ME L.C. Healey, Superintendent of Education, in his annual points. report; to the Shanghai Municipal Council, "states:—In last It waf the first official anmourcement of the fire at the As a mark of respect to his year's report mention was made of the fact that at the outbreak commercial airfield here on the patriotic stand,'local Chinese public of local hostilities in 1937 all available school buildings were re-bodies are making preparations to night of January 27. The fire hold a Memorial service for Mari quisitioned for emergency purposes, and a detailed account followed which was spectacular, atshal Wu Pei-fu,. soldier-] who of the measures that were taken to accommodate the schools in tracted hundreds to the rivers died in Peiping on December 4, temporary quarters. During1938, four of these buildings were side.—Reuter. says the "Sin Wan Pao." restored to the Education Department, leaving twelve schools still Ar Earl's Court: Circus- yesterday; housed in.leased premises.
It is to be regretted that no further animal trainer Albert Keen had no move towards the re-occupation of school premises has been pos-time to change from the red clothes sible during the twelve months under review: ' The hope previously 3,400 Get Rice in he wears for the elephants' to the expressed that the three schools which had been converted into brown he puts on for the bears. A Himalayan bear, seeing red, bit. him Municipal Hospitals might spon be relinquished has, not mater-on the arm. He finished the show alized; nor have the difficulttes attached to the re-opening of the
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