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Washington, April 30-It believed the Spanish war pension bill of $18,000,000 would increase the expected treasury deficit to $40,000,000

The Census Burena estimates Simla April 24-It fa not indicate that the population of fied that with effect from May 1 the United States on August 1, 1926, a fee of Ra. 1.50 will be will be more than 117,000,000 levied in respect of each emigrant permitted by the protector of A Chinese dentist was charg-emigrant labour to embark for Beaides the parade, of a few ed in the Singapore District Ceylon. thousand workmen at Kobe on Court before Mr. PA E David, May Day, close upon 1,000 labour-with" importing syringes without ers demonstrated at Amagaskia permit from the PC.M.ON (Two hundred arrests were 'mado ||

The New York; "World," com- menting on the Houghton report, says: What has Washington done during the parades in Tokyo, Berlin April 30-A huge all the winter if not to nag Burope. where the police exercised un-fre is raging in Bucharest. South about its monopolies forgetting live in usually strict surveillance. In of the railway station. It was that Europe does not Osaka. 91 persons were detained started by an explosion of numer-splendid isolation, and its moral by the police until the conclusion oua tank cars filled with alcohol. turpitude. of the parades.

It is rumoured the fire was set so as cover up certain fraudulent schemes.

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Should women play cricket. Instead of tennia? At the annual general meeting of the Millom New York, May 4-All (Cumberland) Cricket Club. some trans-Atlantic shipping companies women ternis players naked that. have announced that ordinary facilities should be provided for schedules will be maintained bether to practise cricket regularly, tween New York and English The suggestion was turned down, ports, in order to handle the un-one man declaring that it was usually heavy traffic booked for "ridiculous.""

At an Inquiry held at the „Kowloon Magistracy yesterday into the death of a Shantung constable whose body was found in King's Park,, ovidence was given that the deceased was missing from the atation. A search was instituted at midnight without any result and the following morning the search party found the body on, the haEurope.. side. The inquiry was adjourned..

Eight Chinese, sentenced to death for armed robbery and kid. napping in the French Conces. sion and the Foreign Settlement, Shanghai, were put to death by the Chinese authorities at Lunghwa yamen on May 1. One man was beheaded by the offcial executioner, and the other seven expiated their crimes before a military firing squad. The man who was beheaded had a murder of a policeman to his discredit. ·

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Tha construction of a great submarine base at Pearl Harbour Hawali, a 1.000-foot pier and other extensive naval develop- ment is contemplated' in an appro- priation bill which was trans- mitted to Chairman Butler of the house committee on naval affairs recently..

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Eighteen barrels and boxes: of gelignite and cordite, 300- bombs, and 10,000 detonators: not to mention revolvers, small ammunition, bomb-making moulds, and a printing press, were among the contents of a dump seized in King Street, Dublin, on March 31. It is the biggest discovery of war material ever made in Dublin..

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Borrowing an idea from Red Indian and Japanese mothers, an inventor has devised a special "Hankow, April 27.-General harness which enables a mother Tang Sheng-chi of Hunan iş re to care for her baby while going ported to have made overtures of London... Out, April 8 about her household duties with peace to Marshal Wu Pel-fu, Great headway by the Girl Guide hands free. Weight is so dis-through the Consular Body Here, movement in the Province of tributed that pressure on the asking him to order his troops to Ontario was reported at the an-shoulders is not uncomfortable stop their attack upon Changsha. nual convention held here, this week. The report of the provin cial secretary. Mrs. Allan McLean, showed a record of 5,225 Girl Guides in Ontario, classified into 212 "rangers," 1,598 "brownies" and 15 cadets. There are 67 local associations and 48 commissioned officers.

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Further evidence was taken at the Central Magistracy yesterday in the case against a Chinese managing partner of the Wing Shing Shung firm, Ko Shing Street, who stands charged with making alleged false statements do- the Official Receiver and on other counts in regard to the accounts. With regard to the perjury charge, the defence argued that this could not be maintained, as the state- menta were made to the Official Receiver and that was part of judicial procedure. The case was adjourned until Thursday.....

Marshal: Wo, however, with a San Diego, Calif., May 4-view to recovering Huran, has The cruiser "Pittsburgh," 13,680 appointed General Yeh Kai-chim tons, will replace the cruiser as Tuli of Hunan in an attempt on the with the assistance of Yu Yin- "Huron" as flagship Asiatic station, according to naval sen, Commander on "the 21st operating plans for the fiscal year Hupeh Mixed Brigade, to inflict a 1927-1928 received at the vital defeat upon General Tang. Eleventh District headquarters from the navy department to-day.

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A total of £395,000 was raised for Ear Haig's Eritish Legion | Appeal Fund by the sale of popples on,Armistice Day. This is 45,000 more than the previous your's figure. Administration costs for the day were under 5 per cent., excluding the cost of the poppies. which are made by nearly 200 severely disabled ex-Service men. A letter has been received from the King stating that the collection is an achievement "of which all the workers for the British Legion may feel justly proudi".

