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In spite of the Influx of The Hong Kong order, pro- people in Shanghai, it is inter-pelaiming Vladivostok a place where esting to note that 73 houses and an infectious disease prevalled has rooms, are advertised to let, and been rescinded. Bangkok has now
been declared: four houses for sale.
A place where th Infectious disease prevails.
"Dob your hair: it is the badge of Treedom." This is the exhorta-
tion made by female agitaters and speakers to the women in various towns and cities in Chekiang which have recently been included in the Cantonese sphere of conquest.
Four cases of notifiable dis- jease, all' Chinese in the city regia- trution district, occurred in the Colony · on Friday. Two of the cases are of amali-pox and the other
two of enteric fever (typhoid).
Four desperadoes, believed to be Communists, rushed into the police headquarters, Sofia, and carried off £15,000 under cover of a bomb explosion which killed the chief of the political police.
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The sala of No. 9 Man Chung Fong Terrace. Happy Valley, and
Gen. Hsu Han-slen has been No. 15 Warren Street, Tal Hang. which was to have taken place in appointed by Gen. Chiang Kai- two lots at Mesars. Lammert Bros.shek to the post of commander of auction rooms, yesterday afternoon, the anti-smuggling forces in was postponed..
Shanghai. This position was fermerly occupied by Gen. Ho The Shanghai Municipal Coun-Chia-iu, who was killed in battle cil desires to thank all residents for at Changyen. the loyal manner in which they have complied with the Council's regulation that they should remain within their houses between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 am. The ready compliance rendered by re Two British mines, one still insidents has greatly facilitated the working order, were washed ashore tusk of the Defence Forces in pro- nt Brooke Isle of Wight. They tecting the Settlement. bore the date 1915. The live mine was rendered harmless by experts Army Padres, will preach at from the mining school at Ports-Union Church (Kennedy Road), to- mouth; and both are to be examined morrow when the collections will by the mivat authorities,
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the 'St. David's Day banquet at the In a company of about 700 at Connaught Rooms, Cheat Queen- street, W.C., there were 89 mombers of the Jones family, 70 people call ed Davies, and 68 named Evans. The Thomases came next with 36, followed 31. Williamses.
be on behalf of the Borderers' Association. The Rav, E. P. W.
to the Forces will be in the pulpit Alexander (Presbyterian Chaplain
at the merning service and the Rev. G. Douglas Sempill (Chaplain to the bat/Cameronians) at the oven- ing service."
According to a Hankow raport, the Ministry of Justice in Hankow
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According to Information, from Head- the Nationalist Military quarters, the 1st Battalion of the Nationaliata was sent from Soo- chow to surround the four thou sand leaderless soldiers of Gen. Pih Shu-cheng at Quinaan, Those delivered their arms without any resistance.
Teheran and Baku by way of the A weekly uir service betweon
Persian port of Enteli, on the
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by the German Junker aviation con- Caspian Sea. will begin early this It will be inaugurated
cern, whose concession has just beon approved by the Soviet thorities. The Journey is now, undertaken by boat and caravan, and a grunt saving of time will be effeated by the air route.
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A sehntific sensation is probhas decided not to recognise the At a very busy London cross- Inble shortly when, Dr. "Pilgrim of lawyers' certificates issued by thing the policeman on point duty
the Geological Survey of India, Peking Government. This will publishes a paper telling of the haye, if truc, a serious effect, discovery of the palate and lower juw of a faasik ape at Bilaspur. Dr. Pilgrim considers the remaina as probably the remote ancestor of man and belonging to a period of nčurly 1,000,000 years ago, whereas the eaglisst hitherto obtained is not more than 250,000 years, He considers it possible that among the toss apes of India will be found the actual Human ancestor.
