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A Chinese shop assistant Was aned $50 for having tied a boy's

hands behind his back, and fasten- ing him to an iron Stanchion for stealing fourteen cents. Puge 6 Starting Times for Fanling will be found on

"Your Views and Mine" by The Page 5 Scout" appears on

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two cases of Diphtheria were notified to the Health Authorities for 24 hours ended Nov, 22.

Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, the Japanese Consul General at Canton was a passenger on the $.5. Chichibu Maru yesterday. He was accom- panied by Mrs. Kawai

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The Manager of the Mitsui Bus- san 'Kaisha. Mr. Shinzaburo a passenger from Hirooka, was Kobe on the "a.s. "Chichibu Maru". which arrived yesterday.

Mrs. J. Smith will distribute thes certificates to the graduates of the H. K. Chinese Artistic Film Co. at 8.00 p.m. to-night at the Young Men's Christian Association Waterloo Road Yaumati.

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The formal opening of the Feel Engineering Laboratory, HK. Uni- versity, will be performed by His

Excellency the Governor, after whom the building has been named,

on December 7, at 4 p.m.

The Hong Kong University Gra- duates' Association and The Uni versity Club (Hong Kong) will hold their Joint Annual Dinner Dance this evening (November 24th) at 8.30 p.m. at the Roof Garden, Hong Kong Hotel,

A Sale of Work will be held in the Helena May Institute at 3 p.m. on Monday December 3, when Lady Southern will perform the opening

therefore ceremony. The proceeds will be in

It was a disappointed crowd at Lympne which" waited for the ar- rival of Cathcart Jones, and Ken- neth Waller."

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"Ken" Waller, as he is known locally, is assistant dying instruc tor of the Cinque Forts Flying Club, which has its headquarters at Lympne. His arrival, therefore, would have had special significan- ce for the many members who for- gathered to see the end of the great flight to Australia and back

Mrs. Waller, the pilot's mother, was at the aerodrome. She has not heard from her son since he sent a cable from Port Darwin, but she declared it had been "a very exciting fortnight.”

IN OTHER TIMES Strangera who go to Mount Pleasant, which the Duke and Du- chess of York are to visit may sometimes wonder why it came by that name.....

The place has changed since it formed part of the country estate- of Bir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham."

In the earlier part of the 18th

There are two hopeful indica- tions, however. The other night, although he did not feel equal to being present throughout the ship- wrights' Dinner, Bir Charles had century Clerkenwell was a fashim a long talk with the Duke and Duable neighbourhood. It declined chess of York (beforehand.

He assisted the Lady Mayoress to receive the earlier arrivals among her guests when she gave her final At Home.

NO EASY TASK Dr. Buttmann, the head of the Ecclesiastical Department of the German Ministry of the Interior, is not to be envied his new task of trying to straighten out the tangle in the German Protestant Church.

Since the Nazi revolution he has had his hands full endeavouring to make the Concordat between Ger many and the Holy Bee work smoothly.

ald of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Bome.

Car No. 2813, an Oldsulobilo Ave seater saloon, according to a re- port made to, the police, was stolen from outside No. 20 Hillwood Road some time between 9.15 p.m. on

Thursday and 8.30 yesterday. The car is valued at 81,500,

The Diocesan Girls School as- sisted by the Scout Troop of the Diocesan Boys' School will be giv- ing a concert to the Church ·Hall of All Saints, Homuntin on Friday, November 30. The proceeds will be in aid of CMS., All Saints' Girls' School and Kindergarten. The prices of admission are $1.00 and 50

cents,

U. S. REBT PAYMENT REMINDERS.

Washington, Nóv, 22. ́ ́ "Please remit" notices have been dispatched by the American State. Department; to the Embassies and Legations of 12 debtor nations. from which instalments on the war debt are due on December 15

rapidly after a "House of Correcteuters tion" was built on Cold Bath Fields. A former historian of London said:

The surrounding locality now wears a degraded look, as if it had also put on the prison and- form of dirty grey.

The prison was finally closed in 1877. On the site now stands the Mount Pleasant, extension of St

Martin's-le-Grand,"

further addi-

tions to which the Duke and Du chess are opening.

CLYDEBANK'S ANTICIPATIONS- Although the actual decision has yet to be made, the Building of a It has not been easy For In- sister ship to the Cunard-White stance, the very day he arrived in Star liner Queen Mary is only a Rome to clinch (as he thought) a question of time.

A pointer as to where the second vessel is to be laid down may-at- tach to the fact that Messta John Brown, of Clydebank, are paying £100 a day for dredging operations opposite their yard.

Part of this excavation work, is necessary to keep the river and yard basin at a constant, depth

The dredging activities, however; which are now being carried on at the foot of the slip from which the Queen Mary was launched on Sept. 26 seem to indicate some added ce on the part of the firm that the building of the second ship-will. it be the King George V7 Will be entrusted tổ