H.BAM. Consul Fitamaurice was "At Tome" to a representative feathering on the occasion of His Majesty's birthday. Although the was wet, the scene was bright joned by the presence of American, French, Japanese, Chinese and Brit ish naval officers resplendent their various uniforms. The ivcul military establishment was repre sented by General Penn of the Lith Independent brigade which was responsible for the gallant defence lof Tchang in December, 192%. An efficient commander, he is doing his Jutmost to keep in cheek the unculy' elements in Tchang and the sur rounding districts, Martial law ix lenforeed most nights from midnight land scarcely a week goes past with-lout the arrest and shooting number of communists,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.