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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1926.

THE PEKING

MASSACRE.

torrible.

come as

gri

might be expected

over came under the

of Bola sheviks, The Reds" know no law but that of their own will Hero is an Instance in which Chinoso extremists cold-bloodudly massacre hundreds of their own' | kith and kin. What will the

DAY BY DAY.

WHAT EXILE FROM HIS COUN- TRY 18 ABLE TO ESCAPE "FROM HIMSELF Horace.

a

LEAGUE COUNCIL

BRITAIN'S HAND FREE.

London, April 21.- In the House of Lords, question-

ROYAL BABY

MOTHER AND CHILD MAKE

GOOD PROGRESS,

London, April 12.

It is authoritatively learned that: the progress of the Duchess of York and daughter da as satisfac- tors as could be wished.

the

baby, which is described as a fine healthy chlid.

The weather forecast up to nooned whether the Government was to-morrow is--East winds, mode pledged to support the claim of rate"; overcast, some rain.

any new country except Germany to a permanent seat on the League of Nations' Council, Viscount Cecil Yesterday's health report con- replied that the Government's people say of it? Mischief-makers, tains a case of rabies, in which policy undoubtedly was to maintain Castle wore awakened at three Their Majesties, at Windsor whose ono aim is to get nation Chinose was the sufferer..

the rule that only Great Power be o'clock in the morning and told against nation and class against

permanent members of the Council of the birth of their first grand- The ss. Tilawa is to leave As a result of the new situation daughter. They motored to Lon- class, are ever fond of denouncing Amoy on the 24th. instant, and is which arose at the last meating of don in the afternoon to see what they are pleased to term due here on the following day..

the Council, the British representa- foreign Imperialism; but nothing

tive would attend the forthcoming that foreigners have ever done in Tho Empress of Russia, which meeting of the Constitution Com-

The Prince of Wales sent a China can compare with the left Hongkong on the 2nd: inst.,mitteee which was then appointed,

arrived at Vancouver on Mon, quite free of any obligations or de- most cordial message of congrata- brutal savagery of the incident day.

clarations that might have been lation from Biarritz, and aimllar undor note. This tragic occur.

made in the past with reference, massages are arriving from all aver to the membership rence should be sufficient, if any One Chinese Imported case of

of the the Empire-Reuter. behalf of Britain. thing further we

needed, to small-pox was reported to the Courici on

Medical Officer of Health on --Reuter. convince the people of China of]

Tuesday. what Bolshevism moans'in prae-] tice. We trust that the lesson, will be duly taken to heart.

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Village' Sanitation.

Not the least interesting of the many matters to be dealt with at

The manager of the Tu Yuen shop, Shamshuipo, has reported to the police that a foki collected $95, and then absconded with the

money.

تیم مهر

Government would give him, as its A FULLER STATEMENT. “

representative, definite instruc- Rugby, April 21.

tions. That was evident in a mat- Viscount Cecil, who will repreter of this importance and, natural, at Great Britain on the Commis-ly, he would not like to go to the son of the League of Nations Commission unless he was satis- which will study the future con- stitution of the League Council, views of his colleagues as well as Ded that he was representing the

A Chinese woman fell into the "plied in the House of Lords to his own. The instructions given points raised in connection with to Sir Auston Chamberlain when Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary harbour at Connaught Road West his matter by Lord. Charnwood he went to Genova seemed to an Board was that relating to the whilst said to be under the in-

and Lord Farmour.

swer many of the points raised. lack of sanitary supervision influence of liquor. She was sent

Viscount Cecil agreed that the The Government had then laid it the Chinese village in Telegraph to the Government Civil Hospital. Bay, Pokfulum, which, as Dr.

Commission appointed by the down that no change in thê Coun- Koch pointed out, is in close Dr. A. H. Start, a prominent League was not entirely an im-cil could be admitted which would proximity to the Dairy Farm and Manila dootor, has been sentenced Partial one, being composed large have the effect of preventing or many European houses. Time to four years and nine months of representatives of nations delaying the entry of Germany. was when this little village was for procuring abortion. He is ap-most hotly engaged at the meeting That was still the policy of the right out of the circle of the City, pealing against the sentence.

