The Archive · 1938

Empress of Japan

Tuere will be a Celebration of Holy Communion in the Bubbling Well Chapel this morning at 10.30.

H.MS, Suffolk (Capt, C. S. Sandford) arrived yesterday and berthed at the British Naval Buoys, Tue "North-China Daily News" broadcast over Station XMHD will begin at 1245 instead of 1240 pin. daily, Lrevr,-Cmdr, M. G, Gambier and officers of (H.M, submarine Otus Were guests of the weekly meeting of the Zero Club yesterday.

MR, B, M, Simansky, local U.S.S.R. Consul-General and Mr. T. F, Skvortsov, Vice-Consul, sailed on Tuesday for Hongkong in the s, Empress of Japan, Sr. -John's Pro-Cathedral, Jessfield. Holy Communion in English at 7.30 am, Evening Prayer in English at six o'clock. Preacher: Rev. M. H.

Throop, S.T.D.

Mr, Yang An-hsing, commander of the Third Bandit Suppression District under the Reformed Government, who was killed m an engagement with outlaws in Tsingpuhsien, not far from Sungkiang, in August, was posthumously honoured by the new administration yesterday, His family received a $50,000 grant, it was reported yesterday, Tur well-known Royal Mail liner Arlanza ended her seagoing career when she arrived in Southampton on Tuesday from Buenos Aires. She will sail southward to be broken up for scrap steel, The old liner sailed the South American route since she was put in service in 1911 except for service on patrol and convoy duty during the Great War, The Arlanza was damaged by a mine in 1915 but not fatally wrecked, IAUGURATION ceremonies of the Institute of Reform, where Chinese youths will receive education embodying the principles on which the Reformed Government is founded, will be held on Saturday morning on the former site of Fuhtan University, the Shanghai "Mainichi" reported yesterday. Major-Gen, Kumakichi Harada, chief of the Special Services Section of the Japanese Expeditionary Force, will assume the presidency of the new Institute, A MOPLY to the petition of the Shanghai Coal Merchants' Association for increased foreign exchange allotments has been received from the Ministry of Finance by this body. The Ministry's reply exhorts local coal merchants to economise on fuel consumption on the one hand, and to give, in every case, preference Chinese coal, on the other. The petition was to the effect that prevailing conditions in North China and in the interior provinces have made the transportation of coal to Shanghai difficult. and in consequence, coal prices here have sky-rocketed.

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