According to the weekly return of the $.M.C. Public Health Department. there were four foreign and 258 Chinese deaths in the Settlement last week.
A DANCE for all ranks will be hela the ' British Forces Recreation Centre, 85. Ferry Rd. this evening, from, 8.30 to 11.30 p.m. Dance Club members are asked to attend. Membership cards must be shown at Abe door Mr, Li Tsung-huang, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, who has been in Hunan province for some time to supervise the elections of delegates to the National Assembly, left Changsha on July 24 for Hankow en route to Kuling.
The play which is now running a: Daly's, London, "No Sleep for the Wicked", is the last play to be pro duced in what in its day was a theatre of great charm. Daly's is then to be converted into a cinema. This means that there will presently be no theatres and five cinemas in Leiceste: Square, where formerly there were three theatres and no cinemas Ix view of the heavy responsibility of men of letters in times of national emergency, the Literary Association of China has recently decided to enlarge its membership, for which a campaign will soon be launched, A SENTENCE of six months' imprisonment was passed by the First District Court yesterday on Chen Tse-chi, a Clerk of the Chinese Post Office in North Szechuen Road, accused of stealing a quantity of mail matter in June and July this year Amonc Government officials who arrived in Shanghai on Sunday mérning were Mr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, Mr. Wang Fa-chin and Dr. Chu Min-yi, both members of the Central Executive Committee, and Dr. Fu Ping-chang a member of the Legislative Yuan.
"Ir is most important for any boy to have female company," said Mr. Pite, headmaster designate of Cheldenham, at a conference, "The number of boys who like babies is very large, though the number who will admit it is negligible, The boy who has some acquaintance will be the better father of his own later."
MakrxG the total arrests in the case into fourteen, another Chinese was brought before the First District Court yesterday and was ordered to be held for being involved with others in uttering 400 alleged counter-felt $5 notes of the Bank of China.
The man was Ching Dib-tsung who was taken into custody at 262/19 Yates Road last Saturday. The hearing was adjourned.
AN addition of 350 acres to the Green Belt around London is proposed by the Hertfordshire and London County Councils. Moor Park, a spacious area lying between Rick-mans worth and Northwood, which once belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, is to be acquired, and the L.C.C. is being asked to contribute £31,800 towards the cost of £142,800.
Ove result of the North China crisis is the decline of smuggling. According to a report from Tientsin, it is estimated that during the past fortnight only 10 tons of non-duty paid goods were shipped to Tientsin from the East Hopei area due to congestion of troop trains. Transportation of muggied goods into the interior dis-tricks by native carts is practically at a standstill, due to fear that the Tug following brass band concert will be given by the Municipal Brass Band in the Public Garden (weather permitting) this afternoon, starting at 530 p.m.:—
March "The Hussars Come"
Eilenberg Serenata "Love in Idleness" ':. Macbeth Intermezzo "The Glow Worm".. Lincke Suite of Three Spanish Danc Moszkowsky Introduction and Polacca Naylor Idyll:: The Alpine Dairymaid".. Lange Selection "The Three Musketeers" Friml vehicles.may be commandeered.
Iv pursuit of their campaign to Docrons.at the Royal Waterloo Bos pital for Children and Women, in London, have been working for three months on a treatment for hay fever which has been successful in more than.80 per cent. of the cases treated. The treatment combines the izoniza tion method by which a coating of ionized zinc is applied by electricity to the inside of the nostrils, and the desensitisation method by which abate the noise of motor car horns in the Tientsin French Concession, the French Police arrested 11 Chinese drivers for infringement of the regulation which forbids the unnecessary sounding of horns. A high French police officer declared that the French authorities at Tientsin are determined to eradicate this noise nuisance and their campaign will be ied Out to a successful conclusion vaccines of grass-seed pollen are injected, As a result of the recent series of conferences bet een Mr. T. V. Soong Snanonar reminded Rotarians are that there will be no tiffin meeting this week. The meeting will be held sday evening at the Linsi Country Club, 500 Hungjao Road, from 8 dinner, and will be a ladies" evening. Reservations should be made without delay, through the secretary's office, A programme of moving pictures in addition to music and da ing, has been arranged to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the founding of the Club in Shanghai and "Gener Is Li Tsung-fen and Pai Chung-si, Pacification Commissioner and Deputy Pacification Commispectively for Kwangsi proce, the ratio of the Kwangsi currency to the standard dollar has been fixed at 1.80, according to a report io the "China Times," which adds that a branch of the Central Bank of China will be opened Kwangsi within this year Because a Ludlow Corporation workman was thrown off his cycle by Southwark Borough Council nounced last April that they would be prepared to receive offers for the familiar clock tower which stands in the centre of St. George's Circus.
