Consrructio€ bf d depot for trolley bases in Canton will begin on August Tobe will be a celebration of the Holy Communion in the Bubbling Well Chapel this torning at 10.30.
"HE distrohüHiy Society of Chirid Will Hold its annual conference in Téingtaó on July 9.
Tae death is announced of Major-Generi Hans von Häften, the Ger-mim war. Historian arid director of propaganda in neutral counties during the Great War.
Tue cóllection taken at thè American baseball gare on July 3 for the benefit of the Children's Fresh Air Camp amounted th $157, AN invéstigdtion party cómpósed of students of the Lingnám University in Canton left Hankow on Tuesday for Peiping, says the "Lih Pao."
Mr: R. T. Peyton-Griffin, who is noW iM at the General Hospital, is making good progress but it is not expected that he will be convalescent for several days.
Frets-Márshal Sir William and Lady Birdwood, with their daughter. Miss Juliet Birdwood; are paying a short visit to Australia; and retürn to Cambridge in the. beginning of October.
Fisuermen in Taishan, Chekiang. who staged a serious riot against salt revenue-officers recently, were again reported to be scheming against the officials. The Chekiang Provincial Government has sent reinforcements to the island, MR. Hsu Shih-ying, Ambassador to Tokyo, is to spend his summer vacation in Huang Shan (Yellow Mountains). Mr. Hsu is reported to be determined to resign his post in order to obtain a good rest Princess Margaret Rose was born at Glamis Castle, on Aug. 21, 1930, not Princess Elizabeth as was inadvertently suggested in the leading article yesterday, Princess Elizabeth was born at 17, Bruton St, London.on April 21, 1926.
Brcma yesterday, large-scale manœuvres are being held by the 3,000 students, now undergoing military training in Honan. The war games will be staged.between Kaifeng and Chuhsienchen, a neighbouring town.
Tur condition of General Li Liehchun, a member of the Central Executive Committee, who had a stroke on July 2 and has been Seflously ill during. the past few days, show improvement yesterday, Tue Japahese Embassy has been planning to put up a new embassy building in Nanking. states the "Chína Times." The site, which has hot yet been fixed, is expected to be of the same size as that of íhe British Embassy, , Batcapmer-General J.
B. wells, Clonel of the Ri iment, presided at the ánhtal Regimental Dinner of the Loyal Regiment, North Lancashire, at the Trocidéro Restauránt, London. on Juge 18. Among those present were Major-General, W. Green and Colonel J. G. Helstead, Mr, J. Hall Paxton, Second Secretary of the American Embassy, and Mrs, Paxton are leaving Nanking on July 14 for Shanghai, and will sail on July 17 im the President Cleveland for a four months holiday in America. They expect to return to Nanking the middle of November. D
Dr, Sah Peng-tung, Professor of Physics in, National Tsing Hua University, has been appointed by the Ministry of Edtication to be the new President of Amoy University. Amoy University,.it may be recalled, was recently reorganized into a Government institution, Nationals of a "certain country" recently bought 400 mow of land ön Halland Island, soütH of Kwangtung, according to a despatch from Hongkong to the Chinese press. On learning this, the Kwangtung Provincial 'Government instructed thè local authorities—to' fake appropriate measures to nullify the transaction Tae following brass band concert Orchestra and Baiill in Hongkew Park will be given by the Municipal
(weather permitting) to-night, starting at 830 p.m:—
"Bauer and Dicther".. Suj Lei Traditional "Londonderry Ai^ ler. Selgction "The Blue Mazurka".. Lehar, 'AN unusual case of amnesia in St poe a concerns d patient who re-een red tething since he entered 10 spital five years ago but who, rè- po, ota suddenly ře-his memory WHO confronted With a visitor who turned out to be his sister. He declared he was a professor of mathematics, Jean Pruefer,, and then had a nervous breakdown, His five years in hospital are now a complete blank, South m have swollen the rivers Torrents from the mountains in
in East Kwangtung, States a special despatch to the "Shun Pao" from Swatow. The river banks in the Tapu district, it is reported, have been washed at more than 20 points. During the past few days ihe Hanklang, a main stream in this district, has risen and fallen five times, as a result of which the dykes along its northern banks stand in urgent need of repair. It is learned that an order has been placed with a British firm for 1,200 tons of iron bars for the purpose, Important changes in the personnel of the Hopei-Charhat Political Council will soon be made to meet the exigencies of the times, states the "China Times." Under. the new arrangements, it is reported, General Sung Cheh-yuan, Chairman of the Council, will be granted long leave for a rest cure, during which General Chang Tzu-chung, the Mayor of Tientsin, will be appointed to act for him in his concurrent capacity as the Council Chairman, the Pacification Commissioner for Hopei and Charhar and the Commander of the 29th Army. It is learned that the post of a Vice-Chairman: of the Hopei-Charhar Political Council will be created, to which General Chin Teh-chun. the Mayor of Peiping, will be appointed.
'THe paper mill in Kangtou near Foochow, which was recently reorg ganized after the transfer of its control from its original owners to the Bank of Chtha. was formally. taken ver, by fepreséHtatives of the bank on Tuesday, Befote the reorganization, the mill had sustained great losses.
