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CITANGING CHINA, A Quarterly Non-Political Review of Life and Conditions in Aforgris China. Vol. I., No. 1 April, 1933, 128 pp. Vol. 1, No. July 19.1.8 pp. 7×44. Hongkong, Daily Press (53, Floot Street, E.0.4.), l. 6. a. eich. In a profatóry, note the editor explains that the par- posa of this newly established quarterly is to keep a record of the progress of ovente in all parts of China and, by disseminating & faller knowledge of the country's netual conditions and noods, to näsist in the promotion of trade and a better understanding ba troen East and West. To this end, qualided corre spondents in every provinco have undertaken to supply raporis, commentarios, and forecasts. The first two number contain several articles on interesting anp jects-.., the industrial development of the Kuang province, the spread of Communism, the condition ・of the nativo cotton industry, and the Mind of Young

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BIG TREASURY SAVINGS

Strong Position of National Credit

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, January 17.' Further evidence of the satis- factory state of the national finances is contained in the de- cision of the Treasury, announced last night, to redeem £105,000,000 of 4 per Cent. Treasury Bonds at par on April 15 next.

This is the earliest possible date

DAUGHTER OF GUESTS AT THE

EARL HAIG

Saleswoman For Travel Tickets

Special Air Mail Service

London, Jan. 17. One of the daughters of the late Field Marshal Earl Hoig, Lady Victoria Scott, has taken up the

ccupation of tourist agent; Lady Victoria, who married Mr. Claud Andrew Scott, a kinsman of the Duke of Buccleuch, is working in a Bond-street travel agency.

She told me to-day (writes an "Evening News representative) The probability of redemption that she is selling travel tickets on has been a matter of discussion conmission. for some time past. In September "I have been working in the office for two months now," she said, and I thoroughly enjoy the occupation."

for the redemption "of this parti cular sertes of bonds, which could be redeemed any time up to 1936.

last the Government

offered

£150,000,000 of 21 per Cent. Con- version Loan. 1944-49, on the basis of an issue price of £94 per cent. Strong Position

The prime purpose of that issue I was to redeem £50,750,000 of 4

per Gent. Treasury Bonds falling due next month.:

rised us in April.

едог-

There is some talk in the 'mar- kets of a further issue by the Government at an early date.

FINISHED LAST-

BUT WON

THE LEOPOLD HIRSCH COLLECTION

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remarkable

PENINSULA

Mr. C. A. Armitage Mrs. E. Austen Hafer."

Maj. R. A. Baguold Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bares Miss A. Bates Mrs. W. G. Benn Capt. and Mrs. C. Benson Mr. and Mrs. R. Bigazzi Miss A, Binas Miss M. Blackburn Col and Alisses Boyd Miss P. W. Brown Capt. and Mrs. J. W. Bun- dred air. B. G. Butler.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron Misa

M. Campbell. Judge M. Camus Col. C. Canali, A. L. Caplan wick Mrs. E. Cagan Gen. M. A. Miss Carrington Mrs J. R. Chad-

Cohen Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Colling- wood Mr. S. S. Cook Mrs. C. H. !

Crichton, Mr. and Mrs, M. Cunha.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Dabelstein Mr. R. N. Drake Mr. Mrs. and Miss, D. Drumond Maj. V. E. Duclos,

Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Easterbrook Maj. L. Eastwick Field Mrs. B. Elder.

Mrs. E, Feeney Mr. J. G. For- nandez Mr. F. A. Firth Mr. G. E. Frisque,

Col. and Mrs. A. M. B. Gage Mr. L. H. Geare Mrs., E. Gibb Mr. L. L. Gilson Mrs. W. S. Gina Mr. 0. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. J. Gould Mr. T. M. Gregory Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Grover Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Guerra.

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Mr. and Mrs. O, M. Hall Brig. G. Rowan Hamilton Mr. T. G. Hand Mr. A. Hanson Mr. E Haussamann Mr. and Mrs. L. Hem rich Capt. J. L Henderson Miss M. Hill Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Holland Mrs. and Miss, V. Honigs-

Howes My and Mrs. A. W. Hughes

Mrs. T. Hughes Lt, Col. and Mrs. H. C. E, Hull.

Dr. A. Nelson Jones.

Mr. R. O. F. King Mr. K. Kornati,

ir

"With British credit standing at such a high level, it is thought that the response to the Septem- ber issue was so successful as to make the present redemption pos-

London, Jun: 17. sible from resources then raised.

Including the

Another sign of the return of con- blg War Loan cperation, the economies achieved idence in the art treasures market by the Chancellor of the Exche-is the announcement of the sale of quer through the replacement of the famous Leopold Hirsch collec- maturing debt have been

tion by Christie's on the week be- alous, and are, in fact, in large ginning May 7. This collection measure responsible for the excel-omprises English and French fur.

citure, including D lent national balance-sheet which Chippendale oction, tapestries,berg Mr. E. E, Hosie Mr. H. A. the Chancellor has all but pro- paintings, miniatures, porcelain brouzes, and glass, and much of Hirsch and his brother came to it is of world reputation. Leopold

