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On Wednesday thres fro fenses of enteric fever (typhoid) were notified. All the patients Fare Chinese from the city district.

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Mention has already been The native press roports E

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Pel-fu made of the

which the petition to Marshal Wu

'afrom a large number of mer- R.A.0.B., in Hongkong has ranged on behalf of the depend- chunts. The petition spates that ants of the late B.Q.M.S. Jacobs unless they pay certain offileers of "Subscribers to the Fanling and in which several local artistes the Kin-Har railway enormous of note are appearing. The con squeezes they cannot obtain even Hunt are reminded of the first annual meeting in the Jockey Clabert takes place to-night at the one car to transport their goods. premises, Hongkong Club Annexe, Royal Naval Theatre and com- to-morrow at 5.15 pri All inter mences at 8.30, ested are invited to attend..

A Chinese was brought befare the Kowloon Magistrate esteriny en a charge of being concerned in the murder of a werkman as Shatin A remind was in April 1925. Krunted for one week.

"To-morrow is the last day on which entries can be sent in to the "China Mail" for Mar- eato's competition.

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By the co-operation of the various benevolent societies in Hankow a large matshed has been erected at Hui Ming Ting on the Houcheng Maloo. This shed isi

twelve hundred housing some food refugees,, from the Kieslee district. The societies are also providing two meals a day for them.

Peking, August 19. Mr. Wu The Japanese police, in the

Lai-hsi, who has been appointed employ of the Shanghai Municipal Lord Eustace Percy, Pre-Managing Editor of the English Council are agitating for an insident of the Board of Education section of the Far Eastern crense, in pay. They have sent a speaking at a teachers' vacation Times," returned to Peking this petition. signed by 74 of their course at Bingley, Yorks, said the morning after brief visit to number, to the Commissioner of Board would not countenance any Tientsin. Readers of the "Far! Police demanding that starting curtailment of the time devoted in Eastern Times," will be interested pay be increased from 382 to Tis elementary schools to religious to learn that the paper is going struction. The great difficulty to remove its plant to Peking 100.

they had to face was the compara-shortly.

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The arrows which were noticed in certain of the streets yesterday were in connection with the bazaar which is being organ- Ised to raise funds in connection with the amount outstanding on the erection of the new Church of Chriss in Chin

Cerected in Bonham Road). The arrows, all pointed through several thorough- fares to the site of the church, the

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tive ignorance of all classes of the

The native press in Hankow Bible. The lack of familiarity with the Bible had its results-in reports that Marshal Wa Fei-fu English culture and literature has instructed Mr. Chen Kai, the They must revive the Bible as a Commissioner for Foreign Affairs whole and dispel the atmosphere to request the British and Japan- of mystification that at present ese authorities to permit the mili

tary to search foreign vessels in surrounded it

the port of Hankow. It is alleged as reason that it has come to the! The Singapore Municipal notice of the authorities that objec; being to remind passers by health statement for the week large quantities of arms and am- of the work of the church, men- ending August 14 gives the total munition are passing through! tioned in a report yesterday. The number of deatha at 251 repre- there or their way to Tang Shen- bazaar is to be held there to-day.senting a death rate of 81.97 per chi in Hunan.

mile per annum compared with Friday and Saturday.

33.37 in the preceding week and Among the maxy-interesting 36.08 in the corresponding week curiosities relating to Goodwood" | Peking, August 19-Because of last year. The chief causes of races of the past that are still pre- were: Beri-beri 17. served at Goodwood House is a la great des! of money mortality

for bernised:

re-, phthisis 22. dysentery 12. malaria race card of 1826, precisely one habilitation, after the close of the 33. pneumonia 87, convulsion 20. hundred years ago. On that oe- north-west campaign, it is said. Among the nationalities death occasion the programme was limit- reports the "Shih Pao, that curred as follows:-European 1. ed to four races, some of these a certain ministry is carrying on Eurasian 1, Chinese 211, Malays being run in heats, the sedret negotiations for a two mil-16, Indians 19 others 3. Twenty-being then very much narrower lion dollar pan with the King-one persons died who had been than is the case at the present cheng Banking Corporation, the less than three months resident time. Admission was on a de Bank of China, the Salt Industrial in Singapore. Deducting these cidedly more modest scale than Bank, the Continental Bank, and the death rate was 29.29 per now, the charge for ladies on the the National Industrial Bank of 1,000. The infantile rate was grand stand being fixed at half-a- China. It is thought the loan will 276,4 per mille per annum com- crown, while the card further in- be successful. The money will pared With 173.7 in the preceding rimates that an "ordinary" will be distributed among the Feng-week and with 189.5 in the corres-be served at the Dolphin Hotel tien and Chibli troops.

Bonding week afdøst year. with vension as the principal dish:

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. Alex. Johnstone. McAlister

and Co., Singapore. who went Colon day by the home, last March,

quite recovered.

has now

Mr. J. A Deknatel, until re- Mr. H. H. Norris, barrister-at-cently inspector of the Nether- law, has returned from home via lands Trading Society, Batavia, Canada and has resumed his prac has been appointed a director. tice in Muar and Batu Pahat.

