Hongkong, Dec. 24.
Mr. Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Central Political Council and deputy executive of the Kuomintang, is visiting Hanoi for a consultation with his "favourite physician," the official Chinese Central News Agency here announced today in a dispatch from Kunming.
The Chinese statesman, according to the report, flew from' Chungking to Kunming on December 18 to keep an engagement with Gen, Lung Yun, Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government: The long hours in the dir, according to Central News, indisposed Mr. Wang, leading to fears that his chronic disease may again Bret onl. The disease was not speci-
At the insistence of some of his The new Italian 7,000-ton cruiser R, I. Coleoni arrived in port shortly after 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon with some 600 men. aboard. Tie cruiser, which is the sister-ship of the R. L Montecuccoli which served in the Far East for over a year prior to being ordered to return home last month, made fast at the' naval buoys opposite the French Bund and soon afterwards the men were permitted to come ashore. rior to 10'elock yesterday morning, the commander of the Italian cruiser paid the usual courtesy calls to the commanders of the naval units of other nations here, including the British, American and Japanese.
The cruiser will only remain in Shanghai for a comparatively short time prior to proceeding on routine inspection calls to the various Far Eastern ports.
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