There will be a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council on Wednesday, November 3, at 430 pin.
Cotton textile goods have recently found a brisk market in interior districts, states a report to the "Sin Wen Pao."
The China Ele tric Company, a Sino-American corporation formed on October 20, 1917, will soon be liquidated, according to a report to the "Shun Pao."
The Committee of Mrs. Burton Sayers Work Party announce a general meeting at 400 Avenue Haig on Friday, October 29, at 10 am. All members are requested to attend.
For the purpose of discussing plans for the work of the coming months, members of the Union Church Women's Guild and others interested are invited to attend a meeting at the home of the president, Mrs. T. Hutchison, at House 6, Lane 42 Tun-Road, to-morrow afternoon at On behalf of the British and Chinese Corporation Ltd, and of the Nanking-Shanghai Railway Material and Improvement Loans, 1937, an order has been placed with Messrs. Dorman, Long & Ca, of Middies-brough, for 3,000 tons of rails and 495 tons of fishplates.
By error the Residential Section of the Shanghai Directory (July edition of the China Hong List) contains the name of Mr. G. M. Rose as residing at 22 Route Delaunay. The only residents at this address, we are informed, are Mr. and Mrs. F. Chollot. Mr. Rose's present address is 46 Rte. Kaufmann, 4
Members of the Association of American University Women are reminded of the meeting to be held to-morrow afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Gulliver, Passage 195, House 6, Route Ghisi. Tea will be served at 430. All eligible for membership are asked to attend as well. No individual invitations will be sent out.
Flags were lowered to half mast in the three Wuhan cities yesterday, when the corteges bearing the remains of Generals Hoh Mon-ling and Liu Chia-chi, Army and Divisional Commanders respectively who recently fell in action in North Shansi, arrived in Hankow, states a dispatch te the Chinese press. Thousands upon thousands of people thronged the station of the Peiping-Hankow Railway to meet the coffins, which were then laid to burial at a spot across the Yangtze River from Hankow.
The Shanghai Municipal Council Health Report for the week ending midnight, October 23, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Settlement were—Foreigners 7 and Chinese 1200. Deaths from notifiable diseases were—Foreigners, Tuberculosis 2 and Beri-beri 1. Chinese. Dysentry 34; Measles 29; Cholera 19; Tuberculosis 16; Typhoid Feyer 16; Diphtheria 8; Beri-beri 8; Cerebrospinal Fever 2, and Scarlet Fever, Paratyphoid Fever and Leprosy 1 each.
The Mexican Legation in China has received cable instructions from the Mexican Government to notify exporters of merchandise to Mexico to the effect that, owing to the present epidemic of cholera, shipments of merchandise from the Far East can be made to Mexico only through the Port of Manzanillo, where they will be subjected to fumigation.
A North Shensi College has recently been opened in Yenan district for the dispensation of national defence education and the training of war ser-Vice workers, says a special report to the "Ta Kung Pao" A noted leftist writer, has.been appointed president of the college, whose teaching staff also includes many well-known progressive educators from Shanghai and Peiping.
The Red Cross Society in Shanghai has invited many local foreign and Chinese leaders, including the veteran diplomats Drs. W. W. Yen and Alfred Sze, former Chinese Ambassadors in Moscow and Washington, to form an International Committee of the Chinese Red Cross Society in Shanghai, states a report to the Chinese press. The Committee is expected to carry on the work of mercy for at least six months, for which a sum of $10,000,000 will be raised. The Ministry of Finance has already taken the lead in contributions by alloting $1,000,000 Committee. for use by the
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