ATHE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936-
SEVERE COLD IN SETTLEMENT OF THE
BRITAIN
SEVERAL CASES OF COLLAPSE
MANY SHIPS SEND CALLS »
FOR HELP
ASSYRIANS
·DEBATE OPENED IN HOUSE OF LORDS
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London. To-day. PUBLIC APPEAL TO BE SPONSORED
BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
London, Today.
The spell of severe cold which began over the week-end continues. The temperature in London yesterday morning was in Syria was the subject of debate in the House of Lords yester
The plan for the settling of Assyrians in the Ghab District three to four degrees lower day afternoon, initiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury. than on Monday. There have pointed out that when the contributions already promised, in- been several cases of collapse cluding a sum of £250,000 which the British Government had LRCPI. LR.CSI LM. (Rot. from cold, and two deaths are to be found.
offered, had been added together, a balance of £180,000 remained
reported.
Frost during Monday night,
which was the coldest of the the present winter, has left
roads in many districts danger- Ous or impassable. In the Thames Estuary the water is frozen for about a mile out from the shore.
Although the gale of Mon- day has moderated, a number of ships sent out calls for help yesterday in the high seas stili
He
The Primate stated that he was ready to inaugurate a public appeal for this money, and had already secured a strong com- mittee to give effect to it if the Government approved.
CHINESE ART IN LONDON
German Visitors To Exhibition
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Stanhope.
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Dr. WB A. Moore, 0.3E
Dub.), D.T.M. and H. (Lond.). Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, above, entertained yesterday Gloucester Hotel prior to leaving. the Colony on retirement.
HARDSHIP.
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WAS
the
said that although the Govan AMERICAN DIVORCE ment felt that they had actual liability in regard to the settlement of the Assyrians, they decided to make an offer of £250,000 to the League on condition that Iraq made
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES NEW £42,000 -
After successfully passing her), Mr. M. Beraha left for Japan by trials yesterday the reconditioned the as. Empress of Canada. Hej Hong Siang is to sail at noon to expects to return to the Colony day. The ship was formerly the about the middle of next montha. Dimbools, owned by the Melbourne
Steamship Company and operated The m.v. Silveryew, from New on the Australian coastal trade. York, sailed from Los Angeles on Capt. J. H. Gregory, late of the 3.3. January 11 and is expected herr Hong Peng, is in command..
ļon or about next Friday,
DOCK BRIDGE
FOR LONDON
Present Structure Too Narrow
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT MAKES GRANT
One case of diphtheria and one Eleven cases of diphtheria As part of the scheme to improve of cerebro-spinal meningitis were (three imported), with five deaths, the approaches to the London notified as having occurred in the three of scarlet fever, six of ex-dock, it is proposed to build a Colony during the 24 hours ended teric fever (ome imported), and new bridge in Glamis-road, Step on Monday last.
five cases of cerebro-spinal menu- rey, at a cost of 542,700
Įgitis (one imported), with two Mr. Hore-Beliaka, Minister of Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 deaths, were reported to the an- Transport, has made a grant to hours ending “at 10 am to-daythorities as having occurred dur-the Landon County Council to- was 0.67 inch. The total since ing the week ended Saturday, wards the cost of the scheme. Con- January 1 has been · 224 inches, |February & against an average of 1.90 inches.
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tributions are also being made by the Port of London Authority,
A dinner dance will be held at who won the existing bridge, and Among the passengers leaving Repulse Bay Hotel this evening at the Stepney Metropolitan Borough for the north by the a.s. President $.30 p.m
Council Taft this morning were Lient.
George C. Molemphy and Mrs. Malumphry, Mr. A. S. Heasley, Mr. J. E de Rolland, Mrs. Gde Rolland, the Misses Josette and-
Ignorance Of Decree Huguette de Rolland, Mr. H. H
For 25 Years
New York.
Bernstein, Mr. E. E. Waline, Miss Dorcas Saider Molumphy, Mr. James 10. E. Barrant, the Rev.
and Manning Price.
BOY'S GRUESOME FIND
Bank Clerk's Body Near Road
A Miss Josephine
CHURCH AND DANCING
The existing swing bridge fa Glamis-road over the entrance lock to Shadwell Basin has a carriage. way only &ft. 6in. wide with two (narrow footpaths. Much delay is caused to traße to and from the wharves, and warehouses in this neighborhood. The width of the waterway under the bridge is 60ft. Bascule Type
schoolboy, rambling isst month in the landslip near Vent- It is intended to replace this nor and Shanklin, found the de-bridge with a new structure of the |composed body of a man. There bascule type which will have a carriageway of 25ft. and adequate The body was later identified as accommodation for pedestrians. that of Frederick George Scar- The bridge will be operated, by brow, a bank clerk, formerly en-electrical machinery of a type that
was a shotgun nearby.
