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THAT HOLIDAY YOU ARE
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Have you thought where to go and what to do? How about a fishing trip in the beautiful country of Northwestern Manchuria? Or, have you ever made a collection of Chinese seashells? Or what about doing- a bit of bird observation at Tsingtao? Well-read the special mid-suminer number of
THE CHINA JOURNAL
It will tell you about FISHING in Manchuria, about collecting SEA-SHELLS at the summer resorts by the sea, about BIRD MIGRATION in Shantung.
Also an article on the people of the Tibetan borderland, and one on the Chinese dramas of the Three Kingdoms, illustrated with coloured plates, a quaint story of the. Taiping Rebellion, as well as notes and comments on a variety of subjects, some of which are bound to interest you. Shooting, fishing, biology, medicine, astronomy, ancient Chinese jades and paintings, dogs, flowers, travel and exploration, drama-all are dealt with.
Take a copy with you on your holiday trip: or subscribe and have it sent to you.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The Paris correspondent of the "Mirror" states that M. Ettiore Bugatti, of racing motor design fame, is constructing a super motor boat which will shortly attempt to go from Brest to New York in 48 hours. The boat is, submarine-like, 120ft. long, 2,100 horse power and with a speed of 87 miles per hour,
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Churles Nicolas, a French- Frank Hutchinson, man, has completed 240 hours' Chicago locomotive engineer continuous dancing, taking only who worked for 40 years with- three minutes' rest each hour out being involved in an When ho started he weighed cident, decided to take a holiday 14st. 7lbs. During the perfor-away from all railways. mance, lost lat. lbs.
Three British saflors aboard the squadron visiting Copenhagen thrashed a young Danish Communist for offering seditious literature-printed In English to passing sailors, They then tore up the leaflets.
A London message says that the Registrar-General's review of last year shows that the male deaths were the fewest recorded in any year in the country with the exception of 1923, while the Otto Kemmericht the Ger- female deaths were the fewest man champion long-distance without exception. Cancer was swimmer, and Fraulein Edith the great exception to the gen-Jensen attempted to swim round eral decline in devastating dis- Heligoland, whose circumference, eases the deaths therefrom being as the result of erosion by the the highest recorded.
sun is about 3 miles. The girl succeeded in accomplishing the Cat-burglars, taking ad-feat in 3 hours 17 minutes, but vantage of the Ascot races week, Kemmericht had to give up owing raided a mansion overlooking to cramp in the leg. the course while the wealthy
a bag containing £2,000 worth, Guests and the house staff took un the chase through the woods, while the police stopped all motors. The thieves escaped, however.
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Не therefore set out on a motor trip, but his car stalled on a railway track in front of a train. and he and his wife were killed.
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927.
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It is not generally realised that a noisy office makes a slow typist. A tost was carried out recently by Dr. Donald Laird, Colgate University, U.S.A. Miss Keller, an expert typist, typed letters while a noisy machine was in full blast within a few feet of her, but in a quiet room, she made 528 strokes to the minute and while the din went on dropped to 448. A curious point was that she lost twice as much weight in two hours of noise as in the same period of quiet. la noise to be the dernier cri in weight reduc- tion?
guests were playing bridge after Judgment was given for the dinner, and seized £5,500 worth plaintiff yesterday in the Summary of jewellery. They were dis- | Court action In which $1,000 was A London "Evening Stan- turbed, and dropped, as they fled, claimed 14 return of a deposit durd" diarist says:-"The de- under a consideration which fail sign of the stamp issued by the ed. The case concerned the hiring of a Chinese cinema
at Hungham Commonwealth Government to and the receipts, which were stated celebrate the opening. of Can- to be far lower than the amount berra, has at last been publish- held out to plaintiff when the ed. It has hitherto been kept a undertaking Was entered! into. clase secret from reproduction. Plaintiff was Ng Shus-fat and de- I have seen it, and it might have When Stanley undertook fentiant, Tam Fung-shek..
