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The Very Idea!

Writing in the June number of tho new Pall Mell Magazine on ex- periences of his ten election cam- paigns, Mr. C. F. G. Masterman anys one of his must zealous sur- porters was an undertaker, who had a large shop window, displaying coffins and plates, miniature tomb- stones, and other death memorials. We had unfortunately sent him the wrong placards (says Mr. Mas- terman), and the passer-by saw gracefully draped over these ex- hibits large posters-"Vote for Masterman and better times."

This same man once told me of an adventure of his own, whep can- vassing for support at a Borough Council election. A refused his vote on the ground that he "didn't know him."

But a schoolgirl, goming into the passage, announced, "Why, father, of course you'll vote for Mr, X. He buried mother."

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Tommy brought home his first were school report. The family

were overjoyed, and their hopes raised. It read "Trying."

From all appearance the son of the house worked hard during his second term, and brought a glow- ing report "Still trying."

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FOREIGN MOTORISTS

MOLESTED.

PERILS OF SHANGHAI

ROADS.

SHOOTING AND EXTORTION.

Two further cases in which for eign motorists were molested on the roads of the Western district, or better on the Municipal roads running through Chinese territory, occurred within 15 minutes of each other late last Saturday night. In one instance the robbers were suc- consful and got a $10 bill for their the trouble, while in the other chauffeur of the car accelerated and succeeded in evading the gang. In the latter. instance a shot was fired at the fleeing motor car, but it was not strack. Foreign women were present in both the cars,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927.

IN CANTON FROM DAY COUNTY CRICKET.

TO DAY.

GOVERNMENTS' ANXIETY OVER

MONEY.

INTERESTING ITEMS.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, Sept. 2.

As a means of collecting more funds towards the Government ex- chequer, the Commissioner of Civil Affairs, Mr. Li Man-fan, hás instructed all Majors and district chiefs to sell as quick as they can the Third Public Bonds. They are under orders to dispose of these bonds to the people, and a record of their result is kept. Those who have accepted the bonds must pay for them. It is promised that the officials who make earnest efforts The first holdup occurred at 11.30 to sell the bond will be rewarded p.m. when a car driven by a Mr. while the tardy or slack ones will Atkins, living at 14 Pacific Garbe deprived of their posts. There dens, came upon a Public Works is considerable difficulty in turn- Department barrier on which was ing the bonds into hard cash, bu- a red light stretched across Hung cause this is the third time they jne Road about 300 yards west of been sold and because those issued the railway crossing. The car was for the first and the second times proceeding from west to cast.

are not yet redeemable.

Before the driver could realize what was happening a gang of Temmy for the next term was eight men, one of them armed with looked on as a detorinined hero, striving hard to gain coveted hon black pistol and three with

burst like knives, had surrounded the

The leader of the gang spoke to

ours.

Hopes were

report-Still very trying."

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Military Matters.

a bubble when he delivered his next the occupants in English and told that a Military Council will be

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Willesden woman: This is the sort of man he is: he summoned a young couple for cour.ag on his doorstep.

Poplär womah: They have abolished slavery, but there are still East London wives.

Man at Bow County Court: He lent me this money to buy beer, and I don't think it ought to be re- coverable. "

West Ham wife: I would not dream of having a row with my husband before I had my week-end money.

Solicitor at Old-street: How do you know that? Man: I heard it with my own eyes.

Midland soliutor:

A In is

them to remain quiet, at the same time demanding money from the driver. The latter produced a $10 bill and was allowed to pass with out the other occupants being dis-

turbed.

Barrier Across Road.

In the car with Mr. Atkins were Mr. Bourge, and two lady friends. They reported the matter to the Bubbling Well police station after reaching the settlement and a special patrol was sent out. It is said that the barriers had been carried from a point several hundred yards distant to be placed across the roadway.

A telegram has been received

office of Commander-in-Chief of from Nanking to the effect that the the Army has been abolished and created in its place. General Li told his colleagues that the office of the Commander-in-Chief in Canton would be abrogated soon as formal announcement of re-union between Nanking and Hankow is proclamied.

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General Li has no intention; it is reported, to call off the prepara- tions for his assumption of the post known as "Commander of the Eight Route" which was first created in order to meet the Red menace from the North. The real danger has now shifted from the North River to

the East River where intrigues and activities" of seditionists are increasing.

