Mr. Leslie Hpre-Belisha, visited the Royal dories at Wool-ich on Jan, 8. 2
Sin Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has appointed Mr. H. M. Gladwyn Jebb to be his private secretary.
Mr. F. Flippance, formerly Assistant Curator, Gardens Department, Straits Settlement, has been appointed Superititendent, Botanical and Forestry Department, Hongkong.
Tur Second Evening of Music announced by the Foreign Y.M.C.A. will be given en Friday evening, January 14. The programme, is under the direction of Prof. S. S. Aksakov. 1
Messrs. Chen Chieh and Chow Ping-ling, Vice-Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Education, respectively, accompanied by the staff members of the two Ministries, arrived in Chungking from Hankow a few days ago, says a Chinese report to the local press, Tae report that the Chinese staffs of the three foreign cable companies have decided to quit en masse in the event of the Japanese assuming administrative control over the firms in question, taken from a Chinese newspaper, is authoritatively denied as incorrect.
Tae Students' Relief Committee, formed by the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. in Shanghai will open a registration office at 999 Bubbling Well Road, where poor students thrown out of schools as a result of the hostilities may apply for assistance toward further education, says a report to the "Hwa Mei Pao."
Tur Jewish Literature Depot of the Shanghai Hebrew Mission, at 169 Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Room 209, Missions' Building is open every weekday morning from 9.30 till 12.30 and ducing the afternoons by appointment only. Mr. Henri F, M. Pol, who is in attendance will be glad to receive any callers and a cordial welcome is extended to all.
More than 40 Chinese nationals, who have left Japen for good, arrived in Shanghai on Friday by the s. D'Artagnan, says a report to the "Sin Wen Pao." These arrivals, who are natives of Ningpo, Wenchow and other districts in Chekiang, comprise the 45th batch of Chinese evacuees from the Island Empire since the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities.
Kixc Tutankhamen must have turned in his grave if he had realized that thieves who stole a case containing relics from his tomb are believed to have been under the impression that it held beef extract, since the ease bore on the outside the name of a famous beef extract. Instead of jars, however, they found the figure of an ape, scarabs, beads, an amulet, an axe and a Xuife They were valued at £950 and the case was reported missing from a lorry in Hale Street, Poplar London. It was on its way from Egypt to-New York. It will be very difficult to dispose of the
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