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THE CHINA MAIL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The death

occurred at the maternity ward of the. Victoria Hospital yesterday morning of Mrs. Barridge, the wife of Sergeant- Major Barridge, R.E., with whom deep sympathy is felt.

The Blue Funnel str. "Aencus" which left Hong Kong April a arrived at Marseilles on May 2.

"B" Sweep

in the Shanghai Champions was

won by Captain John Evans in charge of the P. & 0. Tender "Gutzlaff."

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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928..

One of the British destrevors in GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

Shanghal left for Tsingtao last Wednesday night, while other departures of men-of-war included H.M.S. "Hawkins," one Japanese and one American destroyer.

the A.A.

Wahu telegrams to the "Eastern

Among the passengers leaving the Times" any that Japanese naval

by Colony yesterday The garden party of the Sino-Taiping for Manila and Australia parties landed there and tore down all slogans referring to be Shan-Japanese Society, which tung affair. As a result of this have been held on the club grounds, were Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Reynolds, action, a mass meeting was called Siccawel Road, Shanghai laet Sun. Mr. II. L. Jackman, Mr. E. Cock;

anti-Japanese day, was postponed. to launch an

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boycott.

While a party of golfers. were returning by car from Seekingjno golf course near Stanghal, last Sunday evening their car was red on by some unknown persons. one was hit, but the shooting has resulted in a number of golfers re- fraining from proceeding to the

course.

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The Bureau of Education for Greater Shanghai, according to the Chinese press, is making arrange- ments to provide newspaper boards to be hung in different parts of the district. The idea is to promote the practice of newspaper reading by the general public.

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According to a Wahu message a large party of basdits attacked Yuchi, a town the northern bank of the Yangtze only 30 li away from Wulu, and, after looting the place and murdering a dozen mer chants, burnt it to the ground. The losses are estimated at about $180,000. Troops have been sent from Wuhu to cope with the marauders.

Secretary of Interior Rubert Work, who has been called a coward by Senator H. Caraway of Arkants. who alleged that the Secretary - The sulted wrended war veteran, Secretary dented the charges. Sena- tor Caraway called the Secretary a coward on the floor of the Senato And stated that he would meet the Secretary anywhere at anytime tie resented the charges.

Martial law is being enforced very strictly by troops under Gen. Chien Ta-chun, Commissioner of Gendarmerie, in Chinese territory. saya a Shanghai contemporary.

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and Dr. and Mrs. Shellahour.

A lecture on "Charles Darwin's

Shanglinialeamship companies Theory of Evolution" will be given were in recclpt of telegraphic nd- by Mr. Ng Tai-ping of the Hong vices from Chefoo to the effect that! Kong University on Sunday, at 2 the military authorities have for- p.m. in the Modern Literary As bidden ateamers. to enter the port Rociation, Calne-road. All Inter-after sunset and before sunrise, eated are welcome.

and that all passengers are being searched by the gendarmerie.

The many friends of Mr. W. H. Edley, chief wharfinger of the Steamboat Co., will regret to hear that he was removed to the French Hospital on Thursday, for further treatment for pleurisy from which he has been suffering for a con- siderable time.

The Chinese Minister to Tokyo, Mr. Wang Yung-pao, has lodged a strong protest with the Japanese Government against the Tainan affair.

The Foochów authorities have issued an order forbidding foreign to establish opium merchants smoking dens in the city,

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The Ministery of Justice of the Nationalist Government has, issued a proclamation calling the public's

A middle-aged woman and attention to the fact that in future all communications addressed to young man, believed to be mother that department, which are in the and son, were found unconscious a gas-filled room in a nature of complaints or accusations, recently in

They were re- must be presented in the regular Bayswater hotel,

to St. Mary's Hospital, official form, duly endorsed, with moved

The woman's name the sender's full name and address, Praed-street. and must be accompanied by a guarantee bond. All communica- tions which do not adhere to these regulations will not be considered.

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British Admiralty Fleet orders recently contained speelmen menu-a teat for n rating who wished to pass for "Warrant In- structor in Cookery"-as follows:

Consomme a la Macedoine.

Plaice a la Bohemie,

• Steak and kindey pie.

Potato craquettes. Boiled vegetable marrow.

White sauce.

Sweet omelet.

Canapes de sardine.

This menu makes an interesting contrast with the dietary provided in his Majesty's ships say, alxty

years ago.

Constantinople. During recent months Д movement has been started by university students to make Turkish the only language spoken here. Notices bearing the words, "Citizens, speak Turkish," have been placarded in the post offices, trains, trains, and boxis. Not content, however, with this placarded demand, certain ex- treme partisans of this movement, which applies principally to Jews, Greeks,

under and Armenians Turkish subjection; have gone so far 48 to interrupt conversations being carried on in public places in foreign tongues, and to resort to shameful and uncouth measures to have their wishes respected. This behaviour has resulted in many regrettable incidents.

was given on the hotel register as Mra. Nowell, and that of the man They had as. Mr. Edward Nowell. recently arrived in London from the Continent.

