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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The annual general meeting of the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxicab Company will be held on Tuesday, July 20.

The sending or free official telegrams is reported to. have virtually brought the Shantung "Telegraph Office at Txinan to bank- ruptcy. Conditions had become.so bad that Tupan Chang has issued an order that all official and mill- tary messages railst be paid for at one quarter the commercial rate:

It is understood that the Madras Government are appoint ing a committee to enquire into the evils of indiscriminaté" batting and bucket shops, and to deviac mea Bures, legislative or otherwise, to moot the evil. The committee will consist of the Chief Secretary to the Government, the Commissioner of Police, and three non-officials,

Berlin, June 17-In conformity with the American Senate's wisher on the desirability of reaching an agreement "on the alien property problem before the summer yach- tions. the Budgetary Committee of Congress decided to hand over the mutter to the German-American Indemnity Committee, according to a New York despatch.

Rangoon, June 15.-Indian cooks at Andersons Restaurant, armed with knives, assaulted last night the European manager, Mr. Harvey. inflicting a cut. on his jaw. Timely assistance from a few Europeans saved him from further injuries. Mr. Harvey is not.seriously injured and all the assailants have been arrested..

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The French tuga "Iroise"" and: "Pelican" have luft Breat to begin salvage work for the recovery of the gold of the British liner "Egypt," which sank off the Armen lighthouse on May 20. 1922, with over a million sterling in her strong-rooms.

Admitting having had a glass of brandy, but denying a charge of disorderly conduct which was that of throwing atones at pedestrians and striking passers by, a Portu- guese from South Africn named Francisco Lima, who described himself as the captain of the Hoi Tak, "was fined $5 the Kowloon Magistracy "yesterday'

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Berlin, Jahe 18-The Belgian Minister of Financo who returned from London, announced that, he had succeeded in getting short term. credits and that currency stabilian- tion would Immediately begin...

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Peking. Juna 18-Representa- tives of the Allied lenders met yesterday to discuss the raising of military funds. It is understood that the main abject of discussion was the possibility of securing the | Kiangsu salt furida.

Rich Chinose merchants, and gentry residing in the district of ..Tayeh Hupeh are proposing to or

gañine a Tayeh Industrial Bank as. well" as a Hwangpe Industrial Bank. The object is to promote na- tive Industries in the districts..

Tokyo, June 24. A fire brokė out this afternoon in the chemical: laboratory of the Tohoku Univer- afty in Sendal. "The damage is estimated at Yon ··1,000,000. A section of the engineering depart- ment was destroyed but owing to the efficiency of the fire fighters the fire was subdued an hour later.

Berlin, June 17.The Interna- tional Aviation Conference planned. at London was called off owing to the British government's refusal to grant German avlation, delegates passport visas. The reason for the British government's decision is not known. The Berlin press expresses astonishment.

The shipping returns for the port of Tlentin for April "again Washington, Jane 26.-Wayne show a great falling off, as com- Wheeler, chief counsel for the pared with last year. The loss of Anti-Saloon" League submitted trade exceeds that of March. The books to the House committee in-number of vessels in April was 179 Harbin, June 19-The repre-vestigating the enforcement of pro-tetal 209,082. tons, compared with sentative of the Kohe Fur Company hibition, showing that the League 242 vessels, total 289.976. tome in which Kad purchased 16,000 had spent almost 32,000,000 during March 1923. The vessels on March worth of fox-skine from a Russian, the last five years in New York to numbered 141, of 186,968 tons, named Petroevsky here, advancing gain public support for the dry compared with 199 ships, of 249,006 the money against documents, alawa. He told the committee that tons in March last year. rived here to-day, only to find that similar amounts had been spent in the bill of lading had, been forged other parts of the country where, by one Kopokoff, who is believed to

the 16th amendment and the have decamped to America, with the Volstead Law were unpopular.

money.

Rome, June 2-To a deputy Tokyo, June 15.-With refer- who urged the Government to time in Italy, ence to the increase in the army adopt summer in North China projected by the Giuseppe. Belluzzio. the Minister of National Economy, declared that War Office, the Foreign Office is under the impression that the plan it was the opinion of the Govern will not realise in view of the ment that the disadvantages to be expenses required. The Foreign derived from summer time would Office is opposed to any proposal | b: greater than the advantages, and Buggesting the increase of themy that the measure would not be in China, in consideration of the welcomed by the population. the trend of thought prevailing in Amg the disadvantages Ching, which is strongly in favour Minister mentions particularly the time of the withdrawal of foreign troops mistakes due to summer from China.

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Mr. Axel Gerfalk, writing in the "Scandinavian Shipping Gazette of Muy 14 and commert- ing on the news of the coilapse. of the general, strike in Frent Britain,. states: "The sentiment vaiced by a Washington paper- We stand by your side, England has all through the conflict been the one dominant note in, these in no Northern countries, and

so than whipping. circles more England has once more proved to he a stalwart defender "liberty and she bas again beaten down an attempt, saddling her with, an arrangement inted by Bolshevism, and the rest of the world is thankful to her for that."

