Medical Supplies Brought Up from Shanghai sally recognized beauty, should appeal to the cosmopolitan Shanghai audience.
Music lovers, who have attended the previous two concerts, will have noted that the programmes of the following three concerts were already given, announcing the performance of well-known works by English, Northern French and German composers, besides celebrated symphonies by Mozart and Beeth-
Nanking, Oct. 29.
Bringing with him three truck loads of medical supplies from Shanghai yesterday, Dr. Peng Ching-chow, secretary-general of the Chinese Red Cross Society, is now pushing preparations for the establishment of a large hospital capable of taking care of 5,000 wounded Chinese soldiers.
Authorities of the National Central University have placed at Dr. Peng's disposal the Science Hall, the Biology Institute and the Primary School, which have so far escaped from destruction rained by Japanese airplanes, which have attacked the campus many times, At present, 1,059 wounded soldiers are being taken care of in the Metropolitan Hospital and 170 oterhs in branch outside the Hopingmen (Gate of Peace)—Central News. oven.
The great variety of the programmes of the first six concerts of the season, in which hardly a fourth of the concert-duration is taken for the performance of "novelties" or other modernistic music, while the other three-fourths are regularly dedicated to works universally played and recognized as standard examples of great music, should be proof of the sincere wish of the Orchestra and Band Committee and of the conductor to do their utmost to meet the varied and different musical testes of the international public of Shanghai.
Further referring to the musical
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