1937-06-26 — Page 24

ITALY'S ATTITUDE ON SEA CONTROL

Rome, To-day.

While authoritative circles ex- with Mr. Neville press agreement Chamberlain's desire to solve the non-intervention crisis, it is under- stood that Italy will not agree to other Powers taking over the Ita- lian and German control zones.

If Britain and France do so, their action will be regarded merely as | private British and French policy towards Spain, and it is not likely Italy will accord it juridical vali- dity. Reuter.

BUBONIC PLAGUE TO BE TACKLED

Back From North

Pole

Moscow, To-day. Professor Schmidt and other members of the

the North

Pole scientific expedition receiv- ed a tremendous reception on their return to Moscow yester- day.

Stalin and other high Soviet leaders, including President Mo- lotov, gathered at the aerodrome to greet them.-Reuter.

KWANGSI CURRENCY

LI CHUNG-YEN TO FLY TO CANTON

Canton, To-day. General Li Chung-jen, Pacifica- Measures for the eradication of bubonic plague in Fukien are being tion Commissioner for Kwangsi, is discussed between Dr. J. Heng Liu, to leave Kweilin for Canton to-day director of the Health Administra-by air.

It is officially stated that General tion of the Central Government, and representatives of various organiza-Li is to consult with Mr. T. v.

Soong, Chairman of the

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1937.

NAVAL LEADER'S DEATH

Admiral Sir William Fisher

London, To-day. One of Britain's foremost naval commanders, Admiral Sir William Fisher, died in London yesterday.

Sixty-two years of age, the late Sir William Wordsworth Fisher was Commander-in-Chief, Ports- mouth, at the time of his death.

He played a prominent role at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 when he was commander of the battle- ship St. Vincent.

Admiral Fisher joined the Bri- tannia as a cadetin 1888. Two years later he was midshipman; sub-lieutenant in 1894; lieutenant in 1896; commander in 1906, cap- tain in 1912; Rear-Admiral in 1922; Vice-Admiral 1928 and Admiral

1932.

The administration is understoodEconomic Council, on thational Fleet, to 1924, Rear-Admiral First

tions in Fukien.

to be training 160 men for the an- nihilation of rats in the affected areas, and they will in turn teach the populace the use of apparatus and medicine for such work. It is

question of stabilising Kwangsi currency. Our Own Correspondent.

hoped that the province will get rid RICE

of rats in five years.

to

the of Following the outbreak plague, the Administration has sent special medical corps to Fukien to give medical treatment and also attend to prevention work. The 160 trained men are expected to begin rat-suppression work in the pro- vince at the end of the month.

ROMAN VILLAGE IN A

SAND PIT

་

FOR CANTON NOW TO PAY DUTY

Canton, To-day.

From 1917 to 1918 he was Direc- tor of the anti-Submarine Division He was Chief at the Admiralty. of Staff, Mediterranean Fleet, 1919 to 1922; Chief of Staff, Atlantic Battle.... Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet, 1924 to 1925; Fourth Séa Lord, 1927 to 1928; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff 1928 to 1930; Vice- Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet, 1930-1932; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterran-

ranean Fleet, 1932 to 1936.

He was naval A. D. C to King George V from 1921 to 1922.

Admiral Fisher, among his other decorations, received the Legion of Honour and Order of the Rising Sun and the United States Distin- The transportation of 4,000,000 guished Service Medal. Trans- piculs of free of duty rice into Kwangtung finished yesterday. From now on, all foreign rice that goes into the province must pay normal customs duties.

It is learned that the Food Con- trol Committee is working out. 2

plan for large scale shipments of

Roman remains, which presup-

the rice from neighbouring and pose the hitherto unsuspected exis- tence of a village, have been dis-Yangtsze Valley provinces into

Kwangtung. covered three miles north-east of Braughing, Hertfordshire, during the digging of a gravel pit.

