WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1927.
SPECIAL MID-SUMMER NUMBER
of the
CHINA JOURNAL
COLOURED PLATES: NUMEROUS HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS AND LINE DRAWINGS.
FASCINATING ARTICLES FOR ALL CLASSES OF READERS.
1. "DRAMAS OF THE
THREE KINGDOMS" by George Kin Leung. This deals with the famous historical plays of the Chinese, and should be of special interest to stúdents of drama.
2. "THE CHINESE-TIBETAN BORDERLAND AND ́ITS PEOPLES" by Paul Hosten Stevenson. A thrilling account of travel, exploration and ethnical investigation on the Chinese frontiers of Tibet.
3 "WITH RIFLE, GUN AND ROD IN MANCHURIA" by V. de Franck. An account of the wonderful trout and salmon fishing to be had in North-western Manchuria. 4. "SHELLS OF PEITAIHO" by A. W. Grabau and Sahtsu G. King. Those visiting the seaside resorts of North China should on no account miss this instructive article. It tells you what you want to know about the shell life of the China Const.
5. "BIRD MIGRATION NOTES' by Rufus H. Lefever.
If you are interested in birds, this article will appeal to you.
Besides these there are notes on Science, Shooting, Fishing, the Garden, and the Kennel, as well as Reviews of books and comments upon Chinese art, etc., etc.
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Heavy catches of tope and dog- fish (species of small sharks) are being made daily. by Deal and Folkestone fishermen.
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Skipper Brennan, of the Grimsby steam trawler "Mora- via," has been fined £700 in Iceland for alleged illegal trawl-
ing,
While working on Machyalleth, Montgomeryshire, gasworks chimney, Walter Tomlinson, 23, a steeplejack, fell 60 feet and was killed.
Mr. John Sands, of Goodsoal Cottage, Burwash Common, Sus- sex, has celebrated his 101st birthday,
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Of 28 officers of the Scots
Guards who have gone with the 2nd Battalion to Shanghai 18 are Etonians, says the Eton College "Chronicle."
Mr. Wilfred Trubshaw, assist- ant, chief constable, has been ap- pointed chief constable, of Lanca- shire, 'to succeed the late Sir Philip Lane,
The Royal Bank of Scotland is! to issue a new one pound note of the same size as that Issued by the Treasury.
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vice to the city of Salisbury, the
In recognition of 40 years' ser-; freedom of the city is to be con- ferred on Alderman Hoskins.
Mr. Ernest Ball, the author of "Love Me and the World is Mine" and many other popular songs, died suddenly from heart failure at Santa Anna, California,
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Princess Mary paid her first The efforts of Mr. Stimson, The G.W.R. steamer St. David) visit to the Royal Masonic Insti- President Coolidge's personal re-struck Penainglas rocks tution for Girls at Clapham Junc-presentative, to effect a settle-Fishguard, in a fog, and was tion, S.W., where she distributed ment in the Nicaraguan civil war, slightly damaged, but reached the prizes.
port unassisted after four hours delay.
The baltered body of Margaret Farrell, 85, an old-age pensioner, whose house had been ransacked, was found in a field at Kirikee, County Wicklow.
A dolegate conference of the London taxi-cab trade decided to request an interview with the Prime Minister on the question of reduced fares,
In a case of shoplifting at Dublin it was stated that a young woman carried away a tea ser vice of 21 pieces without being noticed by the staff.
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The women of the borough of Northampton are to present to the mayoress, Mrs. James Peach, a chain of office made of solid gold, designed by a local firm.
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have ended in failure.
Birmingham Housing Sub, Committee are recommending acceptance of a local firm's tender for building 708 houses at Acock3 Green at a cost of $245,070.
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In connection with a fire at Little Buds Farm, Shipbourne, near Tonbridge, Kent, in which a 300-years-old barn was destroy- ed, Tonbridge police arrested a youth.
The King and Queen were to attend a special matinee perform- ance of the musical play "Princess Charming" at the Palace Theatre, W.C., on May 20, in aid of the League of Mercy.
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On June 9 a race will take i place on the Thames between | sailing barges, the course being from Lower Hope Point, below Gravesend, to the Mouse Light and back to Gravesend.
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A motor-car skidded and ran into a bank on the Cambridge Road, near Cheshunt, Hertford- shire, and Mrs. Alice Burtwell, The price of London standard: of Winchester Road, Highgate, grade flour was officially ad- N., a passenger, was fatally in-vanced by 13. ner 280lb. to 478. jured.
The Mexican Supreme Court has revoked the partial injune- tions granted by the lower courts Mrs. Kenyon, the wife of an to nine foreign oil companies re- Inland Revenue official at Maid-straining the Federal authorities stone, was drowned through the from enforcing the new land and capsizing of a boat on the River petroleum laws. Medway between Maidstone and Tonbridge..
Walsall Town Council has au- thorised an expenditure of £16,300 on motor-omnibuses to take the place of tramway-cars on a section of the system which is to be scrapped.
Tomtits who built a nest in the Ross Memorial Clock at Wolver- hampton, having gained an entry through the aperture used for the winding-key, have been evicted, their operations disorganising
the mechanism.
The jury at Swansea Under-❘ Sheriff's Court awarded Mrs. Mary Linnard £1,400 damages against Mr. William Davies, motor-car proprietor, of Llanelly, for the loss of her husband, killed by Mr. Davies's motor-car.
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An order has been issued for the removal from the Commission of the Peace for Barrow-in- Furness of the name of Mr. John Craig, landlord of the Bay Horse Hotel, Hawcoat, Barrow, who was fined £25 for assaulting a girl aged 11.
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In the 107 county boroughs and great towns of England and Wales recently, the births num- bered 7,602, the largest number in one week since the week end- ed June 5, 1926, when the total. was 7,833.
Among a collection of samplers sold at Messrs. Sotheby's, one dated 1648, worked with floral patterns, the whole in coloured silks, with three lines of letter- ing, giving date and name of the worker, realised £142,
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cattle
Mr. W. Lavender, a farmer, ofį Blackmore, near Chipping Ongar, Essex, while driving towards the farm was attacked by a bull, but a farm labourer came to his aid and drove the animal off with a pitchfork.
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A letter of protest against the proposed development of a part of Windsor Forest between Ascot¦ and Bagshot, where it is intend-j ed to open up sites for building, read at a meeting of the Windsor Rural District Council.
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The coal output of the mines of Great Britain for the week ending April 30 last, when 1,028,700 workers were employ- ed, was 5,500,100 tena, compared with 3,640,600 tons raised by 1,025,200 workers a week earlier.
The following United States warships will visit Gravesend:- The light cruiser "Detroit” from June 20 to July 12; the destroyers "Borie" and "Tracy," July 27 to August 8; and the destroyers "Whipple" and "Barker," from July 1 to July 7.
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When protests were made at Newton Abbot Rural Council against the practice of specula- tors purchasing or leasing work- men's cottages in South Devon and letting them furnished to holiday-makers, it was stated that one woman used nine cottages in that way.
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