THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 26, 1988.
POLICE HUNT WRECKERS OF
Swiss Army Worries Italy
-manoenvers
2 R.A.F. BATTLE
"PLANES
Refugee Conditions In Hangchow Said Better
Refugee conditions in Hangchow | 70,000, no more than 3,000 have have greatly improved what with actually returned The 70,000 is TWO BATTLE PLANES BUILT some 40 foreign missionaries and accounted for by the fact that men FOR THE RAF HAVE BEEN the Chinese Red Swastika Society who return register not only them- MALICIOUSLY DAMAGED AT each catering t
their families, who are THE RINGWAY AERODROME 3,000 destitute men MANCHESTER, THE AIR MINIS TRY HAS REVEALED.
This sabotage is believed to have been carried out by agents acting for a foreign Power.
children, according in Fitch, recently retu hai from the Late
Starting from Shangh day, March 8 in the
Berne, Mar 19. Referring to the Swiss military. in Tessin, authorised circles declare that Switzerland, as a result of the armaments of other Special extra precautions are
Dr. Manget and Mr. Robert Heary, Dr. Fitch and his colleagues were states, has been forced to modernize being taken to guard the aero- her national defense and hold drome.
the first foreigners to reach Hang manoeuvers, which extend to all the The planes are Fairey Battle chow by train since Javanese oc frontiers and have been held re-machines, fast bombers made by cupation of Shanghai The gularly of late.
the Fairey Aviation
took along hospital and Company. However, opinion in Rome has They were manufactured at the plies, and were given and entire car been somewhat shocked by the company's Heaton Moor, Stockport, to themselves. As it was, they holding of mancervers, in Switzer works and taken by road to Ring were crowded, for supplies land along the Italian frontier way for re-assembly and delivery
stacked roof high, and the were forced to sit on wooden The "Giornale d'Italia" writes that to the RAF the news has caused the most pro- The police, says the Air Minis-The train took nine hours to res found surprise," and believes that try, are investigating the matter. Hangchow, twice the length the manoeuvers are without pre- About a month ago, when sabo-normal trip. cedent in the regular activity of tage was discovered at factories All foreigners in Hangshow were the Swiss army. Their character near Coventry and Wolverhampton, in good health. Dr. S. D. Sturton, is offensive for Italy, the paper de- they took prompt action.
superviser of the Christian Mi clares, "and can only represent a
sionary Society hospital in Hang- change in the attitude of Switzer-
chow, has recently recovere land towards Italy. This change
nervous strain and overwo 'can be noted with only the deepest
colleague, Bishop John Curtis, regret.
found, was concurrently and milkman, racing ambulan from place to place and e ing milk among refugee camps.
The journal adds that the man- oeuvers could give Swiss opinion and could create anti-Italian cur- rents in Swiss thought.
NEW YORK PAPERS INDIGNANT OVER BARCELONA RAIDS
RAF. PRODUCTION AT PEAK
The latest case has occurred when the production of R.A.F. 'planes has reached its peak. It is thought significant that BOMBERS should be interfered with being of paramount im- portance in case of war.
JAPANESE
TO WAGE
HOTEL "WAR"
ast on the heels of advancing
China have come of Japanese business the establishment of
frms in occupied ter- résent almost all aviation,
circles
trading, power
in Japan have
to drive out
agement from g of Japanese held in Tokyo recently
was reported in the Tokyo Miyako, palar daily vernacular of Japan's capital
A translation of the article lows:
Despite recent and persistent rumours to the contrary, the Chris- Japanese hotel men are determin- On January 2 a fire occurred tian College of the American Presed not to lag behind other indus- aboard the aircraft carrier HMS. byterian Mission is intact. Dr tries and enterprises in exploiting Birmingham at Portsmouth. Three J. McMullen and Mr. P. Lantens the new field in China opened by days later fire broke out aboard the chiager were looking after the pre Japanese occupation. minesweeper Hebe and in December mises. Some indication of condi- a fire occurred aboard HMS. Queen
Elizabeth.c
Sabotage was surpected in each
case.
tions there may be gathered from A few days ago the Japan Hotel
DRIVING OUT THE BRITISH the fact that in driving his car from the college to refugee camps,
Association held a meeting to dis- Mr. Lantenschlager was fired upon cuss the situation, and its mem- Last month an RAF plane on no less than 70 occasions,
bers are said to have resolved to at was found to have been damaged at
The Leper Hospital there, too, is tempt to drive out foreign hotel Messrs. Armstrong Whitworth's continuing its fine work under Miss management
areas under works near Coventry.
A: Megson, who remained at her Japan's dominance and install Jap- principal
New York, Mar. 20. Indignation at the bombing of the civilian population of Barcelona by Nationalist planes which re- sulted in over 700 being killed and 1,200 wounded during the last three days was expressed in the entire of press here this morning
"The Barcelona murders per petrated by rebel planes.
height of horror and
Major TM Barlow, a director | post throughout the hostilities.
airey Aviation Co., said in a position to make any
of the Spanish civil war, the New the honor of those carrying it out. York Times writes. The
dead
in
China,
inns are cities
travellers.
O recent
Economically, Hangchow since the constant troops requires the se available means of Practically all the sho and barricaded. Supo "The expression right of the had from a small ma cres were intended for military air comes to mind, the paper centre of the city, how objectives such as are conceived by added, "but who would want to sells not only bare r the insurgents: They are part shake the bloody hand of one of such luxuries as fresh of a new war against women and the knights who bombed Bar- The population is slow to return these children, the sick and the aged cel Who would not flee, struck to Hangchow. Those who have pelled either to This war is a war against human-
horror and disgust, at the evacuated prior to the city's oe-ness policies, In some cases ty, sullying for ever the flag and sight of them and their masters?" cupation by the Japanese forces are togethe
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hose hotels as finances will population was 650,000. OF
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