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OBITUARY,

ENGINEER COMMANDER L. D. SWEETLOVE.

Officer

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926.

SWATOW UNREST,"

SERIOUS LABOUR FIGHTS

REPORTED:

A Foport from Swatow" states that the city la full of labour un rest, which has resulted in a gevora conflict between the "White" and "Red" elements of the Unions in which over fifty people were killed and nearly 200 wounded.

•

30 BERNARD SHAWS.

TEN NAMES SHARED BY 2,203,000 INHABITANTS.

Ten surnames alone in Englund are shared by no fewer than 2,293,600 of its inhabitants. Thero are:

530,000 Smiths." 204,000 J. Smiths: 425,000 Jones. 320,000 Browns. "238,800 Taylors, 180,000 Davies. 168,000 Wilsons... 120,000 Morris... 122,400 Walkers. - 108,000 Wrights. 90,000 Coopers.

Even the rarest names are not unique, as the following examples

if necessary, in the event of an at- prove: tempt being made to close their

The Resident Naval at Shanghai rogrets to announce that Engineer Commander L. D. Sweetlove, of the British Naval Office Staff, has died of meningitis following on pneumonia, The

It is stated that the cause, off lato officer was taken ill on Sun- the conflict was the forcible arrest day, August 8, and was removed of the Chairman of the "anti-Rad" to the Victoria Nursing Home, Unions, whose members wear a In where his condition at first gave distinguishing white armlet. rise to no anxiety. On the morn-consequence of his confinement in ing of August 11, however, he de- the headquarters of the Garrison veloped meningitis, sank into un-Commandant an appoal was made consciousness, from which he to the "anti-Rod" Unions to stand never recovered.

together ready to offer resistance, Commander Sweetlove, who was 39 years of age, and unmarried, had only recently come to Shang-headquarters. This appeal was sent hal, but was already well known to different Unions throughout the and had made many friends. Ho districts of Swatow and Chro was an officer of great promise, Chow, and resulted in members of not only for his high professional the opposing factions going about attainments, but because he was

the streets fully armed. The Gen possessed of, those rare gifts of

eral Chamber of Commerce and temperament which are required other charitable institutions came for the education of youth. For forward to mediate, but to no pur- tion of the advisability of every- this, reason Commander Sweet- pose and eventually matters dove-one having a monomark.

Mr. George Bernard Shaw love had been selected for more loped into a street fight which than one appointment in connec- involved thousands of the Union writes: "Life is impossible if one tion with the training of young men, with the results mentiqjica. cannot a private individual officers. his last appointment of

The authorities are now taking sometimes, this nature having been in the Royal Naval College at Dartmouthther bloodshed, and the city s

stringent measures to prevent fur- a private Monomark." The funeral took place at

under martial law, Pasenjiao Cemetery, Avenue Jof-

fre.

MR. JAMES MARBHALL.

The Kobe Herald regrets" the death of Mr. James Marshall, ad- vice of whose sudden demise on

EDITOR'S DEATH.

(Continued from Page 1),

Beetle, 150. Coffee, 54.

Bernard Shaw, 80. Tea, 12. .Fido, 435. Bread, 3 Gotobed, 426.

The above list is given in the Monomark Times as an illustra-

That is why I want

BRITAIN'S OLDEST

ALLY..

PORTUGAL'S FRIENDSHIP......... The "Portuguese Ambassador. (General J. M. R. Norton de

announced his intention of retiring Mattos) was the principal guest. and Yang Chetsz. on his own of the Knights of the Round Table responsibility, drafted an order of

Club at a dinner which was given reprieve and implored the general to sign it without delay. The on June 15 at Simpson's Restaur-

ant, Strand. tupan refused, and Mr, Hsuch Ta-,. ko knelt before him beating his)

Chang then head on the floor." relented and agreed to sign the reprieve. But Lin had already been dead for half an hour."

