THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1938.
S.M.C.
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VIGOROUS PROTEST TO JAPANESE
Three Flagrant Incidents Cited In Note
-MILITARY-
LORRY HITS LAND MINE
Jerusalem, To-day.
One British officer and two sol- diers were killed yesterday morn- ing when a military lorry which was leading a group of four, struck a land mine and was blown to bits.
The perpetrators have not yet been apprehended.
"
The investigation of the shoot- ing of a British officer on the highway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem which occurred a few days ago, has led to a arrest of 35 Bedouins, it was reported last night-Trans-Ocean.
HEAT OF MOMENT INCIDENT MAY
GO FURTHER
Ten Bombs Found
In S.S.S. Rooms
At Sun Sun Hotel
Shanghai, To-day.
The Shanghai Municipal Council lodged a vigorous protest with Japanese authorities to-day against:-
-PEAK
MURDERER HANGED
Lam Chun, sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. Bybil Ruby Chalinor, of No. 400 The Peak, in the early hours of May 4, was hanged at Stanley Prison at about 5 a.m. this mornin
First, the aeroplane which flew over the Settlement SEAFORTHS TO
dropping anti-British pamphlets, as reported on August 13.
Second, against armed Japanese in civilian dress coming into the|
U.S. Marine Corps sector as they did on August 13. Third, against the discovery of 10 military hand-grenades in rooms of the Sun Sun Hotel in the International Settlement, occupied
PERMANENTLY PATROL
by members of the Japanese Special Service Section on August GARDEN BRIDGE
The Japanese told the police that the bombs had been placed there
> as "protection" for the Japanese Army men occupying the
rooms. Renter,
London, To-day, CAPT. EYSTON'S
With reference to Monday
night's incident near the Japan- NARROW SHAVE
ese Embassy, in which Major
Takahashi, Assistant Military At-
tache of the Japanese Embassy, AT 270 M.P.H.
in
a
fit of
anger
at
a demonstration urging boycott of Japanese goods, des-
Wendover, Utah, To-day. troyed several booklets that were being distributed, Mr. Clegg,
Captain G. E. T. Eyston's Secretary of the China Campaign Thunderbolt" attained a speed of Committee, during an interview 270 miles per hour during a trial report the matter to the Foreign break the land speed record.
in preparation for an attempt to
with Reuter said that he would
Office.
The car ran smoothly, but He would also ask for an apo-Captain Eyston was almost as logy from the Japanese Embassy phyxiated by exhaust fumes, due and the Committee would protest to burning brakes. to the Japanese Ambassador, "I was scarcely able to see for half of the eight and one-half Reuter's representative was mile run,'
the Captain stated, informed at the Japanese Em-"and, my escape was due to my bassy that the question of any respirator.".
Mr. S. Yoshida.
""
action in the matter had not yet The trial means that structural been considered, but Major Taka-alterations in the cockpit and ven- hashi much regretted what he did tilating system must be effected in the heat of the moment, before an actual speed attempt is
Reuter.
C.P.R. LINER IN ATLANTIC COLLISION
made.
Reuter.
EXCHEQUER RETURN
London, To-day. Exchequer returns show that the total ordinary revenue amounts to £224,829,425 as compared with $228,052,068 at the corresponding date of last year. National Defence The
Canadian Pacific Railway's Contribution estimated to give liner "Duchess of Atholl" was $20,000,000 in the year has yielded slightly damaged above the to date £8,950,000.
New York, To-day
water-line during a collision with Total expenditure, less self-bal- a freighter, while enroute to New York and Montreal,
The "Duchess of Atholl" car ried over 700 passengers, but
there were no casualties.
The freighter was slightly damaged.
It is reported that the collision occurred in the Atlantic Ocean.-- Reuter.
ancing: Items, is £857,874,745, com- pared with £810,846,648 at the cor- responding date of 1987-British Wireless.
Restrictions imposed by the Gov- ernment of Japan against arrivals of from Hong Kong, on account small-pox have been removed..
Shanghai, To-day.
It was announced last night that a guard of the Seaforth Highland ers will permanently patrol the
FATHER HLINKA Garden Bridge henceforth.
PASSES
Prague, To-day. Father Hlinka, Leader of Slovak Autonomists, died
night.
After a 90-minute meeting, Supreme Council decided that
did not call situation special measures
NORWAY'S
M.
The Seaforths took over the post from the Russian Shanghai Volunteer Corps on Friday, in view of the anniversary of Shang- the hai hostilities on August 13, in last what, at that time, was believed to be a temporary rangement, the but the announcement of last
night states that the Seaforths guard on the bridge is to
Reuter
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