working valiantly with it will affect practically every the thoroughfare clear. Then a scarcely time to breathe, keeping Chinese legal practitioner at Shanghai. It la known that there.dear old lady approached him. are not more than two lawyers. "Pardon me, constable," she said, holding certificates from the Na-"but have you seen a pickpocket. tionalist Government in Shanghai. around here with a silk handker-
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Representations huve
been made to the City of London urging that the famous London Stone be moved from its present position in the wall of St. Swithin's Church to the Guildhall or Charing Cross. The London Stone was once used to measure distances on the great military road leiding from London. It was formerly on the south side of Capnos Street, but was moved to the present site in 1798. Before it was moved weather and buffets of medieval carts had chipped and worn it from the original pillar to stone landmark. iB argued that the situation of the stone in its present position is not suitable for measuring distances and that placing it at Charing Creas" or Westminster Bridge would again allow its practica! use as a point from which distances could be measured.
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The St. Paul's Cathedral Preservation Committee the beginning of last year's session nounces that the architects and of the Divorce Court there were engineers have reported that they 452 cases. At the commencement of are well satisfied with the con- the present session the number was dition of the Cathedral, and that 438, and for the last two months there is no foundation for the 282 undefended cases kas. been recent alarming ranours. The notified Commenting on the law present process of cementation, preventing the publication of re-adds the committee, is fulfilling ports of divorce suits, Sir Ernest
its object. Wild, the Recorder of London,. speaking at the Press Club, said: I am sure that the absence of the Press from any trial tends to promote injustice, and I am certain that the Act prohibiting the pub Hican of divorce proceedings tends to whitewash, infidelity."
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Addressing the Canadian Club, Toronto, the Common- wealth Trade Commissioner (Sir Hugh Dennison) predicted that the next forty or fifty years would see the centre of the Empire's wealth and "population LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS.shift from the North Sea to Canada and Australia. What The Royal Observatory W/Thappened to the United States in Station has been allotted the per- the last century would happen to manent call sign G.O.W.
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Mrs. R. H. Kotewall (the wife! A London message announces the Last Sunday was the birthday of of the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall death of Mr. Herry Frowie, pre-Marshal Tuan Chi-jul, an ex. C.M.G. LL.D.) is giving away theviously publisher to the University President of China, about whom prizes at the annual sports of of. Oxford, He was 86 years of Sacred Heart College to-morrow,
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The War Office announces
Girdwood to commund the troops in Ceylon in succession to Major- General Higginson. -
appointment of Colonel A. C
Notices given in the "London: Gazette" that Mr. David Ivor Davies, the actor-manager, of Aldwych, W.C., a natural born Bri tish subject, hus by deed-poll changed his name to. Ivor Novello, the name by which he is now gen erally known. His mother is Mme. Clara Novello Davies, who is a leading teacher of singing.
age.
little has been heard since the latest political upset started. Many Chinese politicians. went to Tientsin to see the venerable
Marshall, who is still regarded as leader of the Anfa party.
The death took place in Kobe a fortnight ago of Mr. P. Hagen, of heart failure... Mr. Hagen, who was one of the oldest foreign re- aldents in Kobe, was 58 years old
The staff of H.B.M. Legation, at and he went to Kobe In 1996. since Peking is shortly to be strengthen- which time he has been engaged ined by the appointment of MrJ., C. Sterndale Bennett, "C.M.G., M.C... as the stovedoring business.
Second Secretary of Legation. Mr. Sterndale Bennett arrived in Sir Miles Lampson, the British Shanghai last Wednesday by the President of the Minister to China, was elected str. "President Piórce” and leaves Peking Royalfer Reking to-day. He has the Soelety of St. George, at the annual advantage of having worked direct- general meeting. For Vice-Press-ly under Sir Miles Lampson in the dent the members chose Mr. G. E. | Foreign Office, and was a member Hubbard, and Mr. R. W. Paulden of the Diplomatic Mission at the waz elected Hon. Secretary and Locarno Conference, Mrs. Stern- treasurer. The Committee elec-dale Bennett accompanied her hus- age of 69 of Sister Marie-Flavie, tion resulted in the listing of the band. She is a cousin of Mr. E. S. one of the first, French woman following:-Lieut. Col. H St. Clair Benbow, Rowe, late Secretary of missionaries to go to India. She Smallwood, Mr. W. P. W. Turner, the Shanghal Municipal Council.. was appointed Provincial, Superior Mr. H. G. Lowder, and the Rev. J. T of Bangalore, and was head of a Holman. European school of/1,000 children, together with a native secondary 'school.
