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House-building, a stagnant indus try during the war, is being resumed in Paris.

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Steel nails and iron wasters were found in the stomach of a cow which died suddenly at Grimsby.

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"Davy "Stephens, the Kingston newsverder, crossed to England in see his 50t D rty rare this year

The Bank Officers' Guild is organis- ing a monster petition to be presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer praying that the privilege of banks being allowed to close to the public on the first business day of January and July be made permanent. This concession, instituted as a war-time expedient, was continued to January last, when the Treasury intimated that it could not be further continued, It is expected that the petition will be signed by practically every bank employe in the kingdom. The In stitute of Bankers, in its journal. pleads for a continuance of the con- cession on the grounds that the in- convenience to the public is very Bedfordshire Councili recomiend small compared with the tremendoused by a committee to allow smoking advantage to the banking community. at committee me tings but not at the Baby with Two Heads

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LOGAL AND GENERAL.

THE CHINA MAIL.

A complete dispersary suitable! for a medical practitioner is advertis ed for sale in this issue,

Giren $1,148 53 yesterday to pay a bill owing to Messrs. Alex. Ross, a foki employed by a shopkeeper carry ing on business at No. 6, Lyndhurst Terrace, absconded with the money

By order of General Chen Chiung ming. Commander-in-chief of the Cartonese Army, there is now rapid movement of troops in every section and it is believed that he is preparing for a general onslaught on Nanning.

The grand free opening of the World Theatre is advertised for Thursday, July 14. when an all comedy programme will be presented

a1 2.30, 5.15, 7.13 and 915 pm. The theatre, which is under European management, is claimed to be the most modern place of amusement in Hongkong.

A TOUCHIN

STORY,

GIRL'S FEARNING FOR-

MOTHER

GIVES UP WEALTH TO LIVE WITH NETI

HAINAN NEWS,

ROBBERS LOOT TOWNS.

▲ MILD TYPHOON

(From a Correspondent.)

A touching story of a girl's child-

Kiungchow, Hainan, July 8 hood dreams of her lost mother was related at the Mount Vernon police The people of Hainan have been court when a fashionably dressed anxiously watching political events girl, Irene Davis, who said she was across the water. Most of them feel that unless Pakhoi is taken by the 22, was charged with vagrancy.

She told the court she was the daugh-Kwangsi forces, Hainan is safe from ter of a wealthy retired stockbroker, invasion. Over a week ago a large John Davis. Her parents separated band of several hundred robbers from 16 years ago by deed which gave the the Luichow district, crossed over father custody of the little girl, the to Fou Tai in Vunsic (ten odd miles to only child of the marriage. She was the east) seized the town, and then sent to live with an sunt in a distant proceeded to rub the rich, some of State, by whom he was brought whom were held for ransom. Local

luxury, ap and educated in surroundings of troops went to the rescue and the

robbers returned to their haunts.

dis- Throughout these years the girl S Vun city in Luichew never ceased to yearn for her mother,trict is reported to have fallen into and a year ago, when she returned the hands of robbers, who surrounded to live with her father in New York, the town. They captured it after a she paid a detective agency out of fight and then proceeded to loot. The One fatal case of plague and her allowance to find her mother's Thirty rich men were killed.

insurgent and bandit leader, Li Fok Another of enteric fever were reperted whereabouts. New Zealand's drink bill rose tremoring the 48 hours ended yesterday A month ago the detectives were Long, is reported to have been killed less than £4.500.000 2 years ago to Last week four Chinese died from successful. The girl went to a dingy in a fight. The two Kwangs are re- plague, two from influenza, one from lodging house in New York City and ported to be at war near Luichow. over £7,500 000 last year.

mall pex, and one from cere found her mother living there. She The Cantonese forces are led by sprat fever. Taronatal cases of did not recognise her daughter till General Chen Chan Ming's uncle.

mali px, one Brist and the other the latter erbraced her, crying. A move is on foot to make Nam hinese, and one imported case of