Peking, April 30-Upon oö- taining Marshal Chang Tso-lin's approval, Dr. W. W. Yen has de- cided to form a new Cabinet in a few days. General Wang Huai- ching is expected shortly to assume the post of Commander- in-Chief of the Metropolitan Forces. General Tien Wei-chin, who, by order of Marshal Wu Fei- fu, arrived here this morning on a mission to consult with leaders of the Felgtien troops as to mea- sures to attack: Nankow, returned to Changshintien after consulta tion with General Chang Chung- chang..

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. B. W. Elles, who has been Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Wakeford acting as British Resident, Tai- have returnd to Singapore from ping, during the Hon'ble Mr.leave by the "Katori Maru." Stonor's absence on leave, has re- turned to Kuala Lumpur.

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Mrs. A. C. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Mackean and Mr. J. A. Stewart left British North Borneo on April 14 on long leave.

Dr. Solf, the German Ambas- sador, arrived in Kobe on April 29, and stayed at the German Con- Kelantan,sulate.. He laid the corner stone

Mr. John Cuthbert has been granted a licence to act as Pilot The Hongkong Tou House Union in the district of Penang. has again called a meeting to dis- cuss the petitioning of the GovernK.C.M.G., has promoted Captain of the new Club Concordia at ment, requesting that the employ- ment of waitresses in Chinese tea. A. Anderson, Chief Police Yamamoto Dori, 2. Chome, on houses should be prohibited in or Officer, to the rank of Commis der to protect the waiters livelisioner of Police, Kelantan hood. The Tea House Union haz decided to request the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce to advise the authorities in the matter.

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Dr. A. L.. Mürison, who join- the Singapore Government Medical Department in 1920, re- tires under the age limit. It is understood that Dr. A, S. M. Douglas, who arrived early this month, takes his place..

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Devonport, April 26-After spending Sunday with Lord Mildmay of Flete, His Imperial Highness Prince Chichibu to-day visited the Devonport Dockyard, and lunched on board the Battle ship "Hood" as the guest of Rear-Admiral Cyril Thomas Fuller.

Rome, April 30.-It is said that Pope Pius XI has refused to grant an audience to Douglas Fairbanks and, his wife, Mary Pickford, on the ground that both were divorced. A later message has it that Douglas Fairbanks has not requested an audience at the Vatican.

The Reverend Brother Anthony, principal of St. Francis Xavier's College, Shanghai, has retired

The many friends of MR. H. from his post and will take up Charles will learn with regret. his residence in Peking. He is that he was removed from his succeeded by Brother Faust, the home, yesterday, to the Govern vice-president, one of the most ment Civil Hospital. Mr. Charles popular men in Shanghai and a has been in poor health for some gentleman who has unostenta-weeks past, but his present tiously done excellent work for allment is a septie throat. many years at the school, as weil as rendered good service on the Lieut.-Colonel P. T. Etherton, Parks Committee of the Council. formerly. British Consul-General

in China, and author of "In the San Francisco, May 1-The On April 29 the Asiatic Petro-Heart of Asia," describes the civil 28th anniversary of the Battle of loum Building, Shanghai, was rob- war in China as mainly due to Manila Bay was celebrated to day bed of a brass fire hydrant gover the insatiable greed of the rival with a patriotic ceremony at the and a lookout, was kept for further Governors for wealth and power. base of the Dewey monument in similar thefts, On May 1 the Li Hung-chang, the greatest Union Square, Merrick Creigh, police received a telephone mess-Statesman China ever produced, who was Admiral Dewey's yeo- age that the thief had been caught once said that the value of a post man on the famous dash from in the act of removing another was in proportion to the money Hongkong to Manila was in brass cover and he was arrested. you could make out of it, and charge of arrangements, Later he appeared in the Mixed from that, says Lt. Col. Etherton, Court and confessed to have taken you can trace the underlying prin- the first one, which he had. sold for ciples of Government: 50 cents. He was given a week in jalk

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Mr. Gourlay, a partner in Sir Alexander Binnie, Son and Deacon, consulting engineers for The death occurred at the the Gunong Pulal water scheme, Langham Hotel, on April 6, at the has arrived at Singapore, and will Dame Adelaide Anderson and age of 91, of Sir John McLeavy take charge of the work for two Dr. Hu Shih, of the Boxer In Brown, C.M.G., LL.D., Counsellor months while Colonel H. L demnity Commission, paid an to the Chinese Légation in Lon-Pearson, chief resident engineer: official visit to the Christian don. Sir John, who had been con of the scheme, Is away on leave Literature Society offices in fined to his bed for the past three in Southern India,ARE North Szechuan Road, Shanghai, years, was an LL.D. of Trinity A

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of Presi suggestion was made by Dr called to the Bar at the Inner scend MacGillivray, namely, that a pro- Temple in 1882. He was an was fessorship of the Chinese classics authority on Roman lawat should be founded in memory of classical scholar of deduction, whor the late Professor Legge who did and a great linguist with an ex-ABLOH more, during the last century to benal owledge make known the Chinese Classica Oriental and Europea

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