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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1937.

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Breach In Ouse

TROOPS SENT TO REGION FOR WEEK-END

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A SEVERE CRACK IN THE BANK OF THE RIVER OUSE WAS DISCOVERED YESTER DAY MORNING AND RE- PAIRS WERE STARTED IM MEDIATELY BEFORE THE TIDE RISES.

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SEVERE GALE ON ITALIAN COAST

Considerable Damage Reported

Genoa, To-day.

STRIKE

REPORTS PERSIST

OF AGREEMENT

Lansing (Michigan), To-day.

For Duchess Of Bedford

London, To-day. One of the most extensive search Reports persist, in spite of the flights ever organised by the Royal denial, that a tentative settlement Air Force began yesterday when A severe storm which has been of the Chrysler strike, providing machines from ten stations left in raging along the Ligurian coast immediate and peaceful evacuation search of the Duchess of Bedford, for several days has caused consi- of the occupied factories, was who has been missing since she derable damage.

reached during the conversations took off on a solo fight in her At Levanto, turbulent seas des- between Governor Frank Murphy, private plane from Woburn Abbey. At daybreak yesterday the troyed the railway embankment, the Chrysler Corporation and Mr.

Duchess had been missing for. completely interrupting rail com-John Lewis, C. I. O. leader. munication between Genos and

forty hours and fresh parties of It is reported that the tentative ground searchers also began work Spezia-Trans-Ocean. . .

agreement was to be submitted to at different points over the sea officials of the United Automobile where the Duchess might have Workers Union yesterday after come down Reuter. noon when they arrived from De- troit.

COMMUNIST INTERNATIONALE The floods in the Fen district

Warsaw, To-day. were the subject of discussion in

A five-day session of the Execu- the House of Commons yester-tive Committee of the Communist Internationale has just concluded in Moscow.

day..

Mr. Lloyd George said that they were the result of years of neglect by the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. S. Morrison, replying, stated that the floods were unprecedented and his, department had given every assistance when asked.

THE DANGER DAY

He added that the men of the Fen district were the best people to combat the flood and though the Government was making a grant to assist the fight against the waters, he asserted the local authorities had as much responsibility for it as a local matter.

Conditions were at present quiet. on the Fens but army units were arriving at Ely from Colchester, Canterbury and Aldershot in pre-- paration for next Sunday, which is the danger day owing to the Spring tides-Reuter.

GERMANS LOSE CITIZENSHIP

Incurs Displeasure Of Nazi Regime

Berlin, To-day. Thirty-eight Germans have been deprived of their German citizen- ship, according to a staternent in the "Reich Gazette."

Among them are the relatives of Herr Alfred Kerr, former drama- tic critic of the "Berliner Tage- blatt."-Trans-Ocean.

NEW ZEALAND AND CORONATION

Wellington, NZ., To-day, The Government is making plans for celebrating the Coronation and has decided that May 12 be re- cognised as a paid Government holiday.

An appeal has been made to the employers of the country to regard it as such.

Decorations for the celebration. are being erected apace. Reuter

Vote Of Confidence

In M. Blum

Fo-day At 6 o'clock yesterday ming after a stormy all-night session. the Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence in the Blum Government.

The yote followed a heated de

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Party members from Spain, France, South Africa and the Near East attended the session.-Trans Ocean.

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