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THE CHINA MAIL.

CLOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The return of notifiable dis eases for the 24 hours onded Tuesday, shows one Russian case of enteric fever.

The Irish Free State pro- poses to reduce the salaried of its unmarried Civil Service by 25 per cent. thus establishing definite bachelor tax.

During the evidence of a wit- neas at Willesden, a man, rose in the public gallery, and shouted ri I've something to say. Hold the line, please!"

In a recent published inter- view. William of Hohenzollern,

A woman complainant, pro- the ex-War Lord, said:"The ducing a double handful of hair, The Shanghai German A.D.C. Church has been losing ground alleged that the defendant had will open their season on October because it fails to keep in touch torn it out of her head, Defen-12 with "Old Heidelberg" by W. with modern thought......"Love dant: "If I had he'd be half Maler-Foerter, This five acr thy neighbour as thyself, is the bald. That's her bolibings!'! play," which pictures, students' quintessence of Christianity. The Church, instead of insisting upon formalistic ritual should aim, to make the figure of Jesus more real.

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Opening at $110,000 bidding went up to $129,000 (by $1,000 jumps) when Mr. Wong Kwok- shuen became the buyer of houses Nos. 161 Des Vœux Road Central and 80 Connaught Road Central which were put up for sale by Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa at the China Auction Rooms yesterday. The property comprises 2.488 square, feet and the Crown Rent is $15.80.

The "Sumatra Bode" states that another human body has been found in the crater of Tangkoeban Prahoe, in the Kawah Oepas, section Krawang; It was practically a skeleton and Yan Driessche. calculated

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must have been there four or five months. It is impossible to state of what nationality the dead man was. There are indications of a white coat, a watch. purse, etc., but all poorly preserved.

Apparently the full tide of war memorials is not

yet exhausted, and unveilings are still being announced. How long this task of remembrance will go en is not defined, dor only the other day General Fershing was present at the dedication of the Maine Memorial at Havana, and that is to commemorate the 1898

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SOCIAL

The Pope received and ad-life with all its pleasures and dressed 10,000 Boy Scouts from

sorrows, has lost none of its

its existence,

a dozen different countries at the popularity during the 20 years of Vatican on September 5. The boys marched past, each bearing 'a laurel branch, and loud stapper- ed His Holiness when he ate

Most of the Japanese hauses in Kobe have their doorposts adorned with small white label bearing four Chinese characters which read, Kin-ken Rik-ko," which, being interpreted, means "Frugality and Effort." This is given to the nation as a slogan on the appropriate occasion of the second anniversary of the great earthquake.

latest book has been declined by the

Roald Amundsen's

Munich. explorer's former publishers in The manuscript was "Amundsen because rejected

Evered all connections with the German Nation when, during the decorations and war. he returned his German honorary membership of German Pesigned his

societies.'

Woman

taken over by the Faculty of Anatole France's. brain was

Medicine for the purposes of science. It is now learned that great writer's brain was the 12 ounces below normal weight, but like that of the great French statesman Gambetta, numerous and deep convolutions or ridges.

.it had

"Your faces represent, the world. Your thoughts represent the world, because your thoughts world.". Thus did a noted Maori are put into print for the whole

chief compliment members of the Empire Press Union at Rotorua; und show in a speech of welcome how the Maoris appreciated the significance of the visit.

Posted up in the streets of Kobe may now be seen placards bearing the word "Kerera" in Hull Corporation Licensing large kana letters at the top. The Committee, have refused to placards refer to the advisability accept

the of anti-cholera injections now manageress of a cinema, the that the disease has invaded the opinion of the Chief Constable city, but what will probably at- being that it is essentially a man's tract the curiosity of foreigners job. The suggestion is strongly most is that under the kana head- challenged by two women, mem-ing there is a representation of a bers of the Corporation, who pro- tiger. The explanation of this is pose to seek a direct vote on the that the word "cholera," or question. The challenge is sup- "korera" as it is spelt in Japanese, ported by a large body of women has been fitted with two Chinese. in the city, who assert that there characters, the first of which is is no justification for the exclu- the character for "tiger," while sion of women from the manage-the second is one of the group of ment of places of entertainment. characters referring to pain, and This view is also held by the the picture of the tiger is for the proprietors affected.

benefit of the uneducated.

AND PERSONAL.

The Maharajah of Patiala pays no less than £250 a day for his suite of rooms in a Strand hotel. Even that does not worry him, for his income is in the neighbourhood of £1,000,000 a

A letter from Professor Danen-

A task of great peril confronts. berg intimates that young Emil is Mr. Bert Collins, keeper of the to give a piano recital in Tokyo Zoo reptile house. In order to on the 27th inst, after which he

secure à 16ft. python and four will play in Osaka and Kobe.lesser snakes of the same. kind, Before returning to Hongkong, he will enter a den containing 11 Emil will play at the Lyceum of these monster constrictors.year." Theatre, Shanghai.

One 25-footer he has already boxed. A single python of this size can crush a man with ease, but with 10 of them about a cage, and in the branches above, each ready to get a grip, the experi- ence is enough to make the most courageous man flinch.

