1938-01-15 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1938.

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MR. CHAO CHI TO BE MAYOR OF TSINGTAO UNDER PEIPING Japanese Programme For New Puppet Organisation

THE

TWO RIVALS FOR

POST NOT HIGHLY

FAVOURED

Tsingtao, To-day.

MECHANISING INDIAN ARMY

London, To-day. Mechanisation of the Indian

The latest order covers four In- dian cavalry regiments, which are being mechanised forthwith, with tanks and armoured cars.Trans- Ocean.

Mr. Chao Chi, Director-General of the Tsing- Army is proceeding apace. tao administration under the former Peiping re- gime, will most probably be appointed Governor of Tsingtao by the Peiping "provisional government," which has assumed jurisdiction over the port, ac- cording to reports.

Supporting these reports, a despatch has been

HUNGARY

received stating that Mr. Chao is en route to Tsing- CLOSES DOORS

tao by steamer although he has two rivals for the post, namely, Mr. Wen Shou-teh, another former Governor, and Mr. Chu Hsuan-peng, commander of the provincial troops in Mr. Wen's time.

Choice of Mr. Chao is most like-

ly as he is persona grata with the BRITAIN'S ATTACK

ON CANCER

Japanese and popular socially with the foreigners.

It is expected that the five- barred flag will be hoisted if and

when he assumes office.

Tsingtao was the last place in

CHAIN OF RADIUM CENTRES PLANNED

China to haul down the old flag on HOPE OF AID FROM

the occasion of Mr. Chao's de- parture on May 8, 1929,

Before leaving, Mr. Chao gave in- structions for the flag to fly over the administration building until his ship left port for Dairen.

GOVERNMENT

AMOY BRANCH OF BANK OF TAIWAN SEIZED

Tokyo, To-day.

A Japanese report says that the Chinese military authorities at Amoy have seized the branch offices of the Bank of Formosa, (Taiwan?) which they have been using as their offices since January

3.

The information says that Chin-

dents in Amoy is

ese oppression worse, resi-

and

Budapest, To-day.

two Formosans, one an executive No Jewish emigration member of the Formosan Assocía- from Rumania is to be allowed into Hungary.

This decision was taken by the

Hungarian Council of Ministers

tion in Amoy and the other secre- tary, were recently executed by firing squad.-Reuter.

more charge of the Cuban Consulate.

yesterday, which ordered thorough control measures at the frontier.

Mr. T. Nakamura appointed Ja-

Mr. D. E. Davis to be an Assis- tant Analyst, I. and E. D.

In a press statement, the Pre-panese Consul-General at H. K. mier, M. Daranyi, declared that Jews from Rumania would under no circumstances be given a visa to enter Hungary, and a transit visa would be issued only when A chain of radium treatment cen-passports contain a valid visa for tres covering the whole country and another country.-Trans-Ocean.

basis is organised on a national foreshadowed in the annual report of the Radium Commission.

FOUR YEARS MAYOR

The Commission believes that, to He was Governor and Mayor from July, 1925, to May, 1929, when he secure a reasonable standard of ser- vice for the treatment of cancer the in left as a political refugee face of the advancing Nationalist cases throughout the country, “there is need for the whole problem to troops.

be attacked by the Government along national lines."

Mr. Chao returned to Tsingtao after Admiral Shen Hùng-lich was appointed Mayor, and remained until last September when he went

to Tientsin.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS

The following official appoint- ments, etc. are announced in the "Government Gazette":

Mr. H. R. Butters to be Police

The Government, it is understood has been approached by the Com-Magistrate, Kowloon. mission, and it is hoped that some

Hon. Mr. T. H. King resumed Railway guards and employees of scheme may be created by which a

the cost of duty as Commissioner of Police. the Kaotsi Railway yesterday contribution towards marched to the police station. They treatment in regional centres might were requested to leave the premises be made through local authorities on as the South Manchuria Railway is the basis of so much per patient. taking over.

It is stated in the report that only The Japanese army; į they added, at present is taking an a proportion of cancer cases suitable Mr. W. Elliott to be an Inspector inventory.-Reuter,

for radiotherapy treatment is reof Labour, Factories and ceiving that treatment.

SOLDIER ACCUSED OF WOUNDING HORSE

Tall Amputated Geoffrey Edward Ellis, the son of a civil servant occupying a high position, whose name was writtepl down in court, was committed for trial at Surrey quarter sessions; on charge of feloniously wounding a horse.

Bail was allowed;

An inspector of the R.S.P.C.A. said he was called to a field at Ash

Vale, near Aldershot, where

a

treatment Outlming the type centre required, the Commission states that it must:

Mr. R. R. Todd to be Protector Labour.

shops...

Work

Mr. DW. Phillips to be an Assis tant. Inspector of Labour, Factories Have accommodation for not and Workshops,

fewer than 300 beds; Maintain facilities for permitting. the treatment of at least 400 new cancer patients every year;

Employ a whole-time radiothera-

pist and physicist;

Keep fully occupied at least one gramme of radium; and Possess a deep X-ray apparatus, as well as having consultants for all departments.

horse appeared to have tethered to The Commission states that

a wire border fence. Later, at the plan such as is indicated

house of Mr. William Jarrett, ofceive immediate support from both Fleet,

shown Sterinary surgeon, he was the

the tail of a horse. There and statutory hos-

from the universities,

were four deep gashes through to colleges" of surgeons and physicians.

bone on the tail.

the

In a statement alleged to have Vale and saw a horse în a field, the been made to the police, Ellis said After riding it he tied it to

off he was serving in the Royal Scots fence and tried to cut its tail Greys,

stationed at Hounslow with his clasp knife. The horse be- While staying on leave with friends came restive and he was not able | at Farnborough he went to Ash to complete the the job.

Comdr. W. N. Kingdom to be an Officer Instructor to the H.K.N.V.F.

Mr. Yeung Ngok-sang, Malarial Inspector, appointed for the work of mosquito. elimination.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Course of nine public lectures

The

on

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS

Sixth

lecture of this course will be given in the China Fleet Club Theatre

on

Monday, 17th January, 1938, at 5.30p.m.

Subject:

Effects and character- istics and measures for protection against Mustard Gas-

Lecturer: Lieutenant-Comman- der B. M Douglas, Open to all members of the public without charge.

of

Programmes of the course lectures may be obtained on appli- Dr. P. B. Wilkinson to be an Of- cation to the Extra Assistant Co- lonial Secretary, Colonial Secre- ficial Justice of the Peace.

Dr. G. DR. Black resumed tary's Office.

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