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THE MYSTIC MAZE

By WAITER D. GIDSON

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inyue but perseverance will find It.v

tanze with dozens of Inviting passege- ways, but with only one course rub- ning through it. A picture is hidden to the maze.

Take a pencil, and start at one of the openings in the lower left corner of the maze. Pursue your course in and out among the curves and turn- ings; if you run into a blocked pas- sage, go back to where you left the proper couŢLE.

When you have solved the puzále, you will have an outline of the hidden picture. E in the outline with a honvy black pencil and the result will be a perfect silhouette,,.

Today's hidden picture is Oriental in nature. It is carefully concealed; [

Last Saturday's Picture-The Slipper,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH..

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926.

UNREST IN SZECHUAN SOVIET IN CHINA. NEW REVOLT AGAINST

CONTINUES.

THE BOYCOTT MOVEMENT, INTENSIFIES.

BRITISH PROPERTY SEIZED.

The anti-British boycott at Changsha is intensifying, sdys a Peking message of October 25,

HOW BOLSHEVISM IS SPREAD.

THE THREAT TO BRITAIN.

A British resident of Peking writes us under date of the 23rd l'inst, as follows:

I am sorry to disturb the feel- Thousands of dollars' worth of ingn of the Hongkong community property belonging to the Asiatic by thrusting upon them the word- Petroleum Co, and to the British | wavings. of the Communistic American Tobacco Co. has been Party in North China, but it is so confiscated and the confiscation of unusual for any of the Soviet sup much more property is threatened.porters in this part of the world Servanta employed by British to make bonst. of their intentions, and American residents, at that it is to be presumed that they Chengtu have gone on strike and have reason to believe that what the situation there H

more they say a the truth-and that precárious.

truth will be most unpalatable to Hongkong people who are just now congratulating themselves en are sumption of trade with the Kwang Provinces.

CANTON.

NAMOA DECLARES ITS

· INDEPENDENCE.

THREAT TO SWATOW!

Our Swatów. correspondent; writing under date of yesterday, anys:

The pirate chief of Namon Jaland, Tann Pak-chong, has de- clared his independence and ex- pressed his sympathy with the Northern Government. As a re- sult, the Magistrate, Chew Chian, and other officials appointed by the Canton Government have taken refuge in Swatow.

em-

The fact that Namoa is so close 1o Swatow and that at the moment A telegram received in Shang

there are two Northern warships, hai from Szechuan shows West

the ai Yung and the Hai Chu, China to be in a state of ebullition

anchored there, is likely to atill. It was stated that the

barrass the local military authori British boycott and servant strike

ties considerably, especially as which had sprung up in certain

TO BLIND BRITISH.

there are practically no troops inį parts of Szechuan as the result of

Certain of Comrade Karakhan's this district at the moment and the Wanhaien incident had reach confreres have this week given that the landing of a force via ed Chengta and that from October voice to the opinion that the ceasu-Namor would appear to be a com- 20. British and other foreign tion of picketing in Canton has paratively simple matter. residents in Chengtu had been been done, according to order, ta With regard to the boycott posi- experiencing difficultios in connec-blind the eyes of the British in tion, our correspondent saye that, tion with the boycott.

China to the ultimate aims of the broadly speaking, the situation is, Several student demonstrations Canton party, and to lend the unchanged. As previously re- have been held at the West China British Minister here to the con-ported, all staffs have now retura- University situated in Chengtu,clusion that if Canton shoulded to British employers, but that but these are reported to have re-succeed in conquering or buying is, to all intents and purposes, the sulted in nothing serious. A out all opposing factions and extent of the improvement. The group of missionaries connected militarists in the, whole country, only Chinese merchants who have with the West China Mission of the form of government instituted as yet attempted to do any busi- the United Church of Canada left will not be worse for foreign trade ness with British firms are the a few days ago, in accordance with than is the present Canton regime." piece, goods dealere, who have. action taken by the local board

One very

well-known Com-beer making considerable pur that, since the general situation in munist has gone so far as to chases in spite of the threats of Chengtu was not improving, those lecture to a certain foreign-estab the

and Anti-British were due to lished school a few miles west of societies. missionaries who leave on furlough in the spring the city, giving exact and précise The one thing that is impeding should go at the present, time. details of how, when the Reds are a resumption of normal trading The following missionaries and at last established in Peking, the is the attitude of the lighterme. their families were in the group: whole of the foreign Treaties, who still decline to handle carre Rev. N. E. Bowles, Rev. C. R. concessions and. Customs services to or from a British steamer, and Carensalen, Rev. E. Hibbard, Rev. are to be abolished at one fell for this reason shippers are, of J. Kitchen, Rev: C. W. Service and swoop by the "United Chinese course, confining their shipmenta Rev. F. J. Reed as well as a Cheng- and also of the methods to be used to vessels other than British. tu Y.M.C.A, worker who is going to blind the eyes of Britain and on furlough.

