THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 20, 1937.
MR MACKENZIE KING'S EULOGY OF KING GEORGE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ottawa, To day.
Praise was showered upon the King and Queen by Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister, who made a broadcast address with a Canadawide link- up from Ottawa to-day.
LEAGUE AND PALESTINE PARTITION
London, To-day.
Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore, Secre tary for the Colonies. announced yesterday that he is representing the British Government - at- the meeting of the Leagues Mandates Commission
The Commission is to discuss the Report of the Royal Commis- sion on Palestine Reuter
It was Mr. Mackenzie King's-first important public pronouncement since his return from the Corona- tion ceremonies and the subsequent Imperial Conference, and he made an important. statement regarding Canada's position in the event that Britain became involved in war.
At the outset, the Premier said he felt that in the hundred years that had elapsed since, the accession of Queen Victoria to the Throne of England, the great responsibilities of the British Monarchy had never been more worthily or more secure- ly entrusted to any sovereign than to-day.
KING AND QUEEN
"King George and Queen Eliza-
FOUR YEARS FOR beth," he said, "may be counted upon
ROBBERY
to do their part.
"If we do ours anything like as well the foundations of constitu- tional government throughout the Four years hard labour was im-British Commonwealth will be more posed
-year-old Chu Kei, by firmly established than ever." Mr. Justice C G. · Alabaster, Acting Chief Justice, at the Criminal Ses- sions this morning, for robbery committed during the early hours of June 13, at Saiwanho,.........
Accused pleaded not guilty and the following jury were empanelled. Messrs. W. J. Carroll (Foreman), A. B. Hamson, G. Hill, F. Grose, C. F. Osmund, Fung Shing-chung, and W: C. Clark.
The facts presented by the Act ing Crown Solicitor, Mr. E. H. Wil- liams, showed that accused, toge- ther with two others, not in cus- tody, forced an entry to an unnum- bered hut on the hillside near Sai- wanho. The other men escaped with a sum of $10, but accused was seiz- ed by the complainant, Chan Kam, who struggled with him until help arrived.
ARMY TRANSPORT EXPERT DEAD
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Pleading for Canadian unity, he said, that not to have a alisation of the many strains and cleavages s which were im- perilling unity was to shut one's eyes to the problem, of the government of Canada to-day.
WAR POSITION
The situation could be solved, he added, by a great measure of un- derstanding between the Dominion
and the Provinces of each other's problems.
He also stated that any deci- sion by Canada to join a war would have to be taken by the Canadian Parliament.-Reuter.
BILBAO SERVICE FOR VICTIMS
Bilbao, To-day.
A memorial service for 300 in surgent hostages killed by the Basques before evacuation. of. Bilbao, was held at the Municipal London, To-day Cemetery on Sunday in connexion The death has occurred of Ma- with the first anniversary of the jor-General Sir William Boyce, at beginning of the civil war. the age of 69._**
The title Knights of Spain". was
Sir William, who was an Irish conferred - posthumously on the man, was a Director of Rolls Boyce, executed hostages. Ltd. which he joined after hisë re.
In a speech, the Civil Governor | tirement from the Army after the of Bilbao mentioned the foreigners, Great War
wha had died in the service of He joined the Royal Berkshire Nationalist Spain, declaring, they Regiment at the age of 19, was ap
had died not for a strange father pointed to the Royal Army Service
land, but for a universal ideal.'
MIAJA'S MANIFESTO Corps în 1893, and promoted....... cap-||* Meanwhile, General Miaja, Re- tain, became major in 1901, publican commander on the Madrid Colonel in 1909, Colonel in 1912 and front, yesterday issued a manifesto Major-General în June, 1917- He to his troops that hundreds of was Director of Transport from thousands of Spain's cons had left 1914-1918, was mentioned in dese factory and field to fight for their patches seven, times and awarded liberty against the mvaders. the K. C. M. G. Reuter
The enemy had been rendered powerless and the time, had now come to show the world that the The B. I. Steam Ship Talma will Fascist Powers could not with leave for Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, stand the Spanish people. The In- Kobe and Asaka on Thursday at vaders will be destroyed, concludes ̈6 am.
the manifesto.-Trans-Ocean.
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