SHANGHAI firms and residents are reminded that entries and corrections for the Shanghai Directory (July edition of the China Hong List) close today. Corrections received after today cannot be guaranteed insertion, Cuter Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States Supreme Court is suffering from a duodenal ulcer and will be confined to his bed for some time, the Supreme Court clerk's office announced last night.
Tur 8th annual Halutsim Ball under the auspices of Brit Trumpolder was held last night at the Shanghai Race Club, In aid of the Trumpeldor summer camp, the function proved a most successful one, dancing interspersed with an interesting vocal and dancing programme, was kept up till the early hours of the morning.
M. Henry Cosme, French Ambassador to China, is leaving Shangh: today aboard the cruiser Lamotte Piquet ory his way to Chungking. He will travel or the flagship as far as Haiphong. A guard of honour composed of members of the French Police will line up on the French Bund at 11.45 am. to be inspected by the Ambassador prior to his departure, Tis years wheat crops in the Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhwei areas, including the "guerilla areas," are said to be bountiful, says a report to the "Sin Wan Pao" Crops located in the North Kiangsu areas, however, have been ruined by recent floods, but crops lying to the south of the Yangisze River are said to be better m those of last year. However, most of the local mills have a heavy stock -of foreign wheat on hand, and are displaying little interest for native products, the report states.
For the information of the college boys who have been gulping 80 or so goldfish, it was estimated on Saturday the. human stomach has a physiological limit of between 125 and 150 goldfish of gulping size. This was figured out by Prof. Sarah Atsatt, zoologist of the University of California at Los Angeles who makes no guarantee for the survival of any campus Jad so rash as to try for the limit. Such a prodigious gulp, she said, would be about a pound of fish. This would contain about 1,000 calories, A "MYSTERIOUS thief, who must also be an expert climber, has broken into the recently opened Vallet refuge 14,000 ft. up Mont Blanc and taken all the, provisions and Alpine materials "usually kept there. Then he left the door wide open, and the wind and snow have almost wrecked the hut. This is the hut which was opened with great ceremony last when French Cabinet Ministers climbed up to it. Climbers rest there before starting on the final ascent of the 15,780 fi. mountain.
Ir was announced on May 10 that the Air Ministry is to "recruit" pigeons all over Britain to carry messages for the R.A.F, etc. They will form. with their owners a National Pigeon Service, and fanciers who enlist will be registered under National Service and wear a badge. A grant of £5 a year is to be paid to cover the use of ten birds at any one time, and a grant to cover the use of a telephone. The first work of a committee which has been formed will be the preparation of a register of members who will supervise the organization of pigeon lofts.
A MAN summoned at Brentford for permitting a car to be used without third party insurance said that when he heard his friend had got into trouble, he immediately paid the outstanding amount of five guineas on the premium, The man, Charles Henry Haynes, of Hounslow added: "I had to sell the car to pay the rest of the insurance." The Chairman: "So that you are now fully insured, but you have lost the car. Haynes: Yes, everything is nice and legal. We have the insurance policy, but no carte use it on. The summons was dismissed pi A warori, snuff-box and silver gilt spoons used by the first Duke o. Marlborough on his campaigns we: among the £2,000 worth of historic: relics stolen from Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, where the present Duke and his family were in residence. The stolen articles consist chiefly of diamond-encrusted minia-Aures and a gold snuffbox of Louis XV. The miniature cases, which are zbovt 18 inches square, were found under the nearest cedar tree, which leads the Duke of Marlborough to believe that only one man was concerned, as had the thief had an accomplice, he would not have bothered to get rid of them so quickly. Scores of people strolled in the grounds on Sunday, April 16, unaware of the intense police activity going on inside the house.
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