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Each week brings increasing interest in the China situation. Not only as developments affect Hong Kong, but from the broadest view, events are recorded daily for the in- formation of all concerned.

Such reports are faithfully reproduced in the "Overland China Mail," with explanations; footnotes, editorial comment, The where necessary, and articles to supplement the news. sending of a copy of this week's number will be highly appre- ciated by friends abroad as it contains what is essentially needed to assist the folks at home in following the situation.

On strictly "China topics" there are such items as the trend of the Nationalist campaign, the bank strike at Canton, the labour unions' tyranny. The last includes a report of steps by the Southern Government to curb the power of the workers, revealing a new policy by the Kuomintang.

Concerning non-Chinese are such subjects as the Foreign Loans to China, the Tientsin arrests, the plight of missionaries among the war. horrors of Sianfu.

Each day's proceedings in the "Sunning" piracy.trial are included, as are the reports of the "Lienshing disaster."

In addition will be found all the local news, the critique of the "Pirates of Penzance" by the Philharmonic Society, im- portant Court cases..

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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Tientsin mall. via" Siberia.i A Router cable from London to at October 1. reached London in day states that Farliament has ad- the notably quick time of difteen Joüengd until Februngy 8. jdays.

Word has come to the Tsingtao postal authorities stating that pumber of counterfeit stamps have wapenred; 3 cent stanips most of alt

On Wednesday, the only case of December 3 was the 150th annotable disease reported was ont versary of the foundation of the of enteric fever (typhoid, the pasthat nothing is known in Govern famous academic fraternity, of Phiftient being a Chinese from the city Seta Kappa, the oldest organisa- district. falon of its kind in the United States, -

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Boer, wines and spirits, to be 14 is not without its signif- [put up in suitable tops, will be sold leance that the R.ML.S. "Empress of by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at their Asia," which arrivod in Shanghal Buddelt" Street sides woonte at on Nov. 28. from Canada brought 3.30 pm, next Monday. about 800 Chinese destined for South China:

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A Pretoria telegram states

rrent circles of the negotiations alleged to be proceeding between the Japanese and South African nu- thorities for the conclusion of trade agreement.

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The case of Charles Maitland waa resamed on Nov. 29, at the Mix- ed Court, Shanghel, when, owing Un the absence of the principal wit-j ness. Mr. Henry F. Chen, now gory-

The Dunlop calendar for 1927

painting of Westminster' The first round-the-world party Bridge. London, looking towards ing a sentence of nine months in promoted by the Japer, World Tour the House of Commons. The time-t jalb the case was adjourned to Society left Tokyo on November 2015 evening and the lights of BigDecember 15: for Europe. The party is compose Ben, the beats and the truffle make of 10 Japanese, most of them mer

a pretty scans. Fehants, who intend to cross Siberia. tour costA each member $2,000,

Thu 1927 pocket diary issued.

by Messra, Findlater Mackie Toddl

for whom Messes. Chang Kai-shek i reported to Co., Ltd., have telegraphed to L Chung-Gilman & Co. Ltd, are the agents Commenting on the powers, of yan and Fan Shuk-sang ordering in Hong Kong, is a peat lible pro- attack Kwichow andduction bound in leather. The the proposed League Control Com hem, to mission, the Paris "Matin" says that Yunnan in order to bring the two diary contains a number of simple any contingus control after the disprovinces under the control of the reelpes for drinks and some useful hints on the storing and theanting solution of the Inter-Allied Mitary Nationalist Government..

of wine. Commission does not conform withi

he Pence Treaty, which prescribes orly censional inspection f and when necessity ngises.

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Bishop Valtorta will bless the

The case in which, two Chinese new Home of the Little Sisters of the poor at Ngnu-shi-wan, Kowloon are charged with attempting to "reb City for the aged poor of the Chinese sampan woman on De- As the result of w collision Colony) on Sunday at 3 pins The cumber 6, was again. before the Magistrate yesterday which occurred at the junction of Little Sister will welcome the at Kowloon

Afternoon. Mr. T..W. Ainsworth Low Hi Read and New Keppel tendance of their supporters on

heating the ease in the absence Rond, Singapore, Mr. Herne, of the this occasion.

of Mr. J. H. B. Nhi, who has re- Hong Kong wad Shanghai Bank, is at present an inmate of the Gen-

Just over 80 peerutta were en-cently been appointed acting Assis- Sra Hospital. He was riding his rolled at Singapore on December 8..tant Attorney-General After hear A.S. motor-egele nd the time when the Volunteer Corps' recruiting day.ing formal evidence of arrest his he collided with a lorry. The cycleThis is the largest number that has Worship committed the defendants

triał at the smashed and Mr. Horne been recruited is one day for the for sustined cuts on his head and legs.lasty four years. The Machine Gan Criminal, Sessions."

