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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The local offer of the Chinese Maritime Custenis will be closed on Tuesday.

One of the twee Indian guards. who was seriously wounded in the

On Thursday a Chinese case of diphtheria was notifted from the cityo

It is estimated that in Singas pore there are 26,774 children off school age, states the annuall medical report for last year. Tol deal with this large number of children there are in the Settle.

A private firm is negotiating chase near Rosyth dockyard of a since died in hospital. A charge of murder will now be preferred site on which to erect a glass against the five men now in custodyment would be employed.

making factory, where 1,000 and alleged to be the plate gang.

Sailung ferry piracy alfair haw with the Admiralty for the purment 28 Government. English;

and Vernacular Shops, 13 Gov- ernment Aided Schools and 37 Private Schools Examinations of school children during the year shewed 78.7 per cent. to have good | general condition; 13.3 per cent. had a generally fair condition, and 11.1 per cent. had distíngsly

Home maids and parcels artved B- Chicago, September 10-The by the P. and O. "More" yesterday, strike of 3,000 musicians in 400 The total mail amounted to 299 bars Chicago movie theatres onded to- and there were 188 bags of Londanday by an agreement reached pro-poor condition. parcels of August 12. The sviding for an increase in pay

Presiden: Tart" binught 488 bags from forty dollars to fifty dollars Nairobi, August 28.—During] of letters and papers from the a week, the agreement to run two [U.S.A., Honolula, Japaw and Shang-years with an additional three

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dollars a week thereafter..

A Chinese was gharred as the Central Magistracy yesterday with intimidating another man to join the Wai Sax Sociey. Det. Sergeant Carey stated that although they able nat

pre ik, the police her the Society to be an unlawful and dangerous one. Defendant was remanded for one

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the last five years a local syndiente has been exploring concessions for ell and coal in the coastal area of Kenya. It has now succeeded A fourteen-year-old Bath boy in interesting financial groups in named Smart lost his parents at Johannesburg, who have provided Westen-super-Mare and also miss considerable capital for further He pluckily investigation and have sent up fed the last train.

essayed the thirty-three mile walk experts and drillers, who are al home and starting at midnight he ready working. Should coat bef reached home at two. /c'clock, found in Kenya in payable quanti- after being on the tramp fourteenties, it might revolutionise the hours. His feet were so blistered whole future of the country. that he will be obliged to stay in

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A denial was given out the office of the Shell Company by one' The expenditure during 1926 of the directors to a statement on the Public Works Doppitment that the distribution of Soviet exceeded that of any retent, your Petrol in England has been large- and was, in fact, the highest every limited to supplies bought by recorded in the Colony, states the the Shell group from the Russian The Royal annual report of the Colonial En-Oil Products Ltd.

Taking into account | Dutch Shell group, it was stated. variations in price it probably re-have not handled Russian of for presents fully double the work than a year, as the Customs done in 1921 and is 12 to 15 per per cent in excess of that dene in 1924.

Riga, August 29-Accord-bed for a time. ing to the Soviet Press the men- Sure hitherto adopted by the So- viet to meet the loss of output in factories owing to the enormous number of malingerers among the workers have entirely failed Physical assaults on doctors for refusing to grant them opportun-gineer. ities for carousing instead of working are rapidly increasing Many dotors have been killed or injured in carrying out their duties. The Council of Soviet Trade Unions is appealing to all members energetically to fight such hooligans.

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bankyould show, nor would theroup be Nicely to facilitate the distribution of oil derived from properties which have been Chinese deck passengers poconfiscated by the Sovies Govern- the number of 60.610 have leftment without compensation being Singapore for China this year to paid to the former proprietors. the end of August, compared with 46.893 for the same period last

"I regret to have to report Year. The number leaving last that the younger men who are in August, 1925. The total im war on the whole, any great month was 9,662, against 6.386 coming to the Colony do not migrants for the same periods desire to enrol. This reluctance were 227,445 and 16,257, com-Reefs to be associated with a gen "flesh and pared with 140.889 and 6,333.

eral lack of athletic powers. Fur- Ether, the decreases in the numbers

Peklag, September 3-An in- starve of Chinese 'Alial piety" is reported from Mengtuan Hutang where Miss Huan Yi, the Dow daughter of Mr. Huang Fu-chow, she has ageel 19, believes cured her sick mother with her ownl blood The mother has been in the bed for a long period. Re Peking. September 5. The under 25 is largely due to dis. calling acts of many dutifar Chinese citizens residing in For-charges for inefficiency." states children in past history, the girmosa, have addressed a petition the G.O.C (Major-General Sir T. sook a knife and cut a piece of to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fraser) in his report on. the flesh from her left arm and mix-declaring, their helpless situation Volunteers for 1925.

