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Nearly 25,000 peonies in 200 сляев; sent by the Canadian Government as gifts to people in Britain to demonstrate the flower growing capacity of the Dominion wore unloaded at Liverpool from the liner Albertic.
A message from New York states that the Argentine loan mentioned yesterday has been over- subscribed.
Pictures showing at the cine- mas for the last time to-day are Harold Lloyd's great comedy. "For According to information re Heaven's Sake at the Queen's ceived the Kin-Han railway again Theatre: Jack Huxle's Western Is cut, preventing trains running atory, "Bustin-Through," at the from Hankow to Chengchow, The World Theatre; and a drama of nearest break is reported just the gold rush. "The Chechahcoa" north of Wushenkman, but who at the Star Theatre. caused this is not known. It fa
stated that in consequence times
of departure for trains north r-a Indefinite.
A telegram from Hankow, published by the "Sin Wan Pao," Chinese newspaper, states that Borodin and eight other persons have been detained at Singan. Na confirmation of this statement could be obtained, although the Chinese paper states that the in- formation was obtained by * lable aource.·.
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Reports from Moscow say that Bucharin, speaking at a big army | parade, prophesied that the Aus trian revolt will be followed by similar uprisings all over Europe. After Bucharín's address War Com- missar Woroshilow reviewed 100,-" 000 Red Army troops and women battalions. Twenty tanka and many aeroplanes participated in the show.
For the first time since the sales of scrapped ships to Mr. Henry Ford, in 1925, the United States Shipping Board Merchant' Fleet Corporation is understood to be considering inviting, blds on its Jaid-up feet. The Fleet Corpora tion has 129 shipa, ranging from 7,500 to 10,000 tons. These ships are scattered throughout the laid-| up fleet,
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Hamon de Valera, leader of the Republican Party in Ireland.
An anti-Japanese periodical ia soon to make its appearance in Shanghai, according to a state- ment by officials of the Anti- Japanese Boycott Federation. The officials say that the periodical will be sent to all who ask for it.
Victor John Murley, a 19- year-old sailor on board the U.S.S. "Jason," fell overboard and was drowned on the night of July 20, while the vessel was in Zamboanga. Murley was a good swimmer, but, as he fell a distance of about 40 ft., it is thought that he was stunned by the fall and thus was unable to help himself.
The U. S. Government has given a contract to the Glenn Mar) tin Acroplane Company of Clevo- land (Ohio), to build 84 bombing and torpedo 'planes of a new design for the US. Navy at a cost of £300,000. The Navy Department has also taken an option for the purchase of 96 'planes of the same type within five weeks.
On the walls of the new memorial to the British troops at Ypres there are inscribed the names of 68,650 dead.
The great arch which was designed by Sir: Reginald Blomfeld, la dedicated to "the armies of the British Empire: who stood here from 1914 to 1918, and to those of their dead who have no known grave."
The latest exchanges tell of a person who played 300 consecutive holes with one golf ball. And he did not have a caddy, His name is W. H. Pratt and he is a mem-. ber of the Marshfield Golf Club, which is in Americo. He says he is 100 per cent American and that his ancestors go far enough. back to eliminate the inherited influences of any other country; all were Americans of .the game Ingredients.
Three Penang residents motor- ing to Ipoh met with a mishap near Kuala Kangsar... The weather was drizzling and as the result of a To remind the citizens of skid the car appears to have turn- K. Yamato, proprietor of the Tokyo, and other neighbouring ed turtle. Dr. A. O. Merican was Lusen Paper Mill in Chapel, has towns of that terrific nation wide pinned underneath and rendered been released from custody by the Yamato Was disaster, the great earthquake of temporarily unconscious. Mr. Ong Chapel police. 1923, on September 1, the fourth Huck Kent sustained a broken arm. arrested following a fight on the anniversary, the Earthquake Mem-Dr. Merican was removed to Kuala mill premises, during which he was orial Fund Association will collect Kangaar hospital and after treat- assaulted and beaten by former emergency funds in preparation for ment was brought to Penang in workers of the mill. The milk; it future misfortunes. On the same H.H. the Sultan of Perak's car, His was stated, has been closed a num-| day, incidentally, 340 dry associa- Highness having learnt of the accf- ber of months, due to financial The workers are re- tions all over the country will ob- dent and placed his car at the dis-difficulties. serve "Sakeless Day," showing the posal of Mrs. Merican who had ported to have assaulted Yamato nation how to save four million gone up from Penang. Mr. Meri-because their wages have not been yen dally,
ean's car was badly smashed. paid.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. G. L. Ward, of the Planters' Among those arriving by the Stores, Kuala Lumpur, has return-"President Jefferson" yesterday was ed from Singapore and resumed Mr. A. Brostedt, of the Canadian duties.
National Railways.
Several Asiatic nurses from the Southern Settlements have joined the staff of the General Hospital, Seremban, taking the place of those who have resigned.
