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THE CHINA MAIL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The champion golfer, Bobby Jones, has passed his examination for admission into legal practics in Georgia.

Mr. W. L. Blythe, Assistant Pro- tector of Chlaese, Selangor, is being transferred to Singapore In February,

Col. and Mra, Rae have returned Malaya from a trip around the world. Col. Rae is prominent in business affairs in the F.M.S.

Dr. R. O. Windstedt, Director of Education and Mrs. Windstedt, who were on a visit to Penang, re- turned to Singapore by the a.. "Kinta."

The Sincero Co., Ltd. will close their stores from the 23rd to 26th Instant for the Chinese Now Year festival, resuming their busines on next Friday.

All the seventy persons arrested in connection with the pre-Christ- maa bomb explosions in Buenos Aires have been released. search for the miscreants tinues.

The con-

Three Chinese who held up a passenger junk plying 'between Talpo and Sal Kung were yester- day sentenced to five years hard labour ench st the Criminal Sexsians.

Notable films coming to Hong Kong shortly besides "Ben-Hur," Include "The Gaucho," with Douglas Fairbanks in a typical role, and the splendid French pro- duction of "Les Miserables."

Col. W. F. L. Gordon, Command- ant of the Shanghal Volunteer Corps, has come to Hong Kong.

Mr. W. N. Edwards, of the F.M.S. Police, who has just returned from furlough is posted to Ipoh for duty at present.

Mr. Chang Sino-ling, a well- known merchant, has been appoint- ed a member of the Provisional Commission of the Municipal Shanghai French Concession.

Sonator-elect Frank L. Smith, of Illinois, who is fighting for his soat at Washington.

That the nice laid plans of mice and men gang aft again," was again proved when a Chinese com-

A report to the "Shunpro" states tant M. J. Michelat, Norwegian Minister, and Mme. Michelet have| loft Peking on home leave.

The King of Siam has conferred the Royal Cypher Medal on Phya Consul-Gen- Pradibrada Bhubal. eral for Siam at Singapore.

The Shanghai, authorities, appar- ently determined to suppress the present crime-wave, have banned the carrying of imitation platola, ;

Before M. Naggiar left Shanghai for Paris, he was presented by Mr. Quo Tai-chl, on hahalf of Gen. nato- Chiang Kai-shek, with graphed portrait of the Nationalist Commander-in-Chief.

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The new promises of the Masonic Club, at 8B Yuen Ming Yufen Road, will be formally opened to-day, at 12.16 p.m. Worshipful Bro. A. I. A. Evane, a founder of the original the club, has consented to open new quarters.

Mr. Culver B. Chamberlain formerly U.S. Consul at Swatow, has been assigned to the Shanghai American Consulate-General. Mr. W. R. Lynch is returning at the same time to a post in the Ameri- can Consulate.

According to the "Shunpao," the French Minlater has demanded Indeninity from the Chinese Gov- grnment for the French Roman Catholic missionaries who recently suffered injuries in Suiyuan and whose property was totally destroy- ad.

Schools in Canton city will be unable to give regular instruction, until they got fresh equipment. | During the rule of the "Soviet Gov plained to the police of having gates to negotiate peace with the

arnment" many schools were raided und their property destroyed.

A circular telegram to the verna. cular press from General Yen Shi- shan, familiarly known as the "Model Governor of Shansi," flatly. denies that he has appointed dele been robbed of $2,300. So voluble Ankuochun, claiming that reports was his account that the police, to the contrary originated in the becoming suspicious, searched him Fengtien camp. Mr. Gordon Pentney. who has and discovered a bank's receipt hoen Sales Manager for the last for $2,000 sewn into his clothing. four years with Messrs. Wearno It is alleged that be offered them

Sub-Inspr. Watson, of Wayside Bros. Ltd., Ipoh, has taken over the this sum as the price of his free-cident in the local "Sidney Street Police Station, who was shot by ac- management of The Cycle & Car- dom. He is said to be a worker Affair" ten days ago, is progressing ringe Co., (1926) Ltd., Penang. in a bean oil mill, and the net re-favourably at the Victoria Nursing sult of his excursion into the realm Pro-communist handbills

of fiction is that he is now facing found on December 26.

a charge of having robbed his mas handbills denounce the Nationallatter, in the Provisional Court where campaign as the "White Terror," he was arrainged and the case re- and General Chiang Kai-ahek as a manded.. hireling of the Japanese imperial-

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Home. It was at first reported that he was not seriously wounded but examinations have since shown that his ankle was badly smashed.

Ewald Beetjar was in the Shang- The Chinese 'General Cham-hai Provisional Court again before ber of Commerce, Shanghai, Judge Liang, to hear judgment in has received u telegram from the case in which he was charged Mr. J. Honhing, who was a mem- the Provisional Politica! Com-with misappropriation of money and ber of the Cricket team of the mission for Hunan and Hupeh to property from his employers, Straits Chinese Recreation Club, the effect that "the British Im Messrs. Harbook a Martín. "Thé Singapore, which met the local perialists, unmindful of justice, Court sentenced him to one year OR.C., acompanied by Mrs. Hao- have been encroaching upon our and six months' imprisonment and king, returned to Singapore by the rights. They have killed and in-ordered him to pay $2,000 to com- 9.9. "Klang."

jured our fellow citizens. British plainants. sailors have returned to Kiukiang Mr. Dick Norton's Globe Trot-have opened fire on the workers of and have made searches. They ters, after a successful trip to the Taikoo Company and have Shameen, presented "Ineldents," injured many of them with their their new revue, at the Star bayonets, Theatre last night.

