Chungking, Jan. 11.
Rumours that Mr. Chen Li-fu, the Minister of Education, had proceeded to Hongkong, out of sympathy with Mr. Wang Ching-wei, were absolute-declared a spokesman for e Centre! Government today. Mr.
the spokesman declared, had even left his home, where lis is ill with influenza."
Likewise, he declared, stories that General Hsu Pei-keng, head of the Military Intelligence Department, had been dismissed owing to his sympathy with Mr. Wong Ching-wei were "utterly ridiculous."—Reuter.
German influence—political as well as economic—to the boundaries of the Soviet Union, but not across Polish territory.
Latvia and Estonia in the north end Rumania in the south, he explains, would afford points of contact with Russia without touching Polish territory. The road to Bessarabia, he declares, lies through Carpatho-Ukraine and Ruthenia Eastern in Czechoslovakia.
It seems to have been assumed in Berchtesgaden, the correspondent concluded, that Germany's Eastern Europe plans could, with the goodwill of Poland, be realized by strong diplomatic action, backed up by all the resources of the German propaganda machine.—Reute Lord Baldwin Fund Reaches £350,000
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