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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Fifty houses wore' razed, by a morning blaze in the town of Oya In the Prefecture of Nagano, Japan, on July 8.

We are informed by the Kailan Mining Administration that the total output of the Administration's minos for the week ending July 3. amounted to 48,282 tons and the Brick Morse's Califordin Col-salos during the period to 45,916 legians give their Inst show in tons. Hongkong at the Theatre Royal starting at 9.15 to-night-usual prices.

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The meeting of the Hongkong Development Building & Savings Society Ltd.. to consider voluntary Hiquidation, is to be held to-morrow at the City Hall at 3 p.m.

On being accosted by a con- stable at Reclamation Street on Saturday night, a Chinese dropped B suck he WAR carrying and escaped. The sack contained eight revolvers and 800 rounds of am- munition.

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Sub-Inspector Stimson, of the Hangehow as well as Shanghai Kowloon City Police Station, effect. appears to be suffering from a rice famine, and a meeting of Chekianged the arrest of Ave Chinese who residents has been held to decide are alleged to have taken part in -snatching a pair of bangles from ways and means of distribution re

a Chinese girl on Saturday after Ref.

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A surtax of five per cent, on all passengers and freight pass- ing over the Shanghai-Nanking and rail- Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo ways is being imposed, the order having been given, it is reported, by Marshal Sun Chuen-fang himself.

Twenty representatives of the cotton mill labourers in Pootung fet on July 10 and decided that a delegation should be sent to the chief of the Woosung and Shang- hai constabulary.to demand that the

Shanghai General Union be re-opened.

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Gen. Lu Hsiang-ting. Tupan of Chekiang, is making & of the province to Inspect his troops and examine his defonce posta. He le very heavily guard ed and a gunboat has been placed at his disposal for when he travels by water. Gen. Lu is now in Ningpo.

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The reports published in the effect Shanghai papers

of that the German community Shanghal ia pressing for an altero- tion of the conditions under which. they may stand trial in the Mixed Court under a foreign assessor of La different nationality to their

own, are officially denied."

-According to those who arrived at Hankow on July 8 from Huan Kisen Kaisha by a Nisshini steamer, the River Yuan in Hunan Province, un account of the con- tinuous rain of the past several days, has greatly risen, and. dykes have been broken in many places, having turned Changteh into a lake. Thus navigation between Hankow and Changtch has become impossible.

A large number of Kowloon motor cyclists were fined $2 each at the Kowloon Magistracy yester. day for causing obstruction by parking their machines on the left side of the post at the exit of the Star Ferry wharf near the Railway Station. Most of them pleaded that the prohibition had not been sumeiently advertised

In Shanghal on July, 10 Nyoh-dee and L Chao-ping, con victed in the Mixed Court, of arm- ed robbery and kidnapping. were executed near the South Station by the Chinese constabulary.

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The Shanghai Students' Union met at their headquarters in Chape: on July 10 and decided to send representatives to Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and Colonel Yen Chun- yang asking them to re-open the Shanghal General Labour Union.

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A Hankow report of July 8 anys-The Yangtze River still continues to rise and the water". gauge here now indicates more than 47 feet, thus rendering navi- gaten by steamers plying between here and Shanghai, Ichang, and Hunan Impossible.

The Civil Governor of Klangsi wired to the Cabinet on July 10 stating that the foods there are causing much harm to the people and reliet measures are The matter was considered at a Cabinet meeting and was referred to the Finance Ministry.

needed.

Quite a feree morality cam-| pain is being carried on by the Chinese authorities in Shanghat, who have expressed their condemnu tion of all sorts of pleasures und arts in strong terms. The Shang- Washington, July 9-The exe-Hal District magistrate has now cutive council of the American suppressed a local College of Arts Federation of Labour to-day lasued for immorality in exhibiting nude a warning against the sending of figures for the use of students.

mission to Russia in the name of

All motors, "whether owned by! American labour and made an ap peal to organised labour for funds foreigners or natives, that ply in Chinese territory must have Chi- to assist the striking miners of

neae licences, according to an or- Great Britain. The executive coun cil assailed organisations believed der issued by the local Chinese authorities. The new order is to be communistic and stated that the familles of the British miners effective from July 10. An office were at a deplorable condition. for receiving licence fees und The appeal for funds was made in issuing licences has been establish- response to a request from theed at the inquiry department in the British Miners' Federation.

North Station of the Shanghai- Nanking Railway.

The free riding of Chinese navy men on trumears in Nantao

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The sum of $8,500, furnished has long been a sore point with by Mr. Yu Yah-ching, Chairman of the Chinese Tramway Company: the Chinese General Chamber of WIE .dis- Some weeks ago a fight occurred Commerce, Shanghai, between a bluejacket and a tram ftributed on July 13 in Pootung to conductor which resulted in a gen sailors employed on launches, 'who The sustained losses in the general eral strike of tramwaymen. strike was settled, however, and strike of 1925. Representatives of Admiral Yang Shu-chuang, local the Chamber of Commerce “and commander-in-chief of the Chinese officials of the Woosung and Shang- naval forces, has agreed to pay the hai Constabulary will supervise the company 380 per month for, the distribution. The money was given by Mr. Yu to, the Chinese Sea- free transportation

$14,500 still The naval authorities also tender- men's Union The ad an apology for the affair, and owed to the Union by the Chamber -will-be-distributed later to sallors guaranteed that there would be no further assaults on tramwaymen. on ocean-going vessels..

