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The " Dakar Marú" at 9 alm.} yesterday, passed a large plece of broken junk" in Lat. 20.40 N., Long. 113.50, E. Mariners should
note.
The Paris papers announce that the French internal loan of four billion francs closed yesterday, over-subscribed, and resulted in a sharp recovery of French rentes
There will be a Children's Christmas Party at the Helena May Institute on Filday next, December 19, at 3-45. p.m. Fancy dress optional. Tickets, 75 cents ench, to be obtained from the Secretary.
According to a police report, Edward Harris, an unemployed seaman staying at the Sailors Home, was
found wandering about in the streets this morning. He was sent to the Government Civil Hospital."
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Armed robbers entered No. 70, Laichikok Road, yesterday fore noon, three of the men said to be armed with revolvers and one carrying a danger. They proceed ed to deal with the inmates in the usual way, and made their escape after securing money and jewellery | to the value of $157 A report was made to the police, but, no arrests have been made so far:
A most effective if repulsive method of collecting debts has come to light in Japan. A man in a suburb of Tokyo owed a sum of Y.100 which he declined to repay. whereupon his creditor sent two. lepers to his house to secure 'pay ment. After they had been in the dwelling for a few minutes the Y.100 was repaid:
The reports circulated in Tokyo last week, that the Govern ment is considering deporting some 6000 Chinese labourers, were declared to be without foundation by officials in the Government. It was said that no such plan has been brought up in the Cabinet or in any part of the Government. Reports had been that, because of the unemployment situation among labourers in Japan, the Chinese labourers were to be "deported in order that Japanese
could get the jobs they left.
SOCIAL
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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J. P. Morgans have shipped an additional three million dollars in Cold
to Germany.
One Indian and one Chinese case of enteric fever were reported to the Medical Officer of Health on Wednesday."
It is advertised that Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Ltd, have opened an office in Hongkong, located at St. George's Building, 3rd floor.
In the Assembly, replying to a Labour member, the Premier said he was got disposed at pre- Bureau. The questioner retorted sent to remove the Shipping that the fight would continue, says a Sydney message.
Frank Bennett, American resident of Angeles. Pampanga, who killed Joseph R. Maly several months ago, was sentenced by the Supreme Court of the Philippines to six years and one day imprison- Tent, Bennett told the Court that he killed his victim while acting In self-defence.
was refused.
Chinese in Shanghat are pro- testing against what they term an encroachment on Chinese territory by the French Municipal Council, states the Chinese press. It is alleged that the French authorities are attempting to extend their Concession by building roads in Chinese territory in the Siccawel district. The Civil Governor of Kiangsu has instructed Mr. Wen Shih-tsen, the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, to take the matter up with the French authorities, if
true..
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Tokyo is to have women con- 'ductors for her omnibuses, and ination held to select suitable with roference to a recent exam- women, the "Japan Times" says Of the 85 girls who sent in their applications, none was pretty, according to the officials of the electric bureau. Fifty-nine girls could not take the examination through inability to write legibly. Of the 26 who were put through physical examinations and mental tests, 23 passed. The majority of the girls were from farming dis- tricts, few Tokyo girls applying for positions.
"Experience tells is the theory of beth Tom director of "The Girl Who Came Forman, Back, and Kenneth Harlan, play-
W. Wallace, an, unrecognized foreigner, who was charged before the Mixed Court at Shanghai, on February 3, with obtaining money under false pretences, and expelled from the Settlement, made applica tion through a representative ining a leading role in this Al Light the Court last week to be allowed man attraction, now showing at the to return for ten days to settle up
World Theatre. Both of the some accounts which were due him Schulberg aids had had prison from Chinese. The application experience before the filming of this picture, which involves several big penitentiary scenes, Mr. For- from Washington says that some pictures, while Mr. Harlan just had An Associated Press despatchman and directed veral prison official circles are uneasy lest Mr. completed work in Thorns "and Churchill's statement in the House Dinge Blossoms," in which ho Allied debts, may delay the settle of the production." of Commons, in regard to Inter appears as a convies for one phase
interpret Mr. Churchill's statement ment with France. Some officials as heralding another attempt to induce the United States to parti- cipate in an Inter Allied Debt Conference.
!
The customs and police authorities of Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, and other open ports. are reported in a great Japan paper to be busy on a smuggling The cable between Stone case involving gold bullion sent cutters Island and Hongkong from Japan to China which was was broken-it is believed by a recently revealed. Many Chinese) Chinese-owned ship-on Wed-merchants in those ports have nesday evening, and since then been examined. It is alleged that telegraphic communication with a Kwandaige money exchange the military on Stonecutters has shop in Shanghai has smuggled been impossible. The work of gold bullion, estimated at over repairing the cable started to day The telegraph cable at North Point is also reported to be out of action, as the result of its having been fouled by the anchor of a buoy.
Y.100,000 monthly, from Japan since the yen dropped. The gold was sent to Shanghai' from Japan- ese ports twice a month, Y,50,000 at a time." It has not yet been discovered what ship carried it.
AND PERSONAL.
Doctor Müsy has been elected, Mrs. Sun Yat-sen, who arrived M. Pierre Henri, a French, in- President of the Swiss Confedera-in Tientsin ahead of her husband, spector appointed by the. League was a visitor to the Capital 12 body's International Labour Office, of Nations in' connection with that years ago, when she was Missis at present in Hongkong making! Sung, English Secretary to the enquiries into labour conditions in veteran Cantonese politician and the Colony, He will shortly visit famed for her good looks.
