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A "Mischievous Person." The Paking Leader bears that Herr Pahl, the ex-Chief of the Austrian Police in Tientain, who was soundly thrashed recently by
■ Serbian whom he approached for information on the subject of the Irredentist troops hers, is not now allowed to leave the ex- Austrian Concession. The Chinese are responsible for this restriction -apos his movements, and the step will be welcomed by the Allies for this, mischievous parson 1788 continually spying around the foreign Osaosesione.
On the King's Business. In an sotion before the Record- er of Dublin, in which a man sought damages against Bir Brain Mahon, General Officer Com- manding the Foross in Ireland, for personal injuries and damage to a binyale sustained in a'000. lision with the General's motor- car, counsel for defendant said the that General Mahon, who was a warrant of the King, was on the businees of the King, and neither, against him nor the chauffeur, who was a soldier, was an" setion enstainable, The Recorder die- missed the notion.
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Basall Championship. The China Crisis is informed that arrangements have now been -made to” hold a competition for the Far Eastern saeeball Cham- pionship at Tientsin this month. The teams competing will number five, if not mors: and sa fallows U. 8. 9th Cavalry (coloured) U. S. Marines from Peking; T. Baseball Club; Japanese Baseball Club (Tient- sin). Maji University team, Tokyo; and, possibly, teams from U. S cruiser Brooklyn and Shanghai. The games will start on the 4th and be played daily until the competition is decided. Big Ball.
Two Formosan Chinese, father and son, who were convicted by the Nagasaki District Court of embezzling sums smoanting to Yen 2,036,745 from their em- ployers, Messrs. Samus! & Co., of Bhanghai, have been released on bail of Yan 5,000 each, which is probably the largest
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there will be another in July. recently Dr. Hiranams, the Probooks and magazines as are Kobs Boy's" Retura. curator General, delievered a greadily read by young men and The first of the Kobe "boys" lengthy speech, the gist of which women, with a view to patting sa eff-otive stop to the publication who volunteered for military ran as follows:-
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