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WEATHER. REPORT." This is a spirit rarely shown by writers on historical subjects, and Yesterday's weather report, fore-especially those writing for the cast and remärks, issued by the guidance of young men and women Royal Observatory at 3.20 p.m., who are just beginning to find stated:-
their way through the bewildering" maze of precarication and prejudice which is usually fobbed off as history providing the suppressions aad exaggerations-pure--in-accord- ance with the hates and hopes of those responsible for their dis-
The typhoon is moving northward across the Gulf of Chihli, There may be another to the east of the
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-The Amerien71-00
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It is announced that Miss Jparr Fry, the brilliant young tennis "star,” is engaged to marry Lieut. Thomas Ashley, Lakeman, of, the Tank Corps. Only last month Miss Fry celebrated her 24th birthday..
Shavitch, head of the Syracuse Maharajah of Bikaner will be the It is officially announced that the
It is understood that negotiations (N.) Symphony Orchestra, has leader of the Indian delegation at
are proceeding botween the Indian been urged to remain in Moscow the Assembly of the League ofRadio Company and the Indian as permanent conductor of the Nations in the autumn. His High- Government with, a view to estab Brand opera. Because of his in-ness will also be a member of the lishing a wireless telephony service terest in his American symphony Indian delegation at the Imperial between India and the United How the three gentlemen respon orchestra, as well as engagements Conference to be held in London. sible for the production of this in other countries, Mr. Shavitch de-
An international bridge match book divided their labours we doclined the invitation. He has just not know, but they must be men concluded a three months' engage between British and American ex- of one mind, otherwise it would not ment in Moscow which won him perts has been arranged, and will have been possible to
warm praise and enthusiastic take place in London in September. throughout the volume such a fair audiences. Under Mr. Shavitch's It will be the outcome of a chal, Manila, July 15, 1 p.m-Typhoon and frank manner of reviewing produced for Moscow music-lovers ter Buller, author of "Reflections direction the opera Tosca" was lenge made by Lieut. Colonel Wal in about 195deg. Long. E. and the facts of history. They have for the first time since the revolu- of a Bridge Player," and accepted 19deg. Lat. N., moving W.N.W.
written a book which appeals net tion. He also conducted "Car on behalf of America by Mr. Ely only to the student, for whom it
A revival of Wagner is Culbertson, the American authority.
Another scientific marvel is claim- is specially compiled, but to any scheduled for next spring, when he In a cablegram Mr. Culbertson aeroplane tying over Los Angeles ed to have been accomplished. An man or wonlin taking an intelligent
returns for another stay of three said: "Probably composition with Professor von Karmam, of
The following typhoon warning has been received by the American Consulate-General from the Manila Observatory:-
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mitter, are not likely to occupy. necessary arrangements, including the installation of a special trans- more than three months.
ISAACE.-On July 7, at Shanghai, interest in the world's happenings. 1 months in accordance with his con- American team includes Mrs. Cul- the Technical High School at Aix-
to Mr. and Mrs. S. ISAACS,
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bertson, representing women play-la-Chapelle, as passenger, got into wireless telephonic communication ers, Theodore Lightner, George with Herr Milch, Director of the Reith (chairman, Card Committee Luft-Hansa, in Berlin, and had leading club), Baron von Zedtwitz, ten minutes' chat with him. Herr Milch used only the ordinary tele- perhaps myself, and one substitute phone in his office. The conversa- to be determined later. Team is tion was so clear that the airman prepared to leave early September. had to request Berlin not to speak They insist three hunded hands, so loudly. which will require but six daya"
Her rise to fame in the lawn tennis, world has been rapid. Five
A girl, so small that doll's clothes fitted her, was born in the liner United States, during
students in search of further know- ledge being recommended to read books by EDWARD CLODD, JOSEPH about a fiftieth part of a penny. years ago she entered the front voyage across the Atlantic.
MCCABE, and H. G. WALLS. Треве are men whose views will help the young student of history to cultivate- that broad outlook, which enables him to adopt the whole world as his country, and to do good as his religion.
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rack of women players when she weighed less than alb. Her father reached the fan of the singles and mother are Polish. A little championship at Wimbledon, but girl passenger gave the clothes be was defeated by Sulaine Leuglen Jonging to her doll, which fitted the
baby perfectly. near At Bournemouth last month she
carried off all three British hard- court championships, including the mixed doubles, in which, with C. H. Kingsley as partner, she defeat d Dr. J. C. Gregory, and Mrs. L.
