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1.

HOT AND BOTHERED

2. COME EASY, GO EASY, LOVE

*.

FALLING IN LOV AGAIN (lucidental singing)

4. CAPITOLIANS (MEDLEYS}

a. Madame Butterfly Introduction.

C

Heart of Mins

d Saitatto tran

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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931.

CHINA'S ABSENT

LEADERS.

BADLY NEEDED IN NANKING.

Nanking. Dec. 31.

Lenders of the new Government]

CANADA'S G.O.M.

OF POLITICS. ·

|DEATH OF SIR GEORGE

FOSTER.

·PROTAGONIST.

assembled yesterday to direuss EMPIRE PREFERENCE general policies, as well as the ad- ministration of the Central Politi- cal Council and the Central Ex- ecutive Council.

EXPLOITING A CRIPPLE.

BEGGAR ATTRACTS

BIG CROWD. Attracted by a large crowd which filled the street fronting Queen's Theatre yesterday. European Polfeo Sergeant dis- covered the object of interest to be a horribly crippled man grovelling Ollawn, Dec. 30.

on the ground. With his legs The death has occurred of twisted over his head as he went Regret was expressed at the co- Sir George Eulns Foster, the through grotesque contortions und tinued absence of Chiang Kai-shek, well-known Canadian statesmail. with froth issuing from the mouth, Wang Ching-wei and Hu Han-min,

at the advanced age of 84 years, the man presented a pitiable sight. The meeting decided to send Sir George was born at Carleton. The altuation called for quick Mr. Shao Lei-tae to interview New Brunswick in 1847 and after action, but as a chair was being Chiang Kai-shek at Fenghus, Mr. a brilliant career at New Brun-brought up by the Sergeant for the Eugene Chen to see Mr. Wang wick University and at Edinburgh convoyance of the poor man to the Ching-wei and Mr. Li Wen-fan to and Heidelberg he returned to Central Police Station, an elderly weg Mr. Hu Han-min, asking the Canada where he became a school-Chinese darted round a pillar three lenders to immediately re-master and later Professor of in obscurity, and, holating the where he had previously remained turn to Nanking.

Classics at his old university from cripple on to his back, quickly made 1872 to 1875, Then until 1901 he off. However, he was caught by

Marshal Feng Ya-halang, in thei company of Marshal Li Chal-aum, intorviowed. Mr. Wang Ching-wei| in hospital at Shanghai yesterday und discussed with him a recom- mendation made by the Kuomin- chun commanders in North- Western China for the mobilisa-i tion of 300.000 Kuominchun and; other forces in North Chinn for: the purpose of deferling China: Proper and sending an expeditious 16 Chinchow to repover the territories in Pontion rul Jungklan.

Marshal Feng is playing at. Portant role

mediator after visiting Fenghua to Chiang Kai-shek he may Hongkong to interview – Mr. Hon-tain-Renshe,

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RECENT ATTACK ON│

MATRON.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY

CHARGE.

Sir George Foster, the Cann. dien atatoaman, whose death is reported to day.

the sergeant and made to take the. cripple to the Police Station, with {the Sergeant as an escort.

Before Mr. Williams at the Con- tral Police Court this morning, the elderly man was fined $7, or ten daya' hard labour, on a charge of begging. A profitable partnership is now to be severed. He in to be separated from his crippled partner, who in to be placed fi a charitable

nstitution.

NEW BRIGHTON GET TWO POINTS.

SECOND WIN IN 20 MATCHES.

London, Dec. 30. In the Third Division (North) to-day, New Brighton, at present wooden-spoonists, defeated Stock- port County by two goals to one. was New Brighton'a second was vice-president and generalit

victory in twenty games-Reuter manager of the Union Trust Co.

Entering the Dominion House of -—————— Commons In 1882, he had sat in Great Britain in 1903 at the invita

it practically ever since.

on the

A charge of highway robbery In 1885, he became Minister ostion of Mr. Chamberlain. He was and, alternatively. of receiving Marine and Fisheries in the Mac-Canadian representative stolen property, were substituted donald Cabinet and in 1888 Fin- Dominions Royal Commission ap- by Inspector Sha'tain, before Mr.ance Minister. He resigned from pointed to inquire into the trade Williams al the Central Police the Rawell Government in 1896, and resources of the Empire, and Court this morning, against the but withdrew his resignation in 1913 visited Australia and New Chinese arrested in connexion with when Sir C. Tupper became Pre-Zealand in connexion with this in- the attack nude upon Miss E. St. mier soon afterwards. Quintin, of the Military Hospital,

person.

His Worship remanded the de fendant until Tuesday afternoon will the hearing will commence,

|

From 1913

vestigation.

nt the

to

WAR to 1921 he

In 1916 he was one of the four first In the British delagates to the Allied The defendant WAN

originally Minister of Trade, charged with assault with intent orden and then in the Unior Economic Conference in Paris. to rob and with larceny from the Cabinet, As Minister of Marine. He had been knighted in 1914 and a G.C.M.G. he prepared the Canadian case for In 1918 he was made the joint commission on ricep sen Canada's representative fisheries which sat at Washington Peace Conference, he headed the in 1888 and led to the Chamber- delegation of that Dominion Jain-Bayard trenty. It was he the first Assembly of the League who in 1891 moved for the ap at Geneva and was elected a vice- pointment of a Roval Commission president. Thanks to his devotion Capt. E. Holmes, muster of the as on the Hquor traffic, and in 1995 to outdoor exercise, boating, fish- Lyremoon, reported at the Harbour he supported the resolution foring, cycling and gardening, Sir Office yesterday, on the arrival of his vessel from Holhow, that two Chinese the extension of the Canadian George was to the last remarkably IT keen and vigorous for his age. ясл from, franchise to women. passengers had died at

1926, when he was 79, he took a chronic phthisis. Capt. R. W. Hock- ing master of the ss. Tolma. which;

A brilliant debater and a strong very prominent part in the League arrived in port yesterday from believer in protection for Canada debates. His second wife, whom Singapore, reported the death of two and in preferential trade within he married at Geneva in 1920, is a Chinese deck passengers from con: the Empire, he made a series of daughter of Sir Wm. Allan, M.P.- sumption and hyperphyrexia.

Reuter and I.B.S."

Telephone No. 25720.

Note. Music programme completely changes with change of Programme.

➡Commencing To-morrow-

His Wife Dallied With Love

...while...

He Risked Death For Fame!

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