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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. Gaius Stubbings, aged 20, a Mr. H. W. Bay, managing direc- Mrs. F. W. Maze, wife of the licanseo, of High-street, Epping, tor of Hong Kong Amusements Commissioner of Customs, has left **dropped dead 'as-ho-got-out-of-bad Ltd., arrived from Shanghai by the Shanghai on a short visit to Aus-

recently.

tralia. 8.8. "President Madison."

Polica guarded a jeweller's shop In Pentonville-road, King's Cross, N., last month when fire broke out among some rubbish in the base ment.

Shanghai Chinese merchants are "A slight improvement, but still making arrangements for the es-in a critical condition," was a re- tablishment of a special hospital cont report of Sir Felix Pole, gen- for the treatment of labourers. eral manager of the Great Western

Rallway.

At the Tientsin Rowing Club's

Mr. Thomas Richards, former Meetings by Mr. J. S. Flacks, regatta the International fours ndvertised to begin at Union were won by Great Britain who pastor of Union Church, Tientsin, Church Hall, H.K, on Tuesday, beat-Germany by two lengths and has resigned his temporary ́ap-| June 5 at 5.30 p.m. are postponed a quarter. The British crew con-pointment as assistant master at

sisted of:-R. A. Wickerson the Grammar School. 411 Wednesday, Juno 6 at 5.30.

(Bow): A. Mack Annand (2); After alighting from, an omnibus L. H. Kent (3): C. S. Morton at Hythe (Kent), Colonel Sudlow (stroke): I. S. Annand (cox). Harrison, aged 66, lats Berkshire Regiment, was knocked down by a motor-cycle and subsequently'died.

Explosives were used, in an un- auccessful attempt by intruders to open a safe at the Limefield Mills of J. H. Mortimer, Ltd., spinners, nt Cress Flats, near Bingley, York- shire.

Police who forced an entrance into smoke-filled room in Park- street, Wellingborough, Northamp tonshire, found the charred body of Joseph Crane, aged 87, who lived there alone.

The Canton Government has is- sued an order forbidding the use lof foreign woollen goods, its idea being to encourage the use of Chinese products, says the verna- cular press.”“

The Queen of Norway, the Princess Mary (Viscountess Lascelles) and Viscount Lascelles, and the Princess Victoria lunched with the King and Queen at Wind- sor recently..

The funeral of General Wrangel, former commander of the White Army in Soviet Rusala, in Brussels, was attended by a large number of exiled Russian princes and generals.

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Albert A. Baker, of Newark, N.J., who holds the coffee drinking title of the world. Recently he consumed 78, eight ounce cups of coffee during a contest in Albany, N.Y., and he la now training to beat his own record.

M. Pierre Bardin, a disabled French soldier, was killed at Mos- Hins when he was knocked down by one motor-car and run over by a second while he lay in the road.

The late Mr. John McCubbin, of Hilleret, Hillmorton, near Rugby, retired resident engineer of the China, Gas Co., Hong Kong, left estate valued at £8,979 (net per- sonalty £7,790).

Major-General Sir C. J. Mellias, V.C., at the head of a party of ex- prisoners of war from all parts of the country, laid a wreath on the Cenotaph, the 12th anniversay of the fall of Kut,

Prince Carol of Rymania has de-. cided to prolong his stay in Bel- glum, but is leaving the hotel in Brussels at which he has been liv ing owing to an attempt to force entry to his apartment.

A Chinese chauffeur, who was charged with driving a motor car in a dangerous and reckless man- ner on May 10, thereby causing the death of a compatriot, has been fined $150 by Judge Wan in the Provisional Court, Shanghai.

A ricaka coulie, charged with be- A former Chinese employer of the Canton branch of the Sun Com-ing, a member of an organised pany, who

was alleged to have gang of armed robbers and the disappeared last December during commission of a number of crimes, disturbance in has been sentenced to 14 years Wing Commander Ruscombe the Communist Smyth-Pigott, Air Attache at the Canton, was seen and immediately and six months' imprisonment by Provisional British Embassy in Paris, who left recognised by a shroff of the Com-Judge Llang in the Eastchurch on a Saturday morn-pany near the Western Market on Court, Shanghai,

The shroff ing 'in a light aeroplane for Barce- Saturday afternoon.

and the suspect lona, alighted at Avors, near raised an alarm Bourges, France, at 3.30 in the was placed under arrest by afternoon.

Chinese constable. Following the arrest, the police raided the office The Buddhist Home for the of a Chinese chipping company in Penitent at Lunghus will shortly Connaught-road central. yesterday be opened, according to reports, afternoon and some, 80 persons already have other suspects. It is understood upplied for admittance. Local that the ex-Sun Company employee, merchants of the Buddhist sect who had worked for the shipping and who is very well known in have assumed responsibility for company since he arrived in Hong preliminary expenses.