We have received a To-night at murober of telegrams and are much the same venue they make their alarmed. Therefore, in addition to final appearance.

informing you of all this and appealing for your support, we are Invitations are out for the mar-taking the matter, up through ringe of Mr. William W. Fletcher, diplomatic channels."

of the Penang Harbour Board, second son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Fletcher, to Miss Louisa Philomina Chan, at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, McAlister Road.

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well-known authority Malaya on rubber has stated as his considered opinion that the situa- tion in that industry will never at- tain the level desired until the figure for release reaches 80 per cent, as against the present 00.

Father Louis Duvelle, of Kuala Lumpur, and Father Henri Duvelle. of Johore, who have been

recup- Grating their health at the mission sanatorium af Dalat, are expected to return to Singapore by the French mail steamer from Salgon,

M. Naggiar, retiring Consul- General for France, left Shanghai for France on the "Talyo Maru." So many friends, and those dele- gated to bid him farewell, were gathered at the wharf that his de- parture assumed an official aspect. He proposes to spend no time in America, but proceed directly to Paris where he will take up his new post as Sub-Director of Far Eastern Affairs.

Manolescu, an adherent of Prince Carol, of Roumania, in whose possession letters regard- ing to a revolt in Roumania were found, has been freed by the Roumanian Court which triad him on a conspiracy and treason charge. Manoilescu was former- ly an Under Secretary of the Roumanian cabinet and is a strong supporter to Prince Carol) to become ruler of that country.

Reports from various quarters utter discouragement at his in- tell of General Chiang Kai-shek'a ability to gather sufficient members Supervisory Committees of the Central Executive and Kuomintang under his banner

of the constitute a quorum for the fourth plenary session of the party, which session it now appears is unlikely to take place for the present.

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Mr. H. S. House, assistant man- ager of the Philippines Chapter of the American, Red Cross, is in Shangbal, and at the Astor House, for a brief atay before returning to Manila. Mr. House has just com- pleted a tour of Inspection in North China with special reference to famine conditions in Shantung! where the American Red Crass and the Japanese Red Cross have been asked for assistance,

The "Eastern Times" is sponsor for the report that owing to con- tinued ill-health as a result of his wound during the attempt to kid- nap him, Admiral Wu Kuang-teung has resigned as chief-of-staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Nation- alist Navy and that Admiral Ying Kung-yu has been appointed in his stead. Captain Liao Ching-fong has been made commander of the gunboats at Woosung. Sweeping changes, it is asserted, will be made in respect of the command of the various gunboats.

A decided improvement has been made by Judge.H. Y. Loo, president of the Shanghai Provisional Court, which is greatly facilitating tha In the Provisional Court a re-

work of the institution and gradual-

mand was ordered in the case of

ly wiping off old cases. Under the new system, there are how four a Chinese who was charged with

courts known as district courts. breaking into the house of a Swiss

These deal with casca from the resident in Gordon Road and steal-

different police districts of the ing a quantity of silverware,

Settlement. Evidence was given that com-

Cases in which the Council is interested come first be- plainant heard a noise so he got

fore a court comprising the Judge up. He saw accused and gave

and Senior Consul's Deputy and chase, firing a shot at him as he buried treasure came to earth with cases are heard afterwards.

Dreams of old Spanish gold, and those involving purely Chinese ran. Accused, however, escaped the proverbial dull, sicking thud but ran almost into the arms of a Chinese constable, who placed him the Sunken Gardens was opened at in Manila, when a chest found in under arrest,

the Luneta Police Station. Macario

"While I have been away, and Arabyo and Antonio Ramos, agent since my return to Shanghai, I have Pictures showing in the local and warehouhe keeper for Macon-realised, the increasing gravity of cinemas for the last time to-day dray and Company Identified the Shanghai's traffic problems; and it are The 18th Juror," a remarkable strong box as having been stolen behoves every motorist to use the evid- from the company's bodega at utmost care when driving. In the ence, with Anna Q. Nilsson and Magallanes Landing sometime on werde of the layman, you were tak Francis X. Bushman, at the Queen's December 1 or 2. The fron safe ing. a chance, observed Assistant Theatre; The Desert'e Toll," an was opened at the station in the Judge G. W. King when he fined exciting out-of-doors picture, with presence of the representatives of A. C. King 85 for driving in- Francis McDonald, at the World the firm and nothing but two tins properly on Nanking Road on the Theatre; and "The Gay Deceiver" of granite and some old papers 7th instant. Defendant admitted the screen version of the stage play, were found. The Macondray men having driven his car between a with Lew Cody, at the Star Theatre, reported that, at the time it dia tram and a safety island, but had The movie programme at the Star appeared, the safe, contained thought there was ample space. Theatre ends at 8.80 this evening, 228.72 in cash; two cheques call Mrs M. B. Ackerman was also be the Globe Trottera repeating their ing for P415, and P206, and several fore the Court and was fined $8 revue "Incidents'i at 9.15.;

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