Mr. Ernest Brown, British Minister of Labour announced Saturday that henceforth his Department would be called the Ministry of Labour and National Service.
Twenty men will be added to the Japanese Consular Police force here. The new policemen arrived from Japan on board the Nagasaki Maru yesterday, H.MS, Kent with Sir Percy Noble on board, left her moorings alongside the Bund at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning and was replaced at the British Naval Buoyjs^by H.M.S. Sandwich, Kino George of Greece, having stayed in London incognito for several weeks, will leave the British capital on December 20 for Athens in order to take part in the Orthdox Christmas celebrations. On his way home he will stay two or three days as a guest of King Leopold of the Belgions in Brussels.
'Tne first foreign performances of Strauss' two new operas, "Daphne" and "Day of Peace," are, to be given in Paris, probably in the presence of the composer. Rehearsals of both have already been started, but the names of conductors and players of the chief parts have not yet been announced, New nickel coins of the five-cent., ten-cent. and twenty-cent. denominations are being released by the Ministry of Finance through the Central Bank of China for circulafion, says a report to the "Sin Wan Pao. These coins are of the same face value as the nickel coins that have been circulated in the market, except that on one side of them they bear the letter "A". To avoid misunderstanding by the public, the Ministry has issued a notification to the effect that these coins should be treated in the same way as other coins,
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