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THE CHINA MAIL
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
On Tuesday two fresh Chinese cases of enteric fever were notified. war from the city and one from Kowloon.
Messrs. Lammert Bros. un nounce a sale of furnisure, pianoe. jinëmatograph machines, etc., #L Cheir Duddell Street sales rooms
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Austin, Texas. Aug. 3.-The return of Charles Ponzl, the finan- cial wizard, to Masachusetts to serve a sentence of from seven to ten years for theft, was ordered by Governor Ferguson.
London, August 3: The "Central News" correspondent at Belgrade says to-day that the Jugo-Slavia war minister has ordered army commanders to pursue the Bulgarian irregulars who have invaded Jugo-Slavia Batavia, July 29-According Into Bulgaria. This would be to a report received by Aneta tantamount to war: from Padang. it is. learned that an
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Batavia, July 29,-According The Eastern Extenaton Telecarthquake shock was felt
report received by Aneta graph Co., new notifier that tele-Padang Pandjang at 1.20 p.m. on to a
the 28th inst. The shock was from the Dutch commandant of xraphic communiention • (from
the troops stationed at Bakongan, Hongkong) with Tientsin la restor rather severe.
it is learned that up to and incluid- Communication with Peking in
Commenting on recent riotsing July 24, thirty Acheenese tilt interrupted, but telegrams will he forwarded by train from Tien-in Calcutta, "The Statekman" rebels have been killed in Troe- says the incidents are one more mon, at which place Dutch troops proof of the rawness of tempers are 'making rigorous efforts to ridg The postponed Kowloon and of the determination amongit of rebals.. Cricket Club concert is to be some classes of the populace not given on Saturday evening. the to respect the orders issued by place of Miss Mura Shipoff, the Government! young Russian ballet dancer who has left for Manila, being taken by local artistes. The programme gives promise of being a most entertaining one.
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Owing to the poor progress maintained by the contractors during 1925 more work had to be done in this year in connection with the Shek Lai Pui Reservoir in Kowicon.. A. vote of $18,000 is therefore asked for at to-day's Finance Committee meeting to cover cost of extra work.
A Tokyo cable of August 1 atates: The antagonism towards the Governor of the inhabitants of Nagano Prefecture is daily more marked. A boycott by tax. payers is operating, the amount of local taxes collected by to-day-the due date, showing much deficit owing to seven-tenths of the tax- payers having failed to pay.
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Boston, August 3. Lady Astor told newspaper reporters in the course of a general interview that most of the ill-feeling in England against America on the subject of war debts had been ngendered by editorials in the "Daily Mail." She said that they were written in a vein so vitu berative that the government was finally obliged to intervene.
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The schoolboy's deßaltion of a newspaper editor is worth quoting,
the
"Newspaper World": "The editor is one of the happiest men in the world. for he can go te picture palaces without paying, guts free tickets for theatres and concerts, and has lots of wedding cake sent to him. Whilst we have to go to bed early, the editor sits P every night and knows all that
going on."
Paris, July 23-The Interna-ays tional Miners' Committee
con- cluded with a private conference which merely confirmed the deci- Quebec, Quebec.The pulsions of the Ostend and Brussels tion of treater Quebie has no Conferences with regard to the reached 185,000, according to the coal stoppage in Great Britain new city directory. So far as the confiring its support Hity of Quebec proper de concern. miners to verbal sympathy. Mr. fer the figures place it AJ Cook, interviewed by $125,000, souls. The last Federal L'Humanité." complained of the
Kentville, Nova, Scotia.-E census, taken in 1921, places te attitude of the French and Ger- populatim of Quebec at 98.000, Iman delegates, "who savagely at- order to encourage production, the Department of Natural Resourcei, tacked as for accepting money from Moscow. The Americans Atlantic Railway, have completed in conjunction with the Dominion alone supported us in this mat-arrangements for a special demon-
Cost incurred in providing additional protection to the
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¡ foundations of the Eastern return ter."
