Berlin, July 15.
The federal police of ' Hamburg have been entrusted with the servation. of the traditions of former German Empire's colonial troops in Tsingtao, Germany's former [colony on the Chinese coast.
This "handing over of the traditions" took place at a formal cere-many in Hamburg. It follows the recent ceremony of the handing over of the traditions of the colonial troops Jot former German East Africa by the "Hermann Goering" police of [Lichterfelde, near "Berlin—Reuter. one was able to explain. Perhaps it was because this hotel was cheap: in his early school days Admirat Okada was nicknamed "rabbit", perhhaps because his face remotely resembles one. Later, on entering the navy, he was called "flea" perhaps Decause, light and agile, he was hopping around from one place to at other.
Nanking, July 16, By arrangement between the! Ministry of Communications and the Chekiang Provincial Government, direct long-distance telephone ser: vices between Shanghai and the various districts in Chekiang province was initiated to-day. by Chekiang Provincial Government.
Telephone communication between Shanghai and Chekiang province has been handicapped in the past owing] to conflict in the administration of the service by the Ministry of Communications and the Chekiang Provineial Government; but under the new arrangements, "traffic will be greatly facilitated' as it will be in the sole charge of the Chekiang Provincial Government, Canton, July 15, In an interview here to-day, a spokesman of the Southwest Political stated that ce-operation between Centon and Nanking was of likely to materialise, rapproichoment was Impossible under present conditions, In this connection, the spokesman, lieged that General Huang Shao-hsiung, Minister of the Interior, had not been able to reach an understanding with Mr. Hu Han-min and had therefore cancelled his trip to Canton and was returning to the north direct from Hongkong.
The spokesman also denied the had agreed to go abroad.—Reuter.
According to the measures announced, with the exception of the Shanghai-Hangchow main telephone Hine, for the taking over of which the Ministry of Communications has aid a sum $48,000 to the Chekiang
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