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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A party of 23 recruits-engaged suchowfu, arrived In Shanghai on November 17 to join Marshai Sun Chuan-fang's army.

"Have you any witnesses?" A An amah working at No. 11.j Calne Road has been robbed of pro-litigant in one of the Shanghat Bri- tish Courts was asked "No. only perty worth 359.

a policeman," was the reply.

Toys for the festive season, in

The arrival of M. Tchichevin a large, and fine assortment, will ut Paris will coincide with the re-be sold, by Masers, Lammert Bros., Auction sumption of Franco-Soviet negotin at their Duddell Street

freems at 2:30 pm: next Tucadny." tions for the settlement of debts.

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On Monday, two fresh enses of Owing to the British col strike the transportation of voalenteric over (typhold) and one of has brought the railways of the cerebro-spinal fover were notified. Reich a profit of a hundred million On Tuesday there were two more marks..

cases of typhold. All patients are Chinese from the city district,

A Chinese lawyers club has been initiated In Shanghai, accord- reports the Chinese Ing to press. Twenty lawyers now have joined and membership wil be limited to members of the bar only,

The Shanghal Mankipal police Chinese clerk are looking for a

nutive formerly employed by a bank, who by falsifying accounts. in three weeks sticceeded in amass- Ing the sum of $52,000 and get-

The Government of the Reich

Por driving without the necess will refuse military control" by the League of Nations on the groundsary licence and for having inting away with it. that it exceeds the provisions of sufficient brukes on a motor car, a Par Treaty of Versailles.

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Chinese was fined 36 and $15 by Major C. Wilson at the Centrak Magistrney yesterday.

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THEOSOPHY

alcohol

According to information from Peking, a student of the Women's Normal University was killed on The Kich Government has pro

the morning of November 21, and Throther severely wounded in a fre Charged as the proprietor of a watch threatened the university brimstone inte Harbin and else

The re. was startert hostel wherr with the object of mis pe piat lottery establishment g

A new office Chinose was found guilty and fined through the carelessness of EU- pelising the under has been foundesh for the purpose. 1850 by Major Wilson Yesterday, Adent who was using an farther fine of $15 was imposed aslamp Tor curling her hair. Mr. S. Fessenden. Chairma a penally for possession of lottery of the Shanghai Municipal Counaickets. cil has transmitted to the Senior Consul a letter protesting against

Peking corespondent Sir Ronald Macleay. Bri the attempts legally to comeet a tobacco tax in the Settlementtish Minister to China who is soon made by representatives of the

to reture in a speech before Me ocal Chinese authorities.

Anglo-American Club at a ti, farewell According to livestigation, the given in his honour as total number of households in Seoul fiction, declared that "there are at the end of inst month was 71887, bad times ahead here, and urged Comprising 24369 Japanese, 48mg thas Britain and America stand Korean, 96: Chinese, and 173 for-shoulder to shoulder to meet the oncoming tide, of Chinese nation- eign showing a decrease of 33 as

alism. against the previous month. The at the end of unoccupied houses' Fast month numbered, 701 showing! en the previota a little increase noah.

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"The Law of Sacrifice" will be the subject of this week's PUBLIC LECTURE of the Hong Kong Lodge The THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 7, Duddell Street. THURSDAY. 2nd DECEMBER.. at 6 PM. The Public is cordially invited to attend.

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The law offices of Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Chairman of the Shang- hai Municipal Council, were enter- For convenience and elcsered on the night of November 20 co-operation with the Police, theby retur men, and about $1,000 Yeahaty district watchmen's anatoler. The coolle in the pre- Peers as No. 175, Nathan Road will mese suid that he had been be removed to Cunton Road, udjela Awakened by shree masked men. The dis-who had Sound and gagged him. ing the Police Station

after which they took the office keys from him.

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A lottery tax, collected in and vance, will probably provide the funds needed to pay the wages of brist watchmen are under the con- the Woosung and Shanghai Controk of the Secretary for Chinese assist the Police stabulary. According to the hairs.

Yen generally in preserving order. 1:032 newspapers, Colony Chungyang Chief of the Chinese Other detachments are stationed at Police called a conference of his Taipingshaw reputrabl, Wess Point officers on November 47 and and Wanchai nounced this method of raising pay for thermen. ""

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A Shanghai paper said of the "Ryndam" passengers: With breath-taking audacity the stu "dents overran Shanghai and astonished many staid and sedate Shanghai residents with their ultra-modern clothes and the beards that many of the youths on the vessel are attempting to grow during the sojourn away from home.

SOCIAL

Countess vap Limburg Stirum, wife of the former Governor Geperal, is to visit Javu shortly.

Mr. Justice Sunkey has been elected a member of the Council of Kehle College Oxford, in succession to Lord Irwin.

