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Have rats the power to enso com- ing dangers The question in an- swered in the affirmative by some authorities in a summing up of the result of campaign against the rat nuisance in Oslo. The cam-

ROTHERMERA supported by his brother Press baron and Lord Bin- KENHEAD, occasionally indulges in Yesterday's weather report, fore-fentless," "clean-cut," east and remarks, issued by the spoken language about India, as Royel Observatory at 4.35 p.m. the Daily Mail is apt to do in stated:

dealing with any question of Two English dancing girls who Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was elected paiga lasted for a week, and some nationalism, but generally speaking are sisters told story of being chancellor of Cambridge University fifteen tons of poison were "dis- British sentiment' is sincerely syni-held practically as prisoners in succeeding the late Lord Balfour.tributed in bins and cellars. There pathetic towards Indian political Angora, the Turkish capital, when

were approximately 600,000 rata in aspirations. If the anggestions of they arrived in Marseilles from "There are constant lamentations Oslo, and when the campaign ended the Sruos Commission do not go Constantinople. The girls said: that young people do not go to not a single rat was seen. Some as far as the Home Rulers would "We went out to Angora as the church," said the Archbishop of had been poisoned, but not more like, the fault is mainly theire for first English dancing girls to ap-| York, in his presidential address at than a small fraction. What had not having clearly shown long ago pear in the Turkish capital. When the annual conference of the Sun-happened to the rest 1 Several peo a disposition for friendlier.. co- we wanted to leave our passports day School and Youth Movement | ple reported that a few days before operation with those who were were seized by one of the men con- for the Northern Province at York the poison was laid down regiments,

meet really trying to Indian Dected with the theatre. We were last month: "But when I look of rats were soon wandering out of national aspirations.

told that we were prisoners and round the congregations I notice town, following the main roads." must continue to dance. When we there are quite as many young peo The experts now admit that these told him that we would appeal to ple as any other kind., I'dare say stories are not entirely fantastic the British Consulate he merely they don't go as much as they used When the first report of the emi- laughed. We were in terror, and to or as much as they ought, but gration" was reported they inquir had to dance every night for a they do go to church much as cd into it, and saw the rats leaving. week. At the end of a week, how anybody else." Modern youth were As far as the rats are concerned ever, with the help of some English extremely sensitive to any láck of the campaign has been satisfactory speaking girls, we managed to get reality in religion, and they were for Oslo itself, though the neigh- our passports back. During the critical of the ways in which pray. bouring villages are not so night we escaped, and caught theers and praise were conducted. thusiastic. train" to Constantinople."

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HONG KONG, JUNE 25, 1930,

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

FOR INDIA.

PEPING'S BUSY MAYOR.

7160322

THE Eighting mayor' of Feping CHANG YIN Wu, who is takick an

active part in the present campaign against Nanking, has shown he is as able in the field as he has proved in municipal leadership. In fact, the people of Peping wonder what he will do next. It is not generally known that CHANG's chief hobby is newspaper work. Soon after he be- came Mayor of Peping in 1929 be established a Chinese newspaper of his own, and would go. secretly to his desk at nights, after his day's work in the mayoral office was

over.

A letter, posted nearly 14 years ngo, has just been delivered in Lin- coln. The envelope bears only a

A highbrow is one who has been educated above his intelligence" was the Eswer given by Ivor. An appeal heard in the House of penny stamp. The letter was post-" Brown, dramatic critic, to a ques-Lords recently related to a claimed to a local man, Pte. Frank S tion by Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., the to recover £200 lent by an Aberdeen Rowe, of the Army Veterinary Recorder, during a mock trial held man to his nephew in 1882. Both Corry, who was serving in France, recently at the London School of lender and borrower are now dead, on September 23, 1916.. It may have Economics. The trial" was of and the parties in the litigation James Agate, dramatic critic of the were their executors. The action to Eritish Broadcasting Company, who

recover the sum failed, and the ap- missed ander the Statute of Limita

THE proposals contained in the second part of the SIMON Commis- sion Report on India are generous enough to justify the hope that their publication will hare both

good and immediate effect. Natural- "ly, the ardent advocates of Home Rule for India will not find all

Mr. CHANG has also taken great was charged with "falsely pretend peal against that decision was dix. ing by the marks and abbreviations interest in the Leader, now the only to be a highbrow." He was their wishes met, but the suggestions English-language paper in Peping found not guilty." put forward by the SIMON Com- and which has had a chequered mission go a very long way toward career. It was published for some

years as an independent American meeting, the claim for self-govern-edited paper, and therr was bought A much wider franchise is by the Kuomintang propaganda proposed-including more votes for organisation at Nalking. When

ment.

*

Mrs. Edward S. Post, a wealthy

Society woman, living in New York, Rhode Island, recently an

tions.

