THE
VICTROLA
FOR THE
KIDDIES
The China Mail
8. MOUTRIE & CO, LTD
February 3, 1922, Temporature 50
ESTABLISHED
Barometer 3007
Rainfall 0.01 ch.
No. 18.492
五拜體 號三月二年二十二百九千一英
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VERY SERJOUS SITUATION,
LONDON, February 3.
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ITALIAN CABINET RESIONS.
POPE'S DEATH SEQUELS.
GENCA PARLEY MAX HE AFFECTED.
The Cabinet has decided to resign
ROME, February 2.
LATER.
the Uleter and the Southern Parliaments have been somewhat dashed by an official announcement after an The Cabinet's resignation was due to loss of sup- interview between Mr. Michael Collins and Sir James port in Parliament whare, owing to hostility to foreign Craig at Dublin lasting two and a half hours that no policy and other causes like the alarm of the anti- further agreement has been reached and a very serious clericals at recent actions of Catholic ministers on the situation has arisen.
It is understood that the difference is with the question of revision of boundaries.
GERMANY'S RAILWAY STRIKE
NOT EXPECTED TO LAST LONG.
occasion of the l'ope's death, opposition has been grow. connecteding, culminating in the Social Democrata, numbering
143, joining the opposition.
BERLIN, February 2
The general trike of railwaynen arising out of a wages dispute has begun. It was preceded yesterday by a general exodus from Berlin when many thousands thronged the stations.
Towne like Breslau and Frankfort are isolated.
The situation in the south and south-west is much brighter. The engine drivers at Munich have refused to come out. The Bavarian railways ar› a'mngst normal, Likewise most of the Wurtemberg and Bailun lines. It is not expected that the strike will last long. Little disposition for violence is manifest. The canals are being utilised for foodstuffs et. Staff officials have
bren organised to drive and stoke trains.
FLYING TO RUSSIA.
REGULAR MIR SERVICE,
The crisis may affect the Genoa Conference. A section of the Press has been urging postponement to May or the ground that this will give time to all the conntries to prepare the ground for discussion.
CHINA STATION CHANG IS.
"DIOMEDE" REPLACING "CAIRO,"
LONDON, February 2.
The cruiser "Cairo "at pecent at Shanghai will shortly be relieved by the new light niger Diomede
which will be commi-sloped at Portsmouth in March.
The "Cairo" will then transferred to the East Indies station in place of the “Comus."
The Die." is a sister of the "Durban," ald was laid down Vicker's yard, Barrow, in June, 1918. After the Armi-tice she was towed round to Devonport. She measures 415 ft. in length 463 ft. in beam, has a draught of 14 ft. 3 in., and a displacement of 4,650 tons. Her engines are of 40,000 h.p., which will give a speed of 29 knots. For armament she will mount six fin. guns on the centre line two 3-in. guns in her anti-aircraft battery, four 3 pounders and a couple of pom poms, and La proportion of machine guns. In her tanks she will' 1,050 tons of oil and 300 tons of cost in ber hters. When completed the "Diomede" will repre- at an outlay of £998,780, exclusive of her guns, which A Russo German air navigation company has been will cost something like £21,500 additional,
Tha formed with a view to a regular air service between-D ships. Her total cost will be over a million "Diomede" is considerably, the costfight of the group of Koenigsberg and Moscow by Russian Government sterling when ready for the commissioning pennant.] aeroplanes. The company consists of a combination of the German General Electricity Company, the Hamburg- Amerika Line and the Zeppelin company with the Russian Government,
BERLIN, February 2.
ANTHRAX SPREAD.
LXPERTS MOBILISED.
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
NEW YORK AND VIENNA BOTH SUFFER.
NEW YORK, February 2. Some 812 cases of influenza and: 186 of pneumonia were officially reported in twenty-four hours.