"Ridicule Of London ployed at Barclay's Bank, Edz has given satisfaction in other ware-road, London. He had been modern bridges and should rednee Ungodly Crowd” missing from his parent's home in maintenance difficulties to a mini- Burbage-road, Herne Hill, since mum.
equal contribution, and Iraq had agreed. → CHINA MAIL – SPECIAL
The result was Although she had been London, To-day that the total cost of the settle-divorced for nearly fifty years, Five hundred Germans arrived ment left a gap of £180,000. running all along the British here on the North German Lloyd
it was only recently that 75- The only hope to meet this gap year-old Mrs. Sarah Austin, of coasts. In the Irish Sea the steamer General von Steuben, in jand clear up the situation would Brooklyn, heard about it. 3,019-ton motor vessel Innis- crder to visit the Chinese Arbe a substantial response to the Mrs. Austin applied to
the fallen, engaged on the passen Exhibition at Burlington House. appeal the Archbishop proposed Brooklyn Supreme Court to ger service between Cork and Since no agreement regulating to make to private charity. The bave the decree set aside so Fishguard, went to the assist the tourist traffic exists between Government would help the ap- that she might contest the will ance of the Daunt Rock light England and Germany, the visi-peal and hoped it would be of her late husband, Stephen ship, which was adrift but tors, on leaving Germany, were great success.
Austin, who left £30,000. She which was later taken in tow by only permitted to take 17 shil
explained that though she and the destroyer Tenados. The lings with them. This makes i:) The scheme for the settlement her husband met frequently Folkestone-Dunkirk service was necessary that they take their of the Assyrians requires pre-after they had separated in 1885 again cancelled yesterday meals on the steamer which Hes liminary work of reclamation he never told her he had obtain-: morning. The air services were at Tilbury, and from where 12 and development in the plained a divorce. running late. — British Wire-imotor-buses transport them daily known as the Ghab, including ex-
It was only after his death pute arising out of the presence of less Service.
twice to Burlington House and tensive drainage and irrigation, when she engaged an attorney a minister at a Christmas party in at a cost of about $827,000, of to protect her interests that she 1934, at which dancing took place, The visit of the German art-which the French mandatory an-learned of the divorce- not to was issued last month. lovers will last till Friday, when thorities are furnishing about mention his two subsequent The party was held at the house
The alluvial soil of marriages. the General von Steuben.-Trans-the Valley of the Orontes is be- Ocean Service....
WEATHER REPORT
The anti-cyclone has extended south-westward and decreased in intensity over Manchuria. A de- pression is still indicated, in the Pacific, to the north-east of Japan. North-east winds, fresh, fine, was the forecast for to-day, as issued
by
back.
FEATURE OF SCHEME
they will return to Germany on 380,000.
lieved to be of great potential
richness. It is anticipated that
the Assyrians will be able to
DISORDERLY begin to cultivate their permanent
lands in 1940.
BEHAVIOUR the Royal Observatory this
morning.
MODERN NAVAL BUILDING
'Adequate Information
· In Britain
trol
London, To-day.
Ulster Rifleman Fined
NET COST
The net cost of the settlement
MINISTER REPROVED
Inverness.
A further statement on the dis-
of Mr. John Murray, Provost of Dornoch, and was attended by the Rev. Ewen Macqueen. Mr. Mur-
CHIEFTAINS SHOWray, a lay preacher in the Free
LOYALTY
(Continued from Page 1).
Presbyterian Church, was expelled from the Church for allowing his children to dance. Later, the Rev. Ewan Macqueen was ordered taj jappear before the Northern Synod "The name of every man killed of the Free Presbyterian Church. operation itself, as distinct from in the the preliminary reclamation and stands for an English bullet, every|
war on the Italian side He refused to do so. development was estimated in Italian bereavement meaning in- A committee of four ministers the original plan submitted to the creased profit for England, since was then set up to consider the Remarking that in future
League of Nations last September Abyssinia bad received from her matter. In their report they state: Bimilar cases will be dealt with at about $320,000. This covered seriously and that the defendant the provision for administration, the advance of civilisation."
the means to enable her to resistį
Macqueen apparently loathes 2nd condemns dancing. or defendants will be given no the transport of the Assyrians option of a fine. Mr. W. Schofield, from Iraq, food supplies, motor Repeating the assertion that the But why did he not publicly con-
the her at
No. 2 Police Station од
February
The
the other.
Committee Set Up
"We cannot conceive that he
at the Central Magistracy this vehicles and tractors, agricultural chief adviser to the Negus is the demn the dancing which took place morning, fined L/Cpl Francis implements and seed, livestock, Englishman, Major Bolt, the paper in Mr. John Murray's horse? Ferron, of the Royal Ulster Rides, constraction of houses, schools stresses that if a balance were In the House of Lords, replying of behaving in a disorder vices and supplies.
$50 in respect of the three charges and churches, and sanitary sen drawn up of his activities, Abys condones dancing which savoura to a motion by Lord Strabolgi
most sinia would show munitions sap of the flesh under any circums urging a full enquiry into
and with assaulting important of these credits is for plies on one column and pounds on tances, whether indulged in by old organisation, equipment and con-
These pounds, how-or young. food-about £125,000—String, the
“We did not ask for publicity, of the fighting forces, es-Sub-Inspector Langley and Sex- period before the settlers ever, are soiled with blood - the
are
neither did we seek the public pecially in view of the proposed geant Appleton in the discharge
letarian Italy, which had been ex opinion of men who have neither increased expenditure, Lord Mon- of their duty, on the same date, at able to grow sufficient for their blood of the valiant youth of pro-
a real zor a Scriptural interest in ploited by its egoístic friends. sell said that the Navy and Air No. 2 Police Station.