"In my ed it as a medicinal dose for her in Formosa, pr account opinion it would help greatly if mother to take." Strange to say,of the lack of a Consul to look the Government would draw the the woman soon felt comfortable after their interests. For tens of attention of employers to the very and now is a good health. The years the Chinese people there great importance of the volunteer girl it is said. is now in the have experienced all kinds of dif- forces and to the necessity for in- PU.M.C. Hospital for medical ficulties, and the Ministry is goducing their young European em- treatment, and her recent actioning to recommend the petition to ployees to take their share in is highly respected in some circles. the Cabinet for favourable. con-preparing for the defence of the

"N. C. Standard,"

country."

Isideration.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

An aquatics night fete will be Leld at the V.R.C. tc-morTOW;

The Peak Church Sunday School I hold sporta tand tear at Kelles Crest, the Peak. 21 4 gần, lenturrow,

Reminder.C.R.C. at home fo morrow. Chiuseway Bay. 3 m. When Lady"Clementi will pret the prizes. The 5 End Punjab Regiment band will be já attend

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The Infantry Company of the Volunteers will hold a promenade concert on the parade ground at Corps Headquarters next Friday. Tickets at 50 cents each may cbtained at Headquarters.

Among the passengers who re-. turned to the Colony to-day by the Aki Maru" were:-Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lane and Miss Marion Lane, Professor L Shelshear, Mrs. H. M. C. Shellshear, and Mr. R. H. Skelton.

The Requiem Mass for the late † Mather Superior of the French Con- vent, Causeway Bay, which should have taken place on July 10, but was postponed on account of bad weather. is being held to-morrow morning at the Catholic Cathedral at 8 o'clock.

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Berlin, August 31. The late Fritz Ebert, who starting life as a saddle malier, became the first president of the German Repub- lic, as a socialist, and then was thrown out of the radical saddle. makers' union because of the charge that he had lapsed into conservatism, "has posthumously been readmitted to membership in the union. The unique resolu- tion, striking from the records all mention of Ebert's expulsion, was passed at the recent saddle- makers' convention in Hamburg. It declared among other things that "in the course of time the The forthcoming weddings are union's members have come to announced of Raland Forusworth regard even this post-revolution- Griffin. of No. 21 Yu Yuen Road,ary period in a different light." Shanghai, to Lillithe Crossley, of Malvern Terrace, Leeds, England;

siding at 115 Avenue Road, Shang- hai to Mary Lillian Gibson Inkster, who is due to arrive in the Colony by the s. Mantua."

We regret to record the death

Mrs. Inglis. who did splendid work in Perak as District Com-George Sinclair, clerk of works. of Mr. D. G. Robertson, the found- missioner of the Ipoh Girl Guides, has been appointed District Com missioner of the Seremban Girl Guides.

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er of the firm bearing his name in Kuala Lumpur, which occurred in Canada quite suddenly last month saya the "Malay Mail"| Mr. Robertson retired from Sir James Craig, the Prime

Salt Lake City, Sept. 11- Malaya over ten years ago. He Minister of Northern Ireland, Senator Reed Smoot was

came out to Malaya to join who is to spend a two-months nominated to-day as Republican Messrs. Riley Hargreaves and Co., holiday touring Canada, left candidate for the senate, by the Ltd., which he left to become the Liverpool for Montreal in the state convention which is meeting first manager of the Federated White Star liner "Doric."

