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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
London, Yesterday. The Cycle Race Committee of Shanghai has been affiliated to the National Cyclists' Union of England.-Reu- ter.
Field-Marshal
Mr. F. T. De Monte, Postmaster. General. Burma, has been appoint-Robertson haa
Sir
William been appointed
ed to act as Chief Engineer of colonel of the Royal Horse Guards" (the Blues) in succession to Earl Telegraphs, India.'
Haig.
A thief entered the third floor of Edgware's
ex- new telephone change, the most modern of the No. 49, Wyndham-street during the London manuai exchanges, has week-end and stole clothing and The thief been opened, the change-over of jewellery worth $440,
entered by forcing a side window 411 lines being seconds..
effected
In 8
Millicent Mrs.
Sinclair, of Twenty fat hoga have been Geneva-road, Stockwell, S.W., was found worried to death on a farm leaving King's College Hospital, nt Woolsthorpe, Grantham, Lin-where she had been treated as an colnshire, while four others were out-patient, when she was knocked maimed so badly that they had to down by a motor-car and had to be be killed.
taken back to hospital for treat. ment.
HEART MILLEN, WAIN, 9, &
Maralal Josef Pilsudski, Premler of Poland, whose power will he tested through the election of a the w diet. In his country. Pilsudski bas been the big man of Poland sluca 1926 and has kept larmony among the several political factions. The new diet, when elected, will have hefore It the adoption of a new can- stitution similar to that of the United States. if carried through. Si will undoubtedly mean that Pl ands
will become presilent.
Three cases of small-pox-N man, his wife, and 13-years-old daughter have been notified in the Holbrooks area of the Foleshili rural district of Warwickshire.
The Duke and Duchess of York have received a map of Mauritius, which they visited on their recent Australian tour. The map is of silver, white diamonds mark the sugar factories and rubies the lighthouses along the coast.
In a report to the police yester- day, the proprietor of a Chinese tobacco shop in Wellington-street alleged that a foki of a Chinese shop in Kowloon purchased goods at his shop to the value of $14, and tendered a $100 note for change. When the complainant examined the note closer after the man had left, he discovred that the bill was
a $10 note which had been alter- ed to represent $100.
For the purpose of raising funds' for the upkeep of various de- partments of activities of the Hop Yat Tong, Bonham-road, members of the Church of Christ in China gave an enjoyable concert during the week-end, to a large gathering which crowded the large, hall, Mies Violet Capell and her pupila con- tributed some excellent items, Miss Florence Wong played a pretty plano solo, the Chinese Orchestral Group which recently returned from Aus- tralia rendered some much appre- ciated juzz pieces, and
the 'pro- gramme closed with a Chinese play translated from the "Doll's House."
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At the Kowloon Magistracy yes. terday, Mr. W. Schofield imposed a fine of $3 or six days' jail on a Chinese woman for begging. As the woman had no money to pay the fine and had to go to jail, the Magistrate ordered her six-year- ald son to be sent to the Po Leung Kuk until the mother's discharge.
Two Chinese schoolboys had a quarrel in Yaumati on Saturday afternoon. Heated words led to blows when it was alleged that one of the lads stabbed the other in the Arm with a penknife. Yesterday the assallant was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy. Mr. Schofield srdered the defendant to receive six strokes, directing that if he were not fit to be chastised, he should go to jail for 14 days' with hard labour. The kaife was confiscated.
The choir of St. Clement's Church, Higher Broughton. Man- chester, recently were on strike because the rector, the Rev. Daft. objects to the holding of dances and whist drives by the church cricket club. The rector subsequently said: The choir members will not be reinstated. In reorganising the
choir I shall want certain men and women who will give me their assurance that they will have no- thing to do with whist drives or dancing. Church, schools are not the proper places for smoking.
Commandant Mary, Allen, head of thee women police of London, Eng land, who declares that men are very meek when arrested by members of her force, but the women, well that's another story, for they fight back. The chief of London's policewomen wants her fores to be put on the same standard as the male police de- partaient,
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The death rate in London in a recent week was 14.8 a thousand, compared with 12.9 the previous week, while in the great towns as a whole it was 13.8, compared with
13.2.
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At least 200 civilian pilots will take part in the air pageant at Blackpool on July 6 and 7, in ad- dition to at least an equal number | of members of the R.A.F. and fam- ous French and German airmen.
