THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1938.
POLICE
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MIDNIGHT RAIDS
IN CENTRAL DISTRICT Uncovering Of Big Forgery Organisation
Three Women Included Among Sixteen Arrested
The organisation of a gang of forgers, whose acti- vities extended into distant provinces in the interior of China and who operated on a large scale, was unearthed by the Hong Kong Police shortly after mid-night yesterday, when 16 per-
-RIBBENTROP
TAKES OVER
Berlin, To-day.
Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, newly appointed Foreign Minis- ter, assumed his post yesterday morning.
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He was introduced to the staff of the Foreign Office by Baron von Neurath, whom he succeeds. -Reuter.
THREE MILLION
IN U.S. LOSE THEIR JOBS
Washington, To-day.
A supplementary appropriation of approximately £50,000,000 for relief expenditure to meet recent unemployment increases, is asked
sons, including three women, were arrested in HEAVY RAID ON by President Roosevelt in a special
three different houses during police raids in the central district.
Acting on information received through investiga-
tions which had been proceeding for some time, the Police, headed by European officers, carried out raids shortly after mid-night in Connaught Road Central, Wing Lok Street and Wellington Street.
It is stated that over 1,000 forged banknotes purporting to be notes of the Bank of Canton, and the Bank 14 of Kwangsi, were found in the pre- mises, which were also equipped
"REFERENCE
with different machines and imple- LIBRARIES"
ments used in the manufacture of bank notes.
SMUGGLED BY AIR?
The police also seized documents, which, it is alleged, revealed that the activities of the gang extended far into the interior of China.
Several other articles, suggesting that the gang smuggled forged bank- notes into the interior by air, were also discovered.
PRINCE BIRABONGSE'S WEDDING
London, To-day. Prince Birabongse of Siam at tended his second marriage cere- mony with Miss Beryl Heycock, according to English law, at Ken- sington Register Office yesterday.
PROPOSED
Tokyo, To-day.
With the assistance of the For- eign Office, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and other major economic organisa- tions, next April are opening a reference library in New York "to aid in the dissemination of correct information on Japan," Foreign Office officials have revealed.
Similar libraries are being estab- lished in the principal cities of the world later.
The announcement followed close on the heels of a letter from Yusuku Tsurumi, leader of the Minseite Party, who is sojourning in New York 48 a "goodwill envoy," urging the establishment of reference fibraries abroad.
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The Prince married Miss Hey- cock, who is the only daughter of The project is supported by the Lt. Col. and Mrs. P. R. Heycock, at Japanese Society for International and other cul- the Siamese Legation on January Cultural Relations 12. Reuter.
Itural societies. Reuter.
Insurgents Gain Important Victory On Teruel Front
London, To-day.
AFTER a week's fighting the insurgents have gained a big victory north of the Teruel front, where they have taken the mountain range which has been in the hands of the Govern- ment since the beginning of the civil war.
This strategic position had been of 7,000 prisoners, as well as large a threat to insurgent communication quantities of war supplies. with Saragossa and its capture now removes the menace isolating Sara- gossa from the outside world
The insurgents claim the capture
The Government admit insurgent successes at a number of points but asserts that the enemy's casualties were extremely heavy-Reuter.
CHANGSHA
Shanghai, To-day.
message to Congress.
During the last three months, 3,000,000 persons have lost their jobs, said the President.
The new appropriations will be spent almost entirely in industrial the motor
Largest raid in yesterday's acti- centres, particularly vities of the Japanese air force manufacturing cities, where it was was on Changsha, capital of Hu- recently estimated
of workers
over 75 per are totally
nan, important to the Central Gov-cent. ernment by reason of its ore de- partially unemployed.—Reuter. posits.
A squadron of Japanese planes TOKYO PLANS on the way to Hupeh province. was
attacked in the air by Chinese ma- FOR WAR.
chines, believed by the Japanese
to be of Soviet manufacture. WOUNDED
The spokesman said he was not yet aware of the outcome of the encounter.-Trans-Ocean.
or
Tokyo, To-day. Extensive plans for relief of of. ficers and men wounded in the John Lee, a student, living at China war have been completed by Morrison Hall, has reported the the Ministry of Public --Welfare loss of a coat and book valued $38 with an appropriation of 6,000,000 from the St. Joseph's Football
yen. Ground, at Happy Valley, while he
was playing in a league game.
The Ministry is establishing in
Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, schools to teach incapacitated soldiers use- ful trades.
Twenty-one - cases of smallpox were reported to the local Health
Less seriously wounded officers Authorities in the last 24 hours. and men will be given financial as- Sixteen were in Victoria, and 5 in sistance on entering engineering Kowloon.
and agricultural schools. Reuter.
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