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A lantern slide lecture will be given in the Central British School | under the suspless of the Navy. League, on Tuesday next at 5.30 pm.") The general public:lä invited? -

The money box attached to the A census of people living in public telephone instrument at the the Slagapore Municipal aren will "Star" forry wharf on the Kow-be taken on the night of Wednes- loon side was stolen by some por-day, June 3011 son between Wednesday night and yusterday afternoon.

A vordiet of murder by jomu person unknown was returned at af H.M.S. Hawkins," flagship coroner's Inquiry at the Kowloon of the China Squadron, left Magistracy into the circumstances Penang on April 28, for Labuan of the death of a Shantung son-She will afterward proceed to siable. The body was found on Jesselton and Kudat and then to the hillside at King's Park with a Hongkong gash in the throat..

By completing with a paint Australia has now a population brush a Union Jack on the wall of of six million. Ita Arst million was the headquartere and club of the roached in 1858: çr 70 years after Yorkshire Area British Fascists at 10s establishment; the second mil-Leeds. Viscountess Downe marked lion took 19 years; the third million a formal opening. 12 years, the fourth 16 years, the Afth 13 years and the sixth 3 years [to be reached."-

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Poking. April 28-The Chinese Minister at Paris is reported to have cabled Peking for permission to float a $50,000 loan with a French bank to save the Legationy from complete bankrupter.

According to the latest census returns, Paris has a population of 2,838,436, which shows a decrease by 25,000 people, compared with the figure for 1921. The decrease The Singapore Third Assizes, is due to the removal of residents which opened on May 4, before into the suburbs where the populace | the Chief Justice, Sir William has increased by about 200,000 since 1921..

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The British troops in North China will be maintained at a strength of 966 of all ranks, and arma, consisting of a battalion of [infantry--the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, at the moment 881, of all ranks, and detachments of Royal Army Service Corpay Royal army Medical Corps, Royal

departmental troops,

Murison, are remarkable in that no cases of murder appear in the calendar. It is a very long time since an Assize Judge in Singa- pore was not called upon to deal with a case on the capital charge,“

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Tokyo, May $.--Ân agruentent has been reached between the Tokyo and Moscow Governments. that Japan-Russia connection rall way tickets will shortly be fasted. in Japan and Russia. New tickots will carry Tokyo people to Moscow h 10 days to Berlin in 10 days, and to London in 17 days."

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tuition in their work at the Fino Objecting to being given expert:

Spinning Department of the San. Sing Cotton Mill, 87 Yangṭazapoa Road Shanghal, 600 day shift Workers struck work at the above

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Peking April 28-Pilgrimages to Miao Feng Shan, the beautiful temple in the Western Hills, have boon forbidden this spring by the local authorities due to the military operations around the hills Police at the city gates have been instruct ed to turn back all pilgrims start ing for Mao Song Shan.

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A man who has never sald "daran Agured in the court at Barnsley (Yorkshire), where 150/

than 400 navy planes of all typesnounced. It will comprise the will be afloat with the fighting battleships Schleswig-Holstein," divisions in 1927 when the airplane Hanover Hessen" and "Elstes" carriers "Saratoga" and "Lexing and the cruisers, "Nymphe" and the Pacife, it was made known destroyers will visit the Norwegian After several sitting's at the day. The scouting fleet, on the pots in May.

Atlantic w total twenty-one Central Magistracy, the case squadron of planes and a comple against a Chinese managing partment of surface ships. ner of the Wing Shing Shung firm drew to a close when accused was. committed for trial at the Crimin-

The "Hankow Herald," in a refriends of a railwayman, Edward all Sessions. He was charged with cent issue, published pletures of Batty, presented a petition to the making false statements to the rifles taken from the Kominchun magistrates, declaring that it was Official Receiver in bankruptcy troops at Honan definitely pröving unbelievable that he had abused a affairs and on various other that the rifles were supplied to constable, with which offence be counts in connection with the ac-General Feng Yu-hsiang's forces by had been charged. Batty gave counts and books of the farm

Soviet Russia. Thousands of these evidence that he had never aworn rities were captured by Marshal Wuin his lifetime.

The charge was Marshall Sun Chuan-fang dur-Pei-fu's troops after the Kuomin-dismissed. ing a speech made at his installa-chur army retreated: As the rifles tion of Director General of the Commercial Port of Shanghat aid

We cum all notice the differences between the Settlement and our own territory. The settlements are clean and orderly and everything is arranged according to system, We have much to learn from their example and we should arrung! our own municipality so that itis.as good as the system in the settle- ments."

