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THE CHINA "MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
is understood that the Vleeroy will open the new School of Mines and Geology as Dhanbad
Con December 30.
Fipinos resident in Bang Kong Rave "alsed $1,000 for earth hanke and tornado relief neesat aud by recent diBastura in the Philippine Islands, "
A Mankow report of November 11 says The employees of Head Post-Ofice and of all branch post-allees in this hive gene on strike jo-day.
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The Indian delation to Son*#
The Spanish Ministerial Coute
statement of officers concerned in the recent artillery revalt.
frien will. It is understood, sikit.proposes the unconditional rela- | from Bombay on November 24
No quse of local notiftable dis east was reported during the week- . for the 48 hours ended yesterday
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Tuesday, February 1, will the 110th anniversary of The Palading of the Bengal Club and) is therefore an important day in the serial feier Calchsia.
A - Polish decree cartriling
Commander 6. C. Moses U.S.N., and Mrs. Moses lefs Hong Konx for San Francisco and ports by the "President Pierce" yester- press liberty is arousing wide in. terest in Central European Press circles: The decree, convermarthe} Outgoing passengers on the pobleation of news, and the critic. Practice
"President Pierce" yesterday in-im of the Government, authorities dancos. for SL.
cluded Mr. and Mrs. G. Bowers, ministers, high oftelals and sleers. Andrew's Bali have been ar ranged for to-morrow and Fri-Mr. H. Rasmussen and Cap- Penalties include three months' im-
prisonment and 5,000 zloty dne tain J. S. Masson. day, at the City Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. The hen! secretaries re- quest.that members send in their
lists of guests as soon as possible, "The temporary matsped erec- tion which has been used as a market in the Prayn East vicinity has now been closed owing to, the damage done in regh storms. The cost of repair is not deemed to be justified in view of the fact that in the near future a modern market building is to be erected bo meet the need.
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Mr. J. Durand was a pas-
Two pilots and three mechanics senger on the outgoing 5.3. "Pre- of the Russian National Air Trafe sident Pierce yesterday, to company ("Dobrolyot") have com- Kether with the Shanghai Inter-pleted their 100:000 kilometre ex- port cricket team.
Coffins entering Chinese ter-1 zitory at Shanghai are being searched by the Chinese police, who suspect the Kuomintang agents in the district of smag- and inflammatory gling arms literature into the Chinese city by this means.".
pedition on Junker aeroplanes in Centrnt Asia. Diplomas of honour will be presented by the Debroiynt! to the successful tiyers as well as to the Junkers Aircraft Works onessau, Germany),
Great interest has been frouser in German politien etrcles By the statement made by the chairman of the meeting of the Democratic A Chinese Fashion Show and Party's council Herr Erkelenz, this Variety Entertainment, plans for there were no "prospects of a big which have been creating a ripple coalition government being formed of excitement among the fashion-in the near future as the Social-'
Harsh Justice, necording to the Chinese newspapers,. meted out to one of the three Then arrested in connection with the Kuomintang riots in Shang- hai three weeks ago. The man in fable young Chinese "women of question, after trial by the mili-Shanghai is now set for the even- Lary court was "taken to a con- ings of December 9 and 10 at the venient piece of ground in Chin- Enibassy, Theatre. l'esc territory and summarily
efecuted...
Scarcity of work at the royal dockyards" will probably lead to large reductions in the staff at Portsmouth and Chatham where the personnel is double that of 1914. The Devonport dockyards staff ex- freeds the pre-war numbers by half la millon. Devonpors and Forty- mouth took on hundreds of workmen when Rosyth closed, and we now Coverstifted
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Democrats apparently had b in- Itensign to Lake over part of the
responsibility of the government.
Presiding at the Cala de la A Japanese naval seaman was held up tri an alley off Baikal Melt in Paris, organised by "the Maritime and. Colonin! League. 31. Road, Shanghai. ht 10 p.m. on November 12 and severely mauled George Leygues declared that the by a gang of ruffians. There were French Navy is in full renaissance, about a dozen of the gang, but all The new units are admired by the they got to divide between thenmpetent experts of every country! was a silver watch and a 50sonnd respond to the vital necessity of the country for the defence of piece.
the coasts, of the metropolis.. the "The occupants
of the protection of colonies and the free- premises adjoining the old Firedom of the seas. Brigade premises to the junc tion of Queen's Road and Welling- ton Street) hurriedly vacated the building on Friday when a series of cracking sounds and the falling of a signboard gave ominous warning of the condition of parts of the building, which is one the oldest in the Colony, It was vacated by the Fire Brigade in, 1922 An exposure at one December,
when St. second is possible, and this pro- Stephen's Building was erected jvides sever pictures. By this and has since been occupied by mean an accurate diagnosis enn small Chinese shops with resid be made of stomach epmplaints. ential quarters above.
Passing into the stomach long abe on the end of which are powerful lights and a tiny mirror Dr. Elisner of Berlin photographs the interior of the stomach of a Hiring patient. The mirror reflects the wall of the stomach on to the lens of a tiny camera containing sovers Blms.
