Ariz broke out in the early hours of June 12 at Chuchuch Road in the southern section of Nanking city, says a report to the "China Times" Combustion of an old electric wire lead to. the outbreak which destroyed more than 30 shops, causing a damage of $70,000.
Beommmvo oh July 1 emergency training classes for school principals and teachers throughout the country will be opened in Kuling, according to a despatch to the "China Times" from Peiping, where five delegates have already been chosen to attend the classes.
Rumours are current in Tientsin that Mfr. Chen Chueh-sheng, manag ing director of the Pelping-'Liaoning Railway, has resigned from his post, says, a. special dispatch to the "Li Pao." Mr. Liu Yi, bead of the Bureau of Testing at Tientsin, has been mentioned as his probable successor, reported that the Ministry of Interior has received $41,000 from Insurance companies for the loss is library. in Nanking by fire last year. Of this sum, $12,000 will be set aside for the purchase of books fon regional geography and history, while the remainder will be reserved to re-build the library.
For the second time in two weeks, a Chinese drug. recidivist was executed at the Tien Chiao, Peiping, fon. June 7. He had been rested for drug addition four times. Owing to the rain only a handful of spectators witnessed" the execution, which was carried out by the special Tribunal for the trial of drug addicts and pedlars. als, Liu Livyin, former Director of the Central Publicity Department the Kuomintang, who was.ecently: sentenced to ten years' serviluce for his part in the assassination of Ge. 'Yang Yung-ta,, former Governor Hupeh, last yea, is to appeal again' {the sentence, according to a Hankow dispatch to the "Lih Pan."
Acconoinc to a dispatch to the "shun Pao." the summer office of the Executive Yuen will be set up Kuling toward the and of this month and will begin to function fon July 2. Gen, Chiang Kaieshek will preside over the first regular moot Ing. of the Yuan at Kuling which Will bbe held on July 7, "Srcoxpany Education In China" the ttle of the latest information Bulletin to be Issued by the Council of International Affairs at Nanking. The author, Mr. Te-hsiung Kuo, is Bachelor of Letiers from Oxford and was for some time professor of Inter. national relations at the Central Political Institute in Nanking. After dealing at length with the history and development of modern secondary education, and giving statistics in showing the number of secondary schools since the establishment of the Repubile, their geographical dis tribution, costs, ote, Mr. Kuo deals In an interesting, way with ofeial examinations. the teaching of science, supplementary training {or teachers, military training, compulsory physlea! training, and s0' forth, Tur route to be taken by Shang-hal-Canton. through railway traffic has, for the most part, been fixed, according to a report to the "China Times" rom Nanking. Starting from "Devevoraent of Modern Chinese Press." Is the title of a bulletin by Prot. Hubert. Liang. chairman of the Department of Journalism, Yen= ching University, Peiping, issued by the Council of International Affairs Nanking. "Prof. Liang gives a history of journalism in China from the earliest times and traces its development up to the present in a bbriet but useful work.
Changshu, From there, the line will continue fo Pinghsiang, which It will head tovare nan, where twill Sein up with ction of the {iw view of the severe famine con-aitions In Szechuen, says a Nanking Sespateh, Gen. Liu Hsiang, Governor fof Szechuen, has decided to postpone the collection of land. tax, $0 a5 to relieve the people of a heavy burden. To cover. the deficit. in military and administrative funds as a result of the Postponement, he hhas_ petitioned the Executive Yuan to approve the issue of short-term provincial treasury notes for $18,- 00,000. "The petition has been ferred to the Ministries of Tnterlor and of Finance for study and report, Fon the purpose of improving and tandardizing district administration throughout China, the Ministry of Interior has recently sent more than 20 experts to investigate the condi ons in various. districts, says special Nanking dispatch to the Kung Pao." The investigations are expected to be finished by the end of August, On the results of the it quiry, the experts will draw up roperd in which they will reeomm 2 plan for the reform of district a ministration based on the merits of the existing system and conditioned bby varying local circumstances. The plan, it is hoped, will be ready for Adoption by the various disirlets before the end of this year.
Coxsraveriox on the Hunan-Kwel-chow Railway will begin this autumn, according to Mr. Li Han-san, vice-director of the Construction Bureau for the Hunan-Kweichow Railway, who has arrived in. Kwel-yang from Hunan, states a dispatch the "Lih Pao" from Kweiyang. With the exception of five per cent, of its whole length which les through a low-lying plain, the route runs through rough terrain making the cost of construction enormous. For nately, the Central Government will appropriate funds for the entire expenditure. Ut is understood "that the railway wilt be constructed snd pened to traflle section by. section. The whole line is expected to be completed by the end of 1940, when construction will start_ on the Kwel-chow-Yunnan and" Kweichow-Siechuen Railways, Fon fear that the large shipments of salt exported to Japan may adversely affect the Chinese people's live-Uhood, "the "Nanking "Ministry Finance has telegraphically instructed the Hopel-Charhar Political Council to stop all further shipments, states a Tiensin report to" the "China Times" It may be recalled that the Hsinchung Ca. a Japanese enterprise, planned to purchase 100,000. tons Changlu salt this year. Several shiploads have already been shipped to Japan during the past few months, fand the final consignment is expected to leave Tientsin at the end of June, [Owing to the very low price of salt which is about. $260 a ton, the Japanese are now approaching the. salt dealers for another purchase of 100,000 tons, for which the Japanese authorities are now trying to induce the Hopei-Charhar Political Council "to give its sanction, Chokdlangang Changshu-Pinghsiang which is expected to be finish= formal opening of the through service may be held on January 1, 1033, Two full days will be required for the through trip, but believed that, later on, {twill possible to substantially cut down the time required, Cunnane Rotary Club fs now the proud possessor of a beautifully framed charter No, 4217 which was presented at an official meeting held fen Saturday, June 8, Dr. Fong Sec, Governor of the Eighty-frat District of+Rotary International, has sailed for Burope and so asked Dr. Hsu Mo, Vice-minister of Forel Affairs, of Nanking, to present the charter, As Nanking was the sponsor of dhe Chinkiang Club and helped to get it started late last autumn, Ht was most fitting to have Dr. Hsu 'Mo, who Is past president of "the Nanking club, present the charter. Besides Dr. Hsu, seven other members of the Nanking club, including its president, Mr. H. 0. Hanson, attended the' Chinkiang ceremony. Nine representatives of the -Wusih lub, including the president, Mr, P.
Tan, wore also present, together with Messrs. Chen and Liu, of Soochow, and three members from the Shanghai club, Mr. Jasper Marsh, A, Zee, and Mr. William E, Souter, who was especially delegated by Mr. Hans Berents to represent the Shang-hal club. Several "of those visitors made happy speeches congratulatinit the Chinkiang club. on ils good
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