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RESTRICTION OF ARMS TRADE.

SOVIET REFUSES TO CO- OPERATE.

FAMOUS MAGICIAN.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CONTENTMENT.

C. L. Lanyon sends this gom Ito the Observer:—

delight,"

A cottage white, a path to wood, tiny best of fledgling wrons, And six brown hens to tond and

food;

And now-born lambs on crooked

logs,

Blue thrushes' oggs, old water

mills,

CARTER BOON TO APPEAR. Cartor, the groat magician, is coming to the Queen's Theatre on What little things give you Friday to give, the Hongkong] Gonová, April 20. public something to puzzlo over M. Chicherin has informed the over in addition to oross-words A Secretary General of the League when. ho shakes out bis bag of of Nations that the Soviet Gov-magia stuff for two and a half, ernment doclines to participate solid hours every evening. Wo in the international confororce have many exponents of the on the control of arma and mystic art in years past visiting munitions, assembling here on the Colony, but Cartor claims May 4th, on the ground that the that whore others merely entor- question involves interferonce by tain, he astounds the audience the League with the internal with the baffling nature and affairs of the Soviet-Reuter, variety of his performances. In addition to the feats for which Chineso masters in the art ure- famous, Cartor will appear in many notablo tricks, amongst A which the pantomime of a prin coss from a hungry lion, and the flight of one of his lady assistants from one cabinet to another may

HOME FOOTBALL.

YESTERDAY'S MATCHES.

London, April 20. The following are latest foot ball results:

Second Division, English League:

Chelson 1, South Shields 1. Third Division (South): Plymouth 2, Reuding 0. Reuters

H.M.S. EFFINGHAM-

FOR EAST INDIES STATION.

London, April 20.

H.M.S. Effingham, a cruiser of 9,750 tons, laid down in 1917 at Portsmouth. underwent bor steam trials to-day. She will be. commissioned as flagship of the East Indies Station-Reuter.

WEATHER REPORT.

Apr. 21d. 11h. 33m-Pressure has decreased slightly to nioder; ataly at all reporting stations; it remains highest in the Pacific to the east of Japan. A depras- sion is crossing Korea on an ensterly track,

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.00, inch. Total since January 1st, 20.91 inches, against average of 9.60 inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 4 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,

District,

Forecast.

an

1 Formosa Channel N.E. winds,

2 Bouth coast of

China between

moderate,

NE. winds, H.K. & Lamooks moderate;

8 H'kong to Gap cloudy,

Rosk.

4 South coast of

China between

H.K. & Hainan

T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

Hongkong, April 21.

And frothy milk in brimming cans,

And caravans, and dimpled bills;; And when the shadows gold grow

long,

The blackbird's song begins to

tire,

:

corner in the ingle-nook,

A poetry book boside the fire.

instanced. Carter, who has

"KIPLING'S POSTMAN." " baon engaged on an 8-year tour of the principal cities of tho Known as "Kipling's postman," world, now comes to Hongkong Mr. Georgo W. Brooks has just. for the second time with many retired from the postal servico ati tricks as yat unfamiliar to local Brighton. For twilvo years Mr. rosidents. Two years ago, when Brooks carried letters to Rotting- ho porformed, at the Theatre dean, which in earlier times Royal, crowded houses were the order of the season. Doubtoss among ita residents, including the same will be the case when he comes to the Queen's Theatre,

2

SHARE MARKET.

numbered soveral celebrities

Mr. Rudyard Kipling. When he was transferred in 1908 to the

prosented with a choque and an illuminated address by the in- habitants of Rottingdean, the subscribers including Mr. Kipl ing. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Lord Carson, Lady Burne-Jones, and with the the late Mr. E. A. Ridsdale. Mr. following cable quotations of Brooks served in the Boer War,

their in the Royal Sussex Regiment.

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