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The Telegraph

TUESDAY, JANUARY

Thore can be little doubt that the Soviet is at the bottom of the deve lopments now taking place along the Yangtze, and that its leaders are making tools of the Nationalists for their own purposes. Much vill depend on the extent to which tho Kuomintang permita it- Helf to be dictated to by the Russians, the Nation alists adopt n denant attitudo, in their dealings with Treaty Powers, grave trouble may arise, even to the point of orcible action. There, 19, limit for the forbearance and patience of the Powers. 14 will be well for the Nationalists if they keep that fact

In mind.

War History The outbreak of the Great War In 1914 acemaja long while ago and it ought to be pousible, nearly if not wholly, to get a correct historical perspective of that outbreak and

the causes which led up to it. But the origin of the war are still being treated in some quarters as other than a problem of historical fhet a treatment subordinated to ulterior motives, such as the attack or defence of the Versailles Treaty, This vitiates genuine historical study and can only embitter inter. national relations. For which rea son the British Foreign Office has just published its official documents of June 28th-August 4th., 1914, to augment the contributions made on this subject earlier by France, Germany and Austria. We notice from a short review of this

DAY BY DAY.

11; 1927.

PUSH OR OTHER, AND FEEL THAT .. ALL, MEN "MAY GIVE SOME TINY

THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING FOR MANKIND.-John Richard Green.

NEW MOTOR SHIP.

THE "CREMER" ARRIVES

IN PORT.

The Very Idea!

That no ordtor and davetod champion of many good cAUSON,

Power for all purposen is deriv. Sir Ellis Griffith, K.C., whose death

A Chiness case of cerebro-spinaled from Diesel engines and elec- was announced recently, had a fever was notified yesterday.

tricity on board the motor ship happy turn of wit. Cremer, of the Koninklyke I remember once talking to him

According to to-day's forecast of the Royal Observatory, the weather up till noon to-morraw will be: North-east winds, moderate; fine.

Attructive calendars advertising Allsopp's beer and Simond's milk stout are to hard from Mesara. local agents Caldback, MacGregor and Co., the

For making fast to the motor vessel Cremer whilst it was under way, the mistress of a passenger boat was fined $10 at the Marine Court this morning.

Paketvaart Maatschappij., (Royal, while a young shocblack was Packet Navigation Company of polishing his boots outside Batavia) which arrived in Hong-London raliway torminus." kong yesterday on her maidon run.!

"You're not a Cockney," sold This vessel is replacing the Van Sir Ellis to the boy. Cloon, and will run between Suma tra, the, Straits, Hongkong, Amoy and Swatow.

"No, sir Comb from country."

the

"What's your father?" Yesterday a party of Press re-

"Works on a farm, sir." presentatives, was conducted over

"I see," mused Sir Ellis. "The the vessel by Captain Blits, who father-makes-hay while the son courteously explained the features

shines," of the vessel, which is being used mainly for catering for coolie truf- tic between coast ports and the

Straita. She is excellently suited for this particular trade, having! A fine of $15 was imposed on accommodation for 2,800 Teck the master of a trading junk who passengers. She alan has accom- mödation for sixteen first-cluas

was charged at the Marine Court

today with being under way with out exhibiting regulation lights.

The accountant of the Aberdeen Motor Bus, Company has reported to the police that a thief entered his office yesterday, and stole money and jewellery to the value of $940.

A Musicale will be held at The Helena May Institute on Thursday 20th January at 5.30 p.m. Tickets including Tea 50 cts, ench, must be booked at the Secretary's Oleo be fore noon on the 19th instAdvt.

*.*

Yes, Mary had a little lamb,

And, if you've wondered why, The chanees are the reason és 'Cause veal was far too high.

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"Schoolboy howlers: - Cluter- in A garden plant with green IGAVOB

Macadam-The first Scotchman. Boadicea-A dangerous serpent found in ancient Britain.

