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Sung Dung-sung, bookseller was nod $300 in the Shanghai Provisional Court, for selling Indecent literature.
The Chapal police have arrested a man who was found in possession of two water-melons so ingeniously cut as to conceal several catties of opium.
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A Moscow message state that: 16 people were killed and 25 seri-
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Tsu Mou-liu, a deck-hand of one: of the Glen Line steamers, was fined $40 in the Shanghai Provisional Court for being in possession of two automatic pistols. Accused said he found the pistols In a bucket no he was painting the vessel and ao! he brought them ashore, intending to sell them.
The Nationalist Government at
To what extent the anti-dap- Nanking has decided to initiate an income tax which will be first tried anese boycott craze about Shanghai on the staff of the government and is going to be carried remains
A resolution that "the recogni- "other organisations." The amount question, but the Chinese trades- collected will be used as pensions folk at Dairen seem disposed to for the relatives of those "who have suspend shipments of goods South tion of a teacher by the Board of fallen upon the battlefield in the China way," states the "Manchuria Education for teaching service in
Daily News." cause of the Revolution."
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A first and final dividend of $30 per cent. has been declared in the matter of John Melville Ander- son, deceased, and a first and final dividend of $7.20 per cent, has been declared in the matter of Wong Shing, deceased, formerly trading as Sang Loong & Co., at No. 76, Wellington Street.
The Chapel Chamber of Com- merce has protested to the Nanking Government against the collection by the Anhul authorities of a special tax of 20 per cent. on cigarettes produced by a local company which already has paid the 50 per cent. luxury tax in accordance with the Government's recent proclamation.
The second Asiatic 'Race Con ference probably will be opened in Shanghai on November 1. The original arrangement was that it should be held in. Peking, but the situation in North China has proved a serious deterrent to the scheme, The Nanking Government takes much interest in the proposed con. ference.
Gen. Mn Yu-jen, formerly Com- missioner of Defence for North Kiangsu and a commander in the Shantung Army, who was captured by the Nationalists some months ago and only recently released from prison under a pardon from Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, is understood to have come to Shanghal to receive treatment for wounds.
Members of the British Mission at Moscow have now returned to London and they, with Sir Robert Hodgson, the head of the Misalon- who was on leave in England when relations with the U.S.S.R. (Bol- shevist. Russia) were severed-were at the Foreign Office.
a State-afded school should expire on the teacher attaining the age of 60" was defeated by a large' majority at the conference of the Association of Education Commit- teen at Caxton Hall, Westminster.
At the Central Magistracy on Saturday, Major C. Willson fined a motor car tout $10 for sollelting fares, and an additional fine of $25 for offering a bribe of $2 to a Chi- nese constable who arrested the ac- driva After a long sitting a confer-cused as he was about to ence in London between the Ship- away with two customers. On the building Employers' Federation and way to the Central Station, the ac representatives of several unions, cused pressed the $2 into the con- which had made application for an stable's hand, and suggested that as they were fellow countrymen, advance in wages of 10s. per week, the constable should let him go. with a proportionate increase for piece-workers, was adjourned.
In view of the embargo placed on the export of foodstuffs to north China by the Nationalist author- ities, a number of merchants deal ing in such goods have decided to send their supplies of foreign flour to the north from Hong Kong, and their Saigon rice direct from the south.
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Yesterday afternoon was ideni for the bathing and open air music provided for Service men and mem- bera of the publle by the Kowloon The swimming Dock realdéntial community at the beach yesterday. facilities there are excellent and the playing of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, with Pipers and Drum- mers left nothing to be desired. The conductor, Bandmaster W. H. Fitz Earle, is to be congratulated on tne very fine programme of musical' According to a Russian contem items rendered, among which the porary, Comrade Bukharin, Vice-Scottish songs and dances figured Chairman of the Third Internation- prominently. Ladies of the Kow- al, whilst addressing a secret ses-loon Dock Recreation Club waited! slon of the executive committee, on the visitors at refreshment time! said that Russia had no fear of the and earned the thanks of all who "Yellow Peril." He urged that all were present. The Kowloon Dock proletarians should unite and help community is to be congratulated the Chinese revolutionists in their on affording the Service men and movement until they had achieved others with the opportunity of success, after which they would join apanding such enjoyable Sunday
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The Colonial Auxiliary, Forces has been Long Service Medal awarded to Sergeant H. K. C. Tobutt, M.S.V.R., and Lieut. C. L. Chapman, M.V.I.
Mr. Plesman of the K.L.M. and Mr. Delprat of the Netherlands Steamship Co. intend visiting Java during the latter part of this year in connection with the civil aviation plana.
A Reuter, message from Toronto Bays that the Biennial congress of the World's Federation of Educa- tion Associations has elected Mr. P. W. Kuo of Shanghal, one of its vice presidents.-Reuter,
The Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Journalists' Association of India, Bombay, has received a letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw Bay- ing that there is no truth in the report that he has accepted an in- vitation from Dr. Tagore to visit India.
