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POLITICAL TENSION
Army Bringing Pressure On Prince Konoye BIG CAMPAIGN Reorganisation Of HAIFA PETROL
Tokyo Cabinet Demanded
IN SHANSI
FORESHADOWED
Shanghai, To-day.
Tokyo, To-day.
DEPOT BOMB TRAGEDIES
JERUSA
TO-DAY.
THE SITUATION IN PALES-
Foreshadowing a large-scale Monday brought no decision in the political crisis EINE HAS SUFFERED A FUR- precipitated by the Nationalists and the mili- THER DETERIORATION AS
campaign by the Chinese Com- mand, to recover territory in Shansi Province, where sweeping saccesses are predicted in view of It the withdrawal of Japanese re- serves for fighting on fronts, it is reliably learned that thirty-two divisions have been concentrated in the Shansi area.
RESULT OF A SERIES OF FRESH OUTRAGES LAST
Six lost their lives when two bombs were hurled near a petrol.
tary party. appears that the Premier, Prince Konoye, is un-EVENING.
willing to concede to the Nationalists, who are other
represented in Parliament only by a small num-depot at Haifa. ber of deputies, but expect to exert greater in- fluence on the direction of affairs by reorgan isation of the Cabinet.
The troops include eleven Cen- tral Government divisions, which
will operate from Tungkwan, The Premier has probably
eleven Shansi divisions, which made sure that the two maler PASTEURISATION
→
will drive towards Taiyuanfu political parties the Minseito from Hoku and Yungning, co-land Seiyukai will support him. operating with three Shensi divi-
sions, two Szechuanese divisions
One of the Seiyukai leaders,
BY-LAWS FOR COUNCIL
The first bomb was thrown at the police station near the petrol depot, and killed four police assistants.
TWO KILLED
Shortly afterwards two police officers were engaged in searching for the culprits in the railway shunting yard when they discover- ed a second bomb, which exploded in the hand of one of the officers
just as he was about to remove it. Both men were fatally injured.
So far no trace of the culprits
been discovered..
and three of the Eighth Route Mr. Yonezo Maeda, declared at the closing season of the party's Army.
executive committee yesterday At to-morrow's meeting of the Fighting is already proceeding that reorganisation of the Cabin-Leagislative Council the Attorney that the by- at several points but the Chin-et will not take place. Mr. Maeda General will move - ese have
not yet thrown their had had a long conference with laws under the heading "Recon- stituted Milk and Reconstituted full weight into the campaign, the Premier on Sunday.
Cream" made by the Urban Coun- being content to test the strength of the Japanese positions. Our
cil under sections 5 and 6 of the 1935, on the 29th day of March, Public Health (Food) Ordinance, 1938, be ap
Own Correspondent.
Ridiculous Canard
WAR MINISTER'S DEMAND
The Army group, in the mean- time, has once more attempted to exert - pressure on the Pre- mier.
According to the newspaper "Hochi Shimbun," the War Min- Shanghai, To-day. ister, General Sugiyama, called Well-informed quarters ridicule on the Premier and demanded E report put out by the Domei that the latter- reorganise the News Agency alleging that Cabinet and take an active part Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. T. V. in organising a new politica! Soong were in Changsha when party which would support the the city was bombed on Sunday Government. Trans-Ocean. and that "since then nothing has been heard of them.”
ARMY DEMANDS
Mr. T. V. Soong is in Hankow
Tokyo, To-day. and the Generalissimo in Chúng-
Activity in political quarters is king. Neither have recently been believed due to the breakdown of to Changsha. Our Own Cor- the Japanese campaign in South respondent.
Shantung, which is leading Army. chiefs to accuse the Government
WEATHER FORECAST of incomplete support It is
Our Own Correspondent.
said that Sugiyama is demanding the invocation of the National The Royal Observatory reports Mobilisation Bil provisions. that a weak anti-cyclone has de. veloped to the north of the lower Yangtse Valley. The depression is
Berlin, To-day. approaching Hokkaido on a NNE. track, and the typhoon probably The Supreme Council of the Ro cists as a depression to the south man Evangelical Church has order west of the Bonins also moving led thanksgiving services to be held -NNE
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