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The Poppy Fund collection ope ganised by the women of Yoko- hama on November 11 realised x.538.00 of which $458.25 la for the Earl Halg for Disabled Soldiers fand Sallors.

German unemployment in the second half of September ducrens- ed by 88,000 to 395,000; on Octo-

1,672,700 ber 4 there were employed in Great Britain which ls 44,949 more than there were, in the latter part of November."

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According to the old Chinese calendar, to-morrow is the day of Great Snow (Tuhsueh).

Rue du Cimetiera, in the French Concession, Shanghai, is to be called Rue Marco Polo fron January 1,

The Congress of the Interna-

ha tional "Aviation Federation agreed to permit women to com- pete for recorda: A Spanish pro posat has been adopted to estab- lish a helicopter pilota: certificate.

Japanese residents of Shang- hal are at present agitating for In order to protect the officials greater representation on the an-against further bomb-throwing, Shanghai Municipal Council The

armed guards now have been sta Japanese Amalgamated Associa tioned at the entrances to the Jaption of Street Uniona la leading anese Consulate.. Shanghai.

the movement.

An important meeting of

A Chinese, named Chu Chi- Messrs. M. Y. San and Co., Ltthshian, was arrested by the police in has been called by the protection Footung, Shanghai, on Nov. 4, In committee of the company. to be possession of two Inflammatory Hald at 8 pm, this Saturday at the books. He Was sent to the

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Woosung. hoadquarters of Shanghal Constabulary for triat.

A further order has .bean Fissued by Gen. "Yen Chun-yang re- garding the spreading of War rumours in Chinese territory. The new order warns people of all ma-

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The case against h Chinese clerk employed by the New Zealand H.E. the Governor (as Chief

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waa Seout) will preside at the annual Since the latter part of Octo- charged before Major C. Willgon meeting of the Hong Kong branch | ber, no supplies have been per with the embezzlement of $1,200 of the Boy Scouts Association mitted to be sent from Manchouli has been withdrawn." Mr. Gtd be held on December 14, at

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Bulmer Johnson and Mr. H. 9.5.30 p.m. in St. John's Cathedral nor or Outer Mongolia. Through Leseby represented the complain-Hall, One of the items on the the repeated entreaties of people ants and defendant respectively. agenda "reads: "to form a Colonial directly concerned in Mangolian)

Scout Council to promote the wel- trade, the despatch et stores for the

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The population in Korea totalled 19.015,526 at the end of last year, according to the gov ernment investigation. Of the According to a despatch from Concluding evidence was heard total, 18,543,826 were Koreans, Mukden, Mr. Yung Y-chen, an en- on Nov. 26 in the United States 424,740 Japanese, and the re-gineer of the First Arsenal of the Court for China, Shanghal, beforemaining 47,640 foreigners. Com- Three Eastern Provinces has re- Judge M. D.. Purdy in the fb tons

pared with the previous year cently invented a kid of noiseless of copper case, which ligation there was an increase of 923,786. #eld gun, of seven thousand mm. arose from o purehnac involving

A trial was made at Haboyen. "i The Director of the, Woosungfortnight ago and proved very suc- M. $11,500 in May of last year in Chaton. In conclusion, his Horiour and Shanghai Commercial Area" cessful. Marshal Chang Tso-lin is said, " think B. S. Wong has proposes to Issue $50,000 worth of much pleased at the new invention double-crossed sothe one," and re- Debenture Bonds to cover ex- and is said to,, have offered $1,000

uested counsel to draw up briefs penses for the construction of a as a reward to Mr. Yang

bridge across the Soochow Creek For the question of title:

in Jessfield Road, Shanghai, The. Announcement is made by in- The final stage in a kisk taxes collected in the westernvitation of an informal confer- napping .. case involving the suburbs of Shanghai will be ofference to be held on December 9, abduction of Denis Chen from the ed as, security

for the control of narcotic drugs vicinity of his home at 26,

in China at which Dr. Wu Lien- Medhurst Road on the hight of The Chinese Mission to Lepers teh will preside and lead the dis

(Shanghai) October 29 was enacted in the

gracefully

A acknow-cussions.

tentative pro- recciat of French Mixed Court at Shanghal, ledges

$36.17gramme includes four papers-A the Cantonese Union Review of the Narcotic Situation when the chief of the armed band from of robbers conducting the abduc- Church, $5.34 from Pig in China and Estimate of Medical | of Chi Ying Girls' Needs, Control of Narcotics in! tien, Zao Ah Liang, alias Zi Zak Bank

over to the Señcoll and $2.45 from that of the China with a view that definite aeng, was handed

be may

taken, Anti- Chinese authorities for execution. World's Chinese Students Federa- steps

and the Penalties ranging from 5 years tion, The Mission is publishing a Narcotic Educatión, and expulsion to merely expat magazine entitled "The Leper Ameliorative Side of the Work. sion from the French Concession | Quarterly," which will make its It is expected that about 40 for

Home time were given to the six accomplices, frst appearance

eign and Chinese doctors will one of whom was a woman.

attend.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. Ho Ka-hau, the noted Chi- nese lawn tennis player, left for Shanghai yesterday on the "Pre- sident Jackson."

