High Manta, May General Wood will leave Manila for! Seattle by the President Madi on May 28 with his wife, Burton Read, his aide-de-camp, and. Captain Lindsay Fletcher, his physician. The Governor-General expects to return in September—Reuter.
Ir is learned Dr. Wellington Koo, acting Premier of the Peking Government, has decided negotiate a loan with Chinese bankexs before the Dragon Festival in order to moot urgent political expenses. It is said to have something to do with somebody who has not had any salary for a while.
'Tae Shanghai Lawyers' tion has petitioned the Nanking} Government for the immediate rendition of the French Mixed Court, and for the appointment of Chinese public prosecutors in the Shanghai Provisional Court and the French Mixed Court. The purpose of the second phase of the petition is to make provision for representatives of the Government in the prosecution of cases, which is now enrively the hands of the police authorities.
A privileged 100 or 200 foreigners (apart from 10,000 Chinese) who happened to be at the Race Course last Friday forenoon, with nothing else to do, witnessed the first re-hearsay of the King's Birthday tattoo and all left with inquiries as] to where tickets for admission could be obtained. It is safe to say it will be the most popular event} Shanghai has seen for some genera. tions. Officers and sergeants, in high fever, afterwards declared it to be a "pretty poor effort." An American spectator just said "Sure, they're come troops. Where do you buy tickets for a family?" They can do much worse than at this first.rehearsal and still will set Shanghai in @'rict of enthusiasm!
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