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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Anniversaries and Holidays.--- St. Mansuetus, Bishop.
Auctions—Crown Lands, ag Dia- trict Office, Taipo, 11.30 am..
Cinemas
King's The Three Musketeers.” Queen's: Front Page Woman" Central:-The Circus Clown.”. Oriental:-"The Murder Man." WorldCpuese Picture." Alhambra:-"Navy Wits " Majestic:-"Chinese Picture.” Star: "Little Friand
Entertainments. Performance of "Messiah," St. John's Cathedral, p.m.; Concert at 8. and 8. Home,
POINTS
Chinese Concurrence Denied
London, Jan. 27. The Chinese Embassy in London has issued the following summary of a "statement of Foreign, Affairs in Nanking iri reply to the speech by the Japanese: Foreign Minister, Hirota, In the Tokyo Diet on January 21—
What Mr. Hirota called the three points of Japanese policy towards China may be taken pre- sumably to refer to the points which had been raised last Sep- tember in conversations between Mr. Hirota and General Chiảng Meetings-Kloon Union Church Tso Pisa, then Chinese Ambassador Women's Guild, 10 a.m
The new minister was talking to 19 p.m... the oldest inhabitant.
"I'll be 97 years old, sit, and I haven't an enemy in the world," said the aged one.
"That is beautiful thought," said the clergyman approvingly. "Yes, sir," was the answer. am thankful to say I've outlived them all
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A dog sat on a pin in Edentown, North Carolina with the following results:Amotor car was wreck- ed, the town's street lighting fall- ed, the telephone service has been cut off and the dog's owner has bad to pay the damage.
This is how it all happened. Dip po, the dog, was lying in the back
In Tokyo. In the autumn of last Miscellaneous-Fireside Discus-year the Chinese Government had sion, European Y.M.CA, 9 pm; occasion to propose to the Japan- | viliors' Night at S. and 8, Home. ese Government · certain funda-')
Social-Dinner Dance at Crai- mental principles for the improve- gengower Cricket Club, and Pre-ment of Sino-Japanese relations. sentation to Mr. Beer, 8 pm; Mr. Hirota expressed the opinion Whist Drive, Ballors Home and Seamen's Institute, 40 Gloucester Road, 9 p.m.; Dinner Party, S. and 8. Home, 1.30 p.m.
General Chiang Tso Pin, that the proposals of the Chinese Gov- emment were not impracticable in principle, but as a condition pre- cedent China, must concur in three points:___ (1) ̈ ̈ Ching must abandon Badminton. Men's Doubles, once and for all her policy of Fire Brigade. Kowloon Tong; playing one foreign nation against Chinese R.C. v. Eliot Hall Enother; (3) China must respect Taikoo R.C. v. Club de Recreio "g" the "de facto" existence of Man- chukuo; and (3) China and Japan Billiards Senior Championship,
must act in concert in taking M. M. da Silva v. F. A. GUI (Centective measures to check the Sovietization of China's northern frontier regions.
of his owner's car. He moved-Service C.C.), 8.30 p.m. Junior and sat on a pin.
Bounding forward he landed on the car's steering wheel, and the ear landed on a lamp-post.
Sir Evelyn Wrench, speaking at a London meeting recently, told us the way to read, ›.
Sitting in a hip-bath filled with cushions, with the feet to the fire, and surrounded with books," he said, is a position I used at Eton and which I strongly recommend.”; In the News Chronicle" office it was decided to put this expert- ment to the test.
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THE HAIG STATUE
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London, Jan. 24). The Earl Haig memorial statue cannot now be set up for close on another two years. Begun in 1929, promised for 1933, and again for this year, it is now improbable that the unveiling ceremony can take place before the latter part of next year.
Championship, C. A. Cunha. v. Leung Sin-nim or Yeang Hon-lin (Dockyard R.C.), J. C. Remedios v. Tam Hun-bun (Dockyard Police
Club), 8.30. p.m
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