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THE UNITED "ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD. Tel. Central 236.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A Reuter cuble from Ran- goon states that are has gutted a mill at large Chinese rice Kanoungto. The loss is estim ated at £60,000,

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A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONË.

OVERLAND CHINA MAIL,

IS HONG KONG BEHIND SHANGHAI?

The accusation is frequently made that Hong Kong is always behind Shanghai. Residents in the Northern port have got together for the purpose of sending propaganda in the Old Country. In their own interests Hong Kong people should see that everybody they know at Home is kept correctly informed about China.

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A glance at the sources from which cables are being sent here every day will show that the eyes of the world are focussed on China, particularly with regard to British interests. In a British Colony so close to China, you will be expected by folks at Home to keep them posted.

Why waste time in laborious letter writing when you can send the week's news at very little cost and with no trouble?

With thousands of troops leaving the Mother Country for China, millions of people will be following their movements. Let your friends at Home know what they keenly desire to

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Then there is the duty one has to perform. That is giving the lie to distorted versions emanating from irresponsible

gources.

The "Overland China. Mai acts as an impartial summary of news and comment. Send it along by the next mail as proof direct of statements that deserve all the backing you can give.

This week's issue contains the report of the latest outrages at Foochow and other Treaty ports, together with cabled versions of the difficulties undergone by foreign communities up-country.

READY TO-DAY.

Homeward Mall closes on Saturday at 9.30 a.m. and the Siberian mail at 5 p.m.

SINGLE COPY

:30 Centa.

[Sold on the streets and at the bookstalls or you câu send yngr subscription to the office-HK. $13 per anturi,. OF

115 Inelading postage abroad.)

A fire gutted the famous Augsburg,

where the Lutheran confession of faith was signed in 1530. Must of its irreplaceable works of art were destroyed.

Next Wednesday and Thurs, day. Feb. 2 and 9 (being the first two days of the Chinese New Year) will be observed as holi- days by the exchange banks which will be closed for, public business.

Bishop Henson. in his New Year sermon in the Durham Cathedral "described peaceful picketing as abominable wicked- ness, Alien and corrupting in- fluences, he said, were transform- ing the trade unions. into instru- ments of civie degradation.

The eldestablished Penang firm of Logan and Ross reports that it has been robbed of $15,000, in two sums, by means of two. forged cheques. The cheques were filed in, as usual, in the chief clerk's handwriting, and Mr. M. B. Lynch's, sinature has been forged on each of them.

A returned banisher was sent to in for six months (with) 20 strokes of the birch) by Mr. TW. Ainsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning. Mis Worship directed that should: the prisoner be declared medical- ly unfit for the birth, a further three months' imprisonment be added to his sentence.

The Colony had a clean bill of health on Thursday when no case of notifiable disease was returnedž

Germaine on won the old maids' ruce" in Paris, up even vil lave Catherine's Day, when ull unmaried. women dess in en-támes aath upenly hunt husbands.

Hanmers, the London, auc- a registered en- tioneers, sold velope carried from Darwin to Melbourne by Sir Alan Cobham for £10.

A flower-pot dropped from- an upper floor of a house In Wing Lok Street on Wednesday landed on the nose of a pedestrian, cous- ing injuries which.compelled him to go into hospital.

For the usual "cleaning sea- Bon" preparatory. to China New Year in Hong Kong, the water re- strictions on houses served by the On rider mains will be lifted. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, there will be a full supply as in former years.

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The case, in which, two Chin- ose stand charged with way lay- tea-shop waitress and ing a snatching from the girl a goid] Iwatch and band valued $35 was again before Mr. T. W. Ains- worth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Mr. Leo d'Almada defending the second- prisoner, After hearing Det. Sgt. Rozetsky, prosecuting, his Worship committed both defend- ant for trink.

H.M. cruiser "Durban" visit- ed the port from which she takes her name on her way out from. home. This was the first time that the patriotic" inhabitants of Durban, Natal, had hat the pleasure of welcoming the cruiser since she was completed in 1921, and they gave the officers and men a very good time during. their eight days' atay in the port. The "Durban went home from the China Station last year.

A very pretty wedding was The Royal Society of Arta

solemnised at the Presbyterian (London) circulates particulars

Church, Singapore, between Miss of the competition in industrial

Ruth Gregory Burnett, youngest designs which it is proposed to

daughter of the late Alexander thold in June of this year and in-

and Mrs. Burnett, of Aberdeen; dicates that it has opened a

and Dr. Walter Dawson, eldest bureau of information at which

son of the Rev. W., W. Dawson are kept the names and ad-

and Mrs. Dawson of Milngavie, dresses of exhibitors who desire

The system of wireless on Scotland, formerly of Lanark. to obtain employment as design- ers. The Competition is divided board the "Renown" consists of a Both are very well known in into the following heads: arch-central station with switches in Singapore. The bride was on the tectural decoration, textiles, fur-every cabin, enabling the passen-staff of the General Hospital, niture, book production, potterygers to listen in as easily as turn and glass and miscellaneous.. ing on the light.

