Me and Mrs, P. W, Holl who arrived here from Batavia recently, are leaving for Japan, this morning on a holiday, trip.
Rorartans are reminded that this! week's meeting will be held on February 7, at the usual time, 12.15 Pin., at the Metropole Hotel. The speaker will be the Rev. H. B. Ratten= bury of the English Methodist Mission, his subject being "China Travels."
Davuicur saving time may be adopted in Japan this summer is the proposal by Mr. Sotaro Ishiwata, Chief Cabinet Secretary, to move the hands of the clock up an hour! this summer, starting May 1, and which received. favourable comment at a conference of Vice-Ministers, Sruvents of Aurora University, numbering between 30 and 40, will give a dinner this evening in the Russian Club, Avenue Foch, in honour of the Dean and faculty of the University. Among those who have been invited to the affair are Dr. A. V. Tane, Dr. A. A. Lamport, and Mr: L V. Arneldov.
Tue health report of the French Mumeipality for the week ending February 3, shows that the roa number of de&ths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Concession were: Foreigners 1 and Chinese 218, Deaths from notifiable diseases were:—
Foreigners, Pneumonia 1 and El nese, Tuberculosis 29; Pneumonia 6; Dysentery 6; Typhoid and Paratyhoid Fevers 5; Beri-beri 2 and Septiceemia 1, Ix commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Diet, histories of constitution administration in Japan and of the House of Peers will be published, it was announced yesterday, Compilation of the histories was now under way by a commission appointed in May, 1037. The histories will be published in time for the anniver sary date, November 25. Compilation is under the direction of the Diet Office, Amican sympathy lies with China's national resistance and American official circles are in favour of taking measures by which to check the aggressor. Thus declared Mr. Ward, associated with the West China Presbyterian Chhreh, in a speech delivered before the Foreign Women's Association in Chungking, states a Chungking Chinese message to the "Sin Wan Yeh Pao." Mr, Ward has just returned to China following a visit to the United States.
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