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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
A Chinese, living on the first
On Saturday- thief entered a floor of No, 35, Queen's-road Cen-Chinese shop, at No. 361, Shang- tral reported to the police on hai-street, Yaumati, and atole $152 Saturday that a fokl, whom he dis-In banknotes from the till. missed recently, had absconded with goods valucil at $210.
At a recent meeting of the Kiangsu Provincial Government, it was decided that a sum of $100,000 be remitted to the relief committee of Shantung towards the relief fund
At the Central Magistracy on
The Chinese Residents' Union fa Peking telegrams to the Chinese Saturday, a Chinese was charged, press report that the Northeastern before Major C. Willson, with the' in receipt of a letler from Mr. Hu Dockyards at Hulutao, Fongtien theft of two pieces of silk from the Wen-hu, Singapore, stating that he Province, which was formally open-Kam Sang Company, of No. 22, is remitting $10,000 to be used for He pleaded the relief of wounded soldiers at ed recently, when 18 northern men- Bonbam - `strand. of-war will be taken in for repairs, "guilty" and was sentenced to four; the war front.
weeks' hard labour.
The Shanghai Chinese Y.W.C.A. wishes it to be understood that the telegram to Geneva concerning the recent Tainan incident was sent by Chinese women's organisations and that the Foreign Y.W.C.A. had no connection with it
Dr. and Mrs. Kreig and their daughter have left Peking together with Sisters A. Ernest' and L. Doctling of the German Hospital for Germany. Dr. Kreig is one of the popular German doctors of the capital. They will travel via Siberia.
Several scholarships for Chinese girls have been made possible by the annual garden party and play of the Peking American College: Women's Club The Club also maintains burchu in Peking to help Chinese girls select the schools they desire to attend in the United States.
The Colonial Offie, London, an- пописев that Mr. Luke, Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, has been appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of Palestine, in succes- sion to Lieutenant-Colonel Symes, whose appointment as Resident and Commander-in-Chief at Aden was recently approved by the King.
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Nice, France. The latest picture of Prince Carol of Romania. In an interview he said he wished to come to America and meet the people there face to face.
Provisional,
The latest innovation in broad- casting in Tokyo la to provide a "police, hour." During that period there will be announcements about children lost and found and about criminals wanted"
A consignment of rice, consisting of 90,000 piculs, for the soldiers at the front, arrived at Nanking from Anhwei last week. The Quarter- | Master-General's Headquarters is immediately dispatching half of the consignment by special milltary train to the front,
A Chinese painter was on Satur- day charged before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy, with the theft of a marka-| man's "cross-guns" badge belong- ing to Private Thomas of the Queen's Regiment, stationed at Hankow Barracks, Shamshuipo, where the accused was engaged do- ing some work. The case was ad- journed.
At the Kowloon Magistracy, on Saturday, Mr: W. Schofield impos- ed a fine of $50, or four weeks' hard labour, on a Chinese for the unlawful possession in Jordan-road of five bottles of Hennessy Brandy, believed to have been stolen. He claimed that the liquor had been given to him by a friend on a Jar- dine steamer, which had slready. left the Colony.
In view of the fact that the Dritish Court Marshal informed His Honour Judge G. W. King that
Much of the intereat at the wed- T. Stenger is not registered at the In the Shanghai Consulate as a British subject, the Court, Mr. C. E Whitamore, ding at St. Mark's, 'North Audley- a street, of Miss, Lettice St. Maur, Court adjourned the action of the Senior Consul's Deputy, entered Russian Ex-Officers' Club against formal protest against the dis-daughter of the late Lord and Lady the defendant. The claim was for missal of charges against two Percy St. Maur, and Major R. L well-known polo refreshments supplied and club fees alleged armed robbers, as follows:-McCreery, the amounting to $60.32. His Honour advised plaintiff to ascertain the nationality of the defendant and if he was not found to be a British aubject action could be taken in the Provisional Court.
Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain snapped at an out-doer luncheon in Madrid, Spain,
who
"I consider that the judgment in player, was centred in Commander
two dismissed Daniel, late of "Royal Oak," respect of the accused is against the weight of attended the wedding, and whose evidence and recommend, that the little son was one of the two little police should appeal against the pages in attendance on the bride. sentence." Accused are being held
in custody, pending the police appeal
On inquiry of the Earl of Birkenhead's regarding the report that he will leave politics after the next General Election and go into the City, the Press Association was informed by 'Lord Birkenhead that It was untrue. "There is nothing in the rumout whatever," was Lord Birkenhead's statement. [Persist- ent rumours, so circumstantial that they had obtained credence in usually well-informed quarters, have been current for some time, crediting Lord Birkenhead with the intention of diverting his energies to non-political channels after the next General. Election.]
