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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Quarry Bay School pupils are giving a display (aff the school) at

Am. on Friday, Dec. 17.

On Monday, the new term bas ging t St. Stephen's College, Prospect Place, Banham Road.

Union Church (Kowloon) will hold the annual "congregation meeting business and social on Dec. 18 at 8.20 p.m.

Reminder: St. John Ambulance Brigade annual competition for the "Ralphs", shield on Murray Parade Ground at 9 am. tp-morrow..

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With a view to encouraging the staff on the Shanghal-Nanking and Shanghal-Hangchow railways as well as the various otheers con- neeted with the local land and naval forces. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang dispatched on November 19: a sum of $20,000 to them as remuneration.

The Peking Government is in receipt of telegram from General Yen Hat-shan of Shans' requesting permission to extend the period for the levy of the communications,

customs and other surtaxes so 15 to raise funds for the relief of the vletims of famines and war in Shansi.

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Japan is negotiating with Persia for the establishment of an Embasay at Teheran,

By way of protest against the action of the Governor-General abolishing the Board of Control of the Philippine national enterprises, the Speaker of the House of Repri- Bentatives and the President of tho Senate have announced the inten-! tion of the Legislature to go ch non-co-operative strike and to fise to hold sessions in future.

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perfectly-preserved mun- noth, frozen between 'sheets of lee for innumerable centuries, has been discovered in the Trans-Baikal pro- reliable vines, according" pia report from Chit The mammoth, which is unly the second to. be ha.t Found for a hundred years; been whipped to the Academy Selences at Leningrad for examina

The Hankow Printers Union

demands to the proprietors "of varis, es printing establishments, de- Theosophy and World Pro-manding a reply within forty-eight blems" was the subject, of a very hours. The employers have replied interesting Testure given by Mr. asking for an extension of the time-tion" HE. Lanepirt at Thursday's meet-limit so as to enable them to study ing of the Theosophical Society their demands and frame counter.

Hong Kong Lodge).

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Some

proposals.

Mra. J. C. Griggs "spoke on

A large supply of arms and ara- Aspects of Browning's munition, said to have been import- Poetry" last night before the Artaled from Denmark by Gen. Ko Yip and Science Club of Linknan | Phfen for the use of Marshal Wu- University (formerly Canton Chries || Pui-futa army, has reached Shang- bian College).

hat and has been detained by the authorities owing to the Fact that (no huckoor (parmit) has been pré- sented. Until one is forthcoming, the consignment will be held up.

A decision has been made by Gen- jerat Teng Yen-tah to establish a library, in Wucbank. with. Mr. Chang Peh-chut as responsible or Iganizer?. A sum of $1,000/- has { been appropiated for the purpose

To-day the Christmas sale be- gins nt Messrs. Hall, Law & Co | La. Nos. 30-32. Des Voeux Road Centruk, in photographie requisites. binoculars etc.. This hosts wenty one days and early inspection is recehmended

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Germany has announced offi iably a new series of postage stampa decorated with representa tions of the heads, of celebrated: Germans (Goethe," Schiller, and Beethoven). The decision to use, representation of the head of Fred-]; erick the Great on the penny startip|| (which is the most used) has ben criticised by the "Republican) Press:"

The Tokyo Government has de- clded to introduce an opium mono- Various German organisations poly system in. Kwantung Leased, of cly service employees and Territory, and the system is being clerks have used into a single no- drafted among the Foreign, Justice.] tionwide union. Chancellor Marx, and Kwantung Government people. in, welcoming the announcement,. Of many complicated necessary expressed his satisfaction at the formalities, the prodis, from the fasion by declaring that he prefer.epium staffic will be placed "as na redute have eventually to work with item on Special Account, under the one organization representing. alleantrolof the Finance Ministry. The instead of with many smaller ones. matter will be presented to the com-

ing session of the Diet.

The case in which L. Goonting. Another armed robbery occur of the Chartered Bank. Kuala red in the French Concession Lumpur, was changed with criminal | Shanghai, on Nov. 26, when theve Į misappropriation of the sum of men, armed with pistols, broke into $2.502:29. was mentioned in the In Chinese dwelling house occupied Kuch Lumpur police court. before by a man named Kup Hunir-se, in- the second magistrate. Mr.timidated the inmates by threaten"

ing them with pistols, and made [D'Connell A.P.C. and that his h

structions were to withdraw the good their escape with a number of charge against the accused! The valuable articles. The owner of Tease Against F. M. Hendre, of the the house attempted to follow the Ceneral Puet Office. who was miscreants to the door. but, in charged with abetting the offence, I doing so. received bullet in the was so withdrawn.

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Extensive plans for the im- provement pf Peking streets and the seweg, system are under way.. the Metropolitan Municipal Ad- ministrasion divecting the work. The outer wall of the Forbidden) City bas been torn

down, and bricks and materials taken from the west part of the wall will be kept for use in building the new Hewer. Construction of the in provements will be entirely in accordance with modern methods.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

A Reuter cable from Belgrade an- nounces the death of the former Premier, M. Pachitch.

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Singapore correspondent cables the death of Mr. Scott Falshaw, for 22 years Government Veterinary Surgeon,

Miss Alice Fitzgerald of the Rockefeller Foundation" arrived in Hong Kong by the "President Mckinley on Thursday from Seattle.

Mr. Jose de Acuna (of the in- salar Lumber Co. "Manila) and Mrs. de Acuna arrived here on the President McKinley" on Thursday, from Seattle and Shanghai.

