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'Paris, Feb. 28.French Importa for January totalled 4,123,000,000 and exports 4,010;000,000 francs.~ Havas.

To-morrow is St. David's Day and the local St. David's Society will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph at 11 am..

Singapore, Feb. 28.-The Royal Air Force Flying Boats have arrly ed to undergo an overhaul before leaving for Australia in the middle of May, Reuter.

Mr. Frank Austin, Hong Kong manager of Messrs. S. J. David & Co., has gone

business Shanghai. He sailed yesterday on the "President Taft,"

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Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 28-Twelve fatalities occurred in severe floods in the southern part of the city yesterday. Following heavy rain water poured down from the hills turning the streets into torrenta- Reuter.

Paris, Feb. 28. It is stated that Spain will return to the League of Nations at the Septem-. bes Seasion. This follows on the reported Franco-Spanish Agree ment regarding the administration of Tangier.-Reuter.

Mr. Henry L. Stimson, Governor-. General of the Philippines, left Hong Kong yesterday to take up his new position, many Government officials and others assembling at the pier where Mr. Stimson em- barked for the 8.3.

"President McKinley."

Falling from the second floor of No. 23, Main Street, West Point, yesterday afternoon, a Chinese re- ceived serious injuries from which ho died ut the Government Civil Hospital soon after admission. In his fall the man struck a pedestrian who was injured in the head.

A Musicale will be given at the Helena May Institute on Thursday. March 8, at 5.30 p.m. The follow- ing will take part-Mrs. Sanger, Miss Dunbar, Mr. John Braga and Mr. Bowes-Smith. Tables for ten must be booked by Wednesday afternoon at the lates.Advt.

A narrow escape from being electrocuted was the experience of

The aero-postal service between France and South America will be | operied on March 1.

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Mr. N. M. Currie of Mosars. Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd. has gone to Shanghai, sailing yesterday on the "President Taft.”

Two cases of enterie fovar (typhold), both Chines from the city registration district, were notified to the Medical Officer of Hoaith yesterday.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.

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the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, to-morrow. The programme opens- at 9. p.m.

Lists of special and common jurors of Hong Kong have been Issued in the "Government Gazette"] (extraordinary).

New York, Feb. 28.-The death is announced of the Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, late presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. -Reuter's American Service.

His Honour Sir Peter Grain, Judge of the British Supreme Mr. F. McD. Courtney, sub- Court, Shanghat, who is now sit-manager of the Hong Kong office of City Bank of Now ting on the Hong Kong Appeal the National Court, has been elected President of York, with Mrs. Courtney, salled St. George's Society, Shanghai.. from Hong Kong yesterday on the "President Taft." They are going Home on holiday and are travelling via America,

With Mrs. Hornell and Miss N. Hornell, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. left Hong Kong on the "Pre- aident Taft" yesterday, on transfer to Shanghai.

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Miss Pearl Siddy, daughter of the Minister of the frish Free State to the United States, and Mra. Tim othy Biddy, whose engagement to Naj. Alfonso Reyes, at the Spanish Army. hing fast been announced The wedding will toke place in the near future at Fox Rock, the home of the Minister near Dublin, Ire land.

Mr. H. W. Robertson and Mr.

Messrs. H. E. Arnhold, A. D. Stirling Fossenden, K. Bell, Fukushima, T. Funatsu, B. C. M. Johnston, W. P. Lambe, V. G. Lyman, and J. J. Paterson are cou- | sidered elected to the Municipal| Council of the International Settle ment, Shanghai, as their names (nino) were the only ones rominated.

Mr. B. H. Brown, Mr. P. W. Spalding and Mrs. M. H., Johnson were among the Hong Kong pas- Bengers оп the "President McKinley" when she sailed for Manila yesterday. Through pas sengers, besides those in the party of Governor-General Stimson of the Philippines, were Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Dallas.

It is officially announced that! the King has approved the appoint- ment of Mr. Josoph Addison, C.M.G., Counsellor of His Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, to be His Majcaty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Riga, Royal, and Kovno, Mr. Addison in 1908 was appointed acting Second Secretary at Peking, and served there for three years.

"As a body the police forces of this country deserve and have| carnod the admiration of the world," stated Sir William Joynson- Hicks, the Home Secretary, in a message of Christmas greeting to the police forces, of England and Wales. "As Home Scretary," he responsible to continues, "I am

a Chinese pedestrian in Marrison Hill Road, Happy Valley. The cur- rent leaked out from a petrol N. S. Brown, principals of Messrs. Parliament for the efficient ad- ministration of the police forres fountain. A Chinese constable Butterfeld & Swire, were both on pluckily went to the rescue and the "President Taft" which sailed of Great Britain, and it is one of managed to

switch off the elec- from Hong Kong yesterday: They my responsibilities of which I am

most proud." Mr. tricity.

are bound for Shanghai. Robertson is accompanied by Miss M. Robertson.

