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Ona case of enteric fever The International, Recreation Just (Chinese) was reported yesterday. Club, Bubbling Well Road, Shang

hai, is being robuilt,

b Shanghal from Tsingtao Thursday,

The six students arre police and military in the Sc Science of the National

politan University; Shanghai, released.

On Sunday, October 31. 616 by persona attended the symphony - In eight armed robberies, com- of concert at the Town Hall, Shang-mitted by various gangs of armed tro-hni.

robbers in Shanghai last Thursday, verej

money, jewellery, and clothing to The Nanking Ministry of Fin- the value of $510 were stolen. ance has ordered the establishment | || A greater and more comp of a financial adjustment burenu To 500 of their striking era- hensive International Club wa Shanghai, states the Chinese ployees, who have been away from the keynote of an enthusiastic areak,

work since October 13, the man- dress delivered to the members

agers of a number of Chinese the International (Tennis) Club a

hotels in Shanghi now have offer! Peking recently by Mr. Hardiş

ed a monthly increase of $%, and Jowelt. chairman,

2 cents per parcel to the runners.

Telegraphic Information has been received from The Postal Ad- ministration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republies to the effect that the aerial service between Moscow and Konigsberg and Ber-i in was to be suspended on Nov.

According to the Japanese ess, the Japanese mill-owners in anghai have decided to curtail pbduction, with the inevitable re- Hotels and publie lodging-duation in stairs. houses in Frenchtown, Shanghal, are being searched by members of The Nanking. Military Council the French police force, with the has instructed the Shanghai Gar- purpose of apprehending unde-rison Commissioner to arrest cer- sirables sheltering there. The tai persons who are known to be Annamite troops from Tonkin are red biting-in Shanghai, allegedly on patrol duty every evening. for Feng Hu-hsiang's army, and', 1.

to dul drastically with them. Francisco Castro, post office en- ployee, hus been released from the custody of the secre: service upon order of Guillermo Guevara, city Ascal, says a Manila paper. The secret service and, the fiscal's office have not found evidence tending to implicate him in the disappear ance of a Pesos 20,000 package.

.. Two men in the Provisional Court, Shanghai, were remanded in custody last Saturday for inciting another to murder Lob Taung-foo, propriator of the Asia Trading Company, who was wounded in the hand and left shoulder as he was on his way to office some weaks

&ko.

t. O. Teppers, a German en- gineer, who is undergoing a prison sentence in the Amoy Road jail, was brought up in the Provisional Court, Shanghai, last Friday, charged with obtaining goods from different Japanese complainants, and tendering worthless cheques in payment, and was remanded.

Sixty persons, believed to be Seoul Boad, Shanghal. broke into strikers from the Wing On Mill, 30. the house of a forewoman at 25 Meichow Road, in her absence, and smashed her furniture and be longings. They were acting in a spirit of revenge, it is believed. as their victim gave evidence in the Provisional Court against several dismissed employees.

The Chinese lad who was con- victed on Monday by Mr, W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magia- tracy, of larceny of a jacket Crom the back yard of No. 1, Cu's Road. was yesterday morning sentenced to ten strokes of the cane. The

Pictures showing in the local cinemas for the last time this even-] ing, in addition to "The Blind Goddess" at the Queen's Theatre, are "The Dressmaker From Paris" in the continuous programme at the Star Theatre; and "The Boob" at the World Theatre. "The Boob" is being shown at 5.15 and 9.20 accountant of the shop in which the defendant was employer ap-

It is reported from Tainan only. The attraction at the 40 that Governor Lin has announced and 7.15 performances, also show-peared, but

that commencing from November 1ing for the inst time this evening. security for the boy,

refused to stand

An increased duty upon salt in is the Chinese light comedy "Min Shantung amounting to two cents Long Dong." per h will be imposed for the ald of war operationa, so as to reduce the burdens upon the Government Financial Bureau.

of

At about 8 p.m. Inst Thursday

The troopship "Somersetshire" the Chinese volunteers and mem- is due in Hong Kong to-day with her of the Chinese police force in drafts for the 1st Northampton-Shanghai came into conflict near shires the complete Battalion

