U.S.S. HOUSTON 
Morning Press News 
7 August 
1938 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Hankow : 
The Japanese were reported todajr to be massing land troops 
and warships at Kiukiang for a concentrated advance on Hankow. 
Preparations for the drive were seen in the activitjr of the 
Japanese air force which concentrated yesterday on the bombard' 
ment of barriers before crossing the Yangtze river. The 
Chinese reported that intensive anti-aircraft gun fire had 
prevented the bombers yesterday from doing severe damage. 
,vx. 
Prague : 
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The United States Ambassador to Berlin, Hugh Wilson, met 
the British mediator in Cz choslovakia, Viscount Runciman, at 
luncheon today at the British Legation. Wilson attended the 
luncheon after calling on President Benes and Foreign 
Minister Erofta. The presence of Ambassador Wilson in Prague 
just at the time that Lord Runciman began his mediation work 
has attracted wide attention in diplomatic circles. It was 
believed that the American Ambassador came to Prague to 
Emphasize the interest of the Washington government in a 
peaceful settlement of the dispute between the Czech and the 
Sudeten Germans. 
Montreal: 
Officials of the Canadian Seamen’ s Union appeared ready 
, today to call off their scheduled strike against the Canadian 
" ' Steamship Company. Union officials said that the company 
;; had indicated willingness to renew negotiations on a working 
agreement. The strike had boon scheduled for noon today • 
Dr umheller, Albcr ta 
C4. ^ 
m;- v The RCM Police told the strange story today of a 57 year 
Aw; old farmer 'rooming control Alberta on a -nine day hunger strike. 
The farmer, Frank Wolfondcr of Rosedale, has been riding an 
:» > old bicycle from town to town for nine days and has refused to 
eat. Each day, ho mails a note to the Canadian Mounted Police 
,,at Drumheller informing the. police of his condition and his 
/impulse . Today polico, fearing the aged farmer's collapse, 
^ broadcast a call in efforts to locate him. Polico said his 
.^‘'hunger strike was the result of a land dispute with a neighbor. 
Mexico City: 
A proverb sa3 r s lightning never strikes twice in the seme 
A 'place, but it did in n our by Anecancoa. The sec-end bolt saved 
two livos that had boon claimed by the first. An Indian woods- 
a storm, a 
uc j ana the woman and bey foAl to 
the earth as if struck dead. Then., e. second lightning bolt 
struck in exactly the same spot. It had the effect of arti- 
ficial respiration used in treatment for electrical shocks and 
man’s wife and son took refuge 'under a. tree during a storm 
lightning bolt struck the 
the mother and her son revivea. 
