'The Chinese Catholics of Shanghai held 'a reception on Sunday in the hall of St. Ignatius's College at Siccawei in honour of Mgr. S. Tsu, S34 who was born' in Shanghai, was a student at Siccawei and is cone of the six new Chinese Bishops consecrated by Hig Holiness Pius [XI last autumn at Rome. The ball was profusely decorated in Franco-Chinese style with many multi-col-loured lights and flowers, and about 1500 Chinese Catholics were. entertained, besides many of the foreign Fathers of different nationalities who are stationed at Siccawei or in Shanghai.
During the banquet, several very! fine speeches were delivered Mr. thanked the Jesuit Fathers who gave to China one of the first Catholic Bishops. The Commissioner for /Poreign Affairs expressed his delight at the honour bestowed on Mgr. /8, Tsu by the Pope in choosing and Jeonseerating him Mr. Naggiar, the Consul-General -for France, spoke in his own name and on behalf of his Catholic colleagues and the Rev. Fr. ¥. Henri (the Superior St, Ignatius College) thanked Mr. Gatanti (the Italian Consul-General), Mr. Van Haute (the Belgian Cor svl-General) the Spanish Consul (Mr. Acal), and Mr, Botelho (the Portuguese Vice-Consul) for attending.
The Superior of the Kiangsu Mission (the Rev. Fr. E. Beaucé, SI., addressed the guests first French and then in Chinese, telling them that the elevation by the Pope of Mgr. S, Tsu to the episcopate was the crowning achievement for the realisation for which so many foreign Catholic priests had worked and spent their life.
Mgr. 8. Tsu, very much moved by the cordiality of this splendid—reception, declared his. ever-lasting gratitude for all that had been done the past. "Now that the Catholic Charch ig firmly established in this} country,: we can without fear look, forward to the future with the help lof God," he said, A MEETING of officials, merchants, and gentry was held 9" Monday evening at the Shanghai District Magistrate's.yimen to discuss matters relating to the Shanghai food problem, but the deliberations were not made public.
ON Tuesday forenoon, two Fengtien soldiers, in uniform, were seen on the Garden Bridg, in the centre of a group of some 20 people, endeavouring to sell a parcel of gold and jade rings and car-rings and several pieces of unmounted jade. Of course, they might have been jewellers in their civilian days, and merely were seeking to realize on some surplus stock. Or it might be otherwise. the bursting of the shis pipes when the ship was rammed. Another fireman on the damaged ship is declared to be recovering from his dangerous burns in the Foo Ming Hospital, North. Szechuen Road, The Jinsho Maru, bound for 'Yawata Japan with a cargo stated by its agents, the Kaiyosha Company, to have comprised 500 tons of iron, 4,000 pules of cotton seed and about 800 bags of Cuban sugar totalling in al! about 1,000 tons being salvaged not far' from the Number 3 buoy where she'was towed to shallow water after the accident The ship was eight years old, having been built in 1919 and her charterers for the fated voyage were the Yamashita Kisn Kasha. Most of the cargo was damaged by the water, according to the ship's agents, but a portion in the forward or number one hatch of ship which was constructed with a safety device is said to have escaped damage. Water entered all the other cargo-filled The Empress of Canada whose damages were slight, sailed on Tues day at noon, on schedule, for Honzkong, where it will go into dry-dock for more extensive repairs. Passengers who sailed further south, or to Manila, are having to transship at Hongkong according to information available on Tuesday.
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