A cory of the August-September number of "The Miscellany," a digest the world's best thought" and humour, has been received:
Mr. George Neugebauer, well known local jockey, is lying seriously ill in the Paulun Hospital, the result of the serious riding. accident he had several years ago.
GeneraL Tang Shih-chuan, Commander of the 2154 Army in Szechuen, has turned over his house, which is located at Tungshengchieh ip, Chengtu, to the Government and offered his active service at the front, says a dispatch to the "Lih Pao" The house is valued at several tens of thousehds of dollars.
Dispures over the payments of rentals between landlords and tenants of houses in the International Settlement have assumed serious proportions, according' 40- a Chinese report which says that several cusses of friction have occurred daily. The Civic Association of the First Special District is understood to have issued an appeal to the landlords not to press the issue too far.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.