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The Colony's notifiable dis ensee during the 48 hours: onded September 20, consisted of one can
of enterie fever, Chinese, imported
In the, City of Victoria.
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Peking, "September 17.-Tlie The Chinese Post Office Savings, Governor of the Metropolitan Pre- Bank is a large investor in the facture hus, clrculated a despatch' Shanghai and Tientsin foreigh to all the Government organs in Manielpal Bonds and in variou Peking informing them of the other debentures of impertant for- establishment of an anti-Opium eign concerns. Its total Invest- Burena in compliance with the ments in these and Chinese Govern instructions received from Makden. ment Bonds, etc. amount to about
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Flat denial was voiced to-day at the clashes between the police and
Washingtoh. September 18-
Trieste, September 16.-Serious State Department in connection fabelsts were quelled, Inte to-night with persistent rumours that the only after the military had been United States Government Ja
angered because the police inter- called Into action." The fascists, fered with their anti-French de monstrations,. started riots in many sections of the city. There werd many broken honds but no losse of life..
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The Fushun Collieries" near negotiating with Governments of Mukden are unparalleled in the other Fewers with a view to tak world for thickness and volume" oing some form of joint action in | Seams, The Japanese found four China.
pita working in 1907, with a daily ousput of about 300 tons. The average daily output in 1925 was about 17,000 tons.
There is no denying the fact that the Native Banks throughout China are doing their utmost Lo
been working among the Women's
According to information from Vancouver, the old qucation, of ve jecting the Chinese students. In
A tracer bullet. the pubtle schools has again been Ing. a
produc- red streak 1,200 yazda | brought up for discutalon there behind it when Bred, has been The Anti-Chinese lectures have! devolobed by military author- tien at Washington se that prevent the establishment of a uni-Association throughout the pro machine-gunners may see the result vinae laying strong stress on the of their aim. The atrank is pro ferm standard currency for China. If they were beaten it would mean ressity of having separate schodieduced by a chemical solution in the that millions of people would lose,
for the Chinese children,
base of the bullet. the solution their menns of Hyelihood.
igniting as the projectile leaves the muzzle. The bullets are also«iT cendiary and will set fire to balloons and other inflammable objects, ...
Discussing the statement in "The Daily Mail" that the sex round the British const is the warmest for five years, 4:21 official of the Meteorological Department of the Air Ministry, said We have been getting these Warmer watera pro- bably as the result of some unusual change in the direction of a pro- longed tropical storm over the Athantle, possibly near the West Indiés. It is known that these effecte are not felt until some time, Fit, may be months, afterwarda, Bathers are likely to enjoy these warm waters at English resorts: for at least another month.
Montreal, August 4. Despite the fact that 2,000 buffaloes are being shipped to the Fort Smith district this summer, the growth of the national herd in Buffalo Park, Wainwright. Alberta. has been so rapid that the Government has been forced to seek other means of reducing the herd to proportions within the grazing capacity of the park. It has been decided to dis- pose of an additional 2,000 animals
"The folly of boycotting such conserng as OUTS should be, but apparently is not, patent to the meanest intelligence. The bulk of the shareholders are Chinese; we Trieste. September 13.-The employ thousands of Chinese violent attacks op France made by workers to whom we pay some the Indian press following..the at-1 $1,600,000 annually in wages; our tempt on the life of Mussolini mills consume large quantities of have so aroused the hysteria of cotton grown by Chineas farmers. the populace that hostile demon- transported in Chinese vessels and strations were made here to-day marketed by Chinese merchantsy before the French Consulat. Stones not to speak of our "Anished pro-were hurled at the windows and: ducts which give emplogment only the Intervention of police large numbers of Chinese before squads saved the French consul reaching the ultimate
und his sides from mob violence. Chatman of Ewe Mills.
Similar disgraceful exhibitions are reported from cities ja Piedmont.
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Montreal, August 4. Dr.
Chungking. September 11 Howard T. Barnes, Professor of
More than thirty thousand people: Physics at McGill University, with attended" a mass meeting to-day Mr William M. Barnes, his son, called to protest against the recent Demonstrator in Chemistry. Have action of the British gunboats at completed, the scientific results of Wanhaien in machine-gunning the the recent thermite expedition.elty and infleting more than two According to Dr. Barnes the blue thousand casualties veins in the ice are due to the cracks cvilian population. After speechey in the glaciers having filled up with
were made denouncing British pure melted ice-water and refrozen. imperialism, .the following re- The deep blue colour is caused by selutions were reached: A cir- the expulsion of air when the waterentur "telegram be issued to the has frozen and the lee is so pure whole country. calling upon the that it gives the true colour, people to take common action with Szechwanese and requesting the various troops at Wuhan to close the Upper Yangtae reaches to for- eign shipping. That the property; of British residents in Szechwan bel confiscated, the proceeds to be de- voted, to the compensation of the Flusses sustained by the Chinese-
a result of the Wanhsien incident.
on the hoof.. by tender, the under-which is due to the scattering of standing being that any animals so the light by the large ice molecules. purchased will be slaughtered und Dr. Barnes describes the iceberg as the meat and hides sold in the a balloon of ice, and results show public markets. The meat offered that from one-sixth to one-twelfth for sale from the slaughter 'con- of the volume of an iceberg is air, ducted by the Government in 1924 which makes it #ghter than or wás of such fine quality that it was dinary ice, thus allowing it to float disposed of quickly.
so far out of the water.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Berlin, September 15. The Egyptian Foreign Minister. Savath Pasha has left Alexandria for Rome and Paris enroute to London to negotiate an Anglo-Egyptian treaty according to a Cairo roport.
