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New York, March 11.-President Coolidge has algued the Alien Property Act-Reuter's American Service.
Dr. P. II. Winfield, of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been elect- ed Rouse-Ball Professor of English Law at Cambridge.
Arrangements are boing made for King Amanullah of Afghanis tan to go down a coal-mine when he visits Manchester on March 27.
Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, is to net as his own pilot when making journeys of inspection to air clubs and civil aerodromes.
The official price of standard grade four in the Home Counties has been reduced from 429. Gd. to 425. per 240 hs., less 6d. to 1s, in the London district.
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Harry Anderson, aged 56, a man of colour, who was admitted to the Wells Workhouse, Somerset. January 26. has been found to be suffering from small-pox.
Thieves who broke into Holt Cottage, Kingston, Hill. Surrey, the residence of Dr. J. D. Clarke. took more than £40 in notes and cash as well as silver articles and other goods.
The Society of West End Theatre Managers is to urge the Honte Secretary to introduce legislation to remove the troublesome war time restrictions in places of entertainmont."
A notice. issued by the Speaker and posted in various parts of the reminds of Commons House members that smoking and the carrying of lighted cigarettes and, cigars in the lobbies and corridors are forbidden,
London, March 11.-Accompanied by her nurse the young Princess Yashimabet, daughter
Ray of Taffari of Abyssinia, was presented to the King and Queen at Bucking- ham Palace this morning.-British Wireless Servico.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright, Miss E. Ogilvie, Mr. H. H.. Hazelwood, Mr. W. E. Davies, the Rev. C. Alonzo and the Rev. A. Garcia were among the passengers who landed the at Hong Kong to-day an arrival of the "President Jefferson" from Manila.
General Chen Ming-chu, com- mander of the 11th Nationalist Army and the senior officer under Marshal Li Chai-sum, who was pre- sent at all the functions held in honour of the visit to Canton of H.E. the Governor.
The London Electric Rallway Company has again submitted to Hendon District Council a scheme in accordance with which tramway- cars passing along Finchley-road will cross the footpath and run direct into the Tabe station yard at Golders Green, N.W.
A number of shopkeepers in Hammersmith, W., are anxious to. see again the man who; posing ns the driver of a broken down motor-lorry, persuaded them to buy several bottles of coloured water at 9s. per bottle on the plea that they were the last of his load of whisky.
Savernake Forest Estate Com pany has been registered as a private. unlimited company with a nominal capital of £10,000 to acquire the life-interest of the Marquess of Allesbury in the Allesbury Family Estates, state Messrs. Jordan and Sons, Ltd., the Marquess of Alleabury being governing director and chairman, and the marchioness the only other director.
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Paris, March 11-The death is announced of M. Rean, the Freach Minister at Bangkok.-Router.
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Middlesbrough Corporation em- ployees are to be compulsorily re tired on pension at the age of 65.
London, Yesterday. The death | occurred to-day of Dr. Chavasse, aged eighty-two, one time Bishop of Liverpool-British Wireless Ser
více.
Mr. Ho Shu-lun, left on. Wednes- day, for Shanghai by the "Empress of Russia," on account of bad health. He regrets that he had no time to say farewell to his many relatives and friends:"
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No case of notidable disease, in the Colony was reported to the Medical Offee of Health on Satur day and Sunday.
The London County Council tramways department has installed car-washing machines in the depots and dispensed with the services of 300 cleaners.
Arrangements fer a pilgrimage to the cemeteries in the Salonica and Gallipoli areas, to begin in August, are being made by St. Barnabas Pilgrimages, 7, Hobart- place, London, S.W. 1.
The amount required for flood relief work, atates the Lord Mayor, is £97,000, of which £36,000 has in the various Passengers leaving Hong Kong been collected
on Saturday by the a.s. "Khiva" in-localities, while the Mansion House cluded:-Mrs. A. E. Jones and Fund amounts to £54,600.
child. Mr. L. Marks, Mr. II. J. Edze, Mr. F. Powell, Mrs. J. T..Layton,
The King WAS represented by
Engr. Capt. G. E. Bartlett, Tele-Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson at the funeral at Bembridge, Isle of graphist J. Barrett.
Wight, of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John de Robeck, who commanded the naval force at the Gallipoli landing.
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The Hull police have now re- covered five of the guiaca piga (some of which were. inoculated with the germs of an infectious disons) which were missing from the Hull infirmary research laboratories.
