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CHINA YEAR BOOK
(1938 Edition).
EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.
The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented)
Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem.
Finance and Currency (including War measures)
Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy'
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
Royal octavo, 620 pages, cloth bound, $18 net.
Obtainable at all booksellersfor from the publishers:' THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD.
∙P.0. Box 707, Shanghai
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY,
PARK LANE DEBT RIDDLE
A mystery man of high finance, Mr. Siegfried Wreszynski, provided a fresh mystery, when notice of a receiving order made against him was announced in the "London Gazette." When, with Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Norris, he leaped to prominence with a secret method of "thawing" Germany's frozen currency, his per- sonal fortune was estimated at millions of pounds.
For months Wreszynski and Norris puzzled the financiers of Europe as their deals in German bonds flowed into millions.
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Their methods were secret. None} The bride's present from her hus- but they could handle the business. band was a large 80 carat blue and
white diamond. Then while the world was watch- ing and wondering the mystery men's story became charged with
romance.
Colonel Norris and his wife dis- solved their marriage and Mrs. Norris became Mrs. Wreszynski.
The wedding reception at the Hotel Splendide was carried out on the millionaire scale of bridegroom's desis.
BRIDE WORE JEWELS WORTH £100,000
is Mrs. Wreszynski
a Swede, daughter of a cement merchant, and at one time an actress.
Her Park-lane home was hung with priceless pictures. She was noted as a generous and popular hostess.
Her husband carried about with the him always a costly gold pocket- case containing a beautiful minia- ture of his wife.
Their marriage did not interrupt the bridegroom's business associa- tion with his wife ex-husband.
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The bride wore diamonds and precious stones worth £100,000; her flowers alone cost hundreds of Three days after the wedding Mr. pounds. Forty magnums of cham-Wreszynski and Colonel Norris France, where pagne were served to the forty-two were sitting together at the same home with his guests, who came from all the great board table. finance houses of Europe.
The financial operations in Ger-
Ice skating stars, Miss Daphne Walker with Mrs. Ian Currie played tennis on the ice at Wembley in a doubles with Miss Pame- la Stephany and Granham Sharp. Miss Megan Taylor, the world champion, was umpire. Photo shows Miss Megan Taylor acting as umpire.
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WHY-MOTHER-WHAT HAS HAPPENED?? YOU'RE AS PALE AS A GHOST - WHO WAS IT. ON THE PHONE?
IT WAS MR D VIDEND OF THE BANK-HE SAID HE MADE A BIG MISTAKE ABOUT JIGGS HAVING A HUNDRED THOU- SAND DOLLARS IN THE BANK-,
BOY: JUST THINK- HAD ONE HUNDR THOUSAND IN TH BANK AND DIDN
KNOW IT-
WHAT'S WRONG?
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MR D. VIDEND HE WAS
UP AND SORRY-BUT IT WAS ALL A MISTAKE ON YOUR ACCOUNT IN ' THE BANK- AND HE WANTS YOU TO CALL
AND SEE HIM-
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