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I owe a siccere apology to his. Majesty and I hope he will forgive us for making this mistake." The speaker was Mrs. Corbett Ashby, who presided at the recent annual lunch in London of the British Commonwealth League. She had forgotten to propose the health of
Test flights of an airplane pro- Almeda, California in the pelled by steam are to be made in fature by William Bessler," pilot inventor, who, with Warren Doble, automotive engineer, for more than a year past has been engaged in perfecting the engine. Of two- cylinder compound type, the engine President Hoover has appoint will have approximately 150 horse-ed Mr. Ralph J. Totten, of the King before giving the com
Tennessee, As power and will, weigh about 300
pany permission to smoke. Direl- time, to write history. The more revolves around' one all-absorbing pounds, the inventors declare. Aed post of Minister to the Unionly she realised her mistake. she
the newly crea occupant of impartially he tries to review the
Curtiss Robin plane will be used of South Africa. Mr. Totten, who made her apology and the King's facts, the more the "historian is
for the tests. Chief advantages of is 52, entered the Consular service steam propulsion for airplanes, in 1908, In 1922 he was appointed. likely to be roundly-and wrong-
according to Mr. Bessler, will be Consul General at Barcelona. Since limitation of motor noise, less 1995 he has been employed in the speed propeller, reduced mainten State Department. are not taken for granted by the ance, increased engine reliability, majority of the
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CONVERSATION in the Soviet demain topic food. The talk may start anywhere, in the province of politics or art or philosophy, but inevitably is drawn to the central theme that
fully-abused for showing deliberate dominates people's thoughts. Meals vibration, economy of fuel, slow foreign service division of
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ignorant prejudice. We know of a journalist in the Far East who, in the autumn of 1014, was being simultaneously denounced by the local British community for his disgraceful, pro- German sentiments, and by the
Germans for his outrageous pro British prejudice! Looking back on that situation from this distant date, it may be assumed that the unlucky man was only trying to take a dispassionate, and therefore intelligent, view of the "official" and other alleged facts which were at that time being assiduously broadcast by both sides, with more regard for the public reaction to propaganda than for the actual veracity of the reports issued.
We have before us' at the moment a little book of some
and perseverance on, the part of the housewife.
She, or one of the
Miss Rosie Doily, one of the Dolly Sisters, the dancers, has de- cided to file a petition for divorce in New York from her husband, Mr. Mortimer Davis son and heir of the late Sir Martimer Davis, the Canadian
health was drunk.
The biggest dope scandal of re- cent years in France is engaging the the police of Bordeaux, Bayonne, Biarritz and Perignex. Two Bor- deaux, doctors have been arrested and the arrest of many others is expected. The police have seized during a raid on the house at Peri guex of a beautiful woman, who is believed to be one of the principal organisers of the traffic.
Another world wide demonstration the Communist Internationale for August 1, according to announce- ments in Moscow, The anti war meetings and parades on August 1 last year were the occasion for clashes between Communist sym-. pathizers and the police in Berlin, Against the votes of the. German, Paris and other capitals with con- the Socialist, and Communist de- siderable bloodshed and several puties the Silesian Diet last week tobacco millionaire. deaths. The demonstrations, it is passed a motion prohibiting the us stood to have arisen when Miss centrate attention upon the dangerliamentary debates. This is expect- Matrimonial differences are understated, must in the first place con of the German language in par-
Rosie Dolly started pining to re of a united capitalist attack against led to react very badly on German- Two years ago, and to a lesser
turn to the stage. She and her the Soviet Union. The crowning Polish relations and on the pros." extent last year, popular appre-appearing in a luxurious enbaret ed upon in Communist circles as tween the German and
sister, Jenny, proposed opening and "of King Carol in Rumania is look-pects of peaceful co-operation be-
Polish hension was centred on the subject near the Champs Elysées, Paris, one more link in a chain of war population in the former German of bread. That item has fortunate-but her husband objected.
preparations against the Soviets. province.
family, has stood in long lines for some of the foods; has carefully guarded the monthly ration of others; has followed the scent of a rumour that some desired article may be obtained in a certain shop or market.
Local Notes and Events ⋆
The total output of the Kailan.J Mining Administration's mines for the week ending June 28 amounted to 117,244 tons, and the sales during the period to 100,981 tona,
During the week ended July 12, the following, cases of disease were notified to the Medical Officer of Health:-Typhoid 3, smallpox with 1 death, diphtheria 1, in-
Tatsusaku Mattumaga, a Japanese į Looking Back 25 Years. residing at 356, Wanchai Road, was The following regulations regard- admitted to Government Civil Hosing the work at which vagrants are pital at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, to be employed, have been made by.. suffering from the effects at the Governor in Council under alcoholic poisoning. The man was Section 13" of the Vagrancy ordin- admitted in an unconscious state, ance 1897-1} Buch work at an and died at 10.40 p.m. the same industrial trade, preferably the day without regaining conscious-vagrant's usual trade, as the Super-/
Dess.
