GEN. CHEN CHENG RECALLED
Flying Back To Nanking
Canton, To-day.
General Chen Cheng, Vice-Minis- ter of War,
after inspecting the Bocca Tigris Fort and the Govern- ment troops in Shiukwan, was sud- denly recalled to Nanking by Gen- eral Ho Ying-ching, the War Min- ister.
General Chen left Canton for Nanchang at 11.30 a.m. yesterday en route to the Capital.
It is authoritatively stated that after making a report to the War Minister with regard to his mission in Kwangtung, General Chen will fly to Fenghua to interview Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-shek to receive instructions on the scheme of na- It tional defence in South China. is also stated that General Chen will return to Canton and will sum- mon military chiefs of the Southern provinces to a conference. Own Correspondent.
GERMAN-CHINA NEWS SERVICES
Our
C. C. Kao Entertained In Berlin
Berlin, To-day.
"American Air
Disaster
Albuquerque, To-day.
The wreckage of an aeroplane which left Burbank, California, for Kansas City on April 8 with eight passengers and two pilots, was found by a searching plane on the mountain side yesterday. There were no signs of life. Reuter.
DESTROYER BOMBED
Plane Misses H.M.S. Gallant
London, To-day.
A bomb, presumed to have been dropped from a Spanish insurgent aeroplane, fell near the British destroyer H.M.S. Gallant in the vicinity of Cape San Antonio yes- terday afternoon, says a report re- ceived in London.
As far as is known, troyer was not hit.-Reuter.
the des-
SIT-DOWN STRIKES
New Policy Decided
Upon
Washington, To-day.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1937.
CROIX DE FEU
CHARGES
Colonel de la Rocque's
Statement
Paris, To-day.
Colonel de la Rocque; leader of the French Social Party, denied in a broadcast last night the charge. that the Croix de Feu had been re- constituted, since 80 per cent of the Social Party members had never belonged to the Croix de Feu.
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Colonel de la Rocque claimed that the Social Party had over 2,000,000 followers, whose work he said, could not be destroyed or even checked. Reuter..
FLAG WAVED BY QUEEN MARY
Armistice Day Relic
In War Museum
A tattered Union Jack in faded taffeta, bearing a label in Queen Mary's hand-writing, is shortly to be displayed at the Imperial War Museum, now completely settled in its new quarters at Lambeth-road,
The flag is part of the Windsor Collection, given by King Edward VIII. to the museum when it was moved from South Kensington to its present quarters last July. Former-
The Far East Association yes- Senator Robinson, leader of the ly the property of King George V., terday gave a luncheon for the tech-majority party in the Senate, an- the collection contains gifts to and nical director of the Central News nounced yesterday that a new de-from all members of the Royal fami- Agency of Nanking, Mr. C. C. Kao, claration of policy by the Senate in ly during the war. It is so exten- who is making a tour through regard to the sit-down strikes had sive and varied that many objects Europe in order to study the tech-been agreed.
have not yet been placed on view.
tional news agencies.
The luncheon was
nical arrangements of the interna- The new policy, he stated, would replace the defeated amendment de- attended claring that such strikes were illegal. amongst others, by the director of A resolution embodying the de- the East Asiatic department of claration will be introduced to-day.
the German Foreign Office, the Chin-Reuter. ese Consul-General and Herr Broese,
of the Trans-Ocean news agency.
In his address of welcome, the Vice-President of the Far East As-
Defective Scales
The label on the flag states: “Union Jack given to Princess Patricia of Connaught, now Lady Patricia Ramsay, by Mme Melba in Canada. The Princess gave it to
Queen Mary on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, and the Queen waved it from the balcony at Buck- ingham Palace that day and the following days."
Recently Queen Mary visited the museum to see how the objects had been arranged. Among the items
sociation, Dr. Linde, expressed The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold were this morning gratification that the representative Storage Co.
at the of the Chinese news agency was en-fined $10 by Mr. K. Keen deavouring to further the friendly Central Magistracy for having de-not yet displayed are:
fective scales at their depot at relations existing between Germany and China, alid to improve the news service between the two countries.
