LONDON SILENT ON JAPANESE NAVY REPLY
London, To-day.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1938.
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M.P. HAS NO TIME TO SEE HIS SON
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So He Is Resigning His Seat
Sir Paul (Latham, 32-year-old member of Parliament for Scar- borough, and Whitby, has announc--
The Japanese reply to Britained his decision not to contest
regarding naval building has been received in London, but hitherto there has been no time for its consideration by British officials.
It is understood that consulta- tion between Britain, France and the United States, started before the query was put to Japan, will be continued, and it is pointed out that as Germany and Russia are linked with the Naval Treaty, there will obviously, at some later stage, have to be communications with these two powers. Reuter.
his
seat at the next General Election.
The reason for this decision he
gives in a letter to the Chairman of the Scarborough Conservative and Unionist Association.
of
"The reason for my decision is that my son is now nearly four "Sir Paul writes. years of age,' "and he will go to school and be away from home in five or six more years. I find -my parliamentary duties in London, combined with a big constituency in the north England, and a house in Sussex that has increased in its responsibilities during the last few years, does not leave me enough time to see as much of him as is proper for father to see of his only child."
Sir Paul married Lady Patricia Moore, daughter of the Earl of
a
While Miss J. Batley, residing at Drogheds, 1933, and their son Rich- Sai fee Street, was walking inard was born in 1934. Nathan Road yesterday her hand- bag containing $40 was snatched by a Chinese.
Three years ago Sir Paul began house, Hur- restoring his country stomonoeaux Castle, in Sussex, at a cost of £200,000. It is a 15th cen- tury house, reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a drummer.
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At the last election he had a ma- prietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., by GORDON CADE BURNETT, at 3A, jcrity of 6,542 over his Liberal Wyndham Street Victoria Hong Kong. opponent, Mr. J. Ramsay Muir.
Hauchow, To-day.
According to an official com- munique, Pengpu and other points held by the Japanese were again subjected to heavy bombing by Chinese planes yes- terday with the result that ex- tensive damage was done. A huge military supply depot at the railway station at Pengpu was wrecked.
A number of bridges across the Hwai River erected by the Japanese were also destroyed by Chinese air bombing-Hua Nan.
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