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1. "DRAMAS OF THE THREE KINGDOMS" by George Kin Leung. This deals with the famous historical plays of the Chinese, and should be of special interest to students of drama.
2. "THE CHINESE-TIBETAN BORDERLAND AND ITS PEOPLES" by Paul Hostan Stevenson. A thrilling account of travel, exploration and ethnical investigation on the Chinese frontiers of Tibet.
3. "WITH RIFLE, GUN AND ROD IN MANCHURIA " by V. de Franck, An account of the wonderful trout and salmon fishing to be had in North-western Manchuria. 4. "SHELLS OF PEITAIHO" by A. W. Grabau and Sohtsu G. King. Those visiting the seaside, resorts of North Chins should on no account miss this instructive article. It tells you what you want to know about the shelf life of the China Coast.
5 "BIRD MIGRATION NOTES' by Rufus. H. Lefever. If you are interested in birds, this article will appont to you.
Besides these there are notes on Science, Shooting, Fishing, the Garden, and the Kennel, as well as Reviews of books and comments upon-Chinese art, etc., etc.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Sir Ronald Macleay, the new Bri- tish Minister to Czecho-Slovakia, has arrived at Prague.
The bar of the only unbobbed woman at a Hull laundry, become entangled in the machinery and she was scalped.
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The London County Coune!! has accepted a foreign tender for hur- ricane lamps because British prices were about 25 per cent, higher.
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The first twins born in Canberra, Australia's new capital, were pre- sented by their father to the Duke and Duchess of York at a public re ception there.
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"armet" of the fifteenth century,
The Austrian Government are contemplating the abolition of the visa on British passports to Aus tria,
Viscount Mandeville, son and heir of the Duke of Manchester, was married quietly at Kimbolton Parish Church to Miss Nell Vera Stend, an Australian heiress, daughter of Mr. Sidney Vere Stead of Melbourne.
The sale of broken armour of the 17th century, which was so success- ful Inst summer, has been reopen- of body ed. Helmets, portions armour, together with weapons of the late 18th and early 19th century, are now on sale at the White
Tower:
"I have usually found that the padestrian is more to blame than the motorist," said Mr. H. R. Oswald, the coroner, at a Chelsea inquest on a man who stepped in front of a car without looking.
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Application for the King's Bounty has been made in respect of triplets born to Mrs. T. Kirby, of St. Mary's Road, Edmonton, the wife of a nurseryman. The mother and three children, all boys, are doing well.
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The Royal Life Saving Socley last year granted the "record" num bor of 87,985 awards in connection with instruction in the Army, Navy, police forces, and public and ele mentary schools throughout the Empiro.
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A copy of the original edition of the "Seven Pillars of Wisdont," by Col. Lawrence, was sold by Harrods to a private purchaser for £420. Only 100 copies were originally printed. One exhibited in New York early in March was priced at
A portion of a huge tooth, men- At a sale at Sothebys of the Wha-suring nine inches by six inches, well armour collection a Spanish dug up at Low Hill Farm, Bush bury, near Wolverhampton, is thought to have belonged to an animal of huge dimensions, of the herbivorous order, which includes | £4,000, the brontosaurus.
one of the finest helmets of the period, was sold for £8,900.
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Two members of the crew of a British ship were arrested in Boston after the suit-case which one of them was carrying down the gang- plank had been found to contain $60,000 (£12,000) worth of smoking opium.
Under the auspices of the Cana- dian National Exhibition, Toronto, a world long-distance swimming championship will be held in Lake Ontario on Wednesday, August 31, over a distance of approximately 21 milca. The total prizes offered amount to £10,000, of which £5,000 will go to the winner and £1,000 to the first woman completing the distance.
The Great Western Railway, as an experiment, will run an express train from Cardiff and Newport to Paddington, with an inclusive fare of £1. to include a saloon motor drive through London, a reserved seat in one of six leading theatres, conveyance from the theatre back to the station, and supper on the return journey,
A PRISONER'S LETTER.
The Persian Government has de nounced the trade treaty with Ger- many, to take effect in a year's time. It is rumoured the French have also received notice of the denun- ciation of their treaty, but nothing definite is known in regard to the matter.
