Bucharest, July 27.
The National Peasant Party is leading in the elections for general departmental councils in sixteen departments on Sunday. The returns it are for National Peasant Party 120,000 votes; Liberal Party (governmented, 110000; National Christian (Racist), 43000, and Roumanian Front (extreme rightist led by Vaida Voivode) 37,000 votes. The elections some indication of the strength of the respective parties as the legis-nature is about to conclude its term.
"The Liberal Party may lose power in the autumn.—Havas, London, July 26 Replying to a question by Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, Conservative member for the Kidderminster division of Worcestershire, the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Anthony Eden, informed the House of Commons to-day that he expected to receive shortly from ihe British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugesson, a report on the subject of unauthorized reprint-ug of British books in China.
The catalogue of a new book store in Shanghai, Sir John declared, showed that hundreds of English books were being offered "at a discount of 40 per cent.
He was aware of the complaints, Mr. Eden said, and that was why he had requested the report.—Reuter New York, July 26. Financial circles were bullish but cautious to-day. Traders anticipated a slight wave of profit-taking following the expected rise in the market based on the report of the United States Steel Corporation. General business news, however, continues favourable, and it is expected that only a temporary halt in the rise of the market will occur—United Press.
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