Senator Simeon D. Feas of Ohio, who has been chosen as the tempo rary chairman and keynote speaker of the Republican National Conven- tion to be held in Kansas City, Mo, this June. The selection of Senator Fess was made by the sub-commit- tes of the National Republican Com mitte at Ita meeting in Kansas City,

A Mass as an act of reparation for the attacks of Bishop Barnes on A World Grain Exhibition and

the doctrine of the Real Presence! to discuss "the pro- Conference, duction, processing, and marketing was offered at St. Chad's Roman

of cereals," is to be held at Regina, Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham, the capital of Saskatchewan, in the in connection heart of the Canadian wheatfields, celebration for deceased members of

in 1932. This decision was re-

with the annual

message

2nd Lt. J. A. Burns, of the 2nd Batt. Scots Guards, appeared as complainant before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- ached at a gathering of Canadian the Catholic Young Men's Society. the "boy" Ministers and Deputy Ministers of The celebrant was Canon Wheatley, day. Defendant of the yacht "Gael," on which Lt. Agriculture, men prominent in the spiritual director of the society, Burns had gone to Lamma Island grain trade, barkera, and repre- and Dr. Barrett, Auxiliary Bishop

of farmers' organisa of Birmingham, read a last Sunday.. with Lt. C. A. R. sentatives Coghill and Lt. G. M. Kimment, totions. The Premiers of the three from the Archbishop of Birming- delegated ham, Dr. Molntyre, in which he bathe. Complainant missed $23 Prairie Provinces were which is alleged to have been found to secure support of the Dominion said that they were and and sar concealed behind the locker. De Department of Agriculture, and rowful at heart at things that had already assured. The been publicly said against the fendant was charged with larceny. this is Acting Sub-Inspector Mair of the conference, which will synchronise Blessed Sacrament. The Mass Water Police prosecuted. Mr. J, M. with the jubilee of the arrival at was a public demonstration of faith, Remedios defended. After evid- Regina of the first trans-continental love, and loyalty.

was taken, the

railway, the Canadian Pacific, is to be undertaken as a step towards the "breaking down of Internationa! boundaries and a better understand ing between the peoples of the world."

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In a message from Niagara Falls New York, That he had been

(Ontario) the "Central News" bewitched through a woman having

reports

terrible calamity the

the wild given him a cake to eat was

#Wan life of assertion made by a man during

that region. He says that 1,000 the hearing of a case at Welch, Thomas Ward Spray, 54, an un- of the birds were swept over West Virgina. The man, Wade employed stoker, of no fixed home, the falls and another 200 were kill- Hamlin, had been charged with was charged at Guildhall before ed on the ice and rocks below when breaking into a house, and, accord- Mr. Alderman Howell, with steal- the famous and dangerous fee ing to the New York World, he de- Ing from a platform at Liverpool-bridge moved away, carrying the clared that since the day he had street Station a suit-case, con- birds with it. Weather in the eaten the cake given him there he tatning clothing, the property of Southern States turned warm had been bewitched.. "The spell Mr. Reginald Belt, a Customs offi- early this year and the BW000 ruined

luck," he

cer. The theft, to which the ac headed northward before the u94 "Everything I undertook went cuted pleaded guilty, was com- time. The open river offered the wrong. I lost every job

mitted on the evening of Bank one resting-place for them, and at I Kot into goal. I

Holiday, when the station was night they slept. Swans, like could not sloup. I could not eat. thronged. When seized by a rail-geeses mate only once, and they ro I had fits." Sometimes I would come to myself all of a sudden and way detective named Staton, he main together until one dies. As aurrendered the suit-case and re-the bodies of the dead birda floated not know how I got where I was.marked: "All right. · It's finished into eddies below the Falls their. I was bewitched and under the

bereaved mates could be seen hover- control of something I don't know A number of previous convictions ing near, sorrowfully looking for what. I found out that he (the were proved against Spray. The them. The tragedy là a repetition man whose home he entered) offered prisoner told the Court that he was of the disasters of former years, a man £5 to rebuke me to death. "educated on the streets," and although fewer birds hays been lost He wanted to get rid of me for added: "When I am out of a job than formerly, thanks to the nation some reason. I know I was afraid and up against it, I do ateul. Not of Jack Miner, a well-known Cana- I was going to be rebuked to death. that I am naturally of a bad disdian bird lover, who succeeded in I found myself going into his house position, but you know, yourself, coaxing many of the swans to go to ask him about it. I pushed open sir, when you get out of work it to Kingsvilio on their annual the door and walked in, and then I depresses you, and then your old migration. This year the weather came to myself all of a sudden. I habita get the upper hand. (Laugh-beat Jack Miner, and, the low sud- cannot explain things they just ter) After this. I shall have an-denly giving way, the swans were happen to me like that since I ate other goat going straight." Mr. precipitated over the Falls, another that piece of cake that conjured Alderman Howell passed a sex- 200 birds at the bottom of the Falls

tence of three months' herd labour, also being crushed to death.

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