There will be two matinee showings at the Nanking Theatre of "On Again—Of again," to-day ana to-morrow at 1030.
The Pootung Guild in Shanghai has been busy collecting cotton crops, which it will send to factories in inland districts, states a Chinese report.
Copies of the "1620," the official organ of the 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association, Capetown, S.A., for July and September have been received.
The National Government in a mandate on October 28 appointed Mr. Chiao Yee-sun to replace Mr. Yih Ting as Customs superintendent in Amoy.
The Food Control Board in Shanghai is now busily investigating cases of alleged arbitrary price boosting by some rice dealers, according to a report to the "China Times."
In honour of Mr: Herbert Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Brady ente tained a number of his old friends to meet him informally yesterday afternoon at the cocktail hour.
Messrs. Carreras Ltd, manufacturers of Craven 'A' cigarettes, represented in Shanghai by Inniss & Riddle (China), Ltd. have contributed £525 to the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of war sufferers in China.
The Loyals Regiment will parade at the Great Western Road camp at 10 am. to-day, when Lieut. J. F. Whiteing will be decorated with the Military Cross for services rendered in Palestine.
"The temporary university in Sian will be opened on November 1, says a dispatch to the "China Times." Many professors and students of the college have already arrived in the Shensi provincial capital for the formal opening ceremony.
The second monthly luncheon meeting of the Shanghai Cosmopolitan Club will be held on Wednesday, November 3, at the Park Hotel at 12.15 p.m. Dr. Alfred Sooke Sze, former Chinese Ambassador to Washington, will be the guest of honour.
The Honan Provincial Government has drawn up plans to keep factories, mines and workshops in northern districts of the province functioning, says a special report to the Ta Kung Pao." Measures will also be taken for the relief of unemployed labourers.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution in Russia, the postal administration of Republican Spain will issue a series of 11 special commemoration stamps bearing the effigies of Lenin and Stalin and illustrating episodes in the development i Union.
Mr. W. J. German, chief officer of the Harbour Fire Brigade, was injured slightly during the fighting of Thursday evening's-fire in a godown at Kinleeyuan Wharf, French Bund. He was taken to Ste. Marie Hospital, but was able to return home from there yesterday. He suffered cuts and bruises in a fall.
Dr. A. R. Kepler, executive secretary of the General Assembly of the Church of Christ in China, who has been allocated by that body to ser as a supervisor of war relief work of the China International Famine Relief Commission and also as secretary of the War Relief Committee of the National Christian Council, is leaving on the s. "Shuntien" to-day, for an extended itinerary through Shantung, Honan and the Yangtze Valley to investigate the war relief needs and activities in the war areas.
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