Senator Smoot is now Engineering Co., Ltd., formed by serving his fourth term in the the amalgamation of the two firms The Middlesex Hospital is to Senate, having been elected for receive a sum of £10,000 from an the first time in 1902. He is anonymous donor, who has also chairman of the committee on promised to add to this sum as finance. Senator Smoot recently circumstances permit, for the announced his intention of retir special purpose of building a newing from politics, but was per- suaded to accept the nomination home for the nurses.

for a fifth term. He is 64 years

ly to conduct, on behalf of charity; an orchestraf concert at Bad Gastein, at which several of his own compositions will be per formed..

here.

old.

of

Riley Hargreaves, and Howarth Erskine. He left the Federated Engineering Co. in 1904 and started the firm of D..G. Robertson and Co. He was also a director of William Mackinnon and Co., Ltd., of Aberdeen.

Cologne. Prince Joachim Al-

A hundred years of bell-ringing. brecht of Prussia (a son or the ex-

The marriage took place ialy St. Saviour's, Southwark, has at Southwark Cathedral, former- Keiser), forsaking martial aspira- Penang, on Wednesday, Septem-just been completed by the Mash tions in order to woo the Muses, ber 8, of Mr. R. M. Latham, J.Pfamily, of Newcomen Street, In has attained some distinction as a musical composer. He is short-manager, Ratanne Rubber Estate, the Borough. Thomas Mash, the Limited, Teluk Anson, Perak, with Mrs. Gorman, who arrived present head of the family, who from Home by the "Patroclus." A tower and verger of the Chapter has been keeper of the cathedral. reception was afterwards held at House for thirty-three years, has the E. and O. Hotel, when the cus been ringing since he was a youth. tomary toasts were proposed and His father, the late George Mash, duly pledged. Mr. Latham being who was in charge of the tower Mr. Clement Shorter has been a popular figure among the before him for thirty years, help- compelled through prolonged ill-planters of Lower Perak, there ed to ring many famous peals. health to resign the editorship of was a large attedance at the tiffin Before that his grandfather, The Sphere, which he founded which was included in the recep- James Mash, who held the same and has edited for twenty-six tion. Mr. P. G. Short was the office, helped to ring the muffled years. Mr. Clement Shorter has best man, and Mrs. F. E. de Paula peal for the death of George IV. been a pioneer of illustrated was the matron of honour. Mr. papers, with which he has been and Mrs. de Paula were the host 1880. Six of the twelve bells associated for nearly forty years, and hostess at the large gathering The largest weighs 2 tons 10 cwt, were purchased from Henry VIII. and he has founded three of the ing for tiffin at the E. and O and the smallest T cat. most successful of these..

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OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

This last week has seen many stirring events in Hong Kong. Canton and other parts of China. Everything of interest is carefully described in the Overland China Mail, the weekly edition of the China Mail"

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Folks at Home are itching to know what has happened. What better than to send a copy of the Overland to save the trouble of writing a long letter?"

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MAKING NAVAL HISTORY.

Officers and men of the China Squadron have been making history on the Yangtse. All the despatches published daily. with copious foot-notes to tell strangers what the names of personis, places, &c. stand for, are reproduced.

Our reports give prominence to the rescue, the names of those concerned (also the mercantile marine officers), the effect of the bombardment and reprisals, and the steps towards negotiation.

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Side issues at Hankow where warships and steamers have been fired upon, and in some instances retaliated, combine to make an impressive pen pictare.

"Actions" in which American destroyers took part are also described.

RELATIONS WITH CANTON.

This week's issue also contains:-General Chang Kai- shek's manifesto to foreigners, the circular to shipping by the Strike Executive, reports of "scraps" with Canton, and a lengthy review of the past year's complications

OUR NEIGHBOURS AT WAR.

All the daily intelligence from war zones are included, telling how Wu Pei-fur is counter-attacking, and how the southerners are asking for several millions of dollars from the merchants.

POLICING THE RIVER.

Step by step, the activities of the British Navy are described up to strike pickets leaving the Canton River. Ex- planations are included in this issue as to how Canton has begun. to realise responsibilities.

LOCAL AND "CHINA” NEWS.'.

No matter big or small, the daily items of news of "local" or Chinese "topical" interest are inserted in one big issue..

Other items: Latest information of our R.N.V.R., rents ramp, obituaries and funerals, sport, etc,

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