One hundred and forty-seven different kinds of publications comprising Chinese newspapers, periodicals and mosquito papers, and English, \Freneh, German, Russian and Japa~ nese newspapers and periodicals: were regularly perused during 1997, jond translations of articles of interest 10 the Police were made dally. Prosections were instituted against 33 for dealing in indecent litera-Ture, publishing indecent matter or articles endangering, public peace and Jorder, or failing to register their publications with the Chinese auth-Grities. The defendants, with a few; exceptions, were sentenced to tues ranging from $10 to $120. The Police Under the joint patronage of M. Paul Bmile Naggiar, French Ambassador to China, and M. Jan Seba, Czechoslovakian Minister to China, a concert in aid of various. charities '—notably the refuse work of Father JJacqinot de Besange—was held February 19 in the French Club, and a large crowd representing the French, Czechoslovakian and other communities attended. The concert marked the first non-professional appearance of Maestro L. Kalivoda's Czechoslovakian Orehestra, of the Arcadia, and the programme included classical and jazz music, with both French and Czechslovakian composers being repre sented, including Dvorak, Bizet, Smetana and Weber.
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