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The Very Idea!

Overhearing an Italian woman refer to her party as foreigners, an English woman visitor to Flor ence exclaimed indignantly; "You are quite wrong. We are English. It is you that are foreigners." "

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First Movie Actor: So the piatol was loaded with ball instead of blanks; well, that was certainly tough.

Second. Ditto: Oh, I wouldn't have minded it so much, but the director yelled; "That isn't the way to fall when you're shot, you poor gop!"

and the man said.

tell you just what happened and, then you'll understand better When the what a shemuzzle is. row occurred there were four sis- ters, their for bushands and their A basin was father u! mother. thrown by one sister at a brother in-law and at once the air became thick with Tadis, chinaware, brashes, overputs, stones and handfuls of diri. You got what- ever came your way. I got a flower- pot on my bed and a indle in my ribs. That was a shenozzle."

The magistrats evidently under a stood perfectly, for he dismissed the

assault charge»

YANGTSZE BANDITS

ACTIVE.

MASSACRE ON A FRENCH STEAMER.

AN HOUR'S FIERCE BATTLE.

Ichang, Oct. 27.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5.

HIGH AMBITION."

MR: WANG CHING-WET'S

THE QUESTION OF A

-DAM.

FATAL MAIDSTONE FIRE.

DISCLOSURES.

SUCCESSION TO DR. SUN,

Under the heading "A Pernicious Book", the North China Daily

ALLEGED CONCESSION BY “ABYSSINIA.

THE CORONER'S CRYPTIC STATEMENT.

London, Oct. 20.

As the result of a outbreak of BRITAIN NOT NOTIFIED.

fire at Waterbury. Hall, Maid- stone, the occupior, Captain Bazley- London, Nov. 4. White, his wife, their four-year- Telegrams from America stat-old son, and a nurse aged 55, wore A terrible incident occurred News publishes the following,

Three servants escaped by climb ing Corporation has received al on board the French steamer which we reproduce with our con-ing that the American Engineer- incinerated.

window. B bedroom Kiangking on

on a journey up-stream.temporary's cross-headings:

Mr. Wang Ching-wel, formerly concession to build a dum at Lake ing-from white The Kiangking left. Ichang on

when she had, Chairman of the Governing Com-Tanna, in Abyssinia, find little Other occupants of the house es

a battle mittee of the People's Government credence in well-informed London caped by the staircase.

circies. October 21, and sailed about two hours royal suddenly took place between and now a member of the com-

October

or wounded. Those who

the bandits,

down

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were

for

which

at the windows.

The occupanta of the house were The tire brigade arrived an hour after the outbreak unable to get near the telephone.

A servant tried vainly to save Mrs. Bazley-White, who was trap- ped in the corridor. screaming "Fire."

The body of a bull-terrier was also found.

The late Captain Bazley-White served to a Brigadier-General in the Egyptian Army and spent

seven years in Egvot.

At the inquest the Coroner, at the outset, stated that there would be conflicting evidence as to where the fire originated

The bodies were recovered from a dozen guards of the Governor of miltee but sometimes living a re-It is not thought that any such the ground floot. having dropped and body of tired life in the beautiful Kuling arrangement could have been through the ceiling, which sol-

Inpsted. Kabichowhaien The science af philology has re-

The mansion, though compara- cently heen enriched by an ex more than 30 Chinese bandits who valley, is the author of a book made with the knowledge of the cellent definition of the word were travelling on the steamer China and the Nations" published Abyssinian Government, since un-

A man in a London in the disguise of passengers. this year in London by Martin Hop-der the Treaty of May, 1902, con- tively modern, was full of oak "shemozzle."

kinson & Co. The sub-title says cluded with Emperor Menelik the suburb, hauled into court for as

