The Archive · 1938

China to Continue

Commons Assitrance Given By Mr. R. A. Butler SPECIAL TO THE "NCPN."

London, Dec. 9.

Necessary credit would be included in {he 1999 Budget of the League of Nations, for the maintenance of the present anti-epidemic work in China and continuance of formal technical collaboration, said Mr. R. A. Butler, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons yesterday.

Mr. Butlérs statement was made in answer to a question by Mr. Robert Morgan, National Conservative member for the Stourbridge] division of Worcester, who urged joint action by the Powers to alleviate the misery and sufferings of Chinese civilian refugees.

Anti-epidemic work and technical collaboration, Mr. Butler added, were in accordance with the scheme whic' the Chinese Government had submitted to the Assembly of the League of Nations, in September, and which the Assembly had accepted in prin-

"Mexico City, Dec. 8. President Lazaro Cardenas today announced that the Mexicem Government would immediately expropriate large areas of land in the State of Sinaloa which include some belonging to foreigners." Large estates of the United Sugar Company at Los Mochis are included in the decree. It was announced that the seizures of these lands would begin on Friday.—United "Press.

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