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A visit was recently paid by the Croydon Bell Foundry (Messrs.) Gillett and Johnston's) to view and f hear the new carillon of, 43, bells which is about to be sent off to St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicage, The visit was one of several ro- cent Indications of the present-
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Sun Chuan-fang's troops, because ammunition was found in the bun- kers:
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1927.
TO-DAY'S FIRE.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $50,000.
A serious outbreak of fire, which, although not causing much structural damage, was neverthe-" less disnstrous for the business concern involved, occurred nt a few minutes to seven o'clock, this The transfer of further Shan-morning, the effected building. No. tung troops from Fukow has been 321, Queen's Road Central, being delayed possibly in view of the re-located within the central portion ported defection of Anhwei troops of the city. -Naval Wircles.
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Chinklang, March 2. One transport left down river to-day.-Naval Wireless,
"KARMALA", ARRIVES.
Battalions Disembarking in Hongkong,
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
MONTH OF IMPORTANT MEETINGS.
London, Mar. 2. In addition to the forty-fourth session of the League of Nations' Council which opena in Genova on Monday next under the Presidency of Dr. Stresemann, the German Within a very brief spute of Foreign Minister, there will be time-ten seconds to be precisonine different Lengus moetings the first appliance reached the during the present month. place from Headquarters, but; within that time even, the out- break had developed and the first two floors were well alight.
Of these, the most Important refer to the question of disarma- mont. Whon the Proparatory Commission for a Disarmament Conference meets again on March 25th. It will have before it the whole of the work done by its vari- technical sub-Commissions ous since June last, and may thus be At 11.45 o'clock the last of the able, definitely to draw up a pro- firemen withdrew from the scene, gramme and fix, the date of an It is likely that the troops on having succeeded in extinguishing International Disarmament Con- The related, though board will disembark in Hongkong the blaze before it could spread ference.
of the interna- and proceed to the camps at Fan- further than the second floor. minor, question ling, but or enquiry at military The two lower storeys were left tional supervision of the private headquarters this morning, we intact, but the top floor, where the manufacture of armaments will were informed that no definite de-are originated, and the one im- also be denit with, since the special cision has been reached. This mediately below it, were practi-Commission, whereon the United applies also to the Devonshire cally burnt out.
In due course, with the use of all available appliances, the fire The British troopship, the s.8. was fought from adjacent houses. Karmala, carrying the Head-n jet being thrown across the quarters Staff of the 18th Infantry atrest from an opposite house, Brigade, the
1st Batt.
the and other hoses directed from the Border Regiment, and the 1st Batt. roofs of buildings immediately Middlesex Regiment, arrived this adjoining the one involved. morning and went alongside Holt's Wharf.
States will be represented, will
Regiment and the Coldstream Fire and Police Department meet on March 14th. to draw up Guards, which are still quartered officials, in Investigating the out-the draft International Convention on the "Castle" boats in mid-break have come to the conclusion for conference which is to be sum the moned by the League in Autumn. that the fire originated in
.stream.
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The Coldstreams were engaged overhoating of a stove used for route march through the drying salt fish in the topmost Wanchai district this morning. floor. The battalion was not carrying equipment, but made an excellent impression.
The drum and fife band of the Coldstreams headed the parade.
Later.
it has been decided to discm- bark the Middlesex and Border Regt. battalions here, one to go to the camp at Fanling, and the other into the eamp off the Chatham Road.
Vice
The League's Financial Commit- tee is to study the possibility of establishing a common scheme of The Sze Chan shop, which financial assistance to the State occupied all four floors of this which has been attacked and to building, estimates the loss" at consider the legal position which $50,000, represented in stock and would result from enforcing in goods burnt or damaged by waterpeacetime, measures of economic and smoke. Of this, $38,000 was pressure indicated in Article 16 by insurance with the. of the Covenant, particularly by a covered Wing On and other Chinese Com- maritime blockade. The Commit- panies.
No lives wore lost.
INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL DUNCAN.
tee of the Council will examine the report of the sub-committee which inet in London last month under the chairmanship of Vls- count Cecil to study the kind of preventive action which might use. fully be taken by the Council when
fore it. British Wireless, considering & dispute brought be
REDS RAMPANT.