He assured Mr. Kao that China's
be
efforts in this direction would supported by Germany.-Trans- Ocean.
MR. LIN SEN
Visiting Kwangsi
Leaders
Union Jack sent to King George Lower Albert Road and were cau- V. and Queen Mary from Ruhleben tioned for a similar offence at their prison camp with the names of all store at Murray Place, Quarry Bay. the English civil prisoners written
Sub-Inspector Hopkins said the on it. scales at the depot were inaccurate, probably due to wear and tear, and those at Quarry Bay were rusty but could easily be put in working order if well oiled.
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LANDING SOLDIERS
FROM THE AIR
Navy and Army chiefs have sneered politely at the R.A.F. for years but now both are working hand in hand with the airmen on schemes for which aircraft are as lessential to them as ships or tanks.
One of the most spectacular of these joint efforts is the much- publicised Soviet plan of landing infantry behind the enemy lines by parachutes..
While British officers who wit- not nessed this manoeuvre were
denburg statue in the Siegesallee, terested, and at least one maker of Silver nail taken from the Hin-over-impressed with its utility, both Air Ministry and War Office are in- Berlin.
parachutes is producing model for the purpose.
special
Wooden rosary picked up by the Duke of Windsor, when Prince of
In the new orders for aircraft Wales, in Douai Cathedral, and
placed by the Air Ministry are given to his mother.
Princess Mary's gift chocolate many machines designed for co- box, found embedded in mud in a operation with the Army.
More bomber-transports, big trench. The Royal Observatory reports
Fragments of a bomb found on multi-engined machines capable of that the anti-cyclone has moved into Queen Mary's balcony at Bucking-carrying 30 and more full-armed Shanghai, To-day. the Pacific to the east of the Bonins
men over hundreds of miles in ham Palace.. President Lin Sen, who is on a and the Manchurian depression is
by the Additions are continnally being hour or two, are wanted visit to high Kwangsi officials, is moving eastward across Japan.made to the museum's collection.
Army, which has proved their util- due to arrive at Hengyang, in Cen-There are indications that another
ity in the East. tral Hunan, this morning.
anti-cyclone will develop over
He will proceed by motor-car to North China. Kweilin, Kwangsi, where he will
arrive this evening.
He was to have been met at Hengyang by General Li Tsung-jen, Pacification Commissioner Kwangsi and Mr. Huang She-chu, Governor Kwangsi Reuter
Forecast: E. winds, moderate, NEGUS AND LEAGUE cloudy generally.
NO BILLIARDS FOR BOYS
OF NATIONS
London, To-day.
an
CONVITE
an
A Direccao do Club Lusitano tem a honra de convidar a Communi- dade Portuguesa para assistir a Boys under seventeen are to be The Negus intends to send barred from the billiards halls of Ethiopian delegation - to the next Recepcao em homenagem a Sua Ex- Carlisle in future. An order to this meeting of the League of Nations cellencia o Governador de Macau, effect was made by the City magis- Council, though this time he will Exmo Snr Artur Tamagnini ^ de trates recently.
not head the delegation himself. For the proprietors and managers Trans-Ocean. of the halls it was contended that The forthcoming marriage be-the early teens are just the time at tween Miss Dorothy Ying Ngan-which a boy wants to practise bil- Wong, of No. 65, Bute Street, and liards.
Forthcoming Wedding
Mr. Arthur Rowan, chemist, of No. “You might send him to a lot of 15, Seymour Terrace, has been an- worse places," said a solicitor for
one of the halls,
nounced.
Sousa Barbosa, na sala Luiz de Ca- moès, na Sexta-feira, 9 do corrente, pelas 18 horas, em vez do Sabbado, 10 do corrente..
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