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TUESDAY, MAY 17. 1927.

MR. CHEN'S LATEST.

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TUESDAY,

MAY 17.

from what are described as very Intense battles.

DAY BY DAY.

1927.

BE CHARITABLE AND INDULGENT TO EVERYONE BUT YOURSELF.~~JOU-

Mr. Chen's show of umbrage against Sir Austén Chamberlain for daring to belittle tho Hankow re-bert. nant and to speak of Mr. Chen as any other than the Foreign Minis-

The Wilbur Players open their Benson at the Star Teatre; to- night, when they present "Do Foolish Wives Pay?"

The weather forcenst up till noon to-morrow, issued by, the Royal Observatory, is: "South-west or variable winds, moderate; squally, showery."

The Dutch vessel Van Heutaz, with 18.58 deck passengers from the Straits, reports one death, cause not stated, and two births, en, route.

ter of the Government of China is a typical plece of petulance. With costless bravado he says: "Wait untli 1 get into Puking and then I'll talk to Sir Auston Chamberlain in a manner of which he will have to take note." That is empty-hend-" | cd truculence which bespeaks the calibre of the "diplomat" concerned. Mr. Chen has, time and again, been | guilty of verbal indiscretions, and the general tone of most of his Notes and Manifestoes has been that of an angered newspaperman who has forsaken niceties of langu- age, for the sake of being bombas tic. Let us suppose for the moment

The silk forwarded from here by that the Hankow party does "Empress of Russia" on the 20th triumph and that it defeats Mar-April, arrived in New York (St. shal Chiang Kai-shek and the Feng-John's Park) on the 12th May,

having been 22 days in transit,

lien forces and the forces of Mar- shat Chang Tso-lin and also those of General Yang Sen, and that it really does get into power in Peking itself.

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The Antung arriving from Sin- the gapore and Amoy, reports death of one passenger between ports on May 12, the corpse being landed at Swatow.

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A BIG SHANGHAI BURGLARY.

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PRESENTATION BUDDHA

STULEN

Merchandise valued at more

than $2,500, was stolen from the premises of Messrs. Squires, Bingham & Co., Nanking Road, Shanghai, early Thursday

on morning, by a gang of clever and experienced thieves. At a late hour yesterday, (anys Saturday's N. C. Daily News) no arrests had been made, although the police have questioned the watchman of the premises.

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After breaking through the Nanking Road iron grill doors and prying open the locks of the inner

tho door

buglars made methodical search of the store. Their, loot in the main consisted of several large rolls of valuable cloth, large numbers of small pieces of ladies jewellery, hand bags, etc. But from a sentimental

The Very Idea!

A Minister went" to officiate `at, a country parish, and instead of being accommodated in the best. bedroom of the manse, usually

allotted to strangers, he was given a particularly diminutive apart- ment.

He gazed at it in astonishment, "Is this the bedroom?" he asked.

Deed ave, sir," said the servant,

"It must be for the minor "this is the prophet's chamber." prophets," said the clergyman with" u smile,

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Billy in one of his nice new

Sashes,

Fell in the fire and was burnt

to ashes;

Now, although the room grows

chilly,

I haven't the heart to poke"

poor Billy.

This morning's Harbour Ofee reports gave 19 arrivals and 18 departures, sx and seven of which respectively were British, leaving

gang used handcarts or rickshas We can imagine 68 vessels in harbour, British 21,

Willesden wife: My husband point of view the most serious loss threw a tempot of water at me and was an ancient Buddha, the pro- nerty of the American Co., S.V.C., his children and drowned the lot which had been obtained for pre-of us. sentation to Brig.-Gen. Smedley This article cannot be re- Butler.

Dr. Waldo, Southwark coroner: placed.