been as well if they kept it a the exploration of the Congo at
secret for ever. It represents a the invitation of King Leopold
Possible measures for raising somewhat corpulent Australia II. he built piece by piece, a something like $300,000, which is
apparently attempting, with small boat 23ft. long by 6ft the sum needed for building a Hos what I have been informed is a pital for the Chinese at Chuseway : wide, for his journey along the Bay, were discussed at a general branch of wattle, to brush away river. It has lately been dis meeting of the Tung Wah Hospital a disconcerting vision of a large covered that this boat is still pro- on Saturday afternoon. It was de- department store. Official art served at Boma, Belgian Congo, cided to ask permission for the during the last few years has and the Ostend colonial society organisation of a 50,000 ticket lot risen a little from its nadir, but has requested M. Jaspar. Primetery, at $10 per ticket, with sixty not very much." Minister and Minister of the percent of the amount awarded Colonies, to have it brought to going towards the funds for the to the winners and forty per cent. Belgium and exhibited at Ostend. new Hospital.
M. Jaspar has consented.
A woman asked a grower at the Chelsea Flower. Show if he knew where she could get musk An attractive programme of Sir Oliver Lodge, in the concerts and other social functions with a scent (says a London}] course of a remarkable address for the Services has been arranged "Evening News" writer), He at Oxford, predicted that it was by the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. shook his head.
"I wish you possible and even probable that this week. To-day, a concert takes could tell me," he said. "Musk human skill in the laboratory place at the "Cheer '0," at 7.30, seems to have lost its scent com- some day would succeed in creat- pnt, a whist drive at the "Better pletely." "Well," said the in- ing mass artificial protoplasm, the T-Pans" at the Shamshuino it. My brother, who is home Ole at 7 pm. and a concert by quirer, "I've only just discovered which subjected to suitable treat Camp at 7 pm. To-morrow, there is" |ment, would exhibit vitality and
Australia, told me whist drive at the "Cheer 'O" at from H manifest one or other of the 7.30 p.m. and a concert by
had the that he
heard that forms of life. There were many "Squeakettes" at the "Better Ole" musk had lost its scent, and persons who would fear such alat 7 p.m. On Thursday an in-I volunteered to get him some conclusion as conflicting with formal dance tkes place, at the with a scent from my garden, I
"Cheer O" at 7 their religious ideas. But such
p.m. and a Sing found it had none! Why is it?" life would not have to come into Song at the "Better 'Ole" at 7 pm. "No one knows," said the grower. On Friday, another concert has "Experts have been trying to find existence without antecedent life, and there was nothing in the "Cheer Onsent on Saturday out. I know a spot where musk process to which exception need Grand Concert takes place at 6.30 grows far from any motor traffic, be taken.
p.m. at the City Hall.
but it has no scent either."
"O" and a
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Neal McNeill, M.S.P.,
Although the Arcos papers ap- F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., etc., who parently afforded no clue on the was organiser and leader of the subject, there is a strong report first exploratory expedition after current to the effect that the the war under the auspices of notorious Trebitsch Lincoln is the British Science Expedition, in China, says a Glasgow paper. which passed through Torres Straits en route to New Guinea in 1923, is visiting Malaya.
Certainly he is the type of in- dividual who will be found wherever trouble is being made especially if there is a financial side to it. Apart from this con- Discussing "Blackmail by sideration, Lincoln knows China Civil Process," writer in fairly well, being there during "Truth" declares that. "a cer- the 1921 revolution when he was tain prominent man some years something of a power behind the.; ago paid £30,000 to avoid being scenes. cited as a co-respondent in the Divorce Court." There was a
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A distinguished visitor, the Hon, Mr. Manuel Quezon, Senate Presi dent of Manila, and party of pro- men who are passing through on minent Filipino indies and gentle- the "Empress of Asia" on a visit to China, were the guests of Mr. Ko Leung-hoe of the Ho Hong Bank, Ltd. et lunch yesterday at the Hong of local Kong Hotel. A number Chinese gentlemen were invited to meet the visitors, including the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. R. H. Katewall, Dr. S. W. Tso. Drs. Arthur Woo, S. N. Chau, Messrs. Simon Tae Yan, Li Chor-chi and Y. P. Lo. Mr. Quezon, who is ne companied on his trip by Mr. Y. T. Qe of the Manila Chinese Chamber| of Commerce, expects to meet Gen- eral Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking.
