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FOREIGNERS

BUTTER

ORDERED

TO LEAVE KULING Japanese Approach Imperilling Hill District

CZECH PLAN

FOR MINORITY SETTLEMENT

Prague, To-day.

Chinese Military ASSASSIN

Give Notice To Quit

Hankow, To-day.

The first reliable information The Chinese military authorities have ordered all

about the mode of regulation of the nationalities question in Czecho- slovakia, under deliberation by Government for months past, was published yesterday in "Ceske The Slovo" an organ known to enjoy a privileged relation to the Govern- ment.

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CAUGHT BY BRITISH NAVAL MAN

Shanghai, To-day.

foreigners to evacuate Kuling as it is expected

-An un-armed Briton, F. J. An- that the hostilities will spread to the centre of

derson, Chief Engine Room Arti- this area, according to a telephone message re- ficier, attached to the Naval ceived by the American Consul this morning. Office of the British Congul- British and American authorities are at pre- sent considering the best action as to the me- thod of evacuation which must be either

This paper announces that a overland to Changsha, or down to Kiukiang on board the concentration of ships laying three miles up the river.

General in Shanghai, was instru- mental in the apprehension of a Chinese "would-be assassin who shot and seriously wounded a “Tao Tao”:

for on the streets of Shanghat's tuo Tao" "Sally Monopoly collec International Settlement this

morning.

Approximately 50 Americans GERMANY AND While the assassin was

mantle law is to be prepared to which the nationalities statute will be appended. This mantle law will authorise the passing next Autumn of a special law dealing and 50 Britons, mostly mission- with the reform of public admin-aries, are at Kuling. istration.

The Japanese military opera- The Nationalities Statute, actions in the vicinity of Kiukiang

of three parts.

POLITICAL SPECULATION

Berlin, To-day.

tempting to flee from the scene of his alleged crime, CE.R.A. Anderson caught up with him.

Pouncing upon the back of the

cording to "Ceske-Slovo," consists have apparently been greatly In authoritative circles here no Chinese, he held on grimly al- speeded up during the last 24- disposition prevails to encourage though the Chinese fired one shot The first part envisages the ap-hour period and a Japanese war- the far-reaching speculations about over his shoulder and missed.

Then a British policeman, at- propriate participation of nation-ship yesterday moved to a point the European situation, which have alities in self-administration, and five miles below Kuling, later followed as the consequence of the tracted to the scene by the shots,

withdrawing. in matters of State finance.

conversations of the last few days. came up and shot and critically Reuter. Trans-Ocean. The second part provides for the drafting of a language law which is. to assure to every citizen the right to representation in his own mother tongue.

The British Ambassador is to-night by leaving Hankow train to Changsha for the pur- pose of meeting the foreign com- munity.

WIDENED COMPETENCE

From Changsha he hopes to The third deals at length with self-administration, The provinces travel overland to Kweilin and are to have the status of adminis-from there to Wuchow, from trative units. Each provincial where he will proceed by gunboat Diet is to have widened com-to Canton. petence. Each Diet can pass pre-

The

Ambassador expects to vincial laws as provided for in the mantle law. Self administration leave Hong Kong for Shanghai will be concentrated in pro- on the Empress of Asia on vincial committees in which the August 5.

nationalisties will be represented

according to their numerical

strength and will issue reports.

At the head of each Diet there

:

Reuter.

DISASTROUS FIRE

will be an elected President who, IN FRENCH PORT

Trans-

at the same time, will be chairmân of the Provincial Council. Ocean.

Paris, To-day huge conflagration causing loss of between fifteen and twenty

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wounded the assassin.

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still burning and it will probably moder, be several days before It is

pletely extinguished.—Trans-Ocean.