Tokyo, May 20.
According to figures compiled by. the Cabinet Statistics Bureau, births in Japan exceeded deaths by 940,000 during the past year. These avo only preliminary figures, but the final figures, which are being published shortly, are expected to show a total increase of nearly 1,000,000—Reuter, Gex, Chiang Ka den his officers and men to interfere with the civil administration districts where they may be gar-
Tue whereabouts of Teng, the Hongkong Bank ex-compradore at Peking and his son, remains a my-'The Commissioner of Foreign Affairs story, says the "N.-C. Daily Mail."
instructed by the Waichiaopa to Tientsin is reported to have been etc,, must be protected, and any negotiate with the foreign one' disobeying this order will be thorities for warrants of arrest in Severely punished, This by order ease Teng and his gon are hiding in (of Chiang Kai one of the Concessions, Peking, May 13.
Dr. Broomball and the Rev Mr. Edward Phillips of the Baptist Missionary Society of London, who were reported from London' to be faying at Sianfu at Marshal Feng'
hsiang's request, have wired to Peking stating that they are leaving for the const—Reuter. inspector in North Luzon, The Army here states that no military, naval or commercial plane was there on that date—Reuter.
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