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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936
ELECTIONS IN
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•KINGS!
AT 2.30, 5.15.
Paris, To-day.
M. Herriot is now certain of election at next Sunday's
ballot at
Не second
Lyons.
to stand has definitely decided
again, and the regional Com- munist Party has decided to vote in his favour.
Both the Right and the Left are now preparing for Sunday's final
which" clash and are arranging lcandidates од their respective fronts shall retire. The with- the drawals 90 far include
of Minister Ra tical-Socialist Education, 3 Guernot. who has resired in favour of a Socialist- Reuter.
Mr. K. Midzusawa, the Japan- ese Comm-General. above, was the host this morning at a re-
ception at the Consulate-General in honour of the 35th birthday of Emperor Hirokito of Japan.
DEATH OF KING AT
VITAL
PERIOD
IRON & STEEL WORKS
Big Contract In Canton
SECURED BY BRITISH INTERESTS
. Despite the fact that they had Ito cope with very strong foreign competition, an all-British en- gineering group has secured thei contract for the construction,
erection and operation for period of three years of the Kwangtung Iron and Steel Works, a Provincial Govern- ment undertaking. The appro-! ximate value of the contract is £2,000,000 or $30,000,000 in local currency.
Was
agreement The contract formally signed yesterday in the Kwangtung Provincial Government- Council Chamber in the presence of Mr. Herbert Phillips. British Consul-General, Mr. R. H. Scott, British Trade Commissioner and Hong Commercial Secretary for
and Mr. Kong and South China, Lin Yum-koi, the chairman of the! Provincial Government.
PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS (Continued from Page 1) the financial provision for the
The negotiations for this huge Crown in the Civil List, the report contract have been going on for pected to reach here to-day, when of which, published yesterday, will over a year and Mr. K. Lund, who the formation of a Regency will come before the House of Com was actively engaged on it, signed be undertaken, at whose head it mons next Monday. The total of the agreement on behalf of the Bri- is expected, King 'Fuad's nephew, the list is £410,000 per annumtish combine, while Dr. Chin Shu- Prince Mohammed Ali, now 62 compared with $470,000 proposed fan and Messrs. Wu Kai-yin. Ho at the beginning of the last reign, Kai-lai, Au Fong-po and Lee Lok- years of age, will be placed.
King Fuad is said to have hand- but the whole of the sum for His chiae, who were specially appoint- led a sealed envelope to the Coun-Majesty's Privy purse of £130,000 ed by the Kwangtung authorities,
cil of State at the time of his ac-will remain undrawn so long signed on their behalf.
of the Duchy of Practically all the principal cession, with three names of those the revenues who are to form the Regency in Cornwall do not fall below £102,-iron and steel manufacturers of Great Britain are participating in case of his death before his suc-1000. Icesser is of age. Fears are en- Queen Mary will receive an athis contract, the leaders of the Provision is British group being Messrs. tertained here that the weakness,[nuity of £70,000. almost always characteristic of almade for the Duke of York as Brassert and Co., Ltd. Regency, might open the door to Heir Presumptive in view of his
The contract calls for the erec-
an Italian intrigue, which possi-heavier duties, as well as for the tion of a modern steel and iron bly might find willing ears in the contingency of the King's marworks, complete in every detail, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. jant-British circles. At any rate.riage.-British Wireless Service capable of producing 110,000 tons
the whole situation is full of un-
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GERMAN CONDOLENCES Berlin: Immediately on hear- ing of the death of King Fuad I, the Reich Chancellor telegraphed) his profound sympathy to the be reaved son and successor, Prince! Farouk:
BLUE NILE Question In The Commons
London, To-day.
per annum. Engineers and other!
experts are being sent out from England in connection with the scheme, and it is expected that work on the site will begin in about a month's time. The works will be situated about four miles down the river from Canton.
Mr. R. F. Scott returned
A member asked in the House Hong Kong this morning. of Commons yesterday afternoon.
"The news of the death of Your what steps the Foreign Secretary Majesty's illustrious Father King was taking to
protect the rights
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Fuad I of Egypt, has grieved me of Egypt with regard to the head- deeply. In the name of the Ger-waters of the Blue Nile, recently max people I ask Your Majesty tojoccupied by Italian troops. accept my cordial sympathy for! Lord Carnborne replied that the, the great loss sustained by Your rights of Egypt, as of the Anglo-
London. To-day. Majesty, the Royal Family and the Egyptian Sudan and His Majes whole Egyptian people. Adolfity's Government, are protected by
The report of the inter-depart- jexisting agreements with both Hitler."
on the admis- mental committee -British sion of women to the diplomatic and consular services was issued yesterday as a White Paper, to! gether with a statement, in which His Majesty's Government nounces its intention to adopt the
As the Chancellor's personal Abyssinia and Italy. Deputy, the Secretary of State, Wireless Service. Dr. Meissner, Chief of the Presi-
dential Chancellory, called on the PRINCESS ROYAL'S Egyptian Minister at Berlin, Na-!
chat Pasha, to express the pro- found sympathy. The flags of the
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Presidential Chancellory, the Convalescence May Be recommendation of the four mem-
Reich Chancellory, the Foreign Office and the Reichstag were set)
London, To-day.
at half-mast yesterday and to-day. -Trans-Ocean Service.
A bulletin issued from Hare- REGRET VOICED IN LONDON wood House resterday stated that London: The news of the the progress of the Princess Ray- death of King Fund, which ocial and her younger son continued curred at 1.40 p.m. local time yez-
be satisfactory and added: terday at the age of 68, was re-"After the severe attack of meas- ceived in London with great reles from which Her Royal High- gret
to
¡bers of the committee, that no
change should be made in thei existing position-British Wire- less Service.
EXCHEQUER RETURNS
London, To-day.
The exchequer returns
show
The Assistant Marshal of ness has been suffering the con-that the total ordinary revenue, the Diplomatic Corps, Mr. J. B-valescence may be expected to be excluding self-balancing items, Monck, called at the Egyptian Leslow, but no further balletins will amounts to £40.544,898, compared gation yesterday afternoon and be issued"-British Wireless Ser-with £47,007,346 in the correspond. at Keary House, Kingston-on-vice. Thames, where the Heir Appar- ent, Prince Farouk, is residing, to express the condolences of the
WEATHER REPORT
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ing period of 1935. Total ordin-! lary expenditure, exclusive of self- £54,709,921, balancing items, is (against £50,996,333 a year ago.—
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Foreign Secretary. The Prince A weak anti-cyclone has de-British Wireless Service. also received a private message of veloped over N. China, and the sympathy from King Edward. The depression is still indicated be British Government has tele-tween S. Japan and the Loo-moderate; cloudy, was the fore- graphed a message to the Egypchoos. Pressure continues to be cast for to-day, as issued by the tian Government.
flow over south-west China and Royal Observatory this morn The newspapers print long ac- Tongking. South-east winds, ing. counts of the late King's reign and pay tributes to his work for the educational and scientific de- Įvelopment of his country. Cairo messages describe arrangements for the funeral on Thursday.
According to press information the plans for the return of Prince Farouk have not yet been made British Wireless Service,
CROWN'S CIVIL LIST
Proposals Published In London
London, To-day. An annual saving of £155,900 for the time being will remit from the proposals of the -Select Committee appointed to consider |
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