Tuere will be a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council on Wednesday, June 22 at 4.30 p.m.
Tue Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission and General Executive of the Kuomintang, General Chiang Kai-shek, on Thursday issued a tall to the nation's youth to join the San-Min-Chu-I Youth Corps, Says a dispatch to the "Life Daily News."
Tue National Government, by a mandate issued on Thursday, appointed Admiral Chan Chak, Lieutenant-Generals Chen Chi and Tang Hung-hwei and Major-General Liang Chuan to be members of the Military Advisory Council, says a message to the "Life Daily News."
Mr. Edwin Howard, former editor of the "North China Daily News," gave a short talk on the present situation in China, with reference to the floods and the Japanese advance on Hankow, from the B.B.C., which was heard locally at about 6 ar. yesterday, Tur South-west Trade Investigation Mission formed by over ten banking and industrial leaders of Shanghai and Hongkong, who reached Yunnanfu last month, arrived in Kweiyang from Yunnanfu on Wednesday, states a dispatch to the "Hwa Mei Chen Pao."
ANNOUNCEMENT is made by the Municipal Council today that factory owners, returning to or proposing to start new industrial ventures in the Eastern and Northern Districts are requested to first register their premises with the Industrial Section, Room 602, Municipal Administration Building. E
Abbor Hung San, a noted philanthropie worker, who was recently sent by the National Relief Commission to undertake a relief mission to Chekiang and Anhwei, arrived in Nanchang from Hankow on Thursday, states a message to the "Morning Leader." The Abbot, who is accompanied by more than ten staff workers, has $100,000 relief funds at his disposal.
A war aid corps, formed by the people in Sikang and Tibet and led by Miss Liu Man-ching, who recently arrived in Chungking, paid their respects to the Chairman of the National Government, Mr. Lin Sen, on Thursday morning and called on the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission in the afternoon, says a patch to the "Sin Wan Pao" The group will proceed to the front in a few days' time.
Tae office of Sr. Quintin Paredes Philippine Resident Commissioner i Washington, has received orders from Sr. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth, directing that four Filipino graduates of Wes Point be attached to the Commissioner's staff while taking a graduate training course at Fort Belvoir. Virginia. The detachment will be headed by Captain Jaime Velasquez and Lieutenant Antonio Chanco.
Tue complete list of members of the National People's Assembly which will shortly be inaugurated as the highest advisory organ of the land was passed by the Control Executive Committee of he Kuomintang on Thursday, says a dispatch to the "Standard." Mr. Wang Ching-wel Deputy General Executive of the Kuomintang, and Dr. Chang Po-ling, President of Nankai University, were appointed, Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Assembly.
Tue Sino-French Association is giving a reception in honour of Mr. L. de Goth, president of the Alliance Francaise, Maj. L. Fabre, chief of the French Police and Mr. M. E. Saussine, Minister Plenipotentiary vice-president df the Sino-French Association; who are shortly leaving this city. Major L. Fabre and Mr. de Goth are leaving on home leave. while Mr. M. E. Saussine returns to France, having retired a year agó from the post of Commercial Attache to the French Embassy to China, The "Otello Cavara Prize", Italian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, has been awarded to Sig. Luigi Barzini, Jr. correspondent of the "Corriere Della Sera" on the Sino-Japanese front. The unusual feature of the award is that the jury this year, instead of giving the prize for a piece of literary work, it was given for an episode in journalistic life. Sig. Bari receiving it for heroic conduct aboard the 0.5.5, Panay, when under fire he nobly rendered assistance to his dying comrade Sig. Sandro Sandri, with no regard to his own safety.
Min, Vu Yun-ku, an employee in the local Stock Exchange, has been arrested by the Settlement police it connection with the recent shooting in Jinkee Road, in which a prominent member of the Shanghai Civie A's-sociation, Mr. Yiu Chu-sun was wounded, says a message to the "Sin Wan Pao" Mr. Yiu, who is a close friend of Vu, it is reported, ha? learned that an attempt would Bt made to murder his friend and had warned Vu through the telephone The police, anxious to trace the source of his information, have therefore taken him into custody.
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