Kong, will be deported to Canton. The other two arc being held

and detained

Dr. Charles A. Siler, a well-pending inquiry. known American physician in Tientsin, will depart for Europo with his wife and their children George, Marlan, Charles, David and Margaret, where he will spend several months in the clinics of Vienna doing post-graduate work before they continue their journey to America on holiday.

Judge Tseng, in the Provisional Court, Shanghai, sentenced a coolie to two years and six months' imprisonment, on a charge of hav ing been found in possession of a pistol and 100 rounds of ammuni- tion: Accused stated that he was a wharf coolie employed on the Shanghal & Hongkew Wharves and that a man had given him $2. to carry the pistol for him. This man, when he saw the police ap- proach, ran away.

Moulana L. A. Haidari, the Muslim Missioner, who is passing through the Colony, gave a fare- well public lecture at the City Hall last evening, when he spoke on "Islam, the Religion of Peace." The lecture was attended by a large gathering of local Muslims and others and, at the conclusion, Mr. A. Nemazee thanked the Maulana for the various addresses which he had delivered throughout the Colony since his arrival.

The recent announcement of the death of

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Thomas. Butler, "father" of the House of Representatives, has a melancho-

interest for many in China. He was the father of Major-General two Smedley Butler who commands the American Forees in this country

Miss Flatow Schudler, a pretty Berlia model, who has been crowned "Miss Germany" for 1929, a disloction envied by virtually all the female population of Germany.

Word has been received in Pe- king from Paris of the engagement of Miss. Elvira Filandino to Dr. Robert Cormack. Both

Miss Fliandino and Dr. Kormack were well known residents in 'Peking a year ago, having both been attach- to-day by

Passengers leaving Hong Kong the 8.9. "President

ed to the P.U.M.C. Dr. Cormack 'Cleveland" for San Francisco is the eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. are Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Larsen J.. G. Cormack who left Peking last who are travelling to the. United June to return to their home in States on a pleasure trip. Mr. Scotland. Miss Flandino! is at Larsen is a retired Dutch mer- prescnt working in the American chant; Mr. Ernest K. Moy, a Chin- Hospital in Paris.

Shanghal.

The Reorganisation Committee of the General Labour Union has circulated a notice to workers throughout Shanghai exhorting them to continue their duties and not to strike during the present critical period. The Committee asked the employers to grant all their workers an extra day's wage for werking on May 80.

The Shanghai "Zarya", although agreeing that the Municipal, Coun- cil is faced with a difficult pro- blem, if they are to allow parks to remain open after sundown, be lieves that some solution may be arrived at, whereby persons who are engaged during the day may have an opportunity to refresh themselves later in the evening.

Gen. Chiang Kai-shek has ad- dressed a telegram to the Kinngau Provincial Government ordering (1) that a complete census shall be taken of the people throughout the province within three months; (2) that a model industrial fac- tory capable of accommodating 50,000 disbanded soldiers shall be established within three months; and (3) that a Farmers' Bank shall be established within the shortest possible period.

A Society has been' formed in Nanking for the study of Russian eivilisation and the formal open- ing took place last Sunday when speeches were delivered by Mr. Hsueh Tu-pi, Minister of Interior: Gon. Niu Yung-chien, chairman of the Kiangsu Provincial Govern- ment; Gen. Chang Tz-kinng, repre entative of Marshal Fong Yu- hsiang and former Tupan of the North-western Frontiers; and Mr. Ho Yu-shu, a member of the Kinng- su Provincial Government.

Feking is again facing a short- ese journalist, who is returning to age of foodstuffs and fuel, with the United States and is staying the result that the prices of every Says the "N. C. Daily News" to for a few weeks in Shanghaf; Mr. commodity are soaring higher day hand: The Shanghal Lawn Tennis Alex M. Yazely of Messrs. Mallouk by day, says the "North China This situation has Association has experienced a Bros., Shanghai, who is returning: Standard." piece of execrable luck in connec home to Europe on furlough; Mr. been brought about, it is believed, tion with the present series of in- W. Hayashi of the Mitsui Bussan through lack of fresh supplies terport games. So that everything Kaisha who is travelling to from outside of the city, owing to should be in perfect order, during Japan; Mr. W. C. Taylor of interruption of communications the matches played on the. Majes Messrs. Arnhold & Co. Canton, and use of rolling stock by the tic Hotel courts, the Association who is going to Shanghai; Mr. militarists. The godowns at the sent there four brand new screens. Walter B. John, who is returning Yunglingmen, Fengtat and Hal- These were kept on the lawn after to the United States on furlough. chihmen stations, which used to be Sunday's games, but between that Mr. John is connected with the overcrowded with goods, are now time and yesterday morning they Asiatic Petroleum Co., Singapore; having few stocks there. It is disappeared. So far no trace of Mr. S. Ellis ofthe Firm of Doge feared that there will be a famine the thief has been secured. The Saymour & Co, who is returning in the metropolis, if the present, cost of the screena was In the to Shanghai after a business trip state of affairs continuer Inde-

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