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JANE" NOVAK.

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A message from Farls states that the Chamber of Deputies has passed the estimate of the Ministry of the Colonies.

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According to a Berlin cable, Dr. R. M. Wilson, President Herr Strescimann's organ, Del of the Kwanju Lepor Home in | Zeit," shounces that the Foreign | Korea, makes certain proposals for Minister declines to join a cabinet the obliteration of the disease in based on the present three partythe peninsula. He would have Four out of the five familles coalition.

the Government provide an | evicted at Clydebank on December

ndëquate tract of land on the west. Gambling of all sorts is rife coast for the gradua! Isolation of 123 returned to their homes assisted

by a crowd of several thousand all over Kongmoon, writes our all the lepers in the country, with people. The police made no correspondent in that port, Fana provision of Y4a month each for)

Tan" is the attempt to interfero, says Renter.

monopoly of the their support. The Mission militarists but other forms of those in charge getting dil they public gambling are now in vogue, can for giving permission and protection.

Wives of several prominent Chinese in Hankow are founding an endowment fund to be devoted to establishing an institution for taking care of" widows and ophans. An initial fund of $20,000 has been raised by the prombiers, who are continuing their drive among women in Hankaw to enlarge the fund..

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agents in China for the West W. R. Rice and Company, Coast Life Insurance Company of San Francisco announces to the public that

Bre henceforth

insurance rates for foreigners in No more passport visas are

China, insured by the Company, necessary for persons travelling are to be approximately on, the between Japan and the following same basis as rates prevailing in countries; France, Italy, and Hol the United States. The announces land. This is a very good sign, that it indicates that the West ment is of considerable interest in says the "Japan Chronicie." The passport system has been kept on Coast Life Insurance is convinced all this time not because of any that the hazards of life for the need, but simply to get a little the foreigner residing in China squeeze from travellers. Great apparently are no greater than for Governments are gradually waking the residents of the United States. up to the fact that such petty extor. tion is beneath their dignity? ~

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According to a Riga cable, the Soviet Central Executive Com mittee has issued a statement that growing political activity among the proletariat peasantry has necessitated a revision of the Soviet Institutions; therefore it has summoned a conference of fifty-six members to advise, inter alia, to what extent it may be possible to admit non - Com- munists to real participation in the country's administration.

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Lapers would provide the balance lepers and also funds for housing. necessary for the support of the 500 of them, as a start, while the Korea Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States would

free of charge. supervise and manage the work

The University of Nanking bulletin. Volume, 6, Number 17, contains the tenth annual report of the College of Agriculture and experiment station, for "1923-24. The report shows the rapid expan- agriculture, which is attributed to slon of work in the college of the new projects undertaken in connection with the famine pre- vention programme, which has been approved by the American Famine Fund Committee. There has been a large crease in the number of teachers, associates, and assistants. Two new liners "have been launched by Messrs. Barclay Curie Instruction has been better cared P. and O. Company's Australia siderably enlarged, and all in. and Co. on the Clyde for the for extension work has been con Service. These are the "Cathay"vestigations and research work and "Comorin." The former was According to the report they are much more effectively organized. christened by Viscountess Inchcape and the latter by her daughter the four-fifths of the way toward the Hon. Mrs. Alexander Shaw. Vis $100,000 required for the erection count Inchcape, Chairman of the of the badly needed college of P. and O. Company, was present, agriculture and forestry building. at the launching. The "Cathay" and "Comorin" are two of three

The office of the American sister ships, each of 15,000 Commercial Attaché in Peking has tons, with comfortable passenger received word from Paul Y. Chang, accommodation and good speed president and general manager of The third of these vessals to the Chinese Art and Industrial A Tokyo message, dated be called the "Chitral" is being Exhibition, which plans to open- December 23. reads:The Japan bullt by Alexander Stephen and and Chinese radio question, visa. Sen at Lint-house, Glasgow. The January in Seattle, that the vis the Federal wireless contract. Company's losses in ships sunk by necessary space has been secured is variously reported in vernacular enemy action during the war were financing the project Three well-

and arrangements completed for ☀ columns, as well as in despatches heavy, and its larger passenger known and important exhibitions from China, all of which Foreign steamers were particularly singled in China; namely, the National !Office spokesmen

declare are out for destruction, so that for the Educational Exhibition, China.Arts erroneous, and state the govern- past four years the Australia ser Exhibition, and the Western China ment is not pressing for a solution, vice via Suez has had to be Exhibition, have donated many of considering the present moment limited to four-weekly depart their best exhibits for use on this inopportune in view of the unsettledures. When the three new ships occasion. Considerable emphasis conditions of China. Certain quar are in commission, the P, and O. ters urge Japan to take up the ques- Company's pre-war fortnightly of this temporary exhibition on the is being placed by the management tion with Anterica direct but the service to Australia will be re- necessity of arranging for a per Government has no intention of established. The doing so, a decision which, it is sail on her maiden voyage on Feb. industrial products to be kept open

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manent exhibition of Chinese understood, corresponds with the 27 next; the "Comorin American viewpoint.

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Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Hong- kong's Commissioner at Wembley, retained to the Colony by the s.8.

