A "Nivea" wall calendar for 1939 das been received at this office from Messrs. P. Beiersdorf & Ca, A. G.
Tue Belgian Premier, M. Paul Henri Spaak, arrived in Paris on Wednesday on a private visit.
Dr. Vu Pin, noted Chinese Catholic leader, is reported to be leaving Kunming, Yunnan, for the United States g December 27, says the "Wen Wei ao."
(Kin Leopold LIMI of the Belgians, and the Queen Mother Elisabeth, are now at the Côte d'Azure. They will stay a fortnight at Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
Miss Ethel Mannin, well known British novelist and. journalist, was married on Wednesday to Mr. R. A. Reynolds, author, at the Paddington Register Office.
(Mr, George Bell has been appointed the new, Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions of (Britain, succeeding Mr. W. A. Appleton who is retiring.
Tuere will be the usual Watchnight Service in the Holy Trinity Cathedral on New Years Eve. The service, which will be conducted by the Rev. E. J. Ottewell, will commence promptly at 1130 pin.
Tue rummage sale held yesterday at the Union Church Hall realized $464.05 for the "Limbless" Fund. The Committee of the Fund thank all who so kindly sent gifts for the sale or gave valuable personal assist. ance at the Hall.
AN impressive memorial service for the late General Chiang Po-li was sponsored by Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance and other high government officials in Chungking on December 18, says a belated report to the "Wen Wei Pao."
Tur new Chinese Government broadcasting station at Kweiyang, capital of Kweichow province, will from today broadcast Japanese programmes daily, says the "Chinese American Daily News." The Japanese programme will be on the air from 610 p.m. to 620 pin. (Chungking time), and will operate on a wave length of 43 metres, the report states.
Locau Japanese will gather at their Consulate-General at 10 o'clock on Sunday, New Year's Day, to pay the traditional homage to the Emperor and the Empress by bowing before the portraits of Their Majesties. A reception will be given for the purpose by Mr. Itsuo Goto, acting Consul-General at the Whangpoo Road building from 10 to 10.30 o'clock on Sunday.
Messrs, Tu Yueh-sen, Wang Hsiao-lai and Y. M. Chien, well-known Shanghai bankers and industrialists, have arrived in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province from Chungking on a flying visit, says a report to the en Wei Pao" They will remain in Kunming to attend to plans for the establishing of textile factories and the proposed Ming Foong Paper Factory before going on to Hongkong, the report adds.
Tue National Government, says a Chungking message to the "Chinese American Daily News," has appointed Mr. Hu Chung-hsin, Chairman of the Mongolian, Tibetan Affairs Commission to accompany the Tibetan leader Jakchen Huktu to Tibet for the purpose of attending the cere-many in connection with the incarnation of the ü4th successor to ihe late Dalai Lama.
Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, until recently Japanese Consul-General in Tsingtao, will arrive in Shanghai on Saturday in the s. Taiyo Maru to take up his new post here, it was reported yesterday. Mr. Itsuo Goto, senior consul and acting Consul-General, will be succeeded by Mr. Miura early next year. Mr. Miura replaces Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka who was recalled to Tokyo to assume the post of direc-for of the Economic Affairs Bureau of the Asia Development Board.
Tue Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who is at present at Chequers, early next week is expected to go shooting at the country house of Lord Swinton, formerly Secretary for Air, in Yorkshire. Lord Swinton and British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, are neighbours. At the end of next week Mr. Chamberlain and Land Halifax will return to London to prepare for their Rome journey.
Mr, Shinrokuro Hidaka, director of the Bureau of Economic Affairs of the new Asia Development Board and former Consul-General in Shanghai, has been appointed concurrently a councillor of the Bureau of Information of the Japanese Cabinet. Maj-Gen. Teiichi Suzuki, another director on the Board, and Mr. Seiki Yano, a secretary, received similar appointments. Lt.-Col. Hide-its Matsumura, Lt.-Col. Jirokum Fukuyama, and It-Col Tamechi Shibano ' were appointed liaison officers of the Bureau, Tur following numbers wil be played on the "Hour of Music" Programme at the Foreign Y.MIC.A. today at 6 p.m.:
Tehaikowsky (Cello Solo) "Peine d'amour" Kreisler "Plaisir d'amour"
Group of Piano Solos Trio No, 4 in B Flat Allegro con brio Tema con Variazi Michael Riskin (Violin), George Singe"
(Piano), John Stupel (Cello).
Tuere will be two special services in the Cathedral on New Year's D:
In place of the early morning Corporate Communion of the Junior Fellowship, all members of the Follow ship are being invited to attend Mattins in* the Cathedral at 10.30 o'clock, and to stay for the celebration after the service. The preacher at Mattins will be the Rev. F. W.
"Weaver, who will bring a special message to the young people. In the evening there "will be a specially arranged service, to which the English speaking -members of our Chinese sister churches are being invited, together with the members of the other foreign congregations in Shanghai. The speaker will be the Rev. W. H. Aldis, Home Director in England of the China Inland Mission, and also the Chairman of the Kes-
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