Dr. F. 7. Cheng" who has been nominated to the International Court of Justice at The Hague in success sion to Dr. Wang Chung-hui, is a }Kwangtung man and was born in Chungshan Alty-two years ago. He distinguished lawyer, "having graduated LEB. at London Univer-in 1912 and received the LL.D. four years later. He was called to} the Bar at the Inner Temple and, on return to China, he became a judge of the Supreme Court at Peiping and ater Jegal adviser to. the Trade Marks Bureau, From 1928 to 1931 he [practised in Shanghai and then he was made administrative Vice-Min-Isler of Justice. In 1934 he was made adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and last year he went to London as the Special: Commissioner In charge of the Exhibition of Chinese Art Treasures at Burlington He returned to Shanghai in only been loosely filled in; in many places the light coating of gravel has been almost completely washed away. It is understood. that representations have been made to the provincial government In the matter, and that Fepair work may be expected to be commenced shortly. Motorists re-agnize, of course that these things fake time, and that It was not Jong ago when there was no road at all, But they also feel that at~ tention should be drawn to another and less acceptable source of irritation in the practice of making bundles of reeds and dried shrubs and placing them in the middle of the road, A. motorist, travelling at affair speed in the evening, might fasily mistake them for boulders, and a sudden. swerve Into the ditch on tither side might well prove fatal. In addition, grass ropes, attached to hart, pointed stakes, are stretched across "the road, and, holding a umber of bricks in place, are lable do serious damage to the tyres of fat driven over them at a fair rate of speed, The road is apparently not policed at all, and no constables were geon after I¢aving Nanziang on the way out.
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