A MEETING of the Royal ' Asiatic Society will be held in the Wu-Lien-Teh Hall, 20 Museum Road, on Thursday, October 27 at 530 pin, when a lecture will be given by the President, Mr, Arthur De Carle Sowerby, an "Nature in a Shanghai Garden," illustrated with specimens of animals and plants. The meeting is open to the public.
Tur International Red Cross Committee for Central China has now established a committee in Hunan with headquarters at Yale School, Changsha, under Mr. E. H. Scott, to whom all requests for aid to hospitals and for supplies, also for refugee help, should be sent. The Hankow Committee continues to function for the Wuhan Area.
Cp. Satoh, who has been chief of the Japanese naval information department for the past six months, leaves today. At the press conference yesterday he expressed his pleasure of having been associated with the journalists, thanking them for their kindness and ce-operation. He wished them health and success in their further endeavours in China.
Mone than 500,000 mow of land has been set aside for agricultural purposes in Szechuen, Hunan, Kwangsi and Yunnan, says a report to the "Hwa. Mei Wan Pao." Refugees, numbering 1,000000 or more, the report states, are now tilling the soil and being otherwise utilized for productive activities to serve the country's requirements.
Govown facilities, says a report to ihe "Wen Hui Pao" are being arranged between the Bank of China and the Sin Hua Commercial and Savings Bank at the Kunming-French Indo-China railway station. A big godown is now being constructed and financed jointly by the two banks, the report states.
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