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WHO'S WHO

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maintained his independence. His army is reported to contain violently anti-Japanese elements, but in the present confilet the Japanese have preferred to carry on negotiations with Sung rather than with the central authority of Nanking.

General Chang Tze-chung, com- manding the Chinese 38th Division, was recently reported as having arranged to garrison towns north arid west of Peking.

BIG SHANGHAI FIRE

Good Work By The Brigade

SCHOLAR EXILES IN BRITAIN

Over 200 Germans Found Posts

Places have been found in Great

Britain for 228 German scientists. professors and scholars who left their country because of "racial" persecution. states theDally Telegraph." Permanent positions were found for 101.

The work of helping the dis- placed scholare is described in the report, now published, of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, formerly the Academic Assistance Council.

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One man was seriously injured, another missing and believed to have drowned, while fireman was hurt in the shoulder by falling bricks in the course of a fre in a godown in North Soochow Road recently, writes a Shanghal corres pondent. The property involved Was a large and practically empty General Sugiyama, Japanese godown, but it took several hours Secretary for War. like the chief of hard fighting by a large por- commanders now in North China, tlon of the Shanghal Fire Brigade. is regarded by the Japanese as re-

to keep the fames under control. presenting the moderate wing of

Fanned by the strong gusts of

"The hopes expressed in the the army. After the militarist coup wind, the fire which started in a last report that the emergency in Tokyo in February 1936, when top corner of the building quickly work for the displaced German several eminent statesmen

WHYS and spread and soon the whole build- | scholars might cease in July, 1836. soldiers were murdered, the aping was a sheet of flames, sparks have not been fulfilled," says the pointment of extremists was avoid and smoke shooting high into the report. "The Nuremburg legisla- ed in order that the very dangerous air. The work of nighting the tion in the autumn of 1935 led to agitation in the army might be names was carried out under the the dismissal of many more an!- safely handled. General Sugiyams direction of Captain J. Gordon versity teachers.

Recently had been Under-Secretary at the Dyson, Chief of the Fire Brigade, there has been a series of dis- War Ministry and Director of the and competent observers credited missals of university teachers, in- Military Education Department the Fire Brigade with having per- cluding men of international re- (one of the three most important formed a very fine piece of work putation, because they have Jewish positions in the Army) before his

in confining the fre, despite great wives." handicaps, to the godown affected.

WAS

PRECARIOUS PERCH

appointment to his present office

Lleutenant-General Kiyoshi Kat-ed. suki commands the Japanese forces in China. Until recently he held a high military appointment in

The first casualty occurred soon Tokyo, but owing to the illness of after the fire started. Sparks and the Commander-in-Chief (the late

fames were blown over the roofs Lieut.-General- Tashiro) in the of small, adjoining houses, and an feld he left by aeroplane to

inmate con re-

the Arst floor, ap place him, Fe

actually |parently panic-stricken and think- nominated for this post in Januarying the house he was in was about of last year, but owing to the to go up in flames, jumped from military revolt in Tokyo a month the verandah to the street below. later he remained in the capital. as he was regarded as the most capable officer for the task of restoring discipline in the Imperial Guard. His former offices include the Deputy-Directorship of Military University and the com- mand of the, 12th Division, which has now been sent to China.

Major-General Hashimoto, Chief of Staff of the Japanese forces in North Chiria.

A mystery exists with regard to the second man.. Large crowds of Chinese from everywhere in the near neighbourhood flocked to the scene of the fire, and reinforce- thements of police had to be hastily called to keep them back. A man on one of the sampáns moored all along North Boochow Road was re- ported to have missed his footing and fallen into the creek. That is said to be the last that was seen of him.

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Penetrating Deposits.

Of Ages

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The Council has also received "applications for help from scholars who have lost their ports in the course of the Church conflicts in Germany, and fears that the num- ber of such applications may in- crease.

1,600 DISPLACED

The total number of teachers

and research workers displaced from German universities and re- search institutes of university rank is now approximately 1,600. Seventy per cent. are married, and two-thirds of these have children. so that the total number of per- sons whose fate is involved direct- ty is at least 3,500...

"It is one of the bitterer con- sequences of the racial basis on which the persecution proceeds that disaster comes simultaneously to each member of a family group,” adds the report.

"The average period of service In the universities of the displaced scholars is 22 years: 26 per cent. were full professors: 37 per cent. are in the age-group 25-35, 32 per cent in the age-group 35 45, and 26 per cent. in the age-group" 45-60, but these details reveal little of the real losses involved or the dificulties of the situation.

Meanwhile, hoses from innumer. able engines were playing strong jets of water upon the building from every side and from all an- gles, from the ground, from roof tops and from a turntable. The latter was drawn up in front of the godown and ran up to the top of the three-story building, from which vantage point a fireman "Within Germany, the displaced poured gallons of water from the scholars for the most part find creek into the burning building. “ that the possibility of publishing Hils was a precarious perch. their scientific work is diminish- Smoke and sparks were continuing: some are denied access to | ally.

completely laboratories or libraries in which obscuring him from view, and from time to time. privately to continue their hungry tongues of flame would search; some have been refused reach out of a window and seem to permission to accept invitations an American geologist, Dr. C. 8. envelop him. Although not equip abroad.

ped with a smoke-mask, he stuck to Piggot, with the support of "the.

his task and whenever things got Geological Society of America and

too hot for him other hoses would of the United States light-house come to his rescue for a few mo service. Its object is the taking

ments before going back to deal of sample borngs substantially with other flames. deeper into

Au ocean-Bed gun fired a mile- and-a-nou or more peheath the surface of the sea, may recapture secrets of marine ilfe which have been lost for 20.000 years,

The gun has been invented by

the ocean bed than has before been possible.

Since the ocean floor is cun- tinuously growing through slow sedimentation, the effect is that of boring downward into time.

An inch of deposit, it is est- mated, represents from 150 to 300 years, according to the conditions, 'Dr. Piggot's gun will enable sam- ples ranging from four feet to eight feet of deposit to be obtained -the equivalent or 8,000 to 25,000 years of sea history.

DESCARTES

CONGRESS

Paris, Aug. 9. The Ninth International Con- gress for Philosophy, the "Des- carte Congress' was concluded here on Sunday.

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They are distributed in different countries, with the USA and Great Britain taking the lead- ing part in providing hospitality. ' "More impressive than these

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dred philosophers from thirty-towards re-establishment repre- Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Although this is a relatively ning countries, and discussed above septa. This cannot be estimated | Japan short period on the evolutionary all the philosophy of Rene Des- quantitatively; time scale, it is long enough to carte. Altogeler 295 papers were could for his own subject give Alr Mall for "K.L.M. Service” make the recovery of "extinct | read. · The congress will be held | examples of valuable work that

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