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

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Japanese-Buddhists-in Hankow announced of Lei Liu-chi, teacher, Egyptologist. who is making a have decided to build a Biddhist resident at No. 7. Pottinger, Street,tour of the Orient, is now in temple in the Japanese Concession there, te be known as the Kwan Yin and Cheng Yick-bou. residing at

Sze. No. 43, Conduit Road.

The wedding of J. Rey Perry, of Messrs. Fraser and Neave, Ltd., Singapore, and Elizabeth Lavroff sister of Mrs. A. L. Gilmore, took place at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on June 24, the Rev. G. H. Douglas officiating.

Mr. and Mrs. David Fraser have left. Tientsin for Harbin, en route for England, where Mr. Fraser, the Peking correspondent of "The Times," is taking a few months' leave. They are travelling by the same train as Lord Willingdon and his party.

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Captain W. Cole-Adams, M.C., left Jesselton on June 11 for Sandakan, to take up his post as Officer-in-Charge of Constabulary, Sandakan and East Coset.

Mr. H. H. Smiley who is con- nected with the Shanghai office of the US. Commercial Attache was a passenger on the "President Cleveland" which sailed at 7.30 am on Jane 24, accompanied by Mrs. Smiley and their daughter.

London, June 14-Lord and Lady Birkenhead entertained to- day at a luncheon the Maharajahs of Alway, Kapurthala, Rajpipla Tokyo, June 22. It is reported the Naval Department and the Aga Khan. The com- that

and Mrs. authorities are of opinion that 16: pany inchided Mr. Winston Churchill, Lady Cham- to 19 year old boys are most suit- berlain and several members of able for piloting, aeroplanes, and that they intend to adopt boy avia. the aristocracy.

! tors for this purpose from next

year.

Nairobi, June 17. Following the recent anxiety zegarding the

Iwaki, June 18-Two Japanese Aneta. Medan, states that native outbreak against white Tungku Bandakarą, a former women, the Governor, Sir Edward training ships with cadets are ruler of Deli, and uncle of the pre Grigg, speaking at Kitala, an- leaving Yokohama on June 30 and sent Sultan of Deli, is dead.nounced that the sanction of the will visit Shanghai, Hongkong, Tungku Otteman will be ap- Secretary of State had been Sagapore and Colombo and the pointed Crown Prince of Deli and granted to alter the law; whereby Mediterranean and" will return via the official ceremony will take the death penalty could be in- Batavia and Manila in January next place on the night of July 19. flicted for crimes against women year..

and children.

The wedding of H. Madill manager of Messrs. Moutrie and

Peking, June 22.The pre Dacca, June 4-Mr. A. N.sident and a professor of Minkag University here were arrested

Co., Singapore, and D. Young Moberly, Commissioner, Dacca this morning by Fengtien soldiers

of Dorchester, Canada, took place at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on June 21, the Rev. G. H. Douglas officiating. The bride arrived by the "Takada."

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Division, was entertained at a farewell evening party given in and are being kept in custody in his honour. He left Daces on the Fengtien Military Head- June 8 for Calcutta to act as Chief quarters on a charge of having Secretary to the Government of connection with Communists. Bengal. Mr. Clayton, Commis- Mr. Alan Cobham, who yester Mr. Otto Ranfi, for more than 27sioner, Chittagong, Division, will

well-known resident of take over charge as Commissioner day left England on a flight to Manila, an importer and exporter of the Dacca Division.

Australia, has written a personal "account" of the flight to Cape and for the last six years agent for

Town, from which he returned in the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, died on the 26th June at his home in Pasay, Manila, of cere bral haemorrhage.. He was born in Germany in 1873 and went to Manila in 1890.

Vienna, June 2-It is under- stood that the Commissioner General of Austria, Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, whose duties cease

A romance of modern com- March. It will be published by merce has just been closed by the and death of Sir James Duncan of the title of "My Flight to the Cape C. Blackwith

Kinnettles and Coupar Grange. and Back." The son of a ploughman and him- self sent to follow the plough on leaving school at an early age, he Mrs. E. B. Howard died in the lived to become the owner of the Philippine General Hospital about land on which he had once werk 7.10 o'clock last night (June 27), ed. While still a youth he went here on June 30, will, sail from following an illness of about 10 to Rangoon in the service of days. Mrs. Howard was taken to Messrs. Steel Brothers, the great. Rotterdam on July 20 to partic the Philippine General Hospital on firm of East India merchants. At Pate in the Williamstown Insti June 18 and since that time, has the time of his death he was ftatute summer's programme. It is been under the care of Doctor managing director, and the owner anticipated that he will lecture on H. E. Stafford. Efforts are being of many other large. Interests. Austris and Central Europe, tak made to find her relatives. It is Unlike many new landed proprie ing the viewpoint that the recon- said that Mrs. Howard came to tore, he was alive to his duties as struction of the former is sasored, Manila from Hongkong six well as his rights, and he took a provided the Austrians are willing months ago suffering of an incur pleasure in supporting every good to work hard. He considers Aus-

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