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Four cases of enterle fever, Lord Rothschild. has deposited. When a Chinese boarding- all Chinese, were reported to the at the Zoo a hybrid crane, the off- house keeper was fined £10 at Medical Department on Thurs-er ng of an East Siberian common Liverpool Quarter Sessions on day.
erene, and the Japanese crane, April 5 for keeping a gaming. familiar in art.
house, it was stated that the police climbed a ladder to window and saw 25 Chinese gambling.
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Two Chinese sailors were killed and one wounded with a
The Shanghai cricket season Browning pistol hi a fight be opened in porfect weather con- tween partisans of the Northernditions at the S.C.C. with a match Chinese and the Cantonese in a between elevens captained re- Chinese boarding-house at (spectively by Dr. O'Hara and Mr. Antwerp, on March 24.
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Excitement was. cuuseu among those residing in the vicinity of the gasworks on Thibet Road, Shanghal, when a long column of smoke was seen issuing from the tar reservoir. The Fire Brigade subdued the blaze.
Allison. Dr. O'Hara's team won easily by a score of 183 to 57.
Another ten bodies in the vicinity of the wreck of the 9.8, covered by the Water Police, "Leung Kwong" have been re- among them being those of two children of about two years of age. They are now awaiting identification at the Kowloon Mortuary.
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Mr. Victor Brown, foreign warden of the Fanmakers' Com. pany, at the annual dinner of the Company on March 31 rend the following telegram received from Dr. Marsh, senior physician at Shanghai, and physician to the | Consulate: "We can all feel
our troops, and our battleships." secure because of our barricades,
The Inst batch of British infantry left in Iraq, the 2nd Battalion of the King's (Liver- Referring in appreciative terms to the offer made by the
pool) Regiment, arrived at Maharajah of Kashmir of per-
Southampton on April 12 in the sonal service and the use of the Messrs. Puttick and Simpson "Neuralia." The battalion, under resources of the State of Kashmir sold on April. 1 old Chinese the command of Lieut.-Col. L. R. in China,. Lord Irwin, the pottery and porcelain, the proper- Schuster, D.S.O., has
been on Viceroy, said he believed it was a ty of Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. foreign and Colonial service for bitter disappointment to the Molony. A large Chinese pottery 19 years. It sailed for India' in Maharajah that the situation did figure of a chestnut horse with 1908, and has served in Egypt, not necessitate acceptance of the white mane and tail, etc., and aIndin, and Hong Kong, generous offer, but should occa- figure of an attendant Tang sion arise he relied on His High-fetched 150 guineas. ness to give practical expression to the traditional loyalty of his house.
It is noted by a writer in the "Daily Sketch" that the only Chinese standard in Britain was one taken by a subaltern of the Border Regiment in the first
China War of 1840-42, and is now hanging over the war mem- orial of the regiment in Kendal Church.
This regiment has been in every war and trouble in
China, and history again repeats itself, for both battalions are now in Shanghai, wearing the "Dragon of China" on their but- tons and caps, as a compliment to their services in that country.
The No. 2 (Army Co-opera- tion) Squadron Royal Air Force is under orders for Chian to join the Shanghai Defence. No. 2 Squadron has Bristol Fighter machines, and is commanded by Squadron Leader W. Sowrey. It is the first R.A.F. Squadron to be ordered to China, all the machines now there being at- tached to the Fleet Air Arm. An Army Co-operation Squadron is composed of twelve machines in three flights. Its duties normally consist in message- carrying, photography, and re- connaissance.
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The 2nd Welsh Regiment is expected to-morrow in the Derbyshire, and they go to the Peninsula Hotel, On the same ship is the 56th Field Co. R.E.'s. They go to Shamshuipo. The 10th Field Ambulance, arriving with the Scots Guards will take up quarters at King's College.
Eight Chinese members of the crew of the Ocean Steamship
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Co.'s steamer "Euryadis" found guilty at the East Ham Police Court, on April 7, of being concerned in stealing and receiv- ing quantities of woollen and silk goods, valued about £500, part of had been broached in three of the the cargo of the vessel. Cargo holds. The magistrate sent each to jail for one month and said he would recommend all for de
On searching a deserted sam-portation. pan at Causeway Bay, Revenue Amoy opium on board. Appar- Officers discovered 1,200 taels of An interesting coincidence, ently the principals had been warned beforehand, with the re- sult that no arrests were effect- been seized by the Imports and ed. The opium and sampan have Exports Department,
noted by the "China Express and Telegraph," in connection with the Peking raid, is the fact that M. Oudendijk, the Dutch Minis- matic Corps, gave the permission ter, who as Doyen of the Diplo-
to Chang's police to enter the Legation quarter, was the neutral Minister in charge of British Nearly 100 lb. of heroin interests in Russia in 1918, after have been found by the Paris the murder of Captain Cromle police skilfully hidden in the and the arrest of Mr. Lockhart. backs of large mirrors consigned In that capacity M. Oudendijk to Shanghai and other ports in went to interview the Bolshevist China. It was found that a Commissar for Foreign Affairs) manufacturer of chemical pro-in order to demand the return of ductions, who had already been poor Cromie's body. He was re- in trouble in connection with the ceived by M, Karakhan with a drug traffic, was in charge of the loaded revolver lying ostenta- shipments. When the police tiously on the table. M. Ouden- made a raid on April 10 they dijk, who is married to an found the heroin distributed in Englishwoman, the backs of no fewer than twelve K.C.M.G. for his services on that received а
cases of mirrors.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
The late Mr. Percy George- Temple, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of Teluk Anson, Federated Malay States left 11,255 (net person- alty £11,036).
