THE CHINA MAIL,
1937.
ATTLEE'S TOUR CRITICISED Negation Of British Policy Of Non-Intervention
OBJECT ALLEGED TO BE ENCOURAGEMENT
TO
GOVERNMENT
London, To-day.
The tour of Republican Spain now being made by the leader of the parliamentary labour opposi tion, Mr. Clement Attlee, is in direct contradiction to the policy of non-intervention so carefully fos- tered by Britain, writes the "Daily Telegraph" in a critical leading article.
OBJECT OF THE JOURNEY BEING UNDERTAKEN BY MR. ATTLEE AND HIS FELLOW-MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, IS NOT SO MUCH TO GAIN INFORMATION ABOUT SPAIN AS TO ENCOURAGE THE REPUBLICANS, DECLARES THE JOURNAL, POINTING OUT THAT SUCH AN ACT CONSTI- TUTES A BREACH OF THE NON-INTERVENTION AGREE MENT
Mr. Attlee, who has always nounced · non-intervention in the House, is merely emphasising his personal stand through the present action
DOMINIONS AND BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY
The journal brings up the ques FOREIGN
tion as to whether the visit will be advantageous to the Republican Gov- ernment, stressing the danger of the
London, To-day.
gesture being wrongly interpreted In answer to a question by the
Labour member for Nuneaton, L
-CYGNUS-
MAILS LIKELY TO BE SAVED
The
London To-day. Postmaster General an- nounces that the great balk of mails from Malaya, India, Hor
Kong, Egypt and other paces on the ringboat Cygnus
crashed at Brindisi, is likely recovered-Reuter.
IMPATIENT DINER AT INDIAN RESTAURANT
"DOSSIER 25" AND AGE-OLD TRAGEDY
Vienna, To day.
The question of what has be come of various documents pur- porting to shed light on the mys- erious death of the Austro- dungarian Crown Prince Rudolph Mayerling in January, 1889, s discussed by the official organ, the "Wiener Zeitung.
The paper stresses the disappear- ance of "Dossier 25," which con- tained details of the Crown Prince's plans for autonomy of the Hungar- Lan army.
27 DYSENTERY DEATHS
Drawing up of the plans, says the paper, greatly irritated the Em- peror Franz Joseph, who regarded them as nothing short of treason- able, and the paper suggests that Gaffan Singh, an unemploved the affair contributed in no small Indian, was this morning fined $10 measure to the double suicide of or one month's imprisonment by Prince Rudolph and BaroNEES" Mr. P. A. D. Forrest for assaulting Maria Vetsera-Trans-Ocean- Abdulla Khan, a restaurant keeper, at No. 7, Landale Street.
Sergeant Riddell said that de- în Spain, and of its giving rise to
fendant went to the complainant's false expectations which, when they Com. R. T. H. Fletcher, in the House shop and ordered food. He resent are later disappointed, will render of Commons yesterday, the Prime ed the long time taken to prepar the situation even more serious than Minister said that the Dominions it and in course of an argument tuberculosis in Hong Kong in the governments had been fully inform threw a tumbler at complainant
and hit him on the head.
Sergeant Riddell said that in ases of assault no finger prints. were taken but defendant was well known to the Police. He was bom in Hong Kong and had been in asked that a serious view be taken.
at present.
•
jed about the conversations of Lord SHOULD BE MADE CLEAR-
Halifax in Germany, and the Anglo- French conversations in London on Emphasising the fact that not the colonial question. enly, the great majority of English Mr. Chamberlain added that the people but also the French Popular Dominion governments would
be
There were 80
deaths from
week ended Saturday. - Other deaths were dysentery, 27; dip- theria, 4, typhoid fever, 4, small- pax, 2 and cerebrospinal fever, 1.
In the last 24 hours, three cases of dysentery, three of diptheria, one of smallpox and one of cerebro-
Front, favours a policy of non-in-kept fully posted by the British trouble several times before. He spinal fever, were reported to the
tervention as hitherto pursued, the Government as to all future develop journal states that if Mr. Attlee and ments. Trans-Ocean.
his fellow travellers are really in terested in serving the Spanish cause, their best policy would be to make the foregoing fact clear to their hosts
Trans-Ocean. “
DECLARATION SIGNED
London, To-day-
LAND PLANE SPEED RECORD
Rome, To-day.
local Health Authorities.
Y.M.C.A. LOSS S. J. AMBULANCE
Messrs. F. Norris and F. Good-
Ar A Raids Precaution Course will all, residing at room No. 20, în be given at St. John Ambulance Head- the YMCA, have reported the quarters commencmg on wednesday, loss from their room of a note book!
¡Dec. 15, at 7 pm. The lectures will
be for the Chinese Community and wil containing $150 in money and pri- be given by qualified A.P. instruc vate papers, the property of Mr.tors. A Dance in aid of Brigade Funds
Headquarters on Dec. 1,
Each member of the British lab- A new world speed record for land Norris, and a wallet containing (to purchase equipment) will be held at our delegation now visiting Spain, planes over 100 kilometres was $27, the property of Mr. Goodall. at 8.30 p.m.
had signed before their departure established yesterday by the Italian
a document to the effect that dur air force pilot, Furio Nicot, who
ing their stay in Spain they would registered an
average speed of
not act in any way capable of be- 554.350 kilometres an hour. ing interpreted as violation of the Previous best in this class also non-intervention policy of the Bri-established by an Italian, on April
year, was 517.836 kp.h.
tish Government.
1 this
So announced the Foreign Secré ¡Trans-Ocean. tary in the House of Commons yes- terday afternoon-Trans-Ocean,
VISITS TO FRONT LINE
Barcelona, To-day. Mr. Clement Attlee, the British parliamentary labour leader, ac- companied by the Labour M. Ps, Mr. Philip Noel-Baker and Miss Ellen Wilkinson, visited the Madrid front lines yesterday ||mor- ning...
At a meeting of welcome Madrid Town Hall later in the day.
Mr. Attlee conveyed greetings of the British Labour Party and ex- pressed the hope that Republica Spain would soon be victorious Trans-Ocean
Chan Ghrung-fai, residing at No.
AMNESTY IN
N. ITALY
Rome, To-day. Signor Mussolini yesterday or- dered release of all political prison- ers who are domiciled in the north- east frontier regions. ~---
The amnesty was announced in conjunction with the official visit to Rome of the Yugo-Slay Premier - Trans-Oc
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