August 11th has just reached Меньхв. Findlay, Richardson & Co., Ltd., by cable, Deceased was for many years a prominent and respected member of the foreign community. A man of strong al-

His Excellency said that Great! moat deur character but withal

Britain and Portugal had had an genial and hospitable, he played

alliance almost since the constitu- not unimportant part in local

tion of the Portuguese nation in affairs during a long number of

the middle of the 12th century. years. His friends were not the

This alliance was confirmed for friends of a day nor, unfortunate-

the first time by means of a treaty- Lin had the reputation of being during the reign in England of ly, were his antipathies, few though they may have been, such a courageous and trenchant writer. Edward the First and in Portugal as could be easily overconie. But and his leading articles were

COURAGEOUS WRITER.

of existence.

found

he was a man of sterling worth, widely reproduced in the local of Don Diniz, had been in exis- a typical son of the soil north of English language and Japanese tence for 600 years, and had at

no time been out the Tweed. Mr. Marshall was a press. He was a native of Fukien On many occasions since the tak great chess player, and it is doubt-" and a graduate of Waseda Univer- ed if he was ever beaten in Kobesity. While in Japan he became ling of Lisbon in 1147 the English

and the Portuguese were unless it was by the late Mr. Jas.associated with various Chinese fighting side by side in the field of Mackey of the Chinese Customs. revolutionary leaders and on his battle against one common enemy. Mr. Marshall gured prominently return to China started a pape. These historical days of fighting

Glas-Shanghai. Following the estab as a chess enthusiast in

constituted a strong tie of friend- East.lishment of the Republic he was gow long before he came In outdoor sports cricket was his appointed as a secretary of Yuanship and fraternisation between favourite game, as local annals Shih-kal and later was elected a of the forgotten past' show unmis- member of the first Parliament, of battle had cristed where Eng- takably; while in the autumn and resigning in 1916 to re-enter news. winter months his hobby was to paper work. tramp the country with his gan and dogs after game.

the two countries, but other fields

lish and Portuguese were found in the same objective-the work of civilisation and progress which! The fact that Lin was widely

the Portuguese and English had known and generally respected,

'carried on in distant parts of the the gives rise to the hope that there world. It was essential that the Arriving in Japan in Autumn of 1890 to join the Kobe will be such a powerful reaction

same relations of alliance should Messrs. Findlay, against the current highhanded-continue between the two coun- branch of

tries. Richardson and Co., in the course ness of the military bigwigs hold-

The great spirit of peace, of a few years he became heal of ing Peking-that there may be no

harmony, and security that, since outrages. the Kobe office, and was subse- repetition of these quently appointed a Director whe: Meanwhile the newspaper fratern: the Great War, had more and more the firin was converted into ity anxiously watches develop taken possession of the world, was limited liability, company. While mente in the case of the editor principally due to the attitude, at home on furlough, in 1899 if now in custody, and the Extrater. the endeavour, and the diplomacy we are not mistaken, he married;ritoriality Commission is furnished of Great Britain, and this spirit and to his wife, a lady well known with further interesting material would remove, perhaps for eyer, the possibility of any military to many here, who survives him, for incorporation in their report action in which both Great Britain the deepest sympathy is extended. on China's judiciary millennium. and Portugal might be engaged.

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall-left.

Japan in May, 1920, and since then Mr. Marshall has served as One of the Home Directors of the old firm, only retiring from active business in June last. It was his intention to settle down at, Stir- Ting, where he quite recenly bought a delightful residence. The sad news of his death hus een a shock to his old friends here Las no one suspected that there was the lightest auto-for--an xiety regarding his health. In- deed in a letter written only last month to Mr. A. H. Cole Watson, the local Director of his old firm, he mentioned that he had motored

up to Strathpeffer and was great-

ly enjoying the trip. ·So, passas one who will long be remembered

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of decades-decades which wit nessed the abolition of extrater ritorial jurisdiction in this country and other far-reaching" changes. For some years, it may be men