The soldiers and the bandits that it is the "Draft of the Report Second, that Emperor agreed, "not beams and the fire had been burn- saulting his sister-in-law, pleaded

used rifles and pistols, respective- that it was all just a shemozzle. The magistrate asked for details y, and the struggle lasted about International Problems" prepar- to construct or allow to be coming for some time before it was one hour, with the result thated for the International Problems structed any work across the Blue discovered by a passer-by whe about 60 soldiers, passengers and Committee of the Peopic's Confer-Nile, Lake Taana og Sebat, which gave the alarm by throwing stones April, 1926. This draft was writters into the Nile, except in agree- embers of the crew were killed race of Delegates at Deking in would arrest the flow of their was killed were thrown overboard by ten in the Chinese language and ment with His Britannic Majesty's has been rendered into English and Government and the Government of edited, with introduction, explana- the Sudan,”

The

Government Abyssinian The miscreants, after seizing Lory footnotes and a map by I-sen

has not approached the British Government in regard to any such the rifles of the guards and rob-Teng and John Hind Smith, **

We have been familiar with Mr project as that mentioned in the bing the crew and passengers of their money and clothes, forced

Great Britain, with her prepon- the crew to stop the steamer in Wang, who was formerly better American telegrams. the neighbourhood, and led with known as Wang Chao-ming,

many years. His imprisonment inderating interest in Egypt and the the booty,

Peking in 1910 for an attempt to Sadan, has for many years been at refuge in assassinate the Prince Regent pains to obtain undertakings from The steamer Look Wushan and afterwards met the brought his name into prominence neighbouring Powers to re-

any actions N. K. K. iyang Maru which eume We know also that he had become frain from

the river. One wounded one of the private secretaries of mate and two others were taken Dr. Sun Yat-sen and was generally might diminish the volume of wa steamer credited with having prepared in the Nile and its tributuries, the Japanese in by

many of the important telegrams which constitutes a vital factor and letters of his master. He ac- the prosperity of Egypt and thegest that the fire was anything but Tuko.

Sudan.-British Wireless.. companied Dr. Sun to Peking dur- ing the latter part of 1924. The introduction to this book states

Hysterical Falsehoods, in 1925 he was at his master's draihled, as his citogen successor, We were not prepared to, give and wrote at his dictation the two credence to the statements can- fames wills, which form the pro-cerning fr.. Wang's relations to ramme of the New China, Her. Sun during the last days of his was then chosen as leader by the life until we read this book "China"

The cook expressed the opinion Thè annual bázaar in connexion Ruomintang. He is destined, given and the Nations," but after a with the Italian Convent, in Caine health and strength, to be the Pre-areful perusal of its pages we that the fire broke out in the study. A farin labourer, whom the cook The Road, was formally opened by Mrssident of the Chinese Republic." are ready to believe almost any Scotsman at Westminster: doctor certified me as drink be-W. T. Southern this morning. The We venture that the native disclosing about Wane rhe book is fetched after seaping, said that. bazaar, which is under the rhair-ures made in this quotation ex-ad to wine to cover with he threw stones and broke the cause I could not say "Papa'spam-

need only pered ponies." I asked hing to re-manship of the Rev. Valtorta, is plain the whole history of the hysterical falsehoods and rabid windows, but there was no response. peat after me a lille Scotch, but to be continued throughout this Kuomintang since the death of Dreversions, and we

afternoon as well as to-morrow.

Sun Yat-sen. It may be properly mention a few. On p. 133 Intarsign of fire in the Captain's room or Function has al-described as one long struggled national Law is defined as "ur This annual ways been a great attraction to the art of Wang Ching-wol tinstrument for securing the Frith death was due to suffocation members of the Cathole com- maintain his position as the ste of becoming runity and othes, and the event essor of Dr. Sur and to further his this year, judging by the atten dance this morning, is likely to prove even more profitable. "Than

revious bazaara.

Willesden laridlady: My only rent fault is that am too good to my teriants.

Man fined at Marlboroisch-street for drunkenness: 1,simply asked the constable the difference between a Scotsman and a coconut, and told him that you could yet a drink out of a vocomit.

Nottinghamshire man: I have a witness have specially subisteamsl.