There is more alcohol'in ginger According to a survey made by wine than there is in beer, Mr. Baldwin, proprietor, yester-especially in these days. day, it would seem as though the

Mr. Eugene Chen as the head and behind every communication to

Mr E. B. S. Edwards, of Kobe, Britain or her representative there, with his family

who eft recently for England to settle down would be the memory of the Han-there, has presented the Interna- How threat: "Wait until I got tional Hospital with Tis. 500 as a

parting gift. into Peking." Surely no further imaginings are needed to show the

The forty-ninth ordinary an- impossibility of Mr. Chen's proceed-nual meeting of the shareholders ing.

of the China Sugar Refining Co., He has done much to ellipse Ltd., will be held at the offices of himself. But we think, however, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., that the span of life for the Hankow Ltd., on Tuesday June 7. at noon. party is about to end and that we need not seriously worry about Chen and his naive talk.. Mr. Chen

The Squerkettoy wil give a Matince Performance at The Heleah May Institute on Thurs-

to carry off their loot, for the

Durham husband, summoned by quantity was so great that they his wife: I never saw a police court Bummons until after I was could not carry it.

They also made a thorough ran-married. sack of much of Mr. Baldwin's personal property which he had Waman at Willesden: My hus- stored in a side room, and fereed band has an electric bell at his the locks from his bags, and from bedside, and he rings me up for a number of Korean chusts which his breakfast and newspaper.. he has for sale.

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The management considers it self fortunate that they did not

Man at Lambeth: Once bitten. are the place down, for an investwice shy. Mr. Booth (mingis- tigation shows that the walls were trate): What do you mean by badly scorched by candles which that? We don't bite people here. they had removed from ornamen- We aine them or send them to tal holders.

prison.

The police have obtained a nùng- ber of linger prints and are con

Madame Pavlova, with her

may" be speaking with much insido day, 26th May, at 5.30 p.m. ducting a thorough investigation. troupe, was in Vienna recently.

Tickets 50 cents each may be book- knowledge when he waras Britain Fed at the Secretary's office.-Adot.

not to "lirt with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek but it is safe to assume that he is lying by insinuation and that Britain has fully maintained The capture-of-Pukow-by-Mar- her strict neutrality as between the shal Ching Kai-shek puita him on

contending Chinese factions,Bry the railway line that leads straight tin's concern is to see a speedily to Tientsin, and it is inevitable, regnited and peaceful China in we think, that his Cofees should sue- which she can pursue not only trad ered in making much further head-Ing but also her sincere intentions of helping in every way possible way before they are slowed-up by the political advancement of the the heavy resistance of well-organ- | Chinese people. Unfortunately, ised Northern forces. During the Mr. Eugene Chen has not helped past few weeks it has been con- sistently reported that the South- erners in the Yangisze región around Nanking. Wahu and Chin- kiang have been concentrating for

very much.

Tariff Obstacles,

It is interesting to find the special committee formed at the

International Geneva

Economic Conference, to deal with customs

The Chief Officer of the 8.8. Prosper reports that between 8 and 10 am. yesterday, someone entered the wireless room and, the door of the breaking open cupboard sole-a-revolver-and-six-

rounds of ammunition.

Mr. G. Husar, former U.S. District Attorney in Shanghai,

ROLAND: PERTWEE *TAKEN UP.

"OMEN ANNOYED AT HIS

REMARKS.

To the Pressmen who interviewed her she spoke in condemnation of modern dances, and said the ex- travagances of modern dances. have no relation with ran art. Jazz, she declared, has absolutely no place in the world of artistic

dances.

In connexion with children's

music about Kate knocking at the

"The women with the most ap- essays on Beethoven written dur- and who was recently convicted peal are the women who knowing the centenary celebrations, of bribery, left for America in how to be playthings in the hours the Scottish Musical Magazine. the Empress of Asia, where he when men most want a plaything," quote these "howlers":

"Beethoven wrote some funny will remain pending his appeal in declared Roland Pertwee, distin

door. He was deaf and could not the Ninth Circuit Court of Apguished author and dramatist, peals.

recently."

