At first the two were augmented by another pair who were anxious} to make the trip but one became I with malaria and is in the hospital and the other, well, ho was too young to be taken and the two in-Stizators of the plan decided to add greater fame to their feat by doing] it together.
Nor is the plan new in their] minds, Some time back they looked to a sea trip as the solution and to that end built themselves a canoe which saw a brief light of day in a small body of water near Hongkew Park but it proved unsuitable and was abandoned. When the. bicycle way became a certainty they went so far as to work out a daily scale of progress and now their schoolmates are breathlessly awaiting mail from the arranged stops, but so far nothing has come to hand.
Meanwhile all Shanghai can do wait and hope for her two youthful explorers and though we rather dislike mentioning it again, being fully in sympathy with explorers of any' age, we must ask that should the whereabouts be discovered. will the, ews he conveyed to the police.
After all Java is fairly well known and just at the moment their parents] fare more concerned in seeing them than the world would be in hearing something new about the Dutch colony.
CHINA has been invited to send delegates to the Pan-Pacific Sur-gory Conference, which is to be held in Honolulu in August next year, Tite Chinese papers learn from a reliable source that a vessel belonging to the Hsing Kee Company in Nantao was pirated outside of Woosung (when, is not stated). The vessel was taken to some secret spot, together with the passengers, and'n demand has been lodged with the company for a ransom of a mi lion dollars. The Gendarmerie Commissioner hag been notified and troops and a gunboat have bees sent out in search of the miscreants.
Five members of the Shanghai Postal Workers' Union entertained twenty representatives of local labour unions to a tea party in the C.P.C. Building, North Szechuen Road on November 3, Sung Tien-sung, chairman of the Union, who presided, offered thanks to the re-
Dresentatives of the various labour unions in Shanghai for the valuable assistance their organizations had rendered to the postal workers during the recent strike. In reply, Tai King-chien representative of the of the Commercial Press Workers"
Union, assured the postal workers that the local labour unions are always ready to help the oppressed, and urged that all labour comrades should persist in their efforts to overthrow the imperialists.
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