing to ex of London, again attracting trade

Tng facilities-Router.