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On the other hand, the Hunan, Yunnan and Kwangtung expeditions and that portion of Kwangsi troops supporting Marshal Ghiang Kai- shek are to attack the remnants of the Kwangsi faction's army.
Who is to take the spoils after victory is the question now holding back the attack, according to a News report-Nan Chung Koo Service.
Big Cash Reserve
Canton, Yesterday. The Commissioner of Finance in Canton, Mr. Fan Ki-mo, says that the Central Bank of China in Can- ton has a reserve of more than sum is $10,000,000 and that this more than sufficient to redeem all issued by the outstanding notes Bank. Many in Canton regret that the authorities have made no state- ment of this sort until the present stage. For a time, paper money in Canton was not worth more than 50 per cent. of face value.
A Canton report has placed the annual income of the province at only just over $60,000,000, while the expenses. at $95,200,000, or a deficit of more than $30,000,000,-- Nan Chung Kuo News Service.
A large sum in silver coin which had been sent to a foreign Bank in Hong Kong for deposit is being withdrawn to be sent back to Canton to-day.
AMANULLAH TALKS
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Bombay. Yesterday. The ex-King Amanullah, inter- viewed by Reuter, denied that he left Afghanistan owing to the de- feat of his forces. He stated that from the beginning of the rising he ordered his troops not to at- tack anywhere-Router.
VENEZUELA
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Caracaa, Yesterday. Juan Baptista Perez has been elected President of Venezuela in succession to Juan Vicente Gomez, who declined the Presidency four or five days after he had been elected.Reuter's American Ser-
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Ministers Re-elected
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Minister for Air.
Sir Laming Worthington- Evans, Minister for War.
Lord Eustuce Percy, Preal- dent of the Roard of Educa tion.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary MAK
Mr. Winston Churchill Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. L. C. S. M. Amery; Secretary for the Dominions and Colonies.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secretary for Foreign Affairs..
Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, Presi. dent of the Board of Trade.
Mr.
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Locker- Lampson. Foreign Under- Secretary.
Mr. Arthur Neville Cham- berlain, Minister for Health.
Sir Frank Boyd Merriman, Solicitor-General.
Sir H. Kingsley-Wood,. L'n- der-Secretary for Health.
Sir Philip Sassoon, Under- Secretary for Air.
Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, Under-Secretary for Colonies. Mr. Walter Guinness, Minia ter
and for Agriculture Fisheries.
Sir Wm. L Mitchell- Thomson, Postmaster-General. Mr. A. M. Samuel, Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
Viscount Wolmer, Assistant Postmaster-General.
Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland. - '
Major G. C. Tyron, Minister for Pensions.
Bari Winterton. Secretary for India.
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Commander D. M. Eyres Mansell Patronage Secretary (Chief Whip).
MINISTERS DEFEATED
Sir T. W. H. Inskip, At- torney-General.
Mr. H. Williams, Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Beard of Trade.
Sir Vivian Henderson, Home Under-Secretary.
Sir A. Steel-Maitland, Minis- ter for Labour. “
Mr. A. Duff Cooper, Under- Secretary for War (Finan- cial).
Lieut. Col. C. M. Headlam, Under-Secretary for the Ad- miralty.
INDEPENDENTS GAIN.
Gevan.
HEAT WAVE IN U.S.A.
New York, Yesterday. Over 20 deaths have occurred in New York City alone owing to heat wave in shade temperature of 90 degrees.
In Boston and Pittsburg the temperature VES 97 degrees.- Reuter's American Service.
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ARGENTINE 'QUAKE
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Buenos Aires, Yesterday.
An earthquake visited the pro- vineca of Mendoza, San Luis, and Cordoba.
Half the houses in Villa Real collapsed. Twenty persons were killed and 40 injured.
A Later Report
It was later reported that 15 persons were killed and 60 injur ed at Villa Autel; and 18 killed and 40 injured at Las Malvinas -Reuter's American Service.
LABOUR MEETING
WORK OF INTERNATIONAL BODY AT GENEVA
AN EXPERIMENT
Geneva, Yesterday. International Labour Conférence groups have agreed, experimentally for a year, that Government delc- gates will participate on the com- mittees they wish to attend and from which so far they have been excluded-Reuter.
APPOINTMENTS
MR. TRATMAN COLONIAL SECRETARY
During the absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. W T. Southorn, C.M.G.. Mr. D. W. Tratman (Cadet Officer. Class 1.) is to act as Colonial Secre- Tratman has tary Hitherto Mr. been Assistant Colonial Segretary. and Clerk of Councils.
Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones, who has been. Secord Assistant Colonial Secretary and Deputy Clerk of Councila, functions in Mr. Trat- man's place.
The Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, C.B.E., K.C., having returned to Hong Kong, has resumed duty as Attorney General.
The appointment of the Hon. Mr. T. H. King as an Official member of the Legislative Council, during his tenure of office as acting Captain Superintendent of Police, has been approved by H.M.'s Counsellors of State.
ELECTION RESULTS
(Continued from Page 18.)
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald expressed the opinion:--
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"It looks as though the House of Commons will have a most interesting problem in a democratic Government to face." Sir Austen Chamberlain said:— "I hope that Mr. Baldwin will face the Commons and leave to Mr. Lloyd George and the so-called Liberal Party the res- ponsibility for the situation they have created."
Aggregate Votes The aggregate votes hitherto total:-
Conservatives
Labour
Liberals
Communists
$,575,000
8,337,000
5,238,000
50,000
Women Candidates 745,000 || Twenty-one out of 25 Commun- On ists forfeited their deposit. the other hand only 31 out 500 Liberals were similarly humiliat ed. The Liberal newspapers, in: this connection, demand the early reform of the electoral system which is responsible for the startl-
ing disparity between the aggre gate Liberal vote and the small number of seats secured.
Thirteen women are already elected, which constitutes # 70- cord They comprise three Con- servatives, nine Labour and one Liberal, the newcomers being the Labourites, "Miss Picton and Miss Tarbervill, Doctors Marton Phillips and Ethel Bentham, and the Liberal Miss Megan Lloyd
George.
The most remarkable fight was put up by the writer, Mrs. Barbara Gould, who was in a minority of four in the Northwick division of Cheshire, the narrow- est margin of the whole election.
Reuter.
Horton Smith, one of the Ameri can Ryder Cup team, has a bag carried round with him containing 21 Irons and six wooden dubs.
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