Efficiency is apparently the watchword of the Kobeans—efliciency in work and efficiency in carnival at-its due season: for on the morning of March 25 factories once again exuded their smoke with redoubled efforts as if to make up for a lost day; false noses and tall hats were packed away for another occasion and tinsel and confetti were swept utterly out of ken. Except in some side street where a group of children might be seen imitating the frolic of their elders on the day before, or where some dog was despondently licking off the paste-coloured coating of paint bestowed on him by an exuberant master, no sign of the carnival could be seen; and as we steamed away it was evident that Kobe was earnestly at work losing no time in the effort to achieve a still more glorious centenary.
Mr. Norman T. Jelly, who was one of 13 members of one company of United States Marines who survived an action in Belleau Wood, has arrived in Hongkong by the str. Nanking to enter the U. 8S. consular service there. He is accompanied by Mrs. Jelly.
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