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On Good Friday and Satur. day, the offices and stations of the Chinese. Maritime Customs | will be closed, including those of Kowloon and district.

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Sir A. Conan Doyle, writing in the Daily Express," advocates small balloons or hydrogen knapsacks as aids to pedestrians. He says that, what is needed is a balloon which will turn a fifteen stone man into five stone so that The can walk without fatigue. The "Dally Express" has organ- ised so-called "jumping balloon tenta,” at the Edgware Bero- | drome, using a balloon eighteen feet in diameter with a lift of ten stone.

Two cases of nobiriable, dis- When Too Camper, of ende were reported during the Spokane, was arrested for motor, week-end. One was Chinese speeding and lodged in jail, he with amell-pox and the other a attempted to commit suicide by Portuguese with diphtheria, both stabbing himself, but he welghq from the Kowloon registration 25 stone, and there are so many district.

layers of fat over his ribs that the blade of the knife he used was too short to reach his heart.

The hysterics of a woman in the stalls, at the conclusion of the first act, held up the vampire play "Dracula" at the Little Theatre for half-an-hour. Four other women fainted. A doctor and a trained nurse attend all performances owing to the fre- quency of patrons' prostrations.

The driver of the famous

A pretty wedding took place at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai when Miss M, W. Jage of the Church Missionary Society was married to Rev. T. Caldwell, also of the C.M.S. The Rt. Rev. H..W. K. Mowil, D.D., Bishop of West China, performed the cere mony, assisted by the. Very Rev. Dean Symons.

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An hour after a baby girl had been born in Vancouver, sur geons successfully operated on In large type the Manila her for a ruptured abdominal Times" saya-Few Americans in wall with acute appendicitis ined at the outbreak of the Great Two Frenchmen, who desert- the Far East take much pride in which gangrene had developed. War and who had lived alone for our "holfer than thou" pro-Only a local anaesthetic was twelve years in the Alps, were gramme in China. We have a used, and the baby has a good acquitted by a court-martial d large force in Shanghai, but thus chance of living. While the Lyons. Their defence was that far it seems to have been sent for operation was being performed they belonged to a fanatical sect the purpose of standing by while the mother bore a second twin which forbade the shedding of the British pull our chestnuts out which was in perfect condition.

blood. They had even abstained of the fire. This course may be

from killing game for food, they profitable, but is hardly dignified.

said. Nobody resents it more keenly, motor bus.. "Old Bill" which by the way, than the naval per served in France for the duration sonnel and marines whose hands of the war, and now is the oldest are tled by orders from Washing bus in London, was fined for ton. The "Times" goes on to exceeding the speed limit at quofe a passage from the "Lon-Willesden, when on the way to a don & China Express, and funeral, loaded with wreaths concludes with the remark, "Up The magistrates. regretted having to the present our motto has been, to fine the veteran, and reduced Let George (the Fifth) do it.” the amount from the usual 60s This comment was made a fort- to 10s Apart from its annual night ago, and is published as attendance at the Cenotaph on showing the feeling of Americans Armistice Day, "Old Bille" duties throughout the Far East at that nowadays are.. confined to time..

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busmen's funerals.

The survival of the Middle Ages in the Near East is illus. trated by a. singular incident at. Bucharest. When we.. last re- formed the calendar angry people went about clamouring, "Give us

action against the Armstrong During the hearing of his. Siddeley Co..., in which he claims damages for alleged wrongful dismissal, Capt. Courtney. the famous air pilot, said he was. now employed by the Autogiro Company at a higher retainer than he received from Armstrong Siddeley. He also received a bonus. Mr. Justice Aeton: I have been accustomed to regard aviatora as the bravest men in the world. Did not you have the pluck to ask, Siddeleys for the bonus you are now claiming T that worse than aying? Capt. Courtney: Some people think it 18.

Replying to allegations by a French Journalist in the "Gaulois," Sir Arthur K. Yapp. National! Secretary of the Y.M.C.A... declares: Neither in China nor anywhere else is the Y. M. C. A. the agent of Com-back

With the object of protesting our 11 days!' The against the erection of а печу munism. Sufficient evidence of Roumanians, following Turks and 150ft, water tower at Newnham this is to be found in the fact that Russians, are now reforming with (Women's) College, Cambridge, the last American secretary of a tale of days raised to 13, and male undergraduates scaled the the Y.M.C.A has been expelled many reactionaries are raging tower at midnight, fixed on it an from Soviet Russia, and in 1922 furiously. Their leader is a very effigy of a woman, and painted the Communist panty in China hairy monk named Vojnescu, who swore the death of the YMCA. walked barefoot all the way from Owing to the erection of elabor- on the tank, "Jeremiah, V.30." in the country, and it was their Mount Athos, leaped into the ate barbed-wire entanglements boast that in four years' time pulpit of the cathedral, and de-after the climb, the authorities they would absolutely wipe outnounced King Royal Family, at present are unable to remove its work. It will interest you Patriarch and Ministers as re-the figure. The male under- to know that three YMCA.negades, Romanisers and traitors graduates applaud the gesture, centres, manned by British secre- taries, are now open for our sailors and soldiers in Kowloon and two other secretaries are on their way from England to open up similar centres in Shanghat.

to Orthodoxy. He has been tucked away in prison for the present, but he has plerity of partisans outside, and stupider prejudices have often sufficed to provoke revolutions.

