Shun was swung by the current, with idle engines, until the port side of her bow crashed into the port side of the s. Feng Yang Maru, which was tied to the NICK. wharf, in front of the Japanese Consulate-General. There she wedged held by the current. The foreign captain of the Chinese owned Ting Shun, immediately sent for tugs to haul him away from the Japanese vessel. Meanwhile the s. Klan proceeded upriver and tied up at the upper wharf on the Pootung 'A. Chinese tug was the first to come alongside the Tung Shun and astern hawser was attached. The In order to ameliorate the living! conditions of the multitude of poor people living in Shanghai, the City JGovernment of the Greater Shanghai Municipality is planning to raise a sum of $1,000,000 for the construction of 3000 modern dwelling houses in various parts of the Municipality, such Jas Pootung, Kiangwan, Chapel and, Nantao for the accommodation of these poor people.
According to Mr. O. K. Yui, Chief Secretary of the Diy Government, the [Municipal Authorities are proceeding Jwith the project and have decided to carry it out within the shortest period" possible. The Municipal Bureau of Finance, Mr. Yui said, is devising measures to raise the neces~ sary funds and soliciting the support of the local Chinese banks in the realization of the project—Chekial. tug was, however, unable to move the vessel and it was not until the tug Pubic, of the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Ca,, took hold of a bow line that the vessel was moved away from the Feng Yang Maru. She then proceeded downriver under tow, with no apparent damage except a few square fect of paint Fubbed away on the port bow. The Feng Yang Maru was also, except for a few inches of varnish to her deck' railing, undamaged, Considerable Damage Investigations on the s. Kian prove the damage to be much more considerable. When the latter vessel Iwas visited, it was found that the starboard side of the bridge-house had been carried away entirely. The stanchions supporting the boat-deck Jalong the starboard side were carried Jaway for some twenty yards and the Jwhole of the boat-deck had sagged until it was impossible to walk on the promenade deck.
Viewed from below, the promenade Jdeck presented a picture of tangled steel girders and splintered wood, with broken glass "strewn all over the scene. The-Tung Shun's stem had hit the Kian fairly just at the starboard corner of the bridge house, between the painted Union Jacks lin front and to the side of the bridge plating, and had crushed the super-Structure considerably.
"Although the first impression was {that severe damage had been done, it was found almost immediately that no under-water plates were touched, Hwa Bank.
Members of the Shanghai, Rotary Club, which" held its weekly. tism Fe-union on Thursday at the Hotel Metropole, listened with attentive interest to Mr. ¥. 8. Tsao, who gave brief address "on "International [Cultural Relations.
After expressing his dimidence in appearing before a Club which he Fealized "represented a galaxy of practical achievement and varied experience," the speaker of the day. Who is a director of the China League of International Cultural Relations, after having been introduced' by the Chairman of the programme Committee, Mr. William Vinson Lee, mentioned the' Mexican Art Exhibition in Berlin; the mooted [China Art exhibition to be held in London next year; the British Art exhibition to be held in China later; fand the formation of several cul tural societies in China are con spicuous events. It has been ported that both the British and Tapanese Foreign OMices are devot jing a great dear of attention to this phase of work, and Japan has al-fotted as much' as ¥.4,500,000 for such work in Europe and America, whilst the League of Nations will devote tens of millions to it, Culture is the sum total of the! crystallization of the achievement of mankind, so to encourage culture is to build upon the foundations. of human civilization, and, by building upon it, people hope to obtain salvation, Chinese recent cultural institutions, and the New Life Movement, are all the outcome of this general practical application of the cultural movement. Shanghai is the centre of cultural exchange, and in the new civie centre they are building a stadium, a museum, and a brary, while, "although the International Seltiement, for the moment, lacks these cultural undertakings, there is every hope that the authorities will speedily awaken to the nature and the need of such, Holidayrmakers who returned from Boston on Tuesday tang. 1) in the EMS ts Poo An fold of another Victim' of" the" iceacherous under: Sserent i the bench inti summer resort 'The victim' was Behcchuan, "27 years eld proprietor the Foh, Shing Tobacco Company, and general manager of the Kuani
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