THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1988.
FINANCIAL OF CHINA
SUPPORT DEMANDED
Paris Peace Campaign Conference Resolution
SEVERE FLOODS Demand For Powers'
CAUSE HAVOC IN AMERICA
New York, To-day.
Implementation
Of Promises
Paris, To-day.
GUERILLAS
ROUND SHANGHAI
Shanghai, To-day. Confirming the rumours of guerilla activity in the vicinity of Shanghai, passengers on board the French liner, Felix Roussel,
are The International Peace Campaign Conference, have reported upon arrival here
The New England States battling severe floods, with whole communities being marooned and crops washed out of the ground. Roads and bridges have been swept away.
Serious floods have been experi- enced elsewhere in the United
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sheep country around San Saba, Texas
which has been in session here under the chair- manship of Lord Cecil, President of the League of Nations Union, yesterday passed a Resolu-
as having seen a Japanese des- -troyer shelling the shore near the mouth of the Yangtse and also the Japanese troops on shore using ar- tillery. Reutër.
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tion with regard to the bombing of open towns. DACOITS
States, including the picturesque The resolution begins by demanding that the sup- ply of anti-aircraft armaments should be un- hindered and insists that financial aid be given to countries that are victims of aggression.
The national deathroll has been set at eight, while there are re-
ported to homeless.
be thousands
rendered
The resolution urges that an embargo should be placed on the
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, has petroleum and metals for the suffered the worst,
the
The tobacco growers in North- East Connecticut complain of loss of a million dollars as the estimated damage to their crops.
The cotton crop is reported to have been severely damaged in Georgia. Reuter.
ARMED MOTOR BANDITS IN KOWLOON
aggressor and that the Spanish BLACKOUT AT
and Chinese threatened by bomb- ing should be evacuated.
*The Conference has, · Reuter learns, decided to organise a peti- tion against the bombing of all countries, entrusted to the Bureau of Universal Peace, and to organise
Commissions to visit bombed cities. -Reuter.
-LOANS TO CHINA
WUCHOW
Wuchow, To-day. Wuchow experienced the excite- day when an alarm was given of a ment of its first black-out on Satur possible nocturnal visit by Japanese planes at 10.20 p.m.
ON NORTH-WEST FRONTIER POST
Bannu, To-day.
On the North-West Fronts #le
were killed and 24 wounded raid on Bannu by 300 dacoits belonging to the Waziris and other tribes.
ant points near the frontier Con- The raiders occupied import- stabulary Post, the Police Station
The alarm was The dead includes three dacoits Central and 12 others have been arrested.
Reuter.
and outside the Parade Ground. No hostile planes appeared over
After firing had proceeded for the city, and it was later learned fire and looted 25 shops.
half an hour, the dacoits set on that the Japanese fliers had chang- The resolution dealing specified their course. |cally with China, undertook to give lifted at 11.10 p.m.
China the help which was guaran- News. teed by the Nine-Power Treaty, the Covenant and the Kellogg Pact and to oppose any settlement incom- patible with the integrity of China. It also advocated loans to China, again operating in the Colony, the organised boycott of Japanese after an interval of some con-products and the stoppage, of war- siderable time.ne
materials and petroleum.-Reuter.
Armed
motor bandits are
Last night, in Ashley Road, Kowloon, at med with revolvers, about 9 p.m., four men, two held up Lai Kam-ming, of 34, Canton Road, robbed him of $250 and made off in a car which was
"VANISHED"
standing nearby with its engine AMERICAN
running.
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It moved off without head-
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lights or rear light.
WORLD DANCING CHAMPIONS
Danzig, To-day,
MAKES A REPORT
Following the receipt of var- ious reports regarding his move- ments, Mr. William C. Sage, American business. man who left the Gloucester Hotel at 8 a.m. on July 18 and apparently vanished, his “dis-
The World Championship in appearance" being reported to the amateur dancing was held in police by the management of the Kurhaus of Zoppot on Sunday, Bel-hotel on Saturday, visited the gium, Denmark, Germany, Danzig, Water Police yesterday and end- England, Esthonia, France, Holland,ed fears that he may have come Italy, Yugoslavia, Norway, Switzer to some harm. land, Czechoslovakia and Turkey "participating.
The dances included the Foxtrot,
Mr. Sage also reported at the American Consulate this morning, following which the “China Mail
the Tango, the slow Foxtrot, thè was informed that Mr. Sage had
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gone to Canton, returning yester- day, and had omitted to tell any one of his intentions.
He is now staying at the Euro Copenhagen, pean, Y.M.C.A. and is leaving for
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