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Shanghai from Nanking
Mrs. Verne Dyson and her H.M.S. "Ghat has arrived in The half yearly general, ment daughter, Miss Caroline May Dyson, have returned to Shanghaf from'n vlaft of six months in Manila and on the Island of Cebu,...," "MA
Much comment has been arous- ed in Singapore, in view of the need for the better administration of the Stevenson Scheme to stop rubber amuggling, telegraphs the London correspondent of the "Free Fress."'
Several hundreds of disarmed soldiers of the 93rd division of the 31st Army arrived at Markham Road Station, under the escort of soldiers attached to the latArmy. They were transferred to Lunghus to be dealt with..
The Kuo Min news agency an- nounces that a branch office of the Shanghai Special Mincipality has been established "in the build ing of the Embankment Bureau. Mr. Wong Kuo-fang has been op pointed as resident official in charge of the office.
Mr. Justice E; Finley Johnson of the Philippines supreme court. who presided at the Shanghai Judicial Inquiry into the May 30 affair, is being urged to become a candidate for the office of governor-general of the Philippine Yslands. When asked ble view he said he would accept the position
Two Chinese cases of enteric. fever were reported in the Colony yesterday..
Ing of the Hong Kong Jockey Club will be held in the Club Room; Hong Kong Club annex on Satur day, October 29, at 12,30 p.m.
A number of mines will be test- and imprisoned in the archdiocese Aerodrome by the First Army Corps Five priests have been arresteded in the vicinity of the Lunghwa of Udine, Italy, no reason for the of the Military. Headquarters, a arrests having been given.
cording, to an announcement in the Chinese newspapers.
The Headquarters Wing of the 1st Battallon the Cameronians
Three hundred special detega (Scottish Rifles) giving a fare tives of the Fronch police have well dance at the Kowloon Dock undergone their piral practice reading room to-morrow evening at and will soon be posted on patrol 8.30 to which friends of the regi-duty by Wong Ching-roong coun ment are cordially invited.
A Russian woman detained in the women's cells at the Provisional Court, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, vented her apite upon the authorities by kicking the panels out of the wooden door of her room, damaging the door to the extent of $20,. She was sent to Jail for 10 days without the op- "tion,
Two 'Austrian students Willhem Ehrle and Waler Klansmeyer, paddled a canoe up the Thames to Oxford. They left Vienna on July 3 in their vessel which is of rubber, is 14 feet long and weighs 60 lbs., and they have come all the way by river and sea.
sellor to the police of the French Concession, it was announced by The Shanghai Journal of Com- merce
Police of the International.Set- tlement took charge of four, Chi.. nese gunmen and bad"""characters, who were recently sentenced to prison terms in the French Mixed Court. The four men were given sentences ranging from one to Ave! years. When arrested two of them had loaded pistols in their posses- sion. They are wanted by: Settle- ment police for armed robberies and murder the latter dating back to invaded a home in the Bettlement April 1925, when, armed robbers and shot and killed Teang Si-long, occupant of the home.
if it were offered to him by Pre-They crossed the English Channel sident Coolidge..
from Boulogne to St. Margaret'sed, Bay, in eight hours.
Perhaps fewer people see the Foreign Office List than even the London Gazette-and it may be as well, at least as far as confirmed residents in Shanghai are concern ed. Referring to this publication for details on another matter, one opened the book at random and was confronted with a page telling members of the Diplomatic Service what they must wear on specifle of casions, oven to the last button and coat linings, and how to put on their clothes. On the opposite page, was the startling heading:-"Unhealthy Places (revised July, 1921)," and in the list was Shanghal! It mat- ters not that accompanying it wore Hiogo (Kobe) and Kobe (see Hiogo), alao Chefeo, Dairen, Naga- saki, Mukden, Ningpo, Soochow, and a host of other places where one goes for a holiday, but the Health Department really ought to send some vital statistics to the Foreign Office."N.C.D.N."!
Charged with being an anti revolutionist and an oppressor of workers, a Chinese employee of the Nanyang Brothers' Tobacco Come pany was in custody of the Chinese military at Lunghwa, following his arrest at the factory. The em- ployee is reported to have attempted to incite the other workers to strike and to have made remarks un favourable to the Nanking govern- ment
Among the interesting events depicted in the topical gazette be Ing screened at the Queen's Theatre to-day is the launching of Britain's latest 10,000-ton cruiser, H.MS "London," and the inauguration of the Eucharistic Congress by Car dinai Boggiani with great pomp at Bologna. The gazette shows events that took place little more than three weeks ago, having been sent to Hong Kong by the Siberian route.
