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NEW SUPREME N.Y.K. GODOWN

COURT JUDGE

Washington, To-day.

IN SHANGHAI

GUTTED

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.

The Senate judiciary committee yesterday unanimously approved

A GODOWN OWNED BY the nomination of Mr. William O.

THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA Douglas as Judge of the Supreme WAS COMPLETELY GUTTED Court.

AS A RESULT OF A SPECTA-

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Mr. Douglas was formerly Chair-OUT AT 11.15 LAST NIGHT. man of the Securities and Ex- change Commission, the Now Deal body which controls Wall Street.- Reuter.

RUMANIAN

The godown, which is situated across Soochow Creek, facing! the Japanese Consulate-General, contained cotton and chemicals. The latter exploded as the flames. reached them.

The Japanese immediately cor- doned off the area with sentries with fixed bayonets and ma-

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TRADE PACT

Bucharest, To-day.

A communique issued by the For- eign Minister, M. Cafencu, and the Minister of Economics, M. Dujoiu

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The flames, which spread the eaves of the Consulate- General, from which important archives were hurriedly removed, were extinuished by the Fire De- partment. Reuter.

states that the Rumanian Council WEALTHY CHINESE

of Ministers has unanimously ac- cepted the farreaching economic agreement between Rumania and Germany signed in Bucharest.

Ratification is expected soon. Trans-Ocean.

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BY JAPANESE

Chungking, To-day. Mr. Li Kwei-yuan, a Chinese millionaire in Tientsin, and his seven sons, are now under arrest His Excellency the Governor has by the Japanese Gendarmerie on a nominated Mr. S. T. Williamson as charge of providing munitions to a Member of the Court of the Uni-Chinese guerillas, according to a versity of Hong Kong during the Tientsin report just to hand. absence from the Colony of Mr. The Japanese have demanded G. S. Archbutt, with effect from $600,000 for their release. Cen- 17th March, 1939.

tral News.

As a sequel to the attack on Mrs. Rosemary Holmes in her residence at 194 Prince Edward Road yesterday, Li Ti, 28, was charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfayden this morning with the following offenses:-

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(1) That he committed armed robbery on a dwelling with others not in custody, arm- ed with a knife, and stole jewel- lery to the value of about $1,000 from Mrs. Holmes.

(2) Unlawfully and mali- ciously wounding Mrs. Holmes. Sub-Inspector Byron, who is in charge of the case, asked for 72 hours' remand.

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