Twenty-one Factories. Here Taken Over Chungking, Feb, 15.
Of 680.000.000.000 cigarettes put on the market last year in occupied China, ño Jess than 350 000,000,000 came' from Japanese factories or Chinese plants seized by the Japanese, according to figures released here, It is added that in 1935, about 86 per cent, of the rolled tobacco consumed in Ching was manufactured by the British American Tobacco Corporation and its subsidiary factories, while Japanese tobacco amounted to only two per cent, the remainder being made in Chinese plants.
Since the war began, however, the bea Afier three months of war, of Japanese output has risen to 50 per 44 Chinese-owned tobacco factories in Shanghai 21 had been taken over by the Japanese, and nine others had Been forced io suspend operations, ting in a drop in Chinese pro-
Vichy, Feb. 15.
German police have arrested Herr Rudolf Breitscheid, former President of the German Socialist Par y, accord-ug to reports here yesterday.
Herr Breitscheid was a member of he Reichstag before the Nazi ascent -o power, and was a German delegate -0 the League of Nations.
Dr. Rudolf Hilferding, Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Herr Herman Mueller in 1928, was arrested with Herr Breitscheid, said reports. Both had been living in exile in Paris since Chancellor Adolf Hitler's ad. ven! to power.
The men were said to have been taken back to Germany, Frau Breitschold, who now is in Vichy, said she "ad not been able to trace their ravels after they were taken in cus ady by Germans at Moulins, on the boundary between occupied and un-occupied France—United Press.
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