Tuere will be a celebration of the Holy Communion in the Cathedral "this evening at 11.45 o'clock.
Mr Shozo Arita, son of Mr. Hachiro Arita, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, has left with an Army unit for the China front.
Crown Prince Akihito Tsugu-nomiya of Japan celebrated his fifth birthday anniversary yesterday at the Osaka Detached Palace.
Tur American Consulate General will be closed to public business, except emergency services, today and Monday in observance of Christmas.
Dm. P. F. Price will speak over Station XMHD. Saturday evening at 830. His subject is "The Christian Hope" Please tune in to KO 760 for you are cordially invited.
Tur Harmonica Society will give its annual concert in the hall of the Aurora University at Avenue Dubail this evening at 8.30 o'clock. The concert is in aid of the refugees.
Tur H. O. White Bursary for 1938 has been awarded by. the Municipal Council to L. Kleinerman, a pupil at the Public & Thomas Hanbury School for Boys., Tue Municipal Council has been informed that Mr. L Goto, Acting Consul General for Japan, has been lected as a Judge of the Court of Consuls to succeed Mr. S. Hidaka.
Tur Science Institute established in Lanchow, Kansu province, under the auspices of the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity Refund Committee, says a message to the "Chinese American Daly News," is to be formally declared open on New Year's Day.
Starions XMHD and XMHA are putting on special programme of Christmas music this evening, XMHD wil start at 5 pin. to 030 pin. XMHA wil start at 930 p.m. to 1 am. Christmas Morning. All are wary cordially invited to "tune in. Both Stations extend to you their Christmas Greetings.
A pension that the Vu tribes in Lanchanghsien, Szechuen province, be given military training to serve in the present war, was sent to the National Government by Mr. Huang Tao-nang and others on behalf of the tribe on December 21, says the "Chinese American Daily News." The numerical strength of the tribe totals more than 100,000, the report adds, and the majority of them are physically fit.
Crum smoking will be completely suppressed by the end of this year in Kweichow province, it has been decided by the Kweichow Provincial Government, says a message to the "Morning Londo Meanwhile, measures for the improvement of agricultural products in the province fare also being pursued. The rearing of cocoons by improved methods has netted a clear profit of more than $100,000 this year and this industry will now/be extended to a number of districts' in the province next year, under dhe auspices of the. proving al Fovernment.
Brsmzs having decided to exempt a number of Chinese export goods from export duties beginning from January 1, 1939, says a Chungking message to the "Hwa Mei Chen Pao, the Ministry of Finance has decided to exempt 11 out of 24 items of products intended for export from obtaining foreign exchange allotments, These include tung ci bristles, hide, leatherware, tea, mineral products, a limited variety of Chinese medicinal herbs, wool silk, hemp, casings, and feathers. This ruling will become effective as from January 1, 1039.
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