NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Japanese battle order delivered to the Chinese by Japanese envoys at the preliminary negotiations at Chihkiang disclosed that *' more than 1,000,000 enemy troops will surrender to General Yingching. It is estimated that about 2,000,000 Japanese troops are on the Asiatic mainland, :!: * * A military tribunal at Constantine sentenced to death nine Arabs for murdering five Europeans during the recent uprising, says a message from Algiers. * * * The United States is establishing an elaborate information service in Holland in conjunction with the cultural section to aid in re-establishing Dutch Universities. It is also arranging an exchange of scholarships. * * Soviet workers were warned in an article in “Izvestia” that measures introduced during the war to enforce labour discipline would be continued. “Izvestia” said that absenteeism, lateness and leavingjobs without permission must be prevented. All men and women breaking labour discipline must be handed over for trial.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 269, 24 August 1945, Page 4
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