Tue French cruiser Jules Michelet left port yesterday after~ noon at 3 o'clock, 'THE Shanghai District Councit has issued a proclamation forbidding the hoarding of rice, This year's crops, the proclamation states, have been very satisfactory and people have accordingly been able to purchase a vital commodity from $8.60 to $12 a picul, according the quality, Now," howevers Jcertain persons axe reported to be hoarding stocks until higher prices all be. obtainable. This must be stopped forthwith, the proclamation foes on to say, and those who per-tin the attempt to corner th market will be punished, and their stock confiscated and distributed among the poor.
In spite of the bad weather, over score of ladies saw with intense interest the moving picture of Kusatsu Leper Colony in Japan shown by the Rev. John Magee of Nanking at the meeting of the Shanghai Women's Auxiliary of the Chinese Mission to Lepers last Wednesday afternoon in the home of its chairman, "Mrs, T. K, M. Sino, 55 Gordon Road. Mrs. P. Yie," the vice-chairman, lover the meeting and" proposed launching a membership campaign among the women in Shanghai, A very encouraging report was made by the Rev. 7. C. Wu, the general secretary, that, beginning from Jan~ vary 1, 1028, the Hongkong Aux-biliary of the Miesion will support the medical work of Tai-kam Leper Island, Kuangtung, to the amount f $1,860 a year.
'THE Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai has address~ ed a lengthy petition to the Nanking Nationalist Government with reference to the registration of Chinese in certain foreign consulate jes. The petitioners state that many Chinese have thus registered themceives and illegally placed theme selves under the cloak of extrater= 'a view to defeating ithe ends of justice. Many, it is alleged, have either" committed offences or owe others large sums fof money: and they do not relish the idea of being tried in Chinese courts. They have consequently. purchased foreign nationality. al~ though they have never set foot in foreign lands nor can they speak the language of the country whose protection they claim. Before a Chinese can renounce his national ity, he must obtain a certificate of denationalization from the Chinese Government. The Nationalist Government is accordingly asked to take this matter under advisement,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.