Increased by $100,000,000 Washington, Mar, 3.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt has returned to the capital from his holiday in the Pacific.
M Upon his return, he signed the bill increasing the capital of the Export-Import Bank by $100,000.000.
The bill is designed to enable additional loans to be made to China and Finland.
The Senate, which passed the bill Revealing that Japanese gendarmes had succeeded on December 18 last year in rounding up a Chinese spy ring active in this area since the fall of the Wuhan cities on October 27, 1939, it was announced here today that the Japanese military police detachment under Col. Tokishige Miza had been awarded a letter of commendation for the exploit.
Seized in the raid, which was carried out in an area outside of the Japanese-occupied territory with the ce-operation of the local police force, was Major-Gen. Tang Chi-ming, 26- year-old graduate of Chuo University in Tokyo, who at one time attended the Japanese Military Academy. Five other leaders of the spy ring. as well as scores of underlings, were arrested at the same time.
Besides engaging in espionage, the gang was alleged to have been instrumental in the assassination of Mr. Chou Hung-chun, president of the Hankow High Court, on September 13 last year. Monthly remittances of $40,000 were being received by the ring from Chungking through the Hankow branch of the Central Bank of China—Domei,
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