PENSIONS FOR FAMILIES OF CHINA'S DEAD
Shanghai, To-day.
"No matter how difficult their financial situation may be," local Governments in unoccupied China have been ordered by General Chiang Kai-shek to create a special fund for the payment of pensions to the families. of the nation's dead soldiers.
SPECIAL AREA RELIEF PLAN BREAKS DOWN
London, Today.
Reller measures for one of the Special Areas in Monmouthshire are on the verge of failing, says "The Times" this morning.
It had been attempted to alleviate the position of workers who had been unemployed for years by draw- ing them into a settlement, for which repeated appeals for funds had been made.
"The heroic resistance offered by the nation in the past two years," the Generalissimo says in his or
Private subscriptions had been der, "has only been possible through made and the Treasury contributed the sacrifices made by the war $102,000, but at the best of times dead. The country can never for-the settlement only contained 420 get, and will long cherish, their men and will probably have to be
closed.
memory.'
"
Local officials, members of the "The Times" says the political local gentry, and educators through-situation in South Wales frustrated out China are urged to assist the the experiment, as a strong capi- families of the war dead who are talist region did not encourge real unable to read or write in making interest in the idea.-Trans-Ocean. applications to the Pensions Com- mittee of the Government.
Severe punishment is threatened to officials who fail to provide pèn- sions for needy families.-Reuter
FRANCE ORDERS NEW CRUISERS
Madrid, To-day.
Fernandez Cuesta, secretary-gen- eral of the Falange and Minister for Agriculture, will visit Germany. He will be the first member of the Franco Government to visit the Reich. Trans-Ocean.
SUBMARINES.
The cruisers will be of the "De PARIS, TO-DAY. Grose" type under construction. THE NAVY MINISTER, M. CAM-They will be armed with three tri- PINCHI, YESTERDAY GAVE OR-ple turrets of 15.2 centimetre gung DERS FOR TWO 8,000-TON and will be named “Guichen" and CRUISERS AND SIX 800-TON "Chateau Renat."Trans-Ocean.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1939.
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