NEWS OF THE DAY IN PICTURES FROM FAR AND NEAR
President German Busch,
35-year-old dictator of Bo- livia, shot to death alleged- ly as suicide, in La Pax after attending a birthday party for his brother-in-law, Kovichi Saito, a Japanese. Official version was he was suffering from overwork.
JAPAN MINE!
MISHAP
Tokyo, Nov 12. Thirty-eight
persons have been killed, 02 injured some of them scri ously, and 23 are missing as the re-i sult of the sulphur mine disaster in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan.
Polsonous gas and snowfall ham- pered the eftoris of rescue partles.- Domel.
Hongkong Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
"Who's that your sister?" nowrmen asked Simone Simon, right, Fronch screen actress, as she arrived in Now York, "That's mother," said actrons. **Her name is Mrs. Monique Giorcoil and sho lives in Italy."
August Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, arrivox
in Rome to take up residenco at Vatican... Aged cleric recently gave strong speach condemning German govern- ment. Ha romains at Vatican Indefinitely,
'MONDAY, "NOVEMDEN 13, 1939.
HAPPENINGS
AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE
LIKE TO MAKE A FOURSOME?
If a member of the Highgato Diving Club asks you this, be careful how you answer, for his ¡dos of a "foursome" may be the romarkable dive you see above.. The Club members will give an oxhibition of diving during the England-Donmark swimming con- tasty at the Empire Pool. On the left you ses how the divers are linked together as they leave the board during the "foursome.”
French Envoy Arrives
On a routine visit to Chungking, the French Ambassador Chino, M.
DEFENCE RESERVE POSTS
The following changes in the De- fence Reserve were announced in the Governmnt Gazette on Saturday:
Essential Services to Key Frederick Tyndall.
Key Posts Joseph Garden Campbell, Henri Cosme, arrived here yesterday Andrew Howla Befride, Edgar Thompoon. from Shanghal a Dutch steamer.)
He was accompanied by. M. M. Beau will stay in Hongkong before leaving lieux, Secretary of the French Lega-or Chungiding. tion at Shanghai,
The Ambassador was taken off by French naval launch to confer with the Commander-in-Chief of the French Naval Forces in the Far East, Vice-Admiral Decoux.
It is not known how loog M. Cosme
M. Cosme served brilliantly in the French ranks during the Great War and was awarded the Medallle Mili- nire in 1910, after having made a most dangerous escape from a comp prisoners in Germany. He also holds the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour.
They Smoke at their work-
Belisha Figarette
METROPOLE
BOOM BATH
$6.
CENTRAL
CLEAN
· COMFORTABLE
TRADITIONALLY the smoker is regarded as a man of calm decision, Britain's war-time leaders are all smokers. Mr. Hore-Beliska, War Minister, General Sir Walter Kirke, Com- mander-in-Chief of the Home Forces, General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, all smoked as they went
about their tasks,
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