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WAR DEVELOPS:

NANKING THE NEXT OBJECTIVE.

WILL SUN JOIN SOUTH?

A Chinese news' agency reports that with the fall of Kluklang and Nanchang, and the capture of Hukow, an important strategic point on the Yangtze River,. the accond. chapter of the Northern "Campaign has closed. objective is Nanking.

The next

. SUN'S CENERALS. The view is expressed that some of the subordinate generals under Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, in Anhui and" Kiangsu—not to speak of Chokinng-may force Bun Chuẩn fang to throw in his lot with the. Nationalists at any time: It is known that the propagandists of the Nationalist Army have been t work in these two provinces ever since the Inception of the civil war. At any rate, it is expected, accord- ing to the programme of the Kuomintang, that the Nationalist armies will be in Nanking on.

or before the 1st January next, the day on which the late Dr. Sun Yat- sen was sworn in as the first Pro- visional President of the Republic, of China...

ANHUI INVADED.

It is also reported that the Nationalist forces have taken up important points from Shao Wu Fu right down to Ting Chow in Fallen, and are now in touch with General Ho Ying-yum's forces. A battle is said to be, developing around Yeu Ping, and preparations are being made to advance on Ankin, the capital of Anhul. A couple of units have already crossed the Hupeh-Anhui frontier and have taken up certain points in the latter province.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany

Ashley Sterne

Archaeological excavations at Wisternitz; Southern Moravia, have recently brought to light year-old rouge-pot. At any rate, what is supposed to be a 30,000- the object discovered is pronoun- ced by Professor Karl Absolon and his excavatory colleagues to be uumistakably a pot, and since there still remains in it a relic of some red pigment they have prom- ptly surmised that it once formed a toilet accessory on the stone dres- sing-table of some prehistoric. belle. However, old Professor Rottenbleiter, of Potztausend, has,

en

as might be expected, blundered on to the, scene, and after a close examination of the article in question, delivered the opinion that the rouge" is nothing more or less than prehistoric anchovy, paste. Indeed, lie even went so far as to spread some on a slice of bread and butter and eat it, whereafter he declared it tasted exactly like some anchový paste he had once sampled in an English boarding-house. His only qualif- cation was that the Wisternitz variety tasted a little fresher than the others. ·

That famous astronomer, Pro- fessor Evans Gayzer, has already, I hear, started practising obser ving for next summer's total" eclipse of the sun, and la spending several hours daily looking In connection with the previous through a smoked telescope at a report that General Chang Kai-black-current lozenge..

had proceeded to the Hupel- Honan frontier, further report | A prominent London publisher states that a hasty inspection tour asserts that there is very little of five days was made on two of the demand nowadays for the "roman- most important strategic centres tie" novel, but that, on the other by General Chang with four of the hand, a terrific clumour has ari- staff officers, incliding two of 1 sen for "mystery" stories. Russian officers. It is also stated glad to know this, because I've I um that General Chang returned with just thought of a General Fan Chung Sau just in splendid "mystery," which, if pro- time to witness the capture of perly worked up ought to set the Kiukiang.

thames on fire, or at least make it boil. Here it is:

perfectly

General Fan Chung Sau is said to be now in Wuchang waiting for The villain gets hold of the final instructions from the head- heroine one night, and, after drug- quarters of the Commander-in-ging her, thrusts her inte a strong- Chief, he having received the ap- room, whose walls, floor and cell- pointment of General Officer Con- ing are all made of steel geven manding the 6th Army Corp. of the feet thick. The door is a burglar- Kuominchun under the direct com-

proof one fitted with a time-lock mand of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. in addition to an ordinary lock, In the meantime he is vested with the key of which never leaves the the supreme command of the villain's possession. The only Hupeh and Honan defences.

communication with the outer air is a tiny ventilation-hole one inch in diameter drilled through the A Peking message of the 3th inst. solid steel. Yet when the villain saya it is most reliably reported entered the strong-room the fol- that consignments of goods to lowing morning the girl had Suiyuan are now Being received vanished. The locks had not been thero by Marshal. Feng Yo tampered with, nor did anybody Halang's agents, indicating that outside or inside, blow in the door, Gen. Yen Ifsi-shan's man, whose walls, floor or ceiling. How did weakness and unreliability has the girl escape? Can you guess? often been emphasized in the No.. Yet Inspector Dedleigh Dudd Chinese newspapers, has gone did!

RUSSIANS

[

over to the Reds.

HELP FENG.

