Appointed Peiping, July 15.
Already giving financial aid to flood sufferers, the "Provisional Government of China" today decided to dis-ratch technical experts to the scene of the flood caused by the breaching]
dykes along the Yellow River.
The experts and engineers sent by. the Government will work under the supervision of the chairman of the Honan provincial government, who is to be appointed chairman of the Yellow River Flood Sufferers' Relief Committee consisting of officials and civilians—Domei, to grant the minorities real autonomy. This newspaper claims, however, that the authorities are ready to prepare a basis for liberal local and provincial self-administration.
The "minorities status" plan will be concluded on Saturday, it is further learnt, and will be ' submitted to Parliament within a fortnight at the latest.
The nationalities statute may come up for discussion in Parliament on July 26, politicians declare today. The language law and reforms of administration will be dealt with at approximately the same time.
The National Union Party, representing the right wing of the Gov-emmental Coalition, has voted a resolution disapproving the grant, of full territorial autonomy to the minorities, observers note, "We demand that. the authority of the central Government be preserved Hughes Tells of His Flight 3
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On their way to Mr. Whalen's home from the airport, their cars had to make their way through a crowd of some 800,000 cheering hero-worshippers, who were lining the streets along practically all of the sixteen miles the cars travelled, According to almost traditional rules of welcome, the triumphant aviators were welcomed by the crowds with showers of paper, any paper that happened fo be to hand. From the windows, too, a rain of newspapers, paper bags and pages from misused telephone books fell on the heads of the vehicle procession.
The newspapers here made extraordinary efforts to put out extras giving the first details of the returning aviators' landing just twenty minutes after the event itself—Havas. Washington, July 14, The Army and Navy Union announced today that it was awarding its 1938 "Ace Pilot's Medal" to Mr. Howard Hughes in recognition of his noteworthy achievement in circling the globe in less than four days.—United Press, "The Traveller's Gazette"
With a frontispiece of Salisbury Cathedral, its foreground the peaceful river, Messrs, Thos. Cook's "Far Eastern Traveller's Gazette" leads off its suggestions for leave-goers, and it is a pleasant coincidence that within a few. pages of the spire he knows so well is an article by Mr. C. M. Squarey on "The 'Grand' Way of Seeing Europe," and let those who are not quite sure what to do with their leave take Mr. Squarey's word for this: night through aly, spending. fifteen through Central Europe, etc., no one travelling gan fail to acquire a "certain something"—call it Savoir faire if you like—which, though intangible. none the Tess becomes a real asset "An Argentine Playground"—the Sierras of Cordoba—is seen by Mr. Ernest Young and suggests something out-of-the-way—and he says the district is well provided with hotels. "Modern Japan," by Mr, B. C. Hanscomb, is not so far afield, while in "Wings Over Europe" Mr. J. H. N. Mason tells how it is possible to do a thousand miles between breakfast and dinner. The liberal education provided by the suggested itineraries in this book of the world's travel ways will be greatly facilitated by a few of the originals of the photograph of a Cook's Travellers Cheque, and in addition to all the careful time-
War Damages Damages caused by the has tilities to commerce, industry and agricultural products of Kiangsu and Chekiang are estimated at approximately $2,900,000,000, - according ' to Domei. Industrial establishments alone suffered a loss of about $1,150,000,000. The districts hardest hit are Shanghai, Nanking, Wusih, Soochow, Kashing, Kasuh, Wuhsing, Pinghu and Fooyang, said these reports.
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