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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
A dinner dance will be given at the Lane Crawford Restaurant next Saturday, with the Lyric Orchestra in attendance.
Manila. October. 18-The emiss trolling interest in the "Manila Times," the oldest American peper in the Far East, formerly owned by Mr. George H. Fairchild" has been sold to Mr. Jacob Rosenthal,
Berlin. October 11-Six thon- Sund recruita of the second Rumanian army corps disobeyed or They were immediately ur ciers. rested and will be tried by court martial, cording to French press
reports.
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Members of the Helena May
14.-The Madrid, October Institute are reminded that the diplomacy of Alcestu da Leon, booking for the Musicht closes on Spanish envoy to Paris; hu Wednesday, October 27, An ex-tumphed and France has pledged cellent programme will be given, hur aid to Spain the "plan n
obtain solo control of Tangter. At|
The directors of the Hong Kong the anal interview batween Briand Telophone Co. Ltd, announce that and de Leon assurance was given the registered ofcom of the Com-Spain's ambassador that the nego pany have been removed to the Ex-tiations for a favourable settlement change Building (4th. floor), 18. Des will go on without any calling Voeux Road Central, as from to-day. a special convention
During the 48 hours ended Over 400 officers were presunt yesterday, the only case of roti-at the annual council meeting of the table disease reported to the Boys Brigade held at Brighton. Medical Officer of Health
church parade. that of a dog with rabies, from while." In addition to A number the Kowloon registration districtstration and tattoo in the Royal conferences. great demon-
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ParisThe railway coach in Pavilion were given by the Berlin, October 11-The Con-which the Armistice was signed. boys of London and Brighton com- gress of the Organisation of Pru and which has been preserved panies. The annual report showa Estany Judges Held at Cassel resolve among the war" relica at the that the total strength of all ranks that the Weimar constitution. of Invalides; is shortly to be sent is now over 70,000, while the Boy the Reich must be regarded as the back Réthondes. near Com Reserves, the branch for lace under Lasis of the Inwcode and loyalty pagne, and to be placed on the 12, how cludes over 18,000 boys, the constitution as the guarantee actual spot on which it stood when There are Afty-two more companies
or the welfare of the fatherlands. Marshal Foch received; the German thun at this time last year.
cmissaries. This spot is alrondy marked by a monument standing in
grove, which has been nama might "The Armistice Clearing.".
There was again # good crowd present at the Cafe Pariaten 011 Saturday
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Berlin. October 11—As the re- sult of the recent incidents between mcmbers of the French Army on the occasion of the grand
Occupation in the Rhineland and carnival dinner dansent, a special Peking, October 16-Since the German civilians, General (Guil attraction being the dancing ex-establishment of the so-called Anti-lumat. Commander-in-Chief of the hibitions by Mr. and Mrs, YoungOpium Burena in Peking it has been French, troops in the occupied area. Yourlo, who created a very favour rumoured that it is an initial step is planning to issue new regula able impression.
towards the revival of the mono- kous allowing the French soldiers poly system and much dissatisfae-in the Rhineland to leave their bur. Old memories and convivialtion has beam expressed The Anti-racks only in groups and forbid gatherings of 1925 and earlier in Narcotic Association submitted a ding them to enter the outlyi the Hong Kong Hotel were recalled petition to Dr. Wellington Koo, the districts of the cities. At the ame Fon Saturday night
the time the number of guards will be on the Premier, yesterday urging occasion of the
abolition, of this Bureau, which isÏ'increased and arrangements, bel reopening
be- of the Roof Garden and considered as an opium monopoly nude for closer, co-operation
by the publier copies of this peti- tween the French and German bat room. The attendance was ex-
police. Scellent and a very pleasant evening bion were wired to the provinces.
was upent, thanks to the excellent menu, the fine floor, and the autrac tive music.
The three Parsee world cyclists at present in Hong Kong were entertained at the Parsee Paring, October 14-In Stras
Club, Duddell Street on Saturday 1-dig M. Poineure, renniving afternoon when their health was Alsatian. Parliamentarians formally proposed by Mr. D. K. Kharas, denied the rumours according to the President of the Club, who which the French Government in presented them with a purse con- tends to abandon or retrocede the taining several hundred dollars Star region before the term which had been subscribed by pines, The "Excelsior writes that members of the Parsce com by reason of the policy of a munity. Severak-pictures of places Franco-German rapprochement, di-of historical interest passed in the minution of military effectives in the Rhineland would be considered, but, owing to recent accidents al Germersheim, all garrisons in the Palatinate would be maintained.
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course of their tour were thrown on the screen. Yesterday, the cyclists were entertained by the Sikh community at the Sikh Temple. Happy Valley
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Cape Town.-Lady (Lionel Phillips, who has just returned. from Europe, contributes to the "Argua" her impressions of Eng- end after four years of absence, The sus thing is, she says, that it is, the old men who are doing the work. The generation who should be to the fore seem to have lost through the war the precious power they had in them. The young men are a disappointment. Dances and night clubs, and the cocktail habit, are not the school in which men are made. There is a tendency everywhere in England to talk too much and to do too little. Actions: are slow.
PERSONAL NEWS.
