Tue Municipal Offices will be closed to public business tomorrow.
Commanpant De La Ferté, French Air Attache, returned to Shanghai yesterday by the President Taft from Hongkong.
Mr. Walter J. Wilson, supt, engineer of the American President Lines, returned to Shanghai by the President Taft from Hongkong yesterday.
Mrs. C. C. O'Connell has been admitted to the Country Hospital this morning, for observation. 1
Mr, Benjamin C. Gaston, general manager and vice-president of the Visayan and Negros Transportation Company of Bacaloa City, and Mrs. Gaston arrived in Shanghai
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Manila for a short vacation Tue Victoria Restaurant, which opened yesterday, is situated opposite the Shanghai Power Ca, and occu-Pies the first floor of the premises situated at the intersection of Naning and Kiangse Roads. The establishment is under foreign suprevision and caters to discriminating diners. Delicious teas also are served.
Mr. Li Chun-cheng, a Chinese resident of Hongkong, has contributed $100,000 worth of Liberty Bonds to the Academia Sinica, with the request that any research fellow of the Chinese Government research institute be awarded over $3,000 for contributing any inventions, says a Hongkong Chinese report to the "Sin Wan Pao."
Generar Fang Cheb, acting Chairman of the Honan Provincial Government, has just completed a tour of inspection of Eastern Honan districts, and arrived in Nanyang on June 17, says a message to the "Sin Wan Pa Easterh Honan was peaceful, General Fang stated, but the local militia corps needed reorganization, and there was a general scarcity of foodstuffs, the report adds.
Tue health report of the French Municipality for the week ending June 17, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Concession were—Foreigners 1 und Chinese 264. Deaths from notifiable diseases were—Chinese, Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers 36; Tuberculosis 20; Measles 8; Dysentery 3; Pneumonia 3; Cerebrospinal Mening itis 2; and Diphtheria, Typhus Fever, Beri-beri, Septicemía 1 each.
Soviet importation of Chinese tea has steadily increased. During the first four months of this year, a total of 19,903,258 lb. of this Chinese staple product, valued at HK$8,227,- 774 was exported from Hongkong to Soviet Russia, or aggregating 80 per cent. of the total exports of tea during the same period, says a report to the "Sin Wan Pao." Exportation of tea to Soviet Russia and of tung oil to the United States, the report States, is now being steadily conducted on a barter system.
SSrATIONING two unarmed bluejackets at various dangerous street intersections in the Japanese defence area in Hongkew and Yangtszepoo, the Japanese Naval Special Landing Party on Sunday ce-operated in the Safety Week Campaign sponsored by e Shanghai Municipal Council. Good results" were achieved on Sunday, the transportation division of the Landing Party announced on Sunday night, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday.
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