Ar a meeting of ratepayers at Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, the suggestion was quite seriously made that ihe local new cemetery should be fitted with hot-water pipes as an inducement to the bereaved to bury their dead there.
Thur Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai has submitted another report on the losses sustained by local business and industrial houses as a result.of Sino-Japanese hostilities te the Ministry of Economics, says a message to the "Sin Wen Pao." The losses detailed in this report total $1,056,245, which are shared by twelve factories, including the Chung Hwa Flour Company.
CHaNceLton Hitler on Saturday opened the first exhibition of German architecture and artistic handicraft in the "House of German Art" in ihe presence of Yugoslavian Premier Stoyadinovich as well as a dis—tinguished gathering of other promment personalities. Before opening the exhibition Chancellor Hitler laid a wreath on the tomb of the famous architect Professor Paul Ludwig Troost wh4 died just a year ago.
@Tuar recent—punishments of military officers for their dereliction of duties have not been confined to provincial commanders is borne out by the fact that General Liu Shih, one of the direct subordinates of General Chiang Kai-shek and a high commander of the Central Army, was among the first to have been arrested by orders of the Chinese high command, says the "Sheng Pao."
Fiery thousand husky troops drawn from the Miao tribes in South-west China are undergoing military training on the boraers of Kweichow and Yunnan provinces, says a special report to the "Sheng Pao." It is learnt that experienced' military instructors, including eight Soviet military experts, have been sent to train them by General Chang Chih-chung, former Commander-in-Chief of Chinese forces on the Shanghai-Woosung front.
Sin Arthur Lawrance, Governor of Somaliland, upon whom the King has just conferred the K.C.MG., has had an extraordinary career. He started life as à boy clerk on the Great Western Railway, enlisted for service in the South African War at the age of 20, fought in the Somaliland campaign of 1908-10. He won the D.S.O. in the Great War, and now rules over en area larger than England and Wales, with a population of 350,000 Somalis. He is a bachelor.
A nunper of Villach, Caryntija, was driving to a job with 80lb. of dyn: mite loaded on to the back of his car. As he was taking a corner at a good 40 miles per hour the steering gave way. The car, states a Reuter message from Vienna, swerved to one side, knocked over several white-painted border stones, plunged Into a meadow, turned several complete; somersaults, and smashed itsd to pieces.: When the builder picked himself up—to his surprise unhurt and still in this world—he found that neither the dynamite nor the fuse-caps he was carrying in his pocket had gone of.
As Ambassador from the United States to St. James's, Mr, Joseph P. Kennedy will introduce some elements of novelty. He is young for the position—-under 50, he is a devout Roman Catholic of Irish extraction, and he has been in business, never in diplomacy. All the same, President Roosevelt seems firmly convinced that he is the right man for the post. A good bit of a fighter, the shai rather broad, red-haired man in round spectacles has yet charm and abundant tact. His-wife, of his own race and religion, is a pretty, young-looking lady, in spite of her nine children, and owns a true American dress sense and a cordial and delightful personality. She and her hus band are cultured Bostonians.
Four children in something over four years is a creditable record for these days. It has been achieved by Lady Morris, wife of a peer whose father was for nine years Prime Minister of Newfoundland. The fir two children of Ledy Morris are girls. Now come twin boys. Lord Morn barrister of the Inner Temple, wa disbarred at his own request, and became a solicitor. He is one of two Michzel Morrises who are peers, the ether, the 23-year-old Lord Killanin, being an industrious journalist, It was of the Galway Morrises that an aged Ivish retainer said in awe-struck iones that it was a great and grand family entirely, "When I tell yez the have signed photographs of Kings and Queens in their bathroom, yez will have some understanding' of their importance."
In spite of the complete closure of Ningpo es a result of the erection of a boom in the Yung River, that port can still be reached from Shanghai by a round-about route, according to information received from the Ningpo Residents' Association in Shanghai. Travellers taking this route, it is stated, may board steamers from here to Tingnai, where two small Steam boats are available to take them to Chuanshan over a distance of 10 li, which can be negotiated in two hours. From Chuanshon to Ningpo, according to the message, there is a regular "bus service. Owing to the recent shortening of its route, however, travellers have to walk for 10 li from Chuenshan order to board a bus at Hsiapu station,
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