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President Coolidge has sent a The Tokyo Palace Hotel.. The diseases for the 24 hours ended which is being reconstructed message of congratulation to Fre Thursday, shows one American, alongside the Imperial Theatre, sident Calles of Mexico in con- and which was purchased from its nection with the celebration of (imported) case of diphtheria.

former owners recently, is to be "Independence Day" in

Republic. leased to the Imperial Hotel Co.

The second yearly ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxi- cab Company. Limited; is to be held at the office of the Company, 93 and 95, Des Voeux Road Central, on Friday, October 30.

According to Press reports from

Cairo, Tutankhamen's mummy, discovered in November 1922 by British explorers, is to The be x-rayed next month. Transocean Radio sends the

news..

Vessels under construction.in American shipyards on Septem ber 1 were greater in number than on August 1, the Commerce Department reports, although the total tonnage involved was nearly the same. The yards on Septem- ber 1 were building or hud under contract 140 steel vessels.

The first ship flying the American flag since the revolution arrived at Leningrad when the "Saint Antonio," carrying a cargo There are few commodities of 4,000 tons of sugar. docked that some time or other do not there. More than 100 foreign find their way into motion pic-ships are reported in Black Sea tures. Another of the many uses and Azov Sen perts to carry to which corn is put is artificial Russian grain designed for anow fakes for winter film scenes, export.. which are manufactured in a mill in Wilkes-Barre, America,

Booking has already com- menced at Messrs. Moutrie's for

A delegation of Japanese. business, men has arrived in Vladivostok for the purpose of the season at the Theatre Royal investigating the fisheries and mining and lumber resources of The of the Italian Opera Company, the Russian Far East. which is visiting the East under Japanese are especially interested the direction of the Gonzalez coming to an agreement about Brothers, who brought Grand fishing rights in Far Eastern Opera to Hongkong from Italy waters. because fish constitutes some years ago,

such an integral part of the Japanese national diet.

This

that

While buying a journal at a Tube station the other day, a tat- a bunch of the free tered urchin was noticed to help himself to booklets provided by the Under- ground Company. He was found one penny each. What is more,. offering them to passers-by at he sold one to a "dear old lady.”.

The Government has intro- duced a hill in the New South Wales Parliament providing for the establishment of a state insur all classes of insurance business, ance office which would undertake It is stated that the purpose of the measure is "not to swell revenue. but to provide cheaper miums."

pre-

The Louden "Star" in a re-

cent Issue states: "Within the last few days four motorists con- Victed of drunkenness while in charge of cars have been punished by different London magistrates in the following manner

A laundryman-prison. A motor-mechanic-prison. A doctor-fine.

A gentleman cadet-fire. A Socialist paper seizes on this Item. Such facts make more re- volutionaries than all the gold of Moscow.

When Peter Pan was made in America, after many consulta-

The State Publishing House tops with Sir James Barrie, and dutiful columns of acknowledg- is preparing a jubilee edition of 'ment of his genius had paved the Tolstoy's works in ninety-one way for its coming to the world's volumes, to be finished during the screens, two versions of the play first half of the year 1927.

Religious workers of Japan were made-one to satisfy the edition, it is announced, will in- English people and another to clude all the writings of the are complaining against what mellify the American In the famous Russian novelist. includ-they term "unjust discrimination" American version, the Stars anding parts which have formerly shown them in the field of politics. "Stripes displace, as the heroic been subjected to cansorship. A While they are given a vote, under boy's emblem, the Union Jack special commission under the the new manhood suffrage law, an And the pious wish to die "like an chairmanship of Lunacharsky, existing police regulation pro- English gentleman." becomes Commissar for Education, will be hibits all religious workers. in- similar wish to pass out as an formed to supervise the work.. and cluding, Buddhist, Christian and American gentleman. By some the immediate editing of the Shinto priests, from joining any. mischance the American version volumes will be in charge of the political party. There are said to was sent to England! But a Tolstoy Museum. represented by be more than 20,000 religious scissors-wielder in the Famous. Alexey Tolstoy and Tolstoy's in workers in Japan, and it is re- Players London office, soon put timate friend, Vladimir Chertkov. ported they are planning to send things right, restoring the Union The cost of the undertaking is two representatives to the Diet in

the next general election. Festimated at 1,000,000 rubles. Jack and the word English

SOCIAL

Mr. B. Tanner. retired head of Queen's College. left for home to-day on the "Fushimi Maru."

