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PUPPETS STRINGING ALONG

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Peiping, To-day. With the support of the Intelligence Department of the Japanese army, local Chinese newspapermen have or- ganised an anti-Comintern propaganda

tour.

Two groups, each consisting of 12 members, will tour Hopel, Shansi, Honan and Shantung, delivering speeches and lecturing on the Red danger and the necessity for national reconstruction.-Havas.

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FACTORY MANAGER HEAVILY FINED The manager of the Ying Yuen Paper. Company was summoned fore Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning, for allowing 55 women to be working at 11.50 p.m. on March 26, and with employing 10. children.

Mr. D. W. Phillips said he visited No: 9 Sai On Lane on March 26, and

MUTUAL 'GUARANTEE'

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA. MAIL") Tientsin, To-day.

A local Japanese newspaper reports that the authorities here are organis- ing in the Native. City a mutual guar- antee system for curbing anti-Japan- ese activities.

The system will be completed by the end of the month.-Havas.

500,000 CHINESE TROOPS SENT TO WAR ZONE

Shanghai, To-day. Five hundred thousand well trained and well equipped Chinese troops and several mechanised units have been sent to the fronts, says a Chungking military communique published in the "Sin Wan Pao,"

The units have been sent to the Hunan-Kwangsi and Hunan-Kwei- chow areas, where the Chinese expected to launch a counter-offen-

Reuter. sive, the report states.

are

found the women sorting out old JAPANESE TURNING TO

newspapers.

Defendant, who pleaded guilty through a representative, was fined $100 on each summons.

GERMAN BATTLESHIP. REPORTED. SUNK

London, To-day. According to reports received from Oslo during Monday night, a Ger- man pattle-cruiser, believed to be the Gneisenau, 26,000 tons, was sunk by Norwegian coastal batteries when she attempted to enter Oslo Flord.- Reuter..

WEATHER REPORT

THE FARMS (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"} Tokyo, To-day. The Japanese farming population increased by nearly 50 per cent. in 1939, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Aggregate value of production reached 644 million yen, a gain being registered by silk cocoons. Wheat and rice both showed increased pro- duction and higher prices. Havas.

TALK OF CHINA TARIFF REVISIONS (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”) Pelping, To-day.

The North China.section of the The Royal Observatory reports that Japanese Trade and Industry As- the anticyclone has decreased in In-sociation is holding a conference early tensity and now extends from the in May to discuss tariff revision pro- Lower Yangtse Valley to the Pacific blems following the request of the east of the Bonins. The depression is, North China authorities who asked situated to the north-east of Hok- various trade bodies to state neir kaido.

views on the subject-Haves.

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