ANOTHER
JAPANESE WARNING
CHUNGKING, Mar. 4 (Cen--| trali The Japanese naval authorities have lasted a`noti- fication, warning vessels of third parties to koop 1987 from the mouth of the She- yang River in north Kiangsu before dawn to-day, because of military operations," accord- ing to a Shanghai despatch. They are advised to anchor at leari 10 mlles from that point.
The Japanese naval authorl- ties disclaim any responsibility for damage to vessels which tall to comply with the re- quest.
POPE SLIPS ON MARBLE STAIRS
ELBOW BRUISED: NOT SERIOUS
ROME, Mar. 5 (Reuter)-The fact that a slight' mishap befell Pope Pius XII on Friday has just been disclosed, His Holiness- was en route to the Sistine Chapel to receive the Cardinals' homage when, he slipped on the marble stairs, and hurt his elbow, The doctor reported that the injury. was a bruised elbow and was not serious...
For the first time since 1870, when the Pope became a voluntary pri- soner of the Vatican, Pius XII will be crowned outside the balcony of at Peter's in full view of the crowd on the square below,
The appointment of a new Papal Becretary has not yet been an- nounced but names most--freely mentioned are Cardinal Maglione, ex-Nuncio of Paris, and Cardinal Tedeschini.
GOVERNMENT
ASKED TO INTERVENE
BOMBAY, Mar. 5 (Reuter)-The Secretary of the All-India. Congress Socialist Party, has issued a state- ment urging that 24-hour ultimatum be sent to the British Government, as the paramount power, to intervene to save Mr. Gandhi's life: As an alternative. he said, the Congress ministries would resign
Most of the Congress ministries have telegraphed to the Viceroy urging ble immediate intervention, DECISION TO RESIGN BOMBAY, Mar. 6 (Reuter)-It isunderstood that the Bombay. Ministry has decided to resign if Mr. Gandhi's fast is not ended by Monday or Tuesday
FORGED COPIES OF "TAKUNGPAO" and declared that Poland will possible derman eastward expan- shortly make a definite claim to sion on the other.
CHUNGKING, Mar. 5 (Reuter) colonies in a three-Power front
The problems will be approached The Takungpao" published an with Italy and Germany.
through consideration of the announcement this morning stat- Signor Gayda suggests that the existing Polish-Rumanian military ing. "Forged coples of the Takung- great colonial Powers
should alliance which has recently under-pao' are a tpresent in circulation partition their empires among the gone a cooling process since King Shanghai by mall advocating vigorous and proline races with Carol refused, after Munich, to peace and anti-Communist policies guaranteed tree trade-in products support Polish attempts to estaballeged to have been published in substituted for outright possession. 1ish a common Polish-Hungarian Changsha and in Human. Our At the same time he advances frontier.
the claim to outright possession for nations with prolific popula tions on the ground that agricul- tural lands, throughout the world [need filling
Italy, Germany and Poland cant furnish the necessary peasant labour, France and Britain cannot, The adds.
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Shanghal edition suspended pub- lication in the winter of 1937. The Takungpaola now only publishing in Chungking and Hongkong"
OFFER GOLD” DRIVE
IN CHUNGKING CHUNGKING, Mar. 5 (Central) The Offer Gold" Drive spon.
MURDER CASE IN YUANLING TUANLING, HUNAN, March 4 (Central)-The local garrison au- A Warsaw message declares that thorities are searching high and the Polish Government has decided low for the murderer of Mr. Hung sored by the New Life Movement to create a special Colonial Depart-Hsi-wu, former departmental chler is in full swing in Chungking, the ment to carry on propaganda at for the Hunan Provincial Govern wartime capital. The largest single home and abroad in favour of ment, who was shot and killed donation so far was $600,000 offered - colonies for Poland and the de- loutside the western gate yesterday by the Bankers Guild on March 3, partment will also comprise ex evening.
Yesterday $50,000 was collected,
perts to train colonial pioneers" The assassin, who was said to This amount included $8,000 from who will study tropical farming be wearing a mult of blue student the Newspapers Union, $10,000 from and languages of African tribes.niform, succeeded in making good. My Wu Yu-chu, factory pro- GERMAN EXPANSION. Kis escaps before police arrived on prietor, #3,000 from Gen. Ho Ying- Following Count «Glano's depar- the scene,
chin, Minister of war, $5,000 from ture from Warsaw, the Pollsh A reward of $3,000 has been Mr. Chu Cheng, President of the Foreign Minister, Col. Beck, is de- posted by the authorities for in Judicial Yuan, and $1,000 from voting his attention to the formation leading to the appre- Mr. Wang Po-chun, former Minister Rumanian Foreign Minister; who|hension of the murderET.
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