The Right Hon. Sir West Ridge way, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.. K.C.S.I., and Sir John Hewett, G.C.S.I., C.LE, having retired from the North Borneo Court of Directors, Capt. Anson Cowie has joined the Court,

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Dr. J. L. Farquharson's resigna- tion from the Sarawak Govern- ment service has been accepted with effect from June 30.

News has been received to the! effect that Dr. J. T.. Fernandez has obtained a commission in the Indian Medical Service and is The Bacon Scholarship of 1926 posted in the Madras Division. (£100 a year for three years) has Dr. Fernandez begar his studies been awarded to Mr. Selkirk in King Edward VII Medical Col- Chapman, of Balliol College, lege, Singapore, and completed Oxford; the Holt Scholarship (#80 the course in Scotland; taking the a year for three years) has been triple qualifications of Edinburgh awarded to Mr. G. Cohen, of and Glasgow. He was in practice London University.

in Singapore and Muar from the beginning of this year and left for India on August 12.

Amongst the passengers who arrived for Hongkong, by the The Japanese Imperial House- "Kashgar to-day were, Surg. Lt. hold Department is shortly to Com. North. Eng -Lieut. J.publish regulations respecting Roberts, Mr. W. R. Soames, Mrs. Intermarriage between the Im V. Drayson, Mr. J. L. Christie,perial Family of Japan and that and Mr. and Mrs. Lissaman. of Korea. The regulations will

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Korea Family on the Shanghai, August 15 Generalsame footing as the Japanese, and Son Chuan-fang has, selected one Korean Princes and Princesses hundred officers and men to be will be entitled to the rank of stationed at the ten principal sta- "denka." tions of the Shanghai-Nanking Shanghai-Hangehow Rail- wuy's for the purpose of getting initiated in the running" and management of railways.

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Osaka, Angust:24.--Plans for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the restoration of world peace with an international exposition have been completed and thousands of invitations are being prepared for transmission to all parts of the vorld. The promoters, including the mayor, the governor and the president of the chamber of com- merce, estimate that the exposition. will cost about 25,000,000 yen. The death is announced of Miss teward which the national govern- Florence Balhatchet, of Penang-ment will be asked to appropriate The late Miss Balhatches was to 6,000,000 ven and the city of Oanka Have been married to Mr. J. Theseirn, of the Chartered Bank,

At the last meeting of the Kuala Lumpur, early in October. North Borneo Chamber of Com-On Sunday night, August 22, she merce a letter was received from was apparently in the best of A. D. Henne intimating his re-health, but was taken suddenly signation from the committee ill on the following morning and owing to his departure on lang died. leave. The resignation was AC- cepted with regret; and Mr. Henne was thanked for his valuable ser- vices whilst serving on the com- mittee..

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Moscow, August 3.-The Third Conference of the Esperanto So ciety of the U.S.S.R. opened in Leningrad. According to the re- port of the General Secretary, the Mr. Richard Malcolm, Dollar Society has 10,000 members and who had been in failing health for branches in 250 cities in the So- some time, passed away on August viet Union. A mass international Tin his 87th year. He was Eng meeting was held in the park of Hish master in Dollar Academy at the Putilof Works, at which Edinburgh for many years, and retired in 1910, after 44 years' speeches were made in Esperanto.

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San Francisco, August Naval officers to-day requested o coroner's inquest into the death of Rear-Admiral Ceorge H. Barber. who died on Monday. Coincidentally it was learned shortly before his death that he bequeathed $75,000 to Helen K. Ashley, a nurse, whom he had planned to marry. He died supposedly from ptomaine poison- ing. The admiral's friends male no charges bf wrong-doing, but point to the regulations which pra- Ecribe a formal investigation where an officer dies when no naval officer is present.

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Rome, August 25.-It is learned. that the Vatican "is preparing to bring diplomatic pressure to bear San Francisco, August 26.-The on the governments of Brazil and Associated Press" to-day present-Spain in an effort

to keep thera

service on the staff. A man of varied interests, he was connected. at one time or another with most of the public and social bodies of ed an engraved gold watch to within the League of Nations. It the burgh. He was Provost of Stedman Fiske Todd, radio opornis pointed out, however, that this Dollar in the early years of the tor on the steamer "President influence will be exerted cautiously Town Council, and among other Wilson" of the Dollar Steamship and within the legitimate "bounde offices held by him were Chair Company; who on January 19 last of the Holy See's activities because man of Dollar Academy Gov- flashed word to The "Associated Pope, Plun ia auid to feel that the ernors, chairman of Dollar Liberal Preas" of the plight of the crew question of a nation's membership Association, and member of of the Japanese steamer "Daishin in the League is primarily of Clackmanan County Council and Maru I, which was taken off in domestle "concern. It was pointed the Education Authority. His second wife, who predeceased him a year or two ago, was the first lady Town Councillor in Scotland and was Provost of Dollar during the war years.

starving condition by the steamer out that the Vatican, had a logitl- "Java Arrow." Radio: "ARB0cfated male interest in preventing, if pos- Press," steamship, and newspapersible, the withdrawal of Catholic || offelals participated in the cere-nations-first in order to maintain monies at which Mr. Todd's re-world peace and secondly, to pro sourcefulness, was recognised.tect the interests of religion,

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MAIL SHIP FRACAS.

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