A MEETING of the Council has been convened for Wednesday at 430 p.m.
Tue population of Peiping has increased to 1,748,324 according to the latest census taken by the police authorities recently. Of the total 1,064,686 are men and 683,638 women.
'THE appointment of Dr. Lui Ying as Chancellor of the National Uni-Versity of Kwangsi was announced by the Chinese National Govern-its in an Pur deed published in "Sin Wen Pao,"
ungking esday, says the 'A SPECIAL edition of the Municipal Gazette containing the Report of the Special Meeting of Ratepayers held at the Shanghai Race Club, Public Stand, on January 23, and February 5, was T D7 the Secretariat of yesterday. sie [munici Council "Mx. Lien Vu, first Chinese Ambassador to Manchoukuo, left Shanghai en route to Hsinking to assume his post, in the s. Tsingtao Maru, Wednesday, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reports. He will first visit Peiping via Tsingtao, and following an inspection tour for ina, will proceed to "To eradicate undesirable elements and improve the control over trayellers and hotel guests the Peiping police bureau has revised the regula tions governing the reports of the arrival and departure of guests by hotels and inns, who are now required to make such reports immediately to the police.
Work has begun on the new S.S. $4,000 headquarters, of the Singapore Girl Guides Association at the junction of Clemenceau Avenue. and Orchard, Road. Plans for the building have been approved by the authorities, and although the new headquarters of the, Association will be housed in a wooden structure everything is being done to make it as attractive as possible.
Law' Clark Kerr has cabled her best wishes to the Clarendon Club on the occasion of its St. Valentine's Day party this afternoon. She was to have been the Valentine but sail" ings from Hongkong have not fitted in. Mrs. V. Arnold Jones has been invited to be the Club's guest of honour and Mr. A. H. George (British Consul-General) will assist her in cutting the cake at tea time, Measures have been adopted by the authorities in Peiping to prevent the spread to the former capital of the plague which has broken out among the milch cows in Tientsin dairies. No cattle is now allowed to be imported into Peiping with the consent of the authorities and no milch cows in Peiping dairies are permitted to be moved or tranterred without proper permission and plague prevention. injections are being given by the authorities without charge, A SERIES of graphs has been received from the Comité de Contróle clu Prix des Marchandises d'Usage. Quotidien of the French Municipal Council, showing increases in prices Of local foodstuffs in relation to the value the pound sterling. The graphs take the fluctuations only so far as, September 1940, except in the case of coal, which goes unti December 1940. They also show a marked cessation in price changes atter the establishment of the committee.
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