THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1938.
BUSY WEEK FOR MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Irish And French Ministers Visiting London Cabinet Meeting ANGLO-EIRE MR. DE VALERA
To Discuss Budget
London, To-day.
In spite of the fact that developments in Central Europe, Spain and the Far East still claim a prominent place in the public eye, London will also be a very important centre of interest in the coming week.
AGREEMENT GIVEN ROYAL
London, Yesterday. The surprise conclusion of an Anglo-Eire agreement, at a time when it was thought the negotia-
RECEPTION
London, To-day.
tions had fallen through, has been in both London and Dublin. received with intense satisfaction de Valera, received a tremendous The Eire Premier, Mr. Eamonn
Newspaper comment has it that ovation from about 1,000 Irishmen the agreement is mainly a trade when he arrived at Euston Station pact, with the door left open for yesterday afternoon for the signing extension of the arrangements.-
of the Anglo-Eire Pact to-day.
Following the arrival of the Irish leaders yester-Trans-Ocean.
day, the agreement between Britain and Eire will be signed to-day after a lunch at 10, Down- ing Street, where the signatories will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Neville Chamberlain. It is now generally understood that the agreement will extent to defence as well as trade, tariffs and the land annuities.
It is believed the latter will be settled by an arrangement by which annuities payments will be devoted to defence, though the text will not be published till Tuesday morning. It is widely hoped that the agree ment will open a new chapter in Anglo-Irish relations, bringing friendlier feeling than for many years.
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This will be followed on Wednes-
Mr. de Valera was welcomed by the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Mal- cold Macdonald, and Mr. Cecil
LORD GOWRIE IN Syres, representing Mr. Neville
AMSTERDAM
Amsterdam, To-day.
Chamberlain. A
Mr. de Valera was accompanied by Mr. Sean McEntee (Finance Minister), Mr. Sean Lemass (Min- Lord Gowrie, Governor-General and Mr. James Ryan (Minister for ister for Industry and Commerce) of Australia, accompanied by Lady Agriculture), and also by the Eire High Commissioner in London, Mr.
BRITISH WOMAN Gowrie, arrived here yesterday J. W. Dulants, who went to Liver-
IN GAOL IN
MOSCOW
Moscow, To-day.
from the Netherland East Indies pool to meet him-Beuter. and is going to London to-day.
Interviewed by Reuter, Lord Gowrie expressed admiration of Dutch colonial work.
He said Australo-Netherlands Indian commercial relations were growing, and still further expan-
interest of both countries.-Reuter.
A vigorous British protest has son was to be expected in the followed the recent discovery that
FIRST SIMON BUDGET To-day will also see an important meeting of the Cabinet in order to bear proposals for Sir John Si- mon's first Budget, which will be opened in the House of Commons the British woman Communist, on Tuesday.
Rose Cohen, has been undergoing day evening by the arrival in Lon-solitary confinement for the past don of the French Premier and War eight months. Minister, M. Edouard Daladier, and
Persistent efforts by the British the Finance Minister, M. Georges Embassy to obtain the bare admis- Bonnet, for conversations with Mr.sion of her arrest Neville Chamberlain
were fruitless and Lord until last week, when M. Potemkin, Halifax, which will open on Thurs- of the Foreign Office, admitted day.
that she had been arrested on
It is understood they will have August 13. last year, and that she three long conferences before re will be charged with espionage turning to Paris on Friday.
and conspiracy." ANGLO-FRENCH
ASSOCIATION Lord Chilston, the Ambassador, The agenda is still being drafted has formally protested that the but points which are to be discuss-Soviet has acted in disregard of ed are expected to include.
the agreement under which the
The relations of Britain and Soviet undertook to notify the Bri- France with Italy and Germany, tish authorities of all arrested
The question of recognition of British subjects.
the Italian conquest of Abyssinia,
The future of Spain and
Spanish islands,
The colonial question, and Central Europe.
NO LOAN
the
ex-
The French Ministers are pected to explain how France
GRAVE VIEW
Lord Chilston stated that Britain takes the gravest view of the un- satisfactory state of affairs reveal- ed by the Cohen and other similar cases, which disregards the ele mentary principles of international would assist Czecho-Slovakia i comity and threatens to seriously
jeopardise Anglo-Soviet relations. A British loan to France is now every effort to make to ensure that The Ambassador requested that not believed to be included on the Rose Cohen is brought to trial agenda-Reuter.
called on.
without delay: that the British Embassy be furnished with details of the charges against her and that
WEATHER FORECAST permission be given for an E-
bassy official to visit her in prison. Miss Cohen has been for many
The Royal Observatory reports years the foreign editor of the that the anticyclone has increased semi-official Moscow "Daily News." slightly in intensity, pressure be-She was born in London in 1894- ing highest over the mouth of the Reuter.
Yangtse.
A depression is situated Cover
the Pacific to the east of Japan, winds, moderate, cloudy
Local forecast:-N. and N. Esional rain, probably impr
Mr. Churcher, of No. 6, Bung- alow, Shek-O, has reported the loss of a bathing suit, valued at $6, on the beach.
SCHOONER SUNK
Stockholm, Yesterday. The Swedish motor-schooner "Randy" sank off the Rocky Islands yesterday, and the entire crew of six or seven were drown- .ed.
An unconfirmed report says that an explosion occurred on board the schooner.-Trans-Ocean.
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