THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1937.
BRTAIN'S NEXT BERLIN AMBASSADOR
TWO RUGBY
GAMES FOR
SPECULATION STILL
RIFE IN LONDON
TO-MORROW FOUR NAMES NOW MENTIONED WITH
ARMY MEET NAVY
AT CAUSEWAY BAY
SIR A. CADOGAN ABSENT
London, To-day.
There will be two games of The papers are still speculating as to who will Rugby Football on the Navy be appointed Ambassador to Berlin in succession ground at Causeway Bay
·to!
KOTIOW. In the first game, com to Sir Eric Phipps.
mencing at 3 p.m.. a United Ser- vices side will meet the Club "A" IV. This game will be followed. at 4.15 p.m. by one between the Army and Navy.
Engineer Captain Dibley will re- feree the United Services game and Mr. H. W. Ewin the Army and Navy, match.
The Club 1st. XV have no fixture this week, as they are sailing for Shanghai for the annual Interport. match on Sunday and do not wish to risk last-minute injuries amongst the players travelling.
The Navy and Club "A" sides for to-morrow's games have been selected as follows:-
Sir Eric is being transferred to Paris, from which post the pre- sent Ambassador, Sir George Clerk,
SPAIN CONTROL is retiring.
SCHEME
Non-Intervention Meeting
The "Morning Post declares that the choice lies between the Ambassador to Rome Sir Eric Drummond; the Ambassador to Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, and the Jeavor to Turkey, Sir Percy Loraine. Both the "Daily Mail" and "Daily The next meeting of the non-in-post will be given to the Am- Telegraph." however, state that the tervention committee will be held bassador to next week, by which time all replies Nevile Henderson-Trans-Ocean
the Argentine, to the proposals for control of the Spanish civil war will have been received.
London, To-day.
According to the "Daily Tele- Navy: Pay Sub-Lt. Roantree (Ad- venture), P. O. Felcey (Rover), E. P. graph" the control plan, which will
A. Docherty (Folkestone), S. B. A. apply to war materials as well as
Beynon (R.NH), A B. Northcott to volunteers, will arrange for ob- (Adventure), Lt. Harvey (Odin), servers to be placed on board all- (Captain), Lt. North-Lewis (Folkes ships proceeding to Spanish ports.
tone), Marine Mumford (Adventure), S. B. A. Jones (Adventure), O. A. Dyer (Adventure), E R. A. Bevin (Odin), A.B. Davies (Folkestone), L. S. Brit nell (Tamar), Lt Greenway (Rover) and Lt. Maydon (Orphens).
Club A XVM E Murtis, D. Hynes, I. S. Forbes, B. J. Gallagher, H F. Hopkins, J. Hutchison (Captain), J., R. Henderson, H. H. Pratt, J. S. Dun- nett, W. H. Currie, B. Hynes, A. G. Dalziel, T. Swan, R. Leigh and A. F. Russell.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION AT SHING MUN
French warships would then have British, German, Italian and to report any ship endeavouring to evade this international "blockade." -Trans-Ocean-
MUSLIM PACT
Rome, To-day. A pact between Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Hedjaz is in preparation and will be signed in a few months, declared the Tur- kish Foreign Minister, Rushdi Aras, to the correspondent of the buna" before his departure for Bel- grade.
GUARANTEES ON ADRIATIC
Sir
Yugo-Slavian Premier's
Speech
Belgrade, To-day.
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TEL 20022 or 33993
BRITISH ARMY RESERVE Reorganisation Plan In Commons
- London, To-day. A Bill for rorganisation of the British Army reserves passed its first reading in the House of Com- mons yesterday.
Introduced by the Secretary of Jugo-Slavia and Italy, and the sign- new measure provides for revisioni The corresponding interests of State for War, Mr. Duff Cooper, the ing of the Anglo-Italian Mediter- of the Army Law of 1898 and leng- ranean agreement, were referred to thening the duration of compulsory in a speech to the Parliamentary service in the finance committee yesterday by the Ocean. Premier and Foreign Minister, Dr. M. Stojadinovic
Emphasising that the agreement frontier, the Premier said that, a guaranteed Jugo-Slavia's Adriatic much better note had crept into the country's relations with their Italian neighbours."
Lau Shing was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffer
After mentioning the treaty of ing from a fractured right leg, Rushdi Aras has been in Italy amity with Bulgaria, the Premier caused by the premature explosion for a series of conversations with said that in the last two years
LIL
Reserve Trans
TEXTILE STRIKE
Heavy Losses Shown As Result
Paris, To-day. Figures published to day reveal
of dynamite, while working at Hill the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Jugo-Slavia had not only retained the extent to which the French tex- 20 at Shing Mun.
Ciano. Trans-Ocean.
her old friends but had made new tile trade has suffered as a result ones.
GRIM STORY OF
EXECUTIONS
of the recent strikes in northern Besides having most cordial re-France. lations with Britain, Jugo-Slavia Export of textiles from the Rou- had fostered friendship with Ger- baix region shows a marked de- many. Trans Ocean.
cline, there being a fall in value of 36,100,000 francs over the past
SILENT TUBES
HOW MOSCOW TRIAL ACCUSED MET New System For London
THEIR DEATHS
WARSAW, TO-DAY.
Underground
London, To-day. Passengers on the Underground
A MURKY DAWN IN A PRISON COURTYARD, BROKEN will be able to travel in greater ONLY BY SHAFTS OF BLINDING LIGHT FROM THEATRICAL comfort when a new silencing sys- SPOTLIGHTS. THIRTEEN MEN, ONE DEFIANT, THE OTHERS HALF FAINTING. THE RATTLE OF MACHINE- GUN FIRE, A SHRIEK AND THEN SILENCE!
of
So passed the thirteen prisoners their deadly weapons, twelve sentenced to death in the recent the prisoners were near collapse, sensational Moscow mass trial, ac A few bursts of fire and it was cording to grim details of the exe all over cution appearing in the Polish
press.
SECRET BURIAL GROUND "The bodies were then removed to Immense secrecy was preserved a secret destination outside Mos- over the hour of the execution and cow in motor lorries. only prison officials, Commissar Joyous demons
for Home Affairs, M. Lezhov, and all over
the Public Prosecutor, M. Vishin- out of the
sky, were present. wh
the men nounced
were half led, half carried into the state that courtyard of the notorious Butyrki ment ex
rison
Party, which
Confronted with the sight of ma-the guilt chine gun, squads squatting behind Bolsheviks,
held
tem comes into operation.
The system, which is a German method, applies to the rails and greatly reduces the noise of the tube trains.”
The necessary machinery will be imported from Germany, since cannot be manufactured in England.
Trans Ocean
LEIPZIG FAIR
Large numbers
expected for the
Three times as many molement from the
year.
The actual figures given are 49,600,000 francs for 1936 compar ed with 85,700,000 francs the pre-
vious year--Trans-Ocean.
COL. LINDBERGH
IN ROME
Pays Call On General Balbo
Rome, To-day Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who is stopping in Rome for a few days isurely flight called on General Balbo
Publis
Gordon
Tran
rill attend, including
represent
tment
airman will