THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1988.
MYSTERY PLANES VIOLATE
FRENCH FRONTIER
Pursuit Spuadron To Be Posted Along Border
Daladier Makes
Personal Visit
To Bombed Area
Paris, To-day.
The excitement prevailing in France at the appear- ance on Sunday of nine planes of unknown na- tionality that dropped bombs on French soil has been greatly accentuated by the news that
NEW POLISH- AMBASSADOR
IN ROME
Rome, To-day. The new Polish Ambassador in Rome, General
Dlugoszowski, presented his credentials at the Quirinal yesterday morning "to the Kingof. Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia,” this amounting to recognition of the Italian con- quest of Abyssinia.—Trans-Ocean.
again on Monday morning nine more unknown SIGMUND FREUD
planes flew over South France.
The aeroplanes came from the direction of Puy- morens, flying over French territory at Per- dagne.
IN LONDON
London, To-day. Unrecognised by the big crowds,
Professor Freud, arrived in London
In accordance with an order given by M. Daladier the famous Jewish psychologist, on Sunday, French anti-aircraft batteries be-to-day having surprisingly received came active. Anti-aircraft guns in Nahuja permission to leave Austria on fired warning shots, and at Ur a red warning signal rocket was fired.
PRECISE ORDERS
Saturday.
He told interviewers: "I have no plans. I merely desire to end the few years left of my life in peace
FAIR WEATHER
Forecast:-E. moderate; fair.
M. DALADIER'S INSTRUCTIONS
Paris, To-day.
M. Daladier has arrived in Orgeix, where the bomba dropped on Sunday.
were
The Prime Minister personally questioned the local authorities and several inhabitants of Orgeix who witnessed the bombardment.
A Company of the Anti-Aircraft Force arrived at Orgeix at the same time as M. Daladier and were at once instructed by the Prime Minister how to act in case of necessity.
With the approval of the Com- mander of the Seventh Army Corps, M. Daladier took all appropriate measures to prevent foreign planes from flying over French territory in the future.-Trans-Ocean.
WEDDING TO-DAY
The marriage between Miss Remedios Caroline Mejia and Mr. Conrado de Castro, residing at No. 2, Salisbury Road, Kowloon, took place at the Registry this morning,, the Deputy Registrar of Marriages, Mr. W.A. Jones, officiating.
Hainking, To-day.
A trade treaty between Italy and
on
Manchukuo will be signed here Thursday by the Prime Minister of Manchukuo- and the leader of the and S. E. winds, Italian economic mission,Senator
Ettore Conti:-Trans-Ocean.
It was impossible to recognise question open, believing that nei-and quietness in England.” any distinguishing marks on the ther the insurgents nor the Repub-Reuter. planes which flew at an altitude licans could have any interest in of 2,000 metres. Ultimately the purposely causing serious complica- planes flew back in the direction tions and hints that it is matter of of Barcelona.
foreign airmen, about whose suppos- The Prime Minister, M. Dala-ed nationality, however, “Le Temps"
The Royal Observatory reports dier, flew on Monday at midday is silent. "Le Temps" declares that that an anti-cyclone is probably from Villa Goublay, near Paris, a mistake owing to a mist is out situated over the Pacific to the east to Toulouse, accompanied by of the question because all eye-wit- of the Bonins. Pressure is moder- General Dacant. They then neas declare that the planes flew ately high between the Bonins and went on to the region of Aix-in regular formation and remained the Loochoos and is relatively low Les-Thermes in order to inspect for a considerable time over French over China generally, and the Wes- the place where the bombs soil.
"Le Temps declares that the tern Carolines. were dropped on Sunday.
nine planes were all grey in colour with neither cocarde or any other mark of recognition. The places at which the bombs were dropped, per- It is stated that M. Daladier mit the assumption that the airmen will instruct the local military had perfectly definite aims in view. authorities about the measures Contrary to first reports, the railway to be taken to prevent a repeti-line was not hit but only the high tion of similar occurrences. In tension overland transmission cables. accordance with the Prime Minister's instructions, French planes are in readiness close to
If certainty about the perpetra- the Pyrenees frontier to follow and shoot down any foreign tors existed, it would be the duty planes that might cross the of the French government to give French frontier.
an example of utmost firmness to- wards the Power responsible for the It is also stated that during activity of airmen in its service. his inspection of the Pyrenees "Now, just as the nonintervention region, M. Daladier will consider policy has the best prospects of ar the laying out of a flying ground riving at a conclusive agreement where French pursuit planes to about the withdrawal of foreign be used against foreign planes volunteers, one finds suddenly that that violate the frontier can be incidents occur one after another in stationed in readiness.
tension.
UTMOST FIRMNESS
a manner apt to checkmate these EXAMINING BOMBS good efforts," declares Le Temps, which emphasises that in certain: General Staff officers are at
European circles, a determination : present examining the splinters prevails to exploit the Spanish crisis of the bombs dropped but hither-in order systematically to maintain to it has not been possible to come to any decision about the nationality of the planes that! “DISORDER” INCREASING dropped them. New particulars It sufficed that England should about the incident are given by examine the possibility of media- "Le Temps" which, however, tion for efforts to be made from like all other French papers, de- various quarters to cause such a mands the sharpest measures plab to fail. "Quite generally, from the French Government. it appears that the disorder that While French Newspapers, each carried the. Spanish crisis into t
the according to its particular party international camp is now again on' opinion, advances reasons for think the increase just when everything ing that the planes belonged either justifies theˆ hope that one might to Barcelona or to the Franco Gov- find an effective weapon against it." ernment, "Le Temps" leaves this Trans-Ocean.
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