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DIET ADJOURNS
Budgets Passed Total Yon 9,574,355,000
Tho
Tokyo, Mar. 20. Seventy-Fourth Ordinary Session of the Imperial Diet, which WAS convened on December 24 adjourned the evening of March 24 until December 24. The closing ceremony takes place in the House of Peers to-day.
March 27, 1939,
Social Items PORTUGUESE CONSUL
Mias Tsang Shuic Ching has been appointed a Public Vaccinator.
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Appointment to Durban From Hongkong
Consul for Portuguai in Hongkong Alvaro since
1938, Mr. March, Amongst those who recently left Brillianto Laborinho will shortly leave Shanghai on Home loave vin Siberia to take up a new post in Durban, is Mr. L. Chevretton, Manager of the South Africa,
Holy be succeeded here by the Banque de l'Indo Chine, accompanied presens Portuguese Consul in Can- by Mine. Chevretton. He has been ton, Mr. Morgado. replaced by Count F. de Courseulles, Mr. Laborinho WOB born in who flew from Parls to Hongkong.
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"Pacifism and Politics" will be the subject of this week's address to the Peace Pledge Union, which will be The complete budgels approved Elven by Mr. S. A. Gray. The meet by the Diet, including the general ing will take place at the Challenge Street. On budget, the extraordinary military Bookshop, Ice House budget, and supplementary budgets Wednesday, at 5.30 p.m. total Yen 9,874,355,000, designed to Anance the Incident to January 31, 1940.
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The forthcoming wedding is an Included in the budgets are the nounced between Mr. Harold Quentin General Budget tolalling Yen 3,004,- Hunt, chemist, residing at 7 Babing- 600,000, Supplementary Budget No. ton Path, and Miss Frances Lowcock, 1 (National Defence Budgei) totalling of 6 Grampian Road, Kowloon. Yen 910,543,000, Supplementary Budget No. 3 for civil service Ministries toinlling Yen 199,332,000, and tho Extraordinary Military
Nazareth, Portugal, in 1903, and was educated at tito Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, taking his diploma as ¡Science. After an extra course in leenciate in Econmale and Social Colonial Administration, he attended at Lisbon and the Escola Falities
0 Com- fessor da Escola Industrial in 1929 occupied the Choirs of Pro- mercial and Nacoes Gerie de Comer- clo. In 1930 he joined the General Board of the Internal Customs Ser- vice as a Cadet and later passed hlm examinations which gained entry to the diplomatic service.
Mr. Laborinho was appointed Con- sul to San Paulo, Brazil, in 1931, and. the next year to Mannos, where ho stayed for two years. Subsequently
The Archbishop's Palace, Manila, he was appointed to Singapore, but was the scene last week of the wed- this was replaced by his nomination
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A KING VIDOR. PRODUCTION
Based on the next "the Citadel” diy A. J. Grania »: Produced lis VICTOR BAVILLE,
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Budget totalling Yen 4,605,000,000. ding of Miss Virginia Belts and Alex to the Hongkong post where he hat The grand total of these budgets Bolaseree, the well-known Interport remained to make many good friends amount to. Yen 9,409,541,000, but a
footballer.
formerly of Shanghai, and take part in good causes with Low Ayres - Maureen O'Sullivan Two Fisted Sheriff'
"SPRING MADNESS” Charles Starrott - Barbara Weoki sum of Yen 535,188,000 included In The bride was given in marriage by the Portuguese community. the General- Account is doubly the fallter, Arlington &, V. Belts of estimated in the military expenses; ond, this deducted, the grand total Albay, reaches Yen 8,874,355,000.
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Perhaps the Portuguese Companies
of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps received most encouragement from the Consul but his general In-
The wedding took place last week An extra sum of Yen 790,000,000 at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, terest in social work and his patron- is estimated as funds to meet con-of Mr. John Gordon Frederick Shot-age of the Club Lusitano made him among his tracis outside the purview of the ter, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. highly popular both Budget in connection with the extra-E, Shotter, and Miss Dorethy Grace countrymen here and at Macco, to was a frequent ordinary military expenditures. Lavington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. which Colony he Adding this to the budget estimates, A, T, Lavington.
the total estimates for the 1939-40 fiscal year, amount to Yan 9,574,- 358,000.
The Government is shortly sum- moning a Cubanatorial Conference to explain to prefectural governors and other Government the Budget policies as enunciated, through the Dlet session.
steps to con- As the Immediate solidate the Government machinery: for execution of national policies the Dlet session, the following Government will also appoint full- time Ministers to the Departments of and Overseas Communications
Affairs.
The Communications Portfolio is
held by concurrently
Justice
Minister Shiono,
while that of
Overseas Affairs is concurrently assumed by Commerce and Industry Minister Hatta.-Domel.
Mobilisation Committee
Tokyo, Mar, 20.
the recently- Pulting into force promulgated Imperial Ordinance, the National Spiritual General Mobilisa- tion Committee will appointed on Tuesday with a membership of 00 of Baron under the chairmanship Sadao Araki, the Minister of Educa tion.
While the projected Committee will exercise a general control of the proposed campaign untier the super- Government, the vision of the Central League of the N.S.G.M., Will be civilian organization,
do out
authorized to carty
the
Anite measures relating to enforcement of the spiritual mobilisa- tion programme.-Donet.
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AUTONOMY DEMANDS Rumour of Hungarian Move Denied in Bucharest
Bucharest, Mat. 25,
It is understood that the Ministry of Defence expects to demobilise within two or three days provided Hungary does the same. Hoever, so for reservists continue to arrive nii their respective regiments.
Rumours that Hungary has pre- sented demands concerning autonomy In fur
minority the Hungarian Rumania are categorically denied.- United Press.
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