Mother, at last I have found you." Fong, ten miles south of Nodoa, in also neric fever. Brush, were

The girl returned to her father and Tam Chow district & district city. rotifed last week.

asked permission to live with her Its district would be made up of the mother. which Mr. Davis refused. interior sections of several other dis- He left for Europe next day. The tricts. It is said that by this means girl thereupon left home and went ohbing will be largely prevented in to her mother. The latter was unable those mountainous sections of Hainan. to support her daughter, who was obliged to look for work. Failing to find any and not wishing to be a burden on her mother, she determined not to return to her father and was wandering in the streets penniless when she was taken into custody, She was eventually persuaded to

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A St Joan of Arc procession wil be held in London an France's Day. July 14, in aid of the Rheims Cathedra Fund.

council.

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A Roman coin of Emperor Alexan- der Severus, A. D. 222-235, has been dog up in a garden at Woburn, Bucks.

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A baby girl with two heads, two hearts, and two sets of lungs, two legs and feet on one side sad one leg with ten toes on the other, is in Barnot Memorial Hospital, Paterson Italian woman in poor circumst- A musel recently gathered on the auces, whose name the hospital Welsh coast contained seven pearls, Buthorities refuse to make known, the largest being twice the size of a gave birth to the child. The mother Pinhead

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(says a Beuter message from New York) is said to be all right, but bas- The only relics which London possesses of the campaigns of the been told the child died after birth, Duke of Marlborough are a pair of and no mention was made of malform kettle-drums ation. The child is normal in both heads and trunk development, and two legs are also of normal size, but the others are not. The appear ance is of twins strangely joined.

Doctors said cne set of the hearts and lungs is weaker than the other. Each side Las been crying but ant together.

A Jutland Debt of Honour.

In the early hours of one morning five years ago the British Fleet abandoned its pursuit of the beaten Ge:mans after the Battle of Jutland and steered for home, leaving three al our battle-cruisers at the bottom

While fishing with a small brown March By on the River Derwent, neat Cromford, Derbyshire, Mr Hodson of Nottingham, caught a 21in. pike

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"We deal as little with law here as we can." said Mr. d'Eyncourt, the Marylebone magistrate. We try to arrange things according to common

sense.'

The death-rate from fever is the lowest in the history of England and the least of any country in the world,

At the s of the Publie Works Department yesterday after non, a piece Crown Land in Shackiwan (led. Lot No. 447) south of Tuland Lot No 454. contain ing 7.700 square feet, was offered for sale by public auction for a term of 75 years, with the option of a | renewal, at a Crown Rent to be fixed by H. M's. Surveyor, for a further There was no term of 75 years.

mpetition, and the property was old to Mr. Tsang in Tug for the upset price of $5 775.

return to her annt.

CHILD HEROINE.

BURNED TO DEATH.

"TO AVOID FRIGHTENING GRANDMOTHER."

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Local officials have been agitating or the opening of a good road to the interier and the tearing down of Hohow city wall to make way for 's j broad highway through the town.

This vicinity was visited by a typhoon on July 6. The damage as not very extenove. Tiles were blow off houses, trees damaged, etc. The Hoihow Mission hospital windmill was again blown down. There were five steam vessels anchored in Hoikow 'arbour during the blow. None was damaged. The Taksang" lost ar

anchor.

Miss A. H. Skinner, of Kiungchow Presbyterian Mission, retamed on July from a short vacation in Hong- Long.

A Chinese youth charged this morning before Magistrate Orme with having snatched a silver watch and chain with penknife attached, from a Japanese on Praya East last night, said that another youth snatched the property and then passed it to him. Inspector Black- man said that chase has to be given

"I did not want to frighten

Rev. Wm. V. Stinson and Dr. W. through Amoy Street and Queen's Road East before the accused was grany," were the dying words of a K. McCandliss, of the Presbyterian caught in Taiwang Street where he 10-years-old girl named Rossi living Mission, returned from summer vaca- dropped the watch when secosted by in the village of Lavatoggio, in Cortions in Hongkong and Canton, on

in passing an Indian constable. satence of the months' labour, the Magistrate told the ac cused that it was just as unlawful to receive stalen property and run away with it, as to do the snatching

hizself.

hard sice, who was burned to death.

