Apparently the _light-fingered fraternity is organizing a new summer" campaign and paying Special attention to tramcars, auto-uses and motor-ferries on the Sungari, for now is the slack season at the theatres and movies. Last Sunday tens of thousands of Harbing residents crossed the river to Sunny and Kristovsky islands, which fare becoming and more popular as summer resorts, as it is now an expensive matter to travel by train, even to places but an hour or-so away from Harbin, thanks to in-Jerease in the price of tickets and the non-issuing of cheap return During the incumbency of Mayor Sun Fo, the church Fathers el the sanction of the government officers to the erection of business buildings on the more newly-acequired Innds was obtained. On the ground floor there are stores, while the floors above have been rented for occupancy a residences. There is no thought of confiscating the church property proper; it is only the buildings. which bring in an income tothe church that are to be disposed of by forced sale, The hitch in the negotiation bo-tween the government and the church authorities came about by reason of the failure of the sides to agree upon the real worth of the erections. $430,000 was all the municipality offered, its top figure; and had the owners agreed, the money would have been paid and the land would then have reverted to the government, Another proposal was that after the land and buildings have teen 41d, the purchase. price be it into halves, the owner One has to wait one's turn on the pontoons for the ferries here, and the picket-peckets had a successful Sunday among the crowds. As many as five persons reported the loss of their pocket-bocks contain. ing various sums of money, and there were others from whom small sums ere also filched who remained silent. On the tramways and buses, people are daily reporting that they have had their pockets picked, but it Is very rarely the caxe that the thief is caught, Recently, however, well dressed youth, was nabbed in the act at the race-course and was sentenced to ten months imprisonment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.