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. It is estimated, that the slow, | moving" truffle of London is causing
albes of over $70,000,000 a you
Two juzywomen were fined Bs. each at Marylebone Cotmnty Court for returning late from lunch...
Four women: แป London. The London County Council ia Seselons adlected the youngest enquiring into the suggestion for barrister in court for dock briefs, the binblishment of a municipal
orchestra.
"A noble eulling." said the Judge at Clerkenwall County Court when a witnice vaa said to be a street sweeper.
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Professor E. Guyengt, of the University of Geneva, has succeed- ed in restoring-or creating-sight. In the lowest forma of unimals by Britain is the only country ingruiting new eyes. His succose is which the majority of these who the sequel to years of experiments work on the land en get no land to work themselves.
Four sing screw motor-shipac Lunch 355 feet long, are being buit Is
at Dumbarton for a Liverpool fem
"believe this is a miscarriage of injustice remarked a prikaner when found guilty t London Sessions,
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Cyril Wohn Saunders, aged nineteen, a carter of Beech-road, Luton was summoned for falling A male white elephant is to attend the Territorials anfcal being shipped, from Rangoon to raining. He refused to be aworn: London shartly as a presentation and said he absenta himself be to the London Zoo. The term cause he started reading the Bibles "white" as applied to an elephant and came to the conclusion that is rather misleading. One of it was against the Bible to have these animals was exhibited at the anything to do with amaments, Zoo many years ago. 30
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of a dirty light, grey colour, withi pinkish patches on the head and shoulders.
The Mansfeld Bouse Settle- ¡ment, Canning Town "has an ex- thusiastic company, of amateur. (actors and actresses. They recent- produced Johna Drinkwater's "Oliver Cromwel the being taken by Air, Ministry off- Feials. school teachers, and deck labouters. 4 Aubourir, who took the part of Hampdeg, eft the stage in time to start dock work at 9 pm.
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New Yurk has again fallen victim to the, mandhon" dance" craze. Jurken in w Broadway idance bal recently halted the
three remainkag contestants in [Charleston, endurance contesti after they were on the floor 22% hepre Three. orchestras were exhausted and: 3.000 phonoganph needles used jup The judges gave the first prize to John Giori, second to Chappy Kay and third to Henry Purcell Miss Minnie Balton, the strongest woman" contestant, topped out after seven hours and 46 minutes.
By the provision of a fleet of vessels for Ingie another Win adidion will be made to the world's diminutive navies. Though the phrase "the Swiss Navy is often used in a joking way. such Jan organisation actually exists, and is composed of a number of motor boats, which search for smugglers en the lakes of this happy hunt ing and for tourists. Then there is the Servian Navy, consisting of smalcraft which travel up and down the Danube, guarding the frontier, white, Monaco also pos- sesses some "fast motor-bonts.
NORBERT PETERSON.
Nurbet Peterson, a former prison pay of Geraki Chapman, Was arrested in New York, and charged: with robbing e post office. He was surprised in a restaurant and Fought fariously until overpowered!
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The Heston (Middlesex) post office in a grocer's shop, part of- which is said to be 900 years old, being pulled down to provide à site for modern buildings. The The postmaster, Mr. E. Paines and his parents before him have been in charge, for wearly 100 years,
The "Aquitania" arrived at New York recently with the letter "Q"missing" from her name [description on the port side, the "Q having been washed away by a hugelgrave which auddenly roke' up from an otherwise moderuicly cum sen and dashed against the ship 60 feet above the water-line, amashing the grent cargo-boom into three pieces.
Mr. Ej Davies is to ask tha: President of the Board of Trade whether bis attention has been drawn to the fact that publie Hmited companies
are et presenz in a position to issue balance sheets containing very itle in- formation which is of value to their shareholdeers in ascertaining the real position of the company and the consequent value of the spares held by theni..
King George, who is fond of listening to the radio at oddi moments, and Queen Mary, whos dben erosa-word puzzles now and them have a new amusement, if they cure for It, in watching London's newest system of "merry. go-round which has been intro- duced around the Queen Victoria Memorial directly in front of Buckingham Palace, to help solve Efforts are being made by the London's traffic problem. Under drapery trade to stop what is eor the new scheme, a vehicular sidered to be the unfair compet-traffic approaching the memorial, tion of church bazuars. A3. w must proceed around it in a clock- meeting of the executive of the wise direction until arriving Drapers Chamber" of Trade in the point of exit. London it was announced that policemen have been on
Half a dozen negotiations are being carried on help drivers get accustomed to the daty to with the National Free Church rules, which create a whirling Council and the Church of England picture of an endless line of motor with a view to persuading the cars all day long and most of the churches to refram from holding night. The traffic experts, by the: bazuars. Many members of the "merry-go-round." hope to elimin-. Chamber, it was stated, lone their ate traffic crossings altogether at. trude because of church Bashers, this important and aristocratic especially in the smalter districts. 'centre.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The Civil Service Cricket Club) Miss Sybil Thorndike has re- annual dinner is to held at vived Bernard Shaw's "Saint Volunteer Headquarters at eight Joan" at the Lyceum Theatre, olelock to-night.
London.
London.. March 28-Aided by Queen Mary, the young, Duchess of York is making fing preparations for the birth early in May of her first chikl
One of Stella Benson's delight- ful articles appears in the last number to hand, of the Nation and Athanæum.