a Chinese youth presented him- -Shabbily dressed and bare foot-
self to the ticket seller on the Yau- mati Ferry 'wharf on the mainland on Tuesday night with the request to be allowed to sleep on the wharf. The request being ignored, the youth who appeared to be a lunatic doparted to sleep under a verandah oposite the wharf. Early the next? morning he made a dash on to the wharf and before anyone could stop him, took a plunge into the harbour. An alarm was raised, a would-be Chinese rescuer jumped in but no trace of the youth could be found. After what appeared: bobbed out of the water and im long while the supposed suicide mediately dived again when efforts were made to rescue him. When the bobbing one made his second appearance, he was grabbed and dragged on to the wharf, where he cooly explained that he did not want to die, but: had merely jumped in to get fish. Yaumati Police Station whence he He was taken to the
was later removed to the Lanatle Asylum
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Roger C. Tredwell of the American Consulate. Hong Kong, was a recent guest at the Chateau Frontenac:
The annual meeting of the Amerf can Club was held at the club last. week when Mr. E. Stocker was re- elected. President and Mr. A. Basnett Vice-President.
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Mr. W. M. Cranstun, a cashier at: Lloyd's Bank, Leicester, has won the prize of £10,000 in the charac ter ballot promoted on behalf of the Variety: Artista" and 'Cinema Trade Benevolent Fund.
When Mr. Edward Jarman, for nearly 52 years a postman, was presented at Taunton with the Im- perial Service Medal on his retire ment, it was stated he had never been aoncerned in one misdelivery of the millions of letters he had handled.
Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, Chief of the 'United States Division of Far Eastern Affairs, has been pro- moted Assistant Secretary of State: Mr. Johnson has held consular posts in Mukden, Harbin, Hankow, Chungking and Shanghai and hes been chief of the Far Eastern Divi- sion since July 1, 1925.
Messra. Lou Ben-cheong, Lou Lel-cheon and Lee Tin-sef, bankers of Hong Kong are on a visit to Malaya, and propose establishing a branch of the Oriental American Banking Corporation in Singapore, On arrival in Singapore last week, they called on the American and Chinese Consuls and were enter tained by merchants at a reception in the Southern Hotel
Lady Drummond Hay has arriv- ed in Singapore from Shanghaf.
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The King hah approved the ap pointment of the Duchess of York to be Colonel-in-Chief of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Mr. Chu Chae-hsin, formerly China'a delegate to the Laegue of Nations and now Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist Government, is expected to arrive In Shanghai from Canton.
Captain R. Neville, R.M.L.I., who was Private Secretary to His Ex- cellency Sir Hugh Clifford "<in Ceylon, has been appointed A.D.C. to the Governor of Bombay, Sir Leslie Wilson, P.C., G.C.LE
Governor-General Wood left an estate of $100,000, of which; 870,- 000 was personal property. This was disclosed in probate court at Barnstaple, Mass., when his widow. petitioned for appointment, as ad- ministrator. Apparently Governor. General Wood left no will
Inche Abdul Hrmid bin Datoh Kaya, Assistant C. LR, Klang, is now acting A. D. O. Klang, in place of Mr. E Jago, who has been 'trang- ferred to Kuala Lumpur to act as Second Magistrate. Mr. W. J. 1 Stark' will be stationed at Klangf 11 D..O. in place of Mr. F. W. Douglas
who is retiring."
Mr. Henry Ford, the automo bile magnate, whe "plating. - founding *.. Empire In Brazil.
The marriage arranged between Dudley Leonard King of Hong Kong, youngest son of the late Mr. George Lander King and Mrs. King, of Sutton, Surrey, and Violet Louise, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mra H. D. Searles-Wood, of Sutton, Surrey, will take place in November in Hong Kong
A cable has been received from Antwerp: announcing the death of The late Mr. Alfred Howe Collin-Many local residents are return- Mr. Adolphe Adler, member of the Bon C.B.E.M.L.C.Eof Hayling ing to-day by the P. and O. 1.3. High Council of Belgium; Chevaller: Island, Hants," from: 1908 to 1914 Macedonia, The Hong Kong list of the Order of Leopold; Officer, of Engineer-in-Chief associated with includes Lieut. 1M Ashby, the Order of the Crown com- the construction of the Shanghai- E.N. Mis H. Blekford MP) W. G. memorative medalinof #1914-1918 Nanking Railway, the Nanking, Bree, Mins 0. Bruty, Mr. V. C. Begg, campaign, Victory Medal Officer City Ballway, and the Hankow-Can- Mrs. L. Byron, Ming. Chedworth; Mr. the Order of the Lion and Son of ton Railway in China, formerly and Mrs. E. Cook, sy, A. O Perola, Mr. Adler, who - L Director-General of Inspection of Cooper, Mrs. R. E fon and father of Mrs. Rupert Manassen and Munitions of War, who died on nurse, Mr. WT Dinn
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