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LOCAL AND

GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

News was received in Masonic Mr. T. C. T. Beck is authorised circles in Shanghai that Peter to sign per pro, in Hong Kong for Grain had been given the position Mesars. T. E. Griffith Ltd. of Past Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of England.

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The "Eastern Times" says that that Shanghal Arsenal is now pro- ducing a minimum of 10,000 Milla bombs and 6,000 hand grenades of the Russian pattern, daily.

Berlin, Yesterday.-M. Piludski is reported to be auffering, from a The Kiangsu Famine Relief Com-paralytic stroke. He has been un- Marshal Chang Tso-lin has issu-* mission is trying to collect able to attend the festivities ined an order forbidding military off- $500,000 for the relief of the honour of King Amanullah-Reu-cers in Shantung and Chilli to re- Shantung sufferers. The Commis. ter.

move their families to Tientsin. sioners propose to instruct the

This, says the Chinese press, is in- Magistrates of the different dis-Count de Martel, the French tended as a direct attack on Mar- tricta to raise cortain amounts Minister, called on Mr. Lo Wen-shal Chang Chung-chang, who la within given periods and they hope kan, the Peking Foreign Minister, said to have removed, his harem to to be able to raise the full amount and discussed with him the Sino the foreign concessions. within a comparatively short time. French treaty of commerce, says

the Chinese presa.

Ten American aeroplanes which Amsterdam. The Telegranf" }; ·

were brought to Shanghai nome reports the mysterious disappear- It is learned on very good aú-] days ago were to have been ship- ance of a packet of diamonds thority that the Chinese General ped to Tientsin last week for use valued at £16,000 while in transit Chamber of Commerce, the Shang- by the U. S. Marine Corps there, from South America to Amsterdam had the Shanghai Wative Benton eays the "Shunpao," which also

and the Shanghai Native Bankers' states that ten the by

Holland-Lloyd

French steamer

been Guild have

requested to "Geiria." When the package was

carriages are being sent to Tien- opened

coins minted in tsin for use in connection with the analyse the new by the addressee, an Amsterdam diamond merchant, it Hangchow to see whether or not bore no evidence of tampering, but they are in accordance with the Protection of the French Conces

standard required. was found to contain nothing but pebbles.

Franklin Mott Gunther, of Vir ginta, career diplomat, who will bo the frat Mintater Egypt. Mr. Gunther has served for the last three years in the Department of State as chief of the division of Mexican affairs.

Mr. Arthur H. Allen, who is re- tiring after 31 years of service in the Chinese Government Postal De-; partment, his last post having been that of postmaster at Chefoo, left Shanghai at the end of last week by the "President Jackson." He is accompanied by Mrs. Allen, and will reside in Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Allen's native elty. Mr. Allen is a son of the late Mrs. Young J. Allen, and a brother of the late Mr. Edgar P. Allen, the noted) Tientsin. lawyer.

A woman summoned at Totten- ham Police Court for failing to pay her rates was stated by the collec- tor to have been put in the house five years ago by unemployed who forcibly took possession of i During the five years she

had paid no rent. She received. £1 48.! by way of pension, 7s. Gd in re- lief from the guardians, and she had two lodgers. The woman was ordered to pay the money within 21 days.

While a motor tractor was pro- ceeding from Golders Green to North Finchley along Ballards-line it burst into flames and the driver jumped off to save himself from

being burned.

The tractor, con- tinuing its course, swerved across the road, mounted the pavement, and smashed the window of a pro- vision shop belonging to Mr. W. Martyn. As it was early closing day there were very few people about and no one was injured.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, a small Chinese boy was charged with

playing football in

Yesterday Mr. W. Schofield had a case before him, at the Kowloon Magistracy, in which Lieut. A. Day, of H.M.S. "Iroquoia" was summon- ed for causing an obstruction at the Star Ferry wharf by leaving his motor cycle unattended at the east side of the sign on the pier. As the "Iroquols" had left, the Colony, and it was not known when she would return, the police with- drew the summons.

A young apprentice of the Kow- loon Motor Bus Company was yesterday charged, before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- tracy, with the larceny of acces- aories from the Company's work- shop. A fitter also appeared with the apprentice on the charge of larceny, whilst a third man, who supplied the 'buses with water and gasolene, was charged with receiving stolen property. A re- presentative of the Company made a successful plea for leniency for the youth, who was fined $80. The fitter was discharged, whilst the water supplier who admitted re- to four ceiving was sentenced 'months' hard labour.

