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EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART

Special Party From Germany

ENTHUSIASTIC VISITORS ENTRANCED

London. To-day.

The party of German profes- sors, who have arrived in Lon- don by specially chartered steamer to see the Exhibition of Chinese Art now

open at Burlington House, is under the leadership of Dr. Cohn of the Berlin Art Museum, who lived, It for many years in China. includes Professors Rousell and Oppenheim, of the Chinese In- stitute of Frankfort, Robert) Schmidt of the Schloss Mu- seum,

Berlin, which has lent several art treasures, and other specialists and collectors and also a large number of ladies, conspicuous from other femin- ines for their long hair and ab- sence of make-up. The major- ity speak perfect English..

The galleries are crowded by the eager visitors, systematically by studying the treasures case case. All express unbounded ad- miration for the exhibits and the manner of display. All say:

shall too much. We is almost never finish in four days. “

The prehistoric bronzes cause the greatest admiration

The great lover in private life as well as on the screen, John Gilbert (left), born Jack Pringle, who died of a heart at- tack last month at the age of 29. and three of his four wives: Claire (top right), third; Leatrice Joy (top left), second; Ina Virginia Bruce (bottom), fourth. His first wife was Olivia, Bur-

well, a non-professional..

THE CHINA MAIL, FUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1936

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

CHINESE DOCTOR CHARGED

Alleged Illegal Practice

CASE AGAIN ADJOURNED

Fan Walmaz, a Chinese doctor, who was yesterday charged under the Medical Registration Ordin- ance with practising as a surgeon at No. 24 Shanghai Street and with possession of certain pai-! 800s, namely: "novocaine,” and also three hypodermic syringes, again appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning.

CLOCKS STOPPED TO LET THE BUDGET PASS

"Legal Fiction" Employed To Meet Cremenstances.

Paris

As a minute to midnight on December 3 last the clocks in the Chamber of Depaties were stopped so that, in theary, if not in fact, the French Parlament might pass the 1986 Budget be- fore the end of the year.

The debate ended at 8.30 3.10. -on January 1 The Budget was recorded as having been passed st midnight on December 31.

of Messrs HAMADRYAD

Mr. Hogh-Jones, Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for the defendant and withdrew his client's ples måde yesterday in respect of the first charge.

It appears that Chinese doctors practising the Eastern methods perform similar operations to the one defendant did on February |

5.

LAYS CLUTCH

OF 25 EGGS Unusual Occurrence

At London Zoo

FIRST TIME EVER KNOWN

IN CAPTIVITY

Dr. Valentine Called

called this The only witness morning was Dr. Douglas James! A hamadryad or king cobra Valentine, who testified that, in gave the Zoo a rare and un- the company

of Detective-Ser expected New Year's present by This is geant Kinnear, he went to No. 124 laying a pile of eggs. Shanghai Street and on the first the first time that a hamadra- floor entered what might be call-yad has ever laid eggs in the ed a surgery. He saw on the menagerie.

table a bar containing "novocaine" The mother snake is a 10ft.

ad

The

A tes Party in honour of Dr. Mr. E. M. L Soares was this and also three glass syringes and specimen which arrived at the and the W. B. A. Moore, 0.B.E., Serving morning fined $30, by Mr. W. a box of hypodermic needles Zoo from Malaya a few days

hatch the pictures next. Each German is Brother of the Order of St. John Schofield at the Central Magis-There was a wooden table like before Christmas and apparent-

eggs. allowed to spend only 10s daily of Jerusalem, is to be given by the tracy for driving private car Nojan operation table and a consider-y she intends to do her best

mammer in able quantity of bandages and to

surgical ordinary cobra does not in- Lyons have arranged a luncheon St. John Ambulance Brigade this 1783 in a dangerous

the Des Voeux Road Central at 11.55 wool,

cubate her eggs, but this king for them all together. but their afternoon at 515

on the night of January 25, and forceps.

cobra at once proceeded to coil other meals will be takes on the Gloucester Building.

was fined $20 for driving the

herself round the eggs and shei ship. On Friday morning they

In all 11,199 cases were attend-same car without a valid licence.

now appears to have settled will make a tour of the sights of London and will leave for Ger-led to by the St. John Ambulance

down to incubate them.

many in the evening.

at p.m

New Territories Medical Benero-

Scissors

Surgery Book Found In another room, in the safe, A dinner dance will be held at the keys for which were produced to-morrow at by defendant, he found a stetho- scope. In the office on the desk The exhibition continues to be lent Branch during January, in-Repulse Bay Hotel

of attraction. It has cluding 137 maternity cases.

there was a book, the text anabated

40,000 tickets to "sold

school- children and 18,000 to the staffs of associations.

