Chinese to Observe Three Minutes Silence To-day Shanghai will join with ihe rest of China in commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Mukden Incident with greater solemnity and seriousness in face of further Japanese aggression in North China and in Shanghai at present.
According to orders of local the Kuomintang Headquarter: the Shanghai populace are to observe a three-minute silence at noon to-day. After that, they are to pledge support to ihe Government and its leaders and to vow their willingness to sacrifice everything. even their life, for a long-drawn-out war with Japan.
In addition, the Party Headquarters ruled, the people here should take a vegetable diet to-day in order to save money for contributions as "comfort" funds to the Chinese defenders.
As to-morrow is the eve of the mid-autumn festival, during "which the "moon cake" is the traditional favourite of the Chinese, the Tangpu asked Shanghailanders to eat the "Kwang Bing" or "plain cake" instead.
The total of cholera cases registered in the International Settlement up to yesterday morning was given as 272, with 35 deaths. The corresponding figures on the previous day were 240 and 20.
Below is a table giving the total number of proved cases of cholera, and deaths caused by cholera since the outbreak of the disease this year. These cholera cases have been confirmed, by bacteriological examination, in hospitals situated in the International Settlement, and include all cases and deaths up to and including September 16, Cases Deaths Residents of International Settlement INT n Residents of French Con-
Residents oí outlying cession 51 5 Chinese Areas s 5 No fixed abode (presumably refugees)
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