The Central Bank authorities this week burned a huge pile of old and worn-out notes valued at $3,700,000.
special deputy came from Shanghai to witness the burning.
Considerable interest has been aroused locally over the reported invention of a process for making artiftelal "cotton" by a local. man, Huang' Ching-sen. Tt is said that several important bankers are now making plans for erecting a large factory here. There are also those who scoff at the idea saying that it nothing more than an effort to make use of silk waste by mixing with vegetable fbers.
Mr, and Mrs. Becken and family ved in port to-day on the Cana-Mission truck. 'They were! @riven from their post in Shensi and escaped to Chengtu. They report that they were greatly helped by' the kindness of Mr. A. T. Calrneross who surveying the motor roads of the Szechuen-Shensi border for the Generalissime's headquarters. Mr. and Mrs, Jenkins of the Church Missionary Society have arrived in port on their way home on furlough, of the Mission to Lepers, ' died He, Wellesley, C, Bailey, founder in Edinburgh on Jan, 28. at the of 90, Mr, Bailey, who was born Thornbury,—Abbeyleix,—Queen's County, Joined the Indian "Police when he was 22, afterwards becoming a missionary. When he went home to Ireland on his first furlough the told his friends about the sad plight of the lepers and the Mission to Lepers was. thereupon founded. Returning to the East, he developed the work in many paris of India, In 1880 ho was appointed general sec retary of the Mission, and for more than'30 years held that office, with his headquarters in Edinburgh. Dur-Ing that period leper asylums and lepers' children's homes were est ablished in Indis, Chino, Japan and other parts of the world, and the Mission now has 17,000 lepers and lepers' children in its own and aided Institutions.
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