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At the International Eucharistic Congress which will take place in Chengo in June next, there will be a Portuguese aection (says the "Religiao Patria") comprising Portugal and Brazil, and His Grace the Arch- bishop of Bruga, D. Manuel Vieira Ide Matos, has been invited to assume the presidency of this section.
In an effort to relieve traile Leongestion in Havana as much as possible plans are being worked out by the Truffle Commission to prohibit horse-drawn vehicles from circulating in the city limits. Exceptions will be made with vehicles that can be drawn by horner and with horse-draws vehicles entering Havana from the nearby towns and rural sections.
THE CHINA MAIL.
AND
GENERAL.
Indian girls, having adopted | The British battleship "Rod-
ΠΕ juat launched Liver- bobbed hair, now have taken. apney," domestic selence. A department fpcol. is the Inst to be built by of culinary instruction has been Great Britain ander the provisions established in the Government of the Washington treaties. As Indian school with seven classes. the First Lord of the Admiralty
The foreign trade of Kobe for the first ten days of the current month amounted to Y27,324,000, of which Y12,108,000” representer ex- | ports and Y15,216,000 imports, the JONEESA on the side of the latter being Y3,108,000,
remarked on the occasion, she bec longs to the "cherry tree class"-- the 'class that was ept down by Washington.
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The Soviet Givernment has increased the price of vodka 50 per cent. bringing it to about dollar & quart, 18: ! Partia The development of Russian measure against drunkenness and export of such dairy products as with a view to Increasing the state butter and eggs demands an revenue. The Moscow Soviet has extension of the country's cold also adopted a mensure against ex- storage facilities. Mr. Krassin,cessive drinking, directing the Commissar for Foreign Trade Police to report af cases and Ambassador to France, re-ests for intoxication to the trade- cently declared that because of the unions of which the delinquents lack of these facilities it
hase members. Berlin's first skyscraper, to be been sometimes found. necessary twelve storeys high. is now being to export dairy produce at times buit in the Charlottenburg dis-when there is no real demand for trict. A buildings erected in the them on the foreign markets. Bratted to Bve storeys in height situation. coli-storage plants are city before the war, were legally with a view to eliminating this and the now edlice will doom con-being constructed in. Leningrad, spicuously aboye the general sky Odessa and other centres.. line of the capital Curiously enough, Berlin's first sky-scraper
Over-zulousness led to the is not being "built for some busi
Pontypool colliery ness ci Industrial purpose, but as death of a
At the the centre of booklovers all overtler named Gwatkin.
inquest evidence was given that Germany.
although it was not his work,
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A plan for producing cheat- a as a practical solution for the food problems of Japan has been
partment of Agriculture. "I got prepared by Kul Iriya, head of the Forest Affairs Section of the De- the hint for my plan," he says,
"when went to Germany several years ago to study food problems: found the Germans using pota- toes extensively as food, due to Government propaganda and en- couragement of potato cultivation."
At the request of the Govern he removed a pitprop that had
Use, of whisky, brandy, rum rient, the Scottish National Hous-to be taken away and a fed of or gin after February 1, in the "Never happy manufacture of medicinal pre- ing Company agreed, at a meeting roof buried him. at Edinburgh to undertake the unless working," was a descrip-parations, or flavoring extracts provlition
2000 alternative ions applied po Gwatkin by one and syrups in America, is forbid- houses
Scotland
witness.. Arrange-
He had worked at theden by a treasury order. Alkohol ments were made for proceeding coblery for 15 years without tal-and whes can be used instead for at once with the necessary preing a holiday or loding a single the purposes named. The order liminary work. The company was day's work. The coroner said he was fasued by Assistant Secretary formed 10 years ago to act as had never heard of a finer record. | Andrews, in charge of prohibition agent for the Admiralty in pro. It seemed to him it was always the enforcement will have no viding houses at Rosyth, Sir best workmen who met with falal | effect on the use of whisky, brandy, John Finfar. the Chairman, accidents.
or other distilled spirits by drugs said the intention of entrust
gists in fling prescriptions or ting this work to the company was Manual workers seem to be manufacturing preparations upon Ito compensate them for loss due the chief victims of the drinkprescriptions by physicians.
to the elnaing of the dockyard hhbit which has developed since!
