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CHINA YEAR BOOK
(1988 Edition)
EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E..
The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented) Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures) Chinese Art-
Chinese Army and Navy.
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
Royal octavo, 620 pages, cloth bound, $18 net.
Obtainable at all booksellers or from the publishers; THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD. P.O. Box 707, Shanghai
THE CHINA MAIL APRI
JAPAN EXPECTING F
Escalator Clause
Comment In Tokyo
Tokyo, To-day.
The possibility that Britain, France and the United States will approach Japan again, "though fully realising that their notes will be disre garded," in order to avoid the consequences of invoking the escalator clause in the London Naval Treaty, is forecast by the "Asahi Shim- bun."
The newspaper expects a three-power conference to be held in London shortly because of the "vari- ed views as to tonnage and calibres, and the complex domestic politics and the delicate in- ternational relations involved.”.
SUDETEN DELEGATION
MEET HODZA
Prague, Yesterday.
Three delegates of the Sudeten Party were receiv- ed by the Czecho-Slovakian Premier, Dr. Milan Hodza, to-day.
The leader of the Sudeten Ger- IANS stated that the proposed Minority Statute was unfair and unjust, and unless the German minority was given equal rights and full autonomy, the peace of Europe would be jeopardised.
The “Asahi adds that Japan must make it clear that the Bri- tish and American decisions wil affect Japan's national defence plans and will make it imperative! for Japan to re-examine not only her capital ship programme but also her cruiser and other con- struction plans.
The "Nichi Nichi" asserts that Britain will secretly be elated as the United States' big ship and big gun plans steadily progress, bceause Britain's basic policy in the Orient, the paper declares, is to bring pressure to bear on Japan. Reuter.
GERMANY'S INTEREST
Berlin, Yesterday. Informed quarters in Berlin state that Germany will be dir- The Government ban on politi- ectly affected by any decision cal meetings for a month, is in by England to increase the ton- armament of her order "to prevent irresponsible page and discussion of the minority ques-battleships. tion."
The leader of the Sudetens, Dr. Franek, declares that the step was unconstitutional, but has ad- vised the Sudeten Germans to obey the decree-Reuter.
CONCENTRATION CAMP FIRE
Vienna, To-day.
The former concentration camp
It is pointed out that under the Agreement of 1935, Germany un- terms of the Anglo-German Naval dertook to limit her fleet to 35 per cent. of the British Navy.
Should Britain, therefore, de- cide to go beyond the limits estab- lished by the Treaty, this would automatically react on the Anglo- German Agreement. Trans- Ocean.
GRACIE FIELDS
London, Yesterday. of Woellersdorf in which ́ ́thou- Gracie Fields has been appoint- sands of Austrian National-ed an officer of the Sister Order Socialists had been interned under lof St. John of Jerusalem.. the old regime was set on fire and The famous Variety completely destroyed on Saturday ceived the CB.E. in the New Year evening-Trans-Ocean.
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