"Reds" Capture Town. Colonel Ho Chun-fan reports to the Military Headquarters that the captured by the Communists and the peasant corps. The "Reds" rushed in to the surprise of the populace and remained there for four days. Colonel Ho was in another district some fifty miles. away and, upon information re- ceived, he commanded all his men to. Ko Chow and succeeded in re-

The second instance occurred at 12.45 p.m. when the car in which never so drunk as when he does not Mr. P. H. Baker, living at 16 Wei-town of Ko Chow, was recently know that he is drunk.

haiwel Road, and two lady friends were riding was held up at the same place by an identical gang. As they approached the barrier the chauffeur saw the gang and scenting the situation applied the accelerator, barely missing the barrier, but evading the gang..

On returning home, from Europe, a Canadian told a friend that Scots were tricksters.

"Surely not all of them," pro- tested his friend.

"Well, I'm only going by a speci- men that ran into, Ile may not have been typical, but I'll say this for him he was a sharp laddie. I met him one morning at a golf club. I was looking for a partner, and he seemed to be alone, so I said to

him--

"What do you generally go around in?"

"Oh," he said, "about 90 to 100 when I'm on my game."

The highwaymen were evidently taken so much by surprise that they did not do anything for second, but by the time the car was a hundred or so feet away the man with the pistol fired one shot, which went wild.

capturing that town which is the native place of Mr. Keo Ying-fun, Finance Minister, and Mr. Lam Wan-koi, Mayor of Canton. troops are not sufficient to garrison the town and yesterday he wired for more forces to be sent there.

Levy on Rents.

His

"That's me, too." I said; "if I their description there is little notified all landlords that 20 per

break 100 on any course I'm doing well. I guess we're pretty well paired. Suppose we play together for a shilling a hole?"

"Well, he took me on," continued the Canadian, "and he turned out to be a terrible Turk.

That son- of-a-gun made an 82, and I had to play my head off to take three shill ings away from him."

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Historians are always on the win ning side-Dean Inge.

The occupants reported the mat- ter to the police station and from doubt that this was gang which held up Mr. Atkin's motor car.

the

same

A Nervous Gang. The occupants of the cars des cribed the gang as belonging to the coolic class while those of the first car added that they seem- ed nervous and were seemingly not of the usual armed robber class.

1927 gives no quarter to the dow- dy; and it serves us right they belong to

Miss Edith Shackleton.

If I go to England I shall go to with fight and not to take ten George Bernard Shaw.--Mr. Gene

Tunney.

The girl of to-day is not so earn esi, hard-working, and anxious to aucceed as the girl of 40 years ago. ---Mrs. E. S: B. Tait.

The flappers of to-day are more efficient than their grandmothers used to be in their teans and twen- ties--Dame Millicent Fawcett.

Australians are intensely British -The Duchess of York,

Every town should have its aero- drome and every village its landing ground. Sir Alan Cobham.

Never mind the swearing words. They don't shock Lancashire people.. -Salford Stipendiary..

It is believed by the police that the same gang which about a week ago held up a foreign motor car along the Great Western Road. They are believed to be one of the ganga of ruffians which inhabit the districts round the smaller villages in the neigh bourhod.

The police, through the medium of the press, are unofficially warn all persons that they should, as far as possible, keep off the out- iying districts during the night. In the meantime they are making all possible efforts to break up the gangs.

SERIOUS SET BACK.

SUN CHUAN-FANG BADLY

BEATEN.

Shanghai, Sept. 2.

It is curious to note that one of the most thorough-pated black- guards that ever lived, Benvenuto Cellini, claimed the possession of a halo: "a resplendent light' about' his head," which appeared at dawn and sunset, and showed fang's well equipped and well best when the grass was wet with organised army, which appear. dew: Benvenuto considered that ed

It is now clear that Sun Chuan-

out of the blue in the

The Bureau of Public Safety has cent of their rent collected for the 8th moon will go to that Bureau for the purchase of more arms and ammunitions for the police. A similar levy was made two weeks ago, but only $10,000 was available, out of which $30,000 has not yet been collected. A sum at least of $160,000 is necessary to obtain up. to date weapons for the police.

Financial Matters.

The Government has proclaimed that since the banks have failed to advance $4,000,000 for the use of the Central Bank they are now under orders to cease business. All the account books of the banks have been sent to the Department of Finance for inspection. Should any bankers attempt to run away with specie in their possession, their bank will not be allowed to carry on any more business and their capital will be confiscated.

