The Archive · 1939

Reward Offered

Peiping, Jan. 12.

The Tientsin Municipal Government as offered a reward of $5,000 to any: one who furnishes information leading to the capture of the gunmen who assassinated Mr. Wang Chu-lin, Chairman of the Tientsin Chinese Chamber 0: Commerce, on the night of December 28. The Municipality has also issued an order urging the police to apprehend the culprits—Reuter Ruthenian-Hungarian Border Clash Prague, Jan. 12. A new incident has been reported on the Ruthenian-Hungarian border, near Bervinkos. Ruthenian accounts say the clash on Tuesday night began when firing opened from the Hungarian side of the frontier and lasted an hour with the Hungarians using one heavy and two light machineguns and throwing hand grenades.—Reutet.

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