Kent policeman of a reveller: He was trying to post a letter in a cigarette machine.

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he could not say it.

"Sir,"

wrote the indignant, mother to the schoolmaster: "yna He musta't, whack my Tommy. isn't used to it. We never hit him at home ex ept in self-defence.

The future is in the air-Sir Samuel Hoare,

I have no use for jazz.- Mr. W.

0. Murray, F.R.C.O..

ITALIAN CONVENT ·

BAZAAR.

OPENED THIS MORNING.

There is no peril in high wages. Mr. John H. Fahey, ex-Presid a of the United States Chamber ofvided. Commerce.

TO-DAY'S FILMS. ·

FINAL SCREENING OF "MICHAEL STROGOFF.”

ambitious scheme

President of China.

է-

Will A Mere Dication. We know that there is

He added: "While I do not sug-

accidental, there are, course, pos- sible alternatives."

of all three. "The evidence servants who escaped indiented that Mrs. Bazley-White, whose screams of Fire" aroused them, easily could have cacaped, but she ran through the fire to the child's nursery."

from within. There was then no

the nursery..

The Coroner returned a verdict

by the powerful nations." On unknown. p. 19 it is said "England has used

leges obtained from the weak and that the cause of the fire was

Hongkong to cut China's throat." On p. 39 "France robbed China of Annam." On p 132, Japan's adealings with China afe described

TRADE BARRIERS DISCUSSED.

RUMANIAN AND JAPANESE RESERVATIONS.

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Geneva, Nov. 4. The trade barriers conference

The grounds of the Italian Con-large section of the member-as "roblery with violence On vent were tastefully decorated ship of the Kuomintang who do p. 101 the statement that the while excellent music is being pre-not accept the proposition that Washington Conference was called Wang Ching-wei was chosen by Dr. with the object of helping China who is denounced as false. Territorial Sun as his successor and Mrs. Smithorn was accompanied maintain that Wang with the aid integrity is explained on p. 61 as by Mrs. H. Innes, Mra. T. II. King of the Soong family kept such close a phrase "used to signify the His own automobile as a gairs. Sorby, and Mrs. J. R. Wood, guard around Dr. Sun during his partitioning of territory;" the is deliberating various exceptions. chamber was the novel mens of

last illness in Peking that he was Open Door policy na meaning "that to the abolition of customs and committing suicide used by Charles

entirely in their hands. This sec-China should welcome the Powers other tariffs, and has agreed to n Harrington, salesman. it was re-

tion of members also say that the when they come to exercise their Rumanian reservation as regards. vealed at the inquest at Ashburton,

famous wills of Dr. Sun are not encroachment," and Equality of crude oil, but has declared that Devon. Closing the doors, draw-

fair and full expressions of his Opportunity as "everybody has a this does not mean adberence to ing the curtains and stopping up all

wishes and represent only, what share." On p. 126. "the Chinese prohibition measures, and hopes the crevices of the ear, he sawed

Wang Ching-wel himself wished people does not fear the threat of that Rumania will raise the pro- through the floor and connected the

Dr. Sun to say. Even the fact that Bolchevism." "Of the two slogans hibition as soon as possible. The exhaust pipe with a piece of rubber)

ensued on the Wang "wrote at dictation the two down with imperialism' and 'down Rumanian delegate concurred.

A long debate tubing. The erigine ran until the

The splendid sureen version of famous wills" was carefully kept with militarism the former is the gas was exhausted and Marrington İ was asphyxiated. The suicide rules Verne's great tors Michael secret at the time of Dr. Sun's more vital. It is the root of roots."Japanese reservation as regards curred on a roadside of the famous Strogoff, which has been draw-death and the pablic was allowed On P. 124 "robbers and cutpurses rice exports, and the import of Widdecomb Fair.