Istration train to traverse the ter- of the quay wall at North Point
ritory served by the railway. This! and levelling cf pell mell rubble While wading through shal train will carry a number of grade slopes is the subject of a supple Flow water in the swamps dairy cows of various breeds, also mentary expenditure vote of $10 at the 9th. mile West wine and poultry, Practical talks 1000 submitted to the Finance Coast Road... Singapore, af and demonstrations will be given
Committee at to-day's meeting. young Chinese was taken by at the various scheduled stops.
a large-sized crocodile and pulled away before help could be sent
Owing to the dangers of
Sutherland, Saskatchewan.- flooding from neighbouring paddy for. A search was made for theThe Dominion forestry farm here felds it was found necessary in body, but no trace was found has been particularly busy daring) the course of work on the, Shung either of the crocodile or the miss-the past month in shipping young Mun water scheme to constructing man. The unfortunate youth's trees destined to become pleasant catch-waters, not previously anti-brother, who was with him at the groves of shelter in nearly 3,000 cipated. The upper portion of time and who saw him being places in the prairie provinces. Up the road was constructed on a dragged struggling away, states to the fall of 1923 the Sutherland better alignment than was origin- that the crocodile was quite 12 station had shipped, since its in- aily intended, this involving more feet in length. The two menception, over 17,000,000 trees. For excavation. To cover cost of were making their way to a boat 1924 the total was well over 2,000,- extra work a vote of $15,000 is re-which was tied up in the water. 000, while in 1925 it was about the quested at to-day's meeting of the This is the first casualty of its same number.. This year 3.355,000) Finance Committee.
kind for some time,
were shipped.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
"Mr. H. E. Edmonds of "the Ipoh, August 8.-About 600 Eastern Extension Telegraph boy scouts of Ferak assembled at Company, Singapore, who
met Ipoh yesterday for a whole-day with an accident owing to a col-jamboree. They were officially lision with a motor car. is, his inspected by H.H. the Sultan and friends will be glad to learn, pro- did not disperse until midnight. gressing well.
The death of Mr. Morris Gross. of the Tientsin A. P. C. accounts department, Hon of Mr. L. Gross London at the age of 27. took place in Victoria Hospital, Tientsia from peritonitis. 'Deceased served with the B. E. F. in France and was invalided out of the Army,
Mrs.
Mr. H. Blett, of the British Consular Department in Jaya, who has been asked to report to the Overseas Department. "re. garding the need for a trade com- missioner for Malaya, is visiting Perak.
Bangkok, July 30. Phra Laddha Kayad, ex-Consul at On the 7th bet.Judge Peter Penang for Siam, was to-day sen- Grain in H. B. M.'s Supremetenced to seven years' imprison Court Shanghal made absolute the ment for misappropriation of decree nisi obtained by. Georgian Florence Davis, of Aus-Ticals 90,000. This is the maxi-
mum penalty. tralla, against her husband Mr. Caell George Davis, of Tientsing The case was heard in Shanghai six months ago, and no defence was offered by the hužbindsor the co- respondent. -
in Bangkok on January 12, 1876, Captain Julius Meyer arrived
as mate of the German barque "Picciola," 238 tons, and died early on July 24, at his residence off Windmill Road. He has re- Siam for the
NEWS.
The two daughters of Mr. F. W. Douglas, late District Officery Klang, and Mrs. Douglas, were presented to Their Majesties at the recent Court,
A supper took place recently at the Malacca Swimming Club, at which the Singapore and local teams were the guests of the President, Major J. R. Sewell,
Murray Bay, Quebec, Aug. 3.- Chief Justice William Howard] Taft of the United States greatly improved to-day after suffering from a severe cold.
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Domestic Occurrences Leading Artis
Those Rents-Again Overworked!
A Saturday Causerie Not in the Picture "Wake Up!
Refuse Destruction, Reckless Cyclist Passing through the Colony on Correspondence their way to Manila, ов the Tai O Piracy "President McKinley" are the Hcn. Rents Ramp and Mrs. William H. Atwell. Col Whose Cat?
