Sig. Cortese is First Italian Minister Changchun, Jan, 18. The State Council announces today that Manchoukuo has agreed to the appointment of Signor Luigi Cortese, Italian Consul-General in Mukden, as the first Italian Minister to Manchoukuo.
At the same time it is stated that Mr, Hsu Shao-hsiang, Mayor of Changchun, has been selected as Manchoukuo Minister to Italy. The formal appointment of Mr. Hsu is German expected shortly.—Reuter. port of the discovery by the Czechoslovakian police of a plan to assassinate Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, the Yugoslav Premier, now on a visit to Germany.
According to their reports, a 36- year-old Yugoslav, Marian Mustapic, was arrested at Oderberg on the Czech frontier as he was about to teard a train for Berlin. He had a forged passport. He confessed to being a brother of a member of the Pavelic terrorist group which planned the assassination of King Alex ander—d!—Yugoslavia.—Trans-Ocean
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