Wednesday, June 29, per 6.8. "Lak- The child was preparing a dinner B1DR."

Miss M. H. Taylor, of Kiungchow, for herself and her grandmother, who is a cripple, when her clothing caught went to Hongkong on June 30, for a fire. Anxious not to frighten the short vacation. aged woman, she remained quiet Miss M. M. Mominger, of the Fres- and slowly moved towards the door,byterian Mission, Kacher, went to intending when she go outside to Hongkong Per $8. "Hanoi" on

of the North Sea. It has since been said Dr. W. Hunter in an address to Durpose should be destroyed, declared run to a fountain As she was step- July 9, en route to the U.S.A.

disclosed by Mr. Filson Young, in his recently published book "With the Battle-Cruisers,' that the defects

the Medical Society of London.

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Maishads not ged for a lawful Magistrate Ore yesterday aftemoon ping out the fames surrounded her. Prot. K. L. Yen, D. Sc., of Peking after hearing details of an oplam raid and she fell on the doorstep.

University, a graduate of Chicago conducted by revenue officers on a Neighbours who rushed to her and Comell Universities, recently Lambeth Guardians are buying number of masheds at Saiwanho, assistance were unable to save her,paid a short visit to relatives and which caused the loss of these three black stockings for the aged women Shauklwan district, on Sunday. Scouts and she died from terrible barns.friends in Hoihow and Kinngchow. |

in their bome at Norwood, to be having given the alarm as soon as splendid ships with some 3,000 British worn when they go out, as the white the raiders were sighted, only a few ficed herself in vain. Her grand-ago, and spent most of the time ten year The courageous little girl had sacri- He left Hainan over officers and men had been revealed ones they regularly wear are coo

raptures were made and many of the at the Battle of the Degger Bank in «idered unsightly,

opium smokers and several disan mother, abortly after bearing of the American universities. He t January 1915, and had been reported

keepers escaped up the hillside. In child's death, died as a result of the turned to Canton on June 30 per S.S.

"Taksang." every matshed illicit opium and shock. smoking gear was discovered. As the raiders were collecting evidence, the villagers turned out in full force and stoped them out of the place. Attempts were made to rescue the captives, and the revenue officers had 10 threaten the people with their

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to the Admiralty. But nothing was Fined £10 for returning to the jury done to remedy them. To the im-box fifteen minutes late after the mortal dead of Jutland theluccheon interval in the London Law living ove & great debt;

and Courts, Mr Percy Cohen explained with the living it abould be a that he had been delayed by a col point of honour to ascertain where lision, and the fine was remitted. the responsibility lies for the loss of these ships by a thorough and careful inquiry.

Seurational Murder Recalled.

A famous murder was recalled when Mr. Rutherford petitioned in

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Hendon District Council is applying

for sanction to purchase as a pleasure revivers in order to get away safely ground, at a cost of £4.900, Sunny with their prisoners. Hill Field, overlooking the aerodrome,

which has been used by thousands of

EXPRESS IN PERIL

SAVED BY A GUARD

RED FLAG SIGNAL IN TIME.

Londoners to watch the aerial dix LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. after passing Corby, near Grantham,

plays.

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ARRIVALS.

