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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

One case of enteric fever (typhoid) was notified on Monday. The patient is a Chinese from the city district.

At an inquest at Portland, Dorset, *ነ Mrs. Lilian May Grainger, aged 30, wife of a fitter, who had drunk polson after watch ing a funeral procession, the hus band and that he had implored his wife. for the sake of the three children, to bo more homely and motherly. She wanted to pe out to dances, however, and "has her own life." She told her sister-

The annual meeting of tha The aerial transportation be- Ladies Section of the Royal Hongtween Tokyo and Osaka and Hike- Kong Go Club is to be held in the wise betwoon Tokyo and Sendat is Helena May Institute at 10:30 to be inaugurated soon by one of u.m. to-morrow,

the biggest Tokyo department stores.

The damage caused at Miami by the sixty mile gale was con- fined principally to small amount of debris blown into the streets. Hundreds of people gathered at the Post Office and celebrated their escape from the storm.

The 1st. Batt.. East Surrey in-law that she was fed up with Regiment leave Hong Kong by matries life and, if she could not the troopship "Neuralia" to go out, she would stick a knife intomorrow. They will march past her husband or throw herself over

the cliff.

An informal conference on

migration was held at Brisbane between the Empire parlia. mentary delegation at present visiting Australia and Queensland M.Ps. Afterwards Sir Evelyn' "Cecil. M.P.. said the discussion showed that the strings of the harp were very much in tune and there was no discord. The visitors! left for Cairns, where British residents have been protesting the G.O.C. at the Cenotaph at 10 against the great indux am. The Burttalion will march | Italians. off from Garden Road at 9.55 am: and proceed by the following route-Des Voeux Road; Post Office. "Star" ferry wharf Cenotaph Prince of Wales's Gate; Naval Dockyard.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1926.

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Tokyo, October 17, Government to-day named a new vice-minister of railway affairs but the nominee's name has not bean given out until he has for! Reports place the numbermally been notified and accepted. killed in the West Indian hurri- This settles a problem which has caused much anxiety. Since the two men have been named for the resignation of Vice-Minister Oaki post but neither would be recogn= ised by the chief minister of rail- ways. The incident has brought the government and the Kenyukai); party into bitter opposition.

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As 650. The num-

Berlin, October 12-The Italian Cabinet Counch has approved the Bill mid before it by the Ministry of Justion according to which any attempt on the lives of the King the Queen. the Regent, the "Crown Prince or the head of the govern cent will be punished with death, This is in consequence of the re- cent attempts on the life of the bers of the injured run into the More than 10 bowns Duce. Fifteen Italian political thousands.

Shein Cuba have been destroyed and emigraris among

and the estimated damage is placed at noted, anti-Fagcists Fasciola Have lost their citizen- $10,000,000. It is feared that ship by a royal decree. Their pre-casualties may reach greater pro- portions when the outlying towns perty will be confiscated."

are heard from,

whom are

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here the common destiny of he grain will produce. The "loca-

After long silence of Minis- ters on the question of Federal and "State taxation, Senator Pearce. Minister for Home and Territories, stated at the Nation- al Federation Conference inf Africa. Antonio Moreno and Alice Melbourne that the Government Terry will have the leading roles. I was prepared to retire still fur- Rex Ingram is now in Tunis ther from direst taxation if the

Jobannesburg. Sir Hafford

The "Garden of Allah" is the Mackinder. M.P. has emphasises next big picture which Rex In Cape and the Sudan. He says thation" chosen for this picture is. the possibility at a great African Empire based on the Cape lies in the fact that it would be shielded by the desert belt on the north,

the Eritish Rai in India. the Brits having gone there at the begin-States proved the necessity for it.|| guard of Australia, and the British ng of this month by way of This would leave a larger area for Foet. Thus the white peoples of Europe: Mr: David Howell. one State taxation Senator Pearce of Mr. Ingram's assistants, pass-indicated that the Government ed through Hong Kong on board nevertheless adhered to its deter- the President Monroe" to joinmination to abolish the per capita Mr. Ingram.

the Union of South Africa.

Of

Rhodesia, East Africa, and this Sudan could develop their States

and organise the great wealth re- presented by native labour.

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Athens. October 16.-Fifty- The express train leaving Kow-Three army aviators were arrest six parties have filed lists of can- loon yesterday for Canton was the c, accused of killing a confeder- didates to be voted on at the first through train to leave sinesate veteran by swooping down and November election when Greece April 1993 and it is hoped that it striking him with the aeroplane. chooses a president and a new will inaugurate a resumption of a They are: Lieutenants A. J. chamber of deputies."Fifty of regular through "service. For the Lehman, J. C. Denniston, and these parties have been organised time being, the authorities have de Claire Stroh They have been since the recent revolution and elded against running British stock charged with voluntary man- they represent all shades for the Chinese sector and the slaughter and will probably be political opinion from red com- trains will be made up entirely of court-martialled. Frank G. Brow-munism to the pale grey of ultra- There is ad army Chinese rolling stock with the ex-der, the deceased, was killed.conservatism.