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while Dr. Dawson is deputy Muni- opal Health Officer, Singapore.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mrs. J. T. Mason, the wife of Captain Mason of the Seattle Folice, is passenger on the "President Jackson" which ailed for Manila psterday afternoon.

M. Brandit has arrived and assumed duties as the new Con- sul for Norway at Singapore.

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Mr. H. Dickinson passed through en toute the Colony yesterday for Manila on the "President Jack- son" and will be going on to Java.

Invited by the Y.W.C.A. of Manila to start a system of physical

Mr. Harold Iserspn. Miss Elsie Representing the. Winchester Iserson and Miss A. Hanagan are Arms Corporation, Mr. Oliver Etravelling tovether on the "Fresi Nelson is on the "President Jack-lent Jackson" which railed yester-education throughout the Philip- son" which left Hong Kong yesterday for Manila. day for Manila. He is going around the world

and

Mr. H. R. Cox of the Shanghai Mr. R. S. Rogers, manager in the Municipal Council ia a passenger Philippines of Liggett & Myers on the "President Jackson which, Tobacco Co., arrived in Hong Kong called yesterday afternoon for on Wednesday on the "President May. He is going to Sydney on Jackson." after a short business holiday with Mrs. Cox.. trip to New York. He anile on the same hout yesterday afternoon.br. and Mrs. C. W. Benedict of

Riverside, for Manilu..

California. who are Captain A. 6. Dobbie the Intertravelling round the world, arrived in Hug Kong on coinsaday othe port cricketer

well-known siden: Tackhon" and left for sportsman) and Captain SC Manta yerday on the same boat. Kenny, both of the Scottish Bor- derers, have rbecived intimation that they have passed in an exa- A frequent visitor to the Far mination at which they sat in East in Mr. C. R. Powrie arrived Egypt. prior to coming to Hong in Hong Kong yesterday on the Kong.

"President Jackson" from Seattle. He is connected with Hall, Land- Accompanied by Mrs. Anderson, Mr. E. G. Anderson is travelling to regan & Co., an investment cen- Manila by the "President Jackson"cern of San Francisco;

which arrived here on Wednesday..

He is President of the Philippine Manufacturing Co, of America and

a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. He is going to Manila to confer with cfficials of his company.

On a visit to the Philippines and travelling by the "President Jack-. aon" which arrived here on" Wed- nesday from Shanghai are:-Mr. W: W. Baar (of the Union Oil Co. with offices at Kahe); Mr., 0. G. Brown (constructional engineer of Shanghai); Mr. E. K. Cutting National City Bank of New York); Mr. and Mrs. J. Ellis (residents 4 Manila); Miss Dorothy Hawes (of the Baptist Foreign Missions. gonx to oilo)" Mr. F. Liongson and Miss L. Liongson (Manila ra- sident); Miss A. S. Mayhew (in charge of the International Hostess House of the Amerfenn Y.W.CA. in Shanghai); Mr. A, S. Moss (a Shanghai lawyer); Miss F. Purdy (daughter of Judge Purdy of Shanghai); Miss H. Rietveld (Che- foo Y.W.C.A.); Mrs. J L. Stovens (Presbyterian Mission, Chefoo); Mr. A, Z. Sycip. (Yek Hun Trading Corporation, of Shanghal and Manila, accompanied by his wife and family) Mr. J. W. Todd (in the Oregon lumber industry); Mr. Glenn Trewartha (department of geography, University of Wiscon Kin) Mr. H. Uyeda, (Kobe mer- chant); Mr E C. Walters (of Hanson & Orth, Manila, with his wife) Mr. Miles E Vaughn (Oriantal representative of United Praka) Mine J. G. Dilworth (4 Peking nurse).

Everywhere

the Queen of Rodmania arriva

Pines, Miss Vera Eargar of Shang- ha is travelling south on the "Pre- cident Jackson" which arrived here| on Wednesday.

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Wives of American Naval officers In Manila, returning Home on the "President Jackson" stationed

which ailed from Hong Kong yes- terday afternoon, include Mrs. G. W. Clark, Mr. R. G. Shonerd (and family), who are both returning from Shanghai

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Lt. Col. W. C. P. Russell, D.S.O: RA.. who arrived here. Kashgar with his wife to join This "Artillery on in deqatches the Command, was twice mention- facer novel in Gallipolt from Tune 5 to January 1916, in Egypt til Merch 1916, and then- Force Fill October 1918. with the Egyptian Expeditionary

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1927.

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