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. B. H. Stearns. of the Canadian Pacific Railways in Shanghai, is shortly due for six months' home leave.

Madame Herriot, wife of M. Herriot, formerly Premier of France, arrived in Tokyo on the morning of July 9, and was enter tained at luncheon by Baron

Shidebars the following day,

Adolf, Crown Prince. Gustaf Prince of Sweden, is expected to arrive in Japan from San Fran- cisco on September 2.

Mr. Lewis Deer, associate editor Guardian" and of the "Dally "Smith's Weekly," Sydney, Au tralia, is staying at the Astor Houae.

The well-known Chinese female

Shanghai July 13.-R. A. Frost. labour agitator, Moh Tz-ying, is standing har trial before the Chi-prominent Hankow attorney, return- ed from America on the Empress nese authorities in Chapel.

of Russia, and is in Shanghai for He will return to a short visit. Hankow at the end of the week."

Was among

Judge Peter Grain the passengers to leave Shanghai Marshal Peng Yu-hsiang's per-for-Tientsin by the s.3. Tungchow sonal chaplain, the Rev. Yui Sing- on July 10. Miss Marshall left by ching, returned to Shanghal from the same vessel for Weihalwel. Nanking, where he has been visit ing his parents, on July 10, He will ahortly leave for Europe and the United States to study educa- tion and politics.....

It is reported that in view of the increasing number of German re. sidents at Tsingtao and the import- ant business interests they are re-establishing in the former Ger- man colony, the German Govern- ment is considering the advisability of appointing a Consul to the port. At present German interests in Tsingtao are looked after by the German Consul in Tainan.

Simla, July 1.-India will be re- presented at the Imperial Con-,, ference, next October, by the Secre tary of State for India, Mr. Chand- wick and the Maharajadhiraja of Burdwan. The delegates repre senting India at the meetings of the Assembly of the League of Nations next September will be Sir William Vincent, the Maharaja of "Kapur- thala and Khan Bahadur Shaikh Abdul Qadir..

Dr. Jose M. Galvez is perhaps the first Chilean educator to visil Peking in order to establish closer intellectual relations between Chiria and his country, says the "Peking Leader For the past four years. he has been touring the world, spending two years As "exchange professor at the University of California, and the University of Berlin. Helah member of the faculty of the University of Chile and has received the degrees of LL.D. from the University of Southern California and Ph. D. from Berlin. He is also a repre- ségtative of the well known South American newspaper, "La Nacion," Santiago de Chile. During his visit in Peking he is stopping at the Hotel du Nord.

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The deaths at Fengchen of Miss Ida M. Nilsson and of Mr. Anderesen, brother of the C.I.M. It is believed that Mr. Niu (Swedish Alliance Branch) are an Chuang-shan. a famous political nounced. These two missionaries veteran and a native of Klukiang, Buccumbed to typhus fever, cón- will become manager of the Nan tracted through nursing the wound chang-Kiukiang Railway. He is aed soldiers of the Kuominchun. large shareholder in the railway being cared for in Fengchen, says He is well-to-do and popular among the "Peking Leader" the local politicians as well as among other classes of the people here, who hope that if he takes the post he will be able to improve the administration of the railway.

Miss Margaret Bridger has been "chosen Quaen of the Apple Blossom. fete held annually in Winchester Virginia, to edebrate the promise of the district's most valuable crop.

Two popular members of the foreign community-Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cosser loft by the Empress

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of Asia on June 30. and Mrs. Cosser have been many years in Kobe and have taken a large part in the social activities of "the port. Unfortunately Mr.. Cosser has suffered a good deal of ill-health lately, so they have docided to try a change of re sidence.

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Peking, July 9-The Panshen Lama, one of the living Buddhas", to-day at noon prayed in public | from a platform erected at Ying.. Tai in the Imperial City, calling upon heaven to cause rain to, fall upon North China. It was gone) of his first appearances in public since his arrival here last winter.

Incense was burned from great braziors on, the platform as the famous cleric offered prayers.

Mr. and Mrs. J.. F. Schabl return-

ed to Shanghai on Sunday (July.,11) after a trip to the North occupy- ing over a fortnight during which time they visited several of the outports including Ichong. Mr. Schubl on the trip combined, buel neas with pleasure and one of the reasons he went North was to in- vestigate the charger made against Charles R. Cox who has been charged in the United States Court for China with embezzlement, Mr. G. Huser, who was also on a similar mission as representative for the US Court, returned to Shanghaf with Mr. Schubi.

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