Serv Chinese students returned to China from Japan by the Shanghai Maru which made port on July 15, understood that they left the Island" Empire on account of the Sino-Japanese tists.
Heavy rain has fallen in Szechuen with the result that a section of the Chengtu-Chungking road has been flooded and damaged in the Yungchuen District, according to messages from the western province.
Twe National Central University at Nanking will open a department of aeronautical engineering next seme ter. Only students who have. taki courses In electrical engineering oF mechanics will be permitted to enrol In the new department, which is to be a part of the engineering college of the university. sunenn of Ted Cross societies offer their service UNUSUAL stoutness of ten Japanese arriving in the s3. Nagasaki Maru on July 12 attracted the attention of Customs inspectors on duty on the wharf, Following a careful search, targe " quantities" of artificial silk [were found in their possession, The /goods were confiscated, As a means of relief to the poor, 'a small Loan office will be estab-Ushed on July 25 by Mr, S. U, Zau, Dr. Chu Ming-yi, and several other Local prominent residents, to give amall Toans to hawkers and. coolies Messes, Vu Ming and Chen Ming, the newly appointed Director_and Vice-Director of the Shanghai OMice of the Waichiaopu, formally assumed their, duties on' July 12, states a report to the "China "Times." The outgoing Director, Mr. Chow Chueh, Jett on Juy 13 for Nanking, where' he will take up the post of a feerelary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Incessaxt rains caused a sudden rise in the watermark of the upper Feaches of the Yangtze River on July 17, registering 92 feet and 3 inches, reports Central News, the Shanhupa airfield is now under water, the eastbound and westbound planes of the China National Avis tion Corporation are now landing at Kwangonpa. Bus tra Me on the Yangehuan sector of the Chungking~ Chengtu Highway Is also disrupted, without any interest, 'The maximum, amount to be given' has been set at $5, to be returned in fifty days at the rate of $1 every ten days. If the plan proves to be successful, a Digger tom may be obtained from the office later on, Ax organized by the Nat tion for Opium Suppression to investigate the progress of opium suppression work in various provinces. 'The corps, to be composed by 30 representatives from various government offices in Nanking, expects to set out on a tour around' the country fon July 20, A report on China's foplum-suppression work in the 25th year is being prepared by the asso-elation. Tt will be sent to Mr. Victor Hoo, Minister to Switzerland, to be forwarded to League of Nations as soon as it is finished.
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