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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1930.

Pictorial News of the World

THE ROYAL GALLERY, House of Lords, London, where His Majesty the King opened the Five-Power Naval Conference on

January 21. General view of the Royal Gallery. The oblong picture on the left is where H.M. the King sat for the Conference.—

(Sport and General).

THE JAPANESE DELEGATION to the Five-Power Naval Conference now being held at St. James's Palace, London, has a pre-

liminary, conference! Left to right:—Admiral Takorabe (Minister of Marine), Mr. R. Wakatsuki (ex-Premier of Japan and Chief '

Delegate) and the Japanese Ambassador in London, Baron Tsuneo Matsudaira.—(Sport and Coneral).

AN

Her

INTERESTING portrait study of Mr. Franklin Mott- Gunther, wife of the American Minister to Egypt.

Before her marriage she was Louise Brenson Hunnewell, of New York. husband was previously Counsellor of the American Embassy at Rome, Italy, and also Chief of the Divi- sion of Mexican Affairs in the Department of State.

VIEW OF THE YACHT CAROLINE, which left New York under the command of Capt. Andrew Felerson (inset), for a preliminary survey that will prepare the way for a scientific expedition to mysteri- ous Easter Island, believed to hold the secret to much of man's ancient civilluation. The boat is owned by Eldredge R. Johnson, who is said to be planning a new $1,500,000 yacht that will carry two seaplanes and be used by a party of scientists to carry on the investigations begun by Captain Peterson.

GENERAL HSU YUAN-CHAU, Nationalist Army commander, has been hailed throughout Nationalist China as the saviour of its cause.

Yuan-Chau is credited with a large part of the victory over the stubborn rebels of Northern and Southern China, against whose forces of 70,000 he led his own army of 40,000.

MERCEDES GLEITZE, 28-year-old London typkt, who sprang into

fame in 1927 by swimming the English Channel, is now reported to

hava broken the women's world endurance record. According to re-

ports, Miss Gleitze swam continuously for 26 hours on New Year's

Day in an indoor club in Edinburgh, Scotland.

MAHATMA GANDHI, famous

Nationalist leader, whose resolu-

tion favouring complete independ-

ence for India, to be attained

gradually, was approved by a vote

of 181 to 77 at the forty-fourth Nationalist Congress now in pro-

gress. When the National flag waa

raised at the opening of the Con-

greas, pandemonium broke loose, several persons fainted, and the uproar took en much the appear.

ance of a riot,

THIR

recently

the Ex-Cha Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, the present King Boris, was taken fates in Western Hungary: He is during one of his hunting trips, which with big game as the prize,

CHINESE CADETS IN THE ROYAL NAVY: Under the arrangements entered into between the British and Chinese Governments

number of Chinese Junior officers are being trained in the Royal Navy both afloat, and ashorn. A party of Bub-Lieutenants at the

Royal Naval College-Greenwich(8port and General).

DR. GABRIELLE RAKOSY, daughter of the late Eugene Rakory, one of the best known political writers of Hungary, as she appeared in her library where she studied to reach her present goal: Bbe has the distinction of being the only woman criminal lawyer in Hungary. She is also the leader of many progressive movements fa her country,