The Archive

Saturday, 8 May 1920

  1. North-China HeraldAn Inflated Currency From Our Own CorrespondentNanning, April 27. A long spell of wet weather has flooded the paddy fields and the poor are hoping that this means an early drop in the price of rice. Phe cost of living has risen very much of late owing partly to the a…
  2. North-China HeraldStudents and LegislatorsMay 6. Tue collapse of the student movement is regarded with different emotions by different people according to their predilections. Some look on the students as a and of half-grown, half-educated youths, whose eruption…
  3. North-China HeraldFIRE AT JEWISH CLUB Incendiarism SuspectedA serious fire occurred on Wednesday morning at the New Jewish Club, on Great Western Road, and but for the manner in which it was tackled it would probably have gutted the building At 4.58 o'clock a tele phone message w…
  4. North-China HeraldA Popular FavouriteLondon, March 11. In A.D, 1920 the good old gladiator is again coming into his own. He has been a little under a cloud since the Roman era, and even in the country of his birth they have not quite appreciated him at his …
  5. North-China HeraldThe Italian AviatorsMay. 3. THE sincere congratulations and compliments of all Shanghai residents of all nationalities are extended to Lieut. Ferrarin and his skilful mechanic Cappannani on their safe arrival, and many warm wishes will be e…
  6. North-China HeraldA Case for Smoke HelmetsAt 4.3 p.m. on Tuesday the Hongkew bell tower reported an outbreak of fire in the vicinity of Tiendong and Woosung Roads, and on attending the Hongkew' and Central sections of the Fire Brigade found that a store above a …
  7. North-China HeraldLondon Scottish Club From Our Own CorrespondentEdinburgh, March 10. The patriotism of the Scot is proverbial, and in London this spirit has been intensified by the activities of many societies, notably by the Scottish Clans Association. These societies have done much…
  8. North-China HeraldStrangers in a Strange Citythe Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News." Sin,—I should like to offer your readers a suggestion regarding the treatment of strangers trying to find their way about the city. There are few more exasperating situations t…
  9. North-China HeraldItaly and Chinese SilkThe Italian Government, reports the Chinese Press, has transmitted to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce a letter stating that, as Chinese silks are not in great use at the present time in Italy, they should not be…
  10. North-China HeraldSincere Ca. and Dr. Wu's MoneyCanton, May 5. The Sincere Company is refusing to answer the summons of the Canton District Court to appear and give reasons why an injunction should not be issued to restrain the Company's Hongkong director from paying …
  11. North-China HeraldThe Shanghai War MemorialResult of Designs Competition The Shanghai War Volunteer Memorial Committee met in the Municipal Council room on Saturday to receive the report of the advisory committee of architects—Messrs. J. Halse, R. C. Turner, and …
  12. North-China HeraldColonel Ward's Chargeof Treachery In a criticism of Allied action in Siberia in an address to members of the City United Wards Club, Colonel John Ward, x.P., told the story as he had heard it of how Admiral Koltchak died. Koltchak, said Colo…
  13. North-China HeraldThe Horrors of LensA report states that about three years will be required to pump the water out of the coal mines of Lens, and that the output will not reach its pre-war level until 1926 or 1927. This, let it not be forgotten, is the resu…
  14. North-China HeraldPolishing the GermanSeveral schools or academies where the elements of etiquette and good manners are taught to the New Rich—war millionaires, profiteers, speculators, and the rest—have recently been established in Berlin. The head of one s…
  15. North-China HeraldChinese Girl Athletes"During the first month we girls took to physical culture, we felt as-if we were as stiff as dried bamboos and could not move." Such was the opinion of a young member of the Ladies' Department. of the Chin Woo Athletic A…
  16. North-China HeraldLanding from AirshipsEvery time an airship sets out on Voyage en army of men has to be employed to help set her away with the aid of guide ropes. 'The voyage over, the berthing of the vessel again' involves guide rope control from the ground…
  17. North-China HeraldRound the ShopsIt is surprising what a lot of bad. temper one can knit or crochet into a garment! I found this out during the war, trying to "do my bit" with the needles and the hook. But. i: I could have-had one of Weeks Co.'s new cro…
  18. North-China HeraldCruelty to ChildrenThe appeal has gone forth in France to be christian in the matter of christian names. Nor was it before time, for the list of names which the war has inflicted upon poor unfortunates is simply appalling. For instance, ''…
  19. North-China HeraldA Buffer State in SiberiaHeavy Fighting Near Chita From Our Own Correspondent Harbin, April 17. There is at the present moment much unrest among the Russian workers in Harbin owing to the persistent news that is being re-"ceived from Manchuli, H…
  20. North-China HeraldWhen the East BorrowsMr. Vanderlip on Honesty in Government Tokio, May 3. Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, asked to give his views upon international cooperation for the economic readjustment of the Far East, said: "I hesitate to offer my views regar…
