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THE CHINA MAIL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. H. A. Barrett, director of several rubber companies, has re- turned, to London from. an enjoy able holiday in Corsica,

Mr. William Stewart, of the Britannic Textiles Company of Manchester, returned to Shanghai from a business trip to Hong Kong.

A message received in Shanghai from Talyuanfu, Shanal, states that all is quiet there and that the town has never been bombed by aero- planes.

Mrs. Mabel Kirke, the wife of the British Consul at Swatow, died on a voyage home from China in the P. and O. liner "Maiwa." The body was buried at sea..

A lantern lecture in Westminster Chapel, Buckingham-gate, S.W.1., entitled "Through Jade Gate and Central Asia," was given by Miss Mildred Cable on Dec. 1.

Miss Ruth Elder, the American Atlantic flier, is to appear on the variety stage for 100 days in New York, Washington, Baltimore, and elsewhere at a salary of £200 a day.

Hunting in the New Forest has been stopped as the result of foot- and-mouth disease on

premises about six miles apart at Totten, near Southampton, and at Minstead, Lyndhurst.

Mme. J. Barraud has returned to Shanghai from France.

H.M.S. "Hollyhock" has sailed from Shanghal for Hong Kong,

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It is rumoured in Chinese circles that the Soviet wore busy moving troops into Mongolia.

Ataman “Semenov, with his wife and two children and his Japanese adviser, left Shanghal on the s.s. "Nagasaki Maru" for Japan,

"Johore In 1926" is the subject of a paper, read before the Royal, Geographical Society on Dec: 19. by Captain S. W. Kirby,

Mr. C. G. Riem, states the "Gazette de Hollande," has been temporarily placed in charge of the Dutch Consulate at Amoy.

Before the Royal Geographical Society on Dec. 12, Dr. Vening Meinosz read a paper on "Gravity Survey by Submarine via. Panama to Java."

The Hon. Treasurer of the Shanghai Hebrew Relief Society The Siamese Minister and Sir and Jewish Women's Benevolent Elly Kadoorie were among the Society begs to acknowledge with guests at a reception held by Mr. many thanks the receipt of $1,000 Daly: Stanford on Nov. 16 at the from the Shanghai Race Club. Ritz Hotel.

The hearing of the case in which James Christle and Chris- topher Bluhm are charged with conspiracy to extort money was again adjourned at the Central Magistracy yesterday, An ap- plication that accused be allowed to go to Kowloon to fetch clothing was refused,

Among former Shanghai and Peking residents to leave for America, their destination being MeNeil's Island 1aitentiary, were Henry F. Krenz (for five years) and G.-S. Gawne (for 866 days). They were placed in custody of the ship's captain, who will hand them over to Federal authorities.

The Chinese police, long deprived of their arms, received a further A Chinese constable who consignment last Thursday. Accord ing to the Chinese newspapers, it comprised 100-pistols, 10,000 rounds oi ammunition and 130 rifles.

Senator William M. Butler, of Massachusetts, Cbstemas of the Republican National Commitica,

At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Henry Thomas Hart Spratt, of 104, Charing Cross Road, W.C., in Bankruptcy Buildings, Carey Street, W.C., it was atated that it was his fourth failure.

At a dinner given at the Savoy

on Nov. 18 by the Eastern Bank in

honour of the King of Iraq, Mr. J. S. Haskell presided, and among the Major-General Sir

guests were Nelli Malcolm, K.C.B.

The greyhound racing track at Shanghal is to be managed by Major Duncan Campbell, who mar ried Lord Barnby's" daughter, and is a cousin of Lord Cawdor. He has just sailed for China.

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ley, who was knocked out at the

The Barnsley boxer, Dick Rough": Leeds National Sporting Club died in hospital at Leeds without re- covering consciousness.

statements that the National Union Mr. J. R. Clynes has repudiated of General and Municipal Workers had "poached" members from the Miners' Federation.

Owing to the Christmas holidays, the British Official Wireless Ser vice will be discontinued on De- cember 24, 26, 26 and 27, service will be resumed at noon on Wednesday, December 28.

The

At the last meeting of the Coun-

brought before the Provisional cil of the Royal Colonial Instituts Court, charged with having faci- the following were elected Follows: litated the escape of several pri-Mr. Louis H. King, Hong Kong, S. Dyer,

soners who were handed to his

and Mr. Warren

charge to take to the police sta- AM.LE.E., Shanghai. tion, was sentenced to a year and

I eight months' imprisonment by

Judge Li and Mr. Burdett.

...

A huge counterfeiting, clique operating.in North Borneo alling the southern Philippine Islands with bogus five-peso bilis, accord- ing to reports received in Manila. Samples of the bills, which re found to be circulating in ebun- dance in Jolo and other portions of Moroland, are already in the hands of the authorities, and an investiga- tion is under way.

Formal announcement has been made by the Shanghai Commis- sioner of Police that suitable re- wards will be paid for the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of: -murder, armed robbery, armed kidnapping, possession of arms for an unlawful purpose, demanding money by sending threatening lettors, enusing strikes, labour. agitation, and communist activities.

