Chinese Government Issues Mandate Nanking, Dec. 28.
China will observe a three-day New Year holiday, according to a mandate Issued by the National Government to-day. "A ceremony will be held at the Kuofu on New Year's day to eclebrate the 26th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Republic.
Military and civil ofciols who were fon the honours list 9s. published by the National Government on October 10, and November 12, the Independence Day and the Birthday of Dr. Sun Yat-sen respectively, will be decorated personally by President Lin Sen on December 30.—Central News.
The Hangchow Mission Hospital, one of the largest in China and Tendering Invaluable service to all 'Chinese residents in Hangchow and around the city, has suffered a most severe blow through the destruction by fire of the nurses' home on Dec. 21. 'The fire, which started in an adjoin~ ing house, quickly spread.to the nurses' home, almost completely destroying it, This leaves the hospital in a most distressing condition, and the Super-Intendent, S.'D. Sturton, appealing for a fund to help supply quarlers for the large nursing staff attached to the hospital. It 1s hoped to rebuild the hospital in the rear future, but this has not yet Eecome a definite plan, and the hospital, now that the nurses' quarters have been destroyed, has practically nowhere in which to house them, The Hangchow Hospital is financed by the Church Missionary Society. Tt has a very extensive eld of activities, covering out-patients, maternity wards, infant welfare elmies, a Lock Hospital, orthopedic end X-ray departments, a Leper Hospital, etc., and the importance of work to the district In which it situated cannot be phasized. One of its latest activities country work. About once a month, a group of doctors and nurses from the hospital visits the surround~
Only brief details were available at the China Nations! Aviation Cor-
Poration's local offices regarding the destruction of the Szechuen, one of the Corporation's big aeroplanes on the Shanghai-Chengtu air service, on Christmas morning.
'According to a message' received there al 10 am, on Christmas Day the plane whilst taking.off at! Chengtu for Shanghai at '7 om, met an accident and fire began the engine. The American pilot, Mr. 4H. Brolles, and ten passengers, all Chinese, hurriedly eft the machine ud nobody was injured. All malls and luggage were saved, but" the machine was destroyed beyond te-alr, 'Mr. E, M, Allison, chief of the CN.A.C's operations' department, has gone up-river to Investigate,
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