The Archive · 1941

From Day to Day

Tuere is a thirty minute musical Programme from XCDN, today at pam, by Leo Itkis and his Trio.

Me. Charles Arkwright will be heard again at 7 p.m, today in his, KCDN broadcast "Inside Occupied Europe," after an absence of three weeks, Mr. L. Tomkinson will speak on the subject "Classical Chinese Views on influencing character," at he Foreign Y.M.C.A. on Thursday, at 9 pin.

Tue heaviest snowfall in ten years blanketed the city of Changsha, provincial capital of Honan, on February 13, says a Changsha mess-sage to the "Shun Pao." The event promises abundant crops for the coming harvest season.

Topay at 7.30 p.m. over XMHA the Shanghai Catholic Radio League will present on the Catholic Hour programme a second talk on the papacy,

7/S$43. who will speak on the subject given by the Rev. John K. Lipman, The Primacy of Peter."

A cos race. is envisaged for the "Assembly election of the Japanese -TResidents Corporation which is to be held on Feburary 22 and 23, "with. candidates having so far already reached 80, that is, five more shen the fixed number, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reports, Tumrzz Chinese males were injured "when a portion of a wall of an old bouse in Chow Ka Ba Road in */Vangtszepoo collapsed at 9.58 a.m. yesterday. The. three victims were taken to the Yangtszepoo Hospital "in an S, F.B, ambulance, one of them suffering from contusion of chest, while the other two sustained minor lacerations, MR. Tateki Horiuchi, Japanese +Consul4General in Shanghai, arrive "an Nanking in his capacity of "Director of the Central China Japanese Police Bureau on an sanspec'ion tour of the police ad-administration south of the Yangtze, ihe "Shanghai Mainichi" reported. He is due to return to Shanghai via Soochow today, the paper added.

De, Hu Shu-hua, Chancellor of the Northwest National University, chas been relieved of his nest and re-appointed as Chancellor of the ¿National Hunan University in a government order published in Chungking on Friday, it is learned from the "Shun Pao" Dr, Pei "Tsung-shih. the present incumbent of the National Hunan University, ~has been relieved of his post, MEMORIAL services were held at the Higashi Honganji temple, corner of Chapoo and Wuchang Roads, from 2 to 4 pin. yesterday for the late Vice-Admiral Hikojiro, Suga, who was killed together with five other Japanese naval officers including Admiral Mineo Osumi, in a plane crash while en route from Canton to Hainan Island on February 5, ae. cording to the "Shanghai Mainichi, Wen informed financial circles in Chungking revealed Friday that a slight reshufüing in the important personnel of the Bank of Communications is expected shortly, says a Chungking message to the "Cheng Yien Pao" Mr. Hsu Kan, Administrative—Vice-Minister—of Finance, is expected to be appointed as head of the bark. but this has mot yet been officially conürmed, the report states, Derecrives at the Bubbling Well police station were still looking for "the reason of the commandeering of a Taylor taxi from Jessfeld Road, near Brenan Road, yesterday morning at 7.50 am. According to the chauffeur's report, a man came to ihe Vu Yuen Road Taylor Garage branch and hired the car, asking the driver to drive to Jessfield Road, ere he was joined by two others, ne of them armed, who pushed the driver out and drove away, The taxi was found at approximately the same place about half an hour THE Police report for the week ending February 15, showed a slight increase in minor crimes, the total Being recorded as 377 as against 396 reported the previous week. Armed robberies were on the up-werd trend again, as were all the other cases, with gambling showing an increase of ten. The police arrested 597 persons, 166 more than last week, and of this number 172 had been" identified as old offenders. The largest number of those arrested were for gambling, the figure being given at.217, with 29 proving to have records, AmMARSHAL)Sir C. A: Portal, the nëw Chief of the British Air Force, who @tiginéered the operations which led-to "the" smashing of Hitlers invasion® plan on Sept. 16, has several most valuable characteristics. He believes in ascertaining the best method of fighting an enemy, and then concentrating on the essentials to defeat him, He gained this from the experience he had when in charge of the Plans Branch in the Directorate of Intelligence. And to this experience he added another important tactic. In any operation he always considered which of the three Services could be most frequently and usefully employed in ce-operation. And he is a great believer in transporting troops across country by air, which may be a most valuable asset in future operations, A CHORAL concert under the aus: pices of the Shanghai Songsters Concert. has been arranged to take place at the Lyceum Theatre on Tuesday and Thursday at 9.15 (same programme both evenings). The society has prepared the first part of the Christmas oratorio of J. S. Bach and has obtained the services of two very capable singers, already known to the Shanghai public, Max Warschauer (bass) and Mrs, Sabine Rapp (contralto). In addition to this great work, the choir will also render two German folk-songs and.two 4 works of Mozart: "Ave Verum and Graduale" and "Sancta Maria." The orchestra is that of the Cantonese Union Church of Shanghai which will be also heard without the choir in a suite of dramatic music of Henry Purcell arranged for strings. The concert is under the guidance of Maestro Wolfgang Frenkel,

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