THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1989
AMERICA'S
FEARS HE IS STILL IN DANGER
New York, To-day,
Tom Mooney, American Dreyfus, liberated after. nearly twenty-three years in prison for a bomb- ing outrage he did not commit, has decided that his old enemies still have him “marked for death."
Now the celebrations of his release from jail are over he has had a chance to talk things over with his family.
Pag
DREYFUS
SENATOR BORAH'S PREDICTION
Washington, To-day. Senator Borah yesterday declared he was convinced that
no attempt would be made by the United States, anyhow for the time being, to fortify the Island of Guam, in the Pacific, as a naval base.
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His sister Anna warned him that he was still hated SIX
by some people in California. "Be careful, Tom," she said, "they may try to poison you.”
me,
"So capitalism still hates says Mooney. "I must remember that. In the crowds that surround- ed me after I was freed somebody! handed me a wrapped cigar that might have been a bomb.
"And in yesterday's parade some one gave me a glass of water, and I drank. I mustn't accept more drinks. from strangers."
any
SPECIAL CABINET COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE
London, To-day. A sub-committee with authority Plans are meanwhile being made to compile a memorandum. to vote more than a quarter of
on the a Palestine question was formed million pounds in California's State yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet. legislature as an indemnity to It is stated that this memorandum
ment.
at
MONTHS' JAIL
12,000 PLANES YEARLY WITHIN THREE YEARS
Washington, To-day.
A forecast that within three years the United States can be turning out warplanes at the rate of 12,000 a year, was made yes- terday by Major-General Arnold, commander-in-chief of the Army Air Corps, at a secret session of the House of Representatives' military committee, according to members of the committee.
Previously, at an open hearing, Major-General Arnold testified that un Army survey showed that the
JAIL aircraft industry's productive
FOR THROWING ACID ON WOMEN
Six months' hard labour
imposed
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capacity, which is now about 2,500 planes yearly, couuld be doubled jor quadrupled.
Mr. May, chairman of the House of Representatives military affairs committee, has introduced
a bill authorising an increase of 3,680
the
next
on a 38-year-old office planes for the Army and permit- coolie, Leung Kai, by the Chief ting the Secretary for War to Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at equip the Army Air Corps with the Criminal Sessions this morn- planes not exceeding 6,000. ing, for throwing corrosive fluid
FOUR NEW BASES on two young..
Chinese
women, Major-General Arnold declared Wong Lai-fong and Cheung Yuk- that four new air bases-in Puer- chan.
to Rico, Alaska and two in According to the Crown, repre- continental United States-should sented by Mr. John Whyatt, ac-, be constructed within the cused stole firet complainant's two years to complete the defences camera and, pawned it. He was of the continental United States.
by the The air base at Hawaii should
be expanded, he added.
Emphasising the importance of She was put off time and again, building up the nation's ability to and when she, accompanied by manufacture planes on a large second complainant, went to scale, Major-General Arnold speci- Alexandra Building where accused fically suggested to Congress to worked, he emptied a tin of permit industry to start as soon as caustic acid on them.
possible on the minimum increase of 3,000 planes requested by Pre- sident Roosevelt.
Mooney for his wrongful imprison-will be the basis upon which the constantly approached
British Government will propose a woman for the return of the solution of the Palestine question camera or the money to redeem it. to the Round Table Conference. The question of who will repre- sent the Arabs at the Conference ernment unusual concern. has been causing the British Gov-
"NO PLANS TO SUE"
Said Mooney, "I've no plans to sue the State."
Mooney finds that the outside world has changed during his gen- eration behind bars. "There have opinion prevails between the
It is believed that a difference of been so many parades and celebra-cretary of State for the
Se- tions," he said, "that I haven't had and the Palestine Military Authori- Colonies a chance to look around until to-ties. day.
the
as
While Mr. MacDonald is of "But now I find I must remodel opinion that the Conference, my language. I said something such, can only be effective if the about a tin. lizzie' when referring
Arab Nationalists are represented,
FIRST
MEETING OF SLOVAK DIET
COMPETITIVE BIDDING Major-General
Arnold declared that they would abolish competi- tive bidding if they were in an em- Bratislava, To-day. The Autonomous Dict of Slovakia, are faced with an emergency, and ergency. "I think right now we Czechoslovak that Congress ought to change the Grand Constitution, met for the first time law."-Reuter..
yesterday.
to an automobile and my friends and agrees that the Arab delega- set up by the new
didn't know what I was about.
talking
tion be authorised by the Mufti, the military authorities in Palestine argue that the Arab de- "When I went to prison every legation should be composed of six one called a car a 'tin Lizzie'-and moderate Arabs whose appointment dancing has changed. I cannot un-is not dependent upon the Grand derstand this swing. It's not like Mufti's approval.-Trans-Ocean.
the old ragtime I used to know.
"I am eager to learn how to drive. I used to be a pretty good driver, but I'm terri^ed of these modern automobiles with their great speed.
"I WANT TO FLY"
FRENCH PLANS
FOR N. AFRICA
Paris, To-day.
"I want to fly, too. When I A resolution is being submit- went to prison there were only a ted to the Chamber by a number few planes, and only the foolhardy of Deputies, proclaiming the rode in them. I haven't seen one French Empire as an inviolable of these new planes yet, but I'm unity and declaring that under told they're magnificent.
no circumstances can any part be transferred to another country.
"Most of all I want to see a M. Dahar, of Marseilles, has re- motion picture. I've seen only commended that the President
one movie in twenty-two years and I shouldn't have seen that.
"Now I am a citizen again can tell you how I saw that movie, two years ago. Right in. San Francisco.
be given a new title, that of "President of the French Re- 11public and Empire."
It is learned that plans exist for the combining of all North African territories into one and placing them under military: ad- During a recess in one of my ministration.. court hearinga a friendly deputy The Resident-General sheriff took me, but nobody at San Morocco, General Nogues, is ex- Quentin prison knew about it. It pected to be appointed comman- was Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern der-in-chief of French North Times.'
Africa. Trans-Ocean.
in
The leader of the Slovak People's after the disappearance of the first, Party, Dr. Buday, who presided, thanks to the union of the whole in his opening speech, acclaimed Slovak nation. the foundation of the "second The speaker paid high tribute to Slovak State" which he said had the work of the late Father come into existence ten centuries' Hlinka.-Trans-Ocean.
MOST FEROCIOUS OF ALL EAGLES.-The Harpy Eagle is the most ferocious of all, eagles and this specimen at the London Zoo weighs about 25 lbs.. It adopts a threatening attitude when visi- tors approach too near ita cago at feeding time. Its dinner con- sists of a rabbit which can be seen gripped in its talons. eagle comes from South America.
This