For indoor entertainment at Christmas, 1915, there was a special dance at the Astor House Hotel and a gala dinner at the Kalee Hotel, the Burlington serving special tifin on Christmas Day and a special dinner on Boxing Day. At the Apollo Theatre there was a Christmas pan-tom ime, "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp;" at the Victoria Theatre the celebrated trick cyclists, The Bretons, were performing and there was a well selected programme of films: while at the Olympic a troupe of flying acrobats was performing, plus a programme of films.
The torpedoing without warning of the Yasaka Maru was the big news of the day, a French gunboat picking up the passengers. The news was dated December 23 and seems to have been therefore two days in transmission. A list of passengers on board for Shanghai was given. Among the names were Mrs. F. Wells-Henderson, Mr.
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