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Last night a small fire broke out in a chimney at No. 174, Eastern- streat. The flames werd aubdued by the Inmates of the house before the arrival of the fire brigade.
GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Athens, May 13.-The Cabinet. A first and final dividend of 58 has decided to stabilug the drachma cents per share has been declared at 375 to the pound sterling by in respect of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., Ltd. (in Legislative Decree.--Reuter.
voluntary liquidation).
Moscow, May 13-3,008 inhabit-
A meeting of the Shanghai Royal Geneva, May 13.-Max Huber, of ants of the town of Sassoro near Zurich, ex-President of The Hague Rlazan have been rendered home-Asiatic Society was held in the International Court, has been ap-less through a fire in which 600 lecture hall, last Thursday when a pointed President of the Inter- houses were destroyed and several cinematograph display was given national Committee
Cross. Reuter.
01 the Redves lost.-Router.
Dr. C. T. Wang; president of the National Road Construction Asso- the ciation, has telegraphed to
recom- Nationalist. Government mending that war prisoners should of for the construction be used roads to connect Shanghal, Hang- chow and Nanking.
For picking the pocket of n compatriot and stealing a wallet con- taining $25 and a season tram le- ket, a Chinese who was on Saturday charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy was sen- tensed to three months' hard labour. The theft occurred in Queen's-road East on Friday afternoon.
Boston, May 13.-Mr. Green, President of the American Federn- tion of Labour, in an announcement invelghs against the increasing. Communistic influence In the United States Labour Uniona, He declared that when it reaches auch a point that the Communists gain control of an affiliatod union, that union will be wiped out and another formed to fight it--Router.
Kovno, May 13.The Polish de- legation, visiting here with a view to establishing an understanding and Lithuania, between Poland
was subjected to a hostile demon- stration on returning from a joint committee meeting. The police In- tervened and disposed of the de- monstrators, who were principally students, before any grave cident had occurred.-Reuer.
Sen. Cole Please, of South Caro Coa, who may tanu his bat into the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination, it has been learned. His statement came in a clasti witla Senator Wills, of Ohio, Republican presidential candidate over a bill to regulate shipments of prison made goode to inter-state commerce, in which Senator "Blease declared "I may be a candidate for president myself one of these days, and '1 want my position clear."
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Cardinal Mundelein, Archblahop of Chleage, now in Rome, Italy, who asserted after an interview With Pope Pius that the Vatican is not interested in the campaign of Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, for the presidency of the United States: The Cardinal stated that in both bla audiences with the Pope, no mention was made of the subject. He declared that the American political campaign in zoo far away from Rome and the lates too involved and that the Vatican knows that if a Catholic were elect ed President it would not change things one particle.
by Mr. H. Kato, entitled "Science and Industrial Japan." The chair was taken by Sir Sidney Barton.
The recent armed robbery at No. 155, Hollywood-road had its sequel at the Central Magistracy on Saturday when two, Chinese were charged before Major C. Willson with having been concerned in the affair with others not in custody. A week's remand was given.
Through passenger trains are now available between Pukow and Hauchowfu and there is an ir- regular service as far north as Taian. The administration pects that there will soon be pas- senger trains running to Tsinan. says a Shanghai contemporary to hand.
Ex-
A Chinese employed at Sincere's was charged before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy on Saturday, with the theft of five dozen singlets. Accused pleaded "guilty." It was atated for the prosecution that the accused worked in conjunction with a bogus cus- tomer to whom he handed out the singlets in small lots from time to time,
A strong body of police carried out a raid on Saturday in a house in Shanghai-street, Yaumati. A search of the premises resulted in the seizure of two revolvers and some ammunition. Sixteen male suspects, found
on the premises were detained for- investigation. It was stated that the men were sus- pected of having been concerned in the armed robbery at the Chinese Major C. Willson on Saturday Insurance Company in Des Vœux- passed sentence of 48 hours' deten-road Central. tion and twelve strokes of the birch on a Chinese youth who admitted a charge of picking the pocket of a Chinese messenger boy and stealing $4 in money.
Stated by the police to be making a living out of collecting discarded vegetables from the Central Market and hawking them in Graham- street, an aged Chinese woman was on Saturday charged before Major C. Willson at the Central Magie- tracy with causing an obstruction
in that thoroughfare by displaying her vegetables on the pavement. A fine of $4 or seven days' jail was imposed.