Theodolite-A saint mentioned

a poom by Browning. Artisan-A kind of well. Zola-The pet renowned Gorgon..

cabin passengers, and thifty second-class, the first-class cabins possessing two bunks, and the second-class three. Both classes! of cabins are tastefully furnished. There is also a smoking room" pro vided in the first-class quarters.in

In accordance with the anti- piracy scheme laid down for ves- sels running out of British ports, the usual grilles have been Ätted, and at night strongly built gates are closed to prevent anyone from paper inspired by references to getting amidships on the lower the kilt, soliloquisos: discarded the kilt for everyday wear a long presents a number of years ago owing to the

deck.

room . The engine Mr Montague Ede, of No. 106,

name of .a

"Badenoch," in a Home nowe-

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11 1977. official British publication that the The Peak, has reported to the beautifully clean and neat "ap- pressure of Southern convention,

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documents have been edited by such well-known histórians as Dr. G. P. police the theft of a grey leathes Bearance, the temperature being which at the same time compelled THE YANGTSZE CRISIS. Gooch and Air Harold Temperley, case in which were contained a

remarkably cool. Thero are two me to stop browsing on oatcakes man whose calibre make the volume gold cigarette case and, a gold four-cycle Diesel engines, which and whisky, which was my wont. In the sense that developments plete of any which any European $200.

the most scholarly and most com-match-box, of the total value of have an indicated horse-power of I often feel sorrowful when

4,800, and drive two propellers, ruminate on the great change, that may bring the Treaty Powers to Government has yet issued. The

Each motor has six cylinders, and bas come over my native, heath; gether in the adoption of a uniformwollection and, arrangement of the

The health return for the past they give the boat an average this is accentuated when I refresh policy towards, the Nationalists, re-

documents have been done by Mry week shows six cases of diphtherin speed of 14 knots. From the my memory from the annals of J. W. Hendlan-Morley, well-known (one American and the reat engines are driven dynamos and song and story relative to the cent happenings in the Yangtze as the Listorial Adviser to the For Chinese), of which three were pumps, which provide all lighting misty past, as witness the pranks region, regrettable as they are in eign Office. For the first time in fatal; three fatal cases of typhoid and heating, and also give a fore-of that notorious old sport the many respects, may be all to the any such publication are given the fever (all Chinese) and one fataled draught of air throughout the "Wolf." Sad that the flintlock, good.

ship, especially in the duck pas- the dirk and the claymore should Despite all that Mr. marginal notes of the permanent Chinese case of puerperal fever.

sengers quarters where the air ia have been ousted by the-up-to-date Eugene Chen has said, there apthese notes give a very vivid änd officials at the Foreign Office and.

No. 29, Lyndhurst Terrace, held forced out through pipes at every sporting gun of the once-hated pears to be general agreement that, accurate picture of the great crisis. on a Crown lease for 924 years and

two feat.

Sassenach, who has also annexed The ship also carries its own the kilt. I call upon all my hefty in the circamstances prevailing. The documents show that the basic having an area of 432 square fee Britain has followed a wise and dis-origins of the war, and the causes was sold by Mr. E. V. M. R. de fumigating apparatus, and hot, compatriots to howl and wall with creet policy in withdrawing from of the actual outbreak of war in Sousa yesterday. The upset price cold, or fresh water can be oba loud noise while I twang the the Concessions, thus avoiding the 1914 are two separate questions, was $18,000, and at $17,200 the tained at any time, by any class of lyre of lament:- occurrence of incidents which The first--the creation of the war property was sold to Mr. Folpassenger.

The latest Marcoal wireless in- The lonely hills of Badenoch. might have disastrous results. But, political history of Europe for

atmosphere-can be traced in the Kuen, of 266, Queen's Road West.

stallation is also installed, and is What tales they could unfold. if it be imagined that this policy many years past; whilst the second implies a surrendering of rights, it must be sought mainly in the secret is well to state that nothing is fur-and wrongly-directed diplomacy of the Central Empires after the ther from the truth. Nowhere

Serajevo murder. They most cer- have the Concessions been given thinly prove that it was Britain upa fact which the Nationalists who strove for peace. will do well to bear in mind.

