THE death occurred on February 23, at Wells, Somerset, of Fanny, widow. of Captain F, G. Monsarrat, late of Shanghai.
STEPHEN Gavin's musical atlas— the Monday programme at 930 pin, from XCDN—introduces both wit and originality in the form of parable and anecdote, "As sulphuric acid is a base for the manufacture of chemicals, the Kiangsi Provincial Government is planning the establishment of a sulphuric acid factory, says a Taiho message to the "Cheng Yien Pao."
Vice-Admiral Shizue Tsuda, Direc-for of the Central China Liaison Office of the Asia Development Board, will leave for Nanking where he will consult with Japanese and Chinese officials, returning to Shang-Bai tomorrow, the "Tairikù Shimpo" reported. yesterday, AN unarmed robbery was reported io the West Hongkew police station shortly after 1230 p.m, -yesterday when the complainant stated that seven men had entered his home at Lane 36 House 3 North Honan Road and stole about $400 in cash, No arrests were made in the case, FoLLowiNG conversations with offi-dals of the Japanese Embassy, and the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in China at Nanking. Major-General Yasushi Inoue, Vice-Director of the Central China' Liaison Office of the Asia Development Board, returned to resume his duties here on Saturday, the "Shanghai Mainichi" stated Min, Hirose Hiramoto, chief accountant of the Japanese Residents" Corporation; on Friday was appointed director of the Corporation's Financial Bureau, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reports. The bureau came into being with the recent reform of the administrative set-up of the Corporation, There are now three Dureaus, the Financial, Educational find General Affairs.
Prerenvrwa to be customers, four Chinese gangsters robbed a Chinese watch store in Nanking Road vesterday morning, the total loss being estimated by the complainant at about $1,200, According to the shop assistants of Nee Tai-ziang watch store at 396 Nanking Road. four men came in at about 11,30 and asked to be shown some watches, This was done to the satisfaction of the newcomers, two of whom suddenly area their pistols out, grabbed watches and decamped before the assistants could raise an alarm.
In order to effect direct railway "Connections between Central and North China, the Central China Railway Company will commence the operation of a train ferry between Hsiakwan and Pukow sometime next March, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reports, According to the paper, the ferry will be a 2,600-ton vessel Capable of carrying across the Yangtze a twelve-car passenger train, together with its locomotive, "or a 36-car freight train, Time of passage is estimated to be 30 minutes.
By a strange enough coincidence Tady Idina Soltau, sister of Earl De La Warr, has lost two ex-husbands within the space of three weeks, Her first husband was Capt, Euan Wallace, who died early in February. Her third husband, the Earl - of Erroll, died in Nairobi on January 24, For an Englishwoman Lady iding has the unusual record of five marriages. Her second husband was Capt, Charles Gordon, her fourth Mr, Donald Haldeman, her fifth is Flying-Officer Soltau, Like the late Lord Erroll, she has made her home in Kenya during recent years, Tue tenth annual conference of the China Engineering Society is to be held at Kweiyang on the occasion Of the "Double Tenth," October 10, ational day, which marks the founding of the Republic of China, according to a Kweiyang report to the "Chen Yien Pao," The Society, which has a membership of over 5,000 persons, most of whom are now assisting the Chinese Govern-"ment in promoting national defence and reconstruction enterprises, has invited Mr. Wu Ting-chang, chairman of the Kweichow Provincial Government, to become its honorary chairman, the report states.
MAsoR-Gen, Michael—O'Moore Creagh, distinguished for his leadership in the Libyan battles, is another Irishman to whom the war has brought renown, Trained as a vavalryman in the 7th Hussars, he commanded the 15th/19th Kings Royal Hussars and took to the mechanized cavalry as a duck does to water. Expert in keeping together the vital links of an attacking force, he has made our mechanised formations a most formidable weapon in the field, The tactics and strategy he has shown in Libya mark him Out as a first-class soldier, full of dash and initiative, Tue City Champion of Winchester, wearing the 18th-century robes of his office and heralded by a moot hom, accepted on March 1 the challenge of the sister cathedral city of Canterbury to a War Weapons Week tournament. The quaint ceremony took place at the opening of Winchester's War Weapons Week, when the Mayor, Gen, F. H, Griffiths, ánnounced that'Canterbury had al-řeady raised nearly £400,000. So Winchester, instead of planning to raise £320,000 for a small destroyer, decided to aim at £450,000 for a large one, Lord Chatfield, opening the week, spoke of Winchester's association with the Royal Navy since the days of King Alfred, Mrs. Neville-Rolfe, who has just been awarded the Snow Medal by the Americans for her pioneer work in social hygiene, is not yell known to the public, for that work has been in connection with diseases not usually talked about, She tells the story of how, after she had helped form the Council of Social Hygiene at the beginning of the last war, a certain colonel refused to meet her at dinner on the ground that she was what he called an abandoned woman, The family into which she married claims kinship with Princess Pocahontas, the beautiful Red Indian who married John Rolfe in the 17th century, Mrs, Neville-Rolfe, wife of Comdr. Clive Neville-Rolfe, 50, is herself a "daughter of the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, May a Month of Anniversaries Chinese Will Remember Many Set-backs on Days Of Humiliation During this eventful month of May in which the Chinese are commemorating several national humiliation days, all of which are linked with Sino-Japanese relations, there is probably no day more important than yesterday, Youths' Day, or the 22nd anniversary of the May 4 Movement. as far as China's internal developments are concerned. Twenty-two years ago yesterday students in Peking staged an uprising by beating several pro-Japanese diplomats who failed to iron out China's difficulties in respect to the Shantung question at the Paris Peace Conference.
No meetings. or demonstrations were held in Shanghai yesterday, but in other places in this country such meetings were held. Despite the changed situation, Chinese young men in Shanghai were reported by the Chinese press to have sent a telegram to General Chiang Kai-shek. the text of which was withheld from publication by the censors. In America, young men there were said to be sympathetic with Chinese youths. American youths were reported to have raised money yesterday in support of Chinese youths. On Saturday, Chinese here commemorated the Tsinan Tragedy which occurred 13 years ago as a result of Japanese intervention in General Chiang's northern expedition, Chinese national flags will be hoisted in the city today marking the anniversary of the inauguration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen as the Extraordinary President, Yesterday is important because it is the turning point of Chinese politics and civilization. Some years before the student uprising in Peking which was then under the control of northern warlords, China accepted the notorious 21 Demands on May 9, the chief national humiliation day which Will be commemorated on a nationwide scale a few days later. She did so at the height of hostilities during the World War. Although China failed to obtain what she actually wanted, the abolition of the 21 Demands or rather the retrocession of Shantung at the Paris Conference. the uprising prevented Chinese diplomats from signing the Peace Treaty and enabled her to secure what i" generally considered to be a more rational settlement of the issue in Washington later.
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