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SOLE AGENTS von HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA:

WEATHER REPORT,

Yesterday's weather report, fore oast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.30 p.m. stated:-

The anti-cyclone appears to be central to the south of the Yangtaze Valley. Moderate monsoon along the S.E. const óf China and over the China Sea,

Local Forecast:-NE. winds, modernte; fine,

MARRIAGE.

SLEAP-DARIN-On January 18, at Peak Church, Sidney, 3rd son of Mr. T. A. SLEAP, of Stanford Hill, London, to WINIFRED youngest daughter of the Inte Mr. and Mrs. FREDERICK DIKIN of Sutton Bridge, Line,, Eng land. (Shanghai papers plase copy),

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. and Mrs. W. W, Hinst, and family, wish to express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to all friends for the letters of

attendance at the funeral, in their recent sad bereavement.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931.

cition is headed by, Greater London with a population of 7,480,201 (we like the nice accuracy). New York with 6,931,027, comes hard on its heels, What, a proud day it will be for New York and the whole, of America when Lendon drops to second place. Berlin is fourth

*News and Views *

How to be Happy!

Man (buying dog); I want a fidgety sort of animal; one that will make my wife keep saying: George, I think that dog wants taking out for aʼrun.'.

"Hello, There."

Four million three hundred thou- hand telephones in the United States have now been provided with dini service. This is 28 per cent. of the total stations. The enver- places for which, it is suitable will siun to the new system in all be completed within eight or ten years.

Gracio Fields in a Talklo.

Gracie Fields is to appear in a talkio film, with her husband, Archie Pitt, and her brother, Tommy Fields. One of the scones may be "shot" at the mill in Rochdale where she formerly work ed. It was announced at a gather- ing of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild in London that Miss Fields and Mr. Pitt have given a house and grounds at the seaside for orphan children.

Hindenburg's Christmas Party.

President Hindenburg gave in Berlin on December. 92, a little Christmas party to. Tow. State officials and employees in the pre-

Queen Victoria's Book,

When the Shah of Persia came

Local.

to visit Queen Victoria he gave her SUMMARY OF NEWS. a copy of her own "Leavea from the Journal of our Life in the Highlande" dono into modorn Per- sian and handsomely illuminated. Naturally the volume was carefully preserved, and it is being lent by the King to the Persian Exhibition. It would be interesting to know it the Shah read the book and, if so, what he made of that rigorously simple life at Balmoral with the long, cold drives, the chilly picnics and the water-colour sketching, and ventured on any Persian it ho imitation. The old Empress of Chinn used to pretend to sketch in imitation of Queen Victoria,

Felix Villas murder trial. Page 5. Police Reserve orders: Page 5. Two weddings were solemnised at the Peak Church yesterday. Page 5.

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Lantern Slides of China,

In an article to his old paper,

and Canton thirteenth. Peiping and Nanking, also stand high. But the list is hardly fair, one.

Our own Victoria, stated to bo 877,000, elsewhere in Whittaker, is quite overlooked, though Singapore with half a million takes last pincé.

It would be interesting to com- pare cities of the modern world with those of antiquity. Imperial Reme had about two million in habitants, and Jerusalem had near [742ly a million people within her walls at the time of the great siege in 70 A.D. Ancient Babylon, the Japanese Carneras. Great City of the old world, may Wrestlers who compete in the have covered an area of two hun-annual Japanese Championship aresidential palace. His guests rank Mr. O. M. Green, formerly editor of greet stature-often six feeted from a State Secretary to a of the North-China Daily News,

He sat beneath, A. dred square miles, as against the and tower head and shoulders above charwoman. soven hundred of London. Baby- the rest of their countrymen. The glistening Christmas tree in his condolence, floral tributes, and lon, moreover, had an outer and championship contests last, for mins office, sipping coffee and chatting days and not infrequently wrestlers happily while his daughter-in-law and an inner wall, the space be- are carried out maimed for life, distributed gifts. tween the two including agriculoften, as happened at the games tural land and a hunting park. recently concluded, with a broken

pine.. Nineveh, ita mighty rival, spread along either bank of the Tigris for over three miles Its size is quite unknown, but while the walled city was only about three square miles there was a huge agglomeration of suburbs. Probably both Babylon and Nineveh, not unlike. Nanking, Hankow and Kowloon, had wide streets, big tenement houses, swarming with people, and a few huddles of primitive villages. The great city has always captured the imagination, and the ruins of their glory exercise a spell over all who study the past history of humanity. What speculation and argument will be aroused and wild hypothesie

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JANUARY 20, 1931.

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British Actors in America.

The funeral of the late Mr. C. A. Fulcher took place yesterday,

Page 5.. Robert Vincent, a soldier's son, was seriously injured in an accident Page 5. in Kowloon yesterday.

A Chinese charged with robbery. on board a sampan was acquitted on his trial at the Criminal See- Bións.

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The Directors of the Star Ferry Co. ano to recommend a dividend of 32 per share and a bonus of $2 Page 5 per share.

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A Coroner's inquest is being con

Public Gardens. ́`·

Page 5. ducted in connection with the dead body of a Chiness boy found in the

mentions an experience which, in a variety of ways, has been the lot of more than one old resident of

Pto, J. Marshall, Argyll and.. China in this country. He went

Sutherland Highlanders, who lost to a recognised firm of lantern-his-life by drowning on Friday, was Page 5 slide makers, who supply leading buried yesterday. Cold Blood of Avarico," Mr. William Brodie, Dean of the lecturers." The slides of Chinese

To-day's wireless programme. Faculty of Procurators, declared at

Page 3. Glasgow last month that the Irish street trades, wheel-barrows, sam- WD6 par, etc., were excellent, because

Shipping Intelligence. Page 13. Miss Milian Braithwaite, who re-Free State sweepstake

"Surely," he these things never changé," he says. cently returned to England from large-scale gamble, America, says that Equity, the said, " in these days public opinion" But all the men wore queues; a

Actors' Association in would make short ehrift of any at well-known Atates, has made contempt to supplant voluntary, giving ditions of stay in America easier by a gambling system. for British actors and actreesca. system might bring in the money Previously they were allowed only more quickly and more amply, but A six months stay. Now, if they in the end it would in the cold blood are invited to play a star part, the of avarice in gambling, murder the

gentle spirit which prompted gen stay can be extended.

orous giving without expectation of any return.

Why Chevalier was Banned.

picture of the Shanghai Bund was Sport.

Junior cricket notes,