The Minister of Health, refuses to sanction 21 £9,700 loan for library Improvements by the West Ham Counell until the financial position in the area has improved and the rates are no longer at their present high level."
The Eton Rural District Council has passed a resolution deploring the City of London Corporation's proposal to lay out four acres in the heart of East Buranan Coramon, Buckinghamshire, as a recreation and sports ground,
The growing numbers of girls who are wearing German-dumped red, white, and black scarves, have. made the Old Pauline Society, St. Premier Mussolini, who, as re-Paul's School, West Kensington, change the design of ported on another page, has said decide to the last word in regard to the their old boy colours. Tyrol controversy with Austria.
"Plumb," the head waiter at the Lien Hotel, Cambridge, for more than 25 years, who at such func- tions as
the Beefsteak Dinner would appear in knee breeches und with his hair powdered, has died.
London, March 11.-The King has consented to become. Patron-in- Chief of the British Empire Ser- vice League of which the Prince of Wales is Patron. The King will therefore be Patron-in-Chief of the ex-soldiers' organisation through- out the Empire-Reuter.
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Prince and Princess P. G. Capece Zurlo, who live in Paris, were the round-the-world s.s. "President Pulk" which passed through Hong Kong during the week-end. They are going to Marseilles. The "Polk" had many other, passengers whose names are prominent in different parts of the world.
Lord Buckmaster (an ex-Lord Chancellor), who a few years ago embarked on a commercial career in the the City, has returned to judicial' business in the House of Lards and took part in the hearing of an income tax appeal.
St. Peter's Church, Great Wind- mill-street, Piccadilly Circus, W., which was threatened with de
The been saved.
General Wong Shiu-hung, à col- molition, has Ecclesiastical Commissioners have league of Marshal Li Chal-sum and unite chairman of the Kwangsi Provin- the scheme to abandoned
St. James's, cial Government, who was present the benefice with
8,000 at the official send-off to H.E. the More than Piccadilly, people signed a petition for the Governor at Canton yesterday. church's preservation.
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The London County Council w!!! A fairly large number of tour-consider à resolution suggesting ists, mostly Americans were in legislation placing definitely Hong Kong during the week-end. some authority, so far as They came on the "President Polk County of London is concerned, the which is in the Dollar round-the-duty of supervising, flood defence world service. The travellers went works along, Thames-side. sight-seeing and shopping together in accordance with the plans of a conducted tour and continued their voyage westward via Manila and Singapore,
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*London, Saturday. What the King and Queen of Afghanistan, who, will be accompanied from Dover by the Prince of Wales, reach Victoria Station on Tuesday afternoon and are met by King George and Queen Mary, they will
Contributions at the rate of 12,000 a day have been flowing in to the London Hospital, White- chapel, E., in response to the appeal for funda made by Lord Knutsford, the chairman. The contributions vary from
a three- penny bit to a cheque for £1,600 from a Kensington man who wishes to remain anonyinous.
The Committee on Municipal
be escorted to Backingham Palace Savings Banks, set up in 1926, re- by a brilliant cavalcade. The two ports that while such banks would Kings will ride in the first carriage provide some additional Incentive and in the second will be the two to thrift, the proportion of new Queens,
savings which they alone would obtain is small in relation to the whole; and it is considered that The China International Famine they might tend to increase Relief Commission, Peking, has remunicipal expenditure. ceived from their Shantung com mitter at: Talnanfu, the follow-
Through passengers on
ing:--The Yellow River broke bank Gerard Lee Bevan, the City "President Jefferson," which arriv near its mouth at Litsing. Shan- financier who, in December 1922, ed this morning from Manila, In- tung. About eighty villages were was sentenced to seven years' clude: Mr. C. H. Benson, Mr. and Inundated. Twenty thousand or ponai servitude for fraud In con Mr. H. T. Gillepale and Mr. H. A. more are made homeless. (Litsing tection with, the City Equitable. Smith for Shanghai; "Colonel C. H. helen, which lies in the north Fire Insurance Company, Ltd., Nance for Kobe; Mr. G. E. Reich and Mr. F. Deikhoff for Yokohama, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Krehglel for Honolulu; Dr. and Mrs. L. Free manandalik PNKS TAI for San Francisco, Bishop. and Mrs.
eastern corner of Shantung, was released from Maidstone where the Yellow River entera the Prison la mall week. He had sea. The Inst break in this vicini-served five years and three mon ty occurred in 1921 Detalls of of his sentence.
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