Perhaps this may have been due to the fact that the new government claims to be "founded on a revolutionary basis," and so patriotic On Tuesday last, the world-famous pharmaceutical manufacturers, "Bayer" 1. C. Farbenindustrie er OG, Leverkusen, Germany, principally known to the public as makers of original 'Aspirin', inaugurated a new freight service for urgently-needed medical supplies The drugs are carried to all countries of the world by means of a plane named 'Bayer' and owned by the firm. On its maiden voyage the plane rushed 'Bayer' remedies to London, and was met by a large number of press representatives on its arrival in Croydon. The importence of the new service was duly stressed by London evening papers in view of the fact that the supply of drugs and especially serums is greatly facilitated thereby, which should prove very valuable in the event of epidemics etc. The Bayer plane will visit all European countries, and in case of emergencies, such as cholera, plague and other epidemics, also carry remedies to the Far East. monstrations were not necessary to cal the new government into being Though why a revolutionary has should have been preferred, to a legal one, is not at all clear. One would have thought that, im view of the repudiation of the Kuomintang and all its works, it would have been much more convincing to claim that the overthrow of the Republic by the Kuomintang in 1928 was a revolutionary and illegal act, and that the present government was merely the continuation or re-establishment of the old Republic This is, one of those numerous points that do not appear to have been thought out very carefully.
The clock has also been put back ten years or more, as regards the personnel of the new government. The names of about nine persons have been so far given out as participating in same, They belong either to the former Anfu or Chihli party. (Those two names have a ghostly sound and seem to evoke memories of a dead
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