The friends of Mr. G. P. Lammert will regret to learn that he is ill in hospital, where it is expected he will undergo an operation to-day.
Lord Charles Cavendish, the
The engagement is announced Duke of Devonshire's son, has between Benjamin Gerald Brad- left Baring's Bank, which heley, Malayan Civil Service, and joined recently, and intends, it is Julin Phoebe, daughter of Mr. said, to go to Peking,
and Mrs. J. B. Newman, of Elstree, Herts.
Mr. Alexander Helencs Hood Begg, of Ardmore, Singapore, who died on December 4, left property at Home of the gross value of £25,636, with net per- sonalty £25,611. He left. the residue of the property in trust for his wife for life and then £100 a year to Kate Wright if in
the service of his wife.
The engagement is announced between Paymaster-Lieutenant- Commander F. J. Lloyd, Royal Navy, late of H.M.S. "Victory," to Florence Mainwaring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoy- land, of Parkin House, Peni- stone, Yorkshire. Lieutenant Commander Lloyd has recently been appointed to H.M.S. "Bee," flagship of the Yangtse Flotilla.
The Rev. G. R, Lindsay, who recently retired from the post of Vicar of St. Andrew's Kow. loon, has been appointed by the Trustees to the vicarage of St. Saviour, Everton, Liverpool, Mr. Lindsay filled two curacies in Liverpool before going to China.
Viscount Inchcape, Viscount Bearsted and Mr. F. G. Penny, M.P., were guests of Mr. Samuel Samuel. at his annual Budget dinner to bankers and merchants of the City, of London in the Strangers dining-room of the House of Commons on April 11, to meet the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Members of Parliament.
Miss Mary Hay, the New York musical comedy star, who obtain- Lord and Lady Esher's young ed a divorce from Mr. Richard er daughter; the Rance of Barthelmess, the film star, six Sarawak, is home once more weeks ago, has married Mr. from Borneo, where she has been Vivian Bath, aged 21, an engaged upon a new play and a Englishman, who is in a rubber novel. She has written for years business at Singapore., The as Sylvia Brett, her maiden ceremony was perfomed at name. The Rajah and Runee's Greenwich, Connecticut, and the London house, 62, Portland couple left on April 11 for Los Place, contains a lot of native Angeles on the way to Singapore. furniture from Sarawak, and one or two rooms are repliens of Woman has broken down the bar-rooms in their Eastern home. rier that kept her out of certain seats in the principal theatres of France, the 'government sub-
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Among the passengers leaving. sidized Comedie-Francaise. Edou for Home by the sa. "Nellore" ard Herrlot, minister of public in- to-day were Mr. and Mrs. G. W struction in France, has given her
a seat in the "parterre or back Keeton (Mr. Keaton has bean rows of the orchestra floor, the Professor of Political Science at seats where the French theatre the Hong Kong University), Mr. goer figures he gets the most for J. Walker, Mr. S. Logan, Mr. A his morey, Tradition, dating from Hutchins, Mrs. G. Aubrey, Mr. the days when the parterre was con- L. D. and Mr. R. McEwan, Mr. sidered the roughest part of the and Mrs. S Moor, MrM theatre, barred women from neats Murphy, Mr. J. Walker, Lieut. there. Formerly spectators brought Conidr: G. H. F. Owles, Lt. Col. their lunch and wine to the parterre and expressed their opinions freely, and Mrs. R. H. Plarson, Coindr. regardless of their neighbours, and Mrs.. V. J. H. Sankey
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Lord Rothschild, who has elks buffaloes wandering about his emus and kangaroos and park, hopes to add to them a pair of the almost uncatchable ten- foot lizards found in the Dutch East Indies.
As from April 8, Commander B, P. MacMahon has been ap- pointed for duty with the com- modore-in-charge at Hong Kong. He has recently been serving under the Director of Naval Intelligence.
mander of H.M.S. "Frobisher" Capt. Spreckly, R.N., com-
become engaged to Miss Joanna on the China Station, has just Allen, the daughter of Major and Mrs. C. P. Allen: Her brother happens to be a brother officer of Capt. Spreckly, on the same ship.
Lord Bearsted has become a tenant resident in Carlton Gar dena by the purchase of No. 1. He is himself the ground landlord of Berkeley Square, bought by his father some years ago at about four million pounds. No. 1, Carlton Gardens, a Crown leasehold, belonged once to thei late Lord Northcliffe and subse- quently to Sir Walter Gibbons.
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The 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards, en route to China, has a popular collection of subalterns, among them Lord Ramsay, son and heir of Lord Dalhousie; Mr. Frank Usher, who, at Chipping Norton some weeks ago, won the Brigade of Guards Race; Mr. Archie Crabbe, one of the tallest men in the Guards; Mr. William Lindsay, son of Lord Lindsay's brother and heir; and, Mr. A V. Campbell Douglas, who stroked the Oxford boat a few years ago. The list Includes the two brothers, Mr. James and Mr. Andrew Drummond-Moray, sons of the Hon. Mrs Drummond- Moray, of Abercairney. At least one of the four OCs going out to Shanghai in the new brigade has seen service in China before. Lieut Col Stuart Thunder, the Let Northamptonshires, served with the Let Chinese Regiment at Wel-hal wel for two years.
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