Washington, Oct. 2.
The Department of State to-day assigned Mr. Monroe Hall as United States Consul. at Shanghai, cancelling his prior assignment at Hankow.—United Press.
A voluntary information service for the benefit of women wishing to tum in their jewellery and valuables in exchange for Liberty Bonds has established by Miss Chang [Li and Miss Lee Hui The two young women are making themselves available all day at the Central Bank in order to help contributors regarding the value of their articles and to assist them in čompleting the necessary procedure for the exchange of their valuables for the bonds. The service is proving to be a great help in view of the fact that during recent weeks there has been an increasing number of people, mostly women, who have taken valuable ornaments to the bank to exchange for Liberty Bonds.
A number of sizable individual cash payments for the bonds were made yesterday, while from Kokonor word was received that General Ma Pu-fang of the Kokonor Provincial Committee had recently sold his house and cherished acquisitions for the sum of $100,000 which went to swell the Kokonor provincial quota pledged by the Committee in response to telegraphic inquiries from Shanghai
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