the introduction of vodka in Rus-
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A musican's name is worth 4 The American Embassy atsia early in October. Court Statis-more than that of a literary man Takyo is finding the quarters at the ties show that 60.5 per cent, of the if the valuation put upon Imperial Hotel too small and persons arrested for drunkenness leading Germans" names move to the new building at the in the streets of Moscow are fac-cigarette factory is criterion. The Oriental Development Company, tory workers. Twenty per cent. tobacco company recently put out this winter is contemplated Mr. are employers; 14 per cent. un-three new brands of cigarettes. sells for 8 Edwin Nevilly, Charge d'Affaires employed; and 5 per cent. are "Max" Liebermann
12 before the arrival of Ambassador, listed as persons without definite pfennigs. or about 2 cents MucVeagh, after inspecting the profession. Many workers are package, "Richard Strauss" for 7 (building recently completed near
reported to have negured the pfennigs, while "Gerhart Hupt- the hotel. recommended to the habit of drinking during the lunch mann must be content to go at State Department in Washington hour and sometimes even during pfenniga. Since consumption, that a suite of rooms be take their work. In an effort to however, is in inverse ratio to there until the new American counteract the spread of alcohol- price, in a poor country, like Ger- Embassy building is erected on the ism, the factories are instituting many, "Gerhart Hauptmann" is old Embassy grounds in lectures, anti-alcohol leagues and more popular than his artistic and Reinenzako.
public trials of drunkardis.
musical colleagues.
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Capt. Ritchie, of the 8.S. After an appeal for cast-off The death is announced of Mral
JAN FASIONAL RENNELS IN BEUR OL "Fatshan," Capt. Scott, of the clothing had been made ut the Charles Edward Duent Pennyculek, "Kwong Lee," and Capt. W. W. annual meeting of the Theatrical widow of the former Postmaster- Director of Tele- Sing," left on home leave on produced a large bundle which grapha, Ceylon. Saturday.
contained a dress suit of her husband's (Mr. Seymour Hicky) in a pocket of which was a 10 note for the guild funds.
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. Hipkin of the s.. "Cheong Ladies' Guild, Mier Bilalina Turriss Gesteral and
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A large consignment of Cailler's Chocolates and California Fruits just received for the Festive Season.
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Among the passengers who left on the P. & O. s. "Khyber" are Dr. and Mrs. J. Fenton. Dr. Fenton has been attached to the! Hongkong University staff as,a tutor in English. Dr. and Mrs. Fenton, have booked for Colombo, but contemplate proceeding to South Africa.
The resignation is announced of Dr. Runji Mano, President of the Kiushu Imperial University, in Fukuoka. Prof. Nishikawa, of the Engineering Department of the University, and Dr. Takayama, head of the Medical Department of the University, are prominently mentioned for the vacant post.
At the last meeting of the Kolë Women's Club, Mrs. Elias van Castricum was elected secretary, to succeed Miss Grace McGregor who has just left the port, 'and' Mrs. T. B. Canamoe and Mrs. Futehally were coopted to serve on the board of directors. An excellent músical programme was rendered by Miss. Susan Fraser, Miss Pauline Thieck and Miss Stuart King At the next meet- ing, Mra. O. F. Mocock will read a paper on "The Influence of Women in British Politica.".
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The suit of Ana Murjack, of sings, fame, sgart, her husband for the "réturn of £30,000; var háited in New York, when she gave back to her the property for which she sued. Now there fo talk of a reconciliation.
It is understood that the Right Hon. E. F. L. Wood the new Viceroy of India will take the title of Baron Irwin of Kirby-Under- Dele in the County of York.
Mr. A. F. Peate, who has for some time been the genial manager of the Sea View Hotel, has now been transferred to the manage- whilst ment of the Raffles Hotel; Mr. F. Deason, who was Secretary to the Singapora Cricket Club for many years, has taken over the management of. Sea, View, No doubt the efforts of these two well- know and popular residents of Singapore will be fully appreciated by the many patrone of both hotela.
Commander P. D. R. West, R.N., who has accepted the post of honorary secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's station at Hastings, rescued Lord Jellicoe from drowning 35 years ago. While the Fleet was engaged in mancouvres in the Mediter- ranean there was a collision be tween the Victoria and, the Cam- perdown, and Commander Jellicoe 48 he then was, was seen in the water in a very exhausted state. Naval Cadet West swam to his help, and supported him until they were picked up by a boat from H.M.S.. "Nite."
Prince Christian of Hease dined with King George and Queen Mary recently, thus giving: the answer. to the question, which has been raised" often since the war on who would be the first individual of German origin to be entertained
Buckingham Palate after the
Harold Scott, at one of the forth- coming Sunday performances at the Siala Theatre, London, is going to produce a play about a man who buys the Eiffel Tower as a residence, in order to provide his bored wife with a new pari ence Life on high in the air proves to be somewhat hectic, and the play provides some amusing Statistics Just issued by the close of hostilities, Prince situations. This play has been London County Council show that Christian came to London to written by one Robert Allen, a 11,998 husbands are mioning in attend the funeral of Queen young man who lives in Blooms | London,⠀⠀ "These official Lures Mother Alexandra," "Aunt Alex" bury, and who is regarded as show that there are 877298 he called her. Early in the war being a dramatist who will be a married
usive of be attracted public notice by writ big Dolac in the theatre world wid
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