Mr. Charles Rhys has been appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister during the absence through india- position of Captain Sidney Herbert, M.P.
Viscount Burnham presented Dame Henrietta Barnett with a portrait of herself at the Institute, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., in recognition of the services she has rendered to the garden suburb.
A woman architect. Miss Eliza- beth Scott, is included in the group of 6, chosen from 74 compet- ing architects from all over the world, to submit further designs for the re-building of the Shakes- peare Memorial Theatre.
Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, chief of the United States Division of Far. Eastern Affairs, has been promoted Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Johnson has held consular posts in Mukden, Harbin, Hankow, Chung- king and Shanghai and has been chief of the Far Eastrn Division since July 1, 1925. He is a mem- ber of the North China (British) Royal Asiatic Society and the American Society of International Law.
Mr. J. H. Vallender, of the Dunlop Rubber Company, Rantau, will be leaving Malaya shortly for Home on eight months' leave.
Mr. Tom King, local, manager of Linotype and Machinery Ltd., is leaving the Colony to-morrow on a short business visit to Haiphong and Hanoi, and will be back be- fore the end of September.
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Count Manzoni, Italian Am- bassador to France, who it is rumoured will become, Italy's representative in the United States in the near future.-
A meeting is to be held at the Port Dickson Club on Sunday, September 4, to discuss the forma- tion of a Sailing Club..
Dr. P. C. Buck, King Edward VII Professor of Music at London University, has been appointed to the new Chair of Music at Sheffield University.
Admiral Bristol, the new Com- mander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asia- tic Fleet, accompanied by Mrs.. Bristol, will arrive in Shanghai by the Messageries Maritimes "Athos II,"
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Northern papers report the mar riage in Tientsin of Miss M. Mar jorie Vardon, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Vardon, of Peking, and Mr. Norman E. Els- worth, of the Salt Administration, Taiyuanfu.
The Panchan Lama who is now
in eastern Mongolia is to be com- missioned by the reking Govern- ment as a special appointee for the purpose of preventing the Mongo- lians from becoming affected with Soviet Russian Ideas.
The women who compose the harem of the Sultan of Jolo are deserting the harem one by one. Recently Mora Itti, 20 years old, deserted the barem to marry the clerk of the court of first instance of that province. Now Mora Sadom: han deserted the harem. There are now only four women in the harem and fear is entertained that in the not distant future not one will be left."
Mr. Frank Kingdon-Ward, the
Passengers arriving at Hong explorer, and Colonel Roosevelt-
Kong yesterday by the · 8.8. who is recently back from his Cen.)
"Chenonceaux" from Shanghai: Ine tral Asian expedition, are planning
cluded the members of the Broad- to meet next year on the north-
way Follies company which is to eastern frontier of India. Mr.
| give a short season at the Queen's: Kingdon-Ward leaves England soon
Theatre, beginning to-morrow. The after Christmas to collect plants
company comprises Mr. Joseph The manager of the Broadway Cherping and Miss Helen Cook, late and other specimene for Kew, Edinburgh, and the Natural His Follies company which is to give a principal dancers with the New short: Beason at the Queen's York midnight revis, Sgr. Adolfo tory Museum, as well as for a syndicate of well-known horticul: Theatre beginning to-morrow is Bellotti, famous tenor, late of the turists. Mr. Kingdon-Ward was at Mr. Charles Hugo, who is well, Metropolitan Opera Company, and one time a school master in Shang-known in the Colony as a former seven young ladies of the ballet. hal
manager of the Star Theatre. Mr. Hugo, who is taking the Broadway Follies on a tour of the world, Is accompanied by his wife..
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Mr. Aw Boon-haw, whose name The seventeenth International
has been prominently associated Congress of Orientalists will be
with various philanthropic objects hold at Oxford in the week begin With Mr. Charles Levine, the in Singapore for many years and ning Aug. 27, 1928. The President American millionaire who flew whose charitable inclinations have will be Lord Chalmers, .G.C.B across the Atlantic with Mr. been of much beneft to many of LLD., D.Litt., and the General Clarence D. Chamberlin, again so his less fortunate fellow-country- Committee, comprises the members much in the public eye, owing to men, announces in offer of free of the Board of the Faculty of his dash to London, It is interest coffing to poor families who cannot Oriental Languages at Oxford. In- Ing to note that the topical gazette afford to bury their dead relatives. cluded in the Organising Commit at the Queen's Theatre to-day This form of charity. seem tee Is Professor W. E Soothill, shows the aerial arrival of Mr. unusual in Western, syes - but... a Sections have been constituted pro- Chamberlin in London after his similar offer a few months ago viaionally which include Central disagreement with Mr. Levine over shewed it to be of considerable help and Northern Asia, with Tibet; the the return journey across the to many phor familles" in': Binga Far East; and Oriental Art.
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