Zaxevr.-Col W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attache, is leaving today in the s. Szechuen for Hongkong.
Dr. Ino, W. Cline, treasurer of the Southern Methodist Mission is at present confined to the Country Hospital. It is hoped that he will soon be back in his office.
"uz Chinese Mission to Lepers wishes to make grateful acknowledgment of the receipt of $500.00 from friends of the late Dr. Fong F. Sec as floral gifts in memory of him.
Property belonging to Fu Siao-en, mayor of Greater Shanghai, in his home town of Chenhai, Ningpo, has been sealed up by his clansmen, says a report to the "Hwa Mei Wan Pao."
Rev. J. H. Ware is holding an important discussion over station XMHD. each evening at 8 o'clock. You are cordially invited to "tune in" as these discussions will last until Saturday evening.
Mrs. S. C. Farrior will speak over station XMHD tomorrow at 830 p.m. on the subject "World-wide hook-up with Heaven." Mrs. Worth end Mrs. Craig will render special music. Be sure and tune in.
No less than 30,000 non-combatants, says a report to the "Ta Ying Yeh Pao," have evacuated Chungking to the outlying villages since the first Japanese air raids conducted over the city some time ago. Housing problems in the outlying towns have as a result become acute, the report states.
Dr. Bernard E. Read of the Henry Lester Institute is broadcasting from XMHD at the weekly half-hour talk sponsored -by the Chinese Mission to Lepers on November 5 from 7 to 7:30 p.m. on "Modern Treatment of Leprosy." All those who are interested in this important subject are invited to listen-in.
Tae next meeting of the Shanghai International Educational Association will be held in the Y.W.C.A., 999, Bubbling Well Road at 5.15 p.m. today. This will take the form of a moving picture show portraying the life and education of refugees in Shanghai. Members and guests are cordially invited to attend.
Most of the Chinese banks in Canton, says a report to the "Ta Ying Yeh Pao," have since the fall of Canton moved either to Kunming, Kweilin, Kweiyang or Chungking. Depositors may withdraw their accounts through the branch banks in Hongkong if they are unable to proceed. to the other cities, it is reported.
Tuem uniforms made of staple fibre instead of wool or cotton, policemen of Tokyo now are dressed completely in "substitutes" from caps to shoes. The new uniforms are just as good and comfortable as the former ones, they claimed. Brass buttons on these uniforms are now replaced by shell ones. To complete the list of substitutes the policemen were given passes made of bakelite instead of brass.
Ar its meeting in London, the governing body of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations accepted an invitation from the Union Government to send a small delegation to South Africa to inform themselves at first hand on native labour conditions in the Union. The delegation, which will consist of one representative each of the Government, employers and workers groups, will leave for South Africa in December.
Interest in Czech economic cir-cies has been revived in the project of constructing an Oder-Danube-Canal to create a waterway connection between the Black Sea and the Bàltic as this would permit the wheat grown in the south-eastern countries of Europe hitherto dependent on expensive transport by rail to Germany, Belgium and Holland, to reach their markets at a considerably les transport cost than the wheat from Canada and the Argentine.
Axour $400,000 worth of leather, says a report to the "Hwa Mei Wan Pao," is being ordered by local leather, firms from abroad, consignments of which are arriving here in several shipments. The import of foreign leather has been made necessary owing to Japanese prohibition of hide exports from Kalgan and Shansi. Several local leather firms, however, have dispatched their representatives to Tientsin and Peiping to negotiate for fresh supplies of hides, valued at about $200,000.
Wir the completion of the Chinese Government mint in—Kweilin Kwangsi province, drawing near, says a report to the "Ta Wan Pao," minting is scheduled to commence some time in the early part of November. The mint is located on a 300-mow vacant lot in Mulungtung, in Kweilin and will produce subsidiary ' nickel and copper coins of the 20-cent, 10- cent, 5-cent and one-cent denominations, the report states.
Mr. Chamberlain's legal adviser at Godesberg, Sir William Malkin, is a reserved, middle-aged Scot, who has often had a hand in the making of recent history. When the war broke out he was Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign Office, and when it ended he helped to draft the Peace Treaties in Paris. Since then he has rarely been in the public eye, but a few years ago he deputised for Sir John Simon in the of negotiations with the Persian Government. He became Second Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office in 1925, and Chief Adviser nine years ago.
Last week's toy show at the Nanking Theatre proved so successful that a further performance in aid of the. Rotary Club's annual drive has been arranged for this Saturday at the Grand Theatre. The programme will consist of "Pop-eye the Sailor" and "Betty Boop Cartoons," and a Max Fleischer coloured short generously provided by Paramount and a number of coloured Walt Disney cartoons kindly donated by RKO. Admission to the show, which starts at 1030 a.m., can be gained by the presentation of a new or old foy, which will go to swell the already large number now in the hands of the Dolls' Hospital for renovation end presentation on X'mas day to seme child who, otherwise, lit pass a toyless Yuletide.
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