Anyone could have it for nothing. provided he paid for dismantling and carting away—about £800. No satisfactory replies. were received, so the Council have decided to demolish it right away. "We are now prepared. to receive offers for the clock four illuminated dials and West-a hole in the road the ratepayer: the town face an increase of nei Is, 3d in the rates, The man was awarded £2,023 damages against the corporation. The corporation is insured only up to £500 for such con-lüngencies. That leaves £1,523. to come out of the rates, A penny rate produced £120. The man, as a ratepayer, will have to make a microscopic contribution to hi damages. minster chim: id an official, Tur regulations gove the re-
For the purpose of meeting the special needs ^f the ce-operative societies throughout the country, the Ministry, of Industry is planning to Open a cooperative bank, states the "Ta Kung Pao." The capital of the bank, it is reported, will be fixed at $50,000,000 which will be raised by the Ministry in conjunction with the rural credit organizations in Shanghai. The head office of the bank is expected to be established in Shang-i with branches in various dis tricts. The main business of the bank will be the arranging of rural loans, it is reported. cruising of famine labourers for the building of the Chengtu-Chungking Railway embankment have: been issued by the head office of the China International Famine Relief Commission in Shanghai. The China International Famine Relief Commission is conducting a labour relief project in Szechuen., An agreement was entered into early in April with the West China Development Company, the builders of the Chengtu-Chung: king Railway, whereby famine labour will be used for the construction of the railway embankment. First steps for the recruiting of such labour now been started, it is learne Wowc Yue-kwan, former Chinese police constable No. I9 of the S.M. Police, was implicated as the leader of a group of threatening letter writers by two men charged in the First District Court yesterday with attempted extortion. The two pri-soriers were alleged to have sent five threatening letters demanding $5,000 io Mr, Yen Yuen-shee, proprietor of an underwear company. They told the Judge that it was the ex-C.P.C. No, 1599 who had instigated them to send the letters because he knew the complainant's financial conditions. The prisoners, however, could not disclose, the ex-constable's present whereabouts. The hearing was adjourned till August 2.
In the finals of the bathing beauty contest which began on Friday night under the sponsorship of the Lido. and which concluded on Sunday in the swimming pool enclosure, Miss Lily Goodwin, clad in a white knitwear bathing costume received 21 compensated votes of foreign and Chinese judges and was d jaime ed winner, the large crowd concurring with the officials, In second place came Miss Daisy Bulldeath. while third honours were awarded to Miss Woo Wen- Handsome prizes were presented by Mr. William Hu, manager, and consolation gifts went to unsuccess: conte there being five entrants in the finals.
A Mewisten-Huangkang branch line is to be added to the projected Canton-Meihsien Railway, states the "Ta Kung Pao" The branch, which be 250 li in length, is now under ssu vey, According to another dispatch an encircling railway for Hainan Island will also be constructed. With the Nata district, in the north-western part of the island, as its northern terminal, the line will head in a north-easterly direction. then drop to the south to reach Yulin harbour via Chiungshan, Wenehang, Lohui, Wanning and Lingshui districts. It is learnt that the course of the line. which will have a total length of 800 li, has been surveyed and is now being looked over for the second time, and construction on the railway is expected to be completed within three years Ma Tang-sze, a middle-aged woman wes ordered to be detained when she visited the First Special District Court last Saturday morning. Yesterday morning, she stood in the prisoner's dock in the court. charged with possession of opium. It wa disclosed that, the woman's husband wes brought before the court last week-end, charged with pocketpicking. Before his trial opened, the woman handed to her husband a loaf of bread which was found to contain opium. The woman denied her hus. bend was an opium addict. but could not explain why she had delivered him the bread containing opium She was remanded.
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