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Mr. E. A. Leggatt, superintendent in Hong Kong of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., returned to the Colony yesterday on the "St. Albans from Sydney,

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Inspector C. F. Aris, of the Hong Kong Police, has left for a trip to Sydney on board the ss. "Tanda." The full list of Hong Kong pas. sengers will be found on page 4.

Formerly manager of the "Star" Theatre, Kowloon, Mr. Charles Hugo paid a short visit to the Colony recently and left yesterday for the North on the "President Jackson." He is ac. companied by Mrs. Hugo.

Secretary to the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., Mr. Chas. S. Rosselet was passenger on the northbound "President Jackson" yesterday. Other names in the list include those of Miss M. Roza, Mrs. A. E. Alger and Mr. P. R. Warren,

Mrs. A. Prokofieva, the Russian lady passenger on the "Sunning" when attacked by pirates, left for Sydney on Saturday by the "Tanda" aftar having missed a previous boat. A sum of several hundreds of dollars was raised for her by the Kowloon. Dock Recreation Club

According to a British wireless message the Premier stated in the House of Commons yester- day that in the absence of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who is at Geneva attending the League Council, he is himself taking charge of the business of the For- eign Office,

After a stay in the Colony of a few years, the Rev. G. E. | Arrowsmith (on the clergy of St. Andrew's, Kowloon) left yester- day on the "President Jackson" with Mrs. Arrowsmith and Mas- tors K. and V. Arrowsmith. The family is going to Japan and then returning Home via America.

The Hong Kong Male Voice Choir is to give a concert at Union Church lecture hall at 9 o'clock this evening.

Commander D. Rossi, Italian Minister to Peking, and formerly Consul-General in Shanghai, has arrived in Shanghai on a short visit:

After a tour around the world, Mt. J. de Graca Ozorio returned to

A dance will be held in the Craigengower Cricket Club club- house, Happy Valley, this Satur day, beginning at 9:15 p.m.

Tickets for the musicale at the Helena May Institute on Thurs day can be obtained. at the secretary's office before noon to- morrow at 50 cents each, includ- ing tea.

The Metro-Gnomes dance band Hong Kong yesterday on the "Pre-is to be in attendance at the Royal sident. Hayes," from New York via Engineers theatre, Wellington Shanghul

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Mr. K. Kato, assistant Japan. ese Commercial Attache, is on his way

to the Federated Malay. States. He itinerary of investi Rugby, December 6-From the roof of his Surrey mansion,. gation includes Hong Kong, For- Admiral Ear Beatty directed.mosa, Annam, and Dutch East. the operations of firemen dur-Indies, etc. ing a fire which broke out in the servants quarters of the house yesterday.

The mansion contalus & válá able Holbein dreplace and ceil- ings by Verric, and art tres. aures, but they escaped damage, which, as a result of Earl Beatty's directions, was coN- fined to one wing of the build- Ing-British Wireless Service.

At the last meeting at the Clergy Conference the Bishop of Singapore áhnounced that he had arranged with the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign his work as Bishop of Singapore in the mid- dle of next year.

Dr. T. F. Lam (Lam Tsze- fung. Cantonese pronunciu- tion) will act 22 Commią, sioner of Foreign Affairs at Canton now that the For- eign Ministry is being removed to Wuchang. Hitherto Dr. Lam has been Superintendent of Customs and Director of Revenue (the new special taxes coming under his department). Educated abroad, Dr. Lam has seen service for some- years with the office of Commis sioner of Foreign Affairs, Can- ton, and was Superintendent of Customs at Wuchow until he left. for Europe as chief secretary to! General Hay 3hu-tseng, who was best known as "Little" Heu. Dr. Lam joined General Hau in Hong

Kong. On their return from their mission to most of the capitals of Europe and an exten Passengers arrived in Hong Kong sive tour of Britain, "Little" Hsu yesterday on the "President Hayes" was assassinated in North China from the North included. Mr. Ho and Dr. Lam returned to Canton, Wing-kin (of Messrs. Hall, Law & since when he has won rapid pro- Co.) and Mr. Ong Zin-chew, both motion. When Mr. Mok Ching- Senator William S. Vars of business men back from Shanghat | kong (one of the directors of the Pennsylvania whose right for à. (Mr. Eo Is son of the late Dr. Bank of East Asia) took over the seat in the United States Senata Sir Kat Ho Kal); Mrs. Rama F. Ellie-Kadoorie School in Honam, has been questioned because of his Kessinger of New York; Mr. C. 9. this Hong Kong philanthropist heavy expenditures in the Kwong of Shanghai, Mr. J. B. Les secured the services of Dr. Lam, primary campaign, spent $7,668 (of Messrs. Bienissen & Co., Can in an honorary capacity, as direc in the general election contest onton), back from Shanghai, Mr. Ltor of that institution, Dr. Lam November 2 ha declared in a Schipper of Antwerp; Mrs. V/m has since had to give up educa. worn statement fled with the Stephens of Shanghai, Mares Wtional work owing to pressure of

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