Precautions Intensifying their drive to suppress cholera in the Japanese community, Japanese military authorities and consular police are supervising inoculations among Japanese and Chinese residents in Hongkew during the week from September 3 to 10, the "Mainichi" reported yesterday.
Clinics were opened for the public at the East, North and Central Japanese Primary Schools, Consular Police Station at Yangtszepoo and in a lot On Saturday 839 518 men and 326 women, were inoculated, while the shots were given to 675 Chinese, including 572 men and 103 women, making a total of 1514.
Japanese authorities are complaining that residents of Hongkew are not sufficiently aroused to the menace of cholera, the "Mainichi" said More than 100 depositors in the Bank of the former City Government of Greater Shanghai, which was closed down following the opening of hostilities last autumn, have addressed a telegram to the President of the Executive Yuan and concurrently Minister of Finance, Dr. H. H. Kung, asking him to arrange for the refunding of their deposits at an early date, says the "Sin Wan Pao." The telegraphic appeal stressed the urgent need for an early return of the funds which form the means of subsistence for 200 depositors and their families. Referring to a previous order of the Ministry for the reopening of Chinese banks in occupied areas, the telegram deemed it much more necessary for "a bank which is located in the International Settlement here" to resume its business operations.
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