Dramatic Society Inaugurated "with Reading of "Saint Joan:" City Peaceful Fnom On Ow Connesronont, Ningpo, The Republic might be "unified ]with a "stable government" and all warlords dead and buried if the tranquility which reigns in Ningpo be taken as a criterion. Only now and again comes there a ruffle upon the placid surface of our lives when news of strife in far-off places is retailed in the native press. So self-contained, independent and inaugur are we that the poet who Geclaimed: "My mind to me" king-expresses our whole outlook upon i On. Monday the Ningpo Amateur Dramatic Society met for the first time under its President Mrs, Bethell, at the residenc Bernard Shaw'n spoke the por markable such On Tuesday Mrs. Handley-Derry, wife of H. M. Consul, lonned her Jdrawing-room for a discussion the League of Nations. Bishop Molony opened the proceedings, describing the history of the movement, and urged that the realization fof the Leagues ideals was the only hope for civilization, To be die obedient unto the heavenly vision is to turn back to chaos, and ruin, and death, Messrs. Handley-Derry, Hoffman, Bates, Conibear and others, spoke. Regret that America does not yet see her way to enter the League was expressed by a number of speakers. They thought, however, that presently she would.
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