A representative of the Raymond

Miss Alice MacDougall,. daughter. of United States Admiral and Mrs. MacDougall was married on November 18 to Mr. Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister to Japan and China, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

General Li Fao-chung. Commis sioner of the Defence, left Shang hat for Nanking on Nov. 24 to con- Frer. with General Lu Haiang-tng, supan of Cheklang, und Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's representative at Nanking regarding questions. of Shanghae defence.

Mr. F. H. Tyson, in charge of the Standard Oil Cod's interests at Cantor is leaving Canton to-day to go on leave y America.

Comdr. J. M. Smeaïlie, U.S.N. and Mrs. Smeallie, Dr. V. C. Vaughn and Mrs. Vaughn are among the passengers who passed through Hong Kong this week on the "Pre- sident McKinley bound for Manila from Seattle.

Mr. W. Glendinning, outside superintendent of Hong Kong Tram- ways. Etd, returned from leave in Australia yesterday, by the "Chang- te," accompanied by Mrs. Glendinning and family... Mr. Glendinning is a lawn bowls en-

Mr. Curtis W. Childs, manages of the Foreign Department of the First National Bank of Boston, Mass, and Professor George B.thusiast, Roorback of the Harvard School

Pile Driving Co. in Mr. Wm. Hof Business Administration, have General Chen Ta-chun (Chin

Young came to Hong Kong this week on the "President McKinley"

from Seattle, via-Shanghai).

Among the passengers who dia- embarked here from the "President McKinley" on Thursday farrived from Shanghai) were Mrs. A. A. Alves, Miss A. Alves und Mr. J. A. Hyndman.

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arrived in Shanghai and will re- main for about three weeks. They are making A study of the economic conditions of the Fur East.

Tai-kwan in Cantonese pronuncia-! tien). the. "Precautionary Com- mander of Canton," has succeeded Li Chang-tat as Commissioner of Public Safety in Canton (a position equivalent to that of head of police and gendarmerie);

Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, who lectured before the China Society of Science and Arts. Shanghai on

S diplomatic delegates, includ-j Nov. 26, on the unimal life of the ing Dr. C. T. Wang and others, Yangtze Delta. which mainly in- have been elected by the Three With the Mr. J. W. Huck, Oriental ropre- cludes the province of Kiangsu, is Provinces Association. sentative of the Great Northern well known as a naturalist and ex- exception of Dr. Wang who is now Rallway of America), toplorer and has spent much time in Manila all the rest will call on Hong Kong on: "the "President investigating the fauna of this pro- the local British, American, French

arrived on McKinley" which

vince. He la editor of the China and Japanese Consuls-Gerieral in a Thursday from, Seattle,

Journal besides being the author day or two to explain to them the of several books on natural history nature of the" new organisation. subjects...

says the Kuo Wen Agency:

came

Among those who arrived on the "Changte" from Australia yesterday were Mr. C. H. Benson, Mr. E. A. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Anthony and Mr. and Mrs..D. W. Roxburgh.

Mr. ST. Williamson, the well- known shipping merchant of Hong Kong, came back to the Colony from Australia yesterday on the "Changte," accompanied by Mra. Williamson.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

Oslo, Dec. 10.

A number of Chinese ladies and gentlemen were amongst the guesti“ of H.E..the Commander-in-Chief of the China Station (Vice-Admiral Sir Edwin Alexander-Sinclair) on The Nobel Peace Prize, 1925, H.M.S. "Hawkins" last evening at has been awarded to Sir, Austen a dinner dance. There were thaj Chamberlain and the American Hon. Sir Shou-son and Lady Chow, | General, Charles Dawes," and the Mrs. Burma Liu of Peking. Mrs. Peace Prize for 1926 to M. Briand James Chan of Chungking, Mrs. and Herr Stresemann. The Y. K. Chow, Dr. and Mrs. Tam of awards were announced with im Tientsin, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew! Mr. Ma Ying-plu,"managing dirce- tor of the Sincere Co., Ltd, and posing ceremony attended by a Cheung and Mr. Li Chor-chi affiliated companien, who is well- nationally representative gather-

Mr. W. H. Threlfall, Acting ing including the King and the known both in Hong Kong and Crown Princs. Commander Nan- Controller, Posts and Telegraphe, abroad, returned from a trip to the

sen in a speech said, "that the Penang, b proceeding Home upon North, on Thursday by the "Preal-Dawes plan first brought light to retirement after a distinguished

darkest Europe after the war, career in the Straits Settlements! He came out while the initiative of Locarno Postal Department. Hla Majesty the King, has been came from Herr Luther Strese to Malaya firat in April, 1898, and graciously pleased to award the

mann and Sir Austen Chamber- has filled many appointments in Imperial Service Medal to Mr. C.lain while M. Briand contributed Singapore and Penang. He will be de Silva, of Kuala Lumpur, in very largely to the conclusion of chiefly remembered in connection recognition of his long and merithe Rhine treaty which intro with the very keen interest he has torious service under the Govinduced a new spirit in the relations always taken in the domain of ment. Mr. de Silva, lately retfred, between former adversaries, elim- aports, having inter alla, on "no had been is the Survey Department inating the Rhine as a cause of fewer than fifteen occasions, held

dent McKinley."

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for a period of over thirty-seven conflicts in European politics. the tennis charaplonship of the

Reuter,

years.

Perang Cricket Club.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926.

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