Jessfeld Road, as a result of a dis- The long blank wall of the which it will later

nute in the to convey

Orpheum Theatre,! Temple of Heaven, fronting on Shanghai. The Queen's Royal Re- The fracas started when the Chi- North Honan Road, Shanghai, regiment are taking the place of the ese police interfered in a quarrel cently has been repainted with Northamptonshires

two at Hankow between

civilians and two large Chinese characters, a trans Barracks, Shamshuipo. The 2nd plain clothes detectives of the lation of which, abw in the hands Scots Guards are also stationed at Volunteer Corps. The captain of of the police, shows that the priest Nanking Barracks, Shamshuipo, the Corps, who acted as judge of hood urges that the Chinese should but at present are in camp at Lowu the dispute, was severely beaten take over the International Settle and likely to remain there until | UP.

near Christmua.

ment.

There was an exciting incident Last autumn, Peiganz uni in the harbour, a short distance In response to an urgent mes-versity's appeal for help in its de- from the Harbour Office yesterday sage from the District Magistrate partment of mechanical engineer- when six occupants of Tsungming, the Shanghai Gurling met with many responses from were rescued after having been of a sampan rison Commissioner has despatch British, American, and Swiss ed gunboat and two companies of gineering manufacturers and com- of a collision with

en- thrown from their craft as a result troops and marines to the island to panies.

the "Man suppress a serious movement which man firms also are beginning to Kong and Mongkok. The collision This autumn, many Ger- Shing" ferry plying between Hong is said to have started there. Rob make gifts of aid of Petyang. Of occurred as a result of the ferry, bers and pirates are reported to the latter, the most notable help the sampan, a cargo hout und a have joined forces and to have cap-given to the university was tured a polies station und

steam launch converging some Carlowitz and Co. of Tientsin who same course.

on the twenty rides. The district police communicated with the different the sampun which capsized were The occupants of chief and several of his men were factories in Germany and ao secur- rescued little the worse For im- taken prisoners, and one officered their valuable assistance for the mersion and the craft was later was killed in an attempt to resist. University.

towed into Mongkok.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. Graham Brown returned yes terday from Australia by the 8.3. "Tanda."

Col George G. Strecbe, of the Yangtze River Conservancy Board, has gene to Peking on business..

Miss Sarah Bosworth, of the Mis-. sion Book Company, has returned to Shanghai after a vacation of six weeks in the Philippines.

Col. E. H. Pickwoad arrived in Shanghai last Friday and is lenv ing for Home in a few daya.

General Duncan was stated by Japanese papers to be leaving Shanghai for Kobe on November 7.

Mr. H. W. Ray, of the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., returned from Shanghai on the as, "Presi- dent Grant."

Mr A. A. Ewing, Shanghai mana- Brigadier General Macnaghten," ger of the Shanghai Electric Con owing to his impending departure struction Co together with Mrs. from Shanghai resigns his seat on Ewing, returned to Shanghai Inst the Municipal Council.

week.

Miss Henrietta McKeen, recently The marriage of Mr. K. K. Staple of the U.S. Commercial Attache's and Miss M. J. Warbriek will take office, Shanghai, sailed last Thura- place at St. John's Cathedral on day for the United States, via Monday, at 2.45 p.m.. with a' recep Europe, tion afterward at the Hong Kong) Hotel.

Mr. J. H. Briater, director of the How Ming Trading Co., RCCOM- Miss Chen Yuen-sien, the Chief panied by Ms. Brister and their Judge of the Shanghai Local Court, son, returned yesterday from Aus- Yih Tsao-taang, Chu Fu-cheng, and tralia by the 8.s. "Tanda." Fu Ping-chang, members of the Central Committee of the Kuomin

Mr. Paul Premet and his family have returned to Shanghai from a holiday in France.

The Hon. Sir Shou-son and Lady Chow returned to the Colony by the "President Grant" on Monday.

give an exhibition of modern dances Mile. de Coudar und partner will at Lane Crawford's Restaurant at! the dinner dance on Saturday.

Communications of the Nationalist Wong Pah-chuan, Minister of Government, left the North Station," Shanghai, by train for Hangehow last Friday.

