Marking the completion of a rigid niitary training for 525 Chinese officers, the first graduation ceremony of the Central Military Academy headed by Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan of the "orthodox" Kuomintang, was held at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at the auditorium of the academy in the suburbs of Shanghai, the "Tairiku "The China Journal"
The February number of "The China Journal" has as its frontispiece a cheerful photograph of the God of Happiness as he sits in the court of the Temple of Pi Yun in Peiping, and there are several pages of reproduce tions of paintings and scrolls of Chinese saints and gods. "The Story of the Mad Wu" has been well translated by Mr. Willy Tenn; "Down the Wu Kiang by Crooked Stern Junk", by Mr. J. E. Spencer, is illustrated with excellent photographs; "Literature on inese Birds" is by Mr. Lyman Hale, Jr. while birds again are the subject of the next article, "Migration Notes—The Three Albatrosses of the North Pacific," in which Mr. G. D. Wilder gives the notes made on a passage made last March from San Pedro to Shanghai—also illustrated. Mr. V. N. Alin contributes "Some New Data on the Biology of Callipogon Relictus Sem"—three curious photographs of the pupa.being given. Under Shooting Notes is "Some Rifles of Forty Years Ago" by Flour-de-Lys, the Textile Industry in Shanghai is dealt with, with photographs showing the interior of a British-owned and managed cotton mill in the Settlement, and the permanent features of ihe journal help to make up a good number, Ceremonies cofiducted in the presence of Mr. Wang Ching-wei leading members of the "orthodox" Kuomintang atid prominent guests signified the graduation of 525 officers who will form the nucleus of the Ministry of War of thè proposed new central goverment of China under Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang gave dri address to the graduating class. Dt, Chu Min-yi and Mr. Liu Vu-fen "also delivered addresses representing the leading members of the "orthodox" Kuomintafig, and the military affairs ' cominitiee of the party respectively, Gen. Yeh Peng, chief of the faculty, then addressed the graduating office: after which Mr. Wang presented diplomas and awards, Mr. Wang said the mission of the officers lay in the realization of peace, opposition to Communism, and reconstruction of China. "Be thoughtful and brave in executing your mission," Mr. Wang emphasized, Rice Profiteer Given Prison Term Chen Wei-ching, manager of the Sheng Yuan Rice Shop at 81 Pakhoi Road, was sentenced to 15 days' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court, found guilty of having sold his rice at a price higher than the one fixed officially. Chen tried to shift the responsibility by saying that he had only recently come to Shanghai and that he was hot matiager of the hong but the judge passed the sentence The profiteering merchant was discovered on Monday when he sold a half picul of rice for $25.50 while the official price of a picul was fixed sometime ago at only $40. After buying the rice the customer showed his bill to the Louza police resulting in Chen's arrest.
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