Pope Pius XI granted no audiences on New Years day in the Vatican but attended an early mass and later went for a drive through the Vatican gardens A press report points out that on January 1, Pope Pius, had filled the pontifical office fifteen years ten months and sixteen days and attained an age of eighty years, seven months and one-day. Of 261 Popes. only 21 have held the office as long as Pius XL—Trans-Ocean.
At the beginning of the year, there was a decline in let "production due to the premature use of machines, a decrease in yield, and an increase in accidents, The appointment of Lazaro Kaganovitch, one of the ablest men of the regime, head of the Soviet Heavy Indust resulted in an provement in the situation.
He succeeded bringing about a recovery, and the un for the production of coal, steel. and pig-tron, which had decreased considerably n compared with the provisions of the Five-Year plan, improved rapidly and are now nearly up to the expectations of the plan.
Stakhanovism has ceased to be the exception and has become the normal thing. There ar inal Stakhanovists but Stakhanovist groups and work-shops, The third Five-Year plan is not yet known, but it is learned that an increase of 15.6 per cent, expected in the total production for the first three months of 1938 as compared with the identical period in 1937.—Havas. in the hostilities left yesterday Picture shows The P. & O. liner Rawalpindi, which arrived from Kobe on Sunday afternoon and tied up at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co.'s Pootung Wharf, is to sail for Home ports this morning. A passenger tender will leave the Customs Jetty at about 8 o'clock this morning for the ship, the 17,000 tons liner leaving port an hour or so later. She is bound for Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Port Said, Malta, Marseilles, Gibraltar and Trade Talks to
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