to help continue the coal strike, so as to render the country incapable of offering resistance; and of the proposed plans regarding the muzzling of Japan., "

It is not believed, however, that this represents a general exodus as, although the British Consul has advised the leaving of British since early summer, the present

Loose talk we have had by the group are merely leaving earlier column, but this, I venture to than they had anticipated..

think, is the first time that any H.B.M. Consul in Ichang af the official definitely connected with present time will not permit the Soviet representation, has 30. Women and children refugees tar forgotten his mole-like from Chungking and other points methods us to come out into the who were forced to leave several open and let the light of day shine weeks ago to return. Of the upon Soviet intentions. original 70 who evacuated places [.. in West China, a number remain- ed in Ichang and about 20 camé to Shanghai. When it will be possible for them to return is not

known.

THE NEW C.-IF-C.

ADMIRAL TYRWHITT'S WAR

CAREER.

SOVIET THREAT..

Unions

Passengers, however, are going and coming freely, and the general opinion is that the lightermen will fall into line with the passenger sampans very shortly.

EMPIRE PRODUCE,

(Continued from Page 1).

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KASHING BATTLE.

(Continued From Page 1)

COMPANY REPORT,

SANDAKAN LIGHT ÄND

POWER CO..

The following le the report f

Mr. Elliott, Chairman of the During the course of his re marks this Communist told his Research Committee of the Empire hearers that the arrival of a naval Marketing Board, said that the standing room. Moans of wound. squadron from Great Britain had committee, in dealing with pro-ed soldiers added a dismal tone to made it necessary for the Canton blems of food and its production, the silence between machine-gun the General managers (Messrs. Government to call off the strike would survey a wide field of in-

He mentioned that volleys. When quiet came it Shewan Tomes and Co.) which is until the Southern Army had been vestigation.

Was assisting brought suspense extended with-to be presented to shareholders of successful in its campaign against the Committee the Northern militarists, when not extensive research throughout the out the thrill of pain.

the Sandakan Light and Power only would picketing be resumed, Empire of the problem of the

of national NEGOTIATIONS BY MISSIONARIES. Company (1922) Ltd; at the bat all British trade with Treaty mineral content

annual meeting to be held on Ports would be totally shut down, pastures which had been scarcely

At the request of gentry and

November 6th Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald until such time as Great Britain investigated at all. Tyrwhitt, the new commander-in-set an example to the other mittee regarded as of great im- others, two American missionaries

"The Profit on. Working chief of the China Station, was one Powers by rescinding all the portance the research in general went out at 2.a.m. with a delega-count, after deducting Genost of the big successes of the war, privileges of her nationals in tropicul agriculture med sion to make terms for the city. Managers Commission, 19. $22,- highly, desirable to treat this pro- says a Home paper. Tall and China. ruddy of face with bushy black I am convinced that this speechblem as a whole and not as a pro- After waiting till: 6.30 a.m. the 457.86, but after welting off Under- eyebrows, he came to the fore as was no idle boast, and, equally, blem of growing cotton or any one conditions were agreed upon and writing Commission, balance Pr a dashing fighter in the first that little aid or comfort may be particular product. He thought a submitted for acceptance without of Concession, Plant, Buildings, liminary Expenses, Depreciation of resourch stations naval engagement of the war, on expected from the Powers in the chain. August 27, 1914.

He was then ip event of facts following the words, throughout the tropical belt might besitation. A search party found Equipment, etc., there is a nett command of the now cruiser If our mercantile community are well prove the key to many pro-a machine-gun left by the Che-Loss of $28,727.52, which, add:1.

to the amount brought forward Arethusa, which had only been relying upon any help or aid from blems of general as well as of kiang soldiers in a rear room of from previous years, makes the the hotel where we sat and balance at debit of Profit and Loss Forty-eight hours out of the deck the Home Government, it behoves local interest. yard, and he led the destroyer them to make the facts of the post-

throatened to shoot the entire de-Account $69,276.13. Rotillas against the enemy, and tion known in England, apart

legation. Explanations are not

Consulting Committee. During contributed to the destruction of from whatever reports are sent

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Ac-

the German light cruisers Mainz, Fhome to the Foreign Offee by Imperial Bureau of Entomology, easy when you have a bayonet at the year, Mr. W. J. Hawkerr

REAL INTERVENTION.