The Rev. Edwin Arthur Cook,. "Hia many friends will be pleas-" who has het important missionary fed to learn that Mr. Howard Buck. prets in China, hay been nominated neil, American Consul and Mixed by the Archbishop of Canterbury toed Court Assessor, returned to the Rectory of St. James's, Dover.
Shanghai last week from a holi- day in America. Mrs. Bucknell and their son will return next month..
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Shanghai, October 19. The „death is recorded of Gwenllian
Myfanwe, wife of Mr. J.. A.! Cheeseman, following the birth of a daughter. The deceased lady arrived in Shanghai but a year ago and had endeared herself to a Much large circle of friends. sympathy is extended to the bereaved husband and relations at
home.
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Mr. T. Rogers, lately with the Hong Kong Realty Company, left by the "Haruna Maru" on Satur- day, to take up an appointment Princess Hermione, the wife of Wilhelm. told an with Messrs. Perry and Company ex-Kaiser of Singapore.
American Press agent that the clause in the Hohenzollern Com-
Berlin. October 12.-A dispatch promise allowing for the ex-from Paris says that an attempt Berlin, October 11-King Gustav Kaiser to reside in Homburg to assassinate French Premier of Sweden has arrived at Baden-Castle had no practical signi- Poincare has been nipped in the Baden, the famous health resort inficance as the ex-Kaiser was not bud by the Paris police southern Germany, to join Queer planning to return to Germany,
The Victoria who is recuperating, there,
would-be assassin who is a. Span- The. Queen was formerly a princess.
ish subject, has been arrested. The motive is unknown but is be- of Baden,
lieved to be connected with the recent arrest and imprisonment in France of a number of Spanish anarchists. Details have not yet heen published,
was.
General Chu Y-pu, Tupan of Chihly has telegraphed to the Government, declining the title of Under the will of the late Mr.fuil general which was conferred James: Pringle, chartered account- on him on October 10, the Na ant, Drumsheugh-gardens, Edin- tional Day, In recognition of his burgh, $76,000 will.be disbursed services to the anti-Kuominchun among religious and charitable in campaign. General Chu says that stitutions after the death of his he is unworthy of the honour and Mr. T. R. Gardiner, who wife.
attributes the success of the cam- edugated in the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Among the passengers who left paign to other military leaders.
Edinburgh, has been appointed Hong Kong on the Dollar liner
Sir Duncan Alexander Dundas Controller of the London Postal 5.8. "President Lincoln" on Satur- Campbell, Baronet, of 16 Ridgway Service, in succession to Sir Charlos day afternoon ware-Mr. J. V. A. Place, Wimbledon, Surray, and Sanderson. Passing the higher MacMurray, United States Minis-Parcaldine and Glenure, Argyll-division examination for the Civil ter, at Peking, and Mrs. Mac-shire, Bocretary of the Most An- Service, Mr. Gardiner entered the Marray, Miss M. E. Greensmith, clent and Most Noble Order of the Port Office as an assistant surveyor. Mr. H. L. de Figueiredo, Mr. T.A.Thistle, hae bequeathed to the After some years in that position 'Hines and Mrs. E. Danenberg. Lyon King of Arms of Scotland, a he was called to London, bogame, collection of genealogical records private secretary to Sir Evelyn relating to the Campbell family, to Murray, secretary to the Post Office, be depositad "in the Lyon Office, and afterwarde. Assistant Control- Edinburgh, for preservation antier of the London Postal Service) public use.
and then Vice-Controller. Mr. Gardiner to 48 years of age, and e notable fact about his appoint- nient is that he is the youngest man ever promoted to the important position of Controller of the Loir- don Postal Service.
General Sir Archibald Hunter, who was 70 last month, has added greatly to the laurels of a military Scottish family. His mother and grandmother were Grahams of Glenny, and both daughters and wives of soldiers. Four of Sir Paris, October 18.-Admiral Archibald's" uncles were in the ser. Yamamoto, who accompanied Japa vice, and one of them, Nicol nese Marines in Paris, declared Grahams, who went through the to his interviewer that he is Crimean War and fell in the Indian fervent admirer of the moral value, Mutiny,
was praised by Lord education and glory of the French Wolseley au the bravest of the Milltary forces. All Japanese Berlin, October 13 The Fiesta brave."
visitors feel, since their arrival in de la Raza was celebrated in France, an atmosphere of tran Berlin by the South American colony there. The former Minis- tar to Argentine Von der Bussche Baddenhausen, spoke on the ties binding Spaniah and German Civilisations. Representatives of the German Foreign Office, and the Argenting and Uruguayan Ministers also spoke. At a simi lar celebration in Hamburg a bust
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some half-dozen Liberal Major Isidore Salmon, M.P., (though by no means Lloyd C.B.E., D.L, and Mrs. Isidore Georgian) newspapers, in the Eng Salmon, arrive in Tiantain from lish provinces. Not many would, Shanghai on the 12th inst, and
of late years, have ventured to pay stayed at the Astor House Hotel, of Bolivar was presented to the with any confidence that Lord Tientsin, until the 18th, when city by representatives of Vene- Rosebery was still a Liberal; and they proceeded to Pelding by rail, zuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and as to Lord Dalmeny It had boon Nothing is known of the reason Columbi
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