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A meeting of the Garrigon Recreation Club is to be held at 10.30 am, to-morrow.
A great year of Chinese The Garrison Cup was on | fashions is predicted in a Fashion view in the G.0.C's box pote. A bride. has added to" her day. trousseau 4.Marvellous Chinese dress of red and green with tiny designs embroidered across it. There are Chinese iea jackets, rest coafegs, and loose wraps made of vivid colours, embroidered with large white lotus flowers with red) fish and orange birds. Chinese A case of rables was reported dance frocks made in marocainte. the health authorities during worked in many coloured skeins the 48 hours ended February 15. of silk will be seen in dance balls, and with these will be worn'em. broidered silk slippers.
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A Fengthen cavalryman has been executed for robbing foreigner of a pair of spectacles, says the "Chinese Press."
The Field Oficer in the local Command for this week is Capt. |N.C. Parkes, R.A.
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Lovers of clean, wholesome, high class vaudeville who fail to her and see the world-famous Sir Harry Lauder and his incompar able company of international artistes at one of their three fare- One hundred and fifty Anna. well appearances at the Theatre mites have arrived in Shanghai to Royal will assuredly earn join the French, Municipal Police.proach. A company of this calibre is very rare in the Far East and we are indebted in no small degree to the director, Mr. E. J. Carroll, for his enterprise. There will be a change of programme to-morrow night and the season. will definitely close with a special ratinee performance on Thurs- day, afternoon, commencing at The monthly cost of Marshal.30, which will be a true repeti. Feng Yu-hiang's army is said by tion of the evening performance. the Chinese Press to be $1,608,000; Children under fourteen will be or twice the amount expended last admitted to the matinee at half year by Marshal Wu Pel-fu, on his rates. The Theatre Royal" being forces. The Ministry of War is otherwise engaged there will be now complaining that it cannot no performance on Thursday raise such an enormous sum. evening. The box plans for the balance of the season are now on view at Mogtries...................
In the "London Gazette. are published Orders in Council which game into force on December 31, providing for the transfer of A meeting was held in the property and the proceeds of sales Soldiers' Club last night a to of property belonging to nationals arrange the competition for the the former Kingdom of Soldiers' Club biliards.cup (six Hungary and of the formera side), Austrian Empire under the control of the Custodian of Enemy Property in China to the adminis irators of Hungarian property and of Austrian property respectively.
At the quarterly meeting on January 13, of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, it was reported that a world-wide questionnaire on the incidence of cancer-was-being- circulated to 1,100 "medical mis- sionaries of all denominations throughout the world. It was hoped that valuable data might therby be obtained concerning the incidence of cancer at many cut posts of civilisation.
Unknown to the majority of visitors to the South Kensington Museum (writes a Daily Chronicle representative), a small thirteenth or fourteenth century" figure of Buddha, which stands, enclosed in a shrine, at the far side of the
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At the annual meeting of sub. scribers to Holy Trinity Cathedral,
In Command Orders it is Shanghai, Mr. A. C. Clear pointed stated:-It has been brought to out that the estimated expenditure notice that the conditions of amounted to Tis: 19,406, whilst the travelling on, public duty over the guaranteed income was only Tis. Star Ferry and the. British sec- 8.715 thus leaving a balance of tion of the Kowloon-Canton Rail-! Ts. 10,615 to be raised. He drew way, do not appear to be general- attention to the fact that whilst ly understood, and cuses have there were only 200 subscribers, occurred in which men, stationed there were more than 1500 respon-in Victoria, huve been sent to and sible churchmen in Shanghai from camp, without provision" having been made for the Ferry Ferossing, thereby causing con- fusion to the Ferry and Railway authorities in the matter of the adjustment of their claims. y
Chinese lacquer room, has a strange Arrangements are being made and tragic history. Kneeling be- to give the public an opportunity fore this statue about 200 years of listening to a topical lecture ago, Asano, a nobleman of old concerning the future prosperity of Japan, committed hara-kiri. The Hongkong. Though the report story, which is told it, Mitford's "Tales of Old Japan," relates that 47 followers of Asano, all Samurai, banded themselves together and killed the man who had insulted their master and brought him to his end.
In future, 2nd and 3rd rall- on harbour development submitted class warrants for the
will be pre- by Mr. John Duncan, Port Engineer, way journey
read to ör: from has been published in the Press, it pared to is felt that there are many who Kowloon Station only, and not to have not properly realised the or from Hongkong the ferry significance of the recommenda- journey being undertaken by the
routine launch,
tion.
SOCIAL AND
Mr. Chao-Hsin Chu, the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires, London has now recovered from his indis- position.
Foreign military officers attend- ing the forthcoming Indian Army manoeuvres include Major Hömma, of the Japanese Army.
Mr. Y. Okuma, Secretory at the Japanese. Embassy, London, ahas been assigned to the "Foreign Office at Tokio, and will leave for Japan early next month.
Captain H. T. Newman, Royal Marines, joins the " Diomede" at an early date. Captain Newman was commissioned in the Roya! Marines the month the lite war broke out and got his present rank In 1918.
PERSONAL.
The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin has conserted to become a Vice President of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
The Grown Princess of Japan is expecting an interesting event in a March.
