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ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK WON'T RETIRE?

Chen Ming-shu Has Heard Nothing.

STATEMENT IN SHANGHAI

GOA'S CROWDED

HOUR. Exposition of St. Francis Xavier's Body.

Gon, the old cathedral of Chris Shanghai, To-day, The report current that im- tianity in the Orient is going to live portant Government changes are again during this month, the hours being effected is emphatically de-of her glorious past. Her remains of nied by General Chen Ming-shu upon his return from Nanking

this morning.

General Chen Ming-shu, who had an informal conference with Marrbal Chiang Kai-shek, declar- ed that he had heard nothing re- randing, the proposed retirement of Chiang Kai-shek to-day.

He also denied reports that Lin Sen will soon be named act ing Chairman of the Government and he himself would become acting President of the Execu- tive Yuan.-Reuter.

CLASP KNIFE SURGERY.

Grim Operation in Arctic.

JAPANESE STOCK EXCHANGES CLOSED.

Share Jump 60 Yen in One Jump.

BULLSH CONDITION.

Tokyo, To-day, Owing to the extreme bullish condition the Tokyo Stock Ex- change has closed probably for a couple of days after a very brief 60 yen in one jump. session, during which shares rose

-Reuter.

greatness will enliven memory and her temples, duly preserved up to now, will be filled with faithful per- Similar conditions have ro- sons from all parts of India and sulted in the suspension of Stock many other distant places, especially Exchanges all over the country. from the parts where the Great Apostle St. Francis Xavier, lived and preached. His body, even now in a perfect state of preservation, is for the 13th time to be exposed for UNEXPLORED PAPUA. public adoration in the temple of Bom Jesus where It is permanently placed in a rich and artistic tomb of silver.

The old city of Goa will present u double attraction to all those that |

ADVENTURES IN

Lone White Man Attacked.

Sydney, October 8. A solitary white man has journey-

will visit her during this period-ed through the unexplored Kiapou religious and the historical--with her temples and convents and var ous other remains some of which are even anterior to the advent of the Portuguese in India.

The exposition of the body of the Venerable Apostle of the Indies takes place generally only once in It begins on the 3rd of December, on the day of his

The grim details of a serious surgical operation performed by a layman in the ice-covered interior of Greenland, without an anaesthe-every ten years. tic and with only a clasp knife and

In Goa the miraculous body was

a pair of selesors for instruments,, annual feast, and ends on the last have been revealed by Dr. Georgi, day of the same month. a member of the Wegener Relief Expedition, who has reached Deu- mark after more than a year in the Arctic.

first exposed in 1864 at Ribandar and then in Old. Gos in St. Paul's for 3 days. It was frequently ox posed in the 6th and 17th cen. turkles. In 1782, it was once more exposed, and this was repeated in 1784, 1859, 1878, 1890, 1310 and

Dr. Georgi, who is a doctor of science without any medical or sur- gical knowledge, was forced to spend the Winter with Dr. Lowe and Dr. Sorge, two other scientists of the relief party, at Ishulen, one of

During the next exposition, a the most exposed areas of the ice-held in the same city which will be eucharistic Congress will also be covered tableland of the interior.

badly

1922.

Yet nobody suggests that the building trades could beneat by burning a third of this year's new houses. Duluth Herald.

In the terrible weather of Janu- attended by about 40 prelates and ary (reports Reuter from Copen-many Catholic organisations. hagen) Dr. Lowe became frostbitten in both feet. Even to the elementary first-aid knowledge of the others, it was evident that

could hin life be saved. The mea- gro medical supplies contained noi anaesthetic. The clasp knife and scissors were the only available instruments.

A Paramount Picture only by amputation of all the toes

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In an operation lasting an hour and a half, with Dr. Lowe tied and held down by Dr. Sorge, Dr. Georgie amputated the toes of one foot. The patient's agony throughout the or deal was terrible, but he never ut- tered a moan.

A week later the toes of the other foot were simliarly amputated.

THE MONK WHO TURNED FILM'

STAR.

British Actor Vanishes In Hollywood.

the British film actor, who has mysteriously disappeared.

His wife became worried and in- formed the Police.

Since his birth in London, about 60 years ago, Mr. Francis hus had a career of many, adventures.

After leaying Uppingham School he went to Mount Memory College, Dublin. There he decided to ba.. come a monk, and entered & monastery. He changed his mind, however, and left the monastery to enlist.

with cannibals. This is revealed in River valley in a country infested |

Minister's department from Sir a report received by the Prime!

Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Gover-] nor of Papa

Patrol-offler Hides set out necom-; panied only by native relice and carriers, and marched through ter- ritory hitherto totally unexplored. The natives he met are described as "living in scattered villages in the wildest part of the country, prac- tising strange rites, particularly la regard to the disposal of their dead, and cannibalistic by nature."

Soveral times the expedition was attacked. While Hides

was stand- ing outside his tent one evening he heard the rattle of arrows

on the! ground and the woodwork of the camp. A carrier fell with two

had been dragged to safety the at- arrows in his body. By the time he

tack had ceased and no further sign of the native was seen that night. Although severely wounded, the car rier continued the journey. In a Hides by inches. Aubsequent attack an arrow missed!

"Plucky Effort,"

The expedition eventually resched the Edie Creek goldfields.

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A copy of Hides's "Noten on the People of Kaipou" is being forward to the professor of anthropology at

"It Sydney University. plucky, effort," says Sir Hubert Murray's, report, "calling for per sonal courage and endurance and skill in bushcraft."

A CASE FROM CANADA,

Extradition proceedings against Later he went on the stage; but a woman, Cheung Shuet-ngan, ou when he visited India with a tour a charge of the theft of $800 ing company he heard again the (gold) from a firm in Canada call of the Army and enlisted in were mentioned before Mr. the Royal Horse Artillery.

Grantham In the Central Policy Court this morning.

He returned to the stage after being discharged from the Army. Chief Det.Insp. Reynolds applied Police are searching Southern Then he went to Canada and took for a remand of 48 hours, so na California for Mr. Alec B. Francis, ¦ up farming; but he did not stay to enable him to cable to Canada;

long, crossing the border into the for more data concerning the United States to take up stage work case. again. He appeared in a vaude vlls sketch for Jesse Lasky; enco then he has worked only for the I'm blest if I can think of any. films, usually taking the part of a thing between 1870 and 1900 that sympathetic old gentleman of I would give two hoots to chat rather humorous disposition. about-M. L. F. Salzman.

Mr. Francla was to have taken [part in the inaking of a talkie with Greta Garbo. He was seen atepping into a taxicab at the rallway station. Since then there has been no trace of him.

BAYWR

BAYER

Don't let a Cough

Torture you take

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The remand was granted.

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