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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

"Valuable household furniture Is to be sold by Messrs. Lammert | Bros. at the Duddell Street auc- tion rooms at 2.30 pm on Fridiny

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A Commissariat Bureau has Intely been established by the Reyo lettonaries at the Yihs Chung, out- side the Ping Hu tiate, Wachaug,

The Llons of the Orient. niliated Club te one in Tientalny and many in the United Sites, hat heid their first meeting at the Na-y Club, Txingtao.

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The Faris #1'Oeuvro" pub-

the sensational Assertion}

: A full attendance is requested i On Nov, 20 three youths were the meeting of the Hongkong| executed at Kao-tung-chia, Hanch ad the Marine Engineer'ishes yang, by the Irrope stationed there Found of China at Sailors Heate, that the famous Mona Lisa pieture creating vieindry.

n disturbancer

Nu

bowmerrow at 5 pm.

in the Loire is a fake and that, when the original was stolen Years

According to a Peking, telegram the Sovies Government hạt thewised tne.distribution of $900,000; for the support of the universities in Peking, in addition to the $200,000 already appropriated oat) of the 'Boxer's Indemnity fund

A Reuter cable from Singa-go, a copy was put in its placé. The Soviet Government' bar - raised the Customs Tariff on corto. Dore states that 150 Ameridan college students aboard the and those who formerly bast the right of free buying have now, fosteamer "Ryndari," known as the "floating university," which is pay 50 kopeeks per kilo.'

making a world cruise, were en- More than $2000 worth of tertained on arrival at Govern- jewellery and clothing becamement House at Singapore. the spoil of five armed men, who slipped in to the premises at 69 Manin Road. Shanghai, through Lan open back door last Sunday

week.

Charged at the Centrul Magistracy on Saturday morning with using a public vehicle for hire purposes during prohibited hours and with attempting to During the 48 hours ended on bribe an Indian constable, a Chi- Sunday, the only case of notifiable nese was fined $76, with eight- disease in the Colony, as report-weeks imprisonment as er to the medical officer of alternative." Health was one of diphtheria, the patient being a Chinese from the city district!

the

A priest. Sing Tsoh, and a coolie named Teng Poo-jar, were brought before the. Mixed Court. For stealing a quantity of at Shanghai on a charge of caus- timber from premises undering bodily harm to one of the course of construction in Queen's former's brothers in, the Road Central, a Chinese was sent Bubbling Well Temple. Sing to jail for three weeks. by Mr. Tson received three years im R. E. Lindsell at the Central prisonment and the coolie was į Magistracy this morning.

expelled from the Settlement,

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Peak Trunyways Co., Lt.h wil sold an extraordinary meeting at the Hong Kong Hotel at 11 atm, on December 20. when new Articles of Association will be proposed. '.s Burther meeting will be held January to to condrry the teache

Bion,

4 On. Nov. 26, several groups o. male and female students in Shang hai delivered inflammatory speechos denouncing Marshal. Sun Chuan- fing Bach his administration. The lecturers confined themselves Chinese territory, and suteral wore dipersed by the Chapel police.

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A former Chinese employee of Messrs. Ton and Ce... In Noaan Kouth Shanghai, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at the Mixed Court after Det-Sub Inspec-

Eight Chinese of different

Whether the strikes. that oe occupations made their appear-

curred in Shanghai during last at the Mixed Court. al

Finer had informed the Court Shanghas last week charged with week end are due to the agita

that $1,500 in cash and $13,000 in being members of an organised Ptions of Cantonese radicals is

not known, and as far as has been securities were missed from the gang of armed robbers; with

discovered, there are no traces of

safe box between November 18 and, being undesirable residents of the International Settlements actual southern interference. On 15, Inspector Bridget, of the Fis- R Print Department; testified te with returning from expulsion: the other hand the authorities are

the fact that the prints on the lux with being in possessien, of arasite certain that they are the

The situation and the prints. taken from the a ammunition without permis work of "Reds."

nearly 7,000euse enrresponded. He also adren sign on authority, and with a hay involved" tempted armed robbery. They werkers..affect, g only Chinese that all the Japanese as well

and Japanese mills.

Chinese staff were examined. were remanded.

Messrs Cutler Palmer & Coats calendar, for next year, a copy of wisch has been sent to the “China Maal is a protons of Captain Prank Vusier, R., Founder of the drm in 135, vat cet in wool and painted in colours. The dates ure the movable kind. The "ecmiar, Issued by the Hongkong Rope | 38hnufacturing Co., Ltd., showing a menuhis dates at a glance, is un- Lather useful New Year souvenie, Dresser. Gande Price & Cola tendre in 3. delightful, water color skuteh of a sports girs arn- (nagu & day's geef-vory attractive

for home of office alike,

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Two Shanghai men, a coolie and a painter, devised an in- genious scheme of defrauding householders of different sums of money by posing.as inspectors from the Waterworks Co. They victimised half a dozen people but the seventh would-be victim was too clever for them and he notified the police with the result that the two were brought befors the magistrates and charged. The Bench sent them to prison for two years after which they will be "expelled. The money found in their possession wit be divided among their victims.

