The authorities are also concerned over the activities of dance halls in this area. In Dairen, these establistanents have to close at midnight but in Mukden they have been allowed to function in their own! way, out of deference to local foreigners. But complaints have of late been pouring in from neigh-hours to the effect that the noise! is the worst from midnight to four in the morning, thereby disturbing! the peace and repose of the neigh bourhood.
Consequentiy, one of these evenings foreign patrons of these dane Galls will discover that a definite closing hour has been set, whereas the owners of the establishments will have to make the most of the new regulation Warner breause of or in spite of the fact that Sir E. Alexander-Sinclair now has the biggest assem-binge of men-of-war ever seen under the Bi in Ohinese waters, kaleidoscopic coun: ye become what th auctioneers call a "slow lot" (write "Trath" on November 3). During the past few days the cruisers Dart. mouth, Carysfort, and Castor, all employed in relief trooping, have arrived and will remain "at disposal." The Hermes and the Third Destroyer Flotilla have been on the station for more than fortnight.
ly it would be a good move to hold a naval review and invite all the Tuchuns to come and sce the ships. circles, his policy is likely to be forcible especially if he sees that civil warfare in China is occupying all the attention of the Chinese and that Mukden, which means Manchuria, is als. drawn into this internecine struggle, The Railway Schools The fate of the Railway Schools still hangs in the balance, for the Kailway Manager, notwithstanding the continual letters he is receiving, from the Chief of the new Educa tional Dept., refuses to hand over to the latter any money which has been allotted for the upkeep of the schools by the Railway. 'The Obief has also informed school teachers that they must only receive orders from him. and ignore what the Railway' officials instruct them to do, making, their position a most critical one. It is stated that the Chinese members of the Railway Board intend at} the next meeting to bring up the question of ceasiy, the credits to ull schools: This means of course that: all the schools will have to close down entirely, for the new Educational Dept, which, -is a Chinese oficial organization, has no funds to continue and actually had reckoned, on using part of the usual. Railway credit for the maintaining. of other schools, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.