Association, Messrs. Tong H Ting and T. G. Weal! retire, b belng eligible offer themselves f re-election.

Auditors. The accounts hav

INSECT PESTS. Dr. Marshall, Director of the

your breast, looking over the muz- Koln, and Ariadne. The Arethusa British officials, who, living behind in explaining the importance" of zie of a loaded rifle, and wild signed his seat, and Mr. T.

Well joined the Committee. had all her guns put Eut of action. the walls of the Legation quarter, the work of the Bureau, alluded eyed Chinese soldiers yelling at

Sir Reginald again led the know or bear little of what particularly to the distribution ofyou in a strange dialect, he being accordance with the Articles

noxious insects which

necom at the trigger end. So far, the destroyer Botillas in the Heligo-actually goes on around them.

panies an increase of commerce land Bight in December of the

city has been spared.. throughout the world. In this same year, and he was in the

way, fusects are transported from The first batch of General Battle of the Dogger Bank on Intervention is here I exists;

areas where they are proyed upon Meng'a soldiers entered the city January 24, 1915, when torpedoes but it is intervention by the Soviet by parasites to areas where those about 11 o'clock. The officials, been audited by Messrs. Low From the Arethuaa Bank the and not, by European Powers, and Blucher at the end of the fight. China cannot stand up against the parasites do not exist and the gentry, and various guilds are Bingham and Matthews and P In February, 1916, the Arethusa, money, fair words and ammuni- Further, as an increasing amount Commandera and their subordin-tire, but being eligible offer them- they multiply enormously giving a big feast to-night to the Smith, Seth and Fleming, who re which he still commanded, wastion-of the Soviet. However much.

Two hundred and fifty selves for re-election.' sunk by a mine in the North Sea, we dislike Bolaliovism, we cannot of land comes under cultivation ates. Sir Reginald was also in the raid but admire the manner in which in various countries the balanes of tables are to be spread.

nature is upset and the menace of on Zeebrugge. in April, 1918. He her diplomatic officials represent- has been unemployed since relined their country rather than them-insect pests grows. It was im quishing the Scottish command at selves.

portant that the agriculturist They have suffered should come to the entomologist Rosyth in June, 1925.

ostracism from the rest of the so while crops were still safe from called Diplomatic Body and yet so insect pests.-British Wireless

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Mr. Arthur Roberts, the veteran variety star, who is 74 years old, has been admitted to Charing Cross Hospital suffering from an internal complaint

St. Albans Consistory Court de- cided on October 3rd that a vicar

REMOTE SITE.

DEPOT

Washington, Oct. 29. Profiting by the lesson of the ex-

is not entitled to rule that only NEW AMERICAN AMMUNITION scriptural quotations shall be placëdi on tombstones erected in bis church- yard. It was stated that Mr. G. M. Dodwell, of St. Mary at E. C., had been refused permission by the vicar of Langleybury, the Rev. R. plosion on July 10, at Lake Den V. G. Show to place on a tombstone mark, New Jarray, the Navy De- over the grave of his father in partment is selecting as a site for Langleybury Churchyard a verse the new ammunition depot, 100,000 from Browning's "Asolando." The acres in the heart of Nevada, ten chancellor of the Court, in deciding miles from any settlement. Apart against the vicar, said that church from the fact that the site is lol- motor-engineer, of Patrieroft, wardens and parochial church coun- ated from any thicky-populated dis Manchester, who was run over by cils had no sort of discretion of trict, it is felt that its remoteness his own car at New Brighton, as he censorship with regard to church-will render attack unlikely In war

time-Reuter's American Servica: was starting it with the handle yard memorials or inscriptions.

A charge of unlawful possession used their time and efforts that of 24 official doses of cocaine, was to-day they have greatly brought against a Chinese before strengthened the power, influence Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central and force of the Soviet in China. Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

If anything ought to influence The defendant stated that he had the Foreign Offico In Whitehall, It formerly been in the employment surely should be the facts connect of a doctor as an apprentice and ed with the labours of the last was given the drug, which he has Soviet representative to Peking, A verdict of "Death by Mis had for the last four years. but parhaps it is too much to hope adventure" was returned. at Wal- Inspector Roynolds, applied for a that our officials. will get out lasey at the inquest on the body week's remand in order that cor- amongst the Chinese as the Rusof Harry Lucas Pritchard, 68, tufa documents could be examined. eius did and das Unless they do, The defendant was accordingly re- however, the Soviet will continue minded for one week formally, bail growing domination over the poll being allowed in the sum of $2,000. tical destinies of China.