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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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WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

OOD news for you, sir, if you

*Some of the hardest

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

ed if thi

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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.

The reverse is the truth, in fact. The digestion of bread begins in A high forehead, mother taught the mouth and, if not chewed, will

was a sign of intelligence and not be mixed with ptyalin

and she sighed when she that to its successful digestion. at us.

Dit's

the Smithsonia States, ments

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anthropologist of Tnstitution in the

ive: eri

the hair ne

conclusion the

of truth an

essen-

But meat is a protein itself, an the chewing is, therefore, not es- sential

It isn't true that some people are double-jointed, because there isn't such a thing double Joint.

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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

If there is, he adds, we acknowledge the Eskimo as tops result boods

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

nese posi

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

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