THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 20, 1937.
PEACE MOVE IN GERMAN-CZECH
RELATIONS
Paris, To-day.
AIR RAID ON WUCHOW
OIL CRISIS IN MEXICO
STOP PRESS
Wuchow, To-day.
Eight Japanese planes visited!
Mexico City, To-day.
Wuchow yesterday in an at- A serious situation has arisen following the Federal Arbitration Board's decision to increase oil work-
tempted bombing raid on
Kwangsi city.
the
Preliminary talks are In the face of intense AAers wages and social conditions at proceeding between Ber-fire, the planes failed to pene a cost of about £1,500,000 a year to lin and Prague for settle-trate to the centre of the city foreign oil companies.
and their bombs tell chiefly on The latter have issued a statement. ment of the difficulties the river bank opposite the town complaining of a glaring denial of barring Germano-Cze- One bomb narrowly missed the justice and refusing to accept con- AP.C. installation. Hua Nan. cho-Slovakian
sequences that may arise.
friend-
ship, according to press SELF-SUFFICIENCY
reports.
The papers link up M. Yvon Del- bos European tour with the 'talks, in which he is said to have played an important part.
IN ITALY
Rome, To-day Gigantic demonstrations by Italian The following four questions, ac-farmers and peasants were held cording to reports, are now under throughout Italy on Saturday for consideration by Prague and Ber-the purpose of introducing the cam- paign for economic self-sufficiency into the field of agriculture-Trans-
Fin:
Drawing up of an agreement re- Ocean. garding the press.
Mutual settlement of the question of emigrants with the object of suppressing their political propa- ganda,
Authorisation of activity of the political organisation of the Nazi Party, and
Is is believed here that the state- ment may indicate a threat to sus- pend operations all over Mexico.- Renter
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The "China Mail learned this afternoon that two
GOING British military officers and
PRINCE TEH GOING TO HSINKING
Tientsin, To-day.
It is reported here that Prince Teh, the Mongolian leader, is pro-
WOMAN DOCTOR ceeding to Hsinking shortly to AS PROFESSOR
pay a courtesy call on Mr. Pu Y, the puppet Emperor.
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Stockholm To-day. It is expected that, he will arrive The first woman to become: a on December 23 and leave. professor in Sweden, Dr. Anna December 28.
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Examination of cases of Sudeten Schwartz, has just been made pro- It is also reported that the Chin- Germans who have been sentenced fessor of medicine at Stockholm under Czech law. Trans-Ocean. High School-Trans-Ocean.
ese Consul-General in Seoul, Mr. Fan Shang-chen is proceeding to Peiping via Mukden to receive instructions from the provisional government" Our Own Corres- pondent.
LUDENDORFF RELAPSE
Munich, To-day.
General Ludendorff has suffered
a sudden relapse.
The aged. German Great War leader has been ill for some weeks, but recently was stated to be an the road to recovery-Reuter.
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A bulletin issued in the early hours states that General Luden- dorff's condition became critical overnight due to unexpected weak- ness of the heart.
The General had recently made such good progress that physicians yesterday were planning to allow him to leave the nursing home" and return to his villa at Tutzing. Reuter.
a Japanese military officer, named T. Suzuki, were at- tacked by a Chinese mob at Lokmachau yesterday after- noon at 2 pâm. when visiting "the border in company.
As a result of the attack which was made with bam boo poles, Mr. Suzuki is said to be in the Majima Hospi- tal with serious injuries around the chest. One of the British military officers is said to have been slightly in- jured.
The party proceeded to Lok- machan by motor-car, left it on the highway and proceeded on foot to the frontier.
It appears the word was pass- ed around among nearby Chin- ese residents and subsequently a mob of over 100 Chinese made for the group of officers and began to assault them with sticks and bamboo poles.
The Japanese was severey manhandled by the mob and is now lying in the Majima Hos pital at Wanchai
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WEDDING OF LOCAL JOURNALIST
The forthcoming marriage be- tween Mr. Stewart Arthur Gray, of the "Hong Kong Telegraph,” resid- ing at the European YM.C.A., and Miss Freda Elizabeth Godfrey, school teacher, of "Clint Furze- field Avenue Speldhurst, Kent, England, who is en route to the Colony by the ss. Glenapp, has Been announced.
Lee Mui-Cheung,
an resid- ing in Shapo Road, admitted to the Kowloon Hospital suffering from injuries received when she was knocked down by a runaway. horse yesterday.
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