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Four eases of notiable disease were reported to the Madient Officer of Health on Thursday, all from the eity, comprising two Chinese with small-pox, a Chinese with diphtheria and a Portuguese with enteric fever (typhold).

During the performance at the City Hall last night, a thief antered the, performer's aloakroom and stole clothing worth $101.

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As the result of a fall while alighting from a moving bus in Wuhu Street, Chinese received injuries to his head and shoulder, He was taken to the Kowloon, hos pital for treatment.

"2100 each to his grandsons, John Moore Antrobus and Edwin Hardwick Moore, he keeps hie promise neither to smoke nor drink before he is 21. This is an item in the will of the min Mr. Edwin Samson Meore,, of York Lodge,

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THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.”

BIGGEST EVENT SINCE THE WAR,

Shanghai's capitulation and the attacks on Britons "and other foreigners make one of the most picturesque chapters in present history since the Great War.

Everybody at Home will be" "full of" Shanghai." This week's "Overland China Mail" summarises all the events lead- ing up to the Nationalist capture. With carefully written explanations, each message will tell your folks at Home exactly what they want to know.

Friends will be expecting to hear all you have to inform them. Instead of writing laborious letters, post them a copy of the "Overland," as a link between Hong Kong and the....... Old Country.

HOW PIRATES PREY ON BRITISH SHIPS. Prominence was given in many ways to the piracy of the "Sunhing." Meagre details have been cabled Home about the latest attack on another British vessel, the "Hopsang."

The description is also included in this week's "Overland" and will make interesting reading..

As usual, all the local news and China despatches have been reproduced.

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Six people were killed and twelve injured by an explosion

1/which occurred in an amusement

hall in Turner (Idaho) recently, The explosion was due to a match being it when the acetylene lighte want out. Two hundred people were in the hall watching a game of Indoor basket-ball.

The "Come to Britain" move- ment Alla a much wanted place in the antional life, enabling citizens of the Dominions nad of America ito know Britain better, said Mr.

Sydney Pascail at a luncheon of the Rotarians. "It is estimated." he continued. *that 25,000 first- class visilors from Australia last- year spent £300 each, and 25.000 second-class visitors £100 each, totalling £10,000,000, which amount ef business is not to be sneezed at, even in these capacious times,"

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In the report on Wednesday of the recent arrest following a raid upon the servants" quarters Messrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co. Ltd., it was stated that an employee of that firm was arrested on a charge of being implicated in the burglary sub- at Musars. Powe's, but

"China sequently released. The Mail" has been asked by Messrs." E. D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd. to state that no charge was made against any of their employees in connee- Мезагн. tion with the theft at Polls.

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Mr. T. V. Soong, who is a brother- in-law of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and Minister of Finance of the Canton Government.

What the ""Singapore Free Press Topleist wants to know is I what in the lady's 'real name. She is either Madame Borodin, Mrs.. own or Frau Grosberg. and kaleidoscopic. As the marriage changes of Russians are alleged to be now, the Topiciat really cannot credit that she has had time to ring. all these changes in husbands since hor capture.

Who has ever experienced soch weather in Singapore at this time of the year asks the "Straits" Timou." The last three days have not only been oppressively hot and the atmosphere full of humidity but even the nights have afprded little. if any, relief. Every day is "Sun: day yet without Sunday's corres- ponding advantages. However much we may risk incurring the ridicule of ex-residents of Singa pore, yet we cannot refrain from stating that our city is now in the throes of a "heat wave." What can be done about it? It does not seemn quite fair to put the blame on to the Governor, and we see no parti cular advantage in derianding a re duction of even $1 from the salary A.difficult problem confronts

of the local Clerk of the Weather, Lieut-General Sir Michael Riming

For whoever may be the official who Being on the staff of an Army watches over our Meteorological de- ton, colonel of the 5th-6th Dragcons, and his brother officers. The 6th is not altogether without its compartment. Yet restless nights for Innakillings) Dragoons, as they pensations in the way of humour, lowed by frizzling days ara pecu- were styled before amalgamation remarks the "North China Daily Harly trying to the temper, with the 5th Dragoon Guards, have News" of March 21. Yesterday, trust, however, that none of us will collected a "handsome sum of money for some reason or other, two Pun-take a mean advantage of the heat for the purpose of erecting a war |jabis had to visit the headquarters wave to get off some of those ex- memorial to officers and men of the

of the Jhansi Brigade in the Char-pressions of personal opinion which regiment who fell in the war. Now tered Bank Building, and they we have so long been nursing they do rot know where to erect it.

brought their pet goat with them. against the other fellow but which at once Enniskillen, in Ireland, suggests itself, bat new that 1re-While they were in the act of deli- so far we have so generously with land is a Free State few of the off-vering their message; the goat ea- held. For ourselves we are adopt- cers or men are likely ever to go caped, and promptly made for the ing the Coué method. We Eep as back there and see the memorial. Brigade Commander's office. They suring ourselves that "every day made a dash after it, but the goat and in every way we are getting The alternatives are either a cen-

or somewhere then turned into another room and cooler and cooler." But to those to tral site in London on the Hindenburg line. Opinions it had to be chivvled through the whom the Cove method is unsuited greater part of the Brigade pre- we offer the suggestion once offered are still being invited from retired officers in the hope of reachingmises. It was finally captured in by Punch in similar circumstances

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"Keep cool." Home satisfactory compromise.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. C. W. H. Cochrane, Under Secretary to Government, FM.S.. has been appointed to be General Adviser to. the Government of Johore.