"The Right Rev. Howard H. Temple, who was recently ordained grand exalted bishop of the First Apostolic Church of America, hás failed to convince the police that two bottles of whisky found in his room at an hotel were sacramental wine. The manager of the Now York hotel had caused the bishop's arrest on another charge. Hia room. was searched, and the two bottles were found hidden under his bed.i Bishop Temple declared indignant- ly when confronted with them that they were sacramental wine to be used for Church purposes.

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William A. Oldfald, of Alabama, Becretary of the Democratiò NK- tional Committes.

Holworthy, of Cannon-place, Hamp-

The late Mr. Charles Edward:

stead, late Commissioner, Chinese Imperial Customs Service, left £26,303, net personalty £23,282.

A Chinese who was described as a. "specialist in stealing type- writers," was presented for trial at the Provinsional Court. Complain-

The Japanese Ambassador, the": ant in the case was Mr. Clover, with Siamese Minister and Viscountess an office at 8 Yuen Ming Yuen Ellbank were among the guests at Road, Shanghai, whose Port-an at home given by Lady Cham- able Remington

berlain at the Foreign Office on typewriter. valued at $130, accused Nov, 22. second charge, of stealing two type- was charged with stealing. A writers valued at $425 from the suicide in Moscow on Nov. 17, was M. A. F. Joffe, who committed offices of G. D. Litchfield and Co. in 1922 appointed Soviet Ambassa 20 Museum Road, was also prefer- dor to Peking, and in this capacity red against the accused. "I know I took part in the negotiations be- have a bad record," accused said to tween Japan and the U.S.S.R. in and now I am working in a sweet the Judge, but I have repented 1928. store." He was remanded for fur- ther inquiries.

According to the Chin Kao News Agency, the Shanghai Defence Com missioner last Saturday issued a circular, notice to his subordinates commanding them to dissuade pea- sants and labourers in this locality An estimated expenditure of from going on strike at the present £325,000 is revealed in a letter from

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The wedding took place. yes- terday at the Union Church of Miss Clarita Maria Christiano Wilkens, daughter of Mr. Christian Alfred Wilkens and Mrs. Clarita

time and warning them that if they the London County Council to the Wilkens, of Bremen and Baran-

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de they will be severely dealt with. Islington Borough Council dealing quilla, and Mr. Gerd Otto Broetje

with the projected enlargement of of Melchera & Co., Hong Kong. The War Office is drafting condi-the tramway subway between tions it is ready to observe regard- Southampton-row, W.C., and Vic- ing the use of the Surrey commons toria Embankment. It is claimed among employees of Chinese clothes In connection with the strike for military training operations. that the substitution of double-shops, the "China Times" reports It is understood that the War Office deck for single-deck tramway cars that on Saturday morning an is prepared to schedule certain por through running of case between strikers and their employers after on the tunnel reute, and the agreement was signed between the tions particularly liable to damage north and south London, would which work was resumed. This ae "out of bounds" to mechanical show a not financial advantage agreement applies to clothes shops vehicles, and that it will also sche from increased receipts of $12,600 both in and out of the foreign set- dule areas upon which camps may not be erected....

a year. It is also claimed that, in tlements, the event of future serapping of tramways, the tunnel under

As a result of a petition sub- Aldwych and Kingsway would form mitted to the Japanese Consulate- a valuable alternative traffic route: General by the N.K.K. in connection 4

Mr. S. Volkoff, described by the Russian newspapers as the

writing a book on his long experl

Sherlock Holmes, of Harbin," is reported to be in Shanghal and fa ence with criminals entitled "Criminals of the Far East. The place there on Nov. 18. He did book will be published in English much for the prosperity of Antwerp and Russian. Mr. Volkoff was for and the conomic expansion of Bel-merly Chief of Criminal Intelligence glum. M. Bungo joined his father's at Harbin.

with the unlawful detention of the The death of M. Edouard Gustave steamer "Zai Yang Maru" by the Woosung Forts, Mr. S. Yada, Jap Bunge, the well-known banker and anese Consul-General, addressed a business man, of Antwerp, took formal note of protect to the head quarters of Woosung and Shanghat Defence Force, states a Jap anese newspaper. "

Arm of Messrs. Bunge and Co. in 1875, and later at the request of

Instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MK Quo Tal-chi, Special Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Kiangsta, has lodged a protest with the local Japanese and American Consular authorities for transmission to their respective Minlaters in Peking, again rted secret understand een the Peking

alde and Japan

Visitors to the office of the Clerk King Leopold II, he organised and It is reported that acting upon of the American Court for China of established commercial relations ate have missed the face of between Belgium and the Congo the obliging Mr. L. T. Kenake, He early recognised the possibili Asalefant Clerk of Court. Mr. ties of rubber cultivation in the Kenake, it is learned, is very ill at Middle-East and took a leading kis home at 402 Avenue Foch. His part in the formation of a number condition, it was stated by Mrs. pt rubber estates He was Presl Kenake, improved slightly. Buti den of the Boclete de Plantations et he will be confined to his bed de Finance, which was the medium for at least ten days more, upon through which the flotationa orders of his family physician, Dr. maddi Bunge House,iny St Blumenstock Mr. Kenake Axe, where the company suffering

with a severe attack of "sented

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