Pertwee's statement brought ahear her, so she went on knock- Business in Wuchow is believed storm of protests from women in ing all through the piece." to have suffered considerably be-all parts of England. cause of the recent flood of the

"When the discovery is made that woman is a human being West River, says the local verna-

with .a cular press. There has been a

purpose of her cwn in noticeable decrease in the cargues life," one woman wrote to a local paper, "Mr. Partwee will be glad to accept God's work rather than looking around for an impossible combination of a baby's rattle, a button-applying machine."

a drive against the North, and altariffs, deciding that "the present shipped to Waehow these past few though there have been a few ad- enormous increase in chapters and days, hgrents to the belief that Marshal sub-divisions of tariffs is excessive,

and constitutes a serious obstacle The accountant of the Wah

Musicians regard the four notes of the famous opening phrase of the Fifth Symphony as represent- ing "Fate knocking at the door."

"Beethoven was a compositor. He was fond of music and of great poverty, so he made gramer- phone records for a living and died poor. They sent him happy, saying with his fleeting bricks-a superior kind of brick- follows in London."

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Chinng might eventually fix up an to the development of internationalfing huberdashery shop of No, 60, frisky kitten and a darning and hundred pounds to make him die alliance with Marshal Sun Chuan- commerce." The recommendation follywood Road, reports that on

How-

the premises on the ground flour the 16th instant someone entered breaking open the side door. The intruder stole an electric fan and 20 rolls of cloth.

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Another wrote, "Mr. Pertwee for women to sit in men's laps. seems to have a perfect passion I presume he is one of those rare

LAST WEEK'S RETURNS.

fang for the purpose of attacking reading of the cable, to modify that is, so far as one can interpret the the Communists at Hankow, it has system as much as possible. There now become apparent that Marshal was a strong representation of

There should be a secular men who is not armoured at every Chinng meant what he said a few countries with high tariff walls,

vulnerable point by a bunch of lollification somewhere in honou weeks ago regarding his intention tion for the total aliolition of tariffs ene could hardly expect any sugges,

keys, four pens, two automatic of the restoration to the calendar to push on with the campaign of all kinds. Yet that very revolu Mr. van Epps, of No. 41, Morri- pencils, two metal cigarette cases, of St. Catherine (of Alexandria) tionary idea is held 'strongly as an son Hill Rond has reported to the one cardboard box, an automatic St. Crispin and St. Crispinian against the Peking party. Once

absolute article of faith by many police that some time yesterday metal cigarette lighter, a pen-rothers), St. Denys, and St. again, there are reports of the deep thinkers to-day, who are offternoon some one stole from his knife, a cork-screw and a folding Nicholas (otherwise Santa Elaus)

worth $10. The screwdriver."

-a procession in which wheels, Northerners walking out without opinion that the best way to solve house a wrich

boots (the Crispin brothers were modern economic problems, do away police, after making enquiries, polling up much of a fight and it with disparity in exchange, banish were able to restore the watch to

shoemakers), bows and arrows Trepresenting Agincourt), would seem to be confirmed that unemployment, and, Indeed, remove Mr. Van Epps. No arrest was

and THE COLONY'S HEALTH. Father Christmases will discreetly. the Shantung troops are not to be the main cause of war, will be to made.

figure. St. Denys, who is patron relied upon when up against the have universal free trade.

ever much one may be prejudiced Two more Communists were ex-

saint of France, might be repré- sented stiffer morale of the Cantonese-in favour of protection, modified or ecuted on Thursday in Chapel.

the by the tricolour: trained army. Marshal Chiang has otherwise, there is a realisation Both victims looked very much

hagiological incident of his carry- enjoyed a succession of military that one tariff leads to another, and depressed in the execution ground,

There were altogether sixteen ng his severed head in his hands until certuin States reduce the dis- and one of them evidently thought

enses of typhoid fever reported for a distance of six miles is triumphs that places him in the crimination against others in this that if he had anticipated what last week, all being Chinese, with hardly fitted for modern repro- very forefront of modern Chinese respect, ao cessation in the strain would happea then, he would the exception of one German. duction. military leaders. It remains to be of counter-tariff legislation can be never have joined the Communist There were six deaths.

expected. Britain's is a case in Party.-N. Č. Daily News.

