Launch of Min-chuan Cause for Communist Agitation Between 200 and 200 members of the League of Youthful Communists of Kiangsu and their adherents monstrated on September 1 about nine o'clock on the French Bund and the Boulevard des deux Republiques. They threw at trams "and shouted slogans against the government, which were specially directed against the launch in the afternoon of the new Chinese gunboat Min-chuan, an account of Which appears elsewhere. Asa last resort one of the French constables had to fire three or four shots, but fon the arrival of the reserves the matter soon was attended to.
This party was organized about year ago and have been consistently against the government, but only recently have they seized on the 'a pretext for their Nanking. Now they assert that Chinese men-of-war struments which support the imperialists and Chinese capitalists. They have been anti-foreign to some extent, but in the main they have directed their attacks on the powers that be.
Tus Joint Committee of the Shanghai Women's Organizations intend to hold an international page ant in the Town Hall in November, the direction being in the capable hands of Miss E. Betzner. postures with a real sense of comedy and his. mournful intonation is an added comic touch.
There was some charmingly sweetly and softly played incidental music. The scenery failed in some respects to convince: an Irish style does not mount habitually to. the {op of a six-foot wall ike a ladder dnd it detracts considerably from the impassioned arrival of a suitor or the anguished exit of a demented murderer. to have to ran up and down such a contraption in onder get on and off the stage.
'The American players have given us many better thi than "Sniilin' Through" and some worse. We prefer them in melodrama or plays with plenty of modern action. "Nevertheless "Smiljin' Through" will appeal to some people; it is wholesome fare for those with.a sweet tooth,
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