Until last evening, there had been no pronouncement by the Nation-

In the Landon Bankruptcy Court

The Grand Lodge of Scotland at capable of transmitting over a dis- its annual piceting on St. Andrew's tance of something like 3,000 day, conferred the rank of Hono-milea. The latest types of direc ary Junior Grand Warden upon tion finders are also installed. Rt. Wor, Bro. Dr. D. R. Black, of News by wireless is received from performed by Lord Blythswood, many other places. Hongkong, The eeremony was Rugby, America, Australia. and

the newly-installed Grand Master: The vessel carries a Chinese Mason, of Scotland.

trew of 145 with four deck officers and ten engineers. The During the course of a case at officers are Mr. Zuidema (Chief), the Kowloon & Magistracy yester- Mr. Rutgers, (Second), Mr. Harte

alists as to the light in which they Mr. viewed the situation-whether they fan application for discharge by day, a Chinese witness in makingveld (third), and Mr. Westerwaard. |

{

Registrar Warmington heard

reference to the Children's Park Lieut-Col. James Harvey Brown, a considered that they were merely banker, described as of 18, Palace

in Chatham Road, called it the fourth). Mr. Vonders is the folding the Concessions in trust for court, W., and St. Stephen's Cham-round. The witness was rebuked in command and has twenty-two Kwai chate (little devil') play chief engineer. Captain Blits is those who had vacated them, orbers, Telegraph-street, E.C.

by the Magistrate for the phrase years' service with the company whether they intended holding on Proofs of debt and probable used and was in addition fined in Eastern waters to his credit. to them since they have come into claims, said the Official Receiver, 35 for edintempt of Court,

The Cremer was built in amounted to £14.566. The assets

Amsterdam by Werf. Ned. Schaep- posacssion. Mr. Eugene had realised £420.

The following vessels are expect-perbaum, the engines being pro- Chen's latest declaration, however, In 1920, after his demobilisation ed to be in wireless communication vided by the Machinery Manchane- implies that the latter policy is be- from the Army, all the property in with Hongkong to-day City of fabrik Werkspoor. She is regis- ing adopted. This is not very Lieut-Col. Brown's transport busi- Spokane, Hiram, Tirpitz, Kaying,tered at Batavia, and runs for the, surprising, in view of Generalness at Raku, including cash and Agra, m.s. Friesland, Docteur K.P.M. for whom the 1.C.J.L are securities, valued at £250,000 was Pierre Benoit, Pronto, Hanganing, the local agents. She is 396, fest Chang Kai-shek's recent statement confiscated by the Bolsheviks. Kiso Maru, Hakusan Maru, Ban-in length, 50 feet beam, and 26 that the Kuemintang favoured the ilis Honour remarked that, once daeng Maru, Taiyo Mary, Fook-feet moulded depth, with a draught,

their

Of

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Highland men and Lowland

men

Who fought in days of old! No suckling babes were they, I

trow,"

But men weit fed on braxy; They often danced the gay

shean-trews

And often they went waxy Highland men, red-whiskered

men',

Men of bone and muscle, Cunning with dirk and skean-

dhu,

"They bled in many a tussle. Gone they are, but though no

more

Their spirits haunt the glen They hear the ghostly pibroch:

call

And march of kilted men.) The lonely hills, with hoary

henda,

Are ailent as of yore; But I for one may ne'er return

To. "Badenoch no more."

There is nothing metaphorical

a very wealthy man, Lieut.-Col. sang, Kluklang. Huiching, Presid- of 21 feet on a full load of 8,000 about the Income-tax Acts. Sir T. Brown was reduced to ruin by con-ent Grant, Aonchs and Kueichow.

Roizure of the foreign Concessions in the Treaty Ports, and, in the light of his utterances, it is quite discharge would be granted on fiscation by the Bolsheviks. His coneelvable that the Hankow in-payment of a judgment of £100. cidents were engineered as the first step in that direction. In any

tons: Her net tonnage is 2,754, Inskip. and 4,660 gross.

She was named after the four-

MLP.