"You will drop dead in a fort-

night. See if my words do not

come true."

reached France when Mr. Rowe was transferred to the Royal Fusi- liers," and thus missed him. Judg

on the envelope, the letter. has travelled over a large part of the Great War area.

England is to remain outside the This prophecy was International Professional Boxing uttered by a woman in Chertsey Union, the English conditions hav women--and it is suggested that General YEN HS1.SHAN broke with life to religion. She will become weeks later the man dropped dead. of the Union in Berlin. "Young'

Police Court to a mani Three ing been disfavoured at a meeting

"each province should be mistress in her own house." The proposed readjustment of boundaries may lead to objections-in fact, is almost certain to, for frontier changes are always, the cause of violent argument. But with a reasonablo

amount of goodwill on both sides

Nanking, the Leader was taken over, and, Mayor CHANG had a large part in directing its policy as a Shansi organ. Mr. LENOX SIMPSON, better known by his pên-name of * PUTNAM WEALE," was put in active charge, but has temporarily left the editorial chair for other duties in Tientsin.

unned that she is entering a Dunnery to devote the rest of her

a member of the Roman Catholic The woman was accused of sacrilege | Stribling has signed a contract to Order of Our Lady of Mount at Addlestone Church, and Reginald meet Phil Sectt in London on July Stoneleigh to the Order for use as Carmel. She gave her property at Arthur Miles, a gardener, aged 38, | 29.

was a material witness against her. anuunеry. Mrs. Post will live in He told how he saw the woman and the villa of her former property, │a

Mexican Inbour boycotts of man leave the church" after the American goods in retaliation for

migrants from Mexico were threat- United States restrictions on im-

ened if the Harris or Box Bill be- cames law. Passage of the Harris Bill by the Senate was a feature

Order, which has three monasteries he followed them down a road; and now occupied by the nuns of the offertory box had been rifled; how

la the United States. Since the tow, after a struggle, the man run When warfare became general, death of her husband, who was a away and the woman was given into of these imaginary lines, these local Mr. CHANG could not stay in well-known sportsman, Mrs. Post custody. After being remanded the differences should be capable of ad- Peping. He retained his post as has interested herself in religion. woman was discharged. Three in all Mexican newspapers, draw- Mayor, but went to the front inShe is descended from two, of the weeks afterwards Miles visited his ing attention of the public. to the justment without serious difficulty.

fact that the Bill in its present Honan as head of a Shansi army. carliest families to settle on the wife at Dorking. On leaving her form leaves immigration from other With Provincial Legislatures and He had kept the personal army with summer colony at Newport.

Her be was seen to collapse and fall Latin-American countries unlimit- the Registered Office of the Company Chinese Market-gardauers the Manure

a Federal Assembly there would be which he entered Peping in 1928, the colony. Most of Mrs. Post's pocket, and at the inquest the verquarters expressed hope that Presi- 'estate is situated in the centre of dead. There was a bottle in his ed. Government officials refrained at ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

from comment on the Bill. Many VICTORIA, in the Colony ef Hose is to pour the manure or spray it ample opportunity for the ventila and it was this army he fed into fortune, which is estimated at Kosa, forthwith to that the New Share from watering-pois, in liquid form, over tion of Indian public opinion, and the field against Nanking. Mr.several million dollars, will be dict was Suicide during Temporary dent Hoover will veto any restric-. Curtificates may be prepared and issued the Growing Plast to them in lieu of the Certificates, now Disease-producing Parasites are, there- held by them which will be Cancelled.

fore, possibly present on the Surface upon the progress made by the pro-CHANG is acknowledged to be one of settled on the Order. of Plants, eg, Lettuces, over which the By Order of the Board.

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vinces as self-governing units of had. He has regarded the city as the best mayors Peping has ever

the Federation will depend the a real personal concern, and has. ultimate form of central govern done his best to revive business after the slump caused by removal Meanwhile it is provided

of the capital. The streets of that the Governor-General must be Peping and those outside the walls

menn.

are in better condition now than

Insanity.

tive legislation.

Local Notes and Events ★

*

For failing to provide proper "Good things come in threes," Three surplices, the property of screens for his lights, the coxswain and three has for countless centuries Rev. H. V: Koop and Rev. C. B.