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alisation Act permit Canadian-born Changes in the Canadian Natur- persons who have been naturalised in the United States and have re turned to Canada to be rendmitted to British nationality after опе year's residence in the Dominion, IB- stead of five years as before,
The Imperial War Graves Com- mission has taken over the main- tenance of the "civilian" part of the British Military Cemetery (the Sudfriedhof) at Cologne, which con- tains the graves of officers, other ranks, British women, children, and attached personnel who died during, the seven years of the British De- cupation.
LICENCE FOR COLISEUM.
At Guildhall, before Alderman Greenaway, Walter George Thomas 31, a clerk, pleaded guilty to stealing liquor at evening performances, ing two cheques for £48 18s. and £188 58. belonging to his employers, Messrs. Morrison and Co., stock jobbers, Copthall-avenue.
Mr. Freke Palmer said the prose- cutors had no desire to press the charge. Hitherto Thomas's char acter had been excellent..
Mr. Beeston (the clerk): I have a letter here which was addreased by the prisoner to the firm...
The Accused: Please read it. It will convey all I would wish to say, but cannot.
The letter was an appeal for mercy, Thomas declaring that he had got into financial difficulties and took the cheques to prevent a money lender suing and ruining
him.
Mr. Palmer: My clients never got that letter.
Mr. Beeston: I understand it was intercepted by the prison author- ities and handed to the police.
Mr. Palmer: I do not know why they should do that.
The Alderman: It seems to me that a letter of that description ought to have been passed on to the person to whom it was address-
ed.
Mr. Palmer: If a prisoner writes anything improper the governor has a right to intercept it. But where a man under remand writes a letter like this I do not see what authority he has to forward it to the police.
The Alderman: I am entirely in agreement with you,
Thomas was bound over.
ARMY CAREERS FOR BOYS.
After a fight lasting twenty years, the London Coliseum has now A licence for the sale of intoxicat between 7.45 p.th. and 10.45 p.m. The confirming authority, sitting at the Sessions House, Newington, up held the decision of the Strand Licensing Justices and granted the licence.
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A cricket match was turned into a fox hunt at Burton Lazars, neur Melton Mowbray. While play was In progress a fox dashed across the pitch. The players abandoned the wicket and went in pursuit with some mongrel dogs. But the fox outdistanced them, and they return- ed and resumed play.
In a statement in the House of
ship mooring mast, Mr. Havenga, Assembly, Cape Town, on the Gov- ernment's decision to build an air- the Minister of Finance, emphasis ed the importance of rapid trans- port of gold between South Africa would mean a larger amount in in- and the rest of the world, which|
tereat.
Maung Kyin Shein, the editor of the popular Burmese newspaper "Wunthanu," who was recently prosecuted for sedition, has sent a written apology to the Government of Burma. He admits that an article by him was grossly seditious, and undertakes never again to re- peat the offence, The Government has withdrawn the prosecution.
PRISONER-INVENTOR.
Ivan Novak, while serving 15 years' penal servitude at Belgrade. for murder, has invented an automatic railway crossing bar- rier. The barrier falls automati- cally when a train is near a crossing and rises after the train passes, guards being unnecessary.
Nails are put near the rails The application was made by Mr. some distance from the crossing, Cecil Whiteley, K.C., for Sir Oswald and a weight of over 600 lb. on Stell, and was opposed by Mr. them makes the barrier fall. The James A. Spurgeon. Mr. Whiteley said that the Strand Licensing Jus- barrier rises after the train tices recommended last year the passes the nails on the other side. granting of the licence, but it was A special commission appoint- refused by the confirming authored to examine the project has re- itles. This year the justices again commended it for use. Novak granted the licence. The Coliseum will be sent to the Government was built in 1904, and for
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twenty years the management had railway works to make a model bean pursuing their application. He to be tested on the railway. submitted that it should be no ex- ception to other music-halls in the West-end. It was the only music- hall in that area without a licence.
Mr. Hinde, appearing for Mr. Spurgeon, said that the greater faci- lities for granting licences were taking them back to the old times of free-and-easy entertainments.
Mr. Whiteley replied that such a statement could not only be served at special bars.
AUCTION BRIDGE-NEW STYLE.
