Alleged Attack on Soviet Consulate De New Shanghai Life of speared the following "The viet Consulate was attack by some Whites on last Friday. Stones were thrown into the windows the first and second floors, Police Inspector Givens visited the Con-solate end promised to take step: for the prevention of such attacks."
Inquiries failed to show that the police knew anything whatever about the alleged attack and when Chief! Inspector Givens was spoken to he that he knew nothing about it, that he certainly had not visited the Consulate in connexion with it jand that, on Friday, he did not once set foot north of the Soochow Creek A number of foreign and Chinese friends, members of the Union Club, ca Tuesday gave a tiffin' party im the club for Sir Arthur Yapp, General Secretary of the National Council Courel of the YM. C. in England and Wales. There were oont 60 present, including several the leading oficial and com mercial men, with Mr, R, Caléer-Marshall presiding.
Arthur Yapp spoke of the pleasure with which he heard of the existence of such a club and his greater delight when he found that it was such a pleasant and comfortable place. Its facilities, coupled with its high ideals, were bound to bring success. He was particularly impressed with one of the Chinese mottoes on the wall had been interpreted as wish ing happiness to the people of all nations. This recalled to him a New Year feast given in one of the Chinese Labour Corps camps France during the war. They tock possession of a Y.M.CA. hut and transformed its interior according to their own ideas. Prominent the scheme of decoration were many. hundreds of miniature paper triangle les, of the Y.M.C.A. design, which the coolies had cut out of paper, and fon each one of which was the Chinese charseter for "happiness." He was particularly pleased that apparently the Chinese coolies a sociated the Y.M.C.A. with
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