Mr. Kumataro Ishigaki, who has long been engaged in the Japanese A marriage is arranged between fishing industry, has contributed William Rhys Harvey, of Shang-Y1,000,000, his whole fortune, to hai, and Ethel Mary, elder daugh- the re-construction of an jasiitate 'with agriculture ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. connected". Holland, of 376, Upper Richmond and fisheries. Road, London..
Six Curtiss aeroplanes, which have been held for more than a year by the Customs in Manila have been paid for by a Chinese owner from Hongkong through the Admiral Line, thereby averting their sale for Customs storage charges. The future destination of the machines is uncertain.
Prince Yasuhito, Second son of the Emperor of Japan, who is shortly going to Europe, has decid- ed to become an Oxford under- graduate, says the "China Express."⚫ The Prince, speaks very little Eng dish, and has, therefore, made arrangements to spend at least two years with an English family be- fore going to the University.
One of the oldest foreign residents of Mankow-Mr. Nikita Mechanoff died recently in the
He was sth year, of his age.
the well-known tes partie in business, cirried on under the name
General Chen Yao-san, former Arrangements were made for Commander of the 4th Cheklang the new crew of the sloup "Peters Division, who went to Peking field," of which Commander some time ago "to be punished for L. A. W. Spooner is in command losing in battle to General Sun on the Chipa Station, to take Chuan-fang, Tupan of Chekiang" of Molchanoff, Pechatnoff and Co passage to Hongkong in the trans-has been pardoned by Marshal port Derbyshire," which sailed Tuan Chi-jual, who has promised from Southampton on January 9 him a better post. Chen has now The "Petersfield" is manned from wired to his family to proceed to Devonport. She was formerly Peking. stationed on the south-east coast of Americà until the withdrawal of the squadron from that station in 1921.
with head office in Hankow and branches at Kiuklung, Foochow, Colombo and Moscow. Since 1914 be has ontinuously resided" in Hankow. In his earlier years in Hankow Mr. Molchanoff took an active part in the affairs of the British Municipal Council, serving as conncillop during the year 1885, 1887. 1899, and 1589. During his
The wedding of Mr. S. E. Grimstone and Miss Frances Maguire, was celebrated in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, last The vacancy for a captain in the week, the Rev. A. S. Trivett earlier years, he was, a' keen racing East Surrey Regiment the 1st officiating. The bride wore enthusiast. He is survived by his Battalion of which is at Hongkong ja pretty dress of blue wife and daughter at present resid- and the 2nd Battalion in Jersey-charmelise, with a small hating in Europe and by his son now has just been filled by the proto match, and carried a shower Hankow. motion of Lieutenant Charles bouquet of pale pink carnations. Douglas Armstrong, M.C., of the Mrs. A. Brooke Smith, who at
The London
may
Daily Mail" 1st Battalion. Captain Armstrong tended the bride, wore saffron publishes a portrait of the youth-
Manchu began his career as a second crêpe de chine with black hat and ful
ex-Emperor in lieutenant of the East Surreys in carried a bouquet of pink roses. Western evening dress with the April, 1915, and was a good while Mr. G. H. Bowker performed the following statement: "Mr. Henry on the Western front with the duties of best man. A small recep-Pu-yl arrives in London Machine Gun Corps, winning the tion was held at the residence of very well be a newspaper an Military Cross by his gallantry in Mr. and Mrs. Brooke-Smith, and nouncement before another 12 the advance of 1917. The promo- later Mr. and Mrs Grimstone left months have passed. For Mr.A tion of Captain Armstrong makes for Mr. and Mrs. Brooke-Smith's Henry Pury, who was once the the sixth subaltern promoted in bungalow on Hungjao Road, before Emperor of China, would vastly the East Surreys in the past year leaving for Kuling on their honey. prefer visiting England and the rest
moon trip.
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Vice-Admiral H. W. Grant, C.B., Chen Tu shiu, leader of the who has just been promoted to that | Chinese (Communist Association rank on the retired list, was in and the only Chinese member of Hongkong does not intend to command of the "Hampshire" the Central Committee of the be burdened witha Russian (which was afterward sunk with Union of Soviet Republics, who refugee problem. Closer watch Lord Kitchener on board the 1915) has become notorious for his than ever is being kept for de when the late war bogan. After advocacy of Bolshevism la China, stitute Russians on incoming ships, wards he served-on-the-Chias inclucing the nationalisation of says a Shanghai Russian.daily. Station, and subsequently was As-properties and woman, is now la No wonder, when Canton Is sistant Director of Operations at Shanghai, says the Chinese Press, harbouring an army of Bolshevist the Admiralty He received the He is engaged in a scheme to propagandists as well as Red Order of the Rising Sun, Legion organise a powerful Bolshevist Government and military instruc of Honour, the CB, and the war organisation' He will shortly turs. The journal states that H. M. medals Vice Admiral Grant, after leave for Canton, where, it will be Consul in Canton is refusing his retirement iả 1919, became as romeinherad, some time ago he visas to Russians desiring to sociated with the Eastern Tole was imprisoned by Chan Kwing travel to Hongkong, while the graph Co., of which he has been ming, and subsequently released police in the Colony now deport managing director for some time, I by Dr Sim yaliend
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