We hear that well-to-do people in numbers "have been removing from the Shensi side of the Yellow River but have no reliable news of the actual conditions, under which the people are existing in the various districts each held by some famous outlaw, over in shat very distressful province. In a small country town the writer discovered a new Boy Scout organization attached to the local Public school. The great "B.P." might hardly recognize the imitation of his original movement, but there it. is. A little out-of-the way place with its youthful signallers considering themselves.the latest improvement in Society, dazzling their rustic relatives with ther little flags and the more mysterious A. B.: C. It is true some are stodgy little chaps, greatly incumbered with their misshapen nether garments, and much addict-ea to garlic dumplings, but they are the Shansi Scouts, even though joining is not optional part of the school work under a special name.
Mr. R. MeP. Austin, British Vice-Consul in Kobe, has been made acting Consul-General there, during the absence of Mr. Ralph G. E. Forster, Consul-General, on leave of absence, and Mr. C. H. Archer. of the same Consulate-General, is acting Vice-Consul.
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