last March. It would have been Government. The Government al- when it was inhabited by a few

desirable, he said, to have had a 30 maintained the principle that fishorfolk and agriculturists, to whom it was no hard matter While working on a wall ten perfectly impartial Commission. only Great Powers should be per- to dispose of nightsoff. In every feet high, for the Naval Ordnance was a mistake to imagine that manent members of the Council.. truly rural district in all countries Department, a Chinese fell to the necessity for such a Commis- Otherwise, the British representa of the world the sanitation of the the ground, and was removed to sion arose only out of the recent tives would go to the Commission small villages and hamlets is of the Government Civil Hospital difficulties at Geneva. There had free from any declaration made in been a very strong feeling for the past on behalf of this country primitive nature, and it is only with injuries to his body. when towns and large congested

years in the League Assembly in with reference to the membership We imagine that the whole communities spring up that there Owing to the inclement wea-regard to the method of con- of the Council. Although he world, when it hoars of the news arises the need of special sewage thor, the annual inspection of stituting permanent members of would, in many ways, desire that of the massacre of Cabinet Office disposal systems and all manner the Hongkong Police Force and the Council and it had culminated his hands should be tied when he of regulations regarding nuis-the presentation of medale and in a definite resolution calling for went to Geneva there must be guards in Peking, will be horror-ences, light and air and other other awards by His Excellency a system of rotation."

rcom for free discussion.-British stricken that such an occurrence comparable matters. These legal the Governor, which was due to

He had no doubt at all that the Wircices. could take place in a country safeguarde are necessary to pre-be held yesterday afternoon, was

vent our annihilation by our own postponed till next Wednesday. which seeks to be- reckoned artificial mode of herding together, amongst the leading nations of but the open countryside, with its In the twentieth century-wel the world. The outrage smacks comparatively small gregarious want more of that fine old spirit strongly of. Bolshevik Russia population has no need of such of adventure and enterprise, and things. The City of Victoria has long-much less of the too- and the doings of the Chickn, the grown, however, Pokfulum has frequently-used phrase," Safety object of whose activities is to become very much residential, first Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge. the Dairy Farm Company has its wipe out those who are suspect-milk-producing herd close by, ed of being in any way anti-and the little village in Telegraph Communistic in outlook. The Bay houses about, 400 people-- facts appear to be quite plain, people who now ought to be supervised from the scavenging; amounting to a piece of revenge and sanitary standpoint. Rural notoworthy for shoer inhumanity Pokfulum has been invaded and and savagery. Realising that the little village must pass out follow:

of the category of a hamlet which they had shot their balt, the can be left to itself. It is a Paris

Brussells Kuonilnehun leaders were forced menace, and we think that the Amsterdam to flee from the capital, but be- Committee of investigation which Berlin

is going to look into the matter Copenhagen fore the Army retreated, the com- will agree and recommend official manders were induced by ex-supervision. In the case of such tramists to exterminate the places as Shekko we don't think Buenos Aires

there is any need as yet for a Shonghai Cabinet Office guards who had scavenging contract or a conser-Yokohama New York fired on the students last month vancy contract. Only when what Genes

Geneva were truly rural districts come Milan The procedure adopted was to

within the urban area ought Stockholm march the guards out boyond the there to be the application of re-slu

Prague Yellow Temple, where they weregulations. ruthlessly town down by machine-guns, with the results that out of four hundred, only five managed to escape. A more terrible outrage against defence- losa men can scarcely be im agined.

YEAR'S WEATHER.

FEATURES OF 1925.

The annual report of the Director of the Royal Observa- tory was laid on the table at this afternoon's meeting of the Legis Intive Council.

It showed that the mean tem-

Rio

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, April 21. To-day's exchange rates are as

The Very Idea!

Last year I asked my best girl! jungle road nearly ran down an to marry me and she refused. 1 elephant. The elephant, angry、 got even with her by marrying her picked up the car and dropped mother. Then my father married over the edge of a ravine. Tac. the girl. Now, what am I to man just escaped by a hurried leap. myself?

Now don't be envious of that cle When I married the girl's mother phant. It would be nice to be 130 the girl became my daughter, and able to wreck the machine that 12.80 when' my father married my 20.42 daughter, she became my mother, but after all, it would hardly do.

nearly runs you down, of course; 18.60 Who am I?" 34.50 04.00

Elephants have privileges wo pedestrians don't have.

140

..103 My mother's mother, who is my wife, must be my grandmother. 4541Since I am my grandmother's hug- band am I therefore my own grand- father?

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.2/24 Silver (spot and forward) .2014 looms as large as the widely adver

British Wireless..tised elephant in the china closet.

