London, Sept, 17.
Discussions in London for a new trade agreement with India to replace the Ottawa Pact, which were adjourned at the end of July, were resumed yesterday. Sir Zafrullah Khan is the leader of the official Indian delegation, and he has the assistance of six unofficial advisers.
The seventh adviser, Dr, Subbaryan, was called to India at the end of July to take office as a member of the Congress Ministry in Madras—Wireless Through Reuter, Girts to actors and actresses are made under the will of Mr. Arthur Rene de Lisa, of London. Mr. de Lisa was in the firm of Fryers Limited, which for years has supplied the theatre with period furniture and settings and antiques. To Mr. George Blair, Mr. de Lisa left the residue of his estate of £34,000 and a speci-fled legacy of £10,000. Mr. de Lisa was known to almost everybody in the theatre world.
Tae lowest total is recorded since? the war for loss of ships at sea in 1936, Altogether 41 British merchant ships, with a total tonnage of 41,209 were lost at sea. This is revealed in the Wreck Statistics for 1936, issued by Lloyds Register of Shipping. Only one of the principal maritime countries—Denmark—had a lower percentage of ships lost than Great Britain. Britain's losses were made up of 29 ships wrecked, five lost in collision, four by foundering, two burnt, and one reported missing. An additional loss was a sailing ship of 378 tons, A succession that the eyes of some children are affected by the water in wimming baths is contained in the report of Dr, Malcolm E. Barker, Medical Officer of Health for East Ham. Several cases of conjunctivitis appeared, he says, to have some relationship to attendance at the swimming baths, due perhaps to the irritation of the eyes of certain children through slight over-chlorifiation of the water. At any rate, advice in regard to the washing of the eyes with fresh water and appropriate treatment after the swimming lesson has produced satisfactory results.
Wim the ing naval and officers the official guests and hosts of their friends present, the Light Horse, Shanghai Volunteer Corps, gave a cocktail party on Friday night which must rank as one of the gayest and most pleasant functions that the city has known since August 14 'The guests were welcomed by the commanding officer of the Light Horse, Capt. H, Maitland, and the scene of the party was the' spacious home in Kinnear Road of that most enthusiastic huntsman, Mr. F, W. Siemssen, whose wife, in absent io, was later given rousing cheers for having given the house a "pink ticket" for the night, Amongst the guests Major-General A. P. D. Telfer lett, Colonel F, R, W. Graham, Commanding Officer of thè Royal Welch Fusiliers (Lieut. Col D M.
Barchard), and the Consul-General for Germany (Mr. R. C. W. Behrend).
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