An International University Olub has been organized here composed of for nationalities, Chinese, American, Swedish and Russian. The aims of the club are: To promote international fellowship to stimulate and maintain interest in the progress of knowledge, amd the problems of education; to further enterprises for the benefit of the community.
At its meeting on March 17 the club discussed the problem of insanity and appointed a committee further to investigate the local situation with a view to creating public sentiment in favour of providing @ suitable asylum for the insane who now wander about the streets with mo one taking any responsibility for them.
A year ago a lunatic living outside the east gate of the city ran amuck with @ butcher's cleaver and killed or wounded 17 people before he was finally overpowered, Later an apparently harmless fellow struck a foreign woman in the face without any provocation as she was passing along the street. A policeman standing by took no notice of the matter as he considered it not his pidgin to look after the insane. Only recently another deranged mam, enraged because a missioner refused to give him money witl which to buy more wine, got a spade and hacked at the compound gate and then struck a child on the head. When the missionary came out to try to get the police to take the matter in hand the madman turned on him with the spade.
It is hoped that sufficient public opinion may be aroused to cause local authorities to provide a proper asylum that will not only prevent a repetition of such need-Jess outrages, but will also make provision for modern medical treatment for these unfortunate members of society.
The following topics have been chosen for discussion at the next three monthly meetings of the club:—How to provide public parks and playgrounds; to preserva the relics and antiquities of Anking; to establish public lecture halls.
A 60-year old Japanese has just been arrested in Tokio. Starting on a career of crime at the age of nine, he is believed to have con-mitted 1,600 thefts in the intervening years.
A special type of tram car, ex-elusively for the use of women and children, has been tested at Tokio, its particular feature being that the floor is specially near the ground. It is expected that 39 ears of this type will be introduced in the near future, so successful has the initial experiment been.
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