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"I think it is ridiculous' that a Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. Frank J. girl should be able to marry Griffin arrived in Hongkong from the age of 12 when as a woman Manila by the "President Jackson?" she cannot vote until she is 30" yesterday. They are taking a two said Mr. F. W. Pethiek-Lawrence moncha vacation" in China and to a Press representative. Papan
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Sir Arthur K. Yapp. General A remarkable wreath, repre- Secretary of the National Council ¤¤¤¤¤************* tesm in play, was carried at the rive in Kobe May 9. Sir Arthur senting a football field with the of the British Y.M.C.A., will ar funeral of Mr. John Murfet, the is on a world tour to inspect popular inside-right of the Town Y.M.C.A. work in different coun- land Comrades football team, tries of the world:
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Liedis. S. T. Liu, and Y. H. Yeh and Lieut.-Commr. T. P. Liu have been elected to membership of the Royah Geographical Society.
General Lo has arrived in Eng- and from China for the purpoke of study financial matters. accompanied by Mr.. Lu,. magistrate.
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Leading Articles "
ceived in audience by the King at School Prizes
Over the Sticks... Mr. Sydney Waterlow was ro-Merchants. Move Buckingham Palace on and kissed his appoint Missed Hongkong
March 5, No Country! ment as His Majesty's Envoy Ex-Pirates Again traordinary and Minister Plenipo-Sanitary Lawe... tentiary at Bangkok.
¡Marine Court Thief Caught
Captain Cranmer-Byng, who has Peak School successfully produced his new play A Midnight Walk "Selma at Birmingham, has for Half Ton of Opium years edited the delightful series of Boiling 'Opium
The Wisdom of the East." He Bankruptcy writea poetry and philosophy
and translates Chinese A Pet'e Mischief
Bomb Plot... Mr. Sun Fo Accidents
The feminine cult of short Two pieces of statuary by hair: seems to be having the effect Rodin, one of them called "The of making some men try "to go Embrace" and the other "Grief," one better," for the latest mascu- have just been sent to the United line hair cut is shorter than the. States by Donald Hise of Salem, shortest Eton crop-at the back. 0. Mr. Hise bought them from Several young men have recently Mlle. Madeleine Jouvruy, who for appeared with, this two-piece hair sixteen years was a pupil of cut, the front being left. normal,sented by the Secretary of State for Rodin. Mlle. Jouvray is now while the back hair from the top Foreign Affairs. sixty-seven years old and in of the head to the nape of the poverty. She had kept the statues neck in almost "prison cropped." wrapped in sucks. for twenty-five
Among those presented to the King at the levee at St. James's Harbour Offences Palace on March 2, was Mr. Herbert Alleged Fraud Bluett, on appointment as H.M: Volunteer Orders .. Consul at Batavia.
He was pre- Without Passport
Inspector Bitten
years.
Abused Els Trust Property Sales: Valedictory. The following appointments have Demanding Money been made by the Secretary of General Chang "Of all the dull and dreary State for the Colonies:-Mieses Shataukok Raid places, the suburbs are some- M. M. Hadley, K. E Berry, K. M. Appeal Fails With Gobi Desert again as his times the worst," said the Bishop Young and E. J. Nye as European Motor Mishap objective. Dr. Roy Chapman of Chelmsford in a lunch hour Women Teachers in Malaya: Lieut. Shipping Changes Andrews has left for Peking, address at the Church of St, P. F Howitt, MA, 18 European "By Post bearing the assurance of "the Edmund, Lombard Street. "Think Master in Malaya: Lieut. D. Religious Werk Mongolian Government that he of the people who are compelled Archibald, M.B, Ch.B., MC, as Active Market and his party of scientists will to live in the suburbs the whole Medical Officer in Malaya; Mr. E Engineers be welcome. Before leaving Dr. day," continued the Bishop. C. S. Sichel as Assistant Superin-Won't Marry Andrews made public a cable. "Think of the dreariness, the tendent of Customs In the Malay Bank Robbers gram from Mongolian, officials, teraptation, the strife. If you States; Surg. Prob. T. C. Wakofeld, Easter.. which denied the report circulated preach a moral idea to them and, M.B., ChB, BAO, a. Medical Races in the Rain from Moscow last fall that the speak of the glory of comrade Officer in the Malay States Miss Marines Desert Andrews party had then been ex-ship, they will sometimes tell you G. P. Fenn, as a Nursing Sister in Jungle Beasta pelled from Mongolia. The cable- it leaves them cold. The tremend the Straits Settlements; and Capt A Cursing Mob gram was signed by President ous need of the suburbs is for a J. A. W. Eddan, L.MSS.A., MB. Turfing Talk Scientific Committee Jamyan and dynamic, to put these ideas into etc. as Medical Officer in the Car Thieves? Perpetual Secretary Jantaaraw.
action."
Straits Settlements...
CONTENTS.
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Pag
1
Obituary
1
Traffic Vagaries".
Alleged Assault
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Dog Bites.
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Lady Insulted
18
6
Peace Talk
18
G.
Ching Ming
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Interport Soccer
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Honda Appears.
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For Charity.
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With the Hunt
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7
School Sports"
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7
More Surprises
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Holiday Cricket
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Lawn Tennis
Cricket Notes
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Football
22
9
Rifle Match
9
Rugger Match
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Hockey Visit
Cue Expert Soccer in Rain Soccer Dinner
Kowloon Scouts
A Market Scene Warship's Chase Daring Piracy.
Babies Danger
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Test Trip
.11
A Fickle Woman
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Unclean Closets!
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Rifle Meeting
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Junk Ashore'
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Yacht Capaized.
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A Valley Flat
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Seeking Hire
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"Wild Stories".
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In the Dark". Weddings
All's Well" Robberiea
Treble Victory
14-15 Passengers
Lady Robbed A Family Affair Capt. FH-Wallace Ship Binze
16 Mischief?
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