A crowded Great Northern Railway express which left London at 1.40 p.m. was stopped by a red flag signal Lines. About a quarter of a mile London for a divorce from Lieut-Col

ahead lay an engine on its side, Norman Rutherford, Low in the Broadmoor Asylum, who was con-

fouling both sets of metals. "Were they Enelishmen?" asked victed in April. 1919, of murdering the coroner, Mr. Whitehouse, at an The s.s. "Lake Gitano, Capt. J. An engine attached to the train of a Major Seton. The respondent is un-inquest at Rotherhithe when a Hill. 1,612 tors, arrived this moring permanent-way gang had overturn defended. hat his consin, Miss Amy witness related how two men watched at 6 from Singapore with 773 tons of ❘ed when crossing from the down line Richardson, with whom misconduét a boy drown in the Thames. When general cargo.

to the up main line. The guard of Hwabkuei. Capt. N the permanent-way train was thrown is alleged, intervened denying the the witress replied that he could por misconduct. The petitioner testified say, the coruner added: "I hope Sagara, 753 rons, arrived this morn from one side of his van to the other

ing at 630 fenm Chefoo with 445 and stunned. to a life of terror, including thrashings not: they were great cowards.”

tons of general cargo with a riding whip in South Africa

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The air fare between London and The 83. "Glenshare," Capt. In- in 1916. She alleged adultery with Miss Amy Richardson when the re- Amsterdam has been reduced from gram, 2012 tns, arrived this morn spondent was on furlough from France £10 10 to £8 8s for the single ing at 7 from Singapore with 1,100

journey, and from £18 18s. to £15 tons of general cargo

DEPARTURES.

Her husband's violence increased for the return trip This works out after the petitioner ordered Miss at just over 6d. a mile for the Richardson out of the house, culminat-

return journey. London and Ams. ing in the murder of Major Seton terdam are 275 miles apart. Cross-examined, the petitioner ad- mitted that she wrote to Miss Richard- son affectionately after she had left the house.

East End English.

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The S. S. Kashima Maru," Capt. M..Machida, sailed for Victoria and, An American scientist named Seattle via Shanghai at 11 a m. to-day George Webb has invented a talking with 1,000 tons of general and cinema film. It was shown in through cargo. London on June 10. It is worked

Capt. The S. S. "Hinsang"

"Ho, yus, 'Erbert, yer don't 'arf on the gramophone principle. The Kelman, salled for Sandakan at noon see some funny fings a-comin' 'ome record produces the words as the to-day with 50 tons of general cargo. Iste a' nights, not 'ari yer don't. La film is released. The result, so it is

The as "Shangtung," Captain

Swatow at noon, to-day with 630 When James Smith, aged 93, an tons of general and through cargo. Army veteran, applied to the Chatham The .Namsang, Captain magistrates for financial help, was Anderson, sailed for Calcutta vis rated that he bad tramped from Singapore at 2 pm today with Chatham to Folkestone, attended his 2,500 tons general cargo. daughter's funeral, and walked back,

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CLEARANCES.

the faroff I sees a lummikin' 'omguffin stated, is a perfect synchronisation Robertson, sailed for Shanghai vis trampocsin and squirmin' arahnd, an" when I gets near there'e was, a reg'lar' uman-compass, wit is timber too deep dahn a plug'ole, a-doin' steady four miles.kout an' s-drozin' as pritty a four-foot circle as ever yer Bee in yar nat'tal My! It was a total distance of eighty miles. He blinko-a fair ferricadouzer Doin' had no food since the previous a circ'lar tore, matey Iyaffed, morning. The old man was given

The as. "Tean," British, cleared friendly. No,' says 'e, 'just goin' 10s. from the poor box.

to-day and will sail for: Amey at 'ome to the bosom of my fambly,

The diamond boom at Allwal daylight to-morrow, like you An, the gollampus kep

The 6.5. "Laomedon, British, goin rahnd again. The yer all North has broken with the Closing night like that, mys I, an' I hikes of the Rouxville property. The cleared to-day and will sail for Lon- the kivey abt, puts im on the straight owner of Rouxville, having found don via Singapore at 9 am, to-

many thousand pounds' worth of morrow. an' says Bo long, mate |"—" Toodle | Jiamente, sold the tart to a tradi- --_--_The_**. - "Emprcas of Japan 00, Bays'e, an offe gos, dot an' cate for £43,000. A neighbour who British, cleared to-day and will sull carry one, right as rain an appy as refused an offer of £50,000 for his for Vancouver via Shanghai at noon

mandboy.

farm is now lamenting.

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