Cairo, Oct. 14.
There is no change in the situation án Egypt, according to a communique issued here today by General Headquarters.
Concerning military operations this communique states:
"In the Sudan on Sunday one of our mechanized. patrols encountered and inflicted heavy casualties on 120 enemy about 20 miles southeast of Funeral service for the Nicólai Esefovitch Melnichenko were at the Rus-Church *on Mr. Melnichenko 4 was Highly esteemed by his employers and associates and a large number of the "s staff Present, including Captain J. R-Marine Superintendent. After a brief illness the deceased died last Friday at the Country Hospital from typhoid fever, at the age of twenty-eight years. He was not married, He is survived by his mother, two sisters and two brothers. One brother returned from Tsingtao te attend the funeral services. The Pallbearers were Messrs. N. V. Pinaeff, V. I. Polushin, S. E. Krilovetsky, A. V. Silinsky, I. G. Abashidze and Capt. J. R. McDonald. Among those sending floral tributes were:—Mother, brothers and sisters; Galot-Milotehka;. Stewart; Ty M p. Mathez: Mr, an Limited; Mollers' Limited; Captain G. Q; Gatehouse; E, P Scott; Atlas Radio Pavioff; Mrs. E. N. Nath, Vala and Nadia; Family Klobertanz; and others.
Funeral arrangements were under ihe direction of the International Funeral Directors.
Dr. Gertrude Huang Lu In the presence of relatives and a large number of friends a Requiem Mass was celebrated yesterday morning at the St. Aloysius Catholic Church on Kiaochow Road for the late Dr. Gertrude Huang Lu, following which interment took place at the Hungjao Road Cemetery. Father S. J. Fitzgerald carried out the last rites of the Mass end officiated at the graveside.
Dr. Lu resided in Shanghai the past five years and during that short time endeared herself to many, who mourn her untimely passing. The Geceased entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland, in 1929 and the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery was conferred on her in 194. Upon gradual fion she was awarded the Alumni Association Gold Medal for the best graduation Thesis. Dr. Lu started practice here in 1985 with her husband.
The French Government, it is stressed here, is ready to proceed immediately with the exchange of the instruments of ratification of the nonaggression pact. The Bangkok Government having not yet received these instruments, it is proposed to send a copy of them from France by telegram.
The French Government agreed, even before a ratification of the pact, to the proposal that a joint Franco-"Thai committee be formed to undertake the repartition of the several islands on the Mekong River, which forms part of the frontier between the two countries, This committee, however, has no right to exchange any other territorial questions.
The Thai Government also requested the formation of a joint committee to investigate a frontier incident which resulted in the death of a Laotian subject, whom the Thai Government claimed to be a Siamese subject.
France also agreed to this suggestion, and proposed that this committee be empowered to investigate several other frontier incidents which ha' taken place along the border Thai-Judo-China border during the past Hav "On the same day our forward Positions in the Gallabat area were bombed with no damage or casualties."—Reuter. XE
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