The Archive · 1938

Vienna Refugees

Metz. May 24. The authorities here drove back today some 50 refugees trying to get out of Germany. Most of them are ionner merchants of Vienna, who went to the frontier near Sierck in trucks to leave the Reich These refugees complain they tried once before to go abroad but were turned back at the Luxemburg border.—Havas. kiangsu Govt. Head Mr. Chen Tze-min, minister of Education of the Reformed Government, on Monday was invested as Chairman of the Kiangsu Provincial Government, the Shanghai "Mainichi" reported yesterday.

The investiture ceremony, held in Soochow, was attended by Mr. Chen Chun, Minister of the Interior; Major-Gen. Kumakichi Harada, Chief of the Special Service Section of the Japa-expeditionary Force in Central China; and other Japanese officers.

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