Tuere will be a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council on Wednesday, December 28 at 430 p.m.
"Ing. Paul Premet, Attorney-at-Law, has just returned to Shanghai from 2 business-trip to Tientsin and North China.
Min. R. F. Stewart arrived yesterday from Tientsin and expects to be in Shanghai over Christmas and the New Year. He is staying at the Cathay Hotel.
Tue Shanghai Municipal Offices will be closed to public business on Monday and Tuesday, December 26 and 27, 1038, and Monday and Tuesday, January 2 and 3, 1939.
Tae: winning number of the doll dressed by Mrs. Hutcheon and raffled at the British Women's Association in aid of Christmas Hampers was won by ticket No. 192.
A NEW city government will be inaugurated in Amoy on January 1, 1989, to replace the present peace maintenance commission headed by Mr. Chen Pan, according to a Chinese report yesterday.
Tokyo recorded its first case of shanghai smallpox" on Tuesday causing 8,000 people living in the neighbourhood of the victim's home to undergo compulsory vaccination. The patient had recently returned from Shanghai.
OPERATION will be resumed of the British-controlled portion of the Canton-Kowloon railway on January 1, it was announced yesterday. The line runs from Kowloon to Shumchun. Trains stopped running on the line when the Japanese landing was effected at Bias Bay on October Brsuop Curtis has issued a special appeal on behalf of the eighteen churches in Southern Chekiang. The (Cathedral Vestry have decided that the collection at the 1030 Service in the Cathedral on Christmas Morning shall be donated to the Bishop for tHe assistance of these churches. Any special subscriptions which come in for the Bishop's Fund will be incorporated in that collection.
St. Giles British School, Tsingtao, opens for the Easter Term on Friday, January 20. Mr. B. G. Inge will be pleased to meet those interested in the School and answer all inquiries regarding it at the "North-China Daily News" office (6th floor) between 10 and li o'clock this morning, Mr. Inge will be in Shanghai until the 27th end may be addressed through the "North-China Daily News" office.
Tur "Reformed Government" is expected shortly to operate a "Highway Reconstruction: Lottery" to be managed along similar lines as the Shanghai Refugee Lottery, says a report to the "Morning Leader." Tickets, it is reported, will be sold in the occupied areas in Chekiang. Anhwei and Kiangsu and will be sold-through agents in, Shanghai The lottery wil be drawn once month, the report states.
Licensees are reminded that applications for the renewal of Private Rickshaw licences for the half-year ending June 30, 1939, should be made to the Vehicle Inspection Office, rear of Gordon Rosd Police Station, 557 Gordon Road, not later than January 19. From January 23 onwards Pri-vote Rickshaw licences will be issued at the new Licence Issuing Office, 808 Seymour Road, next to Gordon Road Police Kennels.
Generau Chiang Kai-shek has decided to appoint, General Chen Chien as Director óf the Generaliesimo's Headquarters in Sian, Shensi. with full power to direct military affairs in the North-west provinces, says à Hongkong message to the "Chinese American Daily News." General Pai Chung-hsi, meanwhile has assumed his post as Director of ihe Generalissimo's Headquarters in Kweilin, Kwangsi province, the report adds.
Tue following numbers wil be played on the "Hour of Mu programme at the Foreign
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today at 6 pm.:—Pezzo Elegiaco.... Tchalkowsky (Trio) Sielliano—Rigaudon. Francoeur-Kreisler raver se. Massenet (Violin Solo)
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