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bear the Russian eagle “insigafa, The twenty-second annual re- little additional evidence is report of the Association of St.. quired as proof that they came from Anthony de Padua at Singapore on Russia. With the stamp on the the Administration of St. Anthony's guns "Remington Arms" and the Bread for 1925 shows that there date "1917" is furnished proof was a balance on December 31, that these rifles were among the ' 1925, of $11,643.31. There was an arms supplied to Russia by the increase of $212.45 in the amount United States during the European received and an increase of $58482: Wurt Steps are being taken to In the amount expended in 1925. na trace their history, the Hankow compared with that of the previous/ newspaper states..

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. Harry Ore's pupils will give a pianoforte recital on Monday next at 5.30 p.m. in the City Hall.

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Mr. W. J. Eldridge, of the

Taikoo Dock Co., is leaving for home to-morrow by the "Kashgar" on furlough.

Mr. E. Stone, general passenger. agent for the Orient of the C.P.R.. was a passenger by the "Em- press of Canada" leaving for Yokohama.

Mr. M. F. Key, Secretary of the H.K.. Chamber of Commerce left. the Colony to-day for Home by the "Empress of Canada" on a well earned leave."

Leaving by the "Empress of Canada" to-day for Shanghai are Mr. J. A. Gubbay and Mr. G. H.. Potts. Mr: Potts will later join the "Empress of Russia at Shanghai and proceed to Europe.

Sir Arthur Yapp preached in the Shanghai Cathedral last Sunday. The service was conducted by the Very Rev. Dean Symons assisted by the Rev. E. F. Borst-Smith, while Mr. Sidney Barton read the lesson.

Lieutenant E. D. S. Woodruffe, Royal Sussex Refilment, who relin- quished, the appointment of alde de camp to the Governor and Com mander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, has resumed duty with his battalion in India.

Proceeding Home via Canada by the "Empress of Canada" are the following: Mr. J. Owen Hughes, Mr. A. Boyd, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Sourabaya, and Mrs. Boyd; Mr. H. Staple Smith, of Descons and Co., Canton Mr. J. Hartshorn, of the Chinese Customs at Fakhol, and Mrs, Hartshorn,

Captain Alastair Mcintosh,. the wealthy Britisher, who became the Second husband of Constance Talmadge, the sorean star.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Rt. Rev. H. W. K. Mowll, D.D., Assistant Bishop, to be Bishop in the Diocese of Western Chine; in suc- cession to the Rt. Rev. Wm. C. Cassels, D.D., who died in Novem ber.

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The regular Garden Party of the Shanghai American Women's Club which was postponed last year owing to the state of emergency existing in Shanghai will be held on May 29, at the residence of Mrs. Scott Ertens, president of the club and will be the winding up of the American Women's Club sea son for the year.

A popular and pretty wedding took place on May & at No. 14, Avenue Du Roi Albert, Shanghai, |when Tale Arnold WAA mar- ried to Ankor B. Henningsen, of Portland, Oregon. The Rev. C. M. Drury performed the cere- mony

The Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Thornton and family have left Kobe för Seattle. Mr. Thornton, who was formerly pastor of the Union Church, Shanghai, has been for some years at. Kalbara on purely missionary work. He expects to return to Japan in about a year, but the family may stay behind, for a time at least.

Dr. V.K: Wellington Koo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Lo Wen-kan, former Minister of Jus- |tice, who came to Hankow from

Shanghal about two weeks ago to: pay a visit to Marshal Wu Fei-fu, left for Nanking of the a. "Kung- wo" on April 30 Sun Tan-lin President of the Chung Hua Indus- trial Bask, and former Minister of Interior, also left for down river on the same steamer..

Sir Hugh Clifford, who has been a pro-Comul in various parts of the British Empire, began in the Mala- van States. There he spent many years, not only of official respon- sibility, but of thoughtful study of the country and the people. A pre- sent outcome of all this is a volume of storie, entitled "In Days That Are Dead" which John Murray will publish - Sir Hugh Clifford has | sought in each tale to bring out the human alde of the Malay people,

The sppointment of Jhr. Dr. AC. D. de Graaff to succeed Dr. D. Fock at Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, is a popular one in Holland A Datch contemporary states that it is not expec that Jär, de Graaff will allow himself to be made the dupe or tool of anyone, eith demagogues or industrialikta.

The following residents left At the Cathedral of the Good the Colony to-day for Victoria by Shepherd, Singapore, TVA IN the Empress of Canada" Mrs. Phenix, son of Mr. and Mrs. David

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