May 5.
Since we last wrote on the subject of the Victoria Nursing Home we have learnt that the recommendation to sell the property adopted last Tuesday at a meeting of the Health and Finance Committees and members of the Economy Committee has not yet actually come before the Council. Therefore there is no immediate danger of the sale being proceeded with, though it is to be noted that' the word immediate" admits of all sorts of interpretations. But on a part of what the Health and Finance Commi fees have recommended, the Council has acted already; for, if we are not much misinformed, it is solely due to a suggestion from these Committees that the V.N.H. is to be closed after the 16th instant to all medical and surgical eases, Dr. Marsh's letter yesterday shows that the Committees' vote was not unanimous and, by inference, it is easy to see where the opposition lay. Now you cannot treat a hospital as if it were a hotel and the opinion of a leading medical wan, with a daily experience stretching over! many years of the community's needs, ought not to be so easily (Continued from pay Sheng is to take command of Tsingtao, while General Chu is placed in command of General Liu's troops at Weihsien. 4 The Chinese forces in Tsingtao have demanded $250,000, threatening fo loot the city if the amount is not forthcoming. dt is believed, however, that the Japanese forces in Tsingtao, which number 2,000 men, will take measures to prevent an outbreak of disorder. In this connection it is said that the Japanese are considering taking over local control for a period of three months until the situation returns to normal.—Reuter's Pacific Service, Tokyo, May 3.
The latest War Office despatch states that the situation in Tsinan allows of no optimism as General Chiang Kai-shek seems to be unable to control his undisciplined troops, who are looting and firing from houses in various parts of the city. It is intimated that their victims. fare both Japanese and Chinese, though this is not definitely stated.—Reuter's Pacific Servies.
20,000 Nationalists in Tsinan Peking, May 3.
Up to yesterday morning parts of nine' Southern armies, totalling more than 20,000 men, had entered present at Santzotie Sust north of the Yellow River—Reuter, Arms for Nanking Manila, May 3.
The Norwegian steamer Vale (formerly General) has arrived in Manila carrying a shipload of munitions consigned to the Nation alist forees in China, Tt includes 8,000 cases fo shanghai and 2,000 eases for Amoy.—Reuter's Pacific Service,
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