Miss Aileen Woods is due to ar- rive by the P. and O. "Macedonia" on Friday with Charles Chamiers Cabaret Co., who had a remarkably successful tour up North, Includ ing Japan.

Mr. T. Funatsu, former Consul- General of the Japanese Consulate- General in Shanghai, arrived in Pe- king recently. Mr. Fanatau is now tang at Nanking, arrived at the eial Counsellor, who, since his re-ciated Cotton Spinning Company in Mr. H. J. Brett, H.M. Commer- a director of the Japanese ABSO- Shanghai North Stations by train turn from a commercial tour of China. from Nanking last Friday.

Inspection up the Yangtze on Octo- ber 1. has been confined to hospital, Miss Penelope Eddon, daughter left Shanghai for a short holiday Redemptorist Mission at Manila, In a telegram received from the of the Rev. W. Eddon, of the Engat Weihaiwel last Saturday, lish Methodist Mission, Tientsin,

news has arrived of the death on has attained her B.A.

Thursday of the popular and well London University. It is believed solatium of $3,400 to the relatives Father Patrick Michael Lynch, The Government has granted a known preacher, the Very Reverend that she is the first lady in North of the late General Tien Wei-chin, | C.S.S.R... : China to take the degree from beside conferring upon him the Tientsin,

degree in

posthumous honour of super-gen- Mr. George W. Vilas, of tha eral.. $900 will first be issued to Manila office of the Robert Dollar Mr. and Mrs. Robert Craig Cum-the Tien family, while the remain- steamship company, has been ap berland were the guests of Dr. and der will be given them within five pointed agent of the company at Mrs. E. J. Anderson, of the Ameri-years, at yearly instalments can School, recently, as they pass- $500.

ed through Shanghal en route to

Mrs. Cumberland was,

of Tientaln, to succeed Mr R. W. Ring. Mr. Vilas was expected in Tientsin yesterday.

James- person-

value of

America. Miss Harriet Gunn before her maron" from Hong Kong to San Fran- Aboard the "President Jeffer- ringe on October 14, in Manila.

Sir Robert William Bucharian cisco via ports yesterday. were: Jardine, Bart, of Castle Milk, Mr. T. W. Southan, of the Asiatic Lockerbie, N.B., and St. Mr. Laichand, the managing Petroleum Co., travelling to Shang-

place, S.W., left partner of Messrs. Wassiamull As-hai; Mrs. I. Geare, wife of the Man- £1,647,203, This includes horses

alestate of the somull & Co., and the President of ager of the Vacuum Oil Co, travel in training valued at £38,769 the Sind Hindu.Merchants Asso-ling to Shanghai; Dr. D. W. Lyon, ciation, la shortly leaving the travelling to Shanghai. Dr. Lyon yearlings, brood mares and stal- Colony Mr. T. Naraindas, who is is attached to the National Council lions value £80,445; greyhounds coming from India per 5.8. "Por of the Y.M.C.A.; Mr. T. V. Soong, and War stock value £595,721.

value £2,412; Victory 'Bonds thos" to-day will take his place. formerly Minister of Finance of

the Chinese Nationalist Govern- og ment, going to Shanghai; Mr. J. A preliminary, inquest which was Advices from Los Angeles an-Angleitner, connected with the opened in Shanghai last Thursday nounce that Mr. Em Danenberg Chinese: Maritime Customs, going by Coroner I. T. Morris, at the Bri has joined the-Los Angeles Acato Shanghai, Dr. and Mrs. C. Atish Police Court, on the body of demy of Music and, has charge of Hayes, connected with the Southern, Able Seaman, Taylor, of HM.S. one of its branch schools. Mr. Baptist Convention, Cantor, re- Argus, who fell into the Whang Danenberg and his talented young turning home to the United States poo on October 25 and whose body on have appeared at many con- on furlough Mr. A. Flashman, was recovered last Thuraday near certs on the Pacific Coast of resident of Shanghai, returning Hunt's Wharf was adjourned sine America and have been exceeding Home to Europe via the United die, after evidence of identification ly well received everywhere. Blates,

was heard.

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