  21. North-China HeraldBanquet to Italian AviatorsAbout 300 guests sat down to the banquet given at the Astor House on Tuesday night in honour of the Italian airmen who are on their flight from Rome to Tokio, Lieut. Ferrarin and Lieut. Masiero. The last named airman, wh…
  22. North-China HeraldThe Gold Loan Muy 1Peruars the best augury for the success of the gold loan which the Municipal Council is floating, as well as a tribute to its attr tiveness, is to be found in the fact that within a few hours of its announcement in the G…
  23. North-China HeraldShanghai Goes to the RacesBright colours belong outdoors as well as in. Nature sets the pace, and how she riots in colour T caw a frock at the Races on Monday that was trying to go one better than Nature. It was blue, red, green, and black plaid,…
  24. North-China HeraldLabour Day FiascoAlter three attempts to hold a meeting to celebrate Labour Day on Saturday, the labourers decided not to meet at all. The police or authorities interfered in every instance. The first_meeting was to have been held in the…
  25. North-China HeraldCapital Levy in AustriaSeveral Bills were recently introduced in the Austrian National Assembly, by which new heavy burdens are laid on property and income. Property, of which the Exchequer intends to seize from 5 to 65 per cent. by a capital …
  26. North-China HeraldThe Sleepy ChauffeurTo the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dainty News." Simr,—I was riding in a car on Sunday last on the Woosung Road and some distance ahead I casually noticed another car. A moment. or two later I looked again and, being on t…
  27. North-China HeraldCanton's Huge DebtCanton, May 5. The Kuangturg Provincial Assembly meets to-day. The Civil Governor in his report states that Kuangtung has an immediate debt of $12,000,000 and a military deficit for 1919 and other arrears amounting to mo…
  28. North-China HeraldThe Levy on CapitalMay 4, Norwirnstaxpina the fact that_a commission is sitting to inquire into the possibility or advisability of a levy on war wealth, and that parliamentary leaders of the calibre of Mr. Bonar Law have given a kind of bl…
  29. North-China HeraldLawn Bowls Association'A meeting of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Association was held on Tuesday last. the 27th ultimo, when the following were elected to hold office for the current year:—President, Mr. Gavin L. Campbell; Vice-President, Mr. Fran…
  30. North-China HeraldSecretary and TreasurerIt was decided that the Slazenger make of tennis balls should be the standard balls for League and Championship matches, and that the Championship competitions should be held about the same time as last season, the semif…
  31. North-China HeraldTHE ROUSING OF LABOUR IN CHINA From a Student CorrespondentThe scene at the Arsenal and ater in front of the Nicholas Tsu Works was not encouraging. Blue-jeaned labourers, their faces dull, tired and sooty, stood silently, patiently, lazily listening to orators. The orators were…
  32. North-China HeraldMiles of Wine CavesLabyrinthine wine cellars beneath the cities of Rheims and Epernay are being rapidly put in order by the big champagne firms of the two cities. These cellars, which would form a subterranean gallery 60 miles in length, h…
  33. North-China HeraldWhat Nationalization Would MeanFrederic Harrison's Appeal to. Trade Unionists Mr. Frederic Harrison has issued, through the medium of the Liberal Anti-Nationalization Committee (of which he is the President), an appeal to the Trade Unionists of the Un…
  34. North-China HeraldA Charge of SeditionMr. P. Grant Jones, British Assesser, and Mr. Li, Chinese magistrate, last Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of a shop-keeper,. who is charged with "circulating seditious literature in a publication known as the "Sh…
  35. North-China HeraldPoland and the Third of MayMay 3 is for the Poles the com. memorative date of the proclamation of the constitution of 1791. This date has been ever since celebrated by the Poles and has now been proclaimed by the Polish Government as a national ho…
  36. North-China HeraldTHE YANGTZE REOPENS From Our Own CorrespondentIchang, April 25. The rising of the river has again opened the'upper river for steamer traffic. The Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s An-lan was again this year the first ship to do the run. Indeed the companies who run the mercha…
  37. North-China HeraldA Great PowerHistory teaches us that the stage, as an institution dates back so far that we cannot be sure of its origin. The Greeks perhaps gave it its dignity. Their pattern for writing, the drama still holds, and the best plays ar…
  38. North-China HeraldAnd More AdvertisingTo the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dairy News." Sin,—With reference to the concert given by the Town Band on Friday night, I would like to make 2 few comments. The concert was in fact the best, artistically, of the season …
  39. North-China HeraldClubs and SocietiesThe China Continuation Committee met in its eighth annual session at 10 a.m. on Monday. A little under 80 per cent. of the membership was present; about one-third being Chinese. The principal event of the morning was an …
  40. North-China HeraldGermany and ChinaBerlin, May 1. The staffs of the German Legation to Peking and the Embassy in Tokio left Hamburg to-day board a Japanese steamer. The new German Ambassador to Japan, Dr. Sort, will follow later—Reuter. Peking, May 5. Wit…

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