Berlin, July 8.
Erich Maria Remarque, famous as author of "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "The Road Back," has been deprived of his German citizenship, the official Reich gazette publishing his name yesterday as No. 21 in a list of persons who were deprived of their citizenship rights.
It was stated here yesterday that he had small claim to military fame, having given himself the German Iron Cross of First Class and the rank of lieutenant, both of which were spurious, In 1932, his name appeared in the German court register when he was accused of having smuggled money out of the country. He is now living in Ronco, Switzerland, where. he has his own estate—Tarns-Ocean.
Hongkong, July 8.
Japanese sailors tonight set on fire a large. Chinese junk carrying a crew of twenty men, most of whom were believed to have perished, according to many residents here who watched the incident through telescopes.
Those who watched the operations said that a Japanese warship intercepted a fishing fleet one mile from Waglan' on the fringe of Hongkong territorial waters at 6.30 o'clock this evening, A boarding party from the warship, they asserted, boarded the junk, poured petrol over it and set it afire.—United Press.
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