Alleged to hay taken a car, the Property of Mr. Dodson, of Motor Cycle Exchange, and to have

fashed it up near Honghem, a seninun of H.M.S. "Hawkins" named Puckmaster appeared at the Kow-!

on Magistracy on Saturday on a charge of larceny of the ear atd) driving with but a licence. Damage) done to the car, which was taken from the stand outside the "Star" ferry wharf, is stated tobe $530 Three others are stated | te nave acconanied defendant the joy ride. Defendant was re- manded in naval.custody, the case being adjourned.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. Van Ya-tien, secretary to Marshal Sun Chuan-Tank, arrived in Shanghai from Nunking, "on | Nov. 27.

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Mr. H. N. Ting. Chairman of the singlao International Club, is ill, and in the German Hospital The case is not serious but is the re- sult of Sah poisoning when Mr. Ting was in Shanghai,

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Mr. Charles MacVeagh, Jun., son of the American Ambissador to i Japan sailed for America on Nov. 20 He had been in pan for some weeks, and is, returning to England to continue his studies at Oxford.

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Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, a well known seientist, of the U.S. Na tional Research Bureau in Washington, is on his way to the Philipine Islands. He attended a conference in Japan before tak- ing a pleasure trip to China and the Philippines.

According to a British wireless message to-day, Sir Austen Cham- berlain will this week take over the duties of the Home Secretary from Sir William Joynson Hicks whose illness will probably pre- vent him from resuming work until early next year.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Freeman, of New York, have arrived in Tokyo and expect, to spend some months here. Mr. Freeman, who has been engaged in newspaper work in America, has been retained as a member of the "Japan Advertiser' news staff.

Mr. A. Cecil Taylor of Peking, who had been spending several days in Shanghai as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Stellingwerff, left for Tientsin "on November 27. He arrived In Shanghai from Kobe on Nov. 22, after a tour of Manchuria; Korea, and Jäpen.

Mr. W. V. Brydone-Jack has "re- turned to Shanghai after a short business trip to Japan

Mr. A. T. Downic has arrived in Shanghai and will represent Messrs. Collier & Stephenson there.

The following appointment was made by the Admiralty on Nov. 8:- Capt. W. N. Custance," to "Yar mouth," in command (Nov. 20.)

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sussdorf, of the American Embassy in Tokyo. sailed for America. on November 20. Mr. Sussdorf, who is frst secretary in. the American Embassy, has gone home on leave.

Mrs. Charlie Chaplin, who is filing suit for divorce against her husband, the famous movie ...uctor....

Mr. Walter J. Clennell, for many years in the British Consular service in China, gave an Interest ing address on "China" at the weekly luncheon of the Teddington Rotary Club, held at the Clarence Hotel on October 26.

Admiral Chen Pao-ching, assp- ciate Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, left Shanghai for Nanking on Nov. 27.

Dr.Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the, Central Asiatic ex- pedition of the American Maseum! of Natural History, Opened: the new session of the Royal Geographical Society on November

2.

Mrs. Chen Tao-yi, wife of the Civil Governor of Kiangsa (who, by the way, has just tendered his re- signation), arrived in Shanghai on Nov. 26, accompanied by a number of servants and the usual body- guard.

Gen. Chao Chow-jen, formier Tuchus of Honun, who has been "resting" in Shanghai for somelj time past, left for Tientsin on Nov. 27 at the request of Marshal Chang Tso-lin. It understood that Gem Chow will be appointed to act as the Marshal's agent i Honan.

When the Duchess of York went to Chelsea on November 17' to unvell two tablets on the new wing}| of Crosby Hall, which, when com pleted, will become residential quarters for women University graduates, he had among her audience Chinese and Japanese students, as well as others from the Dominions, Europe, and America.

The selection is announced of Paymaster-Commander G. H. Thomson, O.B.E, lately studying at the secretaries course at Porta- mouth, to be resident naval officer at Shanghai, in succession to Pay master-Commander J. M. L»Cusack, who will complete two years on January 15. Paymaster-Commander Thomson's last post was in accous- tant charge on board the aircraft The Penang office of Messrs. A Reuter cable from Paris carrier "Engle! He was connect Adams and Allan has presented announces the death of theed with naval aircraft units during an address in satin, contained in Academician poet, Jean Richepin. the war, and at one time was secre a silver casket, to the Hon. Mr. Born in Algeria in 1849, the son tary Rear-Admiral C. L

army W. H. Thorne, the senior partner, of a French

surgeon, Vaughan-Lee, Director of Air Ser who is retiring at the end of the Richepin early developed his vicgs at the Admiralty: In 1919 he month to take up the appoint-literary talents. Best known as

was appointed for personnel staff. ment of a Judge of the Supreme a dramatist, perhaps, he pro- duties at the headquarters of the Court of the Federated Malay duced a large number of plays coastal area of the Royal Air Force, States.

right up to a recent period." with the rank of wing-commander.

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