ing crowded houses to the Queen's to believe that they were written always band together if they mean dyestuffs and synthetic products. The Japanese delegate undertook Theatre since Tuesday will be in great pain and weakness by Dr. to be brigands. Hence the pre- A farmer was trying hard to fill screened for the last time this Sun. Now it has been at last open-cedent of Equal opportunity of to try and get his Government to

picture is thely acknowledged that Dr. Sun only out a railway company claim sheet evening. The

perialists." Every page of this rice as being only of a temporary character. It is understood that for a row that had been killed on greatest ever made under French dictated the wills to Wang Ching privileges was invented by the im-regard prohibition in respect of the track. He came down to the auspices and should on no account wet, Some day it may be possible

for us to learn, whether or not book is marred with. immoderate, the prohibition of dyestuffs will be last item: "Disposition of the car-be missed. cass." After puzzling over the Other pictures showing for the Dr. San was in a physical condition exaggerated or incorrect state-admitted on the same conditions as question for some time he wrote-last time this, evening are Cecil B. to be able to know what he was ments of the same general import for Britain. This reservation is

With this book in hand it is easyment's approval.-Reuter. "Kind and gentle"

De Mille's notable society drama signing when Mr. Wang helped as these which we have quoted. Customer (in'n tea shop): "This "Triumph," at the, Star Theatre, him to write his signature, on these

with Rod La Rocque and Leatrice documents. Not a few Kuominto understand the ups and downs of Dr Sun. They have been occa- cocna has a peculiar flavour. tastes like tea." Waitress: "I'm Joy; and the feature film "New tang leaders believe that Dr. Sun of the Kuomintang since the death

Bessie Love, at the World Theatre.and that the two wills out

The official film record of the which Mr. Wang has made so much Ching-wei to become President of Dempsey Sharkey fight will also political capital were his own and the Republic of China. Note the

(Continued on Page 10.) be screened at the World Theatre that they are only parts of Wany's steps. Bending to the force of op- scheme to become Sun's successor. for the last time this evening.

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subject to the Japanese Govern-

sorry, sir, I must have given you/Brooms," with Neil Hamilton and did not know what he was signingsioned by the struggle of Wang HOW MUCH DO YOU!

coffee"

NEW JUSTICES.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.

It is announced that, II.E. the Officer Administering the Govern- ment has appointed the following officers to be Justices of the Pence for the Colony:

Dr. Bagenal Harvey Mallon. Dr. Joseph Patrick Fehily.

Other Appointments.

H. E. the Officer Administering the Government has re-appointed Dr. Wong Tsz-chuen to be a Mem ber of the Midwives Board for a further term of three years, with effect from the 23rd, October.

H. E the Officer Administering the Government has appointed Ng Chi to be a "Forest Officer" for "the control and superintendence of the forests of the Colony (Cheung Chau), with effect from 1st Novem- ber:

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Forest Officer Ku Sing-cheong has resigned from the service as Trom 1st. October.

It is officially notified that the road bridge between the Kowloon- Canton Railway and the Causeway at Talpo will be open to publie on Thursday the. 10th November,

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A SUCCESSFUL TEAM,

Above is seen the football team of the 56th Field Coy.-R.E., who, since. their arrival in the Co lony in May, have played 83 friendly games, of which they have lost only three and drawn four. From left to right they are:-back row: Spra. Marshall, Irson, Bartlett, Goode, and Dalton; middle row: Spra. Cole, Horsepool, and 'Salter; front row: Driver Rutter, Spr. Elliott, Bergt. Brown, Spr. Medway and Spr. Abbott.

KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express. "

Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 19 of this issue.

1. What is "ullago"? |

2. Which is the hottest piace in the

world?

3. Who founded Pennsylvania?.

4. What is a "dragoman"?

6. Give the name of the mythical

river of oblivion.

8. What is a Hadji?

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7. Which famous poet was born in

Bread-street, Cheapsido?

8. What are orders in Council?

9. Who were the plebeians?

10. What does "demy avo." mean? 11. What is the second dogwatch? 12. Who was the author of the phrase "to damn with faint praisoj"

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