Zu

8.30 p

$0

Keeper's Difficulty- Her temper has become Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 which was in Chinese, but on the dangerously bad that the keeper News has been received of the

to-day front page in English was the had difficulty in providing her death on December 29, 1935. of hours ending at 10 am..

with bracken so that she could 0.62 inch. The total since title "Surgical Operations."

herself to Mr. Hugh-Jones, make

comfortable. A Barlington House authority, Dr. G. H. Bateson Wright, D.D. was interviewed by Reuter, said he former Headmaster of Queen's January 1 has been 1,57 inches,

against an average of 1.85 Dr. Valentine said the operation Although she tried to attack of circumcision Was done in him for giving her this bed- was surprised China had not made College from 1881 to 1908.

special ways by different races ding, she has made use of it more use of the exceptional pub-j

number licity created by the Exhibition

and religions and that the cas-The eggs appear to

The total consumption of water Dozens of enquiries had been re- in the City and Hill districts dur ceived as to where one can obtaining the month of January was the canvas with which the walls 303.39 million gallons, including and galleries are lined. Apper 48.09 million gallons supplied from ently no Chinese thinks it worth the mainland. Kowloon and New while to export it--Reuter.

NEW WARSHIPS TO BE BOMB-PROOF Protection For All Vital Parts

ADMIRALTY FULLY ALIVE TO AIR DANGER

Kowloon consumed 184.98 millios gallons during the same period.

The Police Branch of the Min-

83

inches...

"MELANCHOLY TRUTH"

Boys' Verdict On Head Master

Tin his reminiscences of public istering League are holding their schools Dr. Alington tells a plea- monthly Ladies Mab-jongg and samt story of Dr. Butler, one of his Whist Drive at the Police Recrea-predecessors as Head Master of tion Club at three o'clock this Shrewsbury. afternoon.

"It is on record," he says, "that Butler once entered a schoolroom!

Dr. Arthur, Woo, who is arrang-junexpectedly, to find on a black- ing for the reception of Mrs. Mar-board the legend," "Butler is an old garet Sanger when she visits Hong fool! The boys waited horror- Kong next week, has called a meet struck for an explosion, but the ing at the Chinese Merchants' Head Master approached the black- Bomb-proof defence to maga Club at 7.30 this evening, to make board, eyed it carefully, and then said with a sigh. The melancholy zines, machinery spaces, in- arrangements.

truth stares me in the face." flammable stores, and all vital:

An At Home was to have been control stations will, it is under- stood, be a feature of the new held at the Government Civil Hos- British

which, ipital to-day whereat Lady South- according to present plans, are on was to have presented certi-j It is i to be laid down twelve months fcates to graduate nurses.

that the announced, however, hence.

function has been postponed.

battleships

now

Charges

being made! that the Admiralty, in planning News-has-been received of the the new programme of con- death, on struction

December 29, 1935, in

ICE CARNIVAL

TRAGEDY

Woman Dies After Sudden Illness

found in the handbag of a woman

to restore British England, of Dr. G. H Bateson A letter from the King with 2 naval strength, are ignoring or Wright, DD., former Headmaster 1915 date, notifying her that her minimising the danger of air of Queen's College from 1881 to son had been killed in the war, was attack have no justification. 1908. What has been, and is still being, done to enable all future battleships and large cruisers to resist blows delivered from the air cannot yet be revealed..

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

Four Guardsmen Charged

who was taken suddenly ill at a New Tear's Eve ice carnival at the Eun- pire Pool, Wembley. She died shortly afterwards.

She was Mrs. Tannath Mary Ann Crick, aged 66, of Linden- Javenne, Kensal Rise. An appeal was broadcast through the loud-

In answer

tom was by no means confined to about 25 and they are about the

size of a bantam hen's eggs. Europeans.

