HIMS. Concord arrived here this! morning while the U.S. destroyer Macgleish is expected this evening.
Heavy snow and cold interrupted the fighting over the past two or three days. The situation now depends entirely on the attitude of the soldiers, who continue to arrive by motor, The Tsingtao marines, fare in complete control of the city, having disarmed the local soldiers and police. Admiral Bi Shu-ching arrived here to-day.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
A rew days ago a fisherman of Kalutara North brought ashore large web-footed sea-bird, says a recent Ceylon message. From tail to beak tip the bind measured about} two feet. Across the wings from tip sto tip the measurement was} about 4) feet. The wings, which were curved like those of a seagull, were marked on the tips with two broad back streaks. Otherwise the bird was white. The large, pointed, beak, and the webbed fee! were of a pale sea green colour. Thi found helpless in the sea.
small wound on one wing.
swallowed whole fish 4 to Jong, weighing half a pound, but refused to take fish cut up in any way. It has been sent to the Museum, where it has been identified as an Australian Masked Booby (Parasula Dacty-latro Per-sonata), Excavation in Singapore does not lead to the discovery of ancient cities, but beneath the present soil, 1y3 the "Singapore Free Press," remains are occasionally come across having an historical value of tens of years. For instance the laying of the electric cable in Teluk Ayer-street has revealed the sea beach which 60 years ago played with the waves at the foot of Mount Palmer and Mount Erskine, and gave the district the name of Teluk Ayer (Water Bay). When the foundations were being made for the Union Buildings the old moor ing poste for boats and tongkangs that used to come up to the back of the buildings which fronted Battery-road were found. The breaking up of Collyer Quay to lay 'a "heavy lorry" foundation has now revealed the steel sleepers used in the old steam tramway that rao from Johnston's Pier to Tanjong Pagar, which was opened about 1887, One evening in Peking, says the "Crusader" we noticed a crowd people gathered around a long, row lamp affixed to a schoolhouse wall, The two ends and the front of this Iamp were covered with thin Chinese paper, and attached to the! top—so as to hang down in front of this paper—were slips on which were written short Chinese phrases, easily readable by means of the clit behind. Around the lamp were many students—and we thought that possibly this was a Chinese recent examination. On making other inquiries, we found we were quite wrong! Each slip of writing contained an allusion to some event, person, poem, or essay famous in the records of China, and the game consisted of guessing the right event, person, poem, oF essay. When one arrived he tore off the skp of paper and on handing this—together wit) his answer—to the owner of the! lamp standing near by, received some small prize. No one is asked for.any fee, and anyone is allow-fed to take part im the game, rely we have discovered the ancestor of the modern popular cross word parle! This game has} }been popaiar in China for 300 years,
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