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Suffering from opium poloning Bald to have been self administered a Chinose woman la now in a criti |cal condition at the hospital
At No. 8SA, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Messrs. Lammert Bros. will hold an auction of household furniture at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday next,
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His Excellency the Govarno will hold the annual inspection of the Hong Kong Police Force at the Central Station compound at 3 p.m., on Tuesday, Apri19.
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Mannequins and, chorus-girls are violently protasing because simpla villaga maidservant won the title of Germany's beauty queen, and will appear as "Miss Germany at an internationhl baauty contest. in America. The winner, who fr truly representative of the German Ideal of womanhood, being un shingled and with fair hair and blug eyes," is one of a family of alx orphens.
It is stated in Berlin that Sir Herbert Austin. chairman of the Austin Motor Company, has con- cluded an agreement with the Gotha Waggonfabrik Company, According to which the latter takes over the construction of Austin Seven" cars for sale in Germany and Eastern Europe. The Gotha products, which will be known as "Dixi" cars, will be made exclusively. of German material. and a fixed royalty will he paid to the British makers.
The motor vessel Alcantara," of 22,500 tons, the largest British motor liner, built by Mesta Mail Steam Packet Company, has Harland and Wolff for the Royal completed her trials in Belfast Lough and proceeded to South- ampton for the South American mail and passenger service.
A Marseilles lawyer be queathed £1,500 to an asylum. explaining in his will that he had earned the money from madmen who had passed their lives quib- bling and in litigation, and, there. fore, his legacy was by way of re- stitution. His heirs are contest- ing the will, declaring that the testator himself was insane,
The only case of notifiable disense reported on Thursday was that of a Chinese with small-pox, While, preparing to go to the from the Kowloon registration din-theatre a rich Neuchatel woman placed her jewels, valued at £300, on the dining room table. While she was out of the room a new and Inexperienced maid' swept them all up with the crumbs from the table and threw the let into the central heating stove. Only a few precious stones and a melted mass of metal London is to have its tax- were recovered.
plane rank. The wild dream has. come true. Arrangements are complete for a fleet of aeroplanes,; with pilota constantly in readiness to fly to the uttermost parts of the earth. These will be estab
shed on a "rank" at the Stage Lane Aerodrome, where the Lon ton Flying Club has its head- quarters. All that one needs is Another kind of taxi out to husa murmured address to the Edgeware or even a humble omni- pilot; say, "Chez nous, Acacia Road, Baghdad," and after a time one arrives. The rate is a mere 2s. a mile..so it will be cheaper to fly to Scotland than it "The North China Daily would be to go by motor-car. News" is informed that the What with television, the tele. Ancient Order of China Froth-phone services with New York blowers" has forwarded the fol- and taxiplanes, It seems that lowing telegram Home: To the mechanical progress has been Editor of the "Sporting Times," positively scorching during the "Considered opinion Chine Froth last months. blowers arrival British Forces) saved situation, presence vital When chief guest at a dinner importance, any surrender, forgiven by the Government at the eign rights Chinese will regard as Mansion House in honour of the weakness. Any weakness will British Industries Fair, the Prince Ancient order should be cognisant of facts."
When a small boy Hving in Lon- don named Henry Morgan, aged 14, arrived at his home on March 14 with his clothes dripping with dirty water and in a ruined condition, and when asked what he had been doing, replied that he had just rea- cuod a boy who was drowning in the Thames, his mother promptly gave him a sound smacking. on the grounds that this excuse was just another lie to avoid punishment. Mrs. Morgan however must have been agreeably surprised and not a Ittle conscience-stricken, when the Royal Humane Society awarded a medal to "that naughty boy who had in reality dived from Wande, worth Bridge in the nick of time to save a little comrade who was on the point of drowning.
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an eighty-year-old Museum, is believed to have solved the problem of the reconstruction of a mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Greece, built in 350 B.C. and one. of the weven wonders of the ancient
from Argentina, only the other day from a man whom 1 happen. ed to meet. He went into an up.. Country store, and heard a man Weary of war and of the un- ask for a tin of palet. "He was world which for centuries has ending friction among Konan shown a tin of English paint, but baffled the world's leading archaeo-generals, Marshal Wu Pel-fu has unfortunately, the directions for Hogists. The architectural, puzzle decided to return to the mea-use on the wrapper were only of reconstructing from fragmentary dows," a Chinese expression which written in English, and neither remains the building described by means "retire." The weary war- the storeman nor the purchaser Pliny had been given up by Sir lord will visit Loyang, once the could understand er translate the Charles Newton, its excavator, and scene of his triumph, and then instructions how to use it.
He others, until Pinker, after fifty proceed to Taiyuanfu, Shansi, was then shown a German tin, years of fumbling in the musdum's where he will take a long rest. and this German tin had direc vaults found the place which proved General Yen Hai-shan, Governortions for use written in Spanish to be the arch stone. The mason's of Shensi, has issued a wire of as well as in German. reconstruction model which is now welcome to Marshal Wu urging mention this simple case because I only on view at the museum, shows the him to come to Taiyuanfu as soon it le llustrative of how eally Halicarnassus mausoleum 'narrower, at the top than at the base and with
as possible. A military guard of trade can be lost in this tremen- a head which is
honour will be sont, by General dously competitive world that we knocked off. Pinker used a beer glass to work Yen to escort Marshal. Wu to the live in if things are not made as out the, curves and diagonals. capital.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Major Wearne, formerly Genera- liasimo for Reuter's Agency in Peking, has arrived in Sydney. He is now number one or Reuter's in Australia.
