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DID

YOU

GET

THAT

VICTROLA?

The China Mail.

ABFISET

May 18, 1928, Temperature 74

Barometer 29 85-

Rainfall 0.32 tcb,?

91 May 21, 1988, Temperature

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1928.

No. 18.88. 一拜歳 號一廿月五年三十二百九千一英

Did you get that Victrola?

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THE CHINA

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EUITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD,

BONAR LAW RESIGNS.

MEDICAL ADVISERS INSIST.

HEALTH QUEST FAILS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Maj,j

LONDON, May 20,

Mr. Bonar Law has resigned on the urgent recommendation of his medical advisers. It is an nounced that His Majesty received the news with the greatest regret.

-"DOCTORS' BULLETIN.

'UNABLE TO PROMISE IMPROVEMENT,"

LATER

A communique issued from Downing Street says that Mr. Bonar Law's voyage did not improve his health and on his return to London he was examin ed by his medical advisers who signed the follow ing bulletin:

"In spite of his rest, the Prime Minister's voice is still unsatisfactory. We are unable to promise an improvement within a reasonable time. The state of the Prime Minister's general health is not! good."

The bulletin is signed by three doctors, The communique continues that in consequence of this document Mr. Bonar Law inmediately placed his resignation in the hands of His Majesty who was graciously pleased to accept it.

NO SUCCESSOR YET.

MINISTERS OUT OF TOWN.

LATER.

It is authoritatively learned that no Minister has yet been summoned to see His Majesty regard- ing the vacancy for the Premiership. Nearly all Mr. Bonar Law's late colleagues are out of town,

EARL CURZON NEXT PREMIER?

LATER

It is believed in political circles that His Majesty will offer Earl Curzon the Premiership and that he will accept.

HARD COURT TENNIS,

CHAMPIONSHIP SENSATIONS,

ST. CLOUD May 20 In the international lawn tennis hardcourt championships a sensation was caused by the defeat of the American pair Johnson and Misc Sears-by-the Dutch pair, the Diomerkools 8-66-1 and the narrow win of Johnston over the young French champion Gentlen 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4-

POPE'S ALPINE CLIMBS.

PERILOUS EXPLOITS. All the world knows that the present Pope in his earlier years was one of the most famous moun taineers, but few aro aware of the exact character of his exploits. "Climbs on Alpine Peaks' tains accounts from his Holiness's pen of three of his ascents. They have been translated by Mr. J. E.

con-

日六月四亥癸水皇年二十國芪華中

BRITISH LEGION AT HOME.

IMPRESSIVE MEMORIAL SERVICE.

(Renter's Service the China Mail.)

LONDON, May 20 Addressing the annual conference of the British

Legion, Earl Haig stated that the branches in the country at the close of the year numbered 2,089. Employment was found for ten thousand men dur ing the year in spite of an almost unprecedented depression.

شد بتوانند

Between three and four thousand members of the Legion in the afternoon marched to the cenotaph for an impressive némorial service after which the Prince of Wales deposited a wreath on behalf of the Legion.

VOROWSKY MURDER.

SWISS GOVERNMENT DISCLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY,

NO PRIVILEGES FOR UNOFFICIAL ENVOYS.

BERNE, May 20.

trined in the Russian Note and declines all respon- The Federal Council refuses the demands con sibility for the assassination. It declares that the Russian. delegation at Lausanne, not having an official-character, was not entitled to the privileges accorded official delegations to the conference.

[Vorowsky, the Soviet envoy, was shot dead on May 10 at the Hotel Cecil at Lausanne, and two other Russians. Ahrens and Dimitrieff, were wounded. Their assailant was supposed to be a Government had received a Note from the Soviet Fascist. An earlier cable stated that the Swiss Government, charging it with responsibility for the assassination.]

AMERICA'S ACCOUNT WITH GERMANY.

CLAIMS PRESENTED FOR. $1,479,000,00

"LUSITANIA" LIABILITY ADMITTED.

