Bucharest, Feb. 25. Rumania held a referendum on the new Constitution yesterday in which the voting was compulsory.
Voters were instructed to declare orally yes or no whether they ap-Proved of the Constitution. Provisional figures showed that 88 per cent. voted, with only an insignificant number answering no.
In Bucharest 226,504 persons voted for the Constitution while there were only 277 votes against it.
The new Constitution includes guarantees of the rights of the peas ants to their land and safeguards the New Concurrent Post for U.S. Office Washington, Feb. 26.
The State Department announced here to-day that Mr. John Allison, Third Secretary in charge of the American Embassy at Nanking, had been, appointed American Consul in Shanghai In addition to his Nanking post.
'Mr, Allison' recently was involved in an international incident when a Japanese sentry in Nanking slapped him in the face when he was attempting to Investigate a case in which Japanese troops were alleged to have Yaped a" Chinese. woman' after Kidnapping her from Nanking University, an American owned institution—United Press.
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