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THE CHỈNĂ MAIL, JANUARY 31, 1939. Varary, Suprezan

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

AFFAIRS DEBATE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

CHINA ISSUE

TO BE RAISED

London, To-day.

SUPREME BACKS MR.

ROOSEVELT

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COURTI GAS-MASKS AT

THE PARTY

British-made. gas masks have made their appearance in Holly- wood parties and have won prizes

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. as "the best disguise of the year." Although to-day's debate on foreign affairs in the

THE UTILITY. COMPANIES One film atar who recently visit- House of Commons is likely to centre chiefly

LOST THE FAMOUS TENNESSEE(ed London paid a waiter in her on Europe, members interested in China are VALLEY AUTHORITY CASE IN hotel £5 for every gas mask he could expected to exert themselves actively in the THE SUPREME COURT YESTER- obtain for her. When she sailed for coming session.

DAY.

America she had cleared the hotel The court refused to enjoin the staff of their masks.

Object will be to strengthen the Government's generation and sale of electricity American tourists since the crisis hands for taking more positive action in the by the Tennessee Valley Authority have been the best "customers" for Far East, both assistance to China and de-in competition with the sixteen pri- gas masks fence of British interests in China.

The increasingly grave situation of British inter- ests in the Far East has been given prominence frequently in many newspapers in recent weeks.

Dr. Chang

Peng-chun, the

Chinese lecturer, has been invited to address the China Committee of Fe- the House of Commons on bruary 7.

Since his arrival in London frem been Chang has

Chungking, Dr.

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CHICAGO HIT BY WORST

extremely active both in public BLIZZARD EVER

speaking and private interviews.

Already he has had long conver- sations with Sir Robert Vansittart, Diplomatic Adviser to the British Government, and Sir Alexander Cadogan, of the Foreign Office.

Chicago, To-day.

Over fifty were injured in three train crashes on the elevated rail-

way

as souvenirs to take vate power companies operating home. Prices have varied, but few around the Tennessee Valley. have changed hands for less than

The court held that the utility companies have "no standing

maintain the suit."

NO MONOPOLY

to

The decision enables the Govern- ment to continue the construction of dams in the Tennessee Valley and to sell surplus power.

Judge Roberts, in the "majority opinion," asserted that neither the charters or local franchises of the utility companies "involve the

grant of a monopoly or render com- petition illegal."

Two judges dissented; 'contend- ing that the decision went too far. -Reuter.

during a blinding snowstorm THIRD SOVIET

yesterday.

SEES CABINET MINISTERS

At least six deaths are attribut- Yesterday he saw the Foreign! Secretary, Lord Halifax, and in the ed to the blizzard which was one next few days he will see Sir Kings- of the worst ever recorded in ley Wood (Air Minister), Sir Chicago. Thomas Inskip (the new Dominions Secretary) and the Institute of In- ternational Affairs,

Last night he left for Oxford to address the Oxford Peace Council and the China Society.

A twelve-inch snowfall for nine hours paralysed street traffic and bus and railway services:-

The famous Chicago wheat pit To-day, Dr. Chang speaks in Lon-postponed its opening for an hour don before the China Society in the because traders and officials were afternoon, and in the evening will unable to get there.

deliver an address at Friends

House (the Quaker headquarters), where Miss Freda Utley, the econo- mist and authoress, and Mrs. J. B. Haldane, wife of Professor "Ha!- dane, will also speak.

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Reuter.

SUCCESSORS TO

Dr. Chang's audiences pay W WANG ADHERENTS

warm

tributes to the interesting and in- forming character of his addresses, and his studied moderation... en- hances the good effect. Reuter.

CHINESE SUCCESSES IN CHEKIANG

FIVE-YEAR PLAN

the

Moscow, To-day. The Principles underlying the economic programme of the third Five-Year Plan, which will be laid by President Molotov before Communist Party Congress in March, clearly show that the new Five-year Plan for the years 1938- 1942 is in the first place destined to enormously increase production of war material.

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From reports published yesterday in the press here, it appears that

WANG ADHERENTS the entire industrial production of

Chungking, To-day.

the Soviet Union is to be augment- ed during that period by no less than 188 per cent.

Mr. Yeh Chu-tsang, veteran

By 1942, manufacture of means Kuomintang leader, was appointed of production, notably of machines, by the plenary session of the Fifth is to be increased by 203 per cent. Kuomintang Central Executivé Metal and machine-building in- Committee Chairman of the Central dustries of which the armaments Publicity Council succeeding Mr. industry forms the part, are to be Ku Meng-yu.

increased by 255 per cent. by com- parison with 1937.

Mr. Wang Fa-ching, another well- known Kuomintang member, was named member of the standing Kweilin, To-day... committee of the Kuomintang Cen- Hokikiao, northwest of Chang-tral Executive Committee, succeed- hing on the west bank of Taibu ing Mr. Chen Kung po. Central Lake, was retaken from the News- Japanese in a Chinese night at- tack last Saturday, according to field advices. Two hundred ca- sualties were suffered by the Jap-

anese.

southwest of Kashing the

The Japanese át Tungsiang!

north bank of the Chientang River, are besieged by Chinese forces. Reinforcementa dispatch |

OUT OF DANGER

JAPANESE NOT

LEADING ROLE

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It is expressly stressed that these branches of industry will play leading role in the development of the coming economic period.

The chemical industry will be increased 277, electrical industry 206, coal output 181, output naptha 177, production of iron and steel 152, and 156 respectively, and the production of timber 180 per cent.

of

This increase of production will be rendered possible by the "in-

labour.' The condition of Hiyoshi Sagara, crease of productivity of ed to their rescue were intercept- the Japanese who was attached at By means of tightening up “dig- ed last Saturday at Lunggiangs- a restaurant in Wanghal on Sunday, cipline of labour" and application of Stachanov methods, it is hoped su, three miles, from Tungsiang, morging, 1a still serious... After suffering about 100,casual His assallant, Li Ping chuan, who that value of production will ba ties, they withdraw Central is believed to be demented, is still creased annually by two milliard News.

under observation.

roubles up to 1942.-Trans-Ocean,

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