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The "China Mail" has received the following letter by air mail, with reference to a Royal Asiatic Society publication printed by the “China Mail” in 1848.

The correspondent is Mr. G. W. Wilton, KC, the Sheriff Substitute of Lanarkshire at Lanark, and he makes an enquiry which readers may possibly be able to assist to answer, as follows:

FINGER PRINTS

SOVIET EMBASSY ON FIRE

RUMOURS OF EXPLOSIONS

LISBON, TO-DAY.

A FIRE WHICH BROKE OUT IN THE SOVIET · EM- BASSY AT MADRID ON MONDAY NIGHT RESULTED IN CONSIDERABLE DAM- AGE BEFORE THE FLAMES COULD BE BROUGHT UN- DER CONTROL.

It is announced that several hand-grenade explosions were also heard in the building.

The Soviet G.P.U. in Madrid has Sir, I am writing a history of finger prints and of the life of begun an investigation and several Henry Faulds, sometime in Japan, arrests have been made, including as the modern pioneer of Crime five members of the Embassy staff. A telegram expressing regret has Detection by their means.

I deal with the ancient history of been sent to Stalin by the Spanish China on this subject as found in Premier, Senor Largo Caballero.— Professor Giles's "Adversaria Sini-Trans-Ocean. car" and also in the article by Ber- thold Lanfer in the Annual Report for 1912 of the Smithsonian Insti- tute, published in 1913 in Washing- tom

Lanfer, on page 639, refers to an article by T. Taylor Meadows: on "Land Tenure in China" in the 1848 Volume of the "Transactions of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society," on Page 1.

That volume was published in 1848 by the "China Mail”·

I got access to the copy of this volume possessed by Cambridge University and on examining the rice paper facsimile enfolded be- tween pages 12 and 13, there is no finger impression at all

So I got the Royal Asiatic So ciety in London to examine their copy. They report that there

is

DIPHTHERIA NOT DIMINISHING

12 Cases Last Week: 9 In Previous Week

of

Twelve cases of diphtheria which six were fatal, occurred in the Colony during last week, six of the cases being reported from Victoria and four from Kowloon.

The figures compare with nine cases and four deaths during the week ended February 13.

There were also six cases of typhoid, three fatal, five of men-. ingitis, including an imported case, and eight dysentery patients with three deaths from this disease.

Fifty-four deaths due to tuber-

a finger impression but that it is culosis were reported to the Health on a different axis from that on Officer during the week.

Lanfer's Plate I..

Would you examine the copy of the facsimile you have got and let me know whether there is any finger impression on it and if so, how it compares with that on Lan- fer's Plate L

CANTON TOWN

PLANNING

Canton, Yesterday.

It is reported that at a confer- The Royal Asiatic Society regard ence of Canton Municipality offi the discrepancies as curious. cials yesterday afternoon, it was eastern

suppose we are right in describ- decided to assign the ing the facsimile of the Mother suburbs of the city as a residential Chen as done on rice paper? area, to choose the site of Chiputi Had each copy to be done by the as a public garden and to build a brush separately or were all copies market in Tung Shan. Our Own taken from a single block as in litho Gorrespondent. graphy?

Would you also oblige me by look ing at the woodcut on Page 14 of

SHE DOES NOT FORGET

Meadows article? It seems to me For 16 years Hull's Post Office that that woodent is in no way in- Memorial to the men who fell in tended to be an exact copy of the the Great War has been decked actual fingerprint on the dead, but with flowers. merely a rough representation that

There is never a day when they such a thing is there. Do you look neglected, and all who enter agree?

the Post Office from Alfred Gelder If the China Branch of the Royal Street must have noticed the beauty Asiatic Society is still in ex- of the flowers in the porch îstence and you cân put Every week Mr. Watson cares for this letter before any of its mem-them, doing it in memory of her bers and beg the favour of his or boy who was reported missing in their also writing to me, I should 1916 when only 19. Her care of the be extremely obliged.

blooms has been her tribute to his memory.

Yours faithfully,

G. W. WILTON, K. C. Biggar, Lanark, February 6, 1937.

MR. WILTON'S CAREER.

The RMS. "Empress of Canada" left Vancouver for Hong Kong, via Honolulu, Japan ports and Shang-

Mr. Wilton has had a distinguish-hai, on Saturday, and due at Hong ed career as scholar and lawyer He Kong on March 12, (Friday) morn- was educated at High School, ing. Edinburgh, and later at the Uni-

versity of Edinburgh, where he was the English Bar at the Middle Lord Rector's Prize Essayist. ple

He has published man He qualified as a solicitor in 1884

the bes and was admitted member of the on Company Lay Faculty of Advocates years being Company Law and

later.

In 1901,

was called

in Scotland,