It is well known that for sukiyaki at its best, good beef is indispensable. As local cattle—specially cattle in the provinees—yield meat that leaves much to be desired, however, the Municipal authorities four, months ago started supervised feeding of horned cattle which were to be killed, When it became known that cows had grown souter by 60 kilograms, a large sukiyaki party was given in the New Harbin Hotel, attended by more than 100 dignitaries. It was revealed that the quality of sukiyaki had unquestionably improved, and the Municipality decided to continue its experiments in improving beef.
"The end of, April brought extremely cold weather, as an icy cyclone swept on the city from the southwest. This unexpected return of winter made itself specially felt in Hailar, bringing, on April 22, rain which turned into show; and this snow continued falling all day and all-night. The Hingan region was literally snowed under. This wave of "Siberian colds," as one calls them, was all the more surprising because during the first part, of April balmy weather prevailed dnd the first grass of spring began to spring up in the fields.
Dr. Istban' Mezey, vice-president of the Japanese-Hungarian Institute in Hungary arrived here recently on a tour of the Far East. A dinner was given in his honour by local officials, among them Mr. Shimomura, representative of the Foreign Office, Gov. ernor Wei Huang-chang and Mayor Ting Kwan-ming, The local Polish community had a gala day recently when a tea party lasting till well after midnight was given to the Polish Consul, Mr. R. Litewski, and his wife, attended by over 200 persons. The Consul wa: appointed to his post only recently and welcoming speeches were read by the leaders of the Polish community. In his reply, Mr. Litewski stated that have "played a large part in s and culture in North Manchuria, and stressed the similarity of Polish and Japanese political ideology ever since 1904. Tie party terminated with dancing
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