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The scheme which She Norman Relton proposes for the reafforestne tion of certain traets. "across the Indian border wil be watched with, interest. If the calm on the Fron: bier continues there should be every effort made to tackle the economie problem which is as the root of the
K lawlessness of that region. might indeed be worth while con- sidering the possibility of under- taking u geological survey of some parts of Waziristan where there are indications of the presence of ail
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
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Mr. A. Arivosh has been pointed Ambassador for Japan to
The Earl of Strathmore (father of the Duchess of York) is the Intest landowner to convert bis Brazil. estates into a company.
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The wedding of Miss C. Mr. R. B. Ogilvie, of the CharterHunter-Jones and Mr Edward J.
ed Bank. Ipoh, is shortly proceed Lloyd took place in Shanghai re- ing to Klang on transfer. He will
be succeedert by Mr. David Miller,
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Mr. W. . Shelford, of Paterson. Simons & Co.. London, formerly of Singapore, has joined the board of. the Mercantile Bank of India.
Lord Irwin can claim to be not only the first Viceroy who has viewed the Frontier from the air but also the first to ascend in India
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Mr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish at all. The Duchess of York has accept- explorer who is famed for his Jed from Lady Strathspey a selec-exploration work in Tibet and tion of the new Highland spattees Mongolia, arrived in Harbin from designet to succeed the Russian Moscow and has left for Peking. boot.
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A party of Japanese politica
military leaders, under William Henry Hyndman and Jones, formerly Chief Justice of the Barons Pujimara and Ikeda, and Straits Settlements, who died on L-Gen. K. Dohihara, who have August 26, aged 75, left estate beer touring the Yangtze, left the gross value of £9,662, with net Shanghai for home by personalty 29,506.
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Mr. Henry J. Allen, ex-Governor In Washington on October 16 Sir
now visiting China Albion Banerji was presented to of Kansas,. President Coolidge by the British with the American University, Embassy after which, in an inter- Afloat, was the guest of honour view with Reuters representative, at a tiffin held in the Union Club ho said he was proceeding to Eng-by the Pan-Pacific Association of land to seek election to the House Shanghai. of Commons.
engagement is announced of Sylvia Alice Dyer, of Colombo, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Dyer of Napier Street, Cottesloe Western Australia, to Leslie Gaui- Hamlin, of Colombo, only son of Mr. and Mrs. F W. Hamlin, of East Sheen, Middlesex, England.
Rai Bahadur G. N. Chakravarty. Vice-Chancellor of the Lacknow University, whose term of office ex- pires in December this year and who was renominated to the office
by the University Executive Coun eit for the third time; has intimated his inability to accept the offer and will shortly retire. It is like- ly that Dr. Chakravarty will be auc- ceeded by Dr. M. B. Cameron.
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Mr. Andrew Hazeland, son
A London cable of October 14 re- FortsThe application of "Izzy" The Right Rev., Bishop Perrey left of Mr. E. M. Hazeland, is
Peak Hospital Buf Smith, V.C., for a passage to Aus- Marseilles for Burma on his return in the
from dysentery but tralia has been refused. Journey to Rungoon on October 16. fering During his stay in Europe he was received by the Pope and had an opportunity of placing before His Highness the varied needs of the Church in Burma.
is improving daily. It will bevious message of October 6 report- remembered that he was one of ed: The Victoria Cross winner, the gentlemen who successfully "Izzy" Smith, who enlisted in Aus- caught the man in the hold uptralia, and was repatriated aftor in Glenealy.
the war, but returned to England in 1922, has set to Australia. House the problem of how to get him back to Australia. He is now ineligible
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Mr. J. Harold Dollar has fully A vacaney on the High Court Bench at Patma has been caused recovered from his recent illness,
by the death of Sir John Bucknil, and is back in Shanghai, arriving for repatriation or an assisted pas It is understood that an appoint-by the. "President Taft," and ac-sage because he is married, but he ment will soon be made to fill the companied by Mrs. Dollar, Miss may be given special consideration vacancy. Mr. T. S. Macpherson. Alice Dollar and Master J...Harold by Mr. 3. M. Bruce. District and Sessions Judge, will Dollar, jun. Mr. and Mrs. Dollar act for Mr. Justice Ross when, the will remain there for about three latter proceeds on leave this month. months, after which they will continue their voyage round the world..
A large number of guests attend- d the reception given in honour of
The occasion of the birthday of His The "Daily Telegraph" statement Siamese Majesty, at the residenco that Von Seeckt has been chosen as
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Sir Henry MacKahon, an officer of the Political Department who bo-i came successively. Chief Commaia- sioner in Baluchistan and Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, went to Egypt an the first High Commissioner to 1914. Now Sir John Maffey, ex-Elvilian of the United Provinces, formerly of the
of His Excellency Phya Pradia member of the German Delegate baddha Bhubal, Consul-General for Disarmament Commission has Siam; 'Singapore, on November 8. aroused much compient in Geneva, same Department and Chief Com-
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Attired in his state uniform, the but the report is denied in Berlin, missioner of the North-West Fron- THE H.K. DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO Consul-General, assisted by other General Von Seeckt is now tier Province, having apparently members of the Siamese Consular recuperating In Switzerland and become tired of the City, has fol- Office, recolved the guests in his will probably be offered another lowed almost the same path, Sir very charming vila, and the occa-important post, as the replacement John's appointment being to the lon was honoured in the usual of Count, Bernstorff at Geneva is Governor-Generalship of the Soudan fashioni:~
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