JOKEA URAI AMIRI
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6,
THE DIPLOMATIC TUSSLE
France Seeks To Win Back Little Entente To Fold
Dr. Benes Now
Making Visit
To Belgrade
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
Paris, To-day.
The repercussions of the Italo-Yugo-Slav Pact have not yet died away and France is making an- other effort to retain her old ally in the Little En- tente combination with Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania.
THIS IS THE REASON BEHIND THE VISIT TO BELGRADE OF THE CZECH PRESIDENT, DR. EDOUARD BENES, ONE OF THE CLEVEREST STATESMEN IN EUROPE, SAYS THE "PETIT JOURNAL.”
Dr. Benes is a sincere friend (President, Dr. Edouard Benes, yes- of France and it will be his task, terday. the paper says; to lead Yugo- At a reception at the Palace, Dr. Slavia back to the fold, which, Benes conferred a high Czech Order many quarters think she desert-on the young King Peter, who also ed when she signed the agree-decorated the visiting diplomat with ment with Italy, her almost tra- ja Yugo-Slav decoration. ditional foe.
A banquet was given by the Re- Signing of the pact and -Yugò- gent, Prince Paul, yesterday even- Slavia's subsequent refusal (at the ing.-Trans-Ocean.
meeting of the Entente Council) to sign a pact of military assistance with Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania, the other two Entente countries, was entirely owing to the attitude of the Yugo-Slav Regent, Prince Paul, states the paper.
ROAD UP SIGNS
PUT AWAY -
For The Period Of The Coronation
PRINCE PAUL'S POSITION
Prince Paul, the paper says, has a marked antipathy to anything
London, To-day. that might tie his country down to Although nearly two million any sort of an agreement with the square yards of carriageway in the Soviet.
London traffic area must be resur- A military alliance with Czecho-faced in the next six months, Slovakia and Rumania would mean special precautions have been taken similar relations with France, to avoid interference with the which he does not desire owing to amenities of the central area dur- existence of the Franco-Soviet Pacting the period of Coronation cele-
He also believes that the might bration.
of Italy, on his border, is of grea- Important works which might ter importance to Yugo-Slavia than affect traffic in connection with the French friendship.
Coronation will not be begun un- Now it will be Dr. Benes' almost til some weeks later.—British Wire- impossible task to undo the work less.
of the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano. Trans-Ocean.
LONDON ATTITUDE
London, To-day.
ROYAL ACADEMY
9,000 Oil Paintings Rejected
London, To-day.
The communique issued after the meeting of the Little Entente at Bel- grade has been well received in London,
Clear reaffirmation of the three The Royal Academy selection countries' devotion to the principles committee has finished its task of of the League and the statement of selecting oil paintings for the an their unwillingness to be drawn in-nual exhibition.
to ideological conflicts are particu- larly welcomed.
Some 9,000 oil paintinga. have been rejected and are now stored The wish of the three States that in the basement of the Academy the negotiations between the great awaiting return to the artists. Powers for a new Locarno will meet The committed is now starting on with success and provide
the task of selecting water colours. firm 2
Reuter basis for peace in Central and Eas- tern Europe is noted as an endorse- ment of a hope to which British
Mr. Yip Lan-chuen and other
Statesmen have given repeated ex-Hong Kong Chinese manufacturers
pression. British Wireless.
"MILITARY PARADE
Belgrade, To-day.
gave Mr. Liu Wei-chi, Commissioner of Reconstruction for Kwangtung, a luncheon party yesterday at the Kam Lung Restaurant.
An impressive military parade was H.M.S. Berwick left Hong Kong among the arrangements in honour for Saigon for a short-stay yester- of the visit of the Vzecho-Slovakian |day
Sir Patrick Blow To
Duncan Arrives
South Africa's New
Governor-General
Capetown, To-day. Members of the South African Cabinet boarded the "Warwick
Castle" to greet the new Governor- General, Sir Patrick
Duncan, on
his arrival here yesterday.
Christian Unity Ideal
Death Of Dr. Adolf Deissmann
Berlin, To-day. Professor Adolf Deissmann, one of the outstanding figures in the German Protestant Church and one
Sir Patrick drove to Government of the prime originators of modern House, where he took the Oath of biblical interpretation, died sud- office,
denly at his home near Berlin yes- He later attended a civic recepterday. tion at the City Hall. Replying to The death of this prominent a message of welcome, Sir Patrick theologian in his seventieth year is said: "I will endeavour not to come a severe blow to German Protestant- short of the examples my illustrious ism and to the efforts being made predecessors have shown."-Reu-to unite the various Protestant ter.
churches.
PREDECESSOR HOME
London, To-day. Lord Clarendon, the retiring Governor General of South Africa, arrived at Southampton from Cape- town yesterday.-British Wireless.
S. WALES COAL AGREEMENT
Five-Year "Pact" Signed
London, To-day.
An agreement which will govern
As recognised champion of these efforts, Professor Deissmann had accepted an invitation to attend this year's conferences for Chris- tian Unity at Oxford and Edin burgh,
The newspapers state that his death is also a blow to Protestant- ism
sm all over the world, "which at one of its most critical hours will sadly miss his authoritative person-- ality:"Trans-Ocean.
Ambassador Leaves Foochow
the conditions of employment in H. M. Ambassador, Sir Hughe the South Wales coalfield as from Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen April 5 until the end of March, and - Lady Knatchbull Hugessen, 1942, was signed yesterday after-left Foochow in HMS Falmouth noon by the owners and miners yesterday and are proceeding to representatives. British Wireless. Shanghai.
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