Platoon drew the best total, 17, the

M. Goodwin, who has appenyed I mention relief measure Scottish Company being next with: being taken in Peking for the poor. . and the S.EE. (V.) and SR., many times before the United reference must be made to the (V.) secured 14 and 10 each respec-States Codet, Shanghai and who'

foreign: organisations.tively.

was found guilty 10 days ago by notably the Salvation Army, which

Judge Purdy of vagrancy, was sen- There was a full house yester tended by his Honour to one year's giving sustenance to a great many day afternoon for the matinee of unprisonment on McNell's Island, destitute folk.. says the "Shanghat the "Pirates of Penzance given by Washington. The Judge, in senten- ETimes" correspondent: That the Philharmonic Society in the cing accused, said that he recognis-! these organisationa" also have, Theatre Royal. The performance ed that he was a "dope fend!" a of eflcumstances, and destitute Foreigner problem to deal again excited considerable enthu- victim with was tragically indicated a few lasm. everyone enjoying them requested Mr. L. G. Hagar. Dis- nights ago when a thinly clad Russelves immensely There will briet Attorney, to communicate with siah who had crawled into a closed another performance to-morrow the prison warden, Fecommending" motor car parked in front of a fevening, and the concluding presen-parole. when accused physicul foreign garage was found frozen tation will take place on Saturday Feondition warranted such proceed-

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Chen Sih-chang. Chief Military Judge of Marshal Sun's Ammy.. Teft Shanghai for Sungkiang on Decem-

ber 4

Dr. V. K. Ting. Director of the Woosung-Shanghai Special A ministrative Area, returned to Shanghai on December 4 from Nanking.

Mr. H. D. Sharpin, of the Hong Kong Bank has returned to Singa- pore from Home leave.

Mrs. P. H. Holyoak and Miss Joyce Holyoak left for Home yester

Blue Fannel day on the

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Mr. Eugene Chen is reported to have sent Choa Tze-lik to Berlin

the Nationalist Government.

Mr. A. W. Shovelton (the one attend the Third Internationale dental surgeon) "Will be missed annoußee the foreign policy of from local golfing circles as he was a passenger on the Homeward 3.4 "Hector" which left Hong Kong yesterday,

Passengers on the Homeward bound "Hector" from Hong Kong. yesterday mcluded: the

Mrs. Rev. Brother Pack

J. ||Dewar, Mr.. B. Markham. Mr. A. A. Ewing, Mrs. E. C. Aller. Mr. J. A. Murphy Mr. J. Mares and Mr. W. T. Bowen.

The American students have de- parted from Bangkok for Singa- pore. The cast of their visit to the Siamese Government and the char- terers amounts to tients 65,000, (over 16,000 of which was spent on hired motor-ears during the stu- dents three-days strenuous gramme.

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Mr. W. Hamilten, the head" master of the Penang Free School, who is retiring, was presented with an address from the mastery and boys of the School. The day be- fore Mr. Hamilton received by cable the sad news of the death of his wife in Ireland, where he proposed

to settle down on retirement.

Mr. and Mrs. F. X. d'Almada o Castro and Miss "B. d'Almada" o Castro arrived in Hong Kong yes. terday from London on board the N.Y.K. "Fushimi Mart" Other passengers for this port included Dr. D. Buencumin, Mr. M. J. Marquez, Mr. J. Oquinens, Mr. A. Pablo, and Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Sneddon,

SER WICKET/M.

Doorn, Dec. 16. "The ex- Kaiser is in bed suffering from influenza-Router.

With a bodyguard of 40 soldiers, General Chen. Civil Gorurner of Chekiang, left Shanghai on Decem ber 4 for Hangchow.

Dr. T. Okada mester of the Im- perial Japanese Central Meteorolo gical Observatory was a passenger on the "Fushimi Maru," which | arrived here yesterday.

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General Li Pao-ehang. Com- mander of the Ninth Division of the Marshala Army, arrived in Shang- hut on December 4 from Lunghua and was inзmediately notored to the military offices on Kung Woo Road, Chapel.

Miss Lim Beng-hong, CL.R. (Lond.) barrister-at-law, and her brother, Mr. Siny Khye-sefg, who was called to the bar in Lendon un the same day, arrived in Renang by the "Kashmir.". It is their in- tention to practise in Penang.

Sir Tom Talbot Leyland Scaris- brick was a passenger on the "Hector" which left Hong Kong yes- terday for the United Kingdom. Hel was created a Baronet in 1909, has teen Mayor of Southport, and wus Liberal M.P: for South Dorset from 1906-10,

The following weddings are

forthcoming announced-Mr. James Young, Great Eastern Hotel,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1926..

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The son of a Hong Kong resident for years, Mr. Alfred Marie de Lourdes Soares (who was educated at St. Joseph's College and subse-- quently went to Cambridge) quall- fed in Constitutional Law in the Michaelmas Examination of stu Octavius Roy Cohen, short story dents of the Inns of Court, held at the writer extraordinary of New York Grays Inn Hall, London, by

The and Atlanta, Georgia, in scheduled Council of Lagal Education. Lt. Co. R. A. Yonge, R.N, left to visit Shanghai shortly after the father of Mr. Alfred Soares is Mr. Hong Kong yesterday for Home by holiday. Mr. Cohen plans to visit Adao M. L Soares, a former Hong the "Hector" after his period of the Orient with his wife and mother Kong merchant who ran the "lini" service out here. He was a very and the Orlent will probably pervo and "Cat" stables of China" ponies, popular officer on the China Station as the background for a new series which won a good many honoure sa and took great interest in sporta of stories by this author, whose the local turf. Mr. Alfred in the and recreation.” As a tennia umpire Negro stories, appearing In second son. His elder brother, Mr. his decisions were always respected national American weekly, have Alfred F. M. L. Soares, was a stock- and at the last Interport cricket bean widely read and are now ap-broker. a few years ago and rode match with Shanghal, his umpiring pearing in book form. Mr. Cohen successfully as a gentleman rider, was of the best. The Hong Kong began his career as a writer a few winning the Hong Kong Derby of Cricket Club loses a strong sup years ago ne reporter on "The 1923 for the late Sir Paul Chater on porter in Commander Yonge.

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