Tue speaker at today's meeting of "The Keys" will be Mrs. J. Van Hengel, Secretary of the Y.W.C.A. International Branch. The meeting is scheduled ior 5.30 p.m. at 999 Bubbling Well Road.
A pmvwer dance will be held this evening at the Columbia Country Club, when the Netherlands community will meet to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina's accession to the Throne, Tne follówing programme will be given by the Municipal Brass Band in the Koukaza Park today from 430-6 p.m, (weather permitting). Overture "Lo Carnival Romain".. Berlioz Valse "Di E Selection "No, No, Nanette' Suite "Americana A son was born on August 19 in Bangkok to the Secretary of the "United States Legation at Bangkok and Mrs, E, Seibert, Mr. Seibert was until July last year Vice-Consul at the American Consulate-General at Shanghai. Mrs, Seibert is daughter to the Swedish Minister to China and Baroness Johan Beck-Friis, /NANKING inhabitants suspected of having contracted contagious dis-scases as well as their immediate neighbours will be isolated in the future, Chinese dispatches stated yesterday, An isolation hospital will be built shortly where sick persons and their neighbours will be quar-anti ned until they are regarded by physicians to be safe to leave, Min. Yeh Kwei-chu, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chekiang Industrial Bank, has been appointed by the Board to the con-Current post of General Manager of the Bank in succession to the late Mr. Hsu Sing-loh, states the "Ta Mei Pao" Mr. Hsu, was killed in the recent Japanese attack on the Cnina National Aviation Corporation "plane Kweilin, JAPAN'S. 900,000 "white-collar" workers will become eligible to receive health insurance in the manner of factory hands and miners if a bill now being drafted by the Ministry of Public Welfare is enacted at the next Diet session, Out of an estimated Y,20,000,000 to be paid in premiums, the Government will contribute Y.1,800,000 under the proposed bill, Mavame Wang Ching-wei, wife of the Deputy General Executive of the Kuomintang and Chairman of the Central Political Council, arrived in Yunnanfu from Hanoi on September, On her arrival which was delayed by a slight accident to the train in which she travelled, Madame Wang was met by the Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government, General Lung Yun and Madame Lung, as well as other high local officials, Two Imperial treasures a six-fol@ screen made in the Ashikaga era and a six-scroll picture of the Kamakura period—will be exhibited at the Japanese Ancient. Fine: Arts Exhibition to be held in Berlin next spring, the Ministry of the Japanese Imperial Household announced; Special sanction had to be obtained of the Emperor for the display of these two articles, The Imperial Fine Arts Museum will also send ten displays to Berlin, it was announced, THOUSANDS' of Chinese from the south bank of the Chientang River recently crossed the waterway or travelled to Hangchow by way of Ningpo and Shanghai, Chinese ' reports said yesterday.
Most of the Chinese were destitute when they reached the lakeside city, They were accommodated at refugee camps established by the Sino-Japanese Buddhists Association, the Red Swastika Society and the Chekiang Relief Organization, Their number was estimated at more than 5,000, according to the reports, Accorpine to the Rev. J. G. Campbell, Vicar of Onecote, near Leek, Siaffs, a vicar should possess a voice similar to Stuart Hibberd, the B.B.C. chief announcer, the ability of a theatrical producer, the bedside manner of a Victorian medico, the phy cai and sporting propensities of a combined Don Bradman, Alex James and Tiny Bostock, skill at darts and billiards (especially darts), and he must be doctrinally sound, a good talker, a good mixer, a good preacher—and conventional.
Tur Missions to Seamen acknowledge with grateful thanks the following gifts during Aügust. Book and magazines from:—The Editor "N.C.D.N," "Shanghai Times," "China Press," G. E. Clarke, Arnold Trading Ca, S. W. Wolfe, V. S. Hamill. D. Kinlock—Taylor, Shanghai Rowing Club, S. Flemons, W. H. Hatton, H. H. Miller, Shanghai Fire Dept. Mrs. Mortimer, Mrs. Pearson, Mrs, R. M. Johns, Miss Craig, Mrs. Bissett, Misses Frances and Mildred Martin. Books, gramophone records and clothing from "Mr, Webb. Books, magazines, men's clothing, gramophone records and old stamps àre always welcome.
Tue Bank of the City Government of Greater Shanghai, which was closed down on the withdrawal of Chinese troops from this city last November, may shortly resume its business operations, states the "Hwa Mei Chen Pao." The operations of the bank following its re-opening, it is stated, will be confined to the refunding of deposits and the repayment of loans issued. The resumption of business, if it materializes, will come as a sequel to a recent appeal by depositors in the bank and subsequent negotiations by the former Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Mr, O. K, Yui, with the Central authorities.
Japanese will be included in the curriculum of five primary schools. which will open under municipal auspices in Sungkiang, town on the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, the Shanghai [mainichi" reported yesterday. Decisión to add Japanese class ses, the daily said, followed the success achieved by the Japanese Language School in Sungkiang which graduated 236 youths on August 19. Classes were begun in January, the teachers being Japanese non-commissioned officers from the garrison troops who had educational experience at home. The valedictorian of the graduating class, the paper continued, made an address in Japanese "with a-fair degree of fluency."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.