LEADING LADY.

his halo was a signal mark of the vicinty of Tsingtao at the end divine approval of his virtuous life, of June and rapidly drove back but in this he must have been mis- Chiang Kai-shek to the southern taken. If he had a halo at all, it bank of the Yangtze, has received

Miss April Vivian, the leading must have been even worse than a serious setback All reports con-

lady of the Forbes-Russell Co., the canon's a sort of post-impres firm the news that its attempts to

cross the Yangtaze at various points shortly appearing in Hongkong. sionist halo,

in the vicinity of Nanking and Chinkiang have been defeated with The body of an unknown Chin- The Morea sailing this morning fairly heavy losses. The Northern-ess, aged about 20, dressed in dark ers are enormously handicapped blue coat with no trousers was will take a large number of officers by the lack of adequate transport seen floating off Jardine's Point Home from Shanghai. Those pas- and the fact that they are unable to yesterday. The body was picked up sing through include Pay Commdr raise the £100,000 demanded by and sent to the Kowloon Mortuary. G.C. Kiddle, Lieut. Commd. F.H. Nationalist navy as the price for The police suspect that the man Calderon, Col. G. Carpenter, Maassisting their operations. The was murdered as there were cer- for F.S. Woodhouse, Capt, M.Southerners have been enabled to tain marks on the neck which Glover, Capt. G.B. Guinness, Lieut. dpal piecemeal with bodies of pointed to a struggle. The body J.R.S. Brown and Mrs. Brown, Northerners reaching the south when picked out of the water was Flying Officer S.J. Gilbert and bank who were only equipped with in an advanced stage of decom- Pilot O.E. Webb.

rifles and machine guns-Reuter.position,

SENSATIONAL DEFEAT OF NOTTS.

LANCASHIRE CHAMPIONS.

London, Sept. 2. Glamorgan surprisingly defented Notts by un innings and $1 runs. Notts thus falled to win the County championship, which is still hold by Lancashire.

Later,

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This was Glamorgan's first victory

of the season.

Notts batted first and compiled 283, Guhn scoring 63 and Payton 60. Ryan secured five wickets for 81 zurs. Glamorgan replied with 375, Bates contributing 163 and Bell 57. Richmond's five wickets cost 102

runs.

Notts had to go in a second time on difficult wicket and were dismissed before lunch for the small score of 61, Morcer taking aix wickets for 31 and Ryan four for 14. Notts

2133 Glamorgan

290

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#294.

Reuter. The best individual ancea were: ·

Batting.

Bates (Glamorgan) Woolley (Kent) Blunt (New Zealand) Douglas (for M.C.C.) Russell (Essex)

Calthorpe (for Gentlemen) Hammond (for Players) Hendren (for Players) Bowling

Ryan (Glamorgan)

and

Mercor (Glamorgan) Robinson (Yorkshire) Macaulay (Yorkshire)

375

RAISING THE WIND IN CANTON.

GOVERNMENT SCHEMES OF

EXTORTION.

REMARKABLE HAPPENINGS.

(A Special Correspondent.)

Canton, Sept. 2. The recent demand by the Government for ten million dollars, to be paid by the merchants and being held at the Chamber of money changers, led to a meeting

Commerce where, although the members present were few, it was decided not to offer opposition to payment of the sum. All the money exchange shops have been closed down by the Government! and the owners are being kept prisoners therein, closely guarded by soldiers and police. All the books and accounts of these shops were gone into by the Government auditing department and the dis- that the total covery was made

assets of business 'men amount to 375 nine million dollars. It has been decided therefore, that those with performa capital of $10,000 are to pay $4,100 towards the upkeep of the Government. A refusal to pay this sum will mean that their total. 163 capital will be seized and 125 people themselves thrown 103 prison.

the into

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138

103

A further demand of one million, 110 dollars has been made on 101 Central Bank, but so far those concerned have evaded payment

the

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or promises of payment, purely by a ruse. Government representá-

6 for 81tives called on the Vice-President

4 for 14 of the bank on Wednesday, and a 6 for 31 conference was held to discuss 5 for 37 ways and means to furnish this 7 for 76 million. The Vice President, ex- plaining that the matter did not entirely rest with himself, said that he would confer with his fellow directors and perhaps they could offer a proposition. Ex- de.cusing himself, he left the gather-

Kent Beat New Zealanders.

Playing at Canterbury, Kent beat the New Zealanders, by 58

runs.

The scores were:

Kent, 405, and 263 for 8,

clared.