Geneva. By order of the official receiver, Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Maria Henrietta, wife of King Charles- 1. of England, is to be sold. by auction at Geneva. The picture, which was formerly in the Hermitage Museum at Petrograd, has since changed hands many times. Shortly be fore the Russian revolution it was taken to France. Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria came into the hands of a Polish nobleman, Count Karnick, who deposited it in a Geneva bank.. After his death his creditors claimed the picture and it WHE sequestrated.
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Henry G. Chilton, counselor, of the British Embassy to the United States, who has been appolated by hia government to be Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See in Rome, Italy, Mr. Chilton has been with the Embassy in Washington since 1924, and entered the diplo matic, scrvice in 1902. .
Not content with writing plays, On Saturday Major C. Willson passed sentence of three months stories, and articles, and his racing,
Mr. Edgar Wallace has now become A Chinese woman appeared be- hard labour on a, Chinese pick
at the a theatrical manager. He has fore Major C: Willson pocket who was arrested in the
on Saturday of the Central Magistracy Post-office on Friday whilst in the
Theatre, Shaftesbury-, together with two children charged act of stealing 37.72 from the Apollo pocket of M. Abdulah, an Indian avenue, where his play "The Man with the theft of a roll of silk from the Popular Silk Store, Pedder- Who Changed His Name" is run- schoolmaster, The complainant felt a tug at his pocket whilst hening, and he will be in control there street. She argued that if she had until the autumn. "I think The Intended to steal, she certainly was at the registration counter, and Man Who Changed His Name' would not have taken the children hand which was in his right coat will last out my tenancy, but if it along with her. After evidence was pocket. A purse containing the does not I have one complete play taken, the Magistrate convicted the money was actually in the accused's and, another play on the stocks woman and imposed a fine of $10,
with which to follow it," Mr. or 14 days' hard labour. Wallace told a reporter. The first
More than 280 MPa belonging Paris-Knee bracelets in, finely thing he did when he took over the woven gold or platinum, set with theatre was to have his own picture
removed from the programme. to all parties in the House diamonds and other precious The next thing was to fastal, his Commons signed a petition present- stones, are the latent Paris society wife in novelty, They were seen for the
an office at the theatre, ed. to the Prime Minister asking first time at a dance at the Lido where she represente him when he that facilities should be afforded the Venice of Paris.
is busy elsewhere. The short skirts of the day allow the bracelets
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for the passage of the Greyhound Racing. Bill introduced by Colonel John Buchan,, M.P. The object to be seen at frequent intervals Paris. After more than six of the Bill, which has received a during the dance, the gems with weeks consideration, the Paris first rending, is to give local which they are set flashing, and. Correctional Court has handed to authorities power to determine disappearing alternately as the the care of their adoptive mother whether the establishment of grey- wearer moves. Some of the the three children of another, wo-hound racing tracks in the areas bracelets seen were stated to have man by whom their father had been under their jurisdiction should be cost tens of thousands of pounds. murdered. The real mother, Mile. permitted,
Leonie Gerard, ahot and killed, M.
New York, The United States Victor Deprez, in whose employ she recovered another aeroplane record had been as typist and secretary Arrested on board the .8.6. when Mr. George Haldeman, for 26 years. During all this time "Kongning” on May 11 with a 25 accomplished an endurance flight Mme. Deprez had tolerated her Colt automatic, pistol and 200 of 63hr, 23min. Sizec. The pre husband's mistress and brought up rounds of ammunition, a Chinese vicus record, an hour less, was held her three children. But the mis was charged bofore Major C by German sirmen, who won the tress could not andure her lover Willson at the Central Magistracy record from Clarence Chamberlin, taking up with another woman on Saturday The defendunt - who the American Trans-Atlantic, much younger than herself, and in stated that he had just returned filer. Mr. Haldeman, who was a fit of jealousy she shot him. A from Sydney, Austrails, on board the pilot
the Trans Parisian jury, acquitted her, and the .5. Tanda" told the Mogle- she demanded her children from .trate that he was taking, the arm the woman she had arst robbed of for self-protection to Pakto, his was her husband's affection and then native pace in the country. A fine widow. The courts grant of $100 was imposed, and the arts custody of the three children and ammunition were ordered to be
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