CHINA MATE,
1937
JAPAN'S INTERIM REPLY ARS
ALHAMBRA REGARDED IN LONDON
YATHANERD.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ROARING STEEL SMASHING THROUGH!
WEST BOUND
LIMITED
with
TO-MORROW
A Columbia Picture
A NEW
UNIVERSAL PICTURE:
LYLE TALBOT POLLY ROWLES
UNIONS STRENGTH DECLINING
"LET'S GET MARRIED
with Ida Lupino Ralph Bellamy Walter Connolly
MR. W. A. APPLETON ON THE CAUSES MEMBERS DOUBTS OF POLICY
Mr. W. A. Appleton, secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, asks in his quarterly re- port, just issued, whether the people have no further use for the
trade union movement.
·
"Something is certainly wrong," he says. "What is it? Not lack of
raw material, for to-day there are
16,000,000 people in insurable oc- cupations, less than 4,000,000 of are enrolled in the trade
whom unions.
"The total membership of the Little more unions is, perhaps, a than it was in mid-Victorian days. but the increase, when set side by side with the increase in popula
N.W FRONTIER INCIDENT
Simla, To-day.
Hostile tribesmen yesterday came across the border and raid- ed a small town on the North- West Frontier. Cand
The raiders killed one Hindu, wounded another and looted ten shops-Reuter.
NEW FIRE ALARMS
IN LONDON
Progress is being made with the London County Council scheme for time installation of new fire alarms in London at a cost of £21,400.
In B District,
which comprises Clerkenwell, Islington, Red Cross street, Soho, Euston, Camden Town, Kentish Town, Holloway, White friars and Canon-street, 299 of the
AS NOT SATISFACTORY
London, To-day.
The Japanese blockade of the Chinese coast has been under active consideration by the British Government, which now feels assured that Japan does not intend to interfere with British shipping, and therefore questions arising from the much- debated legal status of the blockade do not arise.
In regard to the Japanese interim reply to the British Note on the Hugessen incident, no comment is likely to be forthcoming in British circles pend- ing delivery of the final reply from Tokyo.
It is stated, however, that the present reply, if followed by nothing more, would not be considered satisfactory in London. Reuter.
DOMINIONS CONSULTED
London, To-day.
Periodical meetings now being being held between Downing Street and the representatives in London of the Dominions are of special importance in view of the international situation.
It is understood that all the Dominions represented have re- ceived the latest information on the position in the Mediterran- ean and the Far East.
Purpose of the meetings is main- ly to impart information but it is believed that the agenda of the forthcoming League Council meet- ing at Geneva is also cussed Renter.
ing dis-
REPRESENTATIONS IN LONDON
Shanghai, To-day.
..
The British Chamber of Com- merce in Shanghai has received al telegram from London stating that the Chamber of Commerce of the United Kingdom has made repre- sentations to the Foreign Office emphasising that besides British, there are large French and Ameri-
can
interests in the Yangtsepoo area.
devastated
ALLEGED ASSASSINATION PLOT
Buenos Aires, To-day. Two men have been arrested in connection with the alleged plot to assassinate the retiring. Presi dent and members of the Cabinet
It is alleged it was intended fo kill the statesmen just before the elections for a new President, which began yesterday.---Renter.
NO NEGLECT OF WAR GRAVES
UNCEASING WORK IN CEMETERIES EMPIRE VISITORS
Scattered private complaints of carelessness in the upkeep of graves The Chamber suggested close co-in the War cemeteries of Flanders new alarms are being erected operation between the three Pow-and France are ill-founded, as al
o are being installed
ers to deal with the situation. Thirty-five also in the neighbourhood of the new Reuter. LCC. Fire Brigade headquarters in Lambeth.
The new alarm, which operates on a “closed circuit system, is
tion and in the numbers qualifying largely automatic in action, and is for adult employment, is deplorably small- The membership of the expected to eliminate the defects of the present method, which was de unions is greater, but the percent-gned more than 50 years ago. It the Po Office and costs. age is smaller."
2,000 a year in
Seeking for the reason of this de cline, Mr Appleton noints out that some people assert that the people have accepted the doctrine that all future improvements in the econo
The LC.C. nearly
ntals maintenance. One advantage of the new alarm is that any defect in it will be ap- parent at Brigade Headquarters,
MR. EDEN'S LONG TALK
who, like myself, choose to revisit them after the years that have passed, will readily see, writes a correspondent.
A million of the Hampire's dead lie în 2,485 cemeteries, and every grave is tended with a reverent care
To-day's Meeting Of that the passage of time bas but
Cabinet
London, To-day
rved to intensify
During his recent tour of the bat tlefields Mr. J. A Lyons, Prime
In addition to the Foreign Se-Minister of Australia, expressed cretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, who his grateful astonishment at the
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workers can best be obtained by alarms will not be necessary.
non-trade union effort.
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All available Ministers will attend to-day's meeting of the Cabinet.
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