1939-03-28 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1939

Harry, Supresos Court

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MILLIONAIRE SHOOTS

HIMSELF

Always Feared

Illness

New York, March 8.

Charles Frothingham Leland, member of one of the first families of Boston, was born to wealth and position. But he was haunted by the fear that he would die slowly from one of two incurable diseases.

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S. AFRICAN RESERVISTS REGISTERING

Capetown, March 22, Registration of the first class. of the reservists in the Union of South Africa began yesterday. The Premier, General J. B. M. Hertzog, informed Parliament. that the Government in the near- est future would make a state- ment on its attitude over, the.

European situation.--Trans-Oceán.

AIR RAID HAVOC ON SHANSI TOWNS

SIAN, TO-DAY.

A SERIES OF WANTON AIR RAIDS HAS BEEN STAGED BY THE JAPANESE AIR FORCE OVER MANY TOWNS IN SHANSI - IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, AÇ- CORDING TO REPORTS GATH- ERED HERE.

Terrible havoc has been wrought in Tungyangkwan, Lucheng, Tsin- hsien and other towns-in the south- eastern part of the province.

Two Japanese machines subject-

He outlived two children and amassed just on £1,000,000. He reached the age of seventy-one. But to-day the fear that had preyed on him for

Charles crossed the frontier, detachments ed Changtse, southwest of Lucheng. more than half a century triumphed. Frothingham Leland shot himself in the cup-fof the Silesian 8th Army Corps and to a severe bombing. They dropped

board of his room in a Boston hotel.

a

to

NEW FRENCH

His fears that he would live life of martyrdom caused him retire from business and give up his political association with

the

Late President Theodore Roosevelt when he was in his early twenties. A prosperous wool business left him by his father added to already considerable fortune.

INHERITED £750,000

his

DEFENCE DECREES

PARIS, TO-DAY.

He married Miss Margaret Carr, A SERIES OF IMPORTANT relative of former President Wil-

liam Howard Taft, and

she

in- DECREES CONCERNING NA- herited another, fortune of $750,000. TIONAL DEFENCE WERE DE-

They had two children, but still Leland could not forget his fears. CIDED ON AT A MEETING. OF He spent most of his long life in THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS sanatoriums and hospitals.

A cure was found during his life- YESTERDAY.

time for one of the

diseases he

dreaded tuberculosis. But that

They include a decree to in- did not end the fears of Charles crease navy effectives,

Frothingham Leland.

ANTI-BRITISH PRESS CAMPAIGN

IN NANKING

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.

A decree amending the law governing naval recruiting,

A decree increasing the num- ber of naval engineer effectives, A decree in relation to fron- tier defence, all details of which are undisclosed, and

A credit for industrial mobili- sation

At the meeting, the Foreign] Minister, M. · Bonnet, made a statement regarding the interna-] tional situation, and gave an ac- THE JAPANESE-CONTROLL- count of his recent diplomatic ED CHINESE LANGUAGE NEWS-conversations in London-Reu- PAPERS IN NANKING ARE ter.

WAGING A VIOLENT ANTI-

BRITISH CAMPAIGN.

Such slogans as "Destroy

British flag," "Boycott

the

British

goods," "Confiscate British pro-

the

perty" and "Drive out all Britoets," are splashed in heavy type on front pages.

An American missionary from

HOW NAZIS MARCHED INTO

Nanking states that the Japanese CZECHO-SLOVAKIA

controlled newspapers there

are

appealing to employees, of British bodies, including the Consulate, to leave their posts-Reuter.

SEVEN

BERLIN, TO-DAY. GERMAN ARM.Y CORPS CROSSED THE CZECH FRONTIER ON MARCH 15 FOR THE OCCUPATION OF BOHEMIA

COLONEL BECK'S AND MORAVIA, IT IS REVEAL-

VISIT

ED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL VON WEDEL WHO GIVES IN THE CURRENT NUMBER OF THE WEHRMACHT" AN INTEREST. London, To-day.ING ACCOUNT OF THE MILI The Polish Foreign Minister, Col. TARY OPERATIONS WHICH Joseph Beck, is expected to arrive CULMINATED IN THE INCOR- -in London on April &

PORATION OF THESE PRO-

Discussions with the British GOVE (VINCES. INTO THE GERMAN ernment will take place on the REICHĀ

two following days Tran ceam

Colonel Beck (says Britis

will be the guest of the Gov ent and will be enter dinner at the

Office

The German troops marched into

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from all sides.

were drawn from, Silesiă

brth Bava

of the "Adolf Hitler" Lifeguards about 12 missiles which killed seven had occupied the important indus-persons and wounded five. Sixteen trial towns of Witkowitz and houses were destroyed. Maehrisch-Ostrau situated in that Siangning, in west Shansi, spent part of Czechia adjoining Poland. a nervous day when Japanese planes

The German troops which enter-made several visits. They dropped. ed Bohemia

the bombs in were drawn mainly three incendiary, from Nuremberg and Berlin while morning, starting huge fires. those which occupied Moravia came Later 11 machines bombed the from garrisons in Vienna and Salz- villages nearby, inflicting many ci- burg. Trans-Ocean.

vilian casualties.-Central News.

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