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believing that all but the women dona. regard "the tower as a monstrosity. Jeremiah V. 30 runs:-"A wonderful and horri- ble thing is committed in the land."

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

'Mr. M. M.. Maas vas one of the passengers

who sailed on the Empresa of Russia" yesterday for Manila.

1. Mr. L. Gay, Captain T. 'Davið». son, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hicks were among the passengers on the Kamo Maru" when she left Hong Kong on Saturday for London via Singapore.

Miss Pauline Frederick, the American actress had a remarkable reception in "Madame X.," under Mr. E. J. Carroll's management at the Lyreum Theatre. It was typi- cal old-time melodrama. Mr. Frank Harvey was, a

successful member of the casty

Mr. J. Soriano (manager of The Marquis of Blandford, son Messrs. R. Soriano & Co., Shang- and heir of the Duke of Mart hai merchants), arrived in Hengborough has retired from his Kong to-day on the President captainey in the Life Guards, re- Polk."

ceiving a gratuity, according to an announcement in the "Gazette."

landed at Hong Kong from the Among the passengers who

Mr. W. P. W Ker, head of the Saturday from Vancouver via and Co., and formerly of Singapore, "Empress of Russia" (arrived on London office of Paterson. Simons Shanghai) were Mrs. C. H. met with a nasty accident. He was Benson, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Huza taxi which ran into another Man, Mr. P A. Crampton, Dr. vehicle and he was thrown forward Y. S. Huang, and Mrs. F. M. so violently that his kneecap was Yvanovich.

broken. He is making a good re- covery, but will have to nurse the limb for some times. Mr. R. M Williams has since been acting for

Mr. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (the son of the American President) is in Hong Kong, on a tour of the world. He is one of the batch

Hong Kong estate to the value travelling under the auspices' of

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Mr. Frank N.. W. Doodha, the of $8,300 was left by the late the D. F. Robertson Bureau on popular hon secretary of St. 1. F da Rocha, of Mosque Street, the "President Polk" which sails Andrew's Young Men's Club, is letters of administration in to-morrow for Manila.. Mr. respect of whose estate have been Grant is accompanied by his leaving for Saigon and Singapore granted to Mr. J. M. da Rocha, of wife. Among the seventy toury the 8. "General Metzinger". 12 Connaught. Road Central.

A London'

message announces

to-morrow. Mr. Deodha hopes to Participate in "some game-hunting in Indo-China, combining plea- sure with his business trip to the Straits Settlements, returning to Hong Kong about the end of May.

lats on the "President Polk" are Professor and Mrs. Karl W Gehrkens of Oberlin, Ohio and the death at Maita of Mr. Edgar Dr. C. W. Montgomery of Los Bonavia, C.M.G., Permanent Secre- Angeles. tary to the Head of the Ministry under the Malta Home Rule Con- Through passengers on the. stitution. Mr. Bonavia frequently President Polk" (arrived to-day Facted as Governor of the island in from the North) includes:-Mr.'

Political celebrities-in particular the absence of General Sir Walter F. R. Chichgar (Bombay cotton Congreve whose death occurred re-merchant) for Colombo; Mr. Kirk in the "Daily News."

would seem to be the subjects of mistaken identity, writes Oswald C. W. Frincke (Eddy Paper he was still Mr. Balfour, the then When Miss Olive Young, one of the Corporation) for New York: Mr Prime Minister found at a Conser leading Chinese cinema "stara," W T Lewis (Firestone Tire &vative dinner at a Holborn restaur has returned to Hong Kong, Rubber Co.) for Singapore; Mirant a waiter who bore a remarkable arriving from Shanghal today. A. Spalding (Manufacturers resemblance to himself. And an at- on the "President Polk Miss Life Insurance Co. of Toronto) tendant on a railway dining Young is now with the Great for Manila; Mr. T Troller (man-saloon, some years ago, was dis- Wall Film Co. of Shanghai, after ager, Grand Hotel des Wagons a stay in Hollywood. A few Lits, Peking) and Mrs. Troller years ago she was a teacher in for Genoa, Hong Kong.

cently.

The following officers were In the quiet old Surrey village elected for the year at the annual of Chobham Dame Ellen Terry, the meeting of the Chinese Club on actress) celebrated her 79th birth Saturday: President, Mr. B. day. As the le still recovering Wong Tapes Vice President, Dr. from her recent illness, Dame Ma Lok, Secretary, Mr. Kan Ellen spent the day quietly, and Kam-ching Treasurer, Mr. Pau she could not have chosen a more Chan-kwong; General Commit restful place than the gabled tee, Messrs. Leung Ying-kun, country house with smooth lawna where she is staying with a friend Congratulatory telegrams, telephone messages, letters, and Ponte wars constantly arriving, many of them from prominent actors (aild Matresses, Dame Elion made, her;

Me first stage appearance in 1866, and for 24 years acted to partnership Bund, with Henry Irving

Cheung U-Pul, Tal Ming-tak Wong Kin-wo, K. L Chau, M. Wong Woo PERU Chiu Maichara, Toung, Blu-tung

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