Harbin, Apr. 17.
'A, Soviet soldier deserter armed and' with full equipment attempted cross over the frozen Amur River at Blagoveschensk on "April. 15, according to oficial reports received here to-day. Soviet frontier guards. however, opened fire on the man and led him midway in. the river.
'Soviet cavalry and infantry of the frontier guards have now been considerably' increased—Reuter.
Peiping, Apr. 16.
According to information "from local Chinese " educational Ching will be represented by fou delegates at the 17th World Geological congress to be held in Moscow on fuly 18 next. 'They are Mr. Huang Chisehing and Mr Pel Wen-chung of the Chinese Geological Survey, Mr. Chu' Shen of the Academia Sinica and Professor Yuan Fuclin of Tsing Hua University. Mr, Pel, a graduate of the Department of Geology at the National University of Peking. is one
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