VIENNA, February 2. There were 2,753 cases of influenza during the week ending January 28, against 131 Curing the previous
LONDON, February 2. The International Labour Office has appointed an anthrax commission composed of experts from South week. África, Australia, Belgium, France, Britain, Italy, India, Japan, Spain and United States who will consider men- There were 1,952 cases of influenza and 20 deaths sures to check the spread of authrax by infected wool yesterday, in addition to Monday's list previously and hair.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Toya of 2000 Years
M
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and
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NEW YORK, February 2.
gorgonzola and being disappointed in supposes that the mother esl makes the smallness of the boasted Bridge her way out into the Atlantic, of Size, I went on to Rome. Again, I probably to the neighbourhood of the was disappointed. The Colisen Bahamas, and there deposits her A little Roman girl who died nearly there compared anfavourably with young, dying herself immediately two thousand years ago had her toys the one in London and there was no afterwards. It is also believed that The maccaroni the elvers of European parentage week buried with her. Her favourite dolls, performance on. with cosmetics for their (and hor) fields were white for harvest, but the European rivera while those of spaghetti was only just in bloom, American ongin make their way to complexions, were beside her, a little There was nothing on at the Vat the waters of the West. Some people tea table, and a miniature silver combs, as the Pope no longer lives go so far as to maintain that the elver candlestick, bright-coloured building un ferground."
goes back to the identical stream in blocks, a gold filigree brooch and The First Woman Astrovomer, which its parent lived. The whole bracelet, and writing tablets
Mr. Spenser Jones, the wife of one subject is a scientific puzzle the stylus. In her hand was clasped a of the astronomers who is sailing solution of which is necessarily of penny-to pay her fare to Charon for to Christmas Island to pre peculiar difficulty. her ferry across the Styx. Her tomb pare for September's total eclipse of Fish That Bark. has been unearthed intact, relates the sun, is to accompany her husband Children, and the big children that Everyday Scic, ce, and with all its con- on bis journey, and will undertake elders at the seaside become, have a tents in a good state of preservation.important duties during the moments chance when they investigate the Women &mokers on the Wane of totality, according to the Morning rocky pools of observing a little An informal census of the habits ofPost. She is one of many women wonder of natural history that has the Oxford undergraduate reveals who to-day take an interest in begun to arouse the curiosity of the the interesting fact that, roughly astronomy, and her action recalls thy scientific. There is a mall, cominou, speaking, only one is five emrokes, great name of Caroline Horschel, big headed fish-sometimes called and that in the 20 per cent, of whose brother, Sir Willihm. found bull-head-which baks in order to smokers very few make a babit of the her an invaluable assistant. He used scare off his enemia. Inspection of bis cigarette. They smoke one or two to stand at night in the open air from barking apparatus and curious babit now and then no o social acompliat dusk to down gazing down the tube hay revealed to a biologist the struge mont rather than a pleasant amuse of ble mighty reflector, and he would fact that he was once a poison fish mont. The undergraduette who dictate what he saw to his sister. She but gave up poison and let his poison invites her friends and acquaintances wrote down his notes and recorded, glande go out of use because he found to nine o'clock cocas is not expected the position of the objects which be barking sufficient to frighten off lis to provide either caspers or was describing. Sometimes the cold enemies. Another inference made by Egyptians. Without doubt smok at Bloush was so intense that the ink a smolalist on this sort of seaside fish ing is on the decline in Oxford. The would freeze on her pen 1-^! growing belief that smoking is bad The Mystery of the Kol for the complexion may be helping to Grant aciratife interest attaches to Fout the foeliione Vie
the expedition sent out by the Danish Government to investigate the breed From the Morning Post-A bright ug places of the bel. Tim was which little boy was asked by his new 'quite serious people believed that dels governois, is a tees of his general could be generated front, plece Kapwledge, to write a desorption of horsehair thrown into atro bis (imsgloary) travels in Italy. She the existence of as odd
a. Travellers Tale.
ens | rather, alongsted, toj redd: illustrates the mystery.
is that since he can' bark, and so * frighten off his enemies, therefore the old question Can Gabon heari shawored in the alliative. A good toony real poison fish have been seen this year, and one of them, the little Weaver, stinguished by ʼn very fall Pointed in just bebind his head, must völded wirefully, . He in worse sukke, and much word that a though this has the endle
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