Chu. Tibetan resident representative in Chungking, and the Tibetan secretary, Mr, Teng Chun-shin. are due to leave Chengtu for Chungking by air on Saturday, to represent the Tibetan Government and people, in making a round of calls on high Chinese Government officials, according to the "Sin Wan Pao."
Tae annual soiree of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will take place in the Society's Auditorium at 20 Museum Road on Thursday. Tea will be served between 5 and 6.30 p.m. when entertainment in the form of coloured motion pictures accompanied with appropriate music will be provided After the president, Mr. A. H. George, gives his welcoming speech. Mr. A. de C. Sowerby wil) give a brief talk on the subject "The Role of Science in the World Today." Members are earnestly invited io attend this important function.
'THe ambulance corps consisting of 40 persons and organized by a British Masonic Lodge, has now arrived at Kweiyang to carry out relief work among the Chinese wounded, says the "Chinese American Daily News." The party set out from London for China last summer. It originally called for 180 persons, but subsequently had to limit the number to 40. Twelve members of the Lodge are due to leave England shortly for China, white 25 others are still undergoing a course of training, adds the report The members of the ambulance corps are well qualified doctors, who have served with various British hospitals in England. Since its arrival in China, this corps has been considerably expanded by admitting a number of Chinese and American medical doctors into its organization.
A FEELING of confidence and calm prevails among the Chinese population of Hongkong, in spite of the Far Eastern tension, the "Shun Pao" reports. An evacuation ship which was due to leave Hongkong on December 1, with Chinese passengers for evacuation, cancelled the trip when it was found that only a small number of passengers in leave. Many small patròl units are maintaining on the qui vive in various rts of Hongkong, Kowloon, and the ased Territory boundaries, the report adds. " Pro. Chungking, Chinese Pao" the' Kuo Min Jih Pao", the newspapers, ssu as "Ta Kung
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