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AND PERSONAL.

"When does Bottomley come out? That is the question being asked. "About fourteen months,' Already. is the offered, reply. publishers are after his book of prison experiences, and a lecture'

has been more or less planned.

Mrs. H. B. Graybill and family, and Miss K. C. Griggs, all of the Canton Christian College, arriv-tour ed in the Colony yesterday by the Other pas "President Wilson." sengers included Mr. and Mrs. Roy Howard...

When Charlie Chaplin appeared the in person as an artist at Tivoli, not very long ago, in the Fred Karno sketch "Mamming i

When his filmed self was Birds" he was earning £2.108. week. shown in. The Gold Rush," £1,000 was paid for the week's run of the picture, 20,000 was taken at-the- Boy Scout Day was held at the doors, and the entire traffic in the last meeting of the Shanghai Strand was stopped on a score of Rotary Club most of the pro-occasions by the crush of people The first of the lectures to take gramme being given over to talks driving up in their motor-cars. a few words, is the place at the Military Club.. Macao, by various Scout leaders on sub-Sach, in will be one by Dr. Silva Mendes jects pertaining to the organisa- romance which makes Charlie

Mr. W. J. Hawkins pre- Chaplin the idol of London: on Chinese Art while the secondtion.

was will be one on Music by Dr. sided and the programme

At the invitation of the Tokyo Avelar which will be illustrated under the direction of Commis by contributions by Professorsjoner Millington of the Scouts Government, Dr. M. D. Mars, Some time ago the Shanghai Harry Ore.

Rotary Club presented a silver Professor at the Berlin Univer-

has

to Japan gone The Military Club is giving a shield to the Boy Scouts to besity and an authority on astro-, dance at Macao to-night, the usual competed for by the several

by the "Empress of Asia." Dr. Marx

that it stated party given by this Club. During troops. next month, however, the Military

The death has taken place at was his first trip to Japan, but Club is offering two interesting lectures by two well-known Nuneaton of Tom Barber, the that he had numerous friends in "authorities, on music and Chinese famous ex-Aston Villa half-back the country. The eminent scient- and scorer of the only goal in the list is to give lectures on marine art, respectively.

English Cup final of 1913, when meteorology at the Tokyo Im- Mrs. Isabel A. de Ocampo, the Villa beat Sunderland by one perial University for about a senior law student at the Philip goal to none. In 1914 he playedmonth and then tour round in the pine Law School, has the honour for the English League v. Scot-country giving lectures. He left of being the first woman to argue tish League. Barber, who was aYokohama for Tokyo soon after a case before the Philippine native of Newcastle, formerly his landing. ¦ Supreme Court. By special per played for Bolton Wanderers, and mission of the court Mrs. de went out during the war with the Ocampo was recently allowed to Footoallers' Battalion. Since then appear before the court and argue he had played for Hinckley a civil case involving a tract of United. land on behalf of her father, who h is-involved in the litigation."

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Roald Amundsen, the Polar ex- plorer, will carry away an in pleasant impression of his visit to Berlin. A retired major In the former Prussian army called at When memorials are useful' Amundsen's hotel. He was ad they tend to cease to bemitted to the explorer's room, memorials." This view is ex-without exchanging the The Rev. M. V. Halward has pressed by the Bishop of Man courtesies the major, whose accepted the appointment of chester, Dr. Temple, in his dioce blazed with anger raised his Chaplain to the Bishop of Vic san magazine, in which he writes voice as though in the middle of toria. He was educated at about the proposed memorial to the parade ground and King's School, Canterbury, and Dean McCormick, of Manchester. Amundsen as follows during the war served in the The memorial is intended to be in Amundsen, you sent all your Army, gaining the Military Cross the form of a cross outside the man decorations back during the He was ordained in Advent, 1922 cathedral The Bishop nods: "I war. This was an offence to Ger and has been working at St hold very strongly that many, and if you do not Saviour's, Croydon, sines that memorial ought to be useless for apology at once you will date. Mr. Halward hopes to sail every other purpose except that allowed to lecture in Germany. for Hongkong about the end of of commemorating its subject.” this year

Dozens of women athletes have. At the Bishop's Palace, Masao, telegraphed to the British Asso to-day, the signs the Order of ciation for the Advancement of St. George the Great will be con- Science, offering to submit them- erred upon Mr Francisco selves to tests to determine why

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