Yes in one of his cotton plantations, party which, it is claimed, is ception of the locomotives. terday's express "carried a large and a negro, was injured. It is dominated by friends of the re- complement of passengers and asserted that the aeroplane dipped cently deposed tyrant Pangalos. slow train which left later in the to frighten the cotton pickers and There is also a navy party back-

ing Admiral Kondylis. rerning was also well patronised resulted fatal

SOCIAL

AND

PERSONALNEWS.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Shaw, were Berlin, October 14.-The well- among the passengers arriving in known. former chief of the Aus- Hong Kong by the R.M.S.trian army, General Puhallo, died Empress of Canada" yesterday.at Vienna, aged 71. He passed Mr. Shaw was some years ago several years in extreme poverty. passenger agent at the Hong Kong office of the C.P.R., but is now the agent at Manila.

As reported at the time by our Mr. Singapore correspondent,

H. J. Hunt, of the Government Monopolies. Department, while returning from field manoeuvres with the Malacca Volunteers, Loud Stonehaven, who has which formed part of the Gen- already seen far more of Austra-eral's inspection on October 17, lia than any former Governor- was instantaneously killed when The decena- General, has returned to Mel his car overturned;"

Volunteers.

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Sir James Jamieson (recently bourne after a round trip of 8,000 ed was a Sergeant-Major in the British Consul-General of Can-miles. Of this distance 3.500 ton), is leaving London by the miles was done by anr, he states, P. and O. 8.5. "Khiva" and is ex-in complete comfort. Lady Stone- pected in Shanghai about the mid- die of next month. He is to take haven accompanied her husband

throughout. up the position of Consul-Generaj at Tientsin, relieving Mr. W. F. Ker, C.M.G.

Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, a for mer Governor of the Philippine | Islands, left Seattle on board the R.MS. Empress of Russia" on a round-the-world tour and will

Shanghai, October 19. The forthcoming wedding fa announc- ed of Genevieve Gabrielli, daugh-stop in Manila en route. Before that the Philippines had made

Filipinos formed the top of the great progress under the Amer ican administration, and that the

Oriental ladder.

· Lord Byng, the retiring ter of M. and Mme. F. Gabrielli, his departure, he told the Press Governor-General, unveiled a war to M. Theophile Lattray, son of Yacht Club during a farewell visit Lattray. The wedding takes memorial at the Royal Canadian Mme. Lattray and the late M. to Toronto. He was the guest of place at.. St. Joseph's Church on Col. Cockshutt, Lieut.-Governor Saturday. A reception will after- of Ontario, and during his stay wards be held at the Cercle de la attended a dinner given by the Police, 229 Avenue: Dubail. -- Premier, Mr. Ferguson.

Mr. Fred. Kwong, formerly em ployed at the Kowloon Docks and the Kwong Tuck Cheong shipyard; who was captured by bondith. hile travelling from Canton to Kongmoon last month, by the "Wing On" tow launch, has, it is understood, been released. Follow- ing a report that the bandita do- manded $25,000 for his release rumour last week had it that Kwong had been killed. Mr, Kwong l

from Melbourne and is a brother of blessrs, William, and Leslie Kwong.

Messrs. D. S. Wyley and D.A MacDonald, representing the LaSalle Extension University of Chicago, are at present staying at the Astor House Hotel, Shanghai. These two gentlemen are touring the Far East with a view to ostab Hishing a branch of the Univer sity out there. The LaSalle in stitution is one of the best known Business correspondence schools In the United States, and has re- ceived so many applications from foreigners and English speaking Asiatics in the East that the authorities have considered it de

sirable to establish a branch in form the mode for mornings this part of the world for the con- ventence of theft Far Eastern

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Lieut.-Colonel G. C: K. Clowes, D.S.O., O.B.E. T.D., retired · Inst: month from the command of the 14th London Territorials (London Scottish) after 25 years' servico, Land will be succeeded by "hial second in command, Major Douglas Lyall Grant, M.C, who is 38 years of age, And has been in the but talion since 1911. Colonel Clowes; liad a notable career, both in action: and on staff work in France, and was a military lecturer at Cam- bridge University in 1918. A keen Volunteer and Territorial, he haal the finish, and style of a Regular Army officer. He has preserved

the fine traditions of the London Scottish, along with an anhantell standard of discipline taking close personal interest in every branch of the battalion's military, athletic, and social activities. Hin successor enjoys, equal popularity in respect of a similar versatility of interest. Major Lyall, whose Father was in the battalion from 1875, retiring In 1898 with the rank of Major, was oducated at Glenal- mond and Oxford. He frst joiner the pipe band of the battalion, and rose to the rank of Major in 1982. He is a first-class shot and an

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