THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1988
AIR OF TENSION STILL HANGS OVER RUMANIA Government Fighting Iron Guard' Terrorism
MR. PIROW TO MEET CABINET MINISTERS
London, To-day.
A series of questions were asked in the House of Commons yester- day in connection with the return to London from his European tour of Mr. Oswald-Pirow, the South African Minister of Defence.
Tightening Up Of Censorship
Bucharest, To-day.
BIG JEWISH BANK
IN BERLIN TO CLOSE DOWNL
Berlin, To-day.
The last remaining and most im- The increasing political tension throughout Ru- portant Jewish bank in Berlin, mania has compelled the Minister of the Inter-Mendelssohn and Company, has ior, M. Kalinescu, to give up his second post as now gone into liquidation, and the Minister of Education in order to devote his Jewish partners in the business, undivided attention to the internal situation, it with the firm, whose clients will be is announced here.
transferred to the Deutsche Bank, which has also taken over 100-mem-
Rudolf Loeb, Fritz Mankheimer
120.
Frau
Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, the Censorship has been increased to such an extent bers of the staff out of a total of
that reliable reports from the provinces are The Aryan partners, practically non-existent but some idea of the Giulietta von Mendelssohn, Robert von Mendelssohn, and Ferdinand activities of the Iron Guard organisation is
have been appointed gained from Government reports on the mea-liquidators of the firm. sures being taken to fight terrorism.
Ocean.
Colonial Secretary, replying on behalf of the Government said that so far he had received no Pirow on the report from Mr. talks which the South African Minister had in the various Euro- pean capitals, but that before the departure of Mr. Pirow to South Africa at the end of the
In connection with the at-1 Although it is practically impos- the sible to ascertain even the approxi- week, he and other Cabinet tempted assassination of Ministers would have the oppor-. tunity to learn Mr. Pirow's im-tary tribunal, Colonel Cristescu, Guard organisation, it is declared
it is announced that pressions.
among Cornelio Celea Codreanu, has not Finally the Colonial Secretary arrests have been made
'students.
weakened the' organisation. described as incorrect the report
The person arrested for partici- The situation is dangerous as that Mr. Pirow had given orders for aircraft during his stay in pation in the shooting affray is an although King Carol has the army Germany. Trans-Ocean.
18-years-old student, Leónid Lutu-on his side, and the Government in tovici, who in the first cross- his hand, he has no major party
Trans-Ocean. examination, declared that with his behind him, accomplice who was excluded from all Rumanian schools in September
President of the Czernowitz mili-mate strength of the illegal Iron DR.
THEFT FROM DAIRY FARM
Trans-
CHVALKOVSKY
numerous than to shooting of its leader TO
of its leader, TO VISIT BERLIN
.
Dr. to
Prague, To-day. The Foreign Minister, Chvalkovsky, will, according press reports here, travel to Berlin Rib- immediately after Herr vọn bentrops return from Paris in or- der to pay his long anticipated visit to the German Government.
for his activities in the Iron Guard, WEATHER FORECAST Trans-Ocean:
he received the order from the "death battalion" to shoot Lieuten- ant Colonel Cristescu. He declar- ed that he and his classmates had been given instructions in pistol
Kwong Hau, aged 56, cook, was charged before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morn-shooting. ing, with larceny of 61⁄2 pounds of pork from the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage, yesterday..
Sub-Inspector Flattery, said that defendant was employed by the Dairy Farm, and about 10.a.m. yes- terday when he was about to leave work, he took the pork with him,
and was arrested. Mr. G. G. Grover, the assistant, told the Court that defendant was caught for stealing before, but had not been charged on that occasion.
Defendant was fined $50 or one month's hard labour.“
HEROIN
SENTENCED
DEALER
"It is believed that the defendant is a dealer who sells heroin pills to the Kowloon divans as there weret no smokers, pipes and lamps found when I raided the premises," said Revenue Officer E. TWarden at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing when he prosecuted Ng Wing before Mr. E. Himsworth on a charge of possession of 1,125 heroin pills at No. 147, Temple Street, ground floor, on November 29..
Ng Wing, who pleaded guilty to the possession offence, was fined $600 or six months' hard labour.
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The R.M.S. "Empress of Canada” from Manila is due at 8': a.m. to- morrow and will berth at Kowloon Wharf.
On the basis of this testimony, numerous students in the Czerno- witz Gymnasium have been ques- tioned and their rooms searched.
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The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone is stationary over China and South Japan; the Leung Hun, residing at No. 146 depression is situated about 350 Fuk Wing Street, has reported that miles E.S.E. of Manila, moving his house was entered at about mid- westward.
night yesterday, and money and Local
winds, jewellery to the value of $52.70 fresh; fair.
stolen.
forecast:-N.E.
The six airmen of the two R.A.F. bombers which flew non-stop from Egypt to Australia, photograph- ed at Darwin after their flight. From left to right, Squadron-Leader R. Kellett, Pilot-Officer M. I. Gaine, Flight-Lieutenant R. T. Gething, Flight-Lieutenant A. N. Combe, Sergeant H. B. 'Gray and Flight-Lieu- tenant B. K. Burnett.