ly been stabilized--the ample daily rations, of bread, half white and half black, are available and there seems no serious, danger of inter- ruption. Interest has been switch- ed to foods of animal origin: meat, dairy products, poultry, etc. Their 130 pages which is being used absence is a towering fact, and one in Queen's College as a text-book which the Government must deal with quickly. The magnitude of in which very boldly-an attempti is made to give the young student the food problem is sharply under of history some idea of what has lined by a trip across the Soviet happened on this globe between the Union such as a United Press corres year X, B.C. and the signing of pondent recently made. At almost the KELLOGG Pact in 1920. Never every railroad station there were have we had the pleasure of perus-
complaints by local inhabitants ing a school-book written with about shortage of various products. such a broad outlook and in such The station buffets several years a generous spirit of helpful under-go well stocked were tragically standing with such an unbiassed bare. There were at some stations viewpoint with euch benevolent still peasants selling milk, cabbage, recognition of the good that is in- buns, etc., but not nearly as many or as well supplied as a few years herent in men of all colours and all creeds. It lays emphasis not ago.
The Government and the ruling upon the brilliant deeds of gallant soldiers in their quest for "glitter- Communist Party do not attempt or under-estimate the ing prizes, but upon the records to hide of those who found their happiness seriousness of the food situation in making others happy-like Cox- Speakers at recent party confer FUCIUS. It is a sketch of the history caces, all over the country said of the world. trom the dawn of frankly that the next will be a civilisation down to the present difficult, perhaps critical, year in day, in which much-needed stress the matter of food supplies. They is put upon that broad spirit which pointed out that the same problem when she was knocked down by a had been banished from the ColoDY with them some earth from their
recognises the goodness in men of which the Soviets until recently had all nations for we all belong to with bread they now have with that great country, the whole world, animal products. The bread prob a that lose family wankind leg was colved by building huge
tivizing a large portion of the grain *An Introductory History:-By acreage. Similar methods are being A. H. Crooz, O.B.E., M.A., W. adopted in an organized effort to KAY, MA., and W... HANDY- replenish the live stock, and make BIDE, MA, B.Sc.-Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd., Hong Kong its products available to the urban Price 82.
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Aluenza 4 deatha, malaria 14 deaths'
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intendent should prescribe; or (2) Picking not more than 13 lbs. of According to a report, made to
oakum a day; or (3) crank labour,“ the police, a trading junk was
not exceeding 7,000 revolutions a caught in a squall on Sunday night day; or (4) any other work of near the entrance of Silver Mine hard bodily nature which the Gov- Following the report made to Bay. The members of the crew ernor shall from time to tipe ap- the police regarding the absence of were all rescued by a fishing junk prove. A vagrant in the House of Mr. E. Larmour, of the P.W.D., it which was in the vicinity at the Detention shall not be employed in
Company with ordinary prisoners.- is now learned that the missing time, and were taken to Pingehau. He may be permitted to go out man has been traced. He has been on their way back to Hong Kong every day except on sundays and staying with a friend in the Colony they passed the junk which had sub-other holiday, during such hours,
as the Superintendent may specify, for the past few days and is at sequently been lifted by the heavy for the purpose of seeking employ present in hospital.
ment, provided that he has complet ed the work prescribed for that day-Hong Kong, Daily Prets, July 18, 1805,
ses oa to a rock at the entrance to the Bay.
A five year old Chinese girl living. at Mok Ming Ha Village, Teinwan, For committing a breach of his on Sunday morning deporintion order, a Chinese who was killed
Looking Back 50 Years.
Chinese emigrants often take public motor car on the Main Road for life in 1924, was sentenced to mother country, the object boing to The girl was struck when ab and- denly appeared on the road, Iving twelve months hard labour and 24 make "tea" of it, a small quantity strokes of the birch when he ap- of which is to be drunk every day- the driver no time to pull up.
peared before Mr. Whyte-Smith at home, so that by keeping up a con
for a while after arrival at the new
of water-piping, which was stolen The defendant, a sausage maker, own home, they may be gradually from the vacant piece of Govern-
acclimatized. Foreigners are some- ment ground near the Kowloon in reply to the Magistrate's questimes asked. when the climate of Mortuary, a Chinese was sentenced tion as to why he always persisted China does not agree with them." to one month's hard labour when he in returning, said that he was only if they have brought, some native appeared-befóró Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistraty yester on his way up to the country, where earth with them to prevent diseaco from a ton rapid change.-long Kong Daily Freas, July 16, 1850.-
day.
his mother had recently died."