Big houses in fashionable parts of London are in greater demand for the forthcoming season than at any other time since the war. That is the experience of a West
Misa Julia Haskell will be End firm of estate agents, a mem-
WEMV MILLEN, MARIN, BUSE
John Coolidge, only son of President and Mrs. Coolidge, snapped during a recent visit. to Washington from Amherst College..
"So long as I can crawl and hear
on a
married soon to Mr. Mark Carmel ber of which said to a reporter: them I will never give up following In Los Angeles, California, accord-"Many of our clients have asked the pack," said Viscount Tredegar ing to word received by friends in for big houses only. Houses such at a gathering of the Tredegar Tientsin. Miss Haskell is the as those in Belgrave-square have Hunt at Tredegar Park, Newport. daughter of a well-known mission-let comparatively readily, and it is He added:-You will not consider ury family which spent many years not diffault to let Carlton House- me selfish I am sure. I want to in China. Her sister, Miss Nellie terrage property. Rents in several give up the Hounds because my Haskell, spent last year in Tien- instances have been as much as sight is bad and I cannot enjoy the tsin as the guest of Mr. R. T. £200 a week, so that for a house sport. If you come
here Evana.
taken for the 12 weeks' season, similar occasion next year you will ending about July 31, the total be satisfied with the result of the In a question to which he was rent will amount to £2,400. Sev- reason. requested to give a written reply, eral American hostesses have ar-. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, the Home ranged by cable to rent houses. Secretary, was asked by Lieut.- "Staffing" experts, of which, there Colonel Cuthbert James, M.P., whe- are several in London, engage but- ing the Purley Downs, Commander ther he would take steps to render lers, footmen, a chef, and other ser. Daniel spoke to an interviewer re- illegal the wearing of the King's vants for them, so that when the cently of his Impending severance "It is only with uniform by unauthorised persons. tenants arrive they will be able to with the Navy.
staffed.
I
In his thatched cottage overlook-
The question arises out of the enter a house ready furnished and the greatest regret that I have de- cided to leave the fleet," he said. report of the activities of a body
"Before I took my decision I re- atyling itself the Labour League of
moved any possible doubt as re- ex-Service Men, known, to the au-i
Many debutantes who are to be gards my prospects of future pro- thorities as a Moscow-conceived
I would have clung to organisation. A khaki uniform presented at one of this season's motion.
of the five Courts, the first of which was any hope that remained to me. has been issued to some members closely resembling the held on May 8, are worried by the But there was none, therefore I am service uniform of a British officer problem of finding the ideal court, obliged to become a longshoreman. dress. Miss Doria Jack, daughter "I am keeping a sharp look-out for bat for the wearing of a red tie.
of Mr. Richard Jack, the artist, an opening in industry alther here abroad in the said to a "Daily Mail" reporter: in England or An attempt is being made to re- There is no doubt that many court colonies. Were my financial re- celve almost immediately the "Co- dresses make it difficult for the de- sources greater than they are poll Optimiste," the famous Pierrot butante to courtesy. If the dress Has would appeal to me very troupe which a few years ago was, is short, the courtesy is ugly; strongly. "As regards an opening a regular feature of the London while, if it is long, it hampers in industry, many naval officers as theatrical season. Mr. Archie de movement and is not fashionable able as myself have had difficulty Bear, one of the men who found. The courtesy oro has to make is in the past in securing billets on However, I am ed the company, told me that very low, and it is not easy to find their retirement. negotiations had reached an ad- a perfect dress. I think, however, hopeful." Asked whether he was vanced stage. Ho thought the com- that dresses can be designed which retiring because he knew that he pany would be soon in being again. are really shout but look long owing would not be reinstated in his for- It is only a question of a thea to the Ingenious arrangement of mer post or because if he were so tre," he said. "We are trying to graceful chiffons and draperies, reinstated he would obtain no fur- get together the greater number of There are many dresses which al ther promotions, Commander: Daniel the old company. Mr. Melville low perfect freedom of movement replied: "I feel that such employ- Gideon is now on his way from the while losing nothing in grace of ment as the Admiralty could give States. Mr. Davy Barnaby has line. The wife of a leading memme-and- I appreciate the promise been approached, and so has Mr. ber of the Diplomatie Corps who offered-would be distasteful to Wolseley: Charles, the planist pier has attended many Courts said that me. There are many billets for rot. We are also negotiating with considerable comment had been Commanders that are not on ships, Miss Anita Elson, Miss Doris aroused in past years owing to the and in fact, the vacancies afloat Bentley and Miss Betty Chester." shortness of the dresses.
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