THE CHINA MATE, OCTOBER 4, 1937.
LABOUR DEMANDING EARLY
SESSION
OF
PARLIAMENT
Bournemouth Conference Strongly Condemns Japan
RESOLUTION TO BE
SUBMITTED
TO-DAY
London, To day.
The Executive of the Labour Party, meeting at Bournemouth, yesterday decided to authorise Ma- jor Clement Attlee, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, to communicate with the Govern- ment and request that Parliament should be sum- moned immediately to deal with the international situation, especially the Sino-Japanese conflict.
Earlier in the proceedings the national execu- tive of the Party had agreed on a resolution which will be submitted to the annual conference on Monday.
DONNINGTON RACE RECORDS
London, To-day.
German automobile racing added another victory to its impressive series of triumphs on Saturday when German drivers captured the first five places in the 250-mile race at Donnington, Derby.
The resolution says:
The
conference warmly wel-
comes the action of the Leader of the Opposition in demanding- an early meeting of Parliament to consider action to be taken to vin- dicate international law and speed- ily end these shameful outrages against humanity.
"The conference views with horror the massacre of helpless Chinese people pursuing their
•
MAJOR ATTLEE
AUSTRALIAN CAVALRY CHIEF PASSES AWAY
Melbourne, To-day.
The death occurred yesterday at the age of 72 of Major-General the Hon Sir Granville de Lame Ryrie, former Australian. High Commissioner in London.
The late Sir Granville had a distinguished political and military
career.
He was member of the New South Wales State Parliament, member of the House of Represen- tatives in the Commonwealth Par- liament from 1911 to 1927, and As- sistant Minister for Defence from 1919 to 1922-
He commanded the 3rd Light Horse
Regiment in New South Wales for seven years and served South Africa, where he was severely wounded.
in
IN EGYPT
In the Great War he commanded. the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, Aus-
peaceful callings on land and "NATION AT WORK”tralian forces, in Egypt, and later
sea.
CANNOT BE TOLERATED
went to Syria.
Duesseldorf, To-day.
He became G.O.C. Australian Herr Hitler visited Duesseldorf forces in Egypt. for the first time in five years on
After the war he was appointed the Major-General commanding 1st Victor was Bernd Rosemeyer, "Continued acquiescence by other Saturday, when he inspected
Cavalry Division, New South Wales, who drove his Auto-Union car at Powers in their barbaric method"Nation at Work Exhibition.
Herr Hitler also reviewed troops and from 1927 to 1932 was High an average speed of just over 82 (of warfare is fraught with grave
Commissioner for Australia "in their and attended an official reception- dangers to the security of miles an hour.
London-Reuter: own peoples and the future of ci-Trans-Ocean. vilisation, and should no longer be tolerated.
Second and third places went to Brauchitsch and Caracciola, both driving Mercedes-Benz cars. »
Soon after the beginning of the race. it became evident that com- the petition would be confined to German entries, all of whom imme- diately went into the lead.
Through his daring driving, which thrilled the 100,000 specta- tors, Rosemeyer forged ahead of his compatriots.
Both he and the runner-up broke the existing course record-Trans- Ocean.
GERMAN TRADE WITH HOLLAND
Amsterdam, To-day,
"The conference emphatically condemns deliberate and unpro- voked acts of war by Japan against China over many years and calls on the British Govern- ment forthwith to prohibit Bri- tish citizens from selling war material and lending money to Japan and to co-operate with other members of the League and the United States in imposing measures of economic and finan- cial pressure designed to bring Japanese aggression to an end.
MEDICAL AID
"The conference calls on the Bri- tish Government to furnish medi- cal supplies and other forms of humanitarian assistance to the Chinese people, and urges all Bri- tish citizens to express detestation of Japanese barbarism by refusing
The latest returns issued by the to buy Japanese goods." Reuter. Netherlands Clearing Institute
on
German Netherlands clearing busi- ness, reveals an important develop-
ment in o
tween the mercial relations be General Gamelin
countries.
In Rumania
Figures show that in clearing business there is now a balance in
Bucharest, To-day favour of Germany amounting to
The Chief of the French General 931,700 florins, that is to say, not only is the German debit balance, Staff, General Gamelin, arrived which for several years amounted here yesterday for the Rumanian to millions of florins, at last fully Army manoeuvres, scheduled to liquidated, and that in the past few start on October 10. weeks the credit balance in Ger General Gamelin spent the day in many's favour has risen Trans visiting the armament works at Ocean.
Resioza-Trans-Ocean.
A REAL DRINK
"BOARS HEAD BRAND
GUINNESSS
FOREIGH EXTRA
STOUT
HAS A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION
SOLE AGENTS:
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.
St. George's Building.
Tel. 20135.
Ice House Street. HONG KONG