Sophisticated readers in. big city! like Shanghai may have difeulty in crediting the fact that we still have head-hunting scares in his country, bhut so it Is. Apparently it is thought by some scaremongers that it will he good thing to frighten the common people, and so the tale has. spread that certain bridges need repairing] and can only be done so effectively' by the burial in the foundations of] human heads! The result of this rumour in one town has been to in-'The bank: has branch ofoes in each] tetere: very seriously with attendance the province, so the S8™0 at the local Cinema theatres, people being afraid to go out after dusk! Chengchow, and several other hsiens Meanwhile, it head-hunters are not It is peaceful now. Mr. Li Wen-at large, there are still to be faced hao is carrying on his official bus. many of the dangers on our roads ness in the office at usual, and Me which we had thought had long ago Han-chen, head of the bank, who been abolished. For example, not went to Tientsin, has returned to the many years ago certain roads' were city, Two rumour-mongers _were considered to be so unsafe that it was arrested by the public safety] advisable to be very careful if motor: bureau. ing after wet weather. Large. trees 'According to a higher official ct were likely to crash down, and woe the reconstruction bureau of the probelide you if you happened to pass vince, since 1027, Kaifeng people underneath at the time! But two] have' not suffered much from dust] [motorists recently lost their lives not storms, because many trees _have because of wet weather but because been planted, during the last Aftesn a tree was nearly felled and crashed years, within twenty i around the over onto their car as it passed Beneath. One wonders who will be city. held responsible for this terrible 3c-Now Broadcast Station cident. Surely tree-fellers ought so! to arrange that their trees do not fall 'A broadcast station has been built Into roads? in the city, and its inauguration cere.
Meanwhile it is confidently many will be held on the national] that the London-Melbourne ai holiday, October 10. Mr. Ho Fu-chins may be won by a flyer who wi secretary to the Provincial Govern: take four Stupendous! And ment, has been appointed as head of what a welcome Melbourne is pre-the station. According to Mr. Ho, the paring: a party for 2,000.000 people, purpose of the Provincial Govern-Janda birthday cake that will be 56 ment in establishing the station, feet high and 300 feet round, to be to spread instruction and important ject by the Duke of Gloucester. news to various hsiens in the pro: The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. vince, Rev. B.C. Roberts, is due back from Two tripods with ears were found eave early in November, and Malaya at the east suburb of Yushien in Cen-asa whole will welcome him, for he tral Honan recently. According to is very popular and most energetic, antiquarians, they belong to the Chow Dynasty, some 3,000 years ago. spending weeks travelling all over! his vast diocese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.