The death is announced, at the
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Sir Alan Cobham is one of the most deservedly popular men of Among visitors to Singapore is the day, but I wonder (anys a the Rev. Dr. Thomas Burns, chair-writer in "Answers'), whether The vice-chairman and com main of the Board of the Scottish there are British girls who frown mittee of the Victoria Diocesan National Institution for Blinded a little when his name la mention- Association will be "at home"
and Soldiers, "which to. Sailors
ed.. For feminine beauty he members and friends at the Helena is. the body responsible for the awards the palm to Australia. "In May Institute on Wednesday, April maintenance of Newington House, no other part of the world," 27. Tes will be served at 4.80 p.m. Edinburgh, a home for men who says, "have I seen such a complete The Rev. W. W. Rogers will speak
were deprived of their sight whilst absence of really plain girls as at on the training of Ordination can fighting for their own country in Sydney and Melbourne. All Aus- didates for the Chinese Church in the Great War. The original ob- tralian girls seem to be pretty, and South China and the Rev. G. B.ject of Dr. Burns' visit. was to meet good dancers. Not one girl I have Shann will give a short address.
met there has bored me," ho adds. "They did not enthuse, ask ques- tions about flying, and talk pime. I found them most restful Do British girls talk pifle, and cannot they be restful? Sir Alan's re Sections give one food for thought.
his younger son, who is on the Galang Rubber Batates, relative to a family bereavement.
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News has been received by cable of the death from pneumonia, at Brighton on March 23, of Major Nobody can accuse Mr. Ivor "Catesby Burn Murdoch, late of Montagu, whose marriage to a Weat Country estate, Kajang, and typist has just been announced, of formerly manager. of the F.MS. not being able to keep a secret, Rubber Co., who retired from says a "Daily Mai" writer. When ‚ Piles of sand, stacks of bricks, Malaya about five years ago. He a friend of mine met him at dinner hoarda, planks, and all the building was the brother of the late Mr. a week or two ago he talked of impedimenta associated with the A. M. Bun Murdoch, formerly Con- many things, including the furnish conversion of an bid house into a servator of Forests, 3.3. and F.M.S. Ing of his chambers in the Temple. new one, are now to be seen in
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But there was- no · hints of the forefront of 146 Piccadilly Hong Kong property to the value romance. In his eye. He was in (says the "Daily Chronicle.") The of $39,100 was left by the late Mr. great spirits otherwise, however, house la becoming a favourite spot L. Fonise, who died at Dijon, He told the story of the precious with sight-seere many of whom Department of Cote d'or, France, white mice which he brought all and it hard to believe that the pre- Hong Kong estate to the value of the vigil kept in the guard's van to order so that the house will be the way from the Caucanus and of rent chaos can possibly be reduced $10,700 was left by Mr. J. Plum to see that none escaped on the ready for the Duke and Duchess of mer, lats of Messrs. WF, Steven journey back to Moscow, Two did, York to live in on their re son and fo. Manila, who died at as a matter of fact, but they were turn. But the builders say it will, Edinburgh Letters of Administra recaptured after waters chase. Particular interest Ir taken in the tion In respect of the first will have The tragedy was that the ait of all glass-roofed conservatory, which been granted to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson the mics, aled In Petrograd before is being converted intoutting und a resealing of Testament Mr. Montega sailed for hope. And room for the Duchau room in Dative, hu boen granted to Man they are not to be found else which blis will be the predominat WDL benton in respect of the where the loss to Cambridge ing colour and which is to layers faezond
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