A. private company is formed in Hongkong to run taxi-cabs in Canton.
The machines are to be farmed out from the Hongkong and Kow-{toon Taxi-cab Company.
An ingenious part of the scheme: is that all the cab drivers will be recruited in Hongkong and shertbers of labour unions in Canton will be employed. The drivers must at the same time subscribe $100 for shares, so that: they -are both: "employers" and workers. Tu this way, the company will not be handicapped by troubles with organized: labourers.
The Canton Provincial Govern-Lanient- als: approved the fotitation Manchuri Automobile traffic at Manchuli and in Mongolia have been stopped. An additional quarantine station has been established et Hailar.
deaths from plague have been reported from Heilungkiang—Reuter.
Muxpex, Dee. 22—Four hundred bandits appeared in Fusun prefect ture near the Korean frontier on December 17 and looted and set fire to the city. They took the magis~ trate and chief of police with them as. prisoners.—Reuter.
SarunDAY being the anniversary lof the day when Gen, Tsai Ao, now deceased, raised the banner of in:
Yuan Shih-kai, who was then President of China, when the attempted to crown himself Emperor, 1 holiday, was observed by a mum-
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