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Japanese Currency.
Owing to the scarcity of small coins the Japanese Government his promulgated
ad urgency
ordinance, satharising the itene of em paper money, in de- | nominations of ten, twenty sud fili san. to the amount of ten. million Yeo ecoh.
I Sheagha! Fire Brigade, Mr. M. W. Peu, in the Shang- hai Fire Brigade Report for September, states that the total number of calls to fires, or sup posed fires, during the mouth was 14 as against 13 for the corres ponding month last year. The damage on assessed property with in the Settlement is estimated at Ts. 30,200 (Forajan, Tis. 500; Chimber, Tis, 29,700), ss against T 0,010 (Foreign, Tis, 1,750; Chico, Tle. 3,260) daring Subtember 1916. The property atrak is estimated at Tls. 240,000 (Foreign, Tia 106,000; Ohinese, Tle. 140,000), te against T129,250 (Foreigo. Tix. 100,000; Chinese, Tia. 29,250) for the corresponding period last yser:
A War Romance." Aromance of the war--a real romance featuring the Red Cross nurse and the wounded soldier-ended in mariage. st Tokihama istely. It began on the battlefront of Russia. About a Jew ago Kerope Patrossen, an Armmian, was fighting with the Bussins when he was severely wounded in the left arm. Re moved to a hospital behind the lines, he was pureed back to heath by Miss Valentina Boroviky, & Russian girl, who, wishing to serve her country, had becom Bed Cross nurse. When Petrosen recovered he came to Yokohama, but he still wrote. jettern o the Red Crow girl. And the gil arrived in Yokohama recenil. They were married at the reidence of the Rev. G. F. Draper 222 Bloff. They intend leaving soon for Americe, where they all for their mrvices to the Alles.
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Amerián Doctors for Englead. American military doctora are coming to the reacas of the over- world medical profession in
not yet grasped the significanos of the war. He ban not yet res- England. About 200 of them sre
lised that the tragedy is to lear lo Ferre in military, hospitals in
fal that we bave no right to shut Britain while waiting their call to the hospitale to be set up for the
it out from our thought. We United States Army in France,
have no right to seek to forget it, no right to set that it be nok and the number will be increased se other American doctors arrive.
preached from the palpit. Today British civilian doctors have been
che pulpit alcald ring forth with informed that their servioss will
God's call to the manhood and not be required after the end of
the self-sacrifice of the nation."
Going farther, it is found "to next week, says 'a Homs paper to to hand. This will release for enter his palpit. The word the everlasting discredit of many siril practice a number of English puzzle a writer in the Manu palpita in this land and many THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pub- doctors who have hitherto com facturers' Record (New York), religious papers that for more lic Auction on bined that with service in military patting up to him the problem then two years they absolutely hospitals. The towns affected so whether the man anwilling to refused to discuss the greatest far are London, Manchester, hear about the war had already question of morals which the Salford, Liverpool, Edinbargb, heard enough sheat it, or "wild world had érver faced." For the Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cambridge, an absolutely erroneous sence of reason, apparently, that--- Oxford, Brighton, Newcastle-on- the situation felt that the pulpit They would not see the mean-
They The following Valuable Lease-risks Tyne, Leeds, Sheffield, Lincoln, was not the plate in which to ing of the world-war. Leicester, Birmingham, Bristol, discuss the war" The homily would not raise their voice in hold property situate at Victoria Plymouth, Cardiff, and Gosport, read by this journal will have its behalf of the people who were Hongkong and registered as The In due course, it is understood, added effect in coming from a being rathlessly murdered. They Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 1217 together with the shut out the thought of the war, the order will be extended" to sli}. non professional source:- the general military hospitals of
"A man or woman who can they shot out the awful tragedy message thereen known as No.
4 Ripon Terrace, the United Kingdom. The change take that view in this hour of and tried to console themselves only applies to part-time men, world-tragedy, beyond all other with the thought that it was not the unexpired residue of a term most of them over military age. tragedies in human history, has their duty to denounes even of 999 years created therein by a so little conception of the period national murder and raping, but Crown Lease dated the 20th The Kobe Herald says:We through which we are passing to be centrala in thongbt, and December 1892. regret to announce the death of that we might well believe that that they must seek to enoterage Mr. Gordon Stephens, a young had he stood on Calvary when in this country neutrality of member of this community who the Ban of God gave his life for thought at a time when the most has often figured prominently in the world be would soon have fearful moral tragedy which man varione departments of sport here, aid to the pressbere of that day has ever know was being enact especially in cricket. The sadDo not talk about Calvary ed before their very eyes. event took place at bis residence or the Oross. We have heard "These people seem to have in Yamamoto Dori, Kobe, on the enough about it. It is borrible forgotten that story of Dante 28 h alt, after a long illness from lat as put it out of our mind." whore, beneath all other belle, consumption. He was only in his That would have been about the there was provided a still lower thirty-third year. For some years conception of the meaning of the ball for the neutrals in the war of bor, 1917. Mr. Gordon Stephens was oon Crone to a man or a women who good and evil. nected with the firm of Meera. Shewan, Tomes and Co., whose Bervice he left in the hope that
Obituary.
to-day could enggest to a minister "To the discredit of many of the Gospel that the palpit ministers and many religious
is not the place in which papers this was the position
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