A further change has been made in the sailing for the south of the Java-China-Japan Line's s. Tjisaroea, which up to Sunday was expected to leave for Hongkong and Batavia yesterday afternoon, She will now sail from Woosung the day after to-morrow, according to the latest advices, and tenders will be leaving the Customs Jetty at 8 o'clock that morning to take passengers down the river to the ship. Baggage will be taken from the Nanking Road jetty in lighters two hours earlier.
Early to-morrow, the Lloyd Triestino s. Conte Verde is expected to arrive at Woosung, where she will drop anchor. Promptly at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning passengers—and passengers only, it should be noted—will be taken down to the ship in tenders from the Customs Jetty. Incoming passengers should be landing on The Bund at about noon from the same jetty.
Due to sail on ' nday for Home ports via Japan, the P. & O. cargo steamer Bhutan is expected to berth at the Kwang Hwa installation wharf at Gough Island to-morrow, for a two-day stay preparatory to sailing for Home and Continental ports via Japan, Hongkong and the usual ports of call.
To-day, the Norddeutscher Lloyd s. Donau will be sailing from the same wharf at Gough land, bound for Oran, Casablanca, Antwerp, Rotter-
The nature and extent of the Y.M.C.A. non-combatant service to soldiers constituted a radio broadcast last night through the Station XMHA. The report was made by Mr. F. Y. Hsiao, field director for the North China' area of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Emergency Service to Soldiers.
Mr. Hsiao has just returned from the field after visiting the Peiping-Hankow, Tientsin-Pukow, Tatung-Pucheng and Lunghai railway lines, along which 70 such centres of service have been at work with a staff of 150 full-time and several hundred part-time and volunteer workers. The service, recreational, educational and spiritual, is being carried on in the hospitals for the wounded soldiers and in communication centres where tea, towels and congee are served.
Mr. Hsiao will speak more in detail to a group of Y.M.C.A. supporters at their Tuesday Club this noon in the Y¥.M.C.A. on 123 Boulevard de Mon-tiny. The headquarters of the noncombatant service is in the National Committee Y.M.C.A. at 131 Museum Road.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.