While moving a 12ston dye belonging to one of the down-tiver arsenals which is being taken to the interior, a Chinese steamship had an accident the huge piece slipping from' its chains and dashing through two lighters loaded With massive cases of machinery and kending the whole lot to the bottom of the" river. Local Foreigners not Bothered Foreigners are subject to no restrictions and there is no reason why Tsingtao should not be as popular this summer as-it has been in the past. Prices for foodstuffs are naturally higher than formerly but compare well with Shanghai. Coal is still over $40 per ton. Taken all in all, the cost of living here is cheaper than in Shanghai. The public and essential services function properly and there is no shortage of anything, except perhaps coal There are not many troops quart ed in the city and those that one does meet in the streets are civil and do t go out of their way to embarrass one. Troops arriving here, leave for the front almost as quickly as they come and as for the wounded divers were secured and "believe it or not" they can stay down from three to four minutes without any kit or breathing apparatus. They have managed to get chains round most of the lost boxes and they have been Successfully raised from about 25 feet of water.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Spooner of the West China University passed through port this week on their way home on furlough. The community has recently welcomed back from furlough Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Allen of the Canadian Mission Hospital and the Rev, and Mrs. Howard Veals. Mrs.
F. K. Partridge has flown up from Hongkong to join her husband who is representative for the LO and Mr. L. Rikoff. has arrived to represent the Dupont Corp. in hospitals, one does not see very much of them Regarding ' Tsinanfu, conditions there are pretty much the same as they are in Tsingtao and foreign residents there declare they suffer no inconveniences. late Maharajah of Patiala was not the man to do without anything he wanted if money could buy it. When he was in England some years o he fancied a, good-looking reever. The owner did not want to At Chefoo curfew is at 10 p.m. and business conditions there are better part with the dog, but succumbed to temptation when it took the form than at Tsingtao. The small Japanese garrison of about three to 400 troops is not having an easy time, as Chinese guerillas have been subjecting them to their harassing attentions at odd intervals. of £1,000. The new maharajah, who is 25, has been married since 1932. A good shot ynd cricketer, he was one of the Indian Xf. against Lord Tennyson's visiting team last Quality always tells insist on
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