JAP. BOMBING RAID

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 11

JAP. BOMBING RAID

100 Casualties And 200 Houses Destroyed. CHINESE OFFENSIVE SPENT? (Kccclvi'fl 1.80 p.m.) CHUNKING. M,,y 2. .Japanese 'planes bombed < hekiang. in South Shanghai, causing KM) casualties. Two hundred house* were destroyed.' Sharp fighting continue* south-west of Nanehatig and on the east bank of the Han River. The Japanese claim that the Chinese offensive north-west of Hankow is spent. The Japanese are taking the initiative on a large n-ale. BRITISH AID. ASSURANCES TO EGYPT. British Official Wireless. KUGBY, May 2. Mr. Chamberlain was asked in the House of what was the nature of the axmiiances relating to the defence of Egypt recently given by Britain. He replied that he presumed the question referred to the statement made by the Kgyptian Prime Minister, Malimoud Pasha, on April 24, regarding co-operation, with Britain. That statement was noted with much appreciation by Britain, which, on many occasions, had assured Egypt that she might entirely depend on the full and loyal co-operation of Britain in the carrying out of the provisions of the Anglo-Kgyptian Treaty. 4,000,000 SINCE 1918. HOUSES BUILT IN BRITAIN. British Official Wirelega. RUGBY, May 2. The 4,000,000 th house to be erected in England and Wales since the Armistice will be ready for occupation on May 8. The figure is rendered the more remarkable when it is recalled that the total number of house* in 1918 was 8,000.000. NEW U.S. MINISTER. DUTIES IN CANADA. WASHINGTON, May 2. President Roosevelt has 'nominated the former Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Daniel C. Rojver, as Minister to Canada, ami early Senate confirmation ie expected. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, is planning that Mr. Roper should go to Ottawa in time to represent the United States when Their Majesties arrive. OTTAWA AGREEMENT. AFRICA NOT SATISFIED. . CAPETOWN, May 2. Speaking in the House of Assembly, the Minister of Defence, Mr. O. Pirow, said the Ottawa agreement gave Britain a market in the Union, but Britain did not give South Africa a market. In the present negotiations with Britain the Union was explaining most firmly that it desired a change. It would be investigated whether it was worth while continuing the agreement or making a similar agreement unless effective preferences could be obtained.