THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 13, 1938
DR. SCHACHT'S VISIT TO
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MONTAGU NORMAN QUEENS
Berlin, To-day.
It is semi-officially announced that Dr. Hjalmar: Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, will pay a visit to Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, this week.
It is added that the visit will follow the monthly meeting of the Bank of International Settle- ments at Basle, of which Mr: Montagu Norman is a director, and which began yesterday. Dr. Schacht's impending visit to London is the result of arrange- ments begun some time
ago .be-
tween Mr. Norman and Dr. Schacht personally, according to Reuter's diplomatic correspondent in Lon- don.
There is no official information regarding the subjects to be, dis-
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OFFER REGARDING JEWS?
A wide
area doubtless will be
garding the financial conditions of
London, To-day.
covered, and it is thought that Dr. Keen interest is being Schacht may make some offer re-shown by political obser- Jewish and other refugees evacuat-vers in Mr. Neville Chamberlain's speech to- day.
ing Germany.
The day of Dr. Schacht's arrival has not been announced, but it is believed to be Wednesday.
In City circles in London the visit is arousing the keenest interest and much conjecture. According to recent reports in the British press, informal versations have been proceeding for some months through unofficial but recognised channels for a new Anglo-German trade agreement..
con-
It is generally expected, says Reuter's diplomatic correspon- dent, that the Prime Minister will make an important pronounce- ment, on British foreign policy.
He is expected to speak for (G.M.T.) (5.40 a.m. to-morrow, forty minutes from 9.40 p.m. Hong Kong Time).
The speech will be broadcast throughout the Empire and will be relayed to the United States
MARKET BATTLE During the exploratory talks, ac-and Italy. cording to the "Financial News," Particular interest attaches to the British attitude has been that the address in view of Mr. Cham- no agreement is worth while unless berlain's impending visit to it includes in its scope not only Rome.
direct trading relations between In the past few days several the two countries but also their British leader-writers have car- respective positions in the world markets.
Germany, however, is believed to wish to confine the discussions within the narrower limits of the two countries' direct trade."
It is considered possible that Dr. Schacht's visit may be partly de- signed to bridge the gap between the two diverging views, though it is possible the talks will merely concern the many routine matters arising between the central banks of Britain and Germany.-Reuter.
AIR FORCE RECRUITING
London, To-day.
ried comment along the lines of the week-end speech of Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, in which he re- ferred to the difficulties of inter- national appeasement unless con- cessions are reciprocal. Reuter.
BRITISH JEWS IN GERMANY
London, To-day.
The Prime Minister, replying to a Commons question as to the ex- tent to which the new German de- crees concerning Jewish property The Air Ministry announces that might affect British subjects said 612. recruits joined the Royal Air that the Foreign Secretary had not Force during the past week, com-received full details of these de- pared with 221 in the correspond-crees but he understood that cer- ing week of last year.
tain sections of the Order of Dec- This brings the total acceptances ember 3rd regarding Jewish pro- of pilots, observers, airmen and perty applied to Jews of foreign as boys since April 1st, 1938, to 21,040 well as German nationality. as compared with 10,681for the corresponding period of last year.- British Wireless.
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His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in Berlin at the time of the recent anti-Jewish disorders drew the at- tention of the German Government to the rights of British subjects in Germany.
His Majesty's 'Government in- tended to do all in their power to protect interests of the British Subjects in that country irrespec- [tive of race, religion-or-place-of- residence, and His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires was now being instructed, in view of the latest developments, to seek assurances
| regarding the treatment of British
subjects of Jewish race, Wireless.
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