"Who can say how many lives the things of God. If religion has PROSPECTUS TRIAL OF As a result of the resolution would have been saved if the been brought into contempt and of the League Council an Al-Abyssinians had not been supplied ridiculed by London's ungodly OLD BAILEY
tonomous Board of Trustees for with the most modern death deal-crowd, neither the Kirk Session of Assyrian Settlement has been
Dornoch, nor the Presbytery, nor ing weapons?" Continued from Page 1)
established at Beirut. Its task is
the Synod can be held responsible." the French lan
-Satanic Attack factor to collaborate with - unforseeable
the actual and also the administration of
Force had lately participated in a great number of large-scale ex- periments with a view to enabling them to make adequate prepara- tion against the air both guns and bull construction.
menace by
Another
";
own needs
BOARD ESTABLISHED
"In the opinion of the Admiral was the new crop of 6,000 tons, Mandatory authorities in the ty," he said, "we now, by these bigger than usual,
defendants faced The three
on
The words, "all munitions come from England," and the words "reacherous white men, who dis
The statement adds: "The Synod did all in their experiments, have adequate it-16.000 tons of old stocks in London, settlement operation-as, dístines/honoured themselves in the service]
of savages," would have to be power to settle this painful dis the from the reclamation works
pute in a brotherly and Christian spirit If we have failed it is be responsibility of buying or stop the Ghab Plain, the execution of kept in mind-Trans-Ocean Ser-
Cause we were up against the most ping buying, and possibly selling which is being left to the Manda- tory authorities and to assume
determined Satanic attack that we
formation for the construction of modern battleships."- Reuterij
BRITISH FLEET MOVEMENTS Destroyer Flotilla Leaves Gibraltar
London, To-day.
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vice.
ELECTED
London, To-day.
cannot really account for and are-
puzzled to understand. We must wait patiently until the Most High in His holy condescension reveals it to us as a Church.”
NANYANG CHINESE
ASSOCIATION
Office Bearers For
Year 1936:
with a disastrous loss. JAMES SHAKESPEARE BOUGHT the local financial responsibility MR. M. MacDONALD
If Williams Henry failed the within the limits of its regular responsibility would fall on Bishir-budget, approved by the gian and Co. In order to save League of Nationa. the latter
Eowesor, Company
The French Mandatory authori 2,982 Majority Over (through another '«company, parties propose eventually to na Labour Opponent chased James Shakspeare Steps tralise the Assyrians en bloc, were taken
to convert the firm after which they will be in the
The result of the Ross' and The Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, into a public company and to make same position and enjoy the same which is returning to the United a public issue to acquire the busi- rights as the other religious Cromarty by-election was as fol- Kingdom to recommission, sailed ness of Bishirgian and Co... minorities in the States covered lows from Gibraltar yesterday after- Then there was no doubt that by the mandate for Syria-Bri- Mr. Malcolm MacDonald Gov-
what was planned took place. The tish Wireless Service. The Admiralty announces the newly-formed James Shakespeare and Co. replaced the Bishirgian
At the annual general meeting His Majesty's ships Neptune and Co. as brokers for William Henry
735 of the Nanyang Chinese “Associa- Orion, at the conclusion of perin connection with pepper and
Bexter. tion of Hong Kong, which was re- iodical leave, will return to Gishellac purchases. The prospectus
London: The Dominions Secrecently held in their club-roam in braltar to rejoin the Flag of the dilated
the fact that
tary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, whins Building the following Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet. James Shakespeare was an old-
In other quarters it is thought who failed to secure his return to ce bearers for the current year The Flag of Vice Admiral, com established firm, referred to
the possible that Germany will protest Parliament in the General Elec
were elected manding the Second Cruiser Squa commodity business of Bishirgian against the Franco-Soviet pact on tion, when he was defeated as
Mestra. U Tat-chee (President). dron, will be shifted to the Orion and Co, recalled the continuity of the ground that it is an infringe Natimal-Labour candidate in Ear Dr. 3. W. Phoon (Vice-President), on her arrival at Gibraltar, after management for which provisionment of the spirit of Locarno.
was yesterday elected s
S. B. Tan (Mon which the Leader will return to would be made and also referred
for Ross Bad Graine (Hos. L
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the United Kingdom.
Wireless Service.
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British to the option to buy the interesti
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FRANCO-SOVIET PACT
·ernment) - ** Mr MeNell (Labour) Mr. Randolph Churchill (Con-
servative) Mr. Thomas (Liberal)
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uter.
NO PARTICULAR HUERT
Brifft Wireless
Wee
June 26, and was last heard of in It is hoped to complete the a letter sent to his home bearing scheme by the end of the present a Ventnor postmark.
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