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CHINA YEAR BOOK
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EDITED BY H. Ġ. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.
The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented)
Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures) Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy.
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
Royal octavo, 620 pages, cloth bound, $18 net,
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THE CHINA MAIL,
CHIVALRY TO
"GENTLEMAN
Now Paris Police
Seek Miss Henshall
London, January 15.
Chivalry towards an English girl tourist who had been indiscreet enough to venture alone into a doubtful quarter of Montmartre last Summer has cost the life of Jean Dechenaud, one of the most pitiless of Paris apaches.
The police are trying to trace Miss Mildred Henshall, who registered at a hotel in the centre of Paris last July, giving London as her home address but failing to give fuller details or the number of her passport.
During her visit Miss Henshall knew what was behind it, interven- ventured alone to study Paris by ed,
night, and in a bar close to the.
Place Clichy she got into conver- Producing a revolver he covered sation with two habitues, one of the would-be cavalier, while he ex- whom proposed that he should take her in his car for a round of the night life resorts.
Ignorant of the real character of the men and the possible fate that awaited her, Miss Henshall con- sented.
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REVOLVER THREAT
It was then that Dechenaud, who had taken in the conversation and
plained in English to the girl the risk she was running, She was convinced by his earnestness, and accepted his offer to escort her to her hotel.
In due Lyons was a the man wh his prey set charge of th
As Deche
The other two members of a no-vided by loc torious gang, vowed vengeance, and the chivalrous Apache thought it best to quit Baris and return to Place Ari his native town, but his enemies companied were not to be shaken off so easily.
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