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The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).-The 1st. Battalion is the old 57th. Foot, Hopes to Maintain Peace. and the Colonel-in-Chief of the Smiling cheerfully despite a Regiment is the Prince of Wales slight touch of fever, which has The Regimental Badge is, the confined him to his suite at the plume of the Prince of Wales. The Astor House Hotel, Major-General Regiment has a very fine war ser- John Duncan. C.B., C.M.G, C.V.O.,
and during the Great War D.S.O., on Sunday received, a ro raised 46 Battalions.
presentative of The Shanghat According to the latest Army List Times, issuing a statement cover- available, the Commanding Officer ing the situation hero and declar of the 1st Battalion, is Lieut. Col. in that British troops are in W. A. Stewart, O.B.E., and the fol-Shanghai to protect British lives and S., Messra, Jardine's, and the lowing are the senior officers-ar interests.
N. K. K. As all the steamers of Majora V. L. N. Pearson, D.S.O., "We are here to protect British the first two named are in the W. W. Jefferd, L. F. Sloane-Stanley lives and property and, incidental-hands of the Northerners, there is and Captains L. L. Pargiter, D.5.0.ly, the Settlement. You see, tha work at their hulks, and N. II. B. Lyon, M.C., H..Phillips. Settlement is international. W.- since December until recently M.C., G. C. Bucknall, M.C., H. Ware entirely neutral s regards there has also been no work at the M... Call, O.B.E, M.C., B. G. Horny Chinese leaders."
British hulks owing to the strike.
Chamber
Commerce (Chinese) has paid $10,000 to the General Labour Unlon for permis- sion to remove cargo from the British hulks.
In return the Chamber of Commerce collects th ecolie hire (the new scale was given in a recent account) and in addition charges $3 on every bill of lading which must be chopped by the Chamber of Commerce before the strike pickets will per- mit delivery to be taken of the cargo. The Chamber of Com-
$10,000, but if there is any shortage the loss will fall on the
rocks, M.C., C. W. Haydon, M.C., S. During the course of the inter-Tho F. W. M. del Court, M.C., and E. view the General Intimated that F. Lyons, M.C.
he backed neither one side nor the The 1st Batt. of the Border ciher in the war of the Cantonese Regiment is the old 84th. Foot, against the Northerners, and that
the and the 2nd Battalion. is the old beyond
safeguarding of 55th Foot, with Depot at Carlisle, British interests, he had no other The Regimental Badge is à Laurel interests here. Wrenth and The Dragon, super- General Duncan declared, he scribed "China". During the came to Shanghai with every hope Great War the Regiment raised 16 of maintaining peace and neutre
lity and, pointing at his bag of The Commanding Officer of the golf clubs, said, "I hope to get 1st Battalion is Lieut.-Col. G. H. more of that than war." The
battalions.
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Harrison, D.S.O., and the follow-ommander of the Shanghai merce thus hope to recover the ing are the senior officers of the Defence Force exhibited a great Battalion: Majors E. Roche-Kell, interest in Shanghai's facilities www.D.S.O., G. Darwell. M.C., M. Ufer sports and games stating he Manley, M.C., and W. O. Lay, Cap-hoped for an early opportunity to tains H. L.. Chatfield, M.C., C. G. take advantage of some of them. Fortunes Made by Rascals, Carruthers, M.C., G. W. B. Tarle-! USE OF JESSFIELD PARK.
There are some 20 strike pickets ton, M.C., W. F. H. Chambers, M.C, We, learn from Shanghai papers
on duty at each hulk. The job G. W. O'Brien, M.C., F. J. S. that some weeks ago matsheds were Nichols, M.C.
erected in Jessfield Park, obviously of strike pleket is drawn for amongst the coolies by lot. The second battalion is also in for the accommodation of very China, having reached Shanghai necessary troops for the protection Pickets are paid 40 cents per day a few days age on the a.s. Megan- of the Settlement, and a consider while on duty, which in Kiukiang able amount of interest was aroused is not often as there are so many of them. The coolies also re- by the circumstance that so far no CHINESE TELEGRAMS..
use of them has been made by celved 40 cents per day while Nationalist Forces Moving. British troops, but on the contrary working. When out of work they So now their that such troops have all been ae-receive nothing.
