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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1938.
-BIRMINGHAM- FLOODED BY STORM
London, To-day. Stormy weather is still being experienced in many parts of the country. · Haymaking operations on many farms in Lincolnshire were held up yesterday by heavy rain. In Birmingham a severe thunderstorm caused widespread flooding and in some districts temporary. dislocation of traffic. -British Wireless.
NEW MALTA CONSTITUTION
London, To-day.
SHANGHAI ON QUI VIVE FOR TROUBLE
Shanghai, To-day. British Tommies, American Marines, Italian Grenadiers, in addition to the armoured cars and other units of the Shanghai Yo- lunteer Corps, started patrolling | the main thoroughfares of the Settlement this morning, évidenc ing the grim determination of the authorities to do all within their power
to curb "terrorist” outbreaks.
Police with drawn guns ac- companied the British Tommies on duty at street intersections, and the extensive searching of
The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Mal-cars and rickshas proceeded the colm MacDonald, who arrived in whole day long.
Malta from Palestine yesterday, British military authorities told spent most of the day interviewing Reuter that the duties of the Bri- political leaders and other promin-tish forces in Shanghai during an of a ent Maltese citizens regarding the emergency were essentially New Constitution and other mat-military character and not police duties, stressing the close co-opera- ters concerning the Island.
tion of the military and the police.
THE BEST POLICEMAN
It will be recalled that on July 29, before Commons rose for the long vacation, Mr. MacDonald an- nounced that he proposed shortly The essential point in the prepara- to submit to the King, letters tions appears to be the element of Patent containing the New Con-"surprise," as the entire community stitution for the Island, which is being kept in the dark with re- would give the people a consider-gard to the details of the precau- able measure of participation in tions which are to be suddenly and the conduct of their own affairs.
Mr. MacDonald, who has been' staying with the Governor, Lt.-. General Sir Charles Bonham- Carter, is leaving Malta to-day for London. British Wireless.
MACMICHAEL
swiftly put into effect.
'The rain, often termed “Shang- hai's best policeman," continued throughout yesterday and no
"ter- rorist" activities were, reported. Reuter.
MURDER
OUTRAGES
BROADCAST DOES IN PALESTINE
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Jerusalem, To-day.
Jerusalem, To-day. Three Arab peasants were sum- The speech broadcast by the Bri-moned from their homes and then tish High Commissioner, Sir Harold
Arab
gang at a village near Jeru-
One Jew, wounded on the out-
message from
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a
MacMichael, has caused general murdered last night by an armed disappointment "în Arab ́ ́ quarters throughout Palestine. The paper "Falastin" writes that the speech salem. would have had a greater chance of producing an effect if instead of being addressed exclusively to the skirts of Jerusalem yesterday," Palestinian Arabs it had also been has since died. addressed to the advocates of the Jewish cause in the House of Com-states that a driver and two pas-
arrested when mons and elsewhere. "Addifan" sengers were Bays that the British authorities car carrying 500 rifles, a number quantity of car- never tire of repeating that they of revolvers, a will not give way to force but in tridges and some bombs, was the papers opinion the recognition stopped by the Lebanese police of the rights of the Arab nation near the Palestine frontier. does not signify a concession to violence. The Arabs had shown patience not only for few months or for one year, but for twenty years and more, "Trans-Océan."
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