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Canton, to-day.
SOUTHPORT
Henry Cotton Fails To Find Best Form
Southport, to-day.
the
ASTRONOMER PASSES
Edwin Brant Frost Dies In Chicago
Chicago. To-day The astronomer, Edwin Brant There were no surprising failures Frost, has died of peritonitis.
Reuter. among the 113 qualifiers in
He was born on July 14, 1996, Dunlop Southport £1,600 golf com-
and was educated at Bartmouth The field was The resulations formulated by petition yesterday. the Kwangtung Political Research headed by the international player University, though he continued his Commission for the protection of Charles Whitcombe with an aggre employees of Government factories gate of 144. have been examined by the
Henry Cotton, the British Open Affairs Department, the Reconstrue-champion, did not played like tion Department, and the Municipal champion, bat qualified with 154– Government, and will be put into Reuter. force by the Provincial Government shortly.
Civi
The regulations are emphatic about compulsory, saving
by
&
Strassburg, and the Royal Astrophy- astronomical studies at Princeton,
sical Observatory, Potsdam In 1921 he was created an honorary D.SC. by Cambridge University. He had been Directar of the Yerkes
| Observatory, Williams Bay, Wiscon-
sin, since 1905 until his death.
Dr. Frost was a member of (large number of American and for- Feiga astronomical societies and
other learned bodies connected withi science.
THE YIU TRIBE
Organised Work For
*Aborigines
ANTI-PIRACY WORK TO BE CONTINUED
It is stipulated that an ployees
(Continued from Page. 11. employee who earns $20 or an amount below $20 monthly has to "An official
statement declared save 1 per cent.; from $21 to $50.that the coastguards had been dis- 2 per cent from $51 to $100, 3 per banded but that they would be cent; from $101 to $150, 4 per cent.: taken care of and fot cast adrift from $151 to $200, 5 per cent; from For the information of foreign, $201 to $250, 6 per cent. from $257 newspapers, the military spokes-] to $300, 7 per cent; from $301 to man said that only a part of the! $350, 8 per cent. from $351 to $400. coastguards were demobilized and ¡9 per cent.: and from $401 upward that this meant reorganization for]
Pursuing its plan of civilising 10 per cent
better efficiency- *allowed
the Viu tribe in Employees are not
Linshan and Commander "Tsai and his coast- withdraw their savings during guards claimed the credit of ar- Tangshan, the Lib-yang Aborigines Civilisation Bureau is about to their term of office; the amounts of resting four pirates concerned in
One of establish two working places, for their money saved will be returned the Tungchow piracy. to them when they resign, and are them is believed to be the brains wood and bamboo work and clothes to be used to set off the amounts behind the Tungchow and other making, in which the people of the appropriated to their own use inpiracies. He financed the coup and Yiu tribe will be instructed in case of embezzlement; and the directed his men how to seize and savings will be confiscated if em-loot the steamers. ployees are discharged on account of corruption-Central Press.
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ECONOMICS OF THE HOME
School To Be Opened In Hunan
Canton, to-day-
A decision has been reached by
the Provincial Department of Eda
Ad-
The imprisoned naval officer was recruited into the service by miral Chen Chak, then [dant of the Canton flotilla
58 GAMES IN TWO SETS
(Continued from Page 1)
As- Australia had already wan
entry into the Second Round the
these arts.
Canton. To-day
The scheme for the establish- ment has been approved by the Provincial Government. The initial expenses and the monthly expenses of the two shops are estimated at $350 and $130 respectively.- Central Press,
SOUTH AFRICANS WIN AT THE OVAL
(Continued from Page 1). Despite a lead of 114 on the tie was abandoned. The Austra first innings Somerset collapsed lian team Crawford, McGrath, sensationally in the fourth inn- Paris to-day. They meet France hander, and Matthews. Quist, and Turnbull - leave for ings before Clark, the fast left- Their
in the Second Round of the Euro total of 75 is the lowest of the
¡cation, that a girl's home economics school be established in the city. A scheme is now being drafted by the Dean Zone at Antenil. Secretariat of the Department.
EARLIER RESULTS
V. McGrath (Australia) beat 3. Stedman 6–3, 6–2, 8—6-
J. A. Crawford (Australia) beat E. The proposed school will be D. Andrews God, God, Zamkn situated somewhere 00 Nan-hwa Boad, Horan. It will be opened at the beginning of next term. tral Press.
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
(Continued from Page 1)
Crawford and Quist (Australia) beat GenCE Maltroy and Stedman 6-3, 4-6,
6-1;6-4
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BRITISH EXCHEQUER RETURNS SHOW EXPENDITURE INCREASE
season.
EARLIER RESULTS Kent beat Hampshire by seven. wickets at Portsmouth.
Score:
Bampshire: 442 and 154 (Freeman 3
for 60). Kent: 479 (Fags 122), and 100 for 3
wickets
Derbyshire beat Yorkshire on the first innings at Chesterfield. Derby: 382 and 211 for 6 wickets dec. Yorkshire: 228 (Sutcliffe 91), and 102
for 4 wickets.
Lancashire beat Oxford University London, To-day. Exchequer re-by an innings and 20 runs at Oxford. A brother of Lawrence has ar turns for the past week show that Lancashire: 498 for 7 wickets, declared. Oxford: 239 (Mitchell Innes 102), and rived by air from the Mediter total ordinary revenue for the
929 Renter ranean, and a message has been current financial year to date
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME sent to Lawrence's mother and amounts to £67.716.706, as - Coin- Lord's-—Middlesex v Warwick
Gravesend-Kent v Essex Worcester-Worcester v Hants.
elder brother, who are în China.pared with 268,545,597 at the cor Oval-Surrey v Derby
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An earlier message stated that expenditure, exclusive of self-bal-Cambridge Cambridge U. v Yorkshire THEATRE Lawrence of Arabia, who had ancing items, amounts to: 568,910, Hors-Sasser y Notts
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