Mr. Chen Pak-chung, general manager of the South China Rice Supply Company, Shanghai, is now

Ocean.

DEATH OF MR. ANDREW HARPER A Remarkable Figure Passes

The

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Boxes of provisions valued at $2,000 were stolen from the

Williams Grocery Store, 41a

Des Voeux Road, Central, be-

tween 10 p.m. last night and 8

o'clock this morning.

FOOTBALL POOL

PRIZE

Peer Gives It Away

Lord Armstrong, wealthy, white- haired Laird of Rothbury, North-

umberland, has won £1,049 for a

penny in a football pool, reports.the "Daily Mirror." He received the cheque on his 74th birthday.

Lord Armstrong recently won £300 in a cross-word competition. death, of Mr. Andrew He said, “ Football pools and cross- word puzzles are my two special

· The finds date from the first half of the Second Century, and include in Canton to consult the authorities Harper yesterday at the age of hobbies. I shall share the pool shards of pottery, coins of Hadrian, regarding the establishment of 74 was learned with sincere re-prize-money among charities in bones of deer, boar, and other ani-branch in Canton-Our Own Cor- gret by a wide circle of friends. mals, and a Roman knife,

respondents

Irish Elections To Be Held

which I am interested. I don't The late Mr. Harper was a man regard football pools as gambling. of dynamic energy and considerable To my mind, they are definitely a accomplishments in the sphere of matter of skill. I take great care engineering in his early years, and in filling up my coupons, yet was at all times, something of a "character."

They

Archdeacon G. H. Cameron, Vicar of Furneux Pelham, in whose hands the finds have been placed,

Lord Armstrong has been mar- said that several Roman roads in

ried three times. Until last autumn the district have not been investi-

He was genial almost to the point he was a member of Northumber- gated, but probably lead to a new

of embarrassment on occasion, as land County Council, but he did not village or villages. A local land-

Dublin, June 20. the possessor of a fund of somewhat seek re-election. He does much owner's steam plough recently

Parliamentary elections will be bizarre good humour that was irre-work for the Newcastle Infirmary, turned up Roman coins, and it is held throughout the Irish Free State pressible.

the Eye Hospital and the North of hoped this summer to pursue the on July 1. The new Dail is to meet In business, he built up the Ford England Cancer Campaign... investigation further, he added.

on July 21. The new elections, it agency in Hong Kong to a powerful will get his prize money The finds are in a series of rough-is generally believed, will

again position before it was taken over. Craigside, his seat at Rothbury, ly parallel trenches four or five

Mr. Wallace

Harper, is one of Northumberland's show- yards apart and five feet deep and give a big majority to the Fianna by his son wide, which were probably the Fail, the party of President Eamon and later he interested himself scri- places. Lord Armstrong also owns dumping ground of a nearby vil. de Valera. The new Dail will be ously in a Hong Kong-Canton high- Bamburgh Castle, one of England's lage. The location is not identi- composed of 188 deputies instead of way project, which he had to aban- most historic fortresses- fied, but indications point to the the 153 of the preceding one, which don in the absence of a like enthu- hamlet of Gravesend. Among arti- comprised 77 members of the Fianna siasm on the part of the authori- cles found are globular jars, parts Fail, 58 of the Fine Gael, 15 In- ties. of dishes, a brick-red flagon and a dependents, and eight Labourites. knife of common Roman type. The Havas.

coins are brass sestertii.

His Excellency the Officer Ad-

ministering the

Durin

several shi

Government has Genoa, and

been pleased to recognize, provi-lin the Italian liner sionally and pending instructions

Lean nimes

from the Secretary of State for the Fletcher Christian, a descendant of Colonies, Mr. Elvin Seibert as a the Bounty mutineers' leader, helped to rescue 16 Americans off the Pacific Vice-Consul for the United States island of Pitcairn, of which he is ma- of America at Hong Kong,

gistrate.

The funeral will pass the Monu- ment at 5 p.m. to-day.

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