Rudolph Valentino and his wife have agreed to part, it is announced by the latter's mana ger, who said that the separation was entirely friendly, and there was no prospect of divorce. Both will continue in picture work. Mrs. Valentino as a producer and Rudolph as a star actor:

The discussion about Ministers and commercial interests may recall the most famous of Camp- When

A school of shingling and bob-bell Bannerman's jokes. bing is among the newer educa- he became Premier, he issued in- tional facilities offered to girls at structiona that all Ministers London County Council Evening should resign directorships, but Institutes. There is a waiting he made certain exceptions for list of entrants to the school, under secretaries and also in the which is situated off Oxford case of philanthropic director Street, W. Last year 120,000 ships. Someone brought up the students attended these institutes, case of a minor Minister who was and when they re-opened; still interested in a big business. "Is more are expected.

selling tea philanthropy?" it was asked. "Depends on the tea," said C.B.

Suffering from a broken neck, an in-patient at the Royal Forts- mouth Hospital has now been

The fattest man in the world has died in France from anj attack of thrombosis, an obstruc-| tion of the arteries by a clot of. blood, at the age of twenty-five. He weighed more than twenty- three stone. Seven yards of material were required to make him a shirt.

In spite of the fact that he is now a Church of England clergy- man, the Rev. R. J. Campbell still keeps up his correspondence.and his friendship with the freer thinkers of his early acquaint- ance. One of them, in a momen- tary spasm of annoyance, said to him "You'll end up in Rome." He replied with a smile: "I hope to end up in Heaven."

Although there is no question, in spite of reports from Poland, Mr. George Bernard Shaw and of Prince Henry becoming King discharged with every hope of his wife have been having an of that country, it may be re- complete recovery. George Payne enjoyable moter tour in the High-marked that the old Polish king- (40), of Henderson Road, Southland districts. They made dom was conducted on a curicus

CONTENTS,

Domestic Occurrence

Page. 1

South China Win

Leading Articles

Week's Health

14 Special Services

Page. .13 ...13

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Yunnan Army

.13

Correspondence

4-5

A Direct Loan?

.14

Kowloon Football-

5

Sound Advice

.14

Water Polo

5

North Point Fire

.14

Year's-Tour-

5----

Banishee Charged

14

Year's Work

6

Now Anti-Red

.14

"Unfortunate"

6

Swatow Position

.14

Prisoner's Friend

6

Alleged Cruelty

.14

38 M. P. H.

6

Armed Robberies

.15

Some Big Ships

6

Street Accidents

.15

Students Return

7

Train Robbery

.15

Good News

Up The River'

.16

Leave To Appeal

7

Tokyo Blaze

.15

Not Going....

New Ships...

.15

Rather Strange

7

S.S. "Changte"

.16

Passing the Time

7

Shipping Dead

.16

Passengers

Cricket Season

16.

Motoring Charge-

7

Church In China

17.

China Extrality

Coal Theft

.17

School Cricket

Water Polo

.17

Local Baseball

8.

Local Football

17

HK.V.D.C. Soccer

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Goes To-morrow.

17:

Interport Bowls

Seven Years

17.

It's An Il Wind

Civil War?

.18

A Strike Plea

Border Incident.

.18

New Wing

Canton Guile .:

Amoy Better

19

Destitute Russian

Local Loan?

19

Stolen Firewood .

Out of Bounds

.19

Tropical Medicine

.10

Cheung Chau Notes.

19.

"Arms Haul

10

Macao Shots ...

19

ing only three buttons instead of the regulation four, and this led

Flood Break-2244 An

Shooting Prowess",

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to an amusing incident on board

Extrality Meeting

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A Bad Friend

$19

.10

"Honam" Leave

Torture &"Cat",

:10

Local Merger

10

Robbers Warned

Stabbing Affray

Wine Jare Swatow Chango- Serious Lapse

Rubber Shares

Quarantiné

Girl Bandit

Who's Who

Local Trade Aid? Stowaways

Canton Intrigue S.S."Honam"

Irade Resumes?

- $7,000 Necklace

Larceny To Assist

Alleged Theft

Arms Haul Echo

Reds Take Swator?

Canton Coup

Money Tight:

Stalkers Cri

sen, was admitted with a frace straight for Cruder Bay, and principle, that of election rather turned vertebra amounting to Shaw confessed that the Bullers than of hereditary succession. broken neck. The head and of Buchan impressed him more Poland had kings of various shoulders were placed in plaster than did the joys of golfing. The nations, at least one Frenchman, of Paris, and the treatment has playwright was

attracted by many Germans, and an occasional been so successful as to warrant Aberdeen, and stayed there for a. Pole. Every nobleman," wrote bis discharge, although he will few days. Later he set out for a Voltaire, has the right to vote continue as an out-patient. motor tour among the Deeside at the election of the king and to Highlands, and then went on to stand for election himself. These Lord Bentty, by the way, apart There are rumours in Scotland buses the throne is almost Speyside and further porthe privileges have corresponding from his other striking achieve that we may expect a Scottish always put up for sale, and as a ments introduced a sartorial In-play from Shaw's pen, but it may Pole is seldom rich enough to buy novation, which well-nigh shook be merely a case or wish being

it, it is often sold to foreigners."

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the Service to its foundations, by father to the thoughtage big adopting a uniform jacket bear-

There are two operas of un- Fifteen thousand, books were usually found when the atti in West the list his ship during the war An Hill Road, Brighton, occupied by The one admiring sub-lieutenant had the late Lionel Herbert Treherne, story of J carried his admiration to the who died about 18 months ago, Bennett, for point of removing one of his own was opened by order of letters of Goog buttons, when news arrived that administration granted to local which ma Admiral Sturdee, the hero of the solicitor sel

herng's shortly. Falklands, was coming to inepett the ship. His friends dared him to wear the three-button ket at inspection, and he did, on himself AÐ VAN

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