Recently in Penang Wor. Bro. D. MacKinnon was installed Rt. Wor. Master of Lodge Scotia, No. 1003, S. C., by the District Grand Master of the Eastern Archipelago, Wor. Bro. P. J.. Sproule. Over sixty people sat down to dinner, the guests including representatives of Lodges Royal Prince of Wales, Kedah, and Krian.
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H. H. the Sultan of Kedah had a narrow escape a few days ago, He was riding in his carriage and nenring his residence when the The horses shield into a drain. occupants of the carriage were also thrown down the drain and a water- fall. Dr. Gomez, a passer-by, as sisted the Sultan out of the drain.. His Highness: was unhurt except for a shaking.
of Court List of Dr. J. F. Rock, botanical ex- On the Inns Calls to the Bar of June 29 are plorer for the U.S. Department of i the names of two local men, L.Agriculture, is returning home to D'Almada E. Castro, B.A. (Oxon), the United States, after doing re- and A. J. Braga.
Mr. H. A. F. B. Archer, vice- consul in the Shipping Office of H. B. M. Consulate, Shanghai, was passenger for Marseilles on the P. & O. 9.3. "Kashgar.".
Chuan-fano. Gen. Sun time defender of Shanghai.
one-
search work in Yunnan,
Mr. W. R. Fleming, hon. Conduc- tor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society has reaigned his post owing to his impending departure, and Mr. W. H. Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M. has, with the permission of the Officer Commanding the 2nd Battalion. K.O.S. Borderers, undertaken to conduct.
Japan papers state that the mar- riage of Mr. A. F. Handcock and Mrs. M. V. Appleby was the socful event of last week in Yokohama. A reception was held afterwards.at the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, of which Mr. Handcock is local agent.
Mr. Handcock is a very popular and a well-known figure in the port and has been in the Orient for 15 years.
H.E. the G.O.C. Malaya, Major-1 General C. C. Van Straubenzee, C.B., C.M.G., accompanied by Mrs. Van Straubenzee, visited Port Dickson last week. After witness- ing the Volunteers at work in the camp, H.E. dined with Lieut.- Colonel W. R. Meredith, D.S.O,, Commandant, M.S.V.R., and the Volunteers, 72 members being pre- sent, which is a record for the meas,
Dr. Edward Hindle has been elected to the Bait Senior Fellow- ship for research in-tropical medi- cine, of a value of £1,000 for five Mr. J. B. Penman has been ap years, in respect of the subject of "Spirochaetosis; with special re- pointed Naval Store Officer at Gibraltar. He was the Deputy ference to the causation of yellow Naval Store Officer at Rosyth fever. Dr. Edward Hindle has The Moslem community Bus Dockyard at the end of the war, been during the past two years em- tains a great loss in the death and left there in October 1919 to ployed in the Kala-azar Ceamfs- of Mrs. D. Rumjalin who passed become Principal Store Officer at sion's research work in North away yesterday at her residence, Hong Kong. He has been in China. He is one of the most die- 43. Whitfield, Causeway Bay.. De charge of the Naval Store Depot tinguished Anglo-American biolo- ceased, who was well known in the at the West India Docks, London, Colony, and was prominent, in the since October 1923. He relieves social, life of the Moslem commun Mr. Q. B. Stantan at Gibraltar, ity, leaves a husband, son and two who has held the position since daughters. The funeral took place
December 1922;" yesterday afternoon, and was large- ly attended
gists.
Delegates to the third blennial conference of the British Empire Service League were,, at Bucking- The following appointments in ham Palace, presented to the King by Field-Marshal Earl Government Service are notified in
A letter from the Rev. E. F. the "F.M.S. Gazette" of July 221 Halg. On Mr. T F Lister, who Borst-Smith, pastor of the Shanghai Mr. F. 8. Banfield to be a Horticulhas retired from the chairman- ship of the League and has Union Church, states that he has tural Assistant, Agricultural Dept, become vice-president, the King been preaching in Marylebone Mr. S. J. Millen to be an Assistant conferred the C.B.E., and Captain Presbyterian Church for Dr. Gillle Traffic Manager, F.M.S.R., Mr. Dyett, of the Returned Soldiers and has met some old friends of HW Hamilton to be a Surveyor and Sailors Association of Aus Union Church in England, amongst on-Agreements Mr. J. G. Crawford tralia, received the C.M.G. When tham Mr. W. H. Poste. He visited to officiate as District Officer, Ulu the conference of the League was Bognor and mat Dr. Darwent, the Langat; Dr. C. E. Cobb to act as resumed it was announced that, brother of the late pastor, the Rev. Senior Officer, Negri Sembilan, Mr. in addition to Sir Aba Bailey's C. E. Darwent, Mr. and Mrs. Borst J. A. Hunter to act as Secretary to gift of land in Rhodesia, an offer Smith have booked their return President, Selanger; and Mr. S of more than 1,000 acres of land passages to Shanghai by the Willbourn to act na Geologist, in Alberta, Canada, had been
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