THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1938.
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NOW PLACED ON JEWISH DEPARTURES
Not Allowed To Leave Until Levy Is Paid
Jews Again Permitted To Buy Food!
Berlin, To-day.
No Jews will be allowed to leave Germany until the levy of £80,000,000 as the result of the murder of von Rath has been paid in full, according to semi-official reports.
Would be emigrants must possess certificates stat- ing that all taxes have been paid before they ..will be allowed to leave the country.
Jews are again being allowed to buy food, and a number of Jewish
shops have been allowed to be SCOTS FINED
opened.
Since the recent incidents, when LOVE-MAIL
all Jewish shops were more or less
destroyed, all "Aryan" shops have TOO DEAR
refused to sell food to Jews. Reuter.
ROOSEVELT DECREE
Washington, To-day, President Roosevelt has announc ed that on humanitarian grounds he has proposed a six-months ex- tension of their permita for 20,000 German and Austrian refugees to stay in the United States.
President Roosevelt has inform ed Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labour, that it would be a cruel and inhuman thing to compel re fugees to return, to Germany to face possible mistreatment, can centration-camps or other persecu-
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Thirty young women of Watford, each willing to marry a Highland soldier, have had their hopes dashed,
Their husbands-to-be would pay except postage on their posals.
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STATE VISIT TO LONDON
London, To-day.
It is officially announced by Buckingham Palace that Presi dent and Mme. Lebrun will come to London on a state visit in March next year.
The visit will be in return for the_trip of the King and Queen to Paris-Reuter.
SUDDEN DEATH OF CUSTOMS MAN
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GEN. SYROVY SEEKING PLENARY POWERS
Prague, To-day
A law by which the Czechoslovak Government is seeking plenary pow- ers is to be submitted to Prague Parliament by General Syrovy to- day.
The House will also be asked to give its consent to a motion regulat- ing the legal position of Carpatho- Ukraine in the framework of the new Czechoslovak Federal State. The arrangement- proposed is the same as that applied in the case of Slovakia.
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It is learnt, however, that the Government will refrain from sub- mitting either motion unless it is assured that certain differences The funeral takes place this still existing between the Govern- evening, passing the Monument atment Parties on these two questions 5 pm, of the late Mr. Edward
have first been surmounted. not Webb, of the Chinese Maritimes! The chief opposition to the Gove pro- Customs, who passed away sudden-ernment's stop in asking for plen
ly after a few hours illness.
ary powers comes from the Slovaks The late Mr. Webb was only 34 who considered the powers demand- "We are pretty serious-minded years of age, was a native of Green-ed by the Government to be fellows and being Scots, we have a wich, and single.
far-reaching.Trans-Ocean. certain amount of canniness That He has been in the C.M.C. for is about the lost of our virtues, but about five years and at the time of we hope to make good husbands," his illness was a tidewaiter station- wrote two Gordon Highlanders from
ed at Shumchun. Singapore to the Mayor of Watford, Councillor T. Rigby, asking to be put in touch with two women with a view to matrimony.
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He was well-known in the Co- lony, being a member of the Kow- loon Football Club and other or ganisations,
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ONE-EYED PIG HAS TRUNK
too
A one-eyed pig with a short trunk resembling that of an elephant has He added that the Administra- The Mayor did his best and sent
In connection with the Philhar-been born on a farm near Lille. tion at present did not contemplate letting down the immigration bar-between thirty and forty letters monic Society's forthcoming pro- The eye is in the middle of the
duction of "Ruddigore," an but re riers to permit entrance of German
forehead, while the, trunk is refugees. Reuter
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. William James Car rie to act as Secretary for Chinese Affairs, with effect from the 14th November.
A true friend
that's what Lakerol is to the smoker. "Soothing and demulcent, Lakerol Pastilles relleve dryness and irritation of the throat after smoking. They also keep the mouth fresh and clean
nọ tobacco odour.
LAKEROL
GRAND DISPENSARY, LTD,, China Building.
addi-
pig's
from Watford women: ceived them back marked "Unclaim-tional rehearsal has been called for just above the eye. ed," together with a postage bill for 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, November The freak pig's sixteen brothers
23, at the China Fleet Club Theatre, and sisters are all quite normal,
88. 6d.
more.
The Mayor says he can do no the letters were unclaimed
He cannot understand why had a second letter from the soldier . as he
who wrote to him,
Whether the fact that they were Scotsmen and refused to pay the extra postage of about 500 cents caused the return of the letters, he does not know.
One soldier wrote that they were coming to Watford for vocational training before entering civilian life.
They wanted to meet two young women who were not afraid "to take the chance of matrimony.”
“PINK” TORIES: BY LADY. LONDONDERRY
"Pink" Conservatives are a dan- ger within the ranks of the party, said Lady Londonderry, speaking in Newcastle..
"We are living in hectic times, and in the near future we are going to be faced with an' insidious cam- paign, not only from our enemies, but from the "pink" people inside our ranks," she declared. "The 'pink': people must either remain white or go fed.”
WELL CAUGHT, SIR!” Penguin at London