London, Feb. 11
Three_smoking, nctediary bombs wore glcoverad aboard the excursion ship" St. David she. was en route england from Treand today. with p00" passengers beard.
It. Col. A. J. Muirhead, Under Secretary of Slate for India and Burma, replied that the Government of Burma had already brought the roud from Lashio to the Chinese frontier—a distance of about 120 miles—up to an all weather standard and that further work was in pro-ress upon its development—Router.
Ship's affeers believed certain chester: had been narrowly averted the discovery of the tombe Police. guards' searched '900. of" the petsengert aboard the train et route London after leaving the slender. Seven persons were detained, but fran nek raventad what evidence hod een "eud agnint teen 300 British Claims Presented to Japan The bombs were extinguished before serious domige was: done the St, David. The passengers were route to London for the sand: Treland Rugby. marche-United Pres London, Feb. 6. ree bundyed claims amounting to) £230,000 for destruction, confiscation damage and looting have been accept-_ ed from British firms in China as missable and have been presented to the Japanese Government, declared, Mr. R. A, Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons today in' reply to Sir Charles Cayzer, Conservative member for the City of Chester division of Cheshire.
Mr. Butler stated that claims of this: kind were usually seitied at the end of hostilities. Asked if the Japanese had declared they would pay compensation for loss of property, Mr. Butler said: "I would not care! to accept so general a statement as that." Reuter.
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