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...colors, topped 1,750,000. On the sea Japan has an incomparably superior navy of 798.394 tons. The entire Chinese Navy (68 ships) does not displace as much as one British super-dread-naught (40,000 tons). Japanese opinion of Chinese fighting strength was expressed by a Government spokesman at Tokyo: "if China declares war on Japan, we will simply ignore...
Japanese may place Mr. Henry Pu Yi on the Throne of Manchuria, if the Japanese succeed in inducing Manchuria to secede from China. But the Japanese Government will have no official part in doings so highhanded. In Tokyo last week a Government spokesman told Japanese reporters that Imperial Henry is "in danger of being kidnapped [from his home in the Japanese concession at Tientsin] by Chinese who are resolved to make him Emperor of Manchuria...
Leader of the movement seemed to be James Eli Watson, Republican floor-leader of the Senate, commonly regarded as a spokesman for the Hoover Administration. Last week he said: "It is the belief of many that we shall not recover from our present depression until transactions of this kind [shortselling] are either prohibited or greatly curtailed or properly safeguarded. ... I have no doubt that one or more resolutions of this kind will be passed [by Congress]." Since President Hoover last week was conferring with many a financial leader, it was felt that Senator Watson knew whereof he spoke...
Rail Plan Filed, Last January President Hoover acted as spokesman for the four great eastern trunk lines (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio). He announced that they had agreed on a consolidation plan after ten years of bitter fighting (TIME, Jan. 12). Last week, after many rumors in the intervening months of insuperable obstacles, the four roads filed their plan with the I. C. C. It was the same plan that was proposed last January except that definite agreements had been reached on delicate points before left high in air. Important were...
...independents" organized several months ago, met again recently in Oklahoma City reputedly with the counsel of Senator James A. Reed. Their spokesman in Washington is Pennsylvania's monklike Representative Clyde Kelly...