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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

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London, August 6. The death has occurred of the Bengali sculp tor. M. Fanindranath Bose, who executed many commissions for the Gaekwar of Baroda and was a fre- qaent exhibitor at the Royal Scot tish Academy."Times of Ceylon. |

Hollywood, California. Avast 13. In presenting the prizes at -Count yo Tolstoy, sun of the Duke of York's Royal Military famous Russian writer. Sgned a School at Dover recently, Colonel contract with one of the leading Lord Ampthill said that the boys picture producing firms to serve as there had as good, start in Hio astatant director during the pro-a-those born to rink and fortune. duction of his father's story "Resurrection."

To mark the entrance upon his 25th year

as Proyinelal Grund Lausanne, July 21-The "Neue Master, Lord Lambourne, ut # While Mr. Bone. of Messra. Bone 7urcher Zeitung" learns that the meeting of the Easok Provincia? | and Son, undertakers, was strip-¦ Italian authorities refusing Grand Lodge of Freemasons at ping the walls of his house at 09:

ww presented passports to Italians wishing to Romford

with High-street, Staines, Middlesex, to spend their holidays in Switzer- £1.600, which hu announced re-paper them, he found beneath Jand. The Journal cites a number he would use to endow a Lambourne the wallpaper canvas, fastened to of cases of people at Milan wh cot in the Freemasons' Hospital. buttens, and on removing this he

flatly refused visas for

[ discovered a" fireplace and a' cup-|

both believed Sava (Fiji). July 10-The Gov-board,

to be Switzerland on the pretext that in the duty of Italians to spend ernment has completed plans for a ducebean. their money in their own country. new Government House, and ten-

ders are now being invited from An officer of the Royal Army Washington. August 13-The Australia and locally. The enti- Medical Corps," whowandergoes in future the senior course of instrue- Ku Klux Klan has requested per-inted "cost will be £25,000. When

Anished n mission to march unmakked. Up

some two or three tion for captains prior to promo-

be Pennsylvania Avenue from the years) the new building will

tion to major, or a specialist course, the foot of the dominating land mark when will be required to sign an under- peace mas Lament: Capitor Hill Lo the Treasury. De ny vessel is approaching the taking to continue to serve in the The Governor has spArmy after the termination of the partment, on September 18. Major pita, Edwin B. Hesae, superintendent of cially given up personal conveni-course for a miniman period of police said a permit would be grantener so that building may pr-three years.

Heres vide every opportunity for cubie

were

ed as a matter of form. fused permission for the Klan to march masked

entertainment.

An American boy of about 13 went to the head porter of a West) hnd hotel where he was staying and casually asked Him to reserve for him a seat in an ir liner

For the first time in its history. The King has again offered the said Viscount Gladstone, presiding use of the grounds of Buckingham at the lahust meeting of the Royal Palace for a series orgarden College of Music, South Kensingtouring for Paris the next day parties for men whose way inton, S.W.. women had been ap juries still confine them to hos-pinted to the council-the Duchess pital. As in former years the ar-of Atholl (who is Parliamentary rangements will be in the bands Secretary to the Board of Educ- or the Forgotten" Assucit- tions and Lady Cynthia "Colville, tion, through its founder and hon. Excellent results, suid Lord Glail- organiser, Miss Marta Cunningham, stane, had followed the policy of who bas received permission to holding examinations three times !!!! for five such functions.

While last year the cam At one of these it is hoped that didates numbered 773, for the can. Princess Mary, who is a patron of rent year the number was the assiiation, will be able to be Sta gnesem.

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a year.

Homeren.

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After visiting the Royal By the P. and 0, steamer Kalgan xandra Hospital for Sick Child

Brighton...

the and

Hove to-day there enves fo

Mrs. Baldwin. Mr. J. Clelland, of the sh.pwrights Hospital.

the department of the Kowloon Dock, wife of the Prime Minister, open- Mr. Clelland is practically one ci ed H bazuar and fate in 1; the church. kt Rot- the newest hands at the Dock, but aid has had the misfortune to extingdean, near Brighton. In doing perience a serious breakdown inso, Mrs. Baldwin recalled, that "ai health. necessitating Jt. journey Rottingdean she spent her child- Home. As a token of the esteem hood days and there married. She in which he is held at the Dock his could vividly recall one September fellow employees met on Thursday morning when she stepped out of

the church a bride with a then un evening and presented him with a silver tua set and a blackwood tray. Known man. She had been con- incidentally conveying to him their gratulated considerably upon her sincere wishes for a rapid recovery foresight in having chosen a Prime

Minister. and a successful career at Home.

The next morning he flew over, chine. The explanation was that the boy's father had been called to) Faris a day or two before, #th not being able to return had told his son to follow him in the usual way. But the 18-years-old, travel- e with the vision of youth, hau decided thal trains and boats were shings of the past.