somewhat similar case, of a Dr. Charles Macpherson, the wealthy German merchant in famous organist of St. Paul's Penang about fifteen years ago, whose association
with the remarks a Straits paper.
The death has occurred at Cathedral covered the whole of his life, became ill and died in a Teviotbank, Hawick, of Lieut.- London Street-it is believed Col. W. Heron Maxwell, second from heart failure. Dr. Mac- son of Mr. Maxwell, of Teviot Lady Guthrie, widow of the pherson, who was born in Edin-bank. Gazetted to the 7th Royal Hon, Lord Guthrie who was aburgh in 1870, went to St. Paul's Fusiliers in 1872, he served in Senator of the College of Justice as a chorister of nine, and was the Zulu War and was mention- from 1907, till his death in 1920, educated in the choir school.. Heed In despatches. He also served passed away at her Edinburgh studied at the Royal Academy of in the Boer War in Barron's residence. Lady Guthrie, who was Music, and had written a great Mounted Infantry. Retiring in in her 82nd year, was Anne deal of church music. Dr. Mac 1886, he joined the South East Jemima, daughter of the late pherson is survived by his wire of Scotland Artillery Militia, of Rev. James Chalmers Burns, and one son.
which he became an honorary major. D.D., of the Free Church Manse,
In his youth a well- Kirkliston. She did a lot of
known athlete, he was after- good public service in Edinburgh
wards a keen member of the and district.
Buccleuch Hunt, He took a warm interest in Havick ex- soldiers. He is survived by a wife and four daughters.
Deaths announced at Home recently include the following: The Earl of Iddesleigh, novelist and formerly member of the In taking up the post of Inland Revenue Board; at Pynes, Mr. Governor of the Gold Coast Sir near Exeter, aged 81. Alexander Ransford Slater is Richard H. Hughes, the Welsh returning to a country which he poet, "Treborah," at Festiniog, Until his recent appointment knows well, for before he be- Merioneth, aged 77; The. Rey to the somewhat exacting posi- came.Governor of Sierra Leone Richard Henry Dickson, rectortion of a Junior Whip and a he was at Acera as Colonial of Eastchurch, Sheppey Isle, member of the Government, Mr. Secretary, and frequently filled Kent, aged 83: Major the Hon. F. G. Penny, the Member for
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when Sir Frederick Guggisberg manager of the Victoria Falls never lost an opportunity of tak- was up country or on leave, and Transvaal Power Company, ing part in any debate affecting | Sir Ransford is a strong and Ltd.; and chairman of the Rand the welfare of the East. His able administrator, whose Mines Power Supply Company, office precludes him from, enter. gifts were called into requisi-Ltd., heir presumptive of Lord ing into the debates or putting tion last year at Sierra Leone Bagot; served on the staff of the questions in the House; but it when a railway strike in the G.O.C., 4th Army Corps, in must not be inferred that Mr. colony disorganised traffic for a France, 1914-15 a director In Fenny has ceased, therefore to GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS time, and peaceful picketing by the Ministry of Munitions, 1915 take an active interest in all the guileless natives took the 16; at Johannesburg aged 63; questions appertaining to the form of putting high explosives and Dr. J. Burnett Smith, hus- Straits Settlements and China, among the coal. When the band of "Annie S. Swan," the Indeed, although his voice may trouble was over he came to story-writer, former mayor of not be raised in the House itself, England on leave, and reached Hertford, where he practised as he continues, says a home paper, Liverpool just as the General a medical doctor until going to to keep closely in touch with all Strike was declared.
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