Mr. Ranald G. McDonald is at present indisposed in hospital, but expects to be back home by the end of the week, A nevisep scale of postage rates for the airmail. service to the West Indies and certain countries in Central and South America, served via New York,-will come into force on January. 31.
Navy officials in Washington on January 28 said the three American cruisers which will visit Singapore during the naval manceuvres to be held there next month are scheduled to return to the United States as soon as the manceuvres are ended.
In one of New York's most daring daylight robberies, four bandits in an armed raid on the waterfront escaped with a $25,000 payroll from the United States Lines while it was being- transferred to Pier 61 from Pier 62 on January 28.
GeneraL Ma Chan-shan, hero of the Nonni Bridge battle in 1932, accompanied by two former North-eastern military leaders, Generals Ssu Ping-"Wen and Wang Teh-lin, arrived in Hankow on January 28, says a message to the "Sin Wen Pao."
Turovcn passenger and freight traffic between North China and Manchoukuo will be inaugurated immediately, Japanese railway authorities in Tientsin announced on January 29, The C.O.D. system will be adopted for freight carried by through trains, the announcement added.
Until Gen. Chang Chun, the new chairman of the Szechyen Provincial Government. in succession to the late Gen. Liu Hsiang, assumes his duties, Mr. Teng Han-hsiang will take charge of the affairs of that province, a telegram having been sent to Mr. Teng by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, _Two-penny and three-penny stamps of the King George VI issue will be on sale on January 31. The colour of the new two-penny stamp is orange vermilion, and that of the threepenny, deep. violet. The design is the same as that of postage stamps of the new reign already issued.
Ercur senior military appointments approved by the King are announced, including Colonel L. Carr to be Director, of Staff Duties at the War Office with the rank of Major-General, about September 1938, vice Major-General Squires, who has been selected as Commander of the Deccan district of India.
Tur noted French author, M. Claude Parrere, was due in Kobe on. January 30 and in Tokyo the same day. He will remain. in Tokyo until February 7, after which he will tour Manchoukuo and North China. M. Farrere, is not only well-known for his novels, but also for his essays, travel books, historical works and plays.
Tue Kwangsi Provincial Government has decided to install automatic telephones in the principal cities of province, states a dispatch to the While installation work has already been in progress in Kweilin and Nanning, orders have also been placed with foreign countries for machines to be set up in Lungchow, Wuchow and Liuchow, says the report.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Red Army,. the Soviet Commissariat for Posts will issue a set of new postage stamps of the denomination 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 80 Kopeks and one Rouble. The higher denominations depict Stalin's arrival with the. cavalry, while, the remainder show various kinds of weapons and warships, Altogether 70,000,000 copies are to be printed.
IN response to an application filed jointly by Mr. Ichita Kobashi, Mayor of Tokyo, and other promoters, the Government on January 28 sanctioned the advance sale of. ¥.10,000,000 worth of tickets to the World Pair, to be held in Tokyo in 1940, simultaneously with the Olympic Games. The tickets will be on. sale throughout Japan for two weeks, between March 10 and 24.
Tue Chief-of-Staff of the Eighth Route. (formerly Communist) Army, General Yeh Chieh-ying, arrived in Canton from Wuchang on January 27 to take charge.of the training of self-defence corps and mobile units in Kwangtung province, says a Chinese dispatch to the local press, General Yeh, it is reported, undertook the mission on orders from the Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, General Chiang Kai-shek.
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