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Admiral Little's "Congratulation" To Matsui QUESTION IN THE COMMONS
London, To-day. THE surprising suggestion was made, and prompt- ly denied, in the House of Commons yesterday that Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in- Chief, China Station, had congratulated Gen- eral Matsui, the Japanese commander-in-chief, on the Japanese military success in the Shang- hai area.
Mr.
The suggestion was put in a question to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, by Mr. George Strauss (Labour, North Lambeth). Replying for the First Lord, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Parliamen- tary and Financial Secretary the Admiralty, said that. Admiral Tattle had not congratulated Gen- eraf Matsui on the Japanese mili- tary success, and that therefore the question did not arise.
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Mr. Strauss then asked if the in- formation was given out by the of freial Japanese press agency, both by telegraph and radio, and if he would take steps to deny this both to the Japanese and Chinese Gor
ernments.
Mr. Shakespeare replied: "This question and answer will do that.”
Beuter
LOOTING AT HUNGJAO: EDEN LACKING IN INFORMATION
London, To-day.
The Foreign Secretary, in a written answer in the House of Commons yester- day, said he had not receiv ed reports that Japanese troops had looted houses in the Hungjao Road district of Shanghai occupied by Britishers
REBEL AIR RAID ON ALICANTE
Barcelona, To-day. Thirty-two were killed, sirteen of them children, and 87 injured, in a Nationalist, air raid on Al- cante in the early hours of Satur day, says the Ministry of Nation-
al Defence?
The working class sections of the town suffered the most. Renter
JAPAN PAYS NO COMPENSATION TO AMBASSADOR
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have no hair on your chest! he says, “are found to be
the And for you, madam, if your chins tutionally
physical strength is in no wa Trecede!
ciated with hairiness
For science, bless its little auto- matic heart, has been exploding a personal number of rather fallacies.
Let us start at the top and work our way down.
London, To-day.. "No compensation has been paid by the Japanese Govern ment to the British Ambassador to China," said the Foreign Se cretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, ins, the House of Commons yesterday in reply to a question from Com- mander 0. S. Locker-Lampson (Conservative, Handsworth).
The Foreign Secretary recalled that none had been demanded the British Gov
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Fish is good for the brain. It isn't true that meat should be more thoroughly chewed bread, vegetables or fruit.
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was a sign of intelligence and not be mixed with ptyalin
and she sighed when she that to its successful digestion. at us.
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orts that Mr. Eden had of looting in this district con- cerned retreating Chinese troops.
Mr. Eden replied in the negative After careful consideration the British Government thought it more consonant with the importance of
led the
us
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m the intellectual world
cises in child-
The fallacy is based on another It isn't even true that a drown-
• His Majesty's representatives had
rallacy namely, that people with ing person comes to the done everything possible to protect the occasion to make the compensa large heads have more brains than three times before sinking. British property and compensation tion themselves-Beuter.
would be claimed in every case in which the claim was justified. Reuter.
JAPANESE LOSE THREE BOMBERS
Shanghai, To-day
Japanese planes have
an absence
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AIR RAID ON HONAN AERODROME
Kaifeng, To-day
surface
those with small.
As a general rule, the drowner Equally wrong, explains a phy-goes down once and for all. sician in the American Mercury Equally it is possible for a drow
the idea that *men anding person to come the surface women with receding chins lack half a dozen times the courage of their squarer-jawed gravity of the hu body being
that contemporaries.
only slightly greater Chow- Novels, and nearly all the early water. in central Honan curred Wild West films, fostered this faith It isn't true, they tell
afternoon, when Ja-In the granite jaw.
the mo bombers escorted by three But Science now declares th life flashes befo
planes visited the W1, many 2 hero's chin has receded Just another fallacy, claims bombs on the hangars which badly, white hundreds of jaws have Science
know it doesn'f* damaged in the first and earutted from the pale features of
Death is for all of Experime
The second air-raid
One of three of down-
oped
But how do
bombers was brought As for the more ticklish question ese rifle fre, when it of hair on the chest, forget the sad www very low
story of son, and listen to Dr.com August Thomen
And not