ZH.MS. Fotxestonr sailed from Shanghai yesterday.
"Genera Passieroni, Legion Commander in the Abyssinian campaign Has just been appointed commander of the Fascist Militia in Italian East Africa, -Memuers of the Shanghai Choral Society are reminded of the rehearsal tó be held this afternoon, commencing at 530 pin. in the Gymnasium, behind Holy Trinity Cathedral. Approximately seventy singers attended the first practice last Monday, and more are expected this evening.
Jw order to correct any misunderstanding which might have arisen out of the obscurity of certain passages in the report published yesterday concerning the arrival of the P. & O. Corfu, it is necessary to state that the tender conveying passengers to that vessel, prior to her departure, will leave the Bund at 830 um. on Triesdey, Tre Yugoslavian Premier, Dr. Milan Stpyadinovitch, shortly after his arrival in Berlin on Saturday morning proceeded to the Unknown Soldifr's Memorial where he laid down} a wreath. The distinguished guest subsequently visited General Near and Foreign Minister von Neurkth.
ij of Church of Scotland by the Ampna the appointed missionaries Foreiin Mission Committee and the Womjn's Foreign Mission of the Churfh are the Rev. John Fleming B.D.&Port Glasgow) Manchuria, and Mr. @tenry Rymer Clayton, M.B., ChB. (Manchester) Moukden Medical College.
Tue first of three twin-screw freight and passenger ships ordered by a Turkish company at the Krupp Germania shipbuilding yard was launched at Kiel on Saturday at noon. The ship was christened "Trak". by the wife of the Turkish Ambassador io Germany, Excellency Hamdi Arpag. It can carry 450 p engers and is destined for service on the Sea of Marmora.
Ir was the strong smell of tobacco board the 10,000 ton ship "Shrop-Shire," as she lay at Tilbury Docks, that aroused the suspicion of the Customs officers. They searched her, and discovered 9,087 cigars hidden in wooden boxes labelled "tea" in the cabin floor under the chief engineer's bed. As a result Alexander Ferro, a thirty-three-year-old ship's servant hailing from Genoa, has gone to prison for six months for smuggling goods of a dutiable value of £264, Customs officials found a receipt for 11,000 cigars among Ferro's papers. Ferro was expecting to meet a "Mr. Brown," who was to motor to Tilbury to buy cigars, and the Customs officers made preparations for his reception, but "Mr. Brown" failed to put in an appearance, Canp-games, played by the light of their safety lamps, and hymn-singing, favourite recreation of all welshmen On all occasions, are two of the pastimes of fourteen miners who were conducting the first stay-in strike in the South Wales anthracite area, The dispute arose over a new scale of pay proposed for a new vein in a colliery near Neath. Efforts of the South Wales Miners' Federation officials, including.the visits of two deputations underground, have so far failed to dislodge the strikers. Baskets of food and flasks of hot drinks have been sent down to them; they asked for a darts board, but as none could be obtained, had to be content with a pack of cards. There is a possibilily of the strike spreading to eight other collieries
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