Canten and other places in South China.
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General Sir William Birdwood and Miss Megan Lloyd George have left India aboard the "Naldera" for Home.
Dr. Humphrey W. Toms has been appointed by the Foreign Office to act as Medical Attendant to the British Legation in Bangkok.
Judge René Sheridan, Docteur en Droit, has resumed his seat in the Bangkok Appeal Court on his return from nine months' home Icave.
Mr. Duncan, the new agent of the Bangkok branch of the Mercantile Bank, has arrived to take up his duties, accompanied by Mrs. Duncan.
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riot is confined to his room with known and popular Hongkong || The announcement that M. Her-
Dr. Dalmahoy Allan, the well-
reports in the French press. influenza has led to alarmist medical practitioner, met with an
"Le accident, luckily without any very, Matin" says he is suffering from serious consequences, while motor sciatica and that his heart is affecting alone in the New Territories Led. The doctors recommend a yesterday morning.
long rest..
He attempting to turn his car at a point on the road between Fanling and Mr. O. Bjorling, manager. of Sham Shui, when the steering wheel Branch, has received the Spanish a tree, and half overturned on the The East Asiatic Co., Bangkok jammed, and the car collided with decoration of Knight of the Order bank at the side of the road. Dr. of Isabella the Catholic. Mr. Allan's chin was struck by the Bjorling some years ago.
steering wheel at the moment, of temporarily in charge of the
the impact against the tree, and Spanish Consulate in Siam.
was badly cut He managed to moke his way to the Royal Hong- kong Golf Club at Fanling 'where! On the departure of Sir William His injury was attended to by. Dr. Manning, G.C.MG, KCB from Lyon Brown, who is in Hongkong Ceylon, the Hon. Mr. Cecil | on holiday from Hankow and hap- Clementi, C.MG., Colonial Secre- | pened to be in the club house. He It has been made known that Mr.tary of Ceylon, will act as Officer, was later driven to Kowloon in Administering"" the Government another car, and returned to his re- there until the arrival in the island eldence in Hongkong. Dr. Allan's of the new Governor, Sir Hugh.car, which was badly damaged, Clifford, G.C.M.G.
was afterwards brought back by a working party
Mr. T. J. Gaisford-St. Lawrence, private secretary to H.E. the Governor, was a passenger for Manila, by the s.s. 'Empress of Asia" sailing yesterday.
E. S. Montagi, ex-Secretary of State for India, died from sleeping sickness and not from blood poisoning, as first reported.
Among the passengers who ar rived by the P.&O." Macedonia" yesterday afternoon, were Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Barlow, Mr. and Mrs G. H. Stitt, Mr. H. H. Fox, C.M.G. and Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Scott
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Dra estic Occurre Lo Leading Artioles
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·KIcoanga:
Mr. E. FcD. Gale, Auditor. of Salt Revenue, with equivalent year depicts Charles I and the The King's Christmas card this rank of Salt Commissioner, for the Pilgrim Fathers... Charles Firin and Heilungchiang (Man- shown granting, in January, 1629, churla) Salt Transportation Offices the charter necessary to raise the has been again transferred back to Ble Puritan
Treat in Store settlement of the Hupeh Transportation Offices Massachusetts to the status of a
Captored 8indent The engagement is announced with headquarters at Hankow colony. There is also the quotation slippery Customers. of Cecily, youngest daughter of where he had effected valuable from Shakespeare, "The Heavens Letters Patent-. Mr. R: W. Hism, Engineer, Ways reforms to the Government Salt give safety to your purposes."
Rabies Beare... and Works, F.M.S. Railways, and Administration since December The Quean's card shows a Sphinx Alleged Theft the late Mrs. Hiam, Yatton, Semer 1914 10 October 1922 with high and a Pyramid past which Mary Farewell Dinner... set, to Mr. A. V Belth, M.C, approval of the Central Au-and Joseph are travelling. Hongkong Jockey Club Bujong estate, Kepong Malay thorities at Peking. Rubber Estates, Selangor.
Beneath is the quotation from St.
8.R.CA. Matthew: He took the young Hongkong Bank Notes Following a short lines, child and his mother.. Stand The engagement has been an Captain B. F. London, a well departed Into
Egypt." The Still Breezy nounced and the wedding will figure in Calcuild rowing circles, Prince of Wales's card shows the Tenancy Dispute shortly take place between Miss died suddenly in à nursing home ancient ceremony of the Dage of Missionssy's Death · Elizabeth D'Este Thurston, eldest on November 5. Captain London Venice casting ang into the Wa ThurFang daughter of the late Sir John Bates came to Calcutta in 1916 with the sea-the wedding of the Adriatic. Thurston, K.C.M.G.. late Governor Lincolnshire Regiment, and trans- Princess Mary Vicousters Las Mr Airo'd's Luck of Fill and High Commissioner for ferred to the Indian Army in 1918 celles's Card Boys the cecue Great House. the Western Pacific and of Lady He joined, the Imperial Bank of of Mary Queen of Sent from Thurston of South West Kensing India in 1922, coalimming his ser- Loch Lever Cutter ton, London; and Mr William vice with the bank, until the time 3ng the quoistions Perrins eldest son of the Isle of his death Captain London see the sunny Hon. Mr. W. H. Perrins, of Forest was a member of the Calcutta chance and change that Ime Spuft --- Hill, London, England..
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