Hanoi, Feb. 1.
"Student troops," 18,000 strong, recruited from the class rooms of middle schools, colleges, and othe: stitutions of higher learning, are now receiving training in Kwangsi, according to liable reports reaching here toda; Paid $2 a month, these Kwang students have recently been offered "wards for any Japanese arms and ammunition taken as booty.
These feverish efforts to acquire troops were alleged to be indicative of the fear felt in Kwangsi military official quarters of a possible sterly push by the Japanese in Kwangtung, the report declared—Domei.
The closing Interbank selling rates yesterday were as follows:
Sterling siid. USS 162%.
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