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THE CHINA MAIL,
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES.
The Annual Meeting
Of the Chinese Mission to Lepers was held at the Bankers' Club, Shanghai, at which Mr. Wm. Vinson Lee was re-elected President for the fourth year in succession, Seated in the centre is Mr. Wm. Yinson Lee President) while on his right is Dr. Wu Lien-teh (Hou. Vice-President and on his left is Dr. Wu Li-kog (representing the Commissioner of Public Health for the Municipality of Greater Shanghai). Others in the picture are Dr. Fong F. Sec. and Dr. E. S. Tyau (Vice-Presidents), Dr. U. K. Koo, Dr. Shang, Mr. E. K. Isa (representing Mr. K. P. Chen), Mr. F. M. Sah. Mr. K. S. Lee, Mr. P. K. Chu, Mr. Chi-fan Li, Mrs. T. K. M. Siao, Mrs. Y. S. Cheng (all Directors), Rev. T. C. Wu (General Secretary), Mr. H. C. Tsao (Chairman, Council on Health Education), Mr. George A. Fitch (Hon. General Adviser), Dr. John Y. Lee, Mr. K. F. Chang, Mr. Li Zee-in, Miss A. Fong and others.-(Wei Fong.)
Ready for Long Hop to Argentine
Lieutenanta Claudio Meila and Diego A. Arzene. South American aviators, are practising daily, with the giant Bellance, below, which" they will fly to Buenos Aires for the Argentine Government. The men will later attempt to fly the same plane from South America to Seville, Spain.
Honeymoon Murder
A Countess In Trade
Countess Carnwath, wife of the Earl of Carnwath, who bas startled London society by entering business. Recently she took over an orgamental glass firm.. She is the former Maud Maitland.
Married A Turk
Worh $3,000,000 Or Nothing
To prave whether or not the painting (left, "La Belle Fer- roniere" is a real Da Vinci, Mrs. Andree Hahn is suing Sir Joseph Duveen, art expert, for $500,000 because she claims be said the pic-
re the owns is not by Leonardo Da Vinci, but a copy.
Where King George Is Recuperating
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929.
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Christopher Cullen, accused of the honeymoon murder of his five- day bride, is being held in a Florida hospital antif his condition allows him to be brought to trial at Hingham, where his bride's body was found.
Cullen was picked up anconscious near the tracks of the Florida East Coast railroad while search was being concentrated for him in northern New England.
He Flew to Fame
The Frincess Svida Sund Bey Chakir, formerly Mrs. J. D. Sprekels, who lost her citizenship when she married the Turkish Prince in 1922, regained her rights when she was renaturalised in San Francisco, Cal.
New Papal State
"Craigwell House," the home of Sir Arthur Du Cros, near Bognor, a village on the English coast, where King George is re cuperating. The castle. is only a few steps from the beach.
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The poet-aviator, Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld, who with his brave oumpanions spanned the Atlantic in the Bremen, recently died in Berlin.
This outlined section shows an air view of most of the territory which is included in the new Papal state created by agreement between the Pope and the Italian Government, St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Gardens, together with a grant of 1,000,000,000 lire settle the question which has long been the cause of controversy in Italy. Professor Amedeo Gianni, of the Italian Foreign Office, is given much of the credit for bringing about an amicable settlement. It is expected that all coun tries will soon zeceguise Pope Pius XL in his new "status as ruler of a temporal kingdom,"
Polítical storms about the head of Mrs. -0.0. Hammond while she was. confidential secretary to Gov. Henry- 9. Johrison of Oklahoma, finally forced ber resignation.
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