Hongkong, Nov. 9.
Messrs.
Wallace, Harper & Ca. local British motor-car agents, have received telegraphic advice that their Canton premises were entered this morning by Japanese soldiers and that six motor-cars and a number of accessories were removed.
The premises, the telegram added. "were ransacked, despite the fact that the entrance is stated to have been sealed with a British Consular seal.
—Reuter.
Mr. Elmer 4A. Benson, present Farmer-Labourite Governor of Minenesota, saw his hopes for re-election go tumbling under the onslaught of Mr. Harold Stasen, Republican, who piled up 245,703 votes to Mr. Benson's 161,733 with 1,093 or 3,39 precincts reported in.
It was the second loss of the day for the Farmer-Labourites, as Mr. La Follette of Wisconsin was one of the founders of the mid-west movement.
Both men supposedly had complete control over their state, and were, in addition, backed by the Democratic machines because of their liberal attitudes and semi-alliances with the New Deal Massachusetts, today, had evidently elected its first Republican governor in eight years when newspapers supporting Mr. James H. Curley, former governor, conceded the victory to Mr. Leverett Saltonstall, the Republican nominee. The Republican plurality was estimated in excess of 100.000.
Mr. Saltonstall, a typical Yankee with a Harvard accent, will succeed Mr. Charles F. Hurley, present Democratic Governor.
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Kenn Kodama, 67-year-old president of the newly-formed Central China Development Company, in an interview. "Shanghai," he declared, "has had a great past, but I see before it an even greater future."
The Central China Development Company, Mr. Kodama explained, was capitalized at Y.100,000000. of which half was to be subscribed by the Imperial Government and the other half by the general public. The Company, which will have its head office in Shanghai, came formally into existence on November 7.
A quarter of its capital, Mr. Kodama stid, had already been paid up.
Mr., Kodama, who was formerly president of the Yokohama Specie Bank, emerged from retirement to head the new company at the special
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