THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1937.
JAPAN FAILS TO FIND PUPPET LEADER
Peiping, To-day.
No leading Chinese personality has yet been found willing to assume leadership of the pro-
STANDSTILL
AGREEMENT RENEWED
London, To-day.
The Standstill. Agreement has been renewed for a further period. of one year without any essential alterations in the credit agreement on the foreign indebtedness of Germany-Tranз-Ocean..
Japanese "government" SEND
which was proclaimed in Peiping on Tuesday..
The executive committee of the new “government" has been formed under the chairmanship of the former military governor of Kiangsu, Gen. Chi Hsieh-yuan.
The reconstruction department is headed by the leader of the Anfu clique, Wang 1-tang, while the educa tion department has been entrusted to Tang Er-bo.
DE VALERA TO
MINISTER TO ROME
Dublin, To-day.
A motion for sending an Irish Free State Minister to Rome has been approved by the Dail yester day by 72 votes to 11
The vote was preceded by a lively debate in which a Labour member supported by several opposition mem- Military and foreign office depart-bers, expressed the view that de 1 ments have not yet been formed.-spatch of a Free State Minister to Trans-Ocean.
PANAY
VICTIMS
ARRIVE BY PLANE
Shanghai, To-day.
Three of the Panay wounded. including Lt. Com. Hughes, arrived
in Shanghai by Japanese flyingboat
Rome would be tantamount to re- cognition of Italian sovereignty over Abyssinia.
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President Eamon de Valera plied that it would simply mean de facto recognition of the Falian Eno- pire and not de jare recognition
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1220-930. survivors of the sink Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell ing are aboard H.M.S. Ladybird and and General Sir Harry Knox, who
•U.S.S. Oahu, which, accompanied by retired in order to make way for a Japanese gunboat and mings- younger men in the Army Higher weepers, are expected in Shanghai Command, were received in audience
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According to latest reports, for eign casualties in the Panay affair include 11 wounded, while Chinese casualties are still unknown.
A Japanese statement says that some of the airmen responsible have already been punished, while others have been sent back to Japan in disgrace." Trans-Ocean.
ANTI-SEMITISM TO ITS LAST SQUEEZE
Berlin, To-day
Renaming Jews who hold res ponsible business positions, will removed by next March, according to a declaration by General Her mann Goering yesterday:
Jews will not be allowed enter public offices unless required to do so, while Jewish names will be erased from oncerns which have already been taken over Germans.
German nationals living Jestish-owned houses must move, cost of removal to be borne by the Government Reuter
by the King at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning on relinquishing their appointments as Chief of the General to the Forces respectively.- Imperial General Staff and Adjutant
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M. DELBOS NOW IN PRAGUE
Prague, To-day Following his visits to Warsaw, Bucharest and Belgrade, the French Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, arrived here yesterday.
He was met at the station by the Czecho-Elovakian Foreign Minister and other high officials, and was warmly cheered by crowds in the streets, which were decorated with
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