Skann, were stolen from St. John's.

the actual nad netive head of the Government. The criticism is made they have ever been. This is due of the steam launch Vancouver was possessed a mystical significance | Cathedral at about 6 am..on Mon- by the Daily Hernid, which is the to the personal interest of the fined $50 by the Marine Magistrate often associated with luck. The day. The thief gained entry into organ of the Labour Party, that the

STON Commission has evaded the main issue, and its proposals do nát

Mayor in rond-building and im-

provement. Residents who return

after several years' absence are amazed by the substantial outward

yesterday.

latest "three" of importance em- the vestry of the Cathedral by braces the Gaynor-Farrell-Borzage breaking a window. The total output of the Kailan combination. In fact, Janet Gaynor -----

appearance of the old capital. Ex-Mining Administration's mines for with Charles Farrell have been Looking Back 25 Years pecting to see a decaying city, they the week ending June 7, 1950, directed three times by Frank Bor- The amount received from sales have found one more prosperous amounted to 89,504 tons, and the outwardly than when it was the sales during the period to 88,123 standing successes: "7th Heaven," being some $24,000 less than the zage in three of the screen's out-of Crown land was over $488,000,

capital.

constitute self-government. That criticism is true, but it is also true that large-scale political re forms cannot be carried out quite so easily as may seera. possible in Mr. CHANG is a young man, still theory. To hasten slowly is sound on the sunny side of 30. He was

tors,

The Medical Officer of Health re-

Street Angel," and now Lucky receipts for the previous year. Star," which is to open at the Building land in the urban portion of the Colony and in the Peak Dis- Queen's Theatre to-morrow. "Lucky

I policy in these matters, and though only 25 when he was appointed Porta that during the week-end four Star" is a Fox special, adapted trict is limited in extent and

"

Mayor,

cases (two non-Chinese) of typhoid ing midnight on Monday two more Guinn Williams as Martin Wrenn occurred, and for the s4 hours end from the Tristram Tapper story, Hedwiga Reicher as Ma Tucker and

cases (one non-Chinese) were re- ported."

Chau: Kai Ling, a student of St

have the most important supporting. rôles.

rents, especially on the higher level, steadily increasing in value. The natural consequence is that house-

have ads need to an extent prob ably unknown in other British Colonies-Hong Kong Daily Press, June 26, 1005. Looking Back 50 Years

Indian reformers may complain, General in the Shansi..army when and was the youngest

with some cause, that progress has he entered Peping in 1928, and one been painfully slow, it can be re-

of the most trusted. Tha Chinese torted that the responsibility for Press has given him various nick- names. He has been called the

There WDS that is not all on one side,

no sitting of the "Farm-boy Mayor," because he Supreme Court yesterday owing to

Edwards Davis, former minister Everybody knows that the diver came to the big city fresh from the Chief Justice being engaged in of the Gospel and afterwards a sity of races and religion in India Shansi, where there is no great Chambers. The refrigeration case, vaudeville actor, played his first

It has been brought to our notice, has made the work of political metropolis. He has also been term which has now gone to thirteen part in a motion picture called and is perhaps worthy of attention,

ed the Puritan Mayor," because sittings, will be resumed this maru-

"Her Mother's Secret," "directed that cork life-buoys of the ordinary advancement extremely difficult. of his aversion to tobacco-smoking, ing."

by" Bing" Thompson, who, Davis make, which have been for some Most people, too, recognise that the and to public entertaining He

relates, was so temperamental that time kept lashed to steamers' rails charges of "capitalist axploitation" prides himself on cutting the city

he had a habit of throwing his and on ships' poops exposed to all The policy of the budget in half, partly by eliminat- Stephen's College, was fined $20 by derby hat on the floor and stamp. weathers, become so heavy during ard untrue.

ing all entertaining at public ex- Mr. R. E Lindsell for negligenting on it when things did not go the weather through their outer Government of India-directed from

pense. City officials are forbidden driving and was ordered to pay 850 to suit him. Davis portrays a rôle covering getting soaked that they Whitehall--has not been free from to smoke or drink in or out of their compensation to Mr. W. P. Thomp in "A Song of Kentucky." Fox would be almost sure to sink in. blunders of commission and omia departments, and the Mayor's office son, a police probationer, whose Movietone all-talking picture with stead of float when thrown over- sion, but it has aimed at improving

has notices on its walls, which say motor-cycle was damaged in a race-track background. The fes-board. Yesterday morning a busy

colliran ke Thorapidymalleged. "tured spurts areznutved by Jon Wage from a TikameryETER SO MUTAT the wedard or the propic, however tobacco-smoking. Visitors are re that the defendant's car, which had staff, musical comedy star from the and in comparison with a new one much it may have failed to achievequested to refrain from smoking in been stationary, suddenly pulled out New York stage, and Lois Moran, of the same dimensions it was near- its end. No responsible-statesman this office. What the penalty is into the road without any warn- beautiful and talented screen star.ly double the wright, owing to the or politician in Great Britain now for infringement of this order we ing, compelling him to run his motor Lewis Seiler directed the picture, saturation it had undergone during a-days either thinks or talks about do not know-possibly something cycle into a wall to avoid running which is being now shown at the the late rains Hong Kong Daily subjugation or domination. Lord drastic.

into the car,

Queen's Theatre."

Prem, June 26, 1880,