"

I shall publish the solution next This brings the possibility of the week. Meanwhile, remember that descent of the Kuominchun on the girl's escape was entirely un- Peking much nearer and is, there- aided by any second person, or by fore, seriously agitating local the use of tools or explosive. She merchants.

only used her woman's wit.

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This week's catastrophe. A pedestrian yesterday, crossed from one side of Piccadilly to the other without being run over.

He was so-surprised that he died of shock.

Mukden advisers are persuading Marshal Chang Tsolin that in this era, which resembles that of the post-Tang epoch, he should imitate the Liao dynasty, holding the north-east only and ignoring. the fate of the Yangtze and the south.

The collapse of Marshal Sun Amongst other claimed pro- Chuan-fang at Kiukiang is con- perty found in railway carriages, firmed here by both Consular and which was recently pus up for Chinese military wires.

auction (I read), was a copy of

* *

The militarists attribute this the first number of Punch. Looks wholly to the fatal collapse of dis- as if some newly qualified, but cipline and think that possibly absent-minded dentist had been Marshal, San may be all the buying his waiting-room furniture. afronger for getting rid of sub- ordinates in whom he should. never have trusted.

Chinese observers say that the Southern army was composed of miserable fighting material, but that the Russian control gives s' centralization which the North lacks, so that the best Northern units, in which colonels should be kings, are hopelessly outclassed by foreign-shaped Southern units.

SILLY SEASON LOVE, LYRICS, Wheno're

you smile, boloved, in a trico. Sweet similes rise bubbing from

my soul Your mouth recalls a melon with

a slice, Cut

a fnir-sized

out, or' olso rabbit hole- Whone're you smile.

The operation against the Keta- mu tribe in Morocco has been brought to a successful conclusion. A wayside memorial cross to the memory of 21 men from the yillage

Tribal emissaries on Friday made of Woolverton, near Frome, who acts of submission to the Khalifa died in the war, was unveiled by and gave up their drms. The Com Captain A. Batten-Pooll, V.C., and mandant-General of Melilla pro- dedicated by the Bishop of Bath mised them protection for the fu- and Wells.

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Whone're you woop, sweetheart,

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Your face saggests an over-flowing

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Whens'ro you weep. Whonore you glance, my fair,

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WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE MONTH.

(Kindly contributed by the Hot Air Ministry.)

Ist to 5th.-Fine in parts, unset, bled in other parts, showery in some other parts, and something awful in some other parts.

somewhere

6th Snowstorm (most likely on top of Ben Nevis.)

7th to 10th-Mainly, fair, prin- · cipally unsettled, chiefly wet.

fine intervals, or fine with wet in- tervals.

11th to 18th-Either wet with

17 to 21st. Variable, unset- tled, changeable, uncertain, and unsteady,

22nd to 25th.-Gloomy, but very warm. (This only applies to Turkish baths.)

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26th to 31et.-Local thunder- storms, local showers, local fine intervals, local frosta. All the weather, in short, will be intensely local,

CORRESPONDENCE.

Do Halibuts Make Good Husbanda? Sir,-Some years ago I had a pair of Halibuts, which I kept in a glass bowl on my study mantle- piece, as at the time I was, curious- ly enough, attempting to solve the same question as you

have now-

.propounded. I observed them closely for many hours a day for eighteen months, but am sorry to say I cannot throw any light on the problem as they were both females. Yours regretfully, Anaesthesius Pigewater. D. Sa

Sir-investigating this very same question, in the year 87 B. C. the old Roman philosopher Axoloti came to the conclusion that, (in) his own words): "Hune nunc túne cum tum dum his sie jam tam, et tú, Brute!!-fid what wag' good enough for Axoloti is Yours, with mayonnaise, Samuel Eliza Pipkin, M.A., M.D., M.A.D., D.A.M.

Sir, I have followed this cor- respondence with great interest. ns it serves to remind me of a singular incident which happened to my god-mother's piano-tuner's godmother in Hongkong in 1895. When passing a chop suey res- taurant

one day she suddenly thought of the battle of Checy, which so unnerved her that she fell backwards into a barrow of edible birds'-nests, which was be- ing pushed by a man named Wil- kins, who turned out to be an ab- sconding solicitor from Stoke New- ington. What made the circum- atance all the more singular was that my godmother's piano-tuner's godmother had never been to New castic fa her life, nor did she know anyone there of the name, of Wat- kins, although she once remembers buying a tin tox containing some stewed rhubarb from a Punch and Judy man named Basil somebody, who was once a dentist in Bootle. Yours successfully, Ivor Tyle- loose.

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