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MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1924.

INTIMATIONS.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY; LIMITED.

TICKETS will be Issued for

the

Round Trips during months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling et Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage. by the Company's new, fast, well appolated steamer "Hai Ning” at the reduced rate of $80 for the round" Voyage, Including Meals while the steamer is in port:

These Special Tickets will be available for retum only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for! which it is issued or by her following sailing from Feochow.

Duration of stay at Foochow 48 bours

The Trip cccupies 8 to 9 days and the

will leave steamer Hongkong from, the Company's Wharf at 5 p.m arriving at daylight on her return (Weather permitting).

The Company's Steam Launch will convey

from passengers Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.

For further particulars and dates of Salling-

Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

HIGH CLASS' BOOTS AND SHORS

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-FOR-

FRENCH TUITION

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Write to . G.TMTM MOUSSION c/o "China Mail" office.

No More Indigestion

After Eating.

that an INTERIM DIVIDEND has been declared in respect of the

That distressing, disagreeable, financial year ending on the 31st and frequently painful condition December 1924, and will be paid on known as indigestion, from which FRIDAY the 29th, August 1924, as so many people suffer after eating, to Forty Cents ($0.40.) per share on can be prevented, or relieved in the Old Shares (Fully paid). Thirty-five minutes, by taking two or three Centa ($0.33) per share on three Bisurated Magnesia tablets Bonus Shares (Fully paid) Nos. immediately after eating, or 171,000 to 200,000, and Six Cenia whenever pain is felt. It's really (4006) per Share on the New wonderful the way these little Shares (1924 Issue) upon which tablets prevent and relieve all $2.50 per Share was paid up on the forms of stomach trouble and 15th March, 1924.

weakness due to or accompanied The Transfer Books of the by acidity or food fermentation. Company will be closed from the 8th If you have acid stomach weak- to 29th August (both days in-ness, indigestion, loss of power or clusive).

any other form of internal trouble, go to the nearest chemist for a Package of Bigurated Magnesia tablets; take-ae directed and you'll be amazed and delighted with the results. Be sure to see the trade mark word "BISMAG" on the wrapper when buying."

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

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Mr. Leverack, M.P., has dis covered that the flag in the fresco of Charles IL (1660) in the Com mon's Corridor is a Union Jack as redesigned in 18011

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Miss Edith Picton Turbervill (daughter of Col. Picten Turber vill), who contested North Islington in 1922, has been adopted as pro- spective Labour candidate for the Stroud, or Mid-Gloucester, division

BACK FROM. EVEREST

ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME

AT DARJEELING.

The Everest Expedition under Golone! EF. Norton, D.S.O.;; returned to Darjeeling on August 1, and was et by a large crowd... The shops and streets were.... -decorated for the occasion, Lady Lytton and the Government House. Prty is welcomed the returning expediton General Bruce, who was compelled to return during the early stages of the adventure. Mowing to illness, went out some

The freedom of Edinburgh has been conferred upon M. Max, the : burgomaster of Brussels.

University) honours men may get antedated commissions in the Royal Air Force with 11⁄2 years exira seniority..

miles to meet the party. Both the officers and the men are in the pink of condition, notwithstanding the severe hardships they have undergone. The British officers were very reticent and, when interviewed, confined their remarks to what has appeared in the papers.

The hillmen, however, were pre- pared to give any information, and from them and their Sirdars the re Nineteen entries have been reporters had no difficulty in obtain relved, for the Air Ministry'sing information. The Sirdars and £50.000 prize for a helicopter coolles were certainly looking which passes official tests.

£32,062 was realised at the the late Mr. B. E. MacGeorge, of seven days' sale of the library of Glasgow at Sotheby's

Alderman J. C. Febber, a former Mayor of Bournemouth, While a coffin was being lowered who was a contemporary at the into a grave at Thundersley, Essex, old. Dorchester grammar school a swarm of bees settled on the

with Thomas Hardy, died, aged wreaths. The proceedings were 81. suspended-until the swarm shifted to a tree near by.

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. Dr. James Hargreave Mawson, of Moorland road, Leeds, received fatal injuries as the result of a collision between his motor-cycle and a motor-car on the Otley road at Leeds.

