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Canton affairs have again loomed large on the horizon, owing to the coup against General Li Chai-sum by the Ironsides. It is now revealed that the former was the victim of the

treachery usual in Chinese civil war conditions.

In the North, the Southern Nationalists claim to have driven back the Hankow faction considerably, besides making headway against the Northern Allies, headed by Marshal · · Chang Tso-lin.

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The 300 inmates of the prison at Lodz have begun a hunger- strike.

The Soviet Central Committee ratified the Russo-Latvian Trade Treaty.

Next year's Bisley meeting will begin on July 9.

At a two-days sale of shire horses which concluded at' Peter-. borough £6,230 was remised.

The Admiralty has ordered the "I flatter myself I have no pre-discharge of 125 men from the en- Judices; I am entirely a creature gineering department of Chatham of the statute.”—Mr. Bingley, the dockyard. · Marylebone magistrate,

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, has arranged for a free lecture on Christian Science to be held in the City Hall on Tuesday, December 6, at 5.46 p.m.

The East Islington Conserva- tive Association has passed a reso- lution warning the Government of thu "growing public opinion in favour of national economy."

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Middlesex County Council by 63 votes to 8 defeated a motion that cinemas should be allowed to open on Sundays.

The index dgure of the cost of living in Germany rose during October.

Fifty persons, including several foreigners, were arrested at Paris on Nov. 1 in a police raid..

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a new seam four feat thick by the Shipley Colliery Co, at Heanor, Derbyshire,

"Courting on this railway is a growing practice, and we have had Boveral cases in which young Barnet Hertfordshire Gram- couples have made a circular tour mar School for Boys, which four of the line on wet nights," said years ago celebrated its 350th an-solicitor when a man and a woman niversary, is to close and will be

were fined at Tower Bridge for replaced by a new county school.

travelling on the City and South London Railway without paying their fares.

Asking in a letter to "The Times". If acacia trees would not beautify London, Mrs. Alec Tweedle writes:-Never shall I forget the acacia trees in full bloom in July Charles Trevor Vassall Dawin Peking-an avenue of snowy And the rigours of the The Vanda Sanderiana, ason, aged 36, bank clerk, of Clifton blossom. native orchid of the Philippine gardens, Maida Vale, was sentenced climate of Paking are great; It is Islands and reared in Britain by to three months' imprisonment in arctic in winter and tropic in sum- Mr. J. Mackay, gardener to the late the second division at Marlboroughmer, but acacias flourish. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, is on Street, for steali~; £904 from Bar- view at the Royal Horticultural | clays Bank, 461, Oxford Street, Society's show of orchilds at the Horticultural Hall.

A campaign to stop the open- ing of butchers' shops on Sundaya Nos. 90 and 92 Tai Shek was decided on by the National Street, Shaukiwan were sold at Federation of Meat Traders and the the China Auction Rooms yes- Journeymen Butchers' National terday, the purchaser being Mr. Federation, Sun Chung-hing at $4,400,

The Queen's Regiment have left Shamshulpo Camp for Fanling for a period of intensive training in the open air camp. Hended by their band, they marched to the Kowloon Station yesterday. their

The Imperial War Museum, South Kensington, has just com- A small fire broke out at 8.10|pleted an exchange of war photo- p.m., yesterday In the second floor grapha with the French Govern. of No. 49 Yeechew Street, Sham-ment, and those received from progress being witnessed by large shulpo. The fire brigade, ware France will shortly be available to crowds. The Shamshuipo Camp will carly on the scene and confined the the public for reference and repro-be clear of troops for some weeks with the Scots Guarda niso away flames to pile of rubbish. The duction,

at the Lowu Camp, outbreak was extinguished within

a few minutes, and very little damage was caused.

In the course of atreet searches carried out on Sunday, November 11, the French Police arrested no fewer than 180.suspects, of whom 172, after interrogation by the police, were liberated. The re- mainder were turned over to the de- tective branch for further inquiry, one among them having been found in possession of an automatic pistol and six rounds of ammunition.

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A Chinese married woman liv. ing at No. 132 Canton Road, Kow- loon, ground floor, was yesterday removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from the effects self administered in an attempt to of polaoning, alleged to have been

commit suicide.