One complication is that The case was adjourned to Monday morning, the Ponce there is another hamadryað in officer being requested to con- the cage and it is difficult-to sult the law officers, as a simmer remove this second snake to He cannot be case occurred in the Colony some other quarters. time 350.

persuaded to glide into the next-door cage because it is occupied by a 15ft. hamadryad who has already made it clear) that she will not share her home with other hamadryads.

GHOSTS WERE SMUGGLERS

Carrying Saccharine And Flints

Budapest-

If he were removed by force

the disturbance might irritate the mother snake. However, she does not appear to resent the presence of her companion and so far he has taken no notice of the nursery.

Snake-eating Snake

Two Hungarian frontier guards were startled at midnight to see 20 Sgures enveloped from head to foot in white shrouds, crossing The hamadryad shares with from Austrian to Hungarian ter the mamba of tropical Africa the distinction of being the ritory.

When the guards shouted to the most aggressive of all snakes.

It will not only attack "ghosts" to halt, they began to

beings, but pursue howl dismally and scattered into human

Its venom, of which it! the snow-covered fields and woods. them. Behind them they left a score of injects a large dose, produces sac-death in man in anything up to bags containing 450kb. of Charine and several thousand six hours. It is a cannibal and

feeds on smaller snakes.

One sent to the Zoo some fints for automatic lighters.

years ago was accidentally packed with several common cobras, most of which it de- voured on the way.

BANDITS SHOOT WOMAN

£1,200 In Notes Taken

Paris.

A woman cashier was shot in a speakers at the pool for any rela- car by bandits at St. Denis last tive to come forward.

When the time comes for dis-i closing the facts they will show that the naval authorities for years past have been fully alive to the new menace and the necessity for meeting it

When four men of the 1st Bn. initial measure of strengthen the Coldstream Guards were again ing the anti-aircraft armament remanded for a week at Windsor KING'S SYMPATHY EXPRESSED of all big ships has already been recently on charges of robbery taken

The

TO MR. DE VALERA.

London, To-day.

mouth. They escaped with £1,200. Despite her wounds the woman

FIGHT WITH EAGLE Clawed And Knocked Unconscious

Sherbrooke (Quebec).—In a struggled out to collect £150 in desperate fight with an eagle dian Armand Lemieux, WES! notes which they dropped on the at Sherbrooke, a French-Cana roadway.

clawed about the face and head with violence, they applied for

The wontan Mme. Sirard, was and knocked unconscious. legal aid Each man was granted

Lemieux was on his way to separate counsel The men are: His Majesty the King has asked motoring back to the factory

Haswell (21), the Irish Free State High Commis where she is employed, accomm work with two companions Cpl Wilfrid ALLEGED THEFT OF Guardsmen Frederick Wilson (23),sioner in London to express Hispanied by her manager, K. Bruet. when the eagle swooped down The bandits stopped the car, and without warning and clutched Joseph Coldicott (21), and Ed-Majesty's sympathy with Mr. De

Valeta in the death of his son a shot fired at M. Braet hit Mme her head in its claws, and ward Marshall Lewis (19).

At the same time the bird It was stated that Harold Brian, following a riding accident Sinard.

tore at Lemieux's face with its Boatfield, whom the soldiers are in Phoenix Park, Dublin, on, Sun-t

beak Ta Falleged to have attacked, was still day. The Dominions Secretary, in a critical condition...

MOTOR-CAR

10 Years' Ban On

Driver

John P. Withers, aged 29, of no

ized address, was deprived of his

driving Beence for 10 years by SIR ALFRED BUTT ROBBED

the Oldham magistrates recently,

Fines totalling 50% were imposed...

OF £250

It was stated that Withers drayve. Le Touquet-Sir Alfred

MP, who came to Le Touqu

dar at a roeldens speed; igno

signals, and knocked

signal

of stealing

stwar and the New Year ported to the police that a

for

tache case containing nearly £25 in French and danglah money". been stolen from his hotel

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, has also sent a message of condolence to Mr. de Valera-British Wireless Service.

2RUGST PLAYER MISSING:

Hertfordshire police are trace & Boted Ines)

Owen Roes

of Enghiens

of Hunton Bridge).

HAYANA HOUSE COLLAPSE

Five Killed And 18 Injured

The other man managed to beat off the eagle Gunmen are now combing the woods to destroy the bird.

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