WASHINGTON, May 20

A statenient presented to the mixed claims commission established to fix German war liabili ties has been published. It shows that the claims of the American Government and citizens total $1,479,000,000 of which the Government claims $366,000,000.-There Is a list of 12,416 claimants headed "clalts arising from the sinking of the Lusitania" totalling over $22,000,000 and Germany has already admitted liability in this regard.

THE MATTERHORN. Almost as trying was his climb of the Matterhorn in a single day when the rocks were bad. Of the

place where the slip occurred in by Whymper, the Pope says: the first famous accident, described

accessible; it is not really so, but it As seen from Zermatt it looks in-

is only practicable for those who can depend absolutely on their sure-footedness and on the strength

of their arm

On that terrible ridge, just under

ALDWYCH

TEMPLE:

GREEK

LONDON'S LATEST

BUILDING.

Bush House, the huge walte building on the island site in Aldwych, is nearing completion. Technically, it is finished in car tenants this month. It is designed case," and will be ready for its first

C. Eaton and are introduced to the this danger-point, the party were for a modern commercial house, British public by prefaces from the benighted and had to bivouac in the and already tenancies have Bishop of Salford and Mr. Douglas open, but his Holiness declares that been secured by two banks, Freshfield, who himself is one of they passed the night "not only an American Government-institu the greatest of Alpinists. He says without regret but I venture to say tion; a large engineering firm, and of the Pope's thrilling pages:

They show in every page the

with considerable enjoyment." a number of trading concerns. kindliness and humour of the man, Bishop of Safford that nothing has ward appearance of the building It is interesting to learn from the Viewed from Kingsway, the out- as well as the technical skill and given the Pope greater pleasure suggests a Greek temple. There judgment of the true mountaineer.. than the courteous greeting from, is a broad, high portico on this side, They bear eloquent witness to his the Mount Everest Expedition larger than is customary in London passion for the heights and the that he sat up late at night reading commercial.architecture, but not glories they reveal. The snows the Illustrated report of the ex-out of proportion to the general of Soracte viewed from the win pedition; and that he cherished dimensions.

dows of the Vatican can be but poor substitute for the vision of Monte Rosa, shining faintly fashed and phantom-fair among the

the highest point reached on Mount with great rogard a fragment from DEDICATION. ^^ Everest which the British climbers the dome, around which ita run Two handsome capitols, supporð spires of his formes cathedral... sent him when

This is a book which will delight

the Inscription: This building is would know more of Pius XL's space has been left in the arch for English-speaking peoples. A early years.

a sculpired group. There is a second main entrance in the Strand, Dr. G. Swan retumed to China by le-Strand, and in this case the opposite the Church of St. Mary- LOST ON A GLACIER

theDelta" which arrived here on architect has reproduced in the He started as a member of a

Saturday. Other passengers party from a hut at a height of were Mr. J. R Fulton, Mr. E. 10,500ft atam, and after 18 Smith, Rev. E. Hedburg Bishop hour of terrific climbing reached and Mrs. Locke, Dr., and Mrs. Cot- the summit, and passed the night

tingham.

the Pope greatly underrates the

It must, however, be added that climbers and Interest all who dedicated to the friendship of the perils of one of the climbs which he made, namely, that up the Italian face of Monte Rosa, which has been. regarded for generations as among the most dangerous in the

en a lodge

in the open at the height of 15,000ft. It is probable that C. C. Wu, son It was impossible to takon step of the late Dr. Wu Ting-fang and in any direction. Anyone sitting a former Vice-Minister of Foreign down found his feet dangling in Affairs in Canton, will be recalled space we had, however every from Shanghai to take the portfolio: ellity for stamping them, provid- of Foreign Affairs, reports the we were careful not to lose our organ of the 72 Guilds at Canton,

The colt was intense. Our frozen hard, and our eggs resembled it, in that neither respectively;

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The tower base in 144ft. from the apart, the outside is severely time ple, of plain Portland stone. Strand level and the total floor. space in the premises is 110,000 in ft Two new roads between Aldwych and the Strand are being laid down one on either side of the building. Entering from Aldwych, the visitor asses thro elicula runnin

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