THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1988.
BRITAIN'S INTERVENTION IN SUDETEN GERMAN CLAIMS IN PRAGUE
London, To-day. Questions addressed in the Commons to the Prime Minister on the representations by the British Minister in Prague on the Sudeten Deutsch problem were answered by the Under-Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs as Mr. Chamberlain was confined to his room at No. 10, Downing Street, by gout.
Mr. Butler said:
"His Majesty's representative inj Prague has had conversations with the Czechoslovak President of Council and the Minister for Foreign Affairs about this question.
M. HERRIOT'S
His Majesty's Government have fVISIT TO
suggested to the Czechoslovak Gov-] ernment any particular measures or concessions, but have urged the desirability, with which the Cze- choslovak Government is in full agreement, of doing everything in their power to further an. agreed settlement of the problem.
DAMASCUS
Damascus, To-day.
The President of the French Chamber, M. Edouard Herriot, who left Damascus on Sunday by BERLIN TALKS
air for Alexandria where he em- Discussion has also taken place barked for France yesterday between the German Foreign Min- afternoon on the French liner ister and His Majesty's Ambassa- "Marseille," received shortly be dor in Berlin. Matters have not fore leaving the Syrian capital a yet reached a stage when I
can memorandum which was present- usefully make a further statement." ed to him on behalf of
Asked then by Mr. Arthur Hen-Syrian Parliament by the Presi derson (Labour): "Will the Gov-dent of the Syrian Chamber, support to any Phares Khoury.
the
ernment give no concession which effect the defence kia?"
Mr. Butler replied: "I have stat-and hope of its early ratification. ed that we have not suggested to M. Herriot in his written reply the Czechoslovak Government any said that owing to a number of of particular measure of concession or
very important problems both to the Czechoslovakia Government international and home policy, with the nature of their foreign policy which it had to deal the French
NO REPLY
government hitherto had been un- The Under-Secretary also return-able to ratify the treaty. Ratifica- ed no reply to the Liberal Leader. tion would, however, take place at Sir Archibald Sinclair when the lat-the earliest possible date.
Govern- Mr. Herriot further announced ment realise in making these his intention of revisiting Syria representations at Prague they during the next French parliamen-
work assuming a heavy
tary recess, probably in September.
-Trans-Ocean.
will destroy in The memorandum expressed of Czechoslova- great satisfaction that the Franco- Syrian Treaty had been drawn up
er
are
asked: "Do the
responsibility."
of
In another answer, Mr. Butler referred to the private visit to London at the end of last week of
Herr Henlein whom, he said, had SPANISH WAR
not been received by any member of the government. In particular, the report of a meeting between the Dominions Secretary and Herr Henlein was without foundation.
The leader of the Sudeten Deutsche Party did not visit the Foreign Office either.
Barcelona, To-day. The war bulletin of the Repub- lican War Ministry states that no the major fighting occurred on Eastern front yesterday.
On the Levant front the enemy, Asked if Herr Henlein had not supported by numerous aeroplanes seen Sir Robert Vansittart, Mr. and many tanks repeatedly attack- Butler replied: "I understand Herred the Republican positions on the Henlein met Sir Robert with whom Mount San Cristobal in the Alepuz he was already acquainted, on a sector but was energetically re- purely private occasion." Bri-pulsed on each occasion. The Re- tish Wireless.
publican troops · inflicted heavy losses on the enemy,
The insurgents in the sector of
SECRET SOCIETY Iglesuela del Cid...were likewise
ARRESTS IN LEBANON
Damascus, To-day,
that the Reports here state Lebanese police arrested early yes- terday morning in Beirut the ring- leader of a secret society whose aim is said to have been abolition of the existing parliamentary form of government.
It is further stated that the police discovered large quantities of arms and explosives and made up- wards of forty arrests.
-Trans-
repelled. Nothing new is to be re- ported from other fronts. Ocean.
**Quiet is stated prevail through- out Lebanon.Trans-Ocean.
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