Mr. Andrew H. Carmichael of Messrs. Anderson Meyer & Co. was quietly, married to Miss Sheina W. Barelay of Shangnai last week at E. B. M. Consulate.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brown, and their two daughters left Shanghai by the "Tengtien" for Welhaiwel, Mr. Russell Brown is the Officer Administering the Government.
many years. ⠀⠀
Dr. T. Murray Robertson and Mrs. Murray Robertson, former well-known residents of Singa pore have purchased 4, Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh, and in future this will be their perman- The following deaths were anent address. Dr. Murray Robert- nounced at Home in mail week: son was Coroner in Singapore for Mr. Edward Edwards, of Penlan House, Quakers Yard, Merthyr Tydfil, a Glamorgan alderman and magistrate, found dead in A very pleasant function took bed, aged 82; Mr. Charles Hum- plaos at Shanghal when a deputa phries, a carver, whose work in-tion of the engineer officers of the cluded some of the panels in the China Navigation Company waited House of Commons, at Warwick, upon Mr. J. S. McGavin and pre- aged 91; and Mr. William Charles sented him with a handsome rose Westover, for many years Queen bowl on the occasion of his retire Alexandra's head coachman, at ment from China after the long period of 19 yeareras, superintendent South Wootton, West Norfolk.
engineer of the Company. A net of allver back hair brushes for Mrs. McGavin, whom the Officers wished to remember at this time, was alec handed to him..
Prince and Princesa Yi of the Korean Royal Family have left Tokyo on a tour of Europe which will take them about a year.
Colonel C. P. Haywood, D.S.O., who is on the staff of the Aldershot. Command, has been appointed to command the Coldstream Guards in Campbell, V.C., who has retired. Buccession to Colonel J.-V.
The wedding was solemnized in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shang- hai, of Miss Theresa Humphrey, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H Humphrey, of Grove Park, Lon- don, to Mr. E. H Adams, son of the late Mr. H. Adams and Mrs. Adams of Handley, Dorsetshire, The Rev. W. Robbins performed the ceremony assisted by the very. Rev. Dean Symons.
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Lady Clifford, the wife of the new Governor of the Straits Set- tlements, is better known to a very wide public as Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, whose charming books find a place on the shelves of every public library, and of many homes: Her best known novels are Deborah of Tod's," "Peter's Mother," "The Grey Knight," and "The Lonely Lady! of Grosvenor Square." Lady Clifford has also had marked suc cess in the theatre, where her dramatisation of Peter's. Mother" ran for a hundred and calved the honour of a Royal com- afty nights in London and re
A. very. human Incident occurred during the
visit which the Queen paid to the Nurses' Club, in Cavendish Square (says "Daily Chronicle" "Mt. G. Zay Wood, MA, a former writer). When signing her name student of Harvard and Columbia in a visitors book the Queen said Universities, has been appointed that she might not be able to do acting Commissioner of Foreign it well, because she had left her Affairs and Director of the Shang glasses at home. Since hearing hul Land Office Mr. Wood Is the which, a considerable number of author of a number of books and people have remarked that they pamphlets and he was at one time did not know that any member of editor of the "Peking Daily News the Royal family wore eye-Evening World He was also at and general manager of the "Poking glames. That is because Royalteched to several Faking Governmand for performance at Sand Hes endeavour not to wear mental departments:
ringham, Her elder daughter, by glasses in Duble but both the
her first husband is also a well- King and Queen use them some-
Among the Nationalist officials own novelist, Under the times at home, especially for who have arrived in Shanghai nom de plume of E. L. Delafield reading and wilting. I remem during the past two days are Mran obvious play on her malden
ber there was some consternationTV Soong, Minister of Finance not long ago when the King put on his glasses at a pablic gather ing the better to see what he was doing. Ar Ir most things the King and Queen are very con servative, an
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law, was for a number of years maraging director of the
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WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.
THE " OVERLAND CHINA MAIL"
LINK BETWEEN HOME AND HONG KONG. So many startling incidents have rapidly followed each other that even the Chinese themselves are at loss to cope with the trend of events.
Acknowledged as "the link with Hong Kong,." this week's issue should be sent to all friends abroad to let them under- stand what is happening all over China.
WATCHED BY THE EYES OF THE WORLD," Most difficult for foreigners to understand is the split in the Nationalist Party, a quarrel on which the eyes of the world are turned. The daily reports, backed up by notes in concise form will give the information that is sought.
People at Home a admit that they are nonplussed by the complications in the China situation. There is no more wel come gift for them than a copy of the "Overland."
EVERY PHASE GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED.
How foreign refugees are hastily leaving various parts of China how Japan has been embroiled in Hankow, how the Stars and Stripes were torn down at Chungking, how Brition rendents have undergone hardships-these are all graphically described.
Chiang Kai-shek's considered views, by hide with the Russian-inspired Communist
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