While apparently no efforts have been made to land troops the Japanese are making it a daily routine business to bomb east Chekiang districts from the air, paying particular attention to Chiko the native district of General Chiang Kai-shek which has been repeatedly bombed during the past few days On Tao, a district in east Chekiang which has been made a place Of call by Shanghai steamers since they cannot call on other major coastal districts, is reported to a ie ant a a felt Shanghai and Chekiang is almost completely paralyzed, states the Chinese press.
According to the Shing Sheng News Agency, Japanese nav inghai steamers dare to go to in omer to avoid trouble Chekiang. Despite the fact that Customs authorities in Shanghai apers to ships destined fcr u Tao, the Japanese are Eeee have prevented ships from g there. One German steamer was once detained and many other
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have been asked to return, it A cable from Ningpo states that early on Sunday morning four Japanese "planes circled over Chinghai and then flew to Chikow from in Ningpo. wa, wartime capital explosions were later audible of Chekiang, Yungchia and Chikow were also bombed on Saturday, The Middle, founded by General Chiang was bombed. A wall was demolished there. Six planes came later, destroying a number of houses and causing a few casualties. philosophy ahd war at the Melbourne University. During the world war he served with the navy and was a staff member of the Austfalian dé- eration at. the peage conference- ili 19. He is. a retired, Lieutendntcommander of the RAN. and ré- tired major of the CMF. and was a tember of the MHR. for Kooyong, Victoria, 1922-1934, In 1925 he was appointed attorney-general of Australia which high office he held until 1929, and again 1931 to 1934, when he annouficed that he would not seek reelection for Kooyong. He represented Australia at the League of Nations in 1926 and 1632 and at the Disarmamenty and Repatriations Conferences in 1932 and was leader of the Australian mission to the Bast in 1934, and a leader of the opposition from 1929-31, when he stood down in favour of the Rt. Hon. J. A. Lyons and accepted a deputy-leadership.
He was a president of the first Australian Legal Convention in 1934 and the following year was deputy chancellor of Melbourne University. Ir 1935 he became the president of the free library movement of Victoria Two years later he was nominated president of the Medico-Legal Society. He was awarded the sad 'a GOING. in 1935.
in 1920, made a P.C. in 1933, daughter of Mr. Richard Tobin of His mother, Eleanor Mary, was the
Northcote, Victor His chief hobbies include tennis and fishing.
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