LOCAL AND GENERAL
Two cases of Diphtheria and one of Enteric Fever were reported to the Health Authorities for 24 hours. ended December 8.
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Violet Capell wishes to thank all her pupils who con- tributed towards the clock present- ed to her on the occasion of her recent Dancing Display:
On a recent visit to Heston, I was struck by Lord Apsley's Parnall Elf.
The Great Northern, and The Its fuselage is navy and sare blue, the wings and tall cream, with Eastern Extension Telegraph Com- orange tips. Lord, Apsley heightenspanies notify that normal working these contrasta by having ted up with Shanghai and beyond bas
been re-established. holstery, *
Beside It Lord Londonderry's- ver plane, with his yellow and lac racing colours on the wings, ooks quite modest.
The annual meeting of Share- holders of The China Light and Power Co. (1918), Ltd. will be held at the Company's Head Office, St. George's Building, Chater Road, to-morrow at 12.15 p.m.
The HK. St. George's Society is holding its annual ball at the Feninsula Hotel on January 11. The ball will be on similar lines to previous years, with the exception that a set supper will take the place of a running badet.
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At an Open Meeting of the Chi- nese YW.CA. Overseas Girls Club on Tuesday, December 11 at 2 p.m., Dr. EL Allen will be giving a talk on "Dreams" Any who are interested in the subject are cor- dially invited to attend. Discus- The biggest hit is "The Great ston on this most interesting sub- Waltz, which was done in London Ject will be welcomed at the close under the title of Waltzes from of the Talk The Eecture will be Vienna" and is playing to 10,000 held at Y.W.C.A International a week (at par).
Service Centre National Commer- The second big hit is "Life Be-cial Savings Bank Building (corner gins at 8.45," which is playing to of Ice House Street and Des Voeux
Road) Room 309. £8.000 2 week
Colours are, it must be said, carcely distinguishable from the round after the 'plane has attain- d a few hundred feet.
NEARLY A SMASH, ..... The audience had already recail-Over the week-end I saw Mr. C. to Gen, Yu Kuo-tsal to despatched the great conductor about a B. Cochran, just back from Ameri- troops to Liping and Yungsung, in dozen times. To the accompant ca He tells me that the condi-
ment of their continued cheering tion of theatre business there close south-eastern. Kweichow, while decided
Gen, Wang hirself will lead his which could still be heard in the ly resembles that of London. Either a play is a considerable success or forces to Ezepin and Chinyuan, in artists' room, the executors of the
late Mine. Debussy presented the It comes off within a few days. The eastern Kweichow,---
to know instantly maestro with the baton Debussy public-seems Kuo Kin
once used..
whether a play is worth support..
Though he says, candidly, that to hand it to Bgr, Toscanini on the "Conversation Plece" is not a platform. As he has always re-smash" in New York, he claims fused, however, to appear before that it is the third biggest suc- ibe public except as a conductor cess the ceremony was held in private.. Few of the audience new that when he returned to conduct De bussy's "Iberia," he was doing it with that master's baton.
ÁRBOREAL Tokyo, Dec. 10.
Baron Franckenstein delivered a The Japanese Foreign Minister, Harbour And Streets Under Mr. Hirota. Informed the Soviet charming address on the forests of Ambassador. M Yureneff that the Austria and the comity of nations. Japanese Government guarantee The transition was easy, as he that the so-called Manchino shall was speaking at the International satisfactorily full her obligations Exhibition of Tree Pictures now The Men of the Trees under connection with the payment of being held at Grosvenor House, the purchase price of the Chinese
whose auspices It was arranged, Mr. Kuota also proposed the are a society of tree lovers, with an formation of a "Price Reconcilia-imposing council presided over by Sir Francis Young-husband, and. tion Committee" to smooth out Dossible differences in connection having the altogether admirable with the payment of portion of the object of encouraging everybody to purchase price in goods, thus re- plant and protect trees,
SHANGHAI TRAFFIC HELD UP
Heavy Fog
Shanghal, Dec. 10 Harbour and street trame here
ENGAGEMENT- The engagement is announced be- tween John, second son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Wynne-Williams, of Kobe, Japan, and Mary, only to incapacity or inertia. Foreigners was brought almost to a stand- who know how the Chinese can still this morning by the densest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 3 respond to leadership such as the fog for year. Conditions improv Eastern Railwaying done i
Corazza, of 23. Chatsworth late Sir Robert Hart first gave to
ed later in the day though trame Road, N.W.3. and Villa Agos their Customs Bervice will take
was considerably slowed up until tina, Balsomaggiore, Italy.
a more reasonable view of their 11 am- capacity. Those who have studied Beuter, DEATHS
the disturbed history of their own countries in the Middle Ages, when even highways might be impassable CHINESE CONTRACTS FOR moving two major stumbling blocks
BEGBIE-On November 20, 1934, in London, in his sleep, Sir James Begbie, formerly Becre- for a third of the year, will watch tary and Treasurer of the Chinese affairs with patience, en- Bank of Bombay, aged 75 couraged by the increasing “evi- dence that Nanking is following KENNETH, Janetta Margaret, the the right road....
widow of the late Herbert Wil- Kam Kenneth of Shanghai, China, and beloved mother of Laurence J. Knudsen, passed away at St. Anthony Hospital, Cheam, Burrey, on November 11, 1934, aged 77 years:
LUNG-HAI RAILWAY
EXTENSION
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London, Nor;
in the way of completion of the tranater,
Only minor details now remain to be settled and a satisfactory conclusion is expected in the near
It is understood that the mem- | future- bers of the Chinese Government Reuter Mission, who have arrived here to undertake a compre of British transport ay power to induerice: Blan, Dec. 3, the destination Laying of rails on the western rall and road extension of the Lung-Hai Rail- many millions, Way between Tungkwan and Blan, a huge prog in eastern Shem, has proceeded railway com as far as Chanchlao, about the vast de mica, west of "Slan, provincial FCOTLAND-On November 21. capital of Bhanal The entire line
1934, at a nursing home, Lon-will be completed by the end o don, Janet (Jean) Mary, second this month and inangarated ou daughter of the late John January 1--- Parry and Blanche Scotland Kuo Hier
-On November 17 1994, at Korea House, Kelso, after brief illness, Arthur Hyde Lay CMG late H.BM Consul General, Seoul, Korea,
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"Conversation Piece is making between £5,000 and £6,000 a week.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE STUDENTS
Lead In Edinburgh Union Debate
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The P&O Company's steamship Ranchi which is dus to arrive on Thursday next. from England, will bring a number of
well-known local residents back to the Colony among whom will be:- Mr. and Mrs T. Bolt and the Misses Bolt, Mr. and Mrs. A. W., Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. W. Jenner, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. King, Mr. and Mrs.. Macaskill, Mr. and Mrs. A. Me- Bride, Mr, J. F. McGowan, Mr, and Mrs R. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. A. Morse, Mr. M. L. Rallton, Mr. J. V. Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs W J, Wad- dington and Mr. and Mrs. R. H Woodman
(Bpecial-Air Mail Serviour
Edinburgh Nov, 2 General Sir Ian Hamilton, Rec tor of Edinburgh University, a tended in the Edinburgh Univer rity Union a debate upon Sir Stanford Cripps in which the lead- ing speakers were Oxford and would not resign, he believed, but
transform-Pai Cambridge students. Much of the
nt Into some dictatorial debate was hurrie
The name has a romantic origin. M. SL Barbe Baker founded a society 11 years ago among the East African natives, with a special pass-word, badge and dance, to save the Kenya forests from des struction, ve kte
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Group of the Society of Chemical publie nuisance, Industry
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