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THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927.

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Hongkong, April 1, 1924.

A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE. ·

What is going to happen to Hankow and what is going to happ to Peking?

These are the two questions mostly discussed in China to-day. Chiang Kai-shek's threat to attack the former and oust the Communists has not yet matérialised, though there are many indications that such a move is imminent. Feng Yu-hsiang is persevering in his march upon the Fengtien forces, with Peking and Tientsin as his objective, and has crossed the Yellow River. His menace to Chang Tso-lin and the capital appears more ominous than Chiang's now long-promised exter mination of the Bolsheviks in Hankow and other Yangtse ports.

Never was the political-cum-military situation in this sorely-tried country at a more interesting stage. Develop- ments that have led up to this position are fully set out in this week's "Overland Mail."

Here you have a week's papers in one, enabling yourself and those at Home or elsewhere to follow the events-in their logical so far as anything out here is logical-order.

In regard to Hong Kong news, there is the full report of the "Leung Kwong" inquiry, carrying with it a severe con- demnation of this Colony's regulations in respect to safety measures employed on ships engaged in passenger business be- tween here and river ports; there are full details of the strike amongst employees of the China Navigation Company, result ing in the laying up of a large number of coastal vessels, and there is all the local, social, sporting and commercial news, 'intelligently arranged for the reader who desires to know what has happened over the whole week. The "Overland" is the ideal weekly paper to send Home,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

For Gloucester against Somer- set Hammond made his sixth hundred of the season.

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Lord Wimborne's Fancy Free won the Whitsuntide Cup at Hurst Park race meeting.

Professor J. B. Bury, Reglus Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, has died in his 66th

year.

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It was their earnset. hope that every possible success might at- tend the noble alms and objects of the congress.

At a special delegate confer- ence of the Miners' Federation, Mr. Herbert Smith reported that in every district conditions were very bad. It is understood that the conference decided in favour of confiscation, instead of com- pensation, in the event of the nationalisation of minerals.

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The Minister of Health stated that in the building society movement we had got one of the major influences which moulding the lives and charac- ters of our people. It was lift- ing a whole section of the com- munity from a position of de- pendence to a state of indepen- dence.

The King, on the occasion of

his birthday placed two of the Royal paddocks in Bushy Park at the disposal of the National Playing Fields Association for use as a public playing field for boys and girls. His Majesty has taken this course "as a mark of his great interest in the movement that is being made to provide playing fields for child-

ren."

In three plane, disasters on Surrey were defeated by the Continent seven aviators Notts at Trent Bridge by nine have been killed.

wickets.

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Nine people were killed and twenty injured, near Moulins, when the Paris Nimes express ran into a derailed wagon of a goods train.

Canon Brown, secretary of the Advisory Council of Training for the Ministry, states that the new scheme for remedying the dearth of clergy in the Church of Eng- land has had a hopeful start.

Burglars who broke into the Tooting Junction Station of the Southern Railway and dug out

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Sir Henry Bird was fined £50 by the Stewards of the Hurst Park,race meeting.

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Hampshire, left with 375 runs to win, beat Kent by four wickets; Lancashire won against Yorkshire by eight wickets.

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The Fascist Directory has. issued a scathing reply to the attack on the Italian delegation in Geneva by the Socialist dele- gates of the Third International.

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The voluntary liquidation of a safe weighing Bewt. from its the Northumberland Shipbuild- Company, whose share concrete casing could not opening it, and left it some distance from capital is £6,900,000, is the station,

nounced in the "London Gazette."

House of Commons intimated The Home Secretary in the

that Russians desiring to come to Britain for the purpose of bona-fide trade are to have the same facilities as any other for- eign nationals,

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In a message sent on the occa- sion of the annual banquet of the Royal Institute of Public Health, at Ghent, the King said the question of public health was very near to the hearts of the Queen and himself,

While hundreds

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of Sunday school children were picnicking at Murtle, Deeside, about six miles from Aberdeen, what is described by eye-witnesses as a fireball caused a panic, and one girl was temporarily blinded.

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Delegates to the Convention of Rotary International heard prac- tical suggestions for the exten sion of Rotary in Europe, and discussed in sectional meetings business methods and the classi- fication of club members.

£50,000 bequeathed by the late Sir Robert Houston to his old employees was paid out in the offices of R. P. Houston and Co.,

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In connection with the annual congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, the degree of

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The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer in the House of Com mons, replying to a question in regard to the proposed issue of non-stamped cheques for sums under £2, stated that counsel

Mr. Harry H. Rogers, pre- was being consulted as to the sident of Rotary International liability of these receipts for in an interview, expresses con- stamp duty. If it were found fidence that the first Rotary In- necessary to safeguard the re-ternational Convention to be venue of the year, there would held on the Continent of Europe, be ample time to deal with the Ostend, will be a notable suc- matter before the Committee stage of the Finance B was

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The Archbishop of Canterbury replied to critics of the Church of England and the Revised Prayer Book in his address to the Canterbury Diocesan Con- ference. Nobody, imagined, he said, that either by proposing new rules or by consigning to the wastepaper basket what had been done, and leaving things entirely alone, they would at once arrive at complete harmony, orderliness and peace, but he did not find it difficult to decide which alternative presented the happier prospect.

