Vice-Minister of Finance, as Minister of Food will be announced at a meet. ing of the Executive Yuan tomorrow it is learned in authoritative quarters.
Mr. Tsou Lin, Finance Commi sioner in Kwangtung, will be pointed Vice-Minister of Finance.
Mr. Lu Tso-fu, Vice-Minister of Communications and Director of the National Food Control Bureau, will he appointed Directo: the Szechuen-Sikong Development Compa which is a Government organization for the development of resources in Szechuen and Sikons—Reuter Meanwhile, military—_ubservers Jooked anxiously towards Syria and Iraq and warned that the entire British position in Near East depended on a swift clear-up in Iraq before the Axis would be able to become active on a big scale in that area, There seemed to be a general belief here that Germany had abandoned caution in order to get as many men and much equipment into Syn as possible and at the same time the Vichy representatives in Syria were reported to be sending munitions to Iraq. There was even some anxiety lest General Henri Oentz, High Commissioner of Syria, might turn his large foçces in Syria as well as munitions and airfields over to the Germans,—
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