Reaches Hankow Safely Via Lanchow, Sian Hankow. Dec, 25.
The new: Soviet Ambassador to China, M. Luganets-Orelsky, reached Hankow to-day from Lanchow, the capital of Kansu Province, where he arrived yesterday by air from Urumchi.
The Envoy will proceed shortly to Chungking to present his credentials to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government. Officials of the Soviet Embassy have already arrived in Chungking from Hankow, to make arrangements for the establishment of the Chungking offices of the Embassy, M. Luganets-Orelsky is accompanied by the Counsellor of the Embassy and five other members of the king Christmas day festivi-Japanese naval air men on Saturday went far and wide in search of targets for aerial bombing, The raids. which inclement wea ther failed to hinder, extended over the provinces of Kiangsu, Chekiang. Hupeh and Shantung, In Hsiangyang, Hupeh. naval aircraft claim the destruction of four grounded planes. Two other pursuit planes. reported to be of Soviet manufacture, escaped at the ap-i proach of the raiders.
In Chekiang, freight carriages It is learned that the Chinese Ambassador to Moscow, Mr. Chiang Ting-fu. has been recalled, Mr, Yui Ming, the Shanghai representative of the Foreign Office, is at present on his way to Moscow as the new Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow and the Charge d'Affaires pending tke appointment of a new Chinese Ambassador.
Many names are rumoured for the post, including those of Mr, Sun Fo and' Madame Sun Yat-sen, but no official information is as yet available.—Reuter, Tokyo, Dec. 26.
The Cabinet's Planning Board, which is stated to have been "considering measures to deal with Shanghai in the future," has worked out a plan to effect a complete change there, says the "Asahi." This, it so; will be done on the basis of redevelopment of Greater Shanghai and the formation of a new city district at Woosung. The plan, the "Asahi" declares, is expected to materialize with the emergence of a new municipality of Greater Shanghai friendly towards Japan, The president of the Planning Board has reported the scheme to the Cabinet which, according to the newspaper, "decided that the Japanese Government should give its, full ce-operation for the redlizgation of such a Chinese plan."—Reuter,
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