EXIT SHALE OIL.

THE ROMANCE OF THE

SCOTTISH FIELDS.

What has been for almost a cen- tury a prominent industry in Scot- land is now becoming a thing of the past. The recent news, of the closing down of the mines and works of the Scottish shale-oil in- dustry marks the end of a dream of prosperity that has never at any time become really true (writes "E. T." in the Glasgow "Evening News"). Situated in a district whose centre is twelve miles west

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surgeon.

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est, that General Averescu, the It is announced, from Buchar-

Roumanian Premier, has re- signed, and King Ferdinand has charged Prince Barbu Stirbey, brother-in-law of M. Bratianu to form a "Government of National Concentration." The change in Government, it is said, decreases the chances-of-the-return-of-the ex-Crown Prince Carol.

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tion, he says, is to extend Rotary ian, was received with enthus- The aim of the. conven- King Albert, himself a Rotar- to every city large enough to iasm on arriving, to open the support a Rotary club through-eighteenth annual convention of out the entire Continent.

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Rotary International at Ostend. In welcoming the delegates his Mr. George H. Cox, J.P. (a Majesty said he was convinced former vice-president and chair- of the increasing influence of man of the Liverpool Chamber their remarkable organisation. of Commerce), has been pre- Rotarian principles made good sented with his portrait in oils servants of the State and de- by his co-directors and the senior veloped amongst members of officials of the Salt Union,. Ltd., a nation and of society true and its subsidiaries on complet- friendship that great need of ing nearly 30 years' service as the world. "The great Rotarian vice-chairman, and subsequently ideal, essentially a humanitarian chairman of the company. A ideal of brotherhood, may have replica of the portrait is to be an efficient application in the presented by Mr. Cox to the broad sphere of international re- company..

lationship," added the King.

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with a capital of some three mil- lions sterling employed about ten thousand men. Considerable tivity was continued for some years after the war, but the problem of acute. foreign competition soon became

WORLD THEATRE.

“EAST LYNNE” TO-DAY TO

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Frank Keenan, one of the Things 1925 the companies in West Lothian ever faced a camera, is seen in became so bad that in greatest character actors that intimated that it would be neces- sary to close down, 30 per cent. of one of the important feature roles plant and reduce wages by 10 per in the William Fox screen version cent. This announcement was fol- of Mrs. Henry Wood's stage play lowed by a four weeks' strike. Since of years past, "East Lynne." then the industry has gradually en- countered conditions that have gone actor plays Chief Justice Hare, In the photoplay, the veteran from bad to worse, so that it was whose radical views on the sub- no surprise when the Broxburn and

of Edinburgh much was hoped for Pumpheraton oil companies decided/ Ject of justice drive his own son from the wide shale field. It was to close some of their most impor from his door. The role is one of thought that the increasing use of tant works and mines.

oil would mean a corresponding in- The only hope of permanent pros- creasing profit. Foreign competi-perity in the district lies in favour tion decided otherwise.

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ed conditions being granted by Gov-| And it is in this type of char- The shale-oil industry began in ernment. With the amount of shale] acterisation that Frank Keenan a small way about the middle of produce now being brought into the excels. He is a man of strong last century. The pioneer in the country and the amount required industry was James Young, of for commerce, Government con- Kelly, who, under patent, pro- trol or tariff to any extent would duced paraffin and paraffin-oil from meet with great opposition. the shale. Especially was solid | paraffin produced with some success and consequent profit, Trained as a working joiner under his father, James Young at length entered the Andersonian College at Glasgow, and latterly became assistant in the chemistry laboratory thera. In that capacity he taught David Livingstone, who afterwards nam ed an African river after him. OI

*TONIC TALKS TO PALLID

PESSIMISTS.

No. 1.

The cast of illustrious cinema stars assembled for the leading roles in "East Lynne" is a signal criterion of the elaborate mes- sures taken by the producer to make the celebrated play one of the season's outstanding pictures: Alma Rubens and Edmund him Livingstone also said that he It is your ruddy, healthy individual Lowe portray the two leading had "shed a pure light in many whose outlook on life is cheerful, parts, with Lou Tellegen, Mar- lowly cottages and in some rich Fessimism is doubtless on occasion Jorie Daw, Leslie Fenton, Belle palaces as I, too, have shed a light justified, but too often is the expression Bennett, Paul Panzer, Martha of a weak digestion, of exhausted of another kind."

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