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THE CHINA MAIE, JUNE 49, 1987.

STRANGE

MALADY AFFECTS

MILL HANDS

Paris, June 13.

Medical and psychological specialists puzzled to-day over a mysterious hysterical manifestation by 200 young women at a sugar refinery at Lille.

For the time being they venture only to call it prehensible collective logical attack.

would incom- psyhopatho-

Stalin "Disgraced" By His Mother

Stalin's mother has disgraced her sons and has been repri-. manded by him for “publicly go- ing to churchir

After twenty years' absence. Stalin's seventy-eight-year-old mother decided to visit church again before her death. She arrived at the big cathedral in her home town of Tiflis and, after praying for two hours, gave the priests £40 to erect a new altar in memory of Stalin's father..

Stalin forbade the building of the altar.

Four hundred women were work- ing in one big room at the factory Thursday when one fell to the floor, apparently unconscious. Others hurried to aid her but, according to mm|-|32|||| the stories told to-day, as they reach- ed the prostrate woman the others began to shriek, wheel about as if dizzy, and fall to the ground. Some fainted, it was said.

More women started for the scene, it was reported, and these went into convulsions, apparently affected by the sight of the first victims.

NEW CATHOLIC

BISHOP OF KONGMOON

Cabled information has just Some of the women attacked reached Hong Kong that the Rev. others, it was asserted, and there A. J. Paschang has been appointed was tearing of clothes, ear pulling Bishop of the Vicariate and raking of faces with nails.

of Kong-

finger moon, Kwangtung Province.

Mgr. Paschang, who is one of the Maryknoll Fathers, is a native of Martinsburg, Missouri, and has been acting as Administrator of the Vicariate for the past year, since the

Most Rev. J. E. Walsh, who chosen by the Council which met in Hong Kong to be the Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers.

GERMANY'S MAY former Bishop,

TRADE

Exports To And Imports From China

OFFICIAL FIGURES

Berlin, To-day. Although German imports last month declined, imports from China increased from 6,800,000 to 7,200,- 000 reichsmarks, while exports from the Reich' to China fell from 15,300,- 000 to 14,700,000 reichsmarks.

This is revealed in the official im- port and export figures for May, released by the Government yes- terday.

and

Figures for both imports exports fell off considerably, partly because of the seasonal trend and partly owing to reaction after the recent months.

The totals, nevertheless, are con- siderably higher than those for the same period last year.

The Kongmoon Vicariate was the scene of the first labours of the Maryknoll Missionaries. It was pre- viously a part of the Canton Vicari- ate, but was handed over to the new American Missionary Society in 1917.

Society, died there after a year's Fr. Price, the co-founder of the

work.

Since that time the number of

from 5,000 to ten thousand, and in Catholics in the district has risen

1927 the district was raised to the dignity of a Vicariate, with Mgr. Walsh as its first Bishop.

Included -in the area is Sancian Island, the death of St. Francis

scene of the Xavier, the greatest of Missionary Saints, who died just as he was attempting to enter China.

In the Vicariate of Kongmoon there are at present close on fifty Imports in May totalled 447,000,- missionary centres, served by 000 reichsmarks, or 29,000,000 less twenty priests and nearly one hun- than April, while exports. declined dred catechists. Maryknoll Sisters 36,000,000 reichsmarks to 456,000,-are also working în various points 000 reichsmarks.

FAVOURABLE BALANCE A favourable balance for the

month of: 9,000,000 reichsmarks was

'thus experienced.

In addition to

China, imports

from the Netherlands increased from 30,000,000 to 32,000,000 reichs- marks, and from South America from 52,600,000 to 80,800,000

reichsmarks:

the

of the district.

The date of Mgr. Paschang's been announced. episcopal consecration has not yet

NATIONAL DEFENCE

PROBLEMS Organisation Plan In Czecho-Slovakia

Prague, To-day.

Moral and physical instruction in: matters connected with national de-i

Except for exports to Japan, the Soviet and Central America, general export trade also declined.

Goods sold to South America defence is to be given to the entire creased from 39,600,000 to 36,500,- population. 000 reichsmarks Trans-Ocean.

Filipino Club

This was revealed yesterday by the Czech Minister for Defence, M. Machnik, in a speech explaining the new Military Defence Education Law.

time of war.

Rizal's birthday will be celebrat- Aim of the Law, he said, was to ed at the inauguration of the Fili-instruct men, women and children pino Club, King's Park, to-morrow on the home front in their duties in at 8.30 p.m. The opening ceremony of the new Club House will be per formed by the President's wife Mrs. R: Lasala, which will be followed by a tea dance.

From the cradle upwards, he declared, the entire nation would be prepared for the tasks of national defence.--Trans-Ocean.

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