C. H. and Mrs. Nunce, and Mise K.
liner. Nance are also passengers on the
Our Post Office
Did Not Work A Deserter... Prof. Langster Ill Mrs. Lock Wei has returned to Such is Fame the Colony by the Admiral Line Big Floods
President McKinley." She is the Stolen Lead Penang, August 4-The peti-mained in
wife of Mr. W. Lock Wei (son of Friendly "Tip" tion was heard in the Supreme Afty years in between those dates, the late Sir Boshan Wei Yuk) who Refloated... Court of Paul Domingo, of Singa and up to his last illness has been is a leading Chinese tennis player. pore, for the dissolution of his active and healthy, taking an in- Mrs. Lock Wei, is also a tennis, on- marriage with Eulalie Geralda ferest in all matters pertaining to chusiast. Domingo nee Jeremiah, quoting the shipping of the port.-"B. J. D. Martinez as co-respondent. Times." The suit was not contested either
Mr. John, Leech, K.C. father of the Irish Bar, has given up his by the respondent or co-respon- Simla, July 24-Nagpur, July | profession to join the staff of the dent. who admitted" cohabitation 23.Unlike his predecessors, the British-Israel-World Federation in the affidavits. The Court Viceroy. accompanied by the as Commissioner-General and granted a decree. nisi, to be stay-Commissioner of the Nagpur Divi. Chairman of the Board of Com- ed for three months, the responsion and the Deputy Commis-missioners, supporting the Secre- dent to have the custody of the sioner of Nagpur, this afternoon tary-General," child born in the marriage, but paid a surprise visit to the vil the petitioner to have access to lages of Mahadulu and Dahigaon, to gain first-hand knowledge of village life, and of the funda- Shanghai, August 5. Mr. mental elements of district ad Serge Stepanoff, cartoonist, who ministration. The villagers were Was admitted into hospital unaware who their distinguished lon Monday suffering from visitor was.
the child.
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Bribe" Offered
Feline Sagacity Nankow Fails Locdl Mails Fifth Test...
"Arms for Canton?
St. Leger The "Kong, Ning". Have No Fear! Tuli Chen Chia-mac has sent H.K.V.D.C.
of the Illegal Traffic Mr. Wang Pa-lien, one richest merchants in Hankow to Prince George Shanghai to interview the differ- Parcel Post ent steamship companies with a Local Piece Goods view to establishing a surcharge In Liquidation on all steamer tickets, which sur- River Shooting. charge, will be used for the relief Share Market
CONTENTS,
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Foochow Outrage Heavy Fire
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Local Radio
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Ignorance
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Property Sales
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Poet's Corner
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Boat Capsizes.
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Hemmed In
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Cinema Prices
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Wanchai Hob
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6 Smuggler Caught
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Exchange Building
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Liquor Licences
20
Our Water
20
Court Contempt
20
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German Killed
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7 0
Farewell Cheque
20
Muzzling Order
"Fault: of Woman"
On Charter Borneo-Hongkong
River Shipping.. Boy Kidnapped Coast Items
8- 9 "All Square"
Lawn Bowls
7
A Fair Charge?
Teased 2 Girls Mac Drowned Peak Thefts
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Water Polo
9
Sport's Enemy
28
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Good Form
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Deep Sea Fish
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Castle Penk
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Steamer'e Delay
28
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Canton News
24-20
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Which is True?
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Whampoa Port
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Appeal to End War
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Marshal Feng
11
Obituary
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Agitators Flee
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Peak Hospital
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Indians Jailed
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Trade Mark Case
28
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Old Thefts
12
Another Typhoon?
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Murder Charge
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Pathetic Appeal
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Compensation.
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Cable Facilities
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Fatal Fall
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Chinese Festival
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Deeds Registered
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Colony's Refuse
.14.
Our Health
lowed by paralysis and haem- Batavia, July 31-It will be ref flood sufferers on the Yangtze. Local History morhage, and whe was not membered that Capt. Paris of the
Brutal Attack expected to live through the first Netherlands Indian army died in
Money Loans night le still alive owing to the etion in Asheer some time agro Berlin, August 6.The German Midnight Blaze battle which is being waged for whilst putting down the unrest in explorer Stratul Sauer who was 390 Ransom his life by the doctors and nurses that part of the colony. Capt.recently condemned to four years' $1,500 Booty Interested in the case. Every bit Paris was married to an English-Imprisonment in an Afghan court geamen Jailed of known medical science has women and at her request the for killing in self defence an Arms in Boots been and is being used by the pro-body was sent to England for Afghan subject has been pardon Bank Notes .. fession to keep this clever car burial. The funeral took place at Led by the Amir. The German False Alarm toonist alive and it would appear Hastings in the presence of a press lauds the action of the Amir Magistracy Items that their efforts are going to be large crowd, the late captain be considering this a new proof of Bankrupt Firms successful as Mr. Stepanoft ising accorded full British military the friendly relations between the Prison Rules holding his own.
two countries.
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