Interest in crosswords does not seem to abate. Readers of this Journal include experts of all kinds some of them enthusiasts who find time to solve the morning crossword in moments snatched from operating on the markets, Actually the dally newspaper does not exhaust their capacity for tracking down clues the innermost recess of the puzzle. maker's brain, So they have formed a Crossword Puzzle Guild which is bringing out its own monthly supply of puzzles—most ingenious some of them are too—in order to keep in training. AS the foreword to the first number indicates, the "era" of the "gnu," "emu" and "ewe" has passed, The crossword puzzle industry now stages a duel rather like: that in. the armament industry between the shell-maker and armour-plate manufacturer, The clue-maker constantly plumbing deeper and deeper depths of invention and. farlifice, "The solver is as readily defeating him. There are solvers who can complete the dally crossword puzzle in this Journal without eraser: {in less than ten minutes, No-one on the staff has been able to achieve this expedition without implicitly calling for the next day's "copy." The formation of this Gulld will mobilize deadly forees for penetration of the puzzle-maker's cryptic hints. Good Tuck to them and to their workman-Uke budget of diversion which will Much is done in Shanghai for. the men of the Defence Forces and there Is sometimes a danger of overlooking the -needs of the men who man the ips which serve Shanghai no less rably in making its commercial undertakings possible. Everyone her owes a special debt to the mercantile marine. Seamen of all nationalities Pour into this great port and the, Organization which endeavours _to assist them and to minister to their Tuirry-four students of the Peiping University, accompanied by a mem= ber of the faculty, arrived In Moji on!Monday morning in the m. v. Choan Maru on a tour of Japan's Industelal cities. Also on board was Prof, Feng Chien, of the Peiping University, who is proceeding to Hokkaido to observe the solar eclipse of June 19. heeds is deserving of every possible all great ports but nowhere is the problem more dimeult or involves' more onerous work than in Shanghai. The Mission here has suffered much {rom the depression because it has inevitably found some of its resources Giminished in ednsequence. The Hanbury Institute, which comes within the scope of ihe Mission's responsi-
'Tw Japanese population of Inner Mongolia has. recently shown a sudden increase, the total number of Japanese residents now' being 6000, from Kal:
Although many are there for alleged business, education, or philanthropic purposes, they are' secretly working among the Mongols to push the autonomy
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