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THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 18, 1937
CHINA EXPRESSES DISAPPOINTMENT WITH U.S.
Washington, To-day.
China has diplomatically expressed grave dis- appointment at President Roosevelt's action in im- posing a partial embargo on munition shipments to the Far East by forbidding Government-owned ships to carry such cargoes.
The Chinese Ambassador, Dr. C. T. Wang, has formally protested to the Secretary of State, Mr.
"PEARL OF THE PACIFIC" Cordell Hull, against President Roosevelt's partial
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Major A. A Longden, D.S.0.,
tion over this indirect help to Ja-OB.E., has been appointed Direc pan and direct damage to China.tor of Art at next year's Empire
Exhibition, it is announced.
Chinese Embassy officials. state that Dr. Wang had received no in- structions to make an official pro- test
Major Longden, who has recently retired from the position of Art Adviser to the Department of Overseas Trade, is an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and was respon- sible for the exhibitions of Dutch, Mr. Cordell Hull, announcing Italian, Persian and Chinese Art at China's protest at a press confer-Burlington House.
NERVOUS STRAIN
ence yesterday, said that President Roosevelt's action is a Government order which speaks for itself..
He has himself exhibited at the Royal Academy and at many other exhibitions, and has organised the
Dr. C. T. Wang, after a confer-art sections of British displays at ence with Mr. Cordell Hull, which International exhibitions all lasted half an hour, left the White the world. - House obviously labouring under nervous strain.-Reuter..
The Place of Arts in Glasgow is At to be a permanent building. the close of the exhibition it is to pass into the possession of the Glas gow Corporation. It is being con- structed on the most modern lines, and building has already begun.
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The Palace of Arts, designed by Mr. Thomas S. Tait, architect of the China's most famous modern exhibition, is approximately 15,000 literateur and scholar, Dr. Hu square feet in size. It is to be sur- Shih, who arrived in the Colony rounded by a garden for the dis- yesterday to leave for America by play of sculpture.
the Hong Kong Clipper will now leave in the Clipper to-morrow.
Dr. Hu Shih, who was formerly Professor in Chinese of the McGill University, was largely instrumental in bringing about a sympathetic un- derstanding between China and America
Dr. Hu Shih, is leaving on z "short trip," but, it is under- stood that he has been entrusted with a highly important mission.
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A long series of severe earth tremblings, accompanied by loud underground rumblings, shook the island of Hvar, one of thế most po- Dalmatian pular resorts on the Coast in Yugo-Slavia.
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Many houses and several churches were badly damaged dur ing shocks. Ships at sea are re- ported to have shaken violently for some minutes."
A field near the village of Pitva sank over three feet, while in a church at Stari Grad the head of the statue was severed from the body
The shocks have been repeated at 12-hour intervals, for two or three day. Holiday-makers fled from three days. Holiday-makers died from their houses in panic at the first shock
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