There was a time when eer! Unental countries, states and South American used to issue of stamps with ipal object of wennes, Such to British wealth of Nations in signifying their Joy at the commencement of the new eign by "issues marvellous of philatelic beauty and printing ability, but the business s concerned, seems to be un the sane level, At a recent session of the London International Stamp. Dealers' Bourse at the Holborn Restaurant, where precious pieces of paper ave examined ud handled as they were of gossamer tissue und Rembrandt value, it ated that 1000 was lun stamps. One dealer €xplained that business would have been done on a larger scale had it not been for £250,000 put up by dealers to buy Coronation stamps for resale to collectors. Probably never in the history of postage stamps has there been such a rush for issues and this rush has been reflected all over the world, including Shanghai where the iirstattempts of uflice boys to strip the mail or raid the wastepaper baskets have been quite as energetic and enthusiastic as the efforts of col-Teetors to obtain first day covers. of some of the hundreds of issues placed in circulation throughout the British Empire. In regard to the phi busines', there used to be the phrase in advertisen of Stamp. sales that they came mission headquarters, but judi the way the average Shangh ig cleaned out of foreign st an safely be said they come largely from the ofice boys, _JavaNtse Consular Police on June 8 took into custody one Tei, aged 30, alleged to be an organizer for the Korean Racial Revolutionary Movement, says the "Shanghai Mainichi."" The man, the paper added, recently arrived from Nanking it is alleged, to, reorganize the underground Korean independence movement in Shanghai which was recently. disturbed by frequent arrests of leaders by the Japanese authorities, The sixth ordinary general meeting of Wheelock & Ca, Lid, will be held fu June 24. 1937, Transfer books of Shanghai Municipal Loans will be closed from 16 to June 20, The fifty-second annual general meeting of Messrs. Kelly. & Walsh, Ltd, will be held on June 25. 1937, An extraordinary general _mecting 9 shareholders of the Shanghai Land Tavestment Ca,, Ltd,, will be held on June 30, Persons having claims against the estate of Henry' Reginal Petre, do-ceased, are requested to send parlia Gulars to Messrs, D,. Wahl and W.C. Grant, M7 Ward Road, Any persons having claims against the estate of G. Hocker, deceased, are requested to send particulars to Mr. 1, T. Morris, H.BM, Consulate-Gen ral, Shanghai, 'The annual general recti 'Shanghai Property Owners' Assoelt~ be held in the offices of the Land Investment Ca, Lad 100 Jinkee Road, on June 25, The Sha \hai Christian Broadeast= who broadcast. daily XMHD, have had a Natulle de Be fate of Shanghai, who died at Shang 1937, are requested.
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