26 JANUARY 1929, page 1

News Of The Week

T HE best news we have hid since the beginning of the King's illness was published on Tuesday, when it was stated that His Majesty would-soon-be moved to the sea. The house of......

* * * * At Hankow, The Chinese Local Authorities

have broken their pledges in regard to the separate administration of the former German and Russian Concessions. Inciden. tally their action is a direct challenge to the central......

There Have Been Many Rumours Lately Of A Quarrel Between

Stalin, Secretary-General of the Communist Party in Russia, and Bukharin, who is the nominal head of the Communist International. It has even been said that Bukharin has been......

* * * * The Chinese National Government Is Making

very slow :progress - in settling the country. The will seems to be there without the ability to break with immemorial bad traditions, and without the money for putting reforms......

Japan Is Evidently Anxious To End The Deadlock With China;

and there is every . reason to believe that the Chinese - _Government is equally anxious: But Japan eels that it is- essential that the anti-Japanese boycott should-be......

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