In investigations arising from the commission of an armed rob- der of the Deli, (Sumatra) Tobac The office of a physician is to be bery at No. 216, Temple Street on co Company, and in a fortnight an optimist. Dr. E. Graham Little, the 4th of December Jast, the her sister ship is expected to ar, "There is a great deal to be yaumati police have effected the rive. This vessel, the Van Heu event, fundamental issues concern said for games," said the Bishop of ing the status of the Treaty Ports Oxford (Dr. Strong) at the City arrest of one of a suspect and re- taz, was named after the Governor Someone has just told me a are now involved, and it is certain of Oxford, School prize giving, but covered at the same time a gold General of the Dutch East Indies. terrible thing about crepe-soled that, the Powers cannot acquiesce he added, "I am strongly of the $240. The man is to be chargeding for coast ports and on January contains a great store of electri To-day the Cremer is leav-shoes. The earth, it appears, in any movement for Chinese re-opinion that the British public labefore the Kowloon Magistrate.

getting to

a state about games tention of the Concessions without which is a shade ridiculous." prior negotiation. The National- He pointed out that it was the

watch and ring of the value of

being $125. serious injuries to a pedestrian,

How being knocked down by ists must recognise this basic point town schoolboy who would put ush bicycle was gufficient to cause that all outstanding questions Kumes in their right places by de- was told in a police report issued Acribing Eton and Harrow as this morning. It was stated that between them and the Powers, muat places of monustic seclusion. be adjusted by negotiation, and in. They might think it was an exalong Des Voeux Eond when he « Chinese was pedalling a bicycle no other way. So far, only the Brigerated description, but the coun collided with a man who was run- tish Concessions have been serious-try school was enormously isolated

ning across the roadway. The

EXCHANGE RATES.

20th, she will depart for Singa-city, from which we draw by con- pore, Penang, and Belawan, Deli, tact the electricity which is neces the first-class fare to Singapore sary to our own life. You can

draw it, apparently, through. leather soles, but not through soles of cropo, which is a non- conductor. My Informant, who is hut in other respects a crank, has got over the dimculty by driving Into one of his crope soles, a Rugby, Jan. 10.

drawing pin in such a way that it 122.7/16

26.10 touches the leather, but not, I 20.88 suppose, liis heel. And so, like the 19,01 mythical Antaeus, he is constantly

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revivified by contact with Mother Earth Antious, you remember,

Geneva

from all things of interests. The victim was badly injured in the Paris day school had a better chance of right leg, and was subsequently re- Berlin.. putting games in their proper moved to the Government Civil, Osio places than the school narrowly.

Hospital, confined with its own interests.

ly affected by the developments of curing, but if any threat were made on the International Concession at

Helsingfors Shanghai, (wo may depend upon it

Bombay It was an important thing, too,

Yokohama that the Powers would resist it, in that day school boys went home actors, who cooked their breakfast Milan Through the carelessness of the, Yokoh

Brussels common, to the uttermost limits. and thereby had the advantage of Similarly, any temporising with the home life. This kept them from on the top of their wooden clothes Copenhagen Nationalists over the question of being rigidly confined, to ideas, the whole matshed built for Prague

à special performance arranged 1 Hongkong the oventual handing back of the and interests of the school in Now Year Day at the templo in Kam

York which they were brought up. Chook, was burnt down, resulting Amsterdam Concessions at Hanków and Kiu-

in several casualties and a loss of Stockholm klang to the British would, we ima-

Berlin, Jan. 19. gine, be contrary to the policy of The death is announced of Mr. $10,000, bays the Canton Gazette. Vloana Madrid Houston Chamberlain, son-in-law. The dccasion of the theatrical per Ma the Powers in general, accing that of Me. Richard Wagner, and a no-formance was an fhauguration core-

Shanghai Silver (spot). vital points" of principle, affecting torious war-time anti-British agita- many at the temple. The actors Silvor (forward) each and all, would be at stake. tor.-Router.

had been engaged by the monks,

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who was a sort of Hackenschmidt, had to be lifted off the ground 8.20% and strangled by Horcules before

10376 3792 he was finally disposed of→ 2.17/32 .1/11

4,85 .12.12

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The manufacturers of crepe- soled shoes will not, I hope, be angry with me for repeating these

1844034 doubts. On the contrary, if 301 their Boles with tacks they ought thousands of people start riddling

26.3/16 to be delighted.-Under the Clock, 25.8/10

"Dally Nows"

--British Wiralosa,