A copy of the "Iron and Steel trades in 1937," special review, has been received from Messrs. William Jacks & Ca.
'Tue Kings Daughters' Society's Western Circle will hold a meeting on Wednesday, March 9, at 9 Crescent Avenue (off Yuyuen Road) at 10 am.
Tue U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Mr. Robert H. Jackson former Assistant Attorney General to the office of Solicitor General.
GrNzmALISSIMO Francisco Franco's cabinet on March 3 approved the Nationalist decree suspending all divorce proceedings as the first step to abolish divorce decrees of the Madrid Government.
Tue 50th Parliament of Northern Wejapi was opened at Belfast on March 1 with state ceremony by the Governor, the Duke of Abercorn. The Hon. Harry Mulholland was re-elected Speaker of the House of Commons.
Tue Chairman of the National (Relief. Commission, General Chu Ching-lan, who has arrived in Sian in connection with a project for the settlement of war refugees in Shensi province, will proceed to Poochi district to-day, states a dispatch to the "Hwa Mei Pao."
Tuk newly-appointed Pacification Comissioner for Szechuen and Sikang, General Teng Hsi-hou, was to leave Hankow for Chungking yesterday by a CN.AC. plane, says a message to the "Sin Wen Pao." After a brief stop over in Chungking, it Thk National Government has ordered the Ministry of Personnel of the Examination Yuan to recommend a compensation to the family of the late member of the Overseas Affairs Commission, Mr. Yang Shou-pang, who passed away recently, says a report to the "Sin Wen Pao."
Two huge paper carp streamers were presented yesterday to Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the new German Foreign Minister, by Viscount Kintomo Mushakoji, former Ambassador in Berlin, through the German Embassy here. The carps were a mark of felicitation on his assumption of the responsible post.
Tue Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of Shanghai Telephone Company will be held on Monday, April 11, 1906, at the Office of the Company, 67 Broad Street, Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. for the purpose of electing Directors and for the transaction of any other business that may properly be brought before the Meeting.
Tuk general manager of the Joint Gavings Society, Mr. Y. M. Chien, "who recently returned to Shanghai from a trip to Hongkong to confer with the President of the Executive Yuan and concurrently Minister of Finance, Dr. H. H. Kung, will shortly Again leave here for an undisclosed destination, state local advices to the "Standard,"
"Tuar. Polygamy should be Legalized" will be proposed by Mr. A, F. T. Holland and opposed by Mr. E. G. Ross at the regular Thursday evening meeting of the Foreign "Y" Debating Club to be held in the main lounge at 8.30 o'clock on March 10. Members and friends of the Association are cordially invited to attend and participate.
GeneraL Ma Ling, an influential leader among the Mohammedan people in the North-western, Provinces, has been appointed a member of the National Government Council says a dispatch to the "Standard." General Ma is succeeding Mr. Chen Li-fu, who, following his recent appointment to the post of Minister of Education, has resigned from the Council.
Chnmebuob Hitler's deputy, Herr Rudolf Hess, on Tuesday visited Vice-Admiral Adolf von Trotha on the occasion of his 70th birthday personally to convey Herr Hitler's congrátulations and a present of a Mercedes-Benz; car. At the same time Herr Hess decorated the Admiral with the gold medal of the National Socialist party in recognition of the services rendered.
Tue National Wuhan University in Wuchang will be removed to Lochuan district in Szechuen province, says a message to the "Sin Wen Pao." With the exception of members of the graduating class, who will carry on in Wuchang, students of the freshman, sophomore and junior classes and auditing students have been notified to proceed to Szechuen early in April. regular fortnightly meeting of Union Church Women's Guild will be held in the Church Lecture-hall on Thursday afternoon next, when Mrs. S. O. Gregory will review the recently published book "A Doctor's Odyssey." Tea will be served from 3.30. Visiting missionary ies and all resident women interested in the work of the Guild are cordially invited to be present at this meeting.
Members of the Union Church Tuesday Evening Club will hold their regular monthly reunion and supper in the Church hall on Tuesday at 7.30 pin. when the guest-speaker will be Mr. Victor Hanson, of the University of Shanghai, who will give his impressions of a holiday visit to Germany two summers ago. Members of the club who have not made reservations for the supper are asked to communicate early with the hon. secretary Mr. W. M. McLennan, Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Ca., 59 Peking Road, Tel. 17802.
"Tim Essential Values of Life" is the subject of an address to be given by Miss Muriel Lester on the Foreign YMCA. Lecture and Forum Series Tuesday March 8, at 830 p.m. Miss Lester is the founder of Kingsley Hall and Children's House in Bow, East London, and the author of six books published by Harper's in New York, the Inst of these being her autobiography entitled "It Occurred io Me." Miss Lester is at present visiting China for the Christian Pacifist International Movement: Members ana friends of the Foreign YM.C.A. are cordially invited to hear Miss Lester speak on Tuesday evening 4
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.