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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 20, 1938.
Game With Golden Bullets: Nazis And British Loan
Berlin, To-day.
"Game with golden bullets” is the heading in a Nazi paper on the message regarding the British Government's intention to grant China credit loans.
All the newspapers display great interest in the re- port, publishing long extracts from the London Sunday papers' speculation.:
The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says,
it will be most important for the progress of the war whether these
DITA PARIO-JOHN LODER-ERICH VON STRONEIM in loans are only an isolated measure
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or represent the beginning of more energetic help for China.
In this event, says the paper, Tokyo will watch the negotiations with great attention.
ECONOMIC DRIVE IN THE
SOUTH-WEST
The
Shanghai, To-day. "Southwestern Economic
If the loan goes further and the Anglo-Saxons take over financing of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and sup- ply him with war material, then the Japanese General Staff will Reconstruction Commission” is to find itself presented with a new.sl-be established on January 1 in tuation.
Chungking, according to reports Supporters of the strategy of from informed Chinese quarters.
Its mission will be to increase wearing down the enemy will lose ground, and to them also the me- economic production and to exploit thod of war. Then the time for the natural wealth of the south- heavy military blows must come western provinces.
a new advance west- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will be Premier and ward into Hunan and to Chung-Chairman and the king must be started.-Reuter.
again, and
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, To-day.
The International Settlement and French Concession are at present in the grip of a ser- ious spread of smallpox which threatens to become an epide- mic.
intensive precau
Finance Minister, Dr. H. H. Kung, deputy chairman.
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Members of the commission, are said to include the Minister of Com- munications and Economics, the Vice-Premier and the Governors of Szechuen, Yunnan, and Kwei- chow provinces.
All members of the Commission will be present in Chungking for the inauguration. ceremony.
Foreign observers. see in this Commission, further proof that the Chinese Government is determined to carry on resistance. Trans- Ocean.
NAVAL OFFICER and free vaccinations, IN CAR CRASH
Despite tions
273 new cases were reported in the past week, including twelve foreigners.
Deaths during the week to- talled 74 Chinese and four for-. eigners.-Reuter.
EXCEEDED THEIR ORDERS
Hankow, To-day.
Lieut. H. D. T. Duffin, R.N of H.M.S. Parthian, was in- volved in a motor smash at about 1 a.m. on the Stubbs Road just above the Lingnan University premises. It is un- derstood that Lieut. Duffin was dazzled by the headlights on an oncoming car and crash- ed into a wall.
No-one was injured, but the car was slightly damaged,
TRAFFIC CASES
Following a public protest by leading foreigners in the French Concession yesterday against the action of Japanese sentries, who refused to allow foreigners to bring personal provisions into struction in Queen's Road Central the Concession, interference on December 6, Mrs. L. W. Shewan.
was cautioned by Mr. R. A. D. with foreigners has ceased.
Summoned for causing
an ob-
On Sunday a number of for- Forrest at the Central Magistracy eigners' cars were stopped at the this morning. gates of the Concession, the oc-
Mrs. N. Gilmore, of No. 360, The cupants ordered out and the vehi- Peak, was cautioned for a similar
offence, cles ransacked.
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It has since been semi-officially Mr. K. A. Watson, of the Hong, explained that the sentries ex-Kong and Shanghai Bank, was ceeded their orders.
cautioned for parking in Welling- The embargo against Chinese ton Street. ginners A speciality Summoned at Kowloon before taking food into the French Advanced courses. Mo Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen for speed-Concession remains. Reuter: dern Ballroom Tango Tap. Expert Tuition. TONY'S ANCE STUDIO 6th Fl. China Bldg., 12-A Tel. 80088.
ing in Nathan Road, Mr. Curtis, of 32, Hillwood Road, was fined $8, Wan.
For a similar offence, a similar Mr. J. G. Brown, of Kowloon fine was imposed on Mrs. M. H. Docks, was fined $5 for leaving his Schmidt, of Texas Company, Taun car unattended in Salisbury Road.
About 8,200 duck eggs and four bags of rice, of a total value of $210 were stolen, from a small boat which was boarded by three armed men near Un Long Creek on Sunday night.