THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1937.
THE
WORLD
GOES BY
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Japanese Optum Dens In Fientsin Ordered Closed
Tientsin, May 31-All heroin dens in the Japanese Confession. here have been ordered to charge their business beginning from to morrow by the local Japanese au- thorities who threaten to
revoke
SPECIAL Evelyn Plush-Monkegh,
PECIALLY contributed by the their licenses in case of disobe-
who rowed in the Grand 1893-4-5.
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dience.
During the past few days whole- sale arrests of heroin addicts, aver This proposal to admit working-aging about 100 daily, have been class chaps to Henley-I suppose made by the Japanese police. The it's democratic and all that, but arrested have been handed over to one wants to think twice about it, the Bureau of Police. doesn't one? It's not so much that one's afraid these wallahs will carry off all the pots. They can have those, and welcome--I mean to say they're only a nuisance; take a lot of cleaning and no damn use to anyone but it's the general hang of the thing one wants to be sure to get straight. I'm not a politician or anything but I do like to know where we're going.
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TOKYO SCIENTIST
PASSES
Dr. S. Shimada Noted Entomologist
Tokyo, May 31. Science lost to disease in the Take me, for instance. I'm not death, at Tsinan last Friday, of Dr. snobbish, God forbid. I offered a S. Yamada, 55, an eminent Japan- match to a working-class wallah ese entomologist engaged with only two or three days ago. But others in tracing the conveyor of what I mean is, if one has educa-kala-azar, or black fever, now pre- tion and that, and belongs to avalent in Shantung. decent club, one gets sort of used
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to one's own brand of sahib. According to an official dispatch don't know what these other chaps received by the Foreign Office to- talk about, or where they get their day, Dr. Yamada succumbed to clothes. They were okay .in the pneumonia at the Tsinan Hospital. War, of course; fought like good He was 55 years old. Known for his 'uns; and some of them got com- research into the causes of sleeping missions and looked quite present-sickness, Dr. Yamada was engaged able in the Mess. But when it in scientific pursuits for more than comes to Henley, where I mean to 20. years. He was a staff member say, everyone's been to the same of the Communicable Diseases In- school, except for a few bank clerks stitute. Reuter.
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and that well, it makes one think,
doesn't it?
own
MEMORIAL
And it's just the same with these GENERAL HORVATH working-class. wallahs, too. They have their
interests soccer and that, and, I suppose, their wives and families.
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At the instance of the "Right Rev. Believe it or Victor, Bishop of China and Peking and not, I went to see the Arsenal once, with the consent of Madaine Č. »A. and I was out of it, definitely out Horvath the following Committee has of it.
been formed in Peiping for the purpose of devising a suitable memorial to General D. L. Horvath: Chairman, The Then there's the women. Women Right Rev. Bishop Victor; Vice-Chair- are such frightful snobs, confound man, Mr. J. J. Brandt; Treasurer, Mr. them. I was saying so to Doris P. P. Rebrin; Secretaries, Mr. M. J. Anchovy only yesterday. And Domracheeff, Mr. M. A. Uspensky, Miss Henley's an occasion, like Ascot drite Theodore, Mr.-W. O. Klemm, Mr. H. P. Popoff; Members, Rev. Archiman- and Goodwood and all that. A N. A. Konovaloff, Dr. P. S. Soudakoff, dame can't put up a show for much Mr. J. Ph. Zvereff, Mr. M. D. Horvath. less than thirty quídlets.
The Committee has decided to ask all *..*
Russian Associations in the Far East to form similar Committee in their areas So, take it all round, while I'm in order to enter into close contact frightfully progressive and all that, with the Committee established in Fei- I think we ought to go slowly. ping for the purpose of deciding upon That's the essence of true demo- an adequate memorial to General D. L. cracy, as Blinkers, who's a beak at Blenkinson, and fearfully intellec- tual, was saying last night at the Club. In fact, we had a couple on the strength of it.
Yoo, Hoo, Film Fans!
Horvath.
AMERICA PLANS
MOVING EMBASSY
FROM VALENCIA.
Washington, May 30.-(Havas), Following recent aerial bombard- ments of Valencia the Department of State is planning to transfer its "Gables on a house belonging to a Embassy in Spain away from Va- Mr. Clark, of Billericay, were said lencia. It has been officially by Mrs, Norton to have suggested clared here that such a move would a name to the film star."-News not be a question of giving up re- item.
presentation to the Spanish
An even stranger (but still inter-ernment. esting) story is told of Garbo, who took her name from a garbo-be- longing to a retired Stockholm pulp-
de-
Gov-
merchant and collector of garbos, Hollywood secrets next week). named, oddly enough, Mr. Snorre. A garbo, by the way, is Snorresen.
"Garbo, n. A bump on the knee. Asked what a garbo was, Mr. cap of a Swiss accountant; also Snorresen invariably replied with kind of fern; also the state of not some irritation: "I'm a stranger wanting: to be read to by tall, fair here myself,” and changed the sub- women," (Oxford Dictionary ject at once.
and wrong again.).
ULYSSES.
(More fearless revelations