London, May 27-By a majority, the Portland Club approved of the suggestion to adopt the American system of majority bidding at auc- tion bridge, whereby the number of tricks bid counts against the value of tricks in a suit bid.
Thus three clubs are higher than two "no trumps" and four clubs higher than three spades.
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For
CHARLIE REFUSES.
B mere million dollars ($200,000) Mr. Charlie Chaplin can settle his domestic troubles. An! offer, to withdraw the divorce charges on payment of large sum in cash and a share in the profits of two films, amounting to nearly as much again, was made by Mrs. Chaplin's attorneys to counsel for 'the film comedian.
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unreason-
The offer was immediately jected as "unjust and able," and it was announced that communal property to which she Mrs. Chaplin would fight for all the
entitled by Californian law if the charges are sustained.
In addition to the cash Mrs. Chaplin demanded 25 per cent. of her husband's profits from "The Gold Rush" and the still
uncom-
MARCH OF BRITISH SCIENCE.
At the Conference 170 leading London clubs voted in favour of depleted film "The Circus." cimal scoring honours, whereby all honours are multiples of ton and and-not of suits' value, not necessarily in 'favour of high It is officially announced that the American scoring, in which simple. scheme for training boys to under- honours score as much as thirty and take skilled work in the technical five in one hand score one hundred.. continued. Over a thousand boys tion of scoring for chicane,
London, May 11,
A wonderful new microscope has
corps of the Regular Army is to be It also voted, in favour of the labo been shown before the Royal Society
astonished the world last year, The Instrument will give a magnify. ing power of 8,500 and show the In- terior organs of a microbe...
are already serving apprenticeships The American system of revoke by Mr. J. E. Barnard whose studies at Chepstow, Catterick, Woolwich, and underbidding penalties was with Dr. Gye on the cancer virus and other training centres, and overwhelmingly defeated in the places, are now to be found for a vote.
By 146 to 17 the clubs voted for considerable number here. Can didates must be 14 and under 16 the right to a closure in bidding in years and 4 months on Sept. 1 next, the case of an underbid. and they will be selected by com- petitive examination to be held In
every
county in the Unit HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS ed Kingdom on July 6 next. The examination will include Eng lish, arithmetic, and general know- Successful candidates will ledge.
June 17, 1927.
Mrs. N. Adair, Mr. E. H. Avory? Mr.. S. F. Brown,
"Germany has nothing to com- pare with it," said Mr. Barnard, "and while the Americans are sim- ply up a gum-tree we are advancing so rapidly, after being stuck for 80 years that even this instrument may be out of date in a year or so,”
be given the opportunity of spend ing three years in learning one or Mesara. C. Crowe, J. K. Colgate, other of some ten trades, comprie- Mrs. P. M. Davies, Mr. S. R. GIPSY MURDERER ARRESTED. ing those of armourer, artificer, Davenport, blacksmith, mason, carpenter,
and
Ferrier. Joiner, electrician, Atter, instra Mesora. S. H. Gray, W. A. Grahamo, ment-maker, and wireless operator. A. M
and Mrs. J. F
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Berlin, May 11, After a search of eight years the
During training, the boys will Gale, PEN to poster East Prussian police attacked,
not only be fed, clothed, and housed free of cost to their parents
Mr. A. F. Henry, Mr. J
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or guardians, but in addition will be paid 78. a week, rising to 88. 20. Miss H.Lilller according to progress made. De- Mr. and Mrs. J Monteel. talled information regarding the Messrs. CR. Fowrle, E.
scheme as a whole, and G. BPattison. application forms, which must be Mr. PP, Schüloung lodged before June 11 next, will be Messrs. A N Tait, supplied by all Army recruiting Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Tapmer oficers, whose addresses can be obMr. H, Volker
Mesra B. Wilson." tained at any Post Officer
wounded, and arrested a gipsy nick- named "Fatty owing to his girth, who is alleged to be responsible for a dozen murders. He carried two loaded revolvers in his belt, Powell,Fatty shot a grysy who refused him permission to marry his daugh tor with whom he eloped, He had Taylor, several encounters with the police but escaped, although his mother, who was accompanying him on gre. enn occasion) was,nhot dead,”!
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