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Amman, TranaJordania, — Emir Abdullah, ruler of Transjordants, which, with leak, another deanst country, have been threatened with invasion by Ibn Saud, the King of the Hediaz and Sultan of Nejd, otherwise known as the "Arab Na- poleon." Both Transfordania and Irak are under British mandate, and Abdullah will ally with the British to stop the invading Iba Sand and his 20,000 marauding tribesmen.
The Medical Register contains the names of 53,769 doctors, an in- crease of 1,175 over 1927; and the Dentists' Register 14,676 names, an increase of 181.
To reduce the list of undefended divorce causes, it is announced that a supplementary list will be after issued forthwith and that
the week such causes may be in the list for hearing on any day before one or more courts.
A Chinese woman who was ar reated in Canton-road during the woek-end, was produced before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday charged with the unlawful possession of nine bottles The of dutíable Chinese wine. Magistrate imposed a fine of $25 and ordered the confiscation of the illicit liquor,
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Department yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Brother Aimar. Director
of St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong, was the only bidder at the sale of a lot of Crown land near Prince Edward-road, Kowloon. The land which has an area of 435,000 square fect and, is bounded on the south side by Boundary-street, Matauwei, was knocked down to Brother Aimar for $120,000. A condition of the sale was that the lot shall be built upah before the experiation of three years, and that the purchaser sum. not shall expend thereon a less than $350,000 in rateable im- provements. It is understood that the land was purchased by the Christian Brothers for the purpose of erecting a branch of St. Joseph's College on the mainland.
Count Apponyi, Hungary's grand
old man, who scored a success at
Mr. Harold Porter, British Con- sul-General, and. Mra. Porter, left Hankow
Geneva when the question of the the 18th last. for
confiscated by Shanghai, on the str. "Loongwo," A verdict of Accidental Death was Hungarian lands and thence on the P. & O. a.s. returned at the resumed inquest at Roumania came before the League, "Morea" to London. Mr. Porter la Cambridge regarding the death of received a tremendous ovation when leaving for eight months' furlough, Mr. Michael Seymour Spencer. he entered the Lower House. Mem- at the end of which time he will Smith, 46, of Norman House, Stanbers and Ministers rose and cheer- return to China, and very probably sted, Essex, a director of the Bank ed, the shouting lasting several to Hankow. Mr. Porter has been of England, who died, in hospital minutes. The Count had previous in China, in the diplomatic service on January 20 after a motor col- ly held a sort of impromptu recep. of his country, for the past 30 lision at the function of the New- tion in the Lobby, causing astonish
ment by the remarkable freshness years, and during that time has market-London and Cambridge- served in important posta in al- Lincolnshire roads near Abington, of his appearance and his buoyant cheerfulness. He was bombarded most every city of note. He has Cambridgeshire, the same morning with questions, to which he gave been stationed at Peking, Tientsin, Mr. Spencer-Smith's son Peter, mostly half-quizzical replies. Re- Canton, Chengtu, Wuchow, Ku-aged 14, who was with his father, garding the claims against kiang, Harbin, Shanghai, Mukden said that his, father sounded the Roumania, he said he was instruct- and in Korea as well. At the early horn loudly two or three times. He ing his son in the details of the age of 19 Mr. Porter first came to heard no answering sound of a contest because it seemed likely to Peking, as student interpreter at horn. They were about a quarter last so long that his son would have the Legation. Since that year he of the way across when he (Peter) to finish it, but he himself would has seen service in every part of had a glimpse of the other car and would go to Geneva In June as the China. "In the year 1900 he recaly-it seemed to be going very fast. Hungarian representative. He said ed the China medal with clasp for "Then there was a big bang and that M. Titulescu, the Roumanian his parts in the defence of the found myself lying on my back, Foreign Minister, was apparently Legation, and in June, 1926, he rewith the car on top of me." Mr. Geneva's pet child to whom every ceived the CM.G. He has been at Francis Hinson, a builder, of thing was forgiven. but at last Hankow in 1906 and 1907, and again Stamford, Lincolnshire, anid that Hungary had gained the great ad from March 23 to November 22, 40 yards away from the cross-vantage of improving her position. 1925, returning to that part on roads he sounded his hooter. He If Roumania refused to accept the May 23; 1927 as Acting Consul approached the cross-roads at League's decision the League would
promoted to rank of Consul-Gen- was struck and turned completely pral.
round.
devastatingËNat and the final settlement would be made Without Roumania
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