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China's civil war has taken a new turn which is com- plicated enough to be described as a puzzle to non-Chinese.

Some suggest that "people are tired of the war in China" but it should be borne in mind that nationals or Powers in Europe and America are deeply interested because of the danger to the respective Legations.

This week's "Overland China Mail" explains-in a manner which is bound to be of assistance to the foreigner— how Peking is being involved in a momentous struggle,

Also, tell your friends in other parts of the world how Hong Kong observed H.M. the King's birthday by a pageant of splendour. Tell former Hong Kong residents about the parade the like of which was never seen in the Colony before. Do so by sending them a copy of the "Overland."

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The "Cameo" Orchestra, by permission of Capt. Eliot, RN, will play during and after dinner- at Messra, Lane, Crawford's Re- staurant to-morrow evening,

The whist drive held yes- terday evening at the Police Recreation Club, Happy Valley, in aid of the Police Branch funds of the Ministering Children's League was a well attended affair.

The achievement of the Southern Railway's champion locomotive, Lord Nelson, in drawing a 16 coach corridor train at 85 miles an hour will' doubtless surprise many people, to whom "a mile a minute" signi- fies the speed of a fast express. So much demands on rolling stock and the condition of the permanent way that it is hard for the ordinary traveller to estimate the speed of a train, and even with a watch in the hand, it is not easy to check the speed, since railway mileposts, are apt to be elusive things (says 蟲 "Morning Post"

writer).

Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of Philadelphia head of the Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of the "Ladies Home Journal" and. the "Saturday Evening Post."

AnAnonymous. British Benefactor" has donated $1,000. to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul through the Captain Super- intendent of Police.

A letter-card posted in Wallasey 13 years ago has just been delivered in the adjoining town of Birkenhead. The writer asked her sister to re- member her to mother and father, but they have now been dead six years.".

Some little while ago there was told the story of a mule possessed by the transport of the Middlesex Regiment, who, hither- to of a character as nearly irre proachable as ever can go to the credit of an Army mule, suddenly refused to allow even his personal valet to touch him batween the ears, as the result of which he grew an amazing top-knot which on parade spoiled the appearance of the whole battalion. In de- spair the Transport Officer tried science, and the still more effec- every ruse known to veterinary

tive dodges learnt by experience in the Army, all without effect. However, it takes more than that to tarnish the escutcheon of the "Diehards." "Making sure that the Padre was out of earshot, the Transport Officer led a mass at- disease were reported to the Medi-Major with a liver or a Navigat Three cases of notifiable tack against that mule. A ricaha went sky-high, and a Sergeant- cal Officer of Health yesterday.ing Officer in a collision could not Two patients were Chinese, both have said more than was said, but from the city registration district, that mule was collared, laced in one suffering from diphtheria and the stocks and shingled a la mode. other from cerebro-spinal fever. Officer smiles in his accustomed So once again the Transport The third case concerned a British beatific no

patient with enteric fever (typhoid) "Diehards" again hold their heads the

from the Kowloon district.

high on parade.

Perhaps the best way is to listen to the rhythmic beat caused by the wheels as they pass the joins in the rails. There must always be a gap here to allow for the expansion, and with the 60 foot rail, if we take the number of beats, say, in 20 seconds, and double the figure, we arrive at a rough estimate, of the number of miles per hour. The error is only between 2 and 3 per cent, which can easily be added. Of course, the timing should be done on stretches where there are points to upset the calculations of the observer,

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Passengers arriving here yes- terday On the s.s. "Santos Maru" from Japan ports includ- ed: Sir Thomas and Lady Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. Hare, Mr. and Mrs. Shellack, Mr. Morens and Mrs. Hillier. Sir: Thomas Gibbons, K.C., was advocate gen- eral of Bengal from 1917 to 1922 and was knighted in 1923.

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Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles was 30 years old in She had a heavy mail week.. postbag at Chesterfield House, Mayfair, having recently return- ed there after her visit with Via- count Lascelles to the King and Queen at Windsor. Congratula- tiong in great mimber were sent to her and she was the recipient of many birthday gifts,

Another double of the Prince of Wales has turned up-this time unfortunately, in London. People cannot help looking like His Royal Highness, of course, but some of them take adv atage of the fact. Little is heard about this side of the affair, but it is not unusual for the Household to receive bills for meats and so on at places which the Prince has never entered in his life. He must have at least seven or eight doubles going about..

-PHANY KILLER, WASILI

Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, who is in com-- mand of the British Fleet in Chins. He has a distinguished naval record, and commanded the destroyer flotillas in action in Heligoland during the war,afor which he received numerous de

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manner and

Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary during the tensely critical years 1905-1916, has celebrated his 65th birthday without having yet attained the Ideal of rest and retirement he once pictured for himself. "It will be a time of unlimited leisure," he predicted, "spent with old friends in a library. There will be a garden outside the library and at the bottom of the garden a river. That will| be the happiest time of all. Ini those days I shall have no thought of politics except to read the speeches Mr. Winston' Churchill will still be making in the House of Commons."

-Pitch Hill, where the Prince of Wales has taken a house for the summer, is one of the series of great greensand bluffs overlook- ing the Weald of Sussex. Leith' Hill, Holmbury Hill, Pitch Hill, Hascombe Hill, and Hindhead. stand like a row of natural forts facing the South Downs and the sea (says the "Morning Post.") All are comparatively easy of access from the north, but fall suddenly to the plain below on the south, and this gives them an add- ed value as view points. Around Pitch Hill, which by the way is marked on the Ordnance map as Coneyhurst Hill, spreads the great expanse of Hurt Vood, BD called, no doubt, from the masses of whortleberries, or "hurts," which cover a large part of the ground here and all along the greensand range. The great wood

The death has occurred at Brighton, after a long illness, of Sir Thomas Duncan Rhind, Among the passengers arriving A.R.I.B.A., one of a well-known at Hong Kong by the e.s. "Talma" Edinburgh family of architects, yesterday from Calcutta via A son of the late Mr. John Rhind, Singapore were: Mr. and Mrs. A.R.S.A., he spent his apprentice J. Albeck, Mr. V. A. Robikoff, is cut across by roads here and days in the city, and then worked In London for a time.. He re turned to Edinburgh to become à partner of the firm of Mosers. Paterson and Rhind, and, on the death of Mr. Paterson, carried on business on his own account.

Major G. W. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Mr. H. C. Lofts, Mr. L. McNutt, Mr. W. T. Long well, Mr. Gill Mr. G. M. D. Wolf, Mrs. Cohen Mr. Swaine, Mf Soiffair, Dr. A. E. Rasmyn and Mr. O. E Davies.

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