"he Shanghai half-yearly edition of the North China Hong List, frrued" from the" offices" of the North-China Da y News & Hero, Ltd, issue of previous addition to the full list which shows a consider. able increase of firms listed, and the Who's Who Business Section, there added the Street Directory and Residential List, which hitherto have appeared only in the annual edition of this well-known publication.
'A close examination of the work before us shows that every effort has been made to bring the edition well up-to-date, and that, so far] as the staffs of business hongs are concerned, there has been a decided increase daring the past six month the Who's Who Section showing As indica tive of the changes which take place in the staffs of local firms it interesting to note that while the net addition is only 500, something like 2,000 new names. have been brought into the present edition, The Street Directory shows an addition of eight pages as compared with six months ago; while in the residential list there is also a proportional increase.
The advance orders for the July issue have been unusually large—larger than has been the case for some years past. This may be taken indication of the place the well-known "red book" holds in the estimation of the business public, who, after all, are the best judges of, ts value as a reliable work of North-China Hong List (Shanghai Only}, "July" 1920." 543. pp. Quart Price $5 Mex. Compiled and Poblished Tun National Government is reported to have allotted $50,000 for the funeral of the mother of the late Gen, Huang Hsing, first Tutah of Hunan and one of the original revolutionaries, Acconpinc to letters received in Shanghai by Kansu residents, Moammedan bandits under Ma Chun. ying and Ma Ting-hsien entered Wanyuan city on February 16 and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.