The Archive · 1938

Gaimusho Meeting Cancelled

Tokyo, July 21.

A conversation which was reported to have been scheduled for tod: between the Japanese Foreign Mu ister, Gen. Kazushige Ugaki, and Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador, was cancelled this morning, according to unconfirmed press reports, Yesterday a Foreign Office spokesman denied press reports that important conversations between Gen. Ugaki and Sir Robert had been arranged.—Domei.

Manila, July 21.

The Philippine Red Cross announces today that the first shipment of anti-cholera vaccine for China, consisting of 1,000,000 doses, will reach Hongkong on August 1.

Tt also assures China that she will s receive a full 6,000,000 doses at u "much lower" cost than the U.S. 214 cents offered by the Philippine Government "in order to enable the Philippines to make further donations to the stricken people of China."

Confident that China's full requirements may be filled from Manila, the Red Cross has cabled the League df Nations Bureau at Singapore, asking how many more doses are now required to complete the original number of 6,000,000 asked for-by the Bureau.

The Chinese Relief Committee of Manila expects to raise funds for 2,000.000 doses to be donated to the Chinese Government.

Yugoslavia is donating 500,000 doses—Reuter.

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