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What is going to happen to Hankow and what is going to happen to Peking?
These are the two questions mostly discussed China to-day. Chiang Kai-shek's threat to attack the former and oust the Communists has not yet materialised, though there are many indications that such a move is imminent. Feng Yu-hsiang is persevering in his march upon the Fengtien forces, with Peking and Tientsin as his objective, and has crossed the Yellow River. His menace to Chang Tso-lin and the capital appears more ominous than Chiang's now long-promised exter- mination of the Bolsheviks in Hankow and other Yangtse ports.
Never was the political-cum-military situation in this sorely-tried country at a more interesting stage. Develop ments that have led up to this position are fully set out in this week's "Overland Mail."
Here you have a week's papers in one, enabling yourself and those at Home or elsewhere to follow the events in their logical so far as anything out here is logical-order,
In regard to Hong Kong news, there is the full report of the "Leung Kwong" inquiry, carrying with it a severe, con- demnation of this Colony's regulations in respect to safety measures employed on ships engaged in passenger business be- tween here and river ports; there are full details of the strike amongst employees of the China Navigation Company, result- ing in the laying up of a large number of coastal vessels, and there is all the local, social, sporting and commercial news, intelligently arranged for the reader who desires to know what has happened over the whole week. The "Overland" is the ideal weekly paper to send Home.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
One case of enteric fever, Chi- nese, was notified in the Victorla District yesterday.
The "Daily Telegraph" states that several financial firms have been unable to find in London any bank that is willing to discount Soviet hills. On the other hand, Sir Henry Deterding said that if France, Britain and Germany would agree upon, a boycott of Russian petroleum and oila it would have a great moral effect upon the Soviets, whose oil in- dustry, especially at Baku, is completely disorganised.
In spite of the rigid law which forbids cock fighting, it is no secret that there are through- out the North-and, indeed, in of some parts of the South England meetings at which mains are fought before quite a large number of spectators. Re- cently twelve men were brought before the magistrate on a charge of unlawful assembly, and in the background of the Court were the captured birds in sacks. Magistrate: Huve you anything to say? First defendant: Will your Worship examine the birds? Interlude while the birds are produced on the Bench. On care- ful examination these were all proved to be hens. Collapse of the police case.
The other day at a congress of butchers it was declared that the small car had seriously diminished the demand for joints, as so many small householders no longer stayed at home for Sunday dinners but went off picnicking instead, but at the Baptist Union Assembly the Rev. F. C. Spurr said it was the Sunday dinner that stood in the way of fuller church attendance. Both theories can scarcely be right (says the "Evening Standard.") Mr. Spurr suggested "the use of the electric or gas cooker" as a
means of recovering the morning service, but gas and electricity do not make dinners by themselves, neither does coal-fire cooking re- quire the attendance of the entire family. There is something rather appalling in the idea of the religious life depending on gas installations.
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There has been a battle be. tween two Upland ganders for the supremacy of the Long Water in Kensington Gardens (says a writer in the London "Evening News.") The contestants were old "Solomon," the patriarch of a young gander. the flock, and Their method of combat is inten-
Archduke Albrecht, of Hungary. one of the sons of the former Kaiserin Zits, who is a likely can didate for king of that country. Another son. Otto, who in older, is also a candidato.
sive, and would not appeal to many of our present-day boxers. With their sharp, strong beaks they pinioned each other by the neck, and then with blows of their powerful wings they endeavoured to beat the life out of each other. At intervals they ceased from this and each tried to force his opponent's head under water for drowning purposes. After some three or four minutes a row boat came up and parted the combatants. While the battle was in progress the other ganders and the brown geese swam round and round watching the progress of the fight.
The French law courts have been giving some picturesque de- cisions dataly. The series began with a re-affirmation of a hus- band's right to administer phy sical correction to A naughty wife, who was told that this gave her no ground for claiming a divorce. Then came the case of a
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man who had lent his motor-car to a lady. The lady had accident, and she asked for dam- ages against the man from whom she had borrowed the car. She got them, too-not as much as she claimed, but she got them.
The New English Dictionary, the most monumental work of its kind ever undertaken, when com- pleted this year, will contain 407,124 words, with 1,780,526 quotations. By far the heaviest letter is S, which yields 57,428 words, covering 2,408 quarto pages. The smallest letter is X, but this yields 286 words. Z has over 1,000 words and Q and J have over 2,000 each. The work has taken half a century to com- plete and only one of the original workers on the tome are left. That is Dr. James A. H. Murray, who was appointed Editor in 1879.
