THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1938.
HITLER- STRAINS HIS VOICE
Vienna, To-day?
Herr Hitler was unable to make a speech when he arrived at Salz- burg yesterday as he has strain- ed his voice through constant speaking in the plebiscite cam- paign. Trans-Ocean.
BRITISH POLICY ON AUSTRIAN REFUGEES
FURTHER STRIKES IN TRINIDAD
Georgetown, To-day.
Further strikes have occurred at Trinidad where workers in sugar factories have stopped work and are demanding an increase in wages ranging from 15 to 20 per
cent.
The employers have declared that the increase demanded is impossible owing to the low price of sugar in the world mar- ket.
A conference between employ- London, To-day. ers and workers which has been The Under-Secretary for Foreign going on, has now been postpon- Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, answered ed indefinitely. Reuter.
several questions in the Commons
yesterday, about refugees from SPAIN'S NEW
Austria.
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Mr. Butler said that 15 coun- tries, namely, Argentine, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Para-
GOVERNMENT
Paris, To-day.
The new Spanish Republican
the
Prime Minister and Minister for
guay, Peru, Salvador, Sweden and Government is composed of Uruguay had replied favourably to following: the United States invitation to con- sider methods for providing assist-War, Dr. Negrin: ance to political and Jewish re- fugees from Austria. -
It was part of the United States' proposal that the financing of emergency emigration should be undertaken by private organisa- tions in the respective countries.
Mr. Butler also said that the British Government would make the best possible use of this oppor- tunity of co-operation with United States.
Foreign Affairs, Senor Alvarez Del Vayo;
Gomez;
Interior, Senor Paoline Agriculture, Senor Arige: Justice, Senor Gonzalez Pena; Finance, Senor Mendez Aspe; Labour. Senor Ayguade; Communications, Senor de los
Rios;
Education, Senor Segundo Elanco. the-Trans-Ocean."
BRITISH SYMPATHY The British Government would naturally be sympathetic to any Jewish proposal for
The Insurgent Spanish General, Virginio Cabanellas, who had been taken prisoner in the course of the civil war died in Madrid, ac-i immigration cording to reports from insurgent says a Trans- into Madagascar which had the ap-Spanish sources, proval of the French Government, Ocean message from Paris. but did not contemplate approach-
ing the French
the matter.
од Government
an
Mr. Butler hoped to make early statement on the question of Austrian refugees receiving the pro- Nations. tection of the League of
T.U.C. DEMAND
REMOVAL OF
SPAIN EMBARGO
London, To-day.
The British Government were ready to do their part in such international action as was possible for dealing with the problem of refugees from
The Foreign, Secretary, Lord Germany but did not consider fea-
Halifax, and the Under-Secretary sible steps to secure for the racial for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. But- minorities in Germany full civiller, met members of the General liberties, either through direct nego Council of the Trades Union Con- tiations or through the machinery gress at the Foreign Office yester- of the League of Nations as sug-day afternoon. gested in the question.
COLONIAL OFFICE ATTITUDE
The
Colonial Secretary,
Congress members put forward a Mr suggestion regarding the removal of the embargo on the despatch of
Ormsby Gore, answering a ques- arms and munitions to the Spanish
tion on a similar subject said he
Government. A general discussion had no information on how many of the Spanish conflict in all its Jews from Vienna and other parts aspects then took place and Lord of Austria had landed in Palestine Halifax explained in detail the Bri- or any Mandated Territory since
tish Government's point of view.- March 12, but the conditions of
British Wireless. immigration into Palestine were well-known and applied to "Austrian Jews in the same way as to Jews in other parts of the world.-Bri- tish Wireless. -
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