New Zealand, 293, and 317.. In the second innings of Kent, Wooley compiled 125: In New Zealand's initial lanings, Blunt scored 103.

Yorkshire Beat M.C.C. Yorkshire at Scarborough the M.C.C. by eight wickets. scores were:

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heat The

Marylebone, 199, and 147.

Yorkshire, 212, and 138 for 2. In the first innings of the M.C.C. Douglas scored 101, not out, and

Robinson took 5 wickets for 27 Tuns.

When the M.C.C. went in again, Macaulay took 7 for 76..

Essex Bent Sussex

At Brighton, Essex beat Sussex by 10 wickets. The scores were:

Sussex, 317, and. 111.

Essex, 411, and 18 for 0.

ing on this pretext but he failed to return and by this time he is enjoying peace and quiet either in Hongkong or Macao. How he managed to

escape from the house without

being detected has not been divulged but it is known that he got clear away from the city. Prior to his de- parture he instructed one of his relatives to inform a foreign law- yer, a friend of the banker practis- ing in the city, that he (the law- yer) was to have it proclaimed far and wide that investors in the bank need have no fear for their savings. The bank is quite stable, the mories safely stored in the vaults, and. It is only on account of the government extortionate de- mands that he has taken this step.

All of the other banks, much smaller than the Central, were visited by the Government and £500,000 were demanded from. All banks in the city have closed their dcors.

A campaign, whereby the Gov- ernment hope to prove that all

In the first innings of Essex, stores are accepting the dollar Russell knocked up 110.

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Players Beat Gents. The Players beat the Gentlemen at Folkestone, by an innings and 81 runs. The scores were:

bill, has been started here. Police and detectives, in plain clothes, have been around to make small pur- chases and, on tendering the dollar to accept same.

A large quantity of con- Was im- per and silver coin The Gentlemen, 281, and 199.

ported yesterday. Previously the coin Was The Players, 561 for 6, declar-importation of copper

ed.

considered illegal and people ar- In the first innings of the Gen- riving here with a fairly large tlemen, Calthorpe scored 101. For amount discovered, that the Cus the Players, Hammond compiled 138 and Hendren 103.-Reuter.

LETTER IN A HOLLOW TOOTH.

MURDERER'S APPEAL FOR HELP.

toms authorities had power to seize their wealth. The consign- ment arriving yesterday, however, was accompained by a permit from Nanking, and as the Customs, in the Nationalist Headquarters at all southern ports, hold allegiance to this Government, or at least. they fly the Nationalist flag, this The importation was in order. copper cent has dropped in value. New orders have been issued by Mr. Koo Ying-fan, head of the A dramatic letter, written on Treasury, and Tang Ying-wah fine tissue paper, has been con- Prefect of Police, that new rent veyed out of Peterhead Prison, taxes are to be collected from all Scotland, hidden in the hollow stores

dwelling and

houses. tooth of a discharged prisoner. A month's rent from the stores, It is a message from Oscar not from the actual occupants, Slater, the "man with the croos but from the owners, and six days' ed nose," who, eighteen years ago, rent from the owners of houses. was sentenced to death for the These monies when collected are murder of Miss Marion. Gilchrist, to defray expenses of war and the a wealthy Glasgow woman. His purchasing of new arms for the sentence was commuted to penal police department.

servitude for life, but the case has

always remained one of great con-

troversy because of the opinion HOW MUCH DO YOU

held in many quarters that Slater

was wrongly convicted.

The hallow-tooth "letter της

KNOW?

mentioned by Sir Arthur Conan TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS,

Doyle to a Daily Express repre-

The following general know- sentative because fresh efforts ledge paper has been taken from are to be made to secure the re- the Daily Express. Icase of Oscar Slater.

Answers, for those who need

of this laane.

1 What are lichens? What is malaria?

"I had that letter brought to me by, a man who had left the them, will be found on. Page 16 prison after serving his term," anid Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. "He passed it through the war- ders without their having the least suspicion.

"The message was another cry for help from Slater. There is no doubt in my mind that we shall secure his release shortly.

"A book has been written by a journalist who attended the trial, reviewing the whole circumstances of the murder, and dealing with acme of the astonishing evidence on which Slater was convicted."

Why ie there no longer, mataria in Britain?

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cats and the clover crop? What are fermentel "What is parthenogenesis?

How long can a diving bird stay under water?

Does mummy wheat sprout?

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What are phagocyles?

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What is heath

What are identical twins?

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How does a honey bee find its

way back to the hive?

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