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Public appetite for wolf- child storles being apparently satiated the London Press is run- ning a baboon child as a silly season topic. It is stated that a German hunter, Herr Gutavi Reiss, relates how he discovered "baboon child” while. on a shooting, expedition in East Africa. As the story goes, Herr Reiss found an exquisitely beau- tiful half-caste girl in her late 'teens, living amidst a family of baboons, rescued her, and took her to Germany. Now, he states, he is bringing her to England to complete her education, and then he will marry her. When first she saw the hunters, the girl, who was as wild as an untamed beast, fled with the baboons. For three days Herr Reiss tracked her through the jungle. At times the girl swung through the trees from branch to branch, but even- tually fell exhausted. When Herr Reiss approached her the baboons defended the girl fiercely and had to be shot.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The death occurred at West Mr. M. Manuk, Miss E. Rickerby Ham after only a few days' ill and Mr. C. D. Robertson left the ness, of Mr. Harry Iggulden, a Coleny this morning by the "Tal- director of the West Ham Foot-ping" for Australia via Manila. ball Club. He had been associat ed with the club for nearly twenty years.
Einar Hanson, the Swedish stage and film star, has died in hospital, at Santa Monica, Cali- fornia, as the result of a motor smash. Hanson, who went to the United States two years ago, had starred with Pola Negri.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild who has already done great ser- vice to scientific research in France by creating the Roths- child Foundation, has made an-¡ other gift of 30,000,000 francs (£242,000) to the Foundation, for the purpose of endowing an institute for physical and chem- ical research as supplied to biology.
The Governor of Macao has telegraphed to the Governor of Hong Kong offering condolences jand indicating the profound re- gret with which Macao heard of the aviation tragedy involving the death of Lieut. Phillips. His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong has replied thanking the people of Macao on behalf of those of Hong Kong for their sympathetic message,
Dr. W. R. Inge, misnamed "the Gloomy Dean," who was sixty- | seven in mail week, may be counted a lucky man in so far
Among English residents in the Far East who are on their way back to Britain is Mr. O'Malley, wife of our Chargé d'Affaires in Peking, who is re- turning with her three children.
Countess Maria Cristina Dozzi Scali, of Roma, whose engagement to Gugifelmo Marconi, famous wire- fam inventor, has been announess.
Lady Clifford, wife of Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor Design- ate of the Straits Settlements, left London on June 2 to embark on the P. and O. s.s. "Rajputana" at Marseilles to join her husband, who is now at Singapore.
Prince Arthur of Connaught visited the ground of the Ealing Cricket Club, where a match was being played between a club eleven and the New Zealanders. Prince Arthur arrived at 3.30, and during the ter interval chatted with the New Zealand players.
The following announcement from the Central Chancery of the Orders of Kighthood appeared in the London Gazette: St. James's Palace, S.W.I., 3rd June, 1927. The KING has been pleased to appoint His Royal Highness The
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Holder of one of the oldest titles in the peerage, the Baroness Furnival is shortly to make her debut on the stage. Lady Furni vall, who is just 27, and is a A tea party was given by Dr. decidedly pretty woman with an that he has found the one posi- S. W. Tso, Hon. Commissioner extremely attractive personality, tion in the Church which seems of Police Reserve to the Chinese said to a reporter: "I intend to best calculated to give his pecu- Company of the Hong Kong take up the stage as career. At llar gifts full play. At Eton he Police Reserve, to-day, at 5.30 the moment I am unable to say was a shy and timid boy, who p.m., at the Savoy Hotel. Every much about my plans, but I expect gave no promise of the brilliant member of the Chinese Company that I shall make my first appear- career which followed at Cam was invited, and the opportunity ance at Manchester in a small bridge, and when he returned to was taken to discuss ways and singing part in a musical play. I his old school as a master means to increase the strength am hoping later to come to he could hardly be termed and to develop the usefulness of barony, which dates back to 1293, THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS ✩ success. When he tried the Company. parochial work he still fail-
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abandoned the experiment after The most Interesting of the six | favour in 1913. She married in a couple of years. Slowly he new baronetcies in the Birthday 1920 Lieut.-Commander. Augus- made his way as a writer and Honours is that: conferred on tine Willington Agar, V.C., R.N. lecturer, and was appointed Lady Lieut.-Commander Geoffrey Cect! She has had a certain amount of Margaret Professor in Divinity Congreve, son of the iste General experience as a film actress, and became Dean of St. Paul's in K.C.B., who died while serving Cooper in the Bim; "The Virgin 1911 that the richness of his as Governor of Malta. The hon- Queen." Lady Furnival is the scholarship, his powerful and our is doubtless in recegnition of only daughter of the late Bernard original mind, and his gift for Sir Walter's services, and would Lord Petre, while her husband, witty and epigrammatic expres probably have heen conferred who gained the V.C. at Kronstadt sion of his very decided opinions, upon him had he lived. It is for an attack on Bolshevik war- became known to and appreciated rare for a title to be bestowed in ships, was known by the public.
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