THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1988.
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Czechs Make No Move To Withdraw Troops.
STRIKE RIOTS Further Alleged
IN JAMAICA:
POLICE FIRE
Kingston (Jamaica), To-day.
Two onlookers were killed when
Firing On
Sudeten Germans
Prague, To-day.
police opened fire in order to clear There is no disposition on the part of the Czech Gov- ernment at present to withdraw the troops from the frontier.
the streets of demonstrators and waterfront strikers yesterday.
Two Labour leaders have been
arrested.
A proclamation issued by the Governor says that if it is neces- sary, the military will be employed to protect property and individuals.
Their number and whereabouts are a strictly guarded military secret, and it is generally
-JAPANESE--
PROTEST TO BRITAIN
London, To-day.
It is learned that a copy of the Japanese protest regarding the statement of the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons has now been re- ceived from Tokyo and at pre-. sent is being considered in Lon- don.
Mr. Butler, it will be recalled, made 2 statement on atrocities by the Japanese navy following. the capture of Amoy.-Reuter.
realised that the Government has despatched CHINESE SILVER
as few troops as they considered possible.
The proclamation adds that the Meanwhile, while the conversations between Pre- COINS OUT OF
Government is ready to consider the establishment of a conciliatory board provided the strikers return to work.
The tension continues.-Reuter.
ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP LORD-NUFFIELD
LONDON, TO-DAY.
LAST EVENING.
mier Hodza and the Sudeten Deutsch leaders|
are stated to be progressing favourably, there HOARDING
is no concrete evidence that a lasting settle- ment is near.
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London, To-day. £10,000,000 worth of Chinese silver coins, of fifty different
In Berlin, says a message from three Sudeten Germans turned¦dates and demoninations, and the German capital, the early edi-back, but just as they did so, the tions of the morning newspapers soldier fired. In the darkness, the are filled with detailed long re-bullet flew wide; so no harm was ports of frontier incidents which done. occurred at the week-end.
The reports also give the im- pression of great military activity on the part of the Czechs. Reuter.
Prague, To-day.
AN ATTEMPT WAS ALLEG-
At the West Bohemian town of ED TO HAVE BEEN MADE TO Elbogen, another incident occurred KIDNAP LORD NUFFIELD when, on their way home late at night, three organisers belonging to Lord Nuffield was working late the Sudeten German Party were in his office at the Cowley works at Oxford when a large saloon fired upon by a Czech military car halted in front of the office.
Two men entered the office and allegedly ordered Lord Nuffield to enter the car.
guard.
As the three men were approach- ing a bridge, over which they had to pass to reach their homes, they Mr.. Kennerley Rumford, hus- thought they heard a noise nearby band of the late Dame Clara Butt as if a rifle trigger had been click- and a friend of Lord Nuffield, who ed on and being pulled back.
was in the adjoining room, heard voices and dashed to the tele- phone and summoned the police.
The police surrounded the building and took the two men to the police station.-Reuter.
No kind of challenge was given.
BULLET GOES WIDE
Fearing that the guard might have made ready to shoot, the
Admiral Sir Percy Noble Investigating Trading Conditions On Yangtse
London, To-day.
It is understood that the question of trading condi- tions on the Yangtse have recently been occu- pying the attention of the British authorities. Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, commander-in-chief
of the China Squadron, has just completed a tour of Yangtse waters, made with a view to examining the position, and his report and re- commendations are now awaited in London.
It is understood that some irre-chief was instituted. gularities have crept into the agree Suggestions, however, that Bri- ment concluded with Japan last tain, may in future escort her mer- September, and consequently the in- chant vessels on the Yangtse, ap- vestigation by the commander-In-Ipear to be inaccurate.-Reuter.
numbering about .40,000,000 are now being packed into the vaults of one of the London--banks for shipment to the United States, ac- cording to the "Manchester Guar- dian.”
The district management of the Sudeten German Party was inform- The coins had been lying for ed of the incident and immediately: hundreds of years in the trea- lodged a report with the State suries of mandarins and provin- police and after having consulted cial governors, and were sent to the district leader, Herr Wollner, London. from China in baskets raised a protest with the district woven in rushes for replacement authorities. Trans-Ocean.
by gold. Reuter
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