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London, To-day
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The first oicial announcement Telegraph states that food-prices in Hong Kong have risen by 400 on the incident at the Soviet Con-
per cent since the outbreak of sulate General in Shanghai on hostilities in China. the night of Angust 17 was made yesterday but is merely confined to description of the affair.
The announcement says that the Soviet Consul-General in Shanghai has lodged an energetic protesti with the Japanese.
On the night in question, Ja-| panese soldiers attempted to pene trate by force the Soviet Consu- late-General, in which the only per- sons present were two Chinese em- ployees, one of whom was the por- ter
From Shanghar it is reported that some foodstuff's have grown so scarce that the supply of the Bri- tish community had to be used for the soldiers stationed at that port.
Trans-Ocean.
U.S. DOCTORS SAFE Mission Hospital Bombing
Suggests Certain Variations Of British Plan
Geneva, To-day.
The summary report of the Mandates Commis- sion on Palestine recognises the difficulty of pre- venting outbreaks but is not convinced that it would not have been possible to adopt more decisive mea- sures earlier, with a view to suppressing armed re- sistance.
The report states that the disturbances in 1936 Shanghai, To-day-reveal great political tension and the inevitable an- All the American doctors and tagonism between the two peoples was further ac- centuated by increasing anti-Semitism and grow- ing Arab national feeling.
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nurses of the American mission hos- pital in Nantungchow, 70 miles On the porter's refusal to admit northwest of Shanghai, which was the Japanese, the latter smashed bombed by Japanese planes last Certain fluctuations in policy by the manda- mander-in-Chief the windows of the building and week are safe, according to a re- abducted the two Chinese
em-port received by the American Con- tory Power tended to encourage the Arabs in the States Asistic ployees.
belief that violence could stop Jewish immigration. to the Navy D special board of
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sion considers that prolongation found no defini of the period of political appren-gard to which ticeship constituted by the man- forces fired the date would be absolutely essen-the flagship Ang tial to both the new Arab and It will be red Jewish States..
shell killed one ed 18 others.
Admiral Ys
sulate-General here.
The American Consulate-General It is added that the Japanese has instructed the superintendent Moreover, the mandate became soldiers were led by a civilian who of the hospital to make a detailed almost unworkable when it was claimed to be an official of the Ja-report of the bombing and the dam-declared so by the Royal Commis- panese Consulate-General-Trans-age done to the hospital-Central
sion of the mandatory government. Ocean.
The commission therefore con- siders it worth continuing ex- amination of the advantages
CANTONISATION IDEA drawbacks of a new territorial
This apprenticeship might be solution, and favours withdrawal carried on either by firstly, pro- dence in regard of the Holy Places from the visional cantonisation by which the gun concerned domination of Arabs and Jews and two States, while enjoying a wide He stated t place them under a special regime. measure of internal economy and forces were imm full powers to regulate immigra- exercise more e EFFECT ON RELATIONS
tion, might be united under the their firing If the partition scheme should be mandatory Power in matters of de- applied, the Commission thinks its fence and foreign affairs, and success would depend more on its secondly, a separate mandate over effect on relations, between Arabs each State until each has proved and Jews than on the territorial its ability to govern itself solution adopted.
The commission concludes with It should also be remembered an appeal to Jews and Arabs, that the suffering of Arabs and pointing out that without British northern side of Jews cannot be compared.
efforts certainly there would have yesterday aftern Whereas the world being been no Jewish national home but the removal of C closed increasingly to settle also no Arab National State. the S. M. C. W ments by the Jews the commis- Reuter.
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