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Monsieur J. P. Farrer, owner and editor of the "Echo de Tien- 02 a sin" has left for France business trip and expects to return in April

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The result of the first day of the trink, of the leaders of the strike in the machinery industry in Soutebaya ended in a surprise for many, says the "Singapore Shanghai student who went Free Press" correspondent. After to Hangehow sorne weeks ago, and the witnesses had been heard the Court conferred in private where- was arrested by the military au- thorities for his alleged participa after the president informed the tion in the attempted Chekiang e-prisoners that they were dis

Ae can executed in charged from custody. bellton, Eas been

be imagined this statement caused Hankow according to Chinese ro-

It is known in Shanghai considerable sensation amongst ports. that a number of well-known Chi- the public and the prisoners were nese made special appeals to Mar- welcomed by their joyful relations shal Sun on the youth's behalf.ouride the Comet. The hearing pointing out that he was young and of the case was postponed until

the 18th inst..

Hot-headed.

AND PERSONAL NEWS.

The Hon. Sir Charles Montgomery kivaz, formerly Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, left £21,822.

Mr. E: E. Colman has been up, pointed to act as District Judge and First Magistrate, Singapore.

A Reuter cable from New York announces the death of the famous philologist, James Wilson Bright.

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A reception 10 Mrs. Lampson, wife of the new Minister in Peking will be held at BW.A.! Headquarters in Shanghal on Fri-

Sir Henry Curtis Bennet has apday.

the Chiltern Hundredu, tied for thereby resigning his seat in the House of Commons:

Mr. G. Cullen, assistant superin. tendent of police, Straits Sett) Mr. Ewerloff, the Swedish Minis ments, left on November 15 fór Aus- ter to China, who had been intralia on four months' leaver Shanghal with the Crown Prince' and Princess of Sweden returned. to Peking on November 22.

to British North We welcome Porneo Captain, Christoffel who is said to be looking for the land and Judge Milton B. Purdy, is the who intends to stay here for some, American Court, Shanghai, dismid-time."B.N.E. Herald." ed the divores action of Brush v.

Brush. It is said that a reconcilia. H.1.H. Prince Kan-in. will repre-

tion has been effected.

sent the Prince Regent at the ar- nual Japanese military maneuvres Dr. V. K. Ting, Mayor of Greater to be held shortly in Kyushu. The Shanghai, left for Nanking on Frince Regent has been forced to November 20. Tsai Pol, Financial stay in the Capital on accourt of Commissioner of Cheklang, arrived the bad state of the Emperor's In Shanghai from "Hangehow and

health will shortly depart for Nanking.

Viscount Keigo Kiyoura, who fo- cently returned to Japan from China, went to the Akasaka Palace and was received in audience by the Prince Regent. The Viscount submitted a report to the Prince on the Chinese political and economic situation.

Mr. Oppenheim, LL.D., the legal adviser of the Royal Dutch Shell Company, is expected, in Java rt the end of the month. He has been be acting appointed by cable to Chief Representative at Batavia, in the placa of Mr. Muuling, whose death as a result of a motor ac- oldent has been announced.

Mr. Ng Ping-wu, the well-known Police Interpreter at the head- quarters of the Criminal Investiga- on three tion Department, goes. monthe' leave to-day to Shanghai. Mr. Ny has been in the Government service for about 20 years and has also assisted at military courts. martial. His knowledge of local crime, is: unique and one or two publications, in Chinese, have been made by him,

The engagement is announced between Ronald Lindsay, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. L. Stewart, of Shanghai, and Nancy, only daughter of the late Mr. Willam Gould, and of Mrs. A. C. Gould, The White House, Lymm...

A marriage has been arranged and will take place shortly in Hong Kong between Mr. Robert Lythgoe

Read, Shanghai, and Miss Jean Vallance Fleming, sister of Mr. John Fleming of Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.

A British Wireless message announces that H. M. the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Arnold Hodson, of the Consular Service, to be. Governor of the Falk

depen: land Islands, and their dencies, in succession to. Sir John Middleton, whose term of office will expire shortly.

Mrs. Violet Bilyeu died in the Country Hospital, Shanghai, oa November 22, following the burst. ing of a blood vessel caused by the mental and physical strain of ren- dering assistance to Chinese ladies: who were injured in a motor smash which occurred outside the China United Assurance building

42 years November 6. She was old.

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Col. Edmund Wray, his wife and

The American, Professor Mat- son, were, on Oct, 20, found shot

left. Calcutta dead in their home in Wensleydale,thew,

When serving as a 15th Instant for Java In order to Yorkshire. captain in the Royal Marine Light visit the spots where the remaina Infantry during the Boxer uprising of vertebrate animals have been He will alaa visit air- in China - 1900 in defence of the discovered. Commander Nobile, Italian

or-Trial where Dubois found the! ship constructor now en route to Peking Legatlons, Wray was

The bones of what he later called the Japan, will remain in that country dered to build a barricade. several months and probably will spot was exposed to severe cross-"Pithecantropus erectus" whilst he After four hours' work the also hopes to make the acquaint- supervise the construction of two fire. new dirigibles besides assembling n enemy's fire" became so heavy that ance of the skull which is at pre-

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type recently purchased by Japan sibia and a retreat was ordered. Herberlein. The latter offered his Nobile, who gained fume for pilot According to Sir Claud MacDonald's discovery, to the Government with ing his altahip, the "Norge," across report, the retreat was carried out the statement that the skull was the North Pole, is in the United with most exemplary coolness not a Pithecantropus, but a frag- States, whence he will call for under a severe fire. Wray, was ment of a skull of a primitive

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