THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1988.
CATHOLIC PROTEST IN GERMANY AGAINST ALLEGED NAZI ANTI-CHURCH DRIVE
Berlin, To-day.
The anti-Catholic campaign in Germany is de- nounced in a pastoral letter read in all Catho- lic churches in Germany but not Austria.
CNAC TRAGEDY: TWO FARMERS ALSO KILLED
The letter was approved at the recent conference of Catholic bishops at Fulda which Austrian bishops did not attend.
It says that the campaign aims at paralysing, the church and anni- |hilating Christianity and introduc- ing a new faith which has nothing in common with the belief in future life.
and
MANY COMPLAINTS It complains that children young people are prevented from going to church and everything good in the Catholic faith is suppressed and distorted and everything bad
Latest
the information on "Kweilin" tragedy provided by the C.NA.C. this morning states that all but two of the occupants of the plane have now been accounted exaggerated. for, the two still missing being Messrs. Lee Kar-shing and Chen Ken-fee.
The clergy are accused of immor-
ality but without being tried and Catholic publications are censored,
forbidden and confiscated.
The Catholic church is accused Altogether 14 bodies have been recovered but two of these bodies, of alliance with Bolshevist Russia it has now been established, were of which it is a most irreconciliable not occupants of the plane. It is enemy. Reuter. believed, from the manner in which they were dressed, that they were farmers who endeavoured to rend- er assistance and were themselves struck down by the hail machine-gun bullets.
Salvage lighters left yesterday, and are believed now arrived on the spot;
REPLY TO BRITISH CRITICISMS
of
Canton to have
Berlin, Yesterday, "Voelkischer Beobachter" replies to the British criticism of the at- titude adopted on the Czechoslova- kian issue by the German press.
It denies that the German press is content to see only one side of the matter. It is the duty of Ger- man newspapers to publish ac- counts of Czech excesses-against the Sudeten Germans, particularly as the Czech press seeks to pre- vent the world from learning the truth about the situation in Sudeten German districts.
PRIME
MINISTER'S WARNING
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AT LANARK HAS ATTRACTED WIDE- SPREAD ATTENTION AND, IN VIEW OF THE ANXIOUS CONCERN WITH WHICH THE TENSE · SITUATION IN CEN TRAL EUROPE IS BEING STUDIED HERE, HIS RE- STATEMENT OF BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE” IS WELCOMED BY THE PRESS.
The salient passages of the speech of the Prime Minister on March 24th are reproduced, as Sir John Simon said that that declaration still holds good to day
On March 24th, Mr. Chamberlain said he could give no guarantee to go automatically to the assistance of Czechoslovakia should she be attacked or pledge. Britain to give full military aid to France should she fulfil her obligations under the France-Czechoslovak treaty,
The "Beriiner Lokal Anzeiger" under the heading "Material for Runciman," carries a series of alleged Czech excesses against
He added: "But while stating Sudeten Germans. It claims that
this decision I would add this news of several further incidents
Where peace and war are concern- of grave character have been
ed legal obligations are not alone suppressed by the Sudetens them- selves because they fear that the involved and if war broke out it Czechs will take revenge-Trans-would be unlikely to be confined to those who have assumed such obligations.
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ANGLO-EGYPTIAN
"It would be quite impossible to
London, Yesterday. say where it might end and what Governments might be involved.
The text of the Anglo-Egyptian The inexorable. pressure of facts might well prove more powerful Agreement, signed on August than formal pronouncements and supplementary to the Treaty
1986, has just been published and in that event it might well be eals the correctness of the in- within the bounds of probability dication made several weeks ago that other countries besides those that the British Government had
are parties, to the
would almost imm
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AGREEMENT
undertaken to contribute 80 per cent of all costs incurred in the on of barracks and military
in the Suez Canal. Zone.
As the total costs were estimat- ad to amount to ten million
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pounds, the Egyptian Governments found itself unable to keep the engagements entered into by the Treaty of 1988,
ly interwoven, devoted to the same ideals of oratie liberty and The question of Ugyptian cot determined to uphold them. Bri-ton duties is, however, still unset-
of friendship with interests close-itish Wireless,
tlad. Trans-Ocean,