London, Apr. 20.
The King, accompanied by the Queen, opened the new £850,000 Westminster Hospital today.
The Hospital has been removed from its old site, opposite to Westminster Abbey, to another site in Westminster.
Two wings accommodating child patients will bear the names of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mar-garer Rose.—Reuter.
The already overcrowded condition in Shanghai today may be worsened s it is indicated that the Chinese is living along both railways in Chekiang and Ki e fleing to ssu Shanghai in large numbers as the Japanese forces are alleged to b? recruiting able-bodied Chinese to fight for them.
The report says that being unable solve the problem of troop distribution when fighting is in progress. on all fronts the Japanese have started forcing the Chinese to form an army to fight for them. Quoting the words of newly arrived refugees. th report says that the situation in both Nanking and Hangchow really tense.
A Chinese message from Hongkon quoting foreign sources states that the Japanese m: y evacuate Nanking and Hangchow in order to shorten their line of defence between Kashing ud Soochow. The concentration 0"
Japanese troops in the latter two districts strengthens such a belief, it 4 stated.
Although fierce fighting is in progress on the Kwangtung and Kiangsi fronts, the situation in Chekiang and Kiangsu is by no means quiet, Chinese reports indicat", Some istriets including Tiensenkong, river port gateway to the important industrial trict of Nantungchow in Kiangsu are claimed to have been recaptured China Should I Be in Non-
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