·Snapshot of Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon. who was recently before the Senate all. committee regarding $50,000 in Continental Trading Company Lib erty Bonds, which 'weṛs turned over to him by Will Hays to defray expenses, In

In the defleft of the 1920 Republican cama

campaign. which Mel

lon refused to handle Otle is shown walking along Massachusetts Ave- nus in Washington, D. C

sion there.

gun-

James A. Patten, of Chicago, 11- linois, known as the wheat king and one of the most spectacular whest and Wall Street marked op eratora of modern times, who teati. ned before the Senate public lande committes investigating the Teapot -Dome Of scandal regarding the of certain bends of the dispensing extinct Continental Trading.Com- pany. which it is claimed wore turned over to the Republican ✔ National Committee to defray some of their convention debts.

Vigo.---Spanish olive oil export- ers' and manufacturers of pre- serves have sent a request to the Government to maintain existing conditions affecting the Import of tinplates, while the makers of Spanish tinplates are seeking to have the import duties raised. The tinned fruit and olive oil indus- tries import about 20,000 tona of timplates yearly from England ät prices cheaper than they can be purchased in Spain, notwithstand- ing the import 'duties. General Primo de Rivera, the Premier, has promised to investigate the matter.

A footman, Henry Reginald Herbert, aged 21, of Marden House, Woldingham, Surrey, who pleaded guilty to stealing £96, the property of Alice Lady Templemore, whose service he left on account of ill- (less, wha sentenced to three months' hurd labour by the Maryle- bone magistrate. Mr. Boswell, the court missionary, said Herbert had been dressing himself most expen- sively. He had borrowed £100 from a servant and had bought a wardrobe, more fitted for à duke than a footman. In sentencing Herbert, the magistrate said he was apparently s most useless, un- grateful, and spoilt young man.

a race-

Mrs. James White, the widow of the financier, has registered the racing colours of her late hus- band under, Jockey Club rules for life. She has taken this action, it is understood, for sentimental rea- Evidence of a woman's fast" sons, so that the colours-pale cause our Lord did so," was given blue and khaki hoops with quar the street, and two other Chiness at the Inquest at Egham, Staines, tered cap may not be carried by were charged with obstructing the Middlesex, on Mrs., Ivy Clark, aged police while in the execution of 89, the wife of a chauffeur. Mrs. | jockeys riding for any other their duty. Mr. Hin-shing Le, who Clark had been scen praying in the owner. It is understood alse that appeared for the defence, stated street and later collapsed and died. she hopes one day to carry on her that the policemen had used un- Mr. William Frank Clark, the husband's tradition as necessary violence towards the boy husband, said he was away from horse owner by running horses rid- which caused the interference on home for long periods because of dan by jockeys wearing his the part of the other two defen his work. When he heard his colours. The cost of a life regis dants. The case was adjourned.

wife was very ill he returned home tration of racing colours ja £5, street magistrate, desling recently Litten, who had been living with versity who had divided into two Brussels Students of Liege Unt- Mr. Mead, the Marlborough and found her dead. Miss Sarah with cases following the hospitals Mrs. Clark since February 1027 parties following an invitation ex- Rugby match at Richmond said: said Mrs. Clark first abstained tended to Herr Bergstrasse, a mem "It seems to be the fashion among from food or water on Ash Wed-ber of the Reichstag, to lecture in some young men when these fix-nesday (February 22). She (Miss the city, came to blows in the street tures take place to get drunk after Litten) was angry with her but recently. The windows of a motor- wards. You don't seem to think the persisted. The Coroner: Why car believed to contain the German what a disgraceful thing it is that did she do it? Because dur Lord were smashed, and the occupant, in you, who are training for an fasted forty days and forty nights, reality a Belgian woman, had her honourable profession, should and she wanted to do the same. fingera cut. When Professor think it necessary to indulge in You knew. it was your duty to Houbau, who had presided at this drunkenness after these tell people? She would not let the sporis,” Later, when one defen- me. There was plenty of food in berlu dant complained that some restaur- the house, Dr. Nicholson, sald ants frequently refused admission death was due to inanition from to bospital students on Cup tie starvation, Mrs. Clark was prac nights because of their reputation, tically a skeleton. The jury re- Mr Mond remarked that it might turned a verdict of death from be another name for blackguardly starvation, and considered there behaviour. He wished the hos was negligence on the part of Mias pitals, would clear themselves of Litten «not @mmoyntips to crimjpg)

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