Tientsin there is a newly opened barber's shop called the "Min Shun Hairdressing Saloon." All the barbers are dressed in foreign style, and they wear little miniature badges on which are engraved the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In the window of the establishment cigarette cases are for sale with the Nationalist flag on one side and Sun Yat-sen' portrait on the other. The ass! ants ace polite but they da. not speak much English. The establishment caters for Chinese custom. The three principles of this up-to. saloon are evidently "hair cut, shave and sham-
Wrri reference to the 13 Japanese who were caught in the gambling raid in ex-German Concession, Tientsin, recently, a story in going the rounds of Japanese circles which is worth repetition, says the "North China Daily Mail." It appears that at the time of the raid a Japanese civilian was sitting at a table peacefully partaking of a strawberry ico cream, little suspecting that a raid was pending. Suddenly he saw one of the plain-clothes police draw a revolver, and this so scared him that in his hurry to put up his hands he upset hia ico cream, the plate falling to the ground and the fico cream splashing his forehead. Feeling something trickling down his face, he put his hands to his forehead and found they were all stained red. He rushed out of the Now that Communism's rampant, both on land and on the sea, What a blessing for the China Hand thus sentineled to be By one whose unremitting toil oft keeps him from his bed, And who's known to bark at. traffic lights that turn from green to red. place before the plain-clothes police were aware of what he was doing, and took refuge in Takeda's jewellery store, on the point of fainting from fright, thinking he had been shot, when he accidentally tasted what was running down his forehead—not blood, but luscious strawberry juice. He did not faint, for COLDS, CH ILLS,
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