THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1938
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MEMEL
View That Reich Has No Statute Obligation
Did Not Sign: Self-Determination Issue
Berlin, To-day.
Contrary to expectations, no official German com- munique has been issued concerning the visit of the French Ambassador and the British Charge d'Affaires to the German For- eign Office on Monday to express to the Reich Government the hope entertained in Paris and London that the provisions of the Memel Sta-
CREW OF
TANKER RESCUED
Paris, To-day. The crew of 38, belonging to the Spanish Government' petro- leum tanker “Le Fac 61′′, strand- ed off St. Pierre, have been all rescued, according to reports from Narbonne last night.
The steamer has broken in two and become ก total wreck.- Trans-Ocean.
ANOTHER FUNNY STORY
Tokyo, To-day. Britain is planning to made the
HIKING PARTY HOLD-UP
At the request of Inspector A. E. Carey, Yuen Chun, 23, was remand- ed for a week by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen this morning at Kowloon when charged with robbery.
Defendant, with others, not in custody, is alleged to have held up and robbed Tam Man-lung, a mer- chant, and Chan Wai-fong, a woman, of $65.30 in cash and jewellery mear the Hau Wong Temple.
Defendant was also charged with possession of a dagger in an un- numbered hut at Lung Chau. Tseng and with returning to the Colony after being banished for ten years in June.
tute of 1924 would be observed by it. Political circles believe, although no official con- firmation is forthcoming, that it was pointed out to the French and British diplomatists that
Chan Chu, 36, a married woman, was charged with receiving a part Germany did not sign the Memel Convention South China province of Yunnan
of the stolen property, two finger and did not therefore incur any obligations in into a buffer State, states a report
in the "Nichi Nichi Shimbun," rings. She was remanded. connection with it.
which allege the British and
It is also believed that it was The population of Memelland, French Governments are trying to further pointed out that the sep-writes Megerle, only demands its induce Chiang Kai-shek himself to aration of Memel from the rights. The elections had shown take the initiative. Reich and the Memel Statute to whom the region rightly be- This report was received from were both imposed on the Memel-longs and how shortsighted was the Singapore correspondent of the landers against their will and the policy inspiring the Lithuan-"Nichi Nichi Shimbun" who de-- that the German Government'ian raid of 1923 which the west-clares that he received the informa while not itself putting forward ern Powers subsequently approv-tion from foreigners who had just any demands in this question will ed.
arrived in Singapore from Yunnan. as in similar cases support the
-Trans-Ocean. Memel claim to self-determina- tion.
Megerle says the sudden inter- est of the two western Powers in Memel is neither appropriate nor In the opinion of German poli- tical circles the signatories of would be justified in regarding it convincing and Memellanders the Memel Convention only
in the light of a demonstration undertook to guarantee that the Lithuanian Government would against the freely and democrati- not violate the Autonomy con- cally expressed will of the people. ceded to Memel by the Statute. After recalling "certain other This, however, they had failed to events in Central Europe" which do, with the result that Memel had been "complicated by the was ruled for 12 years by mar-jadvice and intervention of the tial law contrary to the Statute. western Powers," he says that The diplomatic correspondent settlement of the Memel pro- of the "Berlin Boersen Zeitung," blem should be left L. Karl Megerle, publishes in most directly interested. yesterday's evening issue of the vital national and economic inter- paper an article which can be ests of Lithuania could be sup- summoned up in the sentence ported within the framework of "the Memel question does not friendly neighbourly relations." concern the western Powers.” -Trans-Ocean.
GERMAN DEMANDS ON FRANCE NEXT IN OPINION OF MOSCOW
to those The
Moscow, To-day.
A review of the international situation following the Franco-German Pact and the Italian claims to Tunis is contained in the "Journal de Moscou."
The paper represents Russia as the bulwark of
peace to which others now turn.
Noting the recent Polish de- The newspaper charges Berlin marche aimed at consolidation of with seriously hoping that France relations with the Soviet, and also will be compelled to retreat before the statements of Turkish states- Italy and will then be forced to men in favour of further develop-[make a number of territorial con- ment of friendly relations with the cessions to Germany.—Reuter. Soviet, the newspaper states:
TENSE SITUATION
in
London, To-day, "The situation in. Europe is "be- Prince Bernhard, will arrive coming still more tense, and there- | London to-day for a three days' fore it is natural for all the forces atay. This visit is unofficial pf ponce to turn to the Soviet character and is merely for which invariably defends the cause purpose of Christmas shopping, of peace."
Trans-Ocean.
CHINESE WOUNDED CROSS BORDER
A Chinese soldier Wo So, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday, with bullet wounds re- ceived during action in Sheung Budapest, To-day. Lau Tong Village on. November 26. The Italian Foreign Minister, arrived here on December 18 on a in the right arm, also
Another, named Lam Sau-kwong,. Count Ciano, will, it is announced, was treated for a gunshot wound received visit to the Hungarian Gover-during the action in Sheung Lau ment. Trans-Ocean.
Tong, near Cheungmuktau.
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