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THE NEW CHINA.
It is not very consoling to the victims of these incidents to repent that the old order in China is changing, and that foreigners will no longer enjoy the privileged posi tion built up under a system of concessions and extra-territoriality. But it was Europe who awakened reluctant China and these are a few of the consequencer."
THE TANK.
SINCE the nations of the world show littlo inclination for general die armament it is well to know that Great Britain is not being wholly
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Fashion and Financial Depression.
| Great-Grandfather Gola Married,
Many West End dressmaking
At the age of 83, Mr. William firms are finding that their free Taylor has been married by special spending customers of recent years licence at Chertsey register office. are short of money. A fashionable Mr. Taylor, who is affectionately woman who for years has been known as "Old Will," is one of the amang the best-dressed women in best-known farmers in West Surrey. Town was recently heard making an He has several great-grandchildren. open complaint. I owo So-and-Solis bride, Miss Nellie Dalay Buck £200," she said. "I have offered ingham, who is 48, belongs to Chort- them £50 immediately and the rest sey. Hard work never killed any- after we come back from. Stone," has been his theory. Moritz. But they say that, unleas I pay £100 down and promise the other £100 by the first week in the New Year they will have to take fur-
("ther measures.”
Gandhi's son has been sentenced to alx moùtha' rigorous' imprison- ! mend
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All Congress organisations in Karachi have been declared unlaw ful; also three similar organisationa in Hyderabad.
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Local:
Full details of St.. George's Ball: at the Peninsula Hotel, Page 7 Criticism of the methods of the Crown in conducting the nrson trial was made by Counsel defending the first and second prisoners. Page 7.
The members of the League of Nations Commission enquiring into the traffic in women and "children in the Far East were entertained by the Rotary Club yesterday.
Pago 10 A now, wing in the Tung Wah' Hospital was formally opened yes terday. by the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood.
Page 6. An interesting paper on Judicial English we read last night by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at a meeting of the English Association.
Page 10. Shipping Intelligence. Page 18: To-day's wireless programme.
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left behind in the design and manu facture of weapons of war. Colonel Job That Is Not Over-crowded. F. A. PILE, Assistant Director of
Professor Hobday, of the Royal Carden Mechanisation at the War Office, Veterinary College at
Town, states that in veterinary recently gave a lecture at the Royal science we are at the moment be- United Service Institution, in the hind Germany, America, Belgium, A vernacular paper states that course of which he said that Britain Sweden. Denmark and France." It with the exception of the parcel is remarkable, considering the love | post tax, all the local taxes in the was undoubtedly ahead of all other of animals in England," said the nature of likin are still being levied nations as regards the quality of Professor," that inore young men in and round Tientsin. armoured fighting vehicles and also and women do not take up veteri-
The National Government has nary surgery. I'am inable to supply the idens underlying their use. To the demand from the Sudan, Tan-received a telegram from Chang reach the standard they had attain-ganyika, and other places for quali- Houch Liang stating that all illegal taxes in North China similar to tikin would be abolished. Page 0.
South Africa. England Test The Special Commissioner of the Cricket match,
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Scotland addressing public societies on the National Government's re- cord and the Chinese attitudo to-1. wards foreigners.
ed was a difficult thing in peace time, and it required a great deal
fied veterinary surgeons. And there £000 to £780 a year to be earned, with a pension at 48 years of age
Sport.
A wise person in the course of a/of money. The new British 10-ton that works out to about £000 a year. Chinese Foreign Office is now in Scottish League football results.
tank was easily, in his opinion, the
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Mr. Cryil Maude's Pupils. soldier had been given to handle.
When
met Mr. Cyril Maude and Mrs. Maude who have retired from It was very fast and capable of the stage but are busy producing At the first meeting held this year The Italian seaplane squadron, covering long distances in a short plays for an amateur dramatic socio of the Japanese Cabinet, the Fin-engaged on a travis-Atlantic flight, time. It would be a crime to use, The Dartmouth Players," Mr. ance Minister is understood to have has departed from Bolanin for Natal, it as a short-range weapon. The the talent waiting to bo uneartheding the prospects of an económic
Maude said that he is surprised at expressed an optimistic view regard. Brazil. tank was no longer a blind monster, and that what was, as important, recovery in the no distant future.
The official returns for the foreign trado of Japan show an adverse: and to-day one was far less likely the society was bringing together
bidance of Yen: 78,000,000 for the to lose direction in a tank than people who in the ordinary way
would be unlikely to meet and The Secretary of the U.S. Tres year 1030.
Page B any other arm of the service. They learn about life from one another. sary, Mr. Mellon, has asked Con-
Crowds of people ashore, at had now reached the stage when One of his foremost supporters in greas to pass an amendment to the a_Congregational minister. The Second Liberty Bond Law authoris tanks and armoured cars were cap Dartmouth Players" have now ing the issue of bonds worth able of carrying out the part which appeared in six plays. Early in De: $6,000,000,000 for refinancing opera the General Staff believed would be cember they gave "Cousin Kate," tions during the next three years.
a Haymarket success of 25 years their duty in the next war."
ago.
speech made some months ago re-most powerful weapon that the marked blandly that Chinn, in this nge of transition and struggle to wards modernity, would commit many irritating and inexcusable. ucts. Buch a one was the pull ing down of British tablets and monumento at Weihaiwei. It was childish, but less childish and barbarous than the insult offercil in London three centuries ago to the greatest Englishman of his age, OLIVER CROMWELL, after his death, The reminders of British occupation
Weihaiwe irritated a certain-
brund of local patriots, and no
doubt in course of time all signe
of the British administration will: vanish, ne in Tsingtau Geroinn characteristics yielded rapidly to
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A Triple Suicide.
A curious story comes from Amerion that three sisters, aged women, in despair because of their the sea at Santa Monico, California, Stock Exchange losses waded into
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Tho agents at Shanghai of the Norwegian steamer. Tricolour, which was sunk near Colombo as the re sult of an explosion, have received a telegram stating that the M.M.. Porthos picked up 42 survivors,
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Lloyd's Bank has announced o and drowned themselves. For three reduced dividend on the "A" people to carry out an agreement shares for the year 1930, from among themselves to commit suicide
Colombo saw the dramatic spectacle of the Tricolour blowing up four miles out.
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