Rome, July 7.-A new glass * Rome, July 7--News comes tioned, the late Mr. Marshall held fact ry has just been opened in from a provincial town of two en- the post of Consular, representa Rome by a prominent Fascist in- terprising burglars who had start- tive for Brazil. He also served as dustrial. The Minister of the In-ed on a successful night's work in President of the St. Andrew's

a big motor transport warehouse Society, torfor, Signor Federzoni, inaugu rated it with great ceremony, fo when they came upon two cases ceiving the gift of a Pieta mosaic. of champagne-which stopped all The gift destined for Signor Mue-further operations more peace- solini is his own effigy in colour-ful than the police could have London omnibus men assembled

On Sunday, July 11, over 2,000

ed glass, with f suggestion of done. The men woke up next on the Victoria Embankment at

morning in the prison cells.

clouds and halos."

9.45 a.m. for a march to the Church of St. Clement Danes, whers a service was held at 11 a.m. Lord

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by. FREDERICK Ashield, read the lesson. A PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of wreath was placed at the Cena- Victoria, Hongkong,

taph en route to the churchlan

THE MYSTIC MAZE

By WALTER B.' GIBSON.

A picture is hidden in this mystic maze pozzle pieturo,

There are several entrances to the maze, but only one of them will load you through and back to the starting point without crossing a barrier, Tho remaining entrances are all "blind alloys" which hayo no outlot.

Take

a pencil, and start at one of the entrances. Try to find a course through the maze that will bring you out where you went in.

When you hovo diecovored the cor rect route, the line you draw will make the outline of a picture. Fill

in the outline with your ponell, and you will have a perfect silhouette *the hidden picture, and

of

Watch for anów. Mystic Maza Puzzle Picture next Saturday,

Last Week's Hidden Picture

The Locomotives.

Entertainments.

RAMON NOVARRO

Andre-Louis Moreau, who was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad; whose laughter mocked his ene mies and whose madness inflamed the world. See him in

REX INGRAM'S SCARAMOUCHE

from RAFAEL SABATINI'S

govol

LEWIS STONE

4 la Tour d'Azyr

ALICE TERRY

Alina, the fair aristocrat whose lovO

- rode the fury

of the rerola----- tion.

Adaptation by WILLIS GOLDBECK

Photography Es JOHN F. SEITZ

Directed by

REX INGRAM

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY ONLY

Another "Request" Picture

PAUL RICHTER

CORSAIRS

A wonderful medieval drama of pirates on the high seao

TO-DAY-5.30 to 11.30.

STAR

TO-DAY ONLY

at 5.15 & 9.15 p.m.

HOLBROOK BLINN

"THE BAD MAN"

A story of the Mexican Border that opens rather slowly but gathera force for a big climaz

WORLD

TOURISTS IN ITALY.

A BIG DECREASE DURING THE SPRING.

cent. lower than in 1925.

A lull was inevitable after Papal. Jubiloe, and German anti-Italian propaganda is supposed to have | made some difforonce, but not so much as the fall in the frang and the exceptionally, bad weather. Rome, July 7. Statisticians make the cheerful ro- The figures of the tourlet traffic flection that if the quantity is un- are always studied with interest satisfactory, the quality is excel- twice a year, as its returns are lent, and the better hotels have relied on to adjust the deficit on had no cause of complaint. The the commercial Budget. Hitherto summer is always a favourite sen- hopes have not been disappointed, son for Americans and the Fran but 1926 has begun badly. The ciscan celebrations at Assisi aco first six months chow a marked de- sure to bring crowds of foreigners crease in the number of visitors from all parts all over Italy In the lake district,

for instance, thore have been only At Dorchester Town Council. It a quarter of the usual number of was decided to remove from their visitors, Rome has had fewer position at the western entrance visitors than in 1924; and even to the town the two German how- Sicily, where reduced railway itzers presented to Dorchester as fares were accorded for the war trophies. The Mayor said Sicilian Spring the tourist traf that in their present position they fe is registored as being 30 per were an eyesore.