THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1989
HUNGARIANS AND SLOVAKS NEGOTIATE AND FIGHT
TALKS OPEN
WHILE NEW INVASION OCCURS
Bratislava, To-day.
Hungarian irregulars and free corps units are re-
ROOSEVELT "EMINENT CITIZEN"
Havana, March 22, Amid frenzied applause, the
naming President Roosevelt of the United States an eminent citizen of the Americas" for the defence
ported yesterday to have entered Slovakia Senate to-day approved the bill across the southern frontier at Medzev, where they are attempting to occupy frontier villages. of democracy in the new world. At the same time, fighting on the eastern frontier
of Slovakia is reported to be subsiding. Negotiations to settle out- The Slovak and Hungarian de- standing questions between legations held their first session Hungary and Slovakia began at in the afternoon. midday. Reuter.
A
AIR RAID DEAD
Budapest
from
The Senate decided to hold a solemn session during which an official document to this effect will be handed to the United - States Ambassador, Mr. Joshua Butler Wright.—Havas.
Trans-Ocean says, that the total CHINESE TROOPS CARRY
losses of Hungarian troops and
civilians
at Ungvar in conse- quence of the Slovak air raids on March 23 and 24, were 23 killed and 55 wounded. Fourteen houses were destroyed.
military
OUT SUCCESSFUL
During raidary operations in WITHDRAWAL AT NANCHANG
the past few days, Hungarian troops are said to have captured 360 Slovak and 261 Czech sol- diers.
FIRST MEETING
Shanghai, To-day.
DR. BENES
CONSECRATES LIFE FOR FREEDOM
Democracies Warned Of Peril
Chicago, March 19. Henceforth, all his efforts will be consecrated to the "fight for Czecho-- alovakian independence," Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of the Czechoslovakian Republic and now lecturer at the University of Chicago, stated to-day in a radio broadcast.
"Those who committed this crime of annexation will be punish- ed by God,, he asserted. "There is already war. Peace and order cannot reign as long as this crime. is not undone.
.
"Not only Britain, France, and the Scandinavian and Balkan coun- tries, but the whole world is threa- . tened in its normal' and humani- tarian conceptions."
In conclusion, he warned the United States not to tolerate Nazi activities within its borders.
All reports upon the creation of a "provisional, Czechoslovakia Gov-
States,
are
"premature," Dr.
earlier reports from New York.---
Nanchang, provincial capital of Kiangsi, was en-ernment" with its seat in the United tered for the first time in the past 800 years by Eduard Benes stated this evening. enemy armed forces late last night, when the He was credited with intentions of Japanese, after crossing the river under cover creating just such a government in of an artillery bombardment, marched into the Havas. city through one of the south gates. fighting occurred in the city for all the Chinese had withdrawn southwards. Over 60 Japanese planes cruised continually over the ruined city all night.
The Slovak Secretary in the Foreign Office headed the Slo- vakian delegation which arrived in Budapest yesterday morning for the negotiations to settle the frontier between Slovakia and No Carpatho-Ukrainė.
BISHOP STIRS PASSIONS IN BELGIUM
This morning at dawn the Chinese started, shelling and a sharp artillery duel is in progress. Japanese aircraft were sent out this morning to allence the Chinese artillery posts, but, according to the latest messages received here to-day, the Chinese guns were still BRUSSELS, TO-DAY.
in action against the Japanese. CONSIDERABLE STIR HAS
Thousands of Japanese troops are BEEN AROUSED FOLLOWING THE READING OF A PASTORAL reported to be pouring into the oc- LETTER BY THE BISHOP OF cupied city from across the river. LIEGE IN THE DISTRICTS OF They are crossing in small boats and the damaged portion of the EUPEN AND MALMEDY, CEDED
blown up bridge is being hastily TO BELGIUM BY: GERMANY repaired by Japanese sappers.
No Japanese troops have been The Bishop warned the popula-ordered to follow up the Chinese tion against Nazi candidates and and all are now resting in the city. racial theories in the coming elec-
Qur Own Correspondent.
AFTER THE GREAT WAR.
tions.
Following the Bishop's announce- ment, demonstrations occurred in several Roman Catholic churches.
OFFICIAL CLAIM
Shanghal, To-day. In one church the congregation
The Japanese have only Just walked out, and outside another church a crowd collected and de-was occupied yesterday.
officially announced that Nanchang
monstrated.
They add that a Japanese flying cut the Cheklang Kiangsi, allway, the vital transportation artery in Central China:
JAPS. ARREST
EMPLOYEES alleged that the Chinese rear-
N.Y.K.
Shanghai, To-day.
that over
It is reliably learned
100 Chinese employees have ~1
detained by the Japanese military authorities following the outbreak
of the mysterious fire at the
godowns last week.
It is
guard, resorted to "dcorched earth” actics, and that many fires were started in Nanchang-Reuter.
Budapest, To-day. Bill tighter up existing legislation against the Jews was
reste lay
The arrested men have not yet read a third time without debate in been released and their fate is un- the Lower House known. Our Own Correspondent, Trans-Ocean.
CZECH BILL
BRITISH PAPERS SEIZED BY GESTAPO
Berlin, March 21. This morning's edition of every British newspaper, including "The arrival con German soil by the Gestapo (se- London, To-day. cret police). The seizure was due The Czecho-Slovak (Restriction on to reports on the Central European Banking Accounts) Bill yesterday situation which appeared in passed its third-reading and ceived the Royal Assent.-Reuter.
papers. Havas. ·
BECOMES LAW-Times, was seized upon
re-
Tested Germs Of Death On Themselves
the
· LONDON, MARCH, 14, some reason failed to develop the HOW SCIENTISTS HAVE RISK- disease.
ED, AND IN SOME CASES Wright thought that he had In- SACRIFICED, THEIR LIVES BY vented a vaccine which would make | INFECTING THEMSELVES him immune to Malta fever. So WHICH he injected the germ into himself to WITH THE DISEASES THEY WERE STUDYING, IS show whether he had a
[ ́acquired im- TOLD BY DR. JOSEPH W. BIG-munity. He had not. GER OF DUBLIN, IN HIS BOOK Four Americans, Carroll, Lazear,
MAN AGAINST MICROBE”.
Reed and Agramont, set out to test (ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES
the theory that yellow fever was PRESS, 78. GD.).
due to the bit of the mosquito. They Metchnikoff, the Russian biolo-lived in a hut, wearing the clothing wanted to prove that the mi- and using bedding soiled by people crobe discovered by Koch and au- who had died of the disease. But spected of being the cause of cholers so long as they kept the hut care- was the real culprit. So he dell-fully screened from mosquitoes none berately drank a culture the of them developed the fever. cholera vibrio, as the microbe de Then Carroll and Lazear allowed called. He developed cholera and proved his point.
themselves to be hittin by mosquitoes which, a few days before, had fed Another investigator Pettenkofer, on the blood of yellow fever patients. remained sceptical. He also drank They caught the fever at once..
of cholera, germs, but for Lastar died of it