The Celebration.of Ireland's Victory: Encouragement Given to Suggested Marathon Under the chairmanship of Me, IL. P, Wilkinson, the members of the Irish and English teams in the =}recent-internationd: walking ainaleh, their trainers and pace-makers, with we Scotsmen and two Welshmen to keep the balance, dined together at Eddie's Cafe on' Saturday. evening.
was-quite an: informal. affair, twarked by great joviality but more ularly by 8 fine sporting spirit, ish seemed almost sorry that they-had to beat the English, whilst the: English were. full of, genuine rogrota that they.could: not! mak it 'a. closer -contest,. fully recognizing the superiority. of-their conquerors, sid the two nationalities "were {jointly sorrowful that they did not have 'a chance of leaving Scottish and. American. teams -behind them slong the course.
Mr. Wilkinson, Mx, W. 1. Gerraed and several others made cheery "pecehes, but the est came from the veteran, Mr. Norman Webb. He suid could make no excuses to those who seemed Jo think he was bound to win. He was beaten by a better man and no one knew it better thai he. Ty had been his intention, had he' won again this year, to rative from active. participation in such contests and to devote himself training any and every team who cured t0 accept what advice he could rive, hoping in thay way to make the annual match still more popular, However, now he proposed to. have one more shot at Young or any other who might sat the pace next ye Te had been walkers in general were. a particularly' fine body of sportsmen, earnest in training, keen in racing, the best of friends always, and, above. all, free rom any idea of making: money out of the sport, Ho hoped that. would continu 'Thereafter, almost every member Jof the company was compelled to say something. Several spole about Marathon and it' wis although, latter of general discus sion, no one had been found to take the initiative in calling. a general set..the matter. yoing. had -promiised to. piv the help iwo-could and it was gested that Mr. Tom: MeKenna should' accept, the duties of: or Mr. W. Howells, at the piano, provided the evening's harmony, -Mz., Launcelot Giles,- till recently M. Consul at Changsha, la in Sbanigliai en route for Foochow. al: which port he -hax been appointed Consul, up first issue of the now Russian tional newspaper, "Russia," a White" publication, made' its appearance in Shanghai on Sunday, Tt will be a "daily" with an English supplement on Sundays. The editor is Mr. N. V. Kolesnikoff, whose editorial offices are situated ab 40 North Szechuen Road. A fervid attack on the present Bolshevik regime is the subject of the first leading article. It foreshadows a great future for Russia, a country which has had a great'and happy past and was known to the whole world for its splendour, It makes att appeal to the Grand Duke Nikol Nikolaevitch to lead his tired and suffering millions that together they may get back the former Russia for which all have' so great a longing.
THE local Zionist Association,! through its hon. secretary, Mr.
Ezra, after making an official representation to-the Toco Com missioner of Post Offien rogar% letters addressed to Palestine if the term "Land of Israel" were subsstituted for Palestine, was informed by the latter that instructions have been issued to the Chinese staff to take note of otters addressed to Palestine with the form "Land of Israel" as being sufficient to denote their proper destination. It is in-{teresting to note that the Palesti Government is about to issue a series of new postage stomps of ial design. 'The stamps will show monuments of historic. interest and scenes in various parts of the country. One stamp shows the site of the Temple and another the traditional Tomb of Rachel, with the' Hebrew: insetiption,-. Palesti and of Iarael).: shat Ah wabtees
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.