MAIL, OCTOBER
DUKE OF
OF KENT TO BE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
Appointed To Succeed Lord Gowrie In Australia
DUCHESS AND CHILDREN LIKELY TO GO TOO
London, To-day. -
It is officially announced that the Duke of Kent,
youngest brother of the King, has been ap pointed Governor-General of Australia in suc- cession to Lord Gowrie, who has relinquished the appointment.
The Duke will go to Australia to take over duties from Lord Gowrie in November next year.
ITALO-GERMAN ARBITRATION
IN HUNGARIAN- CZECH DISPUTE
PRAGUE, TO-DAY. AFTER DELIBERATING FOR EIGHT HOURS, THE CZECHO- SLOVAK GOVERNMENT DECID- ED TO SUBMIT THE CZECH- HUNGARIAN DISPUTE TO AN ITALO-GERMAN JURY.
The Hungarian counter-proposals were exhaustively discussed by the Council of Ministers under the chairmanship of General Syrovy, with the attendance of Slovak and Ruthenian Ministers.
The official communiqué merely states that the Foreign Minister, Dr. Chvalkovsky, will hand the Czech
Reuter learns that the Duchess of Kent will accompany, her hus- band and it is probable that they will take the children.
Duke of Kent, the new ernor-General of Australia.
It is understood that the Royal PEIPING
couple's stay in Australia will pro- bably be limited to two or three
years.
KING'S DEPUTY
Reason is because with the Duke in the Dominion, there is only the Duke of Gloucester left in England to act as the King's Deputy and to fulfil official functions and engage- ments. Reuter.
PALACE BULLETIN
London, To-day. An official announcement issued from Buckingham Palace states:,
"The King has received from Lord Gowrie an, intimation that he de sires to relinquish the appointment of Governor-General of the Com- monwealth of Australia in Novem- ber, 1939.
"His Majesty has accepted the.re- answer to the Hungarian signation of Lord Gowrie with much
Minister to Prague. Further de-regret.
tails will only be made known after "The King is graciously pleased the answer is in the hands of the to approve the appointment of His Hungarian Government.
Informed quarters,
Royal Highness the Duke
however, as Governor-General of the Kent!
Com-
state that the Hungarian proposals monwealth of Australia in succes- considered inacceptable. Thesion to Lord Gowrie."-Reuter. new frontier proposed for Carpatho-
are
Ruthenian would give Hungary 25 CZECH
purely Ruthenian villages.
THE ALTERNATIVE
It is rumoured that the Czecho- Slovak Government is willing to cede the Bèrehovo district to Hun- gary but not the Ruthenian-dis- tricts of Seljush, Munkacz and Uhzorod.
NEW OFFER TO HUNGARY
Prague, To-day.
It is officially announced that the Czech Cabinet has laid down Deeming direct negotiations im- the basis for resumption of ne- possible; the Czecho-Slovak Govern- gotiations regarding the new ment has accepted the Hungarian | Hungarian frontier. alternative of submitting the dis- A reply will be sent to Hungary pute to arbitration. Should Hun- to-day, and until then the con- gary demand that Poland be pre- tents thereof will not be publish- sent, Czecho-Slovakia will insisted. upon Rumanian participation. Trans-Ocean."
Reuter.
HITLER GIVES
WEATHER FORECAST VIENNA SURPRISE
Vienna, To-day.
The Royal Observatory reports Herr Hitler has arrived unex- that the anticyclone over China has pectedly from Engeran in the Su- increased slightly in intensity, and deterland. He spent the afternoon extended eastward to Japan; the visiting the Kunsthistorisches depression over Japan yesterday Museum and the Hofburg has moved into the Pacific.
Large crowds assembled to cheer Local forecast:-E. winds, mo-him during his drive through the
Trans-Ocean. derate; fair.
streets of the city.
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Gov-
DECREE
HITS GERMANS
Peiping, To-day.
German business interests in
North China are seriously affected by a decree of the pro-Japanese Peiping Government forbidding the export of wool and hemp.
1938, During the first half of Germany received 85 per cent. of all wool exported and German' firms in Tientsin are holding 400 tons worth £50,000 in warehouses, hop- ing to be able to export it.
The German Chamber of Com- merce. in Tientsin is endeavouring to prevail upon the Government to change the decree. Trans-Ocean.
FISHING WINK
PIRATED IN BRITISH WATERS
Wan Chiu, aged 45, master of fishing junk No. 4680W reported to the Police that after his junk 'was piratèd after he had left Ping [Hoi, on Monday' with a crew of four, and a cargo of 172 catties of fish.
When sailing near Po Poi- Au, a small hoklo boat came from the direction of Lung Shun Wan, with five men on board, and came along- side his junk. Three men boarded the junk, one armed with a rifle, with a revolver and the third one with a chopper. They com- pelled him and the fokies to the stern, and sailed the junk, to Lung Shu Wan.
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Wan and his fokies, were all sent into a cave, then another small. boat came along and remov- ed the cargo of fish. After the robbers had gone, Wan and the fokies made their escape and re- ported the matter. The total value of the cargo was $70 Hong Kong money.
A 13-year-old girl, Wan Nui, residing at Queen's Road East, was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital with injuries to her head, received after she had fallen from the hillside in Kennedy Road.
The British Legion police on October 12, embarked on the liner Naldera at Tilbury. Docks," They were, they ght, bound for Crécho Blovakia to patrol the plebiscito areas as part of the Inter- national Force, but the trip was cancelled later as it was decided that no plebiscites would be held (Copyright?