The Archive · 1940

Mis. Kipling's Bequest To Bri

London, Feb, 22, Ars. Caroline Kipling, widow of the well-known author and poet, Rudyard 1 has Heft £165,000" and the hooks of her husband's manttthe British Museum, She Earthquakes Rock Turkey Again serious earthquake shook.

district, the official German DNB. agency reported today. Two jages near Kaisarie were com. pletely destroyed by the violent Ahocks, The town of Gordes was, evacuated today, owing to iL bx threatened by a Landslide, Seismie shocks were fell also in the Sivas Franco-Japanese Relations Tense Paris, Feb, 2

Franco-Japanese relations." were rendered increasingly more tense by the fourth bombing of the French~ owned Yunnan Railway, the Presi dent, M. Albert Lebrun, told the Council of Ministers yesterday.

reporting, on te French diplomatic and military raids on the railway were especially destructive. They destroyed metallic bridges and inter= rupted trample on the railway, declared.

The French Ambassador to Japan, the "President revealed, made a third, and even more bitter protest to Japan, despite the fact that Tokyo thas not replied to the frst two protests Meanwhile, the "Agence Radio' published an officially inspired com= mentary emphasizing that Japan has decided to postpone the reopening of the Yangtze and may delay until the new " "Central Government,"

ner Wang Ching-wel, leader of the rump Kuomintang, is ready for installation at Nanking..."Thus, Wan, Would be liven' an early' opportunity to win the good graces of the big powers and political bargaining ma. terial to win recognition, the article The "Agence Radio." however, pointed out that a Sino-Japanese shipping company was preparing start a river service for passengers and freight under the Chinese fag, February 20.—United Press,

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