Winged Pests Add to Ravages of Cholera and Bandits Tun 'Apostolic of Padang in' the Malay. States has been elevated to the rank of an Apostolic: Vicariate.
Pengpu, Aug. 15.
Northern Anhui has been visited foy successive calamities during. recent months which have, brought untold misery to the people.
The latest, is the locust pest. Millions of locusts "descended ripon the northern Anhui districts during the week-end and devoured all green things. For two days, the insects preyed on. the and little vegetation is now left.
Drought, " cholera and banditry have added to Anhui's cup of woes, For weeks little rain has" fallen, while the cholera epidemic continues claim hundreds of victims. Several villages near Chengyang wore recently raided and looted by outlaws—Kuo Min.
Tokyo, An were. hited this morning. near the Kaunigaharg* Acoli when we military planes calided int fie and crashed.
Spvmat, hundred refugees from Kiangsi have come to" Shanghai to escape the fury of the Communists. They "are. being eared for by local " benevolent Tus "Shunpao" reports that Mr. King Chin, a Korean nationalist leader, who fled from Shanghai after the Hongkew Park bomb outrage at the end of April, w arrested several days ago by Japan-fosse marines at a small village in the Tsungming Islands and is now in custody in' the local Japanese Consulate-General. The "marines were landed from a Japanese man-}of-war despatched by the Japanese Navy to Tsungming Islands espectally for the purpose of apprenend= ing him. Prior to the arrest of Mr. King, the Chinese authorities were requested by Japanexe authorities t0 assist in effecting' fording to the "Shunpac,
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