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When the police raided a gambl ing den at Poplar, E., they found a Chinese game called Puck-a-Pu in progress. The gamblers included a boy of 13 and a girl of 11. Fines of from £15 to £zo were

inflicted upon three Chinese.

nationalise the mines; there can be "The Goverment is out to no half-way house about it declared Mr. E. Shinwall, Minister of Mines, at a meeting in connec tion with the Woolwich Arsenal Co-operative Society.

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A smugglers' cave, 20 feet deep and 15 feet wide, believed to be retreat of the famous smuggler Jack Rattenbury, has been found at Watercombe Farm, near Seaton; when the field was being raked. Devon. A horse fell into the cave

Among the nine Boy Scouts from Kenya (British East Africa) to take part in the Jamboree at the British Empire Exhibiton, August 1-8. was R. W. Ryan, 15, who runs his father's farm and once shot two lions found worrying stock.

Mr. Charles Leonard Hartwell, AR.A., the sculptor has been elected a Royal Academician, Mr.. Hartwell, who is in his 51st year, has exhibited at the Academy since 1896.

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Frederick Charles Morgan, a pitman employed at the North Celynen Colliery, Newbridge, Monmouthshire, was killed by falling down the pít shaft, a distance of about 1

1,20011.

Captain W. R. Low, D.SO. Ist Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, pleaded guilty at a verting £341 of regimental funds court-martial at Aldershot to cou to his own use.

prison at Arad, in Transylvania, Having been nine months in Jacob Mold, the Rumanian State Railway official who was accused of-having-poisoned more than 20 people who were to have been wimesses against him in an em bezzlement case, has been declared innocent of all the charges.

fitter than they were when the expedition Je(t Darjeeling some months ago. They say that they they got was good. Of course, were never short of food and what there was a scarcity of fresh meat, but this was 10 expected Several-large-villages be

were passed and the people were friendly. Above the allude of 14,000 feet only Lamas were met. These, at first, were inclined to be stand-offish, but. with a little encouragement, made themselves a nuisance and would not be shaken off. On the lower ranges thousands of wild goats were seen daily, but, as none of the men of the expedition had firearms. they were not molested by the leopards were occasionally met, party. Above 15,000 feet snow but they gave no trouble. Feather ed game was very scarce.

sudden storms, but, beyond a good The party was often caught in drenching, they had nothing to regions, when the terrible winds complain of except in the higher used to blow the snow off the rocks into the faces of the advancing More than once some of their party, but this they all expected. number were lifted off their feet, and they had to cry a halt for an to make any headway, The Sabibs hour or two as it was impossible were no better off than the men and, as often as the men, measured their length on the snow, much to the amusement of the coalies,

LAST FATAL CLIMB. Mallory and Irvine left the camp The House of Lords decided by by themselves on the morning of 71 to 60 votes to present for the June 8 for the final climb, and, as Royal Assent under Church of the weather was perfect when they England Assembly (Powers) Act started it was anxiously hoped that a measure to authorise the division they would succeed and be back of the present diocese of Win before nightfall. But as they did chester into three and the creation not return that day It was feared of bishoptics for Portsmouth and

that they were benighted, and it Guildford.

was thought they would certainly be back the following day. As there was no sign of them on the 9th evening Odell, with a small party of coolles left on the morning of the toth, but, finding no trace of

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the two missing officers, retumed-1900ögt

on the 11th, hoping that they might have returned to the camp. There can be no doubt that they met with an accident, but how will never be known. It was impos- sible to send parties to search for them as the weather was very bad, but, had volunteers been called for by Colonel Norton, every man of the expedition would have corne forward, although they all realised the hopelessness of any search in such weather.

The death of these two officers naturally' cast a glooms over the whole camp for some time, as they were always cheery and made themselves very popular with the Coolies. Besides the loss of these two officers the only other deaths were those of a Gurkha Sirdar from pneumonia"and" of "another, from heart failure at an altitude of 22,000 feet 20

COOLIES' UNDISMAYED, "

The coolles taken from Darjeel- ing, in addition to being given rations and a liberal supply of warm clothing, were paid at the rate of Rs. 22.50 a month, with which the men were very satisfied. The return journey was unevent ful When asked if they would. go If there was another expedition, one Sirdar said that not one would remain back.

The stance was proving a great success. The new member of the circle, an Oldham pigeon-fancter, had been brought into touch with his lately departed father-in-law, who had fost innomced he was an angel.DMVENES WI wings an all?" asked the "Wide Teply was fixthe

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