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AMERICAN- RED CROSS DONATIONS
Paris, To-day.
An appeal by the Chinese Red Cross for urgent assistance is meeting with ready response.
The American Red Cross has donated U.S.$130,000, of which US$100,000 will be expended on medical relief and US $30,000 for evacuation of American and other nationals from China.
So states the bulletin of the League of Red Cross-Societies.-- Renter
REPATRIATION OF BASQUE CHILDREN
London, To-day.
The first batch of Basque re- fugee children now being re- patriated, arrived in Bilbao from England last night.
The children, numbering 150, vere accompanied by ten members of the Spanish Government relief committee to the Spanish frontier at Irun,
AGAINST FOOD RIOTS
Shanghai, To-day.
Ironically enough, Chinese resistance at Shanghai came to an end on the occasion of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birthday.
While Japanese flags were flying in the coun- tryside round Shanghai, Chinese flags were hoisted yesterday all over the foreign areas in celebration of the day.
Although the fighting has stop- ped in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis, the fires in Nantao and the country blazed all night, a grim reminder of what had been.
RING OF STEEL Shanghai is now cut off from the hinterland, and the largest city in China is surrounded by a ring of steel
The number of civilians and treeps killed in the fighting will probably never be known, but the casualties on both sides must hav been literally staggering.
The Japanese keep their tradi- tional silence as to their war dead, but foreign quarters estimate the Chinese casualties 23 at least 300,000 killed and wounded.
FOOD SHORTAGE
The hermetic closing of the for- eign areas is leading to a shortage of foodstuffs, especially vegetables and rice, and prices have shot up beween 25 and 500 per cent.
The food situation for foreigners is not immediately serious but the Chinese are feeling the pinch.
The authorities have taken-rigid precautions against food riots. Trans-Ocean.
THE NEW LE BOURGET AIRPORT
Paris, To-day. The newly-reconstructed air- port at Le Bourget, with its ad- ministration buïdings, workshops and restaurants for passengers combining to make one of the fin est airports in the world, was opened yesterday.
The air field has been extend- ed for a square mile, giving bet ter facilities for landing and tak- ng off-Reuter.-
COUP D'ETAT IN
BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro, To-day
The new
Brazilian Government expects to receive the collaboration of friendly nations on whom it counts with sympathy and unalter able friendship, declared the Brazi- lian Foreign Minister in an address to the Diplomatic Corps yesterday. The Minister explained that neï-
HON. A.D.C.'S TO Neware to Dieppe, whence they are being supported by various ther the democratic regime nor the
THE GOVERNOR
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the follow- ing officers to be his Honorary Aides- de-Camp, with effect from 28th Octo- ber, 1937:
Lieutenant Henrique Alberto de Barros Botelho, Hong Kong Volun- teer Defence Corps
Lieutenant Ronald James Douglas Clerk Grieve, Hong Kong ~~^^ Naval Volunteer Force....--
Mr. Fung Fing-fan, St. John Am- bulance Association and Brigade.
Mr. Alfred Reginald Seymour Ma- jor, Hong Kong Police.
Mr. Ts'o Tsun-on, Hong Kong Police Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Richard Lind- say Wallace, Royal Air Force..
Subadar Major Hoshiyar Singh. 1st Battalion, The Kumaon Rifles.
Risaldar and Honorary Lieutenant Hayat Mohamed, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant Commander Reginald Robert Helbert Royal Navy.
Captain James Francis
Wright,
Hong Kong Volunteer fence:
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Second Lieutenant John 1
Bruce Poyntz, 1st Battalion,
Seaforth Highlanders.
Subadar Major Mohamed Hong Kong Brigade, Hong and Singapore Royal Artillery.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Thomas Megarry to
Principal Assistant Colonia). ecretary and Clerk of Councils.
They crossed the Channel from children still in England. They
continued their journey to Irun by benevolent societies and will be representative system would be af- train.
repatriated within the next six fected by promulgation of the new There are now 3,600 Basque weeks. Trans Ocean,
Constitution.-Reuter.
STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT BY KING
For the arst time since their Accession, the King and Queen took the foremost Opening of Parliament o
on October 26. Our photo shows the procession right: By Alr Hail.