Dr, and Mrs, R, Holper are arriving to-day from America in the s, Empress of Rus Min, A, C. Beard, Far Eastern representative of the United Steel Companies Ltd, of Sheffield, has returned, Tue German Consul General and "Mrs, Fischer have moved into their new residence at 57 Columbia Road.
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ComrLETING a fifteen-day stay here, the visiting Italian goodwill mission left Tokyo yesterday for a tour of Central Japan.
Tue Pan-American Airways China Clipper sprung an oil leak 250 miles out at sea while en route to Honolulu on April 1 and was returning to its base in Alameda, company officials announced.
Tur Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, on. April 1 received a deputation from the Board of Deputies of British, Jews. Questions which have arisen regarding refugees from Aus-trio were discussed, Tur Farmers Bank of China, on orders from the Ministry of Finance, on April 1 remitted to the Shensi Cooperative Committee an agrarian loan 1 of $200,000 to be distributed among eight districts in North Shensi, states a message to the "Morning Leader."
"Conpirions in Central and West China" will be the subject of the address before the Foreign Y.M.C.A. Lecture and Forum audience on Tuesday April 5 at 8.30 p.m. The address will be given by Mr. Ronald D. Rees, who has recently returned from a trip to Central and West China "Tuar the World would be happier place if ruled by women' will be the subject of the debate on the Foreign Y.M.C.A. Debating Programme this week Thursday at 8.30 p.m, in the main lounge. The subject will be proposed by Miss Eva Spicer and opposed by Miss Byrd Rice.
A NEW term of instruction in "Mandarin and Shanghai dialect will begin on Monday, April 4 at the Foreign Y.M.C.A. If there is sufficient demand classes in French, German and English will begin on Tuesday, April 5. The hour for these classes is 6.00-p.m. and persons interested should report to the Educational Department.
Tur Alliance Française announce that a lecture will be given on Tuesday, April 5 at 545 p.m. in the Main Hall of the Municipal School, 11 Route Vallon, by Father Henri Bernard, of the Bureau Sinologique de Zikawei and Hautes Etudes de Tientsin, on "Les debuts de la civilisation occidental en extréme-orient" and "Pénétration culturelle dans lo monde Chinois de la fin des Ming."
Tur Cathedral Children's Service will be held as usual this morning in the temporary Church House (School Gymnasium) at 10.30 o'clock. A bus ior the children will run, leaving Jessfield Park at 10 a.m, proceeding by way of Vu Yuen Road and Bubbling Well Road to the Cathedral, and returning by the same route after the service. There is no charge to children using the bus. It will be a special bus, distinguished by the Church Flag (St. George's Cross).
THE Siamese Government recently revised its Immigration Law with a view to restricting the entry of Chinese into Siam, says a special message to the "Sin Wan Pao" from Hongkong. Under Article 20 of the law, it is reported, the Siamese authorities added a clause governing the immigration of Chinese which states that Chinese nationals coming to Siam must possess means of independent livelihood and must undertake-to refrain from political activities, Tur Navy Y.M.C.A. wishes to ack-knowledges with thanks the donation Of books, magazines and newspapers received from the following people during March:—Messrs, W, A. Estes:
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