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J. C. Huston, formerly. U, S. Consul at Tientsin, has arrived in Hankow from America Accom

General Chiang Tso-pin, a loud- has been appointed to H.M.S. ing Kuoningtung commander, has Bee, add. (January 15), and visited Hussn recently on a special as Residen Naval Officer, Shanghai mission to end the fractional strife (from date of joining,

now taking place in Hamun. Fle cones to Hunan as a representative Wellington Roo, fornier of Marshal Duan Chi-júï. Foreiz Minister, is reported to

The death is anounced of Mr.panied by his family, Mr. Huston have arrived in Shanghai front Weihaise, and taken up his re- M. R. Lane, formerly a member of has been assigned to the American sidence. He is reported to show the Chinn Medical Board constine-Consulate General a Hankow, disinclination to discuss politics, fiou staff in Peking, and more re-Prior to his appointment to Tien-

eently in the installation of & power tsin Mr. Huston was in Hankow. plant for the John Hopkins Hos The convert party of the H.M.Spital in Baltimore. "Hawkins" gave an entertainment

A third Additional Judge has been, sanctioned for the Rangoon High

at the Naval Hospital on Christinas

A Marseilles cuble states that Court. The post is to be a tem- Eve to the patients, as a Christmas General Hsu Tsu-iseng (Little porary one for a period of two treat. The invalids assembled 21 Hs), interviewed by the papers., with effect from the 12th one of the wards and fully enjoyed said China will not delay to be.

November next. The Governor- the concert

cue quiet and Bolshevism need General-in-Council has appointed not be feared. The Chiness Re-r. P. N. Chari, B. L., M.L.C., Dr. and Mrs. Francis Clark of public, he said, wishes to lighten Plender, to this new post. Mukden leave for England early in the amicable relations with France Dr. Jacob Gould Schürman, U. s. the New Year. They are well in conformity, wite: Marshal Tan's Minister, to China returned from a knowny in Hongkong where they policy. spent just twenty years (1896-10155. During the War, Dr. Clark had medical charge of military officers Who had contracted consumption in

brief trip to America, on Monday, Empress of Canada" from Van-Dr. Schurman expected to depart December 15, nccompanied by his Passengers arriving by the ss.diughter, Miss Barbara Seburman. couver and ports, included Mr. for Peking on Thursday, December G. H. Lynott of Messrs. Pavis and 18. While in Shanghai he was the Co., returning from the United guest of honour at several functions Passengers for Ilongkong by the States; Mr. H. Burgess, Supt. including; a luncheon at the Amer "Surpedon include Mr. and Mrs. Engineer of the Canadian Pacific ican Club by the Board of Directors

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G. G. N. Tinson, Mr. and Mrs. Stenship Ltd., accompanied by of the American Chamber of Com-Leading Articles L. G. 9. Dodwell, Capt, and Mrs. Mrs. Burgess; Mr. W. T. Die of merce, and a guest at dinner at the Adoy, Cupt, and Mrs. J. B. Bailey, Messrs. Trollope and Colls Ltd., Union Club on Wednesday even- Capt. C. Williams, Afr. and Mrqnd Mr. F. B. Maryhall, ing, December 17. A. W. Hayward, Mr. R. P C.] Master: Mr. R. Melville Smith, The Counter of Reading has Mrs. H. Melville Smith.

Some particulars are announced again made à generous donation to for the forthcoming visit to India the Walker Hospital, Simis, by for- and Far Eastern countries of Dr. Engineer Captain E. G. Pallot, warding a sum of Rs. 3,000 to the Robert G, Cochrane, son of Dr. D.8.0.. who has just taken the treasurer of that institution. Thomas Cochrane, founder of the tarbine and internal.com.mtionen. Thanks to Her Excellency's pre-Union Medical College, Peking. gine courses, began the oil fuel ticut interest and to the untiring He is the delegate of the Mission course on Noveniber 28. He is to energy of Lady Rawlinson the out to Lepers. In India Dr. Cochrane Leave shortly for Chim to become look for the hospital is brighter will work with Dr. Ernest Muir ut Chief Engineer of Hongkong Dock than it has been for some time.the School of Tropical Medicine, yard. An additional candidate for Since, 1921 the dnagement have Calenta, where the preparation in promotion to acting warrant en been, engaged in a constant struggle undertaken of many serums fou - giner is now declared successful at to keep the hospital going, and jections that are being tied in the examination, Alfred Sumner, Colonel F. W. Sumner, on who India, China, and the Philippine of H.M.S Titania, on the China the main burden has fallen, has Islands. Dr. Cochrane, after visit-Wider Powers Station..

been unremitting in his efforts to ing Burmali, will go to Siam, where Postponed ... induces the European public and Dr. McKean has been working in Sport May Yohe, actre, who appeared official bodies to realise the import close co-operation with the Siamese Sarage Dogs.... in Shanghai years ago and gained fance of ensuring the continuance of Governinent, which is doing much Arms on bip... fame through the world by her the institution. The military, to stamp out the scourge. nion of the Hope Diamond thorities have appreciated the pruch will visit ieper work in North Snakes Alive....

Thence, Brokers' Plessed. is in the limelight again. She is teil benefits which they derive from Borneo, the Netherlands Indies. Boring... married to Mr John A. Smute, the hospital, and their appreciation and the Philippines, and will ufter-Peking Precautions. con of General Tan Sinute, now is expressed in an annual wards engage in research work at Police Force Ins.. Bonth Africa. Her husband alot grant. During the lust season the the Medical College, Peking. himself recently because he mi activities of Le Countess of Read Chind alone it is estimated there Im he had been unkind to his wife ing and Lady Rawlinson have been are a million lepers. He will travel He probably will recover. May enpplemented by the interest of home through Korea and America, Yahe was wearer of the Hope Dia- Mr. Macmullen, who organised and about two years hance hopes to mond when she was the wife of special entertainment partly on bebe able to engage in further investi Lard Francis Hope.

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