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Now navigation notices rela tive to the coast of Australia have been posted up at the Harbour Office
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This afternoon, a represent- ative meeting was held at the Tung Wah Hospital to discuss means for coping with the floods in Kwanghing province.
A selegram from Cairo an aounces that the British military authorities. have decided to hand over to the Egyptian Government| the three men arrested on suspicion of plotting against. British interests
AND GENERAL.
An advertisement in today's China Mati" offers issue of the for sale building lots in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. ".
The Penang public has been warned regarding a certain mán who is said to be going about the town trying to secure orders on behalf of the Nathoot Jinta Tin Mines. N. L. (Incorporated. in The annual meeting of the Australia). In the event of his Hongkong Society for the Prevevisiting any firm for this purpose 13on of Cruelty to Animals they are requested to communicate advertised to be held on Thursday, with the Detective Department, December 4, at 5:30 pm, in the Penang. Board Room of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.
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The Far Eastern Bank, popul. arly known in Manchuria and Soviet Russia as the Dalbank, which is an abbreviated Soviet term, is now functioning in Tient A Reval cable states that the sin where it has a branch establish- Communist trial has been coned. It is said to have large con- cluded. Thirty-nine of the accused nections in Soviet Russia. received sentences of imprison- ment for life. The remaining 90 received terms varying from 3 to 15 years' imprisonment.
An article in this morning's "Wah Tsa Yat Po" gives the amount of opium consued, in Canton, .., including both the quantity sold by the monopoly and illicit oplum, as 5,000 taels a day. This would be valued approxi- mately at $40,000 Hongkong
currency.
"The Martyr Queen," has met with great success during its run at the World Theatre during the last three days. It is a wonderful picture of the ill-fated Marie Antolpette played by the incom- parable Diana Karenne. Enacting a role of heavy exactions the fascinating star succeeds in regis. tering almost the entire game of emotions in a manner of such The arrival of Marshal Changcertainty that her work in this Tso-lin in Tientsin recently, was picture touches the uppermost responsible for a breakdown in point of the dramatic attainments milk deliveries. Que dairy in the of her career, To-morrow will be northern port employed a number its last showing. of Russians, and on the suggestion of their countrymen serving under Marshal Chang's banner, they enlisted in the Mukden Russian contingent.
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The Society of St Vincent de Paul begs to acknowledge with An occasional correspondent thanks the following donations in to the "China Mail" writes to say aid of the "Al Fresco Fete" to be that another new tax is to be held on the 7th December.-A. A imposed in Canton. Not satisfied.Alves $100; Basto and Co. $100; with exacting levies on necessities, I. J. Basto, $100; P. V. Botelho the Yunnanese troops are now $100; Choa Po-sien, $100; Roza issuing duty stamps to be pasted Bros. $100: P.-M. N. da Silva on footwear. Without the stamps $100; A. H. Barlow $50; Maxim and Co., $50; V. Yvanovich, $50; one cannot wear boots or shoes.
Ho Fook, $25; Graca and Co., $25; Yesterday morning Mr. W. EL F. Grose and Co, $25; Seu Dicklason; "of the Daily Press," Kon-chl, $25; Lo Chung-kur, $20; J. M, who lives at No. 4, Victoria Gar Wong Kam-fuk, $10; dens, Kowloon, reported to the Wong $10. Police that during the aight-some- one entered his bedroom and stole a suit of clothes, a sports jacket and a silver watch, the total value of which amounted to nearly $100.
According to a statement in the "Japan Advertiser" the Yoko hama, Municipality has obtained Y. 100,000 from "the Benevolent) Society," described as "a semi government institution," for the purpose of building offices and dwelling houses for foreign re- sidents, in the hope of inducing them to return to Yokohama. It is also hoped to obtain money to build a school in. Yokohama for foreign children. The Mayor of Yokohama is represented as saying that the prosperity of the part is largely due to foreign residents,! and that to restore Yokohama to the important position it enjoyed before the disaster it is necessary that the foreign residents should be induced to return.
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A monstrous monoplane Is этапде On November 12
shortly
to reach Japan from! ments were completed for the Copenhagen.. It is still uncertain transfer of the control of the if it has been constructed for the "Peking Leader" to Mr. Grover military anthorities or for a civilian Clark. The money for the transac- company, but it is being imported People at Sze Yap are afraid tion was secured from American through a Japanese shipbuilding that trouble will ensue if Li Hoi- and British sources, the larger part yard, according to the "Mainichi." wan, & Kwangsi. brigadier, at coming from Americans. As soon The flying boat was built at a tempts to return there with a body as practicable, a committee consist- factory ander German manage- of newly enlisted men.. Hising of Messrs. Grover Clark, H. C. ment in Copenhagen and is ready superior-General Lau Tsun-wan- Faxon, H. S, Houghton, W. B. for shipment for Japan at any The two motors are is believed to have come to an Patius and J. Leighton.Stuart will moment. understanding with General Hsu make arrangements for the forma- mounted above the wings, and two Shung-chi, commander-in-chief of tion of a corporation to control and wheels can be fixed on either side the Cantonese forces at Canton operate the Leader." A majority near the float for land transporta- and who is in nominal control of of the voting stock in this corporation. The two motors are by Rolls Leung Hung kai, the Sze Yap tion will be American-owned, Royce, of 370 h.p. each, its top autocrat. It is thought that the but the co-operation of piner speed is r18 miles, ceiling 11,500 feet, the spread of the wings 95 cock of the walk will not welcome nationalities, it is announced, will
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SOCIAL AND
M.Krassin has left Moscow.for France to take up the Ambassador ship.
