Special Delegates to be Sent Abroad Tokyo, Mar. 13.
Seeking support of foreign nations in holding the International Expos!- tion in Tokyo in 1940, municipal authorities will dispatch envoys to various countries in the near future to explain the undertaking.
Mr. Azuma Matsunaga, Chairman of the Municipal Assembly, will be sent to Paris to attend a meeting of the International Exposition' Committee on April 4.
Municipal authorities, acting in conjunction with the Foreign Office, sent formal invitations to sixty signatories of the International Exposition Treaty, including America. Britain, Italy and France.
Mr. Chuichi Ariyoshi, president of the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will be the first exposition envoy to be sent abroad. He will leave for Europe on April 10—Domei. was being landed in Shanghai ves-y from "ships which came here overloaded from Tiensenkon; the port of Nantung. on the north bank of the Yangtze, believed closed last night to all shipping. Tiensengkong has been used for some time as a port for the transhipment of cargo up and down river since the boom was started near Kiangyin. It has also produced large food supplies for Shanghai.
Tiensengkong and north bank ports have been th regular source of supplies of pig, domestic fowls and other foodstuffs for Shanghai, and it was mostly foodstuffs that were being unded from a number of steamer: rived here throughout yes-having packed into the limited e at their disposal as much cargo as they could possibly hold. Chickens, pigs, cabbages and other eatables, which may no longer trickle into Shanghai from the Yangtze, were being landed on The Bund throughout yesterday. Local Chinese circles believe that the closures will seriously affect the living conditions here.
A demonstration was given by the Ist Battalion. the Grenadier Guards, a the Ist Battalion The Coldstream Guards, of methods to defend the, bar cks a a Br
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