650 Volunteers Register in Nantao 'Over 650 Chinese, including 100 women, have registered at the Public Recreation Ground, Nantao, offering war-time service "to the' Chinese Government incase of hostilities. The All-Shanghai Association for the Support of Armed Resistance, ganized by numerous public bodies here, sponsored the rexigtration which began on August 4. The above gute was reached at noon on August 5.
Volunteers came from all walks of life and pledged their services in the following nine corps: peace and maintenance, publicity, engineering, communications, transportation, first ald, fire-prevention, burial and con+ tributions-canvassing, All the above nine service corps ere to be organized after a sufficient number of volunteers has registered with the Association. According to an official at the registration fee. on even bigger number of volun teers is expected to-day when the call to able-bodied Chinese for this patriotic work reaches more people Most of the women, who registered, are offering to join the Arst-nid corps." Enlisted in other groups were teachers, coolies, haw= kers, students, clerks and men from different circles, Students and young, men are not allowed to register with the Association unless they are armed with written permission from their parents or close relatives, In another district in Nantao, reistration has also been started for those young men who are willing to serve in the special corps whose utes willie detection of traitors' activities. The Young Men's Natlonat Salvation Service Committee is organizing this corps, and it is reported that many have joined it, According {0 a message from Nan= king, Mr." Aw" Boon-haw and. his brother had wired the Government, offering to contribute $30,000 for the care of wounded soldiers in. the north, 'The money was reported to have been sent to the capital 'After two days" sharp rise, gold prices declined on August 4.' Gold changed hands at' $1,880. This drop ed to $1,250 when a Chinese bank Sold a large quantity of gold to be delivered in a week's time, Later, the price climbed back to $1,890, which was about, $70. to $60 lower than that quoted the previous day.
'The minimum prices fixed by the Government prevailed in the Chinese bond market on August 4, The 96 Millions Improved by' about 95 cents,
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