Tuere will be a celebration of ihe (Holy Communion in the Bubbling "Well Chapel this morning at 1030 o'clock.
Tuose who have been attending ihe Current Events talks at the Y.W.C.A. are reminded that the last one will be given on Friday morning of this week instead of on Thursday as usual.
Ar the Foreign Y.M.C.A. today at 9 pin. the Debating Club will consider the proposal "That man': success is determined by the influence of his wife" Rev. E. J. Ottewell will propose the motion, and it will be opposed by Mr. C. C.
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Japanese fishing trawlers, says a report to the "Sin Wan Pao," have been engaged recently in dishing in the Chekiang fishing grounds The daily catch of the Japanese which aggregates some 2,000 piculs, is dent t" the Shanghai Fish Market" in the Yangtzepoo District.
Consmucrion work on the strip of the Reich's motor highway across Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia will be begun this week, the cere-many of turning the first spade o° earth being performed by the Inspector-General of German Highways, Dr. Todt. The ceremony will take place at /Eger today.
Tue local Post Office announces that the acceptance of insured mail articles for Chinkiang,—Wutsin (Changchow, Ku.), Wusih, and Wu-hsien (Soochow) in Kiangsu has now been resumed. However, the amount of insurance on articles mailed by the same person per day is temporarily restricted to $100.00 only.
Juve Milton J, Helmick of the United States Supreme Court for China is due to arrive in Shanghai, accompanied by his wife, on November 30 aboard the s. Empress of Canada, Judge and Mrs. Helmick, who have been on vacation, have visited Europe and the "United States where the former conferred. witt Department of Justice officials Washington, CmAo Tao-tieh and Wang Teh-yn, found guilty of murder of Mr. Hou Shou-tan, resident member of the Central Political Council, formerly professor of the Yenching University, Peiping were shot at Chungking om November 22, says 5 report to the "Hwa Mei Chen Pao." Two other accomplices, Hsiung Hou-shan and Jen' Yeu-sheng are: still at large, it is reported.
Repons that, the Japanese authorities have withdrawn their troops from the premises of the University of Shanghai, says a report, to the "Sin Wan Pao," were denied competent university circles yesterday. Negotiations are reported to be still taking place with the Japanese authorities by the university committee through the State Department, of the United States Governmen Min, Han Wei-pang, a student of the National Tsinghua University, now working at the Central Agricultural Experiment Station, says 2 report to the "Life Daily News, has won the Lin Sen Scholarship, entitling the successful candidate to pursue further studies in the United States. The scholarship was founded in honour of the recent 70th birthday of Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government.
Banknotes of the Bank of China, the Central Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, says 8 report to the "Hwa Mai Chen Pao," are being freely bought up by interested parties for the "Federal Reserve Bank of North China, which are paying $1,100 in Federal Reserve Bank notes for every $1,000 in National Government notes. The National Government bank notes in Shanghai, the report adds, are being taken to North China mainly by those working aboard coastal steamers.
Foutowre a period of preparation, says a message to the "Hwa Mei Chen Pao," a number of border districts in Szechuen have been demarcated and transferred to the control of the proposed Provincial Government of Hsikang. At the 309th meeting of the Executive Yuan held in Chungking on November 22, at which the President, Dr. H. H. Kung, presided, it was approved that the provincial government in Hsikang be formally inaugurated on January 1, 1939, and provincial reconstruction measures be commenced at the same time.
Min. J. L. Chien, a Chinese student who has, since September, 1937, been at Grange Hall, Sandown, England. under the! tutelage of Mr. G. S Foster Kemp, formerly Headmaster of the SMC. Public {School for Chinese, has passed the London University special entrance examination, and has entered the Science Department of Uniwersity College. Mr. Chien's success in passing his examination after only a year's work in Sandown reflects credit on hi tutors and on himself. His father was for some years Commissioner in charge of Chinese students in Great Britain, and his family belongs t the Southern Sung dynasty (1127- 1279) of which Prince Chien was the founder of Hangchow, the capital of the dynasty.
Tne Chinese Mission to Lepers has recently launched an educational camp aim among the local schools from the primary grade up to the university including medical colleges with a view to enlightening the students on leprosy as a social and public health problem, its principal causes, general symptoms, wide distribution, modern treatment and fundamental methods of prevention and control. Any one who has some knowledge of leprosy can see today the "lion-face" almost any time in the streets of Shanghai. One of the purposes of the lectures given in the schools is to acquaint the students with the general symptoms of abe dread disease so as to enable them to avoid any direct contact with its victims. Over one dozen schools with w total student body of nearly 5,000 have already heard these lectures given by such competent speakers as Dr. Lee S. Huizenga, Rev. T. C. Wu and Mr. Keiz Wans. Any school which ishes to hear these lectures is advised to write to the general secretary of the Chinese Mission to Lepers, 41 Tsze Pang Rod,
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