THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1937.
LIBERAL LEADER URGES BOYCOTT OF JAPAN
To Compel Tokyo To Stop Aggression In China
BLEATINGS OF FLOCK
WILL NOT SAVE LAMB FROM WOLF
London, To-day.
Urging that an economic boycott of Japan by the British Empire, the Netherlands, the Nether- lands Empire, France and the United States, would compel Japan to stop its aggression in China and to come to terms, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal Opposition leader, in a speech at Wick, Caithness, yesterday declared that none could afford, and least of all the inhabitants of the crowded cities of Europe, to be indifferent to the fate of Shanghai, Canton and Nanking.
It was not enough to express horror and in- dignation at the deliberate use of frightfulness as a weapon against civilian masses of a nation.
The bleatings of the flock will not save the lamb from the wolf.
"We must stamp out this fright- fulness lest it destroy civilisation and our own homes and families.” -Reuter.
LEAGUE DISCUSSION
Geneva, To-day. The advisory committee on the Sino-Japanese conflict, after long debate, yesterday decided to set up a sub-committee, on which Australia, Belgium, Britain, China, Ecuador, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and Russia will be represented, while the United States will be invited to send an observer.
The Latvian Foreign Minister, Mr. Munters, who presides over the ad- visory committee, will also be chair- man of the sub-committee.
In yesterday's debate, Lord Cran- borne (Britain) stressed that ap pointment of the sub-committee was not a dilatory measure but a deter mined effort to make the League's work more efficient-Trans-Ocean.
LEAGUE- AID TO CHINA
Geneva, To-day.
The League Council yesterday approved the report of the com- mittee for technical collaboration with China, "and decided to ask the fourth committee for a sub- stantial credit to carry out the scheme of assistance against epidemics in China-Reuter.
MR. NOEL COWARD
Member Of Athenaeum
Club
Mr. Noel Coward has been elect- ed a member of the Athenaeum Club, and becomes the only member who is distinguished both as an actor and a dramatist.
It is an unusual distinction for the stage to be- recognised by the
Chan Chai-tong club, although there have been, ex-
Welcomed
ceptions in the past. William Charles Macready, Sir Henry Ir ring and Sir Gerald du Maurier were members.
General Chan Chai-tong, former Commander-in-Chief of Kwangtung Province, who arrived in Hong Sir James Barrie, who combined Kong a few days ago from Europe, his claims to fame as dramatist and was the guest of honour at a recep- novelist, was also a member. Mr. tion given by prominent Chinese Héctor Bolitho is a more recent personalities at the Hotel Cecil example of the recognition of a yesterday afternoon.
playwright.
Copper Output Reduction
London, To-day
Mr. Coward was elected under Rule IL, which provides for the election of men distinguished in literature, the fine arts or in public service.
The greater part of the Athenae- jum membership is drawn from the
Coppe producing countries operating under the restriction law, medicine, science, the Services scheme announce that they have and the more austere branches of agreed upon a programme of pro- duction which will result in output being reduced to a rate of 106 per cent of the basis quotas by the end
of November. Reuter
The club was founded in 1824 by John Wilson Croker, the editor of
Boswell's Life of Johnson.”
The telephone boom in Britain has caused a speed up in the train- ing of men for outside work. These pictures were taken at the Birmingham Regional Training School of the Post Office where young men are trained to erect telegraph poles and lay the cables. Photo shows 2. new method of erecting cable systems. A man is swung in a chair along a steel cable while he threads another one. -to carry the telephone wire (Fox
Copyright).
Corporal S. R. de Silva has been awarded the Efficiency Medal of the H.K.V.D.C.
MR. CHURCHILL TO MEET HERR BOHLE
London, To-day.
Mr. Winston Churchill, who of
late has made several attacks o Nazi foreign organisations Fabroad, is to meet Herr Wilhelm Bohle, head of the Nazi foreign organisation.
Herr Bohle is to be the principal speaker at the Harvest Festival ar- ranged by the German colony in London
This afternoon he will meet Mr. Churchill, who last week wrote an article published in an English magazine launching an attack Herr Boble's work
The meeting was arranged at Stuttgart, when the congress of Germans living abroad was held.
It was then that a suggestion was made that if Mr. Churchill meant what he said when he wrote that he was open to correction, then an opportunity should be given Herr Bohle to convince the Conservative politician that he was entirely mis- taken in his allegations about the nature of the Nazi foreign organisa- tion.
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