It has been unofficially announend that Commandante Franco, leader of the recent flight from Palos to Ryenos Aires in the Plus Ultra, in- tends to my round the world next Apri He will be accompanied by his wife and by the mechanic who flew with him to Argentina.
Dr. Wang Chang-hal, famia Melbourne, August 18-Mr. C. J. Chinese scholar, member of the In-De Garis, formerly noted, through ternational Court at the Hague out. Australia aa promoter of and Chinese delegate on the Extra-irrigation development, and later territoriality Commission. husb-jas ä financier, was found dead" hr clined the invitation of the Min Kuoa gas-filled room in a Melbourne University to become its president. suburb. A note left indicated suf- eide owing to financial embarrass-
Tokyo, September 14.-Viscountment. kiyoura, the former Premier of Japan, and party, will leave on a The bulk of the population of tour of China, the day after to-Chinese Turkestan," according to morrow. The party will travel by Stein's recent investigation, hare way of Korea, and visit important white-rosy skin, dark hair and dark pless in Manchuria and Mongolia yea. Eat there are interesting as well as in North and South variations. In the south-east, for China.
instance. fifteen per cent. of e eyes are blue and the hair is Home- times, wavy and sometimes curly.
It is reported in the Chinese
Manila, September 22-Colonel and Mrs. Thompson together with the newapaper correspondents will definitely leave Mattia on October press that Admiral Tu Hsi-kuci 4 on the "President Jackann," it was bas definitely slated to his col-
Every day during his visit learned yesterday. The party will leagues on the cabinet that he wil to Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, whore| stop at Shanghai for about two not retain office after the Mic he was the guest of the Duke of weeks, leaving the Ching port on Autumn Festival," He was dissuad-Devonshire for the shooting, the October 29 On the "Presidented from making his resignation King has had the speed of his McKinley for Yokohama. They public at once. After some dis-motor-car reduced as it passed the will stop off in Japan for another cussion with other members of the | rectory so that he could greet with week and will leave Yokohama fur cabinet it was decided that he would a smile and a wave of the hand Seattle on November 9.
hold off from any definite action the rector's Httle daughter, who until the arrival of Chang Teo-lin in was in bed near the window re- Peking, which is expected sometime covering from an illness."
The Table Mountain Aerial Cable- way Co., Ltd., has obtained a con- cession from the city, council for the construction of an aerial cable. way up Table Mountain. Construc
-than tion must begin not later October 1, and the scheme has to be completed within three years, The cableway will carry passengers up the vertical face of the mou tain overlooking the city, the fer- rinus being on the main western Luttress, 3,549ft. high. This will be the Arst mountain railway in Southe Africa. The operating company is. being formed in Capetown..
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Johannesburg, August 14.—Dr. Doko, of the Rand University, has returned from a trip to Lambaland, Northern Rhodesia, where be used [a dictaphone to register inflexions" of language. He states that he found sound foreign to
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| European language, the mission- aries using as a symbol the lettor | r, 1 or d'although the sound differe in each. He relates that in the tribal organisation inheritance comes from the mother, the father having no authority over the child- Frétt*. Upoň marriage the Eusband mukt reside in the bride's village and hence is always at the back and call of his mother-in-law, who is not slow to take advantage of the position.
this week.
Aimée Semple McPherson, evangel- lat; was photographed, just beford she entered the Los Angeles' grand jury. room to testify to her disappearance.
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Claremont, the residence Exhor, Surrey, of the late Sir William Corry, with the White Lodge and the adjoining park hus) been sold through Messrs. Kalght,; Frank, and Rutley, Hanover-square,| W., to the Charterhouse Investment Trust of London. Built by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1708, the mansion has had many famous occupants, includ-| ing Sir Robert Clive, conqueror of India, the Princess Charlotte (wife et Prince Leopold, afterwards King of the Belgians), and Louis. Fhilippe, the exiled King' of. France.
Madrid, September 15.-The ple blecite to determine whether Spar wishes to remain under the dicta torship of General Primo de Rivera has resulted in an overwhelming victory for the dictator. Hla majority reached 4,000,000 votes. This means that the military party has utterly falled in its efforts to dopose the dictator. The most in- portant International result of the plebiscite will be that Spain will stand firm in her determination to possess Tangiers. De Rivera 'has, from the first, insisted that the Lerritory is rightfully Spain's and This vote of confidence manns that the entire nation is behind him.'
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