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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1937.

REXIST LEADER SWAMPED IN BELGIAN "TEST" ELECTION Van Zeeland Wins By Landslide Majority

M. Leon Degrelle.

HITLER STAMPS

Confiscation Report Denied

Brussels, To-day.

The straight by-election fight between the Pre- mier, M. Paul van Zeeland, and the Rexist leader, M. Leon Degrelle, resulted yesterday in overwhelm- ing defeat for Belgium's Fascist leader.

The final voting figures were:

M. VAN ZEELAND

M. DEGRELLE

275,840

69,242

EVERY ELEGIBLE ELECTOR HAD TO VOTE BUT THERE WERE 18,358 BLANK OR SPOILED PAPERS, WHICH WAS LESS THAN AT THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION, AND THE YOUTHFUL FASCIST LEADER THUS RECEIVED ONLY 19.05 PER CENT. OF THE VOTES CAST.

At the last election the Gov-1 8150181ƒ8B2188853 ernment party polled only 64.55 per cent.

Prague, To-day. The new German stamps, bear- ing the head of Herr Hitler, and to be offered for sale officially on May 30, Hitler's birthday, have been confiscated by the Czecho-Silo vakian authorities, says a news-a powerful political party.

paper report here.

This is denied by the official Czech news service.Trans-Ocean.

EXECUTION FOR EMBEZZLEMENT

Bank Manager Shot In Peiping

Peiping, To-day. Fan Shao-chang, manager of the Kaoyi branch of the Hopei Bank,

was

Main result of this by-election "test" of the Government is that it fails to uphold M. Degrelle's claim that his movement has grown into

PERSISTENT RAIN

Intense excitement prevailed all day in the capital, where the streets were draped with the colours of the respective candidates.

In spite of. persistent rain most of the day the streets were filled with milling crowds, though there were no disorders, probably owing

Il Duce And Hitler To Meet Again?

Rome, To-day: Rumours are being circulated here that Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler will meet for the second time in the near future.

It is also reported that Gen- eral Goering will pay another visit to Italy, though neither of the two rumours, can be veri- fied-Trans-Ocean.

to the present of 2,000 semi-mili- FÆжОСÐμÐ|92||||||||ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ...........................ÐJURUT tary police who had been drafted to Brussels to deal with contin- gencies.

BEYOND EXPECTATIONS.

The polling booths were closed at 1 o'clock and shortly afterwards the Minister of the Interior, M. Auguste executed by shooting this de Schryver, informed newspaper morning on a conviction by the correspondents that the result of the Pacification Commission on.. a election had been beyond the Gov- charge of embezzling $30,000.

ernment's most optimistic expecta- tions.

Fan is alleged to have made out a draft on Peiping banks totalling that sum.

He is then stated to have arriv- ed from Kaoyi, collected on the draft and to have fled to Shanghai by plane,

He was caught and brought back

M. van Zeeland fought, the elec- tion on the platform of continuation of tri-partite government în order to complete the country's economic and financial recovery.

Trans- Ocean and Reuter.

for trial-Reuter. P. AND O. LINER'S

Mr. Lin Sen's Mission

Now Over

Shanghai, To-day..

MISHAP

Serious Damage To Vessel Feared

Suez, To-day.

Mr. Lin Sen, President of the National Government of China, is expected to reach Changsha to-day, Divers yesterday examined the on his way back to Nanking, fol-hull of the P. and Or liner “Viceroy lowing his trips to Canton and of India,” which ran aground 65 Kweilin. -Reuter.

miles from Port Said on Saturday. - They reported that the damage to the steering gear, stern and hull will not be known until a further examination is made in Port Said.

Pope Goes For A Drive

Rome, To-day. For the first time since his ill- ness, Pope Pius went for a drive through the Vatican grounds yes- terday.--Trans-Ocean.

..

The P. and O. s.s. “Ranpura” left Singapore for this Port on the 10th instant at noon with the ontward English Mails, and is due here on the 14th instant at about noqn."

Present reports indicate that it will not be possible to repair the vessel in Egypt.

A portion of the cargo was un- loaded on Saturday in order to lighten the ship, which was refloat- ed later in the evening --Reuter.

During 1936 the note circulation in Germany rose from £851,000,000 to £406,000,000 an increase of nearly 14 per cent.

M. Vaj Zeeland, the. Belgian Premier, who secured an over- whelming victory against the Re- xist leader yesterday..

French Alliance With Soviet

Paris, To-day.

The work carried out by

·France and Russia for de- fence and organisation of peace has been accomplished in an atmosphere of mutual confidence.”

So declared the French For- eign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, at banquet given yesterday in honour of the departing Soviet Ambassador.

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He hoped the close co-operation between the two countries would continue with mutual benefit.

The Ambassador· déclared that France and Russia were both fight- The R.M.S. “Empress of Russia"ing for peace, and that they were left Yokohama for Vancouver on a great guarantee for maintaining Saturday.

present conditions. -Trans-Ocean.

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