Marshal Tan Chi Jui, it is reported, intends to make a new and more equitable agreement with the ex-Emperor....
The death took place at Ipoh after a brief illness, of Mrs. T. H.. Stewart, wife of the manager of Bikam Estate, Sungkal.
Owing to the non-arrival of the 5.S."City of Karachi," the wedding between Miss Elizabeth N. Nichol- son and Mr. Wallace McGregor Davles has been postponed..
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The Empress of Australia's " passengers included Dr. and Mrs. N. Bradley on their way to Yun- naniu where the doctor is in charge of modern hospitals in
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PERSONAL.
Lord Cunliffe recently arrived in Kobe on a visit to Japan.
Tourist arrangements for next year mean that more than 2,000 visitors will calfat Japan and China,
Mr. J. O'Connell, Superintendent of Customs, Preventive Branch, Perak, has left for Europe on leave.
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The Rev. E. G. Semple has assumed duties of Chaplain to the Singapore Garrison vice the Rev. IH. McKew.
The Kokumin" reports that the late Mr. G. W. Colton, of Negishi, Yokohama, who was killed in the great earthquake of September last year, left a fortune exceeding Y2,000,000.
Mr. E. Rock, Manager of the Hongkong Jockey Club Stables at Causeway Bay, is laid up with a severe cold on the chest. His many friends trust, however, to see him at the usual stand, to- morrow when the numbers go up at Happy Valley race-course,
Surgeon-Lieutenant Pomfret, of H.M.S. "Moorhen" met with a serious accident while playing football in Canton last Saturday. He has fractured his left arm in three places, so it is understood. At any rate, he is carrying it in a sling. Fortunately his bowling arm was not damaged and his many friends will wish him an early return to the cricket-field.
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Janke with Arms Public Finances Blasting Danger H.K.F.Å, Meet Industrial Security Shipping News A Eurasian schoolboy named De Sir R. Ho Tang Mello died at the Tan Tock Seng Filferages me Hospital, Singapore, on November Shipper Fined Mr. Floyd S. Tangler Smith, 19, as the result of injuries he Welsh Notes.... who Juft last January with received to an accident which Chafoo's Escape Trans-Asia Photo Scientific Ex- occurred in East Coast Road the
Bport pedition for the Tibetan border, previous afternoon. The boy was has arrived in Ichang after a long knocked down by a motorcycle overland journey from Lanchowiu ridden by Mr. H. P. C. de Streurs, in Kansu Province:
a Dutchnían, and was at once taken to his relatives' bungalow and Arrivals by the P. & O. 3.5. medically treated. He was then C. conveyed to the Tan Tock Sang armala" include. Mrs. Champkin, Mre Worcester, Mr A. T. Hospital, where he died at about 9 Campbell, Mrs. J. Dickey, Mr. and, o'clock the following morning. Mrs. W. G. Pearce and children, The cyclist was also injured. It is Sergt. R. Worthington, Miss said that the boy emerged from Commdr. E. W. Buchanan, Wheatcroft, Mr. J. T. Pavilt, Mr. behind a big boiler, which was be- D.S.C., has been appointed to and Mrs. M. Dunn and Mrs. A. G. ing, dragged along the road, and H. M. S. "Weymouth" Lleut. Levensor.
crossed the path of the motor cyclist
The Vice-President, General Dawes, has declined President Coolidge's offer to accept a Cabinet portfolio, in accordance with the precedent created by the late President Harding, says a Reuter viessage from Washington.
1. F. H. Sawyer to H.M.S. Titania. Sub Lieut, R Sheridan Patterson's appointment 10 HMS, Titania" has been cancelled:
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Mme: Neel, the woman traveller
News has reached Shanghai, of who recently visited Lhasa in disguise, travelled as a beggar the death of Mr. Greville Thomas pilgrim, visiting the shrines in Nelson which took place Dr. Henry Walcott Farnam. Tibet, and her disguise was so Delagoa Bay whlist on his way to Emeritus Professor of Economics good that it was never detected, Natal. Mr. Nelson left Shanghai at Yale University, with Mrs. even during her two months by the str. "Sardinia" on August Famam, is visiting Shanghai after residence in Lhasa: Mme. Neel is 31st on account of his health which a trip to Yale-in-China College at woman of 60; and speaks Tibetan he hoped would improve by Changsha. This is Dr. Farnam's like a native. second visit to Shanghal, the first being some 30 years ago,
residence, In South Africa, but apparently death occurred before he could reach that country, Mr. Mr. EuHung-ming, the noted Chinese scholar, who has been in Nelson, who came to China about Messrs. Mackenzie & Co. and alterly with Mesare. Weitz Craven and Waller): He leaves a widow
Sir Robert Horse, whose ex-Japan for the past two months, 18 year ago, was formerly with clusion from the Chancellorship in will leave, shortly for Peking, the favour of Mr. Churchill has caused Kobe Herald" reports: He was
A political controversy in a speech in Kobe recently looking remark
21 London congratulated Mr Churably well: On hier way home he sad two sons in England. He was chill a man of brillant gifte proposes to vkit Formosa and well-known, not only in Shanghali and quite extraordinary mental stay short time with one of bir but also in many of the otherports
In Chind, where his gental persoa capacity, assiduity and fadustry, cousins there. Mr. Ku expects to which are not surpassed by any return to Japan: Louetime next lity sand, the rare, flashes of simi other person with whom I am year and will perhaps take up Ha which illuminated his conveniat
endeared him to all. permanent residence there,
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