Said to have attempted to com- mit suicide by jumping into the harbour, after a quarrel with her husband, a Chinese woman living at | No. 301 Laichikok Road, was yes- terday removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital in a serious condi

On the occasion of Thanks-tion, and was later transferred to giving Day, yesterday was observed the Government Civil Hospital. as a holiday by many American firms and the U.S. Consulate was closed, Thanksgiving Day WAS

The Police have received a

first observed in 1621 as a day set report from a Chinese woman liv- aside by the Pilgrim Fathers for prayer, and thanksgiving. A few years later, many American States followed this example until it be came an annual festival day. by proclamation, the day being mark- ed with religious services in the Churches.

ing at No. 241 Temple Street, Yau- mati, that some time between November 9 and 12, during her absence, someone broke into her flat on the second floor, and, forcing open a box, stole there from money and Jewellery to the total value of $551.

The famous film "What Price!

Glory continues to draw crowded houses at the Queen's Theatre, and whatever opinions there may be about minor details, the film is un- that has ever been shown in the animously voted one of the biggest

Colony. Cinema-goers who have still to see "What Price Glory“ are reminded that owing to the unusual length of the film, performances start promptly at the special times 2.30, 6.00, 7.16, and 9.30.

For many years Birmingham has enjoyed a reputation for turu- ing out "curios" that tourists have brought home and valued as trea- sures from the far corners of the earth. Now we learn from the film, "The Story and Romance of Blanket Manufacturing," made for Messrs. Waring and Gillow, that Dewsbury is responsible not only for a great proportion of the blankets for our home markets, but also for the gorgeous red blankets used in China, Japan and other countries in the East.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Admiral John Bridges Eustace Mr. James Rosé, clerk of the ia to be Mayor of Wokingham, peace for Oxfordshire since. 1917, Berkshire, for the fifth year in suc- retires next April.

cession.

Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Montgomery, Yang Shao-yuun, the newly ap- of Southampton, have celebrated pointed Chief Judge of the Shang- their diamond wedding. hai local court, Nantao, assumed.

office on November 18.

partner,

Br, W. J. Wayte, Osborne and Chappel, Ipoh, haa left for Home on retirement to-day, accompanied by Mrs. Wayte.

Col-on-Staff H. de C. Martell!, who has been in charge of the ad- ministration of the North. China Command, left on November 9 for Home.

The following recent elections to Fellowship of the Royal Colonial Institute are announced:-Hong Kong: Honry T. Brooks and Mrs. H. T. Creasy,

Mr. William Carlton and his wife, of Manchester, both aged 66, who died within 24 hours of each other, were buried together at Gorton Cemetery, Manchester.

Alderman R. G. Wood, the pre- sent Mayor of Folkestone, who had been chosen as mayor for the com- ing year, offered at a meeting of the Folkestone Town Council to withdraw, following recent protesta by a meeting of ratepayers, but was urged to accept office.

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Mr. A. H. Forbes, who was well-known in Peking last year, and who has just returned from home: leave, has been transferred to the Lungchintsun office of the Customa in Manchuria. Mr. Forbes was a very keen polo player, and will be missed by a large circle of friends.

Edward B., Spafford, of New York, new National Commander of the American Legion He WAS unanimously elected at the recent

Convention in Paris.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Quilliam. both aged 67, of Botanie Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, have cele brated their golden wedding.

Mr. E. E. Tricker is in the Gen- eral Hospital, Shanghai, with typhoid fever, and for a time his condition caused much anxiety,

Chiang Cho-ping and Hela Shih, members of the Nanking Govern ment. arrived at the Shanghai North Station from Nanking on November 18.

Mr. Harry Chrimes, who has been in Shanghal for the past month, sailed for Vancouver on November) 19. He resumes publication of "The Blue Lantern."

Lieut.-Col. D. H. Clarke, D.S.O., M.C., one of His Majesty's Vice Consuls, returned from Home leave on the P. & O. s.8. "Mantas," and left Shanghal on November 19,

Mr. and Mrs. G. Wiseman have arrived in Malacca. Mr. Wiseman) has taken over the general man- agerahip of Dunlop Plantations, Ltd., from Mr. H. E. Burgess, re- tired.

Mr. B. O. Bush, Executive En- gineer, Kuala Pilah and Dr. (Mrs.) Bush, Lady Medical Officer, Kuala Pilah, have left for Singapore, whence they proceed Home on leave.

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appointed a member of the treaty after having been lost for 20 hours, Dentist. left Harbin for Moscow on October try of Foreign Affairs. The ap- B.C., if he had any plans for re- 26 on furlough, with a view to at pofatment was made at the instance turning to China, said: "I think I tending the anniversary of the of Mr. Wang Ying-tal, Foreign have had enough of the Far East Soviet revolution. Is not likely to Minister. Dr. Wellington Koo is for the time being, and I think that return to Harbin, it is stated, but president of the commission with Canada will be the field Years may be appointed Soviet Ambas Mr. Wang as vice-president. sador to Tokyo," succeeding M.

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