Moscow, July 30-The famous Cinema stars, Mary Pickford andi Douglas Fairbanks, took advantage of their transit through Moscow to pay a visit to the Soviet Cinema: Studies. They were taken round by Eisenstein. the producer of Cruiser Potemkin," the Soviet star film which has caused such a sensation in Europe, where it is This picture now being shown.

on the impression made a deep

they American film artists and have taken the film to America toj demonstrate to Mr. Lubitch, the The artists American producer. were astonished to hear that this immense picture took only three months to produce.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Te-morrow is the anniversary

any's

the

Peking. August 11-Dr. Lo Tsinanfu, August 12.-Gen- Wen-kan, Minister of Justice. haseral Chang Chung-chang has in-) issued another instruction to the structed various armies to device judicial authorities in the pro- the best means of banditry sup-

Plans submitted will; oldvinces ordering them to release pression.

suspects "held ΟΠ criminal be used as references at a con- charges as soon as reasons for ference to be held after General their continued detention have Chang's return to Tsinan. disappeared. In case any judicial official disregards this order, he will be severely punished.

of St. Bartholomew,

Stopping of Heat (Ch'u Shu) falls to-morrow, Chinese calendar. Li Ch'iu, which came a fortnight back was the Beginning of Autumn. More than that must be left to the reader's imagination.

In the agenda for to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board re- ference is made to a minute re-

lative to the question of rohibiting the sale of cut fruit in the Colony. This will be laid before the meet. ing by the President.

"

Harbin, August 6. The Chinese authorities here, to-day suddenly ordered the White Ras- paper "Kapeka" to close gian and simultaneously arrested M. Chilikin, the editor and publisher.

"Peking. August 11.-Accord- ing to the Shih Chieh Yi Pao," Mukden, has requested Mr. Chen Lu Chinese Minister to Paris, to eastern Aviation Department. Mr. Chen has notified the government that the instructors will soon leave for China."

find 'six instructors for the North-

:

Tokyo, August 15. The The reason of the arrest is under- An outbreak of spotted fever) Bank of Japan has discovered stood to be that the editor recently is prevalent in the Shikika dis- 8,000 counterfeit half-yen pieces referred to General Chang Huan-trict, Saghalien, since the middle circulated in different cities in the hsian, commander of the Chinese of last month. Thirty enses have empire. Authorities believe that Eastern Railway Guards, as already been registered. Ave of the counterfeit money was mana-Red General. factured in the mountains.or pro- bably in the interior of China.

these proving fatal. The epidemic shows signs of spreading south- warda. The authorities at Tuyo- hara are alarmed and have dis-1 natched a medical party to the in- fected zone.

Brussels, August 14.-The new law placing a tax of 15 per Major General Sir Haring cent. to 20 per cent, on the hotel ton O. Parr, C.B., C.M.G., Military bills of all foreigners "with the Secretary, A.H.Q., India, was in exception of French, Italians, the last Birthday Honours list, Greeks and citizens of the Baku, Azerbaijam, August 9.- receiving a knighthood. Major Balkans" becomes effective to-day Large numbers of lepers, who have General Sir Harington Parr is a throughout Belgium. The law is arrived here from Persin, are bo- brother of Lt. Colonel Parr aimed frankly at American and coming a serious problem to gor. C.M.G, late British Resident of English tourists whose money is ernment authorities. In the Perak, and is known to many in worth two or three times as much absence of an isolated cofony, the Malaya.

here as across the English Chan-immigrants afleted with the dead. by disease are walking the streets freely and

congregating in

Athens, August 14.-Reports

nel.

are

from Belgrade and Sofia indicate Chicago, August 14.-The public places among the native in-

habitants. the good of the

that the relations between Bul-committee on garin and Jugoslavia are be-order to-day reported concerning coming more tense each day. the proposed appropriation by the The draft of an Ordinance Bulgarian irregulars crossed the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias amending the Ceylon Penal Code Jugoslav border yesterday und of $2,500,000 for the Cullon leper in respect of the section relating clashed. with # company of colony in the Philippines. The murder appeared in the gendarmes. Several were killed committee says: "We suggest #Government Gazette." The and wounded on both sides. that the subject is one for con- amendment adds the following ex- we do not recommend the pro- offender being the mother of a gressional action and at present ception to the section:"Culpable homicide is not murder if the posal for the appropriation of $2,- 500,000 or any other sum. The newly-born child causes its death committee voted to hear Captain whilst the balance of her mind is G. W. Spoerry of Manila on the having fully recovered from the

disturbed by reason of her subject later.

effect of giving birth to such child."

Tsingtao, August 10.-The report that a Russian had been arrested yesterday afternoon in connection with the Fischer mur der case, was confirmed last even. ing when the police notified that this suspect, whose descrip- tion resembled that of the mur: derer, was arrested in Kuanhal Roud.

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of

Recently a new crater has ap- peared on Mount Shirane (7,18,3 foet above the sea level) on

Genova, August 1-According border between Gummaken and to statisties made pubile by the Berlin August 4.-The mem-Nagano-ken, near Kusatsu, It la Secretariat of the League of Na- bers of the Cabinet have con- now emitting a yellowish smoke, tions regarding the amounte firmed the report that Herr Specialists dispatched to the spot money spent on armaments by the Schacht, Governor of the by the Gumma Prefectural authori-leading Powers, Great Britain Reichsbank, and Mr. Benjamin ties report that the volume of heads the Hat:-Expenditure of thej Strong, Governor of the Federal smoke from the new crater is various nations is as follows:- Reserve Bank, are, to meet for a thicker than from Asuma and that Great Britain ....2111,000,000 consultation at the Dutch reside it is located in a sulphate pond

United States .... 110,000,000. resort of Scheveningen, where known Yum!-ike, and shuts up

France

$1,000,000 they will disetas methods for the old crater, seven cho in area, using the German reparation which used to yield a quantity of payments to assist in the stabil-sulphur. An eruption is feared by isation of the franc.

the local people.

Japan Italy Rusela Germany

48,000,000

31,000,000

88,000,000

21,000,000

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