"NecorrATIONS for a $24,000,000 loan for the Chekiang Provincial Government are reported to be proceeding Satisfactorily between Mr, Chen Yuanifan, Finance Commissioner for Chekiang, and local bankers, and an agreement issexpected to be signed in the near future, The money is needed -for the "readjustment of financial affairs of the province LAUNCHING on its annual anti-cholera campaign, the Japanese Residents' Corporation on Tuesday gave free inoculations to 1,456 persons. Included were a large number of Chinese boys and amahs employed in Japanese homes, The inoculations were, made by Dr, Yoshimichi Hisatomi and Mr, Ginjiro Komaya, lent to the Corporation by the Shanghai Japanese Medical Association, at the Central District Primary ' School Range Road.
Miss Pai Vu-hsuan ("White Jade Frost"), a popular exponent of the "peng-peng" drama who was due to appear on a stage in Tientsin yesterday, is again under fire of social condemnation, says the "Sin Wen Pao." On the eve of her appearance before a Tientsin audience, more than 70 citizens in the city joined in a petition to the municipal authorities asking for a ban on her performances, Which were held to be immoral, and for her deportation from Tien!
Sim George Bowyer, who was elevated to the peerage in the Coronation Honours, has taken the title of Baron Denham of Western Underwood, Other newly elevated peers have taken their surnames and include Viscount Home of Slamannan (formerly Sir Robert Home); Baron Addison of Stallingborgugh (Mr, Christopher Addison); Baron Rea of Eskdale (Sir Walter Rea); Baron Chatfield of Ditchling (Admiral Sir Einle Chatfield); and Baron Cadman of Silverdalme (Sir John Cadman), Detecares to the Seventh World Educational Conference which opens in Tokyo on August 2 will receive the first copies of a new map of the Japanese Empire. which is being published by the Society for International Cultural Relations for international distribution. Final proofs of the map have been examined and approved by officials of the society. The coming issue is not the result of a new survey, but is a compilation of information gathered by the Army, Navy and other Ministries. Drawn to a scale of 1:2,000,000, the finished map will measure six feet two inches by five feet seven inches. It is printed in 12 colours.
In consequence of extensive damage to trees by wood-cutters on the hillside between Deep Water Bay and Aberdeen, Hongkong, a large body of men of the Botanical and Forestry Department carried out a large-scale raid last wednesday. In the belief that the tree-cutting is usually done in the early hours of the morning, the Department sent about! a dozen of their men to Wong Chih! Hang, where they surrounded a very large area. Some, fifty people were; there observed systematically cutting down trees, and efforts were made to round them up. A large number got away, but over twenty were arrested, whilst a huge quantity of newly-cut'wood was seized, Evapinc newspaper reporters as he did at Kobe General. Yang Hu-chen, former; Pacification Commissioner in "Northwest China and a leader of the Sian revolt, passed through Yokohama-on Friday in the Dollar liner President, Hoover en route to America and Burope. An army of Japanese newspapermen boarded the vessel "immediately after it docked at 11 o'clock in the morning, but their eager demand for an interview was met with the excuse that the former warlord. was "ill" Travelling with the Chinese General were his wife and son; his secretaries, Mr, Wang Ling-oh and Mr. Kang Hsinisai, and Major Chung Chi-han and Major Fan Vu-nung. Arrangements for the trip, which will táke General Yang and hís companions through America and Europe for a year,.are being made by Mr. Wang, who has spent about 25 yedr$ abroad. General Yang who speaks inno foreign language, is making his first trip outside China, General Yang also refused through his secretary to pose for pictures and remained in his cabin during the vessel's stay in port.
A ser of regulations is being drafted by the Procurator's Office of the Tientsin District Court governing the use by the public of a special bell to announce that one is wrongfully treated, according to Mr. Ho Cheng-cho, the Chief Procurator. The bell, to be named Ming Yuan Ling or the "bell for announcing wrongful treatment" which is to be installed shortly, is for the use of poor people who cannot afford to engage attornoys to file complaints. The bell is connected with the office of the Chief Procurator who will immediately instruct that the case be heard. If the complaint is adjudged reasonable the accused party will be summoned, thus saving the trouble of going through: the ordinary judicial procedure.
For the sixth consecutive year open air services are being arranged under the auspices of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Through the Kindness of the Stewards of the Shanghai Race Club, permission has again been granted to use the south end of the Public Stand for the services, The services will follow the form which has been found so acceptable in past years. Starting at 8.15 pin. there will be a programme of music for some 15 or 20 minutes, This will be followed by a short service featured by the singing of well-known hymns fo Band accompaniment. On Sunday evening, July 11, the preacher will be the Rt, Rev. John Curt, and by kind permission of Lt.-Col. J. E. Hure; the Band of the 2nd Bu, The Loyal Regiment will play for the hymns and the following programme of music:—
Intermezzo "Sanctuary of the Heart"
Selection "Lil Ballet Music "Ballet Sylv Selection "Bitter Sweet"
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