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Economic Fears. First, they have economic fears. More than three and a half billion lei worth of rubles are now circulating in the country, with no backing whatsoever. They can be cashed only at the Rumanian National Bank, for 20% of their value in cash and the rest in bonds, which can be used only for income taxes. The Rumanian National Bank does not know what to do with the lei...
Second, some eight to nine billion lei worth of cattle, food and fuel have been requisitioned. Included in this is a large amount of agricultural machinery and grain. More worrisome is the fact that seed grain has also been taken. The outlook for next year's harvest is gloomy...
...priest, reported the Reaper, is Lei Tim-oi, 30, a onetime deaconess...
...graduate of Canton's Union Theological College, she had been attached to Kowloon's Anglican Church, whose congregation is composed mainly of educated, professional Chinese. After the Japanese captured Kowloon, no Anglican priest could visit the parish to administer the sacraments. Deaconess Lei reportedly escaped through the Japanese lines, reached Bishop Hall. Defying all canon and precedent, he ordained her, sent her back to Kowloon as its priest...
...Chen Pu-lei, The Gissimo's thin secretary, is probably closest to him of all. Chen, 53, from the Gissimo's home province (Chekiang), was a distinguished journalist until he became Chiang's secretary in 1935. His importance rests in his determining who sees Chiang and what Chiang sees...