Tae "Daily Express" on Friday quoted friends of the British-born wife of M. Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, as saying that the O.G.P.U. had for-hidden her to leave her villa in the Ural Mountains, The paper said that acquaintances were unable to confirm reports that M. Joseph Stalin had asked M. Litvinov to divorce his wife. Madame Litvinov has been "confined" to her home for the past six weeks but has been permitted to move about in the rural village teaching "basic" English, the report said, His Excellency Dr. Joao Maria da Silva Lebre e Lima, the new Portuguese Minister to China, arrived jat Hongkong July 12 by the s. Van {Heutsz from Europe. He was greet-led by the Portuguese Consul-General in Hongkong, Dr, Alvaro Laborinho. The Minister said he would go to Macao within a few days to confer with the Governor of the Portuguese colony before proceeding to Hankow and Shanghai, Before coming to Hongkong he was stationed at Rio de Janeiro and at London, The Minister said that he had not received any special instructions with regard -to the reports of drug smuggling through Macao into China, He is replacing Dr. Navarro, the former Portuguese Minister, who died not long ago in Shanghai.
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