Captain Kilbee, Dr. S. M. Yue and Mr. J. M. Wright arrived in Hong Kong yesterday by the "General Metzinger" from Shang- hai. Among those who joined the ship here were Mr. J. Limage of Messageries Maritimes) and Mr. Howard Phillips who is going down to Saigon.

Comdr. G. B. Hartford, D.3.0. R.N. (retired), who is probably best known as Adjutant of the Hong Kong Police Reserve until a few weeks ago, left the Colony, yesterday bound for Home with Mrs. Hartford, They sailed on the. "President Taft" for San Fran- clace and are travelling over Amer- Ica and then across the Atlantic.

The steam yacht "Butty Sark,” | which was originally intended for a destroyer; but was adapted to pleasuro purposes at the end of the war, is about to proceed to the Mediterranean. She was converted to a yacht for Major Keswick, who made a tour in her round the world. She now is owned by the Duke of Westminster, who is leav- ing in her.

Intimidation among workers in. the various mills in the Settlement and elsewhere in Shanghai, con- tinues despite the efforts of the police and Chinese soldiery to apprehend the intimidators and stamp out the evil. As the result of the activities of agitators and intimidatora 450 male and 750 female workers stopped work at a Japanese jute mill at 64, Robinson Road.

As reported, yesterday, a Chinese passenger arriving in the Colony on board the a.s. "President McKinley" General LI Chai-sum, chairman was arrested. for the unlawful of the Canton Provincial Govern- possession of a revolver and five ment, is to be the guest of the rounds of ammunition. He was Hong Kong Chineas General Cham-charged before Mr. W. Schofield at ber of Commerce at dinner at the the Kowloon Magistracy, and plead South China restaurant (China ed that he was ignorant of local Building roof garden), at 7 pm on regulations and did not know that Saturday, March 3, during the it was necessary to get a licence General's official visit to Hong for the firearm. A fine of $200 Kong.

was imposed with the alternative of three months' hard labour,

UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD. A V, London, Eng-The latest ko ness of Vera Countess Cathcart, wita recantly was bequeathed $2,500 year by the lato Earl Cathcart, who divorced, bar in 1922, naming the Earl of Craven. Countess Cath- cart was denied admission to the United States in 1928 da the grounds of moral turpitudo, but was later admited..

Whilst the B.8. “Fatshan" was on a voyage to Canton on Monday, a Chinese steerage passenger Jump- ed into the harbour in an attempt to commit suicide. The alarm was raised immediately, the bont was

Among the passengers on the stopped, but without assistance "President Taft" when she salled the man in the water, who appar from Hong Kong yesterday were ently had changed his mind, swam Mr. E. Weber, manager of the back to the boat and was, hauled an National Aniling and Chemical board none the words for his Corporation, going to Shanghai on humorsión.

business; Mr. M. Yasuhart, secre tary of the Japanese Chamber of Sir Miles Lampson, British Min- Commerce, Shanghai, returning, to inter at Peking, was the guest of Shanghal; Mr. S. C. Lethicke,. honour at a dinner last night at the assistant Customs Inspector of the Chinese Merchants Club on his U.S., Government, bound for Los return to the Colony from Canton Angeles: Mr. W. T Alexander. by H.M.3. "Taranala. The hosts Palmolive Soap Co., going to for the evening were the two Shanghai Admiral Luigi Miraglia Chiness members of the Legislative of the Italian Navy, also bound for Council the Hon: Bir Shok-Bom Shanghai Bir. and Mrs. H. L. Chow and the Hon. Dr. B. H. Kote Yung; Mias Romedios Mra

A Chinese who was arrested In Shanghai recently after he had been caught in the act of stealing a handbag from a foreign lady named Mrs. I. Smith, during the remand, confessed to another robbery.com. mitted some time ago. This rob- bery dated back to December 13, 1927, when Portuguese seaman, named Jono Richard Das Santas was attacked by a gang of robbers and relieved of a considerable sum

in cash and valuables. Two of the gang were arrested and sen- tenced to ten years' imprisonment for this offence but the others were not captured. One of these was the accused before the Provisiorial Court last work when ha denied having confessed to the robbery of the Portuguese and said that he had been tortured to make the confes- sion: A further remand of the case was ordered

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