The Butterfield and Swire steamer Fatshan, the only British steamer Unking Hongkong and Canton, "has temporarily discontinued all sailings despite the modification of Japanese quarantine restrictions, It is reported that the last trip of the Fatshan—a few days after the reopening of the Pearl River—resulted in considerable loss, parily Lecause of the limited number passengers allowed each ship.
Since then, the Japanese have raised the limit. of passengers from 100 to 300 (before the restrictions came into force the Fatshan used fo carry as many as 1400 passengers trip), provided sleeping—accommodation can be provided for them.
Tu addition, incoming passengers are now subjected to one' specimen examination only, involving ships in a stay of approximately 24 hours in quarantine.
With "the Fatshan unavailable, local stores ore gelling in their supplies via Macao in the Portuguese steamer Shing Cheong—Reuter, ish Missionary by Bandits Shanghai, Dee. 25.
In connection witha news agency report appearing in the issue of the *North-China Daily News" of December 10, under the heading "Ttalian [Catholic Killed in Wuhu." this journal has received a letter from the Rev.
Aramburu, SI.. Apostolic Vicar of Wuhu, in which he states that in hhis vicariate there are.no active Mahan missionaries, all being either Spanish or Chinese. The man who. was killed was the Rev. P. Richard. Ponsol; one of the first' Spanish missionaries to arrive with three others in 1912. He was stopped at. the city" gates of Kinghsies, very tiger his house on October 9 and. killed the following day. His corpse was found three days afterwards half a kilometre from the town, where it had certainly been carried by his murderers. His twenty-seven years. Jot missionary work had earned for him the general esteem of all, heathen as well as Christian,
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