Chefoo, Feb. 11 It is true that the winter here hax been a lid one, with just enough frost to allow skating and not enough to pierce one with the cold, but the arrival of the Spring Festival seems to have inspired winter to, assert itself. The eve of New Year dawned with a covering of snow and a ger eral cheerlessness akin to the dim: Me conditions of Old England January, To-day it has turned to ost of a harder type and a blesk northwest wind is penetrating and causing, shivers.
One cannot take not even a mild one, in these parts, and those who have tried to fo. so are finding themselves failed by Influenza and other sneezy complaints, while rumour has it that Sundry epidemic complaints Uke measles are lurking in ambush.
One of the usual notable events of this Ume of the year Is the ree assembling of the Chefoo schools After their long winter vacation; but this can hardly be called one event, for they have been straggling back in metalments, first the Shanghai main party, next the Tientsin, then the Hongkong ones after their experience of a breakdown at Tsingtao. fand lastly the party from distant Haiphong and Yunnan, who came nearly ten days after the scheduled date for opening. The influx of numbers gave a fillip to hockey, and fast game last Saturday ended in a victory for the Settlement, who were, however, strongly reinforced by players lent by the school.
"The other great event of interest the opening of the Capitol Cinema in ite new quarters in Chaoyang Street. "Tt has been running for 9 year or two in a fairly central posi tion behind the Post Office and has now just moved to a more suitable site and style week.
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