Kalgan, Feb. 4 Twelve million hectares of land slong the upper reaches of the Yellow River were offered to-day by the newly-established Inner Mongolian Autonomous Government to Japanese immigrants. The vast tract of land, the communication to the Japanese Government sald,.is suitable for the cultivation of rice—Domel, minutes of the sounding of the alarm the gun-crews are in readiness for jection.
Chungking experienced its first alr~ raid scare on Sunday when what tumed out to be a false alarm was Jcounded. Many Chinese tried to ross the Yangtze in sampans, and an overloaded boat, carrying about 20 persons, capsized, drowning alli the Many dug-outs, public and private, are being constructed in the solid rock on which Chungking is built, The Chungking Alr Defence Command has an ambitious plan under consideration. It provides for the construction, as an alr-raid refuge, of a. two-mile. long tunnel under Chungking. running from east west.
Certain business firms here have made their business hours 7 am. to 10 am. and 4 pin. to 9 pan. so as to lose as little time as possible between air-raid signals and the "all The telephone company announces that as soon as alr-raid. signals niven, the service will be restricted only for oficial purposes.
Meanwhile the Government is con sidering plans to distribute part of the population to the surrounding districts to minimize the possible loss fof life in the event of air raids. All Inhabitants have been ordered to paint their houses grey or. black.
The British Consul recently issued notice informing British property-holders. that they: at their option, notify the British Air Attache Jat Shanghai of the Jocation..of their premises; also that they may request him, if they think Int, to notify the Japanese authorities of these loca-'Hons, preferably supplying a map or The Chinese General Manager. the Kailan Mining Administration, /S4r, Ku Cheng, who sustained serious juries from a fall in Tientsin on January 31,-when he arrived from Hongkong, succumbed to his injuries on February 3, states a dispatch to the "Sin Wen Pao." colours on the, walls ings he baite of" Waning
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