French Police Forbid the Removal of Copper Ingots A group of' Japanese gendarmes arrived last Saturday night at the French Bund and prevented thi loading of a quantity of ingots, from godown No, 8 Quai de France, into the s Kingyuan which was berthed at the French Bund, French Polite reserves were called out and took sare of ihe stunt while ihe Japtinese gendarm left without creating any disturbance, The ingots in question were claim ed by the Japanese on February 25, as the propery of the Kuomintang Government of China which they ceüséd to-recognize, and whose property they claim on behalf of the newly formed "Reformed Govern-mani" This chim was refused nee the ingots are stated to be the property of foreign firms, wh'eh wa offered but never sold to the Chinèsè Government. The goods were stored on the French Concession, and the French atithorities did not permit the seizure to take place, Tt was, however, understood that thè goods ar math on the Côn-cession until the controversy if finally settled, The police ordered that the ingots be returned to the godôwn, This order was carried out, and the incident was closed. throughout Austria, "owing to an excess of zeal for the National Social-st cause," w be wiped out, Polit cal offenders through jut Germany are to be pardoned-if their sentences not exceed s and if they month ave not been imposed on accom: of a orme ce with "vile motive:
All sentences ranging from six Empress Prays for Dead Colombia's President Tokyo, May 2.
Empress Nagako this morning prayec at the Yasukuni Shrine, where the souls of 5,533 officers and men of the Army and Navy killed in action in China and North Manchuria were enshrined late last month.—Domei
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