Mr.. Arthur Denman, who, in his 40 years as Clerk of Assize in the has not South-Eastern Circuit, missed one of the 120 Assizes held, is to receive a presentation from members of the Kent Grand Jury.

The death of Mr. C. O. Hagedorn took place at his residence, 441, Pasir Punjung, Singapore, after a. Cong illness. He was for a perfod of 19 years in the Installation Dept. of the Aalatic Petroleum Co. (S.S.). Ltd. He retired in July last owing to health. Much, sympathy will be felt for his widow and ten children.

That cinema-going is becoming rapidly fashionable is exemplified by the list of distinguished people who saw, the first presentation of "Don Juan". Lord and Lady Carisbrooke headed a Hst which in- cluded nearly fifty persons with titles. There was "a little informal reception" at the theatre before the film began,

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Sir Thomas Strängman, a direc- tor of the Singapore. Traction Com- pany, Ltd., has arrived in Singa- pore on a tour of Inspection. Sir Thomas was educated at Trinity Hall Cambridge and of the same year as the Bishop of Singapore And the Chief Justice, Sir William Murison. He

Advocate- General and member of the Legisla tive Counell, Bombay, from 1908- 1916 and, from 1915-1922 and con- tested Crew Division of Cheshire in 1923 and East Wolverhampton in the General election of 1924, in the Conservative interest. Sir Thomas expects to sail for home on March 25 by the "Mongolia.""

Count van Limburg-Stirum; "the new Dutch Minister to Berlin, was well known in Singapore during the time he presided at Buitenzorg as the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

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The following "deutha were an- houneed at Home In mail week:**** Alderman

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Mr. T. Takahashi, the manager of the Mitsui Bussan Kataha, Ltd., Singapore, is leaving for Japan on leave by the NY.K. steamer "Kashi ma Maru," which is sailing on or about March 28. He will return by the end of June.

Sir George Wright, formerly Acton's largest ratepayer, blnent magistrate and Middlesex Founder of G. Wright and Co., councillor, in a London, nursing makers of billiards tables, a pro-home, ged 80 Rev Robert

Mr. Henry Ford, the motor Car

magnate, whose forture, la extimater

Chadwick, rector of Caldecote, Nuneaton honorary canon of Wor- cester, formerly vicar of Chilvera- Coton parish church the Shepper ton Church of George Eliot's writ ings aged 71; and Mr. Harry Taylor. a noted South of England showman and in his early years a bare-fist fighter--who will receive,a "showman's funeral at Hounslow ut Feltham, Middlesex, aged 73.

Sume excitement was caused at the British Museum in mail week by a report that the King of the Belgians had paid it a visit. When: the King left his hotel members of This staff understood that he would probably go, there, but apparently the King became so much' absorbed in watching the surging life of the London streets that he did not have time to do so.. One of the officials at the Museum said that It was possible that the King had come in unannounced and walked round without being recognised. "He would not be the first royal.visitor to visit us unofficially," he added. "I have occasionally met Queen Mary when she has been visiting some of the collections"

Deaths announced at Home In mall week Include: "Alderman Joseph John Bisgood, the Mayor of Richmond, Surrey, and a member and former chairman of the Safety Almina Countess of Carnarvon

First Council, aged 67 Until re was lavolved fa a motor-car acci

cently he was the London Secretary Ident on the Albert Embankment,

of the Edinburgh Assurance Com- Lambeth. She received a severa

Fany and he jen sism proprietor of cut op the forehead and suffered

the Insurance Record. Mrs. G. C. from shock Her motor-car had

Angell, wife of the ractor of Dun- Just moved off after she had made

Kerton, Bath, and sister of Str scall at business premises, in com-

Arthur Conan Doyle. Mr. pany, with her husband, Colonel..

Benjamin Watson Nicholson, at Ian Dennistoun when a motor lorry

Gasport, Hampahire a member or coming from behind, came into col Haion with the ear Lady The wedding was solemaleed at the yacht building firm of Camper Carnarvon was thrown forward" St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, and Nicholson and elder brother' from her seat and cut over the are between Francis Ashton Johnson Mr C. E. Nicholson, the yacht de- While handkerchies was applied ard Beryl Blancha Reid, who ar- signer, aged 69. Mr. Matthew to the wound she was driven to Strived from Shanghal on the Wylie, one of the best known, solici Thomas's Hospital, a short distance "Patroclus." The bride was given tors in Northern Ireland and pro- sway After medical attention away by Capt. Clarke, of t

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