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Director Of Revue
Des Deux Mondes"
Paris, Dec. 2.
The death is announced of M. Reno Doumle, brilliant French essayist, and one of the leading Agures in French Illerary circles, Reuter, 1
M. Doumic was permanent secretary of the Academie Francals and was Director of the well known publica- tion Revue Des Deux Monder to which
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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937.
FOUR JAPANESE ALHAMBRA
PLANES DOWN, THREE CHINESE
FEW BRITONS REMAIN IN NANKING NOW; BOMBING CONTINUES
Nanking, Dec. 3.
Five Japanese, planes bombed the vicinity of the
of ligh class French magazines and military aerodrome yesterday.
periodicals.
Adventurers Battle Ice In Arctic
Russian's Report New Hazard
London, Dec. 2. The Daily Express has received a report that the Soviet polar comp leader Ivan Papanin, in a radio mes- sage to Petrozavodsk. stotes: are now more than 600 miles from the pole and had to battle with many difficulties in approaching the shores of Greenland. We must be ready at any moment to meet another problem how to carry on amid the crushing lce,"
There are four men in the party United Press.
FINE WEATHER FORECAST
72,
A Chinese spokesman said that Chinese pursuit planes had brought down four Japanese planes this afternoon.
He also stated that twelve Chinese planes had been engaged in bombing the Shanghai area. Four had bombed Kiangyin and of these, three had not returned. Seventeen of the 20 Britons remaining in Nanking have now either evacuated to the British gunboat or the hulk which is nearby.
The city of Nanking is left practically without any policemen, due to the fact that most of them have fled.
MISSIONARIES STAYING
Fifteen Amerkan missionaries and America Embassy that they are medien! workers have Informed the remaining 3n_Nanking to carry on their work. Twenty-five others are to evacuate to U.S.S. expected Panay when advised to do so.
STORY OF RAIDS
Nanking, Dec. 3. Four Japanese planes were brought| down while engaged in dogfights with Chinese pursuit planes during two ralds on Nanking yesterday.
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LABOUR MINISTRY HEALTHY
Swelling Balance Reported
London, Dec. 2. At 11.30 a squadron of about, ten
The Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Japanese planes raided the capital, dropping a number of bombs on the Brown, moved in the House of Com- military aerodrome outside Kwang-mons the second reading of the Gov- huamen. Chinese pursuit planes took ernment's measure amending the un-
the air and drove
employment insurance system so as them away. than yesterday's | One of the raiders was seen to have to enable free meals to be supplied
been hit and crashed outside Non- king. The wreckage is being sought. damaged and two airmen injured. Ore Chinese pursuit plane was also
Temperature ut 10 a.m. at Royal Observatory to-day was one degree lower corresponding reading, while humid ily was 53, a rise of 10 per cent,
The anti-cyclone is stationary over China and has increased in intensity An intense depression covers Hokkaido.
Local forecast:-North-east windă, moderate to fresh; fine generally.
STOP PRESS
The
PROCESSION AT HONGKEW-SIDE
Shanghal, Dec. 3.
(2.30 p.m.) Japanese procession has crossed Garden Bridge and entered Hongkew.
The Japanese claim the bomb thrower was a Chinese student, the Settlement Police that he looks like a | Korean.-Reuter.
SECOND ATTACK
to unemployed boys and girls attend- ing junior instruction centres, to in- of the clude in the agricultural section system, gamekeepers and grooms, and to make certain provision regard- ing the financing of the insurance fund.
At one o'clock in the afternoon He described the Bill as another three Japanese planes staged a second instalment in extension of social ser raid. They were met by a number vices and commended the work of of Chinese planes. In the ensuing junior instruction centres. There combat two of the raiders were hit was some evidence of undernourish and crashed in dames in, the vicinity ment among a minority of those at- of Chinglungshan (Green Dragon tending the centres and therefore they H) in the suburbs. One pliot was had decided to apply to them the same instantly killed whilst another who powers to provide meals enjoyed by descended with a parachute was local authorities in respect of clemen- seriously injured.
tary schools.
BALANCE OF £30,000,000 Seeing the fate of the two planes, i Coming to the proposals regarding the third Japanese raider flew east- the insurance fund Mr. Ernest Brown ward. It encountered Chinese claimed he was the first Minister of patrol plane over Tangshan, the resort Labour-to-come-to-the-House-to-aak. autalde Nanking, and was shot down. for a variation of the Board's borrow-
-Central News.
CHINESE PLANES RAID JAPANESE WARSHIPS
Nanking, Dec. 3. Five or six Japanese warships In the Whangpop River were hit during a raid staged by a squadron of over pursuit 20 Chinese bombers and planes yesterday morning, it is learned from military dreles.
One of the warships is said to have been scriously damaged.-Central
News,
NEUTRAL ZONE
ing powers, not because of an in- crease in lis debt, but because it had a large and increasing balance.. At the time of the last report there was bulance of £30,000,000 in hand. The Bill enabled the Statutory Com- debt while mitice to pay off the maintaining power to reborrow need, thus ensuring a saving in inter- est which would be available, if thought desirable, for additional bene fits, and the Minister recommended the proposal as good business and sound administrative practice.
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He was followed by Mr. Arthur Greenwood who moved a Labour amendment for the rejection of the Bill on the ground that whilst bring- ing within unemployment Insurance certain limited classes, it ignored the recommendation of the statutory Committee for the inclusion"
non-
The United Press is informed that the the Japanese, in replying to request for the establishment of and respect for a neutral zone in Nanking, stated they would respect such a zone as far as circumstances would per-manual workers and left upon a sec- tion of the community the national burden incurred in a time of depres- sion, instead of devoting the surplus in the unemployment fund to rowing the standard of life of the ployed.--British Wireless.
mit.
As a result of this reply the com- mitted in charge of arranging the zone is continuing to take further precautions Unlied Press.
AMERICANS WARNED TO CLEAR OUT
Nanking, Dec. 3. Acting on the advice of the State Department, the United States Em- bassy has circularised all Americans warning them that they should with- draw from Nanking as soon as possi-
pointed ble. It
out that it may be necessary for the U. S. gunboat,
Panay to move out of range of artil lery, and also that if fighting occurs near Nanking, exit from the city gates will probably be impossible.
It is requested that Americans in Nanking indicale whether they In- tend to make use of the Panay, or otherwise evacuating-United Press.
Christmas Air Mails For Britain
The Christmas air mail for Great] Britain by Imperial Airways direct service will be closed in the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office au follows:
Registered 5.08 pm. Dec. 15; Ordinary 3.60 km. Dee. . R1, This mail is due to arrive at Lon don on December 20.
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"Dry" Vote Over-Ruled By Commons.
Bars Likely For Glasgow Exhibition
London, Dec. 2.
The House of Commons debated a Bill to-day to permit the sale of alcoholic drinks at the Empire Exhibi- tion at Glasgow next year.
The question arises owing to the exhibition being held in a latelet where liquor can only be sold at meal "UINEN,
Mr. T. Johnston (Lab.), opposing. the Bill, declared that many exhibi- fiona had been a financial Success without having public house bars.
Bir Archibald 'Sinclair, leader of the Liberal Party, said the Scottish electrors should not be deprived of
hele right to keep to old laws.
Sir John Gilmore, representing the constituency in which the exhibition is to be held, and he believed that no real.
rights of the individual would be Infringed. He believed that after the exhibition the district would become "dry again."
The second reading of the Bill was passed by 189 votes to 96-Reuter.
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