Court) retired and Apr. 8 Judge Purdy succeeded. On Apr. 26, the old Bowling Alley, in i, a 70 years' old struc-as sold, the club moving to' Hardoon Road.
May 11 str. Glenamoy badly ashore inthe Chusans; refloated with great difficulty on June 14 May 12, new Union Jack Club opened in Shanghai. May 16, a bomb wrapped up as a parcel was handed in at Dr. Wellington Koo's house in Peking and blew up some of his servants. May 20, the Living Buddha died at Urga. The same day. Dofsy, the French: aviator, flying from France to Tokyo, reached Shanghai, June 4,- the American aviators, flying round the work, Nelson, Ware, Arnold and Ogden (Smith, -held up in Japan ithe next day) reached Shanghai. June 20, the Portuguese aviators chow). On July 4 the British round-the-world aviators, Mac-loren, Plenderleith and Andrews reached Shanghai. On July 14 the "North China Daily News" celebrated its sixtieth birthday ("ilerald" then seventy-four' years old). On Oct. i the Argentine aviator Zanni reached Shanghai. Nov. 29, new Ameri can Club, Shanghai, opened to use. Nov. 15 the Plant Memorial on Upper Yangtze unveiled. Dec. 6 the new British Commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir Allan Everett, succeeding Admiral ig Leveson, arrived in Shanghai in H. M.S. Hawkins. Dee. 28
Major Hilton-Johnson,, deputy. commissioner of police, appointed Commissioner-General to the Shanghai Municipal Council, an entirely new post.
In July floods. of an appalling nature occurred through Hupeh, Hunan and Kiangsi; and in mid-July there were great floods in Chihli, Tientsin being endangered. Much of the country is still under water or rather ice.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.