England with a few pounds. His brother's collection made a notable sale in 1031. His own collection in Mr. and Mrs. J. Levy Col: and his house at Kensington Palace Mr. L. Lewis Mr. R. R. Liddell Gardens was one of the London Miss E. Lipp Mrs. S. V. Logan private shows which foreign con- Mrs. Lovegrove Miss L. R. Mackay noisseurs were always keen to visit. Col. A. C. Marsh Mrs. D. Mather A eurious feature of bis bouse Mr. E. J. McGann Mr H. G. was a window made up of land- McHenry Mr. W L McKenzie apes glass painted by Gains Mr. and Mrs. V. Mogade Col. J. borough. The panels, came from H. Morris Mrs. F. Muzzall Surg. Comd. R. P. Ninnis Mr. K. F. Gainsborough's show box," 1 sort of little theatre which the painter Noble Rev. Fr. O'Carroll Mr. A constructed after seeing De Lou M. Parker Dr. Peiser Mrs. M. C. This Potts Miss K. Reid Mrs. F. C. fatherbourg's transparencies.

paintings were lit up by candles Reinicke Capt. T. H. R. Riggs from the back The operation of Capt. and Mrs. E. Robinson, Mr. getting the window out of the P. A. H. Rohling. house without damage necessitated Mr. J. E. Salmon, Mr. and Mr. the breaking of the outer wall. J. R. Sindlinger, Mr., Mrs, and Hirsch also owned Gainsborough's Miss Skott, Comd. and Mrs. G. Madame le Brun, a three-quarter Slade, Mr. E. Grant Smith, Mr. length portrait, Romney's Mise T. Sparshott, Mr. A. V. Striker, Raeburn, Morland, Lawrence, Rey J. E. Thom, Mr. J. Thomson, Mr. Raikes at a Piano,” and works by Mr. K. Thielan, Col. and Mrs. nolds, and Ward Two important G. Travers, Mr. and Mrs. G. W portraite by Christoph Amberger. True, Mrs. Marshall Turner, Maj. Van der Goes's "Adam and Eve" W. É. Tyndall. shown at the Flemish exhibition, three pictures by Mabuse, 'n Kem brandt, and a Mantegna are the high points of the foreign section. The tapestries include the sixteenth Century Brussels piece "Repose in Egypt," which Hirsch bought at the bour, John Edward Taylor in 1912 sale of the collection of his neigh-

Six Horses Take The Wrong Turning

A horse which finished last

a field of seven starters won a three-mile steeplechase at New- bury.

His six rivals all

"took the wrong

the turning"--they ran wrong side of the water jump- and were disqualified by the Stewards.

The race was the United Ser- vices Handicap "Steplechase, for soldier riders, and the original placings were: Mr. F. Barbour's

Ballymoe, 1; Mrs. N. Collɛ'a Prince Marlo, 2; Cmdr.A. V. Courage's Fortnum, 3.

As soon as the horses returned to the paddock, Sir Peter Grant Lawson, the rider of Bicester. which alone had completed the course correctly. objected to all the other competitors. The oblec

tion was sustained and the race awarded to the outsider, Bicester, The stewards placed Ballymoz Lend and Fortrim' third,

£180,000,000 in 1932 The chief Major Barrett, the trainer of decline was again in foreign Ballymoe, has appealed against manufactured goods. British ex-

Mr. R. E. Watjen, Misa P. Webster, Mrs. L. H. Warren, Miss Miss G. M. Wilson, Miss E. Wol- P. Williams, Mr. A. 'Williamson, izer Mr. J. F. Wright, Mr, W. Wright,

THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS

One hundred and ten years ago

the decision. Whatever the result ports, however, which decreased to-day was born the Lady of the

of the appeal, bets on the race

will not be affected.

OVERSEA TRADE 1932

Smaller Adverse Balance

(Special Air-Mall Service)

London, January 17 The preliminary figures publish- ed yesterday by the Board of Trade of the country's overseas trade. last year show that the total

Camellias.

by about £25,500,000 in 1932, were increased slightly last year namely, from £365,024,000 to The real name of the Marguerite £367,424,000. Re-exports were Gautier of Dumas "ills" was 249,078,000, against £51,021,000 in | Alphonsine Duplessis. She was a peasant girl from Lower Norman- The figures for the month of dy. She differed vastly in charac- ecember do not make such a ter and behaviour from other | favourable showing as previous famous courtesans of the Paris of

| returns. Exports in that month Louis Philippe.

were only £30,430,000, against

She was haunted by the know- £34,435,000 in November and ledge that she would die young, £33,445,000 December, 1932. and she did-la 1847. Her grave Imports at £83,162,000, however, in Montmartre was for years the were only very slightly less than object of sentimental pilgrimages. in November, when the total was £63,734,000, but they were more than in December, 1932, when they amounted to £80,666,000.

Larger Electricity Output":

an:ounted: to £1,082,348,000, Other indications of better against £1,117.715,000 in 1932. The trade, as well as of the expansion apparent. adverse visible balance, of industry itself, are afforded by however, was less at £250.345,000, the oficial returns of the total against £285,825,000.

amount of electricity generated by Imports amounted to £675,847,- authorized undertakers in 1933. "000, compared with £701,870,000 in | The total is 13,554,000,000 units, an 1932. "The decrease of £25,823,000 increase of 1,313,000,000 units, or fellows upon a decrease of nearly 10.7 per cent,

Alphonsine Duplessis actually did wear white camellias regularly. They were far more expensive in those days. But not until after her death was she known by the famous title which Dumas gave her...

Of all the stage portrayals of this romantic figure that of Berah Bernhardt was incomparably the greatest. I never saw anything aner in the theatre, than the pathos of her death scene.

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