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Veteran Menshevik Dying

PARIS, TO-DAY.

Hupeh Fighting Swings In Favour Of The Chinese

Chungking, To-day.

KERENSKY. WHO HEADED Since reports from the front are contradictory, the

THE FIRST PROVISIONAL GOV- ERNMENT AFTER THE FALL OF CZARDOM IN RUSSIA, IS DYING.

Alexander Feodorowitch Keren-

war

situation in Central China remains

obscure.

SAYS TOKYO!

Washington, To-day. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull; announced yesterday that in reply to the recent protest by the United States Ambassa- dor in Tokyo, Japan has promised that her airmen would exercise all possible precautions to avoid in- juring non-combatants.-Reuter,

KING VICTOR

sky is 58 and has lived in Paris in Observers believe prophesying to be premature, as

there is no indication as to eventual develop- TO VISIT

exile for many years. The nature

of his illness is not disclosed.

Kerensky, as a Menshevist and

last opponent of the Bolshevist re- volution during his term of office from July to October, 1917.

ALOOF FROM POLITICS After the collapse of the Czarist

ments.

London, To-day. Czarist regime and was later the Protracted Chinese resistance along the Han River GERMAN CAPITAL

front for many months has frustrated Japan-

The Rome correspondent of the ese endeavours to gain firmer control of the Hankow-Ichang highway. At present the Jap- "News Chronicle" learns authorita- anese are trying to cut off the Chinese rear and tively that King Victor Emmanuel will pay a State visit to Berlin to strike at isolated troops. is stressed here that It

The Chinese are fighting deter-after signature of the Italo-German minedly in the face of the formid- Pact of alliance. manoeuvre has not succeeded.

The Japanese, starting from Sui-able threat. hien, north-west of Hankow, ad- vanced westward to the Han River, and now are proceeding north and south along the eastern bank of the river.

regime, Kerensky tried

Russia against the invaders.

He was overthrown, and

to rally

German

however,

some time he lived in London, where he wrote his Memoirs, and then took up permanent residence in Paris.

went to France. For

this.

He has kept aloof from politics

The northern column is trying to but has been active in literature. He never formed a close association | reach Hsiangyang.

circles in with White Russian Paris, as the latter are chiefly ex-

Trans-Ocean. Czars officers.

GERMANY GETS WORRIED

•

London, To-day. A report from Istanbul states that Herr von Papen, the new German Ambasador to Turkey, is returning to Berlin.

on

It is impossible to say how far the southern column has progress- ed, but the report that the Chinese have recaptured Wamiaochi, the Hankow-Ichang highway, seems to indicate indirectly that the Ja- panese have not succeeded in con- trolling the highway.

LITTLE LIKELIHOOD Another Japanese column is ad- vancing from south Honan towards Tunpenhsien, along the Honan-Hu- peh border, and is evidently trying to join hands with the other Ja- panese column advancing north-

According to this report, he is to report to Hitler on the situa-wards from Suihsin. tion following the conclusion of

Only if this move succeeds will

the Anglo-Turkish agreement the Chinese forces operating in the and its possible effects on future German-Turkish relations. Reuter.

Halangyiang-Yinshan-Suishan area be cut off, and there seems to be no likelihood of this

Still another Japanese column is pushing on Hsiangyang via Hsing-

CONSCRIPTION IN yeh, half way between Ebiangyang

SPAIN

and Nanyang, the Honar capital.

Fighting is now going on to kilo- metres east of Høingveh.

STIFF RESISTANCE

Burgos, To-day. Chinese circles say the Japanese The Spanish Cabinet has ap-plan is to split the Chinese forces one around proved a law. imposing compul, into two grouds, sory service, on all males be- Hsiangyang and the other at King- tween the ages of 18 and 50 “for shan, and at the same time to cap- national reconstruction." ture Hsiangyang, which is the base Reuter.

of Chinese operations.

Exact date has not been fixed,... Evidence of the Japanese aim is but it is thought the visit will afforded by their large-scale bomb- take place possibly at the end of ing of the above-mentioned areas, next week.

The King's visit will be an oc- with what result is not yet known.

The Chinese again deny having casion to reinforce the Axis, and suffered large losses, as claimed in it is expected that elaborate fes- Japanese broadcasts. Trans-tivities will be held in honour of Reuter. the Italian Sovereign. Ocean.

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