a month is $12, According to a Chinese tele-
commodated on British owned maximum wage gram received from Shanghai this day supremacy of English bell- Cracks in the walls, tower, and morning, General Chang Kai-shak grounds. The position is that until which is just about the same as examination has left Nanchang for the Che Monday of last week no suggestion before the strike when they were The Chicago bells wore demons which showed that the oak piles, klang front to direct the campaign was made by the British authorities paid at piecework rates direct by trated by means of a new pneu-driven into the marshy soil 800 against Shanghai and Nanking used for such accommodation, but dores.
that Municipal property should be the shipping companies' compra- matic-electric machine, which is years ago to form a foundation He has also ordered the National the decision was then reached that an application of the pianola prin- for the masonry, had decayed. ist forces on the Cheklang-Kiang-such a formal request should be work going lately they have been ciple to the carillon.. The bells To keep the cathedral, open forsi border to proceed into Chekiarg made. can also bo played by a keyboard, public worship would have been which is General Chang's native which bas as light a touch as a to endanger the lives of the citi-province. piano. The carillon is a gift frora zens, and last February it was Mr. R. T. Crane, in memory of his closed.' father, the pioneer ball-founder
founders, who lead the world.
Mayence. The citizens of Mayence, in Germany, have had to face the
problem of how to save their cathedral.
arches caused an
As there has been very little
The Municipal Council immedi-complaining that they can scarce- ly keep body and soul together. ately replied that Jesafield Park is But the labour union has promised General Ho Ying-kam, Field available for the British defence Marshal of the Eastern National- forces and further that should it them a bonus of $5 na soon as the not made a fortune out of the. To-day the cathedral is full of st Army, together with his chief be desire to use. other Municpal strike is over. The coolies have of Chleage.
subordinate, General Tam Chiu-property for billeting, such as Afterwards M. Kamiel Lefevere, scaffolding and busy workmon.
hing, have arrived in Cheklang, schools, etc.,, these would be placed strike, but some of the labour who had come from Malines for "The 12th
that the lid
campaign against Kiangsu.
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picture recently released, she ap peared £6 a wealthy Basque mafden, and again she was forced to hide her own hair for darkor tresses.
In "The Shock Punch" Misa
"THE SHOCK PUNCH." Frances Howard is her natural mount stirring production. "The Clark, daughter of a wealthy in Richard Dix's new Para- Howard plays the part of Dorothy Shock Punch," showing at the Star American contractor. American the purpose, gave a recital on the could not forsee that the level of 46 bells an uncompleted carillon the Rhine would be lowered," suic
So far only import cargo already Theatre from today until Satur-contractors have modern daugă- New Chekiang Government. " It has not been decided what This, when made up to 53 bells the architect. "The piles served
Another telegram from Shang-trops will use the matsheds which in the hulks has been moved, but day. That is, Miss Howard exters, therefore she is permitted to will be the finest carillon in the their purpose as long as they were world. It is destined for the totally immersed in water, batai states that Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei, have been erected at Jessfield Park. the Chinese merchants are anxiouehihits her own hair, which is of show herself "as is,"
head of the supporting cast of the Canadian Houses of Parliament at when once the waterlogged soil formerly President of the National So far accommodation has been to make arrangements for ship natural chestnut brown.
In her last two pictures las fituro, which is an adaptation of Ottawa. Already It is a wonder dried and shrank the bilen decay. University in Perlug, has arrived built for 800 men, although at aping export cargo in British at Hungchow, and assumed omés pinch the huts would take 1,000..steamers. The Japanes: steamers
ure unable to copa with all the Howard was obliged to wear wigs. John Monk Snanders' story of the ful musical instrument.
as Commissioner of the National- These include all the necessary ac- ist Chekiang Government Commitcommodation for a battalion, hav- carge that is awaiting export and In The Swan" Miss Howard ap-same name which ran in Liberty. toe. The new Chekiang Governing cook-houses, wish-houses, etc. besides they are charging pro-peared as a princess and, of course, Paul Sloane, who made "Too immediately taken to increase the products having risen 500 and in their courting days. Then In in the cast are. Walter Loug, Paul cat was officially inaugurated on It is anticipated that steps will be fiteering prices, the rates on many princesses did not wear short hair fany Kisses, directed. Others February 28tK.
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Too Many Kisses," a Richard Dix Panzer and "Gunboat" Smith..
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