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Experience, we all have heard,

At teaching us is great. The trouble is, it always seems To teach as much too late.

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Two more schoolboy howlera: A Vacuum is a large empty space

which the Pope resides, The Equator is a Menagerie LioB running around the Earth,

Teuthing the saxophone by mall 4.70 should either improve the exeen 14.26 tion of players or hasten it.

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A Liverpool botanist says he ean put, vegetables to sleep. It would be interesting to know how.

he closes the eyes of the crib,

and keeps the corn. in its crib,

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Mr. J. H, Thomas, M.P., who proposed the health of the chair- ference should have been in ever man at the Imperial Press Con-

ing dress, but wasn't. He turned up late-direct from his victory it- the railwaymen's conference, and naturally rather proud of his work-a-day attire. He explained that ho had to choose between meeting 30 delegaten who had de- termined on a strike or of being at that conference earlier. He knew that his final speech to the rail- way delegates would be about 0.45, and he should really have attended Kings and queens are human dressed ready for dinner, But, 10.25 after all.

. before leaving home to meet the The King and Queen were at a railwaymon he said to his wife: fair the other day. A Salvation "Aggie, what God's chance 1B, 10.25 Army girl came up to solicit a there of carrying this resolution If 3.90 penny with her tambourine. The appear in evening dress?" "I 4.King, felt for his purse, turned red, won," he told the pressmen by two 4.00 whispered to the Queen, who turns votes. What would have hap

00ed red also. Royalty had come off

1.50 "If Soviet Russia drops a few more 1.75 pilots, she will presently have to 1.20 depend on cabin boys to sufl the B.10 ship of state, 2.65 196 8.10

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The point to be stressed from this sensoloes slaughter is that this is the kind of thing that inj liable to happen when extremiste gerature for last year was 71.4,ceived by cable the following have power at their command against 71.9 for the past 42 years.quotations from Singapore: To Bolsheviks and the like. The highest was 928, this com-Allenbys nothing matters so long as they recorded during the past 42 years. Amalgamated Malays

paring with 97 which was

once Alor Gajahs can get their own way, and if The lowest for the year was 39.7, Ayer oleks

Ayer Panas they think that the time for against a past record in 42 years

Balgownies rovenge has come, they will not of 32..

Barautta hesitate to put to death, in the

Rainfall registered at the Ob- Brogas servatory during 1025 was 87.58 Bukit Katils

Bakit Jelotonga cruellest possible manner, any inches, at the Taipo Police Sta-Changkat Serdangs whom they consider to bo their tion 86.49, at the Botanical Gar- Connemaran enemies: Terroristic methods diena. 05:29 and at the Matilda Glenealies Indragiris Hospital 82.92, The highest fall. the stock-in-trade

of

Jerums in any one month was 26,42 at Jimahs Bolshoviks and Communists; no Taipo in July.

Kedahs autocratie dictatorship ΘΥΟΣ There was no wind of typhoon Kempas.

Kuala Bidima. known could rival the acts of force experienced during the Lunat

Lunar anges Malaka Pindas crualty and oppression which lay No fewer than 169 earthquake Malakoffe at the door of these peopio, shocks were recorded, as compar- Mayfielda

Mandai Tokonge Prating of freedom and liberty,ed with 149 in 1924.||||||

Mentakabs they violate. tho

For the purposes, of, upper air principles of both the one and balloona were made during the the othor, just as the circum- year. On September 25 the bal-Seudais stances suit them. They are the toon was observed for 131 minutes Sungei Barkins world's real tyrants.

und on September 24 for 90 Tapaha minutes. The Director think Teluk Malaccas

Tämhalaks To the Chinese people both in the former is one of the longest United Maluccas the North and the South, this observed fights on record! Utan Simpans.

Aro

year.

Sorendahs

Now elementary research, 40 flights with pllut Pafams

1.05

2.00

15.04 without a copper! The King and poned if I had appeared respects. 5.00 Queer had to borrow money from biet And Echo answers What? 14.20 their escort to make the contribu

136 tion.

advantage 8.30 Now if the King will only forget over Helen of Troy the latter

to pay it back, we shall know he's never played tennis

33.0 just like the rest of us.

1.80

14.50 Dispatches from the Dutch East

.00 Indies fell how a motorist in

$70:

Miss Wills has the

Agiri used to roll up her sleeves and go to work, now she rolls down her stockings,