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THE CHINA MAIL,

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES.

Chief of Insular Affairs

Vanderbilt Heiress Sues For Divorce

Famous Scientist

Put "Teeth" In Peace Pact

Discovers "Perfect Anaesthetic "

Col Frank Led. Parker, the new

Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs,

Maj. Gen. Frank who succeeds McIntyre, who has been attached to the

Bureau since 1905,

Colonel Parker

will be given the rank of brigadier gen-

eral.

A Former Princess

Mrs.

Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church, who has started divorce proceedings against Frederick Cameron Church, iun, for met Harvard football star. Church is the daughter of William K and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt. were married on July 25, 1925.

They

-Prof.

famous

Albert Einstein, physicist, who recently gave his ex-

planation of the new electro-gravilation

theory he bas developed.

Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas, who framed the Capper Resolution to enforce world peace what is called a plan to put "teeth" in the Pact of Parks. It is the Senator's plan to boy- cott nations which broke their agree. ment to keep peace.

To Bear Pope On First Trip

Dr. Miguel Garcia, who has astound-

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ed the medical world with his revolu-

tionary discovery of a new anaesthetic

-the intravenous injection of ethyl

alcohol. Some authorities have

stated the new discovery 1,000 times

superior to chloroform or ether-calling

it the "perfect anaesthetic."

He Handles The King's Bankroll

TUESDAY,

APRIL 16, 1929.

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Princess Alexandra Victoria wife of the ex- Reumann, former Kaiser's son. Prince August Wilhelm, who interds devate her entire time

to painting. She will be the first mem- ber of the old German court to become an American citizen. She is the wife of former Commander Alexander Rue- mann, of the Imperial German Navy, and by her own right is Princess of Schleswig Holstein She divorced Prince August Wilhelm in 1920.

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Removed from the war museum of the Castle St. Angelo, this splendid train will again be put on rails for use by Pope Pius XI (inset), who is soon to make his first journey by rail, which probably will be to Milan, his birth-place. The train, richly ornamented with pure gold, carries the insignia of Fope Pius IX, under whose reign it was captured in 1870, when Italian soldiers marched on Rome.

-Eminent Scientist Chief of Air Corps

(On Left)-Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, Assistant Chief of the Army

Air Corps, who was marshal of the air

contingent in the air pageant on March

1 after Herbert Hoover was inducted

into ofice."

Sir Edward Ponsonby, "Keeper of the King's privy purse," and former Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Victoria and King Edward. Every Penny the British monarch receives

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through goes Ponsonby's hands, and he alone knows to a penny just how much the King is worth. He was recently decorated by King George with the Knight Grand Cross of the Eath.

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Long Lost, Re-United

Seeks Cut on Fights

(On right)-The eminent Canadian

scientist, Sir Thomas Holland, who has

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Science for 1929. He is a noted

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(Established 1887)

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Separated for more than twenty- one years a

by

who

Icst Jetter one brother and delivered to the other

united Jerome (top), and Vincent,

Higgins (below) had not seen each other, since boyhood. It all happened in Hollywood studHor where Vincent had been working for more than two years in the Paramount armoury when Jerome came to work as: pipesätter.

Trafalgar Square, London, the magnet of all British protesters, is seething again with thousands

of unemployed from all parts of Britain.

Pictured above is a demonstration recently staged against their starving condition, demanding relief end work. The recent extreme cold and snow have added greatly to their suffering.

Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion, and his bride, Polly Tauder, have been wede defendants in a suit for $405,000, instituted by Tim Mars, The latter bases his claim on an alleged contract with Turney and his mana ger, Billy Gibson, which would pay him 10 per cent, of the champion's earnings if Mara would arrange a bont with Dempsey

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Hon. Treasurer H.K.B.S.

_Madam,⠀⠀

·Hong Kong University,

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