Of four cases of small-pox re- A tender-hearted· man seen how he will fare against the point. The Free Traders for years

ported, two proved fatal. Hankow party, for whom, we ima-had matters much their own way,

The whereabouts of Teng, the

There was one non-fatal case of motoring through a remote district zine, he entertains no more respect but a change of opinion came after Hongkong Bank ex-compradore atcerebro-spinal fever, and there in Ireland when he came upon a

the war, and the Conservatives, Peking and his son, remains a since Mr. Eugene Chen's belittle-whom one might have expected" to

was one death from paratyphoid poor woman seated with all her fnfniture about her in the middle ment of him than he did when he be the last to countenance radical mystery, says the, N. C. Daily Mail. faver-a case which was reported of the road in front of her little

The Commissioner of Foreign Af-previously, "ex-communicated" them from the changes, introduced specific tariffs fairs in Tientsin is reported to

Yesterday's health return can-cabin. He was profoundly moved. that placed a new tradition in the have been instructed by the. Wai- tained only one fresh case of olfat this sight, and getting out of Kuomintang. Mr. Chen has told annals of the party. The excuse

with a pound note,' Reuter that Marshal Chiang will was the parlous state of British thiopu to negotiate with the for-flable disease-one Chinese case of his car he presented the old woman'

eign authorities for warrants of typhoid fever.

"Tell me," he said, "What Is not last out the summer and that trade, the gradual loss of Empire arrest in ease Teng and his son

your trouble, my poor friend."

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CONCERT TO THE SERVICES.

COMMUNITY SINGING THIS EVENING.

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Bobbing and curlscying her gratitude, the old woman replied, "Shure, sorr, the old man is doing the whitewashing."

orders, the fact of Imperial the Bankow forces will be in Peking tariffs, and high tariff, walls are hiding in one of the Conces-

particularly in the within three months. That sounds abroad,

United States of America. Onc very much like boasting, and, at th

In connexion with the murder Britain thing has led to another. moment, very foolish housting. had to have certain tariffs to meet of Mr. C. P. W. Flynn, who was Not only is Marshal Chiang in an those of rival countries, and the shot while returning to the Bukit

Mr. W.. Larkins, the well-known extremely strong military position casy way of raising revenue thus Sembawang Rubber Estate, of offered has tempted to further in- which he was' manager, on April 8,

London steeplejack, has taken on but he has at the hack of him the creases since. One can easily ima- the Singapore Coroner has return-

"a tough sandwich," as he himself political support of Shanghai and ging a time coming when these ed a verdlet of murder against

There will be a special concert, described. An exceptionally big Canton, and so long as that Innts "chapters and sub-divisions" will Tan Ah Kow, the son of the Chin-

become almost overwhelming, and etc who holds a licence for the with community singing, for the chimney at the Hammill Brick The chimney is over he will always be the superior of call for sweeping reform. The fact shot gun, the handguard of which entertainment of the troops, at the Works, Sandwich, was to be felled 200 ft. high, and built of pressed Isolated Hankow. The latest news that the matter is 'receiving inter- was picked up in the jungle off V.M.C.A. in Chater Road, this by him.

God bless them good These entertainments. for the forenth from the front, north of Hankow, national prominence, and respon- Thompson road. The verdict la evening, from 6.30 to 10.30.

sible criticism, is at least a healthy also against Teo Chew, the young ulong the Hankow-Peking railway sign that the nations are beginning Chineso against whom evidence Services are proving very popular, and has over heen used. It will was con- and a very large attendance is bo removed without the use of fire is that the Fengtien forces aro to take notice of a matter that they was recorded that he

Mr. Larkins's scheme is to cut maintaining a steady advance to have largely left to itself, so that,stantly in the company of Ah Kow, anticipated to-night, especially as or explosives.

liko a rank weed, it threatens to and whose father also owns this is the first concert to be given wards Hankow, where large num grow far beyond its original shot gun, and other persons un since the arrival of the large into the base, which is oft. thick,

numbers of fresh drafts to China. until the chimney topples over. bers of wounded have been arriving hounds.

known.

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