CANTON'S HOLIDAY ON ANNIVERSARY
Canton, To-day.
Chinese banks, the Customs and other major business concerns in
47 NEW WARSHIPS
THIS YEAR: WORLD'S
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GOVERNMENT
TETUES THAMES BARRAGE PLAN
BIGGEST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER on. To-day.
If the present rapid building Three cruisers schedule is maintained, more than 32 destroyers Canton were closed to-day on the fighting ships should be added 11 submarines anniversary of the 72 Martyrs, who to the British Navy this year. The gave their lives in the abortive re following vessels are expected to Total 1 bellion here in March, 1911, which commission before the end of 1933: was the stepping stone
Type throw of the Manchu regime and creation of a united Republic
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One aircraft-carrier
Total 116,690 The aircraft carrier Ark B Tons.is due for completion in July. With 22,600 a speed of nearly 31 knots, hanger space for 70 aircraft, and an arms ment of 16 4.5in anti-aircraft guns, floating aerodrome.
ent will be com-
that the Go pelled to veto the project for con- struction of a Thames barrage at Woolwich, because the Committee of Impenal Defence had reported from the defence aspect such
Two ceremonies were held during "We will always remember their she is, the world's most modern barrage would have very senoj
the early hours of this morning at heroism in the same manner that the 72 Martyrs Monument and Sup history will remember the patrio- Yat-sen's Memorisi Hall, both of tism of the hundreds of thousands which were attended by Governor of Chinese soldiers who in the past Wu Teb-chen.
months have died on battlefields in In the course of his speech, Gov-resisting foreign aggression. " ernor Wu stated.
Reuter
During the year the crnisers consequences. Liverpool, Manchester and Glouces Consequently the Port of Lon- ter will come into service. They are don Authority had decided that sister ships of 9,300 tons, with ano useful service would be served speed of 33 knots, and mount 12 by proceeding with the enquiry
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SHOULD HUSBANDS AND WIVES HAVE SEPARATE FRIENDS?
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2 EVENINGS LATER
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INQUIRY SUSPENDED
The Port of London Authority: has suspended the inquiry recently begun into the construction of a barrage across the Thames within the Port of London for the purpose of the creation of a non-tidal waterway through the centre of the metropolis
The inquiry would serve no use- ful purpose in view of the opinion of the imperial defence committee, communicated by the Transport Minister, that such a barrage would have serious disadvantages.
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32 DESTROYERS
-aircraft
Of the 32 destroyers which will probably be ready this year, 16 belong to the large and powerful Tribal class, the heaviest torpedo craft so far built for the British Navy. In pre-war days they would have been – rated as third-class crisers.
They are
1,850 tons.
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guns
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ment consists of
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eight smaller guns,
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47 NEW Vessels minesweepers,
units
should be mpleted during 1998.
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GUARDS AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION
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The Hon. Balegio Rodriguez, See retary of Commerce and Agriculture of the honour by a group of local businessmen. Mr. Chan Mo Hux, local manager of Mess are shortly to commence sale of stock in the Haussermann Consolidated Investan
GERMANY'S
kaner given in his erening,
RENAISSANCE
Herr Hitler's Plebiscite Speech In Berlin
CZECHS OFFER
NEW STATUTE
FOR MINORITIES
Prague, To-day.
The first official Czecho-Slova-
He Who Wants To
Condemn Shall Write "No"
Berlin, To-day.
kian statement on the interna- Germany is becoming prouder, richer, more beauti-
tional situation since the recent crisis, was made over the radio last night by the Premier, Dr. Hodza.
Dr. Hodza said that Mr. Neville
Chamberlain's House of Commons speech bad shown that the British Prime Minister rightly understood the declaration which he (Dr. Hod- za) had made in the Czech Parlia
ment on March ́4.
The
SINGAPORE'S CONTRIBUTION TO DEFENCE
The Colonial Commons, said Straits Setti
ful and self-confident, declared Herr Hitler in him that a speech to 20,000 people at the Sport Palast here yesterday.
Fuehrer demanded that every German vote in the plebiscite on April 10, adding "He who wants to condemn us shall write his no.
He declared that more National Socialists had been murdered in Austria than in the whole of Ger many.
Furthermore, Berlin had given to understand in a semi-officia: statement that Germany had no in- "They say I am a tyrant, and tention of interfering in the dom-these murderers are supposed to be estic affairs of Czecho Slovakia. democrats.
BRITISH SIGNATURE-
The world praises them, and Mr. Chamberlain had also refer just as in Spain the democratic red to the minority problem hypocrites do not care a hoot, but Czecho-Slovakia, and he wouk they will suddenly wake up when point out that this was based on a Jew in Vienna loses his busi- the Minority Agreement of St. ness Germain, to which Britain had also appended her signature.
Reuter PRES. WILSON
Berlin, To-day.
More than 1,00 more than 40,000
hot, and
All this happened and the still called this democracy,
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I, on the other hand, allow people to take part again and again wards. in all great historic decisions, and yet they still call me a dictator Trans-Ocean.
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He was well aware that part of At the outset of his election from the the population found itself in dis speech Herr Hitler recalled that po by Lieut. Langley. agreement with the results of Fe President Wilson and the Allied bruary 18, but Czecho-Slovakia had Powers themselves proclaimed the adopted a- generons attitude to right to self-determination of all wards the question of minorities, peoples, and that one of President
NEW STATUTE
Wilson's Fourteen Points provided The Czech Government would that freedom should be restored to now go a step further and would various peoples composing the for- draw up a Minority Statute in ormer Hapsburg Empire in accordan- der to prove that Czecho-Slovakiaze with their wishes. was doing everything. possible for its minorities,
In doing so it was acting of its own free will and was not giving way to pressure from outside. Trans-Ocean
FRANCO'S REPLY TO PROTESTS
London, To-day.
Instead of keeping this pro- mise, however, they had separat- ed 10,000,000 Germans from their Fatherland and had incorpor ed them in other states.
It was not surprising, therefore, that with National-Socialist acces- sion to power, these Germans want- ed to return. National Socialisi aim had always beer to reconciliate people and not to set class against class
Austrians
GERMAN IDEAL
mutilation, said, further mission nor
and although collapsed,
wished to join
"I cannot imagine any true Ger- General Franco's reply to the man not being ptivated by British representations on the ideal subject of the recent bombing of After its Barcelona and other open towns, Austria had has been received in London any politic It is reported that Gen. Franco continue emphatically denies that the objecthe Beic tive of the raids was the